Modern Screen (Dec 1938 - Nov 1939 (assorted issues))

Orchids to three song-birds, Lily Pons, Nelson Eddy and Gladys Swarthout. "So it's milk makes you that way," Marie Wilson twits Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, Lucille sets a comparative snap in "Beauty For The Asking, her current opus. She doesn't get kicked in the-^r-picture once In fact she gets pretty nice treatment and was given special privileges on the set the other day. As a beauty operator, the script called for her to apply a mud-pack. "With pleasure! sa d Lucille and whammed a fistful of mud into the victim s face with greater gusto than has been displayed by all the Academy winners put together. The reconciliation of Edmund Lowe and his wife, it is rumored, was caused by Mrs. Lowe's crashing the Hollywood Athletic Club to talk things over. Lowe had moved in there because of the ban put on women visitors. Attired in one of her husband's suits. Rita Lowe had no trouble at all getting past the front desk. There isn't a romance in sight for Ginger Rogers, according to her own statement. "I haven't time," she says. Im working constantly on pictures and in between times working for a vacation. Over at Paramount. Martha Baye's fallen heir to Marlene Dietrich's dressing-room. But you'd never recognize it as the same place. Drapes have gone up over half the walls— which, you'll remember, were entirely of mirrors so La Dietrich could view herself from every angle. "The less I see of myself from any angle, the better I like it" avers Martha. Friends are accusing Bing Crosby of taking a press agent praisery job on the side while in Bermuda. Generally reserved about the charms of everything except golf and Dixie, he's been boosting Bermuda ever since his return. When Gary Evans was asked if he was glad to get home and see the twins again he said, "Nope. I like being the whole cheese." the script he was hung but saved in the nick of time. This, happily, all transpired before the picture went before the cameras. At a local theatre the other Sunday, a man asked the manager for permission to return in an hour. He didn't want to miss the lack Benny broadcast Pocketing his ticket, stamped "Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment" he left for the nearest radio. Which brings to mind Adolphe Menjou's remark that women's hats are his best entertainment. Since the Dracula and Frankenstein pictures have swept the country in a fresh wave, theatre marquees have been blazing "We Dare You To See This Double Horror! Can You Take It?" Robert Young and his wife were really taken the other night Admiring the frankness of the theatre owner, they bought tickets expecting to see an ordinary double feature. Universal's hard at work on another Frankenstein chiller, with the toughest assignments falling to the make-up men who get to the studio at six every morning. Boris Karloff's make-up alone takes four hours. But Bela Lugosi presents the worst problem. He has to have his neck broken every morning, since according to Oren Haglund, that assistant director, is sooooo much in love with Pat Lane that she could give up her press agent this minute and still have her charms publicized plenty. Other day on the set of "Yes. My Darling Daughter." conversation ran to the best pictures of the month. After one or two films had been discussed, Oren could contain himself no longer. "Haven't you folks seen 'Four Daughters?' " he asked. "Say, that's right" put in Pat "those Rita brothers shouldn't be overlooked." On the same set, Genevieve Tobin is already taking orders from her husband of a few months, William Keighley, who's directing the picture. After a particularly tough correction, Keighley called 64