Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Modern Screen wild animals whose tempers are at the best, uncertain. He almost lost his life when a huge elephant misunderstood his trainer's orders. The long, dizzy leaps from limb to limb and the swinging of his body at the end of trailing vines was work for a trained trapeze performer, but Johnny couldn't do it. As to being in the movies, Johnny says, "I want to keep on making pictures, and I intend to if there's a place for me. I know I'm no Clark Gable but there ought to be something for me. Bobbe is making tests now and it will be grand if we can both settle down here in Hollywood doing screen work. Family First (Continued from page 43) He even risked the stigma of cowardice for their sake. When the World War broke out, Dix was in Canada. It was a swell chance for him to get into a real scrap — and there's nothing he'd have liked better. They had asked him to enlist — Dix thought it out. It'd be great to sign up, go over there. . . . But it would mean sacrificing the excellent salary he had worked up to in the theatrical profession and depriving his parents of his support. He made his decision. "I am an American with family obligations," he said, simply. "I see no reason to desert my family to join the army." • It took courage, in those days, to do that. But family came first. And so it was with his love-life (and probably nobody'll be madder than Richard Dix about having it all talked over like this ! ) Naturally, with Dix's rise in the film world after he came to Hollywood, there would be women in his life. Hollywood sees romances where there are none; Hollywood's tongues whisper love-tales at the slightest pretext, no matter how flimsy. And so, despite Dix's constant assertions that he was not in love, there were successive rumors of his betrothal to this one and that one. "As a matter of fact," he once told a friend, "I've only been in love twice in my life — once at the puppy-love age — when I was seventeen — and met a red-haired girl named Dorothy, and now with the girl who has become my wife." DUT Hollywood knew better. Hollywood watched the reaction of more than one woman to this handsome bachelor — for it was inevitable, wasn't it, that more than one woman would set her cap at Dix? And so, little by little, there grew up around Richard Dix the legend of a heart-smashing, ruthless, love-'em-and-leave-'em, lady-killing sheik. One beauty after another ran the gamut of these rumors. Notably, there was Lois Wilson, whose heart was supposed to have been irreparably shattered by Dix's ruthlessness. Bosh ! And there were Mary Brian, and Charlotte Byrd, and Alyce Mills, and Marceline Day. And Maxine Glass, the most recent of the many girls to whom Dix was "engaged," according to talk. Every month a new name. Through all these tales, Dix set his jaw and said nothing. "What could I say?" he'd reply to acquaintances who urged him to set the rumors at rest. "Anything I might say would be made to sound caddish, so I'll say nothing." He never told the truth — that he wasn't letting himself in for romance because he knew he couldn't afford to get married ! On one of the very few occasions when he did speak of love and himself, to a friend, Dix said : "Despite all reports to the contrary, my life has been devoid of romance. Not because I haven't wanted to marry. On the contrary, I've wanted for long to be married. A man should marry. But there was my obligation to my family. And I don't believe a man should marry until he is able to give his wife the best of everything." \X7"HAT of Dix's big movie earn* * ings, you ask ? That's where the tale of his playboy gambling comes in. It has been told that Dix, recklessly, plunged into the market, gambled away a fortune, left himself and his dependents penniless. Nothing could be more untrue. The fact is that Dix, seeking to better his family's lot, sought to invest his earnings. Came the market crash, and Dix found himself, like countless others, faced with "paper losses" — not actual losses, because he owns outright the securities in which he invested. But with stocks at low levels — well, the story's an old one. Dix made up for the paper losses, though. Contract renewal time came around. Talkies — "Cimarron," especially— had brought Dix new fame, new standing with fans. Dix fought for his reward — and got it. His new contract gives him a splendid income. As a matter of fact, that new contract at last gave Dix the right in his own eyes, to take a wife. He had provided for his family — he had a beautiful home in Beverly Hills for them. More, he had a big ranch, hidden away from Hollywood, where his father spends most of his time. Investments in the name of his folks will assure them always of a comfortable, full life. Dix had made good. And so the bachelorhood for which Hollywood never knew the real explanation was ended. Dix at last was able to think of matrimony. And whom DON'T LET THE SUN YOUR BEAUTY! Keep your skin smooth and supple with this marvelous Olive Oil Face Powder A hot summer sun may be fine for your health, but what it does to your skin! The scorching rays bake out its natural oils. . . leave your complexion dry, dull and lifeless. Soon, wrinkles appear. Parched tissues shrink and shrivel. Your skin, deprived of its essential moisture, grows brown, taut and "leathery." Here's the safe way to protect your complexion. Every day, before you go out, use Outdoor Girl Face Powder. 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