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

WHAT EVERY FAN SHOULD KNOW . . . . • Cecil B. De Mille, popularly supposed never to have passed up a bathtub in a picture, has actually employed these articles of ablution in only seven of his fifty-nine productions: "Old Wives for New," "Male and Female," "Saturday Night," "Don't Change Your Wife," "Dynamite," "Madam Satan" (canaries in a bird bathtub) and "Sign of the Cross." In the last-named Claudette Colbert will bathe in a pool of milk. Acme Keystone-Underwood Amelia Earhart has been doing the rounds You've heard, of course, that after completing "Cabin in the Cot of Hollywood in grand style. This was ton," Richard Barthelmess and his wife went on a little European taken at the Olympic meet at which jaunt. Here you see them at a charity movie show. During the she was entertained by Fay Wray. show, Dick's old picture, "Dawn Patrol," was run off. HERE comes the bride. Blonde, cute and blushing with pride. She's your little favorite, Bette Davis, and her name is Mrs. Harmon O. Nelson, Jr., now, yes sir. Bette's romance is a sweet, sweet story. She met her husband when they were schoolmates. Then he went on to college — and she started on the road to screen recognition. . The wedding bells didn't tinkle forth sooner because Mr. Nelson didn't want to be known as Mr. Bette Davis. Just before Bette left Hollywood on her personal appearance tour with Warren William, her future husband was expected at the Davis beach house. He didn't arrive until three days after he was expected. And each one of those days, Bette and her sister traveled some forty miles i into Hollywood to visit the beauty parlor ... so they'd look their best when he did arrive. During those three days Miss Bette just couldn't be still. She would light a cigarette, take a few puffs, put it out. Get up, try to read a book, and then toss it aside. All she talked about was Harmon. And if this isn't one Hollywood marriage that makes the grade one hundred per cent, we'll be out a-gunning for Dan Cupid. • While Juliette Compton was making pictures in London, she stopped one day in a small shop to buy a chair. While she was looking about two women entered the shop. They were quite large and each one was wearing a long fur coat, as was Juliette. They also looked at chairs and just as Juliette decided to sit down on a couch, the two women had the same idea. The three sat in a row. The two women looked at Juliette. She returned their gaze. Suddenly she burst out laughing. "We look just like the three bears," she giggled. "You," she said, pointing to the larger woman, "are the great, huge bear. And you," point ing at the smaller woman, "are the middle-sized bear. I am the baby bear." The larger woman laughed and agreed with Juliette that they must indeed look just like the three bears in their huge fur coats. After they left the shop the salesman looked woefully at Juliette. "Madam," he said sadly, "you have just called the Queen of England a 'great huge bear.' " • So long considered one of New York's most fickle playboys, Billy Seaman, since his marriage to Phyllis Haver, has become one of the most devoted of husbands. As this is written, the Seamans are visiting in Hollywood and are being feted royally by their many friends. However much he is enjoying himself at a party, when Phyllis wants to leave, Billy leaves, without a murmur of discontent. The one thing he does insist on, however, is that Phvllis does not return to the screen. All the dope on Bette Davis' marriage to Harmon O Nelson, Jr. 14