Motion Picture (Feb-Jul 1931)

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The Stars Who There's Always One Who's Apart From The Crowd Richee Clara THE author of that well-known best seller, the dictionary, describes "superlative" as "surpassing all others; supreme." Now it is pretty hard to be supreme in Oshkosh, Flushing and Paducah. But to be supreme in Hollywood, and to hold on to that supremacy, makes the famous twelve labors of Hercules look like an evening at charades. This is the town of superlatives. Just ask the Chamber of Commerce if you don't believe me. Ask any old settler. Ask anybody. (Keep away from Floridans and San Franciscans.) The climate is superlative. The sunshine's brighter. The moonshine's stronger. The boulevards are torn up more often than in any other place. The women are the most (fill in your own ticket here) beautiful, best-dressed, worst-dressed, wildest, most intelligent, dumbest. Yet Hollywood does have its superlative people. Some of the darlings of the screen have actually shinnied up the ladder to the supernal plane. They sit on their lofty pinnacles, disdainful of the ones who assail their precarious thrones. They're supreme in something or other, if it's only for their deepest swimmingpool or longest fingernails. So, the supreme can be achieved in Hollywood, or Hollywood thinks if can, which adds up to the same figure. In a village where Rolls-Royces. Daimlers and Hispano-Suizas rub noses at the town hitching post with such shoddy American hacks .is Lincolns, Packards. and Cadillacs, the ultimate can be reached, even in motor aristocracy. At a social function where dozens of creations of Lanvin. Patou and Jenny vie with simple homemade frocks of Howard Greer and Magnin. costing just eight Lilyan Ball