Movie Classic (Sep 1932-Feb 1933)

and caught a train for Chicago until his lady friend's "panthering" is completed, anyway. TEANETTE J LOFF is back in Hollywood after an absence of a year, or maybe it was two years. Jeanette had no sooner arrived in town than she received an offer from Buddy Rogers to add blondeness and curves (S.A. to you) to his personal appearances through West Coast theatres. But, perhaps more important to Jeanette than the job of singing with Buddy's orchestra, is her brand-new romance with Gilbert Roland, former constant companion of Norma Talmadge. If this isn't a serious heartthrob between these two, then Hollywood is losing her guessing knack. The other evening they dined together at the Cocoanut Grove and were so completely lost in one another that they didn't even hear the numerous "Hello" greetings from friends. MAE WEST was the piece de resistance of the Emanuel Cohen "welcome to Hollywood" tea for Paramount's kingpin, Mr. Hertz, of Chicago and New York. Naturally, all the Paramount stars turned out in their best clothes and best behavior for this formal event and, as one stellar femme reported, the broad "a's" were ankle-deep. In fact, the entire affair was long on etiquette and ten-dollar words until the startling arrival of Mae West. Evidently, Mae felt the party needed pepping up for she headed for the piano almost immediatelv after the formalities were over, and started in on some swell, snappy songs. At first the "dignifieds" didn't know just how to take it, but when the guest of honor and his wife seemed amused and entertained, the ice was broken. As a climax, Mae invited a chosen few into an adjoining room to hear some extra verses of "Frankie and Johnnie." If you don't think Katharine Hepburn has a personality that gets across, no matter what, gaze at the gibbon (baby ape, to you) that let Katharine be the first woman to pet him. As his reward, he'll appear with her and Joel McCrea in "Three Came Unarmed" "I wish my pictures had been better," says Tallulah Bankhead — and steps out of the movies. But the smile must mean she intends to return, when the right role beckons Longworth HO-HUM notes: Greta Nissen and Weldon Heyburn have made up, so they say . . . ditto for James Dunn and Maureen O'Sullivan . . . George Brent likes spinach better'n any other vegetable . . . George Raft can't stand anything pink . . . The Brown Derby restaurants have created a non-fattening lemon pie and is it popular! . . . Eric Linden wants more money for making RKO movies ... so does Constance Cummings consider herself underpaid by Columbia . . . Clarence Brown says he did not fly Alice Joyce to Reno for her divorce in his private airplane . . . Buster Keaton is still cutting capers with his land yacht . . . Boris Karloff' s real name is William Pratt . . . the John Gilberts (Virginia Bruce) are back from Europe . . . the William K. Howards will be back soon . . . Mary Brian is looking for a lip rouge that won't get on her teeth . . . L o r e t t a Young would like one that will stay on in spite of meals . . . Loretta, incidentally, is on her way to Honolulu for a well-earned vacation . . . The Fredric Marches are looking for Freuiuh a new home . . . And the folks next door complained to the police about Jeanette MacDonald's sheep dog right after Jeanette had complained about their rooster . . . Ina Claire (they say) has fallen head over heels in love again . . . gentleman unnamed . . . Glenda Farrell, so they say, is being rushed quite off her feet by the dashing Danny Danker . . . Lupe Velez swears she is through being whoopee-Lupe . . . Clive Brook saw every football game played locally this past season . . . Kay Francis is simply dying in Hollywood without Kenneth MacKenna . . . Fredric March has become a contract bridge nut . . . The Marx brothers are having their usual run of gambling luck . . . And Groucho and Chico are clicking merrily and wise-crackerly in their radio program . . . Barbara Stanwyck lunched alone at Levy's and nobody recognized her . . . Constance Bennett's new bangs are being copied on many stellar foreheads in Hollywood . . . Wonder if it's true that Connie had a police escort during her vacation in New York? . . . The Harold Lloyds (Continued on page 68) Frank Buck may bring 'em back alive, but Clyde Beatty (above) tames 'em. You'll thrill at how he does it in "The Big Cage" — a story of his own life 26