Movie Classic (Sep 1932-Feb 1933)

♦ MOVIE CLASSIC TABLOID NEWS SECTION ♦ // Fifi Dorsay May "Kees America Goodbye If She Weds New Suitor Fifi, Back In The Movies And Very Serious About Her Future, Is Taking Jorge Bollini Santamaria, Wealthy Young Argentine, Just As Seriously As He's Taking Her! By LUIS ROSADO Oo-la-la! They say life in Buenos Aires is very gay! And, strangely enough, Fifi is making "They Just Had to Get Married!" FIFI DORSAY is now being beaued wherever she goes by four Argentines— and by one Argentine in particular. In restaurants, at the fights, everywhere Fifi goes, also go her faithful four, headed by Jorge Bollini Santamaria, heir to great wealth, who has traveled around the world extensively and is now looking for something new in America. Arriving in Hollywood, he discovered something new in the vivacious Fifi, whom he had long admired on the screen. During his short stay, he has seen no one but Fifi, and Fifi has seen no one but Jorge — who, she says, is "nizelooking" and "the mos' marvelous boy I have ever, ever known." The French-Canadian girl from Montreal has secluded herself in a modest home in Beverly Hills. Few know where she is, and she doesn't mean to let any more know. In this home she lives with her sister, brother and aunt. Can it be that love has changed the hot-cha, happy-go-lucky Fifi? That was my main purpose in going to see her — to ask, "Are you in love?" Her smiling answer was, "Maybe. I don't know." When I was left alone with Jorge, he volunteered, "I like Fifi very much. I have met many interesting women during my travels — but none as charming as Fifi." In Spanish, he told me how much he desired to settle down. "Traveling is all right, but you soon get tired of it. I always have a home to go to in Buenos Aires; but I am looking for another kind of home." "Yo u mean — a home with a wife?" He smiled, "That's right — a home with a wife." " Do you think that Fifi will do ? " "Uh— maybe " Later, I asked Fifi why she had been avoiding her old friends. Her work, she explained, was the main cause. She was back in Hollywood after a successful personal appearance tour, and she was ready to take her screen work more seriously. She was through with parties. She has her family to think of, and she is going to concentrate her attentions on them. Again I brought the subject around to Sefior Santamaria. "It really is a dilemma. I have filed papers to become a citizen of the United States. This month I become an American. I don't know what to do. Jorge has his family in the Argentine. Hewouldwish to live there, Having long admired Fifi from afar, Jorge Bollini Santamaria (left) and a friend just had to meet her. This was snapped a few minutes later! and — well, I really don't know yet." "Would you consider him for a husband?" "That's more than I can answer. Yet he is a nize fellow — and his French is so cute!" Fifi is making a careful study of her man; she doesn't want to make any mistake in selecting her mate. She hates divorces, and so does Jorge, as well as his family. Fifi would like to have several children. It must be in her blood — she is the thirteenth child in her family. Fifi smiles as much as ever, but you have her word for it that she has turned serious. And certainly her Argentine suitor is serious. He brought Fifi into our conversation even when I had steered away from the subject, thinking to save him embarrassment. The last time that Fifi seemed on the verge of marriage was when she was going with Terrence Ray. The attachment even reached the engagement ring stage, but there was a break-up, and it was all off. Fifi first met Sefior Santamaria on the set of "They Just Had to Get Married." Was that a coincidence, or wasn't it? 32