Movie Classic (Mar-Aug 1936)

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Platinum blonde or brownette? The controversy regarding the proper shade for Jean Harlow's hair has aroused a storm of controversy among her fans. Apparently Jean has settled the question to her own satisfaction, for she is again a brownette in Stay, her current picture Ronald Colman's "Lost Horizons" [Continued from page 45] What man, but a very young one, a very curious and equally confident one, would dare to set sail for a new country with thirty-seven dollars in his pocket. Yet in those days I was like that. I'd try anything once, just for the sheer adventure of it. "1VTOW, it's different. Oh I still like new ->-^ places, at least places that are new to me, and I like new roads to take me there. I'm still on the look-out for new experiences. But it's different. I used to seek novelty to blow off steam. All young people do. Now I seek it for something else . . . knowledge. I'm sure that's why Shangri-la appeals to Conway so much. That's why my library appeals to me ... a place for reaping, after so much rush and doing ! "In a way I suppose, it's sort of a selfish horizon. Where friends are concerned at least. But have you ever stopped to realize how much time friends take? So much time to build a friendship, even more to keep it ! If I haven't many friends, it isn't because I haven't found many. It's because not many have found me a friend. I'm afraid I make a very poor one . . . always shutting myself away, wanting my time for other things, too — not that they give a damn !" he added with his characteristic modesty. "But anyway, I do." And there you have, for the first time, I believe, Ronald Colman's own explanation of his hermitage . . . the secret behind his seclusion. Not shyness. Not modesty. Not even his reserved Scotch-English blood. Not any of the things we have thought. But merely a liking for the new quiet kind of adventure he finds in books, and in art, and in thought-browsing. Yet for details about these things I had to go to someone else. Already Ronald Colman had talked more about himself than I had ever heard him talk before. "His library ! _Why yes, of course, it's the most precious room in his house," one of his good English friends told me. "He has a wonderful collection of books, hundreds of volumes. Then there's his art collection. He never speaks about it much. But I know it means a lot to him, especially his Raeburn. It's his favorite. 'Portrait of a Man.' He's had it for years I guess. It was one of the first things he bought when he began to make money. He has a lot of good English prints, too. But you know, it's funny about Ronnie. He never 'talks' art, like a lot of people do. He never talks books. He never makes speeches about anything. The only reason I know that his Raeburn means a lot to him is the way I've seen him look at it at times. But then I've seen him look that way too when you talk to him about fishing ! 1 spent a lot of time at a crab fisherman's town one year and when I came back Ronnie couldn't hear enough about them. How they looked. What they talked about, what happiness they got out of life. "It's hard to explain . . . sounds foolish I suppose . . . but he relished them the same way he relishes that painting. Drinks it all in. You see, for a while Ronnie tried to go out and see these things for himself. But his fame always caught up with him and got in his way. Curious fans, mobs, publicity seeking hotel proprietors. You know, the sort of thing that big stars always run into. He finally had to give that up. So now he lets his books and his paintings and his music and his friends bring these things to him, and he stores them away, in sort of a . . . yes, that's it ... as you say, like a treasure trove against the world. Now that you mention it I suppose that's what makes him so peaceful . . . the kind of a man who's never lonely even when he's alone. "By jove, I used to wonder about Ronnie . . . wonder why he liked to be alone so much. It's always bothered me a little. But now . . . it's a funny thing, now that you bring up that treasure business ... a funny thing ! Now it isn't a mystery anymore." ■ Movie Classic for July, 1936 START 1260 to $2100 Year Men-Women / "banklin institute / Dept. K30I. Rochester, N. Y. Common educa ^ Gentlemen: Bush FREE list of tion sufficient, 0O TJ. S Government big pay posiInfluence un <? tions. Send FREE 32-page boot cp describing salaries, hours, work, and telling how to get a position. necessary. Mail Coupon today. SURE. / Name r Address 85