Movie Classic (Sep 1936-Feb 1937)

This scene on the Ambassador grounds is but 8 minutes from the financial section of Loi Angeles and 14 miles from the blue Pacific. Unsolicited Tribute from a Great American Author "The Ambassador with its own gay streets of shops, a theatre and restaurants and the world-famous 'Cocoanut Grove' is believed by some to be only another magnificent hotel, but it's much more ... it is a three-ring circus of indoor and outdoor amusements in a layout filled with happy conceptions." .-■GOUVERNEUR MORRIS Write for Rates and Chefs Cook Book of California Recipes Los Angeles Ben L. Frank, Manager Nino Martini, of operatic and screen fame, will soon be seen again — with beautiful Ida Lupino as his inspiration — in The World Is Mine, a Pickford-Lasky production with romantic old Mexico as its colorful background Hollywood's "No" Girl [Continued from page S3] She doesn't want to be "it" herself. And so she is closing a deal now to buy a newspaper— a weekly, in central California. When she quits the screen, she's going to edit and run that newspaper. She doesn't want to sit back and do nothing ; so she's already assuring herself that no matter what happens, she won't have to do what she doesn't want to. IN little things and big things, she lives out the don't want plan. She doesn't like diamonds ; so her husband had to give her an engagement ring with, instead of diamonds, a star ruby. She doesn't want to gain weight, nor does she want to diet. Here she was up against a dilemma — two things she did not want (and they conflicted. But she stuck to her guns — and believe it or not, she didn't do either of the things she didn't want — She is neither gaining weight, nor is she dieting. She's getting around the latter in this manner — she gets up on a glass of orange juice, because she doesn't like a big breakfast anyway. She goes to sleep on a glass of grapefruit juice, because she doesn't like late snacks anyway. So neither of those are dieting. And for her one meal a day, as the result, she can and does eat anything she feels like — whether it's a great heap of salad, or a two-inch-thick steak with gravy. And when you ask her how she can eat all that, she tells you she doesn't like to diet, and grins. Even in the greatest thing in life — love, marriage — Gloria has had the courage to know what she didn't want, and stick to it. And in the story of how she did, her greatest mistake in her program of "don't want" must be recorded. It's like this : When she was young, she had, like other youngsters, some rather half-baked theories that sounded real to her. One of them was the popular young-life idea that "marriage is an antiquated, to-be-put-up-with custom, made tolerable only through the application of modern thought." Gloria didn't want her marriage to be a humdrum sort of affair ; she didn't want to be hidebound and convention-ridden. So when she married Blair Gordon Newell, during her co-ed days, she didn't want to give up any of the things she thought marriage might cost her. So because she thought she didn't want oldfashioned marriage, they undertook a newfashioned one. They remained individuals — even lived apart much of the time. It was one of those bohemian, arty marriages. And it didn't take. Gloria found out that it didn't work. She didn't want to continue the farce. Here her courage came to the fore. She could have shrugged her shoulders and made the best of it, and avoided offending her relatives and his. But she didn't want to do that ; she didn't want to compromise with the truth. She learned that she had made a mistake ; she didn't want to perpetuate it by making another. So she took her courage boldly in her hands, and announced that she didn't want to be Mrs. Newell any longer. She got what she wanted, her divorce. Love came again. Gloria, having learned one lesson, didn't want to suffer again. She didn't want to fall in love again. She had the courage to say so to the man in the case — Arthur Sheekman, newspaperman once, now a writer for Fox. Sheekman, intelligent, saw her point. He loved her enough to listen to her — and they made an agreement that they would NOT fall in love. 84 Movie Classic for October, 1936