Movie Classic (Sep 1936-Feb 1937)

PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HOLLYWOOD HOME OF APPEARING IN "three married men" A PARAMOUNT PRODUCTION Hollywood Highlights 1881 #R0GERSfj made by oneiDfl LTD. Such charming silverware is perfectly at home on the gracious tables of Hollywood Stars. And you need not deny yourself the same luxury — for with Quantity Savings of $2.50, a Service for Six Persons, with stainless-blade Hollow-Handle Knives, in a beautiful tarnish-proof Chest, / " — at RKO, young Mr. Gordon Jones was turned down by the casting department for the football picture The Big Game. They told him he wasn't the type. P.S. — Three years ago, Mr. Gordon Jones was on the varsity football team of the University of California at Los Angeles. — in Australia (just to prove Hollywood isn't as whatever it is that it's cracked up to be) they've just finished shooting an epic. The hero of the epic is a kangaroo. The film is the story of the kangaroo's life, from mama's pouch to his final fame as a circus boxing-freak. Even Hollywood wouldn't do that. And never mind saying "it couldn't." — Cecil B. DeMille, a director once described by Mr. Laughton as being sort of "cozy" with God, used to jingle gold coins in his pocket. At wits-end (or is that possible) since the government called in all gold money, Cecie has finally had to console himself with silver dollars. — to Inez Courtney goes the achieving of Hollywood's strangest injury. She busted her own glasses on her own little nosey-wosey, with her own little racquetwacquety while playing badminton. Kidding aside, it was lucky she didn't blind herself — the glass, fortunately, didn't hit her eyes. But her face is as full of plaster patches as a bargain bungalow after the first year. — a year ago, fresh-skyrocketing to screen fame, Bob Taylor told me "I'll never go for this Beverly Hills mansion splurge, these chromium — plated autos, and all that sort of stuff." At the time, Bob lived in one of those little valley farm-houses, and had a dinky little car. Latest Taylor item : Bob, who now lives in a Beverly Hills house, took a just-received MGM bonus you to admire one of the three sparkling designs on your own fable. See your dealer at once. Lillian Emerson gave a Bavarian party and Mr. and Mrs. Warner Baxter were among those present. Mrs. Baxter is the former Winifred Bryson, a famous star in silent pictures. Luise Rainer has fallen victim to Hollywood's tennis Phobia, installed a tennis court on the grounds of her Brentwood home, and plays at every possible opportunity check and bought two new cars, one of which is simply "stupendous." Cafe Observation Mind you, I wouldn't go so far as to say that Paulette is going the way of all flesh — no, I mean the way of all those other once-famed Chaplin Leading Ladies, but I do know that the other night, in the Brown Derby, Charlie and Paulette were dining. It was a nice dinner, in three stages : First Stage : Charlie and Paulette chatted ; Second Stage, Charlie and Paulette talked loud, fast and furious at each other ; Third Stage, they finished the meal in silence. Isn't it the first year that's the hardest? A Rudy Romance Girl friend of Alice Faye's on the coast insists that the romance between Rudy Yallee and Alice is as cold as an agent's heart. A radio gal named Niela Goodele is Rudy's current heart and is wearing a ring — if that means anything. Niela, by the bye, is the exotic type — a la Fay Webb, and exotic girls are usually Rudy's weakness. Taboo Repercussions, following the litigation over the custody of Freddie Bartholomew and Edith Fellows are reverberating over Hollywood and studio executives are secretly informing parents, guardians, et al, of other kids under contract that there must be no more court proceedings and the attendant unfavorable publicity. Carriage, Please Times have certainly changed in the picture world. Today top ranking stars at their various studios have their swank motor cars stand by to carry them from dressing rooms to sets. Ten years ago Gloria Swanson introduced that system at Paramount studios but Gloria used a real Atlantic City wheel chair [Continued on page 70] 12 Movie Classic for November, 1936