Movie mirror. (1932)

By HARRY LANG HOLLYWOOD — Last-minute news as Movie Mir¬ ror goes to press : Nancy (red headed) Carroll is the latest star to get mad at Paramount . . . but does anybody care ques¬ tion mark . . . everybody understood that Harry Ban¬ nister would file for that famous Bannister-Harding divorce, but it was Ann Harding herself who got the de¬ cree . . . Harry Bannister merely established residence . . . that long-talked-about Barrymore-BarrymoreBarry¬ more movie is finally going to happen . . . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have signed up Ethel and Lionel and John for one movie and watta show it’ll be stop . . . M-G-M did RKO a big favor by throwing that mammoth Holly¬ wood Chinese theater premiere for “Grand Hotel” . . . because RKO went and took movies of it to use in their “Truth About Hollywood” film which’ll star Connie (on a lower horse these days) Bennett stop . . . . . . too bad but we’re not going merrily to hell be¬ cause the Hays office told Paramount it couldn’t use the title “Merrily We Go To Hell” stop . . . Gloria (mama) Swanson may make a movie in England stop . . . Lily (luscious) Damita and Sidney Smith are still likethis, no matter what you may read to the contrary stop . . . George (Warners’ gable) Brent is going to play the lead again in Ruth Chatterton’s second movie for Warners just as he did in her first . . . and because Ruth herself asked for him again stop . . . for one whole day Gene (that blonde boy) Raymond was dying . . . but only for the camera in Paramount’s “Forgotten Commandments” stop ... I can’t just remember who Lupe (whizzzz) Velez’s current boy friend is but by the time you read this it won’t matter anyway stop . . . and Gary Cooper brought a pet chimpanzee back with him so what stop . . . Clara (still curvy) Bow is playing back-yard baseball with the kids in Searchlight, Nevada, while waiting to decide whether and when she’ll make another movie stop . . . you see, she and Rex live on a desert ranch six miles from Searchlight which is an old-time mining town and every day or so they drive in to town to play stop . . . Charlie (oh, make up your mind!) Chaplin now indicates that he plans to produce a picture in Hollywood this year . . . it’ll be a talkie except that Charlie himself won’t utter a word though all the other players will . . . you’ve no idea what Charlie’s voice sounds like, have you question mark stop . . . Lilian (one “L” only) Bond has a secret divorce stop ... or didn’t you know she’d been married question mark stop ... oh well . . . stop . . . Nobody in Hollywood will be surprised if Estelle Taylor and Jack Dempsey will have “made up” by the time you read this stop . . . Tom (over fifty) Mix’s reply when asked for a fat check for a revival temple in Los Angeles : “I don’t do my prayin’ in the spotlight !” stop . . . Bob (new contract) Montgomery is building a moun¬ tain home many miles from Hollywood stop . . . Howard (still a few million left) Hughes’ “Scarface” is breaking attendance records all over the country stop . . . Anna Sten, Sam Goldwyn’s newest foreign sex-appeal impor¬ tation, learned as her first English words “Darling Sveetheart I loff you” because, she says, she thought they were the most important for an American screen career stop . . . and does she mean offscreen or else what ques¬ tion mark stop . . . Evelyn Brent was sued for $700 for books by a Los Angeles book firm and I’ll bet there are some stars in Hollywood who’ll never be sued for even two dollars on that score stop . . . Marion Davies’ next will be a haha film called “Good Time Girl” and Bob Montgomery will good-time opposite her stop ... if Hays told Paramount they couldn’t use the title “Merrily We Go To Hell” what will he tell Warners for buying the title “They Call It Sin” for a Loretta Young starring film question mark stop . . . Emil Jannings may return to Hollywood to make pictures for Warners stop . . . George (mister) Arliss is off to England for a sum¬ mer stay . . . Jenner, his ever present valet, went with him ... of course . . . there’s talk that Jack (getting happy again) Gilbert may be loaned to RKO for the lead role in “The Sun Also Rises” stop . . . Monte (remem¬ ber?) Blue’s comeback is on and they’re shooting on his comeback starring film, “The Stoker,” stop ... in addi¬ tion to old-timer Harry Langdon, old-timer Ben (eyes can’t agree) Turpin will also play in Paramount’s “On \ our Mark” stop . . . and of course by this time you must know that Connie Bennett will sing in “The Truth About Hollywood ... so now will you go question mark stop . . . Adolphe (expressive eyebrows) Menjou’s wife slipped in the bathtub and broke two ribs stop . . . you won’t see Marian (baby blonde) Marsh in any more Warner pictures . . . they agreed to disagree stop . . . . . . Mrs. Maurice Chevalier announces she is giving up the stage forever and ever . . . “from now on I am nothing but Maurice Chevalier’s wife,” she says . . . nothing question mark stop ... an average of 380 miles of film 8