Movie mirror. (1932)

An artist and his model. Oooh, the stories you’ve heard about such people. But tvhat about when they are husband and wife and the wife like beautiful Helene Barclay, above, has been signed for pictures (with M-G-M), and the husband isn’t jealous at all but simply delighted ? Groucho Marx’s answer to What’sWrongWithMovies — : . . when I went into pictures three years ago, we made fifty pictures with one executive. Now we make fifty executives with one picture.” Not Even Del Rio’s Voice Squared Her With Mexico Over a long-distance hook-up, Dolores Del Rio in Hollywood spoke through loudspeakers to the audience at the Mexico City opening of “Girl of the Rio.” But even then, Mexico condemned the picture as show¬ ing Mexicans in a bad light. And Dolores even got an official letter telling her that as a daughter of Mexico, she should never have played in such a film. So Maybe Hollywood’ll Have a Reading Club Amused were Hollywood’s folks-about-town the other week when the Lowell Sherman-Helene Costello divorce suit was being aired in the courts. Cause of amusement : Lowell Sherman’s plaintive charge, among the grounds whereon he sought divorce, that Wifie Helene was a collector of erotic books. By erotic, he told the court, he said Helene kept about the house. That gave Hollywood more whereat to titter. Truth is that few are the movie big-shots’ libraries which don’t contain a dozen or more such reading. Holding off from taking sides in the divorce contro¬ versy were most of Hollywood’s folks-about-town. They were waiting, before declaring themselves, to ascertain whether Helene or Lowell would get custody of those twelve books. Eventually, Helene (not Lowell) got the divorce and the books. Helene’ll probably have a lot of literary-minded visitors. Said Lowell Sherman Of Helene Costello: Her taste in books Was very mellow ! Probably the funniest development of the century is Will Rogers’ turn-down of the script of “If I Were President,” which he refused to play because, he said, he didn’t want to poke fun at our highest official. What’s he been doing all these years ? ? ? ? ? So This Is That Famous “Sunny California” Some sequences of “The Bird of Paradise” were not taken in Hawaii, but in Hollywood — and on some coolish spring nights. And was it funny to see all the extras, wearing only grass skirts and leis, shivering between “takes” or wear¬ ing overcoats or Indian blankets or what. Dolores Del Rio, wearing nothing but a grass skirt, a lei and two pieces of adhesive tape for Hays’ sake, shivered with the rest. “They call me ‘hot’,” Said Dolores Del Rio, “But take it from me, Yo tengo frio . . . /” Because a lot of peers and things like that will visit the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Mary Pickford and Doug Fairbanks have built an addition to Pickfair. It has 18 rooms. Just imagine the hotel money visiting royalty saves on the Fairbankses ! And Didn’t Monsieur Chevalier Laugh! Maurice Chevalier turned suddenly at the entrance to a Hollywood cafe to buy a paper. He bumped into a group of sightseers, humbly begged pardon. They paid no attention to him at all. They were looking for movie celebrities. And not one of them recognized him ! Wally Beery, one of the foremost aviation enthusiasts in filmdom, carries his hobby to practicality. He is a lieutenant in the Los Angeles police department’s air force reserve. 44