Movie mirror. (1933)

ANYWAY, IT’S NOT A “BOUNCING BABY I The one and only Gloria comes home with her fourth Michael Farmer, her two dogs, and without her three La Swanson is glad to see Hollywood again and we makes one of her old time grand pictures WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT NIXON BABY Too young to know a thing about it, none¬ theless a little baby got the worst break of all when Marian Nixon and her million-heir hubbie, Edward Hillman, Jr., decided to call it quits _ The baby was the tot Marian had adopted just a few weeks before the separation was broadcast to the newspapers. Under California law, a baby must remain two years in a home before it can be finally legally adopted. When the Nixon-Hillman home was split up, it simply violated this specification of the law. Marian, honestly grown deeply attached to the child, tried every legal means to keep it herself, in her own home. But the law’s tech¬ nicalities said NO ! Then Marian tried to ar¬ range for her married sister to take the baby, with the eventual aim of having Marian adopt it later. But again, the attempt to circle the law’s provisions failed through technicalities. And so, at last, the baby had to be returned to the Los Angeles orphanage whence it was taken. "We were sorry,” says the matron. ‘‘Miss Nixon, in the short time she had the baby, showed she would have been a good fostermother. But the law is the law. . . !” As this is written, it is reported that the baby has again gone out for adoption — but to no million-dollar movie-star home ; to an obscure but happy non-professional home instead. »» — is it funny, or isn’t it, that in “Fellow Prisoners” at Warners, a man named Pasch is cast as a heavy lover ! It was one of the bluest days in Carole Lombard’s life, that day she discovered that the star sapphire ring which Hubby William Powell had given her last Christmas had slipped off and couldn’t be found. But — the next day, a newspaperman returned it to her. He had found it lying on the street just outside the Para¬ mount studio entrance. And had kept it until the identity of the loser was revealed. Henry Garat, Fox’s importation, was in a studio projec¬ tion room, watching a test reel of himself singing, when the earthquake hit. As the walls rocked and everybody dashed for outside, Garat followed, muttering: “I never expected my first song here would cause SUCH excitement !” TWO MORE OF THOSE MARQUEE SIGNS: IF I HAD A MILLION and THIRTEEN WOMEN SHE DONE HIM WRONG and THEY HAD TO GET MARRIED Normalcy Note about Movie Kiddie: — Buster Phelps swiped one of his dad’s cigars the other day and smoked it. Results: 100 percent normal. Buster did what any other kid does when he swipes a cigar from dad and smokes it. Reginald Denny is awfully glad he let -his Jap gardener talk him into putting a flowerbed in place of a concrete court in his back yard. Because the other day, Reg’s baby (it’s about a year old, now) fell off the back porch of the Denny home and plunged thirty feet . . . The nurse screamed. The gardener, working below, grinned. Because he had seen the baby land in the soft earth of the new flower-bed — absolutely unhurt, and quite delighted with the experience. Did you hear about the beautiful film star who, in the hospital after an automobile accident, was shown an X-ray picture of herself. And ordered it sent back to be retouched? “WHO WAS THAT LADY I SEEN YOU WITH?” The English language is a bit puzzling to Henry Garat, who is the newly-imported chevalier of the Fox lot. And the other day, introducing his wife, he explained carefully: “My wife — she looks like a lady, but she isn’t, yet. She is only 22.” With Indian pictures coming into cycle, a certain producer’s planning one with a double punch — In¬ dian stuff plus sex. Title? — oh, “The Lust of the Mo¬ hicans . . .” Hollywood Depression Wheeze: An extra tells of getting a call to be in a grandstand mob scene. “Bring an extra hat and coat,” read the order, “for the dummy you’ll sit next to.” And did you hear about the Hollywood great lover who drove into the pool at Palm Springs and lost his false teeth ? 25