The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

DON'T CHEAT YOUR BABY OF VITAMINS Tests reveal that ordinary home -cooked, home -strained vege t a bles lose much of their vitamin content OF COURSE your baby's health well repays you for the time you spend cooking and straining vegetables for him. But there is a better way — a way to assure far higher vitamin content and to do away with tedious preparation. Heinz vegetables are prepared hours instead of days after being harvested. Each day before being cooked dissipates vitamin content. These really fresh vegetables are cooked and strained without exposure to vitamin-destroying air — then vacuum-packed into enamellined tins. Test after test proves that in Heinz Strained Foods, vitamins and mineral salts are retained to a far higher degree than is possible with ordinary home methods. Try three or four varieties of Heinz Strained Foods. Do away with tedious preparation. And, more important, be assured that your baby is getting an abundant, uniform quota of iKflA. precious vitamins and minerals. jjK • "■ — ~ SEND FOR THIS VITAL BOOK -New, valuable facts about vitamins and minerals in infant diet are revealed in this new book, "Modern Guardians of Your Baby's Health". All facts in it have been accepted by the Committee on Foods, American MedicalAssociation. Send labels from 3 tins of Heinz Strained Foods and 10 cents to H. J. Hein2 Company, Dept. TG202, Pittsburgh, Pa. Lieinz Strained Foods include 8 varieties — Strained Vegetable Soup, Peas, Green Beans, Spinach, Tomatoes, Carrots, Beets and Prunes HEINZ STRAINED FOODS A Group of the 57 Varieties Royal Squabbles of the Movie Queens (Continued from page 38) returned from abroad the ship reporters asked her what she thought of Mae West fashions. You will recall she said: "And who is Mae West?" For a time Hollywood was breathless. Miss West is calm, collected and self-assured. She apparently didn't hear. Fight fans laid money she was just playing for time. Then the inevitable face-to-face occurred. No assassination. Marlene offered the old royal alibi, "misquoted." Heck, said everyone. TTOLLYWOOD males have never -^ been militant. Not over screen prestige anyhow. They still sock one another at parties in defense of a lady's honor. On the whole, though, the rugged individualism of pioneer filmland, when even ladies packed guns, has succumbed to white tie regimentation, and if you want to get along socially you'd do well to follow Max Baer's example and buck up on Emily Post. A guy that wears a sweat shirt to a salon these days is rated a show-off — or "poseur" as we say in our salons. Hollywood, like any other rich town, finds relief in social skirmishes. For years Pickfair ruled the peerage and Mary's prestige was considered as unassailable as the late dowager Mrs. Vanderbilt's. Following a triumphal tour of the courts of Europe, Madame and Monsieur Fairbanks were the official hosts of noblemen. Then Marion Davies came West and the course of nobility was deflected to the Georgian mansion flying the biggest flag on the Pacific Coast. To the Davies court went princes, statesmen, artists and finally George Bernard Shaw. Miss Davies' parties excel others in originality and gaiety, and they are widely democratic. Indeed, I recall a masque ball at which Miss Davies even invited Los Angeles society, along with the Hollywood hosts. Late in the doings two youths altercated loudly, peeled off their coats and retired to have it out. Greatly agitated, Miss Davies exclaimed: "That's what you get for inviting society!" Since Norma Shearer's marriage to Irving Thalberg, the star-making maestro of M-G-M, she has acquired the title of First Lady of Hollywood and her mansion near Miss Davies' on the Santa Monica sands is arbiter of elegance. It is her position in the studio, however, that is regarded with envy. As the wife of // Capo she is naturally considered the favorite of fortune, and fortune to a star me^is stories. Tactfully, Mrs. Thalberg refrained from any outward show. She exercised no royal prerogatives in the way of acquiring a dressing bungalow, although Miss Davies had one more sumptuous than the petit Trianon and the first twostoried dressing "bungalow" in Hollywood. When John Gilbert was the white-haired boy at the box-office, one of slightly less regality was erected for him. Cecil B. DeMille was given an other castle, and there is a dining bungalow for executives. Miss Garbo has remained in the barracks, and Miss Shearer has also to date, anxious not to upset the delicate balance of power among studio royalty. With extraordinary tact, blessed in a miraculous memory for names and appointments, invested with more charm and with more wit than she has managed to convey to the screen, she has astutely maintained good will. Oddly, Miss Davies, through similar gifts of diplomacy, combined with generosity and warmth of personality, has escaped outward jealousy while enjoying luxurious favors. Her bungalow — actually a spacious dwelling of many rooms — was an open house. She likes people around her all the time, especially favoring those who can make for laughter and general merriment. Miss Garbo's set is guarded and silent like a hard-working artist's atelier. Miss Shearer's set is business-like, of pleasant but quiet tone. Marion's was distinctly good time, with quips and pranks and wanton wiles. In this respect it resembled the old-time studios of Hollywood, when picture-making was more or less play and no one worried much. I lunched with Miss Davies one day when a famous writer came to ask a favor. The latter had quarreled with the studio chiefs and wanted Marion to act as intercessor. "I don't see why I have to patch up everyone's fights," Marion sighed. "I've never had a word with anyone on this lot. Why do people fight? You never gain anything fighting." At that time she informed me that she liked M-G-M better than her New York Cosmopolitan studio where she worked in the beginning. "And that's saying all I can because I loved that gang." Hence I see her farewell proclamation of love and good will as something more than a diplomatic gesture. THE way I feel about the two royal ladies is that they, like Marie Antoinette, are innocent figures in this world-shaking conflict; of course, they have royal ambitions, and a queen must think of her fans before herself. Otherwise the day will come when the throne will not be there when she sits down. The personal charm of the Davies has never been fully translated to the screen. Neither has the Shearer's. They are more remarkable as women than actresses. (Am I the intercessor?) Far be it from me to say which should play Marie Antoinette. I shall grieve equally at the beheading of both. And I think the French Queen is getting a big break. If she had been as tactful, sympathetic and wise as these royal ladies, the French Revolution would have been as bloodless as this one in Hollywood. Further proof that Hollywood has it all over Europe in everything, including royalty. Join the Peoples' Academy by sending your votes on the twelve outstanding motion picture achievements of the year. See page 42 of this issue for further details regarding the free trip which we offer our readers. Dress Up your kitchen Photograph courtesy of Lewis & Conger 7 diagram patterns for 15 f£ bring beauty and charm to the kitchen Just between us women, isn't a kitchen a much pleasanter place to be in when it boasts a few gay spots . . . new curtains, a pot of flowers, colored canisters! You'll enjoy making these attractive kitchen accessories below from diagram patterns, each one with complete directions. CURTAIN PATTERN To be made from scrim and checked ginghamWith this are directions for making checked flower pot holders to match. Very decorative. CROCHETED STOOL COVER It's easy to make a crocheted stool cover and a matching floor mat from heavy white and colored cotton thread! Directions tell you how. COLORED CANISTERS Empty tin containers can be transformed into good-looking, serviceable canisters with the aid of waterproof paint and simple stencils. LETTUCE BAGS Unbleached muslin decorated with designs in colored cotton. Useful and good-looking. TABLE PADS No scarred tables when bone rings are made into table pads with a good-looking crocheted body. OILCLOTH CASE A necessary convenience for memo pads, pencils and sales slips. A clever "dummy" prize. TWINE HOLDER You'll never be without a ball of twine in a handy place when you have this wall holder. Send for these diagram patterns today . . . all seven for 15 cents Frances Cowles TOWER MAGAZINES, Inc. 55 Fifth Avenue New York, N. Y. 50 The New Movie Magazine, February, 1935