The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

"Wotta woild, wotta woild!" croaks Signor Durante. "Here we are all dressed up — No PI ace to Co lasts three seconds may take three A SCENE that on the screen hours to shoot. Between takes the stars wait, wait, wait. It nearly drives them crazy. Here's how they all manage to kill time. Women stars have a better time of it than the men. Joan Blondell knits and sews for the baby. Madge Evans knits. Mary Carlisle makes quilts, Sylvia Sidney crochets. Fay Wray, Doris Kenyon and Bebe Daniels do needle-point or petit-point. Bebe. in fact, has a hairdresser who can do petit-point, too, and can carry on her piece of work while she does a scene. Gloria Stuart's fans send her old neckties, which she works into quilts. If you're missing any neckties around your house lately, someone is probably sending them to Gloria. Franchot Tone sits by himself and closes his eyes. So do Clive Brook and Conrad Nagel. Jean Muir asks questions of the technicians. Spencer Tracy broods and mumbles his lines. Jimmy Cagney takes notes for a book he means to write some day. Adrienne Ames does fashion sketches. Lyle Talbot reads. Janet Gaynor and James Dunn play rummy. ZaSu Pitts plays any kind of cards. Claudette Colbert sips milk. Paul Lukas is an ice-water guzzler. Edna May Oliver drinks it not only iced but distilled. Dick Powell and Big Crosby sing at the top of their lungs. They just love to sing — and, as you can imagine, they always draw a crowd. Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres play pianos. Alice Faye does dance routines. Richard Dix has a threepiece orchestra of his own which plays for him. Alison Skipworth sleeps. Miriam Hopkins sleeps in her portable dressing-room. Kay Francis ditto. Margaret Sullavan also prefers pictures with lots of beds and couches in them. Gary Cooper can sleep standing up. David Manners sleeps so soundly they frequently use him to focus the cameras on. Leslie Howard sits outside in the sun, fondling a good-luck charm. Jimmy Durante argues with anybody who'll listen. Also Dick Arlen. Roger Pryor walks round and round, like a caged lion. Warner Baxter not only walks but drinks soda-pop continually while walking. Ralph Morgan hides under old boxes and takes snapshots. This habit of Mr. Morgan's, it may be added, is very disconcerting. Sometimes, you know, two stars fall in love, and like all lovers seek a lonely spot in which to stare into each other's eyes. This is a very bad time to have Mr. Morgan pop out of a man-hole, or from behind a tree, and say with a cheery smile, "Hold it, please!" Victor McLaglen just sits and worries. The other stars just do all these things to keep from worrying, he says. Well — he'll sit and worry. You may think you'd like a job where you were forced to take an hour's rest for every five minutes' work that you did. You wouldn't! Kids think they'd love to work in a candy store — but after a week of it you can't look an innocent chocolate cream in the face. It's the same thing. There's no worse strain on the nerves imaginable than just sitting and waiting, and alternating that with waiting and sitting. Sizing them all up. it looks as though Gary Cooper's method is really the smartest, so far as saving wear and tear on the nerves is concerned. There are some meanies who wonder if he ever wakes up for his scenes at all. Just before he dozes off he puts an intelligent, interested expression on his face, and it stays there. People can come up to him and talk to him for ten minutes at a time without ever catching on to the fact that he's slumbering in his own private beddy-bye. And Sterling Halloway, the lad with the moth-eaten coiffure, simplifies it still further. McLaglen may sit and worry, but Sterling just sits. ''Ah'm the laziest man-n in Hollywood," he drawls. "Ah cum up heah f'm Gawgia foh a va-cation. An' what happens? These heah producers, they jest all get together an' make me wuk. No, Ah don' wear no make-up. Ah, don't do nuthin'. Ah jes sit an' sit." The prize goes to Gawgia! V^CaA^ ON THE SETS IT'S WAIT, WAIT, WAIT The New Movie Magazine, March, 1935 TRY Heinz Tomato Ketchup as a magic seasoning in cooking. It's a secret Women everywhere are discovering. That "certain something" added to the recipe, which puts the "French chef" flavor into the meals you cook. A bit of Heinz Tomato Ketchup— the simmered-down goodness of tomatoes and a combination of rare good spices, all in one bottle. NEW BOOK OF COOKING SECRETS. It's 108 pages of new ways to lure appetites. Write for the new "Heinz Book of Meat Cookery". It is full of recipes for new feasts with leftovers. Easy party platters. One -dish dinners. Magic with the cheaper cuts of meats. Delectable sauces. Dozens of complete new menus. Just send ten cents in coin or stamps to H. J. Heinz Company, Dep't 102 -A, Pittsburgh, Pa. HEINZ \« & a* KETCHUP IMS LARGSST 5 t 1 1 I N O KSTCHOP IN THE WORLD 51