The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

if anything should happen to me — " So — the guy from the Big City putters around the garden. He knows the names of flowers. The sight of a caterpillar throws him into horrors. "I can tell you all about eight different kinds of fertilizer. And I've invented a little sort of clapper thing, that I go out at night and kill snails with, because the snails eat the young plants," he grins shyly. The leading menace of the screen has a movie camera, used exclusively for taking pictures of the baby. After two years, there are reels and reels of film — "Baby's First Tooth," "Baby Takes His First Step." Every time Eddie goes back to New York he takes all the film, and a projector, and shows the pictures to young Eddie Junior's proud grandpa and grandma, and all the uncles and aunts. Two months ago, unable to wait any longer, he took Eddie Junior himself east and showed him off. (Incidentally, he won't let anybody call him Junior. The baby's nickname is "Manny," and you call him "Manny" or else.) "Sometimes I wonder why Mr. Robinson ever hired me," wails Ada Tyler, the baby's nurse. "Why, he's the nurse, not me! When Manny was little, we gave him his bottle at five in the morning, again at ten, and then at two o'clock and six o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Robinson was up all hours of the night to warm the bottle in the kitchen, and he always gave the baby his six -o'clock feeding himself. And always cooing at him in his crib! 'You're a big man. You're not a baby, are you? You're Daddy's great big man! Woozums — Woozums!" "Oh, now really, Nanny," protests Mrs. Robinson, "he wasn't that bad." "He wasn't? Coming home every lunch-time, an hour's drive from Burbank to Beverly Hills, just to get a glimpse of Manny? Why, many's the time he went without his lunch, to my certain knowledge, just so he could come home and see the baby at noon, Mrs. Robinson. And how about those rides he used to take him on, in the car, when he was too little to sit up. Singing to him all the way, too! Sousa's marches, you know, Pom-te-pom-te-pom. Why, the baby was singing Sousa's marches back at me before he could talk!" Somewhere, at about this point, Eddie Senior sneaks out of the room, his face a ripe, red beet color. And then there are "Gr-r-r, I'm a bear" games that go on in the garden. And Horsey-Horsey. Eddie Senior can blush all he likes, but the truth will out. How about all those times you've bathed the young man, Eddie? — almost bursting with pride because he could stand up and grab hold of the edge of the tub. How about all that talcum powder you've sprinkled where it would do the most good? How about all the hundreds of times you've refused to let Mrs. Robinson or the nurse put him into his nightie, because you wanted to do it all yourself? How about Nanny's night out, when you go in and sit by the crib and sing the baby to sleep? You're still doing that, right to this day, you know. No wonder they don't see you at the Hollywood night spots very often! How about that game he plays with you every morning, now that he's two years old? Coming into the bathroom with you, lathering his face with your shaving brush, and making believe he's Papa — shaving himself with your razor after you take out the blade? So now you know the awful truth about Edward G. Robinson at last. He isn't the tough guy of the screen, at all. Ladies, the victory is yours. You've won. He's just One More Husband. He isn't even that. He's just the adoring, timid soul who takes orders from Edward G. Robinson. Junior, aged two. On-the-Set Reviews (Continued from page 32) even leaving instructions that he fool the Baroness (Merle Oberon) if possible ! And right here, kiddies, is where they have used a bit of scrubbing powder on the original plot. Because, while Miss Oberon is inclined to be plenty fickle where other men are concerned, she does, for some weird reason, resist the charming Chevalier. The ensuing complications are delightful. The Baron and Ann think their respective mates have been unfaithful and there is some tall explaining done on both sides. Chevalier, in the Baron's absence, has innocently promoted a deal whereby the worried Baron can jump out of the red and back on the right side of the ledger. So-oo-o . . . Graham, it's all very silly, but I love it. And, if you have a yen for one Chevalier, think what a kick you should get out of a pair of 'em! They are doing two versions, with Roy del Ruth directing the Yankee end of it, and Marcel Achard the French. HOW AM I DOING? • PARAMOUNT Still worrying about gangsters, kidnapers and such, Mae West isn't taking any chances. She wouldn't even let us on the set. Anyhow, Mae has practically fingerprinted everybody on the set, and, if the popcorn man goes for a drink of water, he has to be finger-printed all over, the print checked with the original, and then, if it's a tie, he can come in, and no questions asked! You all know that Mae writes her own stories, and this one has to do with a gal who can take care of herself, and does, entertaining in a dance hall in a small, but tough, cattle town. Because it looks like a good thing, Mae marries Fred Kohler, a wealthy rustler, who obligingly gets himself bumped off on their wedding day, leaving his wife (in name only) enough money to go places without hitch-hiking. Paul Cavanaugh, representing an English oil company, discovers oil on Mae's property; and Mae discovers that, if she had a bit of that thing called savoir faire, she might get to first base with Paul. Following him to Buenos Aires, Mae meets up with Monroe Owsley, a busted socialite, and marries him, hoping to acquire some of the above mentioned s. f., thereby making herself worthy of Mister Cavanaugh. Sort of a preparatory course, or something. 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