The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

Hollywood Day by Day (Continued from page 31) WE told you Paramount was having all the fun this month. Nemo got close enough to sniff at real royalty the other day on the set of Bing Crosby's new picture, "Mississippi." In fact, we were standing right behind Jimmy Dugan, the assistant director, when Lord and Lady Byng streamed-lined onto the scene to get an eyeful of Hollywood picture-making tactics. "Whosit?" Dugan muttered into our good ear. "Lord and Lady Byng, of England!" we hissed. "Ab.-hb.-h!" says Jimmy, almost loud enough to be heard, we're afraid. "Byng! Byng! Here comes the British!" • 71 /I AY BE he doesn't drink . . . or L yJL maybe we do it differently these days. Anyhow, it was a kick, watching Director Elliott Nugent show his nice old poppa, J. C, how to play drunk in a scene for "Love in Bloom!" • '"THAT Gary Cooper is the funniest -* fellow. Cutting paper ducks is nothing! You should have seen him in full dress, even to top hat, squatting on a three legged stool while he dexter ously milked a contented cow! But we mustn't be too hard on Gary. Anna Sten was slated to do the milking for a scene in "The Wedding Night" and, after the entire company and crew had denied all knowledge of the bovine intricacies, Mister Cooper was dragged from his dressing room to deliver a lecture — with gestures — on milking! Three cheers for Montana ! • WE'VE listened to things like this with our tongue in our cheek, but, so help us, this is the McCoy! Francis Lister's pretty wife was having one mean time with an impacted wisdom tooth, and, good Boy Scout that he is, Francis took the little woman to a dentist and stood by while the D.D. did a bit of excavating. Next morning, Mister Lister woke up to greet a badly swollen jaw in his shaving mirror, and upon dashing down to the same dentist, discovered that he had an impacted wisdom tooth! "Do I feel silly!" he said. -"Thirtyfive years old and still cutting teeth! It must be a case of arrested development?" • T~\ON'T let anyone tell you it isn't Love! Because the boy friend, Bill Powell, was working the other day, we inveigled Jean Harlow into playing a couple of rounds of golf. Twenty minutes after the hour of our appointment, Jean wandered onto the course, looking exactly like "what the well-dressed lady golfer will wear", but with that certain faraway look in her eyes. "What are you gonna do?" we wailed. "Kick it around?" And, snapping out of her daze, Jean discovered she'd forgotten her clubs! Ah, April! Jean, lor' bless 'er! hasn't got a bit of use for high heeled shoes. If she has to wear the things for picture purposes, the minute a scene is finished she scoots up to her dressing-room, kicks 'em off and indulges in an ecstatic bit of toe-wriggling. PREDRIC MARCH has the most colossal new portable dressing-room we've ever laid our good eye on! Not colossal in size, because the thing is only about eight feet square, but colossal in content, on account of it has a Frigidaire, hot and cold running water, double electric plate, radio, clothes closet, full-length dressing mirror with a string of built-in electric lights all around it, a super-soft divan, even a lavatory! ! The elaborate dressing-room on wheels was a gift to the versatile Freddie from Darryl Zanuck, and all the March lad has to do is sit in front of his dressing mirror, wash his hands, turn on . the radio and fry himself a couple of eggs, without moving from the spot! • SAM GOLDWYN is very modest about the myth surrounding his alleged mispronunciations and general verbal gymnastics. Any time an amusing incident concerning badly twisted grammar arises, it's Goldwyn who gets the by-line. And, believe it or not, Sam gets as much kick out of the stories as the rest of us! Probably the most famous gag of all is the one wherein Sam is supposed to have cracked: "I can answer you in two words . . . im-possible!" That is Sam's favorite, along with the one that quotes him as saying: "You can include me — out!" but Sam (modest fellow!) generously declines the honor. "If I were capable of such priceless wit as they pin on me, I'd sell my share in this business and get myself one of those $2500-a-week jobs writing dialogue," he says positively. So, in the future, don't you believe a word of it! • AS "Jean Valjean,*' in the Victor ■^ Hugo classic, "Les Miserables," Freddie March is taking a lot of real punishment. The day we visited him was a hot one and while Fred sweltered under a matted wig and twelve-inch whiskers, he sadly inspected the welts on his back and shoulders, received when the over-enthusiastic guards belabored him with yucca clubs, in the galley scene. "Boy! Those are daisiesi" we murmured sympathetically. 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