The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

Diary of a Hollywood News Hound {Continued from page 4) company. Boss 'sleep. Boss get married las' night!' Shut door firmly. "Rang door bell for half an hour. No results. Left Frank in the car and went around to back. Gate to kitchen yard locked. Skinned shins trying to climb wall. Bread wagon arrived and gate was unlocked. Rode inside in state amid whole-wheat loaves, doughnuts and pies. Went in kitchen to consternation of more Filipino boys. Carried on one-sided conversation. Reconnoitered. Located house phone system in hall. Watched chance and rang 'Master Bedroom.' Filipino boys horrified. "Gilbert said 'Hello.' Told him who I was and where. Told him not to blame Filipino boys because this wasn't their fault. Told him I had to have pictures of him and Ina. He was nice. Said they would be out in an hour. I said an hour was too long to wait. He said they would make it half an hour. "Let Frank in front door. Filipino boys helped me set table in patio. John and Ina appeared. Ina elegant in pink sports dress, simple and smart. Yellow hair brushed off forehead. John in flannels and shirt open at collar. "They were jovial and happy. Posed as we wanted. Joked between themselves and razzed me in a nice way about butting in on honeymoon. Weren't even peeved when I asked how about Gene Markey and Greta Garbo — wouldn't they feel badly about this? Just told me they hadn't a thing to say about Gene and Greta. "Back in the office at 9:30. Scooped the town with story and pictures. City editor pleased for once. Gave Frank and me tomorrow off." TV/IAYFAIR parties, when all the ™* stars gather for dinner and dancing, are fun for a reporter, if you don't have to work too hard. This one was, anyway. But haven't times changed since this night of "October 31, 1930. Covered Mayf air party at Biltmore. Quite a time. Happiest couple there were Sally Eilers and Husband Hoot Gibson. Danced every dance together. Hoot's hair white as snow, incidentally. Photographers snapped Gloria Swanson with strange man, name of Farmer. Prettiest girl there, Jeanette MacDonald." Gloria broke into print soon after this when she got her divorce from the Marquis de la Falaise. Here's about it— "November 8, 1930. Gloria Swanson slipped into court during noon hour today to get divorce on the q.t. Nothing doing. Press got wise. Gloria wouldn't pose for picture so photogs. grabbed shots. Frank Bentley and I chased her out of courthouse into the street. She ran in front of a street car and tripped, losing her slipper but saving herself. Frank tripped, fell down and broke his camera. Gloria jumped into a taxi and left. No pictures. City editor very mad." It always seemed to me too bad that Ina Claire and Jack Gilbert couldn't make a go of their marriage. They seemed so sure of happiness that May morning in 1929. But here is the second and last chapter of their saga. Incidentally, here is also, I think, proof that a "news hound" is sometimes willing to let a story go by the boards for the sake of that intangible something called "ethics" "February 14, 1931. Went out to Beverly Wilshire Hotel to see if Ina Claire would talk about her separation from John Gilbert. She was nice (she always is) and let me in, but wouldn't talk about Jack. In lieu, we discussed her picture work and Hollywood in general. She ordered coffee. I stayed quite a while. "Finally, led subject up to John, again. Ina less reserved by now. Said these are troublous times in Hollywood with talkies coming in and everything. Said love doesn't have a chance in Hollywood. Said she and Jack had been having bad time trying to adjust themselves to new order of things in pictures and hadn't had time even to try to make their marriage go. Then she said in confidential way a woman has, talking to a pal: 'Anyway, Jack didn't know how. to be a husband, really. He is sweet, but is only, after all, a nai've little boy ' "Guess she saw the gleam in my eye as I visualized headline, to wit: 'Great Lover Naive Little Boy Says Ina.' She clapped hand over her mouth and started crying. Told me she hadn't meant to say that. Said such a thing would make Jack laughing-stock of Hollywood, when he was having trouble in pictures, anyway. Said she always talked too much — would never forgive herself — please keep it out of the paper. "Didn't know what to do. Story is a story and that one in class by itself. Sorry for Ina if I did print it and sorry for myself if I didn't. Left her at last, still undecided. "Telephoned the city desk and was told to dictate what I had. Thought about those thousands of headlines, blazing today, forgotten tomorrow except by those they hurt. . . . Dictated flat story with nothing in it about 'nai've little boy.' City editor came on the line and said was that the best I could do. Told him yes. . . . Just a sap, me. A chicken-hearted sap. . . ." THERE was a time when Hollywood waxed extremely interested in Los Angeles' famous David Clark murder trial. Every day a call or two would come from the drama editor asking those of us covering the trial to get some celebrity into the court room, past the crowds that waited in line outside for a seat, sometimes all day long. Here's more about it "August 5, 1931. Working on Dave Clark trial. Quite the fad for Hollywood to come a-visiting. Up to reporters to get the big shots in. Drama department's order. Gave my seat in the press row to Jetta Goudal today. Sat on the window sill. "August 7, 1931. More Clark trial. More visitors from Hollywood. John Boles had my seat today. I sat on radiator. "August 12, 1931. Still more Clark trial. Drama editor phoned and said Olga Baclanova would be down and could I get her in. She brought five others, including husband. Couldn't get them all past bailiff at the door, so took them up to the jail, then down in jail elevator and through prisoner's room to the court room. Olga had my seat and rest sat on folding chairs. I sat on our photographer's camera case. "August 18, 1931. Clark trial. Gave my seat to Eric von Stroheim. Stood up all day." (Please turn to page 56) The Wrong Color Can Make You Look 5 to 10 Years Older! y ^i^GSm If there's one thing you want to "try on", it's your face powder shades. You may not realize it, but it's a known fact among artists and make-up experts that the wrong shade of face powder can make you look older than you really are. Many a woman's age is unjustly placed at 5 to 10 years more than it actually is simply on account of the color of face powder she uses. There is no greater error than to choose your face powder color on the basis of "type" or coloring. Matching isn't what you want at all, but flattery — enhancing of your natural gifts. 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