The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

DAY BY DAY Invisible as the proverbial black cat at midnight, Nemo prowls Hollywood and brings you news Jeanette MacDonald spent her vacation in Hawaii riding the waves in those fast outrigger canoes. Helene Costello went to the Domino Club party with sister Dolores and clowned a bit for the camera. HH B ILL POWELL has the craziest home in town! Everything is run by electricity. The doors are knobless, and if you want to get into any place in the house all you have to do is find the button! We don't know for sure, but they do say as how Bill has a robot in the kitchen. And if you want a double order of ham and eggs, push the right button and — there you are! Ml rERLE OBERON admits that she is "terribly interested" in David Niven, scion of Scottish nobility and recently signed to a long-term contract with the Goldwyn studio. There are those who say that Miss Oberon was directly responsible jor getting Niven signed to play a part in "The Dark Angel," the new Goldwyn opus, featuring Fredric March, Herbert Marshall and, of course, the gorgeous Merle herself. Mister Niven says: "Jolly place, this Hollywood. If a chap takes a lady to luncheon, it seems to be a public sign of betrothal. If he takes her to dinner, it is as good as announcing that wedding bells will toll at once! What would people think if a man invited a lady to have breakfast with him?" If you could find one up in time for breakfast, Niven, old truffle, people would think you were a magician! YOU should have seen Mae West practicing rope-twirling in the wide-open spaces of the Paramount lot! "It's a good idea," murmured the hairpatting, hip-swinging blonde. "I've never had much trouble roping in my men, but this ought to make it even easier!" yfFTER iveeks of heart-breaking ivork, Sj. day and night, on his latest {but swell!) picture, "G-Men" Jimmy Cagney finally went on a one-man strike and stayed home in bed for a straight twenty-four hours. Now we catch up with a strong rumor that Warner Brothers are out to sue their most popular star for holding up production. Which is a °8&l pretty mean trick, any way you look at it, on account of Jimmy has always given till it hurt toithout stopping until reaching the point where it is physically and mentally impossible. However, after previewing "G-Men," we've a sneaking hunch that the brothers Warner will have relented and called off their bloodhounds. r "S Mister Ripley in the house? Bill Robinson, that super-hot colored tap dancer, has a pair of dancing shoes that are more than 33 years old and have just been re-soled for the first time! "I bought 'em in Chicago," says Bill, "and paid seven dollars for 'em. They wasn't dancin' shoes then. But, by puttin' wooden soles on an' changin' the heels, so the right heel was on the left shoe and vice versa, I got me a pair of dancin' slippahs that knows all the steps I know! "Why, sometimes at night," he continued with a grin, "I looks ovah the side of the bed an' sees 'em doin' a little jig of their own!" "Hey—" Will Rogers put in, "you'll be tellin' us next that you have to set traps for 'em so you can find 'em in the morning!" T TNLESS they build a bridge across the \J Atlantic, the Three Stooges are declining any and all offers to appear in London! Larry Fine hates the sea and can't be coaxed or cajoled aboard a boat; Curly Howard doesn't mind flying so long as he can keep one foot on the ground; and, while Moe Howard doesn't object to flying or sailing, he's only one-third of the trio, after all, and what good is a stooge without a couple of assistant stooges?? Of course, you can't speak of the stooges without recalling Ted Healy, the lad who (as far as we're concerned) originated the silly idea. "What is it — rubber?" says Ted, nonchalantly picking up Nat Pendleton's pet bull snake. It took four of us fifteen minutes to get Ted back into Nat's house! Ts^.4 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stone also attended the Domino Club's dance. Jack Holt, Fred Stone, Wendy Barrie, Buster Collier, Clark Gable and Jimmy Gleason, skeet shooting at the Santa Monica Gun Club. On location for "The Arizonian" Director Charles Vidor took personal movies of Richard Dix and Margot Grahame. 28 The New Movie Magazine, August, 1935