The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

Isabel Jewell with hor scientist father, blind from years of research. Ann Dvorak has taught her two cocker spaniels to dive into the swimming pool at her ranch. Guy Kibbee and Jolly Oliver Hardy sneak away every chance they get to go fishing. Clara Kimball Young, once a star, now an extra in "The Crusades." [ENRY HULL tells a funny one on himself. It was the opening night of "Tobacco Road," in New York, and the scenario called for Henry, as Jeeter Lester, to chew tobacco and let it dribble nonchalantly through his crepe whiskers. Well, to Hull chewing tobacco was chewing tobacco and NOT a substitute, so, biting off a big piece from the plug, he walked onto the stage, chewing away enthusiastically. Five minutes later he was the sickest man on Broadway. But — the show must go on! "Til never know how I survived until the first curtain," he confided. "But, after that, my 'chaw' was pure licorice, and nothing else!" Incidentally, Hull admits he's 44 years old and proud of it! He says: "When a matinee idol gets bald, he has a reason to worry about his age. But a character actor can go on indefinitely, because the public doesn't give a hoot what the man behind the make-up looks like!" And let that be a lesson to you, Elmer! I ASHING up Sunset Boulevard on the trail of some news, we were startled to see a vision of loveliness in white angel skin crepe and white fox fur, grabbing ivildly at a passing load of hay! When tve finally caught up with the lady, it turned out to be Raquel Torres clutching a handful of straws and wishing a mile a minute on 'em! "It's an old charm and supposed to ivork," she told us after the ivishing session was over. So away went your old pal Nemo in pursuit of the ivagon. We came back proudly clutching a handful of the stuff. Not that we're gullible, understand? But just to see if there is anything in the old superstition. We'll let ^ou know about it one way or the other next month. WALLACE BEERY is having more fun these days playing (of all things!) "burro polo"! "I almost scored a goal in my first chukker," he told us, "but the burro I was on decided to quit me cold — lay right down under me and refused to budge!" But it's all in fun and Wally looks for the fad to have the same run that donkey baseball enjoyed a year ago. Wally's adoration for his little daughter, Carol Ann, increases daily. It's got to the point where Wally gave up his lunch hour (and there's a man who appreciates food, too) to rush into Hollywood to do some shopping for Carol Ann, because she wanted a hat "like Cora Sue Collins wears"! TTXITH an afternoon off, while on loca yy tion, Fred MacMurray set out to do the nearby golf course. The course must have been a tough one, because: "I started out with five balls," Fred said, "found four more and then had to quit on the fourteenth hold because I'd lost all of 'em!" Or, maybe it was Fred's game? PHILBERT again comes to the fore with a flash to the effect that he saw Johnny Weissmuller washing out his leopard-skin drawers on the back lot at M-G-M the other day. So they must be getting ready to go into another "Tarzan" epic? K 'NOWING Clark Gable's taste for good food — good, plain food — the studio chef concocted a dish and submitted it to the star for his judgment. Clark sampled it. "Um-mm-m . . ." he said, "that's good stuff. But, so help me, it tastes just exactly like beef stew!" The chef stared. "Well, I didn't think you knew your onions," he exclaimed, "but beef stew it is!" So Clark can have his beef stew, but (Please turn to page 70) n Hale's little daughter, Karen, broke her back in a serious fall down a flight of stairs, and must lie quiet for weeks in a plaster cast. Gruff George Barbier celebrates his twenty-fifty wedding anniversary. The New Movie Magazine, August, 1935 29