The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

PAKK 6-TILFOKD'S FAOEN FAOEN No. 19 is fresh, light and delicate. Like the intoxicating fragrance of a lovely garden — it's elusive and alluring. Excellent for evening wear. FAOEN No. 3 is exotic — a clinging, oriental fragrance which makes every occasion rife with intriguing romantic possibilities. Hi PARK Hi LFOfcD'S FAOEN ( F A -V O N ' [ In ten cent tucUaway ^\~) &&.(£-tsU K-A^C£C4. Pictures Need 7 Kinds of Love everyone can have a pet. The same may be said of our love for growing things and our love for inanimate objects. It costs money to satisfy such cravings. At the movies, however, the most adorable animals, scenery, flower gardens, homes and luxuries in general are portrayed before our very eyes with only the expenditure of a few cents. Especially to be recommended for thwartings of these types of love are pictures like "Broadway Bill," and "Sequoia." T^EW persons, however, seem to realize that deep down within every individual an urge exists that, for want of a better term, may be called the "spiritual urge." It is a soul-stirring feeling; a reaching and towering toward higher things. Thus, of course, we turn to the worship of God, and because of such spiritual values we become patriotic or seek glory, yearn for the truth, devote ourselves to charitable under {Continued from page 53) takings and sacrifice. Even ambition, and love of power and influence may be placed under the category of the spiritual urge. And, to be sure, nobody's life, no matter how lucky it may be, can be considered perfect so far as the urges of the finer feelings are concerned. Love for music is a universal urge. This may not manifest itself in a desire to hear classical compositions. Simple rhythms as in jazz, to which body movements can readily be made to respond in dancing, may be all that the craving for music implies. Music, however, everyone needs. In effect, it constitutes an expression of pure emotion. Therefore go to the movies with music as often as you can. Particularly excellent are pictures like "The Merry Widow." "Roberta" and "Naughty Marietta." Lastly, in analyzing your emotions, note your definite love for escape. When Spring and Summer arrive this is strongly marked. Throughout the year, however, we all must escape from things as they are, at least for a short time. Travel, recreation, gayety, etc., all are excellent avenues by which we can forget ourselves. Nevertheless, one cannot always arrange such things on order or on short notice. You can, however, go around the corner to the movies. No matter what the picture may be, it will distract you, afford you some excitement and leave you refreshed. TN conclusion, therefore, let me urge ■■■ you to study yourself, to check your cravings according to the fundamental loves I have listed. In this way you will quickly discover what you need. Then supply the want by choosing your movie fare according to your emotional appetite. In this way you will come more and more closely to living a full, rich 100 per cent life. Comedians Make the Best Fathers sizes as illustrated .at all 5 and 10 M cent stores. they startle me with their remarks, though!" "The problem is," grinned Eddie, "to keep from having your children bring you up! Here's a case in point. My wife and I, and of course our daughters, gave a little party at the Cocoanut Grove the other night to celebrate our wedding anniversary. After dinner I ordered a rather strong liqueur. But Natalie spoke up to the waiter, 'That's too strong,' she told him. 'Father can't take it. Bring him a creme-de-coco!' And the waiter minded her, too!" T VE never known greater pals than -"■ Harold Lloyd and his children. He gratifies their every wish of which he and his wife approve — Mildred (Mrs. Lloyd) is the court of last resort — and he is with the children whenever possible. I have known him and Mildred to take Gloria and Peggy to afternoon parties and even to daytime weddings. And he has taught all three children, even little Harold, to swim, both in the pool and in the ocean. He is interested in everything they do, and says they may choose their own careers. He listens patiently to the scenarios which Peggy is forever writing, and even plans to "produce" one of her stories on the screen — "just for fun and to see how it will look. WHEREVER Clyde Cook goes, there goes also little Julia Ann Cook, his seven-year-old daughter. Even during a recent vaudeville trip which Cook took, there was Julia Ann, too. She was behind the scenes a lot at night, yet the tour didn't seem to hurt her any, despite travel and late hours. Twenty-five dollars each week goes into the bank for Julia, whenever she learns a new dance step. And as Clyde knows a lot of steps, there will be a lot of twenty-five dollar bills for her by the time she is eighteen. Little Patricia Wheeler, Bert Wheeler's seven-year-old daughter, pretty well runs the house and him, too, says Bert. "Why, she even makes me eat spinach when she does!" exclaimed Bert. Lois Laurel, Stan's daughter, is the apple of her father's eye. She comes to the studio to watch him work at (Continued from page 36) every chance, then goes home and imitates him. She thinks he is the greatest comedian in the world, and had an awful argument one day at the studio with a child actress who insisted that Charlie Chaplin was a greater comedian than Lois's dad. Lois went in with flying fists, but came out with flying colors. Slim Summerville is an adopted dad, his little boy Eliot being the son of an old friend of Slim's, who became so poor that he could no longer care properly for the child. Slim promised that the boy should never want for anything. He has established a trust fund for the youngster. Now, at three, little Eliot is Slim's constant companion. "Y^7"ILL ROGERS once said to me, * 'in the old days when the children were little, when I was dining with him and his wife — "Oh, everything is for the children!" It certainly was! There was a big gymnasium-and-theater combination in the basement, and a little polo field all the children's own, from which Mary shortly arrived, hair flying, fresh from practice. We had a grand game of bowling — a bowling alley being one of the many games installed in the basement— I remember, and Bill beat us all. Now-a-days Rogers is still the pal, and he has taught all three of his children, Mary, Bill and Jimmy, to play polo, and to ride and rope. Vy"ALLY BEERY is a sort of dad * * to all the kids in his neighborhood. All the youngsters, mostly boys but there are some girls too, gather to play baseball on his big lawn, with little Carol Ann as a joyous mascot. Beery likes to select Carol Ann's wardrobe, and if Mama Beery doesn't watch out, he buys the child everything she likes. But he displays wonderful taste about her clothing, truth to tell. You will see the child lunching with Wally at the Vendome in Hollywood, or over at the M-G-M studios, nearly any day. DUT discipline is burned deep in the *-" tradition of the comedian, and so we find all these comedians strict disciplinarians also. Then, too, most comedians were very poor as boys. This makes them a bit severe with their children on the subject of money. Probably good for the children, even if not any fun. More important still, this memory of their own poverty causes the funsters to guide their children toward the idea that they should have careers — should learn to earn their own livings if need should arise. Joe E. Brown's two boys, for instance, are already planning their careers. Joe thinks he wants to enter the circus, following in his father's footsteps, and Don wants to go to sea. Now in military school, Don may enter Annapolis, later. The children have a self-governing system, with no snitching allowed, which works out beautifully. Will Rogers wouldn't permit his daughter Mary to act in the movies until she had taken a gruelling stock course. That's why she is acting in New York now. Charlie Chaplin knows just what his boys are studying all the time, and he went to court to keep them from working before the camera while they are in their minority, although he encourages them to thrift and industry in other ways. All Eddie Cantor's daughters are studying for business or professional careers, Marjorie, his eldest, being now his secretary at $100 a week. "And she earns it," he declares. Edna is a musician, being far advanced, and almost ready for teaching. Natalie is taking a business course. While we are on the subject of actordads, some of the villains make awfully good fathers, too. Coming home after a hard day's villaining and washing the lines of sin and dissipation from their faces, they are often sweet souls with their children — Edward G. Robinson, Noah Beery, John Miljan and others. And then there are the straight men — Fredric March, Ralph Morgan, Otto Kruger, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, for instance — they're pretty slick, too. "But we prefer comedians," say the comics' children — and they should know. 54 The Neio Movie Magazine, August, 1935