Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1931)

i3o WHOSE EYES ARE THESE? Only 18, yet she'** one of First {National PicturcM*1 moat popular start*. This youthful beauty in 5 ft., .'I1 .• inches tall, weighs 100 pounds, and ha** blue eyes and light brown hair. Name below*. end eye strain this quick way When reading, sewing or office work has left you with tired, aching eyes, simply apply a few drops of harmless Murine. Almost immediately they'll feel fresh and rested, and will look just as fine as they feel! Also use Murine after motoring and other outdoor exposure to soothe away the irritation caused by sun, wind and dust. 60c at drug and department stores. Try it soon! *Loretta Young Millions of Bottles Used Yearly! Itching torture ended! Photoplay Magazine for April, 1931 Not all Kuropean stars, of.course, have been all gentle femininity. Bohemian upbringing and success may have spoiled them. But Marlene is not spoiled — at least, not yet. FOR the theater and the movie studio is merely one side of her life. In private life she is Mrs. Rudi Sieber, the wife of a German movie producer, and the mother of a charming five-year-old daughter, Maria. She loves her beautiful Berlin home where her mother lives, too, and Paramount was able to lure her to Hollywood only on condition that she could return home to husband and child for a prolonged vacation every year. Her first vacation from her American triumphs brought her home in time for Christmas. All fashionable Berlin was cavorting at winter sports places in Germany and Switzerland. Marlene stayed at home, banished all professional cares, refused all interviews, accepted few invitations and devoted herself to mother, husband, child — and cooking. "They won't let me photograph myself with my daughter any more," she explained laughingly when I finally saw her. "They think it's enough if I just mention her. The idea! She's the most wonderful child in the world!" Just the same, Marlene obeys orders. The photograph of Marlene and her daughter printed here has been obtained from other sources without her knowledge. But Marlene is not just a German hatttfrau by any means. She is an accomplished musician, and she loves sport. She likes to speed through the country in an auto, she loves tennis, and she is a good swimmer. Like many another girl, Marlene came to the stage through the lure of the forbidden. She was bom in Berlin on December 27 — never mind the year — as the daughter of patrician parents. Her father was Majro Dietrich of the German army. He died before the war. Her mother, nee Felsing, comes from a substantial merchant family of Berlin, and Marlene's uncle, Herr Conrad Peking, is owner Don't suffer night and day , with itching, burning skin. ' Get cooling, soothing, antiseptic Zemo. Thousands find relief in first application. ( Safe, dependable, invisible. Zemo helps restore skin to healthy smoothness. 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Marlene says it proudly. Her name, incidentally, is a contraction of the names Maria and Helene. She passed her childhood under the strict regime and in that sheltered manner whi h was typical in German patrician and especially officer families before the war — rigid family discipline enforced by the father, careful isolation from too much contamination with the world enforced by the mother, submergence of self in worship of the male members of the family, enforced by her own inherited instinct. T\ 7H AT she remembers most of her childhood ** is that she seemed to be constantly moving from one garrison to another. Garrisons are usually in small towns. Thus, though born in a metropolis, Marlene really grew up a smalltown girl. She didn't attend theaters. Theaters were still considered wicked. They were strictly taboo for girls. Of course, this merely roused her curiosity, but declamation of school poems was considered the only proper outlet for her desire at self-expression. Her Uncle Conrad, however, related that Marlene was always an exceptionally bright girl, and precocious at mimicry. "Her imitations of people and early attempts Clara — This is Terrible Clara, since you've asked my opinion, I'll tell you quite subtly that I think these pajamas are terrible. They're split up to the knees front. And just why is this? And they have two trains in the back — one local and one express. And just why is this? The only thing good about these pajamas, my dear Miss Bow, from a fashion standpoint, is that they are pajamas. r^Xe^sT^UO-LC/L.