Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Tune in, Folks, on Cal York's Here's the answer to why young men become life savers. Dorothy Mackaill gets a few California super-sun rays after completing "The Reckless Hour" for First National price one paid. The contract was torn into shreds. However, the call of Art proved too strong for her. Jean felt her beauty was not meant to bloom unseen. So, stripping for action, she did extra work, "bits" here and there. Then one day she met James Hall. She broke down and told him of her struggle to succeed. He took her to Howard Hughes, who was The "Merry Widow" returns! Mae Murray is the latest of the old favorites who is showing that the microphone holds no terrors. You'll find her the same Mae in Lowell Sherman's recent picture, "Bachelor Apartment." Page the other Mdivani princess, Pola Negri, now an "ex," and we'll have old home week! then trying to unravel the millions of feet of film which later burst upon the world as "Hell's Angels." She was engaged for the heavy and very sexy vamp part. GREATER love hath no man than that he should dye his hair to suit a lady's whims. But that's what Rex Bell did for his Clara Bow. She didn't like his particular brand of reddish locks. She prefers 'em dark. So Rex up and had his hair dyed to suit her tastes. IN the United Artists announcement for 1931-32, neither Doug Fairbanks nor Mary Pickford is scheduled. Doug was quoted in London as saying, "The great mistake is that people take each other as a matter of course after marriage." LOU TELLEGEN, the matinee idol, has gone for facial treatment in a big way! To regain his lost youth, he had his face daubed with some sort of preparation that took the years and the wrinkles away. Out in Hollywood, the studio make-up wizards have developed a plastic surgery system that isn't surgery! The Westmore Brothers, for instance, have perfected a system whereby invisible court plaster and other gadgets are used to give faces an artificial lift to remove sags and wrinkles. When you see George Arliss in "Alexander Hamilton," you'll be surprised how young he looks. Westmore took thirty years off his age by lifting his face lines with adhesive tape at the temples. Next thing you know, Marie Dressier will be doing Clara Bow roles. BILL (SCREEN) BOYD has just given Dorothy Sebastian a wedding ring. Yes, gentle reader, they've been married for a number of months, but it was such a hurry-up affair that they didn't wait to buy a ring and were, if you remember, joined with a ring that was given to Bill by Dorothy the Christmas before. But the real wedding ring is the most novel in Hollywood. On the finger it looks like a link chain of tiny diamonds. Upon closer inspection you discover that each link forms a letter and the whole spells out, "Bill to Dot." P STELLE TAYLOR is hoping— and through ■'—'her attorneys has suggested — that Jack Dempsey will buy the mansion which has been their Hollywood home. The place is now in Miss Taylor's name. The actual investment, including furnishings, is $125,000, and that is what Miss Taylor would like to materialize from it. Mrs. Dempsey says she cannot afford to keep up the place and the cash would put her in a position where she can take care of herself. At this writing, it is not decided whether she will ask anything further. LILA_ LEE is back — that is, she's back in Hollywood but she is still taking the cure. She thought it would be just as well to leave the sanitarium and finish the rest that she began in Arizona, now that she has learned how to take care of herself. She stays in bed and all Hollywood has banded together to see that she remains quiet. Even her dearest friends resist paying her a visit. They write her notes instead to let her know that they love her but they realize that she must be alone until she is completely well. 40