Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Hollywood Statio n— N-E-W-S We wouldn't blame the little Vidors for being jealous of this little girl — she looks so much like their beautiful mother, Eleanor Boardman. She is Marilyn Knowlden, who has been chosen by Paramount to play Eleanor's screen child in her new picture, "Women Love Once." A remarkable likeness, isn't it? LOIS WILSON won all of the honors at the Hollywood premier of "Seed." When her name flashed on the screen, there was an outburst of applause. When she first entered the picture therewasagreateroutburst. When Conrad Nagel called her name for introductions, the applause was so great she had to wait several moments before she could be heard above the clapping. But when she said, "I am so happy to be back on the screen again—" frankly admitting her recess and her appreciation of another opportunity, the house went crazy. A simple, unaffected girl, loved, and therefore honored, by her own people. CONTRACTS which Rudy Vallee holds for this summer guarantee him VS17,000 a week. Chicago censors barred shooting in gangster pictures, but the Chicago police can't do anything about it in real life. . . . Marie Dressler's weekly salary has been increased from SI, 500 to S5,000. . . . Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery have been elevated to stardom. . . . John Barrymore is no longer at Warners. . . . They say Charles Cex-Buddy) Rogers is to become a band leader at the end of his picture contract this fall. . . . Sessue Hayakawa returns to pictures this fall. . . . •"THE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and -* Sciences is offering bargain rates in its initiation fees. . . . Corinne Griffith and Colleen Moore are planning comebacks. . . . The press-agents have the nerve to claim that the " Rogers for President" campaign is on the level. . . . Reri, beautiful Polynesian of '"Tabu," arrived in San Francisco in a smart American costume. The Ziegfeld press-agents put a native grass skirt on her by the time she arrived in New York to be photographed. . . . Karl Dane, the Danish actor, now talks with an English accent. . . . GEORGE ARLISS will make only one more picture after "Alexander Hamilton." . . . Universal is teaming Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts in comedies. . . . Display lines in newspaper advertisement "Constance Bennett in 'Born to Love' with Joel McCrea." . . . Norma Talmadge has been repeatedly reported as through with pictures forever. . . . Helen Wills, woman tennis champion, refused to go into movies when she found that she had to kiss her leading man. Well, she couldn't make love to him by hitting him with a tennis racket. . . . "D UTH CHATTERTON is going to stick to ■'-^-Paramount. . . . Madame Chanel, famous French dressmaker, says she is astounded at Hollywood. Hollywood wasn't so crazy about Chanel either. . . . Carl Laemmle, Jr., is starting a new school for motion picture training. Ted Cooke suggests why not try exchange plan — send collegiates to the studios and film executives to college. . . . Two weeks after Photoplay's May issue appeared, nearly every newspaper in America had copied our Pickford story. . . . FRENCH censors got Jean Harlow completely out of "Hell's Angels." . . . Worcester, Mass., has barred all gangster films. . . . Gloria Swanson admits she is thirty — that will do for a minimum. . . . She divorced Wallace Beery in 1918. . . . On one lot they call an unpopular player "one of the leading poisonalities on this lot." JUST mention the name Jeanette MacDonald to a certain overworked and harassed pressagent and he breaks right out in tears. For days he's been trying to get her on the telephone and invariably her maid said, " Miss MacDonald can't come to the 'phone now. She's in the bath." This went on for days and Oops dearie ! Jean Harlow does an aerial daily dozen in her new Fox picture, "Goldie." Try this at your swimming pool the next chance you get. It's great for the figure although the man was willing to admit that cleanliness was next to godliness he wondered where business came in. At last she began work on a picture. Ah, he could see her on the set. Certainly she could not avoid him at the studio. The first morning he journeyed across the lot and arrived upon the scene of action, but he was stopped at I lie door. "I want to see Miss MacDonald," the press agent said. "Sorry," said the doorman, "the set is closed today. Miss MacDonald is doing a bathtub sequence and nobody's allowed in." EVEN Hollywood maids are not immune — The other night in Hollywood, at the home of a couple who, although not in pictures themselves, are on intimate terms with many of the screen great, a new maid was serving dinner. One guest was late. He arrived just before the new maid brought in the soup. As she stood by his side, he turned and looked at her. She squealed and dropped the plate and fled, in complete confusion, to the kitchen. The guest was John Gilbert. [ PLEASE TERN TO PAGE 82 ] M