Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

• ■ Off for a European holiday after finishing "Alexander Hamilton," beautiful Doris Kenyon, widow of Milton Sills, and her son, Kenyon Sills, wave to the cameraman upon arriving at Penn Station, New York BARBED wire is becoming popular among the exclusives of Hollywood. When Mary and Doug left for foreign parts, they closed their house and had barbed wire strung around the swimming pool. And they say that Greta Garbo is surrounding the grounds of her home with barbed wire, and even go so far to say that it's charged with electricity. •"THOSE amazing Bennetts — Dad (Curtain ■* Speaker) Richard, Joan and Constance — are always sure to do the spectacular. Constance has been causing a little trouble on the First National lot, in spite of her enormous salary (or maybe because of it) . The publicity department wanted to take a still of her father and herself holding a make-up box together. But Connie thought it was silly. The portrait artist on the lot tried to secure photographs of her and she promised to sit, but she always forgot her appointments. She would not allow interviewers to come on the set, so the executives finally barred the sacred precincts to all visitors. This may have been in deference to Connie and again it may have been for the visitors' sakes, for the fair lady's language when she's hot and bothered is something to make a sailor's parrot blush with envy. But the publicity department pulled a swift one. Connie's picture was finished on Thursday. Her contract called for salary and work for Friday and Saturday. She was notified that if she wanted that pay she'd have to sit for photographs. 84 C a 1 Yo r k ft1* This is mothers' and daughters' month ! You will have no trouble recognizing Alice Joyce above, but would you believe her daughters are such young ladies already? Alice (Mrs. James Regan, Jr.), Peggy, left, and Alice Moore, center, posed this way before sailing for California recently HpHE baby at Connie's house is another -L source of gossip for Hollywood. The child is about three years old now. In New York Connie told reporters it was an adopted child, but Hollywood believes that Phil Plant, Connie's ex-husband, is its father. However, when a Hollywood reporter asked the lustrous lady about it, Connie's set was barred to interviewers. "KTOBODY, with the possible exception of •'-^ Greta Garbo, is given such a free hand as Constance Bennett. Connie, who is still not as big a box-office attraction as many another star, says and the studio does. During a recent film she did not like the clothes the wardrobe had designed, so she was allowed to buy her costumes elsewhere One producer admitted that the reason she does exactly as she pleases is because she is said to have a million dollars as a result of a settlement with her husband. Even in Hollywood a million dollars has authority. SUPPOSE you'd been away from your wife for months. Suppose you were in England, and your wife was arriving at such-and-such a time on the steamship so-and-so. Where'd you be? Well, anyway, when Mary Pickford debarked from the steamer in England after her trans-Atlantic trip to join Doug, he wasn't at the pier to meet her. So she put in a telephone call to where he was stopping in London. But they told her they were sorry, Mr. Fairbanks was out playing golf. He was right in the middle of a match, it appears, and she just couldn't reach him. So— P. S. — As usual, the Fairbankses are denying all separation and divorce reports. "T"\OUG is the kindest, best man in the -L-' world and the perfect husband for me," at least that's what Mary Pickford told somebody in England. The somebody was a newspaper reporter. Mary further goes on to remark that after