Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Cal York's Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 37 ] Kay Francis watching new hubby Kenneth MacKenna direct Elissa Landi and Frederick Kerr in a scene from Fox's "Always Goodbye." Ken is showing Kay he knows what every good director should do by acting as though he wants to jump out of his chair NEW foot-fashion note: Marlene Dietrich came back from Europe to Hollywood with a pair of— well — ah — can't call 'em shoes— or sandals, either — ■ They consist, each, of a sole and high heel. The only "upper" there is consists of two narrow straps across the foot — more to hold the sole-and-heel arrangement on than for anything else. Worn with them are very sheer hose — and carmined toe-nails! y^ITS tells the one about the two Atlanta, Ga., kids who, left to their own devices while their mothers were shopping and having been warned not to put beans in their noses, decided to telephone their favorite star, Anita Page. They finally got her at the studio where they had to wait a few minutes until she came to the 'phone. Later, the operator reported a $15 charge for long distance to Hollywood. The kids have been eating off the mantel for a couple of weeks, now. RUTH CHATTERTON has the faculty of grabbing off a quick nap any place and any time — even on the set. Between scenes, she can often be found asleep. CONRAD NAGEL is an usher in a Hollywood church. The other day, a certain film star's little daughter came home from that church's Sunday school with a question. "Mother," she asked, "why do they call Mister Nagel just Mister Nagel on week days and call him the Lord on Sundays?" "Why, darling — do they?" asked film-star-mother, astounded. "I'll say they do," lisped darling; &4 "at Sunday school this morning, the superintendent said, 'Now children, it's time to give your nickels to the Lord,' and then Mister Nagel came around and took 'em." RENEE ADOREE, convalescing in the desert, has gained fifteen pounds. ... It has not yet been decided who will bring the suit — Estefle or Jack Dempsey. ... A raise in salary has patched up Jack Oakie's troubles with Paramount. . . . The courts have ruled that Daisy DeVoe, Clara's ex-friend, must serve eighteen months in the jug. . . . Constance Bennett gets $11 a minute for every minute she works. . . . Television is still just around the corner . . . and the corner is at least five years away. . . . Tom Mix is coming back to make horse dramas next fall. . . . Latest reports of Mary and Doug are that each is to become an independent producer, not appearing in the pictures. . . . Ronald Colman plans to take a half-year vacation in England every year. yARIETY reports the story of a newspaper lad who's been working on one of the trade sheets. He arrived at First National to have lunch with Ben Lyon. "Sorry," said the information girl. "You can't go to the lunch-room. No newspapermen are allowed on the lot except in the publicity office." "But I've just been fired," said the lad. He got his okay to go inside. IF you want to preserve the memory of Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik," you'd better take pen in hand and write a letter of protest to Paramount, for that studio is considering doing a talkie version of the famous old sex "drahma." Georges Metaxa — there's a name for you — recently brought over from England, is likely to get the name role and it's rumored that Claudette Colbert will be the kidnapped lady — you remember Agnes Ayres in that part. T\ THEN Sylvia Sidney, the little lassie who ** took Clara Bow's place in " City Streets," visited Minneapolis recently, she told the newspaper boys that Clara was "a pathetic little girl, the victim of her own generosity." She further added that putting Clara in Hollywood was like "sending a baby out into the world and telling it to make its own way." Maybe Clara won't like being patronized by her successor. •"THE Hollywood press — a goodly crowd of -* goodly scribes — is annoyed at the manner in which some of the office studio lots are patrolled. You have to give your middle name, describe the mole on your grandmother's shoulder and say the multiplication table backwards to get in. Burly policemen, with pistols at hips, stand guard, and you can't even speak to a star without the official okay of the publicity department. The idea is to keep the naughty press boys from printing naughty things about the screen beauties. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 86 ] The depression has reached Hollywood and Carole Lombard's black souffle evening gown with silver sequins hits a new low. Well, glad to see your back, anyway, Carole