Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Hollywood Life is Stranger than Pictures! You just can't do a thing with that girl Lupe Velez. Here's that cute little Mexican pepperpot up to tricks again — giving her imitation of Gloria Swanson which simply panicked vaudeville audiences on her recent tour. Good, isn't it? Another bride of the month was Nancy Carroll, Paramount star, who quietly married Bolton Mallory, editor of LIFE, immediately after her divorce from Jack Kirkland became final. Mr. and Mrs. Mallory are shown in an exclusive photo posed for Photoplay. Nancy leaves soon for the Coast, but hubby may have to stick to his job in New York income tax reports. Mellon helped her for several days. And right away one capital newspaper correspondent sent out the story that Negri and Mellon were to be married. Now that report is something over which Negri has no control, but the way she denied the story when she hit Hollywood left a question mark. Oh, yes, she denied the rumor in words but there was a choke in her voice and a languorous lilt of the eyebrows. Pola never misses a bet. THE answer to why so many airplanes were seen hovering over Dolores Del Rio's house was because she was getting natural color for playing the dark-skinned Hawaiian girl in "Bird of Paradise" by taking au natural sunbaths on a roof porch. One Hollywood youth was reported trying furiously to buy an autogiro. REMEMBER last month we told you that things were not all moonlight and roses between Billie Dove and millionaire-boy-producer Howard Hughes? Billie was preparing to star in Hughes' super-production, ''The Age for Love," when production was postponed again and again and Hollywood chattered. It seems that Hughes has been squiring Lilian Bond to a few select places. And that made Billie unhappy — so unhappy, in fact, that her physician feared her on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And they are saying that Billie consistently refused to report for work at the studio. Also Hughes — is there no limit to the boy's versatility? — has a decided liking for unsophisticated little Dorothy Jordan. At any rate Don Dillaway, Dorothy's steady, has a lost soul look in his eye. D EMEMBER Katherine MacDonald, "the ■^■American beauty" of the silent films? She is now the center of ont vi the most sensational divorce cases in months, and is suing her husband, millionaire Christian R Holmes, on cruelty charges. In her complaint she says that oj.c night, after calling her endearing names, he began to fire a revolver at her and again he shot at her through a door, demanding that she open it. When she told him the lock had jammed he fired once more. In Honolulu, she says, he once walked up to her, smiling sweetly and, before some friends, deliberately pressed a lighted cigarette against her hand, burning the flesh. On one other occasion he smacked her over the shins with a walking cane, she says. There's an eighteen-months-old daughter, and Katherine is seeking the custody of the child. M ORE odgennashy verse from Hollywood : Uncle Carl Laemmle Has a very large faemmle. And Pretty June Collyer Is a cure for melancollyer. BILL POWELL got peevish at reporters on the day he and Carole Lombard visited the Los Angeles city hall to get their marriage license. Stopped by newspapermen, Powell remonstrated annoyedly: "Is nothing sacred to you chaps?" So they went ahead and printed things from the license application — for instance, that Powell was 38 years old. LI'L Danny Cupid's Merry-Go-Round! Pauline Starke divorces Hubby Jack White, film producer . . . says he rejected her advances . . . told her he didn't love her . . . said he was her mental superior. . . . Lady June Inverclyde in Reno to get a decree. Declines to say whether or not she'll marry Lothar Mendes, who was once married to Dorothy Mackaill. . . . Inez Withers, ex-wife of Grant Withers, current but not-working husband of Loretta Young, goes into court to ask why Grant didn't pay his alimony. . . . They say Grant likes Betty Bronson and Loretta may be seen almost any noon-time sitting in the Brown Derby with Ricardo Cortez. A/fRS. ERNST LUBITSCH, about to get ■"■Mier final decree, expected to wed Hans Kraly, a writer who used to be a friend of Lubitsch, but hasn't been since the two fistfought at the Embassy just before Mrs. Ernst sued for freedom. . . . Ukelele Ike, Cliff Edwards, wins a divorce for cruelty. . . . He's taking Nancy Dover out places. . . . Claudia Dell wins her final decree of divorce from Philip G. Offin . . . says she's oflin him for good. . . . Josephine Dunn, recently sued for divorce by Hubby Clyde (Oil-Heir) Greathouse on charges that she clawed him and called him bad names, files a cross complaint . . . she says that in their four months of marriage, he bought her only one pair of hose and one jar of cold cream and bawled her out for not getting work in pictures. . . . Jack Dempsey left Reno without filing suit for divorce. But Estelle Taylor insists it shall be done. . . . Jack has been seen places with blonde Edna Murphy, while Estelle seems partial to Leslie Fenton as an escort. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 78 ] 2 A9