Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Cal York's Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood CONTINUED FROM PAGE 80 K^^HHPbT < 'a&l' ■/»> \&. fee ^ Bb?'' * ^ '4 "<•»->*" **BggM^<M j Irene Delroy, Broadway beauty, didn't knock Hollywood cold as an actress. But she's in the Philadelphia social register now as Mrs. Wm. Liseter Austin, Jr., wife of a rich and handsome lad of blue blood. The smile is genuine, of course WEBER and Fields are trying to get Marie Dressier for a new stage musical show. But Marie won't leave Hollywood. . . . They're going to try musicals again in the movies. Hollywood is planning twentythree features for the coming year. . . . Garbo has walked off the "Susan Lenox" set six times. She hasn't liked the story — not even after twenty writers worked on it. . . . Ina Claire hasn't a telephone in her beach house. . . . After a long retirement Virginia Valli, Mrs. Charlie Farrell, if you please, is playing a lead in a picture called "Night Life in Reno." But it doesn't mean anything's wrong between Charlie and Virginia and it isn't even ominous, you rumor hounds. BILL HAINES decorated Leila Hyams' new Beverly Hills mansion. He had to hurry to finish Joan Crawford's dressing room. . . . Theda Bara plans to make a film comeback. She'll show these pikers what IT really is. . . . Bela Lugosi is no longer a Hungarian actor. He became an American citizen in the Los Angeles courts a few weeks ago. . . . Jean Harlow is taking voice culture. . . . John Miljan is a bad-nasty, dirty old villain on the screen. His off-screen hobby is breeding canary birds. . . . Montreal has a Shearer Street. No, it's not named after Norma. It's named for Norma's father. He runs a lumber business there. . . . Illusion destruction No. 15,729: Adolphe Menjou's favorite dish is corned beef and cabbage. . . . Jack Gilbert is a backgammon addict. . . . J. Stuart Blackton, once a millionaire part owner of and director of the old Vitagraph Company, is bankrupt. THE rumor still persists that Paramount isn't going to renew Nancy Carroll's contract. . . . Though you and you and you and I have considered them that for some time, Warners have now officially made Eddie Robinson and James Cagney stars. . . . "Smart Money," with both of them, was one of the pictures the King of Siam insisted upon seeing at a recent "command" performance. ... A suit in municipal court complains that Priscilla Dean and Leslie K. Arnold didn't pay the last month's rent for the apartment they occupied before their marriage was declared illegal. GARY COOPER is mad at Paramount for not giving him better stories. The studio hasn't heard from him since he went to Italy on his vacation. They're wondering if he'll be back. . . . Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg — not forgetting the baby — are backfromEurope. . . . Kenneth Harlan, Marie Prevost's ex, had to explain a noisy party to the judge. He was fined S25 for disturbing the peace. Dorothy Webb paid $50 and her thirty-day jail sentence was suspended. . . . Pola Negri keeps an almost life-size photographic enlargement of Rudolph Valentino in her ultra-modernistic dressing room. . . . Duncan Renaldo, the boy of "Trader Horn," established the fact that he was born in the United States and, as a citizen, may remain here. IN spite of the fact that Russell Gleason has been sending June Collyer whole boxes full of gardenias for months and months, Hollywood suspected she was going to be Mrs. Stuart Erwin and sure enough, on July 22, June and Stuart were married in Yuma, Arizona, June's brothers, Richard and Clayton Heermance, being the only witnesses. Stuart may play dumb roles on the screen but off-celluloid he's evidently not so dumb. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 88 ] William Wallace Reid was a little fellow when his father, Wally, was the idol of the screen. He's a big boy now, but he doesn't want to be an actor. He wants to be an air pilot, of course 8k