Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Photoplay Magazine for September, 1931 WATCHING the announcement of coming attractions at the Forum Theater in Los Angeles the other day, we saw this: "Loretta Young and Grant Withers in Too Young to Marry." The audience giggled. Seldom are titles so apropos. Oh yes, they made this one before their divorce announcement. Color Magic for Your Lips! How innocent Tangee looks in its modest gun-metal case! But touch it to your lips, you Blonde one of great fame . . . you Beauty of the titian hair . . . you sparklingeyed Brunette! For this is the magic of Tangee ... it changes when applied to your lips and blends perfectly with your own natural coloring, no matter what your complexion. Tangee never gives an artificial, greasy, make-up look. It never rubs off. And Tangee has a solidified cream base, one that not only beautifies but actually soothes, softens and protects. Tancee, the world's most famous Lipstick, $1. Natural! Permanent! Non-Greasy! NEW! Tangee THEATRICAL, a special dark shade of TANGEE and ROUGE COMPACT Lipstick for professional and evening use. Si executives wired the scout asking him if he'd suddenly lost his mind. And then it all came to light. The girl was an understudy. He'd signed the wrong actress. SEND 2(# FOR TANGEE BEAUTY SET Containing miniature Lipstick, two Rouges, Powder, two Creams and "The Art of Make-up." The George W. Luft Co., Dept. Pll 417 Fifth Avenue New York Name ! Address THERE'S a certain producer in Hollywood who is known chiefly for the right words he does not use. For instance, he bragged one day that the Indians in a certain picture he made were the real thing— "right off the reservoir," he insisted. WHEN Mona Maris and Alfred Santell stopped going together, we understand a group of Hollywood's sports wagered her next boy friend would be a director, because directors are supposed to help yearning young women to greater fame. He was. Clarence Brown! We also understand that Mona really expected parts at Metro for some time but, somehow, they never materialized. She left Fox, you know, because she refused to play in foreign versions. Now, she has returned to Fox — in foreign versions. A SCOUT for one of the big film companies signed a Broadway actress. When she arrived in Hollywood her tests were so bad that the •"TERRY CARROLL— Nancy's sister— has a *• job. She's the stand-in girl for Tallulah Bankhead and when she's all dressed like the star, they're as alike as two supervisors. In fact, she looks much more like Tallulah than she looks like Nancy. And speaking of Terry, she was one of the guests at a cocktail — er — a. tea party given by Jack Kirkland — Nancy's ex-spouse. SIGNS on theater marquees: THREE GIRLS LOST with Lew Cody. TWIN BILL: Girls Demand Excitement Behind Office Doors. WELL, well, well — so it wasn't overwork which took Frances Dee to Catalina for a two -weeks, to -bed -at -nine -every -night rest cure. It was over-play. And thereby hangs a cute little story. Frances has been going steadily with Bill Mankiewicz, writer, you know. And then Bill went to Europe for a vacation. All the Hollywood boys who had been standing on the sidelines envying Bill got busy and Frances decided to learn what popularity really meant. She did. A different man every night. Russell Gleason is the only one we know who got two dates. Several weeks of being the belle of the town — and then Catalina, alone, with mother. Ruth Chatterton and Frances. Starr holding a gabfest over the old days when Ruth was Henry Miller's big box-office bet and Frances was Belasco's. The old masters have passed on but the lessons they taught the girls live on in motion pictures, which both old stage producers detested. PHOTOPLAY'S photographer caught them on a Paramount set where Ruth is making "The Magnificent Lie." "Ruth," Frances was saying, "how does it feel to have those movie producers scrapping over you and handing you also those spondulix?" "Frances, my dear," said Miss Chatterton. "It isn't hard to take."