Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Cal York's Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 84 ] ANN HARDING had a birthday. Husband Harry Bannister outdid himself on the presents which included a little house built near the tennis court, a theater seating forty people, a "whoopee" room in green and, therefore, christened "The Green Room," with pingpong tables, billiards and even a bowling alley. T_JARRY BANNISTER was stopped on the *■ -"-street a few nights ago by a lady who was carrying a huge black Persian cat. She told him how much she liked him in pictures and he, meanwhile, admired the cat. "My wife is very anxious to get a black cat, ' ' he told her. "Then take it," the woman said, pushing the cat into his arms. "I am going to leave town tomorrow and I've been worried over the cat. I know he'll have a good home with Ann Harding." And so Satan, as he has been christened, has a nice home with Ann's two dogs, Prince and Whoopee. MALEBU'S Laugh-of-the-Season : Word has been passed about the beach colony asking everyone to keep a lookout for a piece of gold bridgework, containing three pearly false teeth. One of the prettiest actress-members of the community lost it when a heavy wave hit her. Who? That's the laugh— it's being kept secret. WHAT a shower they threw for Bebe Daniels ! For weeks her friends ransacked the baby shops of Hollywood, New York and Paris and if they try to use all the presents they will have to add another room to their house to hold the clothes. All the anticipated garments are being initialed B.L. Ben if it's a boy and Barbara if it's a girl. TMAGINE Dorothy Mackaill's embarrass-*-ment, when she and a party of film folk were well at sea on the beginning of a fourday-long week end yacht trip aboard Howard Hughes' palatial yacht, to find that none of her luggage had been brought aboard. And that she hadn't an article of clothing or other necessities save the one dress she was wearing! And that her new suitor, Neil Miller, the youthful crooner and scion of wealth from Honolulu, was along. The difficulty was solved by the other girls on the party. They loaned Dorothy dresses, powder, perfume, cosmetics, underpinkies, nighties, and even a bathing suit. OLORIA SWANSON'S three ex-hubbies— ^-'Wallace Beery, Herb Somborn and the Marquis Henri de la Falaise — all ,went swimming together at Malibu, before the Marquis left for Europe. . . . Lilyan Tashman does not wear flowers with formal evening dress. . . . Whenever Bill Powell is missing from a party he's attending, the wise ones look for him in nearby bathtubs. . . . There's a horseshoe-pitching ground right in Hollywood. . . and a horse drinking-trough in the middle of town on Hollywood Boulevard . . . Edwina Booth can't get sunburned because, as a result of her illness on the "Trader Horn" trip to Africa, she can't risk sun exposure. . . . And IS Marie Prevost putting on the pounds! . . . After he helped save Follies girls from his burning yacht, Harry Richman got a telegram from Clara Bow: "My hero I am proud of you." . . . Director Mel Brown is saving a plaster cast from his broken ankle because film stars autographed it and he thinks it will be valuable some day. . . . Frederic Girnau, who published an obscene scandal sheet attack on Clara Bow, got eight years in Federal pen and $1,000 fine. . . . Madge Evans, who is rapidly soaring to renewed film heights, was the original model for the "Have You a Little Fairy In Your Home?" soap ads. VWINFIELD R. SHEEHAN, head man of W Fox Studio, recently gave the Bellevue Hospital for Nervous Diseases a full screen and sound projection outfit. Dr. M. S. Gregory, head of the hospital, and one of the world's most famous specialists on nervous troubles is going to experiment with the effects of movies on his patients. T3 0NALD COLMAN has walked out on -•-VMalibu. "No privacy," is his plaint. He spends his summer spare time now at the ritzy Biltmore Hotel at Santa Barbara, instead of his Malibu house, flanked on each side by other screen folks' houses so close Ronald could reach out of his own window and into his neighbors', if he wanted to. He didn't. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 92 ] Here is the 1931 crop of Baby Stars, chosen by the Wampas (Motion picture press agents). Every year studio politics and studio jealousies have entered into the affair, and this year was no exception. This may be the last Wampas list. Lined up like this, don't they look more like the graduation class of any local high than a group of beautiful, hard working girls with a chance of world fame and fortune? From left to right they are : Constance Cummings, Frances Dade, Sidney Fox, Anita Louise, Frances Dee, Judith Wood, Rochelle Hudson, Joan Marsh, Karen Morley, Marian Marsh, Marian Shilling and Barbara Weeks. Joan Blondell, also a Wampas baby, does not appear in this picture 88