Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1932)

"COR ten years, a tall, swarthy-looking individual has been roaming, rather aimlessly, about Hollywood, doing bits and small parts in pictures and an occasional stage play. Today he's the most talked of man in pictures. William Henry Pratt (or Boris KarlolT, the monster, to you) has certainly rung the bell and has recently signed a long term contract with Universal Studios. And so it goes in Hollywood. It's the break around the corner that keeps them hanging on. A BIG show-off was bragging about what a swell movie star he'd make if he ever got to Hollywood. "Well," said a bored eavesdropper, "you might at that, you rat. Mickey Mouse is a hit." •"THE prize freak accident of the month occurred on the "Polly of the Circus" set. Ruth Sehvyn, dressed all up like a Christmas tree, in a tinsel dress, sat on her horse waiting to enter the ring. A camel nonchalantly strolled up (being a camel he would be nonchalant) and, mistaking the tinsel for sugar, began nibbling at Miss Selwyn's skirt. Much annoyed (for after all nothing is more annoying than a camel nibbling at one's skirt) Miss Sehvyn pulled away her dress, whereupon the camel reached over and deliberately nibbled away a portion of her anatomy that she needed for riding on a horse. And Miss Selwyn didn't ride horseback for several days after. A WRITER was talking to Jackie ■**■ Cooper on the telephone about his meeting Tallulah Bankhead at the party given by Joan Crawford for the specific purpose of bringing these two together. "And were you thrilled at meeting Miss Bankhead?" she asked. "Do you mean was Tallulah thrilled at meeting me?" Jackie answered. A^ET Marie Dressier on the second of IViJanuary, 1932. "How are you?" "I am still alive," Marie said serenely, reminding us that the soothsayers had foretold her certain death in 1931. And Marie has always been one of our most ardent believers in the psychic. Has had each month foretold for her. Well, she i>n't quite so ardent! SIDNEY SKOLSKY tells the story of a chorus girl, quite stuck on herself, who attended a party that Howard Hughes gave in New York. "I think Howard is trying to make me," said the chorus girl. "I'm not worrying," replied the boy friend. "It took him two years to make 'Hell's Angels.' " T UPE VELKZ has a new boy friend. Randolph Scott, Paramount's so-called new Gary Cooper. Now, ain't that fate? The lad comes down to Hollywood, heralded as the successor to Gary, and the first gal he meets is Lupe. He must be determined to be a true successor for one look at each other and Lupe forgot all about Jack Gilbert. Can scarcely remember she knew him. [t's Randolph's eyes. They got her. Oh, me — oh, my, and it was Gary's eyes in the beginning. However, we're glad it's all happened. It's the first time in months we've seen Lupe really happy. All the worn, sad look gone away. She's more beautiful than since the first days she fell in love with Gary. All because she's learned that very old lesson: It may take a lung time but there always comes a day when another man can make a woman forget even the "one and only. " But then, you can't judge all women by Lupe. "DOOR Randolph Scott. He's learning about 1 lollywood with a vengeance. He'd only been there a few days, brought from stock in San Francisco, when he met Pola Negri. Interest at first sight. Then Pola was taken sick. Randolph met Lupe Velez. Love in a second. Then Pola got better. He went to see her. She was cool. Lupe heard about it. She was taken sick. An old hand at the Hollywood game took him aside: "You must learn first of all in this town to tackle one wild-cat at a time, Randolph." Reverend Gable will now lead the congregation in song. Turn to Hymn two hundred and eighty-nine in the big blue book. But the big blue book in this case is the script for "Polly of the Circus," in which Clark plays the role of a minister. Marion Davies is Polly, of course, a character you all know, and the two are taking a quick rehearsal before the next scene. Do you think "What-a-Man" Gable is the type to play a reverend? Ann Harding doesn't like her new contract. She thought she could pick her stories and found she couldn't. She doesn't like her picture "Prestige," but she likes husband Harry Bannister 38