Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1933)

Cal York's Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 88 JEAN HARLOW has not been sitting around ^ idly while M-G-M decided what her next picture was to be. She kept as busy as any little housewife, selecting furniture and making drapes to go in her new home out in Holmby Hills, where she will live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marino Bello. Jean is living very quietly these days. She went down to Caliente over New Year's, but most of her recreation consists of going to the neighborhood movie — even as you and I. TDILL POWELL ran into two friends "^who were having a grand time swapping symptoms. Bill listened in sympathetic silence — until he could bear it no longer. "This conversation reminds me of Mandy and Liza. "Mandy said, 'Liza, has you-all evah been X-rayed?' "Liza thought a moment, and replied, 'No, but I been ultra-violated twice!' " "T HAVE lived more than most men, and I ■*• am tired — so tired!" These words Jack Pickford whispered in the American Hospital in Paris, where he died January 3rd. As he himself said, he lived so intensely — crowding into his thirty-six years of life, hundreds of joys and sorrows that less volatile souls never realize in a lifetime of four score and ten. Born John C. Smith, in Toronto, Canada, he appeared in his first stage production while still wearing long baby clothes. At the age of 23, long after Mary had become "America's Sweetheart," and after a brief stage career of his own, Jack entered the films. As Jack Smith, he worked alongside Mack Sennett, his sister Mary Pickford, and Lillian and Dorothy Gish in the old Biograph Company. For $5 a day! TT was not until he created the role of Tom Sawyer that he really attracted attention. But from that moment on, followed a succession of triumphs in which this debonair Claudette Colbert's motto must be "If at once you don't succeed, try, try again!" As Empress Poppaea in "The Sign of the Cross," she vamped Freddie March in vain. But he's finally succumbed to her wiles, from the looks of this rehearsal. He plays the royally romantic lover to her charming queen in "Tonight Is Ours," from a play by Noel Coward 90 Those faithful fans who have waited patiently for the return of their favorite, Mrs. Wally Reid, are finally to be rewarded. After a five years' absence, she re-appears on the screen to play a tender "mother" role in "Diamond Cut Diamond" youth enthralled so many, many cinema audiences with his lovable charm. In 1920 — the same year he legally adopted the name Pickford, which had already been trumpeted through the world — he began his mercurial and ill-fated career as a husband. First to Olive Thomas, whose young life was cut short by an overdose of a sedative. Then, two years later, to Marilyn Miller, of "Sally" fame. They were divorced in 1927. His divorce in 1932 from Mary Mulhern, young Follies beauty, terminated his third marriage and his spectacular marital career. So lived Jack Pickford — swiftly, recklessly, impetuously. Eternally boyish to the end — when, for a moment there flashed across his thin, lined face a phantom of the old grin, and he murmured, so faintly that his nurse could scarcely hear: "The world owes me nothing, now does it?" Now, in a crypt at Forest Lawn Cemetery, in Southern California Jack Pickford lies forever at peace beside his mother, Mrs. Charlotte Pickford. A N amazing study in contrast — the -'^•vivacious Paulette Goddard and Charles Chaplin. Paulette is young and lively. Charlie sober, and even melancholy at times. Paulette's once platinum locks now border on the raven hue. Charlie's once raven locks are now as platinum as Paulette's were. Yes, the brunette Paulette and platinum Charles, certainly come in for their share of attention from passers-by. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 126 ]