Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1934)

io6 Photoplay Magazine for April, 1934 IT'S WASHING DISHES with harsh soaps containing harmful alkali that roughens and ages hands! Lux has no harmful alkali. Its gorgeous bubbly suds leavehands youthfully soft and smooth, get dishes clean in no time. Costs less than \<t a day! _ prevents humiliating D I S H PAN hands CELEBRITIES CHOOSE ne SENECA n hile in Chicago . . . because at the SENECA they are assured of those little extras in service .... luxurious yet comfortable quarters and good food. During your next visit to Chicago we invite you to see why people who know choose THE SENECA. 10 minutes to the heart of Chicago. Permanent .... Transient. 200 EAST CHESTNUT ST. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS LOS ANGELES 71 TOWN HOUSE INVITES INQUIRIES FROM THOSE PLANNING ATRIP TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WERNER HARTMAN. MANAGER THE SMART HOTEL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA one wonder why publishers trouble to bring out a Who's Who in the Theater! At any rate, the head of the greatest of American acting hierarchies is here — to playin a music hail! And this, be it known, amazes our best people. Many of our own genteel actors and actresses would "never dream, my dear," of walking where slapstick comics so recently have trod. V/f LSS BARRYMORE is giving the Palla■'■'■'-dium patrons Barrie's "The Twelve Pound Look," which served her as a starring vehicle in New York in 1911. You may be amused to know that when a gossip writer asked her if she would consider appearing in a British film the Barrymore reply, voiced icily, was this: "Hollywood — and 'Rasputin'— cured me of all desire to have anything whatever to do with motion pictures." So, Elstree, take that! Dolores Extols Passive Love [ CONTINUED FROM PACE 39 ] "In my country, love does not come so quickly. It is inspired by starlight and flowers and gentle music. When the young man comes to call on a senorita in Mexico," Dolores explained, "he brings his guitar. He stands in the patio at first, playing tender melodies until he knows she is willing to respond. "He waits for her to come to the grilled window and look down at him. Then he kisses a white rose and throws it to her. After that, he might dare to hope for a further interest, if she kisses the flower and tosses it back to him." Old Mexico, with its star-strewn skies and brooding mountains, its age-touched haciendas and orchid-grown jungles, is a perfect setting for such languorous romance as Dolores was describing. There is something about its fragile orchids, clinging in great masses to the sturdy trunks of tropical palms, remindful of the spirit of its dark-eyed Latin maidens who wait so patiently for the strong, protective lover. DOLORES DEL RIO is like this. She is restful,passive, gentle in every look and gesture. Yet behind her glowing black eyes there is the restless spirit of her grandfather, Senor Francisco Asunsolo. He is remembered in Mexico as a fearless conquistador a gallant spirit who gave up the luxury and cultured living of northern Spain to set out in a ship for parts unknown. Senor Asunsolo found Mexico a place of rare beauty. And with his little group of adventurers, set up a crude hacienda high on the plateau near Mexico City. They became rancheros. And from that bountiful soil they extracted enough fruit and oil and gold to live in a luxurious manner. It was into this atmosphere of quiet refinement Dolores Asunsolo was born. Later, she became Senora Del Rio, when she married. The tragic ending of this first encounter with life, after Dolores had set out on her grand adventure to find fame and fortune in Hollywood, is well known. Senor Del Rio died suddenly in Berlin, after rumors of a marital rift had been gossiped about for months. "You are bound to undergo dreadful unhappiness when you encounter life outside those sheltered walls," Dolores said, a little sadly. "It can't be avoided. Girls out in the world live so much before they find the fine emotional balance which tradition and the conventions have already developed in sheltered women." Anyone who saw Dolores Del Rio in "Flying Down to Rio" will recall the patio scene