Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1934)

Photoplay Magazine for April, 1934 I I of the penalties, along with the advantages, of being "news." If there is none available about her, someone will always manufacture it. She indignantly denies the divorce rumors. The more they persist, the more emphatic are her denials. And imagine her surprise not long ago, when the city editor of a Boston newspaper telephoned her to verify the rumor that she was on her way East to have her baby! He had heard that she was going to be attended by the same obstetrician who took care of Libby Holman Reynolds! Jean laughingly comments that, aside from the fact that she isn't going to have a baby, and wasn't on her way to Boston, the story was okay. CHE told me quite sincerely that she wants to ^have one or two children. But not now . She believes a baby is a full-time job, and so is a screen career. "I could not accomplish both without neglecting one. And it wouldn't be the baby." After all, Jean is only twenty-three years old. There is necessarily a time limit to a screen career. She has plenty of time ahead to have a family. There is no show of resentment in Jean, in spite of the sometimes vicious rumors that have been circulated about her. She says reporters are her best friends and that she is tremendously fond of them. When she was off the screen for a year (due to litigation with Howard Hughes, producer) after her first picture, "Hell's Angels," the reporters did not permit the public to forget her. She was constantly in print — and it was important to her at that time — as it is at any time, to an actress. It meant that she did not have to begin her career all over again at the end of that year. They kept her "alive" and made her vital and interesting news. But that isn't the only reason Jean has a soft spot for scribblers. She is one herself. Nothing small-time about it, either. Xo little febrile poems, no timorous short stories, testing her stride. No, she bursts out with a bombshell, just as Jean Harlow should. She has written a novel! My admiration increased by leaps and bounds when she told me how she went about it. A direct and business-like method, and a method she understands. No feeling around in the dark. No delays, procrastinations, excuses. She simply wrote it first in the form of a motion-picture script. Jean has read hundreds of scripts. They did not look so formidable as a novel. They were stripped of all the unnecessary detail by which a woman is so easily side-tracked from her main objective. So Jean blocked out her story in the shape of a script. rT,HEN, with everything before her, clear and -* concise, she enlarged it into a novel. Not about Hollywood, either. The locale is New York. Sounds simple, doesn't it? All right. Let's see you try it. And Jean's novel found a publisher. I hope her marriage to Rosson will be a success. But it's a tougher job than it looks from the outside — to make a marriage work, with dark rumors circling around, ready to close in at the slightest sign of encouragement. Jean has learned more in her short twentythree years than most women have a chance to learn in a lifetime. She evinces a gentle tolerance that only comes to the majority of persons after many more years of living and experience. I think it would take more than a rumor to upset her good balance. She was big enough to think it over, return to the studio, and say, " I'm sorry," when many a lesser luminary has held out to the bitter end. And it's a lucky break for all of us — because there'll be another Harlow picture soon! Jane Froman Lovely Singer of 7 Star Radio Revue and Ziegfeld Follies tells why 5(¥ Lipstick is offered to you for 10^ "At first", writes Jane Froman, "I was skeptical that such a fine lipstick could be obtained for only 10c. Then I learned why this amazing offer is being made by the makers of linit— to introduce the remarkable linit Beauty Bath to those who had not already experienced its instant results in making the skin so soft and smooth. I bought some linit; enjoyed the sensation of a rich, cream-like bath; and sent for a lipstick. When it came, I was no longer dubious, but now carry it with me everywhere. I could not wish for a better lipstick." Just send a top of a LINIT package and 10<^ (wrapping and postage charges) for each lipstick desired, filling out the handy coupon printed below. LINIT is sold by grocers and department stores. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANY, Dept. P-4, P. O. Box 171, Trinity Station, New York City Please send me lipstick(s). Shade(s) as checked below. I enclose p and LINITpackage tops. D Light □ Medium D Dark THIS OFFER good in U. S. A. only and expires Sept. 1, 1934 Name ... Address.. City . State..