Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

ii4 Photoplay Magazine for October, 1933 * ■X M * * * * -* ■X * * + M ■¥ M * * * * * -X ■K * -X -X + -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -X -x -X -X -X ■X SIX BEAUTIFUL COLOR PORTRAITS OF POPULAR FILM STARS Six — for only 15 cents Not ordinary pictures, but attractive reproductions made from the original color pastelles by Earl Christy. We have selected the six poses illustrated above and have reproduced them in color on good quality stock. Sheet size of each picture 5%"x4%" They will be supplied unmounted suitable for framing or mounting in your collection book. This choke selection includes the following stars GRETA GARBO CLAUDETTE COLBERT NANCY CARROLL NORMA SHEARER JANET GAYNOR JOAN BENNETT All six pictures for only 13 cents WA LT PRODUCTS 155 E. Walton Place CHICAGO, ILL. MAIL THE COUPON NOW WALT PRODUCTS, 155 E. Walton Place, Chicago, III, Gentlemen: Enclosed please find 15 cents for which send me the six portraits of movie stars printed in color, as per your advertisement. Name Address City State r 1 110-33 ^••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*l How Many Lives Has Del Rio? [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 60 ] their crafts, who does not even claim to be a judge of well-written scripts — took the offer. And is sure she will make good. Ira simple reason that can be written in one word. Clothes. Yes, sir, that's it — clothes, the one thing she claims to know right down to the ground, or the skin, or wherever it is that clothes have their foundation. Also the one thing she never has been allowed to exploit on the screen. TN private life, she has been at various times -Mhe best-dressed woman of Mexico City, the I court of Spain, the cities of Paris and Hollywood. When she was sixteen, Patou designed a creation of emerald velvet and named it the " Dolores." That was in Paris. "And on the screen, I have worn nothing that cost over thirty-five cents a yard and never much more than a yard at that. In 'Bird of Paradise' it was half a yard. How can woman look beautiful for thirty-five cents?" she demanded. One of those strange anomalies of pictures. | By far the majority of our feminine headliners came from homes and were reared upon experiences where thirty-five cents was a high price for dress materials. Few of our so-called bestdressed women knew anything about clothes until studio designers trained them. But Dolores, the one who has known from childhood, has been covered with rags and ballyhooed as one who could best wear thirty-five cent cottons. When Edwin Carewe first brought her to Hollywood, she pleaded with him, in her few imperfect words of our language, to be allowed to take publicity pictures in her own imported wardrobe. Her press-agent, Harry Wilson, added his plea. But Director Carewe shook his head. To show her as she was might spoil the illusion of the ragamuffin child he intended to make her. Since "Ramona" netted four million profit and "Resurrection" almost as much, Eddie Carewe may have been wise. He was protecting, perhaps, his half of those profits — as well as United Artists'. WHEN she went with Joseph Schenck. she pleaded to do "Mata Hari" or some other sophisticated production in which she could show the world herself as she is — a woman of beauty, figure and the ability to enhance both by proper gowning. "But that is not your type!" Mr. Schenck exclaimed. "•You must be poor; wear cotton— " That terrible picture, " The Bad One." resulted. She pleaded with David Selznick at RKORadio. His words paralleled Mr. Schenck's in meaning. "Bird of Paradise" resulted. I i innately. "Bird of Paradise" was successful at the box-office at a time when boxsuccesses were a rarity. Dolores' popularity in Spanish speaking countries is stupendous, and " Paradise" told a story through pictures. Natives did not need to understand the dialogue to understand the picture. Her success in that production brought more than a hundred offers. In each one she would have been a native girl in cotton! But for once, Dolores stood firm. "No picture in which 1 cai ■ i i hoose my own story!" After eight months. Mcrian Cooper asked her why. He undoubtedly reminded her of what had happened to other women who had been likewise insistent. Then she told him her " For seven vears I haven't been able to con