Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY, 1936 93 Paramount stock girl taken down with tuberculosis. He's always doing things like that for people. No month is complete unless we get a peek at Myrna Loy. Now, out at 20th CenturyFox, she's enacting a role in "To Mary — With Love" that suits her perfectly. Ever since "The Thin Man," the slant-eyed Miss Loy has been the screen's ideal wife. Something about the girl makes marriage seem a humorously tender adventure instead of a sacred duty. We watched her give charm and liveliness to a typical scene with Warner Baxter. Ever since they co-starred in "Broadway Bill," they have been great pals. In this bit, hubby Warner's collar button rolls under the bed. Myrna, too attractive for our meager words in her green negligee, helps him look for it. When she kneels to reach under the bed, Baxter kisses the back of her neck. Any guy that wouldn't is a coward. Myrna giggles. Then the dialogue, which is just flippant enough and with a romantic undertone, bubbles along until it is interrupted by a flurry of necking. This is the sort of scene that is generally hidden from visitors as they embarrass the players. However, since no one made a move to kick us off the set, we hung around. I wish I could describe for you just the special quality that Myrna gets into these lightly amorous scenes. It is an elusive quality, though, and not readily translated into cold print. TEARING ourself away, we drive through Beverly Hills, out over Cahuenga pass to Universal, where Carole Lombard and William Powell are making "My Man Godfrey." Universal is the liveliest lot on California these days. Under new management and gratified by the success of "Show Boat" and "Sutter's Gold," this old rambling studio is hitting its second youth. Jammed with elegantly attired extras, visitors, interviewers and the usual working crew, the impressive set is an accurate reproduction of the Waldorf-Astoria lobby. We watched a silly, yet somehow touching scene. Giddy Alice Brady, who plays Carole's mother, is bawling out her orchidaceous daughter. This takes place at the tail end of a scavenger hunt party. And Carole, who has been told to bring back a "forgotten man," does just that. The suave William Powell is the f.m. For his role, he is dirty, unshaven, and in tatters which he covers with an old trench coat. He stands listlessly to the side while his wealthy discoverer argues with her volatile mother. While this take is colorful and humorous, the thing we were curious about was how the ex-married couple would behave toward each other between shots. Since the set was littered with the press — both Lombard and Powell giving interviews — we thought one of two things might happen. Either they would be overly cordial (we're the best of friends stuff) or ignore each other. As a matter of drab fact, they did neither. When they are together, they talk as casually as any co-stars, mostly about the problems of the picture. They neither seek each other out nor dodge being together. Thought you might be interested. As our last studio stop, we decided to visit Laurel and Hardy, who are celebrating a ten-year partnership by making "Our Relations." We hoped to have a barrel of laughs. But making comedies at Hal Roach's little studio is not a laughing matter, we learn. The perfect timing, the correct approach I/UaJ and they're NEWS! SAILOR'S KNOT AND SEA-RIGGING by B. V. D. In a beauty parade of colors, in a brilliant brigade of new fabrics, and fashions, B.V. D.'s 1936 Swim Suits march down to the seas. Take "Sailor's Knot"— that sleek-skirted suit to the left. Let your public applaud your new grace when you wear it. In private you can thank B.V. D.'s silhouetting new Skipper-Knit , beauty-moldingbrassiere top, new seamless back with adjustable bow. $6.95. Take "Sea Rigging" — that slim suit to the right. Again that contourating new B.V.D. Skipper-Knit, exclusive new seamless sides, adjustable braided straps that mean everything to the beautiful fit of a suit. $3.95. Yours to note their grace and charm — ours to tell you the new "beauty secrets" that make B.V. D.'s 1936 swim suits the brightest gems of the ocean ! And these are only two of the many. TheB.V.D.Co., Inc. .Empire State Building, New York. B >Y^ 07^) SWIM SUITS , RIG. U.J. PAT. OH COPYRIGHT 1936. THE B. V. O. CO.. INC.