Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER, 1936 97 industry save his own artistic creation, could be so intimately and authoritatively informed on the whole broad canvas of the picture industry. Those were the days when the legend of the Hollywood "wild party" was burgeoning at the masthead of every newspaper and magazine. It was a little difficult to convince an amorously ambitious visitor from the East that the social highlight of one's last fortnight had been Charlie Chaplin enacting the role of a smalltown hyphenated American citizen who owned the village water works and was about to go into bankruptcy because the villagers drank only beer and never took baths except on Saturday. This produced financial disaster for the water works, which couldn't sell any water during the week and couldn't provide enough on Saturday night! It's a far different Charlie Chaplin whom I know today. Without losing one iota of his wistful charm, he has become a much larger person — but of that later — for there are many who think that a young lady named Paulette Goddard has had something to do with the molding, or at least the polishing, of the brilliant new facets which Charlie now reveals. I CAN'T honestly say I know the Paulette ' Goddard who is such a complete gamin in " Modern Times." No one was more surprised than I — and I don't think I was alone — on first learning the nature of the role she was to play in her first important screen appearance as leading lady to the unique Chaplin. For Paulette, in real life, is a creature deserving the term exquisite in its finest sense. Therefore I had imagined that her first appearance on the screen with Charlie would find her cast as some glamorous aristocrat far above the reach of the little fellow in the baggy trousers, derby and cane. But Charlie must have seen a different celluloid Paulette from the one to whom all the men in the party instantly gravitate every time she comes into a room. Perhaps I should have seen the gamin side when she "crashed" a little party we had at our house. My wife, Carmelita Geraghty, has several young brothers and sisters, and hence brothersin-law and sisters-in-law. A couple of times a year we throw a party for "the Geraghty Kids." On the last occasion we had a "scavenger hunt." Just as the couples were about to start on a mad search for various insane objects specified on their lists, the door opened and Paulette stalked impudently in. So we were having a scavenger hunt! Then she intended to scavenge with the others! Charlie was out on the yacht thinking up music or scenes or something for "Modern Times," and Paulette wanted to have fun with the kids. We immediately handed her a list and a partner and dispatched the whole gang off on the merry competitive chase. Well within the time limit Paulette returned, looking like a very beautiful young lady who had just inherited a junk yard and had had her inheritance bestowed on her person. You could hardly see her lovely frock, draped as she was with old-fashioned automobile horns, water wings, a stepladder, a union suit of red flannels, and a few more trifles. (Next day we found she had practically raided the Trocadero, had burst into three bridge games, and had vamped a second-hand auto part attendant!) She was having the lime of her life, and entered into a vociferous argument when a rule disqualified one of her treasures. For that one hectic juvenile evening at least In these joyous Hawaiian Islands, life is accompanied by laughter. As gay and inspired as the music of tropic breezes rustling through red Poinciana trees. As the ripple of silver waterfalls down purple heights. And here also in Hawaii, Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Juice* originated to meet the desire for a pure, refreshing fruit juice, as golden and joyous in its own right as that expression of life in these magic islands. *The sprightly goodness of this original Hawaiian pineapple juice has quickly captured the approval of millions of families on the mainland. A delicious, unsweetened juice, it is a natural source of vitamins A, B, and C. The medical profession recognizes it as an equiv DOLE Q H. P. Co., Ltd. 1936 alent to fresh pineapple juice in nutritional value . . . The exclusive Dole Fast-Seal VacuumPacking Process retains the important freshf i u it constituents of sun-ripened pineapples. Obtain the original, perfected Hawaiian pineapple juice by asking for" Dole." Pineapple Juice FROM HAWAII Produced by the Hateaiian Pineapple Company, Limited, also packers of Dole Sliced Pineapple . . . Crushed . . . Tidbits . . . Gems . . . and the new Royal Spears. Honolulu, Hawaii, U. S. A. — Sales Offices: 215 Market Street, San Francisco, California,