Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER, 1936 101 We Cover the Studios [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 60 ] All of us, Mary Astor, Merle Oberon, David Niven and five or six others — sit eyeing the food and waiting, like little gentlemen and ladies, for the Consul and the rest of the late arrivers. It is a battle of nature and etiquette. On one side is international relationship, loyalty to the king's emissary, playing cricket, and — pip-pip — all that sort of rot. On the other side, staring us right in the face, is the cold turkey, salad and sherry. Finally Niven pipes up. "Sherry! It wouldn't hurt if we took a little of the sherry before they come, would it? " It wouldn't. Mary Astor thinks out loud: "The salad looks nice." It is nice. "These rolls," somebody says, "Think they need more butter? " They are tasted. They don't "Maybe if we put a little spaghetti on our plates to go with the rolls." The spaghetti does go well with rolls. And the polite little ladies and gentlemen of ten minutes ago are sneaking a preview meal. Plates only half cleared, the guilty diners hear footsteps down the padded hall. "Good heavens, the British are coming!" whispers a later-day Paul Revere. There is wild confusion. Drinks are gulped, plates are hidden in the kitchen. Niven, in a stroke of pure genius, rearranges the table so that the food looks as though it had never been touched — at least, not much. The Consul, Miss Chatterton and Walter Huston will never know what deceitful friends they have. Because everyone ate another meal — with straight faces. It's acts like these — with loyal subjects going native in tropical Hollywood — that are undermining the far Hung British Empire. HACK to a more simple and rugged phase of '-'life, we visit "Come and Get It." Here Edward Arnold, swathed in wintery garments, is leading a battalion of lumbermen in a great payday celebration. Arnold, as the hero of Edna Ferber's story, has just made himself a thousand dollars by chopping down trees and now he is going to blow it — the money not the trees — on a big spree. Frances Farmer is the lead in this film. She just walked into pictures. No trouble. No struggle. No hanging around casting offices. A tall, rather big-boned blonde beauty, Miss Farmer let pictures "come and get" her. She won a popularity contest in Seattle, her home town. The prize was a trip to Europe. And while she was seeing the world, Paramount saw her. She was signed immediately and put into Bing Crosby's "Rhythm on the Range." And now Goldwyn is borrowing her. A NOTHER player who has had an easy ' Vime in Hollywood is the excessively handsome Bob Taylor who has that gleam in his eye because he is now co-starring with Barbara Stanwyck in "His Brother's Wife." We arrive at the M-G-M glamour factory just in time to see a big scene. Here are Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Hersholt stuck out far in the fastness of the jungle. And Miss Stanwyck is dying of studio fever. There is only one chance to save her. It is the serum which the medical Mr. Taylor has discovered. But Bob isn't really confident of 'wMHtWWgL • '* DENTYNE'S AN AID TO BEAUTIFUL TEETH. Ex plorers marvel at the strong, white teeth of savages — their teeth are kept healthy by foods that require plenty of chewing. Our soft, civilized foods give teeth and gums too little exercise. That's why many dentists recommend Dentyne as a daily health habit. Its firmer consistency invites more vigorous chewing — ■ keeps mouth tissues firm and healthy — teeth sparkling white. YOU NEVER TIRE OF DENTYNE. its goodness is inex haustible — A delicious, aromatic taste that's just indescribably good! For many discriminating men and women Dentyne is the only chewing gum. They appreciate its superior quality — its delightful, lasting flavor — and the smart flat shape of the package that slips so neatly into pocket or purse (a feature exclusively Dentyne's). Keeps teeth white — mouth healthy DENTYNE DELICIOUS CHEWING GUM