Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

IOC PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER, 1936 r^ GEORGE r LORD OF THE ORIENT . . . Subtle . . . Sinister . . . All-powerful.. . but powerless to impose his will on two young people madly in love . . . ^LUCIE MANNHEIM GODFREY TEARLE«ROMNEY BRENT Directed by Story by HERBERT MASON E. GREENWOOD COMING TO YOUR FAVORITE THEATRE Production Grace Moore and her husband. Valentin Parera, gave a party to celebrate her recent return from Europe. Left. Gladys Swarihout. Rhea Gable, Grace, Elizabeth Allan, Rosa Ponselle. Lower right, Kay Francis, Fritz Lang, Ruth Chatterton. Lower left, Mrs. lames Melton, the lovely hostess. Herbert Marshall; sanding, lames Melton, Lawrence Tibbett, and the host. What a treat for all the music lovers! same blinding emotion that makes the world go round, just as it has happened to lovers from the beginning of time and to all the people who are not wise and prudent and careful of their emotions like Gene and Jear.ette! When you have spent years constantly on guard against just such a thing as this happening to you — it isn't easy to admit the inevitable. So they called themselves "great friends" and assured sceptical reporters they were "just having a lot of fun together." They'd laugh as they told how Jeanette sent Gene crates of eggplants while he was away on his personal appearance, and how they formally presented one another with dancing trophies, modestly engraved to "the world's finest dancers," and about that time Jeanette met him at the Pasadena station with a band and a gang of friends bearing placards WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU CAUGHT THAT FISH IN FLORIDA. And then there was that crazy game they played in the Drive-Ins with the first one to be recognized being stuck with the check! Everyone said: "What in the world has happened to Jeanette? Did you ever see anyone blossom so, and become so radiant all at once? And the way she's come out of her shell, going places, having a lot of fun for the first time in Hollywood." But it wasn't serious — you understand — <>r do you? I believe it must have been then that it suddenly happened to Jeanette, the awakening. the truth she had tried so long to dodge! After all, before she was a great star, she was a girl, with a girl's long delayed right to happiness and gayety and, yes, love! No need to dodge the issue any longer. After all, what were all Mi. sacrifices for if they meant shutting out everything else in life that belongs in a woman's existent e \s for Gene — perhaps he had known a great deal longer than Jeanette that they were the two people in the world for one another. Suddenly they knew that all the careers in the world weren't worth the battle of breaking their own hearts. They were in love! What did it matter if the whole world knew it! Fate had been kind, waiting for them to achieve their goals, to bring comfort and independence to their families, to cross off all obligations to those they loved and to themselves before it brought them together. But love had waited long enough for Gene and Jeanette, and now it would no longer be shoved into the discard of their careers! So now they are engaged, excitedly planning to move into that ranch home they've planned for themselves after they are married. But first there will be "showers" and parties, and bridesmaids and matrons selected, and all the fuss of planning the happiest days in a girl's life. "I want all of it." Jeanette has always said — "the squeals of girls opening linen shower gifts, and all the fuss of planning the bridesmaids' dresses, and a church wedding with a reception, and a honeymoon, and rice and old shoes, and a veil and a brand new honour own to live in. I even want them to leave the old-fashioned words like "honor and obey' in the ceremony and to wear 'something old, thing new, something borrowed, something blue.' " Perhaps all these things are all the sweeter to Jeanette because they come now instead of when she was eighteen! So let the music peal, and let the flower girl strew blossoms in her path — for here will come the happiest bride in Hollywood — she \\lii) was the former Jeanette MacDonald, "career girl" of the movies!