Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

Cal York's Gossip of Hollywood \V/HEN you see "Becky Sharp" you must W watch for the screen debut of the Crovenays. Notice Miriam Hopkins in one scene as she exhibited a painting and says — "and this is the Duke and Duchess of Crovenay!" This was probably inspired by the old oil which has hung in the home of Robert Edmond Jones for some time now. It portrays the features of a patrician gent arrayed in noble finery. At the base of the frame is a small gold plaque thus engraved, "Phillip Crovenay, 1727-1793." New visitors to the Jones home seldom fail to stop and admire it. There is something about the eyes. Of course, they never inspect the plaque, because it's easier to say, "Who is that striking man — an ancestor?" Whereupon Mrs. Robert Edmond Jones gives them a gently chiding look and a sweet forgiving smile, as she shakes her head. "That's Phillip Crovenay," she answers in a properly hushed voice. And they always say wisely, "Oh — yes." IE AN HARLOW has formally welcomed ^Spring. She had her swimming pool filled, and she blossomed out in a white cellophane bathing suit. But cellophane! THE latest gag is to bring your own lunch to ' the studio. Katharine Hepburn shows up with a picnic basket about the size of a wardrobe trunk and equipped with everything but hot and cold running water! A THOUSAND girls were disappointed when they picked up the morning newspaper and read that W. S. Van Dyke had married Ruth Mannix. "Woody" was the most popular blade at large in Hollywood, and so darn nice to all the girls, without exception, that many of them will get something of a shock to discover he is no longer eligible. rMRECTOR Norman McLeod sadly watched ^the fog come in . . . "We'd had every other kind of delay on this opus — now even the elements are against us," he wailed. "An element never forgets!" flipped a bright young actor. POOR Jimmy Cagney! He is Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," so everyone reverses the order and sings to him "You're the Bottom and I'm the top." Over and above which he has to sit for half an hour every morning while a hairdresser curls his hair! A RE you planning a trip to Hollywood to ' enter the movies? Are you tired of the home and the same old three meals a day? If so — regardez vous, mes enfants. Out of seventeen thousand extras last year, twelve made a living wage! (The number is shaved to five by a later calculation.) Only six men received as much as twenty-five hundred dollars, and five women two thousand dollars. The largest salary received by an extra was twentyeight hundred forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents for one hundred ninety-five days work; average, fifty-four dollars and seventy-four cents weekly. Out of this, he had to maintain a top-notch wardrobe. This is called high-class [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 86 ] earnings in the extra ranks. The highest salaried woman was paid twenty-six hundred fortyone dollars and twenty-five cents, for one hundred sixty-seven days work, a weekly salary of fifty dollars and eighty cents. Well — have you started for Hollywood yet? \V/HEN Jack Oakie goes into character he " stops at no half measures. For "The Call of the Wild," Jack was required to acquire a growth of whiskers and a little more heft. He grew a crop of red, bristly alfalfa of terrifying proportions and added no less than twenty Mae West stirs up just as much havoc in modern dress as she does in costumes of the Gay 90s era. Here's a shot with Ivan Lebedeff and Paul Cavanagh, from Mae's latest film, "Goin' to Town" pounds to his frame. Just to show you how the man changed, he was actually unrecognized one evening when he stepped out to a Hollywood night spot. The door man called him "Mr. Dean," mistaking him for "Man Mountain Dean," the bearded wrestling behemoth. But W. C. Fields recognized Jack, and marveled at him but gasped at the thicket of vicious whiskers. " It's a door mat," said Bill, "but where's the 'Welcome'?" 1 DON'T know whether there is anything in ' playing hunches, but at the Santa Anita race track near Hollywood jockey Jack Westrope has been riding. All during the racing season Mae West backed him when he rode. Her father's name, you know, was Jack West, a great sport himself. She ended 'way ahead on her bets. And that's something. TELIX ROLO, a European socialite of cc siderable poise, recently visited Hollyuo and overnight found himself in the tick]' position of being a pawn in a queenly contest. Having escorted Marlene Dietrich abc town, until he was looked upon as her exclusi swain, he accepted an invitation to Garbi memorable Trocadero party. There Garbo si posedly triumphantly exhibited him while Mi lene supposedly burned. Hearing rumors of a feud and finding hims suddenly an issue, Mr. Rolo's savoir fa prompted him to do what any Continental ge tleman would do under the circumstances. He left town. THIS is just one of the little items that ma ' life in pictures one long happy quandai how to make an actor look as if he is riding oi horse when he doesn't ride. We saw one methc George Arliss, in all the ceremonial robes Cardinal Richelieu, sitting very straight on snow white charger. Sprawled on the grou were four men — each holding one of the hors hoofs! The camera was then slowly jiggled look like motion. A wonderful people, th< cameramen! " T YE RYE.'' That, in England, is Fay Wra ' who writes that this is what all the Cockn children call her. Fay dashed over to Paris buy some clothes ("didn't have a stitch to 1 back" — Where have I heard that before?) a should be on her way home about now. V/OU may have suspected it from the manr ' — but did you know Tullio Carminati's i ther was a count, his mother a baroness, a one grandmother a princess? He uses his r< name only on his Christmas cards, Count Tul Carminati di Brambilla. And Mrs. Kent P; rot is still the lady in his life. A PLEASED young man with a wideni: grin sat in on "The Devil Is a Womai preview. When it was half over, he got up ai walked out. His name is Joel McCrea, ai that is exactly what he did on the picture, aft a few days' shooting — walked out. Said knew he would be bad, %vhat with all the spo taneity directed out of him. Joel is a very wi young man — because results proved that n body in the opus had a chance to be good. WHAT'S in a name? Well— in Mr. AdolphZukor's name the was money. Mr. Zukor is one of Hollywooc big time producers, and, of course, already h a few iron men. His name, when abbreviated, is "A. Zukoi And noting the phonetic resemblance of tl and the name of a horse entered in the $100,0< Santa Anita Handicap, Mr. Zukor placed lua wagers on the nose of "Azucar." As you know, Azucar, a long shot, led t field home, and Mr. Zukor left the pari-muti windows with his pockets well padded, whil justifies one hunch I know about. CHARLES BUTTER WORTH thinks ex. ^cise is very good for an actor, but doesn't believe in overdoing it. So Charles m be seen on the golf course almost every day riding from shot to shot in a jinricksha! [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 94 ] 90