Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

116 PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MAY, 1935 HEW WlHEN you visit NewYork enjoy the comforts of an ideal home and still be in the heart of the Motion Picture Art Centre. * Parlor with Bedroom and Bath $500 PER DAY SINGLE Two persons $6.00 $125.00 per month (single) ($25 per mo. each add. person) Largest Single Boom in $3 Cft NewYork J"'v per day single for this Beautiful 2-Room Suite. 3-Room Suites in proportion. All rooms equipped with radio, combination tub and shower bath and running ice water. Ideal location — adjacent to shopping, business and theatre districts. Swimming Pool and Gymnasium FREE to Guests. Write for details. Telegraph reservations (Collect) ENJOY NEW YORK'S FAMOUS COCOANUT GROVE <fc£fcj©itral 56th St. at 7th Ave. New York City SCREEN MEMORIES FROM PHOTOPU 15 Years Ago I ADIES wore 'em in 1920, but "—it's hard to believe! We're talking about the fashions of fifteen years ago. Photoplay for May, 1920, carried an article entitled "Jazzing up the Fashions" in which the influence of movies on ladies' dresses was discussed. And the dresses — even with models like Mary Miles Minter, and Pauline Frederick are too, too funny. One little number the girls had a yen to copy was a Gloria Swanson gown that cost eight thousand dollars, all bedecked with pearls and a mole-skin train. Will the gowns now being worn in "Roberta" one day look that funny? There was a page of baby pictures in this issue, cunning youngsters of the stars. One two year old, clutching a toy duck, was Wallace Reid, Jr., now all grown up. "Why isn't Seena Owen a Star?" was the GLORIA SWANSON question asked in another art The answer was "The camei cruel to her." But cam must have changed! For St (whose real Scandinavian n was Signe Auen) went pi , after 1920. She dropped when the talkies came, but cently returned in a small pa "All The King's Horses." Hi wood was excited because Geo . Carpentier, French charn] prize-fighter, had been signed for pictures was California bound! Annette Kellerm; ', who swam her way to fame, was going to n ■ a screen comeback, according to reports. 1 pictures were: that sex best seller of DeMil " Why Change Your Wife?" with Theda B ; James Kirkwood's "The Luck of the Trie ' Noah Beery in "The Sea Wolf." On : cover, Clara Kimball Young. 10 Years Ago THE world's always been in1 terested in love. In our May, 1925, issue, the question "What is Love? " was answered by a number of the older film stars. Mary Carr described love, "As delicate as a butterfly's wing, as strong as a bolt of lightning." The current argument was whether or not the Valentino vogue was subsiding. Reason: Valentino and his wife, Natacha, insisted on producing "arty pictures," which the studios said did not pay. Ramon Novarro and Antonio Moreno were considered best bets for Rudy's successors. But there has never been one. A romantic story by Richard Barthelmess and Mary Hay makes you sorry their marriage broke up soon after. The portraits of eight leading men were published in this issue, only three of whom are now active UDOLPH VALENTINO in picture work: Warner Bar and Monte Blue, still acting, I Douglas MacLean, who is directing. Vilma Banky, a 1 ■ comer, was avoiding publii . and Hollywood was amazed! • day they'd just accuse her ol ing Garbo. Constance ,1 Norma Talmadge were insil by Joseph Schenck Products for one million dollars. 1 McCoy, enployed to get Ind s for "The Covered Wagon," was consider 1 "find" by Paramount, and cast in " e Thundering Herd." Top among the Is were, "Sally," with Colleen Moore and I Errol; "The Phantom of the Opera," star Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin; "Introi Me," with Douglas MacLean; "Lady of Night," featuring Norma Shearer. Cover was Norma Shearer. 5 Years Ago N/AY, 1930' Those were the ' " 'days when Clara Bow, the sex-appeal flapper, was Harry Richman's fiancee; when Sharon Lynne was Fox Film's big bet for stardom; when Jack Gilbert was the screen's greatest lover, and the film world was agog because Garbo had spoken; when Hoot Gibson was a-courting Sally Filers, with joyful wedding bells d ue any moment ; when the papers predicted that Mary and Doug Fairbanks were going to adopt a baby; when Ruby Keeler was just Al's wife with no screen promise, and hubby Jolson made news by presenting her a twenty thousand dollar automobile. Today Clara Bow is happily married to Rex Bell, and they have a baby son; Sharon Lynne, married to Benjamin Glazer, does an occasional role of lesser importance for Paramount; Hoot and Sally II, CLARA BOW are divorced; Doug and J divorced; and Ruby, astarii own right, could buy Al a c he'd let her. "Why Six 1 riages Failed," gave the ii dope on the Jacqueline Lo Gillespie split-up; Madge amy and Logan Metcalf's day marriage; the divorce Mae Busch and John Ca Helene Costello and John R' Agnes Ayres and Manue Reachi, and Anna Q. Nilsson and John Gu son. The failures were blam ed on the Ws movie careers. Among the best films 0 F month were: "The Vagabond King," with nis King, Jeanette MacDonald and I Heggie — all in color; " Sarah and Son," stsfi Ruth Chatterton and Fredric March; "HP!' Days," a Fox musical, with Janet Gayno ,«> Charles Farrell. Mary Brian on the cov