Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MAY. 1935 [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 94 ] ;RS are sensitive about revealing their i charities, for fear of the publicity accuMost of them must be discovered ictly. ■ Marion Davies Foundation is one of the noun, since it would be impossible to kn organization of this size secret. The in its own building, is in Sawtelle Hollywood) and treats children up to !je of twelve. Every year a circus is for 2500 children. Each youngster gets toy, and the family receives a basket, lurkey and food. n Crawford has endowed a bed at the wood Hospital, which runs about five und dollars a year, including all hospitali expenses of the ill person. Doctors fees .tside of this, and paid by her. Many of :her charities are not known, ry Brian and her mother go to the post dead letter department every year and e mail addressed to Santa Claus. They ; igate each one, and most of the deserving en really believe there is a Santa Claus > Mary hears from them. She has two :se children at home with her over the iiys each year. ! bara Kent keeps two beds in a children's ,.al. I Rogers was recently ill in the Cali ■ Hospital, and when he paid his bill, he a thousand dollars to be used for de , g patients who could not pay. This is h small part of his many generous gifts, ry Boland's sympathies are reached by ick and impoverished, especially old ft. She has paid for many an operation, i nspital care. ly Grant never buys Christmas cards. ses the money for groceries for poor lbs. Mae West is the friend of down lut prize-fighters. They work in all her : es, and she sees to it they are not in i She is very generous to her church, ibara Stanwyck quietly and loyally helps ;r old friends. Bill Fields is paying the t nd buying the groceries for a half dozen 's and families of men he has known in kofession. Al Jolson maintains twelve in an up-state New York children's ) al. Dick Powell has helped a playground l for two years in Lincoln, Nebraska, arl Brisson Fan Club in England collects crown membership, which is contributed lancer hospital. George Raft says he was off at a hundred and fifty a week than because he gives his salary away. He turns down a plea for help, especially heatrical people. ;. Cecil B. DeMille is active in the Cas Creche, a foundling's home, giving gen y of time and money. try Hull has an Old Actor's Charity Fund. Karloff makes weekly visits to the y Poor-House, taking cigarettes and alie Kalmus, of Technicolor, gives a big mas party every year to an orphan's They are entertained at the TechniStudio with Walt Disney pictures, supid toys. 1 best known charitable organization is • ssistance League, in which most of the i ire active. The Harold Lloyd children, who have a church on their own grounds, give the contributions and many toys to the chi dren's day nursery of the League. Shirley Temple sent a sweater and a picture to each of the seventy-five children in this day nursery this Christmas. The League maintains a shop and tea-room in which Jean Harlow, Jeannette MacDonald, Bette Davis and many stars serve as waitresses and saleswomen. Janet Gaynor bought most of her presents there this year. In the League work-room, where old ladies who cannot find work elsewhere are employed, Mrs. Ralph Bellamy had all the curtains for her new home made. Four hundred baskets, to feed two thousand persons, are given by the League every Christmas. Victor McLaglen donates the turkey or roast that goes in each one, and has done this for several years. Jobyna (Mrs. Richard) Arlen takes care of a family with twelve children all the year round. She collects little Rickey's toys and those of the Bing Crosby children, to be repaired and sent to hospitals. Jetta Goudal, Theda Bara, Mrs. John Ford, Mrs. Lou Anger, Mrs. Bill Gargan, Mrs. Hunt Stromberg, Mrs. Tod Browning, and many other wives of actors, directors and producers contribute liberally of their time and support to this organization. THE sea has not only got into Warren William's blood, it has invaded his swimming pool. So nautical has the suave Mr. William become since navigating his yacht, " Pegasus," that he has had an exact replica of the boat built in miniature. It sails the waves of the Williams' plunge. Warren has also constructed a sea-going room. In the middle is a mast, on one side are tiers of bunks and on the other portholes. When you look through the marine windows, you peer out on painted blue waves. I don't know why he bothers to board the yacht and brave seasickness with such a setup at home. THE autograph business is looking up in Hollywood. Not that it ever suffered much of a slump — but of late, especially since the AllYear Club of Southern California has been bearing down on the tourist trade, the familiar clusters of book and pencil clutchers in front of strategic star gathering spots has swelled to dangerous proportions. Autograph seekers have always intrigued me. They are usually in the doubtful age bracket of the early 'teens, just ready to turn into cranks or useful citizens. Perhaps some primitive instinct denied to city youth the satisfaction which the country boy gleans by shooting sparrows or trapping muskrats accounts for it. At any rate, the hunters lie behind telephone pole or refuse can blinds and swoop down upon the greatest or smallest screen actor who alights from a car or emerges from a door. Now they seldom say, "May I have your autograph" — only "Here!" accompanied by a thrust of the pad and pencil. 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