Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

tters Photoplay readers express their ideas freely about current motion pictures and the stars m remember or have heard n:h about his Dad. Here is Mlace Reid, Jr., doing well 11 'The Hoosier Schoolmaster" 1 being those atrocious clothes that, i I like her sweet face and frank eyes, :p work past, over and around to see |y. Her costumer must be her worst I because Joan is literally "smokei'" by bizarre wearing apparel and >i coiffures. And clothes are known a psychological effect, so poor Joan fn act naturally and sweetly — every ., i-n [stilted and studied. M. B. Englis, Portland, Oregon IORE SPRING ;ER us from any more such utterly ibable plays as "One More Spring," p Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter leads. pody put a fast one over on producer btor when they got them mixed up with kindergarten drivel that gave a polite jectant audience the ga-gas. i Arthur Lenox, Washington, D.C. MUCH? ft asking too much of the public to •time to see a picture like "Living on ' We felt sorry for Warren William, icing Dickens' stories in pictures has out fine. Re-issues of such as "OutHind," "Stella Maris," "Earthbound," e welcome. ». Gerard Smith, Omaha, Nebraska ^E'S "MOTHER"? -RE has "Mother" disappeared to? Or n't mothers important in movie famimore? most every picture I have seen there n one parent with a girl or two, or a t seldom do we see both parents. To i a few, there are "Broadway Bill," a "It Happened One Night," a father; M-G-M has great expectations in the person of Louise Rainer, from Vienna. Elaborate plans are under way for her bow "Little Miss Marker," a father; and even in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," just a father. Not that fathers aren't important, but I like to see a complete family. I'd like to be enlightened as to the reason, if any. Elsie K. Rautio, Eveleth, Minnesota STAR SYSTEM PUZZLES THIS star system puzzles me. Seems to me ' the harder a film actress works, and the better she plays her roles, the less is the praise and recognition she gets. We hear of actors and actresses becoming stars overnight. But what do they do to earn it? Take the case of Madge Evans. Here is a girl with beauty, wit, charm, lots of acting ability and years of film experience. Yet she is still a featured player, playing roles that anyone with even a quarter of her ability could play. We want stardom for Madge Evans, and bigger and better parts — parts in which she can prove she has all I say she has. How about it, M-G-M? Veronica Parker, York, England MOVIES AID EYES CCORE another hit for the movies. Doctor ^ Smith fitting glasses on little Billie discovered the vision in his left eye poorer than the right. Using the left eye as little as possible made it worse. So, movies twice a week. There Billie had to cover his right eye and use only the bad left. Within a month the Helen Morgan says hello from the stairs of her home in North Hollywood, on the shores of Toluca Lake, beautiful resort left was as good as the right. So the good old movies aren't so bad at that: May the benefits continue to increase. Asayo Kuraya, Hilo, Hawaii CHOOSES GRETA GARBO A LTHOUGH I like Norma Shearer, my ' Vhoice in this "war" for the leading lady of the screen is Greta Garbo. Miss Shearer has not the acting technique Miss Garbo has, nor the personality. But, I am a Garbo fan. Just to show you how popular Miss Garbo is down here, every one of her pictures packs the theater, people standing up, and sitting on steps. Judge for yourselves. Mariorie Gartrell, Sydney, Australia BOUQUET FOR MISS DAVIES AFTER reading Marion Davies' "Secrets of Success" in Photoplay to say her idea of success is grand would not be saying too much. I may add that I never miss any of her pictures. So, let's have more of that kind of literature and more of Marion's pictures. Harney Clare, Kingston, Jamaica I please turn to page 14 |