Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1938)

"And for what?" he asks. "I was put on a six week lay-off after my first picture, 'Four Men and a Prayer' and I'm stony broke anyway." The "Four Men" company had been shooting ten days when Richard arrived in Hollywood one week after signing his contract. An hour after landing he stood before a camera on a sound stage and said to Loretta Young, whom he'd never met, "I love you, too, dear." Hot dog, what a life! And how he adores them — hot dogs, we mean. Studio can't keep him out of drive-in stands where Richard feeds his handsome self hot dogs by the hour. He chews gum. And got lost in Mexico a month after he arrived. Talked the Mexican official in letting him across the border with no papers, which should give you some idea (oh, very rough, of course) of his charm. His name is constantly linked with 1: Arleen Whelan. 2: Loretta Young. 3: Sonja Henie. He thinks they're all nice. And they all think Richard is nice, too. He's taking lessons to eliminate his too-thick accent. He can imitate Bob Burns, but he can't look like him no matter how hard he tries. Play Cozy— and Get Fooled UNE of Hollywood's mysteries is liable to be cleared up before the month is out. We refer to that old chestnut "Are Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard really married?" Because Paulette starts her picture with Janet Gaynor within a few weeks, and Selznick Studios, we understand, will demand a clearcut, final answer to that question from Miss Goddard before she begins her work. They are starting a publicity campaign on Miss Goddard, which may land her in the "Scarlett O'Hara" role of "Gone with the Wind." And the studio wants to know about Miss Goddard's marriages, if any, before they start their build-up. Gold Star for Shirley IF you don't believe Shirley Temple is growing up to be a perfect little lady, you should know what the famous "Desert Inn," in Palm Springs, thinks about her. This favorite desert spot is noted for its exclusiveness, quiet restfulness, and complete lack of Palm Springs "whoopee." During Shirley's last vacation there recently, an elderly banker from Pittsburgh spotted the little star strolling down the lawn. "Isn't that Shirley Temple from Hollywood?" he asked the manager. "Indeed," the manager returned soberly. "Miss Temple is one of our happiest, but quietest clients." Are You Up On Carole Lombard? UlD you know she — Giggles that way off the screen, too? Calls Clark Gable "Pappy" and scolds him for not reporting on his whereabouts so "accident rumors" won't frighten her silly? Can milk a cow? Is building a small six-room house in the valley? Is taking a correspondence course in agriculture from a local university and averages "B's" in her homework? Can rope a steer? Is generous to relatives and a small army of people? Loves to talk of her Mack Sennett "fanny falls" days? Goes to town on chocolate caramels? Buys fewer clothes for her own wardrobe lian any star in Hollywood? Is the most outspoken beauty in ten states? For M-G-M's "Captains Courageous," Photoplay's 1937 Gold Medal winner, Bernarr Macfadden presents the Gold Medal to Freddie Bartholomew on the Maxwell House Good News broadcast. For a party in Mr. Macfadden's honor, Sonja Henie donned a saucy chapeau and brought Richard Greene CANDID CAMERA SHOTS BY HYMAN FINK And Bedlam Popped Out A TAILOR'S delivery boy out in Beverly Hills is still in a daze. Standing one day on Marlene Dietrich's back porch with two cleaned dresses, the boy casually pressed a small button near the back door. Life for the tailor's boy became a bedlam almost at once. A swarm of motorcycle cops followed by a corps of plain-clothes men surrounded the boy. It was minutes later he discovered he had pushed the burglar alarm by mistake. Gary Blushes— But Definitely Of all the embarrassed, bewildered men in Hollywood it's Gary Cooper. It seems Gary, the former cowboy, is now the style setter supreme. The handsome velvet and leather robes worn by Gary in "Marco Polo" have set the fashion designers atwitter. Mrs. Goldwyn herself was first to copy the lovely robes. This, Gary didn't mind so much. But when women began writing to the actor from all over, wanting to know how many yards it took to make such and such a robe, it was just too much. "I never thought I'd be a style setter," Gary moans and shuffles off for the nearest hide-out. Hi there, Schiaparelli. Leave It to Withers I HE Withers family, the one that contains a member known as Jane, got a new set of dishes last week. They had to. The ones they had met a very sad fate indeed. It seems the Nelson Brothers, who worked in Jane's picture, "Hello Hollywood," taught Jane how to play a trick with a set of dishes without breaking a single dish. It worked well at the studio. It didn't work at home. Jane stayed home from the Saturday matinees 46