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And now they've done him dirt by creating a most fetching playsuit for Merle Oberon in "The Lady and the Cowboy" — from one of Gary's shirts. And it's just the type of an outfit that is very likely to have a tremendous vogue with the ladies as soon as the picture is released— so Gary woefully states, while Director Potter, who thought up the garment in the first place, wickedly grins. Would You Like to Win $50,000? A "SIT up and take notice" item — Hollywood producers, film agencies, theater owners and managers have banded together to give you, the public, a chance to win some money — via a new and exciting contest. This contest is a part of the smashing advertising campaign for the "Motion Pictures' Greatest Year" movement, which is a drive to bring home the realization that the screen is the most glamorous and accessible form of popular-priced entertainment in the world today. Now, to get down to dollars and facts: this Movie Quiz contest offers prizes totaling $250,000. As we go to press, the plan is to offer 5,000 individual awards ranging from a first prize of $50,000 down to the lower bracket consolation prizes of $10. The contest starts on September 1st and will continue to December 31st. It will take the form of a questionnaire on some ninety to 120 pictures issued between August 1st and October 31st, but contestants will not be required to answer questions concerning more than thirty of these pictures in order to be eligible as entrants. Booklets listing the productions and the questions to be answered concerning them will shortly be available at every theater in the United States and Canada. There is no entrance fee and no charge for the attractive rotogravure booklets giving all rules and details. All you have to do is to ask for a free copy of "Movies Are Your Best Entertainment" brochure at any film theater box office in any territory where you happen to reside. Then get out your pencil and start right in. You'll be doing your bit for the industry that has done so much for you, and, take it from Cal, you'll be having lots of fun and excitement besides. Hollywood Wonders: IF Tyrone Power is obeying front-office suggestions in escorti n g Annabella from one night spot to another. If Errol Flynn and Lily Damita really mean it when they say "no divorce" — or are their constant scraps merely a prelude to more scraps. If the earnest conversation between Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane on a Warners Studio cor ( Continued jrom page 55.) ner means a reconciliation between the former sweethearts or a sign friendship has supplanted love. If Margaret Sullavan, who is about to become a mother again, didn't mean it when she said Hollywood would never interfere with her raising a large family. Remember Valentino — that's the title of the new book by Beulah Livingstone which has created such a furore in the fan and film field. A volume of "Reminiscences of the World's Greatest Lover," it is brief in length, fascinating in the anecdotes it contains. His romances with Jean Acker, Natacha Rambova and Pola Negri, his friendship with those glamorous ladies, Gloria Swanson, Vilma Banky and Dorothy Dalton — all these are treated in a comprehensive and competent fashion. A book not to be missed by anyone who is movie-minded. Jumpin' Jane's Latest JANE WITHERS is very much upsetshe feels that she has lost caste with the kids in her neighborhood and no amount of talking by elders will convince her differently. And thereby hangs a tale. Jane has, among other things in her private zoo, a pet frog with a roving nature who insists on jumping from his own lily-padded pool into that set aside for Jane's pet baby alligators. Patiently Jane retrieved the frog, but every time she returned him to his own bailiwick the roving amphibian would wander again. In the course of transporting him back and forth, Jane acquired a large and showy wart — and was she proud! She displayed it to all the crowd of kids and signed autograph books with a new flourish. Then came make-up tests for her new picture, "Always In Trouble," and the wart, perhaps with Jane's conniving, showed up in a big way on the screen. Whereupon the studio issued orders for immediate destruction of Jane's latest and most cherished possession, and no amount of sales talk on her part could change their edict. So, on the way to the Roller Drome where Jane was meeting a crowd of her pals, Mrs. Withers had the wart removed. Jane was almost ashamed to show up at the party — she felt that disgraced! The Bartholomew-Rooney Question I HERE'S a touching little feud grown up on the M-G-M lot between Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew. Strangely enough, the boys, versed in the intricate business of movie-making, continue to be friends and to admire each other's work. But, just the same, the feeling lies deep in their hearts. The studio, bent on making Mickey a star in a hurry, is sweeping everything else to one side. And Freddie, unfortunately, is caught in the sweepings For instance, it's Mickey's name tha* sometimes precedes Freddie's on the marquee billing of their recent picture "Lord Jeff." It's for Mickey the studio is feverishly hunting stories and it's Mickey that ij being given every opportunity to shine No longer, alas, does Mickey play ir Freddie's pictures. Freddie, artist to hi:finger tips, plays in Mickey's pictures a lad deserving of stardom above everyone in Hollywood. And there it lies, a problem few boys are ever called upon to face. Each is game and gallant in his own way; each is holding fast to manly reasoning. Both know that one day the scale will be balanced again. But until then — two boys in Hollywood go their way, sore at heart. HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR HOLLYWOOD? Check your answers to the statements on page 8 with these correct ones: 1 . Nancy Carroll 2. Street Scene 3. Joan Crawford 4. Carole Lombard 5. Elliott Nugent 6. Jean Arthur 7. Jack Mulhall in "Dark Streets" Expecting the Unexpected IvA STEWART, the latest of the 20th Century-Fox stock players to be elevated to a featured role, still can't believe it's true. Iva comes from Auburn, Maine, where she worked first for twenty dollars per month as a maid and then for eight dollars a week as a switchboard operator. But she had a boy friend whose brother had an orchestra and one night during a beauty contest she was selected by visiting judges as "Miss Auburn." Iva was as amazed' as anyone, for she hadn't entered the contest. It seems the local judges had forgotten to prepare the ballots. After that, she was chosen as "Miss Maine," which led to work as a model in New York and in turn led to a term contract in stock at 20th Century-Fox, where she played maids and phone operators without benefit of lines for a year. Then "Three Blind Mice" gave her a oneline bit — "Gateway" brought her a very minor part — and then she was told to report to work in the Jones Family series. So Iva reported, all ready to be a maid or a phone girl again — and was she thrilled when they handed her the i script with her name down for the romantic lead! But what else but the unexpected could she expect in Hollywood! Hollywood Mourns Them I WO old-timers pass on far from this land which made them famous. Death — which Pearl White successfully evaded so many times in the movie serials of silent days— caught up with her in the American Hospital in Paris. Less than a week later, Warner Oland, who played with Pearl in such films as "The Fatal Ring" and "The Lightning Raider" serials, died of bronchial pneumonia while vacationing in his native Sweden. As he once requested, Warner was buried in Umea, the town of his birth; Pearl, in the city she had called home for the past seventeen year s — Paris. Pearl retired at the peak of her career, but Warner went on, changing from insidious villain to mellow hero. Of the many roles he played on the screen, it was as Charlie Chan, the epigrammatic Chinese detective, that he caught the fancy of the public and became a favorite. 8. Lee Tracy 9. Tyrone Power 10. Kay Francis 96 PHOTOPLAY