Picture-Play Magazine (1933)

Around the Cuckoo Clock Some merry goings-on in Hollywood, most of mem q i p C II true while the others may happen any day now. ^Y J^rTieS KOy l~ UllOT PRODUCER wires Eastern office to sign up D. H. Lawrence — dead two years. Another says. "What! Hire that pluto-highbrow ?" Lilyan Tashman christens locomotive No. 1050, smashing bottle pseudowater over cowcatcher. Sylvia puts Kate Smith on diet of two psyllium pseeds a day. Neil Hamilton discovers tor fourteenth time a cave one hundred yards from kitchen door. Photographed studying script in cave, costumed as Rustico, celebrated hermit of a past age. Toluca displays bunting as Dick Arlen and Joby replace a broken tile in their patio, and fire department touches off a salute at first stroke of the trowel. Constance Bennett kisses male fanmagazine writer. Garbo tank she stay home. Lois Moran takes up study of conditioned reflexes of water bugs. Robert Montgomery promotes himself into rear admiral's seagoing uniform. Boulevard flotilla. Says Billie Dove, "Stars find that they can have both babies and careers simultaneously ; their public is sticking. When fans approve of an actress they imitate her, so watch the country's birth rate from now on. It's going up." Billie Dove's pet turtle wins race at beach tournament. Pickfair lights turned off two minutes on anniversary of Mary's speech to workhouse prisoners. Just before the lights went off the major-domo, in the presence of the assembled guests, solemnly chanted the high point of the speech: "The depression is really a privilege. You boys and girls should consider your time in prison really a privilege, too, a sort of exercise for your spiritual muscles." Clara Bow's pet mouse. Pinkie, sent East to greet her on arrival from Europe. Studio conference to discuss statue of theater manager who gave out handkerchiefs to women customers at "Sin at Sunrise." Conference split up over question of what should be handed out at showing of crooner films. Quote from Vice-president Curtis read into minutes of meeting: "Talking pictures are valuable because they give you a chance to see and hear at the same time." Dorothy Wilson, RKO ex-stenog find, tries to break herself of habit of wiping silverware when dining in Hollywood homes. Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Asthma and Riding clubs progressing nicely. Lew Cody publishes following paid ad in Hollywood Reporter: Some banks and some pictures are still doing well. . . . IT IS SAID. Lew Cody. '"From tenements to tournaments in one generation." says Groucho Marx of himself as a tennis player. Sid Grauman loses twenty dollars on bet that more men at a party are wearing suspenders than belts. Observes Nancy Carroll, "We public idols must foster the illusions our public has about us." Polly Moran breaks ground for the Jolly Smack candy factory. Anniversary of Aileen Pringle's domino game with Joseph Hergesheimer celebrated at Brown Derby. Joan Crawford announces that she is in love with her husband. Barbara Stanwyck follows suit. Six magazine writers good for next month's rent. "A career in films is the most terrible thing that can happen to young people," says Mary Pickford. "My fingers ache to produce from clay works of art which will proclaim me a great sculptress," complains Joan Crawford. Joan changes mind and chafes to be a great paintress. News item : A former comedy star, separated from his second wife and broke, has moved into the home of his first ex-wife as a nonpaying boarder. "I do not like women. I like little birds and flowers, and green grass and trees much better than I like women." — Maurice Chevalier. Ruth Chatterton has jig-saw evening with husband and ex-husband. Fred Datig, famous casting director for Paramount, announces the discovery of the great Thespian law of eyebrow lifting. "A person who can elevate one eyebrow while the other stays undisturbed has the facial mobility required of a successful film actor," says Mr. Datig. "Only one person in eighteen can do the trick." Jimmy Gleason discovers recipe for corned-beef bash in old Spanish mission dungeon. bailing to find suitable type for casting in a picture, Casting Director David Werner looks into mirror and discovers the right type in his own face and the problem is solved. Fred Datig, ever a jump ahead, announces need of an actress who can change instantly from "beatific spirituality to fiendish malevolence. without aid of make-up." Christmas greetings sent out byAlfred Santell. printed on a postal card: "The money usually spent on Christinas cards has been given to those less fortunate than I in the hope that their Christinas might be made a bit happier — a bit merrier. You don't mind if my sterling wishes come to you on this copper card — do you?" Many leading players refuse to give one half of one per cent of salary to M. P. Relief. Ad in Hollywood trade sheet : WANTED — ADVENTUROUS YOUNG ACTRESS to play leads in two features. Some screen experience necessary ; 100 lbs. Salary and expenses. DUTCH EAST INDIES EXPLORING CO. On the hoof or dressed? Richard Arlen spent Faster eve with friends, then drove to Palm Springs in time for a desert sunrise. Then he rode horseback and ate an outdoors breakfast, terminating, says the p. a. "one of the most original Easter ceremonies in the film colony." Shivered "in the solitude of his own originality." Art ever stands tiptoe on Beverly Hills : "For the first time in America a composition of music has been put on the screen in such a way that you can see it as well as hear it . . . a combination of music and figure movement which illustrates the patterns which your mind forms as your ears are hearing the piece." Carl Laemmle disarms rival studios with the announcement, "The plain truth is, unless we hang together we shall hang separately."