Picture-Play Magazine (1933)

42 STARS WHO NEVER Extras dream of the time when they'll be stars and can pal around with all the players. THE extra girl and the extra boy were lunching at the Brown Derby. Their orders were meager, but they could see just as many stars over their sandwiches and coffee as could the people who were eating lobster Thermidor at the next table. "It must be grand when you get to he a star!" sighed the girl as she watched a gay party call an invitation to another group of famous ones. "Do you know what I'm going to do the day I get my big break? The very first day I'm a star, I'm going riding in the morning with Will Rogers. Then I'm going to lunch with Boris KarIoff and Franchot Tone and Jack LaRue. In the afternoon I'm going swimming with Johnny Weissmuller. Then I'll have dinner with Gary Cooper and go to the theater with Maurice Chevalier." "And do you know what I'll be doing that day so you won't get a chance to see me?" asked the extra boy. "In the morning I'll he taking Elissa Landi out to play golf. Then I'll lunch with Lilian Harvey, play tennis with Joan Crawford, and take Mae West to dinner. After that, if you ask me very nicely, maybe I'll come over and listen to your radio." The extra boy and the extra girl had not been in Hollywood very long or they would have known that, instead of living as one great big happy family, half the star colony does not even speak to the other half! The reason is not feuds — or fights — or divorces. The thai one half of the stars don't know the other half! By Llewellyn Miller Illustrated by H. Giesen Tracy was notified that he was to have a larger dressing room. Lee thought that was fine. At his usual speed he inspected his new quarters, slung down his possessions and left for the set. Later in the day, Barrymore arrived to make tests for "Dinner at Eight." He was calm when he entered the studio, but when he flung open the door of his dressing room his eyes popped at the confusion. Hats he never had seen before were all over the place. So were shoes. So were shirts. Clothes were tossed in a heap, and there on his own dressing table was a stranger's make-up kit ! The Barrymore temper is short and the Barrymore tongue is long. John stood in the center of bis studio home, shocked, amazed, puzzled — but not silent. Then onto the scene burst Tracy. They had never spoken before, but they spoke plenty then. The Barrymore wrath quickly cooled when it was explained how the accident had happened. After he had forgiven Tracy's appropriation of his dressing room, and Tracy had recovered from the impact of the Barrymore temperament, they became friends. Tracy does not recommend moving into a star's private quarters as a short cut to friendship, but he does insist that it is a sure way to establish speaking acquaintance ! Although Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich have been compared so often, they never have met. There Only one new comer in all Hoi lywood foun easy to mee screen favori Tom Brown, and Loretta Young is the girl. reason is For years Lee Tracy looked forward to meeting John Barrymore. When he came to I [ollywood, he thought it would he' only a matter of days before he ran into his fellow actor, hut weeks passed and grew into month-. Still TraC) did not meet Barrymore, in spile of the fact that on several occasions they made films at the same studio. Even at Metro-Goldwyn studio, where both are under contract. they were kept so busy on their own pictures that they didn't see each other. ■