Picture-Play Magazine (1933)

34 The most alluring foibles are portrayed by these girls in "My Weakness." They are Irene Ware, Mary Howard, Marcelle Edwards, Barbara Weeks, Jean Allen, Marjorie King, Susan Fleming. HOLLYWOOD HIGH LIGHTS Skimming over the movie colony for choice bits of studio and personal gossip. w ILLIAxM POWELL and Carol Lombard have started something in Hollywood. They've set the pace and the vogue for the "divorce of convenience," which now supplants the marriage of convenience as known to the rest of the world. A divorce of convenience is one that enables two people to be happy in each other's company though no longer married. A marriage of convenience is, of course, something else again, and we suspect frequently indulged in around and about movieland for the sake of publicity or for professional advancement. Heaven forbid that we should name the indulgers, despite that they would probably make a pretty formidable list. Carol literally rushed back into Bill's arms following their formal separation in Reno. Naturally, we're speaking figuratively. She probably got lonesome for Old Man Powell while on location waiting for the papers to go through, and besides he is a swell escort. She's seen with him regularly and they seem as happy as two young doves. Ex's may have gadded about together before, but never so enthusiastically, and one can only think that they didn't mean their break-up to be overserious, or else they feel that it is superior showmanship to be as one when it comes to public appearances, a move that insures a lot of attention from the bystanders. What's more, they really like each other. So behold the "divorce of convenience"! thing new in the films ! By Edwin and Elza Schallert Again some Still Party Cut-ups. — Edmund Lowe is the crack impersonator of stars, lie docs what he has to do in this line with authority and art, and not simply like a tawdry burlesque. He attended a party given by Donald ( >gden Stewart made upas Lionel Barrvmore, in "Grand Hotel," and looked the pari one hundred per cent. Lilyan was with him, her firsl public appearance following her sojourn in the I"1 pital, ami looked very wan. The stars were supposed to dress like each other, but that didn't prevent Harpo .Marx from coming as one of the Witches of Endor in "Macbeth." Fay Wray made a funny faux pas. She came attired in the raggedy dress that she wore when the ape had attacked her in "King Kong." This made i* look as if she Fell that her favorite star was herself. She had misunderstood the invitation, however, and thought that she was to appear as her own favorite character in pictures rather than her favorite star. The part) turned out to be a sort of spontaneous tribute to Dolores del Rio, even though it was not intended to be, because Bebe Daniels, Mary Pickford, Sandra Shaw, and several others came attired as Luana in "The Bird of Paradise," while Dolores paid tribute to Bebe Daniels. There were also numerous Mae Wests and Marlene Dietrichs present, but scarcely a single Garbo. What's Helen Up To? — Helen Hayes has been criticized for her attitude about the stage. She said, as you may remember, that the theater had been the mother of many of the money-making stars of the screen, and that the least they could do was to support the stage while it is in its present doldrums by returning to appear in plays, regardless of the fact that remuneration might not be as great as in pictures. Her statement was widely publicized but so far the stage folk in Hollywood haven't taken it seriously. In fact, they rather sniffed at the idea and inferred that Helen was subtly striving for a little publicity. Cynical! You can call it that if you want to. We surmise that Helen is being smart in switching from one medium to the other. Her latest screen efforts in "Another Language" and "Night Flight" have been less glamorous than that series of pictures which began with "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" and climaxed with "Farewell to Arms." She is still in many ways the screen's most efficient actress, but best in those roles which call for great tragic emotion in bleak surroundings. She has limitations which have been disclosed in several recent productions, beginning with "Son-Daughter," in which her quaintness was charming but not convincing. M.-G.-M., nevertheless, plans to star Miss Hayes and Leslie Howard together in a picture called "The Miracle of the Mountain," uniting the two players who have often been celebrated as the best in their acting. We wonder win no one has thought of teaming Miss Hayes and Mr. Howard before now.