Picture-Play Magazine (1935)

Volume XLIII YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 MONTHLY STREET & SMITH'S PICTURE PLAY Number 4 SINGLE COPIES, 15 CENTS CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1935 The entire contents of this magazine are protected by copyright, ami must not h< reprinted without tin publishers' consent. FRONTISPIECE: Worshipers of the Sun — Lotus Long and Mala in "Typee' Boris Randolph . Ben Maddox SPECIAL ARTICLES: The Origin of Star Names .... Wide-eyed Wonder — Fred MacMurray Bergner, the Riddle Woman As Told to Dorothy Fox by Baroness Louisa Von Lumbe Stars Eat — And How! — Describing Some of Their Dinners Dick Pine My Pal, Will Rogers One More Human: Myrna Loy, Part III . "Joe Pen-ner!" Growing Pains — Tom Brown Will Gary Bring Marlene Good Luck? . Spencer Tracy Dudley Early Whitney Williams William H. McKegg William F. French Destiny Beckoned — She Followed — Olivia de Havilland . Franc Dillon DEPARTMENTS: What the Fans Think — Letters front Interested Readers .... Information, Please — S feet fie Answers to Questions . . The Oracle Soft and Sharp Focus — Editorial .... Norbert Lusk Hollywood High Lights — Filmtown Gossip Edwin and Elza Schallert They Say in New York — What the Stars Are Doing in Manhattan Karen Hollis On and Off the Set — Unusual Observations of Movie Celebrities Thumbnail Reviews ....... Norbert Lusk Casts of Current Pictures .......... Addresses of Players ART GALLERY: Favorites of the Fans — Merle Obcron, Anne Shirley, Gladys Swarthout, Eleanor Powell, Trances Pee. Kay Francis, Mary Carlisle. Patsy Kelly. Kitty Carlisle. Henry Wadsworth, Trie Linden. John Ilalliday. Erik Rhodes, Neil Hamilton. Brian Aherne, John Howard, Henry Fonda. Joan Crawford, Claire Trevor, Fred MacMurray . FASHIONS: Stars To-day Are Ladies of Fashion — Mary Astor, Patricia Ellis, Winifred Shaw, Gail Patrick, Margaret Lindsay, Gleuda Farrell PREVIEWS: Glimpses of Future Films — "The Capture of Tarzan," "Tamed," "The Murder of Doctor Harrigan," "She Couldn't Tube It" (now called "Rich Girl's Folly"), "I /amis Across the Table," "The Perfect Gentleman," "1 ore Song," "The Melody Lingers On," "I Lire for bore," "Doctor Socrates." "The Milky Way," "The Virginia Judge." "Sylvia Scarlett." "Annie Oakley," "Metropolitan" 11 18 35 36 40 42 46 48 49 54 56 6 8 13 38 44 50 58 61 98 19 22 67 publication Issu.'.l by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., I N fork, \ > George I Smith, I ' Vice President Ti isurcr: Artemaa Holmes, Via Pr< Ident :m<l Seci lent, Copyright, £ Smith Publication Ei Copyright reel .\ Smith I > Great Bi Haiti I \i 0 al Nev I M irch 3, to Cuba, Dom. Republ I ■ nti It Al ' except The G B Hoi (1.75 per year. To all other ] Countrli ' Honduras, S2.25 per year. Wr do nol accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts. To facilitate handling, thl author should inclose a self-addressed envelope with the requisite postage attached. ic STREET & SMITH PUBLICATIONS. INC., 79 7th AVE., NEW YORK, N. Y. PICTURE PLAY'S 2lst JUBILEE YEAR! The January issue of Picture Play celebrates the twenty-first year of its existence. Twenty-one years of honest chronicling the advancement of the screen and its people! Few other publications can look back upon a like period of service and none can point to a policy that has remained unchanged since its inception. Picture Play has won its world-wide following among exacting readers by its friendliness toward them as well as the stars and the motion-picture industry as a whole. It has followed the advancement of both, recording the improvement in films and the culture of those who are responsible for them. It has welcomed newcomers, according recognition for service rendered more often than is usual in publications that are chiefly concerned with top-notch stars. It has tried to recognize merit and give encouragement wherever merited. At the same time it has welcomed an expression of opinion from readers in "What the Fans Think," the most outstanding department in this or any other film publication. On this significant anniversary Picture Play pledges continuance of its successful policy and urges its readers to remember that there is a place in the magazine for every one's opinions, every one's favorite player and every one's enthusiasm. Every issue of the magazine in 1936 will be better than the corresponding one this year!