Gold Diggers of 1935 (Warner Bros.) (1935)

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**Cast Yo Glims Over These For Dick Powell Sets Fashion For Love Making in 1935 Proposals This Year To Follow Model Shown By “Gold Diggers’’ Stars 66 ROPOSALS this year will mostly be made in the Dick Powell-Gloria Stuart manner,’’ declares Busby Berkeley, creator of screen spectacles and a keen observer in matters of young love. Berkeley directed the youthful couple in the First National picture, ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935,”’ which comes to the .................... ‘“A year or so ago it was Clark Gable or Jimmy Cagney who set the styles in the delicate business of asking a girl to marry,’’ he adds. ‘‘But the Dick Powell-Gloria Stuart way is the most popular right now.’’ Motion pictures, in the opinion of Berkeley, have had a tremen DICK POWELL Mat No. 7 10¢ deusly important effect on love making throughout the civilized world. ‘<The old ‘Down-on-your-knees —*Will-you-marry-me?’’ formula has been outmoded for years — just because early motion pictures showed how ungainly and funny such a proposal really was,’’ he says. ‘‘Then John Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks and others brought in an era of adventurous romance — climbing to balconies to plead with the lady, galloping a hundred miles to return a handkerchief and plight a troth. The susceptible young people of those days had a hectic time keeping up with the movies in the matter of romance. A lot of funny things must have happened.’? In recent years, Berkeley believes, screen romance has been given both more realism and better taste. ‘‘Young people have to ISn’t She Sweet? tet Theatre on... 4 have a pattern to follow when the time comes to pop the question,’’ he argues. ‘‘Years ago the cue came from the romantic novelists. That was the ‘knee-bending’ period. Now they unconsciously study the love-making methods they see on the screen—and chose the one they like the best. ‘¢And this year, at least, it is Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart who are setting the pace which lovers will follow.’’ Director Berkeley has gathered his information from the hundreds of young people who work in his choruses. They came from all parts of the nation and represent every type of home and all classes. Three hundred such girls and half as many eligible young men worked for him in the choruses of ‘“Gold Diggers of 1935,’’ for instance, and they give him a fairly accurate cross section of the nation’s youth. ‘*Dick’s love scenes are gentle, sincere and unaffected,’’ he says. ‘¢Next year George Brent or Cary Grant or Jackie Cooper may set the styles in the world’s love making. But right now it is Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart.’’ ‘Gold Diggers of 1935’? is a gigantic musical spectacle with 300 beautiful girls in the numbers staged by Busby Berkeley, who also directed the entire production from the screen play by Manuel Seff and Peter Milne, dramatized from the story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne. The music and lyrics are by Warren and Dubin. Ramon and Rosita the dancers, are featured. There is an all star cast, which includes besides Dick Powell and Miss Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Glenda _ Farrell, Frank MeHugh, Hugh Herbert and Joseph Cawthorn. chorus ensembles in that company ’s musical pictures, the latest of which is ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935,’’ now showing at the .........000000000. Theatre. Many such letters are received in Hollywood after the release of each new musical. They arrive with the other tons of fan mail delivered daily in Hollywood but are eventually sorted out and opened — but not often answered. Most of them are short and to Screen’s Best Dressed Man Keeps Elaborate Wardrobe Adolphe Menjou, Playing In “Gold Diggers Of 1935” Has System In Dressing By CARLISLE JONES VER since the international committee of tailors named Adolphe Menjou, who comes to the ....................5. Theatre Ohi ee in the First National production, ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935,’’ as Hollywood’s only representative on the list of the ten best dressed men in the world, your unofficial observer has been angling for a chance to see inside that gentle Look out, Frank McHugh—the Dollar $ign is the Danger $ign when the “Gold Diggers of 1935” swing into action this week at the BR perp ers a, poe Theatre! The gal in the case (above) is Dorothy Dare, who figures in the huge cast with Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Hugh Herbert, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell and hundreds of Busby Berkeley dancing girls. Mat No. 1—20¢ Page Highteen man’s closet. With the lovely Verree Teasdale herself acting as guide, he recently inspected the brand new home which Mr. Menjou has built for Miss Teasdale, his bride, and himself, high in the Los Feliz Hills, overlooking Hollywood on _ one side and the Griffith Park Planetarium on the other. It is a beautiful home, with any number of interesting features, including what is doubtless the largest refrigerator in the screen colony and a gas range which can — and does — do almost anything except peel potatoes. : But these and other elaborate and expensive details of the new home were accorded only secant attention by your determined observer. It was not until he was ushered directly into Adolphe Menjou’s dressing room that he started making notes. Glorifying A Closet It is not a particularly large room, as dressing rooms go in Hollywood, but it makes up what it may lack in size by its remarkable efficiency. It is, in fact, a kind of glorified closet and Menjou, standing in the middle of it, is practieally within arms reach of any of sixty or seventy different and complete combinations of clothes. Across one end and half way down another side, suits hang at regular intervals, spaced exactly four inches apart. There are sport suits and tweeds, perhaps a dozen of them. Business suits of more conservative patterns and materials follow, in order. Then comes the formal attire for morning, afternoon, dinner and evening, each classification encased in transparent cellophane bags, dust proof, moth proof, yet available for immediate use. Another complete corner is devoted to shoes, dozens of pairs of them of all conceivable colors and styles, each carefully fitted with shoe trees and every pair within reach. The shoe racks climb the wall to a height of seven feet or more. Transparent Bureau Drawers The hats are kept in deep drawers, each drawer having a plate glass front, so that Menjou can see what the drawer contains without going to the trouble of pulling it open. There are many hats, snap brims and sedate Fedoras, high silks and collapsible opera hats, fine Panama straws and imported felts, each perched on its own little knob inside the glassfronted drawers. Conspicuous among them is an Alpine hat, with its pert little feather and jaunty brim. The shirts are housed in other glass-fronted drawers so that their owner can pick and choose without handling any of them unnecessarily. These are sorted with great eare and catalogued in the drawers according to type; the sport shirts, the colored shirts, the white shirts, the striped shirts and the various kinds of dress shirts, all sorted into separate drawers. Smaller drawers, adso with glass fronts, hold the sox, the handkerchieves, the mufflers and the other smaller items: of a man’s wardrobe. Everything is within sight, all suits and shoes in the open, all the linen behind glass. With such a dressing room almost any of the forty-odd million American men who, like your observer and the Prince of Wales were not listed as among the ten best dressed gentlemen of the world, might give the debonair Menjou a race for his honors. Not A Hole In A Sock Being the best dressed man in pictures and one of the ten best dressed men in the world has been made ridiculously easy for Adolphe Menjou, thanks to Verree Teasdale and her happy invention Your FEATURE STORIES” Old Stage Door Johnnies Now Do Flirting By Mail Girls In “Gold Diggers Of 1935” Receive Many Fan Letters HE ‘‘stage door Johnnies’’ of the gay nineties are old men now, but their species is by no means extinct. Only the methods have changed. “‘Johnny’’ used to wait in a cold alley with a nose-gay of frosted flowers, hoping against hope that a member of the Floradora sextette would give him a tumble. Now he writes letters addressed to First National studios asking for the names and addresses of certain girls he has seen in the Busby Berkeley the point. w ‘<Please send me the name of the blonde girl third from the left in such and such a scene,’’ or ‘“Who was the cutie just back of Dick Powell when he sang this or that chorus?’’ Occasionally several young men from one city or town will write one letter together, asking for several names and addresses and enclosing a clipping from a local paper advertising the screen musical, with the girls’ pictures marked. Such letters were uncommon before the Berkeley choruses became so well publicized and so popular but their numbers have increased steadily with the release of each new musical since ‘‘42nd Street.’’ The latest picture showing Berkeley girls is ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935’? and a whole flood of requests.for names and addresses descended upon the studios since that picture was recently released. Requests that simply ask the name of a girl in the picture, when accompanied by stamped, self addressed envelopes are sometimes answered. Letters proposing marriage are by no means uncommon, and of course there are many which state that the writer thinks he, or she, recognizes the face of some lost relative or friend. One New Jersey youth was so taken by a dark haired girl he saw in ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935’’ that he wrote to the studio asking if an imtroduction could be arranged if he went to Hollywood. That letter received an answer. The youth was advised against taking the trip, but he may go anyway. He is the typical stage door Johnnie of 1935 — and is probably just as persistent as was his 1898 predecessor. ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935”? is a gigantic musical spectacle with 300 beautiful girls lead by Ramon and Rosita in the dance numbers staged by Busby Berkeley, who also directed the entire production from the screen play by Manuel Seff and Peter Milne, dramatized from the story by Robert Lord and Milne. The music and lyrics are by Warren and Dubin. There is an all star cast which includes Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Joseph Cawthorn. of glass fronts on dressing room drawers. Your observer, try as he might, could not linger long enough to count all the drawers in Menjou’s dressing room. There must have been a hundred of them, all told. In ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935’? however, Menjou is anything but well dressed, playing the part of a disheveled producer. The picture is a gigantic musical spectacle and has a most imposing east, including, besides Menjou, Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn and Dorothy Dare.