Screen and Radio Weekly (Dec 27, 1936)

Bs Shirley Lloyd: Rita Johnson: Good fortune ahead, says Lopez. Unexpected turn of events is foreseen. Bandleader-Numerologist Forecasts Futures of Six Bright Hopes pre 15 YEARS been spending a surprising portion of my time in the study of numerology. I find it fascinating because, as was explained not long ago, it gives me a remarkable opportunity to know people who would otherwise be strangers to me. I know myself, too. Which is slightly more important. My little conceits, my probable reactions, my strengths— they are as familiar as old friends. And I have subsequently been able to treat them like old friends, and not like unhealthy relations whose existences should be hidden even from myself. What I am about to write now is a yearly custom with me. Though it is seldom that I make them public, I attempt to predict—or at least indicate —each December the general trend of events that will befall six well known persons during the ensuing 12 rmonths. Nothing nasty, understand. If I should find, in examining the influences over the life of a certain person, that death or great unhappiness seems to be his lot, I forget about it. Say absolutely nothing. Nor is it anything specific. Not usually, anyway. Only those emotional combinations that seem to direct the personality toward certain events. And that’s all. of Radio and Screen I SHOULD explain that I do it for myself and believe in the results implicitly. Perhaps, had I known the science 20 years ago when, as a boy of 17, I left the monastary of the Passionate Fathers at Dunkirk, N. Y., for a job as pianoplayer in a Brooklyn honkytonk, I would have directed my life differently. Or, again, perhaps I was guided in my movements at all times by something very similar. to it. I insist that I am well satisfied with my present position in the world. Numerology. does not yet entirely govern my life. I have found it foretells events accurately. At one time, when beginning a radio program, I told the sponsor that the time was not auspicious for the undertaking; and was gloriously right (to his disgust) but I have never refused to sign a contract because numerology pointed in the other way. On the several occasions when I have written my predictions they have been amazingly accurate. On Dec. 20, 1932, a Chicago newspaper printed an interview with me in which I stated that, during 1933, Joan Crawford would find her emotional life going through a tremendous upheaval; that it would be a home year for John Gilbert; that it might be wise for Greta Garbo “to retire from public life; and that J Harlow would find shadows blotting Soe her happiness during the coming 12 | Dorothy Lamour: Her big decision will come in April, trouble in 1933, all right. She divorced Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. John Gilbert’s life was: mostly tied up with his home when Virginia Bruce, his wife, presented him with a baby. -Garbo did retire —though I doubt that my suggestion had anything to do with her decision— and made not ‘one picture during 1933. Jean Harlow did move through shadows. Her husband killed himself and she was desperately ill for some time. Now THAT 1936 is drawing to a close.and 1937 presents 12 months of mystery, I have selected six young women as subjects of my annual prophesy. I know something about all of them and have talked briefly to four. Whether they prefer to take my predictions to heart or whether they prefer to laugh them off doesn’t matter much. I would suggest that they did the former. Two of them—Shirley Lloyd and Rita Johnson—have numerological forecasts for the coming year that, based on. the date of their births, are identical. Shirley Lloyd, who sings with Ozzie Nelson’s orchestra each Sunday night over the NBC network, is a youngster just 20 years old. She has, by her own admission, gotten along ever since she left her home town of Pueblo, Colo., by pushing ahead no matter what others said about her ability. Slightly superstitious, she attaches a lot of significance to an Indian ring presented to her by an old chief just before she left home. Miss Johnson is an actress on both NBC and CBS. A luscious blond with blue eyes. Rather tall and extremely pleasant. Born in Massachusetts, she received her early theatrical training there in a local stock company with Lynne Overman. She has played with Margaret Anglin, Florence Reed and Leontovich and last fall had an excellent role in a Theater Guild play. They have found 1936 the right kind of year for them. Their old contacts matured, their old training came forward and showed itself; and, at the e time, they had opportunities to » building in new directions. The months. Joan Crawford did have a little new, year will be an. unusual one for Out of the magtcian’s hat that is the new year will come success, failure—high hopes, success and disappointment—for the inhabitants otf the entertainment world. both of them. If they have worked on the foundation they had a chance to set these past few months, neither of them will be caught short by the unexpected changes she is about to encounter. If they have not built well, then my suggestion is that neither adopt a settled plan for her coming activities. In fact, I’d suggest that neither take a settled plan no matter how carefully she has worked. i % HE numerological fore cast for Dorothy Lamour, a radio singer who has just completed her first moving picture, is vastly different from that of Miss Johnson and Miss Lloyd. Technically, she has a code of 5 for this past year, a code of 6 for next year. The code for both Miss Johnson and Miss Lloyd is 5 for next year. In other words, they can expect much what ‘she has just gone throush. Dorothy Lamour, born in Birmingham, Ala., Vincent Lopez (left), famed orchestra leader heard over the Columbia network, in this article announces for the first time his forecasts of these young women's futures. has had a career that has been a thorough emotional test. She absolutely avoids conflict—any show of fight— thinking that to battle for something takes most of the joy out of it. She won a beauty contest in New Orleans because she wouldn’t object to her high school classmates’ attempts to enter her in it. She secured her first job on the strength of her beauty alone. Even in her singing, she shows this passivity. These past 12 months should have been, from her numerology reading, months of unrest, of change and disappointment. And I believe they were. They have made up an experience needed to deflate some of the ideas she had about herself, valuable because she can now, in 1937, fulfill the promise of her forecast. She has had disappointments—mostly because things that looked greatiy s'gnificant proved of little value to her. In April, Dorothy Lamour will find things different. She will do one of two things: Marry The Lopez Numerology Method he COMMON with most numerologists, Vincent Lopez believes that all lives run in cycles, these being classi fied by the number of years therein. Lopez determines the number of years ina cycle by adding each digit in the. number of the month in which the person was born, plus the number of the day of the month, plus the aggregate ot the digits in the year of birth. The first digit in the total represents the number of years in the cycle. A person with a seven-year cycle, for example, theoretically starts a new venture every seven years. Simone Simon: Lopez suggests self-discipline. Anita Louise: She can let herself go. and return home,-or stay with her career long enough to run into some of the nicest contacts she has yet met. You would. imagine that I am giving myself a lot of leeway there with two predictions. They are based on one definite point, however. Just before April, Miss Lamour will meet new people. Those new people will present her with her big decision. Shall she marry one of them and settle into a home, or shall she continue with her career? I imagine Miss Lamour can pursue no middle course. It appears that whichever road she takes will be a smooth one. It is only up to her. Any difficult relationships she has had this past year will be smoothed out. Tue PERSON who named. Simone Simon was guided by a lucky number, for the lovely little French actress has, through the phonetic quality of her name, been accorded the most consistent radio build-up any foreign actress has received in this country. I am certain that every radio comedian has mentioned her at least twice, and there are several who haven’t missed a week since her first contract was announced. She has lived a_ kaleidoscopic life. Born in Paris, she was schooled there, and in Berlin, Budapest, Turin. She is an artist—with her hands as well as her eyes and her voice. It was while she was lunching on the terrace of a Parisian cafe that she was discovered by Tourjansky, now one of the leading European movie directors. Five years ago, that was. Until a year ago, she worked hard and endlessly in the films, for Adolphe Osso, for Marc Allegret, for Tourjansky. All great men. Then she came to America. That was a year ago, and her coming here was the beginning of a nineyear term of experience and expression. At least another six years of supreme success are promised by the seed she has sown with her work. She has reached the peak of this first popularity, though; and the year of 1937 indicates an interval of composure between the progress she has just enjoyed and the more mature and successful express to be found in.4938, wae a There,,isa hitch for Miss, Simone é Eleanore Whitney: Lopez advises her to save her money. Simon, let me add. During an interval that will last approximately from the publication of this article until October of 1937, it is extremely necessary that she discipline herself thoroughly. Impatience, over-confidence and insistence upon success should be eschewed; contemplation and hesitaney recommended. October will find the situation well under control. Tue numerological sketch of Anita Louise is an interesting one. She has just recently gained recognition for her work in talking pictures. She was born in New York City 20 years ago come January 9, and her first ambition, I understand, was to write music. Though I’ve never heard any of her compositions for the piano, I would like to. They should be most admirable. Whether Miss Louise was-patient during 1986 or whether she has been most impatient, it was a year when she should have been most cautious in all of her moves. Discipline and experience should have been her main motives during the 12 months ending—and I would say, in remembering her work in “Anthony Adverse” and ‘'The Story of Louis Pasteur,” that she has been cautious. In 1937, Miss Louise may go to town. She will be able to,develop some of her ideas for the first time to her satisfaction. Recognition? There should be more of that. And she may be pleased to learn that her air of independence, which ably worked against the betts of tact and diplomacy in have a little more freedom the coming year. But only be * €ause experience has softened her expressions of that independence. I WOULD advise Eleanore Whitney to save her money during 1937. Miss Whitney, whose latest picture, I understand, is “College Holiday,’ with Jack Benny, is a dancer. A very good one. When she was 10 years old, she convinced Bill Robinson of that. She must understand that 1936 and 1937 represent the two years of a nine-year cycle in her life. She will see the realization of her ambition to publicly express her talents and personality. She should have been able to realize her ambitions for financial success, too. Miss Whitney will find that 1937 presents further opportunities. She should reach a pretty tall pinnacle of public expression. And that is why I suggest that she save her money. She must realize that this fairly high pinnacle she will reach is a fulfillment of past efforts and not an indication of continued progress from that point. A bit of wise conservation of the handsome rewards I trust she is receiving. for her talent—will prepare her for new activities in the fall of 1937. Should she find that an entirely new phase of her professional life has opened, she should have a tidy reserve to fall back on while she accustoms herself to the new medium. ‘Tame they are, all six of them. And there I am, on record in black and white—and, in some places, even color. However, you can be sure that, were I not very confident of the underlying truth of the science that has prompted these statements, I would hardly have stuck my neck out so awfully far.