Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

for March 19 20 127 "I thought that I was having all the fun that anyone possibly could have when I was in school at Kansas U, playing in the dance orchestra, going to classes, getting the work out of the way. And later, when I went back to work for Dad on the paper in Olathe, I thought that it was great. But since I've been in pictures in Hollywood I know that I will never enjoy anything more. "In the first place every new picture is an adventure; a lot of real excitement. Why, in the last one, 'Half Way To Heaven,' we had days and days of thrills on the flying trapeze. And now, in 'Young Eagles,' why — it's just like being back on 'Wings' again." It was during the making of "Wings" that big picture of aerial warfare, that Buddy Rogers learned to handle a plane. He does it like a real veteran. I could see that as I watched him when I first glimpsed his ship in the air. That is typical of Buddy. Anything he does he does well. He has the physical and the mental equipment to accomplish this. I don't believe that the general public realizes Buddy Rogers is a shade more than six feet tall, and that he weighs one hundred and seventy five pounds. He would be a likely candidate for any football squad, and I daresay he'd make considerable of a name for himself in that sport. Around the studio where he and I work few people have more friends than he. You hear him called 'Buddy' by everybody. And they are sincere when they tell him that 'I'm glad to see you,' and they know he is sincere when he says the same thing to them. I like Buddy a lot. But, as I warned you before, perhaps that is just because I like boys, particularly my brother Tommy. In New York — Continued from page 91 She was a frank, brilliant girl, with long, straight, wild hair and a tomboy manner. "There are three things I want in life," she told me then. "To be married, to have a baby, and to go to Europe." Since that time she has received all three wishes. And happiness agrees with her. She is much prettier now. She has lost that gauche quality she had. Her face is softer, her hair is short and cleverly waved. Where she used to be merely good to look at, there is a startling, emotional quality about her now. You feel here is a woman who is always on the brink of exciting events. They may be wonderful. They may be tragic. But they will always be happenings which will stir up the depths. "I don't know what picture I'll make next," Miss Boardman went on. "The film I enjoyed making most of all was 'The Crowd.' King directed me and I think it was the best work I've done. Of course, the role I would like above everything would be to play Catherine in Ernest Hemingway's 'Farewell to Arms.' There's a real woman for you! "There hasn't been the slightest suggestion of my doing it, but I'm going to keep on hoping, for" — she laughed in that deep husky voice of hers which belies her almost fragile figure — "my wishes have a way of coming true." A little gem from the light operas — that's Marie Saxon, the slim, blonde, song' and-dance girl who has made her talkie debut in "The Broadway Hoofer." Marie is what I would call the bright musical comedy light in a city full of bright musical comedy lights. She has made hit after hit in the Broadway successes of "Battling Butler," "Merry Merry," "The Ramblers," "My Girl," and "Up's a Daisy." Harry Cohn, one of the big bosses at Columbia Pictures was a friend of Marie's husband. He met the wife, and signed her up— with a big contract and a salary to match. Miss Saxon is a darling. A remarkably sincere and well poised hostess, possessing seemingly an imperishable spirit of gaiety. Last week she gave a party at her husband's apartment. He, by the way, is Sid Silverman, son of Sime Silverman, owner and editor of the famous theatrical paper, Variety. Both father and son swing a pithy pen. They can say more — and funnier— in less space than almost any scribe on Broadway. Sid's apartment, I vow, is only a tiny bit smaller than the ex-Kaiser's palace at Potsdam. Enormous rooms and tons of them. All furnished so livably. Marie's boudoir quite won my heart. Panelled in rose petal satin, with a big white bear skin on the floor, it is a lovely setting for her beauty. I think Miss Saxon is to be envied. In addition to her talkie success, she seems surrounded with love, warmth, color — a real home and real folks. And to a trouper, familiar with one night stands, and hot dog lunches — that must be Seventh Heaven! $ $ % They are certainly saying it with parties these days in New York. It's been almost two weeks since I've had to buy my own afternoon tea. This time it's Joan Bennett who's passing out the buns. Joan, just to keep you straight, is the youngest, tiniest and sweetest Bennett girl. Constance is the grande dame of the family. She lived in Paris a long while and is a distinguished personage. Barbara, the second sister, is married to Morton Downey, the honey-voiced tenor. And Joan — well, Joan married at seventeen, was a mother at eighteen, and now, at nineteen, is a free lance, matrimonially speaking. That is, she is free to look forward to -a Happy Prince. There is something terribly wistful about Joan Bennett. She is reserved and modest. The other afternoon she was dressed in black velvet trimmed with ermine, and a tight little raven hat which rested gently on her golden hair. She sat huddled in a big chair with not much to say. But like a child in a strange world, her eyes roamed the room as much as to ask: "All you grown-ups here, are you my friends — or aren't you?" 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