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SCREENLAND
Above: Marlene Dietrich, sensational European discovery imported by Paramount. Another Garbo?
Mary Lewis, right, arrives in the Big Town to fulfill opera engagements before starting screen career.
You never can tell about women! Those words are not original but they're mighty true. That's what I decided after I left Laura La Plante's suite at the Savoy Plaza. Laura is here in town
for a rest and a vacation after finishing up her Universal contract. And she's having a vacation like no other screen star I've ever heard of.
You'd think a pretty little comedienne like Laura would be visiting all the smart shops and theaters and night clubs. And she does give them a look-in. But her real interest is — you'd never guess it — human nature.
The first place she went when she reached New York was to Night Court. Then, just by way of making big whoopee, she visited the Police College and the museum, on the top floor of this building, where the police rookies get initiated into the ways of crime.
"I always like to see what the other side of the world is doing," Miss La Plante explained. "I have no sordid interest in crime. I just realize I'm lucky, but I want to know how the other fellow is faring."
Despite the fact that Laura has to wear a large pair of tortoise-shell specs when she is not facing the cameras,
they don't disfigure her at all. In a smart new tailored suit and a little turned-down hat, she looked very pretty and extremely thin.
Laura is none of your cotton-headed, flightly girls, but a most sensible, well-balanced woman. And no matter with what film company she allies herself — and she has had offers from several — I feel sure she will bring us a lot more of those pleasant, whimsical light comedy impersonations which have made her one of our best-loved stars. * * *
"What a woman! What a woman!"
Those were the words that ran up and down and around the great horseshoe luncheon-table at the Crystal Room of the Ritz a few weeks ago when Paramount introduced its new foreign find to America — Miss Marlene Dietrich, the German film star.
Miss Dietrich is beautiful. She looks like Garbo, in height, figure, hair and eyes. Only her nose is different. ,