Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

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"A man likes a girl who is above him," says Arthur, naively. "No hard-boiled Hannas for me!" Joel McCrea, another tall and good-looking youth on the lot, is also decidely fond of June and is providing the spur of opposition to Arthur. The studio lunchroom at RKO might put out a sign: "Romance Rendezvous" and get away with it. Not only June and her two cavaliers, but Dorothy Lee and Fred Waring, Billy Bakewell and Sally Blane, Phillips Holmes and Mary Lawler are seen there day by day. Phillips Holmes is another of the candidates for Mary Brian — in fact, he was the very first boy friend she ever had. Mary's first picture was "Peter Pan." While they were making it, Betty Bronson,, who played Peter, was going around with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Christmas vacation, Doug had a guest — Phillips Holmes, who had gone to school with him in New York and who was out in Hollywood for the holidays. So they made it a foursome, and Mary went along. Phillips went back to school, first to England and then to Princeton, and pre sumably he and Mary lost track of one another. Then, a few years later, Paramount sent Buddy Rogers and Mary east to film a college picture at Princeton. Phillips came forward with a glad cry and showed Mary the town. Paramount brought Phillips back to the coast and the rushing of Mary continued until ill-health forced the younger Holmes out of pictures. Now that he's back again, he still is seen with Mary Brian, but lately Mary Lawler has been sitting across the luncheon table from the handsome fair-haired youth. Mary Lawler just arrived to play the lead opposite Richard Dix in his new picture. She's a demure-looking maiden, intensely interested in dress designing. No, it's no longer the wild tomboy-girl up-ending a cocktail glass who leads the race for popularity with the boy friends of Hollywood! Marguerite Churchill, whose dignity and sweetness are remarked on stage, screen and in real life, played with Russell Gleason in Paul Muni's "Seven Faces." Russell, who had never cared for girls before, liked Marguerite. He still likes her. It's a tragedy to him that she's up in Oregon making "The Big Trail." It wasn't her delicate beauty or her talent that attracted him. It was her sweetness and the fact that she has brains. "My mother has brains, too," comments Russell. His father and mother, James and Lucile Gleason, are so happy that Russell admits to feeling he had better follow his father's example and find a girl like his mother. "Of course, we're not old enough to be thinking of getting married," he adds, "I've got to get somewhere first." Up in Oregon with Marguerite are David Rollins. Fox's juvenile, and John Wayne, newest of youthful leading men. No wonder Russell looks worried. Davy was running around with Dixie Lee before he left, but John was apparently unattached. So romantic-looking, too. "I don't have any luck with girls," asserts William Janney, best known as Mary Pickford's brother in "Coquette," and now being brother to Richard Dix. "My very first girl was Ruby Keeler. And look what she did! Got married to Al Jolson! I went to school with Marguerite Churchill. Didn't make the least impression on her, either. "I'm sticking to girls outside pictures. Maybe I'll get a break some day." The course of true love, as you may have heard, never did run smooth. There's Frank Albertson "I like old-fashioned girls," he declares, staunchly. "My girl isn't a bit modern — she's sweet. You don't have to think: 'Now what '11 I say? How can I amuse her?' She doesn't have to be entertained. We just talk — you'd be surprised how many things we have to say! — or if we don't feel like talking we can keep still and — boy, it's grand! She likes anything. Goes anywhere. Never crabs. She could have come' out of an old-fashioned paper valentine. "But her mother doesn't like me. Can't think why not!" with a gay little grin. "The family say terrible things to me, practically throw me out of my car when I come around. Yet if one of 'em happens to say 'Hello' to me in passing, there I am back again on the front porch. "I called up last night and her mother answered the phone and said she wasn't in. I reckon I sounded sort of crushed, so she went on : 'Frank, I want you to believe me. She really isn't in. I don't want you to feel hurt. I don't want you to be offended.' "I said: 'You ought to know by this time, you can't offend me' "I reckon I'd better not mention my girl's name. Yes, she's in pictures. She's the sweetest girl in pictures. That ought to be easy. And she has red hair!" Eddie Quillan of Pathe, however, says this old-fashioned stuff is all wet with him. He is rushing Sally Starr at present. It's a case! Yes, going on for two weeks, anyway. She's full of pep — Clara Bow type, if you know what I mean. Hot dog! Hot mamma! Whoopee! These boy friends aren't old enough to think of matrimony definitely. Billy Bakewell ,says he thinks 27 would be about the right age for that. They just like to go around with girls. But look at Loretta Young and Grant Withers, Sue Carol and Nick Stuart, Joan Crawford and Doug Fairbanks, Jr. Only last year, they were 'just going around,' too. On the other hand, you might look at Buddy Rogers, who has played escort to Mary Brian, June Collyer, Claire Windsor, et al; or Gary Cooper, whose romance with Lupe Velez; got so much space — or Charlie Farrell, who was supposed to be heart-' broken over Janet Gaynor's marriage, but who trots about with Virginia Valli now. Cupid hasn't snared them — so far!