Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

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28 SCREENLAND Carole Lombard told Bill Powell she adored him in "Ladies' Man" and Bill believed it. The Lombard -Powell love scenes look like the real thing now. When Ramon Novarro requested that Dorothy Jordan should be his leading lady for the second and even the third time, Hollywood began to buzz. But Dorothy and Ramon insist they are not and never have been in love. DOES just saying "I love you!" before a camera and microphone make you feel that way? Kay Francis and Kenneth McKenna said it to each other shortly after they met to work together in "The Virtuous Sin," and now they are married and on the way to finding out whether or not they can live happily ever after. Bill Boyd and Dorothy Sebastian murmured it in "His First Command" and rushed to the altar to be sealed. Carole Lombard told Bill Powell she adored him in "Ladies' Man" and "Man of the World," and Bill, after years of indifference to all feminine wiles, fell all of a heap. After Kay and Kenneth had played their love scenes for the benefit of Paramount's box office, they used to play bridge with each other every evening. They never quarreled. I don't suppose Kay ever trumped the man's ace or Kenneth ever explained how she might have taken that other trick, but even a good player can strain a partner's patience at times. "Oh, ho!" other people used to cry, watching the pasteboards being dealt, "you're going to get married !" And they always denied it. But presently they decided that a good card partner ought to make a good life partner. And that was that. Bill Boyd's love scenes in his first starring picture, "The Volga Boatman," had the same fatal ef IS ROMANCE Do the great lovers of the screen really feel that way? Just how real are those movie kisses? This story tells you! By Ruth feet. He emerged from the film with his leading lady as his wife. Elinor Fair always gave the long months on location the credit for that romance. Propinquity, you know, and having to "register love" all the time. And now Mrs. Bill Boyd's name is Dorothy Sebastian. Well. Well! Bill Powell has always appeared to be a cynic about women. Romance was just one of those words you didn't connect with him. W hich probably made his fall all the harder. Carole must have uttered the deadly phrase more intensely, for Bill's had leading ladies before. Anyway, Bill, who used to dodge society, takes Carole everywhere ; they dance — always together ; they dine — together, but not in parties — they haven't time for anyone else ; at concerts, plays or the opera they are together, finding so much to say to one another that they don't go out in intermissions lest someone else waste precious moments. You wouldn't know Bill! Let anyone who feels inclined to sniff and say ; "It won't last !" consider the case of Harold and Mildred Lloyd. They used to play love scenes together. During their Kay Francis and Kenneth McKenna said "I love you!" into the microphone in "The Virtuous Sin." Now they are married. But Ronald Colman and Lily Damita were only acting in those love scenes in "The Rescue." There was no love lost!