Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

for ] uly 1931 93 Anita Page has invented one hat to fill the need of three distinctly different occasions. In the first picture Anita uses the brim for an eye-shade for golfing or tennis; in the second, as an afternoon hat with the brim detached and three rows of ribbon to edge the crown; third, a day-time model with a medium brim. Smart hats — smart girl! young Hollywood actor. Ho, hum ! All the same it is great days for most child actors in Hollywood just now, what with Alfred Santell hiring 'em for "Daddy Long Legs'' with Janet Gaynor ; and Bill Beaudine for "Penrod and Sam." Anyway, Mitzi Green's parents have no possible excuse to get behind in the rent ! • tests of young actresses. So she flew down to Hollywood by plane, took her tests and got back in time for the evening performance, with a contract in her little purse. How's that for enterprise? Bela Lugosi of "Dracula'' fame on both stage and screen has never seen himself in a picture. He's made three, but had to sail for Honolulu with "The Black Camel" company before any one of them were released. One of Bela's pictures is "Broadminded." The gentleman is most broad-minded in his tastes in ladies. Things happen like that. Nils Asther, young Scandinavian actor, had not been embarrassed with offers for screen work in America, so when his wife Vivian Duncan cabled that she had produced that small daughter in Paris, Nils eagerly accepted an offer from a French film company. Then he received a good Hollywood offer right away ! But France and the baby won. Lew Ayres seems to be winning his fight for a larger salary from Universal. He had been getting a bonus at the end of each picture, but Lew thought a higher salary would improve his standing generally, especially as the life of a screen star's popularity is apt to be brief. Lady Mountbatten, declared to be England's most beautiful peeress, had a grand time in Hollywood as the guest of Mary Pickford. Pickfair has been the scene of glamorful social affairs, with the entire Hollywood peerage doing the young lady honor. Marion Davies was also her hostess, providing gala entertainment for Lady Mountbatten at both her Beverly Hills and beach homes. Maureen O'Sullivan had a joyous visit back to her folks in Ireland, just before beginning "Skyline" for Fox. She hadn't seen them since that exciting occasion when she was annexed for "Song o' My Heart" — just picked out from a restaurant party in Dublin and asked if she would consent to become a Hollywood star ! Can't you imagine the family excitement— having said goodbye to an unknown little girl a year ago and to welcome back a famous young lady drawing as much salary in a month as would run her Irish family for a year? Watch out for a young woman named Shirley Gray, 23, blonde, adventurous and highly practical. Shirley was taking part in a play at Oakland but heard that United Artists were takin° Stockbrokers are in good standing in Hollywood. Jeanette MacDonald, by the time you read this, will be Mrs. Robert G. Ritchie. Olive Borden was expected to appear in a stage play on Broadway but instead she married Theodore Spector, a stockbroker, too. Olive was married on March 28th and kept it a secret for nearly a month. Alfred hunt and Lynn Fontanne, or Mr. and Mrs. hunt of the Theatre Guild, will make their screen debut together in the talkie version of Noel Coward's "Private hives." Time was when the screen vamp was brunette and slinky — a la Theda Bara and Virginia Pearson of silent days. But now, the minxes are all blonde — Jean Harlow. Lilyan Tashman, Garbo, Dietrich, et al. If they put Cleopatra on the screen today they'd surely make her a blonde. Even Bebe Daniels, brunette charmer for (Continued on page 129)