Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

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for July 193 1 129 Screen News —Continued / rotn page 93 years, turns very blonde. Aileen Pringle and Carmel Myers did it too. If Pola Negri comes back she'll find the brunette market very weak. Someone has even been trying to persuade Gloria Swanson to bleach. Have to be rich to boss your own shows in Hollywood. It seems strange to hear of such people as Mary and Doug. Chester Morris, Ann Harding, Gloria Swanson, demanding "freedom" to select their own roles and pictures. It transpires that Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton are really the only ones who have been entirely "free" all these years. Still, of course, Mary and Doug have been practically "free" except for certain financial overlords — and Mary told me only a few months ago that she was really happier when someone else had the responsibility of bossing her screen career. She wasn't at all sure her own judgment was best. To promote a picture at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, the studio had Mary Brian act as an usher. "No one recognized me for ages," grins Mary, "but finally a boy said I was Mary Brian and the girl denied it. Presently she accosted me with 'Say, when did you quit making pictures?' " Mae Marsh burst into fame under the D. W. Griffith banner in the days of "The Birth of a Nation" and "The White Rose." Then matrimony, babies — and now her -mall 11-year-old daughter wants to be shown. Was mother ever really an actress ? So Mae is signed with Fox and is all excited as to whether she can make the Lrrade in talkies so the three babies will continue to be proud of her. Another "women" complex on the way. Titles run in vogues — "Women of All Nations," "Women Love Once," "God's Gift to Women," "Expensive Women," — and "The Impatient Virgin," "Lady of Resource," "Confessions of a Co-Ed," "Merely Mary Ann," "Debutante," "Susan Lennox," "Girls Together," "The Behaviour of Mrs. Crane," "Queen of Hollywood," "The Registered Woman," "LeftOver Ladies," "Meet the Wife," "Good Bad Girl," "The Miracle Woman," "Night Nurse," "Gold Dust Gertie," all give ample indication that the day of the all-male picture's triumph was short-lived. Feminism on the war path again ! When the poor men do get into the titles they have to be "Blind Husbands," "Travelling Husbands," "Virtuous Husbands," or become involved in "Bachelor Apartments." The unsung doubles who "stand in" for the stars have formed a Hollywood Doubles Revue which promises to be a good vaudeville stunt. Geraldine D'Vorack, who has "stood in" for Garbo, is to be featured. Adele Watson is an interesting Hollywood character — she has played minor roles, such as maids, in pictures for fourteen years. In fact, while stars come and go, Adele goes on forever, making a first class living. But it was not ever thus — time was when Adele could take a glorious high E flat and played in musical comedy with John Barrymore, 25 years ago. But because she never was much on looks, her job was to be in the front row of the chorus, right behind the star, who would get all the credit and applause for those clear high E flats. Can you picture the confident, successful Bebe Daniels of today once applying to Harold Lloyd for a job as his leading lady when she was only 15 years old, and garbed in an old blue suit belonging to her auntie? They turned her away saying they wanted a blonde — but her salesmanship was good in those days, too — and she duly won the job, which lasted four years. Coupled with William Farnum's comeback to the screen, his wife sues him for divorce, after many years of married life. All the same, I recently gathered some data on the Darbies and Joans of Hollywood— anyway, those married more than 10 years, and "there were 57 couples. These included such people as the George Arlisses, Joseph Cawthorns, George Fawcetts, Cecil De Milles, Claude Gillingwaters, Claire McDowell and her Charlie Mailles and so on. Dear old Mr. and Mrs. Jay Hunt take the bunch of orange blossoms with 53 years of happy married, life together and still sweethearts. Jay, by the way, is writing his memoirs. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., undertook the task of writing hundreds of appealing letters to all the actors for contributions to the Actors' Relief Fund this year. But they report that they were such engaging letters that they all rushed for their check books right away ! A cute little blonde we are likely to hear from is Polly Walters, age 19, dainty and fairylike. She is the little pest who plagues everyone in "Expensive Women" and does it diabolically well. Polly has a contract with Warners, which she secured in New York while she was vaudevilling with Eddie Cantor. They sent her west, but when she arrived the Hollywood studio had never heard of her and snubbed her. Five days later she was about to return to New York with hauteur when the contract arrived. She is the most self-possessed atom, chews gum nonchalantly, has the loveliest soulful eyes, an adorable mouth which quivers with mischief, and giggles deliciously when she explains that, strictly in the play, Warren Williams has to kick her in the pants. Polly comes from Columbus, Ohio, where she went to the Roosevelt Grammar School, and almost got through the North High School. "Oh, I was a simply awful pupil," she assures one with shocked seriousness, as she waggles her blonde curls. She also assures us she has never been in love yet, thank you ! So Polly is" quite different from this new vogue for the older women which has almost crowded the baby cuties off the screen. It's your Ruth Chattertons, Norma Shearers, Constance Bennetts, and all the married ladies who are snatching the bouquets in films today, and it's the experienced older girls who are being snapped up by the studios on all sides a la Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Dolores Costello, Eleanor Boardman, and so on. Baby Stars are practically non est — but oh, those darlings had a long, long session, in which screen actresses were considered passe at 25. When the lady stars vote like good citizens in Hollywood — which many of them do — they have to sign themselves Bebe Lyon, Ann Bannister, Dolores Barrymore, Norma Thalberg, etc. It causes no end of flutter at the voting stations when these dazzling dames undertake this civic duty and clerks brag of having handed them their voting slips. TRY TO GUESS THESE EYES! 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