Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

for October 1951 89 Along the talkie trail with pad and pencil. Read about those Hollywood private lives and public events! He took Leila Hyams, her spouse Phil Berg, and other friends to his Mountain Lake island and was covered with glory when he found the State Highway Commission had honored him by erecting a sign, "To the Beery Aviation Field, one mile." Neil Hamilton has a wrestling ring in the front yard of his Malibu Beach home, where he makes his men friends perspire in physical work-outs. He keeps a trainer, just like a professional, and keeps himself fit with daily bouts in this strenuous manner. Lionel Barrymore is a mystery novel addict, has a vast collection of them, and adores solving fiction crimes. That and his etching form his main recreation. Marjorie Rambeau drives a shiny black and cream flivver. "Every morning the gardener has to back his sevenpassenger sedan out of the driveway so I can get my flivver out of the garage," she grins. By which you will gather Marjorie has not gone Hollywood. Clark Gable is becoming aviation-minded, too. Between scenes for "Hell Divers," a naval aviation picture, Clark promotes free rides with navy aviators, just for fun. When George Arliss went to England without his pet walking cane, he cabled for it. Couldn't enjoy his vacation without it. Dorothy Lee is wearing a Sigma Chi fraternity pin these days. She won't tell whose it is. Roberta Gale and Eric Linden, chosen for "Are These Our Children ?" cast, seem enormously interested in each other already. Now by the time the picture is completed ? Evalyn Knapp is progressing nicely after her accident. She will be able to leave the hospital for her home by the time you read this. Rose Hobart has a duck of a Scotch pup named Alcibiades, from which she cannot bear to be separated. Rose likes a lot of loneliness, along with Alcibiades. reads, tramps over the hills, and lives alone in an old comfy house. She prefers little parties. Her mamma is Swiss, so Rose speaks perfect French. Her first picture for Universal was "The Lady Surrenders," after which she returned to New York and we were told she was "too temperamental." Now the trouble seems to have been mended for keeps, as Rose has half a dozen pictures to her credit since then. She often calls herself "Hobart," just as Jetta Goudal calls herself "Goudal." "The Smiling Lieutenant" with Chevalier is Miriam Hopkins' second picture. But, since her remarkable hit in that, she is being interviewed on all sides. Now we learn she hies from Georgia, was educated at private schools, meant to become a dancer, broke her ankle at a critical period in her career, went on the New York stage instead, and is now enjoying her very first visit to Hollywood. She says she likes the stage better than pictures, but Hollywood expects to change all that. A check-up on what magazines the stars prefer has revealed some interesting side-lights. Garho, for instance, goes out unrecognized and buys all the fan magazines ! Harold Lloyd buys garden journals, and Chester Morris has been investing heavily in the house beautiful variety. Fairbanks, Jr., reads lots of English magazines. The news that Charlie Chaplin is to buy a $300,000 estate on the Riviera and make pictures over there, and that he also intends to put Mary Reeves, who is said to be Czecho-Slovakian, with the real name of Maria Muller. into pictures, and maybe marry her into the bargain, has started another flutter on Charlie's account in Hollywood. How that boy does keep us guessing ! None of us really believe he intends to desert Hollywood. Mary Pick ford says she believes she would make a good story expert for pictures. She has come to believe a good story is the most important of all, no matter how great the stars selected to play in a picture. Wherever one goes, she says, one hears the old plaint, "I am hunting for a suitable story." But Mary says there is no dearth of good stories — it Crash! went millions of feminine [hearts! 'Twas a Rudy awakening for the great army of Vallee admirers when the Croon Prince of America up and married the lovely Fay Webb without the slightest warning!