Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

for October 1931 93 Negri, about half a ton were delivered within a week. It would seem that the entire unemployed ranks must have offered contributions. Fifi Dorsay assures us she may not marry for 20 years, although she expects to become engaged several more times before that. is a much better job to grow old in. Little Mary Carlyle comes to swell the army of Hollywood blondes. She's welcome. Mae Clarke, who didn't marry Colleen Moore's ex-spouse, John McCormick. is now basking in a budding romance with Henry Freu lich, the clever French photographer. That's good business, too — no more poor photographs for clever Mae. That pleasant romance between Dorothy Jordan and Donald Dilloway also seems to be going strong. They met, you know, when they were both in "Young Sinners." We have given the affair our blessing. Tom Mix is coming back to Universal, for the good old Western dramas that won him the love of thousands of children. This is all in line with the anxiety to get the children back into the theatres, so many mamas disapprove of their darlings seeing gangster and sophisticated films. Monroe Owsley is look t> 1 j t^ ■ 1 ing his handsomest here Richard DlX Said —and that's handsome recently, Actors enough. are all punch-drunk from banging themselves all over the physiognomy with powder puffs." Dorothy Mackaill couldn't resist another romantic flutter on that Hawaiian trip, so she came back '"engaged" to one Neil Miller. But nobody takes Dorothy's engagements seriously any more. We just grin and say "Oh, veah — for how loner?" We've done our best to foster the romance between Elsie Janis and Gilbert Wilson but the dears persist in denying that it is anything serious. Which reminds us — at different periods we tried to marry Ramon Xovarro off, first to Dorothv Jordan and then to Elsie Tanis t When Carl Laemmle, Jr., the boy who runs Universal studio and makes it pay, had a go of hay fever, it was as vital a matter to Hollywood as the King's indispositions are to Great Britain. Bulletins of the progress of Carl's sniffs were whispered in sepulchral voices over dinner tables. Such a relief when Carl turned up at the studio sniffless one day ! The come-back of Ricardo Cortez dazzles Hollywood. For a while no one seemed to want him, but since "Her Man"' with Helen Twelvetrees a year ago, Cortez has been in vogue. At this writing he appears in three pictures at downtown theatres. Like so many other stars forsaken by other studios when talkies came in. Cortez is with RKO the great salvager. But, he says, he is getting tired of gangster roles and pretty soon it is his ambition to become a director. This, ever since Tay Garnett let him direct a few scenes for "The Mad Marriage." Directing, he thinks. Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon returned on the same boat, Bebe looking well and happy as a prospective mama. Carole Lombard and Bill Powell were honeymooning in Honolulu at the same time, and are reported as looking "meditatively pensive." The Warner Baxters were likewise over there and found themselves regarded as the Darby and Joan of the crowd. Xorma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland were likewise in that merrv throne. M-G-M has capitalized on the likeness between Joan Crawford and Pauline Frederick, and Pauline will be Joan's mother in "This Modern Age." Such mixed emotions when these famous stars come to play mother roles. Once a mother-role in pictures, there is generally some sort of writing on the wall. It takes a gallant spirit to accept the situation gallantly. Neil Hamilton has lots of fun on two bicycles built for one. It'll be a good trick if Neil does it. They are going to let Joan Crawford go back to her sophisticated roles, which she vows she pioneered in with "Dancing Daughters," for her next picture. It will be "Mirage." which, as a stage play, made a hit a few years ago. Marjorie Rambeau was to have played that mother-role at first. Both (Continued on page 125)