Screenland (Jun-Oct 1932)

96 SCREENLAND Talkie and Movie log for new short story Ideas, plots, etc. Perhaps you can write one that we can shape and sell for you. One writer (V.M.) received 53,000. New York best Market. Write now for free booklet, without obligation, HOW TO WRITE FOR THE TALKIES by successful playwright — {Author of FLIGHT, Etc.) — and Famous Director. Write freely, fully and with all confidence! Daniel O'Malley Co., Inc., Dept. J -14, 1776 Broadway, N. Y. ^Announcement of GOLD MEDAL WINNER WHY GIRLS SAY "YES" IN HOLLYWOOD The intimate experiences of ambitious actresses who, striving for careers in Hollywood, have to decide problems — age-old — inevitable — final. Read the Hctcha SEPTEMBER Silver Screen all DEALERS CENTS Read about — HERBERT MARSHALL The Broadway stage star playing opposite Marlene Dietrich Lilyan T ashman Takes Up NUMEROLOGY! WIN THE BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF JOAN CRAWFORD AXOTHER Hollywood visitor is Ethel Barrymore, who is more familiar with the film city. Miss Barrymore is the stage opposite of Cohan — she is the principal exponent of footlight drama. The occasion of her trip to the West is that picture, "Rasputin," in which she will co-star with her better-known-to-movie-fans brothers, Lionel and John (or should it be John and Lionel?) Studio officials have sought for years to coerce Miss Barrymore into talking pictures, but until the very wise Louis B. Mayer suggested to her that he would make a brilliant picture with the three Barrymores, she refused to listen to screen offers. There is a possibility that the second generation of the family — Ethel Barrymore Colt, John Drew Colt and Samuel Colt — may also appear in the picture. That would make six of them, and perhaps, to fall upon a wicked pun, you could not bear more Barrymores. A FEW weeks ago a newspaper photo graph of Baby Peggy Montgomery, now grown to young womanhood, was followed by nearly two thousand letters from fans who wanted to know why she did not return to the screen. Those two thousand writers, and probably many more thousand picture-goers, will be delighted to learn that Peggy returns to the screen in a series of newspaper two-reelers, "Jerry of the Journal." Hp HE reason Kay Francis was """ a day late leaving for her vacation was that she refused to depart without a permanent wave, and she allows only one operator to attend her hair. It happens that this particular girl was away on a one-day vacation, so Kay postponed her departure twentyfour hours. CEVENTEEN years ago, "Tiny" San^ ford swung open the then new gates of Universal Studios. Among the sightseers who paid a quarter to enter was Ralph Bellamy. Recently they met again at the same studio, Bellamy as an actor in "Airmail," and Sanford as a ditto in "The Finishing Touch." /^AN you guess why Karen Morley ^ suddenly switched to low-heeled shoes ? You can't, so here is the secret : Karen was wooed by a tall aviator, but her interests abruptly switched to a young business man, not so tall. In fact, when Karen wore her high-heeled shoes, she could peek right over her smaller escort's head without much effort. He didn't like that, so Karen stocked her wardrobe with a quantity of low-heeled shoes! f"\\TE of Jean Harlow's hobbies, now that she is wealthy, is evening gowns, and thereby hangs a story. Not long ago, after Jean had been disinherited by her wealthy grandfather, and before she skyrocketed into important money as an actress, she owned but one evening gown, and everywhere that Jean went, that gown was sure to go. That she was painfully conscious of her limited wardrobe was indicated by the fact that she often joked about it, although it was not difficult to understand that her jokes had a Pagliacci tone. You should see her wardrobe now ! The platinum-red head is making up for lost time with a vengeance. "DOBBY ARNST, who is Mrs. Johnny *-* Weismuller, made theater appearances in the W'est while he was public appearing in the East. While Hollywood discusses the rumors that they may separate, it is almost pathetic to witness the adoration Bobby has for her strapping big husband. She says that if his sudden movie success affects his head, he will get over it. Meanwhile, she will stand by and wait for him, and she knows he will come back to her. In New York, Johnny revealed that he and his wife had agreed they would go out with other people. The experiment hasbeen attempted before, never very successfully. "fXflNNIE LIGHTNER, the oh-so* * slapstick comedienne, may not be that funny to her husband, George Holtrey. Winnie filed suit for divorce. T£ENNETH McKENNA, be'. fore he left for a vacation, started a rabbit farm; that is, he purchased two rabbits, and expects to have a rabbit farm by the time he returns! TF CHARLIE CHAPLIN persists in making a comedy only once every two years or so, his former wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, will see to it that the family name is properly preserved. Mrs. Chaplin has signed a contract by which she and her two sons, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., age seven, and Sidney Earl Chaplin, six, will appear in a group of pictures. And what will Charles Sr. do about it? TACK DEMPSEY and Lina Basquette are appearing in an act touring a Western circuit of theaters . . . Richard Barthelmess has departed for a vacation in Scandinavian countries . . . Constance Bennett and Marquis de la Falaise (in Hollywood they're Connie and the Marq) will go to Europe next fall . . . the Spencer Tracys are expecting a stork visit in August . . . Clara Kimball Young was severely injured in an automobile accident but is recovering . . . Joan Bennett and Elissa Landi had adjoining hospital rooms for several days, Joan with throat and Elissa with eye troubles . . . Charles Buddy Rogers spent two days in Hollywood on personal business, then returned to New York . . . Maurice Chevalier is vacationing in France. rPHINGS that don't sound right: George M. Cohan, who writes all that swellelegant music, cannot play a piano. Dick Arlen, who starred in several Westerns, had to be tied on the horse for his first picture of that type. T^OLKS who expected Robert Young to *■ nurse a broken heart over Virginia B race's engagement are disappointed; Bob's gone Gertrude Michael crazy . . . Joan Crawford was ordered by her physician to