Screenland (Jun-Oct 1932)

98 SCREENLAND THERE are four kitchens on the MetroGoldwyn-Mayer studio grounds. One is the general commissary kitchen, that supplies food for the big studio restaurant. Another is the kitchen situated back of the executives' quarters; there food is prepared for studio chiefs. The other two are attached to the bungalows of Marion Davies and John Gilbert, and are used daily by private chefs who prepare meals for those two luminaries. THE naked archer with the bow and arrow is running rampant in Hollywood. New hearts pierced by his arrows include : Buster Collier and Marie Prevost, resuming an old love. George E. Stone and Betty Gillette. Dorothy Lee has finally concentrated on Marshall Duffield, and when Dot concentrates, they give in. Randolph Scott and Martha Sleeper's love thermometer has jumped to about 200 degrees. TO BALANCE Dan Cupid's activities, "Dat 01' Davil Divorce" has stuck his nose into several family affairs : Ralph Forbes and Ruth Chatterton are no longer one. Rumors of trouble in the Owen MooreKatherine Perry household gain strength. Edna Murphy received her divorce from Director Mervyn LeRoy. William Powell and Carole Lombard are reported to be on the verge of a split — but they have denied it. Ralph Graves and his wife are now the once-were-weds. EVERY noon, when he is making a picture, Will Rogers lunches at the same table in the Fox studio cafe, and about him gathers a small group of friends. Rogers never fails to read his daily syndicated wire, which he dispatches from the studio shortly after noon. If the group laughs, Will acts as pleased as a bashful boy, blushing under his tan and rubbing his mouth and chin shyly. TJOLLYWOOD'S only "Noman" has fallen victim to his own immovable opinion. Warner Baxter employed Ed Marcel to tell the truth about his work on the set, and Warner stressed the fact that if Marcel became a "Yes man," his job was ended. Recently Warner decided that his man Friday's salary was too large, so he asked Ed to take a cut. "No!" replied the employee, and now Baxter is minus a "No-man." XTOTHING is quite so complete as a -l"^ Barrymore squelch, no matter by which Barrymore. Ethel was enjoying a motion picture program the other day, and a newsreel of Alfred E. Smith was shown. In his brief talk. Smith used the word "first," but pronounced it "foist." "What grammar!" a smart-alec behind Miss Barrymore scoffed. "Foist! That guy would have no more chance to be President than me." Her Royal Stage Highness turned and regarded the speaker in the aloof Barrymore manner. "Than I, is correct," she murmured. TV/TANY humane stories are told about Roscoe Arbuckle. Among them is a tale of his generosity years ago, when he was a Mack Sennett star. Friday was Acme Garbo, en route to Europe, not only consented to pose, but admitted she will return to Hollywood at $600,000 a year! "extra day" at the Sennett studio, and every extra who hadn't worked during the week was given a job. If there were no scenes to be photographed, the extras were run up and down a street, while blank cameras trained on them. The man who signed the pay checks was Arbuckle, but because he didn't care to have his generosity publicized, the extras were presumably paid by the studio. "LTAS it ever occurred to you * that never, in the history of modern stage or screen, has a star given birth to twins? T> ARBARA STANWYCK sings for the first time in "The Purchase Price" . . . Perhaps wedding bells will ring for Ina Claire and George Cukor, the director . . . Gloria Stuart is taking flying lessons from Florence Lowe Barnes, famed aviatrix . . . Astrologists told Barbara Weeks she should become a great actress because Venus was in the same spot on her birthday as on Garbo's . . . Lionel Barrymore greets Karen Morley with "Hello, actress" . . . Clara Bow reduced twenty pounds in thirty days . . . Hundreds of girls wrote to Jean Harlow to ask if she thought they might find husbands if they changed their hair to red . . . Tala Birell forgot to take her passports when she went to Mexico; because she was foreign she was detained several hours by the immigration officers when she attempted to return . . . Mary Astor, husband and baby returned to Hollywood, where Alary plans soon to resume her screen work. C" OME pictures you should see, and why: ^ "Tess of the Storm Country," because it returns Janet Gaynor to unsophisticated roles, in which she excels. "No Bed of Her Own," because it will present two of the screen's most interesting somebodies, possessed by Miriam Hopkins and Clark Gable. "The Sign of the Cross," because it marks the return of the old Cecil B. DeMille — extravaganza, Roman bath, spectacle and all. "Walking Down Broadway," because Eric von Stroheim directed it, which should be sufficient recommendation. GARY COOPER told this story in the cafe : "I have a friend who constantly moans about his inability to get a job, but instead of looking for one, he plays or sleeps all day long. He is like the darkey who reported, 'Ah done went fishin', boss, an' when I gits back, de wolf at mah do' is sleek an' fat. De onlies' way ah can figger, is dat Oppo'tunity come to knock at mah do' and de wolf et 'im !' " O -K-O studios asked one hundred critics throughout the country to name the thirteen most glamorous women of screen history. The thirteen who received the most votes were : Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford, Theda Bara, Constance Bennett, Gloria Swanson. Marion Davies, Barbara La Marr, Ann Harding, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Clara Bow, Dolores Del Rio and Marie Dressier. The critics did not adhere to the strict definition of the word glamorous, of course. It is difficult to discern why Janet Gaynor and Norma Shearer were not named, as long as the voters were permitted to broaden the meaning of glamor. Others who might have been given more votes are Alia Nazimova, Pola Negri and Betty Compson. Today they are not so prominent, but once they occupied the same pedestals on which the Garbos and Crawfords are now poised. TWO interesting women appear in a film titled "Bill of Divorcement." Billie Burke, screen actress some years ago and the widow of Flo Ziegfeld, is one. The other is Katherine Hepburn, who comes of a socially prominent New York family, and is said to be worth sixteen million dollars in her own name. Miss Burke, at the height of her career, was one of the most beautiful women ever known to the stage or screen. She is still lovely. Miss Hepburn is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Bored with social duties, she decided to pursue a useful career, and chose motion pictures.