Screenland (Apr-Oct 1930)

82 SCREENLAND FIRST CROSSWORD PUZZLES THEN JIG-SAW PUZZLES NOW 4 Games in Every Box H,LAR& Layers! ONE to Ele" Smart Hostesses are introducing HiJinks to their friends. Hi-Jinks is the exciting new question and answer game that livens up a party — is great fun whenever it's played. Old and young, men and women, everyone enjoys it. It's so simple to play — so amusing that everyone has a good time. Plan now to play it the next time you have company and know that your friends will congratulate you on being the first to introduce this popular New York game. Top off an evening of bridge with Hi-Jinks. Not only is Hi-Jinks a riot of fun for grownups but children love it too. Many mothers buy Hi-Jinks for their kiddies. They say it trains them to think quickly and correctly. SCREENLAND SAYS "YES" FOR ALL MOVIE LOVERS Hi-Jinks is the movie lovers game. It's your game if you enjoy the movies. The cost is low — only 25c for the four games and we pay the postage. Mail your order today and be the first to play Hi-Jinks. Hi-Jinks, Room 1002 45 West 45th Street, New York I am enclosing 25c. Please send me Hi-Jinks postpaid. Name Address City State 6-6 . Double-Star Gazing Continued from page 27 combination it is well to know they need each other and can be of mutual help. For she is high-strung, nervous, and alert, and needs his friendly comforting influence. For instance, a woman of this type might write a wonderful story, but he would insist on its being plausible ; and if good, insist on its being copyrighted and protected. William Powell has often been cast as a lawyer or detective, simply because he has that "look-before-you-leap" quality of mind and body. His eyes are well paired with his wife's in general color and apparent ability to see clearly and reason out the meaning of what they see. Hers show the greater love of color. The fact that they both have eyes that tip up at the outer corners in a somewhat feline manner and show a bit of the white of the eycftfcJeac -.^-^.Jsdi „v£ps . that they both have that cat-like quality of loving to hick their real feelings while teasing and harassing the feelings of others just for fun. Their noses are both the well-shaped, widewinged noses of people whose minds are ever hungry for new " knowledge. Many great travelers have such noses, so I venture to say the Powells could and probably will travel a great deal and take a mutual delight in the bizarre and unusual things off the main routes of travel. Most actors and actresses have full, well-shaped mobile lips, and this talented couple illustrate this to perfection. These are the mouths of eager, expressive, enthusiastic, convincing -speakers who can sell themselves or their ideas to one or a multitude. There is nothing repressed or inhibited about this expressive Powell pair. Of the two, her lips are the most suggestive of the extrovert. His lips are not quite so full so he probably enjoys his periods of quiet introspection and reflection with pipe and book quite as much as animated conversation. A somewhat darker complexion would confirm this delineation of his somewhat more angular features. If your better half shares this alternating personality, part of the time acting like an extrovert, and then again a studious introvert, try and synchronize your moods and double all possible companionship. Both these stars of the cinema world have the firm, well-set jaws to play the parts of most determined individuals with lifelike conviction because they really have much more than average determination. If there is a difference, her back jaw is more angular so she is probably very hard indeed to coerce into any situation against her will. Some highly sensitive people of Mrs. Powell's type are given this as a highly efficient defense mechanism. Just as some very large people stoop to be nearer the average and small people do everything in their power to appear taller so by the same token many highly nervous sensitive people act most obdurate for fear they will be over-ridden and ruled by brawnier, more lit people. If you share this firm trait 0S lots of diplomacy, for others may feel you are merely being stubborn. Certainly if every married couple could see life as nearly through the same eyes as this pair of double stars there would be much more happiness for all. Like all clever people who are forced to live a very vivid active life, they have learned to appear much more sophisticated and unconcerned than they can really be at heart. My guess is that they both love to relax with their chosen few real intimates and be themselves. At these times she probably loves to call a spade a spade with a most disarming smile. He is probably happiest when left most to his own resources. Certainly they are a most interesting modern couple like so many others with about as much available privacy as a pair of gold-fish. Hollywood and all that it means is a veritable crucible of fusing and disfusing forces, so that couples that endure as couples and can continue to refer to each other as "my better half," have not only unusual minds but much heart and soul as well. Lovers will go on falling in love in Hollywood as in the rest of the world, but a little thought about their different natures might help both stars and star gazers to keep from falling out. Going West! Continued from page 52 sinning with a smile that has catapulted her into public favor. She sees the funny side of sex. She put -the giggle in gigolo. And she is cashing in on it. She gave me a vivid idea of how her plays were composed. "I get an idea, see, then I get together a cast of actors, then we rent a rehearsal hall and rehearse. We go through the action the way it'll be after I get all the lines filled in. My secretary makes a note of everything, and before you know it, an act's set. Then we do two more and we have the show ready." She thinks Hollywood is a nice place to hibernate, but she decries the absence of night life in the film belt. She purchased the famous golden swan bed from Diamond Jim Brady, and when she can't find a spot for it in a play Mae keeps the bed in her country house. She has surrounded it with a roomful of gold furniture. "I never use that room," she said, "but it certainly looks swell." Mae is not interested in matrimony. "I want to keep my mind on myself!" she explained succinctly. "Let them fall in love with me if they want to, but I don't fall in love with them. I got plenty to occupy me. Pictures, personal appearances, stage plays, books. I'm too busy to be in love with anybody." While there will unquestionably be those who will look askance upon Mae West's advent into pictures as a minor blight, it is my belief that she will have a salutary effect upon films overdosed with the eternal sweetness and light dispensed by the Gaynors, the Novarros, and the Hardings. The West cycle of films promise to be lusty, forthright, rowdy productions aimed ■at the risibilities, and if "She Done Him Wrong" is any criterion, destined to wreck box-office records as they have rarely been wrecked heretofore. As this is being written, Miss West has started to work on her third Paramount picture. After completing this and one more, Diamond Lil will be open for offers, first among which is RKO's princely bid