Screenland (Apr-Oct 1930)

for ]une 193 3 89 Here's Hollywood Continued from page 69 TILIAN HARVEY, diminutive English ' actress, brought with her to Hollywood all of the old-time, glittering equipage common to Hollywood's stars of a few years ago. She travels about Hollywood in a huge, milk-white automobile every bit as showy as Roscoe Arbuckle's chariot of 1925. The lamp-shades in her dressing room are trimmed with ermine, and are as sensational as the expensive silk draperies and window curtains that once signalized Gloria Swanson's studio bungalow. Miss Harvey also wears bizarre clothes and jewels on all occasions. PEGGY SHANNON, still confined to her home following a tonsilectomy, was not too ill to write a letter to her fan club, begging the members not to send her a birthday gift. ". . in such times as these," wrote Peggy, "I would be happier if you would devote the money to a worthy cause, or perhaps to a member of the club who may be in need." And in such times as these, or any time, such thoughtfulness will endear Miss Shannon to her fans, who are even now engaged in a campaign to bring her more often to the screen. NOW guess who they are saying is effeminate? None other than our current male sensation, George Raft George, it appears, uses perfumes profusel}', enjoys a vibrator massage before going to bed, and dresses in the fanciest possible pajamas. Despite these light touches, Raft also handles his fists like a ring champion, and has a punch comparable to the kick of a mule; therefore, people who are whispering that he has his touch of effeminacy are making sure George isn't within hearing range when they talk. THE one time when it is not difficult to get Joan Crawford in person on the telephone is during the dinner hour. Joan never takes her place at the table until the 'phone extension has been placed on the floor beside her, and the lovely voice that answers calls during dinner hour is invariably Miss Crawford's. Try it some time — if you can discover her number! "f* ULLIVER'S Travels," is being brought vJ to the screen by trick photography . . . Betty Blythe, former star-vamp now returning to screen, spent the past two years on a ranch, where she "polished eggs" for marketing ... El Brendel, commonly believed to be a Swede, is actually a Pennsylvania Dutchman . . . After years of practice with the implement, Peggy Hopkins Joyce burned her face so severely with a curling iron that temporarily she could not don make-up . . . Bert Wheeler pulled a faux pas. when a stranger mentioned that "he followed the horses," by asking, "Where is your white suit?" . . . After betting together on their golf game for almost two months, Richard Dix and his director found that Dix was two dollars ahead . . . Cary Grant was painfully but not seriously injured by a bomb explosion on a set . . Competition for Bing Crosby: Phil H<»i-ris appears in the leading role <>1 a picture called "Maiden Cruise." FIRST, M-G-M produced "Grand Hotel" with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lionel and John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone and others. Then Fox produced "State Fair" with Janet Gaynor. Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Foster, Louise Dresser and a few more featured players. Now M-G-M is going Fox one better. The cast of "Dinner At Eight" is the most astounding in film history. As this is being written, the cast, subject to changes, includes Jean Harlow, Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Lee Tracy, Lionel and John Barrymore, Madge Evans, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Jean Hersholt, Louise Closser Hale and Billie Burke. Everybody in the cast but the studio cat, it seems — and maybe, following the flood of animal pictures, absence of the cat will come as a welcome relief. JANET GAYNOR, certain critics have hinted, is losing her popularity. But according to the 300,000 members of the National Girl Scouts, the critics are as wet as a duck in a rainstorm. In a movie star popularity contest, participated in by members of the Girl Scouts in all parts of the country, Janet won a landslide victory, polling more than fifty percent of the total votes cast. SO SEVERE have been the criticisms of Ely Culbertson as a consequence of his refusal to fulfill that bridge engagement with two of the Marx Brothers, that I feel something should be said in the bridge expert's behalf. When the challenges were first hurled by the Marx Brothers, Culbertson accepted them as jokes and publicity stunts. But when the comedians crossed signals and ballyhooed the contest as a serious affair, with the championship of Hollywood at stake, Culbertson balked. Newspapers promptly criticized him for his failure to go on with the match, but to have doae so would have been folh for Culbertson. Had he won the match, which is likely, the public would have said, "He should have won ; he is a champion." But had the cards run overwhelmingly against Culbertson and his wife — and they might easily have done so — the Marx Brothers would have won and the reputation of Culbertson would have been done immeasurable harm. In comparison, would Jack Dempsey, when he was world's champion heavyweight fighter, have agreed to battle a dock worker or some other tough bruiser for a purse of a few thousand dollars ? Dempsey would not have risked his crown, and neither would Culbertson do so. I place these facts before readers who are also bridge players, because I feel that they deserve to know the real truth about Culbertson's refusal to go through with a contest that had all the aspects of being a farce comedy. DO YOU know that Randolph Scott and Cary Grant, who live together, also have the same birthday, January ISth? . . . Betty Furness recommends a delightful breakfast dish : anchovies on scrambled eggs . . . 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