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Dietrich is herself again! Sam Jaffe, who left Broadway to play Peter opposite Marlene's Catherine the Great, brings cheering news from the Glamor Gal
A MESS of glamor has gone over the Hollywood dam since first Marlene "Legs" Dietrich unveiled those magnificent stems in "The Blue Eagel " and warbled "Fall-eeng in LUFF Again into our bewitched ears.
Hepburn has arrived among the immortals, every freckle aglow with fame. Lesser goddesses pose on their petty pedestals. Newer forms and faces spatter their lure across the nation's screens. Marlene herself seemed for a time, to go down under a landslide of fresh film figures all broken out with public praise.
But courage, my fellow Marleneomaniacs ! Nothino is lost— not even honor. For cheery tidings have arrived from the Dietrich dugout in Hollywood, borne in the noodle of Sam Jaffe, brilliant stage character actor who has just finished playing the mad Czar Peter opposite the Catherine the Great of Marlene herself. This in the Paramount production called "The Scarlet Empress" directed by the immortal Joe Von Sternberg.
A word about Sam, before I blazon the good news of our luscious Teuton.
This Jaffe created the role of the dying Kringelein in the original ' Grand Hotel" on the New York stage He played it for two terrific seasons, and when Lionel Barry
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Sam tells all! Don't miss the fascinating anecdotes about Dietrich and Von Sternberg, told by Actor Jaffe, shown left and below, with Marlene in a scene from her new film, "The Scarlet Empress."
more was delegated to play the part in the picture, the great, pulsing heart of Broadway busted all to small smithereens, for Sam had been superb.
Jaffe is one of the best-loved actors in the theatre— a slender, kind-faced soul in his thirties, with a mop of brown hair that stands up all over his noggin like Harpo Marx's fright wig. The variety of his talents is appalling. If he weren't a fine actor, he would be an equally fine composer and pianist. If he forswore the arts entirely, he would still be a famous professor of mathematics, for he made figures roll over and play dead when in college. And yet his (Continued on page 82)