Screenland (May-Oct 1934)

SCREENLAND 70 Any camera plus Verichrome Film is the best combination yet for day-in and dayout picture-making e . .Verichrome works where ordinary films fail. Adolphe's Ideal Continued from page 61 Verichrome Accept nothing but the fcmilicryellow box with the checkered stripe. HOW VERICHROME DIFFERS FROM ORDINARY FILM 1. Double-coated. Two layers of sensitive silver. 2. Highly color-sensitive. 3. Halation "fuzz" prevented by special backing on film. 4. Finer details in both high lights and shadows. 5. Translucent, instead of transparent. Made by an exclusive process of Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. KODAK ERICHROME FILM may be surmised from that that I love him without my saying so in print every day or two! I just caht answer any more such foolish questions !" * Probably the lady's noticeable lack ot alarm over her future husband's reputation for faultless tailoring, is explained by her own aptitude for wearing clothes. 1 lie tailors who picked Menjou to .represent the film colony in their distinguished list, commented on his assurance his confidence in his clothes, and his lack of selfconsciousness inside a checkered waistcoat. Miss Teasdale has the same flare, She appears no less self-assured than her husband-to-be. She is as unaffectedly wellgroomed as Menjou-and much more beautiful! Perhaps it is Adolphe who should be worried. In spite of the fact that Verree Teasdale has been known to Broadway for several years and has been in Hollywood long enough to appear in many important pictures! she is still considered a newcomer in the film colony. Capable actress and probable star though she is, Miss Teasdale is recognized first ot all as a runner-up for the title of bestdressed woman of the screen. Her arrival on the West Coast has made Kay Francis Norma Shearer, Constance Bennett, and other notably well-dressed screen stars, look to their laurels— and their wardrobes. In the silent battle for style leadership which the women of Hollywood constantly wage, each against the others, Miss Teasdale has two important advantages over all. She has the benefit of the advice of Adolphe Menjou, the best-dressed man in pictures; and she enjoys the advantage of being an experienced designer, who can, and generally does, plan her own gowns. Whatever place she wins m Hollywood s style parade for herself, one thing is certain When she marries Adolphe Menjou they will be, when seen together the bestdressed couple in all the well-dressed world! .. But Miss Teasdale and her prospective husband have many things m common besides the ability and disposition to wear clothes. She is a poised woman of the world, who describes herself frankly as "expensive, not extravagant. He is an experienced gentleman of the man-abouttown" school, a dilettante, who might, it necessary, live frugally but never cheaply. Both Miss Teasdale and Mr. Menjou have traveled widely They like the same cities and the same ships. They know the same people, enjoy the same restaurants are known to the same head-waiters. They are both equally at home before a plate of corn-beef and cabbage or over a bowl of "Bird's Nest" soup. Each of them likes to shop, likes to play poker and ride roller-coasters. They can enjoy themselves in either a concert hall or a casino. They have a keen relish for the good things of life; they each live unostentatiously yet richly, and their home, when it is established, should be one of the most interesting in Hollywood or anywhere dSNo single word describes Verree Teasi dale so well as "smart " She is stately, beautiful, frank, tranquil and— elegant. She ■ is the kind of a person Adolphe Menjou should marry. She is a sophisticate, i a charming, clever, self-confident young S woman with no inhibitions superstitions or complexes. She has brought new beauty Lew poise, and a distinct challenge to Hollywood. Verree Teasdale is her real name. It is a combination of family names which began when a Yankee officer named Teasdale married a Southern girl whose last name was Veree, just at the close of the Civil War This Verree, the name rhymes with Marie, was born in Spokane, Washington, but moved as a small child to New York where she went to school for the next dozen years or more. She attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, Miss Perkins School for Girls, Sargent's School of Dramatic Art, and the New York School ot Expression. . She never intended to be anything except an actress. From her childhood she planned a stage career and it never occurred to her to worry about her success. 1 here was no early struggle. She was not poor. The first stage job she asked for she got. It was a part in Philip Barry's play, 1 he Youngest." After that she appeared in "The Master of the Inn," "The Constant Wife" with Ethel Barrymore, "The Greeks Had a Word for It" and "Experience Unncccsssry. Somewhere along this road to fame^ Miss Teasdale met and married William O'Neal, a singer. They are now divorced.^ After "Experience Unnecessary," the actress took the title to heart and came to Hollywood and motion pictures. She appeared in "Skyscraper Souls," ''Payment Deferred," and "Roman Scandals, with Eddie Cantor, before her role in "Fashion Follies of 1934," for Warner Brothers, won her a long-term contract with that company. . >.., This, in brief, is the background of the lady who isn't afraid to marry the bestdressed man in Hollywood. How they met, who introduced them, what they said to each other, nobody seems to know. It is known, however, that Menjou paid elaborate and carefully planned attention to Miss Teasdale almost from the first He bought her unusual gifts, not all of them of an expensive variety, but all different enough to intrigue her interest. "I have three turtles," she explained, when listing her pets, "little fellows with the words 'Forget-Me-Not' on their backs in brilliants, one word to a turtle. They re darling. Mr. Menjou gave them to me. A moment later she turned back her glove to display a chain bracelet on her left wrist from which dangled ten or a dozen small gold objects. "Good luck charms," she explained. Mr. Menjou went all over town to find them. Don't you love them ? See, there's a whistle that really blows, and a little gold tub with a washboard and cake of soap in it and a telephone, and a four-leaf clover and a tiny cork-screw which really opens! The busy Menjou must have spent days gathering the tiny objects. Together they explored new cafes and invaded the Los Angeles Chinatown district to find curious shops and out of the ordinary oriental restaurants. He humored her interest in fortune tellers and within the first few weeks of their courtship had taken her to visit every seer of importance in or near the film colony. "And did they say you were to be happy?" she was asked. "I don't necessarily believe what they tell me ever," Miss Teasdale answered, "but I love to hear them tell it, anyway. Yes, they said I would be happy." Which may be one reason Verree Teasdale, who is to marry one of the ten bestdressed men in the world, isn c even a little bit scared.