Screenland (May-Oct 1934)

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Tins animal lunges ferociously at all visitors, unless restrained by the master . "We put a 'Beware of the dog sign in front and several delivery boys thought it didn't mean anything. Hota took some bites out of them and now they seldom walk in unannounced!" The other night friends brought a six-piece Hawaiian orchestra over to serenade and marched inside the sacred walls. "Luckily I had Hota locked up inside," laughs Johnny, or there'd have been bits of Hawauans scattered all over the yard !" . Impulses rule the Weissmullers. iney scorn dull routine. The chief bone of contention with them has been the question of when to seek rest. "I want to go to bed early and get up early," Johnny states. "Lupe s idea is to sleep late and then she's all pepped up at midnight and ready to step put. We ve finally compromised and don t go places more than three evenings a week. 1 hat s enough, don't you think?" . Being too wise to cross Lupe in her personal business, I declined to commit myself. "We do have fun when we put on the dog and go out," she maintains stoutly. 1 say to Tohimy, 'Pretty ritzy, arent we, baby i He grins and answers, 'You bet we are, Momma !' " So long as the master has his forty-five minute swim daily hell be able to keep up with Lupe's hectic pace. The Crabbes, in direct contrast, are restrained. Virginia, Buster's pretty, dignified wife, was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma at U.C.L.A., and no college sorority has a snootier standing. Buster himself was a Sigma Chi at .the University of Southern California. Living modestly in a Beverly duplex, driving a Ford, saving fheir money, this well-bred young couple follow a sanelv-formulated schedule. _ While Johnny and Lupe are living lickety-split, the Crabbes are estimating on the morrow. "Virginia and I want security " Buster divulges. "I had intended to be a lawyer and when I .got this acting chance I resolved to build just as firmly in this line as I would have in the law Gradually the Crabbes are making more Wends in the film industry, but they avoid the gay parties which intrigue the flamboyant Weissmullers. . Everything about Johnny is colorful, veSST on the fantastic. He's a storybook hero whose motto has been: Obey That Mood !" Who goes around suppressing desires? Not Lupe's Poppa! (Yes, he comes a-runnin' when she shrieks "Poppa and she skips promptly to his "Momma ! ) Contrarily, Buster, the ideal college graduate weighs every move intelligently. His "s a logical attitude towards life and h s tempered off-screen conduct reflects this Soughtfulness. He plans-whereas Johnny PlThe character of neither has been changed by Hollywood. Both remain reg ular, each having done what was to be expected, considering their strikingly different designs for living (and loving). Johnny, the Free Soul, at thirty can look back on years crammed with excitement. Buster, the grown-up Boy Scout, is twenty-four and has a record of diligence which is truly inspiring. .., , . Johnny's becoming the worlds finest swimmer was a Horatio Alger feat. Lorn in Chicago, son of an Austrian army captain, he was a puny, sickly youth By unwaivering effort he transformed himselt into a magnificent specimen of manhood. At seventeen he started acquiring swimming titles, participating in the Olympics of 1924 and 1928 as the foremost aquatic star. In 1929, having garnered all the medals in sight he turned "pro" and began traveling about the country giving exhibitions under the auspices of a bathing suit company. Buster's athletic prowess was a natural inheritance. Raised in Honolulu, he literally grew up on Waikiki's healthy beach. When he enrolled at the University of Hawaii he paid his own tuition with the money he had earned as a life-guard. (And he d saved twenty-two lives, although he modestly omits telling this!) When a swimming tour brought him to California he transferred to U.S.C. To pay his expenses— the depression having overtaken his father, a real estate dealerBuster worked six hours daily during week days and all day Saturdays in the stock room of a Los Angeles mens shop— and made a "B" average and the Olympic team again in 1932. (He first crashed to the fore in the Olympics of 1928 ) "I only made $18.50 a week at the store but in the summers I was a life-guard and that paid enough to help me carry through. I always was a movie fan," he recalls but I never dreamt I had picture possibilities myself " His over-night break came when Paramount was hunting for a competitor to Weissmuller and noticed Buster in the '32 Olympics. Johnny's swimming days were sweetheart days Women could not resist his overwhelming masculinity, and Johnny never had monastic notions. However, Buster adored only The Une Girl. He and Virginia went together four and a half years before they married. 1 heir meeting was romantic, their first glimpse of each other occurring when she sailed into Honolulu harbor and saw the agile Buster diving zestfully with the native boys who swam out to greet the tourists. He noticed her on the deck and maneuvered an introduction that very afternoon. Next day she was learning to swim under his directions ! I think Johnny has taken an unfair beating" from the fans in regard to his separation from Bobbe Arnst. . When they divorced shortly after his initial Hollywood hit the sob sisters swung the sympathy toward her. He'd been her man they proclaimed dogmatically, until he d been glorified as Tarzan. . . , Being a gentleman, Johnny kept his side to himself. He has talked to me and I can assure you he and Bobbe were not split by Hollvwood. They were absolutely incompatible. Two weeks of Miami, moonlight and they'd rushed into a marriage which was doomed to fail anywhere. They did not contemplate their fundamental natures. She was conservative— and he decidedly isn't She longed to possess and Johnny, the irresponsible, can never be owned. . "Bobbe gets all the credit for getting me into pictures," Johnny apprised me, yet she actually arranged that I be rejected! True she did take me out to M-G-M, but