Screenland (May-Oct 1934)

64 EDDIE CANTOR believes in keeping his money in his family. His secretary is none other than his own daughter, Marjorie, the eldest of five. She completed finishing school, and was desirous of going to work, so Eddie made her his private secretary. Of course, this having a member of the family in the office has one advantage — or disadvantage: Eddie will devote himself strictly to business in that office, or Mrs. Cantor will hear about it! Newcomer! Above, close-up of Ethelreda Leopold, nineteen and from Chicago, who makes her screen debut in "Dames." BABY TALK DEPT.: Goo! Da da de da! Gblob! Translated from baby talk into the King's English, that means, "We babies are all the rage in Hollywood." No fooling! Births are becoming so common in Hollywood that several stars are now seeking other places to have their children born. Dorothy Jordan went to Hawaii. Joan Blondell thinks that isn't far enough, so she's talking of going to Tahiti to welcome Doc Stork, due in October. Arline Judge, another actress who is anticipating in October, (this will be her second), is threatening to take a trip away, too. And the "IT" girl is about to surprise the world, too. People who thought Clara Bow too frivolous to burden herself with a baby may change their notions, for Clara will become a mother in November. But as far as Doc Stork's place-ofdelivery records indicate now, the Dixie Lee Crosby event, (family physicians say they'll be twins), will occur right in Hollywood. Ditto the Dorothy Coonan Wellman family-addition. At this writing, Sally Eilers hasn't made up her mind whether her first-born will first see the light of day in Hollywood, or elsewhere. Maaaaa! Goo goo! Gblob! Which means, translated from baby talk : "Funny, isn't it, that a few years ago, stars looked with horror upon the idea of having a baby. Norma Shearer started the— shall we call it a fad?— and now look, a star is nobody if she hasn't presented the world with at least one chee-ild !" AN EASTERN columnist sent Hollywood and Los Angeles newspaper reporters scurrying with the report that Greta Garbo was in a California hospital, about to undergo a dangerous operation. They might have saved their shoe leather! Garbo maintains a room in a Santa Monica sanitarium, near the ocean. She goes there to rest, because the sea waves soothe her. She also goes there for periodical milk diets, which re-build her weight when she loses from overwork or worry. Never guess it! But it's true, those men above are both Edward G. Robinson, as he — or they — appear in "The Man With Two Faces." _ SCREENLAND ROMANTIC SMILES AND TEARS: TT HAS been a frantic month for Dan ■■■ Cupid, what with the June moon spreading romance like warm butter over a plate. Dick Powell is off on a new love-chase, this time with Mary Carlisle. Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford are still Hollywooing. She has received her final divorce decree from Doug Fairbanks, Jr. — but they're both saying there'll be no wedding for a long while. Alice Faye runs to New York at every opportunity, and since Rudy Vallec is there, I don't think she makes the trip to look at the Statue of Liberty. Spencer Tracy still gazes at Loretta Young with hungry eyes ; and she echoes the expression. Anita Louise and Tom Brown are mooning again, after several fights. Perhaps they don't really mean those quarrels. Gloria Stuart says her separation from her sculptor-husband is permanent . . . Katharine Hepburn has divorced Ogden Ludlow Smith . . . Jack LaRue is headover-heels for Constance Simpson, Chicago society girl — where do all those Chicago society girls come from? There are Miss Simpson, Merry Farhney, Virginia Pine, Hazel Forbes — goodness ! . . . Carole Lombard and Russ Colombo are getting warmer and warmer ; pretty soon, boil over . . . Adolphe Menjou will be married any old day to Veree Teasdale, and their plan is to honeymoon in the Canadian Rockies . . . Billy Bakewell seems to have centered his attentions upon the Polly Ann of the Young sisters . . . Ronald Colman has been seeing plenty of Virginia Pine, but they're still saying she and George Raft will marry — which I've always doubted . . . Bert Wheeler is still determined to make Patsy Parker of Washington, Mrs. Bert No. 3. Kay Francis vows she isn't interested in Maurice Chevalier romantically. Since Camera angles! When Bing Crosby croons a love song to Kitty CarlUt jduring the from three" vantage points. Bing and Kitty are seen right ^^JfiS