Screenland (Nov 1934-Apr 1935)

88 ft To THE Japanese Garden, at the Ritz in New York, went our clever young "cosmetic inquirer" with her bagful of pink, sweetscented powder-samples. She interviewed in the dressing-room . . .just asked each attractive young luncheon-guest one question . . . "What would you pay for this new powder? ... try it and tell me." Sixteen replied with "$2 a box" and ten said "at least $1.50." Thirteen mentioned how well it adhered . . . and not one would believe that this soft, fine, becoming powder sold everywhere at 50c! Try it yourself, forgetting price, and see what it does for the tone and transparency of your skin. Send the coupon below. A R M A N D views and is always escorted by Franchot Tone and several assorted young men. -\fter the preview of "Chained' she was .nobbed by her ardent fans and had to be lifted up by her young men and carried to her car. Connie Bennett belongs to the Don Juan club of previewing too. After the "Green Hat" — or whatever they finally decided to call it— Gilbert Roland tossed Miss Bennett right over the heads of her clamoring public. Marlene Dietrich is another star who never misses one of her previews and always goes with Von Sternberg. Sometimes she'll pose for pictures, and sometimes she won't, depending upon the mood she's in. Marlene isn't very fond of autographing. Joan Blondell, unlike most of the movie stars, does not take her family to a preview with her. She says she wants good, honest criticism about her acting, and her family will tell her she's perfect even when she isn't So Joan usually tries to take her sister Gloria's boy friend and a business man, and insists upon her chauffeur and cook going if possible. Her husband, George Barnes, just won't go to pictures, even if it is a Blondell hit. Jean Harlow suffers more at a preview than any star I have ever been with. From the minute the picture starts and she sees herself on the screen she suffers tortures, presses her nails into her palms until they nearly bleed, and tears up everything she can get her hands on. Sort of a cold perspiration breaks out all over her, and no matter how warm and enthusiastic the audience reaction she is so nervous that her entire system is upset for a week following SCRCENLAND each preview. I remember shaking her hand after the preview of "Red Dust" and it was so clammy that I thought for a second that I had a corpse with me. But with all this suffering Jean wouldn't miss a preview for anything, because she thinks it a marvelous place to learn about pictures and people and acting. William Powell accompanied Jean and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marino Bello, to her last preview, "The Girl from Missouri," which all goes to prove that Mr. Powell is kinda sweet on Jean, for Bill hates previews and swarms of people, and rarely shows up at his own. The first preview I went to with Claudette Colbert— in which she played stooge to Mr. George M. Cohan and Mr. Jimmy Durante — she had to rush home and take aspirin. She decided she was through in pictures and had better get back to the New York stage as quickly as possible. But the last preview I went to with her was something else again— the immortal "It Happened One Night." Claudette was feeling low the evening of the preview and was quite sure that the picture wasn't any good and she hadn't wanted to make it anyway, and it was too far to ride over to Pasadena. But when she saw Norman Foster and her mother and me get in the car she decided to join us and all the way over to Pasadena mourned about her fate. "If I could only have a smash hit picture sometimes," she grouched. "Everybody else has one, but I have to keep on making these so-so pictures that never get me anywhere." Well, she got herself a smash hit that night, and was Claudette surprised? Inside the Stars' Homes Continued from page 11 Armand, Des Moines, Ia. : Send me a free sample of Armand Bouquet Powder. I enclose a 2c stamp to help cover postage. Name Address SL 1-5-B 1 egg cups flour 1 teaspoonful baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger Mix. Add y2 cup boiling water. Bake 30 minutes. "Did I tell you we serve coffee? We use hot milk with it instead of cream, although there's no law against cream. The hot milk is a French idea and we like it very much," observed Bette. "Talking of New England dishes, I must mention codfish balls. Not that I'd serve them at a Sunday night supper but l adore them ! Let Lillian tell you how she fixes them." Lillian was willing to part with this secret, so here it is : . . , You cook a potato until it is well-done. Mash it and mix it with flaked codfish, which you have parboiled until it has lost its salty taste. Even if you've soaked your fish all night, it's well to boil it Lillian believes. Use 1 beaten egg to bind the fish flakes and potato and a few drops of onion juice to add to the flavor. Dip in the e^° roll in cracker crumbs and try m deep Sat until it's a golden brown. Serve with garnish of parsley. "Because we're informal, I always have cigarettes on the table," said Bette. "Naturally in Grandma's day there were none to be seen there at Saturday night beanfests since women didn't smoke, but today even' in New England the bars are down. Informality is the reason Bette gives for her custom of announcing supper herself. "I don't know many people m Hollywood," she observed, rubbing Tibby's black ear. "I have about ten friends in town and we're all crazy. Bruce tells me things are ready and I pass on the good word. "We aren't a -bridge-playing crowd. We like to get together and talk or play games or sing around the piano. That fashion of entertainment is coming back, you know. Then we like to get up acts and try them on each other. Vacation's over! Dolores Del Rio, her mother, and her husband, Cedric Gibbons, on their return to Hollywood. "Did vou ever try that game Charlie Chaplin invented? I think he calls it 'Unselfconscious.' Each member of the party in turn tries to enter the room, cross it, and make an exit, while the rest stare at him, he, in the meantime, striving to seem unselfconscious. I don't know whether the