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for April 1935
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HOLLYWOOD
By Henry Albert Phillip
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The tvell-knoivn journalist, on a special visit as ScREENLAND'S reporter, personally conducts you to the British studios and presents you to leading players.
occasional shooting star — have wobbled like rank amateurs in the game of pictures until now. For the first time in film history, Hollywood is sharing her laurels, her stars, and her personalities with another producing land; with England, from which country we had borrowed practically half of them. Now we are lending them some of our people. It is a good healthy sign of the film times ahead !
Elstree is a legend, just like "Hollywood" that forgets to tell the world that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is not in Hollywood but in Culver
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Merle Oberon, sensational English beauty of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" with Leslie Howard, is now in Hollywood. She's the transatlantic star of the day.
The noblest English cousin of them all: George Arliss, shown above in his most recent role of the Duke of Wellington in the British -Made Film "The Iron Duke."
City, and so on. So likewise is Gaumont-British in Shepherd's Bush. But Elstree, like Hollywood, will go down in British film history as England's' cinema center of gravity.
There is one major difference between Elstree and Hollywood, which will account for a scarcity of spicy gossip, domestic scandal, and keyhole profiles. Elstree is not a colony, but a workshop. The Milky Way of the stars of Elstree is London, whither they shoot nightly and come out in the social heavens to twinkle, to tango, or to tank up, or whatever it is said that stars do all through the night. However, and fortunately, stars seen from any hemisphere the world over behave much the same, only it requires a little more high-powered telescopic information and many eyes to observe it all.
Anyone half-blind, however, could read the sparkling lights shining through the fog on Charing Cross Road announcing that Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Gertrude Lawrence were playing together. And playing what? the world of gossip asks, remembering young Doug's interlude with Joan Crawford. I met Douglas, Jr., one night in his dressing-room at the Queen's Theatre, and asked him that very question: "What about you and Miss Lawrence?"
"Why not ask me what about myself and Elisabeth Bergner, with whom I recently (Continued on page 63)