Screenland (Jun-Oct 1935)

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"You said Hollywood only changed you to the extent of making you more gossipy and irritable. I'll tell you another way it's changed you. You remember that night at the Marches and those stories you told of the dives you and the rest of the company used to frequent in Covington? I can imagine you going into one of those places now ! "And when I first knew you you had a dog, a cat, a parrot, some gold-fish, a turtle and some frogs. You had a Ford and you drove it yourself. You lived in an unpretentious house. Where are all those things now ?" "You're crazy," Miss Francis informed me. (That's the fourth time this week I've been told that.) "I live in a smaller and less pretentious house than I did when you first knew me. I had a pond dug in the yard and dumped the fish, frogs and turtle into it. I still have the cat and the parrot. I still drive a Ford — my second, incidentally, in the six years I've been out here while you're on your fifth ! I still drive it myself and I still have the same maid I had then. I don't even own one share of stock in a footman or chauffeur. "I took this little house I'm in now because it was cheaper. "I'm going to lay up enough money to enable me to do the things I want if it kills me!" "Yeah, but how about the dives?" I persisted. "I love them," Kay assured me. "While I was abroad about half the time I was very social. I visited the Countess Frasso who knows everybody in Europe and when I was with her and her friends I was as proper as proper. But the other half of the time I was in and about dives that would have made those in Covington pale. "You've no idea the fun I got out of places like Rapallo, Brioni, and Stresa in Italy; and Senlis and Armcnonville in France. I 'did them' as a seventy-five dollar-a-monih school teacher on a trip abroad would have done them — and I had the time of my life ! People recognize you over there but they don't annoy you. You don't have to put on an act for them. You can be yourself at all times. Do you know I only went into Paris two nights— and those times it was to keep dinner engagements?" "Ready, Miss Francis," called the director. And Kay, in the form-fitting black gown she wears in a sequence in "The Goose and the Gander," slipped out on the dance floor with George Brent. I drove home wondering" not how anyone could change as much in six years as Kay but how anyone could live for six years in Hollywood and remain as unchanged. That girl couldn't go grand if she wanted to! Ask Me! By Miss Vee Dee A Hoosier Fan. Your state has produced many well-known actors, actresses, painters, writers of fiction and poets — not to mention Presidents and Vice-Presidents. Several screen stars claim Indiana as their birthplace. Among them are Louise Dresser, Ann Christy, Louise Fazenda, Carole Lombard, Irene Pureed, Ross Churchill, Charlie Murray, Richard Bennett, father of the three Bennett girls, Barbara, Constance, and Joan ; Tom Geraghty, story writer for pictures, and Charles Butterworth, South Bend, Indiana's boy who has made good in cinemaland. Margaret A. I'm a very good explainer and can take care of almost anything that needs an answer, if I may say so. Phillips Holmes can be interested in any of the likable and good-look-able girls of the screen if he wants to — he is not married to Frances Dee. She has a perfectly good husband — none other than Joel McCrea. There is a third member of the McCreaDee family, it's a boy. Doris B. I haven't heard that Bing Crosby contemplates leaving the screen — if he does, you'd just up and die, wouldn't you? If all his admirers love his voice and smile as you do, he'd better keep signing on the dotted line forever. Bing's films up to date are : "Too Much Harmony," "Going Hollywood" with Marion Davies ; "We're Not Dressing" with Carole Lombard, George Burns, and Gracie Allen; "She Loves Me Not" with Miriam Hopkins and Kitty Carlisle ; "Here Is My Heart" with Kitty Carlisle; and his new offering "Mississippi." Ray W. Still loyal to the old guard, aren't you? Not that Joseph Striker is old or one of the guards, but the days of silent pictures seem ages ago and Joseph was one of the silent players. A few of his releases are "Annie Laurie," "Cradle Snatchers," "Harp in Hock," "Wise Wife," "House of Secrets," "The Wrecker" and "Paradise." I haven't a record of any very recent film in which he appears. One of Earle Fox's later pictures was "Bedside" with Warren William and Jean Muir. Lee Tracy was born on April 14, 1898. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 145 pounds, and has sandy hair and blue eyes. I don't remember "Otto" in "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" but Lionel Atwill played Ivan Igor. William S. of Rio de Janeiro. Como esta? Sorry I cannot give you very personal information about Laurette Taylor but all I have is yours. She is Mrs. J. Hartley Manners, in private life, and starred in his plays ; she created the role of Peg in "Peg of my Heart," and played it for years on the stage in the United States and England. Her screen career consists of the silent version of "Peg of my Heart," "Happiness" and "One Night in Rome." Of course you know Marion Davies starred in the talkie "Peg o' My Heart." Dorothy P. As far as I know Joan Crawford's first marriage was with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Joan's natural ability as an actress and her outstanding picture personality are of greatest concern to us, after all. Winners of SCREENLAND'S RUBY KEELER CONTEST WILL BE ANNOUNCED in the NEXT ISSUE.