Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

for January 1936 13 Handle Gossip Rumors The most famous screen newlyweds, left: Mr. and Mrs. FranchotTone. Right, Betty and Bob Montgomery, who laugh off rumors. Below, Clark with Mrs. Gable. In circle, Clark with admiring fans in Guayaquil, Ecuador, during his recent vacation. Acme Wide World By Dorothy Manners at the Yendome yesterday with that new foreign import | in his current picture? What difference would it make that the chatter-writer tried to gloss over the tasty line with the well-oiled ". . . but Miss Europa is Mrs. Star's best friend." The very popular wife of one of our most popular stars once laughingly told me she had been the "best friend'' of more women she'd never met than any other person in the world ! How would you like to go to the telephone and be barked at by a live-wire newspaper man who wants to now if you've heard all the gossip about your husband and Miss Mixit? And what are you going to do about it ? And, thanking you in advance, will you please give him the exclusive story of the divorce ? How would you feel to hear it blared into a million radios that the real reason the man you married was going to New York was not to catch his latest premiere, as advertised, but to catch up with Dolly Dimples of his last picture, who is vacationing there? In almost any other walk of life, the wives of public men are more or less protected against actually having names called in "rumors," except in the most flagrant cases. But gossip has seldom spared the gallant married ladies of Hollywood. Perhaps they are fated to public embarrassment because {Continued on page 63)