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for January 1936
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IF YOU did not hear the first performance of Demetrie Trobonesky on the radio, you will never have another chance, because it was also his last. Demetrie's other name is Erik Rhodes, who has amused you with Fred Astaire in "Top Hat," _ and he sang for the same reason love-sick blades write poetry in the spring. Seems he composed a song for his reported fiancee, Katherine DeMille, and couldn't get up to Big Bear, where she was weekending, to sing it to her. Erick was desolated. He hit upon the idea of looking up an old newspaper pal who has a chatter program with incidental music, and asked to sing his song.
While a Hollywood wife is taken for a ride in a wheelbarrow by her own husband, Allen Jenkins, above, a star puts crimps in her bob — left, Margaret Sullavan caught by the candid camera, curling her tresses.
WITHIN three years— five at the most — black and white motion pictures will be as antiquated as black hose on a well-dressed woman." Thus spake Robert Edmond Jones, dean of stage designers. And Mr. Jones should know what he is talking about. But Bobby, sheer black hose are exactly what the welldressed woman is wearing ! Just the other day I saw Claudette Colbert wearing them with a very smart black ensemble. Also Glenda Farrell and Myrna Loy. Tsk, tsk, you'll have to think up a better simile than that next time, R. E. J.
THOSE in the know would have us believe that Jean Harlow and Bill Powell are in the "just good friends" stage how. Jean has been stepping about lately at the Trocadero with J. Walter Reuben, the director of her new picture "Riff Raff," and Mr. Reuben being young and handsome and very eligible they make a most attractive couple. And Bill has been turning up at parties, including Kay Francis' house warming, sans girl friend.
The extras on the "Riff Raff" set assure me that the director is very much that way about our Jean. It seems that when Jean blows up in her lines Mr. Reuben will smile sweetly and say, "My mistake, I'm sorry; will you please do it just once more, Miss Flarlow?" But when Spencer Tracy or any one else goes up in his lines Mr. Reuben snaps, "Do it again, Tracy." (Continued on page 90)
There's fun as well as work in acting for the screen. Above, Jean Muir and Pat O'Brien in what surely doesn't look like it's hard to take. Left, further details of the action scene being played by Robert Taylor as the rescuer of Irene Dunne.