Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

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for February 19 3 6 Grace Moore arrived, and everybody began taking voice lessons. Max Reinhardt has started a Shakespearian frenzy. Robert Edmund Jones, foremost artiststage setting designer has awakened us to the possibilities of color on the screen. Dorothy Parker's quips are passed around every day, fresh from the source — no more waiting until the New York boys hand them along. (Ha, that for you, New York!) So, our recently quaint and nai've village, the butt of many a satiric joke by the intelligentsia lads and lassies, has expanded into an exciting, cosmopolitan city. The beautiful irony of the situation being the fact that the most rabid fun-pokers are now simply delighted to have a job in Hollywood and are largely concerned with having their options taken up ! Constance Collier says she has never seen such a X Grace Moore, below, Holly 33 change in a place. She was out here in the early ChaplinGriffith days, when we were pretty raw. She hurried away, shuddering slightly — this brilliant actress, writer, and wit from England. Now, you couldn't coax her away from Hollywood! Constance Collier is the friend and confidante of one Noel Coward, who wrote the introduction in her book, (Continued on page 70)