Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

for February 1936 89 Irene just doesn't seem to be gaited to the life of a giddy girl about town. It must take more than lights, music, and a pint of wine to make a rip-snorting time, in spades. My observation of the luscious Dunne on the loose inclines to convince me that the real Irene is the one who lives and labors in Hollywood — the soul of discretion, the devotee of peace and quiet, the hard-working, serious-minded star. She likes to laugh, and does, but the glorious tomfoolery of life eludes her. Yet I am equally sure that she would love to stick the vine-leaves in her reddhh hair and caper merrily down the world when the fit is on her. But I don't think she possesses the talent for good old frivolity. Of course, the cards are pretty much stacked against her. Hollywood, who loves to paste labels on its' marionettes, has a sticker for such as Irene. Any girl who conducts her personal and professional lives with any dignity and decorum is promptly ticketed a First Lady of the Screen. Whether she likes it or not, because she respects the marriage vows, does not get drunk and is an ornament of screen drama, she bears the brand of Screen Ladyhood. It must be a ghastly life, this business of being a First Lady of the Screen — or even a Second or Third Lady. The very tag is accursed — it denotes, even to my irreverent mind, a most appalling type of dullness. Another factor in xi-ene's failure to kick up much dust with the public lies in the fact that, in common with many of her sisters, she does not enjoy coping with the press. She probably feels that she has little to give out. And after all, what sense would there be in asking Dunne the old chestnuts — what do you think about Luv, and Marriage for Artists, and are you really goofy about Montgomery Filbert? Her own life is an answer to such fool questions — by her works ye may know her! Yet when an interviewer does confront her, she is the essence of charm, and will chat affably. Yet here again we are faced with another facet of the Dunne enigma. Risking a charge of ungallantry, I must say that Irene, lovely though she is, reminds me inevitably of a favorite aunt. I can't explain this', yet there it is. And in all justice I must add that when she took my arm to see me to the door of her suite, I opened a door and walked blithely into a closet filled with Doc Griffin's clothes and golf tools, at which Miss Dunne laughed long and merrily. I doubt that Irene has changed one jot, or even tittle, in character and habit, since the day she walked out of her Chicago singin' school and went on the stage. During her Broadway years no breath of scandal clouded her fair name — she did her stuff in the theatre, and when the curtain fell faded quietly into her private and personal life. When "Show Boat" brought her to Hollywood, and she scored her first smashing success in "Cimarron," she was the same unpretentious, quiet, decent Irish girl that she was in her Louisville school days, where Pop Dunne was a builder and owner of river boats. She takes her acting career seriously, and works at it like the good trouper she is, which is always a terrible thing for a beautiful woman in Hollywood. Picture people incline to the belief that a pretty star should toil hard enough to earn her sables, but when the five-o'clock whistle blows' should be able to go out with the boys. The Dunne girl must he a great disappointment to many of the folks out west. It is because I respect and admire her as a woman and actress that I feel sorry when I see her hopeful, relentless efforts Break Winter's Grip ! Take the right steps to banish the discomfort and ugliness of chapped hands or chapped lips right now. Simply apply a little Mentholatum to the soreness and irritation. 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