Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

98 Sailor Randy Scott tells Harriet H IIliard she should be wherever he goes, in this scene. Wouldn't you like to know what Randy tells those society lovelies he's seen with so much after he doffs his studio make-up? Here's Hollywood By Weston East Continued from page 65 LESLIE HOWARD wants to die at the end of "Petrified Forest," just as he did in the stage play. But the studio thinks maybe it is a little too harrowing, so they will make two endings. The preview audiences will decide whether Leslie can live or not. Gosh, that's putting it up to the public with a vengeance! TWO studios received a positive "NO" from Ann Harding when they approached her for her daughter's signature to contracts. Ann remarked : "I think a normal childhood is a lot more important to Jane right now than money. I want her to live as nearly like other little girls as is possible for the daughter of a screen star. Before any career talk, she must have an education." A lot of other sensible mothers will applaud Ann's decision. OF COURSE, if we were an old meany, we could name at least three girls who are sitting around waiting for Henry Fonda and Shirley Ross to have that final battle. So far they have declared an armistice on every one, and it looks as if the side-liners will have a long, long wait. WELL, well, it looks as if little Isabel Jewell is back with us — to stay. Anyway, she just put dough on the line for a sixteen-acre avacado ranch just out of town, and said she expected to bring up every one of 'em by hand. HELENE COSTELLO is giving a number of our most glamorous little starlets a run for their money, since her return to Hollywood. One night at the Trocadero with a producer, another with a director, the next night a popular leading man. Helene must know the answers. AND so now Virginia Bruce deserts the . long-haired ranks ! That leaves only Ann Harding to carry the banner. Virginia will yield to the barber's shears for her new M-G-M picture, after debating the subject pro and con for many months. She told me it would save a great deal of time she now has to give up to the hairdresser, and that almost any type of coiffure is now possible with short hair — and that she expects to feel very dashing, daring, and madcap with short hair for the first time in her life. JOAN, Diane, and Melinda Markey, (mama's name. was Bennett) are sitting for their portrait in a group, all wearing gowns of the exact design. Probably will be one ofthe loveliest paintings ever made of a family group. CLARK GABLE returned to town from another "duck hunt" — and there is a reason . for those quotes — and is dashing hither and yon in a very handsome new car. . Mrs. • Rhea Gable gave a very handsome dinner party on a recent evening, and one of the guests was a Mary Taylor. One of Clark's late rumored romances was with some one of the same name, and that ought to stymie that. THE Glenda Farrell-Addison Randall romance is still piping hot, but somehow we have a sort of a feeling it will never reach the altar — put it down to intuition or what you like. The only way for Glenda to marry is to rush headlong to a church — and think about it later. If she thinks too long, she changes her mind. PATSY KELLY was born after her parents emigrated to America from Ireland, but she has an older sister who remained in Ballinrobe, County Mayo. So the "other day an old Hal Roach picture with Patsy in it was shown in the local theatre, and they advertised her as a "home-town girl" ! DOROTHY PARKER, that nimble wit, has all Hollywood studying up so they can compete in her games. She plays tough ones, those question-andanswer things about historical characters and what not. A lot of guests have given up and decided cards and backgammon are safer. Except Glenda Farrell, the diehard. She's reading biographies a mile a minute. "I'd like to be an authority on something," she remarked to' a book clerk. Grimly, we might add. Binnie Barnes, who is a collector of antique jewelry, is proud of the rare old Italian amethyst set she is wearing in this close-up above. SCREENLAND Turn about's fair enough, says Ethel Merman as she puts a deft touch to the coiffure of Connie Conroy, her hair-dresser at the studio where the blues singer made a picture in which she appears with Bing Crosby. DID you know that Grant Mitchell, one of your favorite screen fathers, is a bachelor ? He was a cavalry officer in the Spanish War, his father was a general in the Civil War, and his great-uncle w?s President Rutherford Hayes. With this background, you would expect him to play quite different roles than the meek little spectacled papas he does, wouldn't you ? However, the adventure in his life is supplied by a gold mine with which he shares his screen career. ONE of the most novel bars in town was thought up by Binnie Barnes. Binnie has a horror of going in a store and buying ready-made the same things everybody else has. So she got herself a spread of corrugated iron, shaped it in a semicircle, and applied several coats of white paint. With a maple top shaped to fit, and shelves below, she now has a stunning modern bar, with lots of room for the bartender to move around. Plus the fact that it didn't break her in the bank-account. AT LUNCHEON time in the commissary, Ida Lupino goes around and checks with all the assistant directors to find which actors' can leave the various sets by four o'clock. The ones who can come are invited to tea on her set, and thus she has a nice party every day. ONE of the finest friendships in the village has sprung up between the celebrated author, Hugh Walpole and Jean Hersholt. They are ardent collectors of rare literary items, and have spent much time together happily hunting the house for Walpole to settle in for his present job of scenario writing in Hollywood. His first time here he accomplished "David Copperfield." FREDRIC MARCH used to lose tobacco pouches all over the place, until he devised a swell scheme. He has a special pocket sewn in all his suits, lined with chamois. He carries a supply of "makin's" loose in this pocket, and saves' a lot of wear and tear. We know girls who could profit by Freddie's example and have pockets fixed up for powder. THE CUNEO PRESS. INC.