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SCREENLAND
What ho! Jean Parker sight-seeing, top. Then Alexander Korda and H. G. Wells. Next, Helen Vinson, Noah Beery, and Conrad Veidt. Directly above, seated, Hal Rosson, Hollywood cameraman once married to Jean Harlow, watches Roland Young in a scene.
Hollywood"
THOUGH I've never been to California I often spend a pleasant hour on Hollywood Boulevard ! That's what we have rechristened the long lounge of a famous London hotel where from seven o'clock till eight you can see the screen stars scintillating, listen to the latest gossip from the studios, drink real Western passion-fruit cocktails and read the Los Angeles newspapers — only a fortnight old.
Outside is the damp grey atmosphere of a London evening, thickened by the rumbling omnibuses and the hurrying throngs. Here are warm golden lights and great bowls of rosy flowers and celebrities of the film world, both American and British, sitting in the shellshaped chairs, relaxing after their clay's work before they go on to dress for dinner.
Wherever you look you see a famous face. There's tall Cary Grant with his black hair and merry brown eyes and the chin that's attractively cleft. (Don't call it a dimple if you want the owner to count you among his friends!) His engaging smile flashes frequently, for Cary has just achieved his great ambition.
For the past four years he has been Hollywood's Leading Man No. 1, partnering all the lovely ladies — Hepburn, Dietrich, Mae West, Sylvia Sidney and the rest. Now he has just been promoted to stardom himself and Paramount have lent him to Garrett Klement in order to make his stellar debut over here in his native country. His
coming film is called "The Amazing