Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

78 SCREENLAND If you had X-Ray Eyes youa never again tane a harsh, quickacting cathartic! You don"t need to be a professor of physiology to figure this out. When you take a harsh, cfuick-acting cathartic that races through your alimentary tract in a couple of hours, you're shocking your system. Unassimilated food is rushed through your intestines. Valuable fluids are drained away. The delicate membranes become irritated. And you have stomach pains. What a timed laxative means: When we say that Ex-Lax is a correctly timed laxative, this is what we mean : Ex-Lax takes from 6 to 8 hours to act. You take one or two of the tablets when yon go to bed. You sleep through the night . . . undisturbed! In the morning, Ex-Lax takes effect. And its action is thorough, yet so gentle and mild you hardly know you've taken a laxative. No stomach pains. No "upset" feeling. No embarrassment during the day. Ex-Lax is easy to take — it tastes just like delicious chocolate. Good for aii ages Ex-Lax is equally good for grown-ups and children . . . for every member of the family. It is used by more people than any other laxative in the world. Next time you need a laxative ask your druggist for a box of Ex-Lax. And refuse substitutes. Ex-Lax costs only 10c — unless you want the big family size, and that's 25c. When Nature forgets— remember E L» A X THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE TRY EX-LAX AT OUR EXPENSE! ■ {Paste this on a penny postcard) Ex-Lax, Inc., P. O. Box 170 S-46 Times-Plaza Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. I want to try Ex-Lax. Please send free sample. Name Address. City Age (If you live in Canada, write Ex-Lax, Ltd. 736 Notre Dame St. W., Montreal) Here's Hollywood Continued from page 71 Those mad, merry fellows, Wheeler and Woolsey, are in again, with a new comedy in which they have as a pretty foil little Dorothy Lee herself. MRS. CLARK GABLE departed for a visit in New York, and rented her lovely house to Madeleine Carroll, English star, who is back with us for another try at American pictures. She is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the screen, but her beauty registered a trifle coldly for the local idea. Better luck this time. JIMMY CAGNEY had better get over his mad and trot back to Warner's — they're handing some of the plum roles they had in mind for him, to Errol Flynn. However, it probably wouldn't be very hard for Jimmy to land a job on almost any lot he chose. Little matter of contract to consider, though. ROCHELLE HUDSON has sworn off . matrimony for ten years — until she is thirty ! She has a pretty good reason. "Married actresses never become stars, and stars often lose their husbands," is her very acute and analytical figuring. She is, of course, absolutely right. But what if she falls in love in the meantime? THE other day Reginald Denny's fouryear-old son was absolutely fascinated with the sight of John Barrymore dressed up as Mercutio. The youngster was sure Jack was Prince Charming — and there's certainly nothing strange about that. A lot of people, mostly ladies, have been mistaking Jack for Prince Charming for years and years. Anyway, young Denny didn't want to go away. He wanted to stay and watch the fun. So Jack, a whimsical guy, turned up for dinner at the Denny homestead — still dressed as Mercutio! RATHER a tragic little party took place . at producer Arthur Hornblow's house the other night. King Vidor, Carey Wilson, and Benjamin Glazer were the only guests, and all of them were Jack Gilbert's intimate friends. They brought strips and reels of film that had been taken at various parties and gatherings and events, when Jack was present. Some of them showed Jack in funny and intimate scenes, some with Garbo. The film was* run off for these four men, a silent audience paying homage to memory. THE Glenda FarrellAddison Randall romance has reached what is known as an impasse. The key to the situation is in the fact that Glenda has been working constantly and Ad hasn't — so Glenda naturally wants to get some sleep, but Ad wants to go out a-playing. Ad has been a trifle high-handed but he's off his perch now. Scared to death he'll lose her, and being such a good boy. WELL, Carl Brisson and Paramount agreed to disagree after conferences concerning a contract renewal. It all ended as an amicable settlement with Brisson pocketing $65,000 and calling quits with the company that brought him over from Europe. One of the films Brisson wanted to do was "The Count of Luxemburg," which Paramount owns, but which is to be filmed as a starring vehicle for Gladys Swarthout, with Frank Forest, new, to Hollywood at least, tenor, playing opposite. Brisson's plans at the moment are to appear as the star of a musical stage show on Broadway. SIX years ago, Sam Goldwyn signed a tall beautiful blonde for one of the chorus girls in "Whoopee." A few days ago, he signed the same girl to a starring contract. Virginia Bruce is her name. FRANK FOREST, the tenor Paramount is grooming for important screen assignments, commencing with the lead for Gladys Swarthout in "The Count of Luxemburg," was recommended to the studio by Frank Chapman, Jr., Miss Swarthout's husband. Chapman knew Forest, who is American-born, in Italy, where both were students and later operatic singers. MARY CARLISLE packed off with many well-wishes for her success in the picture the little Blonde will make in England. Mary is mighty serious about her acting career, and after all her earnest work in Hollywood it may be just the happy-for-Mary irony of fate that she'll get an opportunity to show what she can. do at this stage of her development — something that, through nobody's fault, just didn't materialize in Hollywood lately.