Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

88 SCREENLAND London's "Little Hollywood" Continued from page 31 WARNING/ YOU spend long hours making yourself attractive for him to look at. Hair, skin, eyes, lips, fingernails, clothes . . . you want him to approve of every least detail. But don't forget — one ugly thing can undo in a minute all the care you've taken with your looks. The unpleasant odor of underarm perspiration. Nothing so quickly and surely disillusions a man about a lovely looking girl as this. Don't run the risk. Give your underarms necessary daily care, just as you give your face. There's a quick, easy way to do it. Mum! It takes just half a minute to use Mum. And you can use it any time, before dressing or after. For Mum is harmless to clothing. It's soothing to the skin, too. You can use it right after shaving the underarms. Remember, Mum doesn't prevent the perspiration itself — just its horrid odor. Depend upon it to keep you safe from this danger to your happiness. BristolMyers, Inc., 630 Fifth Ave., New York. TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION ON SANITARY NAPKINS Mum protects you from another ever-threatening danger of unpleasantness. sits with her friend blonde Helen Vinson, another international commuter who has made three Hollywood pictures and three British during the last twelve months. Look out for an amazingly different screen Helen in "His Majesty's Pyjamas," a brilliant little comedienne who is saucy and amusingly provocative, not the regal sophisticated lady of familiar admiration. She shares the honors with Clive Brook, who is going to make four British films this spring and summer before he goes back to California again. We've Virginia Cherrill too, with a new coiffure for which she bunches up her short amber curls on either side of her piquant face. She only spends a brief half-hour on the "Boulevard," coming in for a glass of orange juice and maybe a sandwich after her day at the studio before she hurries off. Her first film for Fox-British was "Late Extra," in. which Virginia played a newspaper reporter who unmasks a villain in the shape of Clifford McLaglen, brother of Victor. Now she is doing detective work in a gruesome murder mystery which is" to be called "Troubled Waters." But it's the men who predominate in Little Hollywood — perhaps they can stand the tempestuous Atlantic crossing better than the women stars ! Look across the lounge at Robert Young with his quick smile and easy manner, firmly drinking tea and eating hot muffins because he believes that all experience is good for the soul — but how about the digestion? He came over to act with Madeleine Carroll in the Gaumont-British spy drama, "Secret Agent," and for the first time in his career he is seen as a villain, in keeping with Director Alfred Hitchcock's idea that a good villain should never suggest the fact but be indistinguishable in appearance from the hero. "And after all, the films must follow life," Robert says with a chuckle, and is immensely pleased at having had a different type of part to tackle. Next Otto Kruger, who collects picture postcards of the old-fashioned corners of London and sends one off every day to little daughter Otalie, left behind in Hollywood. His elegant companion in the dovegrey suit with shirt, tie, and suede shoes all blending, is Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, actor-executive nowadays. He has formed a new producing company and gets extremely annoyed if anybody ventures' the opinion that a player must give himself single-heartedly to his art if he is to be consistently good. "It's an established fact that the films made by Harold Lloyd and Charles Chaplin and my father have been highly successful," he declares. "I have their experience before me and I intend to profit by it. I'm going to make just four films each year, first-class films with neither expense nor trouble spared. I shall appear in two myself and the other two I shall direct." His first offering is a period story called "The Amateur Gentleman" in which he looks older and far more mature in his powder and satin breeches. Elissa Landi is" his leading lady. That booming voice belongs to Noah Beery, deep in conversation with Nils Asther — they are playing together in Grune's production of "The Marriage of Corbal." It's a colorful romance of the French Revolution and Noah is the faithful old sergeant whose love for his master rises even above his military duty. Noah walks twice round Hyde Park before breakfast every morning to keep himself fit and he spends most of his spare time shopping. He is collecting all the English books about bird-life, ornithology being his greatest hobby — he's eager to get back to his Californian ranch among the hills before his feathered friends there forget him. And the other day Noah was discovered in an East End timber-yard solemnly buying odd lengths of wood. "I'm sending them home to my father," he explained. "He's getting on now but he can still walk about Hollywood and his chief interest is carving walking-sticks. He makes all those comic ones Wally and I use to add point to the business in our films." Another souvenir hunter is' Ramon No Walter Huston as Cecil Rhodes, in the new British production, "Rhodes the Empire Builder." varro. He stays quietly at the hotel in his real name of Mr. Samaniegos, and his gentle, courteous personality has greatly astonished London society, which expected such a famous screen romantic to be a temperamental, exotic young man. Ramon is invariably accompanied by his favorite and youngest sister Carmen — the other three sisters are all nuns in a Mexican convent. She is lithe, sloe-eyed, and lovely, and is having dancing-lessons in London because Ramon has promised her a part as a Spanish cabaret girl in the new film he is due to make when he gets back to Hollywood in June. They go together to lectures' on European art at the National Gallery and visit the museums and other cultural showplaces. On Sundays they always dine at a tiny Spanish cafe in Soho, eating tamales off a red-checked tablecloth. The proprietor's cat is one of Ramon's fans. (It walked up and laid a dead mouse at his feet the first time he entered ! ) When they do spend an hour on the "Boulevard" they sit shyly together in a corner until somebody spies them and makes them join the party. Why are those women assuming sudden vivacity and peeping surreptitiously into their handbags? Why did that promising young actor adjust his tie so hastily?