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for August 1936
23
Acme
Piccadilly sees a glamorous parade of Hollywood stars — and so do you, in this firsthand story of film greats abroad
By
Hellie Crimstead
It's the gay season in London, with Hollywood brilliantly represented. Left, Richard Barthelmess, Anita Louise, Francis Lister and his wife Margot Grahame, and Sylvia Sidney, seen together aboard ship at Southampton. Lower left, Grace Moore and her husband. Below, Sylvia Sidney in Hyde Park.
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Wide World
T'S Summer-time in London. Roses are blooming in Hyde Park, changing the King's Guard is once more a colorful military pageant of scarlet and gold, and every time you walk down Piccadilly you meet some lovely famous lady just arrived from Hollywood. (Which is the surest seasonal sign of all !) Grace Moore is staying in London, not to face the cameras but to sing — her favorite French opera "Louise" being given at Covent Garden. She has to return to California to make her next picture but after that report announces she will come back to England to appear in a film for us. Grace says she "can't exactly confirm that yet" but she has had several long talks with Alexander Korda and everybody knows he is going to open his winter activities with a spectacular production that has an operatic theme.
Grace lunched with Korda and H. G. Wells at the Ritz the other day, all in filmy black setting off her fair skin and blonde hair which she now sweeps back off her bejewelled ears into bunches of neck-curls. She wore one of the hats she bought during her recent vacation in Paris, the latest French straw model with a square shallow crown and a two-inch brim. It was shiny black and trimmed with a massed chaplet of lilies-of-the-valley to match the posy Grace had pinned on her shoulder — another new fashion style from the Gay City.
The greatest sensation of the London season so far, and most surprising star of them all is Sylvia Sidney. Robert Donat was to have co-starred with Sylvia in her first British film, called "Sabotage" and based on a novel by Joseph Conrad. But later Robert withdrew ; the official reason given was that an attack of asthma prevented Donat from fulfilling the contract. Whatever the reason it must have been important to Robert, because when Korda was forced to postpone "Hamlet" starring Donat, the dark-eyed romantic actor, though besieged with offers, chose this one, because he likes to play different types in his films and had not hitherto attempted such a somber dramatic role as this secret agent engaged in destroying London's power-stations. Sylvia plays the wife, whose young brother the criminal uses to carry an infernal machine through the city. But the bomb explodes prematurely, killing the boy, and the distraught sister revenges him by slaying her husband.
We all went to greet Sylvia at the railroad terminus and while we awaited the train's arrival an actor who knew her well in Hollywood a (Continued on page 73)