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for November 1936
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Movie-Go-Round
Catch the cinema stars off-guard in Paris, their vacation playground, and scene of glamorous adventure
Stiles Dickenson
HEAVENS, what are all those naked people doing?" cried the lovely, lady-like Irene Dunne. Iwas delighted, for Paris was living up to its far-famed wickedness with a vengeance. We were on our way to dinner and it's perfectly true that hordes of half-nude and fantastically draped young men and women were passing us on foot and in open taxis. It was the night of the annual Ouatz Arts Ball, when all the artists and models cavort in nature costumes the night long and parade down the Champs Elysees at dawn to bathe in the fountains at the Place de la Concorde and the courtyard of the Beaux Arts. All of this I explained to the wide-eyed and delighted Irene. She had been in London but, in spite of the strikes in the hotels, restaurants, and shops, determined to fly over to Paris for she loves the very atmosphere of this village on the Seine. That love is returned, for she was feted, wined and dined during her all too short visit. Unfortunately she had to leave a few days before "Show Boat" opened here but her presence heightened the Parisians' interest in that splendid picture. The Universal Company gave a cock
Dietrich steps off the train with her husband into a gay crowd of Parisian picture fans, top. Above, Irene Dunne charms the continentals at a cocktail party in her honor, dispensing autographs amiably. Left: introducing Fernand Graavey, leading French film star, pictured with a -fellow actor at the studio and, far left, in close-ups. He'll be over here soon.
tail party for Irene at which the poor dear got writers' cramp and sprained fingers autographing photographs and shaking hands with the crowds that milled about her. The rest of the time she was busy buying furniture and decorations for the little house she has built in Hollywood. Lady Mendl, who as Elsie de Wolfe, is a world-famous interior decorator, aided her greatly and also gave a grand cocktail party at which Irene and Grace Moore were the center of a brilliant gathering.
An interesting angle of Irene's visit was the preparation for her next film which is to be based on the life of Madame Curie, the great French woman who, with her husband, discovered radium. Madame Curie's daughter, who lives in Paris, gave Irene all the personal hints and suggestions in regard to building the character of her illustrious mother and supplied her with a wonderfully interesting collection of photographs of her mother and the family at different times of her career which will be of great aid when the film is actually started. Another gathering place of the film (Continued on page 70)