Screenland (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

90 SCREENLAND What Do You Do with Your Little Finger? — whin you pick up a glass or cup? . . . You know from watching others that charm and poise can be destroyed instantly by the misuse of hands. And by the same token, the correct use of your hands can become a tremendous social and business asset. Great actresses accomplish much of their poise by proper hand action. The makers of Frostilla— the famous skin lotion that keeps hands, face and body smooth and lovely— asked Margery Wilson, the international authority on charm and poise, to tell • how to hold a cigarette • how to pick up cards • how to shake hands • and how to make hands behave to the best advantage on all occasions Margery Wilson gives the authoritative answers to these and other questions in an illustrated booklet on How to Use Your Hands Correctly. Although this booklet is priced at 50c, we have arranged to present it without charge to Frostilla users in the United States and Canada until May 30th, 1937. Just mail coupon with the front of a 35c, 50c or $1.00 Frostilla Fragrant Lotion box (or two fronts from 10c sizes) and your copy will be sent FREE. / (S"°'S£ trostilla" |W<oj 445 Gray Street, Elmira, N.Y. Here is the box front— send me my copy of Margery Wilson's book on hands. Name. Address B City State light events of the movies over a period of years. The "A Woman of Paris" highlight already mentioned was Chaplin's first, and up till now, only screen effort in which Charlie has not himself appeared. It seems to this observer that no picture of several years back is more frequently mentioned and fondly referred to than "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." Menjou, of course, was the star of that along with the stunningly beautiful Florence Vidor. He was one of the stars of one of the first Lubitsch productions in this country, "The Marriage Circle." You think of Menjou instantly at mention of such pictures as "A Farewell to Arms;" "Morning Glory," in which Katherine Hepburn definitely established herself as a star ; and of course you know what his fine, intelligent, and touching performance meant to "Little Miss Marker," a great show and unquestionably the picture that started Shirley Temple on her path to glory. "Little Miss Marker" might well have been a turning point for Menjou also. Perhaps, due to the public's estimate of him as the ideal modern Beau Brummel. he was subconsciously typeing himself, with the importance of being welldressed over-emphasized. Anyhow, Menjou recalled, between sips from a tall glass of Coca Cola, that this part worried him no little. "It seemed unconvincing that a man as prosperous as this bookmaker, should wear shabby clothes. Very likely it was his gesture of contempt for the ideas of the rest of his world, growing out of some sorrow or disappointment that had embittered him against the Broadway racing fraternity with whom he mingled. At any rate there was nothing suggested in an incident or a line of dialogue to explain it, and I w:as afraid this would strike a false note with audiences." But when he was talked out of his concern about this false note in exterior detail, he certainly did get himself up convincingly for the character. "I went through every wardrobe in Hollywood. I guess, to find the suit of clothes I finally wore in the picture." he added. That part, also, paved the w-ay for Menjou's selection by Harold Lloyd for the character of the fight manager in "The Milky Way." He thinks this one of the best comedies ever produced, and there I lingers a justifiable pride that he has played an important part in a Lloyd pic ture— an impression that results from his enthusiastic references to the picture and to Harold Lloyd. The Menjous' European trip was a sort of fling — a celebration and a thanksgiving party, as it were. "We decided," Adolphe said, "that since both of us had come through illnesses which we thought would be the end of us — Mrs. Menjou says she fully expected to die during her siege of ill-health — that we'd regulate our lives so as to have some freedom and plenty of enjoyment. "Well, we did enjoy the trip, but only those portions of it when we were motoring from one country to another. For then we couldn't be reached by cables concerning picture engagements, and urging? to return to Hollywood as soon as possible." Though finally prevailed upon to shorten their trip, the Menjous visited Germany — where producers propositioned Adolphe to make a film— Hungary, Austria, Italy. France, England. Menjou, who knows his way around the world as well as the picture studios, is pretty well posted on the political situation in Europe. He speaks several languages, and got his information first-hand, overhearing conversations as well as through talking with people in all walks of life during these travels from town to city and from one country to another. Before "Sing, Baby, Sing" was released, there were some who had seen advancepreviews of it who predicted that the fists would start swinging — those who figured it a bit too biographical for certain people to take with restraint, good humor, and decorum. Well, if there's any swinging, it's a safe bet that it will be palm against palm in applause for the adroit acting job Adolphe Menjou did in the picture. And that goes to show that you can get along with anything, if you do it well — the Menjou way of staying on top for more than ten years of Hollywood celebrity, fighting through climaxes in professional work, personal life, and health, even. Going from riches to rags in his screen impersonations makes it easier to go on to more riches, professionally, artistically, and in his personal fortunes. That's good for Menjou. What's good for us is that Adolphe laughed at the "type" jinx, and made us laugh while he was doing it, with the loudest laugh the last, "Sing, Baby, Sing." Co-Starring in Their Greatest Romance! Continued from page 33 .es, you can have a lovelier, more alluring body. Easily! Quickly! Just add to your bath a sprinkle of Bathasweet, and make your bath a beauty treatment. You might be bathing in rose petals, so soft and fragrant does Bathasweet make the water of your tub. Gone is all harshness from the water. 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And so thanks to "The Life and Loves of Joan Blondell" I became a bridesmaid in the most unusual wedding I have ever attended. Joan got off the train in Phoenix, Arizona, wearing heavy lensed spectacles and a red wig that Bebe Daniels had left behind at the studio and a polo coat from the Broadway's basement. This was to throw reporters off the scent. But once she had put her name on the license at the city hall, (there's no three-day law in Arizona), the chase was on. With the lobby full of noisy reporters Joan, still in her dis guise, slipped down the service elevator into the hotel's kitchen, (she almost ended up in a stew), and several blocks awav joined George Barnes and me and the best man. I'll never forget the nice minister who couldn't help blowing up in his lines when he discovered in the midst of the ceremony that he was marrying a real bona fide Hollywood movie star. And with the hotel swarming with reporters the wedding party had a very quiet and undisturbed wedding breakfast at the Jolly-0 Bar-B-Q stand. The chili beans on the hamburger were simply delicious. It was rather unusual as weddings go. Now. dear reader, you've probably heard Bing Crosby sing One More Chance — that is, if you weren't born yesterday — but you've never heard me sing it, and that's where you're extremely lucky. But Joan had to hear me sing it, with pathos, one Sunday morning not many weeks ago when she finally broke down and confessed that