Screenland (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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58 Screen land ONDON OWDOWN Follow the lively gossip and glamorous doings of screen stars, from the studios of Pinewood to premieres in Piccadilly By Hettie Grimstead ADMIRING London has coined a new title for /A Marlene Dietrich— The Star Who Really Is. For / \ she scintillates along her triumphant path in that grandly dazzling manner a famous film lady should — and so often doesn't care to ! She is just as glamorous off the screen as on it, conscious that she is indeed a Queen of the Celluloid and never failing to express her regal glory as she passes. Everywhere la Dietrich goes she is suitably brilliant and breath-taking. She adorned a film premiere at Piccadilly Circus wearing a sheath-like trained gown of glittering tissue and a golden cap from which a great mauve osprey waved. Another evening she went to the theatre, carefully arriving rather late so that her entrance was more sensational in her cobweb white dress with enormous emeralds at her throat and wrists and everywhere else emeralds could possibly be placed. She attended a wrestling match escorted by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., a thickly-patterned black veil covering her face and shoulders. As people stood on their chairs to gape, she raised it with a dramatic gesture and bowed. Her car is a sumptuous grey limousine with chauffeur and footman, always massed with flowers. Marlene makes her way to it between rows of sightseers held back by stalwart policemen but doubtless rewarded by the handful of roses the star throws out smilingly as she glides away. She lunches at the most conspicuous table in the most fashionable restaurant, maybe with Noel Coward, Master Fairbanks, Alexander Korda or his brother Vincent, Paul Cavanagh or Conrad Veidt. i a n y You'll find Hollywood working on sound stages at the Pinewood Studios, shown in the aerial view at left. Across to the left, Anna Neagle plays a Soho streetwaif in her new picture. Below, Ann Harding, who has become acclimated to the London fogs. Matronly Constance Collier sometimes joins her party but rarely any other woman. On the set at Denham studios too, she is still the Star with a capital S. Working she dresses more simply, usually in a plain gray or black tailored suit, but all the panopoly of her position must be observed. I watched her sitting in the garden of a magnificent white palace, for her new film, "Knight Without Armor," set in old