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PARIS
By Stiles Dickenson
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what will we do?" With and wavings of arms the each time Hollywood grabs off another of their favorites.
What with Simone Simon, Fernand Gravet, Annabella, and Danielle Darrieux deserting Paris in one year, you can imagine that the anxiety of the excitable French is not without cause. Rare flowers like these can't be plucked from every way-side bush. Hollywood is the dream and goal of every person in the Paris Studios from the young and beautiful to the old and hopeful.
Now Georges Rigaud is setting off Hollywoodward. I lunched with him the day he had signed his contract with Paramount. Though, naturally, excited about the contract he was very sensible about his ideas of gaining a foothold on the American ladder of success. Charles Boyer and Fernand Gravet both feared to lose their French public while tempting fate in Hollywood so both have clauses in their contracts permitting them to work in France half the year. Rigaud feels differently about it. He thinks that the American studio will take more interest in building him up if he signs up for all
American screen audiences will soon be meeting Georges Rigaud, fascinating young Frenchman who is one of Paris' favorite actors. Left, in close-up. Above, in a film scene with Marcelle Chantal.
Popular with Parisians is Gladys Swarthout, above, who received a royal welcome on her recent visit to the Exposition, with her husband, Frank Chapman.
the year round, which seems a reasonable conclusion.
A short time later we met to go to the international tennis matches. Georges was leaping about the place with excitement — not from watching the tennis champions, but because he had just received word that his first assignment at the Paramount studios will be to play opposite Marlene Dietrich. I can't imagine anyone resting calm and peaceful at the prospect of being Marlene's partner for a film !
Our Georges was fairly beside himself with glee —
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