Screenland (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

London Continued from page 51 living in a quaint timbered little house just across the fields from the studio. He's out in the garden by seven every morning, getting walking exercise before he has his breakfast which is always the same. Two broiled sausages, two poached eggs, an apple, some toast and tea. He'd never drunk tea until he boarded the "Berengaria" but likes our national beverage so much now he has it every morning and afternoon just like we do ourselves. We had a regular four o'clock tea-party with him one dav in the blue and white studio lounge. Bob passed the cups round and offered his favorite light Virginian cigarettes and told us all about his new car, a black Rolls-Bentley that thrills him tremendously. (He's got a special booklet describing its mechanics and can generallybe found with his handsome head under the bonnet admiring the cylinders when he has a few minutes to spare between shots.) All the stars came along from the other sets to chat with Bob— Jack Hulbert and Patricia Ellis "and Ruth Chatterton and David Niven— and Merle Oberon, wearing a billowing white crinoline frock from a scene in "The Divorce of Lady X." Robert Donat was to have been her romantic partner in this new film of London's aristocracy but he has been stricken with asthma once again and is having clinical treatment in Switzerland while dark-eyed Laurence Olivier plays with lovely Merle instead. Director Monty Banks looked in to greet Bob too. He's busy preparing Gracie Fields' first picture for Twentieth Century-Fox, called "Her Man" with Gracie as a barroom singer with a likeable spendthrift husband to be played by Victor McLaglen. Montv came across the Atlantic in the "Queen Mary" and was squiring pretty blonde dimpled Sonja Henie when I met them at Southampton— Tyrone Power notwithstanding and anyway he was in Hollywood! Sonja was all in green and white, with her seven lucky mascots fastened firmly on to a huge gold bar brooch which she had pinned across her coat so that her good fortune couldn't possibly get Jost. She swears she will wear her charms in her next Hollywood picture "Bread, Butter, and Rhythm for which she's got to master some tap dancing figures far more ambitious than any we've seen her do yet on the_ screen. Karen Morlev was paying a vacation visit to England too this fall, escorted by her husband Charles Vidor, and we've also entertained Francine Larrimore and brown-eyed Sally Eilers who hobbled painfully into London having injured her leg dancing in a Continental cafe. Raymond Massey is home as well, delighted with the baby daughter born to his beautiful blonde wife while he was film-making in California. Ray wanted a girl this time, the two other children both beTng sons, and he's given her a diamond bracelet ready for her when she grows up. Madeleine Carroll spent a few days in town before going off for a sailing tour in the Baltic with husband Captain Philip Astley. Page patrician Madeleine in her white flannel nautical slacks and sea-blue sweater with a gaily-patterned peasant scart tied over those blonde waves! Jessie Matthews is in the hat competition too, entering the peaked canvas cap she wears in "Sailing Along," for which Roland Young has hurried from California to provide some comedy interest. When Roland isn't at Pinewood Studio, he's prowling round the meaner London streets in his characteristic quiet way, peeking into little shabby junk-shops in search of penguin models for that celebrated collection. His latest addition is a penguin carved from a human tooth if you please! Roland was persuaded to visit an exclusive West End restaurant the other night and confessed it was the first time for years he'd been out later than ten o'clock. Leslie Howard is back in London and has gone into the Great Silence that always enshrouds him for the first few weeks after his arrival. He stays at a suburban board ^ ing-house with his family, reads and plays * chess and goes to the theatres and refuses to meet any film folk or newspaper reporters until he considers himself sufficiently rested. Then he moves to a great West End hotel, announces the fact publicly, and becomes a famous film star once again. Oscar Homolka returned to us after finishing "Ebb Tide" in Hollywood and promptlv got signed up for a British film though "he's due back in California to play the old sergeant in "Beau Geste" in before long. I met him sharing a huge dish of pickled beef and sauerkraut with his friend and fellow-German, tall Conrad Veidt. Con and exotic Vivien Leigh have proved such a box-office draw teamed together in their spy film "DarkJourney" that now they are to make two more on similar lines, becoming a kind of "Thin Man" family in the Continental espionage business. Charles Laughton has decided on "St. Martins Lane" as the title of the first picture made by the new producing company he has started with Director Erich Pommer. It's the name of a celebrated London street near Trafalgar Square where the theatres are situated with all the stageland environment around them, the cheap little restaurants and drug-stores and rooming-houses and pubs. This Bohemian district is the home of the working-man whom Charles plays, a comical yet pathetic figure of a typical small-town man in a big city. SOOTHING CHAPPED HANDSNO PROBLEM ! If hands could talk, they'd tell how blustery weather roughens them . . . Hangnails. Rough, red skin. Chapped knuckles that smart. Time for Hinds! 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