Screenland (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

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Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy made movie box-office history beginning with their first film together, "Naughty Marietta" — shown in scene at right. Then they repeated their success with "Rose Marie," at left above on opposite page; and surpassed even their own triumphs with "Maytime." Their next film together will be "The Girl of the Golden West." Now read our timely exclusive story. MacD ona ■Feud ? Id1 ddy IT SEEMS I have been playing Rip Van Winkle again. I came to with a start the other day and discovered that for months now one of the biggest feuds in history has been raging right under my nose, and me much too interested in my little gnomes to realize it. I suppose, however, that it is true that ''the family" is always "the last to know." It is always the wife who is the last to know about "the other woman," and the mother who is the last to know about Junior's drinking. So I suppose it is only holding with the tradition that we in Hollywood should be the last to know what everybody else in America seems to know already : namely, that two of the more illustrious members of our big happy family, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, are feuding like mad. I was a little miffed to have to find out about it from Canada, Colorado, Indiana and Texas. Are the manicurists in the Hollywood beauty shoppes slipping ? Judging from MacDonald-Eddv the letters written by the fans — who don't seem to be particularly inhibited — the feud has been going on ever since "Naughty Marietta," but it become a real good conflagration until didn't after to an "Maytime." In which picture, according Eddy fan who evidently went equipped with a stop-watch, Nelson only had nineteen minutes on the screen! A MacDonald fan intimated that that just might happen to be nineteen minutes too much! (What a chump I must have been sitting there enjoying that picture without timing anybody.) Another fan writes, "I'm afraid I'm not converted into a MacDonald fan even with 'Maytime.' I admit she has a lovely voice, acting 22