Screenland (May-Oct 1938)

their hands. Pat realized how attractive one Oren Hagalund, assistant director, was. Her new heart is tall and blond and young, just like Wayne. He isn't famous, but, among other things, he has a lot more money. He drives an $18,000 Dusenberg ! It seems he writes scenarios in his spare hours. Wayne is still on a low salaryhe asked for a raise and they said no! Altogether, every day is a new dilemma for the two players. Wayne was so surprised by Pat's walk-out that he hasn't yet begun to date anyone else with enthusiasm. He looks and looks at her between takes. Pat tries to be friendly and casual, not let him know she's wondering where Oren is. HOLLYWOOD'S vacation list: Free to whoop it up this month, and getting away from it all are Tyrone Power, George Raft, Fred Astaire, William Powell, Maureen O' Sullivan, Irene Dunne, Don Ameche, Sonja Henie, Bing Crosby, Myrna Loy, Jack Benny, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Deanna Durbin, Ginger Rogers, Garbo, Joan Blondell, Madeleine Carroll, and Constance Bennett. None of them will lift a finger, professionally speaking. In Europe Work is fun, too! Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Janet Gaynor and Roland Young, are on their way to make scenes for "The Young in Heart." Camera-calling at the studios! Gary Cooper calls on his pals, Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray and Wesley Ruggles, director of the film in which Bing and Fred co-star. Right: Jack (Buck) Benny, all ready to ride again, is momentarily occupied with the pleasant story and presence of Joyce Compton, during a between-scenes interlude in the filming of "Artists and Models Abroad." right now — Astaire, Ameche, Henie, Garbo, and Carroll. In New York City — Power, Raft. The rest are relaxing at home, with short jaunts to nearby California resorts. rXTRA-CURRICULAR activities this L summer: Sally Eilers is attending summer school at U. C. L. A., taking philosophy— enrolled under the name of Sally Brown. . . Ann Sothern will take a difficult singing exam in New York shortly — she's been secretly studying for a surprising vocal future behind the footlights. . . Ramon Novarro is going in for scientific farming methods since inspecting his ranch holdings in Mexico. . . Stu Erwin is becoming the boy beautiful — he's hired the trainer who put Taylor and Gable through physique paces ! DASIL RATHBONE gave his best perD formance gratis this week. He was putting his dogs through their tricks on his front lawn when, suddenly, he was conscious of five heads topping his tall hedge. He was afraid the boys to whom the heads belonged would fall and hurt themselves, so he cried at them to come on over and in. Courteously he sat them down in a semi-circle and continued his dog show. When he finished one of the kids said, "Can we see your house?" Whereupon they trooped through the rooms where Hollywood's most elegant parties are held. "It's a swell dump for a villain!" muttered one of the pleased visitors. Basil ordered the butler to serve cake and cokes, which was the final touch. The company left in a trance. THE new surprise in Hollywood is none I other than— Patsy Kelly ! Yes, fat and funny Patsy, who didn't give a hoot about her appearance, who was emphatically as plain as an old shoe, who laughed at feminine charm recipes. Suddenly, however, she disappeared from town. People finally realized she wasn't working, and wasn't showing up at the night clubs she had haunted. Just as suddenly she returned for a new role. Talk about your transformations ! Now that she's reacquired her original figure, and when she was in her teens she was as slim and as good a dancer as her childhood chum Ruby Keeler, she'll admit she was hitting the scales at a regular 170 pounds. She's lost 45 pounds! Actually, Patsy let herself go after the tragic deaths of her two best friends, Jean Malin and Thelma Todd. She believed she'd never possess any glamor, so she ridiculed all proposals that she salvage her figure. But Patsy couldn't go on trying to forget disappointments forever. She snapped out of it, went to a famous clinic and for seven weeks followed the strictest of schedules. She reduced intelligently, exercised, and attended an hour's lecture every day on care of the body. It required will-power, but you should see how happy she is now. Of course she'll still be her same nonchalant self on the screen, but the self-respect and poise she has gained promise a far more satisfactory personal life. As soon as she can get enough courage she'll be buying a wardrobe like Loretta Young's ! MARTHA RAYE'S mad. Here she's a star and she's bought herself a limousine and a flock of fur coats and a swell house. She's got a chauffeur and a maid. So why, oh, why can't a girl have some fun? She heard about the China Clipper and was all booked for Honolulu, to see those beach boys at Waikiki, when the powers-that-be went cuckoo and absolutely refused to let her fly. "Gosh," moans Martha. It's' certainly tough. ITJST don't throw out the peroxide comJ pletely! The Hollywood trend from golden blondeness back to normal dark hair was doing all right until Marlene Dietrich threw in the monkey-wrench. So it was going to be comme il faut to be emphatically natural? Joan Fontaine thought so; she started off as a blonde to be different from sister Olivia de Havilland, but finally got on the style wagon. Priscilla Lane was the one blonde Lane— for a spell. For months Madge Evans begged Una Merkel to follow her route and go brown; when Una took the step s-he dragged both her mother and Madge to the beauty parlor and you'd have thought Una was going to have a major operation. Tean Arthur returns to the screen with her own dark hair. So Marlene the magnificent, ever the extraordinary, has gone really blonde ! After all, it's a good idea if it's an improvement ! Remember when Joan Crawford went gilded for six months ? That wasn't an improvement, but Joan didn't hesitate to try. The following remain definitely blonde : Madeleine Carroll, Ginger Rogers, Virginia Bruce, Sonja Henie, Alice Faye, Mae West, Marion Davies, Constance Bennett, Miriam Hopkins; Anita Louise, Claire Trevor, Gladys George, Ann Sothern, Glenda Farrell, Grace Moore, Mary Carlisle, Betty Grable and Phyllis Brooks. Whatever you want to make of them. 73