Screenland (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

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News flashes of stars and the gay glamor parade By Weston East HOLIYi/j/ Hollywood hints for more glamor in the colorful sport of the gridiron! Here's the idea at left — the all alluring eleven In "Hold That Co-Ed." \/OU wouldn't think that Claudette Col/ bert would be a feminine Paul Muni when it comes to characterizing, but she is. When she is doing a picture she can snap out of her role at noon all right, yet by the middle of the afternoon— if it's a dramatic assignment — she is so wrapt up in her screen self that she's quite unconscious of the real Colbert. When she's finally finished at the studio for the day she steps into her car — fortunately for the rest of the people on the streets she has a chauffeur— and when she gets home she literally wanders in. For at least ten minutes she's appallingly absent-minded. Gradually she snaps out of it, and into herself. This emphatically isn't an act, either. IT'S All Off Dep't: Tyrone Power is the ' cleverest gal's man now, because Janet Gaynor is telling friends to tell Tyrone that when they saw her she was looking good. This pair finaled with a bang, but the explosion was a silent one for both were too proud to let folks in on the actual Absorbed in the program, Hollywood husbands ignore the news camera, but their wives smile graciously for the photographer. Left. Charles Boyer and wife Pat Patterson; right, Dr. Joel Pressman and Claudette Colbert — attending the opening of Tallulah Bankhead's new stage play in Los Angeles. Acme split. They resorted to elaborate finesse. Tyrone went vacationing to Mexico and sent ardent wires to a stock girl at his studio. Janet threw herself into a new picture and designer Adrian discovered she was his one love. Now neither Tyrone nor Janet has a big moment. What happened? In the beginning theirs was a rapid, consuming attraction. Janet vowed he was every man she had ever admired rolled into one, and then some. He was so overwhelmed— she had been his boyish dream girl. They wanted to marry. But dat ol* debil Hollywood slowed 'em down. His studio had lifted him from the nowhere; he certainly owed loyalty in return. Janet, lifted from obscurity a decade earlier, real 72