Screenland (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

Acme ized his first obligation was to his employers. But even though there were reasons why it was best for them not to marry, theirs was an emotional bust-up. They loved with their hearts, not with their heads. They quarrelled because they wanted to, not in any passive fashion. BARBARA STANWYCK continues to have the darndest luck— outside of rating Robert Taylor, who's considerable compensation. She was ill during the entire filming of her last picture, but it was scheduled to be shot and so, as usual, she managed to carry on without a single sigh of complaint. Three days after the last scene was made Barbara felt like her real self again, definitely okay. But came the mood to go dancing and painting the village with Bob and — hi-ho — his vacation ! She couldn't ask him to stay put on his nearby farm when he'd been dreaming of a trip for months. She couldn't go along. So Barbara smiled from ear to ear and saw Bob off at the Burbank airport. He flew to Seattle, and from there took the boat jaunt to Alaska. He invited Don Milo, his stand-in and college room-mate, along. BABIES are in in Hollywood. In fact, they're important enough to gum things up at the ace glamor plant, M-G-M. In the good old days no top feminine star in her Screen's first lady Smilin' Through! Right, Norma Shearer, leaving Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, where she went for rest and observation, gave cameramen a chance to make this gay picture of health and glamor. The seal of confidence keeps secret what is being said, left, but you can see that George Raft and "Slicker," who shares the spotlight with him in "Spawn of the North," are not letting professional jealousy disrupt a real palship. right mind would have quit the screen to have another baby just after tangling with a potent rival. Yet Margaret Sullavan, having given Joan Crawford lessons in acting in "The Shining Hour," will be a mother again the first of the year and she believes her fans will wait while she takes time out. Margaret, incidentally, grabbed a record for her tiny daughter Brooke by flying her across the continent at the youngest age the airplane companies had encountered. Robert Young has been carrying on for fathers at Metro. The other evening he was slated for night work. The whole company was ready and the director had given Bob last-minute instructions when a wild-eyed messenger dashed in with news that Bob's three-year-old daughter had been in an auto accident. The show Home! Simone and Mama Simon hold a happy reunion as the little French girl is greeted by her youthful mother at Le Havre, France. Simone will devote herself to pictures to be made in her homeland, after a somewhat stormy Hollywood career. Right, Frances Farmer and her husband Leif Erickson, back in Hollywood after a season on the New York stage, will appear together in a Paramount film. Acme must go on? Thousands of dollars of overhead per minute and all that? Yeh? Bob walked off that set so fast he was like a cyclone. Not until he had gone to the receiving hospital and learned for himself that the injuries were minor did he return. Amusingly, Sullavan, Young, and Melvyn Douglas — who's just become a dad for the third time — have all been working with Joan Crawford. Now Joan regrets more than ever that she has been denied — • motherhood. THANK heavens it's still Hollywood ' dep't. : Lucille Ball, originally brownhaired, went platinum when she hit Hollywood. She darkened to a golden blonde a year ago. Now that she's risen to leads she is "one shade darker than originally, 73