Screenland (Jul-Dec 1948)

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I've noticed several things which I think might be of interest to film friends and fans. For one thing filmland fashion plates are reviving a style reminiscent of the "20's" by wearing hat. with evening dresses. Joan Crawford, Eve Arden, Rosalind Russell and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr. are setting the pace with headgear confections of tulle, lace, egrets, etc. Also. I've noticed a great revival in games. At Joan Crawford's the other night, there was hardly any conversation — everyone was concentrating on some game. Charades, Twenty Questions and even Treasure Hunts are coming back into vogue. I wonder what ever happened to Mah Jong? Next month I'll be back with more parties and some of the delicious party recipes which the stars prefer. Most of them are not only novel but are quite simple to prepare. In the meantime your party reporter would like to wish all you wonderful Screenland readers a truly happy time over the holidays. How Busy Con You Get? Continued from page 37 in Barcelona, Spain. His family were conservative, bound up in traditions. His father didn't smoke or drink so none of the Cugat boys did. Neither did anyone think it was proper to dance with another man's wife unless the husband gave his permission and was there to keep an eye on the situation. If a man worked at night, his wife stayed home. Cugie still believes in those things. "Before Lorraine and I were married," he says, "I was asked many times by men I knew to take their wives out while they were away. Would Cugat do that? I'd like to have a picture of it. In Technicolor!" No, he doesn't believe in the casual American marital freedom and he never will. "Some of my American friends tell me I'm wrong. I admit that I'm wrong according to their standards, but in my heart I know I'm right according to the way I was brought up. I can't change any more than they could change and admit that my ideas are right." Why, then, did he pick a young American career girl for his wife? That's simple. He fell in love with her. And she with him. Cugie and Lorraine went around together for several years before they were married, knew and understood the problems they'd have to face, felt they could work them out, and are doing their best — which at this point looks like a successful try. Here are some of the hazards to their marriage: Cugie is one of the busiest men in the world. There doesn't seem to be anything in the artistic line the man can't do. And, being energetic as well as talented, he does them all. First, of course, comes his band, which works on a year-round basis. Cugie has to keep the boys working that way in order to keep his organization together. "Five of my men have been with me twenty-one years and a couple of them for eighteen. To keep a band together that long, you have to have a sense of responsibility toward them. They make good money but they spend it. If they don't work for a week or two they don't eat. So I have to keep us dated up all the time. When I'm thinking about that four thousand dollar payroll, I'd rather be thinking about a long vacation with my beautiful and charming wife." He isn't kidding, either. If you were a big, successful King of the Rhumba, would you like to play sixty-three different towns in sixty-three days? It's the traveling that gets Cugie — and some of the places he has to play in to keep his boys in groceries. Cugie's like a chain reaction. Once he got going as the Rhumba King, his career kept piling up on him. Of course he has his radio show, Casa Cugat, and his picture career at Metro-GoldwyhMayer which includes three current pictures, "On An Island With You," "Luxury Liner," and "Date With Judy." But, gad, what a man he is with a sideline! Everybody who has bought the shocking pink and black box containing "Cugat's Nugats" knows he invented 'em. The advertising and promotion on that alone would be enough to keep one average man busy all the time. But Cugie isn't an average man. He's now putting out a candy bar as a companion to the Nugats. His caricatures are famous and it isn't uncommon for him to dash off twenty or thirty between shows. As a result of his caricatures, he's working on a comicstrip for King Features called Uncle Chihuahua, all about the adventures of a little Mexican boy. He'll draw the strip himself, another enterprise which would keep an ordinary man out of mischief seven days a week. His caricatures will also be seen on neckties, and he'll have fun drawing the faces of sports figures, actors, singers, and politicians which will be transferred to the ties. The outfit which will market the ties also turns out the Cugat Jacket, a bolero type of jacket for men. Cugie's recording sessions add another several hours a week to his schedule, and then there's that toy man from Belgium who wants to turn Cugie's Chihuahua caricatures into toys. He helped create some gay, colorful glasses called Rhumba Tumblers which will be on the market shortly. A delightful new perfume, called Red Rhumba, is another project in which Cugie's fine Spanish hand figured. He also introduced a folk dance, called the Mexican Shuffle. Every time he gets into one of these deals, Lorraine gives Cugie one of those 64 Screenland