Silver Screen (Nov 1930-Oct 1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Silver Screen
Date:
Nov 1930-Oct 1931
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Screenland Magazine]
Volume:
Silver Screen (Nov 1930-Oct 1931)
Leaf #:
000302
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals","Celebrities -- United States -- Periodicals","Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Periodicals","Television actors and actresses -- United States -- Periodicals","Entertainers -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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woo And Silver Screen Presents the First Interview with the Most Important Babies in the World, Qathered Hot From Their Cradles WHEN the editor of this magazine assigned me the task of interviewing all the famous new babies in Hollywood I was completely unnerved. I know about as much about new babies as I do about integral calculus. My only qualification for the story was the fact that I once was a baby myself. After all, even the cleverest questioning won't get any more out of a four months' old infant than a few "goos" and "gahs," and maybe in exceptional cases a "glubsxk." However, I remembered the heroic tale of the "Message to Garcia" and slogans like "The presses must go on" — and I went forth to battle. Well, I picked the Eleanor Boardman-King Vidor baby (irst because I know its mama and papa and I thought maybe they'd break me in easy. The first time I saw 28 Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore (above) aged nine months, is the Crown Princess of the Royal Family of Broadway. The reclining Russian is the son of Olga Baclanova Eleanor I said briskly, "Well, Eleanor — what do you think? I'm coming up to interview your baby." "Oh, no you're not!" said Eleanor. "My baby's not for publication. I'm a selfish person and I think it's bad publicity for me." With the Norma ShearerIrving Thalberg baby and the Robert Montgom^ery arrival I ran into two more snags. This business of withholding babies from publication seems to be a Hollywood cult. The angle being that it ruins a star's drawing power in romantic roles if the fans hear too much about the home and kiddies. Personally I think the fans want to know about the home life of their favorites even if it includes a baby or two — but then nobody asked me for advice! A little detective work elicited the information that young Miss Montgomery is Silver Screen