Silver Screen (Nov 1930-Oct 1931)

XY Z: So you've sent your questions to fifty magazines, no less! You wouldn't tell a little white lie, now, would you? There aren't that many movie magazines in existence. Ralph Forbes was born in London, England, on September 30, 1901. He is an only child. He was educated at Denstone College, England. He •is even better looking off screen than on. I'm sorry, but I don't know whether or not he served in the World War. KAREN : If 1 were only half as pretty as the picture you drew of me! Anna Q. Nilsson is well again. But 1 don't think she'd want me to give her age. She's been away from the screen for two years. Mary Pickford is thirty-seven, Connie Bennett twenty-five. Constance Bennett's latest picture is "The Easiest Way." BUDDY COOK; Joe E. Brown was born July 28, 1892. Kenneth MacKenna was born August 19, 1899. Kenneth and Kay Francis are now married. RENEE ADOREE FAN: I'm so glad you real• ized I couldn't answer you in the next issue, however much I'd like to. Renee isn't playing in any picture at the present time She's ill in a sanitarium at Prescott, Arizona. She was divorced from Tom Moore in 1925. Renee is five feet one and weighs 107 pounds. Before she made "The Big Parade," she made "Women Who Give," "Excuse Me," "Man and Maid," and a few others. Johnny Hincs is a free lance and works very irregularly. GINGER: Robert Montgomery is married to Elizabeth Allen, and their cute little daughter is named Martha Bryan. Bob's going to appear next with Norma Shearer in "Strangers May Kiss." SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE: What, another Garbo! For me there's only one. Not that I don't admire Marlene Dietrich. I do; but Garbo's my first and greatest love. Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin, Germany on December 27. She doesn't give the year. She's a gorgeous blonde with red-gold hair and blue eyes. She attended a private school at Weimar. Her parents thought she'd be an excellent musician, but they didn't dream that she'd be a great actress. She took singing lessons and studied the violin. She would never have started on her stage career if it hadn't been for an accident. She injured her left hand and that forced her to give up her violin lessons for six months. During that time she entered Max Reinhardt's school of the drama. BRIGHT EYES: Mary Brian isn't married, but it isn't for lack of suitors. Her next picture, "Gun Smoke," is with Richard Arlen. Buddy Rogers reads as much of his fan mail as he possibly can. Greta Garbo's eyes are blue and very strange 12 Sally Forth 'THE chatterer of Hollywood, Sally Forth, will be glad to answer your questions about movies or stars or both. The fewer your questions and the shorter the answers required, the quicker she can answer you. But she's scolded if she ansvvers questions about religion and she can't give home addresses or advise anyone how to break into the movies. Write Sally at SILVER SCREEN, 45 West 45th Street, New York City, giving your full name and address. For personal replies enclose a stamped addressed envelope. and beautiful. She looks at the world out ot half-shut lids and only when she is startled does she fully open her eyes. The effect is devastating. Cute little Dorothy Lee is nineteen. BILL FERRIN: Anita Page's real name is Anita Pomarcs. She lives with her parents in Hollywood. Anita is twenty years old, having been born August 4, I9I0. She isn't married. She leads a very quiet and sheltered life, and doesn't go out much o' nights. Her hair is a golden blonde. And right here and now let's spike the rumor that she's cross-eyed. Her eyes don't photograph as beautifully as they should, because one is a little lighter blue in shade than the other, but that's all. Her latest picture is "The Easiest Way," in which Connie Bennett stars. She'll also appear in "Gentleman's Fate," with John Gilbert. CURIOUS BERTHA: Charles Rogers has a younger brother, Bruce, who always called Charles "Buddy." That's what started the nickname. Lillian Roth is going to make a few shorts. If she ever gets a good enough offer, I think she'll come back to the screen for feature work. In Do you remember Victor Seastrom, the director of Garbo and Gish in the old silent days? He's back in his native Sweden acting in their silent films addition to being a clever comedienne, she showed that she possessed tremendous dramatic possibilities in "The Vagabond King." When Paramount let her go, the company said it liked Lillian's work but not her temperament. Recently when Lillian was playing in vaudeville at the Palace in New York, she received word that her fiance was dying. She was terribly hurt, but she went on with her act. I think that shows that if she ever had any temperament, she has conquered it. INDIANA : Dorothy Lee was born in Los Angeles, May 23,1911. Dorothy Jordan is five feet two and weighs 98 pounds. Her eyes aren't blue at all — they're gray. But maybe they look blue in certain lights. Anita Page is five feet two and weighs 118 pounds. Mary Brian's height is the same as Anita's but she weighs only 105 pounds. MARLENE: Lew Ayres has appeared in seven pictures since he got a "bit" part in "Sophomore." His first big chance was in "The Kiss" with Greta Garbo. Charles Farrell's real name is just that, but Janet Gaynor was christened Laura Gainer. PEEKING PETER: Marilyn Miller is engaged to Michael Farmer, but if you ask me for the lowdown on it all, I think one engagement more or less doesn't mean a thing in Marilyn's life. Previous to her marriage with Jack Pickford she was married to Frank Carter, who died in 1920. The only way you can reach Marilyn is by writing to her at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, California. ANXIOUS BELLA: Phillips Holmes is the son of Taylor Holmes, of stage fame, and what could be more American than that? Phil is 21 and is six feet in height. JENNIE: Una Merkel is 23 years old, blonde, and has a rich Southern drawl. She was born in',Covington, Kentucky, but received her education in Philadelphia schools. She made a hit on the New York stage in "Coquette." Her big chance in pictures came as the result of chance, fate, or what have you? Three \ ears ago she took a silent picture test, but nothing came of it. Then when D. W. Griffith wanted someone for the feminine lead in "Abraham Lincoln," he took one look at the test and called for Una. Her latest role in pictures is in "Don't Bet On Women," with Jeanette MacDonald. BLONDIE OF CANADA: Yes, Ruth Mix, who appears in "Red Fork Range," is the daughter of Tom Mix. Doug Fairbanks, Jr., is the son of Beth Sully. Marv Pickford is thirty-seven years old, and doesn't deny it. Lawrence Tibbett's wife is Grace Mackcy Smith. Silver Screen