Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)

54 Silver Screen for February 1935 Topics Wide World Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford at the Actors' Screen Guild Ball in the Biltmore Hotel. Love is grand! [Continued from page 13] passed the examination and found she didn't have to recite all the things she had studied so vigorously, she confided to a friend, "I certainly built that scene up." OMAR KIAM, Park Avenue's ultra-designer, whom Samuel Goldwyn persuaded to come west and do movie costumes, has found that women of all ages react alike to a beautiful gown. When little Barbara Lee, just eighteen months old, tried on a hoop skirt dress which Kiam had made for her to wear in the film "Clive of India," she stood before a bevel mirror and went through all the rapturous exclamations of a debutante wearing her first evening gown. After admiring her reflection for nearly ten minutes, young Barbara added one touch of her own. She threw her arms around Kiam's neck and gave him a great big kiss. KATHLEEN HOWARD, formerly fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and Metropolitan opera star, and now a movie actress, has confessed to one of the strangest Hollywood romances! Seems Kathleen answered the phone in her apartment one night and heard the fascinating voice of a strange gentleman. She asked what number he wanted and the man with the fatal fascination in his voice replied, "Your number!" Kathleen asked him whom he wanted to talk to, and he gravely assured her, "I want to talk to you." She was a little shocked, a little outraged— and secretly a little intrigued. But the marvelous voice held her at the phone several minutes before she hung up. Coyly she made him promise not for Gossips to call her again. The man kept his promise. And now Kathleen admits that telephone call has all the pangs of a broken romance. JANET GAYNOR's new boy friend, Doctor " I. Veblin, of New York (Janet calls him "Vebby") spent Thanksgiving with Janet in Hollywood, and it does so look like a romance. THE biggest surprise of the Mary Blackford Benefit Ball at the Cocoanut Grove was when Ann Harding entered the ball room on the arm of— Harry Bannister. When Harry heard that Ann had been ill, and she really was seriously ill for several weeks, he flew to Hollywood to be with her. There was a reconciliation, and now Ann and Harry are carrying on like a couple of sixteen year olds in the throes of their first romance. — « #■ — IT'S more than a rumor that John Barrymore and the beautiful Dolores Costello Barrymore have come to the parting of the ways. John is in England and Dolores in their hill-top home in Hollywood with the two babies. The last time we saw those two out together was at the Mayfair, where John, naughty man, had arrived in a tuxedo and old felt bedroom slippers. — ■ #°— ■ THE preview of "The Mighty Barnum," in Glendale recently, brought out a number of movie stars and more sidewalk stand-ees and autograph hounds than a Hollywood opening. The director, Walter Lang, came with Carole Lombard, Veree Teasdale was with Adolphe Menjou, who is simply magnificent in the picture, Norma Shearer was with Irving Thalberg, and Pola Negri with Sid Grauman. — «#— THE other day a very mangy looking ad appeared in one of the local papers, to the effect that Richard Dix endorsed Palm Springs tea. When his press agent saw the endorsement she frothed at the mouth and wondered who in heaven's name had managed to wangle an endorsement out of Yuma, Nevada, Knows No Degression. Richard Dix for Palm Springs tea. Then Dix's studio got busy and called up the press agent and demanded to know who had wangled an endorsement out of Dix for Palm Springs tea. So the press agent called up Dix, expecting him to be furious, and asked him who possibly could have signed that release for Palm Springs tea. "Hell," said Mr. Dix, "I own Palm Springs tea." GLENDA FARRELL'S young son, Tommy, had the kind of birthday party that every youngster would like to have, when he entertained a group of young friends at his mother's home recently. There were horses to ride, target practice, movies in the projection room, and, of course, a swell birthday cake with a model plane mounted along with the candles— for Tommy is a most enthusiastic aviation fan. The icing on the cake read: "To Flyer Tommy Farrell— Happy Birthday and Happy Landings" and Tommy was so thrilled when he saw it he couldn't talk. Like most movie kids, Tommy gets a much greater kick out of meeting a pilot of a mail plane than he does out of meeting Clark Gable or Bing Crosby. ALICE WHITE has found a way to overcome her most annoying fault— forgetting. She slips a list of daily reminders into her cigarette case and everytime she opens it, there it is, staring her in the face. Alice says that a slip in a cigarette case has a string around the finger beat a mile. HARRY COHN, Columbia producer, thought it would be a good idea to take the entire cast of "The Captain Hates the Sea" down to San Diego, California, for a gala premiere there. So he rented a private car on the three something limited, told the cast to be on time, and wired San Diego of the thrill in store for them. Sure enough, when the train pulled in there was the Mayor, and the Chamber of Commerce, and several bands, and Rotarians, and keys to the city and everything— but Evelyn D. Kelly is introduced by Mrs. Cooper to Gary. Evelyn has written to him every week for eight years — over five hundred letters. She's the champion fan of the University of California.