Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)

FEB 27 1935' The Opening Chorus Norma Shearer, when she received the Academy award for her performance in "A Free Soul." LETTER FROM LIZA {Home Wanted For Some Statuettes) a S WE go to press, right merrily too, /-V those little gold statuettes that the _Z. A. Academy awards to the actor and actress who have given the best performances during the year, are still reposing at the jeweller's, but oh what a lot of talk they are causing in this town. Riots are breaking out in all the best places and it's gotten so that no dinner party is complete without a wrangle over the awards. The picture people seem to agree (fortunately for them, otherwise I'd run amuck on a foggy night and do a little expert throat slitting) that Claudette Colbert deserves to be a candidate not only for her grand performance in "It Happened One Night," but also in "Imitation of Life." And most of the folks agree that Norma Shearer's Elizabeth Browning in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" was really something—but when the name of Grace Moore is mentioned the bloodshed begins". The Academy, it seems, forgot to remember that the award is for acting, not singing. And, speaking of acting, Bette Davis' performance in "Of Human Bondage" established a new high in screen acting, and it's Bette who should have been made a candidate along with Claudette and Norma. And, of course, as a dyed-in-the-wool Myrna Loy fan I do think that, after "The Thin Man," Myrna should have been a runner-upper or something. I think I'll just go out and buy her a gold statue myself. The biggest excitement in pictures lately is Constance Collier, who made her debut recently in a little trifle called "Shadow of Doubt." And there seems to be no shadow of doubt but what Miss Collier will be one of the screen sensations of 1935. Don't miss her first picture. And don't miss Shirley Temple's tap dancing in "The Little Colonel." That grand top-notcher in tapping, Bill Robinson, taught Shirley how to imitate him in his intricate stairway dance, and Bill says, of all the people he has taught in his life, no one ever caught on so quickly as little Shirley. By the way, the two became great pals during the picture, and when it was finished Shirley gave Bill a miniature of herself in the old-fashioned dress and pantaloons she wears in one sequence, and he claims it is his most cherished possession. They're the taps— ©C1B 253730(V^ REFLECTING the MAGIC HOLLYWOOD APRIL 193 5 Eliot Keen Editor Elizabeth Wilson Western Editor Frank J. Carroll Art Director CONTENTS PAGE 6 SPECIAL FEATURES PICTURE PUZZLES Can You Guess What Stars' Names Are Represented? A NEW HANDWRITING CONTEST 8 Win An Autograph Album! TRIPPING TO NEW YORK WITH CAROLE LOMBARD By Airway And Anyway ELIZABETH WlLSON 18 "THESE THINGS HAVE COUNTED" Walter Ramsey 20 Joan Crawford Recalls The Poignant Moments Of Her Life HOLLYWOOD-A FLOP WITHOUT BROADWAY Ed Sullivan 22 The Famous Columnist Defends The Gay White Way BEAL Jerry Asher 24 John Beat Is The New "Demanded-By-Everyone" Leading Man THE MAJOR'S DAUGHTER Bex Maddox 25 To Maureen O' Sullivan No Part Is Too Difficult THE GAY NIGHT SPOTS "Liza" 26 Number One: The Trocadero "WHAT, NO CINDERELLA?" Eleanor Packer 28 "No Woman Is Ever Satisfied," Says Connie Bennett THE MARQUEE CONTEST :. 29 Prizes For Slogans "JUGGLER OF LAUGHS" Maude Cheatham 30 W. C. Fields Can Balance An Audience On The Point Of A Joke NOEL COWARD ADOPTS THE SCREEN Mary Mallet 32 First Appearance Of The Celebrated Actor-Playwright STUDIO NEWS S. R. Mook 33 Snooping Around The Busy Sets Of Hollywood BORN TO ACT Lexore Samuels 51 Freddie Bartholomew Has Won The Heart Of America SYMBOLS OF SUCCESS Helen Louise Walker 52 An Actor's Possessions Tell How Good He Is THE GIRL FROM FARGO Muriel Babcock 56 Virginia Bruce Has A Brilliant Future WINNERS OF THE THIRD HANDWRITING CONTEST 80 SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS The Opening Chorus 4 Silver Screen's Pattern Department 8 Helen Vinson' s Sports Frock Keeping Robert Young Ruth Corbix 10 Recipes Always Give One An Appetite A Million Dollar Figure Mary Lee 12 There Are Many W ays To Fool The Mirror "You're Telling Me?" 14 Topics For Gossips 17 Reviews— Pictures Caught, Criticized or Complimented 54 A Movie Fan's Crossword Puzzle Charlotte Herbert 81 Reviews— Tips On Pictures 82 The Final Fling The Editor 82 ART SECTION Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett 35 "They're The Tops" 36-37 The Outstanding Big Names Of Pictures Lovers Are Bursting Into Song 38-39 The Musicals Are Coming Smile And Show Your Disposition 40-41 Those Ingratiating Expressions Autographing The Silver Screen Albums 42-43 Social Life On The Sets 44"45 The "400" Of The Screen Stepping High, Wide and Handsome 46-47 The Great Season Of Dance Pictures Hats 48 The Latest Fashions In Snappy Head Wear Anna Sten, The Beautiful Russian in a New Picture 50 COYER PORTRAIT OF CONSTANCE BENNETT 13 x Marland Stone SILVER SCREEN. Published monthly by Screenland Magazine, Inc., at 4.1 West 4.",th Street. New York. N. Y. V G. Heimbucher, President; J. S. MacDermott. Vice President; J. Superior. Secretary and Treasurer. Chicago Office: i«0 North Michigan Ave.. Chicago. Adv. Representative, Loyd B. Chappell, ."ill -S. Alexandria Ave. Los Angeles. Calif. Yearly subscriptions $1,011 in the United States, its dependencies. Cuba and Mexico; $1.50 in Canada; foreign $1.00. Changes of address must reach us five weeks in advance of the next issue. Be sure to give both the old and new address. Entered as second class matter. September 23. 1030. at the Post Office. New Y'ork, N. Y., under the Act of March 3. 1870. Additional entry at Chicago. Illinois. Copyright 1933. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS