Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)

AUG 28 1935 ©C1B 272860: REFLECTING the MAGIC of HOLLYWOOD OCTOBER 1935 Volume Five k Number Twelve Eliot Keen Editor Elizabeth Wilson Western Editor Frank J. Carroll Art Director CONTENTS SPECIAL FEATURES Pace THE SILVER SCREEN GOLD MEDAL CONTEST 6 Vote for the Most Popular Star CONTEST FOR SIGNED AND FRAMED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE STARS 18 Prize Letter Contest STEPPING OUT WITH LORETTA YOUNG Ed Sullivan 20 Loretta Takes in the Sights of New York SNOOPING IN HOLLYWOOD Elizabeth Wilson 22 Gossiping Is an Old Idea ADJECTIVES COLOR THEIR LIVES Helen Louise Walker 24. Hollywood Sums Up the Talents of the Stars WHAT'S THE BIGGEST THING IN PICTURES? Liza 26 Every Studio Is Striving to Outdo All the Others ANOTHER DICKENS CLASSIC COMES TO THE SCREEN Whitney Williams 28 Making a Picture of "A Tale of Two Cities" THE HARVEST OF HEROES Julia Gwin 30 The New Leading Men Who May Become Stars FAY WRAYDIANT Helen Smith 32 Fay Wray Is the Flower of Experience STUDIO NEWS S. R. Mook 33 The Movie Year Begins AN ARTIST IN ARMOR Lenore Samuels 51 Henry Wilcoxon Is A Painter As Well As An Actor THE STORY OF BOOTH TARKINGTON'S HEROINE 52 "Alice Adams" — Part Two HOLLY WOOD-THE WRITERS' HEAVEN Ruth Rankin 53 Hollywood Is the Place Where All Good Writers Go SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS The Opening Chorus 5 The European Touch Ruth Corbin 10 Mrs. Lukas Has the Magyar ' s Love for a W ell Served Dinner "You're Telling Me?" 12 Beautiful Eyes Mary Lee 14 The Latest Make-Up Tricks Give Your Eyes More Beauty Reviews! Tips on Pictures 16 Topics for Gossips 19 Reviews of Pictures Seen 54 A Movie Fan's Crossword Puzzle Charlotte Herbert 82 The Final Fling Eliot Keen 82 ART SECTION In Pursuit of Shirley Temple 35 Competition Among the Babies "You're Driving Me Crazy" 36-37 The War of the Sexes Are the New Beauties Prettier? 38-39 Can the Stars Hold Their Own Against the Newcomers? Art in Screen Productions 40-41 The Artistic Results in the New Pictures Personalities Put Over Great Pictures 42-43 It is Emotional Sincerity That Makes Pictures Live Funny People 44-45 Comedians Are Happy When They Are Laughed At The Hollywood Touch 46-47 In Hollywood, Originality Is the Pearl Beyond Price Fall. So What! 48 The New Styles Dresses Must Glisten and Glitter 49 The Latest Mode in Evening Gowns Sweet Surrender! 50 The Hero Makes the Love Scene COVER PORTRAIT 01 FAY WRAY BY MARLAND STONE SILVER SCREEN. Published monthly by Screenland Manazlnc. Inc., at 45 West 45th Street, New York, N. Y. V G. Heimbucher, President; J. S. MacDermott, Viee President; J. Superior, Secretary and Treasurer. Chicago Office: 400 North Michigan Ave.. Chicago. Adv. Representative, Loyd B. Chappell, 511 S. Alexandria Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Yearly subscriptions $1.00 in the United States, its dependencies, Cuba and Mexico; $1.50 in Canada; foreign $1.60. 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, Now York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry at Chicago, Illinois. Copyright 1935. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS # for October 1935 Katharine Hepburn A LETTER FROM LIZA DEAR EDITOR, It is sad I am to relate, and after all these years too, that I have gone completely Hepburn-mad, so completely that it will probably be Christmas before I can stop drooling about her. I have just come from the preview of "Alice Adams," and I have never in all my life seen anything as exquisite as the Hepburn performance. If those poops don't give the Academy Award to Katie this year for her "Alice" I shall get to hell out of this benighted country, but methinks I needn't start worrying about a passport as yet for already I hear the Academicians chip chip chipping away on a little gold statuette for our Miss Hepburn. Now I have never liked Katie. I warmed to her a little in "Morning Glory," and I tolerated her in "Little Women," and the rest of the time I was Old Frozen Face herself. Besides I had a whole pile of resentments. I particularly resented the fact that she was too darned high hat to sign autographs— one day I had two autograph albums returned to me with the note, "Miss Hepburn does not sign autographs." Several days later, when I read in the newspaper that a cop had chased La Flepburn right to the studio gates, and presented her with a ticket which she had to autograph, I was so pleased I said nuts to calories and drank a chocolate malted milk. I resented the fact that she ducked and dodged the photographers instead of smiling sweetly for the boys who, after all, are only trying to make an honest living, and my favorite story for many a month, and I told it with a dash of the fiend, was about the time Hepburn saw the camera boys at the Hollywood Bowl and started running for dear life, hurdling benches and bushes, until she found herself in a cul de sac. (No, Ella, you don't wear a cul de sac.) "We don't want your picture, Miss Hepburn," one of the photographers said in pseudo gallantry, "You ran and we thought you wanted us to chase you." And of course I got a hearty laugh out of the time (it was after the preview of "Little Women") that she ducked into an alley to dodge her fans and got locked out into the worst downpour that California has had since Noah's Flood. Did I laugh! But it's all over now. Hepburn is no longer my pet pain-in-the-ncck. After "Alice Adams" she can do anything and I'd only gurgle, "Isn't she wonderful." But, strange to say, "Alice" seems to have had a softening effect on Hepburn too. She came to the preview with George Cukor. She didn't run lor the nearest alley exit as soon as it was over. Giggling like an embarrassed school-girl, just like "Alice" herself, she left the theatre, beaming on everyone who extended congratulations. And migosh, she signed autographs by the hundreds! And Gee Whiz (as Alice said) she posed for photographers! I couldn't have been more surprised. 5