Silver Screen (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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"Was he a Wooh^'orth store owner as other articles have stated?" "Why, no. The reason people have been confused about that is because all of the o^vners or executives of Newberry's and Wooh\'orth's come from Wilkes-Barre. "My father was a successful contractor with a too adventuresome spirit. He was a member of the city council and Chairman of the Board of Health, and when I was about sixteen he sold all of the property Grandfather Shovlin had left him, even mortgaged our own home, and then went to Texas to buy an oil field." "And did he?" "He sunk one all right. He sunk his money in a dry hole. Our family always has been like that. Successful one minute, broke the next, but invariably happy. "Dad became ill in Texas. The doctor pronounced him incurable and he came a horse-and-buggy, but can you fancy such trans;-.ortation in Beverly Hills? At Ensenada they hire what they declare is better still— a horse and a wagon. Then they go trotting up the beach, perched delightedly on the wagon-seat. The other day they set forth on a picnic and spent three hours traveling seven miles. Amazing contrasts are typical of Mexico and you get a major jolt when you first reach Ensenada. The village is as opposite from the resort hotel as possible. It's a couple of blocks a^vay and it's Mexican simplicity itself, a few frame stores of no architectural pretensions sufficing for the trade of the happy peons. Burros ladened with sticks of firewood and baskets of vegetables meander down the streets. The ^■illagers don't pester the stars and neither do the other guests at the hotel. In fact, Charlie Chaplin is so amiable that he allo\vs strangers to kodak him and Paulette Goddard whenever they wish; he once turned do^vn Franchot Tone when his autograph was requested, but Mexico mellows him. Honeymooners are entranced by the magic calm and color that's combined at Ensenada. Myrna Loy led olT b) marrying there; Kav Hughes wanted to follow suit recently, but when she and her groom arri\ed the magistrate was too involved with the marine strike to be impressed with the ingeuty of her love. She tinned aroiuid and came l)ack! Maureen O'Sullixan declares she had the world's finest honeymoon in this ]iar;ulisc. Even Johnny AVcissmulicr and Lupe \'elez have found the sunsets at this seaside spa too \vonderfid. They spent their second honeymoon here. Una Merkel, who was married at Caliente on a New Year's Day, has switched her aiuHial repe;U lionc\ moon to Ensenada. I'na was strolling one ilav \viien she noticed an elderly woman. On second ghuice back to Wilkes-Barre. We sold our home and took him to Atlantic City where he died eighteen months later." "And vou? " ".And i, with my college hopes shattered and Kith very little money, began my search for that pot of gold. "Starting as a stock boy in Woohvorth's, I ivorked my way up to managership. When m\ mother remarried I was free to quit. And quit I did! I traveled from there to NeA\ York, intending to go around the world. You know, cattle boats and things? But New York and the theatre claimed me!" "But -what about this other relative that tried the theatre, and quit? It was a cousin, wasn't it? I rather vaguely remember. What was it he told you when you began your career in the theatre?" Mike's eyes twinkled, "He said, 'Michael, mv bov. I tried it and had to give it up. The theatre is the most difficult career a person ever attempted. It's almost useless. If you've got the stuff to stand the terrific gaff, and if vou achieve a name in any part of the theatre you're the bravest "Whalen that ever trod these shores. And that, my boy, is saying a mouthful!' " And I guess Mike has said a mouthful now. We know that he'll never bite off more than he can chew because life has taught him two very great lessons: humility, and the lo^e of hard work! it ivas her former eighth-grade history teacher! From Kentucky to a dream cottage here and a career as a novelist has been some jump, but her old instructor has not onlv made it but has adopted the costinne of the natives so that she appears one of them. A trip to Mexico sometimes kills fivo birds with one fling. Foreign actors, who have come to Holly^\'ood on temporary quota permits, frequently renew their entrv tickets bv sojourning awhile in handv Mexico while their law\ers attend to the legal procedures. Sonja Henie has lately done this. Richard .-Vrlen cannilv sa^•ed §30,000 by \acationing for twenty-eight days at Ensenada—this is ^vhat he Avould ha\e had to pay the state of California in income tax had he not remained out of the state a full six months. He'd been to England to make a picture and he'd alreadv paid Uncle Sam and Britain a generous stun. Twenty miles from Ensenada, over ^vinding dirt roads, is the supreiirely quaint Russian farming colony Paul Muni raves about. It seems that in 1905 a band of Moujiks heard the rumbling of upheaval and determined to transplant their belo\ed Crimean customs to preserve them. They settled in this haven, becoming Mexican citizens. But they haven't lost a speck of their identity; they li\e exactly as they used to and so do their ciiildren. Aluni is much impressed with their manner of living in spite of no newspapers, no telephones, and no radios. They forl)id them! All down the dro\vs\, sunny Gulf of Lower California the fishing and hiuiting is grand. Gary Cooper can't let you listen to how he hooked his giant tuna without acting out how he lined the monster; Clark Gable has been hunting at Guaymas, further South. (CJroiicho Marx has been having such checker bouts \\iih the militar) commander at Ensenada that he hasn't Fun In Mexico [Coiiliniied from page 23] 70 SiLvnR Screen