Silver Screen (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

course, the author is a vitally important person to both industries. "Do I like working in Hollywood? Well, last year I gave up my apartment in New York and bought a house out here— a t\\-ostory Spanish type building in Beverh Hills, with a roof of red tiles and heavy monastic doors. I love the olive trees in the garden. "So far as my association uith Hollywood is concerned, it has been most pleasant. My boss, Harry Cohn, has made things quite comfortable for me. I can divide my time between the stage and screen. I'm due to return to New York right no^s— but as yet I haven't found a play I like. Mr. Cohn has been most liberal, damn s^^•eet, I should say. I know, there are some places I should probably feel miserable, but not in a studio like Columbia. I feel that if you must complain, you'd better do it in your beard." His honest blue eyes t^vinkled, and he rubbed a fatherly hand across the reddish tan of his face. "Holly\vood offers theactor a real home life, unlimited sunshine, and much more leisure than he could have in New York. If you are playing in New York, you are engaged every night, you can't take little trips, go native on occasion, relax. No^v, tennis happens to be my hobby, but unfortimately I had to give it up. I'm getting too old for it, I guess. But I can sit in the peace of my Beverly Hills garden and read, with all those wonderful olive trees around me. I like biographies, and I read an awful lot of plays." He checked himself, then, lowering his voice, "I'll receive ten more plays after this goes to press. Play^vrights and agents read fan magazines; you'd be surprised to know how carefully! They miss nothing. "Holly^vood is the most cosmopolitan city in the world. It has been truthfully said that if you stand at the corner of 'Vine Street and Hollywood Boulevard long enough you will meet all your friends antl acquaintances, from Paris and London and Timbuktu. In Hollywood there are representati\es from every artistic center in the world, and you can't say yoii can't have congenial conversation out here. Biu you do miss the old pals you knew in your leaner days. "In the days when I started, 25 years ago, engagements were plentiful. The stage wasn't as crowded as it is now. Opportimities for young people have been washed up. I didn't have any difficulties to speak of. But I probably wouldn't be able to go back and do the one-night stands I did in my youth. Our \vages were small and we had to sit up on trains rather than take sleepers, but it wasn't a hardship then. So today, conditions in the theatre being whiil they are, Hollywood is a haven of refuge for stage actors harassed by landlords and bill collectors." Brian Donlevy, a mild-voiced bland Irishman who writes poetry, but hates to admit it, has one of the most colorful backgroiuids of any actor in Hollywood. Born in Ireland, he was brought to this coinitry a babe in arms, and grew up in Wisconsin. He went to school in Beaver Dam, ^^hence hails the curly-headed Fred MacMiuia). At I |, Brian was with Pershing on his Mexican Expedition, tooting an army bugle. He was a husky lad, and passed for 18. He joined the French flying service before America entered the great war, and ^vas ^^'Olnlded twice. After the armistice, he spent a year at .•\nnapolis, and then took up short story \vriting at Columbia University. Leyendecker, the illustrator, picked him out of a football crowd, as a perfect model for his magazine cover and a(l\crtising ^\ork. His handsome mug, with its ^vavy Inown hair and resolute chin, has adorned se\cral times the covers of the Satmday Evening Post and other magazines. He broke into '^^^'O LOTION NO "SANDPAPER HANDS" for this lady ! She knows what Hinds Honey and Almond Cream does for chapped skin — brittle hangnails. It soaks dry skin smooth again. And its Vitamin D is absorbed — does a world of good. Use Hinds daily to keep skin smooth, supple. Creamy, not watery — every drop works! . l'.i;t(. Li'lu, iii Fink I'ru.lm-tH tlnrp. HINDS HONEY 7VND ALMOND ( HKAAf 1 ^ WIVES WORK HARD! And hands show it! Red. Chapped. Tender. Use Hinds, with the "sunshine" vitamin. It soothes. It softens. Makes hands look well-groomed, feminine again! Now . . . Hinds brings hands some of the benefits of sunshine The famous Hinds Honey and Almond Cream now contains \'itamin D. This vitamin is absorbed by the skin. Seems to smooth it out! Now, more than ever. Hinds soothes and softens dryness, stinging "skin cracks," chapping, and tenderness caused by wind, cold, heat, hard water, and housework. Every drop — with its Vitamin D — does skin more good! $1, 50c, 25c, 10c. DAILY RADIO TREAT: Tod Malone . . . in^itinB you to help yourself to Happiness and to Beauty. Mon. to Fri., 12:15 pm E.S.T., over WABC-CBS. SiLviiR Screen 77