Silver Screen (May-Oct 1937)

Silver Screen Topics For Go ssi yOU can't tell Warner Oland that the world's not pretty well filled with honest people. While on his trip to the Orient last year Oland lost a cigarette case. He thought he probably mislaid it in Singapore. Recently a package arrived for him at the studio, where he is making "Charlie Chan at the Olympics," and in it was his long lost cigarette case. It had been sent by Roy Royston, Singapore rubber planter. The case had slipped down between the cushions of a chair in the lounge of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong-Kong and only after many months were the initials "W.O." traced to their owner. "I'm very grateful for the return of the case," Oland said, "but it sort of upsets things. I have, for a long time, managed to lose at least one cigarette case a year, and that always made it easy for Mrs. Oland to select a Christmas present." jEAN ARTHUR, vacationing in New ~J York with her husband, Frank Ross, developed a dancing mood one night and got all dressed up like a movie star. She and Frank went to every night club in town but couldn't get in because they were all filled up. A week later she and Frank attended a first night of a Broadway play and after the performance the young couple they were with -suggested that they go night-clubbing. Jean dismally assured them that it was Saturday and that they would never be able to get in— hadn't she and Frank tried last Saturday night! "But we can get in," shrieked the friends, "we've already made reservations in your name." T"HEY say that Sonja Henie got a little * excited about all those romantic rumors involving Tyrone Power and Loretta Grace Moore, opera star, movie star and flower transplanter, sings with joy as she moves a night blooming cactus down front to the spotlight; husband Valentin Parera assisting. Young, and, with a few days off from her heavy personal appearance tour, flew into Hollywood just to see what it's all about. Eye-witnesses report that Tyrone met Sonja at the Union Air Terminal and that they clinched and kissed and posed for pictures and it was all very sweet. "It's wonderful to see you," Sonja said. "You," said Tyrone, who knows how to write his own love scenes, "look better than wonderful to me." Sonja further remarked that it was "ridiculous" to think that she had hastened to Hollywood to check on reports that Loretta and Tyrone were playing boy meets girl. „ n fn » ,A LTHOUGH the billboards continue to *■ * read "Garbo loves Robert Taylor," it seems that Barbara Stanwyck is still the object of Mr. Taylor's affections. He has just given her a new sapphire and diamond ring that will knock your eyes out. And Garbo, who is a stubborn girl, still insists that those billboards should read, "Robert Taylor loves Garbo." „_e<S> A/lARLENE DIETRICH and Douglas *■ * * Fairbanks Jr., have been lunching together almost daily since they returned to Hollywood. And Marlene is telling everyone who asks her the London gossip that Merle Oberon will marry Brian Aherne any day now. VY / HEN her pals on the set of " * "Personal Property" showed Jean Harlow the pictures in the papers of the senator kissing her, which were taken when she attended the President's Ball in Washington, Jean merely remarked, "He's certainly going to town, isn't he?" KjORMA SHEARER, looking more *■ ^ beautiful than ever, has been attending many of the previews lately, and was discovered by the fans at "The Last Of Mrs. CKeyney." Norma made this picture only a few years ago and probably was interested in seeing what the new edition was like. She was also seen with her sister at the Jane Cowl play, "The First Lady," in Los Angeles. «—»€>—» HOLLYWOOD'S first peek at Surrealist Art occurred this week at the Siegel-Antheil Galleries, amid a great display of interest in the screen colony Carole Lombard expressed great interest in a picture titled, "Agitated Landscape;" Edward G. Robinson pinned his preference to a Salvador Dali titled, "A Dream Puts Her Hand on a Man's Shoulder," and Lola Lane purchased a bit of political whimsy called "Death Goes on the WPA." ]ANET GAYNOR and Margaret — ' Lindsay and their respective mammas are having a New York vacation — Janet at last having finished her first technicolor picture "A Star Is Born." And for the first time in her screen career Janet has decided that she will "settle" in Hollywood and has bought a goodly bit of property in the Outpost, where she expects to build as soon as she returns from New York. Janet has always lived in "rented" houses. But now she, too, wishes to belong to the landed gentry. It gets them all sooner or later. Miriam Hopkins, who would have none of Hollywood when she first came out here to make a picture, and who dashed off to New York as soon as her picture was completed, recently bought the late John Gilbert estate and has become a home owner. Ditto Irene Dunne. Sylvia Sidney seems to be our only die-hard left. Sylvia still lives in an apartment, and still rushes off to New York the minute she finishes a picture. But maybe love has something to do with that. HUGH HERBERT has lost twelve perfectly good fountain pens in as many weeks, by reason of autograph hunters who have managed to collect both his signature and his pen. T~HERE is no trouble too great apparently for a fan to take to please a star. Pat O'Brien received a letter the other day containing forty-four four leaf clovers collected by an Irish fan who volunteered the information that it had taken three months to collect them. 25