Silver Screen (May-Oct 1937)

S I LVE R Sc R E E N T. Oosstps opics for Vacation days lure Ida Lupino to the wildwood. Her next picture is "Artists and Models." WHEN Joan Crawford likes a book very much she buys a whole slue of copies. Then when she discovers that one of her guests hasn't read her favorite book she dashes into the library, gets a copy, and presents it to the guest. Right now the book that Joan is terribly enthusiastic about and is giving away like mad is John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." AT THE dinner at the Trocadero given recently to honor Weber and Fields, George Jessel, the master of ceremonies, introduced as the next speaker "an old English actor who trouped along with Sir Beerbohm Tree — Freddie Bartholomew." Freddie's opening remark was, "After all that build-up I didn't expect myself." Freddie has become the most agile impromptu speaker in Hollywood, and with his ready wit and repartee certainly puts the oldtimers to shame. ANEW and nourishing romance is that of Olivia de Havilland and John Arl edge. Their favorite fun is to take their bikes down to the beach and bicycle along the ocean. „_„^„_„ CHIRLEY TEMPLE, who has never shown the slightest fear of anything in her short career as a screen star, has suddenly developed a terrific elephant phobia. Every time she sees the elephants in "Heidi," her new picture, she screams and yells like a frightened kid. ClNCE the "I Met Him in Paris" loca•3 tion trip to Sun Valley last February, Claudette Colbert has become an enthusiastic skier and if you don't know what a christiania or a slalom is vou might just as well pass up a conversation with La Colbert. Quite by accident while she was out skiing on her own, Claudette found herself in the midst of a men's slalom race one week-end last month (there is snow on the California Sierras even in the middle of summer) and much to her surprise, and the gentlemen's shame, won the race! But, inasmuch as it was a man's race she did not get the silver cup, but they did present her with a milk bottle. Big-hearted, eh? Now Claudette is so agog with her prowess as a skier she is planning to tackle those Swiss Alps if she can get time off from picture-making next winter. ClMONE SIMON who used to be a little Alice-sit-by-the-fire is now the gay girl of Hollywood. In the course of one weekend she attended Andrea Leeds' cocktail party at the Trocadero with Director William Wyler, the tennis matches at the Westside Tennis Club with Jon Hall (who they say will be the next male sensation in Hollywood after "Hurricane"), and the Los Angeles opening of "Idiot's Delight" with Felix Rollo. It is quite fitting that one of Simone Simon's most constant companions is Arthur Arthur, a writer. Oh, those double talk people. ONE of those sad sights in Hollywood: A "For Sale" sign on the not quite completed gorgeous new Holmby Hills home of Joan Bennett and Gene Markey. _,<$,._. A STEWARDESS on one of the important airlines was interviewed the other day as to the peculiarities of the glamour girls who travel the air ways. And this was revealed: Ann Sothern likes her coffee almost cold, Mary Brian ikes her sandwiches with the crusts cut off, Irene Dunne likes cold chicken with plain bread and butter on the side. Joan Bennett wires home at every stop and doesn't like lemon with her tea, Kay Francis likes to sleep as much as possible and Sylvia Sidney likes to travel in slacks without a hat. . — „<$>,, — □ THE best feuds going on in Hollywood I ;now are those of Alice Faye and GypsyRose Lee, and of Mary Livingstone and Shirley Ross. Alice Faye and Gypsy Rose Lee are working together in the same picture, "You Can't Have Everything," and it seems that Alice is a frank, honest, downto-earth girl who can get her Irish temper up at the drop of an eyelash. On the other hand Gypsy Rose Lee, who made the strip tease famous, now wishes to forget Gypsy Rose Lee and the strip-tease and become Louise Hovick, artiste. So far it is only a polite feud. But the feud of Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny) and Shirley Ross is not so polite. Shirley, it seems, made a few cracks about Mary Livingstone in the wardrobe department of the studio and Mary, on the other side of the thin partition, heard them. When the two girls met on the set of "This Way Please" there were heated words and, when the fray was over, Shirley was taken out of the picture. — WHEN a little old lady smiled as she passed him on the Goldwyn lot one day Joel McCrea politely tipped his hat. Great was his surprise when he passed her again about a half an hour later and heard her mutter under her breath, "It certainly is funny what a few good reviews will do to these stuck up actors." Thoroughly intrigued by now he decided to follow her, saw Charles Boyer politely tip his hat to her too, and hadn't the least idea who she was until she pushed open the stage door on the "Stella Dallas" set. It was Barbara Stanwyck, of course, in her old age make-up for poor dear old Stella, and when Barbara "ages" on the screen, unlike most of the glamour girls, she does it perfectly. Ask both Mr. Bover and Mr. McCrea. 15