Silver Screen (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

TOPICS FOR GOSSIPS ON TOUR with her celebrated Ice Revue of 1939 Sonja Henie meets innumerable stage door Johnnies who ask her to have supper with them after the show. Says Sonja with a cute smile, "Certainly, if I may bring my entire troupe." — "<$»— T) ELIEVE it or not, Asta, -O the dog in the Thin Man series, has a clause in his contract which gives him top screen billing over any other animal actor. <— THROUGH sun baths, which have been discovered to influence her assimilative processes, Olympe SILVE IV by Mrs. Kerstin Wijmark, editor of Vecko-Revyn and correspondent for Filmjournalen, leading Swedish publications, who came over on the SS. Kungsholm with Greta. "Prior to her departure, Garbo was invited to an important social event," declared Mrs. Wijmark, "which was to be attended by nobility. She appeared wearing slacks — to which, incidentally, the hostess and guests, immaculately attired, paid not the slightest bit of attention. Later, slacks became very popular as a result of the Garbo influence." SCREEN Bradna claims she has lost 15 pounds. ■ — <§>« — QUITE a sense of humor has Loretta Young. She collects all the erroneous romance <mf| stories about herself in a 1 scrapbook labeled, "Oh, My." _„<$>„_„ HOLLYWOOD is about to let loose a "no" to fashion dictators which will be heard around the world. A check of leading feminine personalities of the screen reveals a universal ban against the "little girl just out of the bathtub" coiffure smiled upon so beamingly by the creators of chic. Garbo leads off, with a shoulder-length coiffure for her new starring feature, "Ninotchka." Norma Shearer wears a modern version of a Dutch-boy bob in "Idiot's Delight." A simple, half-length hair-do with side part is Joan Crawford's choice for her new starring production, "Ice Follies of 1939." The glamorous Hedy Lamarr allows her hair to hang loose to the shoulders, with a deep center part for "I Take This Woman." And Myrna Loy continues to be the "perfect wife," by refusing to go in for the "skinned rabbit" effect in the new Thin Man production. „_„#,„_„ IT TOOK Garbo to introduce Hollywood slacks to royalty. This was the word brought to the film colony yesterday for February 1939 W Keeping up the spirit of the month, Olivia de Havilland poses for your Valentine. \ TT MAY interest psychologists to A know that movie stars, themselves objects of constant public gaze, find a construction job as irresistible a sight as it is to anyone else. (Remember that swell scene in "The Young in Heart" where Doug Jr., and Roland Young watch an excavation?) When Paramount studio excavators started shoveling up the bungalow which provided haven for Gloria Swanson in her hey-day, a crowd of "names" quickly gathered around. There were Martha Raye and Bob Hope and Mary Boland and Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck and a dozen or so others. All stood around in fascinated silence. "Must be looking for some of Swanson's diamonds," Martha offered, so Bob obligingly called to the excavator, "What are you tearing the place down for?" "Gotta," said the man, "Termites." Thus passeth the glory of Gloria Swanson's bungalow. „_„<S> — rALLY FORD tells of an actor who complains of seeing nightspots before his eyes. o n<§>0 n CI WILLS, Joan Davis' husband tells on his wife, while O Joan's face turns crimson. Says Si, "When Joan hurt her back at the studio not long ago and couldn't straighten up she said, 'Gosh, Si, suppose I can never take a bow again!' " 17