Silver Screen (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

Silver Screen for March 1939 73 Gorgeous Women Add to the Hollywood Pageant [Continued from page 21] looks to me as if it had grown too fast. There are offices and laboratories, dressing rooms and projection rooms all jumbled together. Although, now, since the completion of the new Irving Thalberg Memorial Building, they have in it not only an outstanding superlative but at the same time a lot more room. This is the newest building on any lot and it is magnificent, to say the least. It is surrounded by formal planting and is full of air conditioning and marble. The administration building on the Fox lot, only a few months ago the last word, now takes second place. You see how it goes? M.-G.-M. has always had the most imposing array of star material. They seem always to have the largest number of great box-office names. There's Taylor and Gable and Crawford and Garbo and now Hedy Lamarr. That's one reason I suppose why they have so many other outstanding superlatives. Here, they have the largest stage and certainly the largest and most elaborate studio commissary. They have more square feet of stage space on this lot than at any other studio in the world, over a million square feet. They have right now in production the most fantastic picture ever filmed, containing the weirdest effects with the strangest sets ever built. They have a world famous music library and the world's most popular designer. But wait, I want to give this all to you fully and accurately. I don't know whether you'll be able to visualize this or not but the biggest of all stages is more than a city block long and half this distance in width. Stage IS here at M.-G.-M. is 325 feet long and over 160 feet wide and 40 feet high. I know that we, back home, could put our local court house and movie mansion and depot at one end and still have room enough around the edges for 500 couples to do the rhumba. On this very stage, right now, incredibly fantastic things are going on for the filming of "The Wizard of Oz," unheard of ever before in Hollywood. The picture is in technicolor and Adrian has designed 2000 costumes, the likes of which have never been seen before. They are not only of every conceivable color but are made of Cellophane, glass and tin. M.-G.-M., too, has under contract now the largest group of midgets ever to be in one production, or in one assemblage. Over two hundred of these tiny people are secreted away in apartments in Culver City during the day and work only at night so as not to arouse too deep a curiosity. Each of these small characters presents a unique make-up problem. They are given apple cheeks, bulbous noses, pink, green and magenta beards. I have always wondered what Garbo's dressing room looked like. Well, I've looked into it but was not actually allowed inside. No one is except Garbo's maid, Lulu. It's very simply decorated in red and white in the plain Swedish Modern mode. She has only two rooms, less than WarriorQueen wins with smile! Roman soldiers feared her — but admired her beautiful smile. Her teeth were kept sound and sparkling by exercise on rough, chewy foods. We moderns eat soft foods that fail to give our teeth YOUR TEETH NEED DENTYNE! Dentyne, the "chewier" gum, gives your mouth and teeth the invigorating exercise they need. Stimulates healthy circulation of the blood in gums and teeth-roots — and increases the flow of cleansing saliva. Help; keep your teeth cleaner, healthier, more lustrous white. HELPS KEEP TEETH WHITE . . . MOUTH HEALTHY FOR SHEER PLEASURE, TASTE THAT FLAVOR! You'll find it a delight as well as flat package (exclusive Dentyne a sensible health habit to chew feature) slides neatly into your Dentyne daily — its spicy flavor is pocket or purse — a treat always so delicious, so lastingly good! The in reach. DENTYNE DELICIOUS CHEWING GUM