Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

MAY M 1939 ©C1B 419400 REFLECTING the MAGIC of HOLLYWOOD JULY, 1939 THE LETTER FROM LIZA DEAR ED: What a jolly time the psychiatrists would have with me if I ever gave them an opportunity to bounce my brain about a bit. If I say I won't do anything, and definitely, you can be quite certain that I'm a cinch to do it. When I vacationed in New York recently I said to myself I will visit the Aquarium, and the Battery, and watch the ships go out to sea; I will dine at the Automat on baked beans and Irish stew, and rub shoulders with real, thinking people who are interested in what Roosevelt said to Hitler, and not in what Elsa Maxwell said to John Jacob Astor III. So what? So the nearest I got to the Aquarium were the oysters at "21." I don't think I rubbed shoulders with a single real, thinking person as most of my afternoons were spent in a taxi trying to get from the East Side to the West Side. Also, having said that I couldn't bear to see anyone on my vacation that reminded me of Hollywood you can just imagine how I yelled and screamed and carried on like an American in Paris when I ran into Franchot Tone, Freddie March, and Sylvia Sidney. Franchot was tearing into the Stork Club's smelliest cheese and trying to coax some on Ethel Merman, who wouldn't be coaxed. Franchot's and Sylvia's play "Gentle People" closes for the summer and Franchot goes to Hollywood and Sylvia moves into her New Jersey farm. Sylvia is making less money than she ever made in her life (the Group salaries are notoriously low) but claims she is happier than she has ever been in her life. She talks constantly about her new husband Luther Adler. Holding forth almost nightly at the Stork are Tallulah Bankhead, Bea Lillie, and Dorothy Parker of the brilliant wit. Winchell called them, "Three Smart Girls Grow Up." Tallulah eats salmon and receives congratulations on her performance in New York's best play of the season, "The Little Foxes." Bea Lillie tells stories with a cockney accent that have you in hysterics. Dorothy Parker raves about her farm in Pennsylvania. To think that Sylvia and Dotty, of all people, should turn out to be rustics. All in one night at the Stork Club I bumped into Irene Dunne, very chic in a cunning little brainstorm of a hat, Freddie March, very content as well he should be with "The American Way" sold out months in advance, Gene Raymond, in conference with his publisher, Charlie Butterworth, having a time for himself. Mischa Auer, done up in tails, the Joe Penners, on their way to Bermuda, Nancy Carroll, starring in her ex-husband Jack Kirkland's play, and Robert Montgomery discussing Orson Welles with John Emery. Yes, I must say Hollywood certainly gets around. Well, next time I'll go to the Aquarium and the Battery. Volume Nine Number Nine Lester C. Grady Editor Elizabeth Wilson Lenore Samuels Frank J. Carroll Western Editor Assistant Editor Art Director CONTENTS STORIES AND ARTICLES Page Marriage and Hedy Lamarr Gladys Hall 18 The first authentic story of her new married life Hollywood Believe-It-Or-Nots Robert L. Ripley 20 Amazing facts about your favorites Mixing Romance With Business Miriam Rogers 22 Is it true that it never works out well? Fate, Hope and Hilarity! Gene Harvey 24 Life was giving Bob Hope the horselaugh, but — Hollywood on Holiday Jerome Zerbe 26 Whirling around Manhattan with visiting screen stars Madeleine Is Not To Be Misunderstood Elizabeth Wilson 28 Madeleine Carroll has lots more to offer than beauty Marriages Are Made in Heaven Ed Sullivan 30 And not in the publicity offices! How It Got That Way! Virginia T. Lane 32 The handwriting of the stars is all too revealing In Keeping With Miriam Helen Louise Walker 42 The home of Miriam Hopkins is just as you might imagine Just What Is It About Loretta? Leon Surmelian 44 Why do so many men fall completely in love with her? "Captain Fury" From Down Under Frank N. Seltzer 54 "On location" with Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen and the cast MONTHLY FEATURES The Opening Chorus 4 For a "Beautiful" Vacation Mary Lee 6 Tips on Pictures A Movie Fan's Crossword Puzzle Charlotte Herbert 10 Topics For Gossip fm Reviews . . .• ■ •/-■;.• ' ' ' 3» We Point With Pride (James Stewart) • • 35 Pictures on the Fire S. R. Mook 52 West Coast Whispers ■ • = 83 Contest Winner ••• ' 8a ART SECTION Annabella and Lya Lys 36"37 John Garfield and David Niven ■ • • -38"39 Susan Hay ward and Irene Dunne 4°-4! Robert Taylor and Lana Turner 5° Fashions for The World's Fairest 46 Water Babies . ■ 48 After the Swim 49 Cause For Celebration 51 COVER PORTRAIT OF CAROLE LOMBARD BY MARLAND STONE V. G. Heimbucher, President Paul C. Hunter, Vice President and Publisher D. H. Lapham, Secretary and Treasurer SILVER SCREEN. Published monthly by Screenland Magazine. 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