Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

Silver Screi-n for May 19 4 0 77 films, most of them good. Like; "More money should be spent on the movies and less on the stars' paychecks." Unusual talk coming from one soon to be a star herself; but it's common sense that she believes in. And, incidentally, a development which movies are swinging toward, already. She hasn't done any radio work as yet, but would like to and doesn't pretend to be superior to it, as movie people once did. She wants a minimum of run-of-themill ingenue parts, wants stuff along dramatic lines. She doesn't chase around with the stars but lives alone — her sister has gone back to Chicago. Despite the fact that she went to school with very social kids like herself, she hasn't bothered much with the formal world of society, because she's been too busy sitting on producers' doorsteps. In comparison with society, she finds the people of the theatre more interesting. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. Her height is five feet five, but, because she is small-boned, she impresses as being taller. She weighs 118 pounds. Her hat size is 21, her glove 6 and her shoe 6>^. She looks a little older in pictures than she does in real life. Although this has nothing to do with her measurements, her agent is Zeppo Marx. She wishes that her mother (who died when Janice was two) were alive today because she thinks she might be proud that her daughter had "accomplished a little something." Her mother could be very proud of this girl — any mother could. . . . Sitting in a luxurious suite at the Waldorf-Astoria {and wearing an attractive gray something made of roughish something and sporting a fur of some sort on the bottom of it) she looked miles away from her recent perils. What she did suggest was a beautiful girl who was intelligent and who went after every lucky break she saw on the movie horizon. Miss Logan, they say, is headed in the right direction and traveling fast. Miss Logan, to resort to a terrible gag, is the berries. . . . "Typhoon" Has Something to Blow About [Continued from page 71] mount's lawyers. He went back to the studio, raving so over Bob they summoned him for a test. And it was no perfunctory test they gave him. It ran to the incredible length of two thousand feet and no less an actor than J. Carroll Naish played opposite him. They did two scenes — ^one from "The Last Mile" and the other from "Idiot's Delight." "I still think that test is the best performance I've ever given," Bob averred. "I wish when producers are considering me for a part they'd look at that instead of my pictures." His first part was in "King of Alcatraz," followed by "Illegal Traffic" and then the ill-fated "Disbarred." Quoting from his biography, "he is six feet one inch tall, is an accomplished boxer and has fought in the Golden Gloves tournaments. He weighs 175 pounds, has dark brown hair and eyes of a briUiant gray." "What are you staring at?" he demanded suddenly. "I just wanted to see what brilliant gray eyes look like," I answered guilelessly. "Mook," he amended his previous statement, "you're not only a louse, you're a heel!" Again he used a stronger word. There is no limit to the flexibility of his vocabulary. "Any hobbies?" I queried, ignoring his unflattering opinion of me. "Clothes!" he shot back promptly. "I'm wacky about them." At the time he was clad only in a ragged pair of dungarees and a filthy shirt open from the waist up — ^his costume for his part in "Typhoon." "I don't wonder you're wacky about clothes," I jibed. "You sure know how to wear 'em." "This is male glamour I'm putting out today," he cut me off. He's been to only five previews — those of his own pictures. When I left Hollywood in August he had never been to a Hollywood party. He had never been asked to one. It was while I was away his name first began being linked with Dorothy Lamour's. When I returned in November, Bob was running Jimmy Stewart a close second for man-abouttown honors — except that Jimmy plays the field and Bob is constant. "Ever since I entered pictures," he commented when I joshed him about a family man going social, "I had been seeing only friends of my pre-picture days. I thought I ought to begin finding out something about how the other half lives." "What about your romance with Dorothy Lamour?" I drew him out subtly. "You dog!" he shouted. "I knew that was coming!" It was my turn to grin and Bob quieted down. "I'll tell you," he replied seriously. "Poor Dottie has been kicked around from pillar to post all her life. All she's ever got from anyone was a kick in the — a kicking around. She's never had any fun because she's always had to work too hard. Since we've been going around she's learned to laugh and enjoy herself. So she's re-designed her design for hving. 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