Looking at Hollywood with Ed Sullivan Reels, Two More Reels Wlll Have Ruined by Photographers
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CLicago Sunday Tribune Looking at Hollywood with Ed Sullivan reels, two more reels wlll have ruined by photographers. Every Darryl Zanuck. Walt Disney, arrived. In the mea n tim e time you swallowed a mouthful Randy Scott, Bruce Cabot, Bob Marion Davies' chauffeur will a cameraman asked you to move Hope, Bing Crosby, and Phil have taken away the first two away from the table while he Harris are exceptionally good reels from the Shearer resi- took a picture. What I thought golfers. Crosby is never far dence. So one picture plays up was an unusual dessert was an away from the 71 notch. Clark and down the beach in an esca- old flashlight bulb that had been Gable is a great hunter and digs lator process. left on my plate. for the woods every time a pic- After the projection room the ture is finished. Groucho Marx, party wlll break up into card • • • Smith Ballew, Nelson Eddy, and games. They p I a y for big If the Hollywood glamor girls Bob Riskin can be found almost stakes, these movie magnates, are distinguished by their al- any afternoon at the Beverly and a poker pot of $15,000is not most complete abstinence from Hills Tennis club. Ray Milland unusual when you have Joe athletics, let it be noted for the plays golf. Joel McCrea has a Schenck, D a-r r v I .Zanuck, AI records t hat the Hollywood stable of horses at his ranch Lichtman, and Billy Wilkerson males not only go in for sports forty miles out of Hollywood, holding the chips. Connie Ben- but excel at them. Spencer and his horseback riding in nett is an excellent card player, Tracy, the Academy award win- "Wells Fargo" wasn't turned in and the men like her to play ner, is a 'fine polo player. So is by any double. Like the Flowers, Hollywood Legs Come Into Public View in the Spring By ED SULLlVAN Hollywood, Cal. However, I beg of you, upon HIS IS the time of year dog on the shores of the Pacific. seeing these athletic pictures of when the cinema sirens Spring is one of those rare oc- the Hollywood sirens, not to be Tstart posing for pictures casions when the biggest stars gullible. You wlll read publicity of themselves in the surf at will permit their legs to be pho- yarns about Katie Hepburn get- Santa Monica. You will see Joan tographed, for as the movies ting up at the crack of dawn to Crawford using an Australian have developed, the feminine go horseback riding. You wlll crawl, Carole Lombard on the stars have become more and be led to understand that Loret- are there until 6 o'clock at night. sands at Malibu, June Travis more reluctant about leg pic- ta Young, Connie Bennett, Joan with them, because La Bennett Sunday is their only day of lei- sporting the latest thing in tures. In fact, some of them Bennett, Fay Wray, Dolores Del chucks it right on the line when beach sandals, shapely Lily Pons have clauses in their contracts Rio, Mary Livingstone, Olivia sure when working on a picture, she has something to bid up. cuddled under a beach umbrella, that excuse them from this type De Havllland, Virginia Bruce, and on that day you wlll find • Danielle Darrieux exhibiting to of exploitation. Stars with bad Nan Gray, Barbara Stanwyck, them down at Santa Monica's • • advantage a new one-piece bath- legs are particularly insistent Rosemary Lane, and Anita Lou- "Poverty Row." This is a row First time your reporter ever ing suit, June Lang eating a hot on this protective clause. ise spend so much time at tennis of ocean mansions lined up attended a beach party, at Mer- and golf that it is with the great- along the Pacific. Jack Warner, vyn Le Roy's summer home, his est reluctance they can be per- Marion Davies, Greg La Cava, first feeling was one of complete suaded to make pictures. Mervyn Le Roy, Hal Wallis, disappointment. Viewed from Norma Shearer, and others of the road that skirts the ocean, • • • the picture colony have their Poverty Row is drearily unim- ORDINARY SOAPS LEAVEME summer homes grouped togeth- pressive. It is only when you You will see these beautiful creatures posed on the tennis er, each one with a swimming enter these beach mansions that courts or on the golf courses. pool and tennis court attached. you realize how pretentious they UNCERTAIN OF MY DAINTINESS You will see them astride charg- The parties start about 3 p. m., are. Curiously e n 0 ugh, the ers that would have taxed the a buffet supper is served about homes of these movie magnates equestrian skill of Richard 7, and then you go into the host's rarely are opened to cameras, -~ tlmtstif; Coeurde Lion. Believe me when private projection room and see although they were built on I say to you in stricken tones some pictures that have been camera profits. You un d e r- that the only exercise most of rushed down from the studios. stand the ban on cameras, how- ?lt1iu these glamorous creatures get is On rare occasions, when one of ever, when you are in this town in lifting the four suits of a .the studios has shipped down a for any length of time, as pho- bridge deck (or is it five-suited flicker in which the industry is tographers pop up in every res- ~~/ now?) Ruby Keeler Jolson plays interested, the picture wlll play taurant and night club. Most a fair game of golf, but Ruby is the entire Poverty Row in one hostesses bar the camera click- the exception to the rule. evening. It will start, say, at ers from house parties. Countess (Acme photo.) Miss Rosamond E.Bowen The stars, as a matter of fact, Le Roy's place. As soon as two Dorothy di Frasso, who enjoys Sometime~ Hollywood stars DO participate in the sports their publicity of West Newton, Mass., haven't much time in which to reels are finished the cans wlll publicity, always invites the bulb men credit to them. Fred Perry. professional: Charles Chaplin, Groucho busy "office hostess" get athletic. They report, at be taken to Norma Shearer's, snappers to her parties. Edgar Marx. and Ellsworth Vines, professional, after the first two had won what gives her recipe for their studios about 8 a. m. and and by the time she has run two Bergen's birthday party was was billed l:lS the world's craziest doubles matcli. personal freshness Letters published in this department should be written on one side of the paper. If you wish a personal reply please inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. • AS SECRETARY AND'OFFICE HOSTESS' " I LOOK FORWARD TOMY DAILY Voice of .Le ~o,..,ie F••• MY EVERY DAYIS A STRENUOUS ONE LIFEBUOY BATH. l.IFEBUOY'S •.... LIFEBUOY IS MY DAINTINESS CREAMY LATHER RESTORES MY Dear Miss Tinee: I would like a little great attractions? There are no pictures see one picture complete. From now on I Dear Miss Tinea: Please, will you tell INSURANCE.... ORDINARY SOAPS VITALITY AND REFRESHES information on one whom I think is a very in the past; in my estimation, that come shall be suspicious of every picture I see. me if •.Heidi" is a true story? And will LEAVE ME UNCERTAIN N ME AFTER THE LONG, BUSY promising young anywhere near the high mark set this It just can't be helped, my feeling this way. you describe Jean Hersholt? Does he DAy .•••. " s tar. He's no season. My applause to the movie business Sincerely, MARJORIE THOMSEN. really look like he did in ••Heidi ••? I other than the for giving us the best enjoyment in the have never seen any actor perform as little devil of the history of show business. At last a person well as he did in that picture. films, Jackie can go to the show and really enjoy him- Dear Miss Tinee : First I want to throw Thank you very much. Searle. I'd like self. a bouquet to a swell little actress, Doris HARRIETT BURRUSS. his biography I thank you very much for your time. Weston, for her Edit01-'s note: The mot ion pictu1'e and his address. Lots of luck to you and your column. fine work in ••The ti Heidi" was adapted from a story by And 0, Miss Here's to better pictures, if they can be Singing Marine" Johanna SpY1i. Tin e e, do you any better, and fewer double features. and "Submarine In real life Jean Hershott has dark hai1' think you could Your reader, WILLIAM HERBST, D-l." She couldn't and does not have a beard. He played the squeeze in a pic- Manitowoc, Wis. be s wee t e r or r6le of the doctor in « The Country Doc- ture' of him? Editor's note: Here's to you as a wel- cuter, I think tor," in which the Dionne qUintuplets were Thanks loads. come oh.eerer-alonaerl May we read word8 she's one of the featured. You're welcome. most t a len ted ROSEMARY from your typewriter again! • AT INTERVALS I~ TRIED ORDINARY , IWOULDN'r BE WITHOUT stars. McKINNEY. SOAPS AND HAVE ALWAYS COME BACK LIFEBUOY FOR THE WORLD. In the near fu- Dear Miss Mae Tlnee: I wonder if you TO LIFEBUOy ••••• LIFEBUOY HAS ORDINARY SOAPS SIMPl.Y Editor's note: ture I hope to could answer these questions for me. SOMETHING WHICH THESE SOAPS DO NOT STOP"B.O."THE WAY 0, Rosemary, I Dear Miss Tinee: Just whose idea was see more of this Where can I reach the movie stars listed: LACK H LIFEBUOY DOES" do believe we'll JACKIE SEARLE this double or triple feature program? I Called promlsln", " little Chicago beauty.