March 15, 1932

FAMED BROTHERS IN L.A. COURT BATTLE

Los Angeles, March 14 (UP)
Two brothers, both world famous, clashed in superior court today as the $90,000 damage suit brought by Captain Leopold McLaglen against Victor McLaglen, film star, went to trial.

Captain McLaglen, British soldier, wrestler, author and actor, is suing his brother for allegedly stating in Hollywood that he is “unreliable and no good.”
He asserted that his income during the past two years had been reduced from an average of $17,500 annually to $1000, and he blamed his actor-brother for allegedly ruining his reputation and good standing.

COLUMBIA FILM STUDIOS REOPEN

Hollywood, March 15 (AP)
Columbia film studios have re-opened after an eight week shutdown, giving employment to about 2000 persons, including, besides the higher salaried players, technicians, extras and laborers.


From Luella O. Parsons:



Los Angeles, March 15
Constance Bennett’s pictures seem, some way or another, to bring good luck to her leading men. Joel McCrea was given a raise and a contract. Ben Lyon received several glowing reviews and several interesting offers on the strength of his performance in Lady With a Past and now comes Phillips Holmes.

Phillips has been borrowed from Paramount to emote opposite Miss Bennett in Free Lady. I am told three of our promising leading men, acting on the hunch that Connie’s leading me are lucky, applied for the job.

Free Lady starts next week with Edward H. Griffith directing. On Wednesday Constance acts as matron of honor for her sister, Joan, and this week she hasn’t even had time to discuss her costumes for her next picture.




Heard and overheard: In the opinion of Mrs. Astor, Randolph Scott is the best looking leading man she met on a tour of the Hollywood studios. Scott will be starred in a series of westerns and he is the lad who was originally chosen as Gary Cooper’s successor. If Marlene Dietrich is really searching for a leading man, Mrs. Astor wants to suggest Randolph Scott. Perhaps Paramount never thought of that combination.




It has been many a day since we have seen William Boyd. I mean the stage William Boyd. He has been in New York playing in movies there but he is back now on the Radio lot with a good job in the offing.
He plays Irving Pichel’s role in “State’s Attorney.” Pichel was taken out of the picture to direct.




Another Radio newcomer will be Fay Wray. Miss Wray has two film engagements, I might add. One of them is at First National in “Dr. X” and the other in the Merian Cooper-Ernest Schoedsack picture, “The Most Dangerous Game,” You will often find this is the case when one studio wants an actress and another studio suddenly feels the need of her. Miss Wray will play the feminine interest in “Dr. X” before she takes the makeup box to Radio.




Raquel Torres, whose screen career has hardly come up to the expectations of “White Shadows In the South Seas” is having a tryout in vaudeville. She has been signed for 40 weeks.

Neil Hamilton and Elissa Landi played all one day. It’s not a romance, but part of the picture, “Woman in Room 13.” Neil says that Miss Landi is to have a swank, new night club with all of the New York trimmings.




With all of our leading columnists mentioning “Good Earth” as the best book of the year I think we can go even stronger and say it’s the best book in the past five years.

Pearl Buck’s services are much in demand. I know two companies have cabled here to ask her to do an adaptation for two Chinese stories. I am told the bidding on the screen rights to “Sons,” the sequel to “Good Earth” has started. It is being published in Cosmopolitan magazine.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer owns the rights to “Good Earth” which I think must be produced with a Chinese cast to make it really right. We will await with interest the “Good Earth” sequel and be very glad to read it when it appears in the Cosmopolitan.


EXITS AND ENTRANCES



May Robson, who has finished a role in “Strange Interlude” with Norma Shearer, goes into the mother role in “Letty Lynton” in support of Joan Crawford. Later, she is to return to the stage under the Duffy banners. So, too, is Charlotte Greenwood.




Lyle Talbot is down in Hollywood to try his luck at the movies, and one Hollywood writer said he looks like Clark Gable. If there is a resemblance, it escapes me.




FOX GRAND TO CHANGE FILMS THRICE WEEKLY

RUTH CHATTERTON STARS IN “TOMORROW AND TOMORROW”; “UNION DEPOT” IS NEXT

Another entertainment bargain for amusement seekers is being offered at the Fox Grand Theater.
There are many outstanding feature productions available at the present time, so the management has decided to run three complete changes of program each week.

The first attraction which began a three-days’ engagement yesterday was Ruth Chatterton in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” with Paul Lukas. It is a story of a husband’s lack of interest in his wife while she yearns for love and seeks it elsewhere.



Thursday, “Union Depot” begins a three-days’ engagement. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Blondell are co-starred. “Union Depot” has a metropolitan train terminal for most of its setting. All the romance of the crowds is gathered in flashes on the camera as it briefly traces the lives of a few of the mad swirl of humanity. Guy Kibbee, George Rosener, Alan Hale, and David Landau head the supporting cast.

James Cagney in “Taxi,” Will Rogers in “Ambassador Bill,” “Hell Divers” with Wallace Beery and Clark Gable and many more productions are booked for an early showing at the Fox Grand.




NO ONE MAN IS NEXT TO PLAY THE PARAMOUNT

CAROLE LOMBARD HAS LEADING ROLE IN SCREEN VERSION OF RUPERT HUGHES’ STORY

What the modern girl considers as love, what she demands of a man, and her opinion of the adage “variety is the spice of life,” are said to be displayed in the screen version of Rupert Hughes’ story “No One Man,” which starts a week’s showing at the Paramount theater tomorrow.

Carole Lombard, in the leading role of a ravishing young widow, is seen as the girl who can “do with or without” a man. As a result every man she meets is intent upon convincing her that she can not do without him. Ricardo Cortez and Paul Lukas have starring roles as two of the many victims of this flirtatious girl’s allure. Juliette Compton has another of her siren roles which have made her a distinct personality on the screen.

With this picture the Paramount stage will offer tomorrow Fanchon and Marco’s presentation of beauty, “Art Gallery Idea,” with a galaxy of vaudeville artists, stars and beauties.
In keeping with the season, Lou Kosloff and the Paramount orchestra will present an overture of favorite Irish melodies. Cyril Brown sings for his solo “Old Irish Mother of Mine.”




THE EXPERT NOW ON SCREEN AT STRAND

Edna Ferber, who contributed Cimarron, the screen success of last year, is responsible for the story of “The Expert,” to be presented at the Strand Theater for two days starting Wednesday.

The original book title was “Old Man Minnick.” Miss Ferber makes her leading role that of an old man who has outlived his usefulness, yet still encumbers his daughter’s household.

Chic Sale is cast as the lovable old man who persists in meddling in other people’s affairs. No trifle is too small for his attention, no job of work is too big for him; he can do anything and is always willing to draw on his past experience for advice.

In fact, he knows everything and is not loath to pass along his knowledge. He constantly bores his daughter (Lois Wilson) and even the fact he is her father, and she must respect him, cannot keep her from occasionally airing her disgust at his actions.

The other members of the family are equally outspoken in their distaste for the old man’s interference, all but one, the little grandson, Dickie Moore, who idolizes his grandpa, and likewise grandpa believes Dickie the only other perfect human in the world.

A Paramount News and short comedy subjects, including Marjorie Beebe as the Cigar and Cigarette Girl, are also on the screen.




MURDER MYSTERY ON NATIONAL SCREEN

“Murder By the Clock,” Paramount’s mystery-thriller, is showing as the main feature at the National Theater.
This story, based on the mystery novel of the same name by Rufus King, a big selling book of the past season, tells the story of the unhappy marriage of a young man who is murdered twice in a single evening.

Several hours after he is found dead in his home he is alive again, due to the reviving affects of adrenalin treatments given by the family doctor. Some minutes after he has regained life – and just as he is about to tell who killed him, he is slain for the second and final time.
The featured players are William Boyd, Lilyan Tashman, Regis Toomey and Sally O’Neil.




HIGH STAKES NOW SHOWING AT LYRIC

“High Stakes,” featuring Lowell Sherman and Mae Murray, current feature at the Lyric Theater, shows that a girl can drag a straying, prodigal bachelor back to the hearthstone of married respectability.
The role portrayed by Sherman is the same he played some years ago on the stage.

TELLING ON HOLLYWOOD

By Robert Grandon
March 14, 1932

Elissa Landi coaxed me to burn the midnight oil with her last night, proof reading her new book, “House For Sale,” which is listed for release in April. Wish I had her ambition… with all her studio activities and dartings back to London to visit her mother and husband... He’s Barrister John Lawrence, you know… Elissa Landi has found time to write a book… What’s more important, she’s found a publisher.




All Hollywood seems to have been bitten by the writing bug the last few months. Jimmy Gleason is plugging away at a novel with Jerry Horwin, Universal scenarist. “Air and Water” is the title, and it’s about two press agents for a channel swimmer. Jimmy helped author “Is Zat So?” his greatest stage success.




Having annexed herself a young husband, Elsie Janis has issued her autobiography, “So Far, So Good.” It covers her life of single blessedness… What will the sequel be?




Irving Pichel is still authoring work of a serious character, as witness “The Modern Stage”… and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is accredited with writing and illustrating various sketches for the monthlies.

Wonder where Jackie Cooper will begin.

WHO’S WHO THIS WEEK IN PICTURES

March 14, 1932

Walter Huston is once more fighting political corruption in “The Beast of the City,” which is at the Roxy.

An actors’ actor, Mr. Huston knows his business from the cellar up to the attic. He was born in Toronto, spent his boyhood on a Canadian farm and got his start on the stage with a repertory company in Toronto.

He joined a road show to see the world and arrived in New York on a freight train with no money but lots of curiosity. He had a good singing voice and could dance anything from ballroom steps to a fast clog, but he was a long time from getting a job.

Finally he landed a role in a melodrama by Wallace Reid’s father, Hal Reid, called “In Convict Stripes.” Mary Pickford had been in that piece the year before and Lillian Gish succeeded her. Mr. Huston says that he has played every role in the repertoire of American stock companies except the cake of ice in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and he remembers the dark days in the South when the hostelries posted signs, “Dogs and actors not allowed.”

In 1905 he abandoned the stage for a jaunt in electrical engineering, but he went back, this time in vaudeville, writing most of his acts himself.

His first feature motion picture was the talking film “Gentlemen of the Press,” and he has been in films ever since, with occasional visits to the stage. Among his outstanding films were “Abraham Lincoln,” “The Virginian” and “The Criminal Code.” He will be out soon in Upton Sinclair’s “The Wet Parade.”




Erich von Stroheim, the leader of the mad collection of stunt fliers and motion picture executives who make up the cast of “The Lost Squadron” at the Mayfair, has a touch of romantic fiction in nearly everything he does.

His career has actually been colorful. He answers, on very little provocation, to the imposing name of Count Erich Oswald Hans Carl Marie Stroheim von Nordenwald, and he has an excellent background for villainy. The cruel egocentric Prussian officer that he has depicted so successfully on the screen is right up his alley.

He was born in Vienna forty-seven years ago and his father was a Colonel on the general staff. He completed his education in the war college of the Hapsburgs. In the fighting attendant upon the annexation of Bosnia in 1908 he was wounded in action, transferred to the Imperial Palace Guards, and decorated.

In 1909 Count Stroheim came to America, sold fly paper, served as an overseer of a California estate and as a boatman at Lake Tahoe, and started as an actor on the Orpheum Circuit.

Then he went into the motion picture game, playing a Prussian in D. W. Griffith’s “The Heart of Humanity.” Dissatisfied, he camped on Carl Laemmle’s doorstep with a story he had written and a plan to produce it for $25,000. This emerged as “Blind Husbands” and it cost $85,000.

Nothing daunted, he agreed to produce “The Devil’s Pass Key” for $75,000. It took nine months and cost Mr. Laemmle $185,000. Mr. von Stroheim persuaded his boss to let him do “Foolish Wives” at a cost that positively was not to exceed $250,000. He “shot” 200,000 feet without duplication and seemed unable to end the picture. In desperation, Mr. Laemmle finally induced him to bring the epic to an end with a subtitle. It cost $1,100,000.

After that Mr. von Stroheim did “Greed,” “The Merry Widow” and a few others, acting in them as well as directing.

A screen villain without parallel in Hollywood, he has been known to rebel. When a director wanted him, in the role of a high Prussian officer, to beat some peasant women with a whip, he refused on the ground that such a task would not be allotted to an officer. Von Stroheim gave one of his outstanding performances in “The Great Gabbo.”




“The Passionate Plumber” at the Capitol, presents the old and the new in comedians – Buster Keaton, the frozen-faced comic of the screen, and Jimmy Durante of Broadway.

Buster, the funereal one, first opened his eyes in Pickway, Kan., the son of a transient vaudeville team. He was a tike of 3 when he made his stage debut with his mother and father in an act know as “The Three Keatons.” His first screen appearance was in a short comedy, “The Butcher Boy.” His unique stoical characterization was evolved almost at once and it paved the way for success as a cinema comedian.

Jimmy Durante is strictly of New York. He was born on the lower east side, started his career as a piano player and worked his way into popularity as a night club entertainer.

He made his screen debut some three years ago in “Roadhouse Nights,” and quickly came back to Broadway for a featured part in “The New Yorkers” and last year set up what seems to be a fairly permanent shop in Hollywood. He has since appeared with William Haines in “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford” and with Lawrence Tibbett in “The Cuban Love Song.”




Claudette Colbert, featured at the Paramount in “The Wiser Sex,” has an authentic French background despite her surprising absence of a Gaelic accent in her speech.

She was born in the Paris suburbs, near the Bois de Boulogne, and spent her afternoons being trundled up and down the bois by her nurse until she was 6. Then her family removed to New York for a fresh start.

Claudette, a shy, intelligent girl, was class valedictorian upon graduation from Washington Irving High School in New York City. She did a bit in a school play and almost but not quite persuaded her parents to let her try acting. She studied drawing and painting at the New York School of Applied Arts instead.

She won her first stage part as the result of a jest at a party attended by Anne Morrison, who named her for a part in “The Wild Westcotts.”
Success came fast after she played the lead in Brock Pemberton’s “The Marionette Man.”

She disliked silent pictures because it was too much the art of “making faces.” Her recent films have included “The Big Pond” and “The Smiling Lieutenant” with Chevalier, “Manslaughter,” “Honor Among Lovers” and “Secrets of a Secretary.”

COMING EVENTS OF THE SCREEN

New York, March 14, 1932

Ronald Colman stole into Hollywood by the back door last week, coming from Shanghai with so little warning that Goldwyn’s New York office was taken by surprise. He has been away for three months and has had a close-up view of the Sino-Japanese trouble with his friend, Richard Barthelmess. Now he is all ready to begin rehearsals for “The Brothers Karamazov,” in which he will appear as the elder brother, Dmitri. This will be Samuel Goldwyn’s first production of the new season, and Mr. Goldwyn is en route from Havana to be on hand when the cameras start grinding.




The most unusual title of the week is Robert E. Burns’s “I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang,” which Warner Brothers have purchased for screening.




R.K.O.’s “Symphony of Six Million” which is all about this particular big city, is finished and awaiting release. Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez are the leading players. The story was written by Fannie Hurst, with its ultimate production on the screen in mind.




“The Strange Case of Clara Deane” is the new title for Paramount’s film version of Arthur M. Brilant’s play, “Clara Deane.” Featuring Wynne Gibson in the title role, the cast includes Pat O’Brien, Frances Dee, Dudley Digges, Russell Gleason and George Barbier.




S.J. Perelman, the humorist, has moved his typewriter from the Paramount lot to that of RKO, for one picture. He has written the story in collaboration with Ralph Murphy, who will be co-director. “Hell Bent for Election,” which has a topical flavor, is the title, and Edna May Oliver will head the cast.




“Bachelor’s Affairs” has been chosen as the definite title for Warner Baxter’s latest Fox picture, which he has just completed at Movietone City. The film is a screen version of Mildred Cram’s novel “Scotch Valley.” Marion Nixon has the feminine lead.




David Manners and Marian Marsh will be seen together in “Competition,” which is from a story by Carl Erickson. Mr. Manners has been transferred to the cast of “Competition” from that of “Week-End Marriage,” in which he was to have played with Loretta Young.




Warren William has been named to play the lead in “The Dark Horse” which William Powell vacated for the spot opposite Kay Francis in “The Jewel Robbery.”




Bette Davis will have the chief feminine role when that drama of national politics goes into production late this month. Frank McHugh is another addition to the cast. Courtenay Terrett and Joseph Jackson have written the screen play, basing it on the work of an anonymous writer.

“Blessed Event,” the comedy relating the adventures of a Broadway columnist, will appear in motion-picture form when Warner Brothers get around to it. The company bought the play by Manuel Seff and Forrest Wilson last week for a sum that came to the fairly startling total of $66,000.




Arrangements have been made with James Gould Cozzens for the screening of his story, “S. S. San Pedro” by Universal. This is the sea yarn which won the $5000 Scribner short story prize and later, lengthened into a novel, was selected by the Book of the Month Club. The San Pedro is a queer tramp steamer, and a fatal personality strides its decks. The leading player will probably be Boris Karloff.

CINEMA NOTES

March 14, 1932

Depression or no depression, more motion picture extras are being employed at Paramount’s studios in Hollywood than at any time during the last two years. Nearly 10,000 extra checks, it is reported, will be given out in less than a month.

Seventy-five full-dress extras are working in a gambling house scene for “Sinners in the Sun,” with Chester Morris and Carole Lombard. A garden party in this same film will need about 200, a dance scene another 100, two style shows 100 each and street scenes about 50.




Forty Russians are being used in scenes for “The World and the Flesh,” the new George Bancroft film. At other times 400 soldiers will be used, 60 hotel guests, 300 in street scenes, 500 in a battle scene and 55 on board a boat.




“The Strange Case of Clara Deane” will use 220 in two style-show scenes, more than 400 in prison scenes, a total of 115 in street scenes and 250 in party scenes.




“The Broken Wing,” featuring Lupe Velez and Leo Carillo, is using 100 Latins in street scenes.

“Thunder Below,” the Tallulah Bankhead feature, had more than 100 in South America cantina scenes last week and will employ more than 200 players in fiesta scenes.




In addition to 50 players in street scenes, “Sky Bride” used a crowd of more than 600 as spectators at an air circus.

In “Dancers In the Dark” 300 extras were used for two weeks in dance hall scenes with Miriam Hopkins and Jack Oakie.

March 14, 1932

TALLULAH BANKHEAD DENIES ENGAGEMENT

Los Angeles, March 13 (UP)
“Ridiculous!” said Tallulah Bankhead today when she was questioned about reports she was to marry Joel McCrea of Hollywood.
“I’ve only met the man once,” the screen star added.
Reports of an impending engagement of Miss Bankhead and McCrea were published in London today.




JOAN BENNETT OF FILMS TO BECOME SCENARIST’S BRIDE

Los Angeles, March 14
Wedding bells will ring out soon for Joan Bennett, film actress, and Gene Markey, film writer.
Their wedding has been tentatively set for Wednesday. It will be held here, they said.

The couple declared their intention to wed Friday when they applied for their license with the county clerk’s office.
Miss Bennett, a member of the well known stage and screen Bennett family, gave her age as 22. Markey said he was 36.

The youngest daughter of Richard Bennett, actor, Joan Bennett first married in England in 1926, at the age of 16, to John Marion Fox, young California millionaire. They were divorced in 1928. They had one child, Adrienne.

Miss Bennett and Markey first met at the home of Constance Bennett. She is one of the youngest stars in Hollywood and her husband-to-be is known as one of the most highly-paid scenario writers.




MARY NOLAN THREATENS SUICIDE

Hollywood, March 14 (US)
Mary Nolan, the former Imogene Wilson of the Follies, player her greatest role today; played it to an audience of two persons – a lawyer and a newspaper reporter.

In this one-woman drama she tore open ruthlessly the closed chapters of her past and there stood exposed a human soul.

Discussing the 30-day jail term imposed upon her by Municipal Judge Clement D. Nye as the aftermath of a number of wage claims against the actress and her husband, Wallace T. Macrery, she said:

“You may see my body on a slab in the county morgue, but you’ll never see me in jail.
“I’ll kill myself before going to jail for a debt I did not incur, and a debt that has already been paid.”
“I’m on bond now while the case is being appealed, but if it is decided against me I’ll ask a stay of 24 hours.
There is something very important I will want to do during that period of time… after that I would kill myself.
Life isn’t worth living again after looking out at it through the bars of a cell.”

Mary joined the chorus of the Follies at 14. She recalled:
“It was then I met and fell in love with Frank Tinney, a comedian and genius.”

CAN’T EXPLAIN

“I can’t explain it all… no one would understand or care. I just loved him.”
It was this romance, in 1924, which sent the famed Tinny to oblivion, Inogene Wilson to Germany to emerge as Mary Nolan, and Mrs. Tinney into the divorce courts.
“Where is Tinney now?”

Miss Nolan said:
“He’s partially paralyzed and that great voice with which he used to thrill thousands at the Follies is dimmed to almost a whisper.
He’s living with his father – on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

"I dropped by to see him not long ago.
I found him in a nearby park refereeing a marble game for a bunch of little boys. I stood and watched him… bent and paralyzed.”




FILM ACTOR SUED

Los Angeles, March 13 (AP)
A suit on file here against Robert Montgomery, film actor, charges that he failed to repay $300 lent him in New York in October, 1927, to help him enter the profession of actor. The claimant is Day Tuttle, manger of several little theaters in New York.




DIVORCE GRANTED SCREEN PLAYER

Los Angeles, Mar. 14 (AP)
A divorce was granted today to William B. Davidson, stage and screen player, from Mrs. Helen Davidson, New York religious worker, who, Davidson said, ridiculed his profession and accused him of being lazy because he remained an actor.
Mrs. Davidson, he said, was formerly secretary to an Episcopal bishop at Long Island and is now secretary to the chief exectutive of the Seaman’s Institution in New York.
“She told me she would rather see me a ditch digger than an actor,” Davidson testified. “I replied I could be an actor and still be a he-man. Then we separated.”


From Luella O. Parsons:




Los Angeles, March 14
Mexico is doing its best to have a Spanish Hollywood. Antonio Moreno was the first to direct a picture and it went over so well that the Nacional Film company is arranging to produce another. Negotiations are on with Antonio Moreno to direct. This time George Lewis will be the star.

He has been making the George O’Brien pictures in Spanish for Fox and, since he is very good looking, he is highly acceptable to the Mexicans. Don Alvarado has been at Agua Caliente over a week now, working for another Mexican company. Since there is so much grief attached to making foreign versions I don’t believe Mexico will get an argument from the Hollywood producers.


There is a deadly race between three companies to see who gets a Washington story first. There’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with “The Claw,” to be adapted by Samuel Blythe. There’s Columbia with “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” and there’s Warner Brothers with “The Dark Horse,” starring Warren William.



Miles Connelly, formerly of Radio pictures studio, will act as supervisor for Columbia on “Merry-Go-Round,” and Eugene Thackery, formerly connected with the Hoover presidential administration, is already on the Columba lot giving the benefit of his experience. This picture will go into production in 10 days. A hurry up job. Many of the scenes will be made in Washington. “The Claw” will be filmed in Washington and that, too, I understand, is under way. Well, competition is the life of trade.




Things are humming at the Columbia studios. Every night the midnight oil is burning while Harry Cohn and Walter Wanger get together and make plans. The latest plan centers around a production to be called War Correspondent. I thought at first in view of several biographical efforts, Columbia might be immortalizing Floyd Gibbons, but we are told this is any war correspondent, with Jack Holt as the hero.



A radio deal of mammoth proportions is under way between one of the big companies with Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper as the stars.




Elissa Landi received air-mail the first copies of her new book, “House For Sale.” This is about her fourth or fifth book and they tell me she shows real literary talent.




Someone remarked the other day that Gene Markey’s Mercedes has been on the Fox lot so much every one began to think it was a prop. Well, next week when he and Joan are married we won’t think so much about it.




The military stride of Col. Tim McCoy is once more seen on the boulevards in Hollywood. He is back from his ranch in Wyoming and he’s got a new job. The colonel will be starred in “The Riding Kid” for Columbia. He was lamenting a few months ago that he couldn’t get a job anywhere, but since westerns are back among us again his troubles are probably over. At any rate, he has a job with Columbia.




Mary Duncan is on the Fox lot, having a test made. Sorta like old times.




Buster Keaton’s St. Bernard dog, Elmer, is missing again. He is the wanderingest dog in Beverly Hills.




Edna May Oliver keeps her youth and beauty by swimming in the ocean every day.



Erich Von Stroheim is out of the hospital where he had a cyst removed. He had the job done so he could emote opposite Greta Garbo.




Marilyn Miller has taken up knitting. She is making a sweater between dancing lessons.




Kay Francis is wearing dark glasses. Not to disguise herself, but because of an injury to her eye.