HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)

HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

GOSSIP OF THE STUDIOS.

(By MOLLIE _~^RRICK.)

HOLLYWOOD (Cal.), November 22,

If you think this locale can't stage and light a fete cbampetre in October you should have been at the Lawrence Tibbett garden party recently. Some hundred and fifty guests in chiffon frocks lingered cn the lawns and about the swimming pool until after midnight. There was a full moon and a temperature of about 83 degrees. Opera stars and movie beauties went spinning off the spring board at 12 p.m., and all the newcomers from the Last Coast sported the liveliest sunburn acquired during this most recent heat wave.

Evelyn Laye, who is still hereabouts making retakes on her first Hollywood talkie, is the most exquisite of the stage successes who have come here of late. Her closest rival is Ann Harding, but Evelyn Laye ha. a wistful quality that the more practical Ann doe .'t possess. There is an aura of delicate sorrow about the English stress which is very intriguing. Her blonde hair is worn in a very distinctive fashion. Uncurled and parted on the left side, it gracefully brushed back from the forehead, curved into gleaming wings over her ears and then given a t .dden swi.x to the left. A printed chiffon frock, backless and in delicate wood tones, m; le h— seem like some lovely dryad in the moonlight and the men were about her three feet deep.

Yuma, Arizona, is fast becoming the Gretna Green of the movie colony. The latest film notable to be married there is Lewis Stone, whose bride is Hazel Elizabeth Woof, of Playa Del Rey. Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fralick, they motored over and were married recently. This is Lewis Stone's third marital venture. He was first married to Margaret Langham, who died in 1917. At that time they were playing at the old Belasco Theatre here in Los Angeles. He then married Florence Oakley, a New York actress who divorced him last year. For the past seven or eight years Stone has devoted his time entirely to the screen, making as much of a hit in the talkies as he did on the

There's a rumour that Helen Wills Moody may do a tennis picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This would probably be called "American Girl." Whether or not Mrs. Moody would con-sider-this or not I don't know, but if she would I imagine she would make a success of it. I'm judging by her record in tennis, her clever art work, and the interesting articles she has written. This brings to mind the various champions who have tried to make good in the movies and failed. Fay Lamphier, who has been Miss America, made a picture in the days of silents, and was not invited to make another. Miss Lamphier is now working as a stenographer in one of the Hollywood studios, and says she has never been so happy in her life before. She has taken on many pounds, and strange to say is very proud of it. She also tells you that the horror of being in the public gaze is-one that no other compensation makes up for. "Red" Grange is another who tried the movies and decided he was better on a football field. Charlie Paddock sprinted his way through a picture with Bebe Daniels, if I remember correctly, and was once reported engaged to her. After seeing his picture he decided he didn't choose to run again. Most tragic of all champions, though, is Gertrude Ederle, who is partially deaf as a result of her Channel swim. Trudy was not a type for the cameras but got a lot of publicity in every other way. She is now teaching swimming, I believe, and whenever she is interviewed has something gracious and charming to say, with not a hint of any personal disappointment. John Loder, one of the handsome men of the village, arrived at a cocktail party recently shorn of the locks which are no small part of his masculine adornment. He's to play in John Ford's new picture, "The Seas Beneath," the story of the submarine warfare, which will be one of the interesting talkies of the coming season. There are to be women in this one, and lots of love interest. I say this becauue John Ford has made an amazing picture called "Men Without Women." The title was bought from Ernest Hemingway for 25,000 dollars. It had nothing to do with the story Hemingway wrote —or rather the stories, and it was a bad box office title for a picture. John Loder plays the part of a German officer, hence the haircut.