Myrna Loy, the Talkies’ Ideal Wife, Is Now Married

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 13

Myrna Loy, the Talkies’ Ideal Wife, Is Now Married

THE recent cable news that Myrna Loy had married Mr. Arthur Hornblow, .inn., a motion picture exe cutive, brings to a fitting climax ono of the longest and quietest companionships ever achieved in Hollywood—an association which is typical of Myrna Loy.

Myrna Loy has never been known to hurry or lose her natural poise in any circumstances, and she cannot understand how people can "get into a dither” about such petty troubles as bad golf, errors in bridge, or hossip. For Myrna Loy’s interests are mostly mental. She is clever at sculpture and painting, and spends all her spare money on old prints and ■water-colours, antique brasses, and porcelains. .Although Myrna Loy has not been married before, she should prove her self to be an ideal wife to Mr. Hornblow, for, although she does not care at all for cooking—she has never allowed the studio to cast her in a cooking role—she has been chosen to depict the ideal type of wife in pic-

~ piIEDRIC March refused to sign n j long-term contract with any one : studio. As a free-lance actor, March | receives £25,0011 per picture, and says • lie feels lie is better oil" financially ! continuing as an unattached star. j* * *

jpIIARLES Ray, n popular film star of

more than a decade ago, is back in Hollywood once again. Kay, who is now -Id years old, is operating a training school for voting actors.

INFANT statistics concerning Shirley A Temple have been discovered in the baby bool; kept by the child prodigy’s mother. In if. are recorded that. Shirley, born in Santa Monica (California) Hospital at 9 pan., April 23, 1929, weighed 6?. lb, and her height at birth was Ift. Sin. She took her first sunbath at four months, stood up and walked round in her play pen at nine months, first walked without help at 13 months, and cut her first tooth at 33 months.

tures, notably as William Powell’s wife in “The Thin Man” and as Clark Gable’s wife in “Wife Versus Secretary.” Having a great capacity for understanding, Myrnu Loy is more successful than most, stars in portraying that understanding in her screen roles.

Peculiarly enough, Mr. Hornblow did not marry the Myrna Loy audiences know. Eleven years ago, when Mrs. Budolph Valentino “discovered” her, and Valentino gave her a part in one of his pictures, she was immediately “typed” as an Oriental. For several years she “vamped” herself into-the public consciousness in various Oriental roles, until she broke her bonds and got a part in modern dress in “When Ladies "Meet.” From then on she has become popular as a direct type of person with welldefined features and a powerful will. A Country Girl.

Yet, if you passed Myrna Loy in the street, you would not; know her. She has red hair, red eyebrows and lashes, and grey eyes. Ju i nct, when she is not at the studio in make-up, her evebrows and lashes arc almost too lair to be distinguishable. Furthermore, she has freckles —a lot of freckles, which pSppcr her face attractively, but which make her entirely different from the Myrna Loy her audiences know. Indeed, the only way you would be able to recognise her offscreen would be by glimpsing her profile, for that is one distinctive feature that cannot be altered in the studio; she has the most turned-up nose in Hollywood.

Myrna Loy was born at Myrna William's on a cattle ranch in Montana. .She completed her education in an exclusive finishing school, but ii did not. take the Montana plains out of her strong character. She studied interpretive dancing, and it was while dancing in a prologue presentation on the stage at Gruumnn’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood that "Mrs. Valentino saw her.

What sort of a woman did Mr. j Hornblow marry .’ Well, whatever i her likes and dislikes arc, lie knows ■ them well by now, for they have been : good friends and constant companions i for several years. She rides horses j superbly, is' a strong swimmer, and ' plavs tennis well. She does not prattle," but her colloquialisms are devastating. She prefers men friends to , women friends, because she says nicn “wear” better. She; plays the piano, ■ and cannot stand mystery stories. Her ! reading centres on history and graphyFads and Fancies

She prefers bold colours, but clings to pastels for clothes. She prefers the j shower to the tub, loves the fragrance

i;; shot off in many a South American revolution.