The SCREEN and its STARS

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 368, 9 March 1932, Page 3

The SCREEN and its STARS

JOAN BARRY, who has just completed roles in “ Man of Mayfair ” and “Ebb Tide” at Elstree, is now appearing in the London stage success, “ The Barretts of Wimpole Street.” Joan Barry appeared here in the British production, “ The Outsider,” with Harold Huth.

CEALYHAM TERRIERS are the main hobby of Adolphe Menjou. He has been raising this breed of dogs for several years. In the kennels at his Beverley Hills home, Menjou has a number of blue ribbon terriers who have carried off honours at many dog shows. Menjou says that Sealyhams, in his opinion, are by far the best breed of dog to raise—they are affectionate, faithful and alert.

WHEN SOME ACTORS were discussing the vagaries of stars and the unexplainable luck of those who make good, they agreed, in the main, that George O’Brien’s sensational success in out-of-doors pictures was largely due to his right living. “He neither smokes, drinks nor keeps late hours,” said one—“ that explains it.” A lovable person who was sitting with the group yawned. “ I did all that when I was young," he explained, “ and look at me: I had mumps, measles, chickenpox, diphtheria and no starring contract.”

QN FEBRUARY 15, Colleen Moore, petite actress and original flapper of the films, married A 1 P. Scott, a New York stock broker, to whom she was reported engaged when she divorced her first husband, John Emmett M’Cormick, motion picture producer, on May 13. 1930. They were married shortly after daybreak at Fort Pierce, 150 miles from Miami, Florida, and then motored to Miami. Strangely enough, M’Cormick, whom Colleen married in 1923, shortly before she became a sensational hit. was reported to be living in an adjoining Miami hotel. M’Cormick married a society woman, Mrs Janet Gattis, of Wishington, on May 23, ten days after his divorce from Colleen. Immediately after a Honolulu honeymoon they separated and later were divorced. M’Cormick, it is said, has announced that he also may venture again into wedlock.

"IfUSSOLINI’S favourite film is “ Trader Horn.” “It is the only film I have seen a second time,” says II Duce. Paderewski, the famous pianist, is more modest in his screen taste. He prefers Charlie Chaplin and films of the Wild West. WHEN JACKIE COOPER appeared with “ Our Gang ” on the stage of the Capitol Theatre, in New York, eighteen months ago, his name was not mentioned in the programme. Now he has been offered 75,000 dollars a week to appear in person at the Roxy. CABLEGRAM received last month by Judge Charles Cooper, of Hollywood, father of Gary Cooper, who has been on holiday in South Africa, stated that the film actor was on his way home with the skins of two large lions he had bagged. The message called the animals “ super lions.” YOUNG’S real Christian name is Gretchen. She is the younger sister of Sally Blane and Polly Young, and was born in Salt Lake City in 1912. At the age of four she moved with her parents to Hollywood, where her father was an assistant director. Through his influence she and her sisters secured work as children in “ crowd ” scenes, appearing in “ The Sheik,” with the late Rudolph Valentino, and in other films. After leaving school Loretta took up a screen career seriously, and had parts in “Laugh, Clown, Laugh” (with the late Lon Chaney), ‘‘The Magnificent Flirt,” Loose Ankles,” “ The Careless Age ” (in which her sister Sally also appeared), ‘‘Show of Shows” and leading roles in “ The Girl in the Glass Cage,” The Forward Pass,” “ The Squall,” Past Life,” ‘‘The Road to Paradise” and “ Kismet.” On January 26, 1930, Loretta eloped with Grant Withers and was married to him in Arizona, despite her mother s opposition on account of her youth. This marriage has since been dissolved.

JT IS REPORTED that Douglas Fairbanks is to make a film in Tahiti, where he is said to have landed a few

days ago with his new principal lady Miss Alba, a Spanish actress.

J?OR TEN YEARS, a tall, swarthylooking individual has been roaming, rather aimlessly, about Hollywood, doing “ bits ” and small parts in pictures and an occasional stage play. Today he is the most talked of man in American pictures, having won fame as Boris Farloff, the monster, in “ Frankenstein,” a “ horror ” production which scored heavily in the United States.

IRVING PICHEL, who will be remembered for his magnificent portrayal of the district attorney in “ An American Tragedy,” will direct John Barrymore in the near future as well as play Jeatured roles. Pichel entered motion pictures with a long record of successes on the American stage to his credit.

JTRNEST B. SCHROEDSACK, the greatest mystery figure of the film industry, the man who made such notable pictures as “ Chang ” and Rango,” flitted through London last month on his way home to Hollywood from India, where he has spent three months shooting the location shots for a talking picture version of the bestselling novel, “ Bengal Lancer.” Everybody in pictures knows Schroedsack, but few have met him. Although he is a Hollywood producer the film capital has known him for only a few months during the last five years. lie is at his unhappiest in a film studio, and only experiences contentment when he

is working a camera in some remote corner of the world. Schroedsack went into the wilds of Persia to make “ Grass,” and the Siamese jungle to film “ Chang.” Eighteen months passed before he reappeared in Hollywood to superintend the cutting of his film. A few months later he disappeared into the wilds of Sumatra, where he met the now famous orang-outang Rango, and proceeded to make a photographic record of his life. “My employers in Hollywood,” said Schroedsack, “ never bind me down. I say vaguely I’m going to Asia, and they reply ‘ 0.K.; see you next year.’ ”