Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1935, Page 7

Melcher in Filmland Among the Stars Being One of a Series of Hollywood Chronicles by The Star’s Dramatic Critic. Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of articles by E. de S. Melcher, dramatic critic of The Star, who is in Hollywood to tell you how the film folk work and play, and to write of the produc- tion activities in the big studios. Another article will be published tomorrow and each day thereafter as long as Mr. Melcher remains in the moving picture capital BY E. de S. MELCHER, OLLYWOOD, Calif., September H 19.—You don't amount to & > week if you don't go to the Pacific Southwest tennis matches at wood pageantry here assumes stupen- ‘ dous proportions. Stars dangle from | the strong. silent couple up there in the front row behind those very dark you'd better go home. Hollywood stages one of these ath- If it was later in the day you'd think it was a motion picture premiere. smack at the entrance preventing even Mr. Mickey Mouse from sneaking out Parsons is very pleased about the turn- out. Shaking with excitement she Katherine Hepburn.” The fact that it is Janet’ Gaynor doesn’t matter | Sullavan has appeared in a large blue hat, knocking dead the scores of for- seen so many “Hollywoo-ood” celebri- ties in their lives. it. Even if Messrs. Budge, Shields, Allison and Hines are on the court. | net get only casual inspection. Mr. | Shields’ sensational exhibition match mostly because young Mr. Shields has a contract with M-G-M and one of kind of a Gable. | Every time a new star appears in | around with an “ah” and a “oh” and e bet as to who her escort may | base before row Z had decided that | that was either Mr. B with her or| had positively identified the man as | some sort of a cousin of hers that| the tennis again. Since Miss Kay Stammers was playing at that mo- hsppe'ns to be very good looking. A murmur soon arose: Couldn't she, if she wants one? SR cameras had their fill. We won- dered what the swiftly mounting roar we were advised to look straight ahead of us. A tall, dark man in a gray a small feather stuck in the back of | .1t was trying to fight his way out of | progress. Each step of his seemed to be stymied by some female who in- | said a breathless Brunhilde next to us, giving her all almost in that one practically fell out of her chair, clutch- | ing a beaded purse and her heart at| Mr. Gable, frankly, had a helluva- time getting out of there. When he counter and had himself an orange- ade. Even then he didn't get very | friends and their sisters, cousins and aunts. when they rushed for that orangeade | that they would also be rushing into here it's a poor day if you only get photographed a couple of times. Even snapped and hid under those large blue umbrellas on the club’s terrace faces up under the umbrellas saying, | *“Would you mind very much if . ..”| Dramatic Critic of The Star. row of beans out here this the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Holly- | every box. And if you don’t know that glasses are the Gary Coopers then letic shindigs better than most towns. Harriet Parsons has a movie camera without being photographed. Miss says: “We think we've discovered much—for in the next jiffy Margeret eign tennis plavers who have never | The tennis is, of course, the least of their brilliant swipes over and into the with the Czech, Menzes, is watched these days may break out as a new the stands the entire stand turns be. Miss Gaynor didn't get to first Mr. X—and it wasn't until row Z the stands faced about and watched | ment there was eloquent silence. She maybe, perhaps wangle a screen test URING the intermissions the had to do with the price of eggs when suit, brown shirt and green hat with the stands. He wasn't making much sisted on stepping his way. "Gable!"i word, “Gable!”"—and with that she | the same time. | did, he rushed to the refreshment far before he was surrounded by The stars knew, of course, that | the teeth of another camera. Out those who were less anxious to be | found nice little men poking their | Nobody really minded. Except &' THE EVENING At the Hollywood tennis matches. where movie stars draw more attention than net champions and every one gets autographed and photographed—even Mickey Mouse. STAR, WASHINGTON, certain couple who didn't get photo- | Lederer, and a young man in white graphed at all. People bobbed from | shorts, green shirt and yellow muffler table to table during that tennis in- | —as only Hollywood could do termission, nodding and bowing and Came Charles Butterworth and his scraping. Came Lili Damita, for in- |lady and again Peggy Sullivan anc stance, very handsome in blue trousers | her man—and Charles Spencer Chap- and a red shirt, trailing her new young | lin, whom you may also have heard husband, Errol Flynn, by the hand.|of before. Came the world at large— Came Dancer Clifton Webb, immacu- | all very thirsty for its drinks—since, late as always, with two nice frauleins, | believe it or not, Hollywood is having and Baron Paul Schell of Washing- | what it terms “unusual weather’— ton, D. C. Came Dorothy Jordan and which means that it's about 90—as Ecmund Lowe, getting snapped with | it has been yesterday, the day before | almost every lady there, and Whitney | and probably all of last August! de Rham, ex-Harvardite and named| After all that sun and those stars by Mae West as one of Hollywood's | and the tennis it was a pleasure to be “most eligibie bachelors.” asked up to Dick Powell's nome and Came Iong, lanky Gary Cooper, with | sit in his pool. Dick has built him- attractive Mrs. C—and Mrs. Frank |self a home, not far from the Warner Shielcs, with the John (“Maedchen in | studios, which is the envy of that part Uniform”) Krimskys—the latter want- | of the country. A low, rambling, mis- ing to be remembered to Hardie sion style house, which hedzes on a Meakmn. Came the Ralph Bellamys | corner of a golf course, his bed room and little Stephi Dunna, a young lady | windows look out on one side on who used to speak only to Prancis! Hollywood hills (mountains to us) POILLON SISTERS |3l chicu s, Bhefu Vi i PARTED BY DEATH e underiaker. ™ ° | First she summoned B. J. Thuring and arranged with him, Thuring said for burial of her sister. Yesterday she ordered William F. Lynaugh, from another undertaking establishment, to take charge. Troubles such as this kept the sisters in the spotlight for a quarter of a century. They were always instituting suit or being sued. Jim Corbett, was debating with some- Famous Pair Battled Their Way Through Legal Maze for 30 Years. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 20.—Death has dissolved the partnership of the Poillon sisters, who for 30 years bat- | One of their latest appearances was tled their way through a maze of legal | in 1931, when they sued a publishing actions from petty judgments to |house for $1,000 for alleged breach of breach of promise and rarely tnissed | verbal contract. a day in court. t——_ Katherine, who was 62, died Tues- Scotland’s longest concrete road day night of pneumonia. bridge has just been opened at Inver- Wednesday night sister Charlotte, bervie. and on the other on a kind of a patio | in which he has installed his pool. His | paneled “play room” has a projection | room for movie purposes, a piano (he | has two in his home), two nickel and | dime slot machines, 18 beer steins over the fireplace, a whole army of | sofas, chairs and pictures of Mary Brian and Maxine Doyle, and a bar Of a Sunday you can't pry D away from his new place. He plarts | grass, trims bushes, fixes his movie camera,; attends to his fan mail (he really does this himself) and sees to it that Ranger, his police dog, gets his Sabbath swimming lesson. Sun- day is his “quiet” day, since, like other stars, the studios have prob- ably only kept him working until 2 or 3 that morning. | Dick, by the way, sends his very best to Washington—particularly to the Osgood Roberts's, who have been | very fine to him, says he, in & number | who once took boxing lessons Imm‘ WORKEHS TO BE MOVED C. C. C. 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