Sixteen Years With Hollywood’s Stars
THE CENSOR GETS INTRODUCED TO MAE WEST;
AND THE AUDIENCE TO CHAPLIN S VOICE
By ROBBINS COONS <JP) Newsfeatures Writer
(FOURTH OF A SERIES!"
HOLLYWOOD — Random high
lights from Hollywood years . . .
Covering a protest meeting of
; actors faced with a 50 per cent
paycut “to save the industry” in
the depression—with the building
rocking in the after-tremors of the
1 1933 Long Beach earthquake. The
I actors kept right on talking
CHARLIE IN NAZI GARB speaks in "The Great Dictator." 1940.
LADIES’ AFTERNOON
and
EVENING DRESSES
50% Reduction
Attention
Deliveries are now leaving store
at 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 5:00 p.m.
Con Marche
Store
money . . .
The upsurge of the Legion of
Decency <1934>, sending Holly
wood into a still lucrative cycle of
costume and biographical films.
. . . Mae West, who made capital-S
Sex a laughing matter in “She
Done Him Wrong” and is still an
object of suspicion to censors . . .
The long debate over whether
Chaplin would ever talk for the
i screen — and the disappointment
i when he did in “The Great Die
SHE HAD IT: Clara Bow. She
made a big splash in 1927.
tator” . . . The first timid en
croachment of radio into the Hol
lywood scene, the swift growth of
a broadcasting industry closely
tied in with picture personalities,
and vice versa. “If you can’t lick
’em, jine ’em,’’ Hollywood finally
decided . . .
Parties Made News
Parties . . . Amazing preview
treks on special trains to Dodge
City, Kas., Virginia City, Nev„
San Francisco, Fort Worth and
Dallas, Tex. . . . Kay Francis’
$5,000 party for which she trans
fromed a restaurant into an imita
tion ship, detouring sidewalk traf
fic . . The gay, original parties of
the late, grand, gay Carole Lom
bard.
George Arliss, a rock of dignity
amid the gaudiness of Hollywood
. . . The late Leslie Howard, quiet,
whimsical, thoughtful — and his
pal Bill Gargar . . . The late great
Marie Dressier and May Robson,
friends who plugged for each
other to the end . . . Marion Dav
ies, and the loyalty her generosi
ties command to this day . . .
Witty, beautiful Estelle Taylor
. . . and Clara Bow, the “It” girl
who finally found happiness with
a good guy named Rex Bell on a
Nevada ranch . . . Doughty John
Ford . . . Steady Gary Cooper . . .
Homespun Will Rogers, and ditto
Stu Erwin, who should play Rog
ers in the movie . . . Indefagitable
Bob Hope, ditto (though lazy-seem
ing) Bing . . . hearty Claire Tre
vor . . . Loretto Young . . .
Movie Mementoes
Sights and sounds and musty
smells of movie sets . . . Holly
wood Boulevard, with its barefoot,
bearded hermits, its girls in
shorts, its catchpenny arcades . . .
Mansions and flowers of Beverly
Hills . . . White rugs at Pickfair
—and the white ermine bathroom
trim at Jean Harlow’s Georgian
home . . . The Sunset Strip, quaint
avenue of cardboard shops, night
clubs, and agency offices . . .
When I came you could have
I bought lots on it for the price of
Gen. H. N. Gilbert
Heads Army
Recruiting
The Army’s plans for raising a
volunteer force of “guardians of
victory” which eventually will re
place the Selective Service soldiers
in our peacetime Army were re
vealed today by Brig. Gen. Harold
N. Gilbert, U.S.A., newly appoint
ed director of Military Personnel
Procurement Service.
Hundreds of recruiting stations
will be opened in various parts of
the United States and recruiting
officers in each Army organization
will emphasize the advantages of
adopting the peacetime Regular
Army as a career.
The recruiters will have many
persuasive selling points—the lure
of travel; the advantages of ac
quiring occupational skills; the se
curity of an Army career. All re
cruits, whether they sign up from
civilian life or from the ranks of
the Army, have the advantage of
Office of Dependency allowances
for their families.
General Gilbert, who has the
job of persuading thousands of
young Americans to make the
Army their career, directed the
most successful recruiting cam
paign in the Army’s history dur
ing the period immediately pre
ceding the war. His success in
achieving more than 400,000 en
listments won him the Distin
guished Service Medal in 1940.
General Gilbert also hold the
Distinguished Service Cross, won
for heroism as a first lieutenant
in France in 1918, and the Purple
Heart, awarded him on July 15,
1918, when he was wounded in
action.
General Gilbert was a lieuten
ant colonel when he began the
pre-war recruiting campaign and
later was promoted to colonel. He
was made a brigadier general
when he was selected to plan, or
ganize, and administer the War
Department Office of Dependency
Benefits. The ODB handles all
family allowances and Class E al
lotments-of-pay for the benefit of
more than 16,000,000 dependents
of Army men and women and had
disbursed upwards of $11,000,000
at the time General Gilbert was
transferred to his present post as
head of the Army’s vast new re
cruiting effort.
Japs io Send Envoy
Of Apology
To China
TOKYO, Sept. 19—(^—News
papers here reported that Premier
Higashi-Kuni has decided to send
an “envoy of apology” to China,
because of Japan’s war crimes
against that republic. Details re
main to be announced.
JUNEAU OLDTIMERS PLAN
UNIQUE DINNER
Juneau oldtimers are planning
a unique dinner for September 24
at the Baranof Hotel. The party
is limited to oldtimers of the Gas
ineau channel who are over 65
years of age. To date 87 have
signed up. The committee is
headed by William Holzheimer
and Bill Franks.
a couple of sprees at Ciro’s . . .
Goldwynisms: I never heard one
myself—not from Sam.
DRESSED UP -Peggy Ann
Garner, young screen actress,
i shows how she will look in her
first really “dressed up” role—
a member of the ’teen-age set
ready for a party.
Stratocruiser For
Route To Alaska
’
(Boeing News'*
Boeing Stratocruisers may fly
the airways between Seattle and
Alaska.
T. N. Law, president of Alaska
i Airlines, conferred with Boeing
officials in Seattle rceently and
announced his company is con
I templating purchase of the huge
Boeing passenger and cargo car
rier.
“If Alaska Airlines is certified
by the Civil Aeronautical Board
! for an extension of our existing
routes from the Territory to Seat
\ tie,” Law said, “we contemplate
flying this new route with Boeing
! Stratocruisers.”
Alaska Airlines has been recom
! mended by the Public Counsel
and the CAB examiners for a
route from Anchorage to Seattle.
The final decision, for route cer
tification, will be made by the
five-man Civil Aeronautics Board.
It is expected that this decision
will be reached within the next
few months.
The Stratocruiser, of which the
C-97 Army transport is the proto
type, can fly from Seattle to An
chorage in less than half the time
required by present airline equip
ment.
E. E. Miller, Boeing assistant
sales manager, disclosed that
Alaska Airlines for more than a
i year has been discussing with the
! Boeing Company the use of Boeing
equipment.
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MAJOR VOORHEIS RICHARDS
NEW PUBLIC RELATIONS MAN
The commanding officer of the
Alaskan Department, Gen. Delos
C. Emons, recently appointed a
new public relations officer, Major
Voorheis Richards, with head
quarters at Anchorage, Alaska
Major Richards, formerly of
Washington, D. C„ and New York,
Public Relations offices, is tour
ing the division in order to
straighten out some of the army
civilian public relations during
the transition period following
censorship, and getting back to
Peace-time operations.