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...recalled the recent marriage of Manhattan Socialite Marjorie Oelrichs to Jazzman Eddie Duchin whose Central Park Casino orchestra used to burst into the flattering strains of Margie whenever she arrived (TIME, June 17). Raja Brooke's jazz-struck Eliza was for a time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets...
Since the collapse of her marriage with Hal Rosson, Jean Harlow has been involved in neither romance nor scandal. Currently, her most frequent escort is Actor William Powell, who ferried her about the lot in his car when she was making China Seas. She enjoys giving away money which she does on an incredibly large scale. She has a habit of speaking of herself in the third person which seems to confirm her mother's impression that the cinema star, Jean Harlow, is their joint creation. Mrs. Bello still stage-manages the Harlow menage...
...newsboy, bellhop, janitor's assistant at Columbia University until he graduated from amateur theatricals at an East Side settlement house into touring in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor. He tried selling insurance and traveling in wholesale groceries. In 1916 he was playing leads with Essanay Film Co. in Chicago. Thereafter, his luck failed in cinema and he spent 15 years as a character actor on the Manhattan stage until his work in a Coast company of Whistling...
...work as Brady, Universal paid Edward Arnold $5,000 a week, ordered him to fatten up. Eating is Actor Arnold's only hobby. In his dressing room, the only one on the Universal lot with a private kitchen, he consumed enormous lunches of boiled beef with horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving...
...Actor Arnold met "Diamond Jim" Brady twice - once when introduced to him by Ethel Barrymore, again when he was playing with Maxine Elliott. Said Brady: "Well, young man, I hope that some day you'll have a big part." Dante's Inferno (Fox). See ten million sinners writhing in eternal torment . . . cringing under the Rain of Fire . . . consumed in the Lake of Flames . . . struggling in the Sea of Boiling Pitch . . . toppling into the Crater of Doom . . . wracked by agony in the Torture Chambers . . . PLUS THE MOST SPECTACULAR CLIMAX EVER CONCEIVED...