Evening star., 1935-09-25
Melcher in Filmland Among the Stars
Being Stars Dramatic
BY e. de S. MELCHER.

Goldwyn-4ayer. An inter-
L Il view with Virginia Bruce
turns into q laugh and how-have-you-
been session over mutual acquaintance
Tom. Early of Washington. Clark
Gable over his lunch Of chicken soup
kids about the false rumors one hears
of the South Sea Islands, where they
have been filming his most recent pic
ture, 'Mutiny on the Bounty" Rosa
lind Russell takes one look at us and
shouts, $50 you're the little man who's
been calling us Rosalind Fuller in the
papers!" We confessed it was true.
And M-G-M's distinguished designer
Adrian puts on q madhouse act with
Miss Russell, not realizing that her
companion Is meant to be interviewing
him.
Kay Mulyey started it all. The
handsome publicity guardian Of most
of the famous stars had arranged q
fancy days session. Said she, "First
you'll see Miss Bruce. then you'll lunch
with Mr. Gable, then you'll chat with
Rosalind Russell and then youM f1nd
out from Adrian what he's doing with
those Great Ziegfeld' costumes"
It sounded most satisfying. And it
was-except that no particular sense
came out Of it all. This quartet hap
pens to be very good fun. And more
Miss Bruce Is unduestionably the best.
looking blond in America with apol-
ogies to Americas 100000 other
blonds). She is the only girl in Holly
wood who doesn't use makeup before
the camera. Her skin is so clear, so
naturally pink and white and healthy
that not q snitch Of paint or powder
Is necessary even before the fattest
and finest lens. She scarcely looks
real. Long ago citizens Of Fargo,
N. OAK, her home town, told US this
said that strong men wilted in the
streets at sight of her-swore that no
body in the world had such coloring-
that the films played her foul. In vain
we pleaded that We thought Dietrich,
Carlow, Harlow, etc, were o. K.
"Fiddlesticks," said they. wait until
you meet Bruce" So Bruce appeared
and Fargo citizens have won the battle.
AS soon as color pictures reach q
real perfection the great movie public
will know how 1t has been cheated in
seeing Miss Bruce only in black and
white. She recently completed Metro
politan," with Lawrence Tibbett. She
will have q small role in The Great
Ziegfeld."
UIHEN Mr.. Gable sauntered into
w the room Miss Bruce had just
about finished Tom Early's biography.
Hi, virginia." said he, giving her
O small right hook to the jaw.
Hi, you so-and-so," said Miss Bruce,
why didn't you speak to me at the
Trocadero last night?"
"Why?" says Gable, because when
I looked over to where you were there
were so darn many other guys around
I wouldn't have been able to crash
in on bet"
"Oh, yeah?" said Miss Bruce.
YEAH" said Gable (And so on
for a good five minutesD
Over his bowl Of chicken soup Chats
all he had for lunch) Gable admitted
that Virginia is swell girl and that
he has never played in a picture with
her; that the stories about the be-
witching dancing girls In the South
Sea Isles are all wrong; that they
spent over 100000 on "Mutiny on
the Bounty" and that he hopes it
Is going to be one Of the finest pic
lures Of the year (Which they say 1t
Isl, and that he quits Hollywood
every so often and goes OF to Salt
Lake City or Las Vegas so that he
won't 60 nuts" and so that he can
talk to garage men, etc, and find what
the rest Of the world Is thinking about.
Gable has lost weight, still wears q
small mustache, Is a little gray around
the temples and Is probably the best
liked actor on the M-G-M lot. No
fuss or furore about him-he shoots
straight from the shoulder. He's a
bug on game hunting-and so far
has attended all the tennis matches.
Miss Russell's (not Fuller. please)
dressing room proved to be on the sec
ond story of that long, low bungalow
which comes to an end suddenly with
Garbo. Garbo has stuck to her perch
there-while the Sheerers and the
Crawfords have moved across the way
to q new and ultra-modern building
built along the same lines as the IA
nous Thalberg administration"
building.
Miss Russell was in trailing pink
when she greeted US at the door.
mot a kimono," said she. kicking
a train out Of her way, "but 1917
dinner gown I'm wearing in The Black
Chamber"
Nice" said We.
mot bad," said she.
Then we began on Myrna 10y.
Yes, everybody in Hollywood has
said look like Myrna Loy," said
Miss Russell (who last played at the