The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-12

Photoplay Magazine entitled "
Describing in intimate detail the
purported habits and activities OF
some of moviedom's most brilliant
stars, the explosive article literally
struck the office of the induStry'S
morals boss dumb.
It mentions as fact that Vir-
ginia Pine orders New York-cut
steaks for handsome George Raft
wherever he happens to be dining;
that Carole Lombard calls Clark
Gable "Pappy" and makes his in
terests dominate hers"
Some Names Named
It states that while Barbara
Stanwyck is not Mrs. Robert Tay-
lor," the authenticated actress
and Hollywood's leading feminine
heartthrob interest have built
ranch homes next to each other.
Barbara" writes Kirtley BaS-
kettle, freezes homemade ice
cream for Bob from recipe his
mother gave her"
Charlie Chaplin and Paulette
Goddard and Constance Bennett
and Gilbert Roland are two other
couples named as having merged
their interests in common likes.
Nowhere has domeSticity, out
side the martial state, reached
such full flower as in Hollywood"
the article declares. Nowhere are
there so many famous unmarried
husbands and wives"
"WiU Take Action
Tom Pettey, in charge of the
multifarious public relations divi-
sion of the Hays office, admitted
his bewilderment over replying to
the article.
While Los Angeles newspapers
generally ignored the film colony's
iittery reactions, Pettey said:
1--WE expect there will be a
printed protest. The article is
pretty bad. The title is even worse
than the story itself but it's all
bad.
IT don't know what We'll do
about it, but we'll certainty take
some action"
Photoplay's article states that in
most of the cases of unmarried
twosomes, wedlock is prohibited by
the fact that one or both of the
principals already has a husband
or wife.
Virginia Pine is credited with
having made of sleek and sheikiSh
George Raft "a solid citizen"
Devoted to Child
When he came to Hollywood,
Baskette relates, George "gloried
in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ..
Virginia talked him into seeing
Watson, one of Hollywood's most
exclusive tailors. What's more,
she talked him out of the theatre
cal clothes and into a more con-
sentative TASTE"
No father, the writer goes on,
could be more infatuated than
George with Virginia'S five-year-
old daughter, Joan.
lone Of the stories the sales
girls still tell down at Bullock's-
Wiltshire, Los Angeles swankiest
store" he relates, 'iS about the
day Virginia Pine and little Joan
came into the shop. Joan spied
something she wanted right then.
"Charee 1t to George"
"'But Virginia, wishing to i'm
press upon her daughter that a
person isn't always able to have
what he or she likes in this world,
said, But Joan, you can't have
that. You haven't the money to
pay for it,
"'Oh, that's all right stated
Joan in loud, clear voice, Just
charge it to George Raft ,"
OF Taylor and Stanwyck, the
writer states:
"They've been practically a
family since Bob bought his ranch
estate in Northridge and built
house there. Barbara was there
first"
In the case Of Carole Lombard
and Clark Gable, the article names
glamorous Carole as h IN g
adapted herself to Clark'S pattern
of things.
Gaze 1t All Up
"Clark Gable doesn't like night
spots, or parties, or social chit
cat, or the frothy pretensionS OF
society,"" it declares. "Carole quite
frankly, used to eat it up. She
gave the most charming and clever
parties in town. She knew every
body, went everywhere.
All this, says BaSkette, Carole
abandoned to take up Clark'S hoe
bies of skeet shooting, riding,
playing tennis and ranching. The
moth of Hollywood S night life be-