Dick Arlen asserts that he is the fellow that started the bicycle fad in Hollywood. If he did he started something! The chief hobbies of Hollywood these days are cycling and jig-saw puzzles. Dick says it all began when he borrowed his gardener's bicycle to ride over to Charlie Farrell's house. Charlie liked the idea, so he borrowed his gardener's bicycle to return Dick's call. Pretty soon there wasn't a gardener anywhere around who could find his "bike" when he wanted it. The fad spread to Beverly Hills, and received social approval when taken up by Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford and Janet Gaynor.
There's a half-mile course on the grounds of the Ambassador Hotel, and two former screen juveniles, Lincoln Stedman and Cleve Moore – Colleen's brother – are growing rich renting cycles by the hour. You're liable to see anyone there from Peggy Hopkins to the stately Kathlyn Williams. You remember her in "The Adventures of Kathlyn."
(The Film Star Weekly No 42 Vol 2, September 9th 1933)
My dear Fay,- I seem to have a whole lot of matrimonial news for you this week. First there is Sally O' Neil, who is contemplating matrimony. She has gone off to New York, and reports say that she will be married before her return. Tom Guinan is the lucky man - he is the brother of the late Texas Guinan, you know, and by all accounts a very charming fellow.
Sally's mother would not be surprised to hear about the wedding any day, though she is hoping desperately that Sally will wait until she comes back to Hollywood, so that she can be wed there
(The Film Star Weekly No 82 Vol 4, June 16th 1934)
Nothing
"Up-stage" About Joan
Joan Crawford is a great book
lover, and quite frankly admits that she reads to further her knowledge. There
is nothing up-stage about Joan, who does not try and hide her early days of
poverty under a bushel. She is what one can rightly call a self-made woman,
and for the transformation that she has wrought with herself can be justifiably
praised. She will go to any limits to learn, and not only interests herself
in her reading, but absorbs, studies and analyses it.
(The Film Star Weekly No 82 Vol 4, June 16th 1934)
