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Forty negro spirituals are sung by a magnificent chorus — a plantation orchestra struts its stuff — folk songs are hummed by roustabouts and stevedores as the "Nellie Bly" pulls into the wharf. Cake-walks, folk dances — breathlessly beautiful, crowd the action of this greatest of all
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VOL. XIX, No. 1
Delight Evans, Editor
CONTENTS for MAY
Cover — Colleen Moore. Painted by Georgia
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Looking Them Over. By Evelyn Ballarine . . 4
Confessions of the Fans. Letters from Readers 8
Honor Pace — Douglas Fairbanks 16
Editorial. By Delight Evans ...... 18
The Career of Clara Bow 19
Just Good Hollywood Sports 20
Main Street vs. Hollywood. By Helen Ludlam 22 Giving the Children a Chance. By Ruth
Tildesley 24
What Makes a Star? By Rob Wagner . . 26
Corinne Griffith's Gift to a Fan .... 28 Put On Your Party Clothes! By Grace
Kingsley 30
Winner of Screenland's Masked Cover
Contest 32
The Most Beautiful Still of the Month.
Hallelujah 33
Gilda Gray's Spring Clothes 34
Dorothy Mackaill — A Portrait 36
Charles King — A Portrait 37
Mary Nolan — A Portrait 38'
Helen Twelvetrees — A Portrait 39
June Collyer — A Portrait ....... 40
The Rich Little Working Girl. June Collyer.
By Sydney Valentine 41
On Location — With Sound! By Helen Ludlam 42
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d[ Peggy Wood of the stage makes her movie debut in "'Wonders of Women," an all-tal\ing picture directed by Clarence Brown.
Looking %hem Over
A Fan's-Eye View of Coming Films
By Evelyn Ballarine
It looks as if Broadway will be 'just another street' soon what with all the stage players deserting the bright lights for Hollywood. The latest batch of stage players who have migrated to Hollywood are Peggy Wood, Roland Young, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Pennington, and Eleanor Painter.
Clarence Brown was searching for a woman to play the feminine lead in his production of "Wonders of Women" adapted from Herman Sudermann's novel, "The Wife of Stephen Tromholt." When Mr. Brown was in New York he met Peggy Wood and made a screen test of her. As far as he was concerned the search was ended; she was 'just the type." But Miss Wood had a contract to open in a Broadway play and so had to turn down the movie offer, much to their mutual dis- appointment. But there's always a way out in the movies! Peggy managed to leave Broadway and the play and is now at work in the Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr studios. Won- ders of women!
Roland Young has been signed by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer to play the lead in "The Green Ghost." He was expected to play oppo- site Norma Shearer in "The Last of Mrs. Cheney" because he played in the original stage production; but Metro-Goldwyn had other plans for him. John Loder, who did so well in "The Doctor's Secret," is also
in "The Green Ghost." He will have the role of a British officer, which means he will be himself — Mr. Loder is really Cap' tain John Loder.
"The Gold Diggers" is going to be made over again, this time as a talkie, of course. Remember Hope Hampton was starred in
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making an up-to-date version with Ann Pennington, of the dimpled knees, as the heroine.
Eleanor Painter with her beautiful voice is going the way of all stage players — the talkie way. Warner Brothers are preparing a pretentious program for Miss Painter. This will be her first appearance in films.
Barbara Stanwyck, who made a spectacu' lar success in the stage play, "Burlesque," has been signed by United Artists. Inci- dentally Paramount is making "Burlesque" with our own Nancy Carroll in the lead; and Hal Skelly, who was in the stage play, is also in the talkie. But getting back to pretty Barbara and let's hurry back — "The Locked Door," a modern version of "The Sign on the Door," is to be her first talkie.
I don't know whether "The Broadway Melody" started it or not but most of the movie companies are going in for musical comedies in a big way.
Fox Films are planning to make the "Fox Movietone Follies" a yearly offering. Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Lois Moran and
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C[ Roland Young is a Broadway attraction coaxed to the screen to play in "The Green Ghost." Of course, it's a talkie!
many others will be in the first edition.
RKO have purchased "Rio Rita" and "Hit the Deck" which makes a hit with us.
Warner Brothers have "The Desert Song."
Paramount is making "The Cocoanuts."
Metro is making a musical comedy called "Marianna" with Marion Davies as the star and Oscar Shaw as the male lead.
First National is going to make George M. Cohan's musical comedy, "Little Johnny Jones." No cast has been selected as yet.
Universal has "Broadway." This is not exactly a musical comedy but the action takes place in a night club. Glenn Tryon plays a hoofer and Evelyn Brent and Myrna Kennedy are chorus girls.
Leatrice Joy has signed a contract with First National. She had been free-lancing for the past few years. Did you know that Leatrice studied voice culture for four years and that she has operatic aspirations? Well, she did and she has!
We all know of Ramon Novarro's operatic ambitions but have never heard him sing. Our big moment has arrived, for in "The Pagan" we will hear his tenor voice. He sings native love songs which are part of his role in the picture. Little Dorothy Janis is the lucky girl he sings them to in the picture.
Bessie Love got her voice training jn vaudeville.
Carmel Myers has a coloratura soprano voice and has been studying voice culture for three years. She had been preparing for the concert stage but the talkies have changed her mind for her.
Dolores Del Rio is another silent star who has had voice training.
Darned clever these movie stars!
Here is something that might prove inter' esting. Two movie companies are making Tolstoy's "Redemption." Metro-Goldwyn and Columbia Pictures. The reason being that Tolstoy gave the rights of his story to all mankind, so there are no screen or stage rights, and any company is entitled to adapt his works.
In the Metro-Goldwyn "Redemption," John Gilbert has the lead and Renee Adorcc and Eleanor Boardman are featured.
Fred Niblo is directing.
The Columbia cast has not been selected. Frank Capra is going to direct.
And now Laura La Plante is in "Scan- dal." Hold everything — it's only the title of her next picture!
Warner Baxter proved to be such a howling success in "Old Arizona" that Fox Films arc making a sequel and are calling it "The Cisco Kid."
The talkies are certainly revolutionizing things — the stage players go into the movies and the movie players go into vaudeville. And all for the sake of An. Who is he, anyway? Sally O'Neil, Molly O'Day, Irene Rich, Leatrice Joy, Harry Langdon, Virginia Valli, Lina Basquette, Mae Murray, Greta Nissen, and Gilda Gray may be seen in vaudeville now. This vaudeville business has an advantage over the talkies — you not only see and hear your favorites but you can wait at the stage door and watch them come out, and, as you know, the talkies haven't reached that stage yet.
How does this strike you? Phyllis Haver and Lon Chancy will probably make 'boom boom' in "Thunder." With sound and with Lon Chancy we'd call it an 'ear-y' or should we say eerie picture?
Dorothy Mackaill will make as her next talkie, "Classified." Yes, it's the same pic- ture that Corinne Griffith made so success- fully a few years ago.
Colleen Moore is going to sing in her next picture, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
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' Here's the Fans' -For- Em — or Forum, as you prefer! It is YOUR department, to which you are invited to contribute your opinions about motion pictures. Say what you think about the movies. Send your photograph with your letter so that the other readers may get a glimpse of you. The most entertaining letters will be printed. Address The Fans' Department, Screenland Magazine, 49 West 45th Street, New York City.
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Her First Fan Letter
Dear Screenland:
Being the kind of person that could take ninety-nine chances on a hundred chance punch board — and lose, it is absurd for me to try for this.
Like Nazimova, (laugh that off!) I never try for the lucky breaks because disappoint- ment simply slays me — I mean it actually does!
I have always felt the personality of the staff of Screenland. It is that kind of a magazine. I wasn't surprised when Delight Evans was made Editor — she had to be.
I never write fan letters because I feel 'who cares?' I knew John Gilbert could act, though, long before he was made a star. There were some scenes in "The Merry Widow" that have never been equaled as far as acting is concerned.
I think the most sublime and devastating experience would be to work in a Von Stroheim picture. I know he could make even me act.
Now I feel better!
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A Bouquet or Two
Dear Editor:
If you could only realize how much I have enjoyed reading "Hot from Holly- wood" you would have a slight idea of just how much I enjoy this magazine.
Another department which is very good is "Pre-Showings of Coming Films." You can- not imagine how much money I have saved through this department. No — I am not Scotch, but by reading the previews and seeing the pictures I have an idea of just what the story is going to be like.
Speaking about realism in the films — well, I just don't like it. We see a great deal of unhappiness around us so why go to the movies for more? We go to laugh and forget our sorrows for the time being and pretend we are the one portraying the role. (At least I do). If we do go to see a sad picture, it is from mere curiosity. However, there are some pictures like "The Singing Fool" that would move a stone, and still make it enjoyable. (The picture, I mean).
About the talkies! Say, aren't they great! Now we can not only see our favorites but we are allowed the privilege of hearing them speak. Naturally, there are going to be many disappointments but I am sure the other good voices will make up for this. Of course talkies are not so good now — but neither was the telephone, the radio, and the first moving picture. To use slang, we must keep our shirts on for a while and then the thrills will come.
Just imagine — first movies, then talkies and next we will have an entire color film. Won't that be great! We can then see what color our favorite's hair really is and what color eyes she or he has.
I would not be human if I did not have a complaint to register. No, it is not for Screenland Magazine, but for the stars — or directors — whoever is responsible. Why, oh why, do the directors insist on making an infant play opposite the older stars? Pola and Ben Lyon. Molly O'Day and Milton Sills, Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford. etc. It is beyond me to under- stand this. Most of the fans know the ages of the stars and I am sure keep that in mind during the picture. Still, it is being done.
Last but not least, allow me again to "sing my praise" for the most delightful and entertaining magazine — the Screen* land. It gave me a jolt! The pictures are exquisite and the contents just too enter- taining for words. This is always one mag- azine where I am sure of getting my money's worth. You can't go wrong when you buy it.
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T)orit spoil the party! '
, . someone called when I sat down at the piano
—a moment later they got the surprise of their lives!
I WAS just about to enter the room when the sound of my name caught my at- tention.
"It'll seem like old times to have Dan with us again!" Bill was saying about me.
"Maybe it'll seem too much like old times I" came the laughing rejoinder. "You'd better lock the piano 1"
"Nonsense 1 He won't have the nerve to play after what happened the last time I"
"That was a shabby trick. I almost wish we hadn't pulled it . . . "
How well I knew what they were talking about 1 Yes, it was a shabby trick they had played on me. But, looking back, I really couldn't blame them.
Let me tell you about that last party. Jolly, informal — -all the guests old friends of mine. I had sat down at the piano and in my usual "chop-stick" fashion started playing some popular numbers.
But before I had played more than two or three pieces I noticed an unusual stillness. I stopped playing, turned around, and saw — the room teas empty!
Instead of entertaining the party, as I had fondly imagined, my halting, stumbling per- formance had been a nuisance.
Burning with shame and indignation I deter- mined to have nothing more to do with the "friends" who had let me make a fool of myself — when suddenly it occurred to me that there was a way in which I could turn the tables.
Carefully avoiding the "crowd's" parties, I had bided my time until I was absolutely certain that I could put my plan over. At last, tonight, the moment had come.
Calmly walking into the room I pretended not to notice the guilty expression on Bill's face as he welcomed me. Every one seemed overjoyed to see me again — obviously glad that I had evidently forgiven and for- gotten last year's trick.
Suddenly I turned to Bill and said, "Hope you've had the piano tuned, old boy. I feel just in the mood . . . "
Instantly the friendly atmosphere changed. It was amusing to see the look that spread from face to face. For a moment no one spoke. Then, just as I was sitting down at the piano, some one called :
"For heaven's sake, get away from that piano 1 Don't spoil the party!"
That was my cue. Instead of replying I struck the first bars of "Sundown." And howl
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Gone was the halting, nerve- racking hesitation that had formerly made my playing a torture to the listeners. No wonder the guests gasped with amazement. Fascinated, scarce- ly believing their ears they drew nearer. When I finished they loudly clamored for more. Time and again, when I would have stopped, they eagerly insisted on "Just one more, please 1"
How I taught myself to play without a teacher
When they finally allowed me to leave the piano I turned around and said:
"Just a moment, folks ! I want to thank you for what you did for me last year!"
The eager, laughing faces turned red with embarrassment. One or two of the boys mur- mured an apology. Seeing their confusion, I continued :
"I mean it ! If you hadn't opened my eyes, I'd still be a dub at playing. I went home mighty angry that night, I'll admit. But it taught me a lesson. And be- lieve me, folks, when I think of the real pleasure I get out of playing now, I'm only sorry you didn't pull that trick sooner!"
Before letting me go home that night, Bill cornered me and said, "Listen, Dan, I want an explanation! Hoiv did you do it?"
I laughed. "Why, I just took advantage of a new way to learn music, that's all!"
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"That's a correspondence school, isn't it?" "Yes. When that trick showed me up last year. I sent for one of their free demonstration lessons. Well, it proved to be so much easier than I had hoped for, that I sent for the complete course. And believe me. I'm mighty glad I did! There wasn't any expensive private teacher to pay — and since the lessons came by mail. I didn't have to set aside . valuable hours to study. I practiced only in my spare time, a few minutes a day. And the course is thorough! Why, almost before I knew it, I could play anything — ballads, rhapsodies, waltzes, jazzl"
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Why can't some of the theatres make themselves doubly popular by bringing back to their music-loving patrons the music they enjoy?
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I read, in your March Screenland, that Richard Dix had been thinking of leaving pictures when the talkies came along and made him change his mind. Does he really think we could have given him up? He's a universal favorite. If he had really left the screen I would have been terribly dis- appointed. That calls for three lusty cheers for the talkies! They are sure to go over big if they helped us to keep our Richard Dix.
However, that isn't the only reason I like talkies. I get a grand and glorious thrill every time I hear my favorites speak. I have always wanted to see them personally and now I can hear them speak. It's almost as good — 'almost, but not quite. I shall never give up hope that some day I shall really get to see some of my favor- ites, especially Sue Carol, Bebe Daniels, Clara Bow, Janet Gaynor, Neil Hamilton, Clive Brook, Gary Cooper, Richard Dix and Richard Arlen. They will always be my favorites. Also Carroll Nye — he has promise, so let's all help him along.
In the small town where I live our only theatre isn't wired for sound. We have to drive eighty-seven miles to see a talkie but it's worth it. My first talkie was "The Singing Fool." I think I cried quarts — just a woman's way of enjoying herself!
Sincerely,
Helen Reed, 404 Front Street, Seaford, Delaware.
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Dear Editor:
I have just read "Confessions of the Fans" in the March issue of Screenland. And as the saying goes, "Confession is good for the soul" — so here goes.
First — just a word for Screenland which I like very much. In fact, I haven't missed an issue in two years.
Second — I am a great movie fan. I go just as often as I can which is about three times a week.
I live in a small town of about 1,000 population. We have one small theatre which is closed at the present time. But just seven miles away we have four theatres and I certainly look forward to the nights which are spent there.
The talkies are wonderful. I must admit some actors are not so good in them. But take Conrad Nagel, Al Jolson and Doris Kenyon — could anyone do better than they? I hardly think so! William Collier, Jr. is also a sure bet. And what's become of Raymond Keane? He has talent. I should like to see him get ahead.
Long live Screenland and the talkies! Sincerely,
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May I give you my opinion and those of my friends regarding the talkies?
What a pity they came in at all. They rob the otherwise soft and sentimental moments of their sweetness completely. They jar upon the ear and leave you nothing to take home with you but a blur — where formerly the soft strains, which enhanced the high moments of a beautiful story being shown, would go home with you and live in your memory long after- wards.
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"Glorified Quickies!" Who, of all the fans protesting against the treatment given Richard Dix, could have put their thoughts in a more expressive phrase than our favor- ite has done when he uttered the above phrase in the March Screenland?
I have just recently joined that army of Dix fans called the Richard Dix Fan Club. The members are so unanimous in their protests against recent Richard Dix pictures that it seems to have become the very
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Not so. very long ago, I received a letter from an uncle of mine who is in Holly- wood, saying that he had the part of Rebel Chief in "The Desert Song," Warner Brothers 100% talkie.
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I just want to say a few words. 1 read "Confessions of the Fans" always — but this is my first attempt at writing.
I would like to ask, through this column, Mr. Charles Mank, Jr., just how he gets personal replies from his favorites? Only once have I heard from a player — Richard Dix — and that was long before he became a star. I still prize it. I have written to many but so far have not been able to reach them. I have come to the conclusion that my letters are lacking in interest or that those who really hear from the stars have personal addresses. Which? At any rate, Mr. Charles, kindly pass the secret along as I do enjoy the movies and the movie players.
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Dear Editor:
"On Trial" is a great picture, but I saw it in Philadelphia and most of the interest- ing dialogue was censored, leaving the audi- ence to imagine the worst. Isn't little Lois Wilson a surprise? One couldn't help but expect wonderful performances from such sterling stars as Bert Lytell and Pauline Frederick. I trouped with Mr. Lytell on the Orpheum Circuit two seasons ago and what a prince of a fellow — he justly deserves the success that is his.
Two of my old favorites — Barbara Ten- nant and Marguerita Fisher — appear in films lately doing small bits. It is good to see them after so many years of absence. Don't forget Lionel Barrymore in "Alias Jimmy Valentine" — what an actor, and so very natural!
Good luck to Josephine Dunn — I had a screen test with her during the Paramount try-outs and am glad she is playing some very fine parts. Dick Aden, Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll — well, I never tire of them. And don't forget Clyde Cook — great comic but looks like he is doomed to play stokers for the rest of his life.
I enjoy Screenland — keep up the good work.
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Marceline Day is my idea of a typical and ideal actress for bigger and better pic- tures. Comedies do not agree with a girl of her type, as she revealed in the picture she played with Buster Keaton in, "The Camera Man." The movie world has over- looked her personality and should look once again. I have followed her pictures and have come to the conclusion that I must tell the fans about it.
Al Jolson is my best bet for the talkies and as I caddied for him about 2VL- years ago at the country club where I was, I find him to be a man of the highest type. Success to you and Screenland. Sincerely,
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I am a real movie fan, yes, sir! Now I will actually let you in on a secret: you know I have almost seen every movie that has come to Montana. That is, maybe I haven't seen every picture, but I have seen at least 60% of them.
My real favorite is Gary Cooper, the idol of Montana. Gary was born in Helena, Montana, not very far from me. I would like to say 'Hello' to Gary just once. I wait with all anxiety to see a picture of him. Buddy Rogers and Clara Bow are my other favorites, especially Buddy. I sure would like to be another Montana boy acting in the movies. Say 'Hello' to Gary for me if you see him.
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Vilma and Carmel, Take Your Bows!
Dear Editor:
This is the first time I have ever written to any magazine but I just couldn't help writing to Screenland. I find it very, very interesting. I have been a reader for ever so long. One of the departments I enjoy reading is "Confessions of the Fans."
I read and enjoy every one of the letters.
I saw "The Awakening" and I want to put in a good word for Vilma Banky. She is very beautiful and, I think, one of our best actresses. I think "The Wedding March" is the same type of picture and yet "The Awakening" was more beautiful, in my estimation. The theme song 'Marie' was soulful and seemed to fit in the pic- ture. Are there readers who agree with me?
When I feel blue I go to the movies and believe me it is my greatest pleasure.
Carmel Myers is so attractive! Why don't they put her in more pictures?
Here's to Screenland! I buy it every month and can't wait for each new issue. Sincerely,
Frances Ackner, 804 Fairmount Place, Bronx, New York.
A Special for Nancy Carroll
Dear Editor:
I read in the "Confessions of the Fans" department the opinions of the movie fans and they interested me very much and gave me enthusiasm to write my opinion.
I like the movies very much. When I was a small boy I had a great desire to see Harry Carey, Jack Hoxie, and Tom Mix. These actors were cowboys and I enjoyed the wild-west pictures, but now that Em older you can't give me anything but love — pictures.
My favorite actors are Nancy Carroll. Sue Carol, Clara Bow, Richard Dix, Rich- ard Barthelmess, Ralph Forbes and Gary Cooper.
My favorite pictures are "Shopworn Angel," starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper; and "Wings" with Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers.
I congratulate them for these pictures and wish them success, especially Nancy Carroll.
I'd like to be a movie actor, too. Sincerely,
Anton Kensky, 169 Hall Avenue, Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
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The movies are the best source of enter- tainment. I like the movies; I like all the stars, and Screenland helps me to like them still more. I have no favorite type of picture — they are all my favorites.
I was thrilled by "Our Dancing Daugh- ters"; I cried over "The Singing Fool"; I laughed at "Show People," and I liked the moral of "Sins of the Fathers."
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I am a member of Billy Haines" fan club and whoopee! what a thrill when I re- ceived a Christmas card from him.
I saw Fay Wray, Gary Cooper, Lane Chandler and Leslie Fenton in person and I shall never forget them. "The First Kiss" was filmed in Talbot County, Mary land, and that's where I live. This gave me an opportunity to see the stars and to see how movies are made. I also played in a mob scene. Imagine!
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There are quite a few persons I know who say that the talkies spoil the art and beauty of motion pictures but I disagree with them. Talkies and sound pictures are a marvelous achievement. At first I did not think much of them but when I heard Al Jolson — well, long live the talkies! Al Jolson is a great contribution to cinema land. How that man can sing! Mammy! Then there are stars like May McAvoy and Richard Dix who make the sound pictures a great art. I want to hear Douglas Fair' banks talk, as he is my favorite actor. There never will be another like him, for me. Step up, Doug, and take your bow!
Before I close I wish to say that your "Confessions of the Fans" department is a grand idea. It gives us an opportunity to express our attitude toward the stars and Hollywood. Screenland, in my estima- tion is the best screen magazine.
Sincerely, Gerald F. Altieri, 441 Overhill Road, South Orange, New Jersey.
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I am an ardent reader of that ever-pop- ular magazine, Screenland.
When I see such pictures as "The Sing- ing Fool," "Interference," and "In Old Arizona," I never want to see a silent pic- ture again.
I am anxious to hear Joan Crawford, Clara Bow, Nils Asther, John Gilbert, Rich- ard Dix and William Haines.
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<C In "The Iron Masl{" Doug is his old amazing self - leaping through the scenes as only Doug can.
C£ Fairbanks as D' Artagnan would have delighted Dumas' lusty soul!
F FAIRBANKS, we salute you! You have not for- gotten how to be gay. In "The Iron Mask" you revive the good old days when men were men and movies were movies. We need stars like you on the screen and ro- mantic pictures like "The Three Musketeers" and its sequel, to keep us in good humor and make us forget the relentless tread of time. You are blind to all save youth and beauty and glamor and gaiety. You are deaf to the clamor of whoopee and boom-boom. May you never awake to realism!
C Doug's skilful sword- play comes as a wel- come change from the gun'play of our recent crime pictures.
((Douglas Fairban\s: a great showman, a hearty actor, and a genial gentle ^either years nor stiff com' petition can rob him of his rightful place as the eternal playboy of the screen.
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HONOR PAGE
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"AVE you the new
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heard theme
tremendous, etc.
song:
"Dear Little Merger o Mine." Or maybe it's "Mighty Lak' a Merger/" Anyway, merger will out. And as I write this, all anyone in the picture busi- ness talks about is that great, big, gigantic, colossal, amazing, massive, immense etc., deal by which Fox gains control of Loew's, Inc. — in other words, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. What does this mean? Well, it means that Mr. Fox, a smart man, with assets of over $200,000,000, now controls 800 or so theatres; a formidable array of acting, directorial, execu- tive, and technical talent; and a great deal of awe and respect in the movie industry. He would be The Man of the Hour on Hollywood Blvd. if he ever went on Hollywood Blvd., which he doesn't, being too busy in New York. The only thing that directly concerns the mo- tion picture public about this deal, of course, is just how it will effect the production output. Fox produced "Seventh Heaven,"" "Sunrise," "Street Angel," "Four Devils." Fox owns the screen services of Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton, Barry Norton, Lois Moran, Victor McLaglen, June Collyer, and other stars; and Murnau, Frank Borzage, and William K. Howard, to mention directors. And to this interesting list you may now add the names of such M-G-M luminaries as Lon Chaney, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, William Haines,
Delight Evans, Editor. Her Page.
Anita Page, Phyllis Haver; such directors as Niblo, Vidor, Beaumont, Brown, and Browning. You know what to expect in the way of entertainment from these people. It is possible for you to expect, and receive, even more. For imagine the thrill of watching John Gil- bert in a big emotional scene with Janet Gaynor; Greta Garbo vamping the shy Charles Farrell; Victor McLaglen scowling in the same scenes with Lon Chaney. I hope it happens!
When his publishers urged Thomas Hardy, the late and great English author, to hire a press-agent, Hardy firmly re- fused, saying, "No, no. Eggs sell according to their excellence, and not according to the amount of cackling that was done when they were laid."
Hardy never knew Hollywood. Out there cackling counts. Especially in the reign of the talkies. Apparently all the people in the world who can speak above a whisper have descended upon the studios, claiming to be able to put more sound appeal in pictures. Just give them a chance, is all they ask. And in return they will give you expert imitations of everything from a steam whistle to the mating-call of the Australian wombat. Gentlemen whose talents include startling mimicry of the cock's crow, the snake's rattle, the lion's roar and the mos- quito's whine press their services upon the poor casting directors. Consider the case of Eddie Nugent. It was recently discovered that, in addition to his comedy talents, he possesses a positively uncanny genius for artistic sneezing. In the future, then, watch, in the screen credits, following "Gowns by Adrian," for "Sneezes by Nugent."
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(Jit Must Seem Sometimes to the Little Red-Head from Brooklyn That Life in the Movies is Just One Bathing Suit After Another. And After All- Why Not?
C[ Yes, the demure child on the spring-board in the modest bathing suit is Clara Bow — six years ago when she was a Preferred Pictures play- er. Clara is now a star — but still wearing a bathing suit, and sti preferred.
C[ We don't want to be morbid or anything li\e that, and per- haps this is hardly the time or the place, but may we remind her vast public that little Miss Bow is, in addition to grand summer scenery, a really very fine actress?
new Clara — 1929 edition; the most pop- ular movie star, they say, in the world — ■ in her very latest swimming suit, all dotted and, if she only says the word,
all dated up.
(Career
of
(?LARA SOW
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Just Good Hollywood
Maybe one reason Greta Garbo cow sistently refuses to acquire a husband is because she has a perfectly good ukulele to pic\ on.
<C Everybody has a rac\et these days. Here is ]ohn Gilbert with his, preparing to participate in a love set with Greta Garbo.
Aw, Come On —Be a Sport!
Though a newcomer, it loo\s very mucli as if Dorothy janis were nevertheless on the home stretch.
Ruth Elder's good sportsmanship was established some time ago in a certain Atlantic flight. J^ow she does her high flying for the films.
Q Now That Spring is Here, You Can Look Around These Pages and Find Some Hints as to the Most Sporting Thing To Do On Your Vacation.
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SPORTS
C[ Anita Page is sporting enough to let us in on the secret of where she \eeps her powder puff.
G[ The trio beloui are Bill Haines, Marion Davies, /and George K. / Arthur — three ' of Hollywood s f ■ best sports.
G[ Above: two babes in a wood — Sue Carol and N.ic\ Stuart.
lary r>r\an l| puts on the ¥ gloves and shows excellent form. Who's the luc\y opponent?
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(Main Street
QThe Film Colony Isn't So Very Much Different From Your own Little Old Home Toivn!
Ctjetta. Coudal is Hollywood's Mystery Woman.
C[ Marion Davies is the best sport in town
I-jj-ave you ever longed to be in Hollywood? To walk down the Boulevard and see Billie Dove dash out of her favorite hat shop; to see Claire Windsor driving down the street, and catch a glimpse of cute little Pauline Garon, all excited because she had just cast her first American vote — when around the corner whizzes Buddy Rogers in his new roadster?
Well, it isn't any different from your own Main Street when you come right down to it! In Hollywood, as on Main Street, there are certain definite types. For instance, every Main Street has its Mrs. J. Samuel- Smy the, who always
C Lupe Velez is the Hollywood version of the town vamp — but other girls li\e her, too. Constance Talmadge is one of the six most popular girls in the film col' ony. Everybody loves 'Connie.'
C[ Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman — leaders in that smart younger set.
entertains the distinguished visitors in her big house on the hill. Everything is per- fectly correct and very dignified, and everyone feels honored when included in the guest list. In Hollywood, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks are Mr. and Mrs. J. Samuel-Smythe. If foreign ambassadors come to town, they are guests at 'Pick- fair.' Prince George might have got a great kick out of speeding to the beach with Hollywood's tom- boy, but 'Pickfair' was one place that had to be visited, and 'Pickfair' is always in character. There, the butler and footman are not out of place. They melt into the surroundings — they belong. The place is like an English country estate, with broad lawns, old-fashioned flower gar- dens, and winding paths that lead to sheltered nooks. The house is rambling and large with plenty of space, and large windows that overlook the lovely rolling country of Beverly toward the sea. The entertainment is just What you might expect — good music, beautifully executed. No jazz goes on at 'Pickfair.' The
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C[ Billy Haines is the village cut-up.
Patsy Ruth Miller, the J\[ice Girl and good scout.
Women and telling them so.
As an instance, she and another girl were powdering their noses one evening at a party, and Lupe noticed that her companion's eyes were very lovely and that they had long, dark lashes which she had not made up. "You no make up your eyes. Why you no do that? You have beautiful lashes, much nicer than mine. You come my house, I show you how to make them up. You do plenty with your eyes in Hollywood then." To another she said, "You have beautiful hands," and holding one of them, patted it between her two little paws in almost childish admiration. And Lupe is loyal and has the courage (Cont. on page 110)
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pic\ford — Hollywood society 'in person.'
stimulation comes from contact with bril- liant minds and the desire of the hosts to be of some real use in what we call our world.
Then, on Main Street, you have the popular girl, full of wit, and originality, to whom you might be a little afraid to introduce your boy friend. I think Lupe Veles fills this contract and then some! Lupe's friendliness embraces the world. She is glad to see everybody and make whoopee. She bursts into a room and no matter how many people are there, it is instantly filled with her personality. On every side she is greeted by shouts of delight. "Hello, Lupe! Come over and talk to us!" "Here I am, darlings," she cries, throwing out her arms wide, her face beaming with the joy of life and living. I don't think there is a man in Hollywood who wouldn't like to take Lupe for a buggy ride, but so straight- forward is her nature, that she is equally popular with women. For one thing, she is not slow in appreciating the good points of other
Virginia Valli's aris- tocratic manner graces any gathering. She represents the quiet, conservative crowd who never step out of charac- ter even when ma\- ing refined whoopee.
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Siving the Children
G[ Above: Mrs. Bran deis in Scotland with two members of the cast of "The Wee Scotch Piper."
(^Madeline Brandeis has won Fame and Fortune Producing Pictures Starring — Just Kids!
kEOPLE have climbed to fame on many strange ladders, but it remained for Madeline Brandeis to reach the rarer air by rungs made of children.
And now small human rungs have led right into the heart of the League of Nations, which body has just recognized the woman author, director and producer as an important con- tributor to world peace. At a special session of the League, Mrs. Brandeis' films of "Children of All Lands" are to be exhibited as a vital factor in the world friend- ship among children.
But let's begin at the beginning.
Madeline Brandeis, a Californian exile in Chicago due to her mar- riage, was a homesick young bride with nothing to occupy her mind
or hands. She loved children and in her idle hours she wrote a fairy tale for them called '"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." It occurred to her that this story would be more amusing if told in pictures, and having all the time in the world and an anniversary present in the shape of a fair-sized check, she decided to produce it herself.
Knowing nothing at all about pictures, she approached her venture blithely, hiring the Emerald Studios, a decrepit old place, and put- ting an advertisement in a newspaper for chil- dren to work in a film.
"Every mother and child in Chicago, it seemed
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C[ Madeline Brandeis and her own baby star — her daughter Marie Madeline.
C[ To the right: The \ids in "Toting Hollywood," which stars the children of famous movie stars. From left to right, D'Arcy, son of Tim McCoy; Mary Jo, daughter of Bill Desmond; George, son of Hobart Bosworth; Eileen, daughter of Pat O'Malley, and Tim, son of ]ac\ Holt.
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a Chance
By
Ruth Tildesley
to me, answered that appeal," smiled Mrs. Brandeis. "All varieties of infants were urged upon me. Strident mothers and shy mothers, stolid babies and vivacious ones — I was almost mobbed! But at length I selected a hundred youngsters, imported Universal^ child star, Zoe Ray, and made my picture.
"I made the film simply as a pastime, thinking it would be a souvenir for my grandchildren, if I ever had any, so I was pleasantly surprised when a Chicago company bought my picture. It is still being shown in schools and churches."
Even after that, the idea of becoming a professional didn't enter her head. Her own baby, Marie Madeline, arriving a few years later, occupied her so fully that it was not until the child was three years old and the Brandeises had come to the parting of the ways that she made another picture.
This time it was "Not One to Spare," a two-reel picture from the famous poem in an old Fourth Reader. Renaud Hoffman, whom Mrs. Brandeis met at a social affair after she had come to Hollywood, sug' gested the story and directed it.
That was the taste
'€[ "The Little Dutch Tulip Girl" was filmed in Volen- dam, Holland.
C[ Two little native actors in "The Little Indian 'Weaver."
C[ Left: the boy star and his sup' port in "The Little S wiss Wood - Carver," produced in the Alps.
(I Below: Bill Reid, Wally's son; Bar- bara Denny, and Erich von Stro' heim, Jr.
(f Left: a scene from "Jeanne of France," ta\en in a Paris shop.
that calls for more. "The Shining Adventure," directed by Hugo Ballin, was a Brandeis pro- duction with two child actors, Mary Jane Irving and Ben Alexander, which grew from two to five reels under her enthusiastic eyes.
Christmas, 1927, was celebrated by the woman producer with "Young Hollywood."
"It seemed to me a great idea to use the children of stars in a film," she explained. "I knew that it would be impossible to get them through casting directors, but I knew their parents, so I suggested that it might be fun to have them work during the holidays. Then they needn't miss school and they'd have the experience.
"My cast consisted of D'Arcy, son of Tim McCoy, Mary Jo, daughter (Com. on page 98)
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C[ The latest, or 1929 batch of Baby Stars. Reading from left to right, front row, Caryl Lincoln, Doris Hill, Jean Arthur, Mona Rico, Josephine Dunn, Helen Twelvetrees, and Loretta Young. Top row, Helen Foster, Sally Blane, Betty Boyd, Ethlynne Clair, Anita Page, and Doris Dawson.
WHAT MAKES A STAR?
QZr Publicity, Pull, Pulchritude — or All Three? Read the Answer.
By Rob Wagner
IN the early days of motion pictures very few of the girl stars won their stardom. On the contrary most of the pasty-faced, brainless little baby-dolls of that grand old pioneer period were sweeties of the pioneers. Pictures were a novelty then and the fans would take most anything that was handed to them. They had to. And so the picture-maker of those days naturally put over their pets. How many of those early morning stars are still shining? Four or five. And they had something besides pull.
Those grand old sultanic days, however, are gone beyond recall. Any boss who now tries to put over a dimple or a bunch of curls is flirting with disaster. Nor do directors have the least authority in such matters. A director may get his pet into the casting office, but the fish-eyed monster in charge will not recommend Pet for anything but bits until she has proven her worth, and that often takes a long, long time. The truth is that screen successes are now de- termined by audiences rather than by individual boosting on the part of producers. All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put Pet over if the fans don't like her.
So exacting have film audiences become in these matters that even the most promising youngsters are put on long probation, during which time they are given every oppor- tunity to develop and provided with assistance in their work; yet very, very few of them ever reach actual stardom.
The truth of this statement is best evidenced in the fate of the "Baby Stars." Every studio has a score or more of youngsters in training, and each year The Wampas — The Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers — chooses from among them thirteen whom they consider the most promising star material. The selection is in secret and the winners announced at a great ball given in honor of the young queens. Naturally Young Hollywood is stirred to its fluttering center. "Bettie Brighteyes has been chosen a Baby Star! Isn't it wonderful?" "And what do you think! — Susie Sweetham missed!"
With all the training, with all the opportunities, and with all the publicity that naturally follow a girl's eleva- tion to stardom, (for it must be remembered the judgment
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Offers a Gift to a Fan
Corinne Griffith's latest picture is "Saturday's Children," in which she plays a working girl. It's a new part for Corinne, who usually plays, as you know, aristocrats like "The Divine Lady"; but one of the most interesting charac- ters, says Corinne, that she has ever played in her entire career. And this role suggested to her an interesting question to ask SCREEN' land's readers in this month's prise contest: "Should a girl give up her economic inde- pendence if she marries a poor man?"
Suppose you are a girl earning a good salary. You fall in love and marry a boy who is making only a moderate wage. He wants you to give up your position and be — - just a wife. You hesitate. You want to please him, yet your common sense tells you that two can't live as cheaply as one, no matter how the saying goes. And so — what do you do?
It's up to you to answer Corinne's question. Decide for yourself. It's a modern problem in which everyone, man or woman, is intensely interested. Write the best — that is, the clev- erest and most concise and clear letter answer- ing the question according to your viewpoint, and you will win the beautiful bracelet.
CC Miss Griffith wearing the 3-i'n-l bracelet from Cartier's. It is of three colors of solid gold — white, bright, and antique gold — a worthy gift from the lovely lady who offers it to you on the satin pillow in the picture below!
Corinne Griffith feels that her fans are her friends. It is characteristic of her that when she heard about Screenland's gift contests she said: "Oh — do let me give something, too!" And what do you think she selected? The most exquisite bracelet you ever saw! From Cartier's, the last word in smart jewelers. It is in three colors of solid gold — white, bright, and antique gold. And Miss Griffith was so much interested that she autographed the box the bracelet comes in. Write the best letter answering her question and win the prise. Address:
CORINNE GRIFFITH Scree nl and Contest Department 49 West 45th Street, New York City
Contest closes May 10, 1929
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C[ At Billie Dove's party announcing the date of Ruth Roland's wedding to Ben Bard. You can pic\ out, in the top row, ]ac\ White, Lila Lee, Victor Varconi, Mary McAllister, Charlie Paddoc\, Louise Fazenda, and Lya de Putti. In the second row, Irvin 'Willat, Tom Mix, and Paul Page; and seated, Pauline Garon, Pauline Star\e, Billie Dove, Ruth Roland, Ben Bard, Sharon Lynn, Mrs. Ona Brown, Gwen Lee, and T^ita Martan,
Tut 0n yom ^Party ^lothes!
And Come Along to Hollywood's Smartest Soirees, Where You'll Meet Your Favorite Movie Stars.
By Grace YLingsley
ELL, if Lady Hamilton looked anything like Corinne Griffith, I don't blame Lord Nelson for hanging around," remarked Patsy, as we made our way to Corinne's house, where she was holding a party following the opening of "The Divine Lady" at the Carthay Circle, where just everybody in the film world had been present.
Corinne's house is in Beverly Hills — a beautiful Spanish town-house. The interior, however, she has changed into French and Italian, both as regards furnishings and architecture.
"Oh, Corinne's been collecting doors!" exclaimed Patsy, as we entered the drawing room from the vestibule, and noted the big, heavy gray-blue-and-gold portals. "Those are Venetian, I know."
Sure enough, we found that when Miss Griffith and her husband, Walter Morosco, were abroad a year or so ago, they brought home a lot of beautiful things, including these doors which had once decorated a Doge's palace.
"I'll bet the Doge would be tickled to death to know
that Corinne had his old doors," Patsy commented.
"At any rate," I answered hurriedly, as we saw our hostess coming to greet us, "the Doge never saw a lovelier sight than Corinne is as she comes to meet us from that graceful vista."
Walter Morosco hastened forward to say hello, too, and we found a crowd already assembled, principally in the pretty card room and in the comfortable den, a few steps down from the card room, with its big comfortable sofas, its easy chairs, its fireplace, and its odd collection of dwarf pictures. We supposed that the dwarf portraits, of which there were something like half a dozen, of all styles, had been bought in Italy, the Italians and all the ancients for that matter having at one time had a fine taste in dwarfs.
Colleen Moore was resting on a sofa, saying that she had had to work all day and was very tired. But she had had a wonderful time up in the Yosemite when she and her husband, John McCormick, and her company were snowbound. She said she was just mastering the art of ski-ing when she had to come home.
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should have a new set of teeth as good as the old.
Walter Morosco began kidding about the trip abroad which he and Corinne are going to take shortly, and he pretended an aesthetic love for English crocuses, and that that was the reason he wanted to go — an attitude most amusing in that big husky. "Are you sure," inquired Enid's mother, "'that you'd know a crocus if you saw
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XMerna Kennedy, seen on the screen "Broadway" — and at parties in Hollywood.
"It's nice to be snow- bound," she explained, "you see you can't work even if you want to, so all the responsibil- ity is off your mind, and all
you have to do is enjoy yourself."
Fred Niblo was there with his wife, Enid Bennett, his big son, Fred, Jr., and Enid's mother — who is so beautiful with her big blue eyes and white hair that she should be painted as the ideal mother type — and her sister, Katherine.
Fred, Jr., is the image of his father. We wondered if he
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G[ Hugh Allan is engaged to a newspaper girl who interviewed him.
"Well, why," inquired Walter, "should I annoy a little flower asking it what it is?" Fred Niblo said that he knew what a crocus was — it was a noise that a frog made! Diana Kane and her husband, George Fitzmaurice, were there, Diana inquiring of Enid confidentially about Enid's nurse and doctor who looked after her when the latest Niblo heir was born, as Diana herself is expecting a visit of the stork very soon.
A number of unassorted husbands and wives were there, due to the fact that their mates were working. Mrs. Conrad Nagel, for instance, came alone, because Conrad was working in a picture that night. William Seiter came looking very lonely without Laura LaPlante, his wife, who was making some scenes for "Show Boat." Sidney Franklin brought Mrs. Franklin, and there were many others besides, including Harry Crocker, who told us that Virginia Cherrill, Charlie Chaplin's leading lady, is going to be a hit in the picture. Hariy is working with Charlie, you know, in the comedian's new picture, and says that Charlie really is getting down to work early every day and working late at night.
A buffet supper was served in the dining- room, and Corinne flitted about among her guests, but finally alighted at our side, where she told us how keen she is to make a picture show- ing the life of Marie Antoinette, and how she means to make a study of the ill-fated French Queen's belongings and former environment when she reaches Paris.
Beulah Livingston, who was among the guests, kindly showed us through Corinne's house before we left, and we found Corinne's bathroom of especial interest, since all its fittings are of gold! A huge crystal perfume cabinet is a feature of her dressing room. The cabinet holds hundreds of bottles of wonderful perfume, of which Miss Griffith is very fond, although she seldom uses any.
"I do love Corinne!" ex- claimed Patsy, as we drove away. "She is always so
(Cont. on. page 102)
C[ Pauline Star\e is so busy be- ing Mrs. ]ac\ White she ma\es few pic- tures.
C[ Enid Bennett, in evidence in Hollywood so- ciety but lost to the screen.
hankered for the actor life, but it seems that his mind isn't at all made up.
Walter Morosco dashed down to ask us how we liked his Whoopee Room, and we said fine — we couldn't imagine making whoopee anywhere else after we had seen his brand.
Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg were there, Norma lovely in a tight-fitting dress of mauve velvet trimmed with rich lace.
Corinne came in smiling, bearing aloft a tele- gram from Marie Dressier, who, you know, was in the cast of "The Divine Lady," but who had been unable to come to the party or opening be- cause she was working on the stage in "The Swan" with Edward Everett Horton.
"With the swan on my neck and the flu on my chest, I am unable to be with you in person tonight," the wire read, "but with love to you and hopes for a tremendous success for the Divine Lady, I am devotedly yours, Marie Dressier."
A number of the players were there, including Ian Keith. Ian told us a funny little story about something which had happened during the making of the picture, which illustrates Corinne's thought- ful generosity. He said that two extra men were fighting each other in the battle scenes, when the director told one of them to hit the other hard. He did so, and his antagonist's teeth fell out.
"Oh," he wailed, "I've lost my uppers and they cost fifty dollars, and I only get seven-fifty a day!"
Miss Griffith, who was on the set, at once consoled the man by assuring him that he
((Paul
new man,
Page, a leading who is re- ported engaged to the lovely lady belo w — ■ Sharon Lynn.
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THE DINNER!
C Margaret Viola Davie, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Wins The $500.00 Prize in the Screenland Masked Cover Contest. Yes — The Girl on the Cover was Irene Rich!
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■si HERE is a happy girl in Cleveland Heights, Ohio — at 3130 East Overlook Road, to be exact. A girl who has just been handed a check for $500.00 — and, incidentally, the biggest thrill of her young
life!
Margaret Viola Davie of Ohio is the one Winner in all the thousands of contestants who submitted answers to the Screenland Masked Cover Con- test announced in the February, 1929, issue of Screenland Magazine. The task of Georgia Warren, our cover artist, Was not easy. She had to read and judge the thousands of answers submitted, and then make one final choice. She was game! She read, and read. But she always came back to Miss Davie's contribution — a very beau- tiful big satin star in the very center of which was a most artistic water- color of the Masked Cover Star — Irene Rich. Miss Davie's letter, in which she identified Miss Rich, was in verse, and cleverly contrived. Although there were so many others to choose from, Miss Warren finally decided that Miss Davie deserved the award.
How does the winner feel? Well, how would you feel if your work had won you a prize of $500.00? And particularly if that prize went a long way towards making it possible to pur- sue your ambition? Margaret Davie is
already an artist, though not professionally. She has always loved to draw and to paint; and it has been her dream to be able to take a course at art school. Now, thanks to Screenland's contest and her oWn cleverness, she can realize her ambition. Screen- land is just as happy as Miss Davie, to have been the means of furthering a real career!
Screenland's only regret is that there was only one prize to offer. So many of the thousands of answers sub- mitted were unique, original and beau- tiful. Following is a list of contest- ants whose efforts merit honorable mention :
Miss Deuse D. Bragg, 1285 - 8th Avenue, San Francisco, California.
Miss Mabel Millspaugh, 120 West Fourth Street, Anderson, Indiana.
Mr. Allen Erwin, Box 157,
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
Mr. Robert Emerson Robischon, 156 North Fulton Avenue, ■ Mount Vernon, New York.
Miss Ela Martens, 116 Centre Street, Dallas Texas.
Mrs. Mattie L. Lamb, 2104 East Glisan Street, Portland, Oregon.
C[ Above: "Margaret Viola Davie, winner of Screenland's $500.00 Mas\ed Cover Contest. Margaret will use the prize money as the first step towards her goal, an art education.
C[ Irene Rich, the screen star who posed for Georgia "Warren's Mas\ed Cover portrait on the February Screenland Magazine, is seen here in two photographs — with and without the mas\. Two' thirds of the letters sub- mitted in the contest named Miss Rich cor- rectly, much to the gratification of the star, and also of the cover artist whose tas\ was to conceal and yet reveal!
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The <JMost ^Beautiful Still of the <JManth KING vidor'S "Hallelujah. "
Q Her Art Doesn 7 Depend Upon Clothes — But in Private Life She is One oj our Smartest Stars
GILDA
ill Fnnkinn rhu loyraph* by Konhibn.
That the evening mode still glitters is attested by this evening gown created by Lucien Lelong in Paris for Gilda Gray. The bodice is a . intricate design in pink, beads; the s\irt is composed of layers of black. chiffon. The shoes, of black, chiton trimmed in silver, are from julienne. To the right a sports cos- tume from Worth of Paris, featuring a Rodier sweater in red. white, and blue wool, worn with a v^irt of blue jersey. The belt is of red. blue, white.
GRAY'S
(\The Shimmy Queen Returns from Picture-Making in Lon- don and Shopping in Paris
Tlwsc Photographs I' osed by lil is s Gray Expressly fur SCBEEN1,ANI>.
(C Above, a striking evening dress of black, chiffon velvet by Worth 0/ Paris has novel notes in the silver underskirt and the large velvet bow. Bright- ening this otherwise almost sombre gown are the large crystal pins at the shoulder straps, with gay tassels of crystal. To the left: Gilda Gray's favor- ite sports ensemble — also from Worth. The white piquot dress is trimmed in red, white, and blue, with the monogram, 'G.G.', in the same patriotic colors. A(ote the ring holding the scarf in place — Gilda's idea, and any ring will answer the purpose. Her blue beret is of wool.
Harold Dean Carsey
DOROTHY MACK A ILL is a vital young person. No matter what part she is called upon to plav, she invests it with sincerity.
Ruth Harriet Louise
"^HARLES KING, song-and-dance man oi many Broadway productions, is now doing his stuff for the movie musical comedies.
Ruth Harriet Louise
MARY NOLAN, once known as a mere beauty, has become an actress. And we're happy to report she's prettier than ever.
T INTRODUCING a new girl to love— Helen JL Twelvetrees from Broadway, who is creating a fresh and lovable ingenue on the screen.
Lansing Brou'n
EXTRA — Extra! Society girl succeeds on the screen! June Collyer gets a new long-term contract for being such a good little actress.
The ^ch £,ittle forking Qirl
June Colly er Only Works Because She Wants To.
By Sydney Valentine
HE doesn't have to work!
"Lucky girl!" said Hollywood, when beautiful June Collyer first came out there two years ago. "She can take a part, or she can leave it. She can do as she pleases. She doesn't have to Work if she doesn't want to!"
And Hollywood proceeded to sit back and smile and wonder just how soon the lovely Miss Collyer from New York would give up and go back to being a lady of leisure. Hollywood met June's father— a very delightful, dignified, and prosperous legal gentleman from Man- hattan, who made it very plain that June Was the apple of his eye and that she could have anything she wanted, anywhere, any time; and June's charming mother, and June's brother, a boy in college, Hollywood sniffed: "Society!" and waited. It wouldn't be long, now! What— this fragile, pampered girl stand up under long hours and re- hearsals, stunts and re-takes? Not very likely!
But Hollywood is still waiting. Or rather, Hollywood has admitted it was wrong. Be- cause June Collyer is still there — and work- ing harder than ever. Incidentally, her charm and her beauty, her tact and gracious manner have ingratiated her with the best people of the picture colony; Prince George of England singled her out for special attention during his stolen trip to Holly- wood; and certain of the most eligible bachelors have fallen at her feet — but only incidentally. The really im- portant thing is that June has stuck — and become a good trouper.
She doesn't have to work — but she wants to! She isn't depend- ent upon her picture earnings , for her bread, butter, jam and mink coats. She only works / because she likes it. And now Hollywood has to admit that a girl like June
((Portrait of a Lady- Miss June Collyer!
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is quite as unique as the poor princess of the Hollywood fairy tales who only works because she has to.
It must have been a temptation once or twice in the beginning for June to go rushing home to dad and mother. Because she had a pretty hard initiation into studio routine. One of her first pictures required fog scenes, and the fake fog is produced by some kind of gas, which makes it practically no fun at all for the players. June almost passed out, but she kept on going. Then in another pic- ture she was given a role she loved — in the script. But when it came time to shoot the scenes she discovered that the director had an entirely different conception of the character than she had. It was the part of a lady — a thoroughbred, an aristocrat. The director's idea of a lady was a cold and barely animated statue, moving stiff and stately through the scenes but never, by any chance, being human. June, being a lady, couldn't very well contradict her director. She played the part as he commanded; and her reward was a handful of press clip- pings in which critics hinted that she was stiff, cold, and uninspired! But a little thing like that can't stop June Collyer.
Her latest two pictures have been more stimulating than her past assignments. "Red Wine" gives her a real chance to discard the cold conventions of the motion picture 'lady' and emerge as a flesh-and-blood girl, which June most assuredly is. "Not Quite Decent" is the working title of the picture she is doing right now — and that, too, sounds promising!
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wilds of the African jungle? Well, no — not exactly. Just a faithful re' production built in the Paramount studio.
C[ Baclanova, the star of "The Woman Who 7\[eeded Killing," plays a tropic temptress convincingly. Whew, it's hot tonight!
0n location— with Sound!
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"n^he location this month in Africa — via the Para- mount sound stage in Hollywood. A whole stage has been converted into a bit of the jungle with ponds and brooks, mango and banana trees, hanging moss and orchids, ferns and other tropical growth. The whole set occupies a space of about one hundred and fifty- square feet and the ac- tion of the entire picture takes place upon it. The 'one-set" picture is a new thing and will be very popular with sound pic tures because of the dif- ficulties still to be met
C[CIive Broo\. TsfeiZ Hamilton, and Baclanova. enacting a scene for "The Woman Who l^eeded Killing" under Rowland Lee's direction. See his silhouette — and the microphones?
in open air shooting.
The title of this pic- ture will, I am sure, find an echo of sympathy in a good many masculine hearts! It is "The Woman Who Needed Killing." Madame Bac- lanova, the Russian ac- tress who is so fine an artist, is the heroine of our tale. Her husband is a worthy histrionic mate — Clive Brook; and the boys she ruins are legion, but two of them are Leslie Fenton and Neil Hamilton, who plays Clive's brother.
Because the atmos- phere of this picture is so novel, and because of the fact that it is beins;
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taken entirely on one stage, with no exterior shots, I chose it for my location. Work is done at night only. The company assembles around seven o'clock and begins work about eight.
Approaching a sound stage is rather an impressive thing at first. You see a man standing in the studio street waving a red flag and you wonder whether dynamite is being played with. Half a block down you notice a red light. The red flag is waved until the red light goes out. But it isn't dynamite. It is just that the sound picture is being shot at last and while it is going on, for a block on all four sides of the stage, there can be no traffic, not even foot passengers. When the red light goes out, you are permitted to pass and through the stage door.
We were greeted with the warm, sweet smell peculiar to the tropics. It must be the scent of the wet ferns and trees and earth that creates the illusion. Certainly you feel as though you were in a jungle. The scene was where Leslie Fenton, having been mocked by Baclanova, the danger- ously attractive wife of his chief, had decided to call it a day and shot himself through the head. Just as I entered they were rehearsing the scene and I saw Leslie dash head-foremost through the window and fall on the earth. There wasn't any sound — not even the dull sickening thud one expects under such circumstances. I found out afterwards the reason for this: that, on the spot where he was to fall, had been placed, beneath the surface of the earth, two spring mattresses and shock absorbers. In sound pictures if this had not been prepared for, the noise of his body falling, even on soft earth, would have been deafening.
Clive Brook then rushed into the scene, as well as a dozen or so natives, chattering in their native tongue, which is Swahili. Clive answered them in kind. The language has been taught the players by Gerald Grove, technical man for the unit, who spent nearly eight years in Africa. He also taught the musicians the native tunes from memory. The mating dance, which is such a feature of this picture, is performed to the melody of the marimba, the African xylophone. It is made of gourds, beginning with small ones and running into larger ones about (Cont. on page 104)
C[ Below: Neil Hamilton and Baclanova while the technical staff and Helen Screenland's location lady — fourth the left — \eep cool on the side' lines.
<C The Russian star lives up to her warm up nic\name, which
Ludlam, « 'Bac\y.'
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Gary
(\A Big Boy from Montana Becomes the New Idol of Hollywood.
HE will always attract women. Even when his more-than-six-feet of manliness is bent with age, women will pamper him. There is little doubt that in a beribboned baby carriage twentysix years ago, the fair sex offered him sugared inducements to coo and smile for them.
Gary Cooper is just the sort of a man who arouses admiration in all who meet him.
Without the usual accouterments of male lure, i. e., patent-leather hair, smouldering eyes, cynical smile or impeccable attire, his following increases with every production.
His chivalry is irreproachable. It is a gallantry bred by open ranges and camp fires.
Erroneously, Gary has been called a cowboy. This romantic bit of misinformation is almost true, but not quite. He is the only son of Judge and Mrs. Charles H. Cooper of Helena, Montana. Gary spent his winters in the western city attend-
d^Gary and Lupel The fiery little Mexican and the stalwart westerner played together in "Wolf Song'' and now their engagement has been announced. Klo wonder Mr. Cooper loo\s happy in the por- trait to the right.
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By Julie Lang
ing school and his summers on a large cattle ranch owned by his father. During prep 'school years he was sent to England for two years of intensive schooling. When he returned, minus a British accent, he entered Iowa College.
His father and mother are white-haired aristocrats. His mental and physical sur- roundings have been far above the average.
According to his mother, his first and, as far as she knows, only crush on the opposite sex came at a tender (Cont. on page 100)
' Gary Cooper after jour years in Hollywood is still shy!
C[ Gary is the only son of Judge and Mrs. Charles H. Cooper of Helena, Montana. Here he is with his mother, on one of Mrs. Cooper's frequent visits to Cali- fornia. Gary is \ept so busy at the studio he has had only one vacation in four years.
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The Story of the Man -The Theatre -and The Gang !
Editor's Note: — Here's a thrilling story! I know you will enjoy reading it as much as I did. For every movie fan in the world knows Roxy — either from visiting the Roxy Theatre in New York, or from listening in to his Radio Gang. And now Rosa Reilly introduces you to the super-showman and lets you watch him while he creates the entertainment that fills his theatre with six thousand people at least three times every twelve hours — probably the supreme achievement in amusement history. Let's go!
By Rosa Reilly
is black except for the red exit lights which dot the darkness like sinister eyes. The seven endless tiers of dull-red velvet seats are empty. The wide-sweeping loge and lowering balcony stretch off into loneliness. The gold and white organ, with its three consoles, rests hushed and buried beneath the stage, on the movable platform which also raises and lowers the orchestra pit.
The vast, gold-crowned coliseum of amusement, with its marble columns, its gilt-flanked walls, its winding stairways, lies silent except for one brief spot near the entrance. Here, squatted under the brightness of several strong electric lamps, six middle-aged women kneel gossiping, as they repair the strain on the crimson pile carpet. Eighteen thousand pairs of feet pass over that carpet every day. For the theatre fills and empties itself of six thousand people at least three times every twelve hours.
It is ten o'clock, Thursday morning. A whirling snow storm beats around the huge city block at Fiftieth Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, where the world's largest theatre is situated. A rehearsal of the coming week's stage show has been called a day early since Friday will be a holiday. And on holidays there are four performances instead of the usual three, leaving little time and less energy for rehearsals.
As the heavy green velvet curtain parts, we catch a glimpse of the stage, bare of all settings.
Behind the footlights, well down-stage, on a camp stool, sits a blue-eyed, gray-haired man, forty- five years old. There is power in his eyes and strength to his mouth. He is dressed well but conservatively in a dark blue suit, black shoes, a gray shirt with a stiff collar, and a dark tie. His cheeks are tanned, as if he spent a good deal of his time out of doors. His hands are brown and spatulate.
He is Samuel Lionel Rothafel — known to millions as Roxy of the Radio. Known to hundreds of thousands as President of the Roxy Theatres Cor- poration, and personal director of the Roxy Moving Picture Theatre — the largest playhouse in the world.
Behind Roxy, in the orchestra pit which has been elevated to the level of the stage in the last few seconds, is a grand piano, with a spectacled pianist sit- ting before it. Grouped around the pit are thirty-two girls, the Roxyettes, awaiting their cues. Some of them, wearied with constant performances and steady rehearsals, sleep.
Back-stage, in a circle, the forty-odd members of the ballet stand like high-strung race horses. They are dressed in every sort of practice costume — from checked
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Gilbert Adrian is Screenland's Fashion Editor. He is well qualified to advise the women of America on their clothes problems for he is an internationally-known designer, hav- ing created costumes for many of the world's most beautiful and famous women. Right now he is costume creator for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, which means that his ideas are carried out in the interesting clothes you see worn on the screen by Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and other stars. Every month in Screenland he discusses the clothes problems of a particular type. Adrian will be glad to give Screenland's women readers the benefit of his experience by answering any questions they may care to ask concerning clothes. Address: Adrian, Screenland's Fashion Department, 49 West ASth Street, New York City.
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that would dwarf Miss Pringle. Where striking cos- tumes wjould have that effect on the personalities of less clearly cut individuals, they / merely accent Miss Pringle's. / The Pringle , / /
type should not ,£_a**«-~5f& adopt the same i — t* ' general motif
for all her costumes. Some women can, you know. They find a basic style that is becoming, that is a perfect frame, and they build a wardrobe for all occasions upon that one fundamental style. But not the Pringle type. Here is a
many-faceted personality, kaleidoscopic in its changing impressions; and her clothing should be as varied. For in- stance, one costume as au- stere as a nunery, the next as gay, as flashing as the Fountains of Versailles. But all must be extreme.
It's fatal, also, for this type to attempt to adapt one costume to more than one occasion. I mean, by that, that the addition of a flower or a satin blouse does not suitably convert a sports suit into an afternoon outfit, and the removal of chiffon sleeves from an afternoon gown and the addi- tion of a cocktail jacket fails to make it an appropriate evening frock for a Pringle.
Just because of these things, it is a delight to design clothes for this particular type. The designer may let his fancy run wild and be assured it will never run out of bounds. It would be a crime to say that the I fortunate members of this type were made for clothes. That would belittle their other striking qualities, but
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(( The first drawing to the left, above, is Adrian's conception of a bal masque costume for Miss Pringle — which he calls "The Fountains of Versailles."
C[ Left: Aileen wearing an Adrian creation called "Crystal Mongolia," made of white velvet encrusted in solid embr oidery of bugles and mirrors, l^ote the two-tiered collar.
CC Below: Adrian s drawing of his1 original design for a printed chiffon ensemble created for Aileen Pringle. The treatment of the neckline is unique.
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C[ Who wouldn't wa\\ a mile for a Camel?
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Q Her preferences and prejudices
Observed by Charles Dunn
ike most spirited women Carmel Myers likes men who are masterful — but she hates to be crossed. * Though she swears she could never fall in love with an actor, she likes ^* men who are vain.
C[ Sweet, sassy, and snappy — ■ Miss Myers.'
Men, to interest her, must be as interested in their clothes as in their work. That is just the way she puts it.
A touch of green in a man's clothes will always catch her eye. She prefers a tobacco brown in her own tweeds.
She has no patience with a man who can't dance well.
A man who too quickly falls in love, or says he does, never gets far with her. Flattery has bored her ever since a year spent in Italy and France. She adores men with a superior air.
Carl Van Vechten spends much time with her during his Hollywood visits — and thought well enough of her to keep her out of "Spider Boy."
A moody man irritates her. But when she is blue she demands much attention. Little thoughtful deeds impress her much more than grand gestures. A man who whistles is crossed off her list at once.
Once she went driving at night with a man who, until the day before, had only known her as she is seen on the screen. They came back in twenty minutes.
Rudolph Valentino was once her devoted admirer. This when she was far better known than he.
Strong silent men never make her heart flutter a beat faster. Hers must be one of scores of names in the little black book, with all the rest crossed out.
She is immune to compliments on her beauty but purrs with delight over every remark on her taste in clothes.
For eight or nine months of the year she lives with her brother, a director, and his wife.
Under the guidance of her mother, with whom she lived until her death two years ago, she accumulated a si-eable estate. But she lives in a modest apartment during the winter and in the smaller of her two beach houses the rest of the year.
She has five strings of jade and innumerable brooches, hat-pins, slipper buckles and rings of the same green stone.
French hosiery is her greatest extravagance; shoes her pet economy. Only about once a year can she drag herself to a bootery, and then she buys dozens of pairs of footwear. (Continued on page 109)
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NORMA TALMADGE returned from Eu- rope to begin her first talking picture. Gilbert Roland will be her leading man.
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WELCOMh back, Tommy Meighan! Mak< vour hrsr talkie the best picture voi ever starred in Ct<> ro it — we re with v<n
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OH, what's the use? We tried to think up a . caption worthy of Lily Damita but nobody will read it, anyway, with her to look at!
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ONh ot the reigning red-heads <>t Hd wood. Margaret Livingston will conqtu the movie public as well in the right pan
A CHARMING girl, a good actress, am . great scout — Anna Q Niisson In cast vou are puzzled — that Q stands tor Querenria
TARY BRIAN is no longer known as 'that -L little girl who played in "Peter Pan." ' She's grown up into a versatile trouper.
Now she's a hit in "Where East is East."
harmony Kjd!
By John Engstead
When he leaves at eleven-thirty, after the second show, people wait outside to see him. Some lit' tie boy and girl once stood for five hours to get his signa' ture. "More than worth it I" they said.
Sometimes Buddy takes a crowd of boys and girls to their homes.
As soon as Gus Eyssell the manager of the Para
<( Below. Buddy at the drums. He plays every thing hut marbles in "Close Harmony."
He began on a baritone horn when he was eight years old. D. R. Ott, a friend of Buddy's father, started a band with boys ten years and under. Rogers bought the horn and little Buddy played in the band. After three years of Thursday night concerts with the youngsters, the Rogers boy gained the recognition of being the only boy ■ promoted to the men's band.
When he went to high school, he worked in his father's newspaper office and played in a high school jazz band. He saved his money and bought a set of drums which he learned to play by lining up the drums in front of the victrola, turning on a record and for hours each night accompanying the hot- test drummers.
At the University of Kan- sas, Buddy joined a jazz orchestra the first year. One week-end when he was home, he borrowed the trombone which his little brother never used. He practised the new in- strument all week with the orchestra and then dug down in his savings and bought himself his famous trombone. One of Buddy's fraternity brothers had a saxophone, and Buddy learned to play it well enough to alternate in the band.
During his first (Com. on page 109)
mount, can again persuade Buddy the people haven't had enough of him, Gus is happy. Buddy insures a crowded house for some Mon^ day night.
For that reason the Paramount studios in Hollywood have just made "Close Harmony," in which the youthful college boy fram Kansas plays all his instruments and sings as the leader of a jazz band.
On the set the other day, Buddy told how he happened to play all these instruments.
Mr. Bert H. Rogers, the owner of the Olathe, Kansas, Mirror, one Saturday night took his family in to Kansas City — Mrs. Rogers, Jerry, and Buddy. One man in the theatre where they went, played every instru- ment in the orchestra. From that moment the playing of every instrument was Buddy's ambition.
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All Photographs Ex- pressly Posed for Screen land by Para- mount Pictures.
<( Eighty-thirty — and "Hancy is making up. Movie stars, you \n o w, must ma\e up before they \iss.
C[ Above: a love scene before ten in the morning! That's what Director Richard Wal- lace requires of 7<[ancy and Robert Castle.
C[ Lunch! Twelve o'cloc\ finds our star in the studio restaurant with Lane Chandler and a healthy appetite.
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5 TA R
She Demonstrates the Difference the Life of a Movie Actress.
Thanh you, Nancy Carroll, for Posing for us So Prettily !
<![ After a nap and a light supper, T^ancy prepares for the theatre — yes, where she's scheduled to ma\e a personal appearance.
C[ Four-thirty is tea' time on the set if the day's wor\ has progressed smoothly. Two lum ps, please. Miss Carroll.
<£ The first wor\ for the afternoon is a fast-stepping scene on the studio lawn for "Close H a r- mony," a new ta\\ie ■ singie- dancie.
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Gi Whoopee — here's Lupe! In town for personal appearances with "Lady of the Pavements." ?S[ext, Doris Kenyon; and third, Lya de Putti, who said good- bye to Broadivay for picture'ma\ing in England.
(\The Stars from Hollywood Outshine the Broadway Bright Lights
"Si WO Hollywood red-heads in town at the same time! And, as if they weren't enough to make up gasp, who should arrive but Lupe Velez. Well, it was hectic. It's still hectic. One of the two red-heads is in Palm Beach right now, but she'll be back; and the other red-head will still be here, and Lupe — I'm out of breath trying to keep up with them. But let's begin with the red-heads, shall we? They are Clara Bow and Margaret Livingston. Clara, on her first visit east in ever so long. Ard Margaret, whom Manhattan always welcomes with open arms when she arrives for her annual visit; because Margaret is, in addition to being a raving beauty, one of the nicest girls who ever came out of Hollywood. I suppose it would be only polite to consider Clara first, though, wouldn't it — because she's a sort of native daughter of New York — well, almost; born in Brooklyn. And- New York is only too glad to claim her. Clara has travelled some since she left here, let me tell you! She has been a beauty contest winner — no, not a winner, but a runner-up; director Elmer Clifton had recognized her possibilities, and given her a chance in "Down to the Sea in Ships." Clara, a somewhat scared little thing then, made good in her first picture, and the producer, B. P. Schulberg, signed her, and she made some films for Preferred, since passed out of the picture. I remember Clara w^hen she was working in an uptown studio. She was a strange little thing. She didn't have much to say, and I confess that I never would have picked her to be the most popular girl in pictures; but then, Elinor Glyn had not yet discovered "It." And besides, Clara was only a kid. There was a story told at the time about her that I always liked because it shows what a naive, unspoiled child she was. Her manager had loaned her for the picture she was making in New York. One
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those snow-shoes, Harry Langdon —
making a hit in vaude- ville. Milton Sills came east for a Margaret Livingston has so many movie may stay east to do a talkje.
day she failed to show up at the studio. A representative hurried to her hotel to find out what was the matter. He found Clara calmly sitting and determined not to come to the studio. He asked why. She said she had had a wire from her manager telling her not to go. Asked to produce it, she handed over a wire which read something like this: "How are you getting along with picture stop re- gards." Clara had taken that 'stop' quite seriously!
She has changed — of course. She's a celebrity now. But she doesn't act the part. She has steadfastly refused to be lionised since she has been here on her vacation, even registering at a hotel under the name of 'Stella Ames,' which is the name of the character she plays in her latest picture, "The Wild Party." Mrs. Clarence Badger, wife of the director is with her. But Broadway knows Clara Bow is in town. She's been to the theatres and the smarter night clubs, having a good time and apparently quite oblivious to the excited attention she creates. There's some- thing reassuring and casual about her unconcern. And — she hasn't forgotten Brooklyn! The only
personal appearance she consented to make was at a Brooklyn theatre.
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This Livingston girl is one of the real personalities of pictures. She is picturesque, exotic, flashing, and very, very beautiful. What a pity the camera can't reproduce her amazing red hair, her strange hazel eyes, and her grand complexion — Margaret has probably the prettiest skin of any picture girl I've ever seen. Usually make-up does something or other to the finest complexions; but Margaret's has remained immune. It's as pink and white and glowing as a baby's. Yes, Miss Livingston is a real beauty. And a great scout! She is a philosopher in her dainty feminine fashion. "I know I ve never made (Continued on page 100)
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Noisy Neighbors
Again Eddie Quillan knocks a home run! In this talking film he and the rest of his vaudeville family are left a fine southern estate. Quitting the stage forever, they set up their lares in the southland only to find themselves involved in an inherited blood feud with their next door neighbors. Meantime, of course, Eddie has already fallen in love with the grand-daughter of the enemy. Alberta Vaughn plays the heroine and Theodore Roberts, the sire of the other faction. Eddie contributes a clean-cut, amusing performance. The late Theodore Roberts is great, particularly in the spoken sequences. Miss Vaughn makes a charming appearance and the supporting cast are good troupers.
Strange Cargo
A somewhat de-luxe mystery murder talkie, staged on board a yacht. While action is sacrificed to the all-talking sequences you'll enjoy it because there are several good comedy situations and much excellent character acting. All the large cast gave capable performances but Otto Matiessen, as the mysterious yogi, stood out.
The Spieler
Sensational film! Revealing inside story of carnival racket' eers! Renee Adoree, owner, tries to run a carnival honestly. Unsuccessful until Alan Hale falls for her and goes straight. This excites murderous mob headed by Fred Kohler resulting in tremendous midway battle where Hale staves off sinister gang with tent stake. Admirable performances by Clyde Cook, Adoree, Hale and Kohler.
Ask Dad
A gem of a talkie that hits you between the eyes. Edward Everett Horton and his son, played by Winston Miller, are both in love with the former secretary, Ruth Renick. Miller is excellent. He portrays exactly a youngster overcome by calf love. Horton is splendid, of course, and Miss Renick a sympathetic heroine. As funny as they come!
The Old Bam
Don't miss this one! It's a grand, spooky, talking comedy. Johnny Burke, the hotel clerk; Daphne Pollard, general slavey; Andy Clyde, Thelma Hill, Vernon Dent and others, contrive to work out the funniest and eeriest situations you ever saw, in an old country barn behind the hotel where they're in search of an escaped madman.
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Revuettes Are Here To Aid and Abet You in Your Search and Be Guided to the Right Pictures.
Conquest
Shame on H. B. Warner! Not satisfied with deserting his helpless pal down at the foot of the world, he marries his friend's fiancee and tries to do murder with a hatchet! This all-talking South Pole film has a splendid cast: Monte Blue, Warner, Lois Wilson, Tully Marshall and Edmund Breese. But that's all.
The Man Who Cheated Life Tut, tut, tut, Mr. Gonrad Veidt! Why don't you stand up for yourself and refuse to play in such films as this Mephisto- phelian story of a man who sells his soul for a million gold pieces? Your acting was sincere and moving. But the story was unthinkable. Only recommended as a paradise for pessimists.
Captain Lash
This movie proves Victor McLaglen to be the huskiest actor in Hollywood! McLaglen has the role of head stoker on a steamer. When he's in port, he drinks liquor with his pal Clyde Cook and flies around with a winsome lass of the hoi polloi, until Claire Windsor edges into his horizon. As a passenger on the liner, .she comes below to watch the stoking. Here McLaglen cuts a grand bronze figure when a stoker goes mad and turns on a steam-cock, exposing Claire to a painful death. But McLaglen rescues her and falls for what he thinks is a lily-pure lady. How he gets back to his own lusty level is worth paying to see. All the cast, including Jane Winton, are corking.
At the South Pole
This — the actual record of gallant Captain Scott's tragic dash for the South Pole — should not be overlooked because it covers almost the identical ground Byrd is traversing today. You see the great ice barrier, unimaginably lovely frozen islands, and those amusing comedians — the penguins, en jamille. An in- spiring record of a courageous gentleman.
Whirls and Girls
This talking film brings Sennett comedy back to the screen. Harry Gribbon and Andy Clyde play around with a lot of pretty girls. Starting out with the crack: "Henry Peck was known as Henry the Eighth. His wife was the other seven- eighths," the picture carries on to a knock-out climax. One of the funniest comedies I ever saw.
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Great preparations are going forward at Metro' Goldwyn- Mayer for the taking of "Trader Horn" in Africa. Twenty-five tons of sound equipment are boxed and waiting on one of the stages for the Government man to appear and affix the Governmental bond and seal. There are about fifty more tons to go. When it arrives in Africa it will be carried six hundred miles into the jungle, probably on elephants. The picture will take about six months to make, they feel — that is, if they have a lucky break in weather. Camilla Horn was the star elected to play the heroine, but Metro was not prepared to pay the salary United Artists demanded for Miss Horn and Camilla herself was not willing to take less, in which decision she was backed by United Artists. It would take her away from Hollywood at least eight months and completely out of
the picture world. It is a terrific journey. She was to be the only woman in the troupe, with the exception of a companion Who would act as her hairdresser. So with mingled feelings of regret and relief, Camilla vetoed the offer of a smaller salary. It looks now as if an extra girl, Edwina Booth, would be chosen.
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Carroll Nye is the lucky young man of Hollywood this month, and deservedly so. It just shows that good work will be appreciated, if you don't get tired doing it. Carroll has been a pretty fine trouper for several years and although he has had steady work and good parts, his name didn't spell money at the box office. Now he will have his chance. Someone had the good sense to cast him in "The Squall," directed by Alexander Corda, in which Myrna Loy, Loretta Young, Alice Joyce and Zasu Pitts
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([Mr. and Mrs. Tsfeil Hamilton are quite in the swim at Malibu Beach.
also appear. Zasu Pitts, Carroll told me, supplied the comedy relief both on and off the set. In fact, Mr. Corda said he didn't know how he could have got through the pic' ture without her. The assistant direc' tor would say to him, "You won't need Miss Pitts to- morrow, will you?" And he would say, "Oh, call her any way. Let's have a laugh!" On the days she didn't work she would often appear with a basket of home-made cookies which she would offer to the grateful members of the cast. The scene was a barn-yard and hills in the distance and picturesque Hungar- ian peasant costumes flitting about. Mr. Corda had a fine time directing the animals. "Bring on the geeses and the sheepses," he would call when it wlas time for their act. It was his first sound picture. Sand- wiched between "The Squall" and his next First National picture, Carroll tripped over to the M. G. M. lot to round out an in- teresting cast di' rected by Lionel Barrymore, the pic- ture being "Madame X," with Ruth Chatterton and Ralph Forbes.
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Ronald Colman, as everybody knows, is doing his first talkie and will present it to a waiting world in "Bull Dog Drummond." It is going to be a swell show, too — - full of thrills and horrors and fun — not at all like any Ronny Colman picture that you have ever seen before. Screenland's correspondent strolled onto the Sam Gold- wyn sound stage at about four o'clock in the afternoon and not a crank had been turned up to that time.
"Won't you sit down," said Hank Arnold, climbing out of a wheel chair used in the scene. "And you are just in time for tea," said Lilyan Tashman, looking very grand in a white satin evening dress, decorated with rhinestones. "What! — you haven't come to that!" said Screenland's correspondent. "Oh, yes — tea every afternoon at four for the entire outfit. That is so we won't mind working at
night and it certainly does pep one up."
Lily Damita was also visiting the set, looking very stun- ning in a black tailor-made suit and tight-fitting little felt hat with a pompom on the side. For some reason or other, Lily Damita's face always reminds me of a violet sprinkled with dew. I don't know why, except that her eyes look that way. She has just returned from her hurried trans- continental trip which she said she hoped she would never have to duplicate. She had to make three personal appear- ances a day and remained but one day in each town. Lily had no opportunity to enjoy the cities that she visited, which upset her not a little.
Property men gave us tea and cakes. Lilyan Tashman had a special blend which they served in a little bag and poured the hot water over it. "Makes me look as though I were running a laundry," said Lilyan, indicating the little string and tag hanging from the cup.
After tea they did a bit of action where Ronny kills Lawrence Grant, who plays La\ington, the villain, by choking him. "Stop," cries Lawrence, "You are killing me." "Yes," replied Ronny, in his well-modulated voice, and with a smile planted his thumbs more firmly on the victim's windpipe, "but I am doing it as painlessly as possible!"
Little Joan Bennett was nursing a headache, in the bottle- green flat crepe dress she wears. "The action of the pic- ture takes place in twenty-four hours," said Joan, "and I only have an opportunity of wearing one dress. I am getting very tired of it." The last time I saw Joan she was toddling about as Peas Blossom in an outdoor performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," given at her mother's country estate in New York, in which her sister Barbara played Titania and I have forgotten what Constance played. It was startling to see this little Peas Blossom grown to be a beautiful young lady with the poise of a woman twice
C[ Helen Ludlam, Screenland's Location Lady, visits Mary Brian and Richard Arlen on the set during the filming of "The Man I Love."
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(^'Adolphe "Menjoii can be high-hat any time he wants to. Here he is embarking on a trip with the twenty eight hats he considers essential to the well-dressed man's wardrobe. Ten hat boxes are required to hold the head-gear.
her years.
Patsy Ruth Miller will be kept busy running from the First National lot in Burbank, to War- ner Brothers in Hollywbod. Upon completion of "The Sap," she will play the part created by Madge Kennedy on the stage in "Twin Beds," the Margaret Mayo farce.
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Lon Chaney seems to be one man who possesses moral courage. All this business of meeting sche- dule, working night and days and Sundays, means nothing to him. When assistant directors and tech- nical men are staggering about stuttering with fatigue, when stars appear with balloon tires and list- less eyes, Lon and his company are
as fresh as daisies. Long ago he decided that working on Sunday was the bunk — likewise working after five-thirty. So he just doesn't do it, and all the talk handed him by supervisors and executives leaves him perfectly cold. The result is that a Chaney picture, almost Without exception, finishes on what is called 'schedule,' and they have been known to finish four days ahead of time
"The reason is," said Lon, "that when we work, we work and we feel like it. I figure that when I quit at five-thirty, it will take the technical staff at least half an hour to fold up for the night. They get home for their dinner sometimes as late as seven o'clock, if they live far away. Then they are too tired to hurry through it and make a theatre or a movie. Sometimes they have a game of cards for relaxation, but at best the evening is short enough."
Lon figures that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and that you can't do good Work if you get stale on things. Somebody remarked that it was all very well for Lon Chaney, who is a big star and a big money-maker, to refuse to conform to niszht and Sunday work. Whereupon he replied, "Well, I stopped before I was in the big money."
There was a scene that called for a fight in a pic- ture he was doing. The director wanted a real one; Lon wanted to fake it because he couldn't see the sense of having himself and the other man bruised up. When the director insisted, Lon said there wouldn't be any fight at all under those circumstances. Lon won. So they prepared to fake it. The fight Was to be taken on a Sunday morning. The first man they put up against him went pretty well until Lon said, "Now let me have it on the shoulder." The man struck out, hit Lon a smashing blow and broke two bones in his hand. "It didn't hurt me," said Lon, because I knew how to take it. The second man they put up against me, strained the ligaments in his leg. The third sprained his ankle and the fourth broke his collor bone, and that is the last Sunday work I have ever done. If that could happen with a fake fight, I would just like to know what it would have been like if we had been going at it in earnest!"
Lon is all against an actor allowing him- self to be worked after he is tired. "He doesn't photograph his best and after a pic- ture or two like that, he is given the gate because he doesn't measure up to the re- quired standards. I won't do it," he said, "and God knows I don't have to look after my beauty. If I let myself do what I know is beyond my strength, to accomodate some whim of the front office, there isn't anybody going to hand me out a picture to do when I have lost my grip, just out of friendship. So I look after 'me' and I figure that is the best way of looking out for the companies' box-office, too!"
Sally Blane, new RKO starlet, is the sister of Loretta Young.
[Gary and Lupe, off-stage. In love? What do you ihinkj
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Edna May Cooper is the latest victim of the avia'
tion craze. When she heard that Art Goebel was
going to make a world flight, she was wild to go
with him. She didn't know Art, but she had friends
who did and she Wrote asking him whether, if she
were able to master radio by June, he would permit
her to go as radio operator. On his arrival in
Hollywood he had a talk with her and she made
one or two flights with him. If she can pass the
physical endurance tests, she stands a very good
chance of being selected. So far Ruth Elder is her
only rival. Hollywood has learned to love Ruth,
but Edna May is a favorite, too. She has made an
offer of $10,000 as a gesture toward paying her own
expenses and has begun her studies of aviation,
navigation, meterology and radio at the Western
College of Aeronautics. The flight will hardly be
made in June, hoWever, as Colonel Goebel's opera'
tion during the winter left him with a very painful
aftermath and it might be a year before he is well
enough to make such a taxing flight.
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At Colleen Moore's home the other night was given a buffet supper in honor of Mrs. John Colville, nee Helen Hamilton, who has been Colleen's personal secretary for six years. The occasion was held on the eve of Mrs. Colville's departure for Tocopilla, Chile, where her husband, Capt. John Colville, is affiliated with a nitrate company as a mining engineer. They were married in August just before he left for Tocopilla but his Wife remained here to wind up her affairs and prepare for her new life. At Colleen's party some old films were shown, one of which, "The New York Hat," was produced in 1912 with Mary Pickford as the star. It measured up pretty well with a few present-day offerings, too. And then there were a fortune teller, games and other amusements. Colleen didn't have her palm read and when they asked her why, she said, "Oh, I know my fate. He's Irish and
Mary Pichjord entertained at 'Pickjair' for twenty five girls who won the 'Coquette' contest throughout the country. Little Mary at the left.
six feet two," — meaning John McCormick, her husband!
CC Helen Twelvetrees and one dog.
Camilla Horn is finding time hanging heavily on her hands since the departure of her husband, whose business called him to Ger- many. She had expected to meet him in England on her way to Africa, if she did "Trader Horn," but now that she is not going to do the picture, she is wondering how she can wangle a trip abroad for a brief visit. As a parting gift, Claus Geerz, her husband, pre- sented her with two fox scarfs and an ermine coat, which isn't a bad going-away gift at all. Herr Geer^ is a merchant, an importer and ex- porter, so perhaps the furs weren't as hard on him as they might have been on other husbands. His name, you may have noticed, is rather suggestive of December twenty- fifth, so it was perfectly appropriate for him to land in Hollywood on Christmas Eve, last. Camilla, although in America little more than a year, has now a fine command of English. She speaks with a charming accent, but makes herself easily understood. The other day at a tea given for a few friends at her beach house, she sat on the floor and offered her little wire-haired terrier some candy. She was wearing a perfectly adorable cream cashmere frock, with scarlet cross-stitch on the sleeves and border — the bodice Was tight and the skirt very full and rather long. "Come on my lap," she said,
d[ Two Hollywood stars who \ept a secret! Vera Reynolds and Robert Ellis were married for three years before their friends found it out.
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but the little dog hesitated. "He is afraid," said Camilla, naively, "because he know he cannot climb on this good dress."
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You have to be prepared for anything in the movies! Santa Cruz; Island, although one of the most beautiful spots here, is about as popular as a rattlesnake in a boudoir for a location, because of the difficulties to be met in reaching it. During the filming of "The Rescue" the Herbert Brcnnon Company, with Ronald Colman and Lily Damita, felt the pangs of hunger more than once. Two of the supply ships were unable to reach the island on account of rough weather and had to turn back, so rations were rather slim on the location, and finally, until the ship was able to make the rough Waters, the actors took to eating the 'props,1 which drove the property man almost frantic. Cocoanuts, bananas and other tropi- cal fruits, which should have been used in the picture, dis- appeared before his eyes, like frost before a noon-day sun!
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Twenty-five young girls and twenty-five newspaper women had a trip recently that they will probably never forget. All because Mary Pickford felt like throwing a party for a few girls from twenty-five cities of the United States, in honor of the Pickford picture, "Coquette." Some of the girls have only themselves to support, but
C[ Gilda Gray, with the director, the author, and the leading man of "Piccadilly," which she made in England: E. A. Dupont, Arnold Bennett, and Jameson Thomas.
got this coat the day before I left home to come out here and now look at it! I wonder if they will take it back?" Somebody made the remark that perhaps a wealthy and eager one in her town would pay her double what she paid for it when they knew that the coat had rubbed elbows with Doug and Mary, Doug. Jr. and Joan, Norma Talmadge, Lillian Gish, Nils Asther, and John Gilbert. The girls went through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, and attended a tea given in their honor at the Holly- wood Athletic Club, where most of Hollywood's
C[ Lionel Barrymore, who directs Ruth Chatterton in "Madame X," seems to be giving a bit of fatherly advice to Ruth and her recently reconciled husband, Ralph Forbes.
one is supporting eight on her earnings. Some of them had never been out of their home-towns. Some are stenographers; a few are bookkeepers and some had started little shops of their own. You can imagine how* thrilling this sudden and unexpected precipita- tion into Hollywood was for them, and right to the fireside of the "best families." They were welcomed at the City Hall upon their arrival in Los Angeles, by Mayor George Cryer and his staff. Then they motored to the Roosevelt, Hollywood's newest hostelry, which was their home during their stay. They visited every inch of the United Artists' Studios, they attended the United Artists Theatre. Their time was filled with teas and luncheons and dinners, which followed with such rapidity that some of the girls were dizzy with excitement. As one of them said, "Saturday night we had off and We all got into the cars kept for our use and went to Venice and did all the stunts down there — hot dogs and everything, and had the best time!"
One girl was very much upset because the fur on her coat was not wearing well. "I don't know what I'm going to do," she said, "I
C[ Joyce Murray is a new girl on the lot at Metro-Goldwyn. They can certainly pic\ 'em!
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(£ Gwen Lee, a Baby Star of yesteryear, greets two of this year's crop, Anita Page and Josephine Dunn. But of course it wasn't that long ago, Gwen — don't be silly.'
bachelors live. They went to the famous Breakfast Club where all the celebrities make a bow at least once during their visit here. They hit all the high spots — the Chamber of Commerce, the Cocoanut Grove, Catalina Island, the glass-bottomed boat and the sky line drive, the Carthay Circle Theatre where they saw Corinne Griffith in "The Divine Lady," the Paramount Studio — and a dip in the Ambassador Hotel plunge, which is Hollywood's social rendezvous. They had tea at "Pickfair," where they were photo- graphed individually and collectively with Mary Pick-
ford, both with a still and motion picture camera. One of the girls said, "Oh, Fd give anything if I could see young Doug and Joan!" Just at that moment she looked up, and, standing in a window, ten feet away, were the objects of her wish. That is how soon dreams come true in Hollywood — sometimes!
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Well, Lupe got off for Chicago, New, York and points East. Somebody said they'd give a thousand dollars if they could see Lupe when her eyes first rested upon Broadway at night. "I'd give another thousand," said somebody else, "If I could see Broadway's expression when it first sights Lupe!" Lupe was thrilled to death about the trip. Even her anguish at parting from Gary Cooper was not strong enough to drown her eagerness for a sight of the tall buildings in little old New York.
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Mary, Joan, Doug and everybody were congratulating Edna May Cooper on her contemplated flight around the world with Colonel Goebel. "Aren't you afraid to fly?" said Joan. "Oh, no," said Edna May, "I love being up in the air." A dreamy look came into Joan's eyes, "Well, I'm always in the air," she said. "And not by means of an airplane!" someone remarked. "No," she said, her face lighting up, "he only has to come into the room!" "He" being Doug. Jr., of course. Which just goes to show how grand love is.
. Paul Cadieux has a splendid voice, an in- gratiating personality — in fact, all it ta\es to ma\e a Vitaphone hit.
((Adrian, Screenland's Fashion Editor, shows Cecil DeMille and Paul Poiret, famous French fashion designer, s\etches of the gou'ns he has created for DeMille's next picture.
There is just no use planning in this world. Robert Ellis and Vera Reynolds, his wife, had just about decided to kiss Hollywood goodbye. Pictures were rather dull pickings for them and they had put away a tidy fortune and had always wanted to travel. They sold their house, disposed of everything they owned here and had even settled on their sailing date for China, when Universal tapped Bobby on the shoulder and said, "Young man, you are wanted for 'Broadway.' ' So they decided to stay and have this last fling at a profession they have loved and enjoyed. It never rains but it pours, and since Bobby has made such a hit with the executives in "Broadway," he is apt to be kept pretty busy for awhile. Vera too is trying to decide between three offers, so they will probably have to buy a house all over again and settle down once more.
Cecil DeMille is himself again. Right back into the old bath tub scenes that did such a lot for him in days gone by. This time the tub is a glass one and just to show the latest in bath-room furniture, his is upholstered in ermine!
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Critical Comment on the Broadway Flays
By Morrie Kyskmd
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Dynamo
"ERE is Eugene O'Neill at his most literary, which is to say O'Neill at his worst. Now just a moment. Eugene O'Neill at his worst is still better than ever so many others at their best. And yet we wonder whether we would hurry to qualify our statement, if somebody other than O'Neill had written "Dynamo."
The plain fact of the matter is that O'Neill's position is such today that it is a little hard for us to appraise him apart from his reputation. When he wanders from the path of human under- standing, our tempta- tion is doubtless to fol- low him as far as our limited understanding of the Einstein theory lets us, rather than dis- miss him abruptly.
The plain fact of the matter, further, is that had anybody but O'Neill written the play, the Theatre Guild would not have put it on. Nor, conceivably, would any other mana- ger of merit. Yet we would not be the last one to say that O'Neill hasn't earned the priv- ilege of a hearing even when he hasn't much to say. When a man has done "The Em- peror Jones," and "The Hairy Ape," and "Strange Interlude," we think he has earned the right to cry 'Wolf!' even though all he has heard is the stir made by the shadow of an idea.
And this time O'Neill has only shad- ows. He argues that the god of Genesis has given way to the God- dess of Electricity. (In "Strange Inter- lude," too, you remem-
C[ Glenn Anders and leading roles in th play. "Dynamo," a
ber be presented God as female). But the new Goddess, too, he resents as not satisfying man's primitive, undying need of spirituality. What the solution is he does not say. He hints that in two other plays, of which "Dynamo" is but the first, he will expand his theme. Indeed, in his written comments he begins to take on something of an aura. Amazingly enough, this young genius who came from nowhere to slay the sanctity of the gods that were begins to speak ex cathedra. His invective changes to fiats, the heretic begins to excommunicate, and his stories of sailor men and their doings are changed to papal bulls.
He grows, one suspects, a little dotty. He is dissatisfied
with life as it is; he will create a new world. But just as Jurgen sat on the Throne for a moment and had power to do what he wanted, O'Neill sits and doesn't know. He is confused and so is his writing. His style is thick, like Dreiser's; but Dreiser for all his elephantine grace with words gives you an impression of going somewhere.
The Guild has mounted the play hand- somely and has done much to make it inter- esting. In addition, it is well cast, with Clau- dette Colbert doing a superb piece of work in the one role of the play that is written with clearness. Cath- erine Calhoun Doucet is excellent, and Helen Westley and Dudley Digges contribute their usual good perform- ances. Indeed, one wishes that O'Neill had done as much for his play as the Guild.
Harlem
Here is, in a mighty
good though hardly Claudette Colbert have f gh dfama,
e new Eugene (J ]\eiil *\ . . ..' .
Theatre Guild offering. tization of life in New
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Arthur Lubin, seen on Broad' way opposite Fay Bainter in "Jealousy," is making tal\ies now.
York's Black Belt. If your concept of the modern negro is not limited to the amusing caricatures of Octavus Roy Cohen, if you have found to your liking O'Neill's play "The Emperor Jones" or Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Congo," or Carl Van Vech- ten's novel, "Nigger Heaven," or that much more stirring tale by a black, "Home to Harlem," this play should be put on your list.
It has, with the exception of one white man, an all-negro cast of sixty or odd. And in the main a cast that is exceed- ingly capable. These denizens of Harlem need no patronizing from anybody on account of their color when it comes to acting. They can give cards- to a lot of Equity members.
The story is a little bit like "Broadway," with the neces- sary substitutions made inevitable by the characters. The bootlegging war this time becomes a War of the policy gamblers. Ninety per cent of Harlem, it has been said, plays the game of numbers. The other ten per cent, it further has been said, (and thank goodness we don't have to prove either of these statements), lives on the same lottery.
We find a colored family from the Carolinas a little unable to adapt themselves to Harlem. The father wants to go back, and, in order to raise the fare, runs so-called 'rent-parties,' where the neighborhood, for a fee, drops in for dancing, boozing and necking. The religious mother objects. But Cordelia, the daughter, likes the parties. Cordelia is the young flapper who wants to live freely and does. It is around and about her that the melodrama of murder, gin, love, passion and what-not revolves. And the
C[ One of our most popular stars, Fran- cine Larrimore, is seen in "Let Us Be Gay," a new comedy by Rachel Crothers.
}h, very well — and spades
C[ Dorothy Hall, a favorite Broad- way leading lady, who is also often seen on the screen.
faster it spins, the better she likes it. Isabelle Washington plays the role and does very well by it.
Yes, the story could very well have been about white people. And the thing that may strike you, as you ponder it, is that the next time you wonder about the inscrutable ways of the blacks, you may realize that they got all those ways from the white man's civilization. Which is noth- ing, as Mr. Rudyard Kipling should be told, to lighten the white man's burden.
Blackbirds
The interest aroused in us by "Harlem" led us to seeing an all-colored revue that has been flourishing in New York — and on the road — for a long time: "Blackbirds." It used to be called "Blackbirds of 1928," but it has run so long that the name has wisely been shortened.
It's a good evening, being a typical colored show. It is a little top-heavy in dancing specialties, and you wonder why anybody tries to follow Bill Robinson. Aida Ward and Adelaide Hall do their numbers effectively, and Miss Hall is peculiarly graceful for so tall a girl. And yet neither of them can make you forget the immortal Flor- ence Mills.
Of comedy there is so great a lack that only the speed of the revue saves it. There is far too little of the type of thing that made "Shuffle Along" so great a favorite. In- deed, except for one thing, you might well wonder why the show kept running so long.
That one thing is the first act finale, an inspired and thrilling number based on the Theatre Guild's "Porgy." It has more kick in it than any finale we ever saw. And that goes for Messrs. Ziegfeld, White, et al.
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By Miss Vee Dee
Screenland's Questions and Answers Department is a special service for our readers, con- ducted by Miss Vee Dee, who will gladly answer your questions about pictures and picture players. If you wish a reply in the Magazine please be patient and await your turn. If you prefer a personal letter from Miss Vee Dee, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope. Address: Miss Vee Dee, Screenland Magazine, 49 West 45th Street, New York City.
SKER from Sueeasunna, N.. /. I've been answering questions for quite some time but I can't re- • member when the Big Dipper was just a drinking cup. Cornelius Keefe is causing a stir in my mail box this month. Come on, Connie, and give us a lot of in- formation about yourself. Your friends want to write and tell you how crazy they are — about you. We know you played in "Hearts of Men" and played Johnny Graham in "Hook and Ladder No. 9"; but let us in on the ground floor with a per- sonal touch.
ture is "Someone to Love" and Mary Brian is The Girl. Mary Nolan plays with Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Warner Baxter in "West of Zanzibar" produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal. Dagmar Godowsky has not made a picture for a long time.
M. C. of Dodge City, Kans. My idea of a panic is a day without a question, so come on with all your fast ones. Barbara Kent was a 1927 Wampas Baby Star. She was born Dec. 18, 1908, in Gadsby, Alberta,
Canada. Her eyes are violet blue and her red hair is not bobbed — she is one of the few Hollywood girls with long tresses. She is about 5 feet tall and weighs 105 pounds. Ethlynne Clair was born in Alabama 18 years ago. Her hair and eyes are brown. Mary Philbin was born in Chicago on July 14, 1904. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 96 pounds and has brown hair and eyes. Another Universal girl going up to the top. Barbara Kent and Ethlynne Clair can be reached at Universal Studios, Univer- sal City, Cal. Loretta Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Jan. 6, 1911.
]ust Betty from Spartenburg, S. C. May I wish you all kinds of good luck in the writing game? We girls must stick to- gether, for there's much work to be done at the cross-roads. You can reach Charles Rogers at Paramount Studios, 5451 Mara- thon St., Hollywood, Cal. Buddy is not engaged to Claire Windsor. Where have you been? Buddy has been reported en- gaged to several other girls since then — notably Mary Brian. Remember I said reported engaged.
Margaret of Harrisburg, Pa. Here is an S. O. S. for 'a French girl by the name of Cecil DeMille' — now, girls, your identi- fication cards; line forms to the right and don't block traffic. I know of but one Cecil DeMille, the famous producer and discoverer of stars. Mr. DeMille has a daughter, Miss Cecelia, but she is not in pictures regularly. She had a 'bit' in her father's picture, "The Godless Girl."
Catherine of Youngstown, O. How am I feeling? Swell — simply swell. (That's slang.) Richard Barthelmess was born 33 years ago in New York City. He has dark brown hair, brown eyes, is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 138 pounds. His new pic- ture is "Weary River." William Boyd is 30 years old. Ramon Novarro is 29. He is not engaged to any one as far as I know.
Florence M. of Chicago. You'd like a picture of Carroll Nye, Bobby Gordon and Rin-Tin-Tin, especially Rinty — because they are all so nice. If you write to Rinty's owner, Lee Duncan, Warner Bros. Studios, 5842 Sunset Blvd.. Hollywood, Cal., and thank him for a picture of his famous dog, I believe you'll get what you want. Carroll Nye played with Irene Rich, Virginia Bradford and Warner Baxter in "Craig's Wife." Young Carroll Nye seems to be coming along these days. The March Screenland had a story about Carroll Nye. Did you see it?
J\[e'wton from Pembro\e, Ontario. Am I Delight Evans going under another name? If I had a name like hers I wouldn't be going under. Buddy Rogers' newest pic-
C[ Charles 'Buddy' Rogers was so elated when we told him he was the most popular man of the month with the 'As\ Me' fans that he had his morning wor\' out in the afternoon.
I. >{. S. of Denholm. Sas\. You think my page beats Andy Gump and Jiggs do you? Sweeter words, I've never heard. Now I'm going in the funny papers! Sorry to disappoint you about Billie Dove but she has been married to Irvin Willat, the director, since Oct. 27, 1923. Billie has been in pictures about 8 years. Lillian Gish is not married but her sister Dorothy is the wife of James Rennie, the well-known stage star.
Miss Jay Ess. Did I give you a couple of wrong numbers? I'm not surprised for I'm always giving someone away. Step lively, it's your turn. Joan Crawford's hair was brown but can't a girl change her hair as well as her mind if she wants to? Richard Arlen was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and not in St. Paul. Minn. Josephine Dunn was cast for the role of Florine in "The Heart of a Follies Girl" but was withdrawn from the cast and Mildred Harris played the part. Josephine has had some fine roles since then — -two opposite Billy Haines, in "Excess Baggage" and "A Man's Man."
Beau of Texas. You want to know every little thing about Greta Garbo and Miss Vee Dee that the public is allowed to know. That's mighty sweet of you and for such a swell letter, you'll get the truth if I have to make it up as I go along. Greta was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1906. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. Her hair is golden and her eyes are blue with long dark lashes. Her latest picture is "Wild Orchids." As for this in- genius writer, my unique personality puts me in the unspeakable class — now, don't get me wrong. Lack of space prevents a more glowing account of myself.
Egg of Dic\son, Tenn. Good or bad, but the sunny side up, and no wise cracks on that shell. Clara Bow played in "Keeper of the Bees" produced by FBO, 780 Gower St., Hollywood, Cal. This film was released in Aug., 1925. Some of Clara's earlier films were "Wine." "The Lawful Cheater," "Black Oxen," "My Lady of Whims," "The Scarlet West," and many others that I haven't space for.
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C[ '"What has become of Virginia Lee Corbinl" is a question as\ed by many Vee Dee readers. Virginia tells Miss Vee Dee that she has just completed the leading role in a Mac\ Sennett multi- color all-tal\ie feature.
Johanna V. of T. City. Can you burst into print with a few questions? Did you ever try? I'm sorry you had to wait so long for your first appearance. It took me longer than that. Your favorite, Ramon Novarro, has black hair, brown eyes, is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has 5 sisters and 5 brothers. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer has signed him for a long' term contract. Six months of the year he is to make pictures and the other six he can do as he darned pleases. And he pleases to sing in opera in Berlin. Here is another request for a 'handsome man cover1 for Screenland. What do you think about it, fans?
Red Lips from La Jolla, Calif. Naturally they speak for themselves. You ask if the femme stars wear their hair over one ear or two if any? I shudder to think of the effect, if any. Greta Garbo, Norma Tal- madge, Mary Pickford and Billie Dove all wear a long bob. Address Norma Talmadge at United Artists, 1041 No. Formosa Ave., Hollywood, Cal. Clara Bow has never been married.
Tip Toes from Pittsfield, Mass. Are you a ballet dancer in your spare time? You can reach Olga Baclanova at Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood, Cal. Irene Rich and Audrey Ferris at Warner Bros. Studios, 5842 Sunset Blvd., Holly- wood, Cal. Nena Quartero was born March 17, 1910, in New York City. She has black hair and eyes and is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 108 pounds. Address her at Pathe Studios, Culver City, Cal.
Pauline A. of Long Pine. You asked for an answer in the next issue — but I'm giving it to you in this issue and I hope it's all right. Wallace MacDonald was born in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds and has dark brown hair and eyes. You can address him at Tiffany-Stahl Studios, 4516 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Cal. Allene Ray is the wife of Larry Wheeler. She was born in 1903 and ' has golden hair and blue eyes. Walter Miller is married to Lillian Coffin. Walter was born in Atlanta, Ga. He was on the stage before going into pictures. He has dark brown hair and eyes and is 5 feet 1 1 inches tall.
Barry J^orton Fan from California. Who put the ring around rosie or how long has Buddy Rogers had the ring on his left hand on the little finger? And — who put it there? Ah, there, Buddy! Barry Norton and Charles Morton are not brothers. Barry is 23 years old. Address him at Fox Stu- dios, 1401 No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal. He is in "Sins of the Fathers" with Emil Jannings, and Ruth Chatterton. William Collier, Jr. is 26 years old, and has black hair and brown eyes.
Tiliie from Baltimore. Step up, fans, and get the latest heights of your favorite stars with sound accompaniment. Betty Bronson is 5 feet tall. May McAvoy is 4 feet 1 1 inches. Mary Astor is 5 feet 5 inches. Sally O'Neil, 5 feet 2 inches. Molly O'Day is 5 feet 2y2. Mary Pickford is 5 feet tall. Lillian Gish, 5 feet 4 inches. Clara Bow is 5 feet 2 inches. Louise Brooks,
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6 inches; and Viola Dana, 4 feet 11% inches tall. I'm glad that's off my feet!
Billie of Maine. To tell you how the stars keep thin, is too weighty a problem for me. Yes, it's true that your favorites, Dolores Costello and John Barrymore, are married. John was born in Philadelphia on February 15, 1882. Dolores Costello was born in New York City in 1906. She has blue eyes and blonde hair, is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 108 pounds.
Big Sister from J^ew Tor\ City. You have a baby brother that the directors and producers have overlooked. Now how do you suppose that happened? Although the field is filled to overflowing with child actors and near-actors, there is always a chance that a beautiful boy or girl may get a break. Line forms to the left this time but don't shove or become unduly excited. Elsewhere in this department you'll find addresses of film studios, where you can send a photograph of your baby brother, and hope for the best.
" Charles Rogers Fan, X- T. City. You take Screenland every month, read it and can recommend it to anyone, as it's the best movie magazine published. Isn't that swell? Thanks for the comment, richly deserved! Buddy Rogers was born August
13, 1905 in Olathe, Kansas. He is a real honest-to-goodness American boy who has worked his way to the top of the movie ladder. Buddy has black hair and brown eyes, is 6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds. He was a graduate of Paramount Picture School and had the leading role in the school's graduation film, "Fascinating Youth." His first big chance came in "Wings"; then Mary Pickford chose him as her leading man in "My Best Girl." He plays with Mary Brian in "Someone to Love."
Else of St. Louis. Are you going to let your height keep you out of the movie game? Jump in with all 5 feet 6% and drive those St. Louis blues away. Why, look at Nita Naldi who is 5 feet 8 inches tall and Jetta Goudal with her 5 feet 7 inches to register. I could mention a whole stack of stars who are proud of their height. I'll probably get sued for this or that. The lovely Claire Windsor is 5 feet 6% inches tall. Mrs. Wallace Reid, Anna Q. Nilsson, Gwen Lee, Alice Joyce, Hedda Hopper, Carol Dempster, Louise Dresser, Betty Blythe and Helen Chadwick are all 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Florence of >\[. T. No trouble at all to give you the information you crave. I'm Nature's Own Gift to all inquiring fans. You can write to Nancy Carroll and Ruth Taylor at Paramount Studios, 5451 Mara- thon St., Hollywood, Cal. Don Alvarado is a featured player for United Artists, 1041 No. Formosa Ave., Hollywood, Cal. Lillian Gish is to make a feature film for United Artists, with the famous German stage producer, Max Reinhardt, as her director, unless present plans go awry. I hope they don't, for if there is anything I hate it's to see plans go awry.
M. C. of Morris Cove, Conn. What have you been reading that you haven't followed Ben Lyon's movie career? I've talked a lot about Ben in this department. I hear that Ben just recently slipped a big piece of ice on the third finger of Bebe Daniels' left hand. Ben was born February 6, 1901, in Atlanta, Ga. He is 6 feet tall, weighs 160 pounds and has dark brown hair and deep blue eyes. His latest film is "Air Legion" with Martha Sleeper and Antonio Moreno. You can address Ben at 1040 No. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Cal.
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Twenty years ago Rothafel was a waiter, carrying seidels of beer to dirty miners in a little saloon in Forest City, Pennsylvania. Today he is the foremost moving picture exhibitor in the world. He doesn't know one note from another. He can't sing a bar. He never had a dancing lesson. But there he stands ready and able to take the baton to direct the hundred and ten piece symphony orchestra, to guide the large choir, or to instruct the ballet girls and the Roxyettes in their intricate routine.
With no knowledge of technique he is an artist. With no knowledge of music, he is a musician. He has risen from a waiter in a saloon to the foremost moving picture exhibitor in the world in twenty years because he takes art and humanizes it so that the man in the street and his wife can see and understand.
"We shall begin with the ballet," Roxy announces. At that cue, Lilian La Tonge, one of the ballet girls, and Leonid Massene, ballet master, dance upon the stage, fol- lowed by the ballet corps who form a picturesque background. They are accom- panied by the piano alone. The orchestra is not required at this first rehearsal for the pianist plays with a beauty and a precision rarely heard outside of concert programs.
Florence Rogge. the red-haired ballet mis- tress, stands by, her eyes anxiously follow- ing every step of the girls she and Massene have trained so painstakingly.
Massene guides the pretty, finely sculp- tured La Tonge through the intricacies of Le Ballet de Jsfuit.
"Wait," Roxy barks, "that cadence is not right. "Girls," he shouts to the ballet, "you don't keep in rhythm with the music!"
"But Mr. Rothafel," the ballet mistress interposes, "they only received their rou- tine last night. On account of the re- hearsal's being a day early, they've had almost no time to practise."
"Oh, all right! But be sure you get it, kids. We only have one more rehearsal — on Saturday morning. Do you think you can get it?"
"Sure we can," they chorus.
"All right. Go on with the number."
At that moment, Patricia Bowman, the lovely red-haired ballerina who has taken Gamby's place, makes her entrance on her toes.
"No, no, no, Pat, that entrance won't do!" Roxy exclaims. "Come on like a breeze. In a leap. With your arms wide open as if you loved the world! Try again."
Patricia makes another entrance which still doesn't suit Roxy. "Listen, Pat," he walks over to her gravely. "Dance with your head," he taps his forehead, "not with your feet alone. Here, this way." The middle-aged man who has never had a dancing lesson in his life, leaps through the clustered ballet corps, flings his arms wide open, and whirls swiftly in a pirouette
"there, that's the way!" And being
accustomed to the paradox that is Roxy no one thinks it strange that an ex-waiter knows perfectly how to coach a ballerina!
Again Patricia tries. "Yump, yump,
yump. One, two, three. Yump. yump, yump. One. two. three." Roxy who doesn't know a note of music pounds a perfect rhythm for the little, leaping bal- lerina. The girl is so young, so unspoiled, so earnest, that as you watch her, the tears come to your eyes.
Faster and faster the music flows! Closer and closer to the instrument the pianist bends. Perspiration starts from his fore- head. Patricia's breath comes in gasps. Faster, faster, faster . . . And then, in a wild crescendo of sound and rhythm, she falls to her knees. Le Ballet de N.uit is ended.
"Fine, kiddies, fine!" Roxy goes up and puts his arm around Patricia's shoulders. "You're all right. Pat!" And Patricia, still but a child, smiles up at him with a sweetness far removed from any Broadway sophistication.
"Roxyettes! Stand by!" comes the call.
The thirty-two girls dash to their places, their arms on each others' shoulders, in a long chain of interlaced youth. Blonde, brunette, red-haired, olive-skinned — thirty- two entities ready to work out an intricate tap and step as a single unit. The pianist plays "Just a Glad Rag Doll," and for two and a half flashing moments, the Roxy- ettes continue. But suddenly, at a change in the music, they stop dead.
Russell Markert, their director, steps for- ward.
"What's the matter?" They don't answer. Only smile plead- ingly.
"Forgotten your routine?" They nod.
Roxy breaks in. "They'll get it all right. They've still got until Saturday."
"They'll get it all right today when I get them back in the rehearsal room!" Mar- kert says.
"All ready with the chorus," Roxy shouts. "Spread out. there! Don't all you sopranos and tenors stick so close together."
"But. Mr. Rothafel," Max Herzberg, the choir master, explains, "this Massenet num- ber is difficult. They can sing it better when they are near each other."
"I realize that. But this is a cathedral scene. Not a mob setting. Now spread out there," he calls to the choir. Altos, baritones and basses on the right. So- pranos and tenors on the left. Now girls, get your diction right. Clear, like a bell. Remember this is a cathedral scene and you must cross yourselves reverently and slowly during the first four bars of the music and then begin."
The pianist starts the notes of Massenet's 'Angelus,' and slowly the sixty men and women on the stage cross themselves and commence to sing.
Sixty alien people they are — strangers from Hungary, from Jugo-Slavia, from far Russia and Poland, from Germany and Italy and Czecho- Slovakia: sixty people singing as one voice, with sixty different memories of childhood prayers offered before the varied altars of Budapest, Belgrade, St. Petersburg, and Cracow; of Berlin and Rome and Prague.
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"I don't care what kind of time it is written in! Make it five-four, anything you want. But make it sound real to the people out front. Bells vibrate. And this song must vibrate, too. Now, again!"
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"Hurry, folks, get off the stage!" This was Bernard Aarons, assistant stage man- ager, speaking. Aarons is always immacu- lately groomed, with a fresh flower in his buttonhole. If you know your Broadway, you know that most stage managers seem to sleep in their clothes. "It's almost twelve o'clock," Aarons continued, "and time for the show to begin."
While the performers hurry to their dressing-rooms to make up for the first show of the day, Roxy steps off the stage into the wings. But his progress to his office is delayed by his executives who crowd around him. They need to have him make final decisions on many important points for the coming week's production.
First Erno Rapee, that dark, slight musical genius from Budapest, who directs the one hunderd and ten piece symphony orchestra, asks: "Have you decided, Mr. Rothafel, what we shall use for the Over- ture? You are so fond of Tscaikowsky, I thought maybe you'd like the first tableau from 'Manfred.' "
"No," R.o x y answers immediately "That's too sad. Give us the 'Capriccio Italien.' That has all of Tschaikowsky's fire but it's not so melancholy."
"Excuse me, Mr. Rothafel," John Wen- ger, the art director, breaks in. He has dark, heavy features, lightened by an in' tensity about the eyes. "Will you O.K. these sketches for the ballet setting?"
Roxy glances at them penetratingly. "They're all right. Start your men to work on them immediately. They must be ready for the midnight lighting rehearsal on Fri- day."
"They will be."
And they are. For John Wenger is one of the finest scenic artists in America.
Next the costume director, Marco Montedoro, closes in. "I have the colored sketches here for the ballet costumes and for the Roxyettes. Will you take a look?"
For the ballet a dream in tulle and silver has been worked out. Midnight blue tulle and silver bodice, with midnight blue shading to white tulle for the fragile skirt.
"The bodice is all right. But the colors in the skirt aren't. These costumes must express a ballet of night. Have the mid- night blue in the skirt fade to pale green — you know the kind of gray-green that comes to the sky just before dawn breaks."
"Yes, sir. But how about the Roxy- ettes?"
Roxy looks quickly at the sketch. The briefest of black velvet shorts. And the whitest of shiny white satin blouses.
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"Tell Murray I'll be with him in a half hour."
At the sixth floor, Roxy darts out of the elevator, into the accounting department. "Are you getting the checks out all right?" he questions the head clerk.
"Yes, sir. The girls are working on them now." Four typists sit two on each side of a long table typing out a series of dividend checks. About twenty checks each are printed on a strip of paper as long as a roller towel. After they are typed and signed, they are separated, saving time and energy.
Through the anteroom where his four secretaries sit, Roxy walks into the peace and quiet of his walnut furnished office. But he is not alone. Martha Wilchinski is waiting for him. Miss Wilchinski is the woman who interprets Roxy to the world. She has been his director of publicity ever since he started. A dark, distinguished girl, today she wears a close-fitting dress of French red, an impertinent red hat, and extremely beautiful cameo earrings. There is a reporter from the Herald-Tribune wait- ing to interview you," she says. "Can you see him?"
"Not just this moment. Kindly ask him
to wait."
"Pardon, Mr. Rothafel." — this time it is Albert Margolies, Miss Wilchinski's assist- ant. Margolies is a sensitive, dark-haired man, just one year out of Yale. "Foto Topics is on the telephone. They have called three times. They want to know if they can send a photographer over to take some pictures of you at the midnight light rehearsal tomorrow."
"All right. All right. But now let me be quiet here — just a moment!"
Roxy sits down before his desk, lights a cigarette and dives into a pile of mail.
Providing amusement for the largest theatre in the world is a colossal job!
If Roxy only entertained six thousand people three times a day three hundred and sixty-five days a year, that alone would entitle him to a high place in the white lights of the world. For six thousand people are considerable people. As I look back, I recall there were not quite five thousand people in the town I was born and we thought it pretty sizable. But Roxy does more than entertain three small towns every day. The moment you get back-stage you will realize that he is the general of a great army. The emperor of a little world. And, I daresay, the best executive head in New York.
You didn't know, did you, that under and behind the Roxy Theatre is a whole world. A world from which you need not go to sleep, to eat, to be entertained, to have your clothes washed and ironed, to pky cards, have your shoes polished or to undergo a major operation — perish the thought!
Take my hand and hold on tightly, for once you leave the wings of the stage, this little world is as confusing as a labyrinth.
First we go up two flights, around to the left, down a passage, and up a flight of
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