Full text of "Screenland (May-Oct 1929)"

See other formats

Book_

C OPYRIGIIT DEPOSrT.

Scanned from the collections of
The Library of Congress

AUDIO-VISUAL CONSERVATION
at the LIBRARY of CONGRESS

I t 'MlfcM

■

-.IP!*!

Packard Campus
for Audio Visual Conservation
www.loc.gov/avconservation

May
25c

COLLEEN MOORE

Qeorgia
"Warren

CorSnne

Griff ithoffe,saGift

For a Letter

xq ll isi te - J ewel - 1 i ke
Stunning

The N |ip$ticks

<\Kissproof

■ MAUN ■UCJTlRCO

Cut from Gorgeous GITALIN STONE

T LAST — the lipstick every woman wants —
the new Kissproof encased in Catalin Stone.

No need to tell you that Kissproof is the
finest lipstick of all. Lovely lips the world over
are proof of that — proof, too, that Kissproof
stays on — water-proof, smear-proof, alluring — all
through the day and evening hours.

But Catalin Stone is — bewilderingly lovely,
superbly feminine. Foam-flecked greens of
sparkling seas: pinks of coral shining through
blue water: azure of Venetian skies: rosy hues
of sunset over water — these and a myriad of
other translucent tints glow enchantingly from
its polished surface.

Only Kissproof is licensed to manufacture lip-
stick cases from this wonderful newCatalin Stone.
See the new Kissproof today. You'll want one.

Choose your new Kissproof lipstick
from the superb Kissproof display case illustrated
above. You will finrl it at all good drug stores and toilet counters. It
offers you Kissproof in all shapes, designs, sizes, and prices. Remember: the
genuine is always stamped Kissproof — insist on it.

KISSPROOF. Inc.

1 116 \. Kilpatrick Avenue ^cpt_.

Chicago, 111.

This Catalin
Stone vial containing
a generous quantity of the
lovely new Kissproof perfume
will be given to you absolutely
free.- Ask for it. If your favorite
toib't counter cannot supply you,
ecud direct (money or stamps) for
any of the lipMicks shown above
and we will include the perfume
vial Free.

/ /

SCREENLAND

q^SouthsVerySou! %
Jpeafamf to you from Down in Dixie

2. ■

MARTS-DIXIE

is the first authentic screen record of the Old South ever produced. It is
a singing, dancing comedy with music — all the actors speaking their
parts in a 100% Dialog Dramatization of Dixieland and its people.

200

native entertainers, including the famous Billbrew Chorus of 60 Voices, re-
live the vivid romance of Ante-Bellum Days below the Mason and Dixon
Line. All the happy-go-lucky joy of living, laughter and all-embracing
gusto of plantation life has been re-created with thrilling realism ....

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

FOX MOVIETONE productions

Watch for it at your favorite theatre
Presented by WILLIAM FOX
Story and Dialog by Walter Weems
PAUL SLOANE Production

HEAR THOSE
HEARTS BEAT
THE CADENCES
OF THEIR RACE..

. . along the levees
and in the cotton
fields . . ♦ strummin '
banjos., .chanting
spirituals . . . where
life is infused with
an ageless melody
— throbbing with
emotion — epic in
its simplicity.

More than Sounds Life itself!

<gmB

2T05

Colleen Moore, The Girl
on the Cover, will sing
and dance in her new
picture, "When Irish
Eyes Are Smiling."

({ SCREENLAND is pub-
lished on the 5th of
the month preceding
date of issue.

C R

May, 1929

Is L A

Title Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.

VOL. XIX, No. 1

Delight Evans, Editor

CONTENTS for MAY

Cover — Colleen Moore. Painted by Georgia

Warren

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

The Man of the Moment. Gary Cooper. By

44.

Roxy! By Rosa Reilly

Delight Evans' Reviews

What the Woman of the World Should

Wear. By Adrian

The Loves and Hates of Carmel Myers. By

Charles Dunn

Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland — A

Portrait

Thomas Meighan — A Portrait

Lily Damita — A Portrait

Margaret Livingston — A Portrait ....

Anna Q. Nilsson — A Portrait ...

Mary Brian — A Portrait

William Haines — A Portrait

Estelle Taylor — A Portrait

Pre-Showing of Coming Films

The Harmony Kid. Buddy Rogers. By John

Engstead

A Day With a Star. Tsjancy Carroll ....

In New York. By Anne Bye

Let's Go To the Movies! Screenland's Revuettes

Hot from Hollywood! Screenland's Gossip De-

partment

The Stage Coach. By Morrie Ryskind . . .

Ask Me. By Miss Vee Dee

Janet Joins Our Club. Janet Gaynor . . .

Published monthly by Magazine Builders, Inc. Executive and
Editorial Offices 49 West 45th Street, New York City. J. Ray-
mond Tiffany, President; Alfred A. Cohen, Vice-President and
Treasurer; Sam A. Craig, Jr., Advertising Manager. Yearly

subscriptions, $2.50 in the United States and Canada; foreign,
$3.50. Entered as second-class matter November 30, 1923, at
the Post Office of New York, N. Y., under the act of March
3, 1879. Additional entry at Dunellen, N. J. Copyright 1929.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulations

SCREENLAND

I'yi

/ \

's'o„ «%„

5? "

f 8

> > s MO

5- .

TRADE ^(jf ^ 3^-

^Paramount ^Pictures

SCREENLAND

bnrn

Does exposure to sun, tvind and
dust make your eyes bloodshot and
cause a burning sensation ? Then
youshoulduse Murine / A few drops
of this harmless lotion speedily
ends the burning feeling and soon
clears up the bloodshot condition.

AlwaysapplyMurineaftermotor-
ingor outdoor sports to soothe and
beautify your eyes. And also after
se\ving,readingorofficeworkto re-
lieve eye strain. Write the Murine
Co. ,9 E. Ohio St., Chicago, for free
. books on eye beauty and eye care.

f-oR Y°UR

T H E

ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF MOVIE-LAND

Listing the names
of more than 500
Actors, Actresses,
Wampus Stars, Di-
rectors, etc. Stating
whether they are
married or single,
where and when
they were born,
their height, weight,
color of hair and
eyes, the plays they
have been in, their
addresses and doz-
ens of intimate
THINGS about them
that the public does
not know.

This hook is not
only BEAUTIFUL but
durable as well and
is of a most con-
venient size.

ALL are interested
in the Movies and the
_ people who make them,

ivery man. woman and ebild in America should have
a copy of this first AUTHENTIC, copyrighted book
enuring this subject and the juice has been placed
within the reach of ALL.

Single copies $1.00

Six copies $5.00

Delivered postpaid ANYWHERE OX EARTH
Inclose a dollar bill, together with vour name and
address, today for YOL'K copy of this entertaining
and instructive book.

THE STARS' COMPANY

P. 0. BOX 425 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

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

the silent filr

Warner Brothers are

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

SCREENLAND

TWIN POOLS
^LOVELINESS

Katherine

Mae DONALD'S
I ash Cosmetic
will make your
t \ cslw in pools
of loveliness —
ami ubsolutely
H it ho ut h in I
of artificiality.
It makes the
lashes seem
long and luxuriant — gives
gla morous depths to the eyes.

Katherine MacDonald's Lash
Cosmetic is waterproof, yet
easy to remove when you
wish. New. Liquid.

At most toilet goods counters
or SI direct to Katherine
MacDonald at Hollywood.

HAM C0 BEAUTY PRODUCTS
tlOLLYWOOD

IKATIHEIRIINE MLclDONALD'S
LASH

COSMETIC

iWATCftPtLOOri

YOUR lips will be gor-
geous

with Phantom ^ 1 C K

Red, tlie Up-red that
gives a bewitching, trans-
parent glow and preserves
the tender texture; no
gTeasy smear; simply liv-
ing color that spells
youth, as depicted by
Marlon Nixon in TJniver-
sal's" Red Lips". In ultra
red - a n d- black enamel
case, $1. Junior 50c.

Send 10 Cents

Send this adv. and 10c
for Vanity Size Phan-
tom lted Lipstick and
Make-up Guide. (Another 10c brings
model I'hantom Red Rouge Compact).

dainty

CARLYLE LABORATORIES. INC.
Dept. 176 54 Dey St. New York

FREE

LARGE PHOTOGRAPH

£v

Of Tour Favorite
MOVIE STAR

Slzo SxlO with every
Order of $2.00.
BEAUTIFUL PORTRAITS
LATEST POSES

Ramon Navarro

OF ALL THE STARS

Clara Bow

3 for 50c 7 for SI. 00
15 for $2.00 23 for S3.00
40 for S5.00 100 for S10.00
Send for Tour Favorites.

FREE SPECIAL OFFER
5 LARGE niOTOGRAPHS

Greta Gar bo

FREE WITH EVERT
$10.00 ORDER

Rudolph
Valentino

50 Different Poses of

Rudolph Valentino
HOLLYWOOD SCREEN

EXCHANGE
Drawer V-l, Dept. F,
Hollywood. Calif., U. S. A.

Hilli,- 1> ii .■

JAZZ IN TWENTY LESSONS

Learn to play popular jazz on piano, saxo-
phone, banjo, etc. .with latest breaks and
fills. Write for free Home-study booklet.

AXEL CHRISTENS EN SCHOOL
742 Kimball Hall Bldg. CHICAGO, ILL.

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."

—

C The prima donna, Eleanor Painter, will
soon ma\e her Vitaphone debut.

SCREENLAND

We toM you
to prepare
for the best

and

Herei

A film who§e
greatness
lias taken
L*os Angeles
by storm at
its brilliant
World
Premiere.

It will eome
to your city
SOON!

W Read!
f Read:

Mead!

All Los Angeles
flanked thescene with
popping eyes. The
most ambitious effort
of Frank Lloyd since
his memorable "The
Sea Hawk." Excels
that picture in spec-
tacular elements. One
of the best examples
of the new art of
synchronization." —
Los Angeles Evening
Press.

"One of the most
picturesque films of
the year. No set has
been more artistically
designed or photo-
graphed. Miss Griffith
sings several songs
and very prettily." —
Los Angeles Evening
Herald. *
"If Lady Hamilton
were half as lovely as
Corinne Griffith you
couldn't blame Lord
Nelson for being will-
ing to sacrifice fame,
wife and all else for
her." — Los Angeles
Examiner.

"Lovely beyond
comparison in its
embellishments of
setting and costume."
— Los Angeles Times.

Every picture a
"Double Feature'

With H. B. Warner, Ian Keith, Vic-
torVarconi,MarieDre6sler,Montagu
Love. From £. Barrington's famous
best-seller. A Frank Lloyd Produc-
tion. Presented by Richard A. Row-
land. Musical scores and effects by
the Vitaphone Music Masters.

SCREENLAND

How to have Lovely.
Lustrous Hair- — * always!

Does your hair ever seem dull to you— drab, life*
less? Have you not wished for something that
would keep it looking prettier — richer in tone?

The secret lies in proper shampooing! Not just
soap-and-water "washings", but regular use of a
shampoo that really beautifies — one that was created
especially to improve dull hair and add that little
something extra so ofcen lacking.

If you really wish to make your hair bewitchingly
lovely— just one Golden Glint Shampoo will show
you the way! No other shampoo, anywhere, like
it! Does more than merely cleanse. It gives your
hair a "tiny-tint" — a -wee little bit— not much— hardly
perceptible. But what a difference it makes in one's
appearance; that exquisite softness of tone that
everyone admires! Millions use regularly ! You'll
like it! There's a youth-imparting touch — a beauty
specialist's secret in its formula. At your dealers',
25c, orsend for free sample.

J. W. KOBI CO.

633 Rainier Ave , Dept.E, Seattle, Wash.
Please send a free sample.

Name

Add ress

City

State_

Color of my hair

BY THE LAKE

in Chicago

211

East Delaware

5 minutes from the Loop

BATHING

GOLF COURSE

BRIDLE PATH

$80 -$85 up
Including
complete hotel
service
Kitchenette
Apartments
with electric
refrigeration
and all
modern
conveniences
in new 16-
story fire-
. proof building

Phone:
Whitehall 4450
Owned and
Operated by
& A. W. & I. E.
SOMMERS

Confessions
of the C^ans

' 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.

Tim Editor.

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!

Sincerely,
(Mrs.) Evelyn Fitch,

Oakwood Court,
Lynchburg, Virginia.

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.

Delight Evans deserves a big, big hand

SCREENLAND

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

Which

Instrument Do

u Want to

Play?

Piano

Guitar

Organ

Hawaiian Guitar

Violin

Drums and Traps

Piccolo

Mandolin

Clarinet

Sight Singing

Flute

Ukulele

Harp

Trombone

'Cello

Cornet

Saxophone

Voice and Speech Culture

Automatic Finger Control

Piano Accordion

Banjo (Plectrum, 5-String or

Tenor)

Easily, smoothly, with all the
verve and expression I had
always longed fori

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!"

"What do you mean 'new
way' ? Didn't you take lessons
from a teacher?"

"No! / taught myself!"
"What!"

"Absolutely! You've heard of
the U. S. School of Music,
haven't you?"

"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"

You needn't know a thing about music
to take this pleasant, rapid course

This story is typical. The amazing success of the
men and women who take the TJ. S. School of Music
course is largely due to a newly perfected method that
makes reading and playing music as simple as A — B — C.

Even if you don't know one note from another now,
you can easily grasp each clear, inspiring lesson of this
surprising course. You simply can't go wrong. First,
you are told how a thing is done, then a picture shows
you how, then you do it yourself and hear it.

Thus you actually teach yourself to become an ac-
complished musician right in your own home. With-
out any long hours of tedious practice. Without any
dull or uninteresting scales you learn how to play
real music from real notes.

Free Book and Demonstration Lesson

Our wonderful illustrated Free Book and our Free
Demonstration Lesson explain all about this remarkable
method. They prove just how anyone can learn to play
his favorite instrument by note, in almost no time
and for just a fraction of what old slow methods cost.
The booklet will also tell you aU about the amazing
new Automatic Finger Control.

Remember — it is not too late to become a capable
musician. If you are in earnest about wanting to play
your favorite instrument — if you really want to gain
new happiness and increase your popularity — send off
this coupon at once. Forget the old-fashioned idea
that "talent" means everything. Read the list of in-
struments to the left, decide which you want to play,
and the TJ. S. School of Music will do the rest. At
the average cost of only a few pennies a day! Act
NOW! Clip and mail this coupon today, and the
fascinating Free Book and Free Demonstration Lesson
will be sent to you at once. No obligation. Instru-
ments supplied when needed, cash or credit. U. S.
School of Music, 3225 Brunswick Bldg., New York City.

U. S. SCHOOL OF MUSIC,

3225 Brunswick Bldg., New York City.

Please send me your free book, "Music Lessons in
Your Own Home" with introduction by Dr. Frank
Crane. Free Demonstration Lesson and particulars of
you easy payment plan. I am interested in the fol-
lowing course :

Have You

Instr. ?

Name

(Please Write Plainly)

Address .

City State..

SCREENLAND

(hie was said io oeprwyri

yr and the other,j&wutfful
ET neither has a bit more
natural beauty than the other. The sole
difference which makes one the most
sought girl wherever they both go is the
same difference that Maybelline Eyelash
Beautifier would make inyour appearance.

Try this perfectly harmless preparation.
See in your own mirror how it instantly
darkens and transforms your lashes, and
how, as though by magic, it imparts startl-
ing brilliance, inviting depth and won-
derful expression to your eyes — and new,
bewitching loveliness to your person.

Nothing else can give you such added
beauty as can Maybelline. Insist upon the
genuine and complete perfect satisfaction
is certain to be yours.

Solid Farm

Solid or Waterproof
Liquid Maybelline,
Black or Brown, 75c
at an Toilet Goods
Counters,

MAYBELLINE CO.
CHICAGO

^ Eyelash (ffieaidifier

Liquid
Form
(Water-
proof)

Be theTom Brown

of Your Town

You have heard of Tom Brown
of the famous Tom Brown's
Clown Band. You have prob-
ably heard his records. You, also,
might develop into a Saxophone
Wizard and earn a princely in-
come. At least, you can have a lot
of fun, be popular socially and in
college, and earn easy money on J
the side. It's easy to learn on a?
BuescherTrueTone Saxophone*
and easy to pay for it by our spe-
cial plan. 6 days' trial on any Saxo-
phone, Cornet, Trombone, Trump-
et or other instrument. Mention
instrument for Free circulars.

Buescher Band Instrument Co*

2682 Buescher Block (505) Elkhart, Indiana

a MEN**

hotoGRAPHERS

fampra HiVon FREE B00K ex"
l/diueid ulVcU plains opportuni-
ties as Motion Picture Camera Man,
Portrait. Commercial or News Pho-
tographer or in your own business.
Learn at Home or in our great
New York Studios.
Write for Free Book and Job Chart
N.Y. Institute of Photography. 10 W.33d St.. N.Y. Dept. 60

BE A MOVIE

OPERATOR
Projector Given

We teach you at
home. Big demand
by Movie and
Vaudeville Theatres

for her splendid effort to make it 100%
better. She certainly has succeeded and
may she keep up the good work and enjoy
every bit of it.

Most sincerely yours,

Carmelita Ludovicci,

877 Filbert St.,
San Francisco, Calif.

She Drove
87 Miles for
a Talkie!

want the real music returned — leaving the
crude, jarring, rasping tones which are now
spoiling some lovely pictures. It's a pity
they came in at all.

Why can't some of the theatres make
themselves doubly popular by bringing back
to their music-loving patrons the music they
enjoy?

Think this over. After all you are
endeavoring to please your public. I only
wish you might hear those who are of the
same opinion as I. It is well worth your
looking into. I love the movies with real
music, but not talkies!

Very honestly yours,

Mrs. M. Vanderbeck,

2130 Broadway,
New York City.

Dear Editor:

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.

Just Another
Fan and
Proud of It!

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,

Rosetta E. Taylor.

Ellettsville, Indiana.

Bring Back
Real Music
To Her!

Dear Editor:

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.

I am hoping the talkies will not be a
success and will have to be withdrawn. I

Rah,

Rah—

Richard!

Dear Editor:

"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

SCREENLAND 11

W Photo £nh/m/QA<

* SIZE! I6X2Q INCHES » jy %^ M

"Received the portrait of our son. Very well
pleased. Can't see how you make so fine a
portrait for such a small sum of money."
Dr. B. Millrood. Toledo, Ohio.

"The picture of my wife is just as natural
as if she was to talk out of it. The picture
sure is a beauty." George H. Fulks, Wal-
dron. Mich.

"Am so much pleased with my baby's
picture, and thank you for your prompt at-
tention. My friends all say it is sure nice."
Mrs. W, E. Shaw, Belief ontaine. Miss.

Satisfaction Guaranteed By largest Direct To Buyer
Portrait House.. Order Now.

J_J AVE you a treasured photo

"direct-to-buyer" portrait
house. Act today!

SEND NO MONEY

Simply mail picture with cou-
pon below. In about a week,
your 16 x 20 inch enlargement
arrives. Pay the postman 98c,
plus a few cents postage. Or
send $1.00 now and we will
prepay the postage. Deal direct
with reliable house; thousands
praise our service and square
dealing. Mail Coupon NOW !

UNITED PORTRAIT CO- 1652 «"*RST TtSS™* '""

Members, Chicago Association of Commerce and Photographers Association of America

at home — of baby,
mother, soldier, sweetheart?
Send it today and get this
amazing enlargement — so life-
like it will astonish you! Send
any kind ,size or shape of photo.
The same price for full length
or bust form, landscapes, pet
animals, groups, or enlarge-
ments of part of group. Exact,
fadeless copies guaranteed.
Safe return of original photo
pledged by world's largest

FREE!

With every enlargement ordered
NOW, we will include miniature
reproduction of same photo, beau-
tifully hand-tinted. Alone worth
the price you pay for enlargement.

■ UNITED PORTRAIT CO., Dept. E-209 I
j 1652 Ogden Ave., Chicago, III.

! Please send ..enlargements from en- I

■ closed photos. Also include FREE Hand-Tinted |
I Miniature of each. I will pay postman 93c plus ■
I postage, for each enlargement. (If $1.00 cash 1
I for each enlargement is enclosed with this order J

we"ll pay postage.)

Name.

P. O. Address.

! city State., _ I

J _„@1929„^j

SCREENLAND

Which of These
Parts DoYOU Want

toREDUCE?

Here are the places where overweight
makes naturally attractive women look
commonplace — makes young women
look middle-aged — makes middle-aged
women look old. Annette Keller-
mann's book — Now Free — tells how
to reduce, quickly and safely. Send
for it to-day.

WHETHER fleshy parts or general
overweight worries you — what An-
nette Kellermann's safe, sane and
sensible methods have done for thousands
of others, they can do for you.

You have heard the amazing story of
this wonderful woman, sickly and puny as
a child, and now internationally recog-
nized as the world's most perfectly formed
woman. Within the last 16 years her
figure has not changed by a single pound
or a single inch. The methods which made
her figure slender have kept her that way,
and will never allow her to become fleshy,
"stylish stout," and beset by the physical
disorders that go with overweight.

If you are truly worried about certain
parts that are spoiling your whole figure,
or about general overweight, let Miss
Kellermann tell you how to regain bodily
beauty — through a method that is free
from drugs, "starvation diets," and all
drudgery.

Miss Kellermann's book, "The Body
Beautif ul," costs you nothing — involves not
the slightest obligation. Learn her secret
of a beautiful, healthy figure; how to re-
gain it and how to retain it. Mail coupon
today. Address Annette Kellermann,
Suite 2-45, 225 "West 39th Street, New York
City.

ANNETTE KELLERMANN, Suite 245
225 West 39th Street, New York City.

Dear 3Jiss Kellermann : Kindly send me en-
tirely without cost, your new book, "The Body
Beautiful." I am particularly interested in
Weight Reducing.

Name ._ _ _

Address _

City _ state

motive of the club to do all it can to
persuade Paramount executives to give
Richard better pictures.

Now that the talkies have come along,
I am sure every Dix fan in the world hopes
that he will find the break he so justly
deserves.

Sincerely,

Una B. Cowan,
115? Burnaby Street,
Vancouver, B. C.

And So's

Her

Uncle!

Dear Editor:

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.

Imagine! My uncle in a talkie film, and
wonder upon wonders, his name in the cast
— think of it!

You know,I'm crazy about the movies,
and now that one member of the family
has broken in, am I going to let him get
ahead of me? Not on your life!

I love California anyway. And why not?
I am a native daughter. Yep, born in

San Francisco.

Did you see "Show People?" I did, and
gee, didn't it just fire you with ambition?
Well, it did me and what's more I'm go-
ing to try and try some more. Can't do
more than that — now can I?

Sincerely,

Violet Wachter,
120 South 49th Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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.

I must not forget to mention the great .
pleasure I derive from SCREENLAND. It is
most entertaining from the first to the
last page.

Wishing Miss Evaas, as Editor, every
success,

Most sincerely,

Kay McMorris,
41-a Brent Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.

From a
Trouper

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.

Sincerely,

Lou Melan,
250 Riverside Drive
New York City, N. Y.

One
Fine
Day!

Dear Editor:

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,

Edward Halabrin,
5001 Lawrence Avenue,

Chicago, Illinois.

Attention,
Charles
Mank, Jr.!

Dear Editor:

SCREENLAND 13

NEXT TIME YOU MAKE
A SPEECHtWHISTLE IT!

They Gave Me the <lRazzberryf

for a Month

But Now I Am the Best Speaker of Them All!

I felt like a missionary about to be fed to a
tribe of cannibals as I slumped down in my
chair. Once more I'd been called on for "a
few words" in club meeting, and once more I'd
gasped and sputtered a few commonplaces and
dodged down into the comfortable obscurity of
my seat. Every time I tried to make a talk
before the bunch I merely furnished material

resign myself to a sour, more or less friendless
life.

And then — almost by magic, I discovered the
solution to my worry. A few friendly words
from an older man in the office told me about
a wonder-working little free booklet called
How to Work Wonders With Words. In twenty
minutes' study at hove every day I became, in

WHAT THIS COURSE
TEACHES YOU

How to Talk Before Your
Club of Lodge.

How to Address Board
Meetings.

How to Propose and Re-
spond to Toasts.

How to Tell Entertaining
Stories.

How to Make a Political
Speech.

How to Make After-Dinner
Speeches.

How to Converse Interest-
ingly.

How to Write Better Let-
ters.

How to Sell More Goods.
How to Train Your Mem-
ory.

How to Enlarge Your
Vocabulary.

How to Overcome Stage-
Fright.

How to Develop Self-Con-
fidence.

How to Acquire a Winning
Personality.

How to Be the Master of
Any Situation.

for some more jokes among the members. They a surprisingly short time a different man. So
were a natural-born gang of kid-
ders and jokesmiths. I could see
a wicked grin on Jim Courtney's
face as he thought up some new
wise-crack at my expense.

I met Jim on the way out of
the meeting. "Sam, old topper,"
he greeted me, "Congratulations I
You ought to be in vaudeville.
Never heard a better stammering
act in all my life!" "Yeah I" said
Lew Thorne. '"That part was
good, but I like the imitation of
a ventriloquist better. Listen,
Sam I Next time you're called on
for a speech why don't you
whistle it?"

That was only a samjjle of what
I heard every meeting night for
the next few weeks. "Going to
make a speech, Sam !" was a
phrase that was always good for
a laugh. That was bad enough by
itself ; but it hurt worse when, one
night, I overheard Wally Schultz
defending me. "Lay off Sam," he
"was saying, "It's too much like
cruelty to animals. Sam can't talk I
to this bunch anyway, and you
birds only make it worse. He's a timid sort of
fellow, and he'll never amount to anything in
the Club, but there's no need to make him
quit. And he'll do it, too, if he's razzed too
much."

So that was the reputation my embarrassment
and shyness were making for me. "A timid sort
of fellow 1" "A quitter I" Couldn't stand razzing 1
I knew Wally meant to be kind when he spoke
to the crowd like that, but that didn't make
feel, better. I was almost ready to do what
Wally had said I'd do — quit the Club and

simple, so easy, I could hardly
believe it, this book showed me
the short cut to the command of
effective speech I had always
wished for . . . the gift which
seven out of every nine men
possess according to authorities.

Today I can hardly believe that
the old timid Sam Howland ever
existed. In the last year I have
had three substantial promotions
in business. The razzing at the
club ended the night I got up
unexpectedly and, with a speech
that swept all before it, made the
club accept enthusiastically a new
idea for its charity work. In-
stead of being miserable at parties
as I used to, I can furnish more
than my share of the fun and
the conversation. It's almost un-
believable— but there is the fact,
and I know exactly what made
the difference.

There is no magic — no mys-
tery— no "special talent" required
in becoming an effective speaker.
Promotion in business and social
popularity are the rewards to the
man who can dominate others through the
power of convincing speech. It is this power
which makes a clerk jump to the management
of a department, or a member of the rank and
file of political or fraternal organizations take
the posts of leadership and influence. Any man
can now conquer timidity, stage-fright and self-
consciousness and become a magnetic, dominat-
ing speaker and fluent conversationalist. This
has been made possible through the perfection
of an amazingly simple home training developed
by the North American Institute. Twenty

NOW SENT

FREE

will bring the desired results — or the training
costs you nothing.

This new method of training is fully described
in a very interesting and informative booklet
which is now being sent free to everyone mail-
ing the coupon below. This booklet is called
How to Work Wonders With -Words. In it you
you are told how you, too, can overcome stage-
fright, self-consciousness,
timidity and embarrass-
ment. You are told how
you can bring out and
develop: your priceless
"hidden knack," which
can win for you advance-
ment in position and
salary, popularity, social
standing, power and
REAL SUCCESS. You
can obtain your
copy absolutely
FREE, by send-
ing the coupon
now.

North American Institute

3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 6325

Chicago, Illinois

NORTH AMERICAN INSTITUTE,

3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 6325. Chicago, III.

Please send me FREE and without obli-
gation my copy of your inspiring booklet
How to Work Wonders With Words, and
complete information regarding your Course
in Effective Speaking.

» Address

everything else that meant social activity, and minutes a day in the privacy of your own home

State..

SCREENLAND

BLONDE HAIR

need never darken

// you use the right shampoo

NO need now for blonde hair to grow dull and
dark! Blomlex, the special shampoo for
blondes only, keeps hair beautifully light and
lustrous — brings back the golden sheen of youth
to faded, discolored blonde hair. Not a dye. No
harsh chemicals. Fine for scalp. Over a million
users. At all good drug and department stores,
or mail coupon below for generous FREE trial
package.

Swedish Shampoo Laboratories.

Dept. 3i5. 27 West 20th St.. N. Y. C.

I would like to try Blondex. the special new sham-
poo for Blondes. Please send me a Free Tnal
l'ackage.

Name

Address

City-

State..

PHOTO ENLARGEMENT
IN OIL COLORS— *i in
COMPLETE ONLY $1./Ef

8 or more colors used

No Other Charges
Free ARTISTIC FRAME
Size 8x10
SEND NO MONEY

Just mail your film, snapshot
or photo stating color of hair,
eyes, etc., to assist our artists
1 ^KS& and within a week you will re-

ceive a Beautiful FRAMED En-
^ largement COLORED IN BRIL-
~ 1 LI ANT OILS.

1 1 Pay postman $1.40 plus a few

■ cents postage or send $1.50 with
order and WE PAT POSTAGE. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. Your photo returned unharmed.

UNIVERSAL ART STUDIOS
45 W. 28th St., N. Y. Dept. F

MGRICAN ACAD6MY
OF DRAMATIC ARTS

Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent

The foremost institution for Dramatic and
Expressional Training. The instruction of the
Academy furnishes the essential preparation for
Directing and Teaching as well as for Acting.

The training is educative and practical, de-
veloping Poise, Personality and Expressional
Power, of value to those in professional life
and to the layman.

Spring Term Begins April 1st
Teachers' Summer Course
July 8th to Aug. 17th
Catalog describing all Courses from
Rooni253-E CARNEGIE HALL, New York

NEW CREAM ERASES
HAIR LIKE MAGIC!

Sure. safe, pleasant, economical method. Easily ap-
plied. No irritation or after odor. Does not spoil or
harden. _ Your money back if not pleased. Large tube
of QIK 75c at dealers or mailed postpaid upon
receipt of price. BERLAND LABORATORIES. Inc.,
Deot. I-D. Los Angeles. Calif.

QIK Cream Hair Remover

For

Billie

Dove

Dear Editor:

I am one of the millions of people who
admire gorgeous Billie Dove. I would love
to hear her voice. I am on pins and needles
until I hear her in talkies.

We want more Billie Dove and Gilbert
Roland.

Two other favorites I adore are Charles
'Buddy' Rogers and Mary Brian. They
are young and peppy and believe me they
are popular with the young folks. They
are grand actors!

The talking pictures make very good
impressions of the actresses and actors. I
can usually judge people by their voices.

Let's hope they never fade out!
Sincerely,

ROSEMARIE D'ESPOSITO,

17 Post Avenue,
Inwood, N. Y.

A Boost
for Gary
Cooper

Dear Editor:

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.

Sincerely,

Joseph Cristic,
2200 Wellow Street,

Butte, Montana.

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.

Imagine!

Dear Editor:

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."

I could never tell anyone who my favor-

SCREENLAND

ites are because I like them all from Davey
Lee to George Fawcett!

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!

Best wishes to Screenland.

Sincerely,

Eva Mushaw,
Trappe, Maryland.

Mammy!

Dear Editor:

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.

Films with
Sound
for Him

Dear Editor:

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.

Hurrah, for Screenland and the talkies!
Sincerely,
Alfred De Santo,

5 Steven Street,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Embarrassing to tell them — but
women should know that this
sanitary pad, which excels in
comfort and ease of disposabil-
ity, now deodorizes completely.

WHEN shopping, in business, socially
—wherever women meet the world —
there is an important question of personal
hygiene that can mar their happiness. They
do offend others at times. And this new treat-
ment which deodorizes every Kotex pad
positively prevents such offense. Kotex scien-
tists have discovered (and patented)* a safe
way to banish all odor.

That other fear— the feeling of being conspicu-
ous—is now eliminated. Corners of the Kotex
pad are scientifically rounded and tapered so
as to leave no evidence of sanitary protection.

Yet every advantage remains

You can so easily adjust Kotex to your in-
dividual needs. Cellucotton absorbent wadding
takes up 16 times its weight in moisture; it is 5
times more absorbent than cotton, itself. The
fact that you can so easily dispose of it makes
a great difference. And a new treatment renders
it softer, fluffier, than you thought possible.

Improved Kotex is 45c for a box of twelve,
at any drug, dry goods or department store.

*Kotex is the only sanitary pad that deodorizes by a
patented process. (Patent No. 1,670,587.)

Use Super-size Kotex

Formerly yoc—Noiv 6$c

Super-size Kotex offers the many
advantages of the Kotex you al-
ways use plus the greater protec-
tion which comes with extra lay-
ers of Cellucotton absorbent
wadding. Disposable in the same
way, Doctors and nurses consider
it quite indispensable the first
day or two, when extra protec-
tion is essential. At the new low
price, you can easily afford to buy
Super-size Kotex. Buy one box
of Super-size to every three boxes
of regular size Kotex. Added lay-
ers of filler mean added comfort.

K O T e X

The New Sanitary Pad which deodorizes

I SCREENLAND

^Dedicated, With Cheers,

<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.

HONOR PAGE

"AVE you
the new

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."

(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

(?LARA
SOW

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.

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?

(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

vs. Hollywood

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.

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

3iK

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.

a Chance

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)

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

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

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.

oner

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

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

Ik-*" ..mm

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.

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!

■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!

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!

■

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!

i 4

C[I n the

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!

Q Visit the African Jungle -
Paramount Sound Stage.

the

Helen Ludlam

"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;

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.'

from

C>%.n of the

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.

Moment
Qooper

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.

Y !

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

"Woman
''World

"Wear

Adrian

1 1 1 * 1 1 >> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 > i

[*]| 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 I

I I I M I ! H I I > I I It I I I I I I 1 I t I I I I

iiiiiiii mill mi

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.

I ItllllllllllllllMII

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

(Continued on page 107) ^

(( 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.

C[ Who wouldn't
wa\\ a mile for
a Camel?

LOVES

and

HATES

of Catmel

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)

NORMA TALMADGE returned from Eu-
rope to begin her first talking picture.
Gilbert Roland will be her leading man.

Russeti Hut

WELCOMh back, Tommy Meighan! Mak<
vour hrsr talkie the best picture voi
ever starred in Ct<> ro it — we re with v<n

Ruth Harriet Louise

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!

FrfuUel

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.

cA T>AY

;th a

Stick Around Nancy Carroll While
Between the Life of Reilly and

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.

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.

New

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

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.

* * *

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)

fe t ' s

G o

t o

You Movie Fans Want Your Money s Worth. Screenland's

for Worth-While Entertainment. Read Them

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.

the <iM o v i e s !

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.

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.

# ♦ sfc

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

([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.

* *

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."

(^'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.

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

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.

* * *

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.

but the little dog hesitated. "He is afraid," said Camilla,
naively, "because he know he cannot climb on this good
dress."

* * *

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!

* * *

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!

(£ 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!

❖ ^ ❖

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.

sis sfc - sfc

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!

^ h e 5tage (°o a c h

Critical Comment on the Broadway Flays

By Morrie Kyskmd

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

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.

£A S K

<M 8

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.

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,

5 feet 2 inches. Madge Bellamy, 5 feet
4 inches. Barbara Kent, 5 feet tall. Evelyn
Brent is 5 feet 4 inches. Renee Adoree
is 5 feet 3 inches; Greta Garbo, 5 feet

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.

(Continued on page 112)

Why, ]anet!
And we always
thought you
were so shy!
But there, there
—just you go
right ahead and
step out li\e all
the other girls!

JANET
JOINS
OUR
£>LUB!

C[ The quaintest and most wistful wisp on the
screen, ]anet Gaynor, symbol of the spirituelle,
turns out to be a very human and believable
bit of femininity in her latest picture, "The
Luc\y Star," in which she is artistically re-
united with Charles Farrell, her popular
partner in "Seventh Heaven."

■i.iriF * *

Q The Little A ngel from
"Seventh Heaven"
Comes Down to Earth
and Stages a Film
Follies All Her Own.

SCREENLAND

Like the Screen Stars.

D-CaveXom DWake-Up
in Color harmony

Accept this priceless gift . . . Your
complexion analysis and make-up
color harmony chart . . . from Max
Factor, Hollywood's Make-Up King.
See coupon!

HAVE you, like millions, adored the charm and fascination of the
stars of the screen? Have you marveled at, and perhaps envied,
the faultless beauty ol their make-up? And have you wondered some-
times, about their secrets of'make-up? Now you may know!

J New Kind of Make-Up

For the stars of Hollywood, Max Factor, Filmland's Make-Up
genius, created a new kind of make-up for every day and evening use.
A make-up ensemble ... powder, rouge, lipstick and other essentials...
blended in color harmony. Cosmetics in a varied and perfect range of
lifelike color tones to harmonize with every variation of complexion
coloring in blonde, brunette and redhead.

Based on a Famous Discovery

In millions of feet of film ... in feature pictures like the "Broadway
Melody", you, yourself, have seen the magic of make-up by Max Factor.
You have seen the beauty magic of his
famous discovery. ..cosmetic color harmony.
Under the blazing Kleig lights, Max
Factor discovered the secret . . . make-up to
enhance beauty must be in color harmony.
If out of harmony, odd grotesque effects
were photographed. If in harmony, beauty
was entrancing.

Now ...a Make- Up Color
Harmony for You

So this principle of cosmetic color har-
mony, Max Factor applied to make-up for
day and evening use. Revolutionary ... Max
Factor's Society Make-Up created a sensa-
tion in Hollywood. Leading stars... May
McAvoy, Marion Davies, Betty Compson,
Joan Crawford and practically all the beau-
ties of the motion picture colony adopted it.

(Photo by Clarence S. Bull, Hollywood)

Bessie Love, M-G-M star, featured in "Broadway Melody", and Max
Factor, Filmland's make-up genius, . . . approving make-up color harmony
under the glare of the "Kleigs".

(Photo by Rlth Harriet Louise, Hollywood)

Anita Page, M-G-M star, featured in "Broadway
Melodv" as she appeared at the gala opening of this
super-feature production at Grauiuan's Chinese The-
atre, Hollywood.

In a letter to Max Factor, Anita Page writes: "No
one appreciates the value of good street make-up quite
so much as those who use it in their daily work. So
it is a pleasure to recommend your discovery. Max
Factor's Society Maie-Vp, to every woman."

When you see feature pictures like the
"Broadway Melody", remember that the
leading screen stars enhance their beauty
with Max Factor's Society Make-Up.

And now you may learn this priceless beauty secret. Max
Factor will analyze your complexion and send yoxi your make-
up color harmony chart ... free. How wonderful ... to secure
personally from Max Factor this, invaluable beauty advice.

And you'll discover, whether you're blonde, brunette or red-
head, whatever your type... the one make-up color harmony
to actually double your beauty; the one way to really reveal,
in the magic setting of beauty, the allur-
ing, fascinating charm of your personal-
ity. Fill in coupon, tear out, mail today
and you'll also receive a complimentary
copy of Max Factor's book, "The New
Art of Society Make-Up."

Bessie Love writes:
" There's a touch of per-
sonality in my own color
harmony in your Society
Make-Up which always
seems charming to me."

SWAX FACTOR'S Society cyVfAKE-UP
HOLLYWOOD

"Cosmetics of the Stars"

"BROADWAY MELODY"

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production
Make-Up by Max Factor

These M-G-M Stars prefer Max Factor's Society Make-Up

Marion Davies Norma Shearer Joan Crawford

Rcnee Adoree Bessie Love Dorothy Sebastian

Aileen Pringle Phyllis Haver Josephine Dunn

Leila Hyams Gvven Lee Anita Page

Mary Doran Raquel Torres Fay Webb

Joyce Murray Doris Janis Julia Faye

FREE— COMPLEXION ANALYSIS

■ Mr. Max Factor, — Max Factor Studios, Hollywood, Calif.

' Dear Sir: Send me without any obligation on my part, a complimentary copy
I of your book, "The New Art of Make-Up", and personal complexion analysis. I

| Name

| Address

■ City

Comple«ion

Color of Eyes | LIPS

Light

1 Moist

Fair

Color of Lashes Dry

Medium

SKIN

Ruddy

Color of Hair Oily 1

Dark

Dry |

Sallow
Olive

Answer in lA?*

spaces with check mark

SCREE NLAND

BERMUDA
BOUND

rpHERE are two "Bermudas"—
with enjoyment aplenty on the
Ship as well as on the Island ....
Your Spring vacation can start any
Wednesday or Saturday when you
step aboard the famous "Fort
Victoria" or the new 20,000 ton
motorship "Bermuda."

round trip s,m7f\

FARES FROM i VF

Inclusive Rates
on Application

FUI1X1ESS

Bermuda Line

34 Whitehall St 565 Fifth Ave., New York

or any Authorized Agent

BEFORE

Tt Is eo easv to have the
lovely, full, firm Bust
that fashion demands.
My wonderful new Mir-
acle Cream quickly fills
out the contours, en-
larging the breastsfrom
one to three inches.

Beautiful Breasts
In 30 Days

AFTER

Are you flat-chested? Do ugly, sagging lines rob
you of your feminine charm? Just the simple ap-
plication of my dainty, luscious cream will work
wonders !

rnrr Complete 'private Instructions for moulding the breaats
f Kf.f, to rounded, shapely proportions included with your
* jar of Miracle Cream.

Special Offer Now.' Send only SI. 00 for large jar of Miracle
Cream. Mailed in plain wrapper. Write TODAY. Nancy Lee.
Dept. S-5, 848 Broadway, New York City.

R0Xy/ — Continued from page 47

woman, and M. Vodnoy, who give re-
markably clear-cut impersonations every
week.

Roxy rises and stands in the midst of
his three hundred and fifty performers and
technicians. "Silence, please," his pleasant
voice sounds, "the rehearsal is about to
begin."

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.

The music creates the illusion of bells.
The singers follow in four short beats:
"Ding. Dong. Ding Dong"

"Wait, wait!" Roxy interrupts. "You
make those notes too short. To staccato.
Bells don't have dampers on them. They
resound, vibrate. Pitch it up behind your
noses — so!" and the man who can't sing a

SCREENLAND

If I Can t Give It to You ....

I don't want your money

By Alois Merke
To Those Afflicted with Thinning Hair,
Dandruff, Itchy Scalp

■yOU want HAIR . . . plus quick relief
from scalp troubles! And in seeking
both these things, you demand:

Reasonable assurance that you won't
be fooled out of your money or tal-e
chances on injury to your scalp!
Oh, I know what you're up against. For
years I've been in touch with thousands of
scalp patients. They all said the same
thing: "We don't want rosy promises; all
we ask is reasonable assurance of scalp
safety and new hair."

Now, follow me closely! I give you in-
finitely more than reasonable assurance. I
give you this iron-bound guarantee —

New Hair On Your Head in 30 Days . . .
or You Keep Your Money

And I give you this guarantee in writing!
Besides, I positively assure safety to your
scalp.

I leave it to your good judgment. You're
fairminded. Think for a moment : How
could I make such a guarantee if I didn't
have absolute confidence in my treatment?
Why, I'd be out of business in a week! I'd
lose my reputation. I'd ruin the profes-
sional standing of the Merke Institute,
Fifth Avenue, New York, a scalp research
bureau established 13 years ago and known
from Coast to Coast.

But I can safely guarantee new hair ... or

no cost. For patient research showed me what
others either purposely ignore or just don't
know :

Falling hair cannot be stopped by ordinary

surface treatments!
Leading dermatologists agree with me on that.
Years of investigation taught us all that scalp
troubles originate belo w the scalp !

Simple as A . . B . . C

Here's what happens. Modern habits rob the
hair of normal nourishment. Dandruff appears,
itching begins. Soon roots weaken and hair
falls out. But in countless cases those roots,
far from being dead, are only temporarily in-
active. Surface treatments can't reach them.
A carload of so-called "cures," ordinary tonics
and oils won't make sleeping roots wake up.
But my treatment, the essence of scientific re-
search, wakes these sleeping roots to active life.
I get down BELOW THE SCALP, stimulating
little blood vessels; rushing nourishment to the
roots themselves. That's why I can safelv
GUARANTEE NEW HAIR ... OR NO COST !
So could you if you had done my research.

Don't Buy a "Pig in a Bag

Thousands Know Me

My treatment is based on scientific facts . . .
facts that you can check up with your family
physician or medical reference books. My treat-
ment is backed by years of research, and the
gratitude of thousands who invested a mere few
minutes a day in my effective treatment.

Very important, too, I have the Merke Insti-
tute behind me, an ethical institution known
everywhere for its accomplishments in growing
hair. And last of all, I say in the strongest
way I can, I DON'T WANT A PENNY OF
YOUR MONEY IF I FAIL TO GROW NEW
HAIR! Quite a difference, isn't it? I assume
the burden of proof, not you I

Before It's Too Late

Run your fingers through those thin spots on
your head. Then reflect: What will happen if
you let yourself become actually bald . . .
changed appearance, lost prestige,' years older-
looking. Is indifference worth the price you
eventually pay? No I Decide noiv that you're
going to act! Tear off the coupon and MAIL
IT TODAY for my free booklet filled with com-
plete details of my treatment, and scientific
facts. FACTS, mind you. Not theories — hut
convincing, guaranteed statements backed by
leading dermatologists. Send for the booklet
NOW! It's yours by return mail. Allied Merke
Institutes, Inc., Dept. 675, 512 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.

What a shame it seems that so many dollars and < Allied Merke Institutes, Inc. J

hours are wasted on useless surface treatments. ! Dept. 675, 512 Fifth Ave., New York City

Not only that, but hair is actually removed and [

scalps injured by doubtful salves and tonics. If J Please send me — without cost or obligation — !

a man came up to vou in the street and said, < in i>lain wrapper, copy of your book. "The New •

"Here's a tonic that'll grow hair!" . . . would ! Way 10 Grow Halr-" describing the Merke System. ,

you buy it? Of course not. You wouldn't know ',

the maker, the ingredients, nor would you have ■ „

any redress in case of injury. • 1 ame " J

In other words,, when you buy ordinary "hair- j !

growers," you buy "a pig in a bag." You > Address !

GAMBLE! Not only with scalp health, but with ! ' ;

your hard-earned money. And you take a chance [

on discouraging for all time, your efforts to J City State !

regain new hair. ' '

SCREENLAND

\Only •

\9i

DOWN

BEAUTY BUILDER^

Complete $1^)50
Combination

t(l [lorn fddoiv Jl Icwcsl Price [vt r Offered

Galnandlteep

perfect beauty, perfect health and
perfect figure with 15-mlnute daily
massages. The Red Jacket Health
Motor. Weight Scale and Instructions
Will produce marvelous results for you.
ATTRACTIVE. INSTRUCTIVE
LITERATURE SENT FREE

SURE TO GET THIS LITERATURE

Mail the Coupon Today

The Waco Co.. Dept.. 305.
6216 W. Kinzio St.. Crncnuo, III.
Plenee send me FREE information on
Red Jacket Health and Beauty Set.

Name

One
Year

To
Pay

lo. 290 -$6CT
'$5 Deposit— $1 a Week"

A magnificent cluster of 7, fin
quality, full cut, sparkling, blue
Jv1 white, genuine diamonds is set in a
BTATlsolid platinum disk. Diak is set in an
IvW VexeeptioneJly popular, beautifully
H Vhand engraved, 18 Kt. solid white '
p\ "Ikgold mopnting. This gorgeous^
|\ cluster has every appear

■flP^ ^•hW ance of a $600
^v"^- ■ solitaire

18 KAR^I

N<
Re
Tape

ays
Trial

You take Money Back
"buying GUARANTEE

from this old firm of diamond
importers. You have lOdays
free trial— If not completely
satisfied with your bargain,
return it and we will refund
every cent that you paid

SEND NO After you

MAM r V^et the rinS>
vJl L I pay only

S5.00to the postman— balance

$1.00 a week for one whole

year. All credit dealings

kept strictly confidential.

No credit orders taken from
persons under20 years of age.

PRICE CUT TO Sfeo— WORTH $100

You can now buy this gorgeous ring at the wholesale
price. Compare it with similar rings at $100. We guaran-
tee it to stand any test or comparison. Greatest bar-
gain ever offered by any jeweler. We allow 8% annual
increase in exchange for a larger diamond ring.

Write Cor FREE Illustrated Catalog

It brings our large Jewelry Store right into your home
Gives weights, grades and complete description so you
can buy diamonds like an expert. Hundreds of bargains
Blue~ivkite Diamonds as low as $197.00 a carat
AGENTS WANTED— EARN $100 WEEK. Write for details.

DIAMOND . O-

& WATCH \mS INC.

Diamond Importers— $1 ,000,000 Stock— Est. 1879
1540 BROADWAY DEPT. 2613 N.Y.

STERLING

uperfluoufHAIRallGONE

Forever removed by the Mahler
Method which kills the hair root
without pain or injury to the skin
in the privacy of your own home.
Send today 3 red stamps for
Free Booldet
We Teach Beauty Culture
). J. MAHLER CO., 35-B Mahler Park. Providence, R.

V«.. U,„« „ 1/.;.. Opportunity comes to those who
I OU nave a V UlCe sjng an(j talk. Voice projec-
tion for movietone and radio where quality and
character are essential. Results guaranteed.

Voice Trial by Appointment
FREE — Limited number of scholarships.

Information on correspondence course.
MOVIE-VOX STUDIO
126 E. 60th St. New York City

note illustrates by clutching his nose
violently and chanting "DIIIINNNG.
DOOOONNNG. DIIIINNNG. DOOO-
ONNG."

"But, Mr. Rothafel," Max Herzberg says
distressedly, "the composition is written
four-four time. It must be sung that way."

"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!"

Once more the choir begins its chant.
And this time the full beauty of the bell-
like music is brought out. Even a laborer
who didn't know a note from a knot could
appreciate that. Even a little kitchen maid
whose highest musical ideal might be "I
Faw Down and Go Boom," after hearing
this choir, would realize that something
beautiful and unprecedented had been pre-
pared for her ears.

"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.

"That's all right," Roxy answers, "but
drape a red scarf around the hip. That'll

set off both the hip line and the black and
white contrast."

By now Roxy has reached the elevator.
But just as the gate is about to close, Leon
Lconidoff rushes in. LconidofT is Roxy s
production assistant, a small, far-seeing man
who looks as if he were born on the run.
"Mr. Rothafel, since tomorrow is a holiday.
Mr. Murray was wondering if you would
have time to select the news-reel for next
week today instead of tomorrow?" Douglas
Murray acts as a sort of clearing house for
all the executives, co-ordinating them
through the production department.

"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

SCREENLAND

et your first book

FREE-

from the
Book-of>the*Month
Club

Take advantage of this special offer-made
to reach our "first hundred thousand "

I NOTICE TO PRESENT MEMBERS: If you did not get your first book
free, and wish to take advantage of this offer, you may do so by extending
your subscription for an additional year from its present date of expiration.

OVER 95,000 book-readers now. be-
long to the Book-of-the-Month
Club. The organization is engaged in a
"drive" to reach one hundred thou-
sand— a scant five thousand more.
Those who join now will be given their
first book free.

A great many people (we know)
have been on the verge o'f joining this
organization, but have "put it off"
through busyness or procrastination.
If this has been true in your case, it is
clearly an advantage to you to delay
no longer. We suggest simply, that you
get full information at once, about
what the Book-of-the-Month Club does
for you, and decide once for all whether
you want to join.

In this connection, here is a perti-
nent fact that may be important to
you. Of the 95,000 people who now
belong to the Book-of-the-Month Club,
not a single one was induced to join by a
salesman or by personal solicitation of
any kind. They were simply given the
facts as to what it does for book-

Henry Seidel Caoby

Chairman

Hcywood
Broun

Dorothy
Canfield

Christopher
Morley

readers. After reading these facts, they
subscribed.

And what sort of people are they?
Cabinet members, senators, judges,
governors; leaders of industry and
finance; the outstanding figures in
thousands of communities large and
small. Our list of members, indeed,
reads like a who's who, in every pro-
fession, in every walk of life. These
are judicious people, in other words,
not of the kind to be easily influenced
or to follow fads. They know what
they want.

This being the case — if you have
ever thought of joining the club — it
does seem sensible to get the facts as
to how it operates as quickly as possible,
and then (if you want to) join before
this special "first-book-free" offer ex-
pires. This will happen soon; for our
membership increased by almost fifty
thousand in 1928. So, if you are in-
terested, mail the coupon now, before
you forget to do so.

William Allen
White

THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB, Inc.
386 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Please send me, without cost, a booklet outlining how
the Book-of-the-Month Club operates. This request
involves me in no obligation to subscribe to your service.

Name _

Address.

City.

.State.

Books shipped to Canadian members through
Book-of-the-Month Club (Canada) Ltd.

SCREENLAND

FREE "MIRACLES
IN MUSCLE"

Which Looks Most Like You?

Note the amazing difference. Which are you?
Have you the puny, undeveloped body of the man
at the left — a body you're ashamed og? Let me
make you over into a powerful, big-muscled
MAN.

DO YOU WANT
A NEW BODY?

Send for my wonderful Free Book. Read the amaz-
ing story of MIRACLES IN MUSCLE. See how
EASILY you can have a superb physical development.
No matter how weak or run down you may be now.
I GUARANTEE to cover your body with big, brawny
layers of LIVE muscle — to broaden your shoulders —
to fill out your chest — to put new strength and vitality
into every organ of your body.

Amazing Results in 30 Days

A few minutes a day will work wonders! In a week
you'll feel and look like a new man. In 30 days
you'll be PROUD of your magnificent build; your
strength will amaze you. Get the facts about this
wonderful method of body-building that has changed
thousands of men from sickly weaklings into big,
strapping IIE-MEN.

Send Name and Address NOW

Whether you're weak or strong, young or old, you
NEED this great book on body-building. It shows the
way to new HEALTH, STRENGTH, SUCCESS, POPU-
LARITY. Add INCHES to your muscles. Be the
MAN you want to be. Write your name and address
on the margin NOW — or send a letter. Do it TODAY'.

Address, Dept. V-138

The One TITI IC io5E.i3*St
and Only ill Ud Newark City

Stop Using a Truss

STUART'S ADHESIF PLAPAO-
PADS are surprisingly different
from the truss— being mechanico-
chemico applicators — made self-
adhesive purposely to keep the
muscle-tonic PLAPAO" applied
continuously to the affected parts,
and to minimize painful friction
and dangerous slipping. No
straps, buckles or spring at-
tached. Solt as velvet — easy to
apply— Inexpensive* Foralmosta ■
quarter of a century satisfied thou- _ 06?
sands report success withoutdelay Grand Prix
from work. Process of recovery natural, so no subsequent
use for a truss. Awarded Gold Medal and Grand
Prix. Trial of "PLAPAO" will be sent absolutely
Write your name on coupon and send TODAY.

Awarded
Gold Medal

FREE

Plapao Co., 54 Stuart BIdg., St. Louis, Mo.

Name ;

Address

Return mail will bring Free Trial FLAl'AO.

THE FORM

Developed Quickly

This Beautiful Woman Says:

"I have proven that any
woman can have a beautiful
form if she will only use your
method. Friends envy my
perfect figure." (Name on
Request.)

For eighteen years this method
has been used successfully — en-
dorsed by physicians of national
reputation — praised literally by
thousands who have beautified
their forms.

Send your name and address for this
valuable information with- actual photo-
graphic proof--all sent FREE.

Dept. 30 Clarinda, Iowa

THE OLIVE CO.

DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENS

¥3U DIE *?

Amazing, startling FACTS that Science has actually
discovered and PROVEN about AFTER-DEATH and
LOVED ONES gone BEYOND sent for 10c in stamps.

Pioneer Press, Dept. 1 44, Hollywood, Calif.

stairs again to the costume department. This
is a large bright room, filled with electric
sewing machines and cutting tables on
which lie every kind of beautiful fabric in
all colors of the rainbow.

Miss Harriet Rogge, sister of the ballet
mistress, heads this department. And she
has the biggest costuming task in the world.
Three hundred costumes have to be de-
signed and manufactured each week, for the
chorus, ensemble, ballet corps, Roxyettes
and principals. Miss Rogge started in this
profession when her sister Florence first
went on the stage. She made Florence's
clothes, and, gradually, did more and more
of this work until today she and her eleven
assistants turn out three hundred diversi-
fied costumes every seven days.

Let's go now to the commissary depart'
ment, or restaurant. Since most of the per-
formers arrive at ten in the morning and
don't leave until midnight, Roxy has pro-
vided a cafeteria where excellent, well-
cooked food may be procured at reason-
able prices. Throughout all hours of the
day and night, this little underground cafe
is crowded. And a bizarre sight it pre-
sents. A page boy, his little black velvet
beret askew on the back of his head, drinks
coffee with his mouth and a detective story
with his eyes. At another table four plump
women, members of the choir, dressed in
French peasant costumes — black bodices,
lighter skirts, white aprons and white or-
gandy head dresses — order cup after cup of
black coffee, and talk of home.

Major Johnson, the witty midget who
can easily walk under a card table with
headway to spare, struggles into a straight
back chair and orders two caramel custard
puddings. Across from him sits an eight-
foot man who plays the part of a giant in
the circus carnival.

At still another table we find three mem-
bers of the orchestra, ready to go on at the
first show, dressed in their deep sea'green
velveteen coats, black trousers, stiff shirts
and turn-over collars. They are winding
macaroni furiously around their forks while
they heatedly discuss the relative merits of
Roxy's four conductors, Rapee, Previn,
Littau, and Mischa Violin. (The latter is
not an instrument but a conductor.)

But we mustn't listen to what they say.
That would be rude. So we hurry out,
turn to the left and arrive on the slippery
floor of the ballet room where all the bal-
lets are rehearsed.

One whole side of this apartment is cov-
ered with a huge mirror and before this
enormous glass the ballet corps whirl and
posture. The gifted, faithful pianist — you'd
think he'd get very weary — is here accom-
panying the ballet. Patricia Bowman prac-
tises her entrance. Rogge and Massene are
illustrating parts of the routine for the rest
of the girls. And over in a corner, alone,
La Tonge goes through her intricate steps.
Each unit is absolutely oblivious of the
others.

Next we reach Max Herzberg's room.
We hear him pleading as he rehearses the
choir. "Now children," he admonishes the
basses, "can't you sing this passage piano?
Surely it is marked piano. And this morn-
ing you sang it so loud that Mr. Rapee
asked if by any chance it was marked
jortissimo."

From here we enter another rehearsal
room where Russell Markert is instilling a
little army discipline into the Roxyettes.
Next we find ourselves in the musical li-
brary, the largest theatre collection in the
world, containing the whole of the late
Victor Herbert's private library which Roxy
bought to form the nucleus of his present
musical collection. In especially constructed

asbestos-lined cabinets, fitted with auto-
matic locks, lie fifty thousand orchestra-
tions of ten thousand musical numbers.

We will pass by Rapee's room for
through the open door we can see him bus-
ily engaged on the score for next week's
orchestration. We won't go in John
Wenger's department either for his fore-
head is knotted over some technical prob-
lem. It would be sinful to disturb Leon
Leonidoff, too. For as production assistant,
next to Roxy, he seems the most over-
worked man backstage.

And right here is a good place to realize
just what Roxy and his executives are up
against. Every seven days Roxy puts on
a completely new production. Now if
Ziegfeld or John Murray Anderson were
rehearsing a musical comedy, weeks would
be spent on that one comedy alone. But
Roxy has his present week's show on the
boards. He is rehearsing his next week's
show between this week's performances.
And he is only just now forgetting the
strains and annoyances of last week's pro-
duction.

But let us go on with our back-stage
tour. On the second, third and fourth
floors we have the numerous dressing-
rooms. Let's look into this one. It is
fitted up for two girls, with double dressing-
tables, a chaise longue to rest or sleep on,
several chairs, and wonder of wonders,
a complete shower and bath for each two
girls.

In Patricia Bowman's room, there is a
thorned head of Christ on the wall at the
right of her mirror. And at the left, some-
what lower, a photograph of Isadora
Duncan.

While we are about, it's no use to
overlook anything. So let's bustle down
to the laundry. You didn't even know
they had one, did you? Well, they have.
And eight hundred and eighty-two shirts
and one thousand collars are washed and
ironed here four times every month. The
laundry proper consists of two large rooms
and a baby motor truck for indoor trans-
portation. The plant is run by three men
and women, who take entire charge of the
uniforms and the linen of the hundred and
twenty-six men on the Roxy staff.

Each member of this family is supplied
with a complete outfit, from his uniform
to his collar buttons — all Roxy's idea.
Collars, shirts, collar buttons, cuff links,
white vests, even shoe strings are cared
for by this department. Nor is that all!

Every three weeks nine thousand yards
of gauze curtains must be washed and
ironed. And every three months eleven
thousand yards of plush draperies have to
be taken down and cleaned. In addition,
in summer, the slip-covers for each of the
six thousand, two hundred and fifty seats
must be laundered twice a week. These
seat covers are cut in two parts, which
means that twenty-five thousand pieces of
furniture coverings must be accounted for,
since double sets are required — one set for
use while the other set is being laundered.

But we must hurry, we've spent hours
here now! Off to the right we find a
large beautiful room, well carpeted and
fitted with mahogany tables and chairs.
This is where Rapee and his assistants re-
hearse the orchestra. When rehearsals are
not in order the men of the orchestra use
it as a club room. At present, seven men,
coats unbuttoned, sit around a table play-
ing poker. Next to them, four of their
colleagues are playing contract bridge.
And in the corner to the left of the door,
two Russians are attacking each other over
a chessboard.

SCREENLAND

I Gambled 2* and Won
*35,840/«2 Years"

A Story for Men and Women
who are dissatisfied with themselves

THIS is the story of a gamble — ■
a 2c risk — which paid me a
profit of $35,840 in two years.
I am not, and never was, a gambler
by nature ; in all probability I never
would have taken the chance if more
money was involved. So even if you,
too, are against gambling, you will
feel like risking two cents after
you've read my story.

Some people believe I was lucky.
Others think I am brilliant. But this
sort of luck I had everyone can have.
My type of brilliance is that of any
average man.

Almost any $40-a-week wage earner
has as complete a mental equipment
as I had two years ago. And he feels
today just about the way I did then.
For two years ago, I too, was in the
$40-a-week rut. My earnings were
$2,080 per year!

I was discontented, unhappy. I was
not getting ahead. There didn't seem
to be much hope in the future. I
wanted to earn more money — a lot
more money. I wanted to wear better
clothes and have a car, and travel. I
wanted to be on a par with people I then
looked up to. I wanted to feel equal to
them mentally and financially.

But it all seemed hopeless. I was beset
with fears. I was afraid of losing my job.
I was afraid of the future. I could see
nothing ahead for myself and my wife
and baby but a hard struggle. I would
live and work and die — just one of the
millions who slaved their lives away. I
was irritable, easily annoyed, discouraged,
"sore" at my fate and at the world. I
could not think clearly. My mind was in
a constant whirl. I was "scatterbrained."
I had a thousand half-baked ideas to make
more money, but acted on none of them.

The end of each year found me in about
the same position as the beginning. The
tiny increases in salary, grudgingly given
to me, were just about enough to meet the
rising costs of living. Rent was higher;
clothes cost more ; food was more expen-
sive. It was necessary for me to earn
more money. So once in a while I got a
few dollars more. But it wasn't because
of any great change in my ability.

Today I have an income of $20,000 a
year. That's exactly $17,920 more than it
was two years ago. A difference of $35,840
in two years. My family has everything it
needs for its comfort and pleasure. My
bank account is growing rapidly. I have
my own home in the suburbs. I am re-
spected by my neighbors, and I have won
my wife and children's love as only the
comforts and pleasures of life can do.

When I am old I will not be a millstone
around anyone's neck. My children will
not have to support me.

I look forward to the future with con-
fidence and without fear. I know that only
improvement can come with the years.
Once I wandered through life aimlessly,
cringing, afraid. Today I have a definite
goal and the will to reach it. I know I
cannot be beaten. Once my discontent re-
sulted in wishes. Today my slightest dis-
content results in action. Once I looked
forward hopefully to a $5 a week increase
in salary. Today I look forward confi-
dently to a $100 a week increase in my
earnings.

What magic was it that caused the
change in my circumstances? How did I,
a $40-a-week clerk, change my whole life
so remarkably? I can give you the answer
in one word — Pelmanism. I gambled 2c
on it. Yet without it, I might have con-
tinued in my old $40-a-week rut for the
rest of my life.

Pelmanism taught me how to think
straight and true. It crystallized my scat-
tered ideas. It focused my aim on one
thing. It gave me the will power to carry
out my ideas. It dispelled my fears. It
improved my memory. It taught me
how to concentrate — how to observe
keenly. Initiative, resourcefullness, organ-
izing ability, forcefulness were a natural
result. I stopped putting things off. In-
-ertia disappeared. Mind-wandering and
indecision were things of the past. With
new allies on my side and old enemies
beaten there was nothing to hold me back.

I am writing this in appreciation of
what Pelmanism did for me. I want
other average men to gamble 2c as I
did. For the cost of a postage stamp
I sent for the booklet about Pelman-
ism, called "Scientific Mind Training."
Reading that free book started me on
my climb. I took no risk when I en-
rolled for. the Course because of the
Institute's guarantee. All I gambled
was 2e and I am $36,000 better off
now than I would have been had I not
written for the book about Pelman-
ism.

The Pelman Institute will be glad
to send a copy of "Scientific Mind
Training" to any interested individual.
This book is free. It explains Pel-
manism. It tells what it does to the
mind. It tells what Pelmanism has
meant to others. For over 25 years
Pelmanism has been helping people to
happiness. Over 650,000 others have
studied this remarkable science.
Among those who have praised it are
such great world figures as Judge Ben
B. Lindsey, Jerome K. Jerome, Sir
Harry Lauder, T. P. O'Connor, Major-
Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice, H. R. H.
Prince Charles of Sweden, and many oth-
ers. Your whole life may be altered as a
result of reading "Scientific Mind Train-
ing." Send the coupon. You have noth-
ing to lose. If Pelmanism does not help
you it costs you nothing. There is no ob-
ligation in mailing the coupon. No sales-
man will call on you. Decide for yourself
what to do after you read the free book
about Pelmanism. Mail the coupon NOW.

The Pelman Institute of America,
71 West 45th' St., Suite 165, New York.

Offices in London, Paris, Stoclcltolm, Delhi,
Durban and Melbourne.

The Pelman Institute of America
71 West 45th St., Suite 165
New York City

I want you to show me what Pel-
manism has actually done for over
650,000 people. Please send me your
free book, "Scientific Mind Training."
This places me under no obligation
whatever.

Name

Address -

City State

SCREENLAND

How I Lost

Q% Pounds

I weighed 279 lbs!

After trying many ways
to reduce, a leading insur-
ance medical advisor told
me of a natural, pleasant,
healthful way. No thyroid
or dangerous drugs. // was
easy, natural and absolute-
ly safe.

I feel better, look better,
have more energy and vi-
tality. No wrinkled or
flabby skin.

Send name and address
for full particulars FREE,
without obligation.

M. E. HART

63 Hart Building

Today
182 lbs.

New Orleans, La.

TOBACCO HABIT
STOPPED or

Money
Backi

For

more than!*
CO years The* .
Keeley Treat-
ment has been suc-
cessful ... in thousands" ,
and thousands of cases. It
has been tried and tested, and
it offers you the easiest, quickest,
surest way on earth ot stopping the
use of tobacco without inconvenience or
unpleasant effects.

Thousands Praise Keeley Treatment

Heavy, inveterate tobacco users are amazed at theease^S
with which this wonderful treatment enables them to stop
using tobacco. Itisthesafe. reliable method-known to and
endorsed by the medical profession for hall a century.

Take Treatment At Our Risk
ir, after you have taken this treatment, you are not satis-
fied, it will not cost you a cent. The Keeley Treatment sel-
t dom falls; thatiswhy wecan makesuch anun-
i qualified guarantee. You are judge and jury.
This Booklet FREE
Every tobacco usershould read theamaz-
ing facts in this booklet. It tells youlwhat
physicians have found out about the
harmful effects of tobacco; what insur-
, ancestatistics reveal, and many other
i interesting facts. It is free. Send today.
1 THE KEELEY INSTITUTE

Dept. E. 500

Dwight, Illinois

write Quick for
SPECIAL OFFER!

FORM DEVELOPED

My Big Three Part Treatment is the
ONLY ONE that gives FULL
DEVELOPMENT without bathing,
exercises, pumps or other danger-
ous absurdities. I send you a
GUARANTEED TWO DOLLAR

14-DAY
TREATMENT

If you send a DIME toward expenses.
(A Large Aluminum Box of my Won-
der Cream included.) Plain wrapper.
IS IT WORTH 10c TO YOU?
If not. your dime back by first mail.
Address NOW, with ten cents only
Madame K.C.Williams, Buffalo, N.Y.

FREE

SCREEN STARS

2JJ Pictures of famous
movie stars. Good
clear prints. Size 3'/4X
5 Yl- Sent prepaid on
receipt of 50c.

JOHN 0. WEIGEL PICTURES CO.

Box - 521, San Francisco, Cal.

MONEY FDR YOU

Men or women can earn $ 1 5 to $25 weekly
in spare time at home making display cards.
Light, pleasant work. No canvassing. We
instruct yon and supply you with work.
Write to-day (or (all particulars.
The MENHENITT COMPANY Limited
2S2 Dominion Bldg.. Toronto, Can,

iSEk

Across the corridor is a somewhat smaller
though equally comfortably furnished room
for the Kentucky Jubilee Singers, the
negroes who entertain you each week in
the Roxy program. These men are mag-
nificent, both in stature and in voice. Off-
stage they are much as other folks. Four
of them are at the bridge table. One is
playing a banjo and humming softly. And
off to himself, a young, poetic negro sits,
a book of Du Bois Heyward's in his hand.

Now you've seen everything back-stage
but the furnace room, the ushers' quarters
and the room where Roxy broadcasts. You
have no interest in heating plants, you
can't go into the ushers' rooms because the
boys are changing their afternoon regalia
and getting ready for the evening — a little
matter of changing a soft shirt for a stiff
one. So let's wind up the back-stage tour
in a grand climax with Roxy and his gang
as they broadcast one of their renowned
Monday evening programs.

You've all heard Roxy broadcast very
often, so we'll just take a glimpse of him
and his gang before we say good-night.

As we enter the broadcasting room, we
find him standing in front of the orches-
tra, a little left of the microphone. With-
out one dominant note in his pleasant
voice, he is dominating the crowded hall.

The room itself is queerly shaped, neither
round, nor square, nor oblong. The walls
are hung with heavy monks cloth to accent
certain acoustic properties.

To the left, like geraniums crowded on
a four-tier shelf, the sixty-piece choir
stands — dressed in French peasant cos-
tumes, as after the broadcasting they will
go on to the stage for the third show of
the day.

Grouped around in a semi-circle is the
orchestra, with Rapee ready to conduct.
To the left of Rapee is the studio organ
with Lew White at the console. The
artists who are going to sing or entertain
sit on folding chairs around the walls.
They all seem to be having a grand time,
laughing, joking, greeting each other.

Gamby is back for a visit — the first time
in a year. She looks like a large blonde
doll, dressed in black velvet and wearing
many beautiful diamonds.

Next to Gamby sits Mildred Hunt, the
radio sweetheart. Beyond her is Beatrice
Belkin in a colorful gypsy costume. The
Roxy Male Quartette, Ethel Louise Wright,
and Isabelle Herbert are all talking together.
Frank Moulin, Harold Clyde Wright,
Gladys Rice and Johnnie Deacon — who is
making his debut — form another knot.

Going from one to the other is Roxy.
"Hello! Hello, everybody." His pleasant
voice reaches out and covers his large
family. Plainly you see Roxy loves them.
And they him. This man around whom
their human destinies revolve is a beloved,
not a feared figure.

In the hush that came just before the
program started, I shut my eyes. I realized
that on the other side of the glass slide
which separates the control room from the
studio, was a stupendous machine which
sends this program down to a central broad-
casting station and from, thence to Boston,
Springfield, Rochester, Washington, Pitts-
burg, Chicago, Des Moines, Omaha, At-
lanta, Charlotte, Nashville, St. Louis,
Detroit and Denver. Ten million people
are listening in. Men in the Walter Reed
hospital. Women drying supper dishes in
Kansas farm houses. Children in sani-
tariums. Bachelor girls in kitchenettes.
Racketeers, beggars, millionaires — and just
folks. Ten million people in every walk
of life!

"Silence, please! We are ready to be-

gin," the announcer says. Then he makes
his formal station announcement and is
followed by Roxy with his evening's greet-
ing. He tells the radio audience that it
is carnival time in Venice, and immedi-
ately the orchestra breaks into the first of
Ethelbert Nevin's Venetian Songs. Next
Gamby, for old sakes' sake, sings an Italian
street song. Beatrice Belkin, the colora-
tura, follows her in a high-flung aria to
the old tune of "My Hat, It Has Three
Corners." All the time we hear laughter
and festivity from the carnival background.

Next comes Frank Moulin, that grand
radio character who is said to know by
heart every note and every word of Gilbert
and Sullivan's many light operas. He
sings the "Gondolier."

It's getting warmer in the broadcasting
room. Rapee takes off his coat as the
Roxy male quartette steps before the micro-
phone and sings a travesty on "Rigoletto."
This is followed by Hugh White at the
organ. Later Mildred Hunt croons a song.

One after another the numbers follow
each other until we come to the two high-
lights of the evening. First, when Gladys
Rice sings, "Lover, Come Back to Me," in
her inimitable voice. And second, when
Roxy introduces Johnnie Deacon, a tenor.
This is Johnnie's first public appearance
anywhere. And he is a little nervous. He
was a student at McGill University when
Roxy discovered him. Now he has given
up engineering for singing. As he starts
his song, "Dear Old Pal of Mine," a thrill
— almost audible- — 'goes through the room.
Here indeed is a voice.

We're almost at the end now as Yasha
Bunchuk, the solo cellist, plays a deep-
toned number. Then comes the concluding
Ventian song of Nevin's by the orchestra.
Last of all we hear, as we have so many
times heard, that clear, pleasant voice of
Roxy's saying "Good night. God bless
you!"

And as Roxy says it, so clearly, so
humanly, whether we believe in anything
or not, we turn away comforted.

Yes, Roxy has risen from waiter to
foremost moving picture exhibitor in the
world because he brings us our dreams.
He translates the loveliest of the world's
music so that we can understand it. Ro-
mance, color, beauty, rhythm, he brings
down from their high place and puts in
our hands. Whether on the air, on the
screen, or on the stage, Roxy is a Merchant
of Glory!

((Camilla Horn and John Barrymore
in "Eternal Love."

SCREENLAND

These photographs show Miss Beggy Sidway, before the Marvelous Marcel
Molds were adjusted to her perfectly straight long hair. . . . Mme. Sylva's
molds — easily and comfortably adjusted to Miss Sidway's brunette tresses.

When the molds came out of the hair, she exclaimed with delight, "That's
the loveliest wave I ever had. From now on, I'm going to use these molds
myself. You can't imagine the time and money we models must expend on
our hair, for we must always look well."

Here is a manufacturer with
such pride in his product —
such confidence in its excel-
lence— that in photographing
a demonstration of this prod-
uct for publication, he in-
vited these representatives of
great papers to be present,
that readers may be assured
of complete truthfulness and
entire sincerity in every phase
of this advertisement. Such
is the straightforward, clean-
cut policy of AKCADY
HOUSE.

Marvelous Nextf Marcel Molds
Make Any Hair Gloriously Wavy

In 20 Minutes — At Home — Your hair will look just wonderful!

Beauty Specialist Discovers Secret of Successful
Home Marcelling

And now the Beauty Parlor brought
to your own room !

No more expensive treatments.

No more "appointments," delays, dis-
appointments.

No more tedious "processes" — no
more danger from hot irons.

For here Science combines with the Art of
the Professional Beauty Specialist to give
you what every feminine heart and head has
longed for — the perfect waver.

So simple a girl of ten can use it with
perfect results.

So speedy that 20 minutes span the gap
between straggly, unkempt hair and the glo-
rious waves of your favorite style.

So sure that you can hold any wave you
have, or reproduce it perfectly, or create
something wholly new.

In your own room — without work of prep-
aration— without electricity or hot irons —
free from danger of drying out or searing
your hair.

There has never been a waver like this
before. Never anything so simple and effect-
ive. It is the scientific result of long, intel-
ligent and ingenious invention on the part
of an American Beauty Specialist of high re-
pute and established success.

The great difference between this and
all other wavers.

This waver slips into the hair as easily
as you pass your fingers through. But it
does something no other waver ever does :
it locks in! By a simple clip, it holds in
place — stays where you put it — and locks the
wave in, MOLDING every contour firmly,
gracefully, lastingly.

It makes a soft, undulating wave that lasts
from one shampoo to another.

If you see your wave becoming faint and
loose, all you have to do is slip these mar-
velous molds into your hair, lock them in
place over the wave, remove them in 20 min-
utes, and, lo ! there's your fresh new wave
again !

Can such good news for womankind be
true? We refer you to every woman who
has so far had the opportunity to try out,
test and use this marvelous new device. Read
what just one of them says :

I think the Marcel Molds are wonderful. My
girl friends could hardly believe I had done it
all myself, yet it is true that I got a delightful,
soft marcel wave in so short a time it surprised
me. Will you please send another set for my
chum? (Signed) B. M. T.

The Art of Beauty, the Sureness of
Science, Create this Marvelous
New M older.

One of America's finest Beauty Specialists
brought this waver to us. It is the result of
her work and hopes and dreams over many
years of professional hair dressing, plus the
skill and science we placed at her command
with our expert manufacturing facilities.

Margaret Beynon Sylva, of Illinois, in her
17 years of Beauty Parlor proprietorship,
with women's hair as her personal specialty,
learned all the longing that women have for
a successful home marceller. She knew as
keenly as you do the expense, the trials, the
disappointments — the dangers, even — of the
beauty parlor method, with its rush, its new
help, its hot irons.

Mme. Sylva helped to make many other
wavers before this final success arrived.
They slipped out of hair. They were hard
to set in — "tricky." She found at last the
touchstone of triumph :

"Make It SIMPLE!"

And with that great idea she came to us.
We worked it out. But not so swiftly or
easily as these words imply. It took months
of the costly time of precision experts to
fashion into these few strands of metal that
priceless ingredient of simplicity. When you
first hold these molders in your hand, you,
seeing nothing but some simple frames, may
wonder what there was so difficult to make.
But when you remove them from your hair
and see the glorious results so easily achieved
for you, you will know and say, with us,
they are worth a hundred times the money!

Priced Far Below Real Value— at only

$2.97 per set— complete

You have the opportunity to obtain and possess a
set of these marvelous new molders at ANNOUNCE-
MENT cost.

We want to celebrate with the women of America
this genuine advance in the home dressing of "woman's
crowning glory.'" We want you to have a set of these
perfect marcellers. So we set the price at a nominal
figure — less than the average cost of a single visit to
the Beauty Parlor.

And for it. you get a Beauty Parlor of your own,
so far as hair waving is concerned, to be yours for-
ever. Because these marvelous molders will last for
hundreds — yes. we know by tests, for thousands of waves.

Send No Money— Just Mail the Coupon
Trial Certificate— Liberal Offer-
Money Back Guarantee

Give these marvelous molders a thorough and complete
trial when you get your set. Then, if for any reason you
can bring yourself to part with them, and admit that you
can not get a perfect result, you will have your money
returned promptly So far. we haven't found anyone who
doesn't enthuse after 20 minutes' use. Remember, a girl
of ten saw immediately how to use her set, put them in
her hair, and got a beautiful marcel in 20 minutes.
Surely you car do the same,

You need not ris'.t a penny. Just sign and mail the
coupon Trial Certificate. Note that our announcement
cost is only $2.97. We can not afford to carry a book-
keeping charge at. this figure, so we ask you tO' deposit
with the postman the sum of $2.97, plus a few cents'
postage, when h° brings your set. Order now, so we can
serve you immediately out of our yet limited production.
Get yours now and be first to astonish your friends with
the glorious, enviable waves these molders fashion. Fill
in and mail the Coupon Trial Certificate this minute.

ARCAISY HOUSE
7 W. Austin Ave. Chicago, 111.

COUPON . j

TRIAL CERTIFICATE

J ARCADY HOUSE S-47 !

| 7 W. Austir. Ave., Chicago, III.

I Gentlemen- I want a set of your marvelous
molders. T agree to deposit $2.97 (plus postage) I
I with the postman when he makes delivery. If i
I results are not to my entire satisfaction, I will
[ return the marvelous molders within five days
] and you are to refund the purchase price.

| Name I

Address .

I NOTE — If you expert to be out when, the post- |

man comes, enclose $3.15 with your order and

I the marvelous molders outfit will be sent post- ■

i paid. I

SCREENLAND

Win a Nash

Sedan

$2,750.00

in Cash

Someone who answers this ad will receive, absolutely free, a fully equipped
7-Passenger, Advanced Six Nash Sedan, or its full value in cash ($2,000.00).
We are also giving away a Dodge Sedan, a Brunswick Phonograph and
many other valuable prizes — besides Hundreds of Dollars in Cash. This
offer is open to anyone living in the U. S. A, outside of Chicago.

Solve
This
Puzzle

There are 7 cars in the circle. By draw-
ing 3 straight lines you can put each
one in a space by itself. It may mean
winning a prize if you send me your
answer right away.

$750.00 Given for Promptness

In addition to the many valuable prizes and Hundreds of Dollars in Cash,
we are also giving a Special Prize of $750.00 in Cash for Promptness. First
prize winner will receive $2,750.00 in cash, or the Nash Sedan and $750.00 in
cash. In case of ties duplicate prizes will be awarded each one tying. Solve the
puzzle right away and send me your
answer together with your name and
address plainly written. $4,500.00 in
prizes— EVERYBODY REWARDED.

I John T. Adams, Mgr., Dept. 3815,
■ S23 S. Peoria St., Chicago, III.

! Dear Sir:

Here is my solution to the puzzle.

John T. Adams, Mgr.

Dept. 3815, 323 S. Peoria St., Chicago, III.

My Name.

Address..

DEVELOP YOUR FORM!

Our scientific method highly recommended
for quick, easy development

LA BEAUTE CREME
for improvement of bust, neck, face
arms and legs

Used with great success by thousands. In-
expensive, harmless, pleasant. Successful
results or money refunded. Full particulars
and proof (sealed) free. Write for special
offer TODAY.

LA BEAUTE STUDIOS
S57SA Hamilton Terr., Baltimore, Md.

Movie Fans
ATTENTION

All the famous Stars in their latest and best
poses. 8 x 10 originals—Special for a short
time, 25c. each or 5 for SI . Scenes from all
the recent photoplays. 8 x 10 photos 25c. each
in lots of 5 or more. Send 2c. stamps or money
order. Satisfaction guaranteed. 14 ValeDtino
also scenes from his various photoplays.

S. B R AM STUDIO

Centre.9th Ave.& 45th. Studio 294. New York City

DEALERS INVITED

Subscribe to Screenland
and be sure of getting your copy every month.
$2.50 one year $4.50 two years

Giving the Children a
Chance

(Continued from page 25)

of William Desmond. Hobart Bosworth's
son George, and Pat O'Malley's daughter
Eileen, Tim Holt, son of Jack, Barbara
Denny, daughter of Reginald, Erich von
Stroheim, Jr., and Billy, son of the late
Wallie Reid.

"We rented space at the Metropolitan
Studios, where no other company was
working, which was a very good thing
since my small actors were all over the
place. Their parents evidently trusted me
for only one mother appeared on the set
— mothers are usually the curse of the
director! — 'Darling, what's the matter? —
She doesn't want to play with the doll,
she'd rather have the engine!' and 'Laugh,
lover — show Mrs. Brandeis your dimples!"
or 'Couldn't you let Gertie do the big
scene. She's much cleverer than Elizabeth!"
— Just a sample of the screen mother at
times!

"The picture was a great success and the
happiest engagement I ever had."

"The Young Visitor" and "The Young
Visitor Among the Stars" succeeded this
picture, these two oncreel travelogues be
ing a collaboration between Mrs. Brandeis
and John Begg, now with Fox Movietone,
who ground the camera.

The first film dealt with the adventures
of a small girl and boy in Hollywood and
showed the Hollywood Bowl, the Egyptian
and Chinese Theatres, the boulevard, all
the weird ice cream palaces, windmill
bakeries, brown derbies and quaint houses.
The second, showed the children visiting
the various stars, ending with a call on
Carrie Jacobs Bond and the singing of
'The End of a Perfect Day.'

Both these films made a terrific hit in
London and abroad generally, which may
have added impetus to an idea that had
been germinating in Mrs. Brandeis' mind
for some time.

"I had observed that Marie Madeline
learned twice as swiftly if I showed her
pictures of whatever constituted her lessons,
so it seemed to me that it would be an
excellent thing to teach children about
other lands by means of films made in the
actual countries being studied."

In pursuance of this idea, Mrs. Brandeis
has written children's books covering the
pictures in her series of "Children of All
Lands," these books being issued by the
Flanagan Book Publishing Company.

The pictures already completed are "Lit-
tle Indian Weaver," a story of the Navajos,
"Wee Scotch Piper," on the bonny banks
of Loch Lomond, "Little Swiss Wood
Carver," in the shadow of the Alps, and
"Little Dutch Tulip Girl" in Volendam,
Holland, the only place in the dike country
where native costumes are still worn.

The Navajo picture was the first effort,
in which Bunty, a fivcyear-old girl, child
of a Navajo mother, played the lead, a
holy terror of an infant who could get
into more mischief in a minute than the
average youngster can think of in a week.

"When it was necessary for Bunty to
cry for the sake of the story. I was afraid
I might have to scold her," smiled Mrs.
Brandeis. "but I talked to her about her
poor little dolly about to be eaten by a
sheep and Bunty wept so bitterly she
couldn't be stopped."

With this picture. Mrs. Brandeis visited
the schools and explained her plan. Now
the series is used thus: the teacher tells her
pupils what country they are to see; a

SCREENLAND 99

pupil finds the place on a map and others
tell what they know about it. Then the
picture is shown and afterwards the chil-
dren give their impressions and ask
questions.

The next three films were made abroad,
as the rest of the series will be, Mrs.
Brandeis producing, directing, writing, cut-
ting and titling her output.

"When children see the Scotch picture,
they will learn that people do not walk
about Scotch streets in kilts. It is only
gentlemen of great wealth who wear them
as they stroll about their vast estates," re-
membered Mrs. Brandeis.

Acquiring a cameraman who had made
news reels in Switzerland, the young pro-
ducer was guided into various out-of-the-
way places that she would not have found
by herself. Her difficulty, however, was
the language, for she had expected to work
in the. French part of Switzerland and
found herself instead where only Swiss
was used.

"We were eager to get shots of the dogs
at St. Bernard Hospice, but were refused
and only managed to get them after a long
and wearing struggle. We would like to
have photographed the priests but this was
not permitted. ' A short time before we
got there, a picture company had worked
around the monastery and when the picture
was released the astounded priests discov-
ered that they were a part of a triangle
sex story.

"It was easy to make the travelogue part,
and we loved doing it. 'Here's the Lion
of Lucerne!' we'd say, 'he doesn't have to
smile or anything. Let's shoot him!' And
we did.

"The Holland picture was the worst to
make for none of Volendam's citizens wish
contact with the outside world though it
is only an hour from Amsterdam. After
explaining that our picture was for educa-
tional purposes, we were granted permission
to begin, with an interpreter.

"Just try to get a smile out of those
stolid little Dutchmen!

"Children will learn that wooden shoes
have gone the way of Scotch kilts, but I
think they will be interested in the way
of life of these little Dutch brothers.

"Probably the Tulip Girl is the last pic-
ture that will be made in Volendam for
many a weary day, because Josephine Baker,
colored dancer, shocked the good people
of the town by dancing in the streets, even
making a little four-year-old lift her ankle-
length skirt to her dimpled knees. What
a scene ensued! When the excitement had
subsided and Josephine had fled, I tried to
finish the picture, but a law that no more
pictures could be made went into effect
immediately and I had to leave. Luckily I
was practically through."

But with all the grief entailed, making
the series of "Children of All Lands" has
proved worth while, and the woman whose
idea of making lessons easier and more
interesting has been rewarded with honors
beyond the dreams of Hollywood.

Over a ladder of children the world may
climb to peace!

The

carnehan nec\lace and brace

let

set

offered by Sue Carol to one

her

fans has been awarded to

Miss Louise Merrill,

P. O. Box 269,

Greenville, South Carolina,

jor

her clever letter.

How to Keep Love

when excess fat might lose it

People who are over-
fat lose in youth and
beauty, health and vigor.
What a pity. Excess fat
is now easily controlled.
You see that in every
circle.

Some years ago sci-
ence discovered a great
cause of overweight. It
lies in a gland which is
under-active — a gland
which largely controls
nutrition. Fat is not lost
to stay lost until that
defect is corrected.

The modern method of treating obesity is
embodied in Marmola prescription tablets.
They were perfected in a famous medical
laboratory. People have used them for 20
years— millions of boxes of them. They have
told the results to others, and year by year
the use has spread.

Today you see the effects in every circle.

Slender figures are the
rule. Countless people
who were over-fat now
have normal weight.
Women look younger,
more attractive. Men
have gained in vigor.
One great reason is
found in Marmola.

Each box of Marmola
contains the formula,
also the scientific rea-
sons for results. You
know what you are tak-
ing and why. No hard
work, no starvation. Just
be moderate. Then take four tablets daily
until weight comes down to normal.

Try Marmola, because of what it has done
for over 20 years for so many .The results will
be a revelation to you. Do this for your own
sake. Do it now. — — — — >

Marmola prescription tablets are sold by all
druggists at $1 per box. If your druggist is
out, he will get them at once from his jobber.

MARMOLA

Prescription Tablets

The Pleasant Way to Reduce

"A rlington O perated"

HOTEL ANSONIA

Broadway, 73rd to 74th Streets

NEW YORK CITY

5 minutes to Theatres and Shopping Districts.
12 minutes from Pcnn. and Grand Central Stations.

1,260 ROOMS (All Outside)

New York's most complete hotel. Everything
for comfort and convenience of our guests.

TWO RESTAURANTS

Open from 6:30 A. M. until midnight.
Music, Dancing, 2 Radio Orchestras, Ladies'
Turkish Bath, Beauty Parlor, Drug Store, Barber
Shop, Stock Broker's Office. AH in the
Ansonia Hotel.

TRANSIENT RATES

300 Rooms and Bath per day #4.00

Large Double Rooms, Twin Beds,

Bath #6.00 per day

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (2

persons) #7.00 per day

Special Weekly and Monthly Rates

A restful hotel — aivcty from all noise and
"dirt" of the "Roaring Forties." No coal
smoke; our steam plant equipped oil fuel.
Coolest Hotel in New York in Summer

THE ANSONIA

In conjunction with the Hotels Marseilles,
Anderson, Richmond and Cosmopolitan

NED WAYBURN

America's Foremost Dance Authority,
who staged the Best Editions of the
"Follies" and over 600 other Musical
Shows, Offers

„ HOME STUDY
>7 COURSES in
/STAGE DANCING

at fraction of N. Y. Studio Costs

CRITICS declare that the Home
Study Course in Stage Dancing
perfected by Mr. Wayburn is the
easiest — yet most thorough and
SS practical course of its kind ever de-

/ vised. It covers every type of stage
dancing, including Stage Make-up —
it follows exactly every detail of the
Courses given daily at Ned Waybum's
famous New York Studios — it is iden-
tical with the method that has helped
to bring Stardom to hundreds of Stage
and Screen celebrities. So easy that
children can grasp it readily.

Free Book Tells All

If you are interested in a stage dancing
career or even if you are interested in
stage dancing merely as a sure road to
health and beauty — send for Ned Wayburn's
new, interesting FREE booklet JHF, which
gives complete details of his marvelous
Home-Study Course. It tells how he makes
dancing stars and what he can do for you.

NED WAVSURN

Studios of Stage Dancing Inc.

1841 Broadway (Entr, on 60th St. ) At Columbus Cir-
cle, New York City. Open all year 'round. 9 A.M.
to 10 P. M. Except Sundays (Closed Saturdays at
6 P. M. i Phone Columbus 3500.

For
Health
Beauty
Popularity
Success

Auction @t Contract

Now you can learn comet winning Bridge— either Auction or Contract,
or both— from the world celebrated authority and championship player, Wilbur
C. Whitehead. Here is the quick, easy, NATURAL way to become a skilled
player, to be^ sought as a partner and consulted as an expert by the best players in your circle.

Whitehead's new conversational home studio lessons are just like private instruction, and at less than one-
tenth the cost. You learn by virtually flaying actual games with Whitehead.

SGifiCl £€$1* Fl*££ BOOlC Find out how you, too, may improve your game trcmcmloii^y
d • ■»W ■% with but very little efiort; how you can learn the new and pop-

ular Contract Bridge. Write today for interesting free booklet, sample instruction and full details of this
natural, easy way to learn correct, winning Bridge.

The Whitehead Bridge Studios suiJi%"f, %™?£wMr.

100

SCREENLAND

Lose 10 to 20 lbs.

NO DRUGS -MO SALT BATHS

Now thefamousllolly-
wood Method of Re-
ducing is offered to
the public at nominal
cost. Consists of three
weeks' course — weekly
instructions specially
prepared for individu-
al's requirements. Be-
ing used with remark-
able success by actors,
actresses, producers,
business men.They tell
of improved health,
more pep, greater joy
in living. Method endorsed by leading phy-
sicians. Follow the Hollywood Method — see
excess pounds disappear — feel better — look
better. Price $3 for complete course. Send
check, money order, or currency to

HOLLYWOOD METHOD

1109Garrick Building

Chicago, Illinois

HI O

B|IJA|ClKgTjO|p

^4 koie/ oP ref/nemeH tr/

50 EAST 58th STREET
NEW YORK

In the fashionable Park
Ave. and Plaza districts

Large outside
sunny rooms

elegantly

furnished

Single Room and

Bath $4-$5

Double Room and
Bath $5-$7

Parlor, Bedroom
and Bath $10-$12

Special low weekly
and 7ii out lily rates

Telephone Regent 8100

JfcAjJU They Last

Learn about a secret method — how
you can have "Beautiful NewSKIn
in 3 Days." Amazing German Dis-
covery. Men and Women, Old and
Young can get rid of disfiguring
facial blemishes and have soft NEW
youthful skin. Your friends will mar-
vel at the change. Wrinkles, Freckles,
Blackheads. Pimples GONE t

RUSH name and address for Free
Beauty Treatise. Write MARVO,
1700 Broadway, NewYork City. Dept.C63

The Man of the Moment

Continued from page 45

Gary was a gangling, awkward seven and
his light o'love was a burnished-haircd
school mar'm who taught him the three r's.

We are sorry to relate that the youthful
teacher was never aware of this gray-eyed
boy's adoration.

Interviewers find Gary a difficult sub-
ject. He can and does lapse into long
thoughtful silences after each question, and
then he answers in a very few clipped-otf
words. He talks only when he has some-
thing to say. A remarkable habit for one
who has lived four years in Hollywood.

Few people know that Gary started out
upon an artistic career that had nothing
to do with motion pictures. He had studied
drawing throughout his years at high-school
and college. Commercial art, even cartoon
work was his aim. and with this as his
chosen career he landed in Los Angeles,
Thanksgiving Day, 1924, in search of some
quick money.

After many discouraging applications for
work with local advertising companies and
newspapers he came to the dismal conclu-
sion that quick money was not to be found
in the field of art. He needed ready cash
— at least he needed it for his family.
Things had not gone so well on the Mon-
tana ranch since the war. Those scenic
acres, bounded by snow-clad mountains to
the north and the Missouri River to the
south, were mortgaged to the hilt, draining
the Cooper resources with a deadening
steadiness.

Quick money, cash-in-a-hurry, funds,
checks, currency, ready money — like a tatoo
the words beat upon Gary's conscious and
sleeping moments for months.

While he was in this quagmire of in-
decision, he discovered that good horsemen
could earn from fifteen to twenty dollars a
day riding for western pictures.

The Montana ranch, where he had
learned to ride like a cowhand, the ranch
that sent him West in search of quick
money, hurled him bodily into the arms of
opportunity. He found plenty of work
with the independent producers along
'Poverty Row,' and was able to send some
alleviating checks to Montana. He had no
illusions about his ability to act. His pur-
pose was single-tracked — to make enough
money to save the ranch and to help him
start in commercial art work.

But a telephone call one rainy day in
the winter of 1925, changed all Gary's well-
laid plans. The Sam Goldwyn Casting
Offices curtly bade him appear the next
morning for a small riding part in a pic-
ture called "The Winning of Barbara

Worth." The 'small riding part' turned
out to be an emotional role, and in the
vernacular of Hollywood, he wrapped up
the production and took it home under
his arm!

Before the picture was released in Los
Angeles, he signed a long-term contract
with Paramount. Gary says that even that
legal-appearing document did not inspire
him with rosy visions of a dramatic career.
He would make a small pile in a couple of
years of hard-riding westerns and return
to his original purpose — commercial art.

After one Paramount horse opera, the
faint rumbling thunder of popularity was
heard gathering about the Paramount
Studios. Gary was quickly dispatched into
society dramas, before he knew how to
manage a cocktail glass or properly kiss a
feminine hand.

As for the ranch — no, Gary has not
forgotten it. The only vacation he has
received since arriving in Hollywood fciur
years ago was spent on that ranch. With
but ten days of leisure ahead, Gary jumped
the next train and stayed on the old home-
stead until the last minute. Within the
next year he plans to build a new lodge
for himself and his family about a mile
from the old home. He will spend any
leisure time he can extract from the studio,
fishing in the river, hunting in the moun-
tains, riding over the trails that he has
known since childhood.

Gary is not squandering his money on
cars, estates or Hollywood night life. His
dreamy gray eyes seem to be able to see
something beyond such temporary posses-
sions. Perhaps ten thousand acres in
Montana make a 200-foot lot in Beverly
Hills look inconsequential. Perhaps the
nights in camp by mountain streams make
Hollywood parties appear ridiculous. Per-
haps the swift-footed broncos of the range
make the best eight-cylinder motor tame
transportation. Perhaps the midsummer
sunsets on snow-rimmed mountain peaks
make the feminine beauties of Hollywood
appear artificial.

All of them, that is, except Lupe. Ever
since Gary played La Lupe's lover in "Wolf
Song," he has been her accepted suitor.
The little Mexican girl has stolen into the
heart of the big boy from Montana and
stayed right there. She is fiery and pas-
sionate and playful. He is languorous and
quiet and strong. But they are both chil-
dren of nature — both absolutely natural
and without pretense. And now that Lupe
Veles has announced her engagement to
Gary Cooper we have a new romance on
our hands.

In NeW York — Continued from page 75

a knock-out hit on the screen," she says
frankly. "And of course I'm stubborn
enough to think it isn't my fault, but blame
it on the fact that I've never had a real
break. Just when I think my career is
taking a new lease on life, I don't get the
role I've been counting on, or something
happens. However. I'm still hoping.
Maybe some day some director or other is
going to give me a chance and then we'll
see if I make good. If I don't I'll be the
first to know it, and I'll know the fault
is mine."

But if you've ever seen Margaret on the

screen — in "Sunrise," for instance — you
know that all she needs is a chance. In
the Murnau picture she was believable in
a weird role, and proved she can play a
vamp without straining the credulity of her
audience. But somehow she has had few
good parts. "The Office Scandal" does
offer her some opportunity, however, of
which she takes full advantage. She shares
honors with Phyllis Haver, the star — who,
by the way, is one of her best friends. It
was Margaret Livingston who introduced
Phyll to her future husband, Bill Seaman.
Right now Margaret is simply fascinated

SCREENLAND

101

by New York — its theatres and its people
and its parties. She wants to go on the
stage and she may do a talking picture
here. Meanwhile she has skipped down to
Palm Beach for some sunshine. I'll let you
know her plans when she comes back.

I don't know how you feel about Harry
Langdon but he will always be one of my
first favorites. And when I saw him in
vaudeville the other day I couldn't see why
some producer didn't grab him for the
noisies. Gosh, he's funny! Of course you
know he is a great comedian but somehow
his last pictures weren't so good. They say
that Harry wanted to be the whole show —
to star, to direct, to manage every depart-
ment of his pictures; and of course that
usually results disastrously. But when you
meet Mr. Langdon you can't believe he is
like that at all. He is a very quiet, rather
shy man, much the most serious of all the
comedians. Of course before I was to meet
him I conjured up my vision of the im'
mortal Harry of the movies — pained ex-
pression, funny hat, floppy pants, and all.
Imagine my amazement when I saw a very
well-dressed, self-possessed, dignified gentle-
man who greeted me gravely and made not
a single wise-crack! I felt as dumb as the
screen Harry looks. He is making a great
hit in his return to the vaudeville stage
that he left for the movies some years ago,
and it is inevitable that the audience which
applauds him frantically will flock to see
him when he makes his bow in talkie com-
edy. Well, I'm for him.

Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon Sills, and
Kenyon Sills stole into town and into seclu-
sion before anyone could stop them. Of
course you know who Kenyon is? Why,
he's the small son of Milton and Doris; and
his screen-star parents wouldn't dream of
travelling without him. Mr. and Mrs.
Sills were about to start a new picture,
playing together for the first time since the
talkies have made them both doubly famous
in "The Barker" and "Interference," when
Milton was taken ill and Doris decided he
needed a vacation. So east they came, to
stay until Mr. Sills completely recovers his
health. Then you'll see them together
again, and their talkie will be well worth
waiting for.

Lya de Putti left for Europe, to every-
body's regret. The little Hungarian has
become very popular since she has been
over here, and all her friends are hoping
she won't stay away too long. Somehow
de Putti never made the success here on
the screen that she did in person, and the
talkie vogue was the last straw. There
seemed to be no place for little Lya, and
so she accepted an offer from British Inter-
national to make a picture over in London.
It seems such a shame to see her go, for
she never looked prettier! With her elfin
little face and short hair-cut she looks
about fifteen.

And now— Lupe! She has only just ar-
rived at this writing, so New York is not yet
completely demolished. They tell us that
Hollywood is wondering just what the wild
little Mexican will do to upset our equilib-
rium. So far, not a thing. Lupe arrived
fresh from triumphs in Chicago. The
Windy City worked itself up into quite a
state over her, we hear. Perhaps New York
will follow its tradition and refuse to be
disturbed by anything that interests Chicago.
But I hardly think so. Give Lupe a chance
to catch her breath after her train ride and
then — watch out! And wait until next
month for real news about her.

Waist and Hips
Quickly Reduced

without dieting, drugs or exercises

WAIST and hips 2 to 4 inches smaller— in 10
days. That's what the new Perfolastic Reduc-
ing Girdle has done for thousands of delighted
women. We urge you to try it, too — at our risk.

Made of finest quality, fresh, live Plantation Rubber
by the famous Goodrich Rubber Co., Perfolastic
reduces by automatic massage. With every breath you draw,
every step you take, its continuous gentle pressure breaks
up fat cells, moulds away flabby flesh as an expert masseuse
would. Cool, comfortable, light — some models weigh as little
as 9% ounces (garters included) — full of tiny holes to let
skin breathe.

FREE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET gives full details about
this marvelous girdle and special 5-day trial offer with money-
back guarantee that protects you from all risk. Send for it
today. No obligation. Simply fill out coupon and mail to
Perfolastic, Inc., Dept. 35, 79 Madison Ave., New York City.

Perfolastic. Inc., Dept. 35,

79 Madison Ave, New York City.

Without obligation, please send me FREE BOOKLET describing and
illustrating the new Perfolastic Girdle, also special 5-day trial offer.

Name ...

Address _

City State

WIN AIRPLANE

(^Passenger 90-h.p.)

dmlKhts Eyim Gmrse!

TCJ<>I/TX/»V/V/ IF YOU PREFER /

PUZZLE FANS! Last year we awarded to over 800 people automobiles and
other valuable prizes, and in next few months will award between 300 and 400
more prizes through our puzzles just to advertise and expand our business 1
Mrs. John Gillies, Mrs. Nellie C. Walters. Miss Leola Markus. C. F. Weit-
ing, Charles Vogtmann, J. C. Long. A. F. Holt, each won automobiles or
cash prizes from $600.00 to $3,500.00 through our last puzzles. We spend
over $150,000.00 on these offers each year. Here's a big new one for you.

Find the Twin Airplanes

Here are ten pictures of the 1929 90-h. p Waco Airplane which, together. with
free flying instruction, we are giving free in our "friendship campaign."
(You can have the cash, if you prefer. Decide after you are announced as
winner.) No, these pictures are not all alike, even though they look alike.
The difference may be in the markings on the wings, bodies or tails of the
airplanes. Only two airplanes are exactly alike. Can you find them? Just
6end the two numbers of the twin airplanes on a post card or letter — today.

Certificate for $500.00 to Add to Largest Prize Sent at
Once as Below if You Find Twin Airplanes

Quick actionl Find the twin airplanes and we will send, as soon as correct
answer is received. Certificate for $500.00 to add to first Grand Prize, if you
are prompt and win first prize, or a total of $4,245.00 (cash if preferred)
and directions for getting combined prize. First Grand Prize is a brand new
Waco Airplane and actual flying instructions by experienced air mail pilots,
all fully paid for by us. Twenty-four other prizes, valued as high as $1,000.00
and including five other free aviation courses. In case of ties, duplicate prizes
will be paid to persons tying. NO MORE PUZZLES TO SOLVE. No cost or
obligation. Nothing to buy, now, later or ever. Just send the numbers of
the twin airplanes in a letter or on a post card. That's all. Send no money
but BE PROMPT.

L. S. RENO, Room 3 1,54 W. ILLINOIS ST.,CRICAGO, ILL.

Cuticura

The Sanative, Antiseptic
Healing Service

Unexcelled for fifty years
Soap • Ointment • Talcum • Shaving Stick
25c. each at all Druggists

L-j#- WANT TO TRAVEL?

Romantic . . . wealthy Southern
countries need you. Want to go? Excep-
tional opportunities for young folks in
Central and S. America, West Indies,
Australia, etc. American employers pay
fare and expenses. Get list, and "How
to apply for position." Write today.
TROPICAL SERVICE BUREAU
I4606-Do Alma Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

102 SCREENLAND

Pick Tfbur
Own Job !

RAILWAY POSTAL CLERK

#1900 to #2700 a year

POST OFFICE CLERK

#1700 to #2100 a year
Special Clerks at #2200 and #2300

CITY MAIL CLERK

#1700 to #2100 a year

R. F. D. MAIL CARRIER

#1800 plus #12.24 per mile a year

Pay of Rural Mail Carriers, it is estimated,
will run from #2090 to #2300 a year

CUSTOM HOUSE POSITIONS

#1140 to #2700 a year

POSTMASTER

#1200 to #2500 a year and up

INTERNAL REVENUE POSITIONS

#1140 to #2700 a year

DEPARTMENTAL CLERK

#1140 to #1500 a year and up to #2700

rilShowYouHowtoGetlt

T have shown thousands how to secure these splendid,
attractive positions. Take your pick of them, decide
which one you want. I'll help you get it. It's easy
to pass the Civil Service examinations — if you KNOW
IK)\V. And that's my business. For eight years I
was a member and later Secretary of the Board of
Examiners for the Second Civil Service District. I
know just how to train you so you can be SURE to
pass your examinations with a high mark, and be sure
to qualify for the positions open.

Don't be satisfied with ordinary low-pay jobs that
get you nowhere, that start you olf in a rut and
keep you there. Work for Uncle Sam, the finest,
squarest, most dependable boss in the world. There's
a wonderful position waiting for you — a position that
pays from $1,903 to $2,700 a year to start, steady
work, easy hours, vacations with pay. and good oppor-
tunities for rapid advancement to better-paid positions.

STOP WORRYING ABOUT
THE FUTURE

Quit Worrying about your job
or your pay! You can earn from
$1,900 to $2,700 a year in a job
with Uncle Sam. Think of
NEVER WORRYING about where
the money's coming from for the
things you MUST HAVE! Get
rid of the bugaboos of hard
times, strikes, lock-outs, layoffs.

Hard times do not affect the
Government employee. In a Civil
Service job your pay comes regu-
larly all year 'round. You can
COUNT on exactly what you will
get. Increases are in position
and salary. If you are an aver-
age man, you don't get as much
as the average Government em-
ployee! They get $1000 to $2700
a year to start and they get it.

FREE WR1TE TODAY FOR MY
* 1VL,Ll FREE BOOK

"HOW TO SECURE A
GOV'T POSITION"

If you are an American, eighteen years old or more,
you are eligible to a Government Civil Service Posi-
tion, and I want you to have a copy of my splendid
book, telling how you can qualify in your own home
to become a Forest Ranger, Railway Postal Clerk, Post-
master, Customs Service Man. City Mail earner. Inter-
nal Revenue Positions. Panama Canal Clerk, or any
of the other positions which are fully described In
my book.

Send in the coupon today or just a postal card.
Find out now all about my money back agreement, and
just how I can help you to land a steady, good-paying
position with the U. S. Government. Mail the coupon
or postal today. Address

PATTERSON SCHOOL

A. R. Patterson, Civil Service Expert

u5 Wisner Building, Rochester, N. Y".

Patterson School.
35 Wisner Building, Rochester, N. Y.

Send me your big FREE BOOK and tell me how I
cau secure a position witli the U. S. Government.
This doesn't cost me a penny.

Name - - - Age..

Address

City State..

Put On Your Party Clothes!

Continued from page 31

natural and ^ charming, and she hasn't a Mrs. Abraham Lehr, Kathleen Clifford and

Mco Illitch, Mr. and Mrs. Cosmo Belew,
Ivan Lebedeff, Howard Hughes, Gwen Lee,
Grace Darmond — who used to star in Vita-

mannerism, bless her!

"These parties at the Breakfast Club
are just like home parties, aren't they?" graphs, you know— and ^her" wealthy hus-
demanded Patsy, as we entered the Dog band, R. P. Jennings; Mr. and Mrs Ned
House which is the little house, luxuriously Marin, Pauline Garon, Bess Meredith and
furnished, outside the big pavilion, where Michael Curtiz, and others.

Harold Lloyd had brought his wife, Mil-
dred David Lloyd, and Mildred had a lot

guests of a big party meet first, powder
their noses in the little Chinese dressing

rooms— I mean the girls do — and have tea of fun dancing' but Harold sWocf about
or ginger ale as they greet each other. talking, or sat in his place at table.

It was Bilhe Dove who was giving the Pauline Starke was there with Jack
party, her own home not being big enough White, her husband, and she said she was
to accommodate the crowds she had in- enjoying furnishing her Beverly Hills home;
vited, and presently the first arrivals had Pauline Garon had come with Paul Duncan,
to move on to the pavilion so that late and Ruth Roland was there with Ben Bard,
comers could find room. From those two last we received a real

Billie was looking exquisitely lovely, as surprise,
usual. She wore a white dress adorned "Because you know," whispered Patsy,
with sequins, and her hair ornament was "when people have been engaged so long,
a long spray of brilliants, which caught up somehow you never really expect them to
her^ growing hair at the nape of her neck, get married."

"Oh, there is Sharon Lynn! She's with The surprise was in the form of little
Paul Page, as usual," remarked Patsy. "I paper hearts, handed us, and announcing
hear that Paul is very serious over Sharon, that Ben and Ruth would be married on
but that she isn't serious at all herself. But Valentine's Day. A tiny girl dressed as
then, you never can tell about Sharon. I'm Cupid passed the announcements,
just sure that she will marry somebody that Various artists present entertained us
she has^ been engaged to about fifteen with songs, between the da nces, including
minutes. Ruth herself who sang beautifully for us,

Lovely little Lya de Putti entertained a and Nita Martan, who is a composer as
circle of men, as usual, but was a little well as a singer.

trist, because she has an accent and there- I forgot to say that Billie had tried her
fore feels that she cannot be in talking pic- best to be cosmopolitan and sophisticated
tures- by assigning us different dinner partners

Billie and Irvin Willat, Billie's husband, from those we came with. But I suppose
had brought a big crowd of guests with we are quite hopeless, because we found
them, including Tom Mix, Mary McAllister all the couples who had arrived together
and others. surreptitiously seeking each other out.

Bebe Daniels came with Ben Lyon, to We left very late, and as we passed out
whom she is engaged, and she had just of the big gate, we found Pauline Garon
got her ring then, so everybody was crowd- picking up a perfectly darling little black
ing about her, and Bebe was smiling and kitten without any tail. Pauline is the
blushing. warmest-hearted little lady in the world.

Rod LaRocque was there with Vilma "Oh, won't you take it home?" she en-
Banky, and there were dozens of others, treated Patsy. "You know I've got two
so that Patsy exclaimed when we entered dogs and they simply can't abide cats!"
the pavilion— . Just as we were trying to think what to

My gracious! You ve just got to have do> out of a side door t0 the Breakfast
a spy-glass to see this whole party! c,ub dashed a colored CQok in a high

The table favors were little wooden whit£ turban 1]ke those cooks always wear

horses with figures riding them, because
you see the Breakfast Club really is a
riding club, with the members dropping
in for breakfast after a canter.

"Dat's a manx cat!" he exclaimed. "And
what you doing with him, missy?" he in-
quired in agitation. "We sets great sto' by

dat cat, we does!" and without more ado
Victor Varcom said that the horses he grabbed it from paullne-s arms and
looked scared— Like a foreign actor trying dashed back intQ his kltchen

, ne,Iau,ghTe,d' , „ "So you would be a philanthropist!" we

What do you think I rri doing now? grinned at pauline.
demanded Charlie Paddock, the young

at^!^f' a "Well, we simply must see this thing

Oh, teaching the Arabian desert dwellers through." observed Patsy. "Here are our

how to ski, I suppose, drawled Grant invitations to Ruth's wedding, and we

Withers, who had just come m with Claire mustn-t miss it. It is going to take place

W indsor on his arm. m the Gojd Room at the Beverly Wilshire

"Wrong!" exclaimed the explosive and Hotel."

energetic Charlie. "I'm writing a book on We were there on the dot at eight

physical culture. It was ordered!" o'clock, and found the ushers looking just

"I'm trying to look surprised!" remarked too handsome in their evening clothes,

Claire. "But somehow it really doesn't standing about on one foot, wondering,

seem so astonishing to me that an athlete after the manner of ushers at all weddings,

should write a book on physical culture, why they were kept waiting. They included

I thought you were going to say a poem." Connie Keefe, Buddy Rogers, Jack White,

Charlie had arrived with Shirley Dor- Lloyd Hughes, James Hall, and Hal Roach,

man, to whom he is said to be rather Over a hundred guests were there, and

devoted these days. we caught sight of William Haines, who

Lila Lee was there with Johnny Farrow, brought Eleanor Boardman, since King
the writer, and there were Jackie Saunders, Vidor, her husband, was working; Rosa-
former cinema star, and her husband, J. belle Laemmle Bergerman and her husband;
Ward Cohen; Robert Vignola, Mr. and Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon; Victor Flem-

SCREENLAND

103

GENUINE

ing and Frances Marion — Miss Marion look-
ing pale and sad, and this being the first
time, apparently, she had been out since
her husband, Fred Thomson, passed away;
Myrna Kennedy, Hedda Hopper, Johnny
Hines, Lina Basquette and her husband,
Peverell Marley; Ben Turpin and his wife;
Charlie Chase and his wife; May McAvoy,
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Edwards, Virginia Valli,
Eddie Kline, Hugh Allan and his fiance
Catherine Hoffman, Claire Windsor, Gloria
Hope, Harold Lloyd and his wife, Doris
Arbuckle and Hal Battley.

After Hal has said that he was sure the
minister had gone up in his lines, it was
so late, Ruth finally appeared, following
her ushers and matrons of honor. She
paced down the long aisle alone, clad in
a white princess gown embroidered in pearls.
Her matrons of honor were Pauline Starke,
Gertrude Olmstead, Dorothy Phillips and
others. Ruth had said that she was nerv-
ous even being married in a picture when
there was a big wedding, and she felt sure
that she would trip over her long train or
something. But she didn't. Of course Ben
Bard looked handsome.

After the ceremony, we chatted a minute
with Gertrude Olmstead, and she said that,
for some unholy reason, one foot had hurt
her terribly during the ceremony, so that
she felt sure that she must be wearing a
pained expression, but we assured her that
she didn't.

Everybody stood about in groups or sat
down to talk, after the bridal party had
received good wishes, and a whole corps
of waiters handed us out cake and punch,
and every feminine guest received a tiny
box of wedding cake.

"Of course I'm going to dream on mine,"
remarked Patsy, "and I do hope that I
dream of Jimmy Hall or Connie Keefe!"

"Come on up! Come on up!" cried
Lupe Velez.

We went up— <up meaning to Lupe's
room, where she was dressing for dinner,
which was to be a quiet little affair, since
Lupe had been working late. That is, it
was to be as quiet an affair as Lupe was
capable of giving, Lupe never being very
quiet.

We had gone over with Jose Crespo,
the Spanish star, and we found that Gary
Cooper was expected, but he too was work-
ing late. So Jose was entertained by Lupe's
brother, Emilio, who is going into pictures,
too. He is a great horseman, though very
young and just out of school.

Lupe, clad in green silk pajamas, lingered
over her toilet, and showed us her beautiful
square-cut diamond in the ring on her
finger.

"See — it has a cross inside, if you look
closely," she explained. Sure enough there
was the cross.

"Had Gary given her the ring?" we
asked.

But she wouldn't tell us — just laughed
and explained, "Maybe I find heem in the
street!"

"We hear a rumor," I told her, "that
you and Gary already are married!"

"What — you think we are cookoo?" de-
manded Lupe airily.

"Flirt!" I said.

"You know what made me flirt?" in-
quired Lupe. "American pictures, that's
what! They show me how to vamp!"

Lupe, in her manana way, finally got her-
self into a dinner dress, but not until after
Gary had arrived and called to us that he
had to go back to the studio to work, and
would we please hurry.

We went to dinner in the pretty dining
room, using the beautiful Italian table and
chairs which Gary had given Lupe for a
Christmas present. Lupe and Gary sat at
opposite ends of the table, Lupe pretending
to weep as she said — -"This is the first time
we are separate at table!"

Before Gary left, Lupe rushed over and
kissed him, exclaiming gaily, "Now you
owe me ten cents for gasoline — five cents
for going, five cents for coming back!"

"How do you know that Gary is going
to work?" inquired Patsy.

"If I thought Gary had a date with
another girl," Lupe cried, "I'd follow him,
and ugh-h-h!" she exclaimed in mock fierce-
ness.

"He'd be very foolish if he did," said
Jose, "when he has so charming a fiancee."

"Ah, now I upstage Gary with that
what you say anytime he not nice to me,"
laughed Lupe.

Suddenly Jose, just for fun, called out
"Snake!" whereat Lupe and her brother
looked frightened and at once crossed their
fingers, tapping on the table.

"That's an awful word to say to Mexi-
cans," explained Lupe, when her color had
come back. "They very superstitious about
that word. He brings bad luck."

"I never have bad luck," answered Jose
airily, "and I have no superstitions."

"Rap on wood!" cried Lupe.

And Jose did, at once, whereat we had
the laugh on him.

Gary had gone, but the rest of us went
into the living room — it is papered in gold
and the firelight cast beautiful shadows on
the wall and ceiling — where Lupe turned on
the radio. Then she went into a whirling
dance on the velvet carpet.

Suddenly she paused close to Patsy and
touched her hand with her own finger. A
little flash was emitted, and Patsy shrieked.
Lupe had simply filled her body with elec-
tricity by dancing over the carpet, and her
hand gave forth the current.

When she tired of hearing our little
cries when we got a slight shock, she settled
down on a big sofa to tell us how her
mother had lived with her for a while, but
how mother was old-fashioned and very
strict, and couldn't bear the idea of her
daughter going about unchaperoned.

"Chaperones — I hate!" exclaimed Lupe.
"I slapped them!"

She told us how opposed her father had
been to her going on the stage down in
Mexico — how he wouldn't speak to her for
six months, and how, when her sister had
dared to bob her hair, he had shaved her
head!

"What a happy evening!" cried Patsy
and Jose in chorus, as the door closed
behind us after our visit, and we heard
Lupe calling over the telephone to Gary —
"Oh, darling, then I see you tomorrow!"

Screen land is the Modern Magazine of the Movies. It ta\es the
tal\ies apart and explains to you what ma\es them tic\! It tells you the
latest news about your favorite stars. Reading Screenland is as good
as a personally-conducted tour of Hollywood!

ffoo

BALANCE
*ASY
TtRMS

HERE'S your
chance to own
that genuine Model 3
Corona you've wanted —
on the easiest terms ever
offered — at LOWEST
PRICE ever offered! Com-
plete in every detail; back
mm " spacer, etc., NEW MA-
CHINE GUARANTEE. Recognized the world
over as the finest, strongest, sturdiest, portable
built. Only a limited number of these splendid
machines available. To get one, you must
act now!

Yours for 10 Days FREE—
Send No Money

Experience the joy this personal writing portable
typewriter can give you! Use it 10 days free! See
how easy it is to run and the splendidly typed let-
ters it turns out. Ideal for the office desk, home,
traveling. Small, compact, light, convenient.
Don't send out letters, reports, bills in poor
handwriting when you can have this Corona at
such a low price or on such easy terms.

Carrying Case Included
—If You Act Now

Leatheroid carrying case, oiler. Instructions free on
this offer. Send no money— just the coupon. Without
delay or red tape we will send you the Corona. Try it
10 days. If you decide to keep it, send us only $2— then
J3 a month until our special price of $39.90 Is paid.
Now Is the time to buy. This offer may never be
repeated. Mail coupon now.

MONEY SAVED

By Using This Coupon

Smith Typewriter Sales Corp*

{Corona Division]
469 E« Ohio StM Chicago, Dept« 125

Ship me the Corona, F. O. B. Chicago. On arrival I'll deposit $2 "
with expresa agent. If I keep machine, I'll send you $3 a month ■
□ntilthe $37.90 balance of $39. 90 price is paid; the title to remain m
with you until then. I am to have 10 days to try the typewriter. If _.
I decide not to keep It, I will repack and return to express agent. I!
wbo will return IB? 52* Ttou ars tuaive your standard guareDtct. g

Name _

Addrese .

Employed by-

^ ami

■
■
■
I

Cleared Up — often in 24 hours. Pimples,
Blackheads, Acne Eruptions on the Face o?

Body. Barbers Itch. Eczema. Enlarged Pores. Oily
r Shiny Skin. "CLEAR-TONE" has been tried and
tested in over 300,000 cases. Used like toilet water.
Is simply magical in prompt results. At All Drug-
gists— with Proven Directions. You can rely on
"C LEA 11 - TON E" for Skin and Complexion.
Mfgd. by GIVENS CHEMICAL CO.. Kansas City. Mo.

3fi Days' Free Trial .5|

^tsw'^^ New Models now ready for delivery »si
direct from our factory. Astonishing low prices-
and terms. .'Do not buy until you get them.
RIDER AGENTS WANTED to ride and exhibit
sample. Make big money. Many models $21. 50up.

TI„A* Guaranteed $1.50 each, wheels,
*rV3 lamps, horns, equipment at half
usual prices. Send No Money. Write for

Meacl

our marvelous prices and
termson RANGER Bicycles.

CYCLE CO.

Dept.
F243

CHICAGO

104 SCREENLAND

Have You These
Symptoms of

NERVE

Exhaustion?

Do you get excited easily?
Do you become fatigued

after slight exertion?
Are your hands and feet

cold?

Do you suffer from consti-
pation or stomach trouble?

Is your sleep disturbed by
troubled dreams?

Have you spells of irrita-
bility?

Are you often gloomy and pessimistic?
Do you suffer from heart palpitation, cold
sweats, ringing in the ears, dizzy spells?

These are only a few of the signs of weak, un-
healthy nerves that are steadily robbing thou-
sands of people of their youth and health.

What Causes Sick Nerves?

WOMFN In women tllis 's largely due to
overactive emotions, and to the
constant turmoil in their domestic and marital
relations.

]MI7]M In men, these signs of nerve exhaus-
lrlCill tioll are produced as a result of
worries, intense concentration, excesses and
vices. The mad pace at which we are traveling
is wrecking the entire Nervous Organization.

How to Strengthen Your Nerves

No tonic or magic system of exercise can ever
restore the health and vigor to weak, sick, un-
balanced nerves. To regenerate lost nerve force,
to build up strong, sound nerves, requires an
understanding of the action and abuses of
nerves. It needs a knowledge of the natural
laws of nerve fatigue, of mental and physical
relaxation and nerve metabolism. And it is only
through the application of these laws that stub-
born cases of Nerve Exhaustion can be overcome.

Read This Wonder Book

Based upon many years of intensive experience
and study, the famous author, Richard Black-
stone, has written a remarkable book, entitled
"New Nerves for Old." In plain language he
gives certain easy-to-follow rules that have
enabled thousands of men and women to regain
their lost nervous energy and to acquire glowing
health and youthful vitality. It enables you to
correctly diagnose your own case and shows
you how to bring back your lost nervous vitality.

"New Nerves for Old" is worth its weight in
gold — and yet its cost is only 25c, stamps or
coin. The book will prove a revelation to you.
It will help you throughout your entire life ; it
will help you to build for yourself a solid foun-
dation for your future success and happiness.
Mail coupon for your copy today. Address
Richard Blackstone, N-405 Flatiron Building,
New York.

Richard Blackstone,

N-405 Flatiron Building, New York City.

Please send me a copy of your book "New

Nerves for Old.'
or stamps.

I am enclosing 25c in coin

Name

Address —
City _.

State..

On Location — With Sound

Continued fro??? page 43

the size of a medium-sized pumpkin. These all she can do to amuse herself, is to have

hold the sound as it is struck from the top have men make love to her, because her

Strip of metal. husband is too busy to give her the at-

Clive told us that he expected to leave tention she craves."

for London at the end of this picture. When Backy came to sit with me a few

He has not been there for four years and minutes between scenes, I said to her, "I

he inquired about the weather conditions hear that you are a very wicked lady in

crossing the Atlantic. He remembered a this picture." She looked at me in hurt

trip across the English Channel which took surprise.

six hours, instead of the usual two and a "Not week-ed!" she said. "Why? Just

half. It was during the war and he had because I love men and they love me, I

been given charge of the transportation of week-ed? My husband he no want me. I

forty mules. They were all sick — and so all alone. I must have some fun. What

was Clive! A picture of the aristocratic for an idea is it in this country that womans

Clive acting as nursemaid to forty sea-sick is weeked because she love and is loved?"

mules, was too much for my risibles and "But this boy kills himself because of

we both shrieked with laughter. Since you!"

then Mr. Brook said the sea had lost its "Can I help," she said, "If he is so

charm for him and if he didn't want to silly?"

see the old home town so badly he never Someone was throwing bits of broken

would cross the Atlantic again. He can bottles into the pond nearby,

only be gone six weeks and Paramount "Hey, cut that out!" cried Russell

feels that they are doing him a great favor Mathews, the assistant director. "Someone

by granting him that, which of course w;n walk in there and wreck their gum

they are, because Clive is one of their boots if you fill it up with broken glass."

most popular actors, and incidentally he
is about the most modest person on earth.

Backy was all upset about an item in
one of the local papers that had stated

He can't see why anyone would want to her to be a temperamental star. Accord

know anything about himself personally.

"I am not at all interesting," he said.
"I have no color. I don't race horses; I
have no extensive farms, no boats — I have
merely a comfortable home and a wife and

ing to the story she had walked off the

set.

"What for they print such an ar-teekle
about me?" she asked. "I never saw the
womans what wrote it. I walk off the set

kiddies whom I dearly love. No story because the director told me to. I was

there that I can see!" ;n ancj he changed the work so that I

I didn't tell him that he is termed one didn't have to be in those scenes. He told

of the most magnetic men in pictures, and me to go home and rest and I did. I

that for several years I have heard the fans am not temperamental. I work all the

rave about him. As one of them told me, time and not afraid of hard work." This

"Clive Brook is the sort of person who is true.

I asked her whether she had been in
Russia during the revolution. She said

physically and morally." To him she would that she had been. "But they like arteests

go, she said, with all her troubles, knowing and we were very well treated. I was

that his wisdom and justice would solve there during the war, too. Was very well

all — which is an order no human being treated. The arteests got some boxes sent

could possibly live up to. However, that over by Hoover. In each box some sugar,

is what women think of Clive and his very some lard, some beans and some canned

reticence and modesty make his attraction milk. On these they lived for several days.

would call for the most feminine qualities
of woman. He must be strong mentally,

the stronger.

During the Bolshevik uprising the Bolshe-

Neil Hamilton didn't have to work that viks sent out boxes like that. I got one
night, but the next night he and Baclanova every once in while. They like to be
stepped through the torrid love scenes of amused so they take good care of the
the picture. 'Backy,' as she is called, arteests. One time we were told that
was beautifully draped in a batik shawl someone was going to shoot my father,
which served as an evening dress and an- We were all going to stay with him be-
other shawl which she used to enhance the cause no one believed, but my little sister
beauty of her arms and grace of her body, was there and so my father made me take
The American girls can certainly learn from her to a relative's house. Before we go,
the foreign women, in the art of fascina- my mother bless us and my father bless
tion. The way Baclanova managed that us and I walk out with my crucifix held
shawl during the time she was endeavoring before me in my hand, my sister by my
to entice her husband's brother from the side. We could hear shooting all around
path of virtue, was a point in technique us. I was not a bit afraid. We got to
no flapper should be without. 'Backy's' the house and no harm at all and no one

golden hair was curled in little ringlets
about her head and over her left ear was
a spray of maidenhair fern and one orchid,
which drooped as the scene went on. Dur-
ing a rest she re-enforced her make-up and

kill my father, either. I never afraid in
big things, but if someone ask me to stay-
alone in apartment at night, I very much
afraid. Sure I am!"

"All right, Backy," called Roland V.

noticed the flower. "Where ees another Lee ,the director. "Step into this, now."
or'keed?" she called. The property boy The scene was where Baclanova and
ran to a table where about twenty little Neil Hamilton, playing the adored young
sprays of orchids and maidenhair ferns brother of Clive Brook, have stepped out
were being kept fresh for these changes— a moment frorn the festivities of the eve-
all made exactly alike. ning, to the moist and throbbing dense
I asked John Engstead, publicity man blackness of the jungle. By the camp fires,
for the unit, what a Russian was doing in the natives were going through the maizes
Africa. He said, "Well, she married this of the mating dance, which means, in plain
Englishman, whose job was in Africa, and — English, that the young maidens of the
you know how people travel around! So village do their darndest to vamp the men,

SCREENLAND

105

to the sensuous music of the marimba.
Even the earth throbs with it and Neil
Hamilton, new to jungle atmosphere, the
exotic and beautiful wife of his brother
turning his blood to fire, has a very difficult
time to control his emotion, which is just
what the siren does not want him to do.
Working on his sympathy for her loneli-
ness, she puts him to a severe test.

"Now, Backy," said Mr. Lee, "Tear
right into it. If you feel like reaching
up and dragging down the tree top, do it."

"Okay. I do!" said Backy.

I asked Gerald Grove about some of the
customs of Africa. He was there during
and after the war and knows a great deal
about it. I asked him how people travel
in Africa and he said mostly on foot, un-
less illness required them to be carried in
a machilla, which is a hammock slung on
two poles and carried by natives. The
machilla has a movable awning over it so
that as the sun rotates, the awning can be
switched to cover the face and body of
the occupant. Sometimes four natives at-
tend a person carried in this way and they
change places at short intervals. They
shuffle along on a sort of a dog trot and
when they are tired, the other two slip in
their places so quickly that the occupant
will not notice the change. In this way
they travel very rapidly. The reason for
this is that there are very few animals that
can be used for transportation because of
the tsetse fly.

Again the business of Backy's orchid
held up production. It slipped from her
hair. Lee sent for another. The boy
who had charge of them was off on an
errand to another part of the set. The
lights were set, they were ready to go and
Lee .said, "I wonder if it would show in
this particular scene if we played it without
the flower."

"No show," said Backy.

The perversity of human nature can be
seen in Mr. Lee's reply. He had been
flirting with the idea of playing the scene
without the flower, but at Backy's remark
he was all against it. "How do you know?"
said he. "You can't see the back of your
head!"

"I feel," said Backy.

The flower was replaced. There was
some question about its position. "That
is not right," said Mr. Lee, "You've got
the beard in front." He meant the maiden-
hair fern. "How did Backy have her
orchid, Dorothy?" he asked Dorothy Cairns,
his script clerk.

"The flower was in front and the fern
toward the back of her neck," replied Dor-
othy, which is just an illustration of how
careful a script clerk must be. Even the
position of a shawl is important, and its
various changes during a scene. These
items are noted in a book so that if a
scene is cut off in the middle for some
reason or other, it can be taken up from the
very same point without disturbing the
action. The script clerk must even watch
whether a man's vest is buttoned or un-
buttoned: whether the flap of his coat
pocket is in its place or has been pushed
inside the pockets. In fact, nothing must
escape her eye. She must be a hound for
detail.

"Do we eat after this one?" said Neil
Hamilton, hopefully.

"No, one more rehearsal," said Backy,
"for that other scene."

"But we have been over that twenty
times," said Neil. "I never saw such a
woman for rehearsal, in my whole life. I
I could do it in my sleep."

After that scene a still was taken. "Come

FREE PROOF THAT

WAISTLINE FAT

Can Be Quickly Reduced

— without drugs, diets or exercises

HOW many times liave you made up your
mind to reduce ? How many times have
you said to yourself: "I'm going on a diet"
or "I'm going to start exercising" ?

For a whole week you may have struggled
through gymnastics and starved yourself. You
rolled around the floor, cut out desserts and
starchy foods. And at the end of the week
you found that you had lost only 2 pounds 1
A good diet strictly lived up to, and a course
of exercises rigidly followed, -will undoubtedly
help you reduce waistline fat. But from your
own experience you know how slow and un-
pleasant these methods are.

Look Thinner at Once

Instead of wasting your time — instead of
risking your health by weakening diets, exhaust-
ing exercises and pill-taking in an effort to get
rid of bulging waistline fat — try the popular
Weil Reducing Belt for 10 days — at our expense.

Made of scientifically treated rubber, it fits
snugly to the body — and every move produces
an unconscious massage which moulds away the
flabby flesh. It not only makes you look thinner
at once, but keeps you so — permanently. Every
instant of the day this famous Weil Reducing
Belt is at work slenderizing your figure.

10 Days' Free Trial

So you may see for yourself the remarkable
reducing powers of the Weil Belt, we have
arranged a plan by which you can test it for
10 days — at our risk.

Just write to us and you will receive our
Special 10-Day Free Trial Offer. We will in-
clude a detailed description of this guaranteed
reducing method, the principles of which are
highly endorsed by physicians and professional
athletes everywhere. For the sake of your
health and appearance take advantage of this
unique offer at once. Send no money. Write
now! The Weil Company, 395 Hill Street,
New Haven, Conn.

THE WEIL COMPANY,

395 Hill Street. New Haven. Conn.

Gentlemen: Please send me complete description
of The Weil Scientific Reducing Belt and also
your Special 10-Day Trial Offer. There is no
obligation, of course.

Name

Address

City State..

PREPARE FOR AN

■—thru the only art school operated
as a department of a large art or-
ganization, who have actually pro-
duced over a quarter million draw-
ings for leading advertisers. Where
else can you get so wide an experi-
ence? Home study instruction.
Write for illustrated book telling of
our successful students.

MEYER BOTH COMPANY

Michigan Ave. at 20th St. Dept. 7f>Chicago, 111.

BUNIONS

OBBECT
your NOSE

to perfect shape while
you sleep. Anita Nose
Adjuster guarantees
SAFE, rapid, perman-
ent results. Age doesn't
matter. Painless. 60,000
doctors, users praise it.
Gold Medal Winner.
BOOKLET FREE
Write for it TODAY
ANITA INSTITUTE, E-69, Anita Bldg., Newark. N. J.

Day
FREE
TRIAL

GONE
IN 15
DAYS

T end bunions with my new Pedodyne Solvent treatment,
i Pain Btops almost inBtantly. Actual reduction of the en-
larged growth starts so fast that your next pair of shoes
may be a size smaller — often two sizes smaller. It's per-
fectly marvelous, and you can prove It by actual test.

TRY IT AT MY RISK

Just Bend your name and address bo that we can arrange
for you to try Pedodyne on your own bunion and prova
the quick, sure amazing results. No obligations. Address

KAY LABORATORIES, Dept. H IS
180 North Waeker Drive Chicago. Illinois

RE JIN ARTIST

j&JS WE CAN TEACH
YOU DRAWING in
your own home during your
epare time,. Thirty-five years of
successful teaching proves our ability.
Artists receive large salaries.

Write twfay for Art Year Book

ScHGM^AppliEDAKr

Boom 3 BAjUECMCXMICH,

106 SCREENLAND

See the Movie!

Read the Book!

Your favorite moving picture in
novel form— for $1.00

Just recall the ten best moving pictures you have either seen or
expect to see. Nine chances out of ten you will find that a famous
novel supplied the title, plot, action and characters of each one of
them. A moving picture, fascinating as it is, supplies a passing
pleasure. The book from which it came is yours to keep — to give
you new delight every time you read it. Any of the books listed
below can be obtained from SCREENLAND Book Dept.

Order any one for $1.00 or 6 for $5.00

/NTEIFERENCE

¥ ^

m HOUND PEHTWEE
.. ■*-> . ^ •'.

CSS

Our Dancing Daughters
Mother Knows Best
White Shadows in the South Seas
The Fleet's In

(Clara Bow edition)

Lilac Time
Beggars of Life
The Singing Fool
Revenge
Interference
The Divine Lady
Me Gangster
Dry Martini
The Barker

The Grip of the Yukon

(Yukon Trail)

Wings

Sorrell and Son

Four Sons

The King of Kings

The Canary Murder Case

The River

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Abie's Irish Rose

The Legion of the Condemned

Noah's Ark

Four Devils

The Patent Leather Kid

Seventh Heaven

The Rescue

On Trial

The Trail of '98

Dracula

Beau Geste

Beau Sabreur

Redskin

Glorious Betsy

WHITE SHADOWS

IN THE SOUTH 1IAI

LiivVC TIME

NOVEIIIED BY CMCfOWltR

ivy"

SCREENLAND MAGAZINE (Dept. 5-29)
49 West 45th Street, New York City.

I enclose $ for wliich please send me.

Name..

Address.

on now, a little hot stuff with the back,"
said the still man to Baclanova. Everybody
laughed.

"He doesn't say much, but when he docs
chirp up, he certainly says it right out,"
said Mr. Lee. You would like Roland
Lee — his humor is very amusing.

The still was taken with Baclanova in
Neil Hamilton's arms and her back to the
camera.

"What are those things?" I asked, indi'
eating a steel contraption with a fifteen-
foot metal arm reaching out into the mid'
die of the set, from the end of which hung
the microphone.

"Those are 'mike booms'," said Gerald
Grove. "We call them booms. They are
adjustable — can be moved all around."

From the porch of the Commissioner's
house there were long narrow boards at-
tached on swinging pivots from the roof,
manipulated by native boys who pulled on
a string, which made the boards swing back
and forth, causing circulation of air. These
were called ru-nkjaa. The boys in the tropics
often fall asleep on this job, but continue
at it just the same. It has become to them
as mechanical as breathing.

A word of well-deserved praise might be
given the technical man, Gerald Grove, at
this time. Some of the trees were real,
transplanted in a foot of earth that covered
the whole stage. The giant trees, with
trunks four or five feet in diameter, were
made on a wire frame covered with 'dobe
plaster and carved in such a way that the
bark looked absolutely natural, even at the
distance of two feet. The thatched roofs
and the Commissioner's house looked aged
and the edge of the pond was muddy and
covered with scum in some places. The
water itself was shallow, possibly two feet
deep, but the reflection was as clear as
a mirror, of the trees and fern bordering
it. You would never believe that you
weren't actually stepping on a bit of Afri-
can soil, after you passed the door of the
stage.

Backy's shawl kept winding about her
feet. She knew how to manage this, but
everyone else expected her to fall flat on
her face. "Now, Backy," said Mr. Lee,
"don't trip, or stumble, or fall, because we
can't use that in the picture and after
this shot we eat."

On the way from her dressing-room to
the studio commissary, Backy said how
much she liked American women. "I have
learned to save since I have been in
America. In my country everything is done
from the heart. It seems to me, out here
the women do not pay so much attention
to love. I do not understand that yet.
I am engaged to be married to Nicholas
Soussanin. He want to know everything
I do." As a matter of fact, she had tele-
phoned him just before we left the dressing-
room and I am quite sure had brought him
up to date on the happenings of the eve-
ning. "I tell him everything. He tell me
everything. That is the way to keep inter-
ested in each other."

For the midnight meal, there wasn't such
a variety of food. We had steak, carrots
and peas, coffee and pie. As we were
eating, "The Wild Party" outfit trouped in
— Clara Bow with a fur coat bundled
around her, and Dorothy Arzner, the
director, in the smart sport clothes she
always wears.

The mechanical side of a sound pic-
ture is rather bewildering. There are two
script clerks, instead of one. The first script
clerk matches the action with the script,
watches the costumes and the business The
assistant script clerk records the dialogue
only. As she cannot lift her eyes from her

SCREENLAND

107

tablet, the action and other detail must be
taken by someone else. The first script
clerk times the scene with a stop watch.

For the next night the scene had to be
changed a little and some of the vegeta-
tion moved.

"Take that shrubbery for a walk, Al —
get it out of camera range," said Russell
Mathews.

"Do you want me for this scene?" said
Clyde Cook, who plays Clive Brook's valet.

"No, you go and catch up with some of
your beauty sleep," said Mr. Lee. Where-
upon Clyde picked himself a soft davenport
on another part of the set and promptly
obeyed. You can bank on Clyde for some
rare comedy relief in "The Woman Who
Needed Killing."

I remembered a story told me about the
early days of pictures, by Andrew J. Calla-
han, who was an executive of the old Selig
Company. The scene was at the grave of
the heroine's mother. They were on loca-
tion and had forgotten to supply flowers.
The director called the property boy and
told him to get some. The property boy
hopped a barbed wire fence about fifty
yards away, collected flowers off a real
grave in a cemetery and came back with
them, saying that they ought to have
authentic atmosphere. The property boy
was Clyde Cook. Andrews Callahan said
then that Clyde Cook would be one of
the comedians of the screen before he
finished, because his humor is natural.

The scene was a very difficult one to
handle. It was where Neil Hamilton has
just written his brother, Clive Brook, that
he will join him in the jungle and Clive
has sent for his wife to try to make her
understand that his brother is very young,
very unsophisticated and will be very much
shocked when he learns of the estrangement
between them. He wants to have it appear
that they are still friends. This is agree-
able to Baclanova, who has been desperately
looking for an opening to reinstate herself
in her husband's affections — not because she

loves him, but because she must have love
from someone.

"Now, let's step on this," said Mr. Lee,
"And if you are a good girl, Backy, we
can all see the rushes. If you are not —
not a rush do you see this night."

Because this was the important scene,
for half an hour they worked to get into
the spirit and inside the characters they
were portraying.

"All right," said Mr. Lee. "That's
great. Turn them over." Meaning, get
the cameras ready.

"Are your mikes all right, Paggi?" he
asked.

N. M. Paggi is the unit mixer. He
places the mikes. The control room is on
the next stage. Everything being set, Mr.
Lee called, "Quiet!" There was a droning
sound from a motor which gave the signal
for the red light to be flashed outside the
stage and the flagman to stop all traffic.
After an impressive silence of about one
minute, Mr. Lee called, "Action!" and the
scene began. Onlookers almost hold their
breath on a sound stage. You daren't move
a muscle, because even changing weight
from one foot to the other, might cause a
board to creak or some unexpected sound,
so the silence is profound.

"The most difficult thing is the voice,"
said Clive Brook afterwards. "The mechan-
ism is not advanced enough to permit an
actor to use the gradations of his voice,
which is the only thing that makes the
voice attractive. On our sound pictures
you must speak either high or low, but it
must be on an even key. Of course, they
will get all this adjusted finally and I
think sound pictures are tremendously
interesting, but just now they are difficult
to handle."

After this scene, the company trouped off
to see the rushes and I went home, having
remained with them the night before
through all the action, which landed me
on my door mat at five-thirty in the morn-
ing! Such is life in the talking pictures!

What the Woman of the World Should Wear

Continued from page 55

it is quite all right to turn that dictum
about and say that clothes were made for
them. They bring a quality of reality to
the most artificial of clothes.

They are the style extremists. They han-
dle the dramatic and spectacular with the
ease of a gingham wrapper.

Jewels, head-dresses, feathers, trains,
flowers, perfumes, exaggerations and extrav-
agance— all these belong to them.

When I designed Miss Pringle's ward-
robe for "The Dream of Love," a story of
continental courts, royalty, pronounced sets
and manners, but a story of the present
day, I used, with a lavish hand, all this
wealth of material and imagination and I
created a wardrobe, bizarre in effect, bar-
baric almost, but perfect for the artistic
rareness of the Pringle. It is a wardrobe
that scintillates. She wears it with grace
and dignity. Those costumes were the
darlings of my career. I loved doing
them. It is true they could not be worn
in every setting but the Pringle type nat-
urally attracts its correct setting.

I said that jewels belonged to this type.
That is quite true. They may wear all
jewelry. Diamonds are particularly good
and they may dare the large ones and many
of them. Feather fans, large and brilliant,
are at place in their hands; and head-dress
and coronets in order, many bracelets, sev-

eral-strand necklaces.

Tailored clothes should be strictly tail-
ored, softened by no frilly touches. Fur
trimming may be utilized with a lavish
hand on either gown or wrap. Their attire
may be either enveloping or revealing, but
it should not be a mixture of the two.

Vivid colors are theirs, but they should
be confined more to evening and formal
wear than to the daytime "hours. Two
things they must avoid are demureness and
cuteness. Therefore, the Pringle type does
not adopt the extremely short skirt and
one thing you will remember if you have
noticed Miss Pringle's pictures are that her
skirts,^ during this era of 'freedom of the
knees,' have always been longer than the
average fashion. Pastel shades belong to
the ingenues; therefore, she avoids them.
Her daytime dress should be of soft mate-
rials that can fall easily in many folded
drapes — the various silk crepes, soft wool-
ens, georgettes and chiffons. While avoid-
ing the pastel colors and the strident tones,
they should be definitely of a shade, some
vital, living shade — restful, harmonizing
with the colors of the out-of-doors, or more
exotic if the setting is to be an interior.

Miss Pringle has developed her own hair-
dress. When the bob came in, she created
one as distinct as it was unusual and it
became famous under the name of the

RUPTUftE

Throws Away
Truss !

Eleven years ago Mr. T. M.
Cannon was ruptured very badly.
He tried one type of truss after
another — all with disappointing
results. Finally he heard about
the New Science system that
does away with steel springs,
leg straps and hard cushions.
He learned about Magic Dot —
the tiny device weighing less
than a feather — that held rup-
ture without pressure. He ex-
amined a free sample of Airtex
— the astonishing flesh-soft pad
that yields with every move-
ment of the body. TODAY —
he works 14 hours a day as a
barber . . . and teaches box-
ing and wrestling on the side.

Will you accept the same op-
portunity that has ended the
pain and discomfort for thou-
sands like Mr. Cannon? Simply
send your name and address
for full details and free sample
of Airtex. No obligation what-
soever. Mail to

NEW SCIENCE INSTITUTE

3760 Clay Street Steubenville, Ohio

THE

Doorway of Hospitality

><NTER the doorway of
this popular hostelry and you feel at home.
There's an atmosphere of cordial welcome
which marks the difference between the
Hollywood Plaza and ordinary hotels.

Your room, too, has that added touch
of distinction. Pictures on the wall, over-
stuffed furniture, a floor lamp and reading
lamp . . . these are but a few of the features
that make you feel at home.

Pig'n Whistle Dining Service insures the
best of food. Therefore, when you are next
in Los Angeles be sure to investigate.

THE HOLLYWOOD

PLAZA
HOTEL

Vine Street at Hollywood Boulevard
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

108

SCREENLAND

OPPORTUNITIES

Rate 20c a Word — Forms Close 10th — Two Months Preceding Issue

MALE HELP WANTED

POR SALE

Fireman, Brakemen, Baggagemen (white or
colored), Sleeping Car, Train Porters (col-
ored), $150 — $250 monthly. Experience un-
necessary. 923 Railway Bureau, East St.
Louis, 111.

SOUTH AMERICA WORK I American firms
pay fare, expenses if accepted. Opportunities I
Tropical Service Bureau, 14606 Alma, Detroit,
Michigan,

BEAUTIFUL ALL WHITE POLICE PUPS
for sale. Arthur Anson, Mosc, No. Dak.

ART PICTURES — 220 WONDERFUL PIC-
TURES. All Different. 160 Samples $1.00.
Particulars 10c. Howard Sales Co., Dept. 4,
Box 529, San Francisco, Cal.

ANTIQUE FIREARMS. Send for List. Dexter
— 910 Jefferson, Topeka, Kansas.

FEMALE HELP WANTED

HOMEWORK: Women Wanting obtain reliable
kinds. Write for information. Enclose stamp.
Eller Co., Z-296 Broadway, New York.

AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS— $50. WEEKLY SELLING SHIRTS.

No capital or experience needed. Commissions
in advance. Samples Free. Madison Products,
564 Broadway, New York.

STRANGE BATTERY COMPOUND charges
batteries instantly. Gives new life and pep.
Immense demand. Big Profits. Lightning Co.,
St. Paul, Minn.

DETECTIVES

BE A DETECTIVE — Excellent paying work.
Write NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 169
East 83rd Street, New York.

SONG AND POEM WRITERS

SONG POEM WRITERS. Write for booklet.

Valuable service given. Ernest Shonfield,
2236 Olive Ave., Pasadena, Calif.

SONG POEM WRITERS: "Real" proposition.
Hibbeler, D14, 2104 N. Keystone, Chicago.

SONG POEM WRITERS. Address, Monarch,
236 West 55th St., Dept. 386, New York.

GOOD SONGPOEMS wanted at once. Address
Manganella, 4695 Hollwood Blvd., Holly-
wood, Calif.

SONG POEMS arranged for publication. Sub-
mit poems. Brennen, Song Specialist, N1652
B'way, N. Y.

WRITERS

MANUSCRIPTS WANTED. Stories, Articles,
Poems. Write for particulars. Sachs, 2533
Park Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

$1250 FOR ORIGINAL PHOTOPLAY STORY.

Our sales department sold unknown author's
first story for above amount. We revise, copy-
right and market stories for both silent and
talking pictures. Located in the heart of mo-
tion picture industry. We know the demand.
Established 1917. Free Booklet. UNIVERSAL
SCENARIO COMPANY, 204 Western & Santa
Monica Bldg., Hollywood, Calif.

CHALK TALKS

LAUGH Producing Program, $1.00. Catalog 10c.
Balda Art Service, Dept. M, Oshkosh, Wis.

DANCING

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sadler's

DANCING ACADEMY

Individual instruction in social and modern dancins
from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. — Classes every evening
Booklet on request Phone Academy 1581

"Dance Descriptions by Mail"
2726 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY

ART — PHOTOS 4 - $1.00. SCR - GPO, Bx471,

N. Y.

"GIRL PICTURES"

Art pictures and Bathing beauties 25 cents
(coin). Money refunded if dissatisfied.
Photo Sales Co., 15 East Ohio, Chicago, 111.

INTEREST TO WOMEN

BEST HEMSTITCHING AND PICOTING
ATTACHMENT. Guaranteed. Fits any sew-
ing machine. 60c prepaid. Circulars free.
Best Hemstitching Co., D-40, Drawer Q, Chicago.

HEMSTITCHING and Picoting Attachment.

Guaranteed. Fits any sewing machine. The
old reliable. 60c prepaid or sent C. O. D.
Circulars free. LaFlesh Hemstitching Co.,
Dept. 45, Sedalia, Mo.

EYEBROW BEAUTIFIER

MASCARILLO makes beautiful eyebrows and
eyelashes. A harmless preparation for re-
touching and beautifying. NOT A DYE. Made
in 9 shades. Price $1. Sample 10c. Charles
M. Meyer, 11 East 12th St., New York.

SCREENLAND'S

Book Dept.

Offers You
The Latest Novels

Which Have Been

Pictureized

Also the Latest

of Mystery Stories

See Pages 106 & 112
Of This Issue

'Pringle Bob." It was extremely short in
the back and long on the sides allowing
a variety of coiffures, and she always has
several, one for the evening, one for sports
and several for the street. With small
tailored hats, her hair is drawn well up
over the ears and the nape of the neck, so
it will not show underneath the brim line.
For sports it is allowed to be loose, being
held only by a colored scarf or ribbon.
With evening gowns she wears her hair
soft and fluffy with curls at the back, an
arrangement that is large enough and com-
plicated enough to carry a head-dress; or,
if the head-dress is all enveloping, not a
strand of her hair shows.

Her negligees may be either tailored or
exotic, but always accented. If they are
tailored, by means of color; if exotic, by
trimming.

Her evening clothes may be period; they
may even border on the theatrical. As she
carries her head high and has a most ex-
pressive, mobile face and unusual coloring
— her hair is a rich glossy, chestnut brown
and her eyes a deep-sea green — it is well
to call attention to an intriguing frame for
that face. This is done by odd treatments
of the neckline. While a plain round or
square neckline would do, it would be so
much better if it were stressed by an un-
usual line or arrangement of trimming or
drape.

This type carries the billowed swaying
skirt with particularly good results. That
is why it is well to employ long, sweeping
fringes, lace flounces, feather drapes, trains,
dangling girdles and the like, and unex-
pected fullness in the skirts.

If you are like Miss Pringle, you are
in a most difficult situation, because if you
do not move in the ultra-smart circles of
the world, you should be in the movies
or on the stage! You should do all the
things, in a clothes way, that you can't
possibly do otherwise. There is no gown
that you cannot manage, no fad is too ultra.
It takes extreme cleverness to handle such
a wardrobe, but Miss Pringle is clever.
Her mind works at the rate of a mile a
minute; and her work, life and manner
gracefully suit her tendency to be the strik-
ing person that she is.

She believes in hitting you between the
eyes with a striking costume. Her dress
is the one to make you gasp. She welcomes
the newest flare; yet, as I have said, she
does not follow the fashions, she creates
her own.

I do not advise the average woman to
try to copy Miss Pringle, but if they want
to get a thrill I do advise them to see her
for she always stages a very spectacular
show.

C[ Anita Page and Charles King in a
scene from "Broadway Melody."

SCREENLAND

109

The Loves and Hates of Carmel Myers

Continued from page 56

She has extravagant streaks of clothes
buying, but confined to one article. De-
termined last winter to replenish her supply
of afternoon gowns she bought instead two
fur coats — a Russian ermine and a sable
iiink. Two more shopping trips for dresses
resulted in bills for a black seal and an
antelope coat and no dresses yet.

A tomboy during grammar school days
she often was the fox in the old game of
'fox and hounds.' She still leaves a trail
behind her wherever she goes — gloves and
handkerchiefs.

She reads stretched out on the floor,
with a black velvet cushion under her
elbow.

She sleeps on her back, without a pillow.

Her bedroom window-hangings are black.
A single ray of light wakens her.

She never talks over the phone in the
morning.

Cheerfulness before breakfast annoys her.

She goes barefoot whenever she can.

She writes few letters, and those briefly.

Her telephone is usually accidentally
disconnected when a conversation grows
long.

Like most temperamental women, she
likes to cry. But she never goes to a play
or picture which will bring the tears, for
the strain of weeping enervates her for
days.

The one characteristic of which she
boasts is her sense of intuition. She relies
on it to solve innumerable problems brought
to her by women friends.

When she is working she has a cup of
coffee every hour, regularly.

Fresh caviar is as stimulating to her as
champagne.

Mangoes are her favorite fruit. A friend
sends them from a Mexican ranch by
nonthly steamer.

She makes admirable tea and an abomi-
lable cocktail.

Brown is her favorite color; tiger lilies
her favorite flower.

She has one of the largest collections
of perfumes in Hollywood. Dressed for
the studio stage she uses heavy scents and
in private life the simple ones.

She pronounced her name like the con-
fection until too many of her Hollywood

friends changed the accent to the last
syllable. Then she fell in line.

She makes a poor hand at bridge but
an exceptional one at chess.

She has a sizeable collection of modern
first editions autographed to her by their
authors.

She plays a great deal of tennis.

She eats what she wants and her weight
stays around 120 pounds.

She chews three or four packages of gum
a week but no one, not even her brother,
has ever seen her jaws working.

She has a taste for vinegar and sugar
on her lettuce — a custom acquired from a
Yankee cook when a youngster.

Her hair was red until she was fourteen
and became a motion picture actress.

It stayed black from then until a few
months ago when it returned to its natural
color.

She sings blues, with a ukulele accom-
paniment, for her friends; and chansons at
innumerable benefits. There probably has
not been a Jewish charitable affair in Los
Angeles for the last five years at which
she has not appeared.

The second song of a recital finds her
in best voice, for she is extremely responsive
to audience approval.

She is one of the pioneers of motion
pictures, though just twenty-five years old.
She began at the age of fourteen in Fair-
banks' "The Matrimaniac."

She can outboast any producer, super-
visor or director when trying to sell herself
for a role — but cries in despair over her
work when she first sees it on the screen.

She writes poetry, which she never shows
to anyone, on the backs of envelopes.

She has a flair for titles — titles for mo-
tion pictures, for plays, for books, for songs.
She jots them down and later enters them
in a book where hundreds of them are
recorded.

Her apartment and her beach homes are
scattered with musical cigarette boxes and
there are more ash trays than in all the
rest of Hollywood. She doesn't smoke.

She is a great girl on a party — if the
party is big enough. She can't be trapped
alone — even by experts.

He's the Harmony Kid— Continued from page 71

summer at college, Buddy went to Spain on
a mule boat and played American jazz in
the Spanish cafes. During the second
ummer, his orchestra joined a Chautauqua
and played in thirteen states of the middle
west. He earned sixty dollars a week and
saved fifty by sleeping in back of the tent
and having his transportation paid. Dur-
ing the act he sang and played the trom-
bone and drums.

In his junior year, he had his own or-
chestra, played for fraternity dances and
earned from forty to sixty dollars a week.
He sang in the glee club and in his senior
year was given the lead in the year's opera,
"The Mikado."

Somehow or other Buddy never learned
to play the piano until a year ago when
he heard a man over the radio say he could
teach anybody to play jazz in a few lessons.
Buddy bought a piano for his dressing room
and played his numbered chords in all his
spare time. He took four lessons and now
plays it at his personal appearances.

Three months ago this versatile Rogers
boy bought a trumpet. Two weeks after
he got it, he played the instrument on the
stage of the Paramount Theatre.

He's got a guitar now. He can't play
it yet. But he's practising and at the next
personal appearance he'll probably be a
guitar wizard, too.

When he was just a young college kid
going to the Paramount Pictures School in
New York, he gained a wide reputation
among the stars for playing on their sets
It was in that manner he first met Gloria
Swanson, Adolphe Menjou, Clara Bow and
D. W. Griffith.

Now, nobody in Hollywood ever asks
Buddy to come to a party without also in-
viting his trombone. It's just a part of his
boyish personality.

Buddy's fans should be happy. They're
recording all this 'Buddy Rogers in person'
for the all-talking, singing and dancing
picture, "Close Harmony."

Av
B<

iation
3oms/

If You Want Thrills*
Popularity-Big Pay

LEARN AVIATION
QUICK/

A RE you a red-blooded,
l\ daring he-man? Do
you crave adventure,
popularity, admiration,
and the applause of great
crowds? Then why not
get into the Aviation In-
dustry—the greatest ad-
venture since time began
— the greatest thrill ever
offered to man?

Think what Aviation offers you. The praise and
plaudits of the multitude. And a chance to get in
on the ground floor where rewards may be unlimited!
Aviation is) growing so swiftly that one can hardly
keep track of all the astonishing new developments.
Air-mail routes have just been extended to form a
vast aerial network over the entire U. S. Many Com-
mercial Airlines and airplane factories are now being
organized. Men like Henry Ford are investing mil-
lions in the future of commercial Aviation for they
see its great possibilities.

Become An Aviation Expert!

pick your
job:

Flying

Airplane Instructor
Airplane Engineer
Airplane Repairman
Airplane Assembler
Airplane Mechanician
Airplane Inspector
Airplane Builder
Airplane Salesman
Exhibition Manager
Airplane Contractor
AirplaneMotorExpert
Airplane Designer

Get into this thrilling
profession at once while
the field is new and
uncrowded. Now— by a
unique newplan— you can
quickly secure the basic
and preparatory training
you need to get started in
the Aviation Industry at
home, in spare time. Ex-
perts will teach you the
secrets andf undamentals
of Practical Aviation —
give you all the inside
facts that are essential to
your success. And, the
study of Aviation by this
remarkable method is al-
most as fascinating as the
actual work itself.

Send for FREE
Book!

Send coupon for our new
free book, just out — Oppor-
tunities in the Airplane In*
dustrn. It is vitally Interest-
ing, readslikearomanceand
tells you things about this
astonishing profession you
never even dreamed ot
Write for your copy todays

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF AVIATION
3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 6325 Chicago

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF AVIATION
3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 6325 Chicago, III.

Without any obligation, please send me your FREE
Book. Opportunities in the Airplane Industry . Also
information about your Course in Practical Aviation.

Name_

-Age_

Addres$_
City

110

SCREENLAND

Puzzle Fans: More automobiles to be given
for advertising purposes — J. C. Long, Charles
Vofttmann. Viola Javins, Alvin Smith, Mrs.
Gillies, J. Braucher, won sedans In last offers.
Over 800 prizes awarded in one year. $11,000 in
prizes paid by us in October, 1928. Here's your
chance to win one of the prizes now offered.

Find the "Different" Auto fnthem-

closure to the right all look alike. But one is different. Some-
thing has been leit off all the cars but one. The difference may
be In the fenders, bumper, nameplate, radiator or top. The one
that is different la the real Bulck sedan I am giving away in
addition to three other cars In this great friendship advertising
campaign. You may be the one who will write me
And Win Buick Sedan or SI 900

Four sedans and 28 other prizes totaling over $5,000. Thirty-two prizes
end duplicate prizes paid in case of ties. Certificate for $580 to apply on
srrand prize sent immediately as below if you find the different car. Im-
mediate action— no delay— we Bend certificate for $580 to add to the first
— , if you win.' and directions forgetting Buick sedan. There

CHECK CAR.... MAIL COUPON

M. W. MEYERS

Dept. 239, 500 N. Dearborn St.
Chicago. 111.

I thinh the different car is No. , Send me award

certificate Immediately if Uiia ia rijyht. No coBt or obli-
gation to mo now or ever.

-I

Let Her Interpret Your

STAR of DESTINY

If you are unhappy, discouraged, lonely, unsuc-
cessful in love or business, do not hesitate to
consult Madame Annette, America's best beloved
woman, famous for her radio talks on Astrology.

She will aid and advise you in your trouble and
point out your star of destiny, lucky days and
many secrets of happiness.

For only 25 cents she will send you her Special
Dollar Reading, which may amaze you by its
accuracy and explain much that seems dark and
doubtful. Send her your correct birth date, name
and address and 25 cents.

Address her as follows :
MADAME ANNETTE graduate

ASTROLOGER

Box 41-P, Back Bay, Boston, Mass.

Main Street vs. Hollywood

(Continued fro mpage 23)

of her convictions. If there is anyone in
her company who seems to be the under-
dog, Lupe instantly champions that person
— not in an aggressive, unpleasant manner,
but she seeks to call that person's good
qualities to the attention of the others. She
takes them under her wing like a mother
hen her chicks, and she usually wins out.

You know the old gentleman who lives
rather quietly on the hill, whom everybody
goes to for advice and help — (well, in Holly-
wood they go to George Fawcett. His mod-
est home, perched on the top of a nearby
foothill, is filled with sunshine and sur-
rounded by flowers. Hardly a day passes
that a friendly cup of tea is not extended
to someone who needs a boost of cheer and
constructive, friendly advice. The young
people of Hollywood who are discouraged
because contracts have not come thick and
fast and who find rent day looming danger-
ously near, go to George Fawcett to get
straightened out mentally. Sometimes he even
finds them jobs, and if he can't do that, he
and his charming wife send the despondent
ones away with high hopes and a better
outlook.

And you know the pretty brown-eyed
girl who makes fudge .so well, and every-
body troops over to her house for a game
of tennis? Well, that is Patsy Ruth Miller.
All the young bachelors of Hollywood, her
friends and Winston her younger brother's,
go to Pat's house, particularly on Sunday.
They all take turns at tennis, while Pat
starts the fudge; and in the evening they
play games and sing all the old college
songs and swap stories. And now that
sorrow has come to Pat with her mother's
passing and she is managing her house
alone, the bill of fare is changed from fudge
to omelet. Pat doesn't cook very well, but
she has found out how to make a marvelous
omelet and into it goes everything that she
thinks will make it good — a special chile
sauce, chopped olives, pimentoes and bits
of parsley; and after the tennis, a shower
and a good stiff rub-down, the boys and
girls come barging in. But Patsy doesn't
believe in assuming all the responsibility,
and so the boys wash the dishes!

And then there is the old swimming hole
that is on the corner of Jed Smith's farm!
In Hollywood everybody dashes over to
Betty Gompson's for a dip. There are no
rules to observe. In fact, there are not
enough and a few inconsiderate guests have
been known to park their wet bathing suits
on the upholstered furniture, which says a
good deal for Betty's and Jim's good nature.
Jim Cruze. you know, is Betty's husband.
Every Sunday afternoon is open house at
Betty's and Jim's and sometimes the guests
number as high as one hundred!

Imagine what it is like to have open
house and not know whether five people
will be there for dinner, or seventy-five!
Betty said that there is a sort of psychology
about it that years of study have given
her the 'low-down' on-. They almost al-
ways know when there will be a few peo-
pie and when there will be .a big crowd.
A good many just come for the afternoon
and a swim and return to their homes for
dinner: others come during the latter part
of the afternoon and remain for high tea.
As a rule these have been especially invited.
Anyway, it's a lot of fun and you need not
be surprised to find the extremes of Holly-
wood meeting at Betty's and Jim's. There
is Bill Haines prancing about like a clown
at a circus, dressing up statues and making

Notice to Mail Subscribers

Send Request for Any Change of Address on Your
Screenland Subscription Direct to
Publication Office

Considerable delay has been experienced in may cases due to
sending the notice for a change in address to the agent. Notifying
the Subscription Department, Screenland, 49 West 45th St., New
York, N. Y., before the 15th of the next month, will insure the
receipt of the next issue at your new address.

SCREENLAND

ill

a joke out of everything, and quiet, dark-
eyed Helen Jerome Eddy who sits in the
corner of the big sofa before the huge
log-fire and draws her circle of admirers
around her. Both types are equally wel-
come at Betty's and Jim's.

And you know the young, sophisticated
couple on Main Street, who are up on the
latest thing in art and literature and music,
whose clothes are a topic of conversation
and who give the smart entertainments of
the village, who have been to Paris and
London and Rome and are just too popular
for anything? Well, Hollywood's parallel
in this is Lilyan Tashman and Edmund
Lowe. If Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks entertain
the foreign ambassadors and England's
Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Lowe corral
the visiting literati and artists who touch
our shores. Of course, many of them either
Lilyan or Eddie have known for some time,
such as Ethel Barrymore, Tito Schipa and
Eric Pedley, the internationally-known polo
player. There is always life and laughter
and wit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
mund Lowe.

And you know the quiet, retiring little
girl with very prim manners and the air
of a young princess, whom everybody likes
to have around, because her aristocratic
manner will grace any gathering, and yet
who is good fun too? — well, that is Vir-
ginia Valli. Virginia wears rather severe
tailored suits, usually gray or dark blue,
with a very expensive fur neck-piece. Her
hat is a beautifully cut little felt, tightly
fitting; and she always wears gloves. On
rainy days she carries just the sort of an
umbrella you would expect a conservative,
well-brought-up young lady to carry.
None of the fans ever recognize Virginia.
She has attended her own opening and had
people say to her, "Oh! Aren't you Norma
Talmadge?" And yet, under the straight
little brim of Virginia's tailored hat, are a
pair of twinkling gray-blue eyes that see
humor of the subtlest. Virginia can make
whoopee with the best of them but she
never steps out of character.

Just at present the popular young bach-
elor of town is a moot question. Holly-
wood has several, but within recent months,
two of them have decided upon matrimonial
careers. One is Ben Lyon, who sometimes
has as many as five parties in a day to go to,
and the other one is Gary Cooper. These
two boys are entirely different. Gary ap-
peals to women as a strong, silent type.
He is rather quiet and a little reserved.
He seems to know just the thing to do to
make women happy. Whenever Gary's
name is mentioned, there is a chorus of
feminine voices, "Oh! Gary is just ador-
able." But now Gary is seen only with
Lupe and the rest of feminine Hollywood
sighs in vain. Of course there is Richard
Dix and the title of uncatchable bachelor,
. I imagine, would go to Richard. He likes
everybody and everybody likes him. But
then there is also Ronald Colman. Femi-
nine Hollywood has never made any im-
pression on Ronny. He has his house on
the hill with a tennis court and swimming
pool and his friends are, for the most part.
Englishmen. Ronny's tastes are almost one
hundred percent athletic. His only di-
vergence from sports is reading and he has
a very complete library. It is said that no
writer has ever passed the gates of his
mountain retreat. Interviews, which are
rare, are given at the studio. He feels that
his personal life is his own and he is too
modest really to feel that what he does,
off the screen, is of any possible interest
to anyone except himself and his friends.
And now we come to the mystery people

of Main Street, who are seen very seldom
at the various gatherings of the community.
Consequently they are of terrific interest
in a gossiping world. It is an odd thing,
isn't it, that if everyone doesn't act exactly
alike, the person who deviates from the
general run of things is always thought
strange! There is Lon Chaney, for in-
stance. His friends are not in pictures.
Very few people in cinemaland know any-
thing about him after he leaves the studio.
He and his wife almost never appear at
Hollywood gatherings. Although living in
Hollywood they are not of it.

Perhaps the mystery of Hollywood is
Gustave Von Seyffertitz. He lives alone.
He has one room in an exclusive apartment
hotel. His wife and daughter live in the
east. He is very fond of them but he
doesn't encourage their coming to Holly-
wood. He is one of the most sought-after
men in pictures, by the casting director. I
happened to be at a studio when the director
asked that he be called for a few scenes.
Mr. Von Seyffertitz was working at Para-
mount at that time. The assistant director
said he didn't think he could get him.
"Well, I only need him for two days," said
the director. "I can arrange my schedule so
that he will be finished in that time."
The assistant said that he might be free
the latter part of the week and that he
would try to get him if it was Okay with
the chief. "Sure," said the director. "Give
him the choice of Friday and Saturday, or
Saturday and Sunday. I will turn every-
thing aside to get his scenes on those days."
Another incident I heard was that a di-
rector wanted Mr. Von Seyffertitz for one
shot only and he said to the assistant, "I
won't have anyone in Hollywood but Von
Seyffertitz. I will take the scene at any time
it is possible to get him and tell him that
I will pay $500.00 for it." Mr. Von
Seyffertitz has one or two friends with
whom he plays pinochle, practically every
evening he is not working. He has no
desire to mix and mingle. He cares noth-
ing whatever for publicity and doesn't en-
courage it, and yet with all his reticence,
he is well liked.

The mystery woman of Hollywood is
unquestionably Jetta Goudal. I don't have
to tell you that Jetta is physically appealing.
She is beautiful, fascinating and she knows
how to dress. She is also a very good
cook and when she gives a dinner you get
something. Aside from all the rest, her
culinary accomplishments should bring a
flock of young men to her doors. Yet
Jetta does not encourage young men. She
even has very few women friends and leads
a rather lonely life. She is almost complete in
herself, having a splendid mind and being
well travelled. Perhaps it is that few people
interest her, or perhaps she is the type that
needs to have people camp on her trail.
Yet, her aloofness rather forestalls an en-
thusiastic manifestation from admirers. She
has few close friends, mostly women, and
these friends knowing her so well and lik-
ing her so well, resent the fact that she
is called mysterious. Her name has never
been associated with any man, but that is
entirely Jetta's own fault. She just isn't
interested, beyond a casual, mental contact.

And you know the girl whose parties
are always the most . fun in the village;
who has ioads of money and who entertains
frequently and often and who is the best
sport in town? In Hollywood she is Marion
Davies. Everyone loves Marion and it
isn't entirely because of her beautiful beach
home and the expensive presents that she
gives and her royal entertainment. I re-
member years ago a young actor who had
never played with her before, remarking

Last night
I came home with
great news

"I'd telephoned Ruth that I had a surprise for her
and she could hardly wait for me to get home. You
should have seen her face when I told her the Boss
had given me a $25 increase in salary.

" 'It's wonderful,' she said, 'just wonderful. Now
we can pay those bills and even start saving.

" 'Remember the night we saw that coupon in a
magazine and you decided to take up an I. C. S.
course? It made a new man of you, Bob, and I knew
it wouldn't be long before the firm would notice the
difference in your work. We certainly owe a lot to
the International Correspondence Schools.' "

How about you? Are you always going to work for a
small salary? Or are you going to get ahead? It all
depends on what you do with your spare time.

Don't let another precious hour pass before you find
out what the I. C. S. can do for you. It doesn't cost
you a penny or obligate you in any way, but it may be the
means of changing your entire life. Do it note!

Mail Coupon for Free Booklet

INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS

"The Universal University"
Box 2369-G, Scranton, Penna.
Without cost or obligation on my part, please send mo
a copy of your 48-page booklet, "Who Wins and Why,"
and tell me how I can qualify for the position, or in the)
subject, be/ore which I have marked an X:

BUSINESS TRAINING COURSES

□ Business) Management ^Business Correspondence

□ Industrial Management nShow Card and Sign

□ Personnel Management Lettering

□ Traffic Management DStenography and Typing

□ Accounting and C.P.A. ^English

□Civil Service

□ Hallway Mall Clerk

§Mall Carrier
Common School Subjects
High School Subjects

□ Illustrating □ Cartooning
□Lumber Dealer

TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL COURSES

□ Architect nAutomobile Work

□ Architectural DraftsmannAlrplane Engines

□ Building Foreman QPlumber and Steam Fitter

□ Concrete Builder nPlumblng Inspector

□ Contractor and Builder □Foreman Plumber

□ Heating and Ventilation

□ Sheet-Metal Worker

□ Steam Engineer

□ Marine Engineer

□ Refrigeration Engineer

□ R. R. Positions

B Highway Engineer
Chemistry

□ Pharmacy
□Mining Engineer

□ Navigation DAssayer

□ Iron and Steel Worker

□ Textile Overseer or Supt.

□ Cotton Manufacturing

B Woolen Manufacturing
Agriculture □ Fruit Growing

□ Bridge Engineer □ Poultry Farming

□ Gas Engine Operating □Mathematics □Radio

Coaching

□ Cost Accounting

□ Bookkeeping

□ Secretarial Work

□ Spanish □ Flench

□ Salesmanship
□Advertising

□ Structural Draftsman

□ Structural Engineer

□ Electrical Engineer

□ Electrical Contractor

□ Electric Wiring

□ Electric Lighting

□ Electric Car Running
□TelegTaph Engineer
□Telephone Work

□ Mechanical Engineer

□ Mechanical Draftsman

□ Machine Shop Practice

□ Toolmaker
Patternmaker
Civil Engineer

Name

Street
Address..

City State..

Occupation

// you reside in Canada, send this coupon to the
International Correspondence Schools Canadian, Limited,
Montreal, Canada

Popular

Play a Conn band or orchestra
instrument and you're wel-
come everywhere. Win pleas-
ure and profit playing part
or whole time. With a Conn
you play tunes the very first
day. Easy playing features
and new instruction methods
make it tun from the start.
FREE TRIAL, Easy Pay-
ments on any Conn. Write
for literature, details. Name
instrument. No obligation.

C. G. CONN, Ltd.

584 Conn Bldg. Elkhart, Ind.

112

SCREENLAND

0i II imi IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII II m in i ■

I Edgar Wallace]

| Master of Mystery [
and Romance!

j MOW you have the oppor- j

[ ^ tunity to enjoy the thrill- \

\ ing stories of the man who \

I has taken Great Britain by \

| storm. Through all the har- \

\ rowing tales Edgar Wallace |

I has written, there runs a j

| glowing thread of romance j

i that makes even his spectres \

\ human. "The Girl from \

| Soctland Yard" towers high \

[ above the average mystery, |

| telling two kinds of story in [

I one book — each one a mas' i

I terpiece. {

\ Now four of these books of |

| crime fiction have been pub' j

[ lished in the Weirdmoor i

| Edition, beautifully printed i

[ and bound. j

I A KING BY NIGHT |

! THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE |

THE DOOR WITH
SEVEN LOCKS

THE GIRL FROM
SCOTLAND YARD

| Four full length novels, four \

\ big volumes, crammed full \

| of thrills, crime, mystery and j

§ adventure. Uniformly bound j

i in magenta and black cloth. \

I Entire Four Volumes may §
! now be had for only $4.90. \

| Use the coupon below. j

| SCREENLAND MAGAZINE (Dept. 5-29) =
= 49 West 45th Street, New York City. =

= I enclose $ for which please :

r send me E

RllllIllllMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIItlllllMI nil III Minimi Jm]

about her thoughtfulness for the extra
girls. They had been kept on the set all
day. It was in the summer in New York,
and the summer in New York, under a glass
stage, was an ordeal. Because they wanted
to finish the picture that day, the director
had extended the work into the evening,
which at that time was not a usual thing.
At about ten-thirty, or eleven o'clock at
night, Marion put her foot down. "At
least they shall have some refreshment,"
she said. "I can't understand how anyone
would expect girls to work for all these
hours without proper nourishment." And
so she ordered broiled chicken, a green
vegetable and champagne, to be served to
them on the stage. This was before pro-
hibition! And she is the same Marion
today — thoughtful, unassuming, and a merry
companion.

Colleen Moore, Bebc Daniels and Con-
stance Talmadge run Marion Davies close
seconds in popularity.

Of the younger set, perhaps Sue Carol
gets the vote. "Sweet Sue," she is called,
and that's how the song dedicated to her
was named. Sue doesn't entertain very
much, but she is extensively entertained.
If you go to dinner at her house, the
telephone is constantly ringing and the
evening is filled with hurried visits here
and there to friends who have asked her to
stop in. Although everyone knows that she
is devoted to Nick Stuart and never goes
with anyone else when he is in town, I
have heard more than one man say that if
Sue Carol wasn't to be at the party, he
wouldn't go. People love to look at her.
Her face is so changeable in expression
and she seems to be the embodiment of
vivacity and motion. Sue is never still a
minute. She is always poised, ready for
flight. I have never been her guest for
an evening without traveling from Holly-
wood to Santa Monica at least once, and
stopping several places both going and
coming.

Hollywood has lots of bankers. Two of
Hollywood's prominent bankers are Joseph
Schenck and Cecil DeMille — both Vice-
Presidents of the Bank of Italy; and Milton
Sills is also on the advisory board. And
of course our Rotary Club is the Wampas.
Written out, Wampas means, Western
Association of Motion Picture Advertisers;
and they meet once a month, usually at
the Roosevelt Hotel, for dinner and the
evening. There are nights when only men
are on the guest list and I am sure they
all have a fine time, from the accounts I
have heard, holding forth from every
angle, upon all topics under discussion.

There are a few public speakers in our
community — two of them are Conrad Nagel
and Fred Niblo. Conrad said that he has
so often been the speaker when Fred Niblo
was the Master of Ceremonies, that their
team work was perfect. Fred knew to the
fraction of a second when to stop him, if
he got over-enthusiastic and the time was

short. He said it was like having an ed-
itor cut your copy in the right place and he
is lost when anyone besides Mr. Niblo is
handling the gavel.

We have our village cut-up, too. He is
Bill Haines. Our village wit is Bill Pow-
ell; and from what I know of Clive Brook,
I would put him pretty well to the top
on the ljst of humorists. His remarks are
made with a perfectly straight face. If it
is over your head, that is all right with
Clive; he will never let on; but if you de-
tect the humor of it, he will laugh with
you, pleased at being found out.

In almost every village there is one girl
who is very independent and goes her own
way, regardless of whether it conforms to
other people's idea of what one should do.
Clara Bow supplies this quality in Holly-
wood. Perhaps it is because Hollywood
was none too kind to her at first. Clara
excited more than the usual jealousy of a
newcomer in any community, by her vi-
vacity and real merit. Everybody knew
from the first that Clara was a winner and
it hurt a little bit, and so Clara learned
to lay her own plans and follow her own
inclinations. She goes only with the peo-
ple that she really likes and it doesn't
matter a particle what station in life they
occupy, which shows Clara really to have
a great spirit. For a girl to be sought-
after by the great ones of earth, to refuse
their invitations and take either her hair-
dresser or her manicurist to a theatre, be-
cause she happens to admire and like her,
certainly proves that Clara has the courage
of her convictions. Clara is almost never
seen at a big party. She refuses to go
to a fashionable restaurant and if she
wanted to appear at a more or less formal
dinner in her own house in a bathing-suit,
she would do it. I don't know that she
ever has, although I imagine at her beach
house she wears a bathing-suit most of the
time. There is no false modesty about
Clara. If a bathing-suit is all right to
parade up and down the beach in, it is all
right at the dinner table, and as far as
its not being the conventional garment to
wear on such an occasion is concerned, that
would mean nothing in Clara's life.

Hollywood has its jealousies, its snob-
beries, and other faults, but they are treated
with a sense of humor. Because, among
the serious workers, work is really the im-
portant thing, and human failings are han-
dled as patiently as possible, which is
rather a good angle on life, it strikes me.
You know the old saying, 'Hitch your
wagon to a star.' If you are sincerely reach-
ing for the highest, the things that you
pass on the way are of secondary import-
ance; your eyes are above them.

So you see Hollywood isn't very differ-
ent from Main Street. In fact. Main Street
might be rather disdainful of the parchesi
parties which are becoming more and more
popular — and perhaps you might turn up
your noses at ping pong and Guggenheim!

Ask Me- Concluded from page 87

Billie of Billings, Mont. Will I send T^ancy of Philadelphia. You don't mean

you one of my clever and witty pictures to tell me you and your sister have terrible

even if it's no larger than a postage stamp? fights over the stars — don t blame the

I can't see myself hanging on your wall movies for that. Your sister is right about

as small as that and besides, I'd feel terribly Douglas Fairbanks. Jr. Mary Pickford is

hurt. As you've never heard from Norma not his mother. His mother is Mrs. Beth

Talmadge, perhaps you had the wrong ad- Sully Evans, who was Doug Sr.'s first wife.

dress 'try again at United Artists Studios, Charles Morton has a contract with Fox

1041 No. Formosa Ave.. Hollywood. Cal. Studios, 1401 No. Western Ave., Holly-

If at first you don't succeed, cry again— wood, Cal. Charles plays with Janet Gay-

if you have a hanky handy. nor in "Christina."

METRO
GOLDWVN
MAKERS

Iki JfewWowlet of 'ktlctmi!

ALL TALKING
ALL SINGING

ALL DANCING

^jStanaJic Smicdion

with

CHARLES KING
ANITA PAGE
BESSIE LOVE

Directed by

HARRY BEAUMONT

Story by Edmund Goulding

Continuity by Sarah Y. Mason

Mueic by Nacio Herb Br(6wn._

Lyrics by Arthur Freed

Dialogue by Norman Houston

and JameBGleason, author of "IsZat So?"

IROM COAST TO COAST has swept the fame of the newest miracle
of the films. All the magic of Broadway's stageland, stars, song
lits, choruses of sensuous beauty, thrilling drama are woven into
the Greatest Entertainment of our time. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
the leader in production of silent pictures, now achieves suprem-
acy of the Talking Screen as well. See "The Broadway Melody"
simultaneous with its sensational $2 showings in New York,
Los Angeles and elsewhere.

'More Stars than there are in Heaven

Speaking of silver linings

When the hair-dresser lets you
down on the eve of a party . . .
and vour new shoes don't come
. . . and the youth is Unavoidably

Detained . . . and it's raining . . .

then, oh then, what sweet conso-
lation there is in a Camel ... a
cigarette just so downright good
that no grief can prevail against it !

1929, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C.

Pajamas

See Page 26

Qiever>

Facial Youth keeps my skin white"

By Edna Wallace Hopper

1 s

'HAT is what an attractive American girl
said to me in Paris when I asked her
whether her skin was so lovely and white all
summer. It was a chance conversation and,
not recognizing me, she told me of her wonderful results from
my Facial Youth. "You know, it's a liquid cleanser, and it really
prevents sunburn. Mother and I have our trunks full of it.
What's the use of trying to hold them spell-bound with the
magic of lace and chiffon unless your face, neck and shoulders
are in keeping with the illusion of exquisite feminism?"

So I told her why my Facial Youth prevents sunburn. The oil
which cleanses also replaces the natural oil drawn out by the
sun's rays. It does cleanse deep. Being soluble, Facial Youth
removes every trace of dirt and leaves not one atom to tax the
skin and enlarge pores. There is no soap or alkali in Facial
Youth. It has a soothing, tonic effect on your skin and a most
refreshing, delightful scent. It's also the best astringent I know.

No Oily Surface Although it is the oil in Facial Youth that cleanses so

gently and thoroughly, your face is free from oiliness

when it is wiped off. Its astringent action gives your skin that firm, cool touch.

Send today for this trial bottle of Edna Wallace |~"
Hopper's Facial Youth and learn how easy and
pleasant it is to cleanse your face properly. Your skin
will quickly respond to this gentle treatment.

Summer Bathers: Rub a coating of Facial Youth
over exposed parts of the body before going into
the water. It will prevent painful sunburn.

Drug and Toilet Counters Everywhere

Supply Edna Wallace Hopper's Cosmetics. | I

Send this Coupon NOW.'

Edna Wallace Hopper,

536 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111.

Enclosed find 10 cents for trial
bottle of Facial Youth. 6. s.

FREE

1 will also send
you a sample of
my Youth
Cream and
Youth Powder,
3 samples in all.

D-46

Address

P.O.

State

SCREENLAND

The drama — suspense — tragedy and pathos
that make a murder case first page news the
world over are re-ereated so perfectly by FOX
MOVIETONE in Thru Different Eyes that
you couldn't get a greater thrill out of
watching the trial progress if you were the
accused man himself!

Hear every word of the evidence — the sympathetic
plea of t he defense attorney — the prosecutor's relen t
less demand for a "life for a life" — the startlin
confession that solvesthe mystery! See three possi
ble versions of t he crime re-enacted before your eyes
— he judge and jury, weighing the circumstantial
evidence!

Who is the real murderer? Test your wits and judg-
mcnt— HEAR and SEE Thru Different Eyes when it
comes to your favorite local theater. It will thrill
you as no drama of life ever has before.

Preshnted by |

WILLIAM FOX

from the piay btjf
HILTON H. GROUPER
and EDNA SHE««1'
with J' ^

MARY DUNCAN
WARNER/BAXTER
EDMUND LOWE

EAKEE FOXE \
STEPIN FETCIHul
d by JOHN BLYSTONfe

FOX MOVIETONE

<[ The Girl on our Cover is
Utile Janet Gaynor — ever
since "Seventh Heaven"
one oj the best-beloved
stars on the screen. You'll
soon hear as well as see
her. She has passed her
voice tests'.

C[ SCREENLAND IS pub'

JjA'hed on the 5th oj
the month preceding
date of issue.

June, 1929

Title Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.

VOL. XIX, No. 2

Delight Evans, Editor

CONTENTS for JUNE

Cover — Janet Gaynor. Painted by Georgia
Warren

The Flapper Fan's Forecast. By Evelyn

Ballarine 4

Confessions of the Fans. Letters from Readers 8

Honor Page — K[orma Shearer 16

Editorial. By Delight Evans 18

Much Obliged, 'Mike'! 19

Double, Double! 20

Hollywood Week Ends. By Helen Ludlam . 22
James Montgomery Flagg Looks Them Over!

By Rosa Reilly 24

Anita Page's Gift Pajamas 26

Mary Pickford. By David Belasco 28

Broadway Whoopee in Hollywood. By Grace

Kingsley 30

The Most Beautiful Still of the Month.

Four Feathers 33

The Film Follies 34

John Gilbert — A Portrait 36

Nancy Carroll — A Portrait 37

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barthelmess- — A

Portrait 38

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Joan Crawford

A Portrait 39

Loretta Young — A Portrait 40

Including the Hon-garian! Vi}maBan\y . . 41

Advice to June Brides. By Ruth Tildesley . . 42

What About Art? By Rob Wagner ... 44

On Location with Eve Southern. By Helen

Ludlam 46

Delight Evans' Reviews 48

How the Little Ingenue Can Be Smart, Too!

By Adrian 54

Lois Climbs the Ladder. Lois Moran. By

Franklin James 56

Conrad Nagel — A Portrait 57

Thelma Todd — A Portrait 58

Ronald Colman — A Portrait 59

Renee Adoree ■ — A Portrait 60

Adolphe Menjou — A Portrait 61

Sally Eilers — A Portrait 62

Clive Brook — A Portrait 63

Good News! Colleen Moore 64

Pre-Showing of Coming Films 65

Loving for a Living. By Libyan Tashman and

Edmund Lowe 70

Beauty While You Wait. A T^ew Department.

By Anne Van Alstyne 72

In New York. By Anne Bye 74

Let's Go to the Movies! Screenland's Revuettes 76
Hot from Hollywood! Screenland's Gossip De-
partment . • 78

The Stage Coach. By Morrie Ryskind ... 84

On the Trail of Trader Horn 86

Sonny Boy Steps Out. Davey Lee .... 88

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary! Mary K[olan 89

Lot Talk. Latest Chatter 90

Ask Me. By Miss Vee Dee 92

Member Audit Bureau of Circulations

SCREENLAND

THE
NATION
NAMES
THE
LEADER
IN V
TALKING
PICTURES

APPLAUSE!

Says the Duluth "Herald":
"There is something about the
Paramount all-talking quality
pictures that registers as an ar-
tistic and box office attraction,
and the "Sun," Baltimore,
echoes with "It seems that of all
the firms offering talking pic-
ture entertainment Paramount
is accomplishing the trick best."
About "The Letter," Robert E.
Sherwood, one of America's

Don't miss these great
PARAMOUNT PICTURES!

RICHARD DIX in
"NOTHING RUT THE

TRUTH" with Helen Kane and Louis
John Bartels. Directed by Victor Schertzinger
from the play by James Montgomery. Novel by
Frederic S. Isham.

"GENTLEMEN OF THE

famous star of the legitimate stage. Directed by
Millard Webb, from the play[by Ward Morehouse.

foremostcritics,said:"Itismore PRESS" with Walter huston,
than a milestone in motion pic-
ture history. It is the herald of a
new order." .... And this is only
a smattering of the applause for
Paramount Pictures which you
can hear from coast to coast.
Paramount encores now with
even greater productions that
you should not miss. Make it a
point to see them all — to see any
pictures labeled Paramount,
whether with sound or silent.

"THE WOMAN WHO
NEEDEH KILLING"

With Baclanova, Clive Brook and Neil Hamilton.
A Rowland V. Lee Production from the play by
Margery H. Lawrence.

"THE MAN I LOVE"

With Mary Brian and Richard Arlen, Baclanova,
Harry Green and Jack Ookie. A William A.
Wellman Production from the story by Herman
J. Mankiewicz.

'If it's a Paramount Picture it's the best show in town!"

■>*»♦■-

PARAMOUNT FAMOUS LASKV CORP., ADOLPH ZUKOR,

PRES., PARAMOUNT BLDC, N. Y. C.

SCREENLAND

©RECAST

MM 10 BEAUTY PRODUCTS
HOLLYWOOD

Here's BEAUTY
For
YOU

Lovely, soul-
ful eyes really
can be yours.
KatherineMa^
Donald's Lash
Cosmetic will
make your
eyes twin pools
of alluring
beauty — and absolutely with-
out hint of artificiality.

Easy to apply — easy to re-
move. Katnerine Mac Don-
ald's LashCosmetic is a water-
proof liquid. It is the newest
and most important aid to
your beauty.

At most toilet goods counters
or $1 direct to Katherine
Mac Donald at Hollywood.

KATH IE IHII H E MUcDO N A LD'S

m LASH
V COSMETIC

t WATERPROOF")

T H E

ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF MOVIE-LAND

Listing the names
of more than 500
Actors, Actresses,
Wampus Stars, Di-
rectors, etc. Statin?
whether they are
married or single,
where and when
they were born,
their height, weight,
color of hair and
eyes, the plays they
have been in, their
addresses and doz-
ens of intimate
THINGS about them
that the public does
not know.

This book is not
only BEAUTIFUL but
durable as well and
is of a most con-
venient size.

ALL are interested
in the Movies and the
'leople who make them,
ivery man. woman and child in America should have
a copy of this first AUTHENTIC, copyrighted book
covering this subject and the price has been placed
within the reach of ALL.

Single copies $1.00

Six copies $5.00

Delivered postpaid ANYWHERE ON EARTH
Inclose a dollar bill, together with your name and
address, today for YOUR copy of this entertaining
and instructive book.

THE STARS' COMPANY

P. 0. BOX 425 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

NEW CREAM ERASES
HAIR LIKE MAGIC!

Sure, safe, pleasant, economical method. Easily ap-
plied. No irritation or after odor. Does not spoil or
harden. Your money back if not pleased. Large tube
of QIIC 75c at dealers or mailed postpaid upon
receipt of price. BERLAND LABORATORIES, Inc..
Dept. I-D, Los Angeles, Calif.

QIK Cream Hair Remover

(\A Glimpse of What
You'll See Later On
the Screen.

By Evelyn Ballarine

C[ Screenland's
good little girl
scout with her
trusty telescope.
Leave it to Eve-
lyn to loo\ 'em
over! *

^ xtra. Extra! New gold rush to
California! Thar's gold in them
thar trills. What I really mean is

is that Hollywood is turning into
a young Broadway. All the golden voiced
stage players are out there. Cecil DeMille
cornered two for his first Metro-Goldwyn
picture — Kay Johnson and Charles Bickford.
Kay Johnson played the lead in "A Free
Soul" on Broadway last season. (We hear
that Norma Shearer is to star in the talkie
version of this play.) Charles Bickford was
in "Gods of the Lightning" and now both
are to be in "Dynamite." And speaking
of "Dynamite" reminds us that Harold
Lloyd's new picture is tentatively called
"TNT." Boom, boom — with sound ac-
companiment!

Fannie Brice is taking another flyer into
pictures, this time with United Artists.
Her man, pardon, her husband. Billy Rose,
is writing the story and the songs.

Three cheers! Our old gum-chewing,
rope-swinging friend, Will Rogers, is going
to be with us again. Fox Films have signed
him to a two-year talkie contract. "Three
Cheers." the play in which he pinch-hitted
for Fred Stone, is drawing to a close after
a successful Broadway run.

Lovely blonde Mary Eaton had a taste
of the movies in "The Cocoanuts." It
satisfied. Now she has pointed her toes

<C Cecil B. DeMille showing the script of "Dynamite" to Kay Johnson
and Charles Bickjord, of the stage. They got the job!

SCREENLAND

stfc AND HEAk

3 Ira

Jweetest Love Story ever told

THE EPIC DRAMA 0/^? AGE

Here is romance that transports you into realms of blissful emotion.
Drama with a world-sweep, colossal and sublime. Thrills that grip every
fibre of your being! "Noah's Ark" is the outstanding achievement
of the Screen, made vivid as reality itself through the marvelous Voice of
Vitaphone. You'll agree that it gloriously surpasses all existing
standards of modern screen entertainment. See and hear "Noah's Ark.

You See and Hear V/TAPHONE only in Warner Bros, and First National Pictures

SCREENLAND

Freckles

Can be Secretly Removed!

"V"OU can remove those annoying,
embarrassing freckles, secretly
end quickly, in the privacy of your
own home. Your friends will wonder
how you did it.

Stillman'sFreckleCream bleaches
them outwhile you sleep. Leavesthe
skin soft and white, the complexion
fresh, clear and transparent, theface
rejuvenated with new beauty of
natural coloring. The first jar proves
its magic worth. At all druggists.

Stillmans

Freckle Cream

Removes T
Freckles 1

Whitens
The Skin

S TILLMAN CO.

8 Rosemary Lane
Aurora, Illinois

Please send me Free book-
let "Goodbye Freckles".

Address

I
I

^^City State

MGRICAN ACAD6MY
OF DRAMATIC ARTS

Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent

J ±1

The foremost institution for Dramatic and
Expressional Training. The instruction of the
Academy furnishes the essential preparation for
Directing and Teaching as well as for Acting.

The training is educative and practical, de-
veloping Poise, Personality and Expressional
Power, of value to those in professional life
and to the layman.

Teachers' Summer Course
July 8th to Aug. 17th

Extension Dramatic Courses in Co-operation with
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Catalog describing all Courses from
Room 253-F CARNEGIE HALL, New York

& HEN-

oroGRAPHERS

f,m.,, Civon FREE BOOK ex-
LdHieid UIVcll plains opportuni-
ties as Motion Picture Camera Man,
Portrait, Commercial or News Pho-
tographer or in your own business.
Learn at Home or in our great
New York Studios.
Write for Free Book and Job Chart
N.Y. Institute of Photography. 10 W.33d St., N.Y. Dept. 60

BE A MOVIE
OPERATOR

Projector Given

We teach you at
home. Big demand
by Movie and
Vaudeville Theatres.

(90 nfessions
of the C^ans

<C 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.

The Editor.

Praise for

Clive

Brook

Dear Editor:

This sudden outburst is in praise of an
actor of great ability and a remarkable
personality, namely, Clive Brook.

For a long time he was used as scenery
in films starring Billie Dove, Clara Bow
and other well-known beauties of the
screen — but now, to the intense joy of
his many followers, the producers have
given him roles equal to his high standard
of acting.

Mr. Brook will long be remembered for
his portrayal of Heliotrope Harry in "For-
gotten Faces." As Dr. Benson in "The
Perfect Crime" his acting was also note-
worthy.

Let us hope that the producers will con-
tinue to give Clive Brook the breaks he
deserves.

Sincerely,
Miss Mavis Wilson,
50 Continental Avenue,
Forest Hills, Long Island

New York.

as a whole, inasmuch as they never had
good movies! You couldn't find a movie
magazine for love or money. That the
movies have been the essence of my life
goes without saying. During a two-year
sojourn in the heart of the Mesopotamian
desert it was left to me to find entertain-
ment for the boys. In the storeroom of
the Squadron I found an old Pathe pro-
jection machine which I had fixed up to-
gether with a screen and although I could
get all sorts of films to show, mainly Ger-
man and Danish, two and three reels — I
never gave up until I located some good
American films and a serial with none other
than Jack Dempsey in it. You can realize
what joy that brought to the camp not for-
getting the candy the boys showered on me
for my trouble.

Here in the U. S. A., although a
stranger. I am never lonesome, with such
good movies around. Nor do I forget the
directors, stars and extras who give us
their talents and above all I treasure 'the
fans' whose contributions are the spice of
the program.

Your sincere reader,

Willliam Donnachie,
2039 Appletree Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

An Aviator's
View of the
Movies

Dear Editor:

It is a far cry from the heather-clad
hills of Scotland to the desert of Mesopo-
tamia, the pyramids of Egypt and the beau-
tiful mosques of India, not forgetting the
numerous other countries where an air-
man's tour of duty may take him. Though
thousands of fans would give a lot to see
such countries, they never impressed me

Gary Cooper,
Her Big
Moment!

Dear Editor:

What I want to say first is, Three cheers
• for the talkies!

Last week I saw Gary Cooper and
Nancy Carroll in "The Shopworn Angel,"
and I guess that was my temptation to
write. I was tinkled pink, and yes, even
thrilled when I heard the wonderful voice
of Gary. I fell for it. He is my ideal
man. To say something about Nancy Car-
roll, everytime I hear the song "That Pre-
cious Little Thing Called Love," I think
of Nancy and like her more. I would

SCREENLAND

^/hen You Accept

the Stockingless
Style-

be sure you first observe this
rule of personal refinement

Several seasons ago; only the continental elite dared
the stockingless style at the smart, French coast resorts.
Then last fall, a handful of adventurous debs introduced
it at a formal dinner party on Long Island. This past
winter saw the bare-leg vogue spreading like wild-fire,
Palm Beach, Miami, Del Monte, Santa Barbara . . .
By now it is a generally accepted fashion.

Sponsored and established by America's smartest
younger set, the stockingless style is a style you can
only enjoy when you know that your legs are absolutely
free of superfluous hair.

ID IE L- A*TO N IE

Removes Hair in 3 Minutes

Dozens of the young fashionables who introduced
this bare-leg style have found in Del-a-tone the surest,
swiftest and most convenient way to remove super-
fluous hair from their legs. They realize how inexcusable
and wholly lacking in good taste is the revolting sight
of a pair of legs with or without hose but with an un-
sightly growth of hair.

Before you go without stockings, or even before you
put on your lovely, sheer, all-revealing chiffon hose, use
this snowy-white Del-a-tone Cream. It will quickly and
completely remove all superfluous hair and leave your
skin soft and velvety smooth.

At drug and department stores or sent prepaid in
plain wrapper- — $1.00. Money back if not satisfied.
Address Miss Mildred Hadley, The Delatone Co., Dept.
146, 233 E. Ontario St., Chicago. (Established 1908)

Swiftly active — safe — modern. No fussy prepara-
tion. No afler-messiness. Apply directly from lube.
Del-a-tone removes hair in 3 minutes.

Snowy-while, faintly fragrant, Del-
a-tone is the most convenient way to
remove hair from underarm, forearm,
face, back of neck, and legs.

CLIP AND
MAIL /

today! / I rial

, Offer!

y Miss Mildred Hadley,

/' The Delatone Company,
Dept. 146, 233 E. Ontario
St., Chicago, 111.

Please send me, in plain
wrapper, prepaid, trial package of
Del-a-tone as checked herewith, for
Which I enclose lOcents.

□ Del-a-tone Cream

□ Del-a-tone (powder).

Name.

Street -

City.

. State..

SCREENLAND

BLONDE

Wash Sunlight
into your hair

IS your blonde hair darken-
ing? Here's an easy way to
bring back all its sunny sheen
andsparkle.GetBlondex.the
special shampoo for blondes
only. The very first shampoo
leaves hairbrighter — gleam-
ing with new life and luster.
Blondex is absolutely safe —
no dyes or harsh chemicals.
Fine for scalp. Used by a mil-
lion blondes. At all leading
drug and department stores.

FREE

LARGE PHOTOGRAPH^

Of Your Favorite
MOVIE ST AH
Sizo 8x10 with every
Order of $2.00.
BEAUTIFUL PORTRAITS
LATEST POSES
OF ALL THE STARS

Sue Carol

Greta Garuo

John Gilbert

3 for 50c 7 for $1.00

15 for $2.00 23 for $3.00
40 for $5.00 100 for $10. On
Send for Tour Favorites.

FREE SPECIAL OFFER

5 LARGE PHOTOGRAPHS
FREE WITH EVERY

$10.00 ORDER
50 Different Poses of

Rudolph Valentino
HOLLYWOOD SCREEN

EXCHANGE
Drawer V-l. Dept. F,
Hollywood. Calif.. U. S. A.

Kudolph
Valentino

BY THE LAKE

in Chicago

211

East Delaware

5 minutes from the Loop

BATHING

GOLF COURSE

BRIDLE PATH

$80 -$85 up
Including
complete hotel
service
Kitchenette
Apartments
with electric
refrigeration
and all
modern
conveniences
in new 16-
story fire-
_ proof building

Phone:
)i Whitehall 4450

Owned and
Operated by
A. W. & I. E.
SOMMERS

JAZZ IN TWENTY LESSONS

Learn to play popular jazz on piano, saxo-
phone, banjo, etc., with latest breaks and
fills. Write for free Home-study booklet.

AXEL CHRISTEN SEN SCHOOL
742 Kimball Hall Bids. CHICAGO. ILL.

-Oil IP r2! ^

like to see and hear more of her.

"Our Dancing Daughters" was another
success, but I would have enjoyed it much
better if it was 100-per-cent talkie. I can-
not express in words just how much this
picture affected me, but let me say that it
will always be in my mind. In the next
picture, let us hear Joan Crawford execute
that dance!

I just can't wait to see "The Wild
Party." I am certain that I am going to
enjoy it, and I think those who see it will
agree with me. Clara Bow is one of the
most modern and most popular stars on
the screen, judging from what I hear about
her and what I read. It is always good
news to see her. Well, I hope this pic-
ture comes around soon.

To add to the efforts of my letter,
talkies are bread to those who cannot
afford the price of a trip to Hollywood
to hear personally the voices of the stars
whom we only see in pictures.

Sincerely,

Miss Emily Matto,
122 Eighth Avenue

Newark, N. J.

For Garbo — •
And How!

Dear Editor:

Right off the bat let me say that I
can't see where anyone can even approach
Greta Garbo. For three years I was the
slave of Norma Shearer and vowed ever
to be her subject. I have never been
fickle. I adored Norma with all my heart
and reason. Then, one certain night I
saw Greta Garbo. I felt my infidelity to
Norma waning; I tried to force myself into
hating Greta because of her shaking my
idolatry for Shearer. As I came out of
the theater that eve I vowed eternal de-
votion to La Garbo. That was quite a
while ago. -Let me say that as I delve
into Greta's life and doings I deepen my
feelings for her. Her artistry is divine.
She is immortal. Without her the silver
sheet lures not. I notice that most of the
letters you receive are full of generalities;
few of the writers confess their idol. Why
is this? I'm going to start something new
in your forum. Let everybody give his
opinion of the greatest screen performance
that they know of! Mine is Greta Garbo
in "A Woman of Affairs." What a por-
trayal! Just read the book; then see the
superb depiction Greta gave of Iris March!
Sincerely,

Bruce Clausen,

320 State St.,
Flushing, L. I.

She

Knows Her
Movies

Dear Editor:

"The Foreign Legion" put out "The

Night Watch" for "The Mysterious Lady,"
they were told she was "The Enemy" of
"The Gaucho," but it was "Oh Kay," she
was only a "Farmer's Daughter," and "The
Last Command" her "Mother" gave her was
"Beware of Married Men." but she was
in "Love" and has "That Certain Thing"
called "It"; and "The Racket" heard
around "The Little Yellow House" was
"The Cossacks" "Fighting For Love." It
sounded like "The City Gone Wild." "The
Patent Leather Kid" having won held her
"Heart To Heart," saying, "Baby Mine,"
"Let's Get Married," and with a shy wink,
she said that's the only way to "Get Your
Man."

Those are just a few of the best pictures
I saw in 1928, also the best actors and
actresses played in them.

I wish to say a word in praise of the
fan letter department. I think it is very
interesting.

Why doesn't some one give that hand-
some and wonderful actor, Bruce Gordon,
a chance? He is very handsome and, I
think, a great actor; but all he gets is tiny
parts once in a blue moon. Did you ever
see "Brand of Cowardice?" He was lead-
ing man in that. Also in Ruth Roland's
serials he was wonderful. The last time
I saw him he was playing a small part in
a Pathe serial, "The Tiger's Shadow," as
a gangster. Please, some director, see his
good qualities and give him a chance in
dressed-up roles!

Best wishes for your wonderful mag-
azine. I haven't missed one issue.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Michel Exarchou,
1551 East Forest Avenue.

Detroit, Michigan.

He's a
Collector!

Dear Editor:

Talking pictures are the main discussion
of motion picture fans all over the country
at the present time. In my opinion, talk-
ing pictures are wonderful as they add
more realism to a production. Conrad
Nagel has the best voice of any star I have
heard as yet. I am glad to see that he
is being recognised at last as he has always
been a very capable and efficient worker.
"The Terror" was the best talking picture
I have seen to date. Louise Fazenda com-
pletely won me over as one of her most
ardent fans by her wonderful voice. Mae
McAvoy and Alec Francis should make
rapid progress in future 'talkies.'

I am an enthusiastic collector of stars'
photographs and would like to tell all
Screenland readers about the splendid pic-
tures I have received from my favorites.
Did you notice David Rollins, the hand-
some youth, in "The Air Circus?" He
sent me a nice, large photograph on which
he wrote, "To Albert — I hope I can be
all you expect of me — Always, David
Rollins." I predict a wonderful and bright
future for him. Mary Pickford sent me
the most beautiful picture of herself in a
white fur coat. I prize it highly. Douglas
Fairbanks also sent me a large picture of
himself in the costume of "The Gaucho."

SCREENLAND

ILTBD /

A Woman 's Master
Stroke put Her Sweet-
heart into the$10,000
aYear Class. ,.oMdde
Him a Social and
"Business Leader,...

By Marie Rogers

WHEN Jimmy Watson proposed
to me, he was making $25.00
a week. I had grown to care for
him a lot. And I wouldn't have
minded sacrifices if Jimmy had any
prospects. But he didn't seem to
be getting anywhere, and I didn't
want to be tied to a failure. After
some hesitation, I told him so.

"You have ability, Jimmy, but
nobody but I know
it. You are too timid
and self-conscious.
When somebody
speaks to you, you've
hardly a word to say.
You get all flustered
and embarrassed
when you're asked to
give an opinion. I
can't marry you un-
less you make some
effort to improve
yourself." Of course
he was hurt and in-
dignant. But I was
firm, so we parted.

Then one night a year later, I re-
ceived the surprise of my life. Jimmy
drove up to the house one evening in
a beautiful sport roadster, dressed like
a fashion plate. His manner was en-
tirely changed, too. He seemed supremely
self-confident, and had become an inter-
esting conversationalist. I could not help
but marvel at the change in him and
told him so. He laughed delightedly.

"It's a long story, Marie, but I'll cut
it short. You remember that my chief
fault was that I was afraid of my own
voice? Well, shortly after we parted, I
heard tales of a popular new home study
method by which any man could quickly

What 20 Minutes a Day
Will Show You

How to talk before your club or lodge
How to propose and respond to toasts
How to address board meetings
How to make a political speech
How to tell entertaining stories
How to make after dinner speeches
How to converse interestingly
How to write letters
How to sell more goods
How to train your memory
How to enlarge your vocabulary
How to develop self-confidence
How to acquire a winning personality
How to strengthen your will-power

and ambition
How to become a clear, accurate
thinker

How to develop your power of con-
centration

How to be the master of any situ-
ation

become a powerful speaker — able to dom-
inate one man or thousands — a way that
banished embarrassment, self-conscious-
ness, and timidity in a surprisingly short
time.

"That remarkable course was the mak-
ing of me," said Jimmy. "With only a
few minutes' practice each day, I made
strides in a few weeks that amazed me.
It wasn't long before I went to the boss
with an idea that had been in my mind
about reorganizing the delivery service,
but which I had been afraid to take up
with anybody. You
should have seen me
addressing that confer-
ence of department heads
in the president's office
— I just bowled them
over. That was a few
months ago. Since then
I've climbed ahead fast.
The boss is sending me
to Europe next month to
make a study of depart-
ment store management
over there. By the way,
Marie, how would you
like to go to Europe as
Mrs. Watson?"

Today I am the proud
wife of a successful hus-
band ... a business
leader of our city. We
travel in a very exclusive set and enjoy
the luxuries of life. Turning Jimmy down
had proved to be the second best thing
that could have
happened to him.
It was a lucky
hunch, though, that
prompted him to
develop his speak-^
ing ability whichl
revealed his nat-1
ural ability.

Today the rich
rewards in busi-
ness, popularity in

social life,
positions of
honor in the
community, go
to the man
who is an in-
teresting, dom-
inating, per-
suasive speak-
er. And there is no magic or mystery
about this talent. No matter how timid
or self-conscious you are when called
upon to speak, you can quickly bring out
your natural ability and become a pow-
erful speaker through this amazing new
training.

Send for This Amazing Book

This new method of training is fully de-
scribed in a very interesting and informative
booklet which is now being sent to everyone
mailing the coupon. This book is called, Sow
to Worlc Wonders with Words. In it you are
shown how to conquer stage fright, self-con-
sciousness, timidity, bashfulness and fear —
those things that keep you silent while men
of lesser ability get what they want by the
sheer power of convincing speech. Not only
men who have made millions, but thousands of
others have sent for this book — and are un-
stinting in their praise of it. You are told
how to bring out and develop your priceless
"hidden knack" — the natural gift within you —
which will win for you advancement in posi-
tion and salary, popularity, social standing,
power and real success. You can obtain your
copy absolutely free by sending the coupon.

NORTH AMERICAN INSTITUTE
3601 Michigan Ave, Dept. 632-A, Chicago, III.

Now Sent FREE!

NORTH AMERICAN INSTITUTE

3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 632-A, Chicago, Illinois.

Please send me FREE and without obligation
my copy of your inspiring booklet, How to Work
' Wonders with Words, and full information re-
fJr. garding your Course in Effective Speaking.

Name _

j Address

[ City State

SCREENLAND

EASY
toPlaif!

The first day, with n Conn
instrument, you play tunes.
■ Exclusive features Rive quick
F mastery. Soon social and pro-
fessional engagements arc
open to you— popularity, the
chunco to make money I
FREETrial; Easy Payments
on any Conn instrument for
band or orchestra. Write now
for free literature and details.
Mention instrument.

C. G. CONN, Ltd.
CSi Conn Bldg., Elkhart, Ind.

BAND

INSTRU M EN T 3

The cleansing, healing service
of a soap that's meant for you

Cuticura Soap

with a heritage of 50 years of
highest commendation.

Sold Everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25c. 50c.

BERMUDA
BOUND

plemivu blip fiani the ttmt.

SWIilJIIXO POOL, MS. BERMUDA

THERE are two "Bermudas"
— with en j oyment aplenty
on the Ship as well as on the
Island . . . Your vacation can
start any Wednesday or Satur-
day when you step aboard the
famous "Fort Victoria" or the
new 20.000 ton motorshijD
"Bermuda.''

ROUND TRIP 8/yQ Inclusive Rates

FARES FROM

on Application

I? IJ M X ESS

Bermuda Line

34 Whitehall St 565 Fifth Ave., New York

or any Authorized Agent

The other fine photographs I have received
are: Charlie Farrell in a keen-looking
sweater, John Gilbert, a drawing by James
Montgomery Flagg, an old one of William
S. Hart (why don't we see him any more?),
Pola Negri, Gary Cooper, Billie Dove,
Norma Shearer, Richard Aden, Charles
(Buddy) Rogers, Clara Bow and many others.

Betty Compson, I am glad to say, is
making a remarkable comeback. She was
excellent in "Scarlet Seas." I shall never
forget her role in "The Miracle Man."
I think that Dolores Del Rio will find her
greatest success in "Evangeline," her latest
picture.

My favorite star is Richard Dix. He
typifies the clean-cut, handsome American
of today. His best picture was "The
Vanishing American." He should play
dramatic roles instead of comedy roles.

Good luck to Screenland, my favorite
magazine, and to Delight Evans, whose re-
views are wonderful.

Sincerely,

Albert Manski,
547 Main Street.
Webster, Massachusetts.

Now for a few confessions: Ramon
Novarro is my "movie hero,' and he always
will be! I have no fault to find with him
or his acting. I wish that Nancy Carroll
and Buddy Rogers would always be fea-
tured together. I thought they were won-
derful in "Abie's Irish Rose."

Rose Badali's letter in the March Screen-
land has given me a little hope that may-
be a few of my dreams will come true.
Thanks, Rose!

To Screenland and its capable editor,
Delight Evans, all success.

Sincerely.
Marion Simmermon,
4 Willingdon Place,

Saskatoon, Sask.,

Canada.

Hail,

Conrad

Nagel!

For

Theme

Songs

Dear Editor:

First of all I want to thank you for
making Screenland such a clean and
interesting magazine. It is my favorite
movie book.

I read, with great interest, the many let-
ters for and against the talkies. Those who
dislike them should take into consideration
the fact that the talkies are still new and
are improving constantly. Now that they
are here, I think they will stay, but it will
be a long time before silent pictures leave
us. The talkies have given us many beau-
tiful theme songs. And there are many
stage stars most of us would not see or
hear if it weren't for the talkies.

I think those responsible for talking pic-
tures are to be congratulated for their
good work.

Sincerely,

Helen Kappelman.
417 San Anselmo Avenue.
San Francisco, California.

Dear Editor:

I have been a constant reader of screen
magazines since I walked out of the cradle
— and if I was in the cradle today I would
be tempted to fall out for a copy of the
last issue of Screenland. It was a wow!
Congratulations to the Editor!

This question has been asked me thou-
sands of times — "Why do you go to the
movies and what good does it do you
after you have gone — what pleasure do
you derive from going?" My answer has
been that the motion picture industry is
one of the greatest. From an educational
standpoint the motion picture can't be sur-
passed— from the standpoint of amusement
the motion picture reigns supreme.

The talkies are another step in this great
industry that we must not overlook. When
the talkies are mentioned we think of that
fine young man with the most attractive
personality, a fine voice, in my opinion,
the best actor on the screen — Conrad
Nagel. Long may he reign as "King of the
Talkies!'

Last but not least I want to cry: "Hur-
rah for Screenland and its Editor!"

Sincerely yours.

Worth L. Franklin,
Epworth League.
Morganton, North Carolina.

What,
No

Talkies?

Dear Editor:

Here's a letter from a fan away up in
Canada — a true fan, too. I read "Con-
fessions of the Fans" every month and I
think most of the letters are splendid.

I can't talk about the talkies because I
haven't experienced one as yet. I guess
I'm kind of 'back woodsy."

There are few boy fans in our district
— most of the fans here are girls.

Conrad

Nagel,

Again!

Dear Editor:

My large moment has arrived at last!
I can now express my opinions of the talk-
ies and of the screen stars. Talkies are
wonderful because they give us a chance
to hear as well as see the screen stars.

"Wild Orchids" is a very good picture.
Greta Garbo was never more fascinating

SCREENLAND

1 3

erso/ia

(

Dainty— Secure —Adjustable— In Colorsl

Beltx banishes forever the bothersome safety pin — instead, the
pad is gripped with a tiny immaculately clean bit of celluloid
especially designed for absolute security.

Dainty, soft, silt elastic makes Beltx comfortable and gives a
freedom heretofore unknown. W'ide enough for security, yet
will not crease or chafe.

Beltx is designed to be worn low on the hips, fitting just snug
— it never pulls or binds — as does the old style, tight-fitting,
wide elastic waistline sanitary belt.

Instantly adjustable to hip measurement in the belt line, from
22 inches to 42 inches — to height in the tab length — it meets
every requirement of a personal belt by simple adjustment with
tiny slides.

So diminutive — it is easily tucked away in a corner of your
purse for emergencies.

In colors — to match your lingerie. A splendid women's bridge
club prize — a charming and acceptable "little gift." Price,
$1.00, three for $2.00. Write today.

I am interested in securing
dealers for a few more cities,
e <? Ti^nte for particulars t>

/Jg. GLEN MARIANNE SHEA,

1 I ) Bell Telephone Building, St. Louis, Mo.

Please send me BELTX personal Lefts for whicn I enclose $ . It is understood that I may return

belt for refund if not satisfied. ($1.00 for one; 3 for $2.00).

Check Colors Desired O Orchid [Zl Peach D Flesh

-Addr

A- 131

SCREEN LAND

FRECKLES

Tells How to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots
and Have a Beautiful Complexion

There's no longer the slightest need of feeling
ashamed of your freckles, as Othine — double
strength — is guaranteed to remove these homely
spots.

Simply get an ounce of Othine from any drug
or department store and apply a little of it night
and morning and you should soon see that even
the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while
the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is
seldom that more than an ounce is needed to
completely clear the skin and gain a beautiful
complexion.

Be sure to ask for the double strength Othine
as this is sold under guarantee of money back
if it fails to remove your freckles.

SCREEN STARS

2J Pictures of famous
movie stars. Good
clear prints. Size 3J/4X
5 - Sent prepaid on
receipt of 50c.
JOHN 0. WEIGEL PICTURES CO.
Box - 521. San Francisco. Cat.

THE

Doorway of Hospitality

_^NTER the doorway of
this popular hostelry and you feel at home.
There's an atmosphere of cordial welcome
which marks the difference between the
Hollywood Plaza and ordinary hotels.

Your room, too, has that added touch
of distinction. Pictures on the wall, over-
stuffed furniture, a floor lamp and reading
lamp ... these are but a few of the features
that make you feel at home.

Pig'n Whistle Dining Service insures the
best of food. Therefore, when you are next
in Los Angeles be sure to investigate.

THE HOLLYWOOD

PLAZA
HOTEL

Vine Street at Hollywood Boulevard
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

than in this picture.

Nils Asther is my favorite screen lover.
He always plays his parts so well.

"The Redeeming Sin" is a great talkie.
Conrad Nagel, to my mind, has the golden
voice of the screen, and Dolores Costcllo
is adorable.

I am very anxious to hear the voices
of Clara Bow, Nils Asther, Greta Garbo,
Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford.

I'm a constant reader of Screenland
Magazine; it contains the best news of the
stars.

Sincerely,

Madeline Seltzer,
41 Warrington Street,
Providence, Rhode Island.

A Bow,

Miss

Bow!

Dear Editor:

Imagine some one saying: "There will
be no more movies!" What would we do?
Could we live happily without the movies?
No!

I love the movies and I love the stars
but there is one star I want to mention
particularly. She is Clara Bow. Every
time I attend one of her pictures she seems
to say: "Give me a chance, I'm doing my
best." Clara is young and very popular.
She belongs to us. She has risen to the
starry top. She is said to receive more
fan mail than any other motion picture
actress. But if she were to get married
I think she would no longer be at the top.
And she wouldn't receive much fan mail.
Why? Because she wouldn't belong to us
then! I have written exactly this to Miss
Bow and I hope she will answer me. Clara
is a great actress and she has worked hard.
She deserves her success.

Let me add a word about an all-negro
picture I have seen, "Hearts of Dixie."
Let me tell you, fans, if you have the
opportunity of seeing this great picture take
advantage of it. It's wonderful!

Sincerely.

Frank Orlando,
Route 1, Box 23 2,
Los Gatos, California.

ful in "The Singing Fool." He is so real
and so lovable.

I think Mary Brian should be put in
better pictures. She and Buddy Rogers or
Richard Aden go well together. She-
would also be lovely opposite Gary Cooper
or William Haines.

My favorite actresses are: Clara Bow,
Greta Garbo and Janet Gaynor. My favor-
ite actor is John Gilbert. I just adori
him. He makes his acting so realistic.

I think Lupe Velez is a charming girl
I saw her in person at one of our big
theaters. You couldn't feel lonesome with
Whoopee Lupe around — she wouldn't give
you a chance!

To Delight Evans I extend my good
wishes. Her clever reviews have always
given me many moments of pleasure.
Sincerely,

Dorothy Scherer,
806 South Mitchell Street,
Arlington Heights, Illinois.

A Big
Hand for
Talkies

Dear Editor:

Sound or silent pictures — I'm for 'em
all — but the talkies give us a chance to
hear the movie stars' voices and oh, what
a thrill!

There may be plenty of criticism for
the talkies but to me they're great. Let's
all give them a hand and a fighting chance.

I have written to a great many of the
stars and have found most of them very
kind in replying and sending photographs
I think they appreciate sincere criticism or
praise from their fans.

Many of the stars have made personal
appearances here at Syracuse and they arj
all charming. Bert Lytell, in particular,
impressed me with his wonderful speaking
voice.

I wish J. Warren Kerrigan would make
a talking picture. Come on, fans, let's all
be persistent and he may heed our pie i

Warner Baxter, Billie Dove, Conn J
Nagel, Vilma Banky and Dolores Coste!! >
are my favorites.

To Delight Evans — lots of luck with
your wonderful magazine, my favorite
movie book.

Sincerely,

Mary Bulfrey,
114 Catherine Street,
Syracuse, New York

W hoopee
Lupe!

Mary and
Buddy,

Dear Editor: fl*™

Shall we ever forget Wally Reid, Barbara
La Marr and Rudolph Valentino? Let's
hope not.

I am here to state that the stars are
human. I like them personally as well as Dear Editor:

professionally. I wish to express my opinion of the

Who could feel blue or lonesome after movies and the talkies. I think the Vita-
seeing Clara Bow, Greta Garbo or Janet phone is wonderful. It gives us a chance
Gaynor? I think Davey Lee was wonder- to hear our favorites speak and sing.

SCREENLAND

"Delicate to discuss this,

yet smart women should know1

No longer need women fear ofifend-
ing others. Scientific deodoriza-
tion* is a new feature of this mod-
ern sanitary pad, which excels in
comfort and ease of disposability.

Movietone gives us a chance to hear fa'
mous people speak. But getting back to
the movies, I don't believe there is any
one who likes the movies better than I
do. I would rather see Buddy Rogers or
Richard Barthelmess than eat. They make
you forget your troubles or anything else
that's on your mind.

Three knockout pictures were: Richard
Barthelmess in "Scarlet Seas," Buddy
Rogers in "Abie's Irish Rose," and
"Wings."

I think Mary Brian and Buddy Rogers
should be co'Starred for life. Didn't they
look sweet together in "Varsity?" Now
don't get it in your head that I don't like
any other players — I like them all; but
Mary and Buddy are my favorites.

I buy SCREENLAND every month. I
wouldn't miss it for anything.

Sincerely,

Ernest Victor,
39 Allen Street,
Greenville, South Carolina.

A Boost
For Us!

Dear Editor:

Often I am asked these same two
questions, "Don't you ever get tired of
going to the movies?" and "how do you
know so much about the stars and the
pre-showing of their pictures?"

Well, I must admit I am quite a theater-
goer and see every show in town, but; as
far as having the knowledge of the . stars
and the pre-showing of their pictures the
credit goes to Screenland. I read many
motion picture magazines and must say that
Screenland is the best.

Screenland's pre-showing and review
sections are simply the most interesting and
enjoyable I have ever read. The idea of
giving a brief story of a different star every
month is quite unique (for instance in
April issue). An article on John Gilbert
and Joan Crawford's idea of fashion; that's
what I call a magazine. Not a magazine
that shows pictures of stars and that's all.

If I didn't get Screenland every month
I would be a flop in my crowd, 'cause
whenever anybody wants to know anything
about the stars or their pictures they come
to me and ask. Now, I just answer them,
"Come with me to the newstand and get
a Screenland and you will find just what
you want to know "

Now that this new department is added
for the fans it is just great because it was
my inspiration of writing and boosting
Screenland.

Faithfully yours,

Anna Ginsberg
2262 North 20th Street,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Come on, fans, send
along your views of the
movies with photographic
accompaniment!

WHEREVER women meet the world,
they are in danger of offending others
at certain times. Learning this, they become
unhappily self-conscious. Carefree pleasures
are impossible. Now, a discovery of Kotex
Laboratories makes worries of this sort un-
necessary. Each sanitary pad is scientifically
treated, by patented process,* to end all odor.
The last problem in connection with sani-
tary pads is solved.

That "conspicuous" feeling

The other fear— the feeling of being con-
spicuous—is also eliminated. Corners of the
Kotex pad are scientifically rounded and
tapered so as to leave no evidence of sani-
tary protection when worn.

Yet every advantage remains

You can so easily adjust it to your needs. It
is, as always, absorbent to an amazing degree.
Cellucotton absorbent wadding takes up 16
times its weight in moisture— 5 times more
absorbent than cotton itself. The fact that you
can so easily dispose of it makes a great differ-
ence to women. And a new treatment renders
it softer, fluffier, than you thought possible.

Won't you try The Improved Kotex— buy
a box this very day. It is 45c for a box of
twelve, at any drug, dry goods or department

store; also obtainable through vending cabi-
nets in rest-rooms by West Disinfecting Co.

#Kotex is the only sanitary pad that deodorizes
by patented process. (Patent No. 1,670,587.)

SUPER-SIZE
KOTEX

Formerly 9oc — Now 65c

Some women find Super-size
Kotex a special comfort. Ex-
actly the same as the Regular
size Kotex, but with added
layers of Cellucotton ab-
sorbent wadding.

KOT6X

The New Sanitary Pad which deodorizes

(J Just Another Fan for
Norma Shearer I

would
ever have pre-
dicted that Norma
Shearer would spring into
the spotlight as the bright particular star
of the talkies? Somehow Norma has always
been so securely established as the well-bred young
star of nice, normal, safe and sane program pictures that
we expected her to stay put. What a surprise! This girl
with absolutely no stage experience, this sweet, sheltered young
Hollywood lady has suddenly raced ahead of the picture parade until
she is leading it! Norma has a voice. Norma is a real actress. Norma
is superb in "The Trial of Mary Dugan," as the harassed heroine.

SGREENLAND

QShe's the Shining Star
of The Speakies.

It was a daring thing
for this popular girl to do.
She was always the ingenue. Sud-
denly she grows up! The role of Mary
Dugan is a woman-sized assignment. It is
mature and sophisticated. What will the
Shearer fans who delight in sweetness and light
think when they see their favorite play this worldly
part with so much gusto? Will they be so carried away by
Norma's voice and acting that their illusions will be preserved
intact? Somehow we think so. There are any number of pretty
ingenues; but so far as we know, only one movie-bred actress who can
talk and act with the ease, naturalness and emotion of Norma Shearer!

HONOR PAGE

June
1929

TALKIES
not?
Do you

And why

s a y,

"Let's go to the Vitaphone"
— or 'the audibles,' or 'the
audien?' No; you say,
"Let's go to the Talkies."

A long time ago pompous
people tried to call 'the
movies' by other names,
such as cinema, pictureplay,
photoplay, and what not. It didn't work. Pec
pie went to 'the movies,' and they kept right
on going to the movies until they began going
to the talkies!

Now 'Talkies' is declared an unworthy name
for a new art, and the public is invited to offer
suggestions. But when the public has chris-
tened an entertainment as it christened the mov-
ies and the talkies, these names might just as
well be included in the dictionary.

William Brady, veteran producer of the
stage, prophesies the doom of the legitimate'
theater in three more years. In less time than
that, I think the theater will occupy the same
limited place in the amusement world that the
opera does — for the few. The great mass seek'
ing amusement will turn more and more to the
talkies because there, and there only, will they
be able to see and to hear the world's great
artistes in comfort. No more sitting in the
gallery or the balcony craning the neck and
straining the ears when the famous actor or
prima donna comes to town. With the new
enlarged screen, and the perfected sound de-
vices, the patrons in the last rows of the balcony

elight Evans,
Editor.
Her Page.

will be able to see and hear
great acting and great mu-
sic in harmony and ease.
But I suppose the first-row
seats will still be at a pre-
mium when the film musical
revues launch their chorus
cuties from the screen right
into the laps of the eager
customers.

A motion picture theater
for children will soon be
built in New York — the
city's first non-commercial
theater. The educational
possibilities of motion pic-
tures will be stressed. In-
struction in geology, zool-
ogy, astronomy, and such
subjects will be given on
the screen, supplementing these courses in the
schools. Travel pictures, current events, and
approved film versions of the best literary works
will be shown. I think that's fine — and why
not go a step further? Why not a special
children's room in our huge picture palaces
where, while Mother and Dad enjoy themselves
in the main auditorium, Junior and Sister can
be amused by the antics of Krazy Kat and a
particularly prepared juvenile program? Fun
for all!

A movie theater in London, Ontario, Can-
ada, has the right idea. It has a 'crying room,'
a glass-enclosed structure on the mezzanine
where mothers and children may sit and watch
the performance without disturbing the other
patrons. The manager who thought of that
deserves Screen land's Honor Page!

By means of a new device, an attachment to
standard home projection machines, you'll be
able to invite the neighbors in to hear Home
Talkies. This latest development makes it pos-
sible for you to hear as well as see movies with-
out stirring from your own fireside. One of
these days, Clara Bow in the home! Oh, oh!

Much
0 b liged ,

'MIKE'!

(\Thank the Talkies
for Making These
Stars Shine

C[ The most popular guy
in Hollywood right now is
Old Man Microphone —
called 'Mi\e for short. He has sprung
into prominence and prestige practically
overnight. At first he was feared; then,
upon closer acquaintance, loved and
respected. Today he reigns supreme in
the studios. The star who can't ma\e
a hit with 'Mi\e' is out of luc\, that's
all! Above you'll see some of his most
ardent admirers. He too\ a fancy to
these players from the start and he is
happy to bring them into deserved fame.

C[ Around the circle to the
right, starting from the
lower center: Leatrice
Joy, snatched from vaude-
ville by Vitaphone; Hedda
Hopper, charming vocally
and optically; Robert Ellis,
a wow in "Broadway" ; Alice Joyce,
swell in "The Squall"; Conrad
AJage! — that's all! Lois Wilson, star
in drama and diction; Percy Mar-
mont, bac\ from England and spea\-
ing up; Lila Lee, brought bac\ to
us by the tal\ies; Conway Tearle,
li\ewise; Betty Compson — more than
ever a miracle girl; 'Warner Baxter,
starring and singing; and Sally
0"Heil, Cod bless the Irish!

"Double, Double!

(\ Whose Double Are You? Every-
body Has One! And We Don't
Mean the Movie Double Who
Does Stunts, Either!

€ Above: Helen Twelvetrees.
' charming newcomer, and.
to her left, Lillian Gish,
See the resemblance!

C[ Lovely Lillian would be
the first to welcome
Helen into the fold of
the film famous.

<C Left, above,
Jean Arthur;
below It e r,
Mary Brian.
Jean and Mary
might pass for
twin daughters
of Papa Para-
mount.

CC Right, below: Horma
Talmddge and Sue
Carol. Can't you see
the resemblance?

GT The classic Grecian profiles
' of Jeanette Loff and Vilma
Ban\y might be cast from
the same mold. Which is

which'!

<£ Left: Leila
Hyams and
Carol Lom-
bard.

CTThe same cuddly cuteness is shared by
Xancy Carroll, above, and Doris Dawson.

"Who ^Kasn 't a "Double?

(\Look Around and See Some of
the Heavenly Twins of the Screen.
Maybe They Don't Know It
Themselves, But Don't They
Look Alike?

C[ Above: Mary Pic\ford. There
is only one Mary, and no
other actress has her charm.
But — glance to the right!

({Mary again? 7\[o, jane
Daly, who loo\s more
li\e Miss Pic\ford than
her own sister Lottie
does.

Above: Our own Gloria
Swanson; and, with the
hat, Pauline Star\e. Tou
must have rioted the start-
ling resemblance before.

d[ Right: Mar'
garet Morris
and, below her,
Bessie Love .
Wouldn't you
swear they are
sister si

<C Right, below: Mar-
garet Livingston and
Louise Broo\s. It
was Margaret's voice
doubling for Louise
"The Canary
Case."

<C Left: Alice :
White and
Clara Bow,
both expo-
nents of It,

C[ Doris Hill, above, and Fay Wrcry, top-
ping her. Don't they loo\ ali\e?

gfo i

. Agua Caliente, in Mexico patted 'The Deauville of America,' is the favorite play
ground of many of the picture stars. EsteUe Taylor and Betty Bronson say it is
nicer than the South of France; while Richard Dix, Tom Mix, Buster Keaton
and others prefer it, too. Here's Estelle on her tvay to shoot some Mexican golf.

wood

(\How aizd Where the
Stars Spend Their
Precious Play- Time.

By Helen Ludlam

Hollywood week-end! That
should be something to hold
you! Wild hilarity — red-
hot mamas and sloe-eyed
gypsies - — laughter — music — she-
nanigans! I suppose that's what you'd
expect from a Hollywood party. But
try and find one like that — just try!
The picture people like to play but
it's all good, clean fun. Let's join
their little games — come on!

Suppose we spend a series of Holly-
wood week-ends. The stars all like
to play differently. Some are inter-
ested in mountain sports, some in sea
sports, some in riding, golf, tennis or
hiking. Some like to retire to the
fastnesses of their own estates with a
congenial crowd of guests, and some
like to visit the resorts, such as Palm
Springs, Arrowhead, Gilman Hot
Springs, Catalina, or Caliente. With
the exception of Caliente, which is
essentially a playground, the other
resorts are visited not so much for a
good time as for a rest and a chance
to get away from the whirl of work
during the week.

Hollywood never had a real play-
ground until Caliente opened. And
what a playground that is! Horse
races, whippet races, golf, tennis.

<C Gloria Sti'anson and Roland Drew being rowed out to Conrad T^agel's yacht by Conrad himself. These stars
enjoy a simple outing as much as you or I; and they don't dress up, either!

CBebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, Hollywood's most popular engaged couple, are both aviation
enthusiasts, up in the air practically all their spare time. And both are licensed pilots.

swimming, polo, etc., etc., etc.! The Deauville of America, it is
called; and although they did not at first anticipate such
popularity, it is now packed to capacity every week-end, and
not with the screen people alone. Big business men and
society women and sportsmen from all over the country are
beginning to put Caliente on their list of where to go. And
it is not surprising. There certainly is everything there to
spell a Good Time for anyone, everything but money, and
you supply that, or if Dame Fortune smiles upon you, you
might make the gaming table pay for it. Not that the prices
are high. They are not, and there is good value for your
money. The thing to do is to fly down and a regular schedule
is maintained by the Maddux people, which I will describe
later. As for the screen stars — they have all been there at

C[ Virginia Valli, Leatrice joy, Harry Rapf, and Charlie Farrell
having a gay old time on a little sea air and a sturdy craft.

'C[ Conrad l^agel and ]ac\ Gilbert, good actors and
good sailors! Conrad and ]ac\ spend most of
their weekends on their yachts.

least once. In fact, the only one Mr. Crofton,
secretary for the Casino, can think of who has not
been there is Gloria Swanson.

Caliente is really a precious place. As Betty
Bronson says, "It's nicer than the South of France,"
and I guess that's going some. While Richard Dix,
Buster Keaton and Tom Mix think it is as much
fun as Monte Carlo.

There are two golf (Continued on page 98)

James <^fyfontgomery Cjflagg

QThe Famous Artist Tells What
He Thinks of the Famous Beauties
of Hollywood.

HAT a woman needs to make her thoroughly desirable," said
James Montgomery Flagg, "is to appear beautiful and to be
sympathetic. These two qualities," he continued, "I found
abundant among the many screen actresses I sketched on my
recent visit to Hollywood. Of course," he added, and his eyes twinkled,
"when certain of these girls have humor included in the list of virtues, they
are practically irresistible!"

(I imagine he said 'practically,'' vvr
because I understand he has a young
wife at home who combines these
three qualities perhaps as aptly as
any girl in America.)

Now there is nobody, in my
opinion, so well qualified to give an
impartial opinion on Hollywood
beauty as James Montgomery Flagg.
For during the thirty years of his
artistic career, he has regarded more
loveliness — draped and undraped — ■
than Solomon had wives. Besides
being an international connoisseur on
faces and figures, besides having cre-
ated that pretty Anglo-Saxon type
which is looked upon today as 'The
American Girl' — you know the one

CC Carmel Myers, above, is one of the
most interesting girls in the film colony.

C[ Greta Garbo is the Hordic Mona Lisa,
says Mr. Flagg, who sketched her.

I mean, the girl who peeps out so
saucily from the pages of so many
well-known magazines — Mr. Flagg
has been movie producer, movie
director, movie scenarist, and movie
actor, having written, directed and
acted in twenty-four different films.
That's one you didn't know!

But we'll hear about the man
later. First, hot off the rails, let's
get his opinion of our film favorites.

When I asked him his favorite of
all the film stars, his answer bowled

JftWES IIIOnTCClHEuy tLtJZG

1 5 v

(£ Marion Davies has terrific charm, says
Mr. Flagg. Right, the artist with BilHe
Dove, whom he describes as 'adorable.'

the Stars 0ver;

By Rosa Reilly

G[ Corinne Griffith — calm , selj-contained,
well-bred — is always a joy.

me over. You'd never guess — not if
I gave you ten trials; because the
girl is just the opposite of the blonde
type he delights in drawing. She is
charming, sympathetic, and has won
fame because of her humor. But Mr.
Flagg didn't pick her because of that.
He chose her — well, 111 give you his
exact words, I wrote them down so
you would know exactly what he
said:

"Colleen Moore is my favorite of
all the actresses in Hollywood," Mr.

Flagg declared, "because she hasn't any coating of collodium on her brain.
She's got a mind above cocktails and caviar. She wants to know things.
Colleen doesn't pretend all the knowledge in the world is tucked in her
one little head. She is eager to learn!"

Now what do you know about that? It just proves that a man as well
as a woman can be contradictory. For Mr. Flagg didn't say a word about
a woman's mind when he was giving the qualities necessary to make up
feminine desirability!

The popular illustrator thinks a lot of Corinne Griffith, too. He says:

Corinne Griffith is one of the nicest
people you could ever hope to meet.
Calm, self-contained, obviously well-
bred, she is a joy to associate with
because she knows her way about.

"Marion Davies," he continues,
"is my idea of a good sport. She
has a terriffic lot of charm and a
great capacity both for work and for
play. She is vital to her fingertips.
And everybody loves her because she
is unostentatious. She never 'high
hats1 anybody. She is very casual in
all she does. Amused at herself.
Amused at the World.

"One evening she was having a
party. When I reached her house I
found her (Continued on page 100)

C[ "There is a sweetness about Virginia
Vdlli, a sympathy," says Mr. Flagg.

fee

C[ Colleen Moore, above, has 'a mind above
coc\tails and caviar,' says the artist.
Left, Mr. Flagg with Emil ]annings.

c5? nit a Q a ge's

One of Our Most Modern Maidens
Offers a Lounging Ensemble to the
Writer of the Best Letter.

C~ Screen land has never presented
a \ove\ier star or a more desirable
gift than Anita Page's lounging
pajamas! This little blonde beauty
who first won fame in "Our
Dancing Daughters " ■ — as the
darlingest and dancingest daugh'
ter of them all! — lias \ept right
on going until today she reigns
supreme as the leading ingenue
of the screen. Beauty and brains
combine to ma\e Anita Page one
of the greatest bets in . pictures
today.

G[ Anita is the quintessence of mod'
ern girlhood. She combines sweet'
iiess and sauciness to a degree
guaranteed to ma\e our modem
manhood sit right up and beg —
for more! Anita Page's triumph
in motion pictures, however, is
not the mere triumph of sheer
personality. Li\e all modern girls
who get somewhere, she has a
definite aim and ambition; and
she has the will to wor\ to ma\e
her dreams come true. We're
for her!

G~ But what about the pajamas?
Here they are, worn by Anita
herself, and called "The
Broadway Melody Pajama
Ensemble," because the orig-
inal model was worn by Miss
Page in "The Broadway
Melody.'1 Designed by David
Cox, the ^nee-length coat is
fashioned of orchid satin, with
wide sleeves.

C[ To complete the description of Anita
Page's pajama ensemble: the sleeveless
jumper and the trun\s are of orchid
sil\ crepe with an edging of chiffon
embroidered on. A sash ties at the
natural waistline. The satin mules worn
by Miss Page are of the same shade of
orchid and are included in the ensemble
which will go to the winner who writes
the best letter.

S iff Pajamas

<C Write the best letter — that is,
the cleverest and the clearest —
answering the following question
and you will win the Anita Page
pajamas: Do you prefer to see
Anita in provocative ultra-modern
parts such as she played in "Our
Dancing Daughters" and "Our
Modern Maidens" to her con-
servative roles in "Telling the
World" and "The Flying Fleet?"
Why?

Anita poses without the coat so that
you may get a glimpse of the pretty
pajamas. To the right and below,
she shows you how the coat trans-
forms the pajamas into a smart
lounging ensemble.

All Photographs Posed
Expressly for Screen-
land by Miss Anita Page.
Photographer, Clarence
Sinclair Bull, Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

pring is here! Somehow these photographs of
Anita Page are the most convincing proof we
can offer. Anita felt so springy she decided
she must express her appreciation of the suc-
cess her fan friends have brought her in some substan-
tial way. "My favorite of all the things I have
worn on the screen," said Anita, "is the pajama ensem-
ble designed for me to wear in 'The Broadway Melody."
Suppose I have a copy made just like it and offer it
to a Screenland reader?" That was perfectly all
right with us! And when Anita explained further
that she really has been wishing to know for a long
time just what her fans think about her roles, we were
particularly glad to be able to help her out by putting
her question right up to you! It is: Do you prefer
to see Anita Page in provocative ultra-modern parts
such as she plays in "Our Dancing Daughters" and,
more recently, in "Our Modern Maidens," to her con-
servative and conventional roles in "Telling the World"
and "The Flying Fleet?" Why do you think so? The
best letter answering Anita's question wins the pajamas!

Address — ANITA PAGE
Screenland Contest Department
49 West 45th Street, New York City

Contest closes June 10, 1929

e^ary

^Pi c k f o r d

writ
moves on
was the quo-
tation which
came to my mind
recently when I
read t he an-
nouncement that
Mary Pickford —
my little chum —
is to take her
bow in the talk-
ing moving pic-
tures, with "Co-
quette" as the
vehicle.

Some of my
happiest memo-
ries center about
this strangely
sweet personality.
It was decreed
that I should aid
in writing a bit
of her earlier
hist or>'; that I
should be the one
to select her stage
name, and that I
should aid her in
making the final
choice which sent

her to stardom in the world of the flying films.

My first meeting with this golden-voiced bit of femininity
occurred during 1907 when I was preparing to produce
my play "The Warrens of Virginia." I had chosen Frank
Keenan and Charlotte Walker for the leading roles, be-
cause I felt that they were most certain to score in the
characters of war-time Southern folk. The next necessity

C[ The Mary Pic\ford of today smiles down on the forlorn little
Mary of "Suds," one of the earlier Pic\ford pictures.

C. Little Mary more than ten
years ago, in "M'Liss"
with Thomas Meighan.

was two children —
just the right children
— for the roles of Bob
and Betty. Here was
a problem indeed, for
it was indicated that
the children must be
of the type of the
Southland, that they
must match adequate-
ly the characters of
the father and mother,
and that they
must have un-
usually fine
voices.

Child after
child appeared
and was rejected
until one. day
the late William
Dean, then my
assistant, came to
me with a note
from Blanche
Bates, asking me
to see a little
protege of hers.

"She's a sweet,
self-possessed lit-
tle thing," he told
me, "and has had
some stage expe-
rience though
nothing of espe-
cial note."

I assented and told Mr. Dean to have the child memo-
rize some lines, and to instruct her to come to me on the
stage after the next evening's performance of "The Rose
of The Rancho." Further, to test once and for all
whether she had poise under adverse conditions, I told
him to usher her directly onto the stage without bringing

by ^avid ^Belasco

C[ What Does the Dean of the American
Stage Thin\ of the Little Girl Whom he
Discovered and Presented on Broadway?
Read Mr. Belasco's Revealing Account of
the Real tAary and the Beginnings of her
Career.

The heroine of "Coquette" is no Elsie Dins-
more when she meets the man she loves.
Mary Pic\ford' s courage carries her beyond
her old ingenue roles.

her to meet me first.

I was waiting in the dark auditorium the next evening.
The sole illumination of the stage was the pilot light —
a single brilliant standard incandescent which is kept burn-
ing continuously when the remaining lights are off. Soon
there was a stir in the wings and I saw Mr. Dean motion
the child forward.

CCA scene from "Stella Maris," one of the
greatest pictures of its time. Mary Pic\ford
gave a great performance in the dual role,
with Conway Tearle opposite.

Her intelligent eyes searched the darkness until she
made out my figure in an aisle seat, well forward. She
smiled, thoroughly unperturbed, inclined her head in
greeting, and said:

"I have memorized some lines from Patsy Poor, a
character in 'Human Life,' if you wish to hear them."

Though I was charmed by the child's (Cont. on page 106)

^roadway

QThe Stage Stars Add Zest to the
Social Life of the Picture Colony.

ERE going to page the spirits tomorrow night. Won't you

come over?"

It was Chester Morris speaking. Chester just came out
from New York, you know, to play the lead in '■Alibi,"
and he did it so well that all the companies are bidding for him. So he
and his wife and baby boy have taken a house in Hollywood, and you
may expect to see Chester's speaking countenance in many a talking film.

"Well," answered Patsy the Party Hound, referring to
the spirits, "It depends on the kind of spirits."

"I mean," retorted Chester, "the kind that
didn't have trouble enough while they were
alive, so they came back fussing around."

"All right, we'll be there," Patsy
responded. "But we do hope that
they will be more than one-half of
one percent!"

"Well, I've just bought some
of the best spiritualistic medium
props, so I hope we'll get qual-
ity ghosts," Chester told us.
The Morrises live in one
of those delightful Spanish
hillside houses in Holly-
wood, and it is so thor-
oughly old California Span-
ish indeed that it even has
a barbecue oven in its
patio.

Chester was to barbecue
some steaks for us, and
later on a lot of people
were to come in for a buffet
supper and to watch the
ghosts walk.

"It's an act," said Ches-
ter, grinning as he led us
out to see the barbecue
process. He wouldn't leave
it to a servant for any-
thing, but himself places
the steaks between the big
pieces of rock salt, and,
when they are done,
brushes them off with a
soft little brush, and there
they are, wonderful and

ff Mr. and Mrs. ]ames Clea-
son, famous on Broadway,
are becoming equally popu-
lar in Hollywood. Their
parties are events. If you
want to \now some of the
other bright lights of Holly-
wood whoopee loo\ to the
left and read up the panel:
Raymond Griffith, fane
Winton, Don Alvarado,
and Madge Bellamy.

Whoopee

in HOLLYWOOD

By Grace Y^ingsley, Screenland's Party Reporter

juicy and ready to serve.

There was a big open fire in the lovely living room with its tiny
balconies leading off the upstairs rooms, and we sat there and chatted
a little while, and then dinner was announced.

"The steaks came awfully late," said Mrs. Morris, "and we thought
we might have to barbecue the baby. Couldn't disappoint guests, you
know."

Mrs. Morris was on the stage and in pictures herself
before her marriage, but now she declares that she
is just the little woman. However, she is
very beautiful, and I shouldn't be a bit
surprised to find her in pictures any day.
The steak turned out to be wonder-
ful, and there were baked pota-
toes cooked with onions, which

Mrs. Morris started to tell us all
about.

"Ah, but, my dear," her hus-
i% band admonished in mock
seriousness, "There's a slight
charge for the recipe, you
know!"

Guests began to arrive
immediately after dinner,
and we looked hopefully
toward Chester Morris as
the ghost-pager. But it
turned out that he had
practiced so hard with the
apparatus in preparation
for the party, that he had
busted it.

"Probably it was just
some ghost that was mad
because it wasn't getting
enough publicity that broke
it," remarked Neil Hamil-
ton.

But at any rate Chester
did some wonderful sleight-
of-hand tricks for us, and
so did Harry Stubbs, also
of the theatre, who played
an important part in
"Alibi." He is a little
round man, clever and
amusing, who has been a

<C If you are in demand for
Hollywood picture parties
you \now you are a suc-
cess socially! Here are
some of the most sought-
after stars, reading up:
T^eil Hamilton, Louise
Dresser, Edward K[ugent,
and Claire Windsor.

professional ma-
gician.

We also played
the game of
Hank, Eva and'
Felix,' in which
thre e m u m m y
dolls are used,
being placed in
three mummy
cases, the idea
being to guess
which case con-
tains which doll.
Patsy was clever
enough to guess
how the trick is
done, but I'm not
going to disclose
it in case you
have a chance to
play it and want
to find out for
yourself.

Chester took
Patsy's handker-
chief — her pet
hanky, too — and
pretended to
wrap it around
a lighted cigar-
ette, but of course
the handkerchief
came forth un-
scathed.

Jimmy Gleason
and his wife came
in, but stayed
only a little while,
as they declared
they had a 'lot of
trouble at home.'
It seems their
son Russell had

sprained his ankle when he fell over a bit of stone in the
front yard; Jimmie really was suffering from lumbago
every minute, even if he was grinning, and the cook had
a sty on her eye, and there was the mess in the living
room which had to be cleaned up after a film they were
looking at that afternoon had taken fire.

Natalie Moorehead was there, and Eileen Wilson, Roy
Atkinson, the portrait painter who recently did a cele-
brated painting of Rudolph Valentino; Neil Hamilton and
his wife; Jason Robards and his bride, Agnes Lynch; Lewis
Milestone, Robert Montgomery, Helen Twelvetrees and
her fascinating husband, whom, by the way, she greatly
resembles; Eddie Nugent and his wife, and a number of
others.

Natalie Moorehead was seated in a big chair close to
the fireplace, and was so surrounded by men that Patsy
declared she really should issue tickets to herself.

"There's actually a waiting list!" she declared. Td like
to know her secret."

Natalie was on the stage, too, you know, but is in talk-
ing pictures now.

"Well, I don't think it's a secret," I said, "when any-
body is as pretty as Natalie."

"Ah, but there's more than meets the eye," Patsy
declared. "I'm going over and talk to her."

So I went too, and found that Natalie's secret of charm
is a quite obvious one. She is genuinely kind, for one

Chester Morris is the
actor from Broadway
who made such a hit in
Hollywood as the leading
man of "Alibi" that all the
producers are after him
Meet Mrs. Morris, too!

thing, and then
she is clever
enough without
being too clever,
and most of all
she manages to
make everybody
within her circle
feel that she is
talking directly to
him.

Helen Twelve-
trees proved very
fascinating, too.
Just from the
New York stage,
she humorously
declared that the
extra girls on the
Fox set where she
is working tell
her every day
how to act!

"I don't mind
that," she said,
"but what I do
mind is that the
director is mak-
ing me lisp. As
though we
weren't all trying
hard not to!"

Neil H a m i 1-
ton's wife was
carrying one of
those big gauzy
flirt handker-
€[ Mr. and Mrs. Morris chiefs and Eddie

entertained old and new xt _ _. u 1

c ■ j „ ■ i i Nugent told her

friends at a barbecue , 6 .

party.' "The stea\s for the that It was very

barbecue came so late we reckless for a man

thought we'd have to barbecue ^Q DUy a fljrt

tni baby!" said the hostess. hanky fof a ^

who was as at-
tractive as she was, whereupon she exclaimed: "He didn't!
I bought it myself!" And Mr. Stubbs said plaintively that
he wished she would try to lure him with it.

The painter man, Roy Atkinson, proved that he had
other talents besides painting by playing the piano very
nicely for us, and Mrs. Morris too proved herself an ac-
complished musician.

We heard a tiny cry, just then, and all the women ex-
claimed breathlessly — "The baby!"

Whereupon Chester brought out his lusty little son, who
proved himself a good descendant of a theatrical family by
smiling and taking his bow — even if it was Chester who
gave him a rehearsal by tipping his head toward us — and
promptly going to sleep again when he was laid in his
crib.

"Even if the spirits had arrived we couldn't possibly
have had any more fun." Patsy declared as we left for
home. "They might not have been the right kind of spirits
socially anyway. You know how anxious everybody is
to come to Hollywood!"

"Come out and eat hash with Octavus Roy Cohen,"
the invitation read.

"It's from Jimmie Gleason and his wife, Lucille Web-
ster," explained Patsy, "and even without the lure of the
hash or Octavus, I'd go!"

The invitation was accompanied by a.(Cont. on page 102)

Clifton L. Kling. Still Photographer

The ^JMost ^Beautiful Still of the JMonth

FAY WRAY and RICHARD ARLEN

'Four Feathers"

9lLM

(\Fox Movietone Goes Gay
and Girlified with the First
Motion Picture Musical
Extravaganza.

<C Lois Moran's train-
ing in the Paris
Opera ballet triages
her a valuable
member of the cast
of the Movietone
Follies. She is the
fair heroine.

fl[Has Broadway ever produced
a prettier show girl than
Blanche Fisher, one of the
ladies of the Fox Movietone
Follies ensemble.7 A loud
and ringing '7v(0.''

sweet and snappy number involving jazz and ermine and
feathers and laces and — oh, yes — girls.' The beauties in the
film Follies are all by, o/, and for Hollywood.

Collie

($Now You Don't Have to
Visit Broadway to See a
Grand Girl Show. Fox's
Follies Will Come to You!

<C Cunning Sue Carol, stellar
soubrette of the screen,
struts ^her very special stuff
as the ingenue of Mr. Fox's
Movietone Follies.

<(.FoV^s, meet Betty Rec\law
— one of the reasons why
the success of the Movie-
tone Follies is practically
assured. Broadway has no
corner on gorgeous show
girls. What ho, Hollywood.'

(£ Sue Carol leads one of those collegiate numbers involving a male
chorus — a situation not precisely new to the popular Sue. David
Rollins is the bright pet-icular boy friend.

stop calling him Jack?

!
I

THE Most Famous Engaged Couple in the
World — Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan
Crawford. Real romance in Hollywood!

C[ A Japanese par'
asol, a Holly-
wood bathing-
suit, and an
Hungarian
rhapsody!

including the ^fon-garian!

Q Vilma
Banky—or
Athletics with
An Accent!

(![ Rod La Rocque likes
good sports. "Veil,"
says Vilma, "vot's
the matter vit this
?"

vun!

(Q[ The name of her
newest jilm is "This
!5 Heaven." So is
any scene to which
Vilma Ban^y lends
her loveliness. She
is equally entrancing
by studio lights or
the strong sun of
California.

'41

^ADVICE to

(\The Fair Brides of Hollywood Speak
Their Minds About Matrimony. You
Don't Have to Be a June Bride to Read
and Relish Their Revelations.

give you an account of your own. I believe you will be
happier if you have your own career outside your home, but
you can make your home a career, if you will. See that
your husband has the finest home you can afford, but leave

mm*

Below: Vilmd Ban\y was a ]une bride herself,
two years ago. She says: "Every wife should
have a separate ban\ account." Rod
agrees. Left. George and Mary Lou
Lewis. "Don't fool yourself that
the man you marry is so much
in love that he will stand
for anything you. do."
warns Mary Lou.

QBillie Dove
warns brides
against settling
down. "Remain
sweethearts," coun-
sels Mrs. Irvin Willat.

Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!
All who contemplate matri-
mony in this favorite month
for brides, attention!
Hollywood's happilywed, who have
honeymoons a few months or a few years
wish to give you recipes for happiness!
Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!
"Social workers tell us that the largest

had
back,

percentage of

marriages that fail do so because of difficulties arising during
or immediately after the honeymoon," observes Dolores Costello,
one of our most recent brides.

"There is no reason why romance should die, and you must make it
your business to see that it does not, but don't overdo sentiment. Nothing
more swiftly bores a man.

"Find out your husband's likes and dislikes before completely furnishing your
new home. Perhaps he has strong prejudices for or against certain types of furni-
ture. You hope he'll want to spend a great deal of time at home, so cater to his tastes.

"Unless you are to be wealthy, it is well to consider carefully how you spend his
money. Too many bills have killed more romances than any other agent. Let him see
that you are trying to be a true helpmate."

"My advice to June brides is the same as my advice to those who marry in any other month,"
declares Norma Shearer. "Realize that matrimony is the most eventful milestone in your life, that
it should mark the beginning of life's greatest happiness.

"Don't sit down and expect your husband to make you happy. Consider it your great duty and
privilege to make him happy, and in so doing you will find happiness. Make your marriage a fifty-fifty proposition
and you can't go wrong!"

Vilma Banky, whose wedding two years ago was the event of that June, believes that all brides should have a
church wedding.

"Every woman looks lovely in a wedding veil," she tells us, "and her husband will always think of her as beautiful.
"Every wife should have a separate bank account. If you are not financially independent, your husband should

JUNE BRIDES

Ruth Ttldesley

Pinch-Hitting for Cupid

him alone in it sometimes.

"When your husband has men friends visit him at the
house, make yourself as beautiful as possible, so that he will
be proud of you, and then only stay ten minutes!"

<( Below: Mr. and Mrs. ]ohn Barrymore
Dolores advises other brides not to overdo
sentiment, since nothing more swijtly
bores a man! Right, Louise Fazenda
and her husband, Hal Wallis.
Says Louise: "Treat marriage
as a combination of busi-
ness and sentiment.

Cherish common

in ^r-
sense! ,^

((The first
commandment for
brides, according to
]obyna Ralsto n —
Mrs. Richard Arlen —
is, "Don't nag!"

warns brides against

Billie Dove
settling down.
"Remain sweethearts and keep up the
pretty courtship ways.
"No sweetheart would let her lover see her
when she is untidy, unkempt, or out of temper.
Why should a wife do so?
"Remember the things he likes and makes an effort to
keep him in love with you."
Part of Camilla Horn's advice comes too late if you have
already picked your man.
"Marry your direct opposite," she counsels. "I am pessimistic by
nature and I deliberately chose an optimistic man, who could help me
through my blue days and cast sunshine on my gloom."
The rest of her conclusions, however, may prove valuable.
"Be natural. Don't try to be too sweet because you can't keep it up. Nobody
could.

"Don't let him be too sure of you. Keep him guessing. Make him a bit afraid of
losing you. I don't wish to set brides to quarreling, but oh, it's such fun to make up!
"However, if you love and understand your husband, you will not need much advice
from women, I think!"
Estelle Taylor and Jack Dempsey are unusually successful as husband and wife.
"To be sure of a happy marriage," states Estelle a wife should know when to give in. Two
persons, no matter who they are, disagree at times, and all married people find there are moments when
they don't see eye to eye.

"Every woman knows in her heart when she is fair. If she is sure she is right, and the thing really matters, she
should not give in or the man will lose his sense of justice. If she is wrong, she must know she is wrong, and she
should give in gracefully and swiftly, if she wishes to keep her husband's respect. There is nothing so vital as respect
in marriage."

"Don't settle down!" is the secret, according to Corinne Griffith. "Keep your husband as a playmate. Be
always ready to pack up a lunch and run down to the beach with him. See that he doesn't have (Cont. on page 112)

^Rob Wagner cAsks:

Q The Famous Writer and Screen Authority
Talkies and Wonders Whimsically

■yow that the movies have gone 'drammie1 and "drammie' has
gone movie, it might be well to stop in the thick of the
artistic debacle and, howsoever ungrammatical the expression,
"see where we're at."
First, we may dismiss certain obvious triumphs of news-weekly soundies
and short-reel talkies. To add actual music to a marching band at the
laying of a cornerstone is a real achievement. To introduce us to Mus-
solini, Calvin Coolidge, Bernard Shaw and Charles Lindbergh and at
the same time hear their voices, is, so far, the most successful marriage of
silence and sound. These particular triumphs, however, are straight news'
reel reporting and have nothing to do with art.

It might help in our understanding of the puzzling mess in which we
find ourselves if art — or perhaps, what is not art — were briefly defined.
It is not, for instance, a literal translation of nature. Art is, in fact,
essentially artificial. Music is generally regarded as the purest of the arts
because of this very quality. There is nothing in nature like a Beethoven
Sonata or a Sousa march. A photograph of a tree is a more literal
transcript of a tree than Corot's painting of one, but literalism is not
art. Even the most realistic play is artificial, for it is ridiculous to say
it is an exact reproduction of nature when one wall of a house has been
removed so that a thousand people or more may look in. No one view-
ing the extreme realism of a Belasco play ever feels that he is gazing
upon the real thing. He knows the scene is not in New England. It
is merely a symbol of such a location. The symbol may be so perfect
that it arouses us to real tears or laughter, but in its last analysis we
know that the performance, picture or sound, is artificial.

Every art has its limitations and it is only when art stays within its
limits that it reaches its greatest triumph. When sculpture — the art of
form — takes on color it becomes a wax-work. The dummies in the lobby
of Grauman's Chinese Theatre are startlingly deceptive but as art they
are beneath contempt. The painter who attempts stereoscopic by freak
lighting and trick frames excites wonder but his 'art1 is as childish as
a cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Most people are unable to
define art but they subconsciously know the difference, between art and literalism.

That rather inadequately expressed definition being off our chest, let's look into the matter at present puzzling us,
and the producers of art even more. Let's for example take a motion picture and a stage play and compare them as
art, noting the particular triumphs and limitation of each art-form.

The stage is limited in both time and space. In two hours of dialogue it can give but three or four short sequences
in the lives of its characters. Within the confines of a theatre it can show only the same number of locations.

The screen, on the other hand, can take its characters from London to Tokyo and back, showing their adventures

C[ A scene from "Interference," one of the
to Rob Wagner, every triumph of the
the stage play, including its liraita-

C[ To introduce audiences to such celebrities as President Hoover and George Bernard Shaw and
at the same time reveal their voices is so far the most successful marriage of silence and sound.

^hat c5About

Discusses the Artistic Possibilities of the
What the Screen Is Coming To!

on land, sea and in the air. Furthermore, as pantomime is much swifter
than the spoken word it can cover years of time. Another great triumph,
lies in its ability to visualize the sub-conscious mind — thoughts, dream
sequences, phantasms and psychic phenomenon.

Without doubt the greatest triumph of the stage is in the spoken
word. Intense and significant drama may be put over, without the
slightest action, by two or three people simply sitting at a table and
talking. That this art-form beats a talkie of the same scene lies in the
fact that the stage reveals not only the sound of the voice but it brings
us into physical and spiritual contact with the actor, such as no picture
can possibly do. It is ridiculous to say that a talkie of Mussolini has the
same dramatic force as a personal meeting with that forceful man.

Let us compare a particular drama that has gone movie, and a movie
that has gone talkie. The latter first. "Interference" is a stage play
made into a movie, and in the translation every triumph of the screen
has been discarded simply to reproduce the stage play, including its
limitations. Only in a short opening sequence at a grave does the film
venture outside the theatre, the other scenes taking place within the
limits of a few stage sets. It is a fairly literal translation of the spoken
drama to the screen; but after all, photographs are speaking rather than
real people, and though the result will permit folk in remote places to
see the play, it will be like letting them enjoy a fine colored reproduction
of the Mona Lisa — better than not seeing it at all, but lacking that
spiritual thrill one gets when viewing the original. Or to be more definite
— like listening to Charles Lindbergh in a talkie and being present when
he made the picture and spoke his modest lines.

"Strange Interlude" is a drama that has gone talkie. O'Neill had a
drama in which he wished to put over not only the objective action and
dialogue but the thoughts of his characters. In order to do this he
used the childish device of simply stopping the action, 'freezing1 the
other characters in their places, permitting the actor to talk his thoughts.
In the opening scene, Marsden sits on the edge of a table and reviews
in monologue his whole youth. The effect was beyond the limits of the
dramatic art-form and exactly within the silent drama's finest medium. A motion picture of the same scene would
have opened with a full establishing shot identifying the location. A cut to Marsden would have introduced the
character and then as he began to speak, a lap-dissolve would have carried us into his subjective world of memory,
which would instantly have been recognized as a thought sequence. Finally another lap-dissolve back into the objective
world would have shown Marsden coming out of his memories in time to greet the Professor upon his entrance.

The talkies have not yet jelled and the 'drammies' are trying to steal our stuff. Until they both recognize their
limits and stay within them, there will be artistic chaos.

I >*fm

first all-tal\ing pictures, in which, according
screen has been discarded simply to reproduce
tions. Harsh words, Mr. 'Wagner!

C[ King Alfonso of Spain and King George of England are among the world figures whose personalities and
voices are brought to us through the miracle of the Movietone — triumphs of news-reel reporting.

On J^o cation with

(\Screenland 's Location Lady Never Misses an Interesting
Production. Here She Watches the Making of a New
Picture With an Unusual Theme and Cast.

■-^a ve Southern called for me in her Rolls Roycc
_A sports car which she drives herself. During the
few minutes that she waited for mc, a crowd of

people had gathered, fascinated as much by her
loveliness as by the fact that she was Eve Southern, and a
movie star. She wore a pea-green gown and a white feather
hat that fit closely to her head. Here and there tendrils of
red-gold curled on her neck and cheeks. Her face is the
most extraordinary one I have ever seen, so delicately lovely
that when she turns those enormous violet eyes, fringed
with lashes so long that they actually tangle, full upon
you, and smiles her slow, sweet smile, you can
think of only one comparison, a blush
rose opening to the morning
sun. The lashes are
real, too! I
never wou Id
believe it be-
cause they are
more than an
inch long, but
I have had
plenty of oppor-
tunity since I
have been out
here to assure
myself that they
are nature's gift
to one of her
favorites.

We were bound
for the Universal
lot, a section of
which had been
rented by Tiffany-
Stahl for "The
Voice Within,"
the Eve Southern
picture. Fifteen
years ago when
Uncle Carl Laemmle
bought about one
hundred and sixty
acres to accommo-
date his west coast
productions, he
thought he had a
white elephant on his
hands, I heard. Now,
with the price of land
in that section worth
thousands of dollars an
acre, where he had paid
less than a hundred,
Mr. Laemmle has an en-
tirely different opinion

hstmctwn of having
longest real eyelashes on the screen!

on the subject. Not that he wants to sell any of it. But
he seldom has to send a company away on location because
the scenery found right at home is so varied. Then he
sometimes rents whole acres to other companies, as in
this case.

As we sped along I asked Eve what the new story was
like and whether she liked her part. "I love it," she said.
"It's a little like The Gaucho' — I mean she is a spiritual
girl."

"Do you like to play spiritual girls best?" I inquired,
thinking that she must or she could never have handled
"The Gaucho" part so well. She turned toward
with her illuminating smile, and her
eyes sparkled with mischief.

"No. I simply adore to
play 'hellers'!
The wilder the
girl is the bet-
ter I like her.
Of course she
has to have a
little sense and
some imagina-
tion. I don't
like unintelli-
gent wildness. I
played a 'heller'
just after 'The
Gaucho' part and
it was a tremen-
dous relief, al-
though 'The
Gaucho' was a
very inspiring
thing to be in and
working with Mr.
Fairbanks and Miss
Pickford was a joy;
but the part itself
required a lot of
self-discipline. I had
to keep my mind
as far above mate-
rial things as I pos-
sibly could and I
even was careful
about the things I ate.
I daren't even eat an
onion, or it would
show in my face the
next day! I don't
know why, exactly, ex-
cept that I know onions
are the most potent
blood-makers in the veg-
etable kingdom and per-

&ve Sout

By Helen Ludlam

haps the materialism of this is what
caused the effect. I could never allow
myself to become angry because the
angry thoughts would stand out like a
sore thumb. You can imagine how I
had to watch myself. It was wonderful
training but I couldn't stand it as a
steady diet!

"The girl I play in this picture is a
titled woman engaged to marry Lord
Garys, leading surgeon of London, when
it is discovered that she has an incurable
heart affection. She retires to the
country and changes her name, wishing
to hide and die alone so that the man
she loves will not see her droop and
fade. She has rather a religious nature
and believes in God as a healing power.
One day a child who lives near and
of whom she has grown fond, is hurt.
Anne (my role) takes the little girl in

>C[ It was a cold day when this scene was made and the star,
Eve Southern, had a sprained an\le; hut you'll never \now
it when you see the picture, "The Voice VJithin."

(fT/ie Eve Southern company under the direction of
George Archainbaud tre\\ed from Hollywood to the
Green Verdego Hills to ta\e exteriors. The little
white house on stilts at the left is the camera box.

her arms and puts her whole soul into a prayer
for life. The child is instantly healed.

"Gradually the news travels that Anne is a
miracle worker and people from all over the country
come to be healed. The girl is upset by this because
she doesn't feel that she has done anything. Her
intense desire to help the unfortunate ones and
her real belief in the power of God, often prove
successful, but when she is upset and doubtful
nothing happens.

"The scene we are going to do today is where
hundreds of people climb the hill to the 'miracle
woman's' home and demand to be healed. At the
same time the doctors of the country are up in
arms, the news has reached London, and L/>rd
Garys, not knowing the miracle girl is his sweet'
heart, comes to denounce her as a charlatan."

We were met at the gate by Mrs. Todd, director
of west coast publicity for Tiffany Stahl, and she
drove through to the location with us.

The cameras were set in a little hollow with
rolling hills on all sides. There was also a tiny
village there with shops and attractive cottages with
widow boxes full of flowers. It looks so funny to
see these picture sets. 'False fronts,' they are
called! And certainly when you step inside of the
most charming cottage and find nothing but earth
and lath and plaster strewn all over the earth,
and the back plain boards with windows cut out
so the light will be controlled, it is a distinct shock.

There was a white hase hanging over the trees
and touching the hill on which could be seen the
'miracle woman's' cottage. Here and there were
patches of shade cast by (Com. on page 104)

C[A triumph for the tal\ies

(^Guilty — of Great Entertainment!

triumph for the talkies! And a very special
triumph for a little girl brought up in the silent
studios — Miss Norma Shearer. You know how
only a few months ago Hollywood was in a
panic over the invasion of the stage-trained actors from
Broadway? Hollywood needn't have worried. For the
best performances turned in to the talkies to date have
been by our tried-and-true favorites, the girls and boys
of the old regime. What price revolution, anyway?

Norma Shearer is the first lady of the talkies. She
proves it in "The Trial of Mary Dugan." With no stage
training to give her confidence, Miss Shearer steps quietly
into a most difficult role and handles it like a veteran.
Her poise, her voice, her artistry eclipse many actors of
long stage standing. She is truly superb.

Bayard Veiller, author of the play, directed the screen
version. It is an almost literal translation. But what it
lacks in movement it makes up in drama. True,
the perfect talkie will not be so confined to
dialogue as this drama. It will dash from place
to place with the furious speed
of the news-reel. But right
now we can't expect too much.
The imagination of the specta-
tor is siven free rein when the

witnesses tell their stories in the trial. In a silent movie
there would be cut-backs to the scenes spoken of, and
the incidents would be enacted. As it is, our mind's eye
invents its own images, which is fun, too.

I would rather not tell you anything about the story.
It is tense and forceful drama, and the human interest of
the girl on trial for her life, defended by her beloved
younger brother, is sure-fire. One of your favorite screen
actors, Lewis Stone, speaks for the first time, and you
will like him better than ever. Another, H. B. Warner,
in the fat role of the prosecuting attorney, is capital.
Raymond Hackett, from the stage, is a sympathetic
brother. And Lilyan Tashman, as a chorus-girl witness,
is a well-dressed riot. But the picture belongs to Norma
Shearer. Just try to take it away from her!

The Movie
of the Month.

QT^orma Shearer is superb in
"The Trial of Mary Dugan,''
her first ta\\ie. Raymond
Hac\ett plays her brother.

C[ Breath-ta\ing Beauty

The Divine Lady

[HE most beautiful picture of the month, with the
most exquisite star — Corinne Griffith in "The
Divine Lady." All concerned in this production
deserve high praise. Frank Lloyd, the director,
and Miss Griffith have turned out a picture which is a
credit to their intelligence and imagination. It has a
rare poetic quality. Every scene stands out for beauty.
It is in perfect taste. At the same time, it has drama.
And while the realists may say, "Yeh, but wasn't Emma
Hamilton a hussy?" they must admit that there is little
lost and much gained by making this historical romance
a lyric poem rather than just another sordid story.

Corinne is the one screen star who could play Emma.
She has the legendary loveliness, plus her own great
charm and delicacy. In case anyone still believes that
Miss Griffith is too beautiful to be a good actress, let
him compare her Emma with her Outcast. She never
plays herself; she's always in character. Now we can
go on with the story! The Battle of Trafalgar is by far
the most important and impressive sea scrap ever fought
on the screen. Some of the scenes are miniature master-
pieces; and with the 'sound effects1 you feel too near
the danger gone for entire comfort. Lord T^elson is
handsomely played by Victor Varconi — an excellent
characterisation, especially when you consider that Var-
coni, a large and hearty young man, is obliged to mini-
mise his stature and high spirits to achieve the correct
effect. H. B. Warner is splendid.

Corinne Griffith as Lady Hamilton — after the Romney
painting. Miss Griffith is exquisite in "The Divine Lady."

fi[ A sophisticated tal\ie

THE LETTER

(\Special Delivery!

Jeanne Eagels and Herbert Marshall in a scene from
"The Letter," stirring entertainment.

F you are among the mob yelling for sophisticated
entertainment on the screen — aha, I thought I recog'
nized your voice! — you can now jump up and
down and clap hands over the delivery of "The
Letter." Because here is grown-up drama, all right all
right. Nothing juvenile about it — it's hard, that's what
it it, hard. The fair heroine isn't at all the kind of girl
a boy's mother would want him to marry. (Who is?)
In other words, she is no Mary Brian. No — Mrs. Crosbie,
who writes "The Letter," is the First Murderess of the
Month, bless her heart; and she is also a beautiful and
most accomplished liar. The picture is all about her
efforts to save her lovely white neck — which means it
is all very exciting. The cast boasts the finest collection
of Oxford accents yet heard from the screen. Jeanne
Eagels, the star, is supported by Herbert Marshall, O. P.
Heggie, and other good actors. And you needn't think
everything is all cleaned up pretty for the fade-out, either.
Oh, no. After Mrs. Crosbie has bought back her incrim-
inating letter and saved her neck she proceeds to wreck
her husband's life by telling him that she still loves the
man she killed. It's a big scene. "The Letter" may give
old-fashioned film fans the shock of their lives; but the
smooth direction and adroit histrionics will act as shock'
absorbers. As for Jeanne Eagels — wonderful!

C[A super-film — a great, big overstuffed picture

~Hoatis ^Ark

THIS is a spectacle. And you know what a spectacle is. No —
not what grandmother wears on her nose, silly. But an epic —
a super-film — a great, big over-stuffed cinema. Considered as
a spectacle "Noah's Ark" is all wet. Now I don't mean what
you think 1 mean. Just that there are more gallons of water spilled in
this film than ever before on one screen. The effect is amazing and awe-
inspiring and a lot of other expensive adjectives. In fact, you'll be im-
pressed.

Michael Curtiz has done a notable job in directing this picture.
Especially since he had so little in the way of story structure to build
on. The premise is that the great war performed the same service in
wiping out the sins of the world that the flood did in Noah's time —
or something like that. Those two charming young people, Dolores Cos-
tello and George O'Brien, with a good supporting cast, are the protagon-
ists. In spite of yourself you are thrilled with the sweep of the thing
and even carried away a little by the improbable adventures of the
heroine and her boy friend. And when, in the second half of the show,
the screen is enlarged and the flood comes, and Noah's Ark is filled with
its good folk and its animals two by two, while the poor wicked wretches
struggle in the waves outside, you will be glad you've come.

The spectacular scenes equal in size and impressiveness any-
thing recorded by the camera. Dolores Costello's scenes are
sheer beauty — and her voice has improved. George O'Brien
is wholesome and hearty as the first hero to snore for the talkies.

<C Dolores Costello and
George O'Brien as
the young lovers in
the Biblical episode
of "T^oah's Ar\."

One of those whimsical pictures

Christina

(\ln Dutch!

C[ Janet Gaynor is the little Dutch heroine of "Christina,"
played against the picturesque background of Mar\en.

-sj~0. I don't mean it is a talking picture in a
foreign language. Just a story laid in Hol-
land, that's all — or the Isle of Marken, to
be explicit — and do let's. It's one of those
whimsies, a delicate, sentimental little thing with Janet
Gaynor as a dream-girl. Now I like Janet just as much
as you do; I loved "Seventh Heaven"; but once or twice
during the unreeling of "Christina" I did catch myself
wishing that Janet wouldn't be quite so whimsical, so
dream-like, so dear. There! I suppose it wasn't her
fault; she had to play the part as it was written. Miss
Gaynor can do such grand things, why let her languish
in a role so soft it squushes? If I'm just an old meanie
looking for trouble I'll get it. But I like to see a girl
like Janet in a part worthy of her talents. She is a
vision in her Dutch costume, particularly the bridal gown
which is now gracing the Screenland reader who won
the Gaynor contest. And she has a grand leading man,
Charles Morton. In fact, "Christina" is always lovely to
look at. Janet, as the devoted daughter of an old toy-
maker, Rudolph Schildkraut, dreams of a rrince who will
one day come riding on a white horse. When a circus
comes to town she sees in the parade the knight of her
dreams; and they fall in love. The mean manageress of
the circus, Lucy Dorraine, plots to part them and darn
near succeeds. But the ending is all love and kisses.

JCADY of the
TA VEMENTS

((All Lupe—Whoopee Lupe!

QOh, Lady, hadyi

0 you like Lupe Velez? What a silly question. Step right this
way, then, to Mr. Griffith's latest drama, "Lady of the Pave-
ments," in which Lupe sings, dances, cavorts, clowns and emotes.
Lupe, in other words, is the whole show, whether you like it or
not — but you said you did like it, didn't you? It's the little Mexican's
own private picture, even though William Boyd and Jetta Goudal are
featured first. It's Lupe, all Lupe; and the theme song is "Lupe Velez,
I Love You" — or no, it isn't either; it's something about "The Song of
Songs for Me." But Lupe sings it; so there you are; or rather, there she
is; and isn't she, though!

"Lady of the Pavements" is a romance of the Second Empire. With
Lupe playing a cafe singer who is hired to vamp a young Austrian officer
(William Boyd) to satisfy the revengeful feelings of a great court lady
(Jetta) . Lupe succeeds only too well. Even Miss Goudal's machinations
fail to keep the true lovers apart. Lupe as a comedienne scores over Lupe,
the emotional artiste. When she learns to express as much with
her face as she does so naturally now with her lithe, eager young
body, Senorita Lupe will have arrived with this department. But
just now she is heartily recommended as a spring tonic to all who
have that tired feeling by yours truly, Dr. Evans.

Velez and
i Boyd in
of th e
nts." It is
: picture.

<3( Clara Bow's First 7al\ie

The Wild Party

lara Bow's first talkie. That's all!
Clara's voice is very Bow — no accent, no affec-
tation; just natural, wild, spontaneous and un-
tamed like the red-head kid herself. You won't
be disappointed; you'll like her even more because she is
all the more — herself. Paramount has wisely not at-
tempted to tamper with its prize star's vocal equipment.
She vamps till ready now as always, with sound ac-
companiment. "The Wild Party," as a picture, is a
rough, rowdy, highly improbable and most amusing show.
Not to be taken seriously, so don't be critical. There
never was a girls' college like Winston, nor a student
body, oho, like the gay mob which flutters around Clara.
Who cares? The audience is seeing a Follies show in a
new setting and education will become more popular with
the masses. The story? Well, Stella Ames, Winston's
pet hoyden, falls in love with the professor of anthropol-
ogy, who reciprocates but feels he should tame his 'little
savage.' I leave it to you who does the taming in this
picture. Fredric March plays and speaks the professor;
you'll welcome this new and different leading man. If
you didn't know that Dorothy Arzner directed "The
Wild Party" you'd swear Mack Sennett did. The girls
are beautiful and spirited, especially Adrienne Dore.
Joyce Compton turns in a corking performance as the
school-sneak — a real characterization. Clara is generous
and shares the applause.

({Clara Bow and Fredric March in "The Wild Party,
in which Clara tal\s and everything.

d[ A great chance for Dorothy Mac\aiU

^is Qaptive "Woman

hew, what a picture! I mean it's a
hot picture, I really do. But even on
a balmy spirng evening I think you
can stand the added temperature par-
ticularly when I tell you that Dorothy Mackaill is
the star and divides her time in this opus between
scenes as a night-club dancer and as a castaway
on a desert island, with costumes to match. Miss
Mackaill has never had a better opportunity to
prove her place as one of the screen's most fas-
cinating young women, both artistically and — ahem
— optically. She runs the gamut of emotions —
she's tough, she's tender. By the way, it's about
time to run that gamut again. You have to be
assigned a role like Dorothy's, starting bad and
reforming slowly, or vice versa, before you can call
for that good old gamut and run it ragged. Leave
it to Dorothy, she does. As the heroine she is
called upon to do several rather unladylike things,
murder among them: but somehow she

/7T r> ,i ii i n is forgiven. "His Captive Woman" will
(^Dorothy Maci{aM , 6 . i- i i ,r

and Milton Sills do more than a little capturing herself

as the desert cast- when she is let loose on the audience,
aways in "His thanks to Miss Mackaill.

Captive "Woman.''

C[ Buster Keaton's funniest picture

Almost Funny Enough to Make Buster Keaton Laugh !

Spite Marriage

uster Keaton is the only one in the world
who could keep a straight face through the
hilarious happenings of "Spite Marriage."
And I'm sure even the frozen-faced come-
dian must have been laughing up his sleeve, if not
at his own antics — Buster's modest — then at the
graceful gyrations of his little leading lady,
Dorothy Sebastian. Yes, I said Dorothy
Sebastian. Never thought to find Dorothy
in a Keaton comedy, did you? Well, here
she is. And believe it or not, she has
the chance of her life to make good. She
snaps into it and after some rather rough
treatment during which she is knocked
down and dragged around and thrown
here and there, she emerges as one of
the best little comediennes on the screen.
"Spite Marriage" is as much her pic-
ture as it is Buster's. With his usual consideration
Buster shares honors on every possible occasion.
The story — there's always a story in a Keaton
comedy, you know — concerns a struggling young
man whom a popular actress marries out of hand
to spite her regular beau who had jilted her.
Buster takes it all seriously, of course, and protects
his bride from bootleggers and even rescues her
from the perils of the deep. The ship scenes are
very funny. But the highlight of the picture is
the heroic attempt of the patient husband to put
his slightly inebriated better half to bed. A howl!

C( Buster 1
Dorothy
in "Sp
riage,"
Dorothy
steps o-i
of the
diennes
sere

({With 'William Powell as the gentleman detective

The Canary Murder Case

Jet me go — let me go, I say! Stop pinching.
I won't tell you who did it. You can
j just go to see the picture and find out for
" yourself. I had to. And they flash a

great big sign on the screen requesting you not to
divulge the denouement. (There's a word for you.
You can have it.)

But don't try to fool me. You'd go to see "The
Canary Murder Case" for yourself no matter if I
did tell you the solution. Nothing could keep you
away once you heard William Powell is playing
the gentleman detective, Philo Vance, in his big
way. You can just imagine how the silken and
suave William relishes his roles and how we all do.
If you read the book by S. S. Van Dine you will
not be disappointed in its screen adaptation. Louise
Brooks plays the murdered Canary; a romance be-
tween James Hall and Jean Arthur has been added
for good measure; and such actors as Gustaf von
Seyffertitz, Louis John Bartels and
Charles Lane contribute to the excite-
ment. And, believe it or not, there is ^ charles Lane and
no court-room scene. Many thanks, William Powell

Mr. Paramount. in "The Canary

Murder Case."

<C Texas Guinan in a tal\i

Texas— The State of Excitement !

C[ Texas Guinan, pad'
loc\ princess, in a
scene from her tak-
ing picture, "The
Queen of the 7<[ight

The Queen of
the 7S[ight Clubs

o this is Texas! Guinan — herself, in
person — no, no; I mean, just a mo-
tion picture. But she talks and she
sings and all, so you can kid your-
self, if you care to, that you're really at
the Guinan night-club in New York, pad-
locks permitting, watching real whoopee in
Clubs," with assorted the making. Take a good look at Tex and
guests. j^gj. gang_ Don't push. And be grateful

there's no cover charge. Your- admission
to the picture covers everything.
'Everything' includes a pretty authentic picture
of the night-club atmosphere of the gay 40's in
Manhattan. Texas Guinan presides, urging on the
'suckers' to 'give the little girls a great, big hand.'
And oh yes, there's a story. It involves the night-
club hostess, Tex Malone, and her son Eddie (Eddie
Foy, Jr.) in a murder mystery which in turn drags
us all in to one of those court-room trial scenes,
for the fourth time this month. I hope you all like
murder trials. Lila Lee is the pretty ingenue, and
it's good to see her again. The talkies have brought
her back to stay.

CCA new portrait of Adrian
Screen land's Fashion
Editor.

essie Love is such
a pocket edition
of her type that
it is like analyz,-

({Adrian designed
this sports suit
for Bessie Love's
type. Slim, hip-
lined s\irt; short
fac\et with button
trimming; boyish
blouse with red tie.

ing the potentialities of a
mouse to describe her clothes at all.

She is undoubtedly one of the
tiniest successful stars in Hollywood
and ninety percent of her is un-
adulterated charm. Her wistfulness
naturally gives her very vivacity a
temperance and her wildest moments are
always frosted with bewilderment.

Sometimes she tries to look very tall
and even sophisticated, which makes her
more charming with the very effort of
it all. Her charm is very like the little
girl dressed in her mother's
dress with a train. If her
carriage awaits at the door
one would imagine it pushed
by a governess rather than
pulled by spirited horses. She
is too tiny for her limousine,
too tiny for her furs, com'
pletely lost in most of her
hats, and perfectly at home in
rompers! Although her heart yearns for ultra-
smart clothes Bessie Love, with all her tinyness,
is smart because she has chic.

Bessie, being tiny, should never wear anything
verging on the picture hat unless it be with a
very bouffant dress which would give her im-
portance— but without a skirt to balance her she would be
overpowered by it.

Sports things are fine for her, and not too ingenue evening
dresses. She must be charming and even cunningly smart but
never coy or too sweet. No woman ever should be too sweet in
her fussiness and fluff to be really smart. The pictorial quality
kills smartness and is the curse of Hollywood. Women in Holly-
wood are continually thinking photographically and not from
the standpoint of smartness, even off the screen. What is too
beautiful with a battery of back-lights is too silly at a smart
night club.

Keep your picture frame personality for your picture frame and
never drag it into the tea dance.

^ow the Ottle

Q Adrian Explains How the 'Pocket Edition'
or 'Pint Size' Girl May Achieve as Much
Chic as her Bigger Sisters!

If Bessie were a bird she would undoubtedly be a swallow.
She has all the qualities of that bird, including the energy that
enables such a little creature to build a most imposing nest in
a daredevil position in a breath-taking fashion.

Bessie has a mischievous personality in spite of the fact that
she is rarely actually mischievous. Her 'about to jump to the
moon' manner makes amusing almost all of her sports things, and
one feels that they are touched lightly and never taken seriously
by her.

One comes upon her walking with a most serious
manner to some place or other or coming back equally
serious from another place — and yet her rippling
giggle bursts all your illusions, upon talking to her.
She is the nearest to Pan in the studio. She has
eternal youth because she doesn't know
how to grow up; she is sensible almost
to a fault, and practical, too. All of
these qualities applied to her clothes
makes her a strange little person with
a knowledge of things — surprisingly

CT A n ideal
dance froc\
\ for Bessie is
s\etched at
the left — of
nude tulle with a height-
giving apron effect across
the back, which flares out
with a pleated tulle edge.
The embroidery on the
bodice is in crystal.

Left: Adrian's
design for a tail-
ored street dress
to be developed
in black, tweed.
Bow trimming
finishes the three-
cornered nec\-
line and a silver
buckle empha-
sizes the natural
waistline belt.

<Jngenue (%n be 5mart> ^oo!

By Adrian
Screenland's Fashion Editor

Adrian is an authority on feminine fashions. Every
month in Screenland he takes up a different type and
solves a particular clothes problem. Adrian is glad to
answer all letters from Screenland readers concerning
clothes. Address: Adrian, Screenland's Fashion Depart-
ment, 49 West 45/yj Street, New York City.

old mentally, when one considers the
general impression one gets of her.

Although she could wear clothes suitable
for d much younger person she is wise not
to oress childishly, which would be the
inclination of many people so easily fitted
to do it. She keeps a grown-up picture
of herself before her mind's eye and I find
it is this quality that keeps her smart in-
stead of a type.

It is not necessary to submerge youth
by smartness. Many people think that
smartness can be applied more to the
sophisticated woman than the young girl.
This is all a mistake — when smartness is
sacrificed for youth one is apt to look like
one of the girls in the sister act of a recent
play where we found one of the 'sisters'
was the mother.

Bessie has a French quality about her
with an American soul. Once we made
a wedding gown for Bessie which was a
very formal queenly thing and
amazing as it may seem Bessie
did look every inch the per-
sonage she was supposed to be.
She can do wonders with four-
inch heels and a
flare for mimicry.
Her catching giggle
almost frightened
the dignity out of
the dress, however.

I want to digress
a moment from Bes-
sie and speak about
the curious manner
of clothes evolution.

A new idea in
dress is no different

All drawings expressly
sketched for Screen-
land by Adrian.

C( If you are a June bride
of Bessie Love's type
Adrian has designed this J1
bridal gown for youl Of <^
white satin, it shows sil- \
ver embroidery on the
medieval style bodice.
The tulle veil carries out
an Egyptian head-dress
while the long train lends
height to the 'tiny' type.

({Bessie Love
— the eternal in-
genue; the epitome
of youth and girlish gaiety!

than any other invention. It is simply a matter of
the eye becoming accustomed to anything from air
lines to hemlines.

No fashion can be brought about unless its natural
time of evolution is here. The reason for a dress
dipping in back or becoming longer is
because of natural evolution, watered by
the tender care of couturier gard-
eners and smart women who are the
flowers.

It is the dressmaker who
plants the seed but it is the
-v. ' woman who makes out of it a
\^ thoroughbred plant or a weed.
If it is too hardy a plant one
sees it in every shop window
and that's why the exclusive shop guards its smartest
models with the seal shown only by the grower
of orchids.

Fortunately, in a way, there are only a really few
women who understand thor- (Com. on page 110)

Lois

^LIMBS

the

LADDER

(\Miss Moran' s
Success Story.

"Franklin James

Hurrying across the
Fox studio grounds,
Belle Bennett
stopped suddenly as
Lois Moran rounded a corner
of one of the stages.

They greeted each other
cordially, these two who rose
to fame about three years
ago in "Stella

CLuis clmibfd the ladder
— and today she's a
grown-up star.

8fo

Dallas."

<C Little, hut oh
my, what an
actress, even
then!

€[ Lois' climb has
been safe, sane, and
steady, and she'll stay
at the top!

C[ Lois Moran
ivas the child-
star of "Stel-
la Dallas"
three years
ago.

Dallas." Then she was a
sweet-faced kid in short skirts,
with her hair in long curls.
She had given up dolls, I
think, but she hadn't as yet
discovered the importance of
the young men who hovered
at her elbow and competed
for her smiles.

Now she is a grown-up — a
girl of considerable beauty and
rare poise and charm. The
slim, girlish figure of yesterday
has given way to well-rounded
curves. The wide eyes, only
innocent two years ago, still
are innocent but there is a
new light in them; an interest
in things around her; a won'
derment about life. Maybe
Mother Eve's eyes contained
that same light just before she
reached for the apple!

Other thoughts about Lois
hastened across my mind. I
remember no other actress who
has successfully passed from
childhood to womanhood on
the screen without loss of
popularity. There are innum-
erable actresses who were
successful youngsters and who
still seek to continue as favor-
ites. But something happens
(Continued on page 109)

CONRAD NAGEL, you're pretty young to
be a pioneer. But you started it all with
your admirable voice in the first talkies.

Harold Dean Carsey

ND to think Thelma Todd studied to be a
school-teacher! As it is, she gives celluloid
lessons on the subject of charm.

T is so seldom that Ronald Colman faces the
camera with a smile that we present this
new portrait with pardonable pride.

Ruth - Harriet Louise

HURRAH! Renee Adoree has signed a new
contract. May her company at last do
right by her and bring back Melisande to us!

Hommel

DOLPHE MENJOU is now working in
his first talking picture, entitled "The
Prince Consort." Tres bien!

Lansing Brown

ANOTHER Mack Sennett discovery who is
on the high road to stardom — lovely Sally
Eilers, right now Reginald Denny's leading lady.

Hommel

CLIVE BROOK'S English accent has en-
hanced his appeal — which, as any femme
fan will tell you, was ovetwhelming anyway!

Qood

5A(EWS!

Q Colleen Moore in
"Short Pants"—
Not a Talking
Picture.

<C Extra — extra1. All about the big murder
—beg pardon, we mean merger!

<( All her fans
have been beg-
ging to see more
of Colleen. We
strive to please
— and we i^nou;
we will, because
with this little
star it's a plain
case of the
Moore, the mer-
rier.

WHILE YOU WAIT

By AnneVan Klstyne

(Clancy Carroll
cleverly completes her
evening toilette with,
touch of perfume.

effective beauty treatment which will enable you to
face the world with the proud consciousness that you
have all your good points with you. A treatment
quite as adequate, incidentally, as the beautifying that

done in the boudoirs of the movie stars. I know,
DBt e I have learned some of their secrets — that is,
if there are any beauty secrets in this day and age!

Allow yourself about forty minutes — an hour is
better — for this freshening up. It would be wonder-
ful wouldn't it, if we could wash our faces in some
thing and look all in a minute fresh as a dewy rose?
But until some clever person perfects a magic lotion
such as this, we must spend some time and effort in
making ourselves presentable.

First, take off all your clothes and slip into a loose
kimono. Sit down before your dressing table and
give your hair a quick brushing. Brush it up and
back and away from your face, and up from the nape
or -;our neck. Hair gets tired, and needs frequent
change and rt>st.

Next, cleanse your face. Not with soap and water
ever, upon just coming in, or when you are tired and
Want to beautify quickly. The time to use soap
and water on your face is just before retiring.

Have ready on your dressing table a jar of cleansing
cream, a skin freshener or tonic, one of the many
good ones now on the market, or witch hazel which
is tonic, nothing and cleansing. Diluted with toilet
it has a pleasing fragrance and is not unlike
jre expensive face lotions. Have also at hand
-..ckage of cleansing tissues or soft face towels
ix. from cheese cloth in three-quarter yard lengths,
ana a bowl of absorbent cotton.

Douse a piece of absorbent cotton with the tonic,
dip it in the cleansing cream and smooth over the

CC Miss Van Alstyne will gladly answer any questions
you care to as\ about beauty. If you wish an
answer by mail, please enclose a stamped addressed
envelope. Address: Anne Van Alstyne, Screenland
Magazine, 49 West 45th Street, T^ew Tor\ City.

face and neck using an upward movement. When
the cotton is soiled, take another piece and proceed.
Next, using an eye cup, wash your eyes with
a mild solution of boracic acid which your
druggist has prepared for you. Or, use one
of the excellent patented eye washes. Salt
and water also is restful to the eyes. A
level teaspoon of salt in a half-pint of
boiled water is the right proportion.
Keep in a tightly closed jar. If your
eyes ache and are very tired, fill the
wash basin with cold water, put two
teaspoonfuls of salt into it and then
immerse your face. Blink your eyes
while your face (Cont. on page 109)

'CCA movie actress must freshen her ma\e'up be-
tween st-enes. T^orma Shearer, below, has a
dressing table which is easily moved from
one set to another.

e w

({.Above: Corinne
Griffith and her hus-
band, YVd/ter Morosco, on h
the Leviathan, on which they sailed jor
a European vacation. J^ext, George Jessel, a
Broadway celebrity now in films; and Estelle Taylor,
always welcome.

(\See the Stars Through Screenland's

Telescope.

"Y"EW York has spring fever!

No wonder, with Corinne Griffith, Greta Garbo, Lupe Velez
and Estelle Taylor all here at the same time.

Its a wonder anything is left of the old town at 2IU Offices
were deserted. Everybody went about with an eager, questing loci, peering around
corners and staring into taxi-cabs and pulling out periscopes. Who knew but what that
tall girl just turning the corner might be Garbo? Or that the beautiful ladv alighting from a
limousine was not Corinne Griffith? And surely that's Lupe climbing into a cab at Times
Square, still made up for her act at the Rialto? Well, it was all pretty bewildering let me tell
you! And didn t we love it?
We met Garbo, shared cigarettes with Lupe, lunched with Estelle, and saw Corinne off for Europe!
Who wants my job? Well, you can't have it! I wouldn't have missed the farewell to Corinne for
anything. Not only because she is one of my favorites and perhaps the world's prettiest girl, with,
and not incidentally, either, the handsomest husband, but also because they occupied the Queen Marie
suite on the Leviathan! And you should see that for a treat! It's the swellest suite on the boat and
so-called because the Queen used it on her trip to America. Graced by the aristocratic 'Divine Ladv'
01 the movies it seemed more regal— and comfortable!— than ever. Corinne should always be surrounded
by the loveliest and most luxurious things because she is as beautiful and delicate as a Dresden China doll
or a Watteau shepherdess or something. And that's not all about Corinne. She's so sweet and gracious and
is the only lamous beauty I know who doesn't seem to realise it! She is casual and unconcerned about her

(( Above: Greta

Garbo returns from

her visit to Sweden spar\ling

happy. Alice Joyce came home to
Manhattan — hurrah] Lupe Velez on her first
visit became a Broadway favorite and could have
stayed to star in revues.

By Anne Bye

own fame. Not that she takes it as a matter of course, or is bored by it.
She just has a detachment that is decidedly refreshing. She didn't stay for the
oDening of "The Divine Lady" on Broadway, thereby making herself more than
ever ?tar apart from the rest.

Walter Morosco, her husband, is also the producer of the Griffith pictures, you know
—a very smart yobng man and devoted to Corinne. She seems to like him, too! You
know her voice has been insured for a million dollars. Talkies for her, too, from now on.

Garbo! Well, well! It didn't seem possible to me that the tall, very young and unspoiled
girl I met was the famous Greta. She was so frank and straightforward and utterly devoid
of fQ^. It was the first time Fd met her, and I was prepared for an 'act' — not exactly incense
and tiger-oidns, but at least some sort of a pose. And here was Greta — slim and stunning in a
sweater suit, with her famous bob curling around her cheeks and her huge blue eyes wide and
friendly! She has a firm handclasp and very little accent — just enough to be interesting. And she,
too, has a marvellous detachment about her screen self. She is interested in her work but says she has
never yet made a picture which could not have been oh, so very much better!

She speaks slowly in a low-pitched voice. It isn't husky, as Fd heard. It should register when she uses
it in the alhtalker, "Anna Christie," which will be her next film upon her return to the studios. She said:
"I saw very few people in Sweden. I did not go to Paris — I suppose I should have! But I only wanted to
see my home again and a few friends. It was very nice, for everyone did exactly as I wanted!" (Com. on page ill)

fe r s

G o

t o

"Is It Worth Seeing?" is the Question Everybody Asks
It For You. Follow This Department of Short and Snappy

Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy — beg pardon, Davey Lee — has
conquered New York again. But this time
there's no Al Jolson to father him. However,
Gertrude Olmstead as his mother, Betty Bron-
son as his auntie and John T. Murray as his
sneezing dad, provide an excellent background
for this child whose dramatic like hasn't been
seen since Master Jackie Coogan. You'll like
this film because it's so sophisticated. That more
than capable trouper, Edward Everett Horton,
gives a performance as smooth as velvet; but
everybody was good — the policeman, the night
guest, his supposed dizzy wife — everybody! Real
entertainment, I call this one.

Lone Wolfs Daughter

Here we have, ladies and gentlemen, Bert Lytell as a gentle-
man crook, reformed. Lytell falls for Getrude Olmstead and
so the excitement begins — Gertrude not being given to criminal
society. Lytell as always is fine. Robert Elliott as the detective
gives another of his splendid characterizations, and my, but
Gertrude Olmstead looks pretty!

The Girl on the Barge

Except for the melodramatic ending, this film of life on
an Erie canal boat is excellent. Jean Hersholt, the bargeman.
Sally O'Neil as his daughter, and Malcolm McGregor, the
lover, are fine. The pictorial effects along the water front, the
storm and the rescue are tremendous. A cut beyond the
ordinary!

Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City

This picture with George Sidney, Mack Swain, Kate Price,
and Vera Gordon, worked out along the same old Hebraic-Erin
lines, is only fair. With its Atlantic City background, it had a
chance to prove amusing, but it's not. Sidney gave a good
show and Nora Lane is pretty. But that's all today!

A Woman in the Night

If you like drama, here it is. A picture which deserves a
real hand. Maria Corda loves her husband, Jameson Thomas,
and proves it — thereby nearly wrecking her happiness and in-
criminating an innocent bystander, Paul Cavanagh. These three
do distinguished work. Maria looks very lovely.

the <iffl o v i e s !

About a Motion Picture. Let Screenknd's Revuettes Answer
Reviews and You'll Be Guided to the Worth-While Movies.

The Bride's Relations

Every driver of a Ford will sit through this twice or I miss
my guess. Thelma Hill and Johnny Burke, just married, go
to visit their country relations. Uncle Andy Clyde meets them
in a 1906 Ford. When that car takes a nose dive on the
'short cut' home the audience gives up and roars. So will you.
I can't recall a funnier picture.

Krassin

What with Commander Richard Byrd off in Antarctica and
everybody heated up over frozen lands, you many want to
see this picture telling about the Soviet Ice Breaker "Krassin"
rescuing the "Italia's" crew. It is interesting because it is a
celluloid record of a real event.

Speakeasy

Here she is — ■ the old town herself — with
sound. You can hear the roar of Broadway
when the Bright Lights are lit, Grand Central
Station greeting a hero, the Empire Race Track
with a long shot romping home, and Madison
Square Garden climaxing everything with a prize
fight. Henry Walthall, as a down-and-out musi-
cian playing opera in the speakeasy, and Helen
Ware, a peroxided habitue of same, are great.
Two newcomers, Lola Lane, the heroine, and
Paul Page, as the middleweight champion, make
a nice couple and sound well. Sharon Lynn,
gold-digging singer, is easy on both eyes and
ears. But Stuart Erwin, as a blase reporter, wins
my vote. A safe bet in any town!

S pies

This is the story of Haghi, the master spy. It is so

crammed with complications that I'm not quite clear what it's
all about. It would have gone swell in Lucrecia Borgia's day,

for it's full of poisonings, wrecks, shootings, death gas, and

what not. If action is what you like, this foreign film may
please you.

Daughter of Two Fathers

This introduces to you Omitsu, Japanese actress, in a real
Japanese love story, filmed entirely in Japan. Omitsu is charming
— lovely, young and natural. Inouye and Fujino, her real and
her foster father, are remarkably sincere actors. The settings
are picturesque, and the picture is in every way worthy.

(\Read Screenland's Department of
Studio News and Star Gossip and
Keep Informed on Who's Who and
Whafs What in Filmdom.

4 l^v

Doris Dawson celebrates the coming of
spring by jawing down and going boom.
That's all right with us, especially since
there was a Screenland camera on the
job to record the event.

ERHAPS the most important motion picture event
of the year was the decision of Judge Yankwich
in the trial of Jetta Goudal versus Pathe, formerly
Cecil B. DeMille Productions. The charges made
against Jetta was that she was temperamental and dis-
obedient to the point of disorganizing the company. Jetta's
defense was that she had been engaged by Mr. De Mille
to do a part, and had been asked to interpret that part
a certain way. She could not feel that the woman she
was playing would react to the situation under question
as Mr. De Mille said that she should. Try as she would,
Jetta could not put sincerity into the scene, so she refused
to play it, contending that an insincere performance would
work against her as an artist and be of no value to the
picture.

Judge Yankwich's decision was that it was within the
right of an artist to refuse arbitrary direction when such
direction menaced the quality of an artist's work. The
iudge further contended that as an artist was not a serv

ant, he was not subject to the terms of employment gener-
ally used between master and servant, and that the value
of Jetta Goudal was "Not in her ability to obev slavishly,
for the humblest extra could do that — but • ' her ability
to inject the force of her personalis , experience and in-
telligence into the acting."

It is said that this decision may place an entirely new
complexion on the contract system as it appears at present
and may develop an entirely new relationship between
employer and employee.

While Jetta is elated over her success, she believes that
it is her doom in pictures; that, while the decision will JvAp
decide similar arguments, the verdict will work against
•her personally and the producers will have none of her
in future.

We sincerely hope not. Jetta Goudal is a poetic, imagi-
native artist and has given us some of the most interesting
characterization the screen has offered.

Marian Nixon is about the only player
who refers to the star of the picture she
is playing in as 'Mr.' Referring to a scene
in "Little Pal," she said "That was in Mr.
Jolson's picture"; and to another, "Oh,
that I did with Mr. Barthelmess." It is
a little touch of formality and respect, as
charming as it is surprising in Hollywood,
where no one calls anyone anything but
their given name, no matter how slight the
acquaintance.

In spite of Bill Shakespeare's memorable,
'What's in a name?' it seems that a name
matters an awful lot. A good many famous
people have achieved success after a christ'
ening, but the swiftest result I ever heard
of came to Edwin Carewe.

Eddie had tramped around in circuses
and vaudeville, stage and stock companies
for a good many years, never seeming to
get into anything that was successful. Al-
ways unlucky, always penniless; and he
was getting tired of it. His name at that
time was Jay Fox. He and another actor
were riding through the lonely stretches
of Long Island one Saturday night toward
a house party, and Eddie was talking of
his experiences — not exactly grouching, but
wondering what the heck was the reason
for them. His companion said, "Well,
why don't you try changing your name?" After a good
deal of bantering back and forth they decided to do it.
Jay chose Edwin, because he and his family had been
admirers of Edwin Booth; he chose Carewe because of
the novel immortalizing the cavortings of that hectic family.
And so he became Edwin Carewe. He was christened
with a bottle of beer — real beer! Oh, it was quite all
right. It was long before pro-
hibition.

On Monday morning Eddie
returned to town, walked into
an office and was greeted with
the words, "Oh, Jay, I have
been trying to get you for ten
minutes." He stepped into a
job that day as leading man in
a play that ran all season, the
first time he had ever ex-
perienced such prosperity.
Since then the re-baptized
Eddie has never had a mo-
ment's financial worry!

Along with all the other
worries a director has, just try-
to tie this one. You may
think, Applesauce!' when you
read it, and declare that a
day's growth of beard would
not matter. But John's beard
grows very quickly and he
usually has to shave twice a
day. So if you want to check
up, just try it out on the boy
friend and have him photo-
graphed each day and compare
the proofs.

In "Redemption," the new

C[ To a million fans Gary Cooper is a great, big star; but to
his mother and father he's still Sonny.

John Gilbert picture, directed by Fred Niblo, there is a
sequence in which John's beard has to be watched and
kept even. On Saturday they had to stop at one o'clock,
because they had finished the sequence of his two days'
growth of beard and didn't like to do the third days'
growth because it wouldn't match up with the other scenes
taken when his beard was three days old. Nor could

he finish up the sequence
where his beard had been one
day old, and they couldn't
have him shave to do the
clean-shaven sequence, be-
cause on Monday came an
important scene in which his
beard must be five days old!
So when you have to map out
your schedule to keep pace
with the growth of a man's
beard it seems to me it can be
said that you have your
worries.

Lois Wilson is looking very
beautiful as Princess Alex-
andar in "The Swan," the
role created in this country
by Eva Le Gallienne. Lois
is crazy about the stage but
says that she has to do at least
two pictures a year to earn her
living, because her stage salary
barely provides her with
gowns. That's the worst of
moving pictures! You get
used to making a few thousand
a week and it is pretty hard
to make the old budget stretch
from pay day to pay day when

C[ A year ago Cathrine Hoffman interviewed Hugh
Allan on the subject of Love. The young Pathe
actor gave such a good story the interviewer too\
it seriously. T^ow they're engaged.

C[ Gloria Swanson and her husband on the set during the filming of "Queen
Kelly." The Marquis now prefers to be l^iioivn as plain Henry Falaise.

it returns to a normal wage.

The combination of Eddie Horton and sundry screen players whom he
invites to play with him, has become an institution in Hollywood. It
is the thing to do to see every Horton production. He leased the Vine
Street Theater and played to capacity at night, but his matinees weren't
so good, so he moved to Los Angeles and since then has done a smash'
ing business Incidentally, the Ralph Forbes fans would just love it if
they could see his performance in "The Swan," as a tutor who loves
a Princess. Besides his perfect diction and splendid acting he manages
to be adorable!

Corinne Griffith's picture, "Prisoners,'" was the first to be made on
the new First National sound stage. Prior to the christening, sound pic-
tures had been made in a rather awkward fashion. A cable had to be
attached to the stage and the voices were recorded at Warner Brothers,
ten or fifteen miles away. Gradually sound pictures are becoming bigger
and better.

C[ Victor McLaglen, adventurer, globe-trotter, and picture star, entertains his
brother in his dressing-room between scenes of "King of the Khyber Rifles."

Millard Webb, Paramount director,
issues a few 'Don'ts' for Hollywood aspir-
ants as follows: Unless you are beautiful
and screen well; unless you have a perfect
figure and wear a callico dress as though
it were a velvet gown; unless you have
acting ability par exellencc, and screen ex'
pcricncc; unless you have personality and
charm; unless you have wit; unless you
sing well and know professional dancing
and unless you \now that your voice
records 100 percent over the microphone —

don't come to Hollywood!

<• * * *

Ted Wilde, director for Harold Lloyd,
was handed a lunch box while on location,
marked 'Special.' "For you, Mr. Wilde,"'
the property boy said. Ted answered,
"Mine — why especially mine?" "Well, it's
marked 'special' so it must be for you,"
said the property boy, to whom the director
is all powerful. Ted opened it and there-
in lay a few pieces of dried bread and a
banana. Ted was busy thinking over his

G[ A(o toy dogs for Carol Lombard! She
wouldn't trade her Alas\an hus\y
'Basco' for a whole carload of Pe\ingese.

story and it didn't seem to mean anything
to him the first day. But the second day
the same thing happened. He looked
around and saw Harold with chicken and
ham sandwiches, nuts and jelly and fruit
and lots of other things. He had dried
bread and bananas. The third day he said,
"I will pass up the 'special' this time,
sonny; just give me what the rest are
eating. I don't like dried bread and bana-
nas." The property boy turned white.
"Dried bread and bananas, sir! Is that
what you got?" "Yes, and I don't care
so much for it. I"d rather have a chicken
sandwich." "Well, Mr. Wilde, I don't
know how it happened, but we've been
looking all over for that box with the
dried bread and bananas. You see — that

was special for the monkey!"

♦ + %

Recently Patsy Ruth Miller and her
father moved out of their Beverly Hills
home into an apartment in Hollywood.

They had been there two or three weeks
when one morning the phone rang and Mr.
Miller answered it. "Good morning," said
a brisk, cheery voice, "on behalf of the
Better Citizens' League we welcome you to
Hollywood!,,

Oscar had been up pretty late the night
before and thought maybe he was having
a nightmare. "What's that?" he inquired.
The voice repeated the welcome. "Well,
you are a little late aren't you?" said Oscar.
"What's that?" asked the lady, in her turn
a bit puzzled. "I said you are a little late,
aren't you? How long have you been here?"
"Why, I've been here four years," she
replied. "Well, I've been here eight," said
Oscar. "However, we'll let that go. What's
the gag?" "W — hy w hy," said

the lady, taking heart once more and chirp-
ing, "The Better Citizens' League would
like to take you on a little trip to Toluca
Lake." Whereupon Oscar's mirth knew
no bounds. Toluca Lake is a fifteen minute's
motor run from Hollywood and the lake

(J[ This puppy has had many movie offers but
had to turn them all down. Josephine
Dunn didn't raise her dog to he an actor.

itself is about as large as a gold-fish bowl!
There's no stopping the pep of the

realtors out here!

* * *

Al Santell says he has got to build a
top floor to his Malibu Beach house or
go crazy! The top of floor will be one room
which will be his bedroom, living room and
study, and a bath. The lower part of the
house will be turned over to his guests.
When he has work to do he'll mount the
stairs, put a 'busy' sign on the door and
let the guests make whoopee to their hearts'
content.

The James Gleasons have recently put
up a 'little place' in Beverly Hills. You
know how hard it is for an ordinary family
to worry along with one motor car, when
Father always needs it in his business?
Well, you can plainly see for yourself
that when three members of a family are
business people, it means three motor cars.

C[ Morton Downey and his wife, Barbara Bennett, daughter of Richard Ben'
nett and sister of Constance and ]oan. Both Downeys are in tal\ies now.

And then, of course, none of them has any time to do the shopping, so a
fourth car had to be purchased for the servants. The Gleasons are nothing
if not individual and as in everything else, their separate tastes are carried
out even in the purchase of their automobiles. Mrs. Gleason has a Brewster
town car, Jim has a Packard touring car, and Russell, their son, a Buick
roadster. For the servants to run about in they picked up a Pierce Arrow
for about $100.00. All four cars were sunning themselves in the back
yard one morning, while the chauffeur dusted them, off. When Mrs.
Gleason appeared he said, "Lor, Mis' Gleason, I declare to goodness this

place looks like a used car lot on Hollywood Boulevard!"

* * *

Grauman's Chinese Theatre was turned over to a pre-showing of
"Alibi" one morning, and filmland packed the house to capacity to see
this Roland West production. There was deafening applause at the end
for a minute or two during which Chester Morris, who plays the lead,
and his lovely wife, who was Susan Kilborn, dashed up the aisle looking
as though all the cops in the country were after them. Sue's hands were
icy cold and her eyes had that detached look one has when afraid of

^J^eil Hamilton and his wife, Elsa, with Kleil's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander Hamilton, in Hollywood for a visit.

missing a train. Chester was even worse — he didn't stop for a hand
clasp — just gave a hurried 'hello' over his shoulder and raced for his car.

This was Chester's first picture, so you can understand how upset he
was. All day Hollywood buzzed with the fine performance of Chester
Morris and the next morning Roland West called him up. "Well, Ches,"
he said, "arc you packed?" "How did you know I was leaving?" Chester
demanded. "Because that's just how well I know you," said Mr. West.
"You gave one of the finest performances Hollywood has seen for a long
time, but I knew perfectly well that you would think you were rotten
and that you would be all packed by now ready to board The Chief
for the East." "Well, I did think I was rotten!" said Chester. "I never
went through such an ordeal in my life and Sue was as nervous as I was.
I'm not going to wait to be booted out of town — I'll get out while I can
still ride."

However, United Artists do not agree with him and they argued so

long and so sincerely that he decided to take them at their word. They

are now trying to sign him to a contract. Chester has decided to stay

out here and try 'to make good' in his own eyes, as lie puts it.

* * *

"The Iron Mask" opened. The star was Douglas Fairbanks — the pic-
ture one of United Artists. That's all anybody has to know to realize
that it was one of the social events of Hollywood. Doug and Mary were
there, Mary looking very lovely in white charmeuse embroidered in crys-
tal. Conrad Nagel announced that Doug wasn't going to appear that
night and Roy Miller, Manager of the Carthay Circle Theatre, said the
only way he could be persuaded would be to tell him that they were
going to introduce Mary, his wife. Young Doug and Joan were there;
Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque — Vilma
looking as beautiful as ever; Colleen
Moore and John McCormick, Jack Gilbert,
Lilyan Tashman, Edmund Lowe, Joan Ben-
nett and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hornblow
as guests of Carey Wilson; Bebe Daniels,
with Ben Lyon; Pauline Garon with some-
one we didn't recognize, and a list of
others too long to chronicle here. Of
course Alan Dwan was there — he directed
the picture.

* * *

Before Dr. Timothy Ken left his country
he asked a Chinese Minister what he would
like to have from the States.. Without
hesitation the
diplomat re-
plied, "Bring
me the best pic-
ture you can
find of Gloria
S w a n s o n !"
American mov-

ing pictures
have changed
living conditions
in China vastly.
For one thing,
the young
women no long-
er want to live
with their
mothers-in-law.

CWIiile hi Mexico Dic\ BartheJmess was
entertained by Don Antonio Canera.
heap big bullfighter. Here's Dic\
dressed in the Andalusian costume of
1830. My goodness!

They want homes of their own.
Gradually pictures will bring unity
to the world and make us all one
big, happy family!

* * :■:

An interesting fact will be brought
out in the wedding scene in "Re-
demption," which is that Russia is
the only country in which the wed-
ding ring is worn on the right hand.
They have no engagement rings in
Russia, but the wedding ring is given
to the bride-elect as an engagement
ring. She wears it on her left
hand and at the ceremony the
same ring is transferred to her
right hand. John Gilbert is
the bridegroom and Eleanor
Boardman the bride.

Renee Adoree plays the
gypsy in "Redemption" and
of course is loaded with
bangles and beads and
bracelets and what-not. Mr.
Niblo realized that in the
sound production the beads
bangles jangling together
would completely drown Renee's
voice, so the ornaments that you
will see are pasteboard beads,
and the bangles are gilded poker
chips!

* * *
I don't know whether it means

very sheer negligee. Then off came the negligee. And
the teddy! — to be replaced at the end of a week's shooting
by a night gown. The picture will take three more weeks

to finish — imagine Pat's embarrassment by that time!

* * *

It seems to have taken a long time for the chief executives
in Hollywood to appreciate the charm of the foreign accent,
but now it seems they have all fallen for it in a body. The
excitement about whether Jannings was going to be ousted
from America, or the question as to whether Garbo and
other charming ladies in our midst were to be kept silent,
is settled. I don't know whether the knock'Out performance
that Maurice Chevalier gives in "Innocence of Paris," made

up Jesse Lasky's mind
or not, but anyway,
Mr. Lasky steps forth
with a statement saying
that the foreign accent
is a decided asset rather
than a detriment and
that Mr. Jannings' next
picture will be an alb
talking production
of "The Concert,"
one ' time stage
vehicle for Leo
Ditrichstein.

C[ Thelma Hill, pert and expert comedienne, has
excellent taste. She reads Screenland be-
cause she li\es nice things.

anything or not, but Lita Grey Chaplin was very

busy having a voice test made at Warner

Brothers the other day!

% & *

Kay Johnson, leading woman in
"Dynamite," the new Cecil De
Mille production, committed the
worst crime in the moving picture
calendar. She held up production
for three weeks! However, she was
forgiven, because she couldn't help
it. She was operated on for ap-
pendicitis and is still in the hospital,
though the report came today that
if she continues to improve she can
return to the studio in a few days.
She was in every scene, so there was
nothing Mr. DeMille could do ex-
cept wait. But Kay, I hear, is well
worth waiting for. A beautiful blonde and

a splendid actress.

* * *

Patsy Ruth Miller is certainly in a
dilemma! She is playing in "Twin Beds,"
a First National production, directed by
Al Santell with Jack Mulhall in the cast,
and they have been working only one week.
When Pat did the first scenes she wore
an ensemble, but soon shed the coat. Next
day off came the dress, which was very
heavy silk. This was replaced by a thin
lace gown. About the third day on the
picture, off came the lace gown and the
scenes were taken with Pat in a teddie and

Mack Swain
has always been
cast for comedy
roles. Four years
ago Fred Niblo,
who is directing
"Redemption,"
starring John Gil-
bert, said that
some day he was
going to put
Mack Swain in a
part that showed
his dramatic abil-
ity.. Mr. Swain
is the judge — a
heavy dramatic
role, which he
plays superbly, I
hear.

^Slie c>tage Coach

(^Sprightly Comments on the Current Broadway Plays

By Morrie Kyskmd

The Lady from the Sea

R. Henrik Ibsen,
who bobs up
with almost as
many plays as
Owen Davis, is being rep-
resented at the Bijou by
"The Lady from the Sea."
And, if you ask us, pretty
well represented, too.

Now wait a minute. This
is no highbrow speaking.
Like yourselves we have a
sophomoric aversion to any
thing that resembles the clas'
sics. And we had, if that
will make you feel better,
never even read this play
before, let alone seen it.

But there is something
about Or Man Ibsen that
rouses our admiration. Even
when the wheels of his
machinery creak and wheeze.
Even when he assays some
humor. Even when the set-
tings are as antiquated as
those in this show.

In this tale of the lady
who gave her heart to a
sailor and married a land-
lubber, Ibsen keeps crying
out for the liberation of the
ego. His story is incidental.
It is people he is interested
in. And in his characteriza-
tion of the lady who de-
manded freedom (in an
age when Jung, Adler and
Schmalhausen were unknown

De Mirjian

(£ Blanche Yur\a has completed, practically single-
handed, an entire Ibsen season on Broadway. This
great actress has successfully directed and starred in
"The Wild Duc\," ''Hedda Gabler," and "The Lady
from the Sea," which Mr. Rys\ind reviews on this
page. Miss Tur\a's success ma\es Bernard Shaw's
dream of a real Ihsen Theater come true.

names), in his picture of

the nasty little girl who was nasty because she was too
proud to tell of her love (and this in an age when de-
fensive mechanism meant only guns), in his characteriza-
tion of the gentle little housekeeper whose one thought was
to get away from the house — OY Man Ibsen showed him-
self a far better 'scientist' than Jules Verne. Our sug-
gestion of the month is that Gene O'Neill stop writing
for a week or so and re-read his Ibsen. Blanche Yurka plays
the leading role in a manner worthy of herself and Ibsen.

Conflict

One by Warren F. Lawrence, kid brother of Vincent
Lawrence, who writes almost as well. And when you ad-
mire Vince Lawrence's dialogue as much as we do, you're
saying something. Or, rather we are.

And we mean to. Here is,
in a season, when dramatic
shows have been not so hot,
one definitely worth your
attention — and your attend-
ance. It deals with a clerk
who goes to the war to be-
come a war hero and return
a clerk.

No, it's not a war play.
Don't get sore. Let's see if
we can't make it more
modern sounding for you.
Just a minute. Yes, it's about
a man who is unable to ad-
just his psyche. How's that?
That's right, children. Gulp
it right down.

Well, Dick Banks is a
clerk when the war breaks
out, engaged to the little
stenog in the office. He
doesn't want to go to the
war, but the draft gets him.
When the war's over, he's a
leading ace and a hero. He
marries — not the little stenog
— but a society girl.

And then the war is for-
gotten. And he's no longer
a hero. And nobody wants
to hear about the war. He's
just a man who would make
a good clerk. But he can't
do that any more. He's used
to giving orders, not taking
'em.

The glamour gone, his
marriage disintegrates, and
he realizes that he must give
up his wife. The war is over.

So is he.

A little perhaps of "The Admirable Crichton." Even so,
a brave play in its own right. Exceedingly well acted by
George Meeker, Peggy Allenby, Spencer Tracy, Seth
Arnold, Frank McHugh and Albert Van Dekker.

Buc karoo

In a month of theatre-going where the muses haven't been
over-lavish, "Buckaroo" provides a comparatively decent
entertainment. Maybe it's on account of the settings, and
the feeling of space you get from an amphitheatre; but
whatever the reason, we're grateful.

Anyway, here's the rodeo at Soldier Field, Chicago.
And here are cowboys, cowgirls, banjo players, stilt walk-
ers, knife throwers, Indians, society men and women
(pretty bad caricatures, these), Chicago gunmen, Chicago

Apeda

C[ A scene from "Conflict," an interesting new play. From left to right, Spencer Tracy, George Meeker, Peggy
Allenby, Dennie Moore, and Edward Arnold. Movie fans will remember Mr. Mee\er as a Fox film player.

underworld vampires — here are all the elements of either
a swell show or a good dime-novel.

"Buckaroo" turns out to be just a dime-novel. And
yet we can have a pretty good time with that. It has,
helped by its settings and atmosphere, a tang of the circus
in it, and, though diluted to some extent by none-too-
clever plot manipulation, that tang remains. Maybe it's
cut a bit, but the label is
genuine or such a swell imita-
tion that only a killjoy would
bother to tell the difference.

James Bell as the cowboy
who gets roped in by the
Chicago moll gives a grand
performance. He may not be
the authentic, but for those
of us who reveled in "Chip
of the Flying U" and other
tales, he is the ideal cowboy:
at any rate, his impersona-
tion of a decent, kindly and
dumb-witted male is superb.
And so, to our way of look-
ing at it, is Nydia West-
man's as the protective young
woman who washes him be-
hind his ears, and then goes
out and in an exciting hair-
pulling match gets his money
back for him from the come-
on lady.

You can do a lot worse this
month than see "Buckaroo."
Heaven knows we did a lot
worse — as Delight Evans is
our judge!

The Town's Woman

Another curious mixture

De Bar

{{[Gertrude MacDonald, one of the prettiest and most
gifted girls on Broadway, sings and dances her way
into the good graces of "Lady Fingers' " patrons.

of inept writing and occasional bright lines. Not so
curious, however, that you have to waste an evening at
it, the way we did. There is, though, a blonde called
Helen Baxter who, from where we sat, looked to be worth
an evening of any man's time. But not with this show.

Indiscretion

Well, here is Myron C.
Fagan with a new play. One
that doesn't quite measure up
to his others. And you know
what we thought of them.

It is a little unbelievable
and totally indescribable.
That sounds harsh, we know,
but what are you going to
do about it?

It begins eighteen years
ago in Venice. Ah! Venice!
The moonlight nights, the
strains of the gondoliers float-
ing above the water, and the
hooey dialogue! The second
act is eighteen years later,
and takes place in the dress-
ing room of a New York
theatre that has impression-
istic furniture. Ah, New
York, with its great towers
rising from the sea, with its
actresses who have the town
at their feet, and the hooey
dialogue. "A woman . . .
is like a rose. Once the petals
are crushed ..." Well,
once the petals are crushed,
you have a play by Myron C.
Fagan. And you can keep it.
(Continued on page 108)

Photographs by
Clarence Sinclair Bull.

C[ Edwina Booth, the blonde girl chosen from hundreds of applicants for the
leading feminine role in "Trader Horn," will wear the costume, pictured
above, of mon\ey fur and a feather or two when she plays T^ina T.

OF TRADER HORN

G[ Miss Booth, above, demonstrates what the well-dressed
young lady will wear when she goes exploring in Africa.
Miss Booth, below, demonstrates daring.

C Director W. S. Van Dy\e discussing with Edwina Booth
and Harry Carey the script of "Trader Horn." Carey plays
the title role. The company are now on their way to
South Africa, where they will penetrate places never before
caught by a movie camera, braving heat, homesic\ness
and hungry lions to ma\e a faithful screen version of a
famous boo\.

■HjsB

(

Sonny
"Boy

£teps
Out

IS fans need not worry that
fame will spoil little Davey
Lee. Before his first salary
check as a star was duly

C[ '''Let's see your license'." says the special cop of the
studio to the youngest racing driver.

banked by his mother a little of it was solemnly handed to the child to buy
what he pleased with. Now Davey is a normal healthy kid and there are
lots of things he likes — candy, for instance; and a special kind of scooter;
and a toy ortermobil'. But he spent his money on none of these things.
He trotted up to his big brother, Frankie, and said: "Here." And thrust
into Frank's hand a tightly wadded ten dollar bill! Davey's first thought
was for his brother. And maybe Frank isn't proud!

Davey had his reward not long afterward. His bosses, the Warner
Brothers, presented him with a nice, new, shiny sports model car, in

which he can skim around the walks
of the studio lot and have a grand
time!

Not since Jac\ie
Coogan has a
child won such
applause as that
accorded Davey
Lee! And no
wonder.

C[ Davey Lee, the child
wonder of "The
Singing F o o
\nown to the world
as "Sonny Boy,"
with his brother
Fran\, who used to
be a \id star himself
— the Fran\ie Lee of
"The Miracle Man."

C[ It loo^s as if
Davey Lee has
ta\en up golf in
a serious way,
emulating his
idol, AI ]olson.

({When Mary
T^olan was
only nine!

Q As a Little Girl Mary Nolan Faced the
Camera with a Smile. Today She Looks
the Other Way. But It's All Right
With Us, Just So She Keeps On Having
Her Picture Taken!

Quite
(^ontrary !

(\The Very Latest
Chatter from the
Stars and Studios.

Contrary to rumors that have been
current about Hollywood's newest
romancers, Bebe Daniels and Ben
Lyon, that Bebe has vetoed Ben's
flying propensities, it seems that it is just
the other way around. Bebe is fast learn-
ing to fly herself, receiving daily instruc-
tion from Capt. Roscoe Turner, former
war ace. and Ben is studying naviga-
tion. They are perfectly sincere in plan-
ning an air honeymoon. They both think
that aviation is the greatest thing that has
hit this world for some time, and seem to
be earnest and constructive enthusiasts.

M. G. M. seems to be wiping off the old
slate and starting fresh with three new
pictures, and the fourth taken in New York.
Lon Chaney will be the star of that, the
title of which is "Thunder," a railroad
story directed by William Nigh. Phyllis
Haver will play opposite Mr. Chaney. The
other three which started today will be:
"Wonders of Women," with Peggy Wood,
the popular stage and musical comedy star,
and Lewis Stone; "Redemption," the Tol-
stoy novel, which John Barrymore did on
the stage, and which will be a talking pic-
ture with John Gilbert, Conrad Nagel.
Eleanor Boardman and Renee Adoree; and
"Marianne," starring Marion Davies.

Just before stepping into a scene, Julia

Fay was seen shaking her hands violently.
You know how you do when something
sticks to your fingers and you want to
get it off? Well, that was what Julia did.
We asked what the trouble was and she
said that a famous stage actress told her
that this was the thing to do to make her
hands photograph well. It sends the blood
tingling to the finger tips and takes away
the waxen look.

3s &

Charles Bickford, who plays the lead ia
"Dynamite," has taken such a shine to
Hollywood that he is sending for his entire
family and is looking about for a home to
put them in. We thought our climate, our
sea and mountains had something to do
with this until, visiting the set that after-
noon, we saw Mr. Bickford rehearsing a
scene in which he was kissed by twenty
girls all at once!

At the last moment, two days before the
picture started, in fact, it was decided that
a blonde should play the part of the wife
in "Redemption" opposite John Gilbert, as
a contrast to the gypsy girl played by Renee
Adoree. Those who had looked forward
to seeing Virginia Valli in a part that suits
her to her finger tips, will probably be dis-
appointed. Virginia seemed the ideal type
to her fans.

Sue Carol, according to report, won her
case against Douglas MacLean, who had
her under contract and forgot to renew the
option, which let him out of a pile of
money. Sue is now under a long-term con-
tract to William Fox. Her first individual
starring picture will be "The Exalted Flap-
per." It is a strange coincidence that Sue
begins to work on this first individual star-
ring picture two years almost to the day
that she did her first extra bit at the Fox
Studio. During those two years she has
played in practically every studio in Holly-
wood.

For some reason no one ever thinks of
Sue without thinking of Nick Stuart, so
Nick's news is that he has been forbidden
the basketball team on the Fox lot. He
wrenched his knee a year ago at this game
and every time he plays he gives it another
twist, which holds up production, so Mr.
Fox told Nick he couldn't play any more.
As a matter of fact, I think they have got
a second Dempsey in young Nick, because
the day I was over there a carpenter and
scenic painter were laboriously trying to
fill in a patch on one of the walls and
they couldn't get the paint to match. "I
did that." said Nick, brightly. "I was so
surprised! Just as I passed that pillar I
put my fist out. not with any force at all —
I was just stretching, and it went straight
through the scenery!" It was made of
pretty thick beaver board so Nick must
be some kid with the biceps.

And what do you think Lois Moran is
doing? She and her mother have opened
a pajama shop in Beverly Hills! There
isn't a good shop in town for stunning
feminine pajamas and this will come as a
bit of gladsome news to those who wear
them. They employ several girls, one Mrs.
Moran has had her eye on for over a year,
who does beautiful work and has been em-
ployed by one of the best shops in the city.
The finest materials are used and the prices
are reasonable.

The talking pictures are certainly creating
havoc in the social life of the screen col-
ony. An absolute catastrophe is the fact
that Betty Compson and Jim Cruze have
shut down on their Sunday afternoon open
house! Betty was working night and day
and Jim has been working for the last
six Sundays. For a while they just turned

frhe place over to whoever came, even
though they themselves couldn't be there;
but this didn't go so well, so they decided
to shut down until both have the leisure
to receive their guests.

* * #

History repeats itself in a different form,
they say. Certainly it has happened to
Marian Nixon, who will soon be seen in
"Headlines," a story written by Jimmy
Starr. In 1922 when Marian first came to
Hollywood, Jimmy Starr, who was on a
newspaper at that time, gave her her very
first publicity. Marian is at present playing
the lead in Al Jolson's picture, "Mammy."
She is the only girl in the cast and is play-
ing the role of little Davey's mother.

Just to prove that you can't escape your
fate — Chester Morris was playing in "Fast
Life," with Claudette Colbert, in New
York, when Joseph Schenck took a notion
to cast him in "The Alibi," the new title
of "Nightstick." He wired to Al Woods
who said he couldn't release Chester, but
apparently Mr. Schenck has a single-track
mind. He was going to do "The Alibi"
and there was nobody in this world who
could play it except Chester Morris. So
all hands finally came to terms; and at a
fat salary, Mr. Morris stepped out of the
cast of "Fast Life" and into the cast of
"The Alibi," and he took to Hollywood
like a duck takes to water. Incidentally,
if he ever got on his uppers, he could
make a good living as a prestidigitator.
He knows a number of clever card tricks
and what he can't do with three aluminum
cups, is nobody's business. It is a case of.
'now you see it now you don't,' and where
they go, nobody knows. Chester has also
a very charming wife and an adorable baby,
only a few months old. He — Chester, not
the baby — is becoming famous in our town
for barbecued steaks. It's quite a trick to
barbecue a steak. For one thing you have
to do it out of doors, over a charcoal fire;
then you put a layer of rock salt in a pan,
then the steak, well peppered and rubbed
with garlic, then another layer of rock salt
and another layer of beef; then you cover
this with another pan. You then set it
on the hot coals, while it loses all control
of itself and becomes a thing to dream

(C Gwen Lee's grandmother gave her these
cameos and now Gwen has a ring on her
finger and hells on her toes — beg pardon,
a new earring.

about. Of course the steaks disappear, as
the aluminum cups do, but I don't suppose
it would take very much figuring to decide
where they go!

In Louisiana there is a little town called
St. Martinsville. Perhaps two-thirds of the
population of America have not heard of
it, nor do they know that it is sacred to
the memory of Evangeline, the Canadian
girl immortalized by Longfellow. who
traveled so far and so faithfully to find
the sweetheart she had lost. For years she
stayed among the people of St. Martinsville
and became loved and revered because of
her many deeds of kindness. There is an
Evangeline Parish, an Evangeline Hotel,
an Evangeline Highway; there are even
Evangeline gas stations and every sort of
business named after the woman who is
regarded almost as a saint in this bayou
district.

Edwin Carewe and his company went to
St. Martinsville to film some of the scenes
of his picture "Evangeline," starring Dolores
Del Rio. It should be intensely interesting
because Louisiana has never been a location
for a picture before.

C[ How doth the little ocelot improve each
shining hour'! By being adopted as a
pet by Lupe Velez, is the right answer.

We so often hear the thoughtless things
picture people do, or the temperamental
things, or the negative things; but we do
not very often hear of their hidden kind-
nesses. I was talking with one or two
members of the "Evangeline" company,
who returned early, and they told me how
stirred Dolores Del Rio, Edwin Carewe and
Alec B. Francis were over the atmosphere
of this quaint town. They saw that Evan-
geline's grave needed attention and volun-
tarily they created a fund to restore and
preserve its original beauty. This the
town's people had in mind to do. but as
it was a pretty expensive affair they had
not as yet been able to carry it through.
I don't know just what amount each gave,
but I believe Dolores contributed a thou-
sand dollars to the fund and she probably
won't thank me for recording it. But
perhaps it will serve to give an insight into
her generous heart, which I know her
many fans will appreciate.

For the second successive year, Ronald
Colman, Samuel Goldwyn star, was voted
the most popular picture actor in a poll of
over 250,000 British picture fans, as re-
vealed in the results of the 1928 vote
recently published in London. Richard Dix.

<( Charles Bickjord as he will loo\ made
up to play Greta Garbo's boy friend in
"Anna Christie," Garbo's first tal\ie.

Douglas Fairbanks, Adolphe Menjou, Syd
Chaplin and Charlie Chaplin were voted
next in popularity in the order named.
Colman's first dialogue picture for Samuel
Goldwyn. "Bulldog Drummond," a screen
version of the famous English comedy melo-
drama, will be released shortly.

Vilma Banky, Samuel Goldwyn's Hun-
garian player elevated to stardom last year
at the same time as Colman, ranked fifth
in the list of women stars, being surpassed
in popularity only by Dolores Del Rio,
Betty Balfour, the English screen star, Clara
Bow and Esther Ralston.

One of the best-known pair of screen
lovers has been divorced, cinematically
speaking. Jack Mulhall and Dorothy
Mackaill have just launched separate star-
ring vehicles at First National- Vitaphone
Studios, after making fourteen successful
pictures together during the past several
years.

Miss Mackaill's new starring vehicle is
now called "Hard To Get," which is a
temporary title. Charles Delaney plays
opposite her, although there are several
other leading men in the picture, including
Edmund Burns and Jack Oakie. Louise
Fazenda plays a very important role; and
William Beaudine is directing.

"Twin Beds" is Mulhall's first individual
starring vehicle. Patsy Ruth Miller is
playing opposite the genial young Irishman
in this picture, which Alfred Santell is
directing.

"Children of the Ritz," "Waterfront,"
"Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath." "Two
Weeks Off," "Man Crazy," "The Crystal
Cup," "Smile, Brother, Smile" and "Lady
Be Good" are among the Mulhall-Mackaill
screen romances.

Joan Crawford will scintillate along with
William Haines, Conrad Nagel, Gus Ed-
wards, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur,
Natacha Natova, the Brox Sisters, and other
stars of screen and stage in the forthcoming
M-G-M "Revue of Revues." Miss Craw-
ford will do a special song and dance
number in this musical extravaganza, which
Christy Cabanne is directing, with Sammy
Lee, Broadway ensemble director, handling
the dances.

*ASK

(\An Answer
Department
of Informa-
tion about
Flayers and
Pictures.

Miss Vee Dee will be glad to answer
any question you may care to ask
about pictures and picture people.
Please be patient if you do not see
your answer in these columns imme-
diately. Remember there may be many
other letters before yours. Every let-
ter must await its turn. If you wish
a personal reply by mail, please en-
close a stamped addressed envelope.
Address: Miss Vee Dee, Screenland
Magazine, 49 West 45fA Street, New
York City.

ARY M. of Frankjord, Penna.
Keeping my hair light and my
age dark causes me, more trou-
ble than all the questions I get
from you fans. Nena Quartaro's real name
is Gladys. She was born March 17, 1910
in New York City. She has black hair and
eyes, is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs
108 pounds. Charlie Farrell was born in
1902 at Onset Bay, Mass. He is 6 feet
2 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He
is not engaged to Janet Gaynor. Janet
was born October 6, 1906. You can write
to Audrey Ferris at Warner Bros. Studios,
5842 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Cal.
Audrey was born August 30, 1909, in
Detroit, Mich. Two of her latest releases
are "Little Wildcat" and "Fancy Baggage."

Geode of 'Wisconsin. Here's a warm
smile and a cheery hand-shake, especially
flashed to you for the shortest question of
the month. Ramon Novarro's new film
is "The Flying Fleet" with Anita Page,
Ralph Graves, Carroll Nye and Eddie
Nugent. Address Ramon at Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal.

A Dix Fan from Milwaukee. Of course
the stars notice their fan letters and who
would fail to respond to a swell letter like
yours? Just keep cool and let the old
heart beat in the usual manner, for Richard
Dix. Gary Cooper, Lane Chandler and
William Haines are still single and as far
as I know, are not thinking of taking on
any excess baggage. Your favorite, Richard
Dix, is making a picture in the east,
"Nothing But The Truth" and as far as
I'm concerned he can stay right here.
There, my cards are all on the table —
I'm goofy about him too.

By
Miss
Vee
Dee

F. G. P. of Buffalo. I can tell you about
"Fighting for Love," "Fighting for Honor,"
"Fighting for Gold" but I'm all washed
up when it comes to "Fighting for Fame."
Sorry but I haven't a record of that film.
Cullen Landis was born in Nashville, Tenn.,
on July 9, 1895. Dorothy Kitchen who is
now Nancy Drexel in pictures, was born
in New York City. Eugenia Gilbert was
born in East Orange, N. J. Tom Tyler
was born about 25 years ago in Port
Henry, N. Y. He has black hair, brown
eyes, is 6 feet 1% inches tall and weighs
190 pounds. Tom's latest film is "The
Avenging Rider." Bill Cody was born in
Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Helen and Bernice from Tope\a. You
want me to tell you a lot of jokes, do you?
What's the use, you'd only laugh at them.
Harold Lloyd can be addressed at his own
production plant, 1040 Las Palmas Ave.,
Hollywood, Cal. Bobby Vernon is with
Christie-Paramount Studios, Hollywood,
Cal. The last address I have of Kate Price
is 1475 Scott Ave., Hollywood, Cal. Fay
Wray can be reached at Paramount Stu-
dios, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood, Cal.
Glenn Tryon is one of the popular Univer-
sal stars and can be addressed at Universal
City, Cal. Glenn made his first screen
appearance in two-reel comedies for Hal
Roach in 1924.

Blossomtime of Bayside, N.. T. Between
you and lilac time. I'm blushing like a rose
over your declaration of admiration. But
as long as it's 'my adorable corner that
you're in love with' I won't stop you. I
have described Charles (Buddy) Rogers so
often my typewriter slips into high, the
gears refuse to shift and I can't hold the
darned thing. He uses his own name in
pictures and why shouldn't he? It's a nice
name most any girl would be proud to

C[ Janet Gaynor is the Girl of the
Month! N.ot only is she the girl on
Screenland's cover, but she is the
favorite star among Miss Vee Dee's
correspondents. You may have no-
ticed how Screenland anticipates
the public taste — here's more proof!
Little Janet's latest picture is "The
Luc\y Star." Let's than\ ours!

annex. If you want a photo of Buddy,
write him at Paramount Studios, 5451
Marathon St., Hollywood, Cal. William
Collier, Jr. gets his fan mail at Tiffany-
Stahl Studios, 5416 Sunset Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal. Neil Hamilton is in "What a
Night," playing opposite Bebe Daniels; and
in "The Woman Who Needed Killing"
with Baclanova and Clive Brook.

Teddy of Eau Claire. Woof, woof!
Aren't you the bear for asking questions?
Mary Pickford's "Pollyanna" was released
in 1920 and playing with her were William
Courtleigh and Gordon Sackville. Lillian
Rich was born in England. She has blonde
hair and blue eyes. As far as I know, she
hasn't made a picture in America for quite
some time, but is working at a London
studio. Harriet Hammond played opposite
Ramon Novarro in "The Midshipman."

"It" from La Porte, Ind. Happy greet-
ings and a finger wave to you. Go ahead
and tell the world how much you like
Screenland and I'll second the com-
motion. The approved and highly meri-
torious manner in which to solicit a picture
from a star, is to write a sincere letter,
devoid of gush, then hang your dignity
on the hat rack and wait. That's my for-
mula and it works beautifully — sometimes.
Clara Bow and Ruth Taylor are at Para-
mount Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Holly-
wood, Cal. Mary Astor at Fox Studios.
1401 No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Norma Shearer and William Haines at
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City.
Cal. Sue Carol's latest film "Chasing
Through Europe," is a Fox production.
Richard Barthelmess can be addressed at
First National Studios, Burbank, Cal.

Blue Eyes from Pittsfield, Mass. No mat-
ter what color, the eyes have it. You can

SCREENLAND

How would you like to know

Wollywoods

MAKE-UP
SECRET

PFould You Li^e to Be More
Beautiful than you Really Are?

Max Factor, Hollywood's Make-Up King,
Reveals the Secret, and Offers You a Priceless
Beauty Gift! See Coupon.

Hollywood holds

a make-up secret ... a new discovery in
cosmetics which means new beauty, new
charm and fascination to you and every
woman. This secret is a new kind of make-
up, based on cosmetic color harmony, the
discovery of Max Factor, Filmland's genius
of make-up.

Powder, rouge, lipstick and other make-
up essentials, of course . . . but so different
in the effect they produce that even the
stars whose rare beauty is adored by millions
have called this make-up by Max Factor,
"beauty magic."

"Cosmetics must be in color harmony,
if beauty is to be emphasized naturally,"
says Max Factor. "Off-colors ruin the life-
like effect and detract from beauty. The
different types in blondes, brunettes and
redheads must have an individual color
harmony in make-up to bring out person-
ality as well as alluring beauty."

Scores and scores of feature pictures . . .
milli ons of feet of film ... have revealed to
you the magic of make-up by Max Factor.
Leading stars . . . Laura La Plante, Jeanette
Loff, Joan Crawford, Renee Adoree and scores of others have given you a glimpse
of the faultless beauty to be gained with make-up in correct color harmony.

And now Max Factor has produced a make-up for day and evening use, based on
his famous discovery cosmetic color harmony. Adopted almost universally by leading
screen stars, Max Factor's Society Make-Up caused a sensation in Hollywood . . . and
it will be a beauty revelation to you.

Learn Hollywood's make-up secret. Mail coupon now to Max Factor, who will
analyze your complexion and chart your own make-up color harmony . . ■ FREE.
You'll also receive his book, "The New Art of Make-Up" — 48 pages of valuable
beauty and make-up hints.

c^fAX ACTOR'S Society c^AKE- U?

HOLLYWOOD

" Cosmetics of the Stars"

LAURA
LA PLANTE

Universal Star
"I am sure that you ivill
be as successful in winning
the affection of the public
with your new cosmetics as
you have for many years
those of the stage and
screen."

LAURA LA PLANTE.

This Amazing Book

FREE . . . with
Your Make-Up Color
Harmony Chart

Realize at last that you can be
more beautiful than you reallyare
if you know the art of make-up as.
practiced by the screen stars. Per-
mit Max Factor to suggest an allur-
ing color harmony in make-up . . .
powder, rouge, lipstick and other
essentials. ..just
for you. Mail
the coupon
now. ..today!

JEJXETTE LOFF, Pathe Star and Max
Factor, Filmland' s Genius of Make- Up
Jeanette Loff writes: "I greatly appre-
ciate your Society Mate-Up for day
and evening use. Color harmony in
cosmetics is absolutely essential for
natural beauty."

FREE— COMPLEXION ANALYSIS

Mr. Max Factor, — Max Factor Studios, Hollywood, Calif.
Dear Sir: Send me without any obligation on my part, a complimentary copy '
of" your book, "The New Art of Make-Up", and personal complexion analysis. I

Name-

Addrest-

City-

4-G-lo

Completion 1 Color o( Eyes | LIPS

L.ght

Moist |

Fair

Color of Lashes

Dry 1

Medium

SKIN

Ruddy

Color of Hair

Oily 1

Dark

Dry |

Sallow

Answer in

Age

OUvc

«pnccs with check mark

For the Sun Tan Fashion — Max Factor's Sum'r Tan Make-Up — At Drug and Department Stores

C[ That smile.' How could anyone ever call
Mr. Farrell anything but 'Charlie' when
he loo\s at you li\e that? T<[o wonder
he's the boy most in demand with the
'As\ Me' readers this month. And he's
Janet's leading man again. Great!

address Charles Rogers at Paramount Stu-
dios, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood, Cal.
Dolores Costello and Louise Fazenda at
Warner Bros., 5842 Sunset Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal. Alice White at First National
Studios, Burbank, Cal. Jeanette Loff at
Pathe Studios, Culver City, Cal.

Mary K. of Clinton, Mass. Here is the
place for all new-comers. Drop in as often
as you like — stick around and have a laugh
on me. Ralph Graves was born in Cleve-
land, Ohio. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighs
170 pounds and has light brown hair and
blue eyes. He plays with Jack Holt in
'"Submarine" released by Columbia Pic-
tures, 1408 Gower St., Hollywood, Cal.

Blue Eyes from Detroit. Can I imagine
acting in the movies with Gilbert Roland?
No, I can't imagine anything so grand a.s
that. But I can't make up my mind which
style of films I'd rather work in — --the silent
or the loud speakers. I'd be a sensation
in either and that's something to laugh
about again. Gary Cooper and Richard
Dix are receiving their fan mail at Para-
mount Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Holly-
wood, Cal. Philippe De Lacy was born in
France, July 25, 1917. He plays with
Dolores Costello and Conrad Nagel in
Warner Bros, production of "The Redeem-
ing Sin."

Battling Andy Kelly from Greenpoint.
I've crossed my heart and fingers so lay
off that foot work — I fight all my battles
single-handed. Eva Novak was born in
St. Louis, Mo. One of her latest releases
is "Duty's Reward." She is a free-lance
player and I haven't her studio address.
You can write to Mary Brian at Paramount
Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood,
Cal. Mary was born February 17, 1908 at
Dallas, Texas. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall,
has brown hair and blue eyes. She played
with Clive Brook and Jack Luden in "For-
gotten Faces." Her film with Buddy

Rogers, "Someone to Love," was released
in January.

Kay of Minnesota. You hope I'll keep
up with my department. It's trying to
keep up with it that gets me so far behind
but I get the idea which is a good one to
follow. So that puts me ahead again.
James Murray is under contract to Metro-
Goldvvyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal.
but was loaned to Universal Studios, Uni-
versal City, Cal., for "The Play Goes On."
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. appears in "The Jazz
Age" with Marceline Day and in "A
Woman of Affairs" with Greta Garbo and
John Gilbert. You'll hear and see Doug
Jr. in "The Barker" with Milton Sills. You
just can't keep young Doug down and who
wants to?

32 of East Orange, >{. ]. Of course I
don't think you're 'nosey'; you're just curi-
ous to know what Screenland would do
without me. What would you do without
this precious package of that? Lupe Velez
was born in Mexico in 1909. Her real
name is Maria Villabalos. Sonia Karlov's
real name is Jeanne Williams. Phyllis
Haver's name was O'Haver before going
into picture work. Nancy Drexel was
Dorothy Kitchen. Molly O'Day's family
name is Noonan. Marion Douglas was
Ena Gregory. Ramon Novarro's real name
is Ramon Sameniegos. Double-dare you to
pronounce it!

Just Bobbie from Pasadena. Sorry I
could not answer you in the next issue out,
as you requested, I have hundreds of letters
to answer for I'm a very popular person
and I say that without fear of contradic-
tion, if a big bunch of letters mean any-
thing and I hope they do. You can write
to Joan Crawford at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios, Culver City, Cal. Douglas Fair-
banks, Jr. at the same studio address.

Edna R. of Butte, Montana. You think
Gary Cooper is a swell guy, do you? I
could sling a few neat phrases about the
boy, too. Ever .since Gary appeared in
"Legion of the Condemned" I have been
swamped with letters about him. He plays
with Lupe Velez in "Wolf Song." Then
he has to his credit, "Lilac Time" with
Colleen Moore and "The First Kiss" with
Fay Wray. Lupe and Gary are engaged,
I hear.

Joan from Brooklyn. Here's a record
that's hard to beat. Joan has never missed
a Harrison Ford picture. Take your bow,
Mr. Ford — and I don't mean Henry. Your
favorite was born in Kansas City, Mo.
He weighs 160 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches
tall and has dark brown hair and brown
eyes. He doesn't give his age. He has
been leading man for Norma and Constance
Talmadge, Marion Davies, Bebe Daniels and
Marie Prevost. His wife was Beatrice
Prentice.

Inquisitive Miss, Hamilton, Ontario.
Even though we've never met, you know
a good answer lady when you see one,
don't you? James Hall can be reached at
Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathon St.,
Hollywood, Cal. Jack Mulhall at First
National Studios, Burbank, Cal. Janet
Gaynor and Charles Farrell at Fox Studios,
1401 No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
May McAvoy at Warner Bros. Studios,
5842 Sunset Blvd.. Hollywood, Cal. John
Mack Brown at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios, Culver City, Cal.

Two Little Bo'Peeps from hidianapolis.
How is Rod La Rocque pronounced? If

you mean his name, that's easy — cut off
the que and you have Rock. Gloria
Swanson has never changed her name for
pictures. Ruth Taylor was born in 1907.
She is a real blonde with golden hair and
blue eyes. She played with James Hall in
"Just Married." Molly O'Day is 18 years
old. She hasn't made a film for some time.
Just now she is touring in a presentation
act in California picture theatres.

Mary R. from Ottawa, Canada. I'm
sorry you have waited so long for your
name to appear in print but Mary's a
grand old name no matter when or where.
Phyllis Haver was born Jan. 6, 1899, in
Douglas, Kansas. Clara Bow uses her own
name in pictures. She was born Aug. 8,
1905, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Ramon Novarro
was born Feb. 6, 1899, in Durango, Mex-
ico. Gilbert Roland was born in 1905 in
Mexico. His real name is Francisco Alonzo
but he started his picture career under the
name of Luis Alonzo. Gilbert has signed
a new contract with United Artists.

Scotty from Tacoma, Wash. They say
a ring on the hand is worth ten on the
telephone but what's that got to do with
talking pictures? The talkies are here to
stay; they haven't just dropped in for a
little chat. Ralph Forbes played opposite
Norma Shearer in "The Latest from Paris."
Ncna Quartaro appeared in "The Red
Mark" filmed at Pathe Studios, Culver City,
(Continued on page 96)

Although J^orma Talmadge hasn't been
seen on the screen so often lately, her
admirers have not forgotten her — far
from it! Miss Vee Dee says the Talmadge
fans are rallying round as\ing when
they'll see their J^orma again. Well,
she's ma\ing her first tal\ie, "Tin Pan
Alley,'' with Gilbert Roland.

SCREENLAND

Cal. Gladys Brockwcll was in "The Lights
of New York" the first all-talking picture.
I haven't her home address but you can
reach her at Warner Bros., 5842 Sunset
Blvd., Hollywood, Cal.

J. of StatesviUe, N.. C. Douglas Fair-
hanks, Jr., again! He was born Dec. 9,
1910. For his address, see Just Bobbie.
William Boyd was born in Cambridge,
Ohio, in 1898. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall,
weighs 170 pounds and has light brown
hair and blue eyes. You can write him
at Pathe Studios, Culver City, Cal.

Marjorie C. of Berkeley, Cal. You have
to hide Screenland from your family to
be able to read it by yourself, do you?
Why not a Screenland for every mem-
ber of the family? Then there would be
no hard feelings. Claire Windsor is 32
years old. Betty Bronson was born in
Trenton, N. J., about 22 years ago. She
is in "The Singing Fool" with Al Jolson.
In her next picture, "Sonny Boy," you'll
see that adorable Davey Lee who made
his first screen appearance in "The Sing-
ing Fool." Davey was just four years old
on Dec. 29, 1928.

Kitty of Pennsy. Chester Conklin does
not give his age but he was born in
Oskaloosa, Iowa. He has brown hair, blue
eyes, is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs
140 pounds. Chester has been happily
married to the one and only wife for years.
He has been a circus clown and was on the
stage before entering pictures. Esther and
Jobyna Ralston are not related.

Curly of Rochester, ?\[. T. You want
personal descriptions, addresses and the
latest films of twenty-eight stars. What's
the trouble, Curly, don't you like the other
9.000 or so? Vilma Banky was born in
Budapest, January 9, 1903. Her hair is
golden and her eyes are blue. Write her
at Samuel Goldwyn Prod., 7212 Santa
Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Cal. Irene Rich
was born in Buffalo, N. Y. She has brown
hair and eyes, is 5 feet 6 inches tall and
weighs 135 pounds. She has two inter-
esting daughters. Address her at Warner
Bros., 5842 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Cal.
Renee Adoree was born in Lille, France.
Her real name is Renee de la Fento. She
has dark brown hair, dark eyes and weighs
120 pounds. She plays in "The Pagan"
with Ramon Novarro. You can reach her
at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver
City, Cal. Edna Murphy is a native New
Yorker. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs
118 pounds and has blonde hair and blue
eyes. Larry Kent, whose real name is Henri
Trumbell, was born Sept. 15, 1900. He
made "The Spirit of Youth" at Tiffany-
Stahl Studios, 4516 Sunset Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal.

Miss Agnes from Memphis. Give me
your ears and we'll make more talk about
Buddy Rogers. He will be 24 years old
his next birthday and he is not married.
Give the boy time, say you not so? Bob
Steele is still a single man and has reached
the ripe old age of 22 years. Get out your
address books, girls, Phyllis Haver has gone
over to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios,
Culver City, Cal., to make pictures and get
the old pay check.

Henrietta M. of Chicago. Right on the
firing line with a couple of quick ones.
The principal players in "Stella Dallas"
were. Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce, Lois
Moran, Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr. .and Jean Hersholt. The film was re-
leased in 192 5. The Wampas Baby Stars
for 1929 are, Jean Arthur, Doris Hill,

SCREENLAND

<C Sylvia Fields, of the stage, in "Voice of
the City." Because of her voice she's
sitting pretty.

Anita Page, Josephine Dunn, Loretta
Young, Doris Dawson, Sally Blane, Betty
Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, Mona Rico,
Ethlyn Claire, Caryl Lincoln and Helen
Foster.

A Bob Steele Fan of Winchester, Ind.
Do I think you are funny? I don't think;
I haven't time. How can I think and keep
my mind on my work? Bob Steele's real
name is Robert Bradbury. He has the repu-
tation of being one of the best riders, trick
gunmen, and ropers on the screen. Bob is
6 feet tall and has blue eyes and brown
hair. You can address him at RKO Studios,
780 Gower St., Hollywood, Cal. Betty
Bronson is not married so dry your tears.

■ Iola of Woonsoc\et, R. I. My word!
How you love spooky pictures! Who does
the big killing in "The Gorilla?" Search
me! Everyone in the house, including
Alice Day, is suspected of being the mur-

<C Laivford Davidson who ma\es a movie
come-hac\ as a leading man in the tallies.

dcrous gorilla, but the wise-cracks of the
two detectives, Fred Kelsey and Charlie
Murray, saved the day — ouch! But who
did kill somebody? Bob Sciter played the
part of }ac\ Waring in "Chicago After
Midnight"; Ralph Ince was Jim Boyd, the
father, and Jola Mendez was Betty Boyd.

Edythe T. of Haddonfield, H. ].. See and
hear my hearty welcome. Both versions
apply to all newcomers and as many of the
'old guard' as want it. Sorry I can't get
you in the magazine as soon as you'd like
but aren't you just paralyzed that you can
get in? You can write to Charles Farrell
at Fox Studios, 1401 No. Western Ave.,
Hollywood, Cal. Renee Adoree and Nils
Asthcr at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios,
Culver City, Cal. By the time you read
this, the Duncan sisters will probably have
signed a contract with M-G-M and you can
address them there. Ruth Elder is to make
a picture with Ralph Graves for Columbia
Pictures Corp., 1408 Gower St., Hollywood,
Cal. Her first screen appearance was with
Richard Dix in "Moran of the Marines."

Bob of Kis\i Prep., Saltsburg. You want
me to name three of the handsomest men
on the screen — why stop at three, when at
twelve I'd still be counting? I'll pass
along the word that you'd like more Navy
films and submarine stories and less sheik
parts for the 'very remarkable fellow,'
Charles Farrell. Now that is settled and
another brain-cell cleared for action. Col-
leen Moore was born in Port Huron, Ohio.
Nancy Carroll was born November 9, 1906,
in New York City. Her real name is
Nancy Lahiff. She is the seventh in a
family of twelve children. This popular
little beauty has red hair, blue eyes, is 5
feet 4 inches tall and weighs 118 pounds.
She is the wife of Jack Kirkland, the sce-
nario writer.

Cherry Berry of N.eu> jersey. Let that
bounce around like no one's affair. I'm
sorry I am unable to identify the little girl
in whom you are interested: 'the only girl
that worked for the Lamb's Gambol in
1916.' This long-lost girl played in "The
House of Pretense," "Always in the Way."
and "Kiddie." Speak up, girlie — we want
to discover you. Many an S.O.S. from my
department has resulted in first-class re-
unions.

T^ancey of Kentucky. You couldn't drive
me to distraction — too late, I'm there, and
the life of the party. Many of my cus-
tomers want to hear about Carol Dempster.
She has dark brown hair, brown eyes, is
5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 118 pounds.
She studied dancing under Ruth St. Denis
and toured the country as one of the Deni-
shawn dancers. As far as I know, her
only screen director was D. W. Griffith.
Her last film was "Sorrows of Satan," re-
leased in 1926. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. was
born December 9. 1910. His next release
will be "Our Modern Maidens" with Joan
Crawford. Right now he is making
"Diversion," a First National-Vitaphone
production.

Peaceful from Chicago. You bet you
fooled me — I thought my troubles were
brewing but you merely want the low-down
on Robert Armstrong and Eddie Quillan.
You can reach both at Pathe Studios, Cul-
ver City, Cal. Robert plays with Phyllis
Haver in "Shady Lady." Eddie Quillan
and six members of his own family are in
"Noisy Neighbors." The late Theodore
Roberts played his last role in that picture.
Bob Armstrong has completed "Leather'
necks."

SCREENLAND

"Received the portrait of our son. Very well
pleased. Can't see how you make so fine a
portrait for such a small sum of money."
Dr. B. Millrood, Toledo, Ohio.

"The picture of my wife is just as natural
as if she was to talk out of it. The picture
sure is a beauty." George H. Fulks, Wal-
dron. Mich.

"Am so much pleased with my baby's
picture, and thank you for your prompt at-
tention. My friends all say it is sure nice."
Mrs. W. E. Shaw, Bellefontaine. Miss.

Satisfaction Guaranteed By largest Direct To Buyer
Portrait House.. Order Now.. FREE!

TJAVE you a treasured photo at
A home — of baby, mother, soldier,
sweetheart? Send it today and get
this amazing enlargement — so life-like
it will astonish you! Send any kind,
size or shape of photo. The same
price for full length or bust form,
landscapes, pet animals, groups, or
enlargements of part of group.
Exact, fadeless copies guaranteed.
Safe return of original photo pledged
by world's largest "direct-to-buyer"
portrait house. Act today!

SEND NO MONEY

Simply mail picture with coupon

below. In about a week, your 16x20
inch enlargement arrives. Pay the
postman 9Sc plus a few cents postage.
Or send $1.00 now and we will prepay
the postage. Deal direct with reliable
house ; thousands praise our service
and square dealing. Mail Coupon
Now!

NOTE! If, instead of having
enlargement in just Black-and- White,
you would prefer to have it in the
very popular and attractive Sepia
(golden brown) colors the price is
only $1.48. (Pay postman $1.48 plus
postage, or send $1.50 with order and
we'll pay postage.)

With every enlargement ordered
NOW, we will Include miniature
reproduction of same photo, beau-
tifully hand-tinted. Alone worth
the price you pay for enlargement.

UNITED PORTRAIT CO. $652 '•"tSTtm** m'

Members. Chicago Association of Commerce and Photographers Association of America

UNITED PORTRAIT CO.. Dept. G-209
652 Ogden Ave., Chicago, III.

I am enclosing _ _...photos to be enlarged, as

per your special offer.

) Send me "Black-and-White" enlargements at

08c each.

) Send me.... "Sepia-Brown" enlargements

$1.4S each.

Include FREE valuable band-tinted miniature of
each photo.
) Send C.O.D. plus postage
) Cash enclosed, send postage paid.

Name

Address

Citv - State. ■■•

RETURN OF ALL PHOTOS SENT US GUARANTEED

SCREENLAND

Hollywood Week Ends — Continued from page 23

courses, a small eighteen hole and a large
eighteen hole. There are no water hazards
but plenty of others. The small course is
finished and the large one soon will be.
In July, by the way, there is to be a tourna-
ment and the largest prize ever offered for
a golf match. It is $25,000 and will at-
tract players from all over the world.

An Olympic-length pool will be finished
by that time and you can imagine what the
swimmers will do to that. Incidentally
there are hot springs near the pool which
will be utilized to heat the water. The
hot springs will be a feature eventually.
When business became so flourishing a new
hotel was built and two or three dozen
bungalows beautifully furnished. In the
new hotel I was told there was not one
white bath tub — all are colored! Some are
black with futuristic nickle fixtures. Some
are lavender, or green, or yellow — all are
beautiful.

There are very fine horses to ride and
that is what Bebe Daniels, Marian Nixon,
Corinne Griffith, Laura La Plante and Bill
Seiter do. The horses are all prize show
horses from the Carnation stables, said to
be one of the finest in California.

Almost everyone drives over to Tia
Juana and watches the races even though
they don't bet. Marian Nixon is one of
these and had been going down for years,
long before the Caliente Hotel was built.
Last fall the friends she was with kidded
her about never betting. "It isn't any use,"
said Marian. "My money on a horse would
make him run backwards." They finally
got her to bet $5.00. "You won't miss it
if you do lose," they .said. So for the
first time in her life Marian put money on
a horse — and believe it or not that pony
actually turned around and ran the other
way! He was a fine racer, too — no one
has ever known why he lost his head that
day.

And then there are the players who have
yachts and think time is wasted when they
go anywhere else. Among these are Belle
Bennett, who entertains every week-end
that she can be on her yacht, the 'Wee
Dove'; and Conrad Nagel likewise on the
'Tiberon.' Among others who have yachts
are John Barrymore, John Gilbert, Douglas
MacLean, Cecil DeMille, Robert Ellis and
Richard Barthelmess. They are not pre-
tentious, about seventy-five feet long. All
the Hollywood sailors visit and borrow back
and forth. If it happens that they anchor
within hailing distance of each other they
have swimming matches from one boat to
the next. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Nagel
were entertaining Lois Wilson and Leatrice
Joy. They were having breakfast on deck
when they heard, "Ship Ahoy," and there
was Douglas MacLean chugging up in a
dingey. Everyone uses nautical terms and
very formally too. "Got any gas?" asked
Doug. "Sure," said Conrad, "Come on and
have some breakfast and I'll give you some
afterwards."

A popular beach is Malibu — a little
stretch of sand twenty miles down from
Santa Monica. Far enough away to avoid
the usual Sunday motoring. Clara Bow,
Virginia Valli, Ronald Colman, Richard
Dix, Herbert Brenon, Louise Fazenda and
about a dozen others have cottages there.
Some are comfortable enough for week-end
parties all through the winter months; oth-
ers are just small cottages. Ronald Colman
hasn't even electricity in his because he
likes lamp light. The cottages are built
very closely together with yards or tennis

Connie Talmadge and "Venus.'
What a combination!

courts in the back and the beach for their
front yard. They are all as close to the sea
as safety permits, but imagine the embarass-
ment of Patsy Ruth Miller when, bidding
good-bye to a guest, she saw a huge green
billow blot out the sky and come hurtling
toward the guest and the open door! Pat
hadn't time to explain — she just jerked her
friend unceremoniously into the room and
banged the door in the face of the ag-
gressive wave. The ocean has not misbe-
haved since and Winston, Pat's young
brother declared, Father Neptune had taken
a shine to the young lady!

Pat and Winston and their friends like
to have a set of tennis, then play medicine
ball, then plunge into the surf and ride
the waves on surf boards. Virginia Valli
likes to laze around in the sand and then
have a brisk swim. You have to be pretty
brisk in the Pacific surf, too. It certainly
is frisky.

The talking pictures have kept the play-
ers on such a stretch of work that most
of them want complete relaxation, and for
this Palm Springs and Arrowhead with
its vapor baths are the popular resorts.
There is everything to be found at both
spots only Arrowhead is in the mountains
and Palm Springs is a tiny oasis near the
Painted Desert. There, amid burning sands
and cold and starry nights, one can ride,
dance or swim in the pool; or one can bene-
fit by the mud baths which for generations
have been maintained by a family of In-
dians. The father of the present manager,
it is said, refused a hundred thousand dol-
lars from Fleishman Baths. The old Indian
declared that a quarter was high enough to
pay for a bath and he wouldn't know what
to do with so much money. All he wanted
was his hammock, his palm leaf fan, and
enough tobacco to smoke. And although
his son dresses in American clothes, he
keeps up the traditions of his family in
the management of the place.

Many years ago the oasis used to be on
the other side of the mountain and then,
as the Indians put it, Taqua 'talked' and
the baths and oasis disappeared to be found

months afterward on its present site. The
baths are a volcanic disturbance in the
earth. They occupy a space of about eight
feet in circumference. A board partition
is driven down in the center and over both
divisions is built a large bath house having
a dressing room on cither side of the par-
tition— one for men and one for women.
Sally Blanc -said it was a weird feeling to
have the mud creep up, up, up. Sometimes
you can't sink further than your knees;
sometimes just above the waist. No one
has ever been known to sink lower than
the chin. Sometimes it is swirling sand,
sometimes it is quiet; and there are about
two feet of crystal clear water above the
sand.

Palm Springs is a great location site, too.
The surrounding canyons offer admirable
retreats for sham battles and 'westerns.'

Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe like
Arrowhead when they need a rest from the
studio grind. Not that they complain
about the hard life they lead, because they
adore it. But just the same it gets to be
a bit thick when you have to study dialogue
at night for the next day's work. Eddie
grudges every dinner party Lilyan gives,
because he has to walk out on his guests.

When they go to Arrowhead they walk
and ride and take the vapor baths. They
live in one of the bungalows rather than
the hotel because it is quiet and they don't
meet anyone. At that Lilyan and Eddie
were returning to their bungalow one late
afternoon, when suddenly right in the mid-
dle of the path they saw an enormous wild-
cat who stood and stared solemnly at them.
Both were so surprised they could only
grab each other's hands and stare back.
And then the animal, after looking them
all over, bolted into the wood.

Arrowhead is very popular too, especially
with the Swedish and Hungarian element in
Hollywood. Vilma Banky and Rod are
often there, and the Lubitsch's. Baclanova
has a house near the resort and spent her
honeymoon there. John Gilbert likes it too,
but Greta Garbo is perfectly satisfied with
the sands of Santa Monica. So is Camilla
Horn. She has a beach house in which
she lives all year round.

Reginald Denny and his bride retire to
the fastness of his mountain cabin in the
San Bernardino mountains. There is snow
there the greater part of the time and Reg
likes to carry provisions home on a dog
sled himself. He skis and skates and in
the summer there is tennis and hiking and
trout fishing.

Corinne Griffith made "Outcast" in San
Francisco, but was working so hard she
didn't have time to visit Chinatown, or
play a game at the Pebble Beach Golf Club
on the way home. As soon as she had a
breathing spell she and her husband Walter
Morosco climbed into their roadster and
beat it to San Francisco for an extended
week-end to take in these two things that
had been lingering in Corinne's mind, mak-
ing her feel thwarted.

Of course, Agua Caliente is the place to
go! It is to Hollywood what Coney Island
is to Harlem and the Bronx. When Holly-
wood really wants to play it goes th°re.
The principal fascination, taking it by and
large, is the roulette and other gaming
tables. Some of the girls and boys in Holly-
wood have been to Monte Carlo, but I
think the sum of those who haven't is in
the majority, so when they find themselves
in a casino their excitement knows no

SCREENLAND

Half a Million People

have learned music this easy way

You, Too, Can Learn to
Play Your Favorite Instrument
Without a Teacher

£a$yasA:J5mC

YES, half a million delighted men simply can't go wrong, for every
and women all over the world step, from beginning to end, is
have learned music this quick, easy right before your eyes in print and

way.

Half a million — 500,000

what

picture. First you are told how to
do a thing, then a picture shows you
how, then you do it yourself and

a gigantic orchestra they would w it And almost before

make! Some are playing on the know it, you are playing your favor-
stage, others m orchestras, and
many thousands are daily enjoying
the pleasure and popularity of being ^
able to play some instrument.

ite pieces — jazz, ballads, classics.
No private teacher could make it
learer. Little theory — plenty of
accomplishment. That's why stu-
Surely this is convincing proof of dents of the U. S. School of Music
the success of the new, modern get ahead twice as fast — three times

method perfected by the
U. S. School of Music!
And what these people
have done, YOU, too,
can do !

Many of this half
million didn't know one
note from another —
others had never touched
an instrument — yet in
half the usual time they
learned to play their
favorite instrument.

Best of all, they found learning found they could quickly learn how
music amazingly easy. No monoto- this easy way. Just a little of your
nous hours of exercises — no tedious spare time each day is needed — and
scales — no expensive teachers. This y0U enjoy every minute of it. The
simplified method made learning cost is surprisingly low — averaging
music as easy as A-B-C ! only a few cents a day — and the

Tl. ,., n .,• price is the same for whatever instrument

It is like a fascinating game. *ou choose> And remember you are study-
From the very start you are playing ing- right in your own home— without pay-
real tunes perfectly by note. You ing big fees to private teachers.

What Instrument
for You?

Piano Guitar
Organ Piccolo
Violin Hawaiian Steel

Banjo (Plectrum, Guitar
5-String or Drums and
Tenor) Traps
Fh,t«net Mandolin

Sight Singing
Cornet Ukulele
'Cello Trombone
Saxophone
Voice and Speech Culture
Automatic Finger Control
Piano Accordion

as fast as those who
study old-fashioned,
plodding methods.

You don't need any
special "talent." Many
of the half million who
have already become ac-
complished players
never dreamed they pos-
sessed musical ability.
They only wanted to
play some instrument —
just like you — and they

Don't miss any more good times! Learn
now to play your favorite instrument and
surprise all your friends. Change from a
wallflower to the center of attraction.
Music is the best thing to offer at a party
— musicians are invited everywhere. Enjoy
the popularity you have been missing. Get
your share of the musician's pleasure and
profit! Start now!

Free Booklet and Demonstration
Lesson

If you are in earnest about wanting to
join the crowd of entertainers and be a
"big hit" at any party — if you really do
want to play your favorite instrument, to
become a performer whose services will be
in demand — fill out and mail the conve-
nient coupon asking for our Free Booklet
and Free Demonstration Lesson. Tsese
explain our wonderful method fully and
show you how easily and quickly you can
learn to play at little expense. The book-
let will also tell you all about the amazing
new Automatic Finger Control. Instru-
ments are supplied when needed — cash or
credit. U. S. School of Music, 3226 Bruns-
wick Bldg., New York City.

U. S. School of Music,

3226 Brunswick Bldg., New York City

Please send me your free book, "Music Lessons
in Your Own Home," with introduction by Dr.
Frank Crane, Free Demonstration Lesson, and
particulars of your easy payment plan. I am
interested in the following course : —

Have you instrument ?.
Name -.

(Please Write Plainly)

Address
City

State..

100

SCREENLAND

bounds. Clara Bow had never seen a
roulette wheel until she went there and
she couldn't be torn away from the tabic
the whole evening. She put her money
any old place, not knowing anything about
the game, and of course she lost a good
deal; then luck came to her and she broke
about even. I'll bet that Casino remembered
Clara's eager shining face and beautiful
flaming hair that stands out all over her
head when she is excited, for many a long
day. And the next morning she rode and
played outdoor games and didn't go near
the table. It is just like reading a thrilling
novel, but you don't want to read too many
or else you surfeit. And Clara has only
been twice to Caliente.

Bebe Daniels plays a hard game for about
an hour after she arrives and then she's
through. The Casino sees no more of her,
but the horses do. Not the race horses
but the steeds. She spends hours in the
saddle. So does Ben Lyon.

Caliente is becoming a popular place to
be married in. Priscilla Dean held her
wedding at the 'Wishing Well' outside the
Casino. Evelyn Brent was married in the
Governor's suite in the new hotel. So was
Jackie Logan. The living room is hung in
red damask and the bedroom in green and
gold. But the bathrooms in Caliente are
like wedding cakes. The men look at
them and say, 'very nice.' The women
squeal with delight. Such tilings and such
color!

The thrilling thing to do is to fly down

and most of the stars do it, if they haven't
a large party. It is a comfortable hour
and fifty minute spin, on top of the world.
And after the first trip you can't bear to
think of riding in the smoky old poky
trains. You feel so safe in those Maddux
tri-motorcd Ford monsters and when you
know that the slight bumping and jolting
you get occasionally is because you are
passing through a cloud or crossing a can-
yon, and not that the plane is going to
turn over, you don't bother about it. It's
just like riding over a bad stretch of road
in an automobile and you don't notice it
after awhile. The earth, from an altitude
of 2200 or more feet, looks just like a
perfect world should, very neat and orderly.
The ploughed fields are like corrugated rub-
ber carpets, the orange groves like fawn-
colored squares covered with tiny green
polka dots about the size of the head of
a pin. The trees that have not leaved as
yet resemble little tufts of lavender-gray
feathers; ten-acre fields look like postage
stamps stuck all over a map. Oh, it's a
lovely world, twenty-two hundred feet above
the earth! Marceline and Alice Day love to
travel by air because it is so neat and clean
that way. and these girls are the last word
in order. And they and Betty Bronson
like to dance in Caliente better than any-
where else. They never go near the Casino
or the races — just walk, and dance as soon
as the music starts.

Of course the crepe hangers never fail

to make some crack just before you board,
such as, "Well, you'll have plenty of sun-
light to guide you to Heaven!" Bill and
Mrs. Powell were told that it was 'so in-
teresting for a husband and wife to have
a chance to die together."

I suppose the same cheery things were
said in the first days of the steamboat and
the railway. And I can remember when the
wise-acres shook their heads over the stu-
pidity of anyone thinking they could ever
depend upon a motor car to do anything
but blow up or break down. J^ow look
at the darn things!

In twenty years, or even sooner, planes
will be just as common.

The Maddux planes stop at San Diego
to discharge and take on passengers and
then a few minutes afterwards make a per-
fect landing right in front of the Agua
Caliente Hotel on the new flying field.
Taxies meet them to take the guests to the
hotel. Then you have lunch in the open
patio while sweet-voiced Mexicans sing and
play stringed instruments.

It is the funniest thing how different
you feel the minute you put your foot
across the border. Do you remember how,
when you were very little, you went to
the house of one of your friends that you
liked very much? You felt as though you
could be yourself for awhile and laugh and
have fun without being scolded. Well,
stepping into Mexico seems to make you
feel the same way.

James Montgomery Flagg Looks Them Over — Continued jrom page 25

standing just inside the entrance, dressed
in a magnificent Spanish costume, holding a
rose between her soft lips.

" 'Good evening, Miss Davies,' I said.

" 'I am nod Mis' Daveez!" she replied,
stamping her foot and angrily unfurling her
fan. 'I am La Negri!'

"And then she went into such an un-
canny imitation of Pola Negri, so excellent
and yet so comic, that I laughed until the
tears came.

"The time I sketched Jannings stands
out in my mind," Flagg told me. "When
I went to the Paramount Studio and was
led to the set where he was working, on
the 'Sins of the Father,' I believe I was
astounded. Absolute quiet hovered over
the place. And the picture wasn't a
'talkie,' either. Mechanics, electricians,
assistants of all kinds, tiptoed softly, around.
It seems perfect stillness is essential for
Jannings to give his best. And so much
do these people respect the man and his
art that his wishes are complied with down
to the most insignificant detail. Not that
keeping a large gang like that quiet is
insignificant.

"Into this stillness I was introduced, and
began my sketch. What a joy it was to
transcribe his face to my paper. Women,
beautiful women, are interesting to draw.
But here was a character! Many characters!
The lines that life had carved in his face
absorbed me. How long I worked I don't
know. But when I finished the sketch and
was leaving to go on to another appoint-
ment, I handed it to him. And I couldn't
help saying: 'it is an honor to have had
the opportunity of sketching such a great
artist.' "

But here is something which even Mr.
Flagg doesn't know. When Jannings had
completed the scene on which he was work-
ing, he sat down, side by side, with one
of his close friends. Taking the sketch in

his hands, he looked at it for some moments.
Then he said in his beloved German: "Ich
habe die Ehre. Der Flagg selbst ist ein
grosser Kunstler." Or, "It is I rather who
has the honor. Flagg is himself a great
artist."

"Of all the girls I sketched in Holly-
wood," Mr. Flagg says, "Virginia Valli was
the most sympathetic type to me because
she more nearly approaches the type I love
to draw — that perfect and extremely rare
Anglo-Saxon beauty, with the tip-tilted
nose, and the little droop to the nostril.
There is a sweetness about Valli, a sym-
pathy that one carries away and remem-
bers."

Next Mr. Flagg spoke of Greta Garbo:
"I thought I would find Miss Garbo very
weary after her long day in the studio. And
weary she did seem when I first spoke to
her. But the moment I got out my pencil,
she flung back her head in that loveliest
and most irresistible gesture a woman can
make. It implies pride, surrender — a man
can read almost any meaning into . that
gesture. And a man can read almost any
meaning into Garbo, too. For she is the
most beautiful and at the same time the
most enigmatic woman I have ever painted
or seen. For sheer perfection of features,
I know nobody to approximate her. She
is the Nordic Mona Lisa. Perhaps that is
the reason she holds her fascination. She
is the eternal riddle of the Northland. And
so long as a man cannot guess a woman's
inner meaning, he is bound to adore her.

"That word 'adore' reminds me of Billic
Dove. She is a jolly little person and
r.dorable. There is no other way to define
her. Those four syllables circumscribe all
her sweetness.

"There is one other woman I must tell
you about before I leave" We were in
Mr. Flagg's studio and his time was limited,
since there were many matters awaiting

his attention after his long absence in Holly-
wood— "and that is Maria Corda. In some
ways, she is the same type of beauty as
Garbo. And if ever a woman was con-
structed for the expression of drama, Maria
Corda is. She typifies the 'continental
type' of femininity at its best. She has
all the lure and mystery of the foreigner
and yet she retains the lovableness and
naivete cf an ingenue.

"I could stay on talking here for hours,"
Flagg concluded, "for I have been a movie
addict for years. I'd like to tell you of my
impression of John Gilbert, of Jack Dempsey
and many others. But that must be another
time."

Before we left the studio I glanced about
me. I had always had a vision of the kind
of studio a famous artist would have. I
thought it would be the sort you see in
movies — a seductive cathedral of color,
where deft-handed man servants spring
from nowhere with dangerous liquers and
dreamy cigarettes; where just out of sight
a fountain plays, and just out of hearing
some one bows minor music on an old
violin.

But I was wrong. In the first place we
mustn't speak of Mr. Flagg's workshop as
a 'studio.' A studio is a place where people
sit around and talk about the masterpieces
they are going to paint tomorrow, and the
great novel they are going to write day
after tomorrow.

The room in which James Montgomery
Flagg draws his pictures and paints his
portraits is about twenty feet long by
eighteen wide. On one wall hangs a por-
trait of Bill Hart on his favorite horse,
On an enormous screen hang many sketches
of movie actors and actresses. Bill ie Dove.
Greta Garbo. Colleen Moore. Virginia
Valli. Corinne Griffith. Maria Corda.
Marion Davies. John Gilbert. Emil Jan-
nings. And Jack Dempsey. I guess we can

SCREENLAND

101

include Jack since he's sort of related by
marriage to the industry.

On the floor is a very small rug. A few
chairs, a small divan, and a yellow bowl —
the kind your mother mixes cakes in —
complete the furnishings. Oh, you want
to know what the yellow bowl is for? So
did I. It is used for cigarette ashes.

There are books all over the place. And,
by the way, Flagg is the author of some
twelve books himself. That's another one
you didn't know.

In the center of the room is an easel on
which stood an almost completed illustra-
tion for a magazine. There were also lots
of paint brushes and an old board on which
he evidently tries out his colors.

The whole place gives a general air of
comfortable negligence — as if Flagg says to
himself when he comes in and shuts the
door: "This is my place. I come here to
work. If you don't like it, get out!"

And now that you know where your
idol works, wouldn't you like to know
what he looks like?

All right, I'll tell you straight off— he's
handsome! He's tall and thin, too. So
thin, in fact, that he looks a good eight
to ten years younger than he really is. His
eyes are blue-gray; his hair is grayblack,
thick and virile. And his hands are the
hands of a true artist. Soft, well-tended
and manicured? I should say not. Long
and supple they are, and well-shaped, but
crusty with paint. Like the hands of all
hard-working artists.

When I first began speaking with Mr.
Flagg, I was a little uneasy. For I thought
that like some other artists I've known,
he would scorn the movies. And I had
a vision of his laying a well-shaped thumb
to a powerful nose and waving his little
finger in the well-known Shanghai Gesture.

But, quite to the contrary, Mr. Flagg
has a real regard for our industry. As he
said: "You can do much with movies. If
I want to paint a picture all I can do is
to put marks on a piece of paper, or color
on canvas. But if I am producing a
moving picture, I have every art and di-
mension, practically, with which to work."

Ten years ago, at the suggestion of
Thomas Edison, Mr. Flagg made twelve
one-reelers. Each film dealt with a different
kind of girl that Flagg had painted: the
superstitious girl, the coquettish girl, the
mysterious girl, and so on. Not only did he
write the stories; he directed them as well.

These made such a hit that he next pro-
duced fourteen two-reelers — comedies, take-
offs on Bill Hart. And Flagg himself played
the leading role, as well as writing the
scenarios, casting and directing them.

Certainly, James Montgomery Flagg's
creation will not fade out. I had an un-
mistakable proof of that as I left the studio.
Hanging on the wall, I noticed a portrait
of a beautiful woman, of that Anglo-Saxon
type he so loves. Beneath this woman
hung the portrait of a child. A little girl
of three years, with beautiful golden curls,
sea-blue eyes, tip-tilted" nose, with a little
droop to the nostril, and a laughing, up-
curved mouth. For years instinctively,
James Montgomery Flagg has successfully
created a type which is familiar in every
little town and city throughout this country.
And yet these illustrations which he turned
out never quite satisfied him. He was
always working for something more perfect
than the last. Year after year he worked
— never satisfied today, hoping for satis-
faction tomorrow. He had reached the
crest of his artistic achievement when at
the age of forty-seven he found his perfect
illustration. It is his little daughter!

— when eyes are called upon
to say what lips dare not!
Re-create your eyelashes into dark, rich, dense fringes of
shadowy loveliness and your eyes will become newly
brilliant, amazingly more expressive and possessed of
exquisite, irresistible charm and inviting depth.
But — the lashes must appear not only dark, long and luxuriant,
but naturally so. Genuine Maybelline accomplishes this exact
effect — instantly, harmlessly, and very easily. That's why millions
of women in all parts of the world look for the Maybelline girl
on the box when purchasing an eyelash beautifier.

-Jolid and waterproof
Liquid Maybelline are
made from secret for-
mulas— widely imitated
but never duplicated.
Insist upon the genuine.
Either form in Black or
Brown — 75c at all toilet
goods counters.
Maybelxine Co.— CHICAGO

^OW You Can Write Plain

S H O RJT HANI D X VB C S

No Need to Learn a Whole "Foreign Language" of Signs and Symbols

by experienced stenographers and

AT LAST a remarkable new system makes it possible
for you to learn to write shorthand in an aston-
ishingly short time! Employing only the familiar
A-B-C's. this new shorthand is so simple that you can
master its fundamentals in a single hour of study. So
logical and natural that in three to six weeks, you can
become a proficient Speedwriter. So efficient that you
can attain in that time far greater speed than many
shorthand writers ever attain.

Based upon the language you already know — easy to
learn, simple to use, speedy and accurate — Speed writing

has been enthu-
siastically adopt-
ed by business
_ - and professional

M iss E. B. Dearborn, ori-
"/ otnator of Speedwriting.

Send Fop FREE BOOK

men and women,
beginners alike.

0~fie "NATURAL SHORTHAND

Originated by Miss E. B. Dearborn, eminent authority
on shorthand, who has taught almost all systems for
eighteen years in such institutions as Columbia Uni-
versity, Rochester Business Institute, Simmons College,
and the University of California.

One student. Marie Turner, writes: "Speedwriting
helped me get my present position, at an increase of
20% in salary. I recommend
it to all."

Full Details Free!
Our Free Booklet tells about
Speedwriting. the Natural
Shorthand, and how you can
learn quickly at home. Mail
the coupon NOW !

SPEEDWRITING. INC.
Dept. BH-34II
200 Madison Ave.. New York, N. Y.

Sp>eed+vrit/ng COUPON

sC^vfr Soeedwriting, Inc., Dept. BH-3411,
SP '/ dp 200 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.

/ M. ( Without obligation, please send me your illustrated

/J?: book, "Speedwriting" and complete details about tbis
/ ; new, natural shorthand.

m ; Name

Address .".

City state

( I Speedwriting ( ) Speedtyping

Ppirfprt Ynnr Vnirp Opportunity comes to those who
rcucii ivui »uite sing and talk_ Voice pr0jection

for movietone and radio where quality and character

are essential. Results guaranteed.

Free information on correspondence course.

M0VIE-V0X STUDIO
126 E. 60th St. New York City

^ order

FORTUNE TELLING CARDS

LThet world-famous fortune teller Madame LeNor-
l mand s own secret system and deck of cards iu colors.
J Anyone knowing the key may read them at a glance.
Tell Fortunes" at parties, bazaars, or at home for
own amusement. Send $1 check, stamps or money
order, or pay postman $1.15 on deliverv.

Educator Press, 19 Park Row, New York, Dept. C-48

102

SCREENLAND

Take $ /
Pictures

MAKE MONEY

We train you quickly at home. Noexperience neces-
sary. Full timeor spare time. Splendid opportunities
nowinModernPhotography.Thisisthepictureage.
Newspapers, magazines, advertisers, and manufac-
turers use thousands of photographs every year.
Portrait photographers abo make more money to-
day than ever before. Commercial photography also
a big pay field.

Get into business for yourself, or make money on the side.
New plan. Nothing: else like it. You can also make money
while learning. Easy method- Quick results assured.

G IT1 TW Tfc f? (f\ R Write at once tor inter-
im M2j Mr JL V U estine book Omn rtuni-
m mum ■ mM m n/v Avr l*rB in Modern fhntevra-

FREE BOOK

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

3601 Michigan Ave. Dept. 632-A Chicago, III.

BjL^ClKlS^Ng

^ koie/ oPrePiHem.eM.tr/

50 EAST 58th STREET
NEW YORK

In the fashionable Park
Ave. and Plaza districts

Large outside
sunny rooms
elegantly
furnished

Single Room and

Bath $4-$5

Double Room and

Bath $5-$7

Parlor, Bedroom

and Bath $10-$12

Special low weekly
and monthly rates

Telephone Regent 8100

LEARN TO DANCE

ONE STEP, FOX TROT, WALTZ
at home

Complete in one evening's time. Simplified Chart
assures positive results. Your social success is de-
pendent upon your ability to entertain and be enter-
tained properly. Be prepared. Our copyrighted system
explains everything. Simple, easy. Complete instruc-
tions mailed immediately upon receipt of $2.0(1.
SCHMEISER SCHOOL OF DANCING
7 North Clinton Rochester, N. Y.

(2G years a teacher of dancing)

Broadway Whoopee in Hollywood

Continued from page 32

map, because the Gleasons declare that thus
only would their guests ever reach their
home, which is a Spanish house on a wind-
ing road nearly at the top of a Beverly
Hills hill.

Jimmy Gleason, you know, wrote and
played in "Is Zat So" and both he and
Mrs. Gleason were in another play of his,
"Shannons of Broadway." Their charming
son, Russell, nineteen, whom his fond
parents had hoped to make a civil engineer
of by sending him to college, just decided
to be a chip of the old block, and justi'
fied himself by getting a contract with
Pathe on the strength of his first picture.
So all the Gleasons are in pictures now.

"Phyllis Haver is in the party. I know,"
remarked Patsy. "List to her laugh!"

Sure enough, even before we heard Mrs.
Gleason's warmly hospitable voice, calling
to us that we were at the right place and
please to come up the stairs that lead
through the upright lawn to the door, we
heard Phyllis' contagious laugh.

Inside the house is as cosy and hospitable
as its owners, and we found gathered near
the big fire in the fireplace a number of
guests, including Raymond Griffith and his
wife, Bertha Mann, who used to be on
the stage; Phyllis Haver, Arthur Caesar,
who writes for Fox, and his lovely wife, a
former magazine editor and interior dec-
orator; the guest of honor, Octavus Roy
Cohen, and his pretty wife; Buddy De
Sylva and his lovely wife — Buddy wrote
the musical comedy, "Good News," you
know; Mrs. Wells Root, who was formerly
a noted scientist in her own right, but who
has willingly given up her own carrer to be
home-maker for her writer-husband; O. P.
Heggie, the New York actor who came
west to play in pictures, with his charm-
ing wife; Helen Mehrman, also of the
New York stage; Al Cohn, the writer,
with his wife, and numerous others.

We chatted with Octavus Roy Cohen
about his stories about colored people; but
he said that all the interviews he had had
since coming to Hollywood concerned the
fact that he was married to his first cousin,
and that his father had married his first
cousin too. He said that the interviewers
invariably delicately inquired if there wasn't
anything strange about any member of his
family, and he had replied, "Well, some-
times some of the members don't seem to
think I should have been allowed to grow
up, but otherwise there isn't any objec-
tion to anybody."

Phyllis Haver told us about her fiance.
Billy Secman, of New York, and how they
hope to go to Europe on their honeymoon;
and Mrs. DeSylva told us how Billy had
once ridden his pony right into their house
on Long Island, followed by a string of
children!

Phyllis says that she and her husband,
are going to live in one whole floor on
top of a building in New York, and that
there is a tennis court on the roof, tennis
being her favorite game.

Robert Armstrong was there with his
wife, and that clever George Abbott, who
is to direct the Two Black Crows, Moran
and Mack.

Raymond Griffith told us, in his husky
voice which is almost a stage whisper, but
which, oddly enough, registers in the talk-
ing pictures, about his honeymoon trip to
Europe with his bride. He said that they
met a lot of Germans walking, in Italy, so

they decided to walk, too, and that Bertha
nearly fell over with weariness, but gamely
kept going, because you can see so much
more from afoot than you can if you ride
from one point of interest to another in
the big cities.

"Hash!" was called, and we all sat down
at little sqaure tables.

Patsy confided that she had supposed the
'hash' of the invitation was merely a figure
of speech; but it turned out that the hash
was literal. But what hash! "Heavenly
hash," somebody called it.

No wonder Mrs. Gleason says that she
chooses her houses according to whether
the place has a room big enough for her
cook, that lady, colored, being of wide
dimensions.

We got to chatting about stories, and
Jimmy Gleason told how he had been put
to work to write an adaptation of a story
called "High Voltage," but how, by the
time he got through with it, following dis-
cussions with studio executives, all that was
left of the original was the title, and as
the studio people liked it, they had to call
the hero by that as a nick-name so as to
keep the name in!

Jimmy Gleason showed the golf hounds
of the party his new golf clubs, and that
brought up the subject of sports, including
polo, whereupon Arthur Caesar pulled an
immortal line —

"All the producers are playing polo.
From Poland to polo in two generations!"

We voted the party a huge success as
we slipped along in Patsy's car over the
smooth roads homeward.

"Just all the stage actors in the world
who have come to Hollywood to go into
pictures are here!" exclaimed Patsy, as she,
Vernon Rickard — the singer, who has been
appearing in Vitaphones and singing over
the Warner radio, and who formerly played
the lead with the Duncan sisters in "Topsy
and Eva" — and I were welcomed by Mrs.
Joseph Cawthorn, whose husband is in pic-
tures, and who was giving a party at her
pretty Hollywood bungalow. She was cele-
brating the birthday of her composer-son,
Will Kernell, who wrote that lilting lay,
"Sally of My Dreams," you know. He
has lately been married, and his pretty
wife, who was formerly a concert pianist,
was there.

Louise Dresser was there, too, with her
husband, Jack Gardner, and she said she
had a cold for the first time since going
into pictures.

"Of course I had to have a cold now
that I'm in talking pictures," she smiled.
"Oh, I've had a rough time in this picture.
Paul Nicholson accidentally hit me too hard
in a scene, and blackened my jaw and eye
— and the very next day I met the hand-
somest man I've ever seen! Talk about the
irony of fate!"

Robert Edeson was there with his wife,
and Edmund Breese and Mrs. Breese.
Eddie Lowe and Lilyan Tashman, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Grapewin, Lumsden Hare,
Jack and Mary Ford. Antonio Moreno,
Cornelius Keefe. Mr. and Mrs. David
Percy, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Mack Brown,
Mr. and Mrs. Crauford Kent, Conway
Tearle and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. James
Gleason. Jason Robards and his wife,
William Cowen and Lenore Coffee, Ken-
neth Thompson and his wife, and a dozen
ethers.

SCREENLAND

103

"Two 'eads are better than one!" we
heard somebody remark.

"I'll just bet," said Miss Tashman, "that
Edmund Breese is talking to my husband.
He's always punning."

Sure enough, Ed Breese had topped some-
thing Eddie Lowe had said, and ended up
with the pun.

We were chatting with Cornelius Keefe,
and he told us about the opening of "Broad'
way Melody" in Hollywood.

"Two singers, a man and a woman, were
singing from adjoining boxes," he told us
merrily. "Spotlights were supposed to play
upon them, but the spotlight supposed to
illumine the man didn't work. It was
placed on the stage, and he hopped out of
his box onto the stage, fixed the light, and
then got back into its rays and sang!"

"He should," Vernon Rickard suggested,
"have turned the lady's spotlight on him-
self. That would have made it perfect."

Eddie Lowe told us about hobnobbing
with a stranger in a Turkish bath, both of
course mainly in the altogether, and how
the stranger had complimented him on a
certain performance in a picture, without
knowing he was talking to the actor himself.

"He didn't know the best dressed actor
in Hollywood," Eddie laughed, "without
his clothes."

Being a collection of stage people, of
course there was a lot of delightful enter-
tainment. David Percy sang some of Will
Kernell's songs in that splendid voice of
his, Vernon Rickard sang in his heavenly
tenor, Crauford Kent and Mrs. David Percy
whistled a duet, Joe Cawthorn sang some
of his famous old musical comedy songs —
"which show up these new songs," declared
Patsy; Mrs. Cawthorn, who used to be the
famous Queenie Vassar, you know, sang in
a voice still clear and lovely, and Conway
Tearle's wife, Atlele Rowland, sang.

There was a wonderful buffet supper, and
presently guests began to leave, but not
until we had become acquainted with the
other member of the Cawthorn family, the
beautiful big police dog.

"Well, they're letting in the dog — it's
time to go home," said Vernon, and regret-
fully we sought our hats and coats.

"Do you suppose," inquired Madge
Bellamy whimsically, "that Claire Windsor
really knows everybody at her party?"

We had gone over to the Breakfast Club,
where Claire was giving a huge party, and
were pausing in the Dog House to have
Hors d'euvre and powder our noses before
descending upon the big pavilion where the
dining and dancing were to be done.

Madge, looking very lovely in a white
silk gown, was sitting on a sofa, entertain-
ing a crowd of men including Henry Mor-
genthau, the Turkish Ambassador, and
Adolph Ochs, New York publisher. Both
had been Madge's escorts to the party.

Madge was smoking, but said that she
"smoked only in public."

That, Madge explainea, was just so
people wouldn't think that she was quite
too ingenuish for anything.

Claire was looking heavenly lovely in a
white silk dress made up of tiny stitched
leaves, fastened together. She had come
alone, she said. Grant Withers, with whom
she has been going about a lot lately,
wouldn't come because Buddy Rogers was
to be there! These two are rivals for
Claire's affections, you know.

Buddy had come alone, but we have a
suspicion that he later accompanied Claire
with William and Roscoe Fawcett and their
wives, down to Tia Juana, where Claire
said they were going as soon as they could

change their clothes after the party.

Everybody seemed to gather around
Madge Bellamy's sofa, and she told us how
she was smoking this evening to drown her
terrible disappointment.

"It was too dreadful," Madge told us.
"I was talking to a man this afternoon, and
he seemed quite devoted. He began most

auspiciously — 'Will you ' and hesitated.

Naturally I thought he was going to pro-
pose. But he ended up with — 'loan me ten
dollars!' "

"Oh, well, that was a narrow escape,"
put in Buddy Rogers. "A man who would
want to borrow such a small sum as that — "

Just then Eleanor Boardman came in
with her husband, King Vidor, and we all
paused to exclaim because she had bobbed
her hair. Her husband never would let
her before, you know, but she explained
that she had had to do it for a picture,
and she looked so pleased about it that we
had our suspicions about that bob. After
all, some directors are nice about taking
suggestions.

Lois Weber was there with her husband.
Captain Gantz; and Johnny Hines arrived
alone — 'a la carte,' as he explained it. He
said that he meant by that if he came alone
he could order what he wanted in the
way of company, whereas, if he brought
a girl — arrived, table d'hote so to speak —
he had to take what he had handed him-
self.

"But supposing that the party is out of
what you want," suggested King Vidor.

"Oh, couldn't be at a party like this,"
responded Johnny.

However, we found out that the real
reason Johnny came alone was because he
is deeply interested in a beautiful young
non-professional girl, who was at home ill
with the flu.

"Oh, there's the No girl with the Yes
smile!" exclaimed Johnny, bantering Jane
Winton, who had just come in with her
husband, Charles Kenyon.

Dolores Del Rio, we found had been
invited, but simply has gone nowhere since
her husband died.

Don Alvarado was there with his wife;
and there was Loris and Finis Fqx, Isabel
O'Neil, Doris Arbuckle and Hal Battley,
Ben Bard and Ruth Roland, Billie Dove
and Irvin Willat, Daphne Pollard; Vernon
Rickard, who had brought Nancy Drexel,
to whom he seemed very much devoted,
and who looks so much like Bessie Barris-
cale that it is startling; Nils Asther and
Seena Owen; Frances Marion, who had
come with Victor Fleming, that old friend
of herself and her late husband, Fred
Thomson; Sharon Lynn and Paul Page,
with whom Sharon goes about all the time;
Lloyd Pantages and Mary McAllister;
Agnes Ayres and Roger Marchetti, the
lawyer; Jeanette Loff and Eddie Silton;
John Considine and his fiance, Carmen
Pantages; Jean Arthur and Garter Herman,
and a score of others.

The favors were amusing. They were
cardboard picture frames enclosing a blank
white sheet, below which was a little white
oval. This oval you moistened with the
finger tip and rubbed over the blank space
in the frame, whereupon your supposed
future husband or wife appeared, the oval
containing some sort of an acid that
brought out the picture. Of course the
pictures were awfully funny looking, and
everybody had a big laugh.

"Mine," announced Jeanette Loff, "looks
like a caricature of John McCormick grown
old. I'm going to warn Colleen Moore!"

And it was terribly late when we left
for home!

W. ^ J

Lois Moran

famed Fox Films star applying Bon-
ctlla clasmic pack. Her most recent
picture1* Blindfolded' ' is a kugesuccess

tonight—

New Beauty

In an hour a revelation. New, be-
witching loveliness. Cheeks that
glowlikeroses,becauseof a thrilling,
vitalized skin. This is the promise
Boncilla clasmic pack brings to you.

With your first use of this leader
among all aids to quick beauty you
will actually feel it draw from the
skin impurities you never dreamed
were there. Dead skin — hardened
oil— impurities that mar. You will
feel the tingle of new life, new
nourishment clear down to the tis-
sues beneath the skin. What an
amazing experience awaits you.

A Promise

Perhaps with you, as with many others, beauty is simply a
matter of correction. If so, you may confidently expect Bon-
cilla clasmic pack to correct these obstacles to a lovely skin i
blackheads, whiteheads, oily skio, dry skin, blemishes, skin
pouches, sagging muscles, little lines, crows* feet, pimples,
enlarged pores.

And there is no waiting with Boncilla. No wonder beauty
experts the world over urge its use. And remember this method
is for all ages. The vivacious deb has as great need for Boncilla
as the matron of forty or over. Do try it now.

Any toiletry counter can supply Boncilla clasmic pack in
tubes, 50c and $1.00; in jars, $3.50. Or send the coupon with
ioc for your first delightful skin thrill — four glorious beauty
helps — a whole week's test. Clip the coupon now.

Professional treat-
ments at smart beauty
and barber shops f
everywhere

CLASMIC PACK
For Quick Beauty

BONCILLA — Indianapolis, Ind. [SL6-29]
Send four quick aids to beauty — the
pack, two creams and powder. I enclose
a dime.

f^ame

cAddress

104

SCREENLAND

g§ can you work ran

There aro HUNDREDS of trades and professions for
men and women In Motion Pictures. What aro they?
' HANDS or HOLLYWOOD" tells you accurately and
In dotail— authentic, first-hand Information on all posi-
tions, salaries paid and qualifications necessary. How
TALKIKS uro made and new positions created l>v them.
Many STAItS. Dlltllt TOHS. SCKNAltlO-WKITKItS
cam.) up from the ranks of script-girls, property men,
cuttors, set-dressers, readers, etc.

Don't come to Hollywood UNPREPARED I Irfarn
flrstl "HANDS OP HOLLYWOOD" opens the way. It
tells you about Actor and Actress. Paper-hanger and
Producer, Director and Designer, Seamstress and Stenog-
rapher, Carpenter and Cameraman, Dressmaker and
Draper, etc. The difference between Star and Featured
Player, free-lanco and contract player, "hits" and ex-
tras; how Pictures aro made, sets designed, built, lighted,
dieted, painted all ik- ililied ill "HANDS OP HOLLY-
WOOD." It is the only hook of its kind. If you aro
interested in a career In the moyies. send $1.50 today
for your copy or "H ANDS OF HOLLYWOOD" ; beau-
tifully bound, charmingly written. Truel Thrilling!
Trustworthy!

PPpC With this book, a Dictionary and Directory of
r IVEiEt Movleland, containing Picture phrases, studio
slang technical terms. Names of cafes, clubs and
churches, — where tho STARS pray and play, dine and

danC6' PHOTOPLAY RESEARCH BUREAU

Dept. B 5617 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif.

Stop Using a Truss

STUARTS ADHESIF PLAPAO-PADS are entirely
different from trusses— being automatically contin-
uous mechanico-chemico applicators of the herbal
muscle-tonic "PLAPAO" to the affected parts.
Made self-adhesive purposely to minimize painful
chafing and dangerous slipping and to eliminate
harmful pressure.

Comfortable when— ,
no straps,

buckles
or springs
attached.

For almost a quarter of a century satisfied thousands
report Buccess without delay from work. Stacks of
sworn statements on file. Process of recovery
natural, so no subsequent use for a truss. Awarded
Gold Medal, Rome. Grand Prix, Paris, etc.
Test of factor "PLAPAO" sent you
Mail Coupon below TODAY,

FREE

Plapao Co., 1325 Stuart Bldg. , St. Looi», Mo.

Name .,

Address

Return mail will bring Free Trial "PLAPAO"

CULTURED SPEECH

ATLAST!SomethingNew!3

Learn Cultured Speech and Cor-
rect Pronunciation quickly from
phonograph records. Also increase
your vocabulary this new easy
way. Be a fluent talker — culti-
vated speech is a social andbusiness
asset of the first importance. This new
"learn by listening" method highly recommended
by leading educators. Recordssentonfree trial. Write
for information and free Self Test. No obligation.

THE PRONUNCIPHONE INSTITUTE

3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 632-A, Chicago

On Location With Eve Southern

Continued from page 47

ToAnySuit!

1 Double the life of your
coat and vest with perfectly
matched pants. 10 0,000 patterns.
Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no
"readymades." Our match sent FREE for your
O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed.
Send piece of cloth or vest today.
©•27 SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY^.
IIS So.'Dearborn Street, Dept. 233 Chicago

FRENCH LOVE

(h' Amour Francaise)
Something new and different, far beyond the
reach of many. This new alluring and excep-
tionally fascinating perfume sells for $30.00 a
bottle. A Rare perfume that enhances the
charm of the user.

Send 25c in coin for miniature vial containing
sample. Write for special combination offers.

THE RANCO COMPANY
170 Summer St. Dept. S. L. Boston, Mass.

gracefully spreading live oaks. The air
was balmy and lazy.

Two enormous standards about fifty feet
high were placed at either side of the
camera zone and a dozen or more smaller
side sprays were scattered about. Four fire
hoses were attached to plugs and stretched
beyond the first row of houses.

"What's all that for?" I asked.

"That's for our rain storm." Eva smiled.
"All those people are on their way to my
house on the hill when the rain starts and
they have to run for shelter. Then they
arrest me for a public menace."

"Shall they get wet?" I asked.

"Not only wet but drenched," Mrs. Todd
replied.

I was thankful that it wasn't I who was
scheduled to get wet! It made me shiver
even to think of it. There was only an
intermittent sun, and it is certainly cold
out here when the sun doesn't shine.
That's why I never mind the everlasting
sunshine some easterners complain of.
There can't be too much for me.

Mrs. Todd showed me around while
Eve changed her dress and put the finish-
ing touches to her makeup. I noticed that
she limped as she walked away. "What
happened?" I asked.

"Someone gave her a push yesterday in
the crowd. Her foot slipped on a stone
and she sprained her ankle. She was
game to drive her car but she thought
the exercise would do her good. She had
hot and cold bandages on most of the
night to get the swelling down."

And I hadn't even seen her wince while
she was driving!

There was a fountain in the middle of
the public square and around it sat the vil-
lagers in stylish clothes and ragged clothes,
good clothes and bad clothes, representing
the different classes of people who came
to see the 'miracle woman.' There were
Packard cars and little tumble-down don-
key carts with people stretched out in them,
paralyzed or legless or something. Some of
the 'invalids' were carried up the hill on
stretchers by two men, but when the scene
was over the boys made the 'invalids'
walk down! "You dames get break enough
riding up this hill!" one of them said.

"You ought to practise up," one of the
girls razzed him, "so when that tin lizzy
of yours quits in the middle of a hill you
can help out a little."

"It would be a good time for a fire,"
someone said, "with all these water ma-
chines on the job," and not two minutes
afterwards smoke was seen pouring out of
the church belfry! "Oh boy! What a
break for our side!" a boy yelled and grab-
bing the nozzle of a hose, started for the
scene of action. But alas and alack — the
hose was dry! A signal was to have been
given when the water scene was ready and
until then the water was turned off the
back lot, so an SOS was telephoned to
Universal's own private fire department and
in due time the ladder and hose clattered
up drawn by man power. By that time the
blaze had had a swell time with the whole
belfry and far side of the roof, but they got
it out before too much damage was done to
the front of it. In the rain sequence the
charred belfry wouldn't show, but the next
day's scenes were menaced by it.

"There's our ticket to a night's work,"
said one of the carpenters. "That's a fine
job to patch up in twelve hours."

There was a little dog who couldn't make
up his mind what it was all about. He ran
around from one person to the other with
an enquiring look in his brown eyes, trying
to show that he was all for one and one for
all, if someone would only tell him how he
could help matters along.

Walter Pidgeon, who plays Lord Garys.
called him over, "What you need is a
drink." he said, and the pup wagged his
enthusiasm over this remark until his body
was in danger of parting company, while
Walter tipped a ten-gallon milk can filled
with water into a paper cup and patted
him on the head. He gave Walter's hand
a swipe with his little red tongue in grati-
tude for his thoughtfulness and bounded
away.

"Always know when a dog is thirsty,"
said Walter. "Been that way myself and
you get to know the ear marks."

You know Walter has a very fine sing-
ing voice which you will hear in this pic-
ture. He is an artist, too, having studied
in Paris and has some really interesting
sketches to his credit. He was in the war
and was a broker for years before he went
into pictures. He is also a graduate of
Dalhousie College in Nova Scotia. Also,
he is very wealthy — and a bachelor, girls!

"What are you doing to our lot?" asked
one of Universal's men, jokingly, who had
hastened out to see how much damage the
fire had caused.

"Oh, just brightening it up a little, said
George Archainbaud, from his perch on
the camera platform. This one had a cov-
ering so the rain wouldn't drench the
cameras.

"All ready, Eve?" Mr. Archainbaud
called when the excitement over the fire
had abated. "You men rush up the hill
brandishing anything you can pick up and
those of you who can't find sticks, shake
your fists at Miss Southern."

This was the scene after the rain when
the countryside comes in a body to arrest
the charlatan, but because that had to be
a dry scene it was taken first.

The bobbies appeared in their funny
strapped hats, fighting back the crowd in
an effort to keep the girl from the fury
of the mob. until she got to the courtroom
at least. Eve was pulled here and jerked
there; sometimes a stray fist hit her head
or shoulder.

I kept wondering how the sprained ankle
felt about all this. After all a sprained
ankle has rights and Eve's wasn't getting
any break at all. But although she looked
a little white she said the ankle was fine.

Again and again they did the scene and
then prepared for the rain. It was getting
late and the sky was hung with clouds.
Also it had grown very cold.

"Looks as though they wouldn't have to
use the rain pipes. Those clouds look like
business," said an old man who had the
rheumatism 'powerful bad'; he told me. I
didn't think the rain scene would help his
rheumatism any and told him so. "Wall,
you can't be pickin' and choosin'," he said,
"I been doin' the picture bizness for ten
years and I just take what comes. Gettin'
wet ain't near as uncomfortable as some
things I have had to do. Just the same I'm
sorry the sun went back on us."

The rain standards had whirligigs on the
top just like the ordinary lawn sprinkler,
only ten times their size. When the signal
was given all the people started tearing

SCREE N LAND 105

down the hill and through the square to
the shelter of the public buildings. The
hose played over the tops of the houses
and the small standards and large standards
covered the place with what looked to be
a driving rain.

The first time, though, the people didn't
get so wet, but after the fourth time they
were sopping. I marveled at the determina-
tion they had and the fact that they were
ruining their clothes for a five-dollar or
seven-and-a-half dollar pay check. Aside
from the discomfort of the situation there
was no denying the fact that those clothes
would at least have to be cleaned, if not
discarded. What charm the movies have!
Hundreds and thousands of people, young
and old, put up with anything only' to be
in them.

And it was so cold! Everyone who
could had grabbed an army blanket and
wrapped themselves up in it, Mrs. Todd
and myself among the number. Of course
the ones who were getting wet couldn't
wrap up, so I don't know what they felt
like.. Eve was clear across across the square
under cover until she was needed. They
intended to work all evening with lights
playing over the set so as to finish up the
sequence. But I had had enough! I man-
aged to get across to say good-bye to Eve.

"Wait till I tell you about the healing
scene," she said.

Eve speaks in a soft, southern drawl.
She was born in Texas, but somehow she
has an accent as individual as her person-
ality. Before I came out here, after having
seen "The Gaucho" and "Wild Geese," I
thought Eve Southern and Greta Garbo
the two most magnetic personalities of the
screen; and I still think so, because they are
so silent, and silence is usually mysterious.

Eve is very shy. She doesn't like to meet
strange people — is terrified of interviews.
So is Greta Garbo. Eve is not unfriendly —
she loves people, but she likes impersonal
and not personal contact, and such is hu-
man nature that people who shrink from
meeting the outside world are most at-
tractive to it!

In the mob scene when Walter Pidgeon
discovers that Eve is the 'miracle woman',
he immediately steps on the other side of
the fence, so to .speak, and defends her.
A stone, intended for her, strikes his temple
and he falls unconscious. He is taken home
and recovers consciousness, but is found to
be paralyzed.

"Anne goes to him everyday," said Eve,
"and talks to him, trying to show him that
a higher power can save him. He can't
understand, of course. Every day she sits
at his bedside and tells him that if he will
only have faith in the God that made him,
he will be able to walk. One day, filled
with love and pity for him, she tells him
again the same story and puts her hand on
his shoulder. As he listens and as he feels
the touch of her fingers, he moves his hand
toward her. He is suddenly able to grasp
the spiritual message. Tears spring into
his eyes and he cries, 'Why, I am free.' "

"It sounds awfully silly to tell about it,"
Eve said, "but it was beautiful. We both
felt so uplifted because we were trying so
hard to think above the earth and get in
some sort of touch with the divine current
that we were both crying when it was over.
I haven't seen it on the screen yet, but I
am sure the scene should be a good one,
because we put so much sincerity in it."

Eve also has a lovely singing voice. It
was her ambition to go into opera, and it
still is. Singing is her principal relaxation
and recreation. Also it is splendid exercise.
She will sing in this picture.

See the Movie!

Read the Book!

Your favorite moving picture in
novel form— for $1.00

Order any one for $1.00 or 6 for $5.00

Our Dancing Daughters
Mother Knows Best
White Shadows in the South Seas
The Fleet's In

(Clara Bow edition)

Lilac Time
Beggars of Life
The Singing Fool
Revenge
Interference
The Divine Lady
Me Gangster
Dry Martini
The Barker

The Grip of the Yukon

(Yukon Trail)

Wings

Sorrell and Son

Four Sons

The King of Kings

The Canary Murder Case

The River

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Abie's Irish Rose

The Legion of the Condemned

Noah's Ark

Four Devils

The Patent Leather Kid

Seventh Heaven

The Rescue

On Trial

The Trail of '98

Dracula

Beau Geste

Beau Sabreur

Redskin

Glorious Betsy

SCREENLAND MAGAZINE (Dept. 6-29)
49 West 45th Street, New York City.

I enclose $ for which please send me..

Name _ _

Address.

106

SCREENLAND

a/iiuj new

used by famous film stars

A Weight Reducer
A Wrinkle Remover
A Facial Bcautificr
A Sunburn Preventive

AUCE CAI.IIOUN
famout* motion picture
pluyer uhch Solaruy

— ail in one single preparation

Solaray is not a cure-all hut an astonishing new prod-
uct which effectively serves many purposes — an indis-
jiensable toilet requisite. We frankly tell you that
Solaray will not remove wrinkles permanently — in our
opinion no preparation can. But Solaray erases wrin-
kles temporarily — applied in the evening, your com-
plexion will remain soft, velvety, youthful overnight —
in many cases, for days and weeks. Solaray removes
pimples, blackheads, freckles, eliminates body odors,
reduces enlarged pores. Applied as a reducer to
stomach, hips, ankles and other parts of the body,
it gives truly astonishing results, without the aid of
drugs or diet.

Absolutely non-injurious — Solaray is easily and nuickly
applied and removed. Full-size package mailed post-
paid on receipt of $1.00. Or, sent C.O.D. if desired.
Absolute money-back guarantee. Mail your order today.
HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY LABORATORIES
614 Southwest Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

LEARN NURSING

PRACTICAL1^ Uft Jlnu
AT HOME IN 12 WEEKS

Marvelous calling. Earn $20 to $30 weekly
caring for invalid in your vicinity while
learning. We help secure positions. Write
Miss Tull, B-6202 Winthrop, Chicago, III.

STATEMENT OP THE OWNERSHIP,
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE-
QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF
AUGUST 24, 1912, of SCREENLAND, published
MONTHLY at NEW YORK, N. Y., for April
1, 1929. State of New York, County of NEW
YORK, ss. Before me, a NOTARY in and for
the State and county aforesaid, personally ap-
peared ALFRED A. COHEN, who, having
been duly sworn according to law, deposes and
says that he is the BUSINESS MANAGER of
SCREENLAND and that the following is, to the
best of his knowledge and belief, a true state-
ment of the ownership, management (and if a
daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore-
said' publication for the date shown in the above
caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912,
embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regu-
lations, printed on the reverse of this form, to
wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the
publisher, editor, managing editor, and busi-
ness managers are: Publisher, MAGAZINE
BUILDERS, INC., 49 WEST 45TH STREET,
NEW YORK, N. Y.; Editor, DELIGHT
EVANS, 49 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW
YORK, N. Y. ; Managing Editor, DELIGHT
EVANS, 49 WE ST 45TH STREET, NEW
YORK N. Y. ; Business Manager, ALFRED A.
COHEN, 49 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW
YORK, N. Y. 2. That the owner is: (If
the publication is owned by an individual
his name and address, or if owned by more
than one individual the name and address
of each, should be given below; if the publication
is owned by a corporation the name of the cor-
poration and the names and addresses of the
stockholders owning or holding one percent or
more of the total amount of stock should be given)
THE MAGAZINE BUILDERS, INC., 49 WEST
45TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. ; ALFRED
A COHEN, 49 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW
YORK, N. Y. ; J. RAYMOND TIFFANY,
49 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK,
N. Y. 3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security holders owning
or holding 1 percent or more of total amount of
bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If
there are none, so state) NONE. 4. That the
two paragraphs next above, giving the names
of the owners, stockholders, and security holders,
if any, contain not only the list of stockholders
and security holders as they appear upon the
books of the company but also, in cases where
the stockholder or security holder appears upon
the books of the company as trustee or in any
other fiduciary relation, the name of the person
or corporation for whom such trustee is acting,
is given; also that the said two paragraphs con-
tain statements embracing affiant's full knowl-
edge and belief as to the circumstances and
conditions under which stockholders and security
holders who do not appear upon the books of
the company as trustees, hold stock and securi-
ties in a capacity other than that of a bona fide
owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe
that any other person, association, or corpora-
tion has any interest direct or indirect in the
said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so
stated bv him. ALFRED A. COHEN, Business
Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me
this twenty second dav of March, 1929. (SEAL).
Notarv Public, NATHAN REIGROD, N. Y.
Co Clk's No. 55, Reg. No. 1R3. Commission
expires March 30, 1931.

Mary Pickford— Continued jrom page 29

appearance, I carefully kept any note of
encouragement out of my voice, merely
saying, "Proceed, please, I will be glad to
hear them."

Then, without further preliminaries, and
with the utmost of self-confidence, the
child began voicing the lines. And as she
spoke, I marvelled at the clearness of her
diction, the music of her tones. There was
no slurring of consonants, no nervous junc-
ture of words. I had but to close my
eyes to imagine myself listening to the
clear-cut, well trained voice of some debu-
tante graduate of a fine finishing school.

I watched her hands in the glare of the
pilot-light, but there was not the slightest
evidence of nervousness. The expressive
fingers moved gracefully in time with her
gesticulations. Her eyes gleamed with in-
terest as she entered into the role she was
assuming, while each of her changing pos-
tures was graceful in the extreme.

I was sincere when I said, "That's very
good," at the end. She had made a
splendid impression under the most trying
conditions. I knew then that I had found
my Betty Warren, and I told her to come
to the studio the next day.

"But what a name for the stage!" I
exclaimed when she appeared and an-
nounced simply, "I am Gladys Smith."

"Yes, it is pretty terrible, isn't it?" she
asked, laughing merrily after she had set-
tled herself in one of my largest chairs,
"but Daddy's name was 'Smith' and Mother
chose the 'Gladys' part of it — so I'm
helpless."

"Possibly not as helpless as you think,"
I rejoined. "We must find a name ex-
pressive of your personality and your fine
voice."

"If I could have had a choice, I would
have selected 'Mary,' for I love that name
best of all," the child replied, "but I do
not like 'Marie.' "

"Very well," I replied, "but 'Mary
Smith' isn't helping any. We must find a
suitable last name, something like 'Fairfax'
or 'Tolliver' or 'Hardin' "

"One of my relatives married a man
named 'Pickford,' " she suggested tenta-
tively.

" 'Mary Pickford,' " I ejaculated. "It
was made to order for you. That is it:
the perfect name!"

It was thus she was christened in the
name which has become so famous through-
out the world.

Already I was under the spell of the
child's winsome personality and remarkably
musical voice, but I believe it was the latter
quality which attracted me most. There
was an indefinable 'cello note in her lower
registers, and a flute-like clarity and sweet-
ness in her overtones, which told me beyond
the question of a doubt that she would
score as the daughter in my play. Master
Richard Story also came to me providen-
tially at the same time, and I do not be-
lieve there ever were two sweeter child
characters in productions.

The newspapers in those days paid scant
attention to other than headlined players,
but the critic of the T^ew Tor\ Press wrote
after our home premiere:

"A charming personality was revealed

in little Mary Pickford, a child whose

natural grace and beauty of voice should

be cultivated."

Subsequently, when the play went to
Boston. The Globe had this to say of
Mary:

"Not the least striking persons in the
play are little Miss Pickford and Master

Richard Story as the younger children of
General Warren. Both are delightful
in the domestic picture of the second
act. The little actress shows promise."
Washington, D. C., also paid some at-
tention to the little player, The Times
saying:

"Miss Mary Pickford as Agatha's
younger sister is a very lovable little girl,
winsome and with a big voice."

These are indicative of the type of no-
tices given Mary during the two-season run
of the play. I often have wondered why
it was not ordered that critics might have
second sight as well as their other capa-
bilities. Then they could see into a future
such as that of Mary Pickford, and could
predict unerringly which of the younger
players some day would reach stardom.

But it was not audience alone which
felt the personal charm of Mary. First
and foremost, I loved her. She was sweetly
serious in her work, grateful and loyal to
me, and always had that self-contained,
dignified little smile of welcome for those
she loved.

Likewise she was a company favorite.
I believe she looked on the beautiful Char-
lotte Walker almost as a second mother,
so great was the affection between them.
Down to the last member of the company
— as well as the stagehands and musicians
of the various theatres — all seemed to feel
the spell of this sweet personality.

With the close of "The Warrens of
Virginia," Mary came to me and said:

"Unless you advise against it, I think
I will try motion pictures for awhile. I
have had some tests at the Biograph studio
and Mr. David Griffith has promised me
regular work. I think I will like it, but
I do not want to attempt it if you think
it will interfere with my stage prospects.
Tell me what to do, please, for you are
my best friend and adviser."

Here indeed was a problem! I knew that
the child's beauty and sweetness would
make her a positive success in pictures. But
on the other hand the stage would be losing
these qualities, plus a particularly melodious
voice. . But in the end I nodded approval.

"Will you make me one promise?" I
asked.

"Anything — of course," she replied. "I
feel that my future belongs to David
Belasco. I never want to play for anyone
but you."

But I pledged her to forget the speaking
stage definitely for a time, and to give her
best efforts in the new field.

"It may be that they can advance you
more rapidly to the heights than you can
rise in the legitimate theater," I told her.
"But I want you to learn once and for all
whether there is fame for you in the films."

She left with protestations that it was
silly for anyone to think of her going on-
ward into the future with anyone but me
— and she patted my hand in farewell with
that curiously old-fashioned gesture so
familiar to students of the moving pictures.
Her success was instantaneous and I watched
her rise with pardonable pride.

But Mary came back to me in 1912 to
play the role of Juliet in "A Good Little
Devil," a fairy fantasy. And strangely
enough there were cast with her other
juveniles destined to score successes later.
Among these were Ernest Truex, cast in my
play as the Scotch orphan: Lillian Gish,
Wilda Bennett and Regina Wallace. Each
had an important role.

Mary brought back to the theater a new
expressiveness of feature, her remarkable

■

SCREENLAND

'speaking' hands, and an amplification of
her natural poise and gracefulness. But
best of all she brought back every note of
her superbly musical voice.

I was not alone in that realization, for
the critic of The Hew Yor\ Times, com-
menting on her return to the speaking
stage, said:

"Mary Pickford's diction is so good

that it suggests the movies as a desirable

place for some of our other actors to

improve their elocution."

The K[ew Tor\ Herald on the same dav.
paid tribute to her personal charm and
talent by saying:

"As for the acting, perhaps the honors

went to Mary Pickford — a remarkable

find for Mr. Belasco — who gave a lovely

impersonation of the blind Juliet."

Many and happy were the chats I had
with Mary during her stay with me in the
new play. Through these moments I came
to know something of the fierce determina-
tion and the hard common-sense which
form the basis of her make-up. She knew
within the heart of her that she was a
born actress — but never did she attempt the
thousand-and-one little tricks of tempera-
ment so many display. In fact she was
more apt to satirize them.

I remember that one evening I was
chatting with her before the performance.
She had a pet kitten, and the animal,
jealous at being neglected, began to mew.
Finally Mary smiled roguishly and said to
the animal:

"See here, young kitten-cat, don't you
know actresses with temperaments cannot
stand silly noises in their dressing rooms?"

Once during a more serious moment,
while we were discussing her future, Mary
turned to me and said :

"There was a story in the papers the
other day that I had been the 'daddy' of
our family since I was big enough to
work." Here a tremulous little smile passed
over her expressive face. "And do you
know I liked it. It made me think some
of your own earlier struggles and made me
realize you've won just because there was
no force big enough to defeat you. I'm
going to be like that; nothing can prevent
my going to the top. And I hope it will
be with you, dear Mr. David."

"We'll see, Mary dear," I replied some-
what vaguely, for even then I was coming
to realize that she had made her personality
too strong an influence in pictures to per-
mit her to abandon them.

Presently when the end of the season
came, Mary called on me to say, plaintively,

"Will you have a place for me next
season, Mr. David dear?"

I shook my head negatively.

"Possibly never again," I replied.

Her beautiful eyes clouded, but she went
on, bravely:

"Why — -but why — " she said, "What
have I done — "

"Everything, my dear," I rejoined. "I'm
going to let you go back to the pictures
where they're clamoring for you; where you
have made hundreds of thousands of ad-
mirers by your splendid work. You can
go equally as far on the stage, but it will
take years, and in that time you can have
progressed an incredible distance on the
screen. I want so badly to see you on the
heights that I am willing to forego all my
plans in order that my little chum may
find stardom quickly."

I think we both were a bit misty-eyed
at the parting, but Mary walked from my
studio that day to put her dainty feet on
the ladder of screen fame, and joy has been
mine in the passing years to know that my
advice was good.

Now You Can Reduce
2 to 4 Lbs. in a Night

Eat what you please

Wear what you please
Do what you please

Take no risky medicine

Send the coupon for your first three
Fayro Baths

Thousands of smart women have
found this easy way to take off 2 to 4
pounds once or twice a week. These
women take refreshing Fayro baths in
the privacy of their own homes.

Fayro is the concentrate of the same
natural mineral salts that make effective
the waters of twenty-two hot springs of
America, England and Continental Eu-
rope. For years the spas and hot springs
bathing resorts have been the retreat of
fair women and well groomed men.

Excess weight has been removed, skins have
been made more lovely, bodies more shapely
and minds brighter.
The Hot Springs are now Brought to You

A study of the analyses of the active in-
gredients of the waters from twenty-two of
the most famous springs have taught us the
secret of their effectiveness. You can now
have all these benefits in your own bath. Merely
put Fayro into your hot bath. It dissolves rap-
idly. You will notice and enjoy the pungent
fragrance of its balsam oils and clean salts.

Then, Fayro, by opening your pores and
stimulating perspiration forces lazy body cells

to sweat out surplus fat and bodily poisons. Add Fayro to your bath at night and
immediately you will lose from 2 to 4 pounds in an easy, refreshing and absolutely
harmless manner.

Your physician will tell you that Fayro is certain to do the work and that it is
absolutely harmless.

Fayro will refresh you and help your body throw off worn out fat and bodily
poisons. Your skin will be clearer and smoother. You will sleep better after your
Fayro bath and awaken feeling as though you had enjoyed a week's vacation.

Lose Weight Where You Most Want To

Fayro reduces weight generally but you can
also concentrate its effect on abdomen, hips, legs,
ankles, chin or any part of the body you may wish.

Results Are Immediate

Weigh yourself before and after your Fayro
bath. You will find you have lost from 2 to 4
pounds. And a few nights later when you again
add Fayro to your bath, you will once more reduce
your weight. Soon you will be the correct weight
for your height. No need to deny yourself food
you really want. No need for violent exercise. No
need for drugs or medicines. Merely a refreshing
Fayro bath in the privacy of your own home.

Try Fayro at Our Risk

The regular price of Fayro is $1.00 a package. With
ihe coupon you get 3 full sized packages and an inter-
esting booklet "Health and Open Pores" for $2.50 plus
the necessary postage. Send no money. Pay the postman.
Your money refunded instantly if you want it.

HERE'S PROOF

Read What Fayro Baths Have Done For Others

"Three Fayro baths have reduced my weight 11
pounds in 3 days. I feel better than I have felt
for years."

"I weigh 1G pounds less and feel younger and
sleep better. Fayro is wonderful."

"My double chin vanished in the magic of Fayro
baths."

"My hips were always too prominent until I com-
menced Fayro baths. I have lost 12 pounds."

"Since childhood my thick ankles have always
been a source of embarrassment. Fayro baths have
reduced them beautifully. Thank you very much."
Names and addresses will be given on request.

FAYRO. INC.

I 823 Locust St., Pittsburgh, Pa. N-6-29
Send me 3 full sized boxes of Fayro in plain package,
i I will pay the postman $2.50 plus the necessary postage. It
I is understood that if I do not get satisfactory results with
the first package I use. I am to return the other two and
I you will refund all of my money at once.

Name

Address

If each healthful bath of Fayro does not
reduce your weight from 2 to 4 pounds, we
will refund your money without a question.
You risk nothing. Clip the coupon and mail
it today.

City State

If you do not live in the United States sead international
Money Order with coupon.

IPS

SCREENLAND

OPPORTUNITIES

Rate 20c a Word — Forms Close 10th — Two Months Preceding Issue

M \l I- U1I LP W AN I I I)

INTEREST TO WOMEN

Fireman, Brakemen, Baggagemen (white or
colored), Sleeping Car, Train Porters (col-
ored), $150 — $250 monthly. Experience un-
necessary. 923 Railway Bureau, East St.
Louis, 111.

FEMALE HELP WANTED

HEMSTITCHING and Piloting Attachment.

Guaranteed. Fits any sewing machine. The
old reliable. 60c prepaid or sent C. O. D.
Circulars free. LaFlesh Hemstitching Co.,
Dept. 45, Sedalia, Wo.

BEST HEMSTITCHING AND PICOTING
ATTACHMENT. Guaranteed. Fits any sew-
ing machine. 60c prepaid. Circulars free. Best

HOMEWORK: Women Wanting obtain reliable Hemstitching Co., D-40, Drawer Q, Chicago.

kinds. Write for information. Enclose stamp.
Eller Co., Z-296 Broadway, New York.

AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS— $50. WEEKLY SELLING SHIRTS.

No capital or experience needed. Commissions
in advance. Samples Free. Madison Products,
564 Broadway, New York.

STRANGE BATTERY COMPOUND charges
batteries instantly. Gives new life and pep.
Immense demand. Big Profits. Lightning Co.,
St. Paul, Minn.

BLACKHEADS, PIMPLES, Blemishes, Tan.

Etc. Removed; 6 Days — No Drugs, Diet,
Salves. Write to StempefCo., 4704 S. Justine,
Chicago.

LEG PADS

"LEGPADS" MAKE SHAPELY LIMBS; DEFY
DETECTION. Rubber Busts; Reducing Gar-
ments; Wigs; Eyelashes; Tights; Female imper-
ber Garments ; Wigs ; Tights ; Female Imper-
sonators' Outfits ; Opera and Service Weight
Silk Hose; Abdominal Supporters. CAMP, S-235
Fifth Ave., New York.

DETECTIVES

BE A DETECTIVE — Excellent paying work.

Write NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 169
East 83rd Street, New York.

PERSONALS

LET ME READ YOUR CHARACTER. Send
birth date and 12c. Graphologist, 2309
Lawrence, Toledo, Ohio.

SONG AND POEM WRITERS

SONG POEM WRITERS— "REAL PROPOSI-
TION." HlBBELER, D14, 2104 N. Keystone,
Chicago.

SONG POEM WRITERS. Melodies written.

Write for particulars. Ernest Shonfield,
2236 Olive Ave., Pasadena, Calif.

DANCING

SONG POEMS ARRANGED for Publication.

Brennen, Song Specialist, N1652 Broadway,
New York.

WRITERS

$1250 FOR ORIGINAL PHOTOPLAY STORY.

FOR SALE

BEAUTIFUL ALL WHITE POLICE PUPS
for sale. Arthur Anson, Mose, No. Dak.

ART PICTURES— 220 WONDERFUL PIC-
TURES. All Different. 160 Samples $1.00.
Particulars 10c. Howard Sales Co., Dept. 4,
Box 529, San Francisco, Cal.

ANTIQUE FIREARMS. Send for List. Dexter
— 910 Jefferson, Topeka, Kansas.

ART— PHOTOS 4 - $1.00. SCR - GPO, Bx471,
N. Y.

"GIRL PICTURES"

■7 C Art pictures and Bathing beauties 25 cents
• *»(coin). Money refunded if dissatisfied.
Photo Sales Co., 15 East Ohio, Chicago, 111.

MONEY FOR YOU

Men or women can earn $15 to $25 weekly
in spare time at home making display cards.
Light, pleasant work. No canvassing. We
instruct you and supply you with work.
Write to-day for full particulars.
The MENHSNITT COMPANY Limited
2S2 Dominion Bldc.Toronto, Can.

UXI trm OXM

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sadler's

DANCING ACADEMY

Individual instruction in social and modern dancing
from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. — Classes every evening
Booklet on request Phone Academy 1581

"Dance Descriptions by Mail"
2726 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY

SCREENLAND
MAGAZINE

is getting better with every issue.

We have plenty of evidence of
this in the big increase in news-
stand sales.

As a matter of fact, the new man-
agement has hardly gotten under
way with the improvements mapped

OUt for SCREENLAND.

The Editorial Department plans
some real surprises for our readers
during the summer months.

The result of their hard work
will be evidenced in each issue.

We are very anxious to have you
see the next few issues and hope
you will ask your newsdealer to
save a copy for you, or better still,
just sign and mail the coupon below.

SCREENLAND (Dept.
49 West 45th St.
New York, N. Y.

6-29)

I enclose $2.50 for which please
send me Screenland for one year.

Name

Address _

State _

We never have lost contact. I always
think of Mary Pickford as America's
Sweetheart — but my 'Little Chum." Always
I have rebelled at the loss of her glorious
voice in the silences of motion-pictureland.
but now it seems that even that is to be
restored in "Coquette."

I read the other day of her voice tests —
how splendidly she recorded — and it is
sweet to know that the girl who makes this
new success, still is the simple, unpretending
bit of femininity who said to the kitten:

"Don't you know actresses with tempera-
ments cannot stand silly noises in their
dressing rooms?"

I know that success never has — and
never could — spoil her.

Loving for a Living

(Continued from page 71)

were to watch me at my love making,
either. I don't recall that she ever has
but it wouldn't fuss me a bit. You see,
this is work for me. And screen kisses
aren't always what they are cracked up to
be. A kiss isn't so pleasant when you are
paid to kiss and when the girls wear
grease paint and ill-tasting make-up, and
when a camera and forty men are looking
on, and when you have rehearsed it ten
or fifteen times, and when you are tired
after a hard day of work.

Mention the word 'kiss' to a young man
and woman, and their first thought is of a
cozy corner, hidden away; not of a crowded
street. How many young men would enjoy
kissing a girl on a busy downtown corner?
Few, I'll warrant. The same situation
exists in the studios.

The Stage Coach

(Continued from page 85)

She Got What She Wanted
A reviewer's job is occasionally a tough
one, but not with this show. One para-
graph more and we can call it a review.

Here is a curious compound of farce,
comedy, and drama all about a little Rus-
sian girl who kept falling in love with other
men before going back to her husband.
An occasionally bright line doesn't remove
the hash flavor. Galina Kopernak, Alan
Brooks, and Franklyn Ardell wasting their
sweetness on the deserted air of Wallack's.

George K. Arthur and his little daughter,
jean. Another Jean Arthur on the screen
when she grows up?

SCREENLAND

109

Beauty While You Wait

Continued from page 73

is down in the water and see how the ache
and tiredness will disappear.

You are now ready for a short rest. But
first, you must prepare your face for a rest.
You know about resting your mind and
body, but when anyone tells you to rest
your face it's a joke or an insult. Yet it's
impossible for the muscles of the face to
rest unless you release them from tension.

While you are cleansing your face and
eyes, have a portion of skin food heating.
It can be used cold, of course, but if you
never have used hot skin food on your face
and neck when you are tired, try it. When
you feel it seep into the pores of your
tired skin you will realize how comforting
it is, and it is particularly good for a
dry skin.

On a stand within reach of your bed
place a bowl of ice water containing several
pads of cotton, a jar of astringent, a bottle
of witch hazel and the hot skin food. Lie
down on your bed and quickly apply the
skin food, smoothing it well into the face
and neck. Pat briskly with the tips of
the fingers for a couple of minutes, using
both hands. Pat from the base of the
neck to the ears, from the chin to the
corners of the mouth, to the nose, over the
cheeks to the temples, under and around
the eyes very gently, across the forehead.
Squeeze the pads from the ice water, douse
generously with astringent, place one on
each cheek, one on the forehead, a big pad
on and under the chin and strap on with
a face towel. Over each eye place a pad
wet with witch hazel.

All this can be done in much less time
than it takes to write it, particularly if you
are careful to have everything at hand for
this beautifying and rest period. And
remember, if you really are going to 'rest
your face' you must shut your mind against
every thought of worry or hurry and think
rest, peace, sleep — until it actually over-
takes you.

When your rest period is over, though
it is no more than ten or fifteen minutes,
you will just naturally begin to feel and
look more beautiful. If you don't believe
it, look in the mirror. Remove the skin
food with tissues or a soft towel and pat
the face gently with a wad of cotton wet
with astringent.

Now take a quick sponge or shower.
Rub the body with your favorite soap and
shower with warm water. Rub again with
sweet scented bath powder and shower with
tepid or cold water if you can stand the
shock of cold water. Dry briskly with a
rough towel and dust with talcum, and you
are ready to dress.

There is another quick trick of beautify-

ing which I want to tell you about. It was
told me by one of the most beautiful and
popular of our screen stars. "Aside from
studio make-up," she said, "I use no cos-
metics except cleansing cream and a little
powder. When I'm unusually tired and
want to freshen up for the evening I cleanse
my face and use a white-of-egg mask. I
simply smooth the egg white over my face
and neck, then lie down and relax while
it dries. If I can, I drop off to sleep for
a few minutes. In about half an hour I
remove the mask with cold water, and dust
on a little powder. The egg mask tightens
the skin, smooths out tiny lines and gives
one a fresh rested look."

This 'trick' may be included in the quick
beauty treatment. Use the skin food as
directed, leave on a few minutes, remove
with skin tonic, then apply the mask.

When you come to the finishing touches
you will be surprised to find that even your
hair looks better for the rest and falls more
softly and gracefully, and when you make
up, you will find that you need very little.
Just a bit of foundation cream, a dusting
of powder — and by the way, here's another
little trick I learned from a movie star.
It will help to wake your eyes and
take away all the appearance of tiredness
if you use a darker shade of powder around
your eyes, especially under them. Then
powder the rest of your face with your
usual shade. The darker powder must not
be overdone. Make-up of any kind must
not be obvious.

Finish with a suspicion of rouge, shading
naturally into your normal color. Work
in with an upward movement. At the
edges deftly tone the color down in order
to break any conspicuous outline. A skilful
touch of rouge low on the chin extending
back along the jaw bone will tend to soften
the effect and make it inconspicuous.

If your lips have a good color, rub a
white lipstick over them to make them soft
and fresh. If you wish to touch up your
lips with a bit of color, apply the red lip-
stick to the bow of the lips and with a
motion to the corners, blend the color until
it is not conspicuous.

Now then! Would you ever think that
the radiant young person who looks out
from your mirror is the same weary, de-
jected creature who came slinking into your
room less than an hour ago? Blue looks
have given way to blue skies, sourness to
sunniness! You're all ready now to meet
your best beau or your best beau's family,
or any adventure that may present itself.
And — -"if you behave as well as you look,"
as no doubt your mother has said many
times, "you will do very well!"

Lois Climbs the Ladder— Continued from page 56

to them all. All, that is, except Lois. She
has never lost a minute's time nor a single
fan friend in her transition from girlhood
to womanhood.

Lois doesn't notice any difference between
the way directors treat her now and two
years ago. If there is a difference, it is
slight. Miss Moran's mother had a logical
explanation for this:

"Lois has always taken her work so
seriously that she seemed older than her
actual years," Mrs. Moran suggested. "If
directors were inclined to look upon her
as a child, two years a^o, her seriousness

soon caused them to regard her with a more
respectful attention."

Lois, the child, was always serious. I
remember that I talked with her on the
"Stella Dallas" sets. She quoted excerpts
from Spinoza and explained Einstein's
theories to me, the while I sat back dazedly
trying to grasp what she was telling me.

Lois, the woman, is still serious but in
a different way. She has developed a sense
of humor. In her home, I picked up a
volume: "The Life of Napoleon." The
book opened automatically to a place where
Miss Moran had penciled a notation on one

Button Rupture
NewestWay

ts 1 Without 1
l Pressure j

Science now advises discard-
ing cruel steel springs, barbarous
w leg straps, and other harness
that press against the rupture and
thus prevent nature from healing it.
A ne;v sensible method has been per-
fected, called Magic Dot — entirely dif-
ferent from any other way. Instead of
"pressing," it "seals" rupture, and
ows users to run. jump, bend and
cough in perfect safety.

With this l-25th oz. device is a new
kind of pad, air-porous and washable.
It actually breathes air, and cannot
slip off the rapture — a feature you'll
frankly admit that is lacking in your
present appliance. In fact, it is so
superior and different that it is
praised by physicians as "an en-
tirely new departure." Users report
they have forgotten they are
wearing it. But don't buy
it yet.

SEE IT FIRST

You can now have it sent to your home
without obligation to wear it. >iiflt write for
full description of Magic Dot and details of
this unusual *'no obligation" offer. Tear out
this ad and write today, for quick relief.

NEW SCIENCE INSTITUTE

Dept. 3761, Clay St.. Steubenville, 0.

AdWriters

JHake

BIG NONET

» Today one of the biggest, best paid fields for
writers Is the thrilling, fascinating work of f
1 advertising — the great force that shapes and f
sways modern business. Here your writing
talent will bring you big money quick— many
make $4,000 to $15,000 a year writing adver-
tisements, booklets, and other literature.

Amazing Opportunities

Millions Being Spent

AND now you can quickly pre-
pare yourself at home in
your spare time to enter this big
pay field. In a few short months
you can make your ambition,
ability and ideas bring you a
startling salary. Many makeen-
viable incomes while learning.

FREE — Amazing Book

For thirty-one years the Page-
Davis School has been training
men and women in advertising.
Many prominent advertising
positions now filled by our
graduates. In an amazing Free
Book, How to Win Success in
Advertising, you are told all
about our practical easy method
— how to develop your ideas and
realize real money for them in
advertising. Send for this free
book today— it may be the turn-
ing point of your life.

PACE - DAVIS SCHOOL
OF ADVERTISING

3601 Michigan Ave. Dept. 632-A
CHICAGO, ILL.

SCHOOL TEACHER
NOW MAKES $10,000

A wom^n school teacher
a few years ago — today
she is advertising mana-
ger of one of the coun-
try's best known depart-
ment stores with a salary
close to $10,000. a year I

HAS OWN BUSINESS

Your Advertising Course
has been a great help to
me in planning my adver-
tising literature which I
use in the conduct of my
own business.

Arthur B. Pitts

Movie Fans
ATTENTION

All the famous Stars in their latest and best
poses 8 x 10 originals—Special for a short
time, 25c. each or 5 for $1 . Scenes from all
the recent photoplays. 8 x 10 photos 25c. each
or 12 for $2.50. Send 2c. stamps or money
order. Satisfaction guaranteed. 14 Valentino
poses, also scenes from his various photoplays.

S. BRAM STUDIO

Film Centre. 9th Ave. &45th, Studio 297, New York City

DEALERS INVITED

IE m APT I ST

mjB WE CAN TEACH
YOU DRAWING in
your own home during your
epare time. Thirty-five years of
successful teaching proves our ability.
Artists receive large salaries.

Write today for Art Year Book

oCKGDl^AmiEPAfcT

Boom 3

BATTLECbESKMlStt.

SCREENLAND

You Bashful?

NERVOUS?
EMBARRASSED?
SHY?

NO WONDER YOU ARE A
"STAY-AT-HOME"

]H\0 YOU ever feel embarrassed in the presence of strangers? Are
you always bashful and confused when you meet people for the
first time or when you are in company of the opposite sex?

You Are Self -Conscious!

Shame on you! There is no need for you to be nervous and embarrassed. Stop being
shy. You can learn how to conquer the terrible fear of your superiors.
Every individual now suffering from Basil fulness (Self -Consciousness) will welcome
this good news. Eemarkable discovery used with great success — whereby you can
quickly and easily overcome your faults. Be cheerful and confident of your future!
If you're Bashful — don't wait another day — Send 25e for my fascinating amazing
book. Tells how to master and overcome Self -Consciousness. Write today!

Richard Blackstone,
B-406 Flatiron Bldg., New York City.

Please send me a copy of your book on
Nervousness and Bashfulness. I am en-
closing 25 cents in coin or stam ps.

Name

B-406 FLATIRON BLDG

A daring book by Elinor Glyn—brimfcl of
plain truths, unashamed facts, frank dis-
cussions, and intimate Becrets of love and
marriage. Ruined romances and blasted
marriages are too often due to iguorance
of vital questions which are discussed
freely in this amazingly frank book which
concerns the most intimate relations of
men and women.

It contains EVERYTHING the curious.

inexperienced youth and the more mature
might want to know, from the first awak-
ening of youthful love to the full flower-
ing of the grand passion; bow to win love,
hold love, restore love: how to charm, fas-
cinate, captivate; mistakes, marriage,
birth control: wisdom, warnings, vamp-
ing; petting, honeymooning, matinp; win-
ning whom you want— deception, infidel-
ity, outwitting "third party," etc.

Intimate Advice to the Lovelorn

An endless source of intimate, intriguing in formation --in the frank
words of the present day youth, answering many a question you might
even hesitate to ask your closest friends--anwers to a bride, ana many
others, which of course cannot be mentioned here. Simply priceless
Secrets, that will change your loneliness to happiness, your longings to
joy. Send money order or stamps for $1.88 or pay $2 to your postman
on deliyery.

Sent sealed in plain
wrapper. Books sent
care of General
Deliver?' must be
prepaid.

Educator Press
Dept. G-48
19 Park Row,
New York City

fOTE

This book will not
be sold to anyone
below 18. State age
when ordering.

GRAY HAIR

GOES IN 10 MINUTES!

Money back if it fades
again! My French MAGI
I Compound leaves no
| streaks. No stains on
| linen or scalp. Penetrates
all through each hair.
Stands any amount of
washing, shampooing and
curling. Leaves hair soft
and silky. Guaranteed
harmless. Easily applied in few minutes. Onlv one ap-
plication. $2.00 outfit for only $1.45, to introduce
quickly. Send M. O. or pay C. O. D. plus 20 cents
postage. I guarantee you will be greatly pleased. Plain
wrapper. No one knows.

Maison Jeuncsse, 17 Park Row, New York. Suite MO-48

ANY PHOTO ENLARGED

HAND COLORED AND FRAMED

Size 8x10 inches

1Ckf2 Every enlargement finished in
* . natural Life Colors and
Com- Framed in VERY LATEST
plete Blue or Brown Gold Poly-
chrome Frame, fitted with GLASS and
dustp-oof back. Regular S10.00 VALUE
GUARANTEED I Not a Rolled Unfin-
ished Print, but completely finished and
ready to beautify t he moat conservative home.

Send no Money. Just send ue ANY
photo, snapshot, proof, croup, picture or film
telling us color of hair, eyes, etc., and within
5 days pav postman $1.98 (plus pofltagejwhen
large painting and frame and original photo
are delivered. Or send $2.0C I with order and
we will pa> postage. Money REFUNDED if
not EXACTLY as advertised. Mail today.
Don't Delay. Dept. 34.

CHICAGO ART STUDIO

5339 S. Halsted St. Chicago, III.

Screenland's Pre- Views help you pick the pictures
you are sure to enjoy.
Don't miss a number. On sale 5th of month
preceding date of issue.

of the leaves. The paragraph on which
she quoted told of Napoleon's great love
of sleep. "He needed a great deal of
sleep, like all people of nervous tempera-
mcnt," the paragraph stated. She had
written in pencil beside this: "Hurray!
I've at last found a justification for the
many hours I require."

She still reads Nictzche but she doesn't
insist on quoting the gentleman to others,
who don't read him. She has a wonderful
library of literary masterpieces but if you
confess "Saturday Evening Post" tastes, that
doesn't make you an Elk, if you know
what I mean.

Accidentally, I learned the truth about
Miss Moran's introduction into pictures.
Erroneous stories were printed that Sam
Goldwyn signed her abroad and brought
her to this country.

He didn't. He met and interviewed her
in Paris, but no contracts were signed.
Miss Moran's visit to this country (she is
American by birth but was educated abroad)
had nothing to do with motion pictures.
Lois and her mother were seated in a
restaurant in New York City when they
were approached by Marc Connelly, well-
known playwright and producer. Connelly
wanted Miss Moran, whom he had never
seen before that day, to star in a stage
play he was soon to produce.

When the Morans later visited Mr.
Goldwyn's office, that motion picture pro-
ducer offered Lois a contract for five years.
She refused it because she wasn't as in-
terested in the screen as she was in the
stage. Later, when director Henry King
decided nobody could do that part in
"Stella Dallas" as well as Miss Moran,
Goldwyn again approached her and told
her 'to write her own contract.' Lois
signed for the one picture. When Mr.
Goldwyn later asked her to sign a long-
term contract, she again refused. That is
the true story of her coming to America.

She still anticipates a stage career and
is hoping later on to be able to combine
the two. Perhaps talking motion pictures
will open up such an extensive new field
that she will not want to go on the stage,
after all. But the yearning to do musical
comedy is instilled in her heart and talk-
ing movies will have to be tremendously
successful to attract her away from that
great desire — the stage.

Lois is very wealthy. She has invested
wisely and need never again worry about
money. So the higher salaries that motion
pictures pay won't influence her to give up
her stage ambitions. When she decides to
embark upon the musical comedy career,
money will have nothing to do with that
decision.

The Little Ingenue Can
Be Smart

(Continued from page 55)
oughly the art of continually being smart;
therefore the orchid continues to be rare,
at least in America.

Paris, the jungle, is full of more varieties;
but transplanted, the species can do well.

Bessie has evolved from a little quiet
violet sort of flower to — not exactly the
orchid in its full sense of the word, but a
flower of rare extraction and quite a bit of
style. In her recent pictures she has not
had great reason to dress, for the parts
did not call for it; but some day this little
pocket edition will have an opportunity to
show that a girl may be knee-high to the
proverbial grasshopper and still have a
chance in the world of fashion, if she has
the desire — and the four-inch heels!

SCREENLAND

ill

In New York — Continued from page 15

she smiled her whimsical smile. "I would
say, "Very well, then, I go!' And they do
what I want! I do not know what that
means but it was good!"

You remember of course that Garbo's
famous line is "I go now." She said she
loved the sea trip — the rougher, the better.
And when I asked her if she would ever
want to go back to Sweden to live, she
said: "Who can .say? We never know
what we may wish to do. If you are un-
happy you pack your trunks and you go —
somewhere. Now, I am glad to be back
here."

She has stories she hopes she may do,
sometime. Her own stories. But she added,
"I know them but I am not a writer so
I cannot write them. And the parts are
too hard to explain."

When I mentioned some of her first
pictures, she said: "Oh, those are old
stories, now! I hope to do some comedy
sometime. I like comedy."

She is that priceless combination, the
sweet child and the wise woman! She is
naive one moment, like an eighteen-year-
old, looking at you appealingly. The next,
she is a mocking, worldly woman, with a
veil .suddenly dropped over the frankness
and friendliness. I wonder which is the
real Garbo? Certainly she must be eter-
nally fascinating. I can assure her fans
of one thing: it's not only sex appeal that
has made Garbo one of the great stars of
pictures. It's much, much more. There's
a force, an intelligence somewhere behind
the enigmatic eyes. And boundless cour-
age. But before we leave her I must tell
you that her eyelashes, which so many have
said are too good to be true, are real.
They curl an inch or so on her cheek and
they are very black. I saw her in broad
daylight, I looked, and I \nowl Her com-
plexion, too, is the real thing — soft and
white without a trace of make-up. And the
minute she arrived at her Park Avenue
hotel from the boat there was a phone call
waiting for her. From Beverly Hills, Cali-
fornia. From one John Gilbert!

❖ * ."!:

That Lupe! She is one funny keed!
Whoopee Lupe — Mexican cyclone — hot
tamale! It's all true, and then some. But
we liked her. Who could help it? She's
a primitive, passionate little creature — dar-
ing, willful, dazzling. From the moment
she arrived, things happened! A luncheon
for the press, at which Lupe captivated
the men and amazed the women. Then
personal appearances at the Rialto in Times
Square, where she upset theatrical tradition
by doing exactly as she pleased. She was
a riot. I hope you all managed to get to
some town where .she appeared. Lupe
Velez, in Person, is more than worth the
price of admission! She comes out and
sings and dances and tosses violets and pats
the front-'row males on the head. She told
me.-^ "They luf me — they adore Lupe!"
She's like that. She is as pleased over her
success as a child. She was looking at
some proofs of some of her own pictures
and saying, "Beautiful, beautiful — " over
and over again! Then: "See my dimples
in my nose?" she asked. And sure enough
—if you look closely you'll see two tiny
dimples. She wears a big diamond en-
gagement ring and with it what looks like
a wedding ring. She said she missed Gary
terribly and loves him very much. Those
eagles, said Lupe, that Gary gave her — she
loves them because he loves them. "What

he love I love," she declared. Lupe smokes
— that is, she never has a cigarette her-
self but she will reach for yours with her
long slim brown fingers and give it a puff
or two. and hand it back!

She is said to have had offers from
Ziegfeld, Shubert, and Earl Carroll to ap-
pear in Broadway productions. But she
says she loves the screen and is anxious
to get back and make more pictures. When
I saw her she looked like a tired child —
"It is terrible," she moaned. "I work,
work — all the time. But they adore me!"

Estelle Taylor came to town and imme-
diately had an offer to play opposite
George Jessel in his next talking picture.
Then Fox bought Jessel's contract and will
star him in a series of pictures at some
fabulous salary; so Estelle may not do it,
after all. But she did have voice tests
made and everybody says they are mar-
velous.

Estelle is the most modest star in pic-
tures. You'd think to hear her talk that
she had never made such a hit in "Don
Juan" and "Where East is East." She
said: "Word got around that my voice
wasn't good just because the stage play Jack
and I were in didn't have a very long run.
But they finally persuaded me to have a
talkie test and when I heard it I must say
I was surprised! It isn't half bad." Which,
discounting Estelle's inferiority complex,
means that it is just swell!

I never saw Miss Taylor look so well as
she does right now. You have probably
heard how she suffered for her art for
"Where East is East" — how she had to
have her eyes taped back to give the
Oriental slant and how it hurt. Well,
strangely enough she wore the make-up for
so long that it looked to me as if her eyes
still slant a little, and it's terrifically be-
coming.

* :■: if

I saw Alice Joyce 'in person' just after
I had been looking at some 'stills' from
"The Squall," and I couldn't believe my
eyes! In "The Squall" Miss Joyce plays
the mother of Carroll Nye. And it only
goes to show what an excellent actress and
make-up artist .she is. Because the real
Alice might be the original of the more
attractive photographs you see in the society
columns of the newspapers captioned:
"Smart Young Matron Out for a Stroll on
Park Avenue." Alice is youthful and ex-
ceedingly well-dressed and correct. She
does live on Park Avenue, too! She is
one of the most famous movie commuters,
dividing her time between east and west.
Hollywood is where her work is, but her
heart is certainly in Manhattan, where her
husband, James B. Regan, is, and her two
daughters. Her eldest, Mary, is in school
in Philadelphia and Alice's first week-end
was spent with her.

George Jessel is a New York institution.
He isn't very tall but there's a brisk,
Napoleon-esque air about him. You just
know he'll get what he wants. His success
on the stage is too well-known to be re-
marked, but he is new to the movies. And
unlike some of the stage stars, he admits
there may be a few things about pictures
he doesn't know!

"I want to learn," he told me seriously.
"I'm green at this thing — only one picture
to my credit, 'Lucky Boy.' And I want
to make good and do some really fine
things."

Are You Hungry
For Adventure
Popularity...
Big Pay?

THEN CHOOSE
AVIATION!

ARE you a red-blooded,*
. daring he-man? Do
you crave adventure,
popularity, admiration,
and the applause of great
crowds? Then why not
get into the Aviation In-
dustry—the greatest ad-
venture since time began
— the greatest thrill ever,
offered to man?

Think what Aviation offers you. The praise and
plaudits of the multitude. And a chance to get in
on the ground floor where rewards will be unlimited!
Aviation is growing so swiftly that one can hardly
keep track of all the astonishing new developments.
Air-mail routes have just been extended to form a
vast aerial network over the entire U. S. Many Com-
mercial Airlines and airplane factories are now being
organized. Men like Henry Ford are investing mil-
lions in the future of commercial Aviation for they
see its great possibilities.

Easy to Get Into Aviation By
This Home Study Method

Get into this thrilling
profession at once while
the field is new and un-
crowded. Now — by a
unique new plan — you can
quickly secure the basic
and preparatory training
at home, in spare time.
Experts will teach you the
secrets and fundamentals
of Practical Aviation —
give you all the inside
facts that are essential to
your success. And, the
study of Aviation by this
remarkable method is al-
most as fascinating as the
actual work itself.

Send for FREE

Book!

Send coupon for our new
free book. Just out — Oppor-
tunities in the Airplane In*
dustnj. It is vitally interest-
ing, reads li ke a romance and
tells you things about this
astonishing profession you
never even dreamed of.
Write for your copy today.

PICK YOUR
JOBt

Flying

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF AVIATION

3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 632-A Chicago

| AME

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF AVIATION
3S01 Michigan Ave., Dept. 632-A Chicago, 111,

Without obligation, please send me your FREE book.
Opportunities in the Airplane Industry. Alsoinformation
about your Home Study Coursein Practical Aviation.

Name_

-Age_

Address_

L__

— i

-i

Slate j

112

SCREENLAND

Q mim 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 HiiiniiiiiiiiiMtiiiiimiiMiiiii 0

| Edgar Wallace)

| Master of Mystery j
and Romance!

j MOW you have the oppor- |

\ \ ^ tunity to enjoy the thrill- j

! ing stories of the man who j

! has taken Great Britain by j

j storm. Through all the har- \

j rowing tales Edgar Wallace j

! has written, there runs a j

I glowing thread of romance j

{ that makes even his spectres j

I human. "The Girl from \

j Soctland Yard" towers high \

j above the average mystery, j

e telling two kinds of story in j

i one book — each one a mas- j

I terpiece. \

\ Now four of these books of {

\ crime fiction have been pub' j

i lished in the Weirdmoor j

j Edition, beautifully printed |

I and bound. j

j A KING BY NIGHT I

I THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE j

THE DOOR WITH
SEVEN LOCKS

THE GIRL FROM
SCOTLAND YARD

I Four full length novels, four j

| big volumes, crammed full j

j of thrills, crime, mystery and j

| adventure. Uniformly bound j

I in magenta and black cloth, j

\ Entire Four Volumes may j
e now be had for only $4.90. j

| Use the coupon below. =

\ SCREENLAND MAGAZINE (D*pt. 6-29) =
: 49 West 45th Street, New York City. :

EI enclose $ for which please I

E send me - — E

E Name :

E Address =

Advice to June Brides — continued jrom page 43

a separate group of friends, but share "And there's no deceit in letting him

them, so that you don't drift apart." know he's your hero," she declares, "and

"Don't think that getting married means in showing you are interested in every-

entcring into heaven," cautions Louise thing he does or says. This acts like a

Fazenda. "No man is perfect and neither boomerang and comes right back to you

are women. You'll need a good supply of for your husband will be much more attent-

common sense. Treat marriage as a com- ive and interested in you than in anyone

bination of business and sentiment and else!"

don't expect too much of your husband. Diana Kane, who married the director,

"N.. B. Don't ever lose your tempers at George Fitzmaurice, has three sisters, of

the same time!" whom Lois Wilson is the only single one

The first commandment for brides, ac- — and Lois is engaged, if reports are true,

cording to Jobyna Ralston, is "Don't nag!" "My mother says," avers Diana, "that

"If you don't approve of what your all men are pretty much alike. _ Be pre-

husband does, tell him once, but don't keep pared to find them so and don't change

on about it. There are subtler ways to your husband because he turns out to be

cure him of his faults, and constant nag' cut from the same piece of cloth as the

ging is a sure road to the divorce court." rest of his sex. She wouldn't, of course.

Mary Lou Lewis, bride of George Lewis, advise any of her daughters to stay with a

also warns against nagging. man who was drunk or cruel or really bad

"Don't fool yourself into thinking that — I'm not talking about abnormal hus-

the man you marry is so much in love with bands — but she says that no woman is so

you that he will stand for anything you perfect that she can demand perfection in

do," she says wisely. "He will probably for- her mate, that we take the vow for better

give you for any big offense, because he or worse, and by sticking to our vows we

loves you, but no man will tolerate a gain one priceless thing that no one who

nagger " switches from husband to husband can ever

"I am the most undomestic woman in the possess— that's companionship over a period

world," confesses Evelyn Brent. "I can't of vears> th.c sh.?nn8 of, hoPes- Pla"s' '°7S|

cook or sew or manage a house, but I sorrows and all the dear and beautiful

u t. „ »u .. things that come into our lives day by day.

envy women who can. It seems to me that ' 5 . , l i_ l

' i <■ i • i r i ■ •<■ Lucille Webster Gleason, who has been

to make a successful lob of being a wife, i t ^.i c .u

ill, i ' ' i married to ames Gleason tor more than

you should know how to manage a home. 1 ,, , ■

» i .,. «, i ■ .. j • twenty years, adds this sage advice:

Another thine: Always be interested in T.tn • j i u u j

i . ll j j- Kku Don t try to remodel your husband,

what your husband is doing, it he has a ,, ., ' , . ' • ,

ill- i u » w u „ * ii i ► When a woman buys a dress, she doesn t

job he is keen about, let him talk about , , . ' ., ■ . „

, , lr ■ , • . .j begin to make it over the minute it comes

it and show yourself genuinely interested. , 6 c, , v * 1 •■• + ( .k„

Tr , . c u- r • ■ . home. She doesn t take it out ot the

If he is a fight fan or an air enthusiast, , ,. , , .T-ii j • ui,,„

. i i t ii • i ill * ■ delivery box and say: I 11 dye this blue and

take his hobby seriously and help him en py ^ ' , ' . _ ' j j j „

■ i r ii . 1 ' ^ * ' ' cut out the sleeves and put a do-dad on

it to the fullest degree. iU . -t-i . r „ u«„ „.u„„

b the collar. I hat may come later when

"If you have no career, get a hobby that she's worn it ancj discovered its drawbacks,
interests you intensely," suggests Laura La u,ut at first she gives it a chance.
Plante. "Then you'll have something be- "When I married Jim, I knew he drank
sides the bridge score and the defects of tea for breakfast and couldn't sit through
the maid to mention to your husband over a long play Also he had blue eyes and
the evening meal big ears t hke coffee and j adore plays

Betsy Lee Denny, who was married to But I realised that if we were to be happy,

Reginald Denny the same day Dolores I must leave my husband's tastes strictly

Costello took John Barrymore for "better or alone, just as I left the color of his eyes

worse,' naively remarks that a girl's hus- and the shape of his ears. That's the way

band is usually her hero. I fell in love with him, you see."

The Winner of the Janet Gaynor Contest Is:
Miss Geneieve Worger, 3717 West Ferdinand Street, Chicago, Illinois

'Winners of the Marion Davies-Max Factor Ma\e'Up Contest:

First Prize:

Miss Eva Lovel Dunbar,

166 Santa Clara Avenue,
Oakland. California.

Ten Additional Prizes:

Miss Cecilia M. Wolfe,
Kappa Lodge,
Saint Lawrence University,
Canton, New York.

Miss Gertrude Safier,
702 Wiley Avenue,
McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Anna Grove,

c/o Mrs. Frank Hubbell,

1600 Vallejo Street,

San Francisco, California.

Miss Frances Davies,

167 West Matson Avenue,
Syracuse, New York.

Mrs. H. A. Heise,
23 Delaware Avenue.
Uniontown. Pennsylvania.

Miss Laura Weston.
859 Louis Veuillott,
Terminal Park,
Montreal, Canada.

Miss Gladys L. Tuherty,
119 South Broadway,
Albert Lea, Minnesota.

Miss Clara Grignon,
Selah, Washington.

Mrs. Rudolf Fredersdorff,
2015 Harrison Street,
Davenport, Iowa.

Miss Helena F. Zottarelli,
3243 Bradford Road.
Cleveland. Ohio.

In "The Duke Steps
Out" she steps along on
her march to stardom.

She scores another sensational
triumph in "Our Modern Maidens".

JOAN CRAWFORD

HAVE YOU SEEN?

"The Broadway Melody". . . M-G-M's
great all-talking, all-singing, all-danc-
ing picture . . . the current sensation
of America. (A great picture in the
silent version too.)
"The Pagan" ... in which Ramon
Novarro reveals a glorious singing
voice.

"Where East is East". .. another Lon
Chaney thriller.

"The Voice of the City" ... a great
dialogue picture (also silent) with and
by Willard Mack, the famous play-
wright and actor.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the Company that discovers and devel-
ops moving picture stars. Under its banner are the true leaders
in screen personality .... Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Greta
Garbo, Marion Davies, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, William
Haines and Buster Keaton. Now Joan Crawford .... the girl of
the hour, vibrant with the spirit of youth, enters the roster of
"More Stars Than There Are in Heaven". You've seen Joan in
"Our Dancing Daughters". Her great new starring picture will
be "Our Modern Maidens", a sequel to that classic of up-to-date
jazz-romance. Write Joan and tell her how happy you are that
she's joined the Hall of Fame of Stardom.

METRO -GC

^STSTAROS"^

I iH " I vl r% I t il

'.'More "Stars Than There Are in Heaven

"STUNNING!"
"My dear, I've never seen so
many darling lipsticks! Such
color! And such values! I'd like
to buy them rf//.'"
Never have any lipsticks received
such an instantaneous accept-
ance. Ask to see the complete
assortment at your favorite toilet
goods counter — in the Kissproof
Display Tray pictured above.

KISSPROOF SWIVEL
Covered with genuine red
leather. Lipstick shades:
medium, light, dark...75c

KISSPROOF
DAY AND NIGHT
In one end the perfect
shade for daytime. In the
other a more brilliant
shade for evening. Cases
in Mauve, Green, Coral
and Canary $1.00

KISSPROOF
AUTOMATIC
Just remove the cap and
the lipstick comes out it-
self. Lipstick shades: me-
dium, light, dark. Cases in
Salmon, Canary, Robins'
Egg Blue, and Jade . . S 1 .00

KISSPROOF JUMBO

Large size for those who
prefer this type. Lipstick
shades: medium, light,
dark. Cases in Canary,
Green and Black, Sunset
Red, and Ebony 50c

ONLY IN Ul!/y?l$ ITSELF

LIPSTICKS LIKE THESE ! 7/

jhuje stars andjadiioti ex^erts^

NEW LimiCKS

^Kissproof

CUT FROM GORGEOUS C4TALIM STONE
IN MYRIAD MODERN COLORS

TO lipstick perfection, Kissproof has added the
Parisian vogue for jewelled cases — cut from gorgeous
Catalin Stone. In the words of one international
beauty, "Even in Paris itself I have rarely seen such
striking lipsticks!" A famous fashion authority says, "You
have interpreted the mode!" (Actual testimonials may be
inspected in our files.)

Small v/onder that women everywhere are so enthusiastic
about them! For there's a style for every feminine whim—
and your choice of the latest Parisian colored cases in each
style, of course. Jade greens .... flaming reds .... pale
yellows. Colorful! Chic! Enough [fashionable [colors to
add an accent of beauty to every ensemble!

Needless to say, the lipsticks themselves are of the same
incomparable quality that has made Kissproof the Most
Famous Lipstick in the World. Each is a genuine Kiss-
proof .... waterproof, it will keep lips lovely all day or
evening long. Each, too, is as practical and modern as its
gorgeous case!

Your favorite toilet goods counter has the complete
assortment of the New Kissproof Lipsticks in the Kiss-
proof Display Tray. You'll find a personal lipstick in the
color, style, size, shape and shade that your lipstick should
be — and at the price you want to pay. Just be sure the
case is marked "Kissproof" — gorgeous Catalin is exclusively
Kissproof this side of Paris!

FREE!

For a limited time only your
choice of Jade Green, Coral
Pink, Light Green, Canary
Yellow or Pink and Blue
Catalin Stone Container of
Kissproof Solid Perfume — ■
FREE with each of the New
Kissproof Lipsticks. Insist
on this gift at your favorite
toilet goods counter .... or
send convenient coupon.

KISSPROOF IS WATERPROOF -Jt Stays Onf

If your dealer has not yet slocked the
style, color or shade that you desire, .
send convenient coupon below.

KISSPROOF, INC., Dept:A-l09
4316 N. Kilpatrick Ave., Chicago.

Enclosed please find S Send me the

NEW' Kissproof Lipstick(s) checked below:

□ Swivel G Day & Night □ Automatic

□ Jumbo check Shade Desired:

□ Light □ Medium □ Dark
(Medium sent if not specified)

Color of Catalin Case desired

(See listing at left for colors)

Include FREE Kissproof Solid Perfume.

Name

Address

JUIY

25*

MACK SENNETT

TALKING COMEDIES

ft you dc&te en?

JACK WHITE

TALKING

cOMEDIEs

JJwIwnrfl^iiHaitci

U-QYQ HAMILTON

TALKING COMEDIES

LLOYD HAMILTON

TALKING
COMEDIES

EDWARD EVERETT
HORTO N

fefcQ

"THE SPICE OF THE PROGRAM"

/LUPINO LANE

RE YOU one of
those few defiant persons who "dare a
comedian to make you laugh"? Or one of
the timid souls who are afraid to make a
noise in public? Or just one of the vast
majority of us who, fortunately, are always
ready for a good hearty laugh?

Whichever class you belong to, you'll for-
get the blues in a merry round of mirth
whenever one of Educational's new
talking comedies is shown. These five
makers of merriment dare you to see and
hear one of them without laughing — not
once, but many times. For however hum-
orous a comedy might be silent, it is twice
as funny with talking and sound.

Sound films have brought you no greater
gift than these pictures which are bringing
about a rebirth of screen humor —

Sducatwnals
Halhing Tscmedies

EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES, Inc.

E. W. HAMMOXS. President
Executive Offices: 1501 Broadway, New York, IN. Y.

SCREENLAND

William Fox

presents

VAUAMJ

PAUL MUNI-JOHN MACK BROWN

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL-DON TERRY

Sfory and, Dialog by~7om#arri/
an c/J>An Oidn&r Bootn-

WILLIAM K. HOWARD Production

Good Aight-Good JVight;—

PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW"

Just a few simple, beautiful words — but they lay-
bare the soul of a convicted murderer who re-
mains true to the last to his self-inflicted bond
of honor.

SIT in the courtroom as the judge pronounces
James Dyke's doom; HEAR the tender dialogue
between the condemned murderer and the girl
who fears, yet almost hopes he may be her long-
missing brother; WALK behind him to the death
chamber with his courageous "The Valiant never
taste of death but once" ringing in your ears —
and you'll leave the theater with the feeling that
this FOX MOVIETONE masterpiece is one of the
most thrilling dramas you've ever seen or heard!

MELODRAMATIC TRIUMPH

FOX MOVIETONE

<( Clara Bou\ Screen*
land's Cover Girl,
will soon be seen
and heard in "Dan-
gerous Curves."
Watch out!

C R

C1B 31079

July, 1929

G[ Screenland is pub-
lished on the Jtli of
the month preceding
date of issue.

N L AN D

Title Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.

VOL. XIX, No. 3

Delight Evans, Editor

CONTENTS for JULY

Cover — Clara Bow. Painted by Georgia Warren
The Flapper Fan's Forecast. By Evelyn

Ballarine

Confessions of the Fans. Letters from Readers

Honor Page ■ — Ruth Chatterton

Editorial. By Delight Evans

Come Right In! . . . .•

The High Fliers of Hollywood. By Helen

Ludlam

The Spanish Conquest. By Rob Wagner . .
Clara Bow's New Bathing Suit Contest . .
The New Technique of the Talkies. By

Rosa Reilly

How They Play in Hollywood. By Grace

Kingsley

How Do They Do It? By Ruth Tildesley . .
The Most Beautiful Still of the Month.

Smiling Irish Eyes • .

American Beauty !

Richard Dlx — A Portrait

Evelyn Brent — A Portrait

Doris Dawson — A Portrait

Doris Hill — A Portrait

Lewis Stone — A Portrait

Camilla Horn's Gift Bracelet

A Wild West Location With Ken Maynard.

By Helen Ludlam

She's The Sweetest Girl in Hollywood'!

Mary Brian. By Julie Lang

Barrymore — Talkless Director of Talkies.

By Clarence Locan

Delight Evans' Reviews

16
18
19

20
22
24

28
30

34
36

37
38
39
40
41

The Grand (Opera) Young Man! Ramon

Klovarro. By Bradford Nelson 54

No, Thir — Helen Doth Not Lithp! Helen

Twelvetrees. By Franklin James . . . . 56
Neil Hamilton and Doris Hill — A Portrait 57
Sally Blane — A Portrait ....... 58

Olive Borden — A Portrait 59

Anita Page — A Portrait 60

Carmbl Myers — A Portrait 61

Dolores Costello — -A Portrait 62

Raymond Hackett — A Portrait 63

Corinne Griffith — A Portrait 64

Pre-Showing of Coming Films 65

How To Break In the Movies — Maybe! By

Amelia Screech (All in Fun) 70

Meet the King! Charles King. By Ralph

Wheeler 72

Clothes Creations For the Girl with a
Sense of Humor! Marion Davies. By

Adrian

Let's Go to the Movies! Screenland' s Revuettes

In New York. By Anne Bye 78

How to Have Hair Like the Heroines'! By

Anne Van Alstyne 80

The 'Stock- Shot' Star. Johnny Mac\ Brown.

By Margery King 82

Hot from Hollywood! Screenland' s Gossip De-
partment - . . . . - 84

The Stage Coach. By Morrie Ryskind ... 90

Ask Me. By Miss Vee Dee 92

Winners of the Alice White $500.00 Theme
Song Contest 94

74
76

Published monthly by Magazine Builders, Inc. Executive and
Editorial Offices 49 West 45th Street, New York City. J. Ray
mond Tiffany, President; Alfred A. Cohen, Vice-President and
Treasurer; Sam A. Craig, Jr., Advertising Manager. Yearly

subscriptions, $2.50 in the United States, Cuba and Mexico;
Canada, $3.00; foreign $3.50. Entered as second-class matter
November 30, 1923, at the Post Office of New York, N. Y.,
under the act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry at Dunellen.
N. J. Copyright 1929.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulations

SCREENLAND

These

Changing Times

in motion picture
entertainment find

PARAMOUNT

PICTURES

— — — — - — ^— — _ . * ,

maintaining their
LEADERSHIP

Moving shadows on a screen
began to talk and sing and the mod-
ern miracle of entertainment — the
audible motion picture — was born.
Today, screen and stage technique
are wedded in a new art whose power
to thrill you and enchant you far
exceeds both, and whose possibilities
for development are only touched.
<J In this new medium, Paramount
has played the only part it knows —
that of delivering quality entertain-
ment— a good show every time — and
is today maintaining the leadership
it has held for 16 years. Cf And
Paramount has only started! New
productions in audible drama soon
to be announced will place Para-
mount farther in the lead than ever
and make the words " A Paramount
Picture" spell "stop, look and listen"
to every entertainment lover in the
land! In talking pictures, too, fTIf
it's a Paramount Picture it's the
best show in town!" ^ ^

PARAMOUNT FAMOUS LASKY CORPORATION
ADOLPH ZUKOR, PRES., PARAMOUNT BLDC, N. Y.

^Paramount III @ictur&s

•1

SCREENLAND

_J LAITEK) _
ORECAST

soothing to

eye§

Swimming, motoring and other
outdoor activities often cause
even the strongest eyes to burn
and become bloodshot. When this
occurs, apply a few drops of sooth-
ing, cooling Murine. Almost in-
stantly the burning sensation will
disappear, and before long your
eyes will be clear and bright again.

Millions of bottles of Murine are
used each year to soothe and beau-
tify eyes. Many persons make a
practice of cleansing their eyes
with it daily. A month's supply
costs but 60c. Learn its benefits !

[/ff//VE,

f-OR Y°UR

EN CYCLOP E DIA
OF MOVIELAND

Addresses, real
names, birthdates,
weight, color of
eyes, etc.

Together with other
interesting inside
data, such as whether
married or single,
yearly income, plays
featured in, etc., of
leading screen and
stage stars, Wampus
stars, directors. Do
you know that one in
every five of Holly-
wood's most popular
stars is foreign born.

That the real name of
Al Jolson is Asa Yoel-
son . . . that Joan
Crawford is in reality
Lucille LeSeuer.

This Blue Book of
Mo vicl and
mailed post-
paid any-
where for

Address Department G

STARS CO. Hollywood, Calif.

(^Reporting the Coming
Screen Events that cast
their Shadows before
Them.

By Evelyn Ballarine

G[ Screen land's
Special Soubrette
Astronomer
watching the
stars.

Is a foreign accent an obstacle to success
in the talkies? Let's look around us
and see!
It hasn't seemed to stop the lovely
foreign ladies. Baclanova was artistically
articulate in "The Wolf of Wall Street"
and is continuing in her next, "The
Dangerous Woman." Vilma Banky's charm-
ing accent helped make "This Is Heaven"
even more heavenly. Lupe Velez's Mexican
tang in "Lady of the Pavements" was some-
thing to talk about. Mile. Lily Damita is
to play the French Charmaine in "The
Cock-Eyed World," the sequel to "What
Price Glory." Her accent will add much

to our entertainment. Camilla Horn was
all set to leave America and make pictures
in Germany when both Warner Brothers
and Fox Films offered her talkie contracts.
She's staying. Which leads us to Greta
Garbo. She's to talk in "The Single
Standard." La Garbo's appeal was potent
in silent pictures — but this same appeal plus
dialogue — well, words fail us!

We appoint ourselves the reception com-
mittee to welcome Constance Bennett back
to the screen. She has signed a contract
with Pathe. And that won't make any-
body sore except the other producers who
weren't lucky enough to sign her. Con-

Introducing Violet Adams, latest addition
to Pathe's junior stoc\ company.

John Breeden, who ma\es his
in the "Fox Movietone Follies.

SCREENLAND

I. U!**

* ™ictt*vC' ^ to —

DEAR HER

Sing These
Witniark Hits

"A Wee Bit of Love"
'"TbenlcanrideHome \

with You'*
''Grandma O" Moore
■"Darlin' My Darlin'

JOHN M'COKMIC

PRESENTS

Folks you ain't heard nothin' yet!
Wait — you have a big thrill coming.

Imagine the excitement when you
HEAR the voice of the greatest of
all screen stars — when you meet the
real Colleen for the very first time.

That's the treat the next First National
Vitaphone TALKING Picture —
"Smiling Irish Eyes" has in store
for you.

Colleen not only TALKS all through
it, hut SINGS four songs you'll
whistle for clays, and DANCES like
onlv she can.

Watch for the date in your home town!

LLEEN

MOORE

LING IRISH EYES

■ Sfc^fcO/ TALKING AND
*""A> SINGING PICTURE

DIRECTED BY WILLIAM A. SEITER

FIRST NATIONAL VITAPHONE TALKING PICTURES

SCREENLAND

\l0

WATERPROOF I

Yet easy to remove

IZATHERINE MacDONALD'S
■"- Lash Cosmetic is the one that
removes quickly and cleanly. Yet
you may swim, dance or what you
will, and it is absolutely water-
proof. Liquid. Easy to apply.

Katherine Mac Donald's Lash Cos-
metic makes eyelashes seem long
and luxuriant and enhances the
charm and s park-
le of your beauty
...but absolutely
without artifici-
ality.

At most toilet
goods counters
or $1 direct to
Katherine Mac-
Donald at Holly-
wood.

KATHERINE MacDONALD'S
LASH

COSMETIC

tWATCRPROOF)

KAMEO BEAUTY PRODUCTS, HOLLYWOOD

PJlJAjCjK|SlTjOjNjE

^ koie/ oPrePmemeu. t~/

50 EAST 58th STREET
NEW YORK

In the fashionable Park
Ave. and Plaza districts

Large outside
sunny rooms

elegantly

furnished

Single Room and

Bath , $4-$5

Double Room and
Bath $5-$7

Parlor, Bedroom

and Bath $10-$12

Special low weekly
and monthly rates

Telephone Regent 8100

<J[ A talkie closeup as it loo\s from the sound-proof booth in which
the cameraman wor\s. Colleen Moore and James Hall enacting
a scene from "Smiling Irish Eyes."

stance, your public has been constant.
Sounds like a theme song. Screenland
will tell you all about the new Constance
in an interview next mouth.

The Bennett family are all in pictures
now. Richard, papa Bennett, was in "The
Hometowners," Barbara Bennett and her
husband, Morton Downey, were in "Syn-
copation," and Joan Bennett, the baby of
the family, plays opposite Ronald Colman
in "Bulldog Drummond."

Colleen Moore's famous 'Dutch' bob is
gone and you can blame it on her first
talkie, "Smiling Irish Eyes." Colleen's role
calls for an unsophisticated girl of rural
Ireland. Consequently she will be seen
with her hair dressed with short curls at
the back, caught up with a ribbon tied
in a bow. But we have Colleen's promise
that the change of coiffure is just tem-
porary and that's a relief. Imagine our
Colleen without her cute bob. It would
be as disastrous as seeing Charlie Chaplin
without his trick mustache or Harold Lloyd
without his tortoise-shell glasses in his
comedies or even a movie without sound
— enough of this!

William Haines is going to make a sound
sequel to "Brown of Harvard." We are
not only rooting for him but we're placing
bets on him that he wins both the girl and
the game. Come on, now, all together —
Rah! Rah! for Hey, Hey, Haines!

While we are in this cheerful, cheering
mood we might as well tell you about the
other college pictures coming along. Eddie
Quillan has the lead in "Joe College."
Jeanette Loff and Sally O'Neil are his
femme support. What a lucky break for
Eddie. Then there's "The College
Coquette." No cast has been selected for
this one as yet. And, of course, "The
Collegians" series are still going strong.

Here's something we just had to bring
up — Moran and Mack, the Two Black
Crows, are working on their first talkie,
"Backstage Blues," with Evelyn Brent as
the feminine lead.

Adolphe Menjou, that breaker of screen
hearts, homes or what have you, is to do
"The Concert" as his introduction to the
talkie screen. It's the story of a handsome

musician, the idol of the fair sex, who
becomes so engrossed in their flattery that
he forgets his wife. Can't you just see
the suave Mr. Menjou in this role? Fay
Compton will play opposite him.

Joan Crawford's first talkie is "Jungle."
It's a story of modern life and will carry
our Joan into primitive places of South
America. Joan also has a part in Metro-
Goldwyn's Hollywood Revue of 1929.

C[ Dixie Lee is a very good reason for ex-
pecting much of "Fox Movietone Follies."
She can sing, too!

SCREENLAND

LOVES HEART BEAT „

SET TO THE GOLDEM NOTES OF THE MOST
FAMOUS MUSIC -PLAY OF OUR GEMERATIOIM

Love's immortal melodies — in the enchanting
atmosphere of moonlit desert nights ....
Romantic wild Riff horsemen — weird, fleeting
shadows in a land of mystery and fascination.

Haunting beauty of desert vistas — scenes — ac-
tion— romance — stirring martial airs — that get
into your blood — hold you entranced through
every glorious moment of song and story.

"The Desert Song" thrills you with its chorus
of 132 voices. 109 musicians add their match-
less harmonies. Exotic dancing girls charm
you with their grace and loveliness.

"The Desert Song" is Warner Bros, supreme
triumph — the first Music-Play to be produced
as a complete talking and singing picture.

See and hear The Desert Song Wia VITAPHONE.

BROS.

[g^You See and Hear VITAPHQNf only in Warner Bros, and First National VictureS^

SCREENLAND

Jtaoettc Loff-Pjcbe Stu

HAIR

OVELINESS

. — truly your own!

(Here's how to have it —always ! )
Is your hair exactly the same shade and texture as
that of your friends? Of course it isn't! Why, then,
should you shampoo it exactly as they do?

Every shade of hair has its own peculiar needs —
hence each requires its own special treatment. The
problem is to find the shampoo that suits your hair; the
one that will banish all dullness and drabness and
bring out its own natural beauty.

That's why so many women prefer the new Golden
Glint Shampoo. It is truly individual! Simple direc-
tions tell how to shampoo your own particular shade of
hair to give it that fashionable "tiny-tint" and bring
out those rich hidden undertones. Just one Golden
Glint Shampoo will show you the way! 25c at your
dealers'— or send for free sample.

J. W. KOBI CO.

633 Rainier Ave., Dept. G, Seattle, Wash.
Please send a free sample.

Na me

Address-
City

State-

Color of my hair

MGRICAN ACADGMY
OF DRAMATIC ARTS

Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent

The foremost institution for Dramatic and
Expressional Training. The instruction of the
Academy furnishes the essential preparation for
Directing and Teaching as well as for Acting.

The training is educative and practical, de-
veloping Poise, Personality and Expressional
Power, of value to those in professional life
and to the layman.

Teachers' Summer Course
July 8tk to Aug. 17th

Kxtension Dramatic Courses in Co-operation with
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Catalog describing all Courses from
Room. 253-G CARNEGIE HALL, New York

Playing a PAN-AMERICAN

Be Popular! A few short weeks of*
practice on a Pan-American, and you
will always be a welcome member of*
home gatherings, school, .church and
local bands and orchestras.

TRY ONE FREE
You can have a Pan-American Trum-
pet, Saxophone, Clarinet, or any instru-
ment you want for a Free Trial. Write
toady for catalogue. Pan- Americans are
the only moderately priced, factory guar-
anteed band instruments in the world.

PAN AMERICAN BAND INST. & CASE CO.
Elkhart, Indiana

707 Pan-American Building

Star Photo Hobby Interesting
Pastime. Have you an Album?

Latest photos of screen stars 25e. each or 5
for SI. Scenes from recent photoplays 12 for
S2.50. Universal hobby among photoplay
fans. Keep a scrapbook with star and sceen
photos tog-ether with clippings. Start this
among your friends. You'll enjoy it. U. S.
2C stamps, money order or currency accepted.

S. BRAM STUDIO
Film Centre,9th Ave.&45th, Studio 303. New York City

DE A LEIt S INVITED

(Confessions
of the C^ans

CC 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.

The Editor.

Just

Suppose!

Dear Editor: —

What would you think if: Mary Brian
did a Greta Garbo, Alice White success'
fully vamped Ramon Novarro, Ben Turpin's
eyes suddenly flew to the opposite sides,
John Barrymore went in for .slapstick,
Buddy Rogers suddenly changed his name
to Oswald Van Maritz. Colleen Moore
turned out to be Lillian Gish's sister, Lloyd
Hughes adopted Davey Lee, Rin-Tin-Tin
used makeup, You didn't see at least 50
clinches in every Garbo'Gilbert picture,
Buster Keaton forgot and gave a hearty
laugh in the middle of a picture, Dick
Arlen got mixed and said "Jobyna" instead
of "Mary" in the middle of a talkie, Clara
Bow's hair turned green, Baclanova actually
looked sweet, Girls stopped raving over
Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford got a boyish
bob, Lee Duncan married Clara Bow,
Harry Langdon went in for Gilbert stuff,
Movie magazines 'weren't,' and Screen'
land wasn't the best magazine on the
market!

Sincerely,

Helen Andresen,
4451 North Campbell Avenue,

Chicago, Illinois.

has bought "The Wheel of Chance," a
dramatic stage play, and have assigned
Richard Dix to make it for them. It is
a strong drama and Rich will be cast as
a captain in the British India service. What
a marvellous break for him! The breaks
he deserves are beginning to come to him
after years of 'glorified quickies.'

I wonder if you can realize what a big
dramatic attraction you would be worship-
ping had Richard Dix been given some of
the fine dramatic stories that John Gilbert
has had in the past year or two? The
talkies are putting him on top where he
belongs. His voice in "Nothing But the
Truth" is something to write home about.
And that's the truth — no fooling!

Come on, Rich, we're all pulling for you
and we know "The Wheel of Chance" is
going to be grand!

Sincerely.

Harold Revine.
179 Arthur Street.
Ottawa, Canada.

Dix Has

Sound

Appeal!

Ray! Ray!
For

Charlie.

Dear Editor: —

I was very happy to hear that Paramount

Dear Editor:—

Not that my vote will do much good,
but I want to see Charles Ray back on
the screen, in talking pictures. Like Bessie
Love, he knows the movie technique, and
he's had experience on the stage. I saw
him last week in his vaudeville turn. He
stopped the show. Not because he was a
movie star, either, although that counted
in the loud, welcoming applause, but be-
cause he could put over a song like a
veteran. Why, the boy's good! His sing'
ing voice may not be - of operatic timbre,
but he has lots of pep, personality, and
humor. Get him to impersonate the blues
singers, with gestures. It's sidesplitting!

This young man is droll, sophisticated,
wistful, talented. Don't you want to see

SCREE

N L A N D

In An
Unforgettable
Moment . . .

he betrayed his
trust and succumbed to the
exotic, passionate allureo fan
Oriental beauty — inflamed
with power — holding an
empire in her hands . , .

A pulse-quicken-
ing breath-taking tale of
mystery, intrigue, passion
and conflict between a
nvoman who ruled thousands
of men and the one man who
ruled her.

WILLIAM

FOX

presents

this ALL- TALKING
FOX MOVIETONE
Melody -Melodrama
with

VICTOR McLAGLEN

Myrna Loy, David Rollins,
Roy D'Arcy, Cyril Chadwick,
David Torrence

"from Talbot Mundy's famous
novel "King of the Khyber Rifles"

Dialog by
James K. McGuinness

Staged by
Lumsden Hare

JOHN FORD

production

SCREENLAND

Freckles

Can be Secretly Removed!

"V'OU can remove those annoying,
embarrassing freckles, secretly
and quickly, in the privacy of your
own home. Your frieDds will wonder
bow you did it.

Stillman's FreckleCream bleache9
them out while you sleep. Leaves the
skin soft and white, the complexion
fresh, clear and transparent, the face
rejuvenated with new beauty of
natural coloring. The 6rst jar proves
its magic worth. At all druggists.

Stillman's

Freckle Cream

Freckles

Removes T Whitens
1 The Skin

STILLMAN CO.

8 Rosemary Lane
Aurora, Illinois

Please send me Free book-
let "Goodbye Freckles",

Address

"Arlington Operated"

HOTEL ANSONIA

Broadway, 73rd to 74th Streets

NEW YORK CITY

5 minutes to Theatres and Shopping Districts.
12 minutes from Perm, and Grand Central Stations.

1,260 ROOMS (All Outside)

New York's most complete hotel. Everything
for comfort and convenience of our guests.

TWO RESTAURANTS

Open from 6:30 A. M. until midnight.
Music, Dancing, 2 Radio Orchestras, Ladies'
Turkish Bath, Beauty Parlor, Drug Store, Barber
Shop, Stock Broker's Office. AH in the
Ansortia Hotel.

TRANSIENT RATES

300 Rooms and Bath per day £4.00

Large Double Rooms, Twin Beds,

Bath #6.00 per day

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (2

persons) ~ #7.00 per day

Special Weekly and Monthly Rates
A. restful hotel — away from all noise and
"dirt" of the "Roaring Forties." No coal
smoke; our steam plant equipped oil fuel.
Coolest Hotel in New Tori; in Summer

THE ANSONIA

In conjunction with the Hotels Marseilles,
Anderson, Richmond and Cosmopolitan

him in pictures again? Then let's all get
together in one long shout:
We want Charlie Ray!

With best wishes.

Margaret Johnson.
2463 Valentine Avenue.

New York City.

A Few
linn (i nets

I
I
I

City State

Dear. Editor: —

I'm handing out bouquets to everyone.
First one goes to you! The last issue of
Screenland gave me absolute, sheer com-
plete enjoyment. The covers are beautiful
and the contents always interesting.

A bouquet for Pola Negri. Let's give
her two — just because! One for Baclanova
(Yippee!) Another for Aileen Pringle.

Paul Lukas is the first male actor I
admire. I liked him in all his pictures,
with the exception of "Two Lovers."

It seems everyone likes the youngsters.
Here's one for all sophisticates!

I notice fans exchange photos through
the movie magazine. Great! I have a great
many Valentino stories and pictures and I'll
give the whole layout to any reader of
Screenland who will send pictures of my
favorites (especially Pola Negri).

If Pola sent me another letter, it couldn't
make me happier than to see my letter in
Screenland, the Ace of motion picture

going to win that $500.00 — and there if
just a chance that this time will be oui
lucky strike.

Last, but surely not least, are the reviews
The time and money they save us, by steer-
ing us to the best pictures. Not only that,
but sometimes we are unable to attend a
certain picture we have looked forward to.
and the interestingly written review bring;
it almost before our eyes. Thanks to the
advice contained in Screenland from
month to month, I was one of the ten win-
ners in a contest staged by our local thea-
ters, for naming the ten best pictures shown
in their houses during the year. The prize
was a pass which admits me to any of the
theaters, any or every night for a month.
No wonder I am enthusiastic over Screen-
land!

Of course, a fan letter wouldn't be com-
plete without a confession of a favorite,
and mine is Richard Arlen. His is no
meteoric rise, no. over-night stardom which
flashes for a few weeks and then is gone,
but the steady rise of talent and ability
which could not be concealed forever in
extra and 'bit' parts.

Sincerely.
Elizabeth J. Winter.
13 Westlake Avenue.
Auburn. New York.

magazines!

Very sincerely yours.

Julia Tamara Reino,
21? East 121st Street.

New York City.

Her

Testimonial

Dear Editor: —

Screenland — the key to the Fans*
Movie Dreamland! There we meet as girl-
to-girl (or man-to-man), our friends of the
silver sheet. We attend their formal dinner
parties, and their informal swimming and
tea fests. We share their disappointments,
and applaud their good breaks. We attend
the premiers, admiring the wonderful
gowns and furs (if we are of the feminine
gender), and collecting an autograph or
two of our favorites. We .see them at home
and on the set. We walk down the Boule-
vard and hear the comments on "To Talk
— or not to Talk"; have luncheon at
Henry's; and are allowed to go on location
with Screenland's Location Lady. All for
the small sum of twenty-five cents.

Then there are the . contests. Although
we have never won a contest in our lives
(and have tried most all of them), we start
the new one just as enthusiastically. Some
lucky person, perhaps in our own town, is

For

Doris

Kenyon

Dear Editor: —

I am going to tell the fans about my
friendship with Doris Kenyon. As much
as I like Doris on the screen I love her
more for herself. She is so real and gives
so much happiness. Doris and I have
corresponded for several years. I have many
gifts from her as well as photographs, snap*
and such things. I wish you could have
seen my Christmas box!

Charles Mank. Jr.. was right when he
said that Doris Kenyon never forgets a
Christmas card. I know that she sent many
to friends of mine — and they were so
pleased. She does such thoughtful things
to make her fan friends happy. They're
not just fans, but friends. Doris has told
me often that she wishes she could keep
in touch with all her fan friends, but it is
impossible.

She is very talented as you all know. I
have just received a long letter from her
telling me all about a recital she is giving
with a well-known pianist. She will give
her original monologues, in costume, with
piano accompaniment. I have many photo-
graphs of little baby Kenyon Sills. His
famous mother and father are very devoted
to their little golden-haired baby.

I have many charming letters from such
stars as Conrad Nagel, Lois Moran, Tove
Blue, Dolores Del Rio, Helen Ferguson and
Louise Dresser and others.

Sincere letters are appreciated by the
screen players. Be careful how you write
and be original and you'll get results.

Sincerely,

Lucile Carlson,
206 East Main Street,
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

Dear Editor: —

Well, if this isn't a clever little 'Intro-
duction Street' where you meet yourself
and everybody else, located between Sweet
Bouquets and Criticism and facing the Stars!

Life seems to give us an opportunity for
both duty and entertainment. One appar-
ently requires the support of the other in
order to keep the wheels of commerce turn-
ing. Undoubtedly, movies are my choice
of entertainment.

While in training as a nurse I was con-
sidered a 'movie-goer.' A great number of
the girls used to say they couldn't afford
this luxury nor that, probably didn't sup-
pose they could save enough pennies in a
year to purchase a calico necktie for a hum-
ming bird; but ever so often reports came —
"What a glorious picture" or "Sure glad I
went to the show tonight."

I claim "Lilac Time" as being my su-
preme favorite picture. Its unequaled
beauty leaves a lasting impression.

All in all I thoroughly enjoy the movies
and I think giving the readers a chance to
express their opinions is a great thing.
Sincerely,

I. Thorpe, R. N.,
Mayville, North Dakota.

Praise For
Mary Pick ford

Dear Editor: —

I have decided that Screenland wins
as being the best of all the movie books
printed. It not only gives you more for
your money but it gives you more inside
news on the stars and the pictures they are
making. I am a great movie fan and I
think that Vitaphone is one of the greatest
of all inventions and I hope that it never
fades out. To me pictures that are not
talkies are rather boring as I like to hear
the voices of my favorites as well as see
them. The talkies make the picture more
realistic and you really feel the part.

I saw Mary Pickford in "Coquette."
She certainly lives up to her name 'Amer-
ica's Sweetheart.' She was marvelous — her
voice was so sweet and for once in my life
at a theater I really shed a few tears! As
a rule the saddest of pictures never phase
me but somehow her sweet voice got me.
I saw "Show Boat" and it was wonderful.
Laura La Plante certainly proves herself a
great actress in that picture. My favorites
are, Mary Pickford, Clara Bow, Colleen
Moore, Bill Haines, Buddy Rogers, and
Corinne Griffith.

Sincerely,
Stanley Haskins, Jr.,
5825 Highland Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri.

SCREENLAND

Brunettes

are the worst
offenders!

Send Coupon
Below for
Trial Offer

remove hair
with Del 'a - Tone
— only 3 minutes!

— But blondes are no exception

The smartness that sheer silk stockings impart, is something no chic woman
wishes to forfeit. Yet how often not only the effect of smartness, but good taste
as well, is utterly sacrificed by the superfluous hair seen through the gossamer
silken web of a stocking.

There's no need to run the risk of being judged crude and lacking in dainti-
ness when it's so simple to remove offending hair with DEL-A-TONE.

Applied directly from its handy tube, — use DEL-A-TONE and be certain of smart-

DEL-A-TONE Cream, snowy-white, creamy ness and good taste. Then you will realize why

and dainty, has no equal for complete re- it is as indispensable to the modern woman as

moval of hair from legs, arms, under arms, her dentifrice or cosmetics,

back of neck, and face. Does not en- DEL-A-TONE Cream or Powder has been

courage heavier growth, but rather, tends to tne choice of fastidious women for over twenty

retard it. years. It's the quickest and most pleasant

Before putting on your next pair of silk hose way to remove hair.

ID IE L- A*TO N E

Removes Hair in 3 M.inutes

Sold by drug and department stores, or sent prepaid in U. S. in plain wrapper, $1.00. Money back if not
satisfied. If you have never tried DEL-A-TONE, send coupon and 10c for trial package to Miss Mildred
Hadley, Dept. 147, The Delatone Co., 233 E. Ontario Street, Chicago, 111.

TRIAL OFFER !

Miss Mildred Hadley, c/o The Delatone Co., Dept. 147, 233 E. Ontario Street, Chicago, 111.

Please send me, in plain wrapper, prepaid, trial package of Del-a-tone as checked herewith, for
which I enclose 10c. □ DEL-A-TONE Cream □ DEL-A-TONE (Powder)

Name _ -

Street

City State

SCREENLAND

ROMANCE

For variety from the intimate,
human stories of our common
life in the American scene,
PEOPLE'S HOME JOUR-
NAL schedules occasionally a
vivid tale of hot-blooded ro-
mance in exotic climes.

LOVE

Pathos and the tingling thrill
of life's inevitable compensa-
tions for our daily disappoint-
ments— these are the raw mate-
rials of which the finest
JOURNAL stories are made.

MYSTERY

Mystery stories, both short
and serials have ever won the
hearts of JOURNAL readers —
for through their intricate plots
of love, jealousy and social
glamour there always runs a
thread of tantalizing mystery.

HEROISM

Soul-stirring tales of courage —
of glorious triumph over human
frailties and the inhuman
assaults of Fate — these too
have their place in a schedule
of balanced fiction reading.

ADVENTURE

Stories of action and adventure,
romances of the great outdoors
where the common issues of
life are magnified heroically —
thrilling tales of this kind have
always had their place in the
JOURNAL'S pages.

HUMOR

And then, there must always
be a dash of that wholesome
humor which helps to keep the
creaking wheels of life well
lubricated.

INSPIRATION

Last and greatest of all, the
inspirational themes dominating
the JOURNAL'S stories lift our
fiction consistently above the
level of most other magazines.

FEATURE
ARTICLES

On seasonable and pertinent
topics by authorities who write
so you can understand.

DEPARTMENTS

In PEOPLE'S HOME JOUR-
NAL cover every phase of
household endeavor, including
household discoveries, care of
children, remodelling and build-
ing, fashions, recipes, beauty,
etiquette, garden, needlework
and many others —

PEOPLE'S
HOME JOURNAL

The Complete Magazine
for Home Lovers

We would like to send you a
complimentary sample copy. Just
send a request for the current
issue on a postcard to Desk "E."

People's Home Journal

80 Lafayette Street
New York, N. Y.

A Tip
From a
tail

Dtar Editor: —

March Screenland had a letter of mine
printed. And to my delight the fans are
writing me and asking: "What do you
write to the stars to receive such personal
replies?"

In the May Screenland I read — 'At-
tention, Charles Mank, Jr.' The fan asked
the same question. Here is my only answer.
Write the stars as you would a chum or
friend of yours. Not just a note saying:
'My dear Mr. Novarro: You are a won-
derful actor. I think you are handsome.
Send me your photograph, please."

Here's a tip, fans. I wrote a fan note
to Bodil Rosing telling her of a role in a
story suited to her acting. Miss Rosing
wrote me a long handwritten letter. She
sent me a signed photograph and a memory-
slip signed with her motto. She even
asked me to write again.

Prove to the star you are interested in
her reel life as well as real life.

When Clara Bow had the flu I sent her
a note and clippings from home-town papers
which told about her illness. I enclosed a
memory book slip. I got it back signed —
'For Charles Mank. Best wishes always.
Sincerely, Clara Bow.' I saved the enve-
lope, as it had been addressed by Clara.

Mary Pickford sent me a "Thank you'
note from a condolence note in behalf of
her mother's death.

I write to the addresses the movie mag-
azines give — I have no pull with the stars.
I just write them sincere letters.

This Christmas I received cards from
Paddy O'Flynn. Mr. and Mrs. Sills. Sue
Carol, Lois Moran, Franklin Pangborn.
Claire Windsor, Helen Ferguson. Rex Bell.
Albert Conti and a letter from Lina Bas-
quette.

I hope that every fan that reads this will
write to me. Also every Rudy Valentino
fan. I am asking all the "Rudy" fans to
send me any articles, write-ups, or poems
they have written in Rudy's honor. I am
writing a book called "The Fan's Own Book
about Rudolph Valetino."

I want to thank Screenland for the
many new pen pals I have made since my
letter was printed.

Sincerely.

Charles Mank. Jr..
226 East Mill Street,
Staunton. Illinois.

Because She
Likes Nice
Things!

Dtar Editor: —
To you and yours-

LAND.

To the talkies — long may the silent drama
live.

To Lupc Velez — may we in the future
read less about her — but more of Polly
Moran.

To Vilma Banky — because of "The
Awakening" and because she is one of the
screen's most beautiful women.

To Emil Jannings — because of "The
Patriot." "Sins of the Fathers," "The Way
of All Flesh"; and because he is that rare
individual, 'an actor with a soul.'

To Charles Farrell — because of "Seventh
Heaven" and because he is indeed a very
remarkable fellow.

To Margaret Mann — because of "Four
Sons" and because she made you think of
'Home Sweet Home.'

To Lon Chaney — because of "West of
Zanzibar."

To Barry Norton — because of "Mother
Knows Best" and because he is like the
flame of a candle light.

To Belle Bennett — because of "Stella
Dallas" and because she is all-womanly.

To Lars Hanson — because of "Homecom-
ing."

To Gustav Froehlich — because of "Home-
coming" and because he thoroughly lived
his part rather than played it.

To Dita Parlo — why they sent her back
to her native country is beyond me.

To Ramon Novarro — because of "The
Student Prince" and because he is like a
saintly monk.

To Paul Lukas — because of "The Shop-
Worn Angel" and others. May we see
more of him.

To Nils Asther — because of "A Dream
of Love."

To Jean Hersholt — because he can re-
mind you of your old dad.

To Greta Garbo — because of "A Woman
of Affairs" and because without her the
screen would be dead!

To King Vidor — because of "The
Crowd."

To Clara Bow — because of "The Fleet's
In" and because she has something of that
precious little thing called 'pep.'

To Richard Barthelmess — because of
"Broken Blossoms" and "Weary River."

To Grace M. Tether — because of her
very interesting letter to this department
(April issue of Screenland). May she
let us hear from her again.

Sincerely,

Ella Nikisher.
1225 Lancaster Street.
Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania.

Buddy
Rogers
Scores

-because of Screen-

Dear Editor:—

This is my first letter in regard to the
movies and to my favorite screen stars. So
many people knock the talkies. But to
those who knock them, remember there are
two more people who are for them. I al-
ways read Screenland Magazine.

It is really a comfort to read letters from
other folks who have the same favorites.
When they say a kind word about them
you wish you could shake their hand. My

SCREENLAND

favorites are: Charles Rogers, Johnny Mack
Brown, Billie- Dove, Greta Garbo, John
Gilbert and Barry Norton. But my favor'
ite of favorites is Buddy Rogers.

I wish the best of success to Screen-
land.

Sincerely,

Nelson Suffel,
35 South 11th Street,
Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

Haines
Her Pet

Rave

Dear Editor: —

I'm going to make the most of my op'
portunity to boost my favorites.

The talkies are wonderful. What a thrill
to hear the voices of such stars as Gary
Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Buddy Rogers,
Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Mackaill and Betty
Compson.

But best of all, I might add, I have heard
none to compare with that of my favorite,
William Haines. Know him, girls? He's
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's little boy. And a
great little boy he is. Don't you agree
with me?

I saw and heard "Alias Jimmy Valen-
tine." I confess I was rather surprised when
I heard Billy's voice. I had thought he'd
have that fatal southern drawl but his voice
is as peppy as his acting. And Leila
Hyams, who plays opposite him in this pic
ture, has the sweetest voice of any actress
I've heard so far.

Give us more talkies and let us see more
of such stars as Bill Haines, John Mack
Brown, Joan Crawford, Jeanette Loff and
Hugh Allan.

Success and more success to the talkies!
Sincerely,

Betty Rice,
703 West Cumberland Street,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He Likes

Them

All!

Dear Editor: —

Just a few words for the movies, the
stars, and some of the nice fan clubs. I am
very fond of them all.

The movies have given me some wonder-
ful hours of entertainment and I am very
grateful. I have been a fan for years and
have watched many stars come and go. In
the small, dingy theaters I have watched
Madge Evans, Alice Brady, Ethel Clayton,
and so many others. I have seen these
theaters change into magnificent palaces and
am very proud of it all.

The stars! I like them all! I have seen
lots of the stars in person and have not
yet been disappointed in one. Gary Cooper
who seems to be growing more popular

Estelle Taylor, Lon Chaney and Lloyd Hughes in the
thrilling steamer scene in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
recent sensation, "Where East is East"
At right— Estelle Taylor applying Boncilla clasmic pack

Wake The Skin
As Beauties Do

CLEAR IT. . . CLEANSE

Remove the Blemishes

Movie stars and stage stars by the scores
have paid high tribute to Boncilla clas-
mic pack. Many send their pictures. Some
people think that we pay for such testi-
mony, but we don't. It is given freely to
be used in helping other women.

We publish the facts and the pictures
because these are professional beauties.
They know how to look their best. We
use them to urge all girls and women to
profit by their advice.

The Basis of Beauty

Beauty demands these things :

A radiant glow

A clear, clean skin

A soft, smooth skin

An ani?nated look
It demands the removal of blackheads and
blemishes, of dead skin and hardened oil.
To nourish and revive the skin, the blood
must be drawn to the surface.

A youthful look demands that little lines
be eradicated. Wrinkles must be combated,
sagging muscles must be firmed. Enlarged
pores must be reduced.

IT... MAKE IT GLOW

— Combat the Faults

All the world over, beauties and beauty
experts are using for these purposes Bon-
cilla clasmic pack. Nothing else compares.
It must be used before the make-up if you
wish to look your best.

Results are Quick

Results are both quick and amazing. Any
girl can gain much new, glowing beauty
inside 30 minutes. Many older women seem
to drop ten years. Your evening joys can
be multiplied. Your friends can be surprised.
All by using this skin wake-up before you
add the make-up.

Prove this tonight in fairness to your-
self. It is folly to forfeit attractions which
mean so much to you.

Boncilla clasmic pack is available wher-
ever toilet goods are sold. Tubes, 5OC and
$1 — jars, 33.50. Or send the coupon with
10 cents for an introductory packet of the
four chief Boncilla aids, including a liberal
sachet of the new hyray beauty powder.
A week's supply of all of them. Clip cou-
pon now.

FOUR NEW BEAUTY AIDS T^LAy

Professional treatments m n
in smart beauty and If lr *w
barber shops the M If 11 •
world over I 1 ily^/j

MSP CLASMIC
JUr PACK

BONCILLA— Indianapolis, Indiana S.L.719
Send me your four quick aids to beauty — the pack,
two creams and new hyray powder. I enclose a dime.

Name

Address . .. .

189

SCREENLAND

BLONDES!

A million
dollar secret

A PRICELESS beauty
secret for every
blonde who wants to keep
her hair light, bright and
lovely! All you do is use
a special shampoo when
you wash your hair. This
new shampoo for blondes
only is called Blondex.
Keeps hair from darken-
ing— puts new life and
sparkle in dull, faded
hair. Acts in safe, natural
way — no dyes or harsh
bleaches — fine for scalp. Already used by a
million blondes. At all leading drug and depart-
ment stores.

FREE BOOK
TELLS HOW

You can (iulcldy Qualify
For positions paying $50 to
a week in Motion
Picture. Portrait. Commer-
cial or News Photography
and Projection, or start
your own business. No
experience needed.
Camera or Projector Given
Learn at home or in our
great New York Studios.
Write for Big Free Book of Amazing Opportunities.
Job Chart and Camera or Projector offer.

N. Y. INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
ID West 33rd Street New York Dept. 60

THE

Doorway ol Hospitality

— ^NTER the doorway or
this popular hostelry and you feel at home.
There's an atmosphere of cordial welcome
which marks the difference between the
Hollywood Plaza and ordinary hotels.

Your room, too, has that added touch
of distinction. Pictures on the wall, over-
stuffed furniture, a floor lamp and reading
lamp .. . these are but a few of the features
that make you feel at home.

Pig'n Whistle Dining Service insures the
best of food. Therefore, when you are next
in Los Angeles be sure to investigate.

THE HOLLYWOOD

HOTEL

Vine Street at Hollywood Boulevard
HOLLYWOOD. CALIFORNIA

every day, is very tall, handsome, and so
nice. Buddy Rogers, America's boy friend,
is just as nice in flesh as in pictures, rather
dark and such a nice smile. Charles
Chaplin is about the most friendlylook'
ing person I have ever seen. How I wish
he would make a modern picture without
his trick makeup. He would be a wow!
Billie Dove is one of the most beautiful
women I have ever seen. She always looks
just like a picture. Colleen Moore is just
as sweet and lovable as can be. And all
the others I have seen are as wonderful
as we expect.

Thanks, Screenland, for giving us this
department. You are our favorite and we
knew you would do right by 'Us Fans!'
Sincerely yours,

William Shumate,
2927 Exposition Avenue.

Shreveport, Louisiana.

Trouper
Fan

Dear Editor: —

Having read Screenland for several
years I decided to attempt a fan letter. It
might have a few items that may interest
the other fans. I have traveled from coast
to coast several times. During these travels
I've met some of my favorite movie stars.
(No, I'm not a traveling salesman — I'm a
chorine in one of the picture houses!)

The jolliest man I ever met was Ben
Turpin. He spoke to everyone around and
seemed very gay and carefree. I saw Fran-
cis X. Bushman, Jr., with his wife and
daughter. They lived at the hotel where
I was stopping. One time I .saw Hoot
Gibson on Market Street in Los Angeles
and said 'Hello' to him. He smiled and
waved to me. Being rather bold, I stood
on the fence of Marion Davies' beach home
and took pictures of her home and beau'
tiful Great Dane. While looking over the
Egyptian Theater in Hollywood I saw John
Holland coming out. In Omaha I saw
Eugene O'Brien, who was in vaudeville at
the time. He's getting stout. Of course,
I saw nearly all the movie stars' homes and
other interesting sights but I'm getting
rather lonesome for New York City.
Sincerely.

Blaire Dean,
c/o Billboard.
1560 Broadway,
New York City.

Personalities

Dear Editor: —

Your fan department is getting more in-
teresting all the time.

A word about Lupe Velez. I have just

seen her in "Lady of the Pavements."
That girl has more pep and personality
than any actress I've seen in a long time,
with the exception of Clara Bow. I'd like
to compliment Lupe for this, too: when
William Boyd kissed the palm of her hand
she didn't breathe deeply and look very
disturbed. The only actress I've seen who
didn't do that. It was a relief.

And then, Joan Crawford. After seeing
"Our Dancing Daughters," "Dream of
Love" wasn't so good. However, I'm look-
ing forward to seeing her play opposite
Doug Jr. in "Modern Maidens." Joan's
eyes speak volumes.

Creta Garbo I think is the most arrest-
ing personality on the screen today. No
matter what the picture is, Garbo makes
it vital and real.

Good wishes to Buddy Rogers, Gary
Cooper, Charles Farrell. Emil Jannings,
George Bancroft and Warner Baxter.
Most sincerely.

Isobel Burnap,
412 St. Paul Street.
Burlington. Vermont.

Baclanova

Dear Editor: —

Since viewing Back-LON-ova in the
mighty talkie of Wall Street with George
Bancroft, I have studied, worried, written
to, and found out how, the correct pro-
nunciation of her name and there it is
for you — above. I figured that quite an
achievement.

I didn't think Baclanova so hot at first:
she had to grow on me, but with the talkie
and her spicy enunciation along with an
excellent performance, she won me over
entirely. And I think she should properly
appreciate that fact! She is truly a Rus-
sian menace.

A rare treat I enjoyed recently and I
just must tell the Screenland fan readers
about it — while attending a performance
of "Wolf Song" writh the whoopee Lupe
Veles and strong, silent Gary Cooper, no
other than Claire Windsor appeared in per-
son. And a rare, exquisite treat it was.
I think Claire should appear in more pic-
tures and am anxiously awaiting to hear
her in talkies, inasmuch as her clear, sweet
voice only adds to her charm and beauty.

"Show Boat" is another winner for talk-
ies, a fascinating tale well enacted with
Laura La Plante adding another feather to
her cap. And Joseph Schildkraut's voice
registers — and the singing!

And Richard Barthelmess in "Weary
River." Richard is flowing on and on.
upward to success — and more success, beau-
tifully assisted by Betty Compson.

Betty is a lot like Lillian Gish — only
different. Betty is always telling her man
she doesn't expect him to marry her — while
the ever-abused Lillian expects them to —
and they never do! Lillian Gish is with-
out a doubt the Sarah Bernhardt of the
screen.

I'm pulling all strings for Novarro to
appear in his concert abroad, so that he
will rush back to Hollywood all the quicker
and sing in the talkies.

SCREENLAND

An important phase
of woman's oldest
hygienic problem is
now solved

Please, Miss Editor, use your influence
and don't let them separate Charles Farrell
and Janet Gaynor: a combination so per'
feet, so exactly true to type, it is a shame
even to divide Janet with George O'Brien.

This Fans' Forum department is by far
the most entertaining one I have ever read
and I do not miss an issue of Screenland
— mostly because everyone who contributes
is always For-'Em.

Yours truly,

Ruth Wadlington,
1405 E. Broadway,

Joplin, Missouri.

She Likes
C o-starring
Teams

Dear Editor: —

Speaking of the talkies — and who isn't
these days? — why can't folks leave them
alone until they hear a few more of them?
I enjoy the talkies. As a matter of fact,
unless the picture has sound it doesn't seem
right to me.

Like everyone I have my favorites: Rich-
ard Dix, Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Mary
Pickford, Jack Holt and Joan Crawford. I
also like the John Gilbert » Greta Garbo
combination. They were wonderful in "A
Woman of Affairs." The Norma Tah
madge-Gilbert Roland team is good too.
I like Johnny Mack Brown, and see every
one of his pictures.

Sincerely,

Mary Lee Pcole,
Seaford, Delaware.

Greta
Garbo 's
A rtistry

Dear Editor: —

I read Screenland regularly and I
think it is a splendid magazine.

My favorite is the incomparable Greta
Garbo. She is, in my opinion, the greatest
personality of the screen. She's not only
beautiful but a great artist.

At first I detested talkies but Al Jolson
sold me on them. His sound-proof voice
and personality are an asset to the movies.

It would be a shame to lose some of our
silent stars because their voices do not re'
cord. A double should speak for them so
that we may keep our favorites and our
illusions.

Sincerely,

Russell P. McCallum,

Lenox School,
Lenox, Massachusetts.

This is
Your Department
Let's hear from you!

HERE smart women gather socially —
or in business— even the most attractive
are guilty of offending others at certain times.
Yet they, themselves, seldom realize it. When
told, they become miserably self conscious.
They try in vain to overcome the difficulty
by make-shift methods. Now science offers
safe and certain relief from this fear.

Kotex now scientifically deodorizes*

Millions of women have learned to depend
on Kotex within the last ten years. It has
brought them better health, greater peace-of-
mind under trying conditions. Now comes
an added advantage. Kotex chemists have
discovered ( and patented ) a process that de-
odorizes safely, completely. The one remain-
ing problem in connection with sanitary pads
is solved!

No more bulky outlines

That awful feeling of being conspicuous
because of the bulkiness of old-time meth-
ods is gone, too. Kotex pads are rounded
and tapered so there is no evidence of san-
itary protection when worn. You may ad-
just layers of filler as needed — a thing all
women appreciate. There is a new softness,
because both filler and gauze have been

specially treated. Finally, Kotex is so easy to
dispose of, eliminating all need of laundering.

Buy a box today, at any drug, dry goods or
department store . . . 45c for a box of twelve.
Supplied, also, in rest-room vending cabinets.

•Kotex is the only sanitary pad that deodorizes by a
patented process. (Patent No. 1,670,587, granted
May 22, 1928.)

SUPER-SIZE
KOTEX

Formerly yoc—Now 6jc

Some women find Super-size Kotex
a special comfort. Exactly the same
as the Regular size Kotex, but
with added layers of Cellucotton
absorbent wadding.

KOT6X

The New Sanitary Pad which deodorizes

<£We wish we had the handkerchief conces-
sion for "Madame X." We would be rich
— and then we could buy Ruth Chat-
terton, the star, a gold-plated laurel
wreath for her exquisite per-
formance. She melted the
hearts and mascara of so- A
ciety ladies and film -A
critics and usher- JfiU
ettes, at tht

(\A Lovely Lady
from the Stage
Steps into the
Screen Spot-
light

"AT
JV

July
1929

GREENLAND is wired
for sound!

Everybody else is
talking, why not you? You
— Joe and Josephine Public,
have been pretty patient while
the talkies roared and mut-
tered and gurgled and
grunted. Now it's your turn.
Screenland is your micro-
phone. Speak right up! Are
you for or against talkies? What do you really
think of them? Do you hope they live and
prosper, or are you wishing them a speedy
demise? This may seem, at first, like asking you
if you are sold on spinach. Whether you are
or not, you get it just the same — it's an old
spinach custom. But listen!

The talkies were upon you almost without
warning. One day you were sitting peacefully
in your favorite aisle seat in your pet picture
theater, when a strange sound smote your ear.
Maybe it was a football crowd cheering.
Maybe it was Sonny Boy. Whatever it
sounded like, it was actually the first cry of the
newborn talking picture. The producers were
nearly as surprised as you. They didn't know
what to do with this changeling. Some of
them declared in no uncertain terms that they
wouldn't have anything to do with it at all. In
a few months or even
weeks they were eat-
ing those words — with
sound accompaniment.

It has been well said
that the silent and the
sound pictures are dis-
tinctly different art
forms — if any. The in-

Delight Evans,
Editor.
Her Page.

The Editor of Screenland
49 West 45th Street
New York City

I prefer talkies to silent picture?
I am NOT in favor of talkies....

ame

Addr

audibles are supposed to evoke
mood, atmosphere, emotion.
The talkies — and particularly
in the future if color and
depth are added — are the next
thing to real life itself. Nearer
than literature, nearer than
music or painting or sculpture.
In fact, the darned things may
be so realistic that they'll have
us all actors in a colossal su-
per-talkie, which some master
director may sweep boldly and
bodily from the street scenes
of the city, the movement in
cafes and factories and offices
and homes — "All the world's
a sound stage!" (Oh, mind
your own business! Can't we
have any privacy?)

Right now, however, we should stop to con-
sider that three of the greatest artists of the
silent stage have taken their stands once and
for all against the talkies. Charlie Chaplin,
Lon Chaney, and Emil Jannings have flatly re-
fused to become audible. (You don't catch
any of the lady stars refusing, do you?) Chap-
lin's decision has placed him 'twixt love and
duty — business interests pulling him one way
and his art another. He reiterates: "I will
never make a talkie." Chaney is equally
adamant. Jannings will make silent dramas in
Europe. As long as this trio holds out, the
silent drama is not dead.

Think it over. You, the public, are the final
judge of whether talkies are here to stay. Con-
sider the coupon on this page. Mark an X be-
side your opinion, and then mail the coupon to

me. The results of
Screenland's Reader
Ballot will be presented
to the leading motion
picture producers.
They will be interested,
I can assure you, in
your verdict.
Let's go!

Qome Right <jn.

C[ Ina Claire is one of
the First Ladies of
Broadway and we
won't be surprised
to find her soon be-
coming one of the
foremost stars of
Hollywood

G[ Marilyn Miller is
coming to the
screen to defend
her title of Amer-
ica's premier mu-
sical comedy star.
She will sing and
dance in "Sally."

C~ Ze piquant and pro-
vocative Parisienne,
Mademoiselle Irene
Bordoni, who will
ma\e ze ooh-la-la for
First T^ational-Vita-
phone. She will bring
that dear Paris to
your front door!

({ Barbara Stanwyc\
opens the studio
door to her sis'
ter-stars who have
come all the way
from Broadway
to ma\e tal\ies
in Hollywood.
Barbara will play
in "The Loc\ed
Door" — her
movie debut.

G[ Left: the love
ly and very
blonde Ann
Harding is do-
ing her first
tal\ie for
Pathe.

High

(\Up in the Air with
the Hollywood Stars.

C[ Patsy Ruth
Miller — movie
star and student
pilot — she loves it!

^he stars have taken to the air! And what, I ask you, could be a
more natural state of affairs?

Hollywood small talk is full of such terms as: "hop off," "sit
down," "zoom," "crack-up," and so on. Hollywood hostesses never
know whether guests will really appear or just wave to the party as they dip
toward them in their plane, as Clarence Brown did the day Frances Marion

(£ Right
Madd
Dolo
Rio.

and Mary

Arthur Hagerman of
the Maddux Air Lines
showing Lindy around.

<i[ Below: Bill Hart saying his prayers to Captain
jess Hart before he goes up for his first trip
in the air. Bill wishes he had Pinto along!

All photographs by Dick Whitting-
ton except Patsy Ruth Miller's by
Manatt and Miss Cooper's by Inman.

gave her farewell party and practically all the stars of the
film world were there. Clarence looped and spun into the
canyon beside the house while we yelled at him from the
lawn.

"I hope
that's not Dor-
othy (Sebas'
tian) with
him," said
Gertrude
Olmsted, "be-
cause she hates
to do air
stunts. She is
still none too
comfort'
able over
straight flying,
and never
would go ex-
cept that Clar-
ence is so mad

about it." But C[The members of the Studio Flying

it wasn't Dor- Buc\ingham, A. E. McManus, ]r., lay

, T Douglas Shearer (Worma's brother),

othy. It was Bottom row: Francis Durfee, Merrill

Merrill Pye Jimmie Manatt,

9LIERS

Helen Ludlam

with Buddy Gillespie.

The vision of our artistic friend Leonardo da Vinci, who seems to have
been a very astute gentleman, is, in this day and age, vindicated with a
vengeance. Signor da Vinci was laughed to scorn by his townspeople
when he attempted to fly off a hill with a mechanism that he had designed

himself.

How he could laugh at them now!

Except that men of vision

<C Edna May
Cooper thin\s
flying is fun.
She's a snappy
student pilot.

Left: Gladys
McConnell, pas-
senger flier. 7\[ext,
Anita Page trying
out the parachute
ring on director
George Hill.

C[ Right: Mary and Doug greeting Lieutenant D. W.
Tomlinson. president in charge of operation of the
Grand Central Air Terminal at Glendale, Col.

do not laugh, unkindly, when their ideas have been proved and gained
the world's approval. Great men are tolerant, understanding of their
limitations and the limitations of others, and besides, by the time the

general public has caught
up with them, if it happens
in their lifetime, they are
far ahead again, working
out some other problem
that hammers at their
brains.

And, still on the subject
of Leonardo, I don't know
what the traffic problems of
Rome were in his day, but
the world, and New York
in particular, is ready right
now for his solution of it;
though when they do adopt
it they probably won't give
the great artist-engineer
credit.

But H o 1 ly w o o d has
simply gone air crazy.
They even have toy banks
made in the form of air'
planes (Cont. on page 98)

Club, from left to right, top row. Tom
Garnett, Patsy Ruth Miller, Paul Fran\lin,
Buddie Gillespie, W. G. McAdoo, ]r.
Pye, William Daniels, Harry Ashe,
R. O. Binver.

C^Rudy! We learned about
Latins from him.
Though an Italian,
Rudolph Valentino
led the Spanish
i n v as i o n o f
Mo viel an d
with "The
Four Horse~
men." He will
never be for
gotten.

^he 5panish

(\ Viva Hispana! The Latins Came,
Charmed, and Conquered!

heavy in any old film; his present association with Chaplin is
anything but Spanish. As one may easily guess, Charlie is
temporarily 'all off1 Mexico.

It will be recalled that Rudy had a contractual difference with
Lasky and was temporarily off the screen, and Jesse thought to
replace him with a charming chap who looked Latin
but who bore the Anglo-Saxon name of Jack
Crane. Jack was renamed Ricardo Cortez, and
the poor fellow tried to learn Spanish, if
only to answer his fans. But Jack didn't
add anything to the Spanish fad.
Nor did Ramon Novarro contribute
\ much. This handsome and in-
telligent young Mexican be-
came an immediate favorite,
but, alas, he too was cast
as everything from an
American to

*nJEN years ago,

Mexicans were our vil

German col-
lege boy.
The girls
were the
ones to
carry on

C[ Left: Raquel Torres
brought Latin charm to
Hollywood and Holly-
wood is grateful.

lains; today they are our
pet heroes.
Ten years ago, Mexico was protesting
to Washington against the film degradation
of her citizens; today she is sending her fairest
daughters to participate in the films.

How come? What happened to change the
Mexican from a swart villain to a romantic hero, and
to turn Mexico from indignation to applause?

Will Hays? Lindbergh? Ambassador Morrow?
Rudolph Valentino!

And Rudy was Italian!

Yet our Spanish heroes indubitably date from "The Four
Horsemen" and "Blood and Sand." Before the release of
those now classic films the only role permitted the Spaniard
was that of the familiar peon with the five-gallon hat, the
sharp knife and the sinister smile. Rudy brought to us for
the first time the aristocratic young Spaniard of the tango
and the bull-ring. Which, added to that young man's per-
sonal popularity, was the beginning of the Spanish invasion
of Movieland.

It is true Antonio Moreno, a real Spaniard, had been in
pictures for years — but not as a Spaniard. In fact, Tony
was played for every character in the cast except Spanish.
Al Garcia was another of the pioneer Spaniards, dating
way back to the Selig days. Al was usually played as a

(Conquest

By Rob

~Wagner

CC Lia Tora won a Fox Film prize for
being the greatest beauty in Brazil.

what Rudolph Valentino had
started. Dolores Del Rio led the
onslaught. Here was a young
woman who represented every-
thing fine in one of the most
aristocratic societies of the world.
Though she was cast in "Resur-
rection" and "What Price Glory,"
she did not come to her par-
ticular glory until she made "The
Loves of Carmen." From that
moment on it was "Viva His-
pana!" and "Viva Mexico!"

Lupe Velez! Don Alvarado! Raquel Torres!
■ And Gilbert Roland. Yes, Gilbert is Spanish, but just as they
made Jack Crane, a perfectly good Anglo-Saxon into a Spaniard, so
the foolish producers, during a run on English heroes, gave a Spanish
boy the anything but Latin name of Gilbert Roland.

Every studio now has a Spanish boy and girl or two in training
for stardom, and the wily Fox has what the gang disrespectfully
calls a whole stable of them.

Capitalizing their present ascendency, nearly all the Spanish-
American countries are going into production. At first they im-
ported Spanish-speaking technicians to make pictures on the old

home grounds, but
most of these efforts
flopped. Picture mak-
game so

C[ The group below, from left
to right: Jose Crespo, Lupe
Velez, Dolores Del Rio,
Don Alvarado and Maria
Alba — 100% Mexican and
100% with us!

mg is

C[ Armida, Spanish dancer and a daughter of
Mexico, adopted by these United States.

highly complex that no one or two men
can know all about it, thus these Holly
ood-trained Spaniards could make little
progress away from Movieland.

The next move was to send actors
to Hollywood with the official and
financial backing of their govern-
ments and to make the pic-
tures here. Last year an
Argentinian company made a
"Birth of a Nation" super-
special, celebrating Jose de
Sannartin, an Argentine
George Washington.
By far the most in-
...■1 teresting group that has
J struck Hollywood re-
Wjm .cently is the Julio de
Moraies company from
Brazil. Senor de
Moraies is a young
Brazilian aristocrat, reeking with
money, who wished to show his
countrymen just how a Spanish
picture should (Cont. on page 106)

GLARA SBOfT'S

ZNew

(\If You Win Clara's Bathing
Suit You're All Set for the
Summer! Splash! Let's Go!

((Does Clara's new
bathing-suit suit
you?

1 creenland proudly presents Clara Bow in
her latest and her favorite bathing suit —
and Clara Bow presents it to you! We
all know that Clara and bathing suits are
practically synonymous, and with summer here
what could be more appropriate as a gift?

This is your big chance to select Clara's lead-
ing man. Isn't there someone you would like
to see Clara vamp? You pick him and she'll
make him!

Collect your thoughts and write them down.
If you win, you collect Clara Bow's bathing
outfit and make a big splash at the beach.

Suit

<C The best letter, that
is, the clearest, clev-
erest, and most sin-
cere will win Clara's
bathing suit.

C[ Clara in her Screenland contest
bathing suit — of light gray crepe
trimmed with bands of cerise satin.
The trun\s beneath the flared s\irt
repeat the brilliant hue. The last
word in bathing suits!

Clara Bow always gets her man
in pictures. But she wants you to
like him, too. She wants you to
tell her what type of man she
should play opposite. Is it Clive
Brook, the sophisticated man of
the world, or boyish Buddy Rogers,
or the clean-cut American average
man like Richard Arlen? You
tell her!

Make your choice, and present
your reasons for thinking so in
your letter.

Address:— CLARA BOW

Screenland Contest Department
49 West 45th Street
New York City

Contest closes July 10th,

^he technique

Q The Brains of Screen and Stage Unite in Creating Talk-
ies. Chester Morris from Broadway is the Hit of (t Ali-
bi. " Read What he Thinks of the New Entertainment.

yernight, the talking picture has grown up!

That bawling infant of six months back has transformed itself into a
respectably behaved adult with downright artistic tendencies.
You don't believe it?
All right! I'll prove it to you!

Let's take the case of "Alibi" as an example. For to my way of thinking,
this is an almost perfect talking picture.

"Alibi" is perhaps the best crook film ever made. And its excellence is
due, in great part, to two people: Roland West, the director, and Chester
Morris, who plays the part of Chic\ Williams, the killer. Why, that
boy Morris can express more sex appeal simply by bending his head
in a girl's direction, as he does in the theater scene in "Alibi," than
most heroes can in a hundred feet of amorous contortions.

This picture has the speed and the sinister, staccato sound quality
of a machine gun. Every sequence is staccato. Morris and West
suggest rather than work out long involved situations. Like most
great creative efforts, "Alibi11 is simple. Just the story of a
killer. But from the very beginning when your ears are
assailed by the sinister shuffle of the convicts1 feet until the
end when Chic\ falls to his death from a bungalow on the
top of a skyscraper night club, Roland West and Chester
Morris have taken sound and so dramatized it that an
almost perfect talking picture has resulted.

This new technique which has raised the talkie from
a noisy nuisance into a force so compelling that
several theatrical producers are pessimistically pro-
claiming the death of the legitimate drama, has been
brought about by combining the brains of the screen and
the brains of the stage. Both sides have contributed liber-
ally and both sides are frank to say they know very little
about it. Every director and every actor has to fight his
way through the dark of mechanical imperfection into the
light of perfect articulation.

Because Chester Morris, for ten years a well-known juvenile lead

cif you

yet b
verted
"Alibi,

have not
e en cow
to tallies,
will do

itl

"I had heard that all you need to make a good talkie
was a cast of fine actors from Broadway. But the nearer
my train rolled toward Hollywood the more I realized
that was all apple-sauce ! You can get the finest actor on
Broadway but if he doesn't have that intangible screen
personality he's a flop. Nobody can describe that quality
and nobody knows if he has it until the camera focuses
on him.

"The novelty of hearing sounds issue front a screen
characters mouth is no longer sufficient. The audience
must be amused, stimulated, entertained.

"To a stage player the making of a talkie is bewildering.
My first day on 'Alibi' Roland West told me to turn
around. I said if I did my back would be to the audience.
'Don't worry about your audience,' said Mr. West. 'You
haven't one audience in pictures. You have a hundred.
Your audience is wherever the camera is placed.'"

C Roland West's
direction of
"Alibi" is a real
achievement. The film is one of the
outstanding melodramatic successes
of the tal\ies.

OF THE ^ALKIES

By Rosa Re illy

in New York City, has made such an instantaneous and tremendous
hit in his first talkie, Screenland has asked him to give us his
K impression of this new science, or art, or whatever you choose
||k to call it.

\ Chester Morris met me at the door:

"Come to see the killer at home?" he asked.
I draw back a little. The same sinister impression that
I had gathered from "Alibi," clung to me as I looked
Hlk at this man, for in real life he appears exactly as
he does on the screen. But as I walked into the
drawing room I saw he wasn't sinister really.
He is a slight, little above medium height,
sex-appealing young man, twenty-seven
i\ years old; and he is completely un-
spoiled.

His clothes were those of a pros-
perous young broker — gray suit,
brown shoes, white shirt, gray

(( Chester Morris — after Broadway
triumphs he scores in tal\ies, and
now his permanent address is
Hollywood!

G[ Chester Mo
magnificent actin
dominates "Alibi.'
This scene is one of the
most stirring — • in which
Chic\ (Chester Morris)
shoots the stool pigeon
(Regis Toomey) from the
ioc\et of his coat.

and wine-colored tie. Only
by the plaited gold brace-
let around his right wrist and the jade ring on the little finger"
of his left hand, did his dramatic instincts assert them-
selves.

First of all, since you're soon going to be tacking
Morris' picture on the wall alongside of John Gil-
bert and Ronald Colman and the rest, it may ease
your mind to know that Mr. Morris impresses me
as regular. Simple, unassuming, he seems down-
right likable. And so does his wife. And hlo
mother-in-law. And also his business associates who
surround him. Walking into his apartment is like
going to tea at a famous portrait painter's studio.
Everybody wanders in and out of the drawing room,
the kitchen, the dining room, eating and drink-
ing, chatting and joking.

About four o'clock, Mr. Morris' wife, a pretty
slim blonde who used to be in films, turned up
from a shopping expedition on Fifth Avenue
where she'd been buying presents for their nine-
months-old baby, left behind in Hollywood during
their trip east for the Broadway opening of
"Alibi." Mrs. Morris seemed scarcely more than
an infant herself, with her short blonde ermine
coat, green and white-checked skirt and green
shoes. Mama-in-law, an extremely young and
attractive red-haired woman, did the honors in a
lounging robe consisting of black satin trousers
and a tropically flowered coat. Even Ebon, the
dog, and Alice Foote MacDougall, the cat, seemed
to enjoy the sympathetic atmosphere.

On a red-brown divan in the red-brown draw-
ing room — a chamber of lovely proportions, lit
with ingenious jade green lights — Chester Morris
sat down beside me. But he edged away a little
when he heard I wanted to know about the new
picture technique. (Continued on page 99)

How They Play

IN HOLLYWOOD

(\Screenland's Party Department

k H, Buddy Rogers is going to be there, and he has offered to bake the
waffles!" exclaimed Patsy.

"I don't know what you mean," I retorted, "but, while Buddy is my
favorite actor, I don't know whether I'd really prefer him to the man
in the window when it comes to baking my waffles."

"Don't be so material," Patsy retorted, "and Til tell you all about it. Those
three precious people, Agnes Christine Johnston, the scenario writer,
Frank Dazey, her husband, the playwright, and Ann Rork are going
to risk their precious necks next Sunday, riding in a steeple-
chase down at the polo grounds in Santa Monica Canyon at
the Uplifters' Club, and we are invited to watch them do
it. Also we are asked to a regular hunt breakfast be-
forehand at Agnes' and Frank's house, and that's where
\t is that Buddy has promised to perform on the
waffle-iron."

"Sounds perfect," I said, "and anyway if any-
thing happens to our beloved hosts, we'll be right
there to pick up the pieces."

We found Frank, Agnes and Ann and their
guests — Ann was helping to receive, along
with her sweet mamma, Mrs. Sam Rork —
up in the roof garden a-top the Dazey home
at Santa Monica, having their orange and
grape-fruit juice before breakfast. The day
was glorious and one could see miles off
over the Pacific; but of course one was so

<\ Bessie Love receives the Garter luhich ma\es
her a Pal of the Brea\fast Club from the Club
President, Maurice Dumond. Left to right:
Johnny Hines, Polly Moran, Doreen Pastor,
Horman Kerry, Blariche Sweet, Sally O'J^eil,
Bessie, fimmy De Tarr, Sally Phipps, and
Mary McAllister.

C The oval picture below shou s
Top row, from left to right:
Lopez T^ovarro, Raquel Torres,
Don Alvarado, Doris Arbuc\le,
Matty Kemp, Madge Bellamy,
from top: Lcroy Mason, Rita
Manuel Sortres, Mary Brian,
O'Day, Mrs. Finis Fox, ]uan
Ona Brown, Mrs.

interested in the people that, one rather let
the Pacific slide for the time being.

Ann and Agnes were wearing their
riding suits and looking very snappy in
them.

Buddy Rogers was there with Mary
Brian. They are together a great deal
these days, and one hopes it will turn out
to be a real romance, both are such lovely
young people.

William Locke, who has been in the west

Grace

KJngs/ey

the gay guests at Ona Brown's party.
Hal Battley, Billie Joy, Polly Ann Young,
Mona Rico. Second row from top: Mrs.
]ane Winton, Camilla Horn, Lily Damita,
Jose Crespo, Miss Torres. Third row
Carewe Mason, Mrs. Gunther Lessing,
Renee Torena, Gwen Lee. Below: Molly
Cordona, Don Alvarado, Billie Dove,
Fran\ Borzage, Danny Darling.

(( Agnes Chris'
tine Johnston, fa-
mous scenario writer,
and Ann Ror\, actress,
ta\ing the hurdles in a
steeple- chase. Ann won the silver cup!

writing for the movies, and his charming wife
were among the guests, and Mr. Locke turned
out to be just the sort of person you'd think
him — gently humorous, kindly, and entirely
delightful. He is tall and thin and rather
florid of face, as becomes an outdoor English-
man. And what do you think is one of the things
he loves about America? The comic strips!
Ann had a slight cold in her head, and somebody
told her that she should take a little alcoholic nip
before going into the race, but she wouldn't. Where
upon the somebody appealed to Mr. Locke, asking him
whether she shouldn't.
"Well, either she or the horse should," he smiled.
Nance O'Neill, noted stage actress, was there with Alfred
Hickman, and presently Kay Hammond, of the stage, but who is
shortly to go into the talking pictures, arrived with her nice non-profes-
sional husband, Henry Wetherby, and there were Douglas Gilmore and Matty
Kemp.

Rather late there arrived Theda Bara with her husband, the director, Charles Brabin.
We heard Mr. Brabin call his wife "Tootle,1 and how that nickname did melt away all the
still rather high wall that we ourselves have somehow built about Miss Bara, and make her entirely human!

Patsy said she would never really feel the same about Miss Bara after hearing that nickname, but admitted that
it was entirely likely that all those historical characters she used to play had nicknames.
"Probably Mark Antony called Cleopatra 'Cleo1 or even 'Patty1 for short,11 she said.

Presently we all went down to breakfast, and it was then that we looked to Buddy for sustenance. Buddy did
not fail us. But he looked rather sunk for a minute, when he glanced down the table at the long line of quite eager
faces, and so Ann Rork came to his aid, and both made waffles at opposite ends of the table on the little electric
waffle irons.

Buddy said nonchalantly, "Why, I used to do this as a child!" But Ann evidently was being very brave in the
undertaking, because she admitted she had never cooked waffles before, and she did rather hope that the iron would
open automatically when the waffle was done. Later, however, she gained great skill, and even (Cont. on page 102)

(T How a rain scene was made for "The Voice of the City.'
Notice the standing pipes which carry the water high above
the two men fighting in the street — Robert Ames and John
Miljan — and the aviation motor and propeller which force
the rain into the scene, where it drops naturally. The big
light in the rear helps to give the proper 'rainy day' effect.

LADDIN grabbed off a lot of publicity with his magic
lamp. We're still hearing about what happened
when he rubbed the thing.

But if he came to Hollywood tomorrow and
started to do his stuff, nobody would look around. The
town is full of magicians who can spin a cobweb or flash
lightning with equal ease; who control wind and rain, fire
and storm and earthquake, who respond to the call for

anything from an icicle in midsummer to
a bloodless dynamiting of a prehistoric city.

The studios usually refer to them as
'technicians,'' but they might be called the
sons of Ajax and Jove, since thunder and
lightning is right in their line. Apparently
the one thing these wizards can"t do is to
say "No!'"

The other day, when "Evangeline" was
on location in the Feather River Canyon,
,in Carewe demanded a rainstorm. The
3est Nature could do about it was snow,
so Mr. Carewe turned to Patrick C. Drew,
illuminating engineer for the production.

Mr. Drew had 1500 feet of hose, the
nearest body of water was 4000 feet dis-
tant. A railroad spur track was within
1500 feet of the set, so Mr. Drew selected
two tanks, ran them back to the water,
filled them and brought them back to the
spur. Here it was discovered that the

ft**;

(T Cobwebs for this scene in "The Last Warning
machine and not spider-madel

C Cecil De-
Miile shows
Kay Johnson
how to brea\
a ( candy)
. bottle
\ over a
hero's
head

They Do

(\The Hollywood Technicians are the
Master Magicians of the World.

By Ruth Tildesley

tanks were too high to siphon out the necessary rain; also that the weather was so cold
that the water frose in its hose. The young engineer built fires beneath the tanks, while
his men dug a well into which the heated water was poured, from which well a con-
vincing rainstorm was siphoned out upon "Evangeline."

We don't have lightning in California, but many pictures demand it. William Johnson,
head of RKO electrical department, has perfected a device for creating the illusion in
miniature. He takes a pair of long, thin sticks, through which run wires, on the ends
whereof are fastened a handful of carbons. The sticks are bolted together like scissors and
the length of flashes is controlled by a man moving the handles. Instead of being con-
nected directly to a current, the wires in the sticks pass first through a barrel of brine,
made fresh for each shot from salt and water. This gives the device resistance and a
control of the flash.

The expert with "Evangeline" uses a special kind of powder which when shot from a
gun does not ignite until several seconds after it strikes the air, making a lightning-like
flash.

Louis Marlowe, one of the chief necromancers on Warner Brothers' lot, was called on to
produce a washbasin full of ice-crusted water for Dolores Costello's current picture, a
Russian tale. According to the script, Dolores had to break the ice to wash her hands.

"I put hot water into the bowl," explains Mr. Marlowe, "poured paraffin on top until
it filmed over, let it cool, then brushed it with ice to make it brittle, and it cracked like
real ice when Miss Costello broke it."

If this young sorcerer were called upon to decorate a set with icicles, he would order
fifty pounds of paraffin, melt it to form, shellac them and blow Christmas tree snow on
them to make them glisten. For a frosted window, he uses stale beer — Eastside will do,

C[ How did Douglas Fairhan\s obtain the effect of that marvellous Magic Carpet soaring through
the air for '"The Thief of Bagdad?" And how did he apparently climb a rope in thin air?
It's a long story, but Doug consented to divulge it to Screenland and you'll read all

about it in this article.

UOHTHIHG

IIMCM4 I
H.»RE

LlCttTHHKt

(2) ,

^ "*0„

.powder. , , \ \

! , I / < wooojuan MIH V 1

A I c»«EM^\l I 4fl ' ' N CHOfrmt, s Ollmo \ 1

(two rtt, ft.cu \
°* niil Oil mo'

POOL flLLt* with *nw ^UP'LltO BY RAILP.OA.0 TANH CAP,

G[ The sketches shou> u^at it actually requires — and this is but a minimum of detail —
to ma\e a flash of lightning for a motion picture. The large diagram explains how
the lightning flash was obtained for Edurin Caretue's picture, "Evangeline,"

starring Dolores Del Rio.

but it must be stale! — mixed with Epsom sa
crystals like Jack Frost's own.

Nujol from a spray-gun makes the most
fog filter on a camera or liquid smoke
is substituted.

"To make snow, we take a mica-dust
foundation, top it with white corn-
flakes, dressed with salt to make it
glisten, blow it with wind-machines and
sift it through a screen," says Mr. Mar-
lowe.

But when Von Stroheim was making
"The Wedding March," nothing but
real snow would do. Each morning, he
sent men to the local refrigeration plants
to scrape the ice from frosted pipes and
bring the resultant slush in trucks to the

Its; daubed on a window, this forms
popular fog, although occasionally a

fnCST-0 GAS
TAN

A IP. VALVE

AIR H05S TROM

The smaller sketch shows the
machine which ma\es the
lightning. The powder is ig-
nited by a spar\ as it leaves
the thin pipe at the top and
the explosion gives out a flare
about 30 feet high.

(£ William Johnson, RKO Electrical De-
partment Chief, holding his own clever
invention for ma\ing movie lightning,
explained in the story.

set. As the picture was made in
the heat of summer, the snow
melted before noon and work
had to be called off until more
was on hand.

Pathe's "High Voltage" was
really made in the snow country,
but on returning, they found
they needed a few snow scenes
to match up. They followed the
Von Stroheim procedure first,
but the result was so artificial-
looking when photographed, that
the property man was called to
the rescue. He used corn meal
and asbestos, scraped fine, which
looked more real on the screen
than the actual High Sierra shots!

Fay Wray remembers a hail
storm in "The Wedding March."
"We used tapioca and I went home every night with tapioca pudding
in my hair! Another time, we used salt, chipped ice and feathers for
falling snow. The feathers looked marvelous, but we had a scene in
which we stood for a long time talking, while they fell about us. Our
shoulders and heads were covered with them and someone wondered
if real snow wouldn't have melted. Then we all nearly went mad
worrying about it, until I went to see a newsreel and noted that real
snow didn't seem to melt, either."

It would take a spider a thousand years to spin the webs used in a
Hollywood studio in a single day. A machine that looks something
like an electric drill. The decorator dips it into glue and aims it at
edges of a revolving disc and — there you are!

They can't wait for seasons to change in Hollywood. When M-G-M
was making "The Student Prince," technicians (Cont. on page 105)

C_ Louis Marloit'e, one of the chief
necromancers of V<Jarner Brothers,
was called upon to provide a frosted
window for Dolores Costello to loo\
through. He obtained the desired
effect ivith stale beer!

Henry Freulich

The JMost 'Beautiful Still of the ^Month

COLLEEN MOORE and JAMES HALL

ft Smiling Irish Eyes"

(f If Anita Pane sincerely
believes m a safe and
Mine Fourth, says Joe
Fan. then why does she
dress up like S0(*'
dess of Liberty and up-
set his peace of mind'

(![ Gwen Lee —
she's alway:
cleaning up.

(j[ The Stars and
Stripes Forever!
Sing Out, Those
Wild Liberty
Belles!

H ommel

RICHARD DIX renews his popularity as a
talkie star. His dialogue debut was com-
edy. His next will be eloquently dramatic.

EVELYN BRENT, who smoulders for the
screen, is so frank and friendly off that
Hollywood hails her as 'Betty.'

Harold Dean Carxe\

IN a city of beautiful girls — yes, Hollywood —
Doris Dawson stands out for her own spe-
cial brand of piquant and provocative charm.

Eugene Robert Richee

AxNOTHER Doris— Miss Hill, of Para-
mount. Her charm brightens a corner of
mv picture lucky enough to have her in it.

Ruth Harriet Louise

NOT only is Lewis Stone esteemed as a
great actor, but his ingratiating wav with
a moustache has won the fans' affection.

Camilla
HORN'S

Gift Bracelet

(C Write the best letter in Ca
milla's Screen land con-
test and win the lovely
bracelet of moon-
stones that you
see on her

wrist. a

Above: Camilla examining some of the stones
ivhich she collected on her ramblings along the
beach. In the little pile to the right are the rough
stones in their unpolished state. Later they were
matched, cut and polished for the Screenland
gift bracelet.

%£J ({Her hobby

is gathering
rare moonstones
on the beach and
having them set in
jewelry to give to her
friends. She wants one of
her fans to win her favor-
ite moonstone bracelet!

yf Camilla Horn, the lovely little German
actress, has made so many friends since
she came to this country for United Artists
that she wants to show her appreciation
of their kindness. The nicest thing she could do,
she thought, would be to present to some fan one
of her own ideas in jewelry — a bracelet especially
made from moonstones which she herself had hunted
for on the beach in front of her ocean home in
California. "It would be more personal, no?"
smiled Camilla. "Yes!" SCREENLAND smiled back.
Write the best, that is, the cleverest and the clearest
letter and you will win the bracelet. Her question
was inspired by her role in the John Barrymore pic
ture, "Eternal Love": What makes for eternal love
between man and woman? Is it spiritual under-
standing, mental stimulation, physical attraction, or
mutual interests? Camilla wants to know! Address:
Camilla Horn, Screenland Contest Department,
49 West 45th Street, New York City. Contest
closes July 10, 1929.

Yip-ee!

Ya-hi!
Ride
Em,
Cow-
Boy!

C[ Above: Ken Maynard showing Edith Roberts
how to rope. Below: Ken teaching the cow
boys the song which you will hear in his
picture, "The Wagon Master."

Pull your freight, ye sons of heathen,
Stretch out now, we're on our way,

Skinner's a-ridin' and a-singin',
We are headed for home and pay!

(A ''Wild "West Location

"REARING down the desert stretch at the
reins of a 'six'up,1 a heavy 'freighter'
rumbling and swaying back of him, and
caroling the above verse which is the
theme song of the picture, sat Ken Maynard —
the ridingest rider of them all . Ah, we've had
many a rider, but never a rider like Ken! Which
may be misquoting a bit, but what good is a
typewriter if it can't emotionalise once in a
while?

It was the first runaway. The girl and her
father, played by Edith Roberts and Frank
Cooley, unable to hold the frantic, stampeding
steeds, were helpless. The Rambling Kid, who is
of course the gallant and dashing Ken, sees the
dilemma, vaults from his own Palomino, Tarzan,
whom you all know as well as you know Ken,
on to one of the leaders, runs along the tongue
and up to the wagon seat where he takes the

IsOith Ken (f^laynard

({ Ken Maynard provides his own enter'
tainment when on location. He plays
both banjo and fiddle and Edith Roberts
plays the heroine. Below: a glimpse
of the outdoor 'set.'

reins and brings the horses under control.
"Ya-hi'i-i!" he cries, while the cameras grind and
the graflex clicks and Ken brings the snorting,
excited steeds to a perfect landing just beyond
them.

"Hello," he called from his perch, waving an
expensive cream felt 'ten gallon1 in my direction.
"How do you like our desert?11

Since I was the visiting lady, and the only one
in the outfit of thirty or forty men except Edith
Roberts, I had been granted an hour's grace.
The troupe had risen at dawn.

There were two reasons for filming "The
Wagon Master.11 One was to show what a time
folks had to get their groceries in those days
and the other was to exhibit the superb riding
of the star and producer, Ken Maynard.

"Oh, I don"t do anything much," said Ken
deprecatingly. "The stunts that are hard to do
don't look like anything on the screen so I don't
do them any more. Jumping from one side of
a galloping horse to another is a trick any cow-
boy can do without half trying. (Cont. on p. 95)

5he's

(\ln Mary Brian's Dic-
tionary 'Sweetness' Means
'Good Sportsmanship. '

"Mary Brian won the title
of 'Hollywood's Sweetest
Girl' four years ago when
she played Wendy in
"Peter Pan." Mary's sweet'
ness is the brand that wears
well under light, heat, cold
and Cooper-Hewitts — and
she learned it when she was
a \id, playing Indian with
her brother and his gang.
Read this story about Mary
and you will discover a
new definition of 'sweet.'

ugar-coated ladies are Hollywood's staple product, but the usual brand of
studio sweetness melts quickly when exposed to a bit of cloudy weather.
In fact, saccharine reputations have suffered from over-production and
the inevitable reaction has set in, leaving sweet young things wistfully
waiting on the wrong side of the casting-office window.

Yet Mary Brian flourishes and prospers as 'The Sweetest Girl in Hollywood,'
a title she won four years ago when she was Wendy and Betty Bronson was
Peter Pan.

When the fashion for sullen and sophisticated heroines swept the country, the
wise guys hinted that 'Hollywood's sweetest girl' was due for a fall. If playing
in more pictures per year than any other girl on the Paramount lot means a
tumble, the w. g.'s are right.

Mary's sweetness isn't the syrupy variety. It wears well under light, heat,
cold and Cooper Hewitts, a sweetness that goes way down deep, the sort that
is inherited from generations of true-blue grandmothers who could wear whale-
bone and muttonleg sleeves with an air..

Mary is the kind of a girl that causes mothers of only sons to languish sentimentally
about their boy's marrying a girl like that. What greater tribute could any woman
achieve?

About two weeks ago at exactly two a. m. upon a chilly Hollywood morning, a few
of us scribes found a tired but smiling Mary huddled over a charcoal stove in the middle
of a draughty studio stage, awaiting her cue. For twelve consecutive nights she had
been working from six p. m. to six a. m. in a ma?e of gruelling work, to complete an
all-talking picture with Richard Arlen, called "The Man I Love."

Night shifts, by the way, are quite the thing these days at the Paramount studios.
When the handsome new sound stages burned down two months ago, all production was
moved to night work on the old silent stages, so that traffic noises would not run inter-
ference with talkie noises.

Our early morning visit to the studio was in the way of a lark, for we thought it
quaintly amusing to stop and gaze upon a hard-working company on our way home
from an evening of whoop de la.

We sat by the glowing, but meager heat-giving stove and whispered the news
of the boulevard with Mary. Richard Arlen was speaking into an unseen micro-
phone some fifty yards distant, necessitating the whispers. A hairdresser stealthily

'The §weete$t Qirl in Hollywood'!

Bj/ Julie Lang

rearranged the curls about Mary's tired little face. Another interruption was caused when
a wardrobe assistant whispered a message about getting to the studio two hours early next
evening for another fitting. The publicity man on the production beckoned Mary to get
ready for a few publicity shots. A prop boy brought a bundle of thirty pictures to be
autographed that night. The assistant director proffered a sinister sheaf of papers, stat-
ing that these were the lines she would have to re-memorise for the next day — the old
ones had been changed!

Mary had a smile for each one, not a smile of weakness, but a sweetness that grows
from strength, a strength that protects her from hysterics, temper, tantrums and grum-
bling.

"How do you do it, Mary Brian?" I asked wonderingly. "I'd be in a comatose
state after that barrage."

"Perhaps you didn't play with boys when you were little," she sagely whispered.
"It's wonderful training in sportsmanship, patience, good humor — in fact, all
the things you need to face in the labor of a 'movie career.'

"I was raised in Snyder, Texas. You can guess its size by its name. We,,
lived there during the winter to be near the school, and in the summer
we went to my uncle's ranch. I had my brother and four cousins, all
older boys, for playmates. Their Indian warfare, cowboy roundings, and
secret sign language fascinated me, and I tearfully resented playing
with the little girls of the town.

"I can recall mother telling my brother Taurrence to let me play
with the boys. 'She's crying, and it won't hurt you boys to let her
enter your games. Now Taurrence, play with your little sister or
you shan't have a bit of dessert for a week!' That worked, of course,
and the boys grudgingly assented.

"But I paid the price when mother was out of sight. I was the
wild Indian, to be captured, scalped and tied to a tree. I was the
fe pirate to walk the plank. I was the enemy pilot to be shot down

from the tree, which was my plane. I was (Continued on page 108)

C[ "Go bac\ to acting?" says Lionel Barry
more. "I hope not! I want to \eep
on directing. There is so much more
to set your teeth into."

"Barrymore

(\Lionel, now a Director, Wastes No
Words and Makes Great Pictures.

When Barrymore forsook acting to direct his first picture, a
'short1 called "Confession," he was probably really happy in his
work for the first time in his life. For, though he had scored
huge triumphs as an actor on the stage, later on the screen,
and more lately in talking pictures, acting never really filled
the want that was in his soul. He never was satisfied with it
as an outlet for his creative instinct.

It was that which led him to abandon acting in Paris, study
art, and become a painter. He scored a success at that, too,
but gravitated back to acting when he found that it was, per'
haps, more vivid than cold colors. He essayed music, too, with
the same result. Incidentally, while in Europe he did some of
his greatest creative film work for a German studio, which never
won recognition in this country.

But when the talking picture came in, he saw in the direction
of the new form of play, a real outlet for what was in him.
He pleaded for his first chance to direct, and his first picture
convinced the producers that a new directorial genius had dawned.
So, when they filmed "Madame X" with Ruth Chatterton, Lewis
Stone, and Raymond Hackett, it was only natural that Barry-
more got the assignment. And the furor that it created further
established him in his new art.

IIOI

ionel Barrymore had just finished the last
scenes in "Madame X."
j "New York," he was informed by the
enthusiastic publicity office at the Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer studios, "is wild about your film,
and they want a set of new portraits of you —
right away, for exploitation. Can you pose for
'era now?"

"Aw, gosh!" pleaded the aggrieved Barrymore.
"Can't I do something else for 'em? Maybe I could
kill someone. Anyhow, I haven't shaved today —
got up too late this morning — and besides, I posed
for a lotta portraits only a coupla years ago. I
don't look a darned bit different now, so what's
the use?'

By which it can be gathered that of all the
things Lionel Barrymore detests, the one he detests
most is posing for his photograph.

He hates the still camera with an earnest and
undying hatred — even more than he hates to talk
about his work. When directing, he seldom speaks,
save to call this or that actor to one side and sug-
gest something in a few brief words. People at
first think that he draws himself into a shell, like
a sort of directorial abalone; but, when you know
the man better, you see that this isn't the case at
all. Barrymore is really one of the most genial of
souls; he likes everybody and everybody likes him.
But he doesn't waste words over it.

C[ The famous brothers of the royal
Barrymore, as they were entering
"Madame X," which

Young <J\Canl

By Bradford Nelson

((Left: Ho-
vel r r o as
Pel leas in
"Pelleas and
Melisande."

"Scaramouche," and the rest, he had, constantly in the
background of his thoughts, the idea that some glorious
day he'd step before the boards in one of the operatic
roles he loved.

He studied ceaselessly, with Louis Graveure and other
famous masters of song. He rehearsed his roles in his
little theater in his home, where he gives his famous con-
certs for musical friends.

"But it's all such a surprise- — no one knew how really
in earnest you were about it," commented the interviewer.

"Oh, that's one of the reasons, perhaps, why I am
going through with this," smiled Novarro. "You see, if
one wants to achieve something, and keeps talking about it,
part of the energy that goes toward the achievement is
expended in the talk. It's like daydreaming; it interferes
with direct action. Really to finish something you have
willed to do, it is best to keep it pent up within yourself
until it's done."

"What operas will you sing, if you continue with an
operatic career?"

"Well, of course, I have my
own idea of how I'd like to sing
The Du\e in 'Rigoletto'. You
see, all operas are sung in a
traditional way, and few sing-
ers ever depart from these.
Not even the great Caruso
dared too far to violate operatic
traditions. That is, I think,
where I have a little advantage,
for, being identified with dra-
matic roles, I may be permitted
to inject more of the drama of
the story into the presentation
than otherwise. For instance,
the Du\e is always played as a
sort of roue — what we'd call
in pictures a 'heavy.'

"But my conception of this

C[ The first song
Ramon ever ut-
tered from a stage
was the "Ave
Maria'' hy Mario
La Fragola.

C( Above: 7<[ovarro
in one of his
Spanish characterizations in
a song cycle with which he
entertains audiences at his
own "Theater Intime."

"I have my own idea of how I'd like
to sing operatic roles. Few singers ever
dare depart from tradition. I may be
permitted to inject more drama into the
presentation.

"I subconsciously apply picture tech-
nique to the drama of the opera. I see
behind the traditional methods, many of
which make for clumsiness, a chance
for 'snapping up' the action. I can't help
thinking how Fred Niblo might direct it!

"I'm less afraid of my acting than my
singing. But I'll go ahead ; and they'll be
able to say of me, in the words of the
popular song, 'He done the best he
could!' "

fellow is far different. I don't think of him as a villain,
but rather as a gay sort of Benvenuto Cellini, seeking
everything in life. I think he could be played this way
and really enhance such gorgeous arias as Questa O QueUa,
La Donna Mobile and Fairest Daughter of the Graces.
I'd like to play him as a romantic young adventurer,
thoughtless rather than sinister. And I think such a con-
ception of the role would improve the entire drama of
the story, for "Rigoletto" is really intensely dramatic.

"Of course, I subconsciously apply picture technique
to the drama of the opera. I see behind the traditional
methods, many of which make for clumsiness to an operatic
production, a chance for 'snapping up' the action. I can't
help thinking how George Hill, for instance, or Fred Niblo
might direct it! And thus I sometimes am a little rebellious
at the arbitrary rules laid down in operatic tradition.

"Maybe it's because I'm less afraid of my acting than
my singing. I know I can act the roles of Cavadarossi or
The Du\e, for instance. But I'm not sure that I can sing
them effectively enough to win popular acclaim. All I

can do is to go ahead and do
my very best; and, if I fail, I
will at least be able to say that
I put my very heart and soul
into an honest attempt. They'll
be able to say of me, in the
words of the comic song — 'He
done the best he could.' "

"Did you ever think of going
into concert work?"

"No — that is, not public con-
cert work," confessed Novarro,
"though in some ways it's much
easier than opera. You see, I
am going to make pictures as
before — that is my life work,
after all, and I can only appear
in opera in spare time. Con-
cert tours (Com. on page 111)

(x Helen thwowing a
\ith to her fanth —
no, 110.' just Helen
in a very pretty pose.

<J\(o, Thir-
Helen
Doth

Not

(~| The Story
of Helen
Tivelvetrees.

By Franklin James

I"TT~ELEN TWELVETREES
= is a hit. She came
from Broadway to
Hollywood — and
made good in one picture.
Almost a record. But if you
catch her looking a little wist-
ful, don't be surprised. She
is trying to figure it all out.
And it is a little hard. Listen!

Helen was chosen from the
many actresses playing in New
York stage shows to come to
Hollywood to play in the
talkies — chiefly because she is
noted for her excellent voice
and expert diction. The movie
makers figured Helen would
be able to make audiences sit
up and take notice when she
spoke her lines. They cast her
as the heroine in "The Ghost
Talks." And the role re-
quired a lisp! Imagine Helen's
feelings! Here she had come
all the way to California to
give the microphone a treat
by speaking the best English

(( She is 3>oung. beau-
tiful, and one of
the first stage play-
ers to win admirers
among the army of
movie fans. Smart
girl, Helen
Tivelvetrees.

Lithp!

into it — and they asked her to
lisp! To lisp, mind you —
when the other actors and
actresses were doing all they
could not to lisp! Helen wor-
ried. It wasn't too far-fetched
to expect that when the public
heard her lisping away in her
first screen part, they would
jump to the conclusion that
she couldn't talk any other

way. And in those pioneer talkie
days a lispless voice-record was
more to be desired than an
exercised option. But Helen
had her orders. And lisp
she did!
And she stole the show.
Speaking of irony! Only
in the movies can such
things happen — an ac-
tress imported from
Broadway because she
doesn't lisp makes a
hit in one of the
first talkies be^
cause she lisped
so charmingly!
(Cont. on p. \06)

Eugene Robert Richee

NEIL HAMILTON, unhand that woman!
Wait a wait — does Doris Hill look as if
she wants to be unhanded? It's all for a movie.

Ernest A. Bachract

SALLY BLANE, having been appointed a
starlet by RKO, is all set to emerge from
the ingenue ranks into real dramatic importance

LIVE BORDEN, one of our most vivid
young ladies, is a suitable star for a film
entitled, "Help Yourself to Happiness."

Ernest A. Bachrach

Ruth Harriet Louise

ANITA PAGE, the world's most amazing
ingenue, has already proved her right to
be called a real actress as well. A great star bet.

Elmer Fryer

THE talkie vogue found Carmel Myers pre-
pared. She was in Broadway musical com-
edy some seasons ago, and knows her lines.

Preston Duncan

PLEASE, Mr. Warner Brothers, let's see
Dolores Costello play opposite her hus-
band, John Barrymore, in a talking picture soon.

fl[ You've heard of a
pig in a poke. Well,
a lion cub in a bas-
ket is nothing li^e it.

the dJ%ovies

(3[ Polly wants a
cracker — and a
good job in the
talkies.

CT Pal, perhaps the

richest and most ''^H
famous bull dog
in the ivorld.

By Amelia Screech (All in Fun)

Griffith, Alice White, Dick Barthelmess, Dorothy
Mackaill, and the rest of the gang. You can begin
to see what a broad field this is.

Now, as an example of what you might be up
against — suppose you decide that you can carry
the responsibility of becoming a flock of honking
geese and can swim in a strange pond without
sinking. If you could have filled that contract,
your admiring friends and relatives might have
seen you paddling around with Colleen Moore in
"Lilac Time." To get down to the money facts,
each goose pulled down fifty (Cont. on page 110)

C[ jack Gilbert, above, makes a mon\ey of his photographer.
Right, below — Jack, Mulhall and Peter Rabbit, both good
troupers, in a scene for a picture.

it and rent it to the movies. You will be able to retire and
collect its salary while it emotes on the jumping gelatines, and
you can demand a raise for it when it doubles in brass and buzzes
in the sound pictures.

Til try and show you what a great break you and I would
have if we were animals. Of course, I don't suppose you would
care to be a horse — well, but how do I know but what you
might not love it! If you'd rather be a cat even in just an extra
role, you can earn from fifty cents to a dollar a day for milk'
money. And if you show a knack for taking direction, you're
apt to get seven-fifty per day, which would guarantee you a
casserole of mouse at least three times a week.

There's a man in Hollywood who knows his animals, and if
you will only hurry and decide what kind of an animal you
want to be, you only have to look him up and tell him I sent
you. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he gave you the part.
He's the animal casting director at the First National Studios in
Burbank, California. He has done right by the animal race;
he's hired the acting services of birds, beasts, reptiles, fleas,
elephants, ad animalum. And the first thing they knew they
were acting like everything with Colleen Moore, Corinne

Meet the King!

Q Charles the First, Formerly of Broad-
way, Now Reigning in Hollywood.

By Ralph Wheeler

harley King just couldn't have been born any-
where else than ThoityThoid street and Thoid
avenue.

For not even Ireland itself could give a lad
the courage he needed to battle his way to the top with
only a stout heart and ready fists to begin with.

Charley never had a singing or dancing lesson in his
life, save the crooning he heard
at his mother's knee or the jig-
steps of his old dad.

It was a battered hurdy-gurdy,
serving as a messenger of Spring
to the tenement house urchins in
that historic New York neighbor-
hood, that gave Charley his first
urge to burst forth into song.

Very likely it played, "Side-
walks of New York." Charley
has forgotten now just what it
was. He only knows he sang
and that passersby paused to
listen.

Fired with an Irish ambition,
Charley started out selling news-
papers at the old Sheepshead Bay
race-track. Those were glorious
days! Fine carriages, smart
people, bands, flags, excitement!

"Wuxrt-Wuxrty — pick yer
winners!" was his smiling shout.

A portly and dignified man
stopped to buy a paper. As he
bent over to search his pockets
for some change a ribboned
badge, fluttering in his frock coat
lapel, was whisked away by a
frolicsome breeze.

1 'Tis an ill wind,' etc.

Charley chased the badge
but the owner, unaware of
the loss, passed on

through the milling crowds. The newsboy picked it up
and ran to the paddock.

The badge belonged to 'Father Bill' Daley, dean of the
racing stable owners. He patted Charley on the back
and pressed a crisp banknote into his besmudged palm.
It was a ten-dollar bill, the first he ever owned.

And he took it right home and gave it to his mother!

After that Charley had the freedom
of the clubhouse. He needed no pass
at the gate. Soon he sacked his news-
paper trade and used his voice.

Every day he sang for nickles, dimes,
quarters when he warbled gay tunes
of the day. Then he discovered he
could get more money singing tear-
jerking ballads, and before he got
through the race-track looked like a
yachting regatta. "Mother Machree"
always was good for land-office busi-
ness, and "Just Break the News to
Mother" was a Klondike to the sing-
ing youngster.

Along about this time Charley de-
cided to break into the theatrical busi-
ness. The nearest he got to the stage
was a job as office boy to William A.
Brady, doubling as a sort of confiden-
tial messenger boy.

All was well until the day that
Brady gave him a message to
deliver with strict instruc-
tions not to leave it with
anyone other than
the person to
whom it was
addressed.

C[ Amiable — Irish — Charley
King rose from T^lew
Tor\ newsboy to
Broadway star. And
now he is winning
new honors in the
tal\ies.

day and signed him up for a part in his "Postal
Telegraph Boys" which he was producing. Eddie
Cantor, Graucho Marx and Sammy Lee were
among the other boys in the cast. Oddly enough,
today Charley, Edwards and Lee are working
together on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's big revue.
Charley's rise to stage stardom came quickly.
George M. Cohan brought him to the front
in "The Little Millionaire." During this engage-
ment he met Lila Rhodes, Cohan's cousin. A
year later they were married.

Last year, after starring in "Hit the Deck,"
Charley was in "Present Arms," playing in
Philadelphia. The show was not doing well and
the closing notice was posted on the board. It
was at this time that Louis B. Mayer was in
New York seeking a leading man for "Broad-
way Melody."

Mayer was persuaded by a friend to run over
to Philly and have a look at King.

"I'm sold," said Mayer after one act. "Have
him make a test."

Charley, told for the first time that Mayer
had been in the audience, raced over to New
York between shows and they made the test.
He sang "That Old Irish Mother of Mine."
Did he get the job?

Just look at the box-office lines wherever
"Broadway Melody" is playing!

C[ There was something pretty nice about Charles
King in "Broadway Melody" — Bessie Love and
Anita Page, for instance!

Now it so happened that Charley had a pair of
tickets for his weekly splurge at the old Ameri-
can Theater. They burned holes in his pockets
as he waited and watched the hands of the clock
spin around, impatient to deliver the message.

Dinner hour came and passed. Charley was
still camped in the hall. Eight o'clock boomed
from a neighboring church steeple. He shoved
the note under the door and dashed away to the
theater.

In the morning he was fired.

That night Charley made his first stage ap-
pearance. He hied himself to Hurtig & Sea-
mon's up on 125th Street where they held regu-
lar Thursday amateur nights in the famous get-
the-hook variety house.

Charley quaked inwardly as he awaited his
turn. A stage hand was poised in the opposite
wing with the dreaded hook. He sang "In the
Sweet Bye and Bye."

They didn't use the hook.

And when Charley left the theater he had
a job plugging songs for Harry Von Til?er.

Night after night he stood up in a box or
in the gallery and echoed the songs sung from
the stage — of course you remember that gag?

His first numbers were "Pretty Little Dina"
and "My Little Coney Isle."

Road troupes — at $3? a week — seemed heaven
after that to the little smiling Irisher. Some-
how he managed to squeeze in schooling between
times. He did blackface, song slides, knock-
abouts— just everything.

Gus Edwards caught Charley's appearance one

<C Mr. King all dressed up and waiting for Greta Garbo. He is
one of the stars of Metro-Goldwyn' s impressive singing and
dancing spectacle, "The Hollywood Revue of 1929."

Clothes

FOR the GIRL

By Adrian

there is life. One is more apt to find her participating
in the fun of some sports contest than appearing as a
spectator. For this reason her sports clothes have an
unrestrained freedom about them. One always feels
that her clothes should have a buoyancy and lightness,
and her continuous activity makes them a very legitimate
part of her wardrobe.

This lack of artificiality is reflected
by the simplicity

Left: an Adrian
sports froc\ in
white for the
Marion Davies
Girl, with a dash
of red achieved
by a '\er chief
tucked in a mono-
i V grammed poc\et.

A, Long gloves he'

I hong with this
\ ft> J costume.

of all her personal
clothes — her after-
noon frocks being
soft without being

C[ Marion Davies
refuses to be arti-
ficial. Her clothes
should have a buoyancy
and lightness. She can loo\
expensive easily and gracefully
-hut she is always sincere.

s f ^PERSONALITIES must be studied before clothes can be sue-
)j cessfully designed, for no two people can wear the same
type of gown, despite the tendency for uniformity.

There is the girl with the slow, poised manner who
suits the type of gown that depends on its line for smartness.
One is sure that the draperies will always be correct and that
the wearer will hold the poses that show these lines to best
advantage.

Then there is the Marion Davies type of girl who has found
humor to be her essence. She refuses to be artificial, therefore
one cannot dress her for effect too much because she would be
continually winking the effect out of the picture — just as she
should be most important-looking!

Her clothes must be colorful — no pure color is too vivid. White
is a foil for her. Peasant colors adapted amusingly suit her and
bring out her vivaciousness. Pastels soften her and surround her
blondness like feathers. Tailored things make her alert and trim
and very 'good-morning1 looking. Things in her hair do not help
her as it is like gilding a lily.

Miss Davies has the twinkle made for musical comedy. There
is no doubt that this is her forte. She yearns to do it and her sincerity is so
intense that a musical comedy star she will eventually be, whether it is in motion
pictures or on the stage. It is her place. Pictorially she would be unlimited.
Spontaneity is its by-word and hers. Impetuous invention would have full play.

She can look expensive easily and gracefully. Sables look better on her than in
Russia. White fox slipping from her shoulders convince you of their reason for
being — and that there are other places for them to be seen than in the zoo. Furs
or feathers, used extravagantly, are a natural inclination when one thinks of her.

But the musical comedy field isn't her only background. She is at home wherever

G.A blac\ chiffon
froc\ designed
for Marion shows
\nif e - pleated
trimmings flaring
from the cape
hac\, jabot- fin-
ished blouse, and
dipping hemline.

Creations

with a SENSE of HUMOR!

C[// You Have the Exuberance and Spontaneity of Marion
Davies You'll Find These Fashion Hints Helpful.

w {

(£ Left: a sketch of Marion
wearing a b\ac\ evening
gown of satin and chiffon
with an extravagant trim-
ming of curled ostrich
feathers.

All draunngs exclu-
sive to SCEBENL.AND

by Adrian.

fluffy, and feminine without be'
ing sickeningly sweet. It gives
her every costume a genuine qual-
ity that is noticeable, and when'
ever clothes attract attention they
are bound to be copied.

We are planning an elaborate
wardrobe for "Rosalie," Miss
Davies' next picture.

One evening wrap will be espe-
daily striking, with a modernized
Persian embroid-
ery influence
worked in silver,
lavender and tur-
quoise blue on a
white satin back-
ground. An orig-
inal collar-
line will be /' Q}.
introduced ni* <S|;,
with this 1^7
wrap.

The evening gown
that belongs with this
wrap will follow the Gre'
cian line with the same pat-
tern of embroidery forming a
heavy border. Grecian sandal-
pumps will further carry out the
spirit of the costume.

One of the delights of working
with Miss Davies is her enthusiasm
and understanding of clothes. Al-
though her entire wardrobe for
"Marianne" was of the peasant
type she became so interested in
the hand-embroidery work that
outlined the (Cont. on page 110)

J£j / ' s Go to

You Movie Fans Want Your Money's Worth. Screenland's

for Worth-While Entertainment. Read Them

The Charlatan

This mystery drama, full of oriental figures,
off-stage screams and terrific thunderstorms, turns
out to be a personal triumph for Margaret
Livingston. Although she plays an unsympa-
thetic role, Miss Livingston in appearance and
acting shows herself to be as capable an actress
as we have in the films today. While the pic-
ture is not in the 'big time' class, it will be
more than worth your while to see it to catch a
glimpse of the new Margaret Livingston whose
beauty and dramatic ability give verve and tilt
to an otherwise old-fashioned melodrama. Fea-
tured with her are George Melford and Rad-
clilfe Fellows.

Girls Gone Wild

Fast-stepping picture of youth gone plumb crazy. Sue Carol
thought she wanted to be w-i-l-d until she got kidnapped by a
bootlegging gang. Nick Stuart, the boy in the case, is a knock-
out. Fine supporting work by William Russell, Roy D'Arcy
tnd John Darrow.

Scandal

Polo comes before the microphone in this talking picture.
Huntley Gordon wields the mallet. Laura La Plante, as his
wife, is the victim of wagging tongues. John Boles scores a
neat goal as Laura's former lover. The film is old wine in
new reels but pre-war strength!

Children of the Ritz

To "Dancing Daughters," add a lot of tomfoolery and whimsy
and you get a quick idea of this film. It's Dorothy Mackaill's
picture by -six reels. Jack Mulhall plays the boy, once a
chauffeur, who tries to support Dorothy in all her glory. How
that girl makes clothes live.

Rainbow Man

Eddie Dowling makes his first talking picture, with Marian
Nixon, Frankie Darro and others. Despite Dowling's excellent
singing and dancing, this film of back-stage minstrel show life
left me cold. Darro is a fine trouper but too sophisticated.
Nixon did admirable work and her voice reproduced splendidly.

the zM o vies!

Revuettes Are Here To Aid and Abet You in Your Search
and Be Guided to the Right Pictures.

Syncopation

Seeing "Syncopation" is like taking in a
legitimate play, a musical comedy, and vaude-
ville— all in one, with a night club entertainment
thrown in for good measure. In this film you
see and hear Warings' Pennsylvanians, Barbara
Bennett, Bobby Watson, Morton Downey, Doro-
thy Lee and Osgood Perkins. Barbara and
Bobby form a ball-room adagio team. Although
Bobby is very much in love with his partner,
she wearies of the life and leaves Bobby to
dance in her own night club, where she flops.
The unofficial star of the picture is Morton
Downey, who sings and plays the piano excel-
lently. A very enjoyable film.

Molly and Me

This film is of the "Burlesque" and "Excess Baggage" and
"Broadway Melody" school. Belle Bennett and Joe E. Brown
are tank-town troupers. Belle has a thankless role — the gum-
chewing wife whose stage talent is mediocre. 'Me' is Joe E.
Brown. Alberta Vaughn is piquantly present.

Chinatown Nights

Wally Beery talks his way back to the roles he had before
they found out he could be funny, too. As the strong and
at times sinister emperor of Chinatown, he talks. So does
Florence Vidor, the society woman who falls in love with him.
An interesting picture.

Strong Boy

New angle on railroad films! As Ziegfeld would say, it
'glorifies' Lost and Found Department of a big railroad station.
Victor McLaglen, Clyde Cook and Slim Somerville are comic
glorifiers. Leatrice Joy is the spark igniting the boys' ambition.
John Ford directed with many sympathetic human touches.

Shakedown

"Shakedown" has nothing to do with the furnace. It's a
prizefighting 'racket' with James Murray as a fake fighter. That
is, James really is a fake until he meets Barbara Kent — and
Jack Hanlon. Hanlon walks away with the picture. He's a
wise-cracking kid with talent. It packs a real punch!

New

Phyllis Haver ar-

W " riving in J^ew Tor\ for

- J her marriage to William Seeman.

J^ext, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn and
Ronald Colman in town for the opening of
"Bulldog Drummond. " And Claire Windsor, a wel-
come visitor on vacation.

Q West is West and East is East—
And They Meet in Manhattan!

V\i NHIS week: Ronald Colman.

You'll have to excuse me if I seem to stop and stare off into space
every little while with a dreamy look in my eyes. ' I just can't help it.
have been meeting picture stars for a long time, now, and have
interviewed dozens and dozens. But the thrill that comes once in a life-time was re-
served for the other day. Ronald Colman — in person — sunburned and charming and
courteous, in a tweedy suit and coat and his own particular mysterious smile, came up to
call at Screenland. The main object of his visit was to greet our Editor, Miss Evans, and
to deliver in person the gift which he will present next month, in the August issue, to a fan.
But before Mr. Colman left, he had been inspected, ogled, admired, interviewed, and appraised
by everybody from Screenland's staff to the elevator boys. And I told him that since he was
in New York — the city — he might just as well submit to being included in New York — the depart-
ment in Screenland, at the head of an all-star cast.
He shakes hands as if he means it. He is somewhat distressed because he thinks the picture-goers
may get the idea that he is indifferent, aloof, and bored with his work. "I'm not at all, you know,"
he said. (Wait until you hear his immaculate English voice in "Bulldog Drummond!") "It is just that
most of the portraits circulated of me have been in sombre, unsmiling poses, suggesting an immense in-
difference. And the roles given me to play carried out the idea. I hope that 'Bulldog Drummond,' which
is comedy, you know, will help to dispel any mistaken ideas!"
As a matter of fact he is not in the least a sober fellow. He smiles openly often. He wants to do comedy. He

((Above: Maurice
Chevalier, French and
jamous, at Grand Central Sta-
tion. Then Leatrice Joy, who made a
big hit in vaudeville. Last, hut not least, Vic
tor Varconi, who sailed for Europe with Mrs. Var
coni — they'll be hac\ soon.

was bored with the type of character he had to play, but hopes in the future
he will be allowed to indulge his preference for warmer and more human roles.
He still hopes to do Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" some day, but his wish shows
no signs of being granted. He likes talkies and is naturally at home in them, since
he was on the stage before he went into pictures. But he thinks it will be a great
pity if pantomime, after achieving such a high degree of excellence on the screen, is
discarded in favor of a new talkie technique.

"Bulldog Drummond" opened on Broadway with Mr. Colman making a personal appear'

ance but only from a stage box which he shared with Samuel Goldwyn and Mrs. Goldwyn —

the former Frances Howard of stage and screen — and his compatriot, Percy Marmont. "Drum-
mond" is a hit. Its star is a sensation in these parts.

* * *

"Mrs. Molly Myrtle Malone has the honor of announcing the marriage of her daughter, Miss Phyllis
Haver, to Mr. William Seeman. New York, Wednesday, the 24th of April, 1929. At Home, after
July 15th, at 136 Waverly Place, New York."

What a wedding! After this New York will simply refuse to bow to Hollywood in the matter of social
events. Phyllis1 wedding to Bill Seeman was as brilliant as any occasion that the western film colony can
boast of. What's more, the ceremony was performed by Mayor James J. Walker — known to the bride and
groom as their best friend, Jimmy. The Seeman-Haver nuptials were solemnized at the home of Rube Gold-
berg, the cartoonist, whose wife is Bill Seeman's sister. The Goldbergs live in a pent-house (Com. on page 109)

>w to Have Hair

({Help Yourself to Beauty! Anne Van Alstyne, Authority
on the Problems of the Modern Girl, Advises Screenland's
Feminine Readers Every Month on the All-Important

Subject of Charm.

takes care of that by coloring our hair to suit our faces. Every head
of hair may have a beauty all its own. The first requisite to this beauty
is good grooming. And the first step in acquiring faultless grooming so
far as the hair is concerned is absolute cleanliness.

A well-known hair specialist remarked to me that the main trouble
with hair is that women interfere so much with Nature and so unintelli-

gently. All she wants us to do is to keep our
hair clean and give it a little exercise. By this
she means air, sunshine, daily brushing, scalp

massage, and a

C( Below: Esther Ralston never
leaves her dressing-table with-
out that last reassuring loo\
at her blonde
bobbed loc\s!

shampoo every
three or four
weeks.

(( "Mary Astor's own long and
lovely Titian loc\s are covered
with a blonde bobbed wig
these days for her screen
scenes, but "Mary ta\es the
best of care of her own hair.
Right: Dolores Del Rio's
smooth blac^ coiffure is the
delight and despair of her
feminine fans.

IN books of fiction the au-
thors describe in glowing
terms the wonderful tres'
ses of their heroines. If
the heroine happens to be a
blonde, her hair shines like spun gold. If she is
a brunette, perhaps it glistens like coal in the sun-
light. If auburn, it reminds you of gleaming red-
brown leaves on a crisp autumn day. Even the
grandmothers — in books — have marvelous hair. It
is always silvery white, and invariably it falls in
natural waves over the dear lady's ears.

On the screen, we see hair quite as perfect, and
admire it in terms quite as extravagant. Sometimes
we are a bit envious too, and feel, rememberin
our troubles with our own rebellious locks, that
the beautiful hair of the screen heroines is a beau-
tiful privilege — with heroines' rights reserved. But
cheer up, girls, this is not true at all. Even the
lovely ladies of stage and screen must know their
hair and how to take care of it. And I promise
you that together, we can work out a theory of
distribution that aims to grow good hair on every
girl's head!

Even though you have the nondescript, in-between
garden variety of hair that cannot possibly be
likened to copper, coal, gold or silver or any pre-
cious substance, you may have live, lovely lustrous
hair. The color, you see, doesn't matter. Nature

Like the Heroines'!

By Anne Nan hlstyne

fi[ Tell Miss Van Alstyne about your beauty problems and
she will solve them for you. If you wish an answer by mail,
please enclose a stamped, addressed envelope. Address:
Anne Van Alstyne, Screenland Magazine, 49 West 43th
Street, New York City.

Right here, I fancy I hear a wail of despair something like this: "But
my hair is so oily. Three days after washing, it is lank, stringy, oilier
than ever. I must wash it every week!" And there is the main reason
for your oily hair! The frequent shampoo, by over-stimulating the oil
glands, causes them to relax and overflow, and
simply aggravates this .condition.
From the girl

with the tense
scalp and dry,
lusterless hair

C[ Esther's hair is naturally blonde
and curly, but she doesn't neg-
lect the daily brushing that

\eeps it loo\ing its

very best.

Above: one of the real blonde
beauties of the screen is
]eanette Loff, whose soft wavy
hair has so far resisted the
lure of the bob. And now
that long hair is once more
considered smart, Lily Dami'
ta's the last word in chic
coiffures!

comes another despairing cry:
"But my hair is so dry and
. lifeless and is falling out by

handfulls. It needs very spe'
cial treatment, I am sure."
Certainly. This condition is due principally to lack
of natural oil secretions, and washing your hair
every week won't help a bit.

If hair cannot be washed frequently enough to
keep it clean, and if a weekly shampoo ravishes its
health and washes away its food, leaving it under-
nourished, what in the name of beauty can a poor
girl do? Just be patient, and I will try to tell you.

Let's begin with the shampoo. Of course there
are many good shampoos on the market, but the
kind of shampoo to use is an individual proposition.
There are shampoos for the girl who has light hair
and wants to keep it so; for dark hair; for every
variety of hair. Generally speaking, the egg sham-
poo is good for its cleansing qualities, and castile
or any mild, pure soap is good. Remember, a
cake of soap should never be rubbed on the hair.
If you use soap, shave it fine, and cook it to a
jelly.

First comb and brush your hair. Wet it thor-
oughly, then rub the shampoo directly into the hair
and scalp. After sufficient rubbing has been ad-
ministered, rinse the hair several times in luke-warm
water. This is for cleanliness — (Cont. on page 107)

nny Mac\ Brown today — a successful
llywood actor, but he still has a yen for
corn pones, honey and fried chic\en!

C[ Johnny was the football
idol of the University of
Alabama. He came west
with his team two years
ago and Hollywood
grabbed him for pictures.

The 'Stock-Sbof

(\ Johnny Mack Broivn Made Good
in the Newsreels Playing Football
and Now he is Playing Leads.

F^unny how the movies picked up Johnny Mack Brown.
They photographed him when he didn't know a camera
was trained in his direction. They doubled him for Lloyd
Hughes, when he had never met Mr. Hughes or anyone else
connected with motion pictures. He provided movie audiences with
some good thrills without the least idea that he was doing so.

For Johnny Mack Brown was a 'stock-shot1 star in those amiable
days before he knew what a stick of grease-paint looked like. That
we may better explain his peculiar entry into pictures, it may be
well to give a definition of the 'stock-shot'.

A 'stock-shot' is any newsreel shot which is inserted into a dra-
matic motion picture. Fires, storms, parades, automobile and horse

((?\[ou> Mr. Brown is an ac
complished young actor in
the movies. Among his
recent jobs was making
love to Joan Crawford
for "Our Dancing
Daughters."

races lend themselves frequently to this purpose. The Holly-
wood hero, via this good old standby, may fight his way
through a tornado which occurred six months before and
three thousand miles away. The heroine may, from a
balcony on the studio lot, cheer a parade which took place
in Paris in 1918.

But the most popular 'stock-shot' of all, especially since
the influx of college pictures, is that of football games, and
right here is where Johnny Mack Brown steps in.

Johnny was the football idol of the University of Ala-
bama. Two years ago he came West with his team to play
the University of Washington at the Pasadena Rose Bowl.
Newsreel men covered the famous New Year's game very
thoroughly, focusing particularly on Johnny Mack Brown,
who won the game for dear old Alabam'.

Back home in Dothan, Alabama, several months later,
Johnny strolled into a show to view the art of Lloyd Hughes
in "Forever After," and the Southern lad who had brought
thousands to their feet, cheering madly, now saw himself
providing thrills aplenty for a movie audience. But without
credit, for Hughes was supposed to be the hero of the
screen opus.

The following year Johnny came back with his team to
play Stanford. On the advice of George Fawcett and other
players who met him on the football field, he stayed.

S TA

Margery
¥Ling.

(( Above: Johnny made his first
big hit opposite Marion Davies
in "The Fair Co-Ed."

Johnny Mack Brown is a
complete flop as an interview
subject. He just hasn't any-
thing to say for himself.

"Seems so silly-like to talk
about yourself," says Johnny.

"A feller don't seem right shooting off his mouth about
what a great guy he is — or wants everyone to think he is."

Too bad type and ink don't pick up dialect. If you
could hear Johnny say that the way he did say it you
would appreciate the futility of any attempt to reproduce
it on the printed page.

Johnny hails from Alabama and you know it the minute
you see him. He is six feet of rugged muscles and not
too handsome to spoil his splendid manliness.

He will do anything in the world for you — except talk
about himself!

Remember the day he was chosen as Mary Pickford's
leading man in "Coquette?"

Friends piled on him when he strolled into the studio
for lunch after the announcement was made of Mary's
choice.

"Isn't that great?" they chorused.

"Sure, is right swell," responded Johnny. "Miss Pick-
ford is a mighty fine lady. Sure will be nice to work

({Mary Pic\ford
chose him for her
eading man in
'"Coquette" and
Johnny's fortune
was made.

with her." .

"Yeah, but don't you realize what a great
break it is for you — a talking picture with
Mary Pickford?" his friends asked.
Johnny wrinkled up his brow.
"Ye-e-e-s, I reckon so," he mumbled.
Everyone had predicted that Johnny's drawl and quaint
dialect would doom him in the talkies. Instead it made
him even more important in the eyes of Hollywood.

Again he was clapped on the back by his well-wishers
on his home lot.

"Boy, you rang the bell on that one — it's just great!"
they told him.

"I hear so," agreed Johnny, "Miss Pickford sure is a
wonderful actress!"
And that was that.

Some wag around the studio said once that the height
of something or other would be a debate between Johnny
Mack Brown and Calvin Coolidge.

It is quite true that Johnny talks less than nothing,
particularly about himself. But it is no indication of
mental vacuity by a long shot, for Johnny is one of the
best little thinkers that ever grabbed a pigskin on a soggy
gridiron and plunged to victory after (Com. on page 111)

(\Netvs and Views of
Studios and Stars.

(IDoris Hill
on the trail of
a very rare
baseball, not
autographed by
Babe Ruth.

Photograph of
Bill by Otto Puar
of 1'aratnovmt.

she was away.

What she is to do next in the way of pictures

has not yet been decided.

# * *

Little Lena Malcna has a break at last. She
didn't know whether she would be able to learn
English fast enough to get ahead of the demands
of talking pictures, and then along comes a bit
in which her accent is a necessity. It is the
little gypsy girl for whose kiss John Gilbert jumps
through the fire in "Redemption." But just as
he is about to claim his reward his eyes meet
those of an interested and distinguished visitor
to the camp, Eleanor Boardman, who is the
fiancee of Conrad Nagel. And the little gypsy
girl is forgotten. Lena looked very stunning
and her clear, sweet voice records very well.

"OLLYwood's biggest
thrill this month
was the news that
Winifred Westover
had been chosen to play
Bertha in Fannie Hurst's
"Lummox." It will be di-
rected by Herbert Brenon.
Mr. Brenon has had the story
in mind for more than a year,
postponing it month after
month mainly because he
couldn't make up his mind as
to who was best fitted for
Bertha. Winifred made up
her mind six months ago that
she was, and the rest of the
time she has doggedly cam- \.
paigned her way to vie- \
tory. In a speech at a
luncheon given in honor of
Fannie Hurst's arrival in
Hollywood at which Winifred
was present, Mr. Brenon told

how both he and Miss Hurst had been sure that Miss
Westover was not the type, and how the girl had per'
sistently broken down their defense until in the end they
fully agreed that whatever she might lack in their first
vision of the character she did have the essential quality
needed to make Bertha real, and that as far as they knew
she was the only actress who did have it. What that
quality was Mr. Brenon refused to say. "She will tell
you herself, by means of the screen, on the opening night,"
he said.

All of Winifred's friends are very, very happy for her,
and I am sure her fans are happy too.

Lupe Veles landed safely back in Hollywood, along
with eleven mud turtles which she has invited me to meet
but threatens death and disaster if I swipe one of them.
Lupe fell right off the train into Gary Cooper's arms and
wanted to know whether he had been a good boy while

FROt*

Dolores Del Rio, worn out after five months
roaming about the country during the filming of
"Evangeline," says she knows how Evangeline
must have felt after forty years of it. "And
traveling was not as good then as it is now,"
said the first woman to make her country pop-
ular on the screen. Dolores was trying out her
make-up for the last scenes of the picture which
will be finished this week. It is where Evange-
line, on her rounds of the hos-
pitals, finds Gabriel ill, and
after years of separation, call-
ing her name.

Dolores' make-up was so
perfect her own mother would
not have known her. She
looked old and bent and her
eyes held the sadness of years
of sacrifice and resignation.
Even when she came to greet
me I could not find a trace of
resemblance to the beautiful
Dolores that I knew. "And I
tell you I feel as old and as
tired as I look. I got so nerv-
ous I couldn't wait to have
them make up my other hand
— one is enough to take the
test with. You see the
wrinkles?" and she held out
her little paw for me to exam-
ine. "Two layers of make-up
have to be put on and then
the wrinkles laid on after-
wards. It takes so long.
Look!" she pulled the full black merino skirt she was wear-
ing away from her feet and ankles. "I did not change
my tennis shoes — the camera will only pick up a three-
quarter view of me — and I just felt lazy."

"Where's your racket, Dee?" asked Edwin Carewe com-
ing up at that moment and using the nickname he has for
her. "Oh, wouldn't it be funny to see poor old Evange-
line bouncing around with a tennis racket?" cried Dolores.
She looked so comical anyway that we couldn't help roar-
ing, because, not acting in character just then, her face did
not match up with the youth and virility of her movements.

It seems that Louisiana was the most trying place of all
the locations, as well as being almost the most beautiful
and the most interesting, because Dolores is fond of milk —
often eats nothing but milk and crackers for her lunch —
and there was very little to be had and no cream at all.
"I kept myself alive on oysters, and of course ate too many
and they made me sick."

Quip

C[ Lupe Velez returns from her personal appearance tour and is greeted
by Gary Cooper. A[o, they are not engaged — just good friends!

After the test had been taken Dolores said she would not take her make-up
off until she got home. "I want to give mother a laugh — she hasn't had a
good one today," she said.

Dolores has taken Ernest Torrence's house at Malibu for the summer and
has turned the place into a little Mexican village. The house she calls
Ramona Cottage, and she is looking forward eagerly to a summer of rest and
quiet by the sea.

^ 'fi i£

Rumor has it that Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, grandson of the
famous Wilhelm, came all the way from his native heath to gladden his eyes
with the beauty of Lily Damita. Right away the gossips said they were
'engaged.1 People are so funny that way. But if they are, Lily doesn't know
anything about it, though they do plenty of sightseeing together.

Lily is very busy with singing and English lessons every day — you know
the talking pictures are very exacting and it's just like going to school again
to keep up with them.

& ^

Sue Carol is much upset because announcements have been made that
she and Nick Stuart are soon to be marriad. Neither Sue nor Nick wants to
be married just yet. Sue told me this morning that she felt they were both
working too hard to gain a firm footing in their profession to take on the
added responsibilities of marriage. "I wouldn't feel that I was being fair to
Nick if I married him now," said Sue. "We are so happy as we are — I
don't think we could possibly be any happier. And we are so busy. There
was enough to learn before, but now that talking pictures are in strong there
is so much more to do. Nick and I are like two school children — each run-
ning a race with each other to see which one will learn most. And we have
so much fun! Marriage would put our companionship on another basis
entirely — and well, we just don't want to marry yet!"

Pretty wise kids, I think they are.

* * *

It just about breaks Estelle Taylor's heart, but she is preparing to sell her
beautiful home on Los Feliz Boulevard because Jack's business will keep him
definitely in the east. "But I'll be back often," said Estelle. "Not only
because of my own work but because I simply can't live away from Cali-
fornia. I get everything the matter with me when I leave it for very long,
and coming out this time I stayed awake until two-thirty in the morning so

that I could see what it felt like to
cross the line into California!"

An amusing thing happened on the
train. Estelle brought with her from
New York a writer friend, Betty Col-
fax. The two girls were preparing
for bed when they heard a knock at
the door. Thinking it was the porter
Estelle called, "Come in." On the
threshhold stood a young lady. "I
would like to see Miss Taylor," she
stated. It is no wonder that she didn't
recognize Estelle for both she and Betty
had their heads tied up in towels and
their faces smeared half an inch thick
with cleansing cream. Estelle hasn't
a spark of that sort of vanity, however,
so the unexpected visit was not up-
setting to her. "All right," she said in
a friendly voice. "But — it is Miss
Taylor that I want to see," said the
girl with some dignity. "Well, all
right," repeated Estelle. At last a gleam
of understanding appeared in the vis-
itor's face, and — "Oh-o-o!" she said
backing hastily and confusedly out.

({Why, Alherta Vaughn! Ar en t you
ashamed of yourself? There's a run
in your stocking.

Estelle never did see her again.

* * *

Phyllis Haver Secman may change her mind about
retiring. It's pretty hard to give up a career like
hers, just all of a sudden. But I imagine that the
twelve and eighteen hour shifts the studios are impos-
ing upon the actors had a great deal to do with her
decision about pictures. I remember a day when she
was making "The Office Scandal" Phyllis was ready
to weep with fatigue. "I can't have any recreation or
do anything outside of work, and when friends invite
me to parties I could scream. It's turning me into a
bundle of nerves — I don't know what I'll do if I don't
get a rest soon." Directly after that picture was
finished she went to New York and met Mr. Secman,
and I expect it wasn't very hard for him to persuade

her to give up pictures entirely after her marriage.

* * *

Hollywood was so interested to hear that Jewel
Carmen was returning to the screen. Do you re-
member her as Mimi in "A Tale of Two Cities" and
as Cosette in "Lcs Miserables" and
the girl in "When A Man Sees
Red," all with William Farnum?
How beautiful she was! Then
some trouble arose between Fox
and salary and Jewel dropped out.
She married Roland West, one of
our finest directors, about that
time, and appeared in one or two
of his pictures; and now she is to
be in his next picture with Chester
Morris.

* * *

I don't know if it means any-
thing or not, but June Collyer and
Buddy Rogers are certainly seeing
an awful lot of each other lately.

Victor McLaglen demonstrates the use of his new vibrator
to Maria Alba. Does it tic\le?

Little Davey Lee is very
busy between scenes with a
yellow toy duck which he
pulls along on a string. He
was being interviewed by a
newspaper man the other
day, but his entire conversa-
tion was about the duck,
which would seem to indi-
cate that Davey had early
learned the lesson of imper-
sonality.

C[ June Collyer and her favorite fan,
Clayton Heermance of J^ew Yor\.
He's her proud father.

(( Dorothy Dwan waving a welcome
to her summer vacation.

The other day an umbrella
was returned to Cecil De
Mille that his father had
lost forty-six years ago. Mr.
DeMille's father left the um-
brella in a shop in Elkhart,
Indiana. The keeper of the
shop lost track of him and
put the umbrella away,
thinking that some day the
owner would come back. In
the meantime he moved to
Trinidad, Colorado, and with
his belongings went the lost
umbrella. Not long ago he saw "The King of Kings" and the producer's name
reminded him of the DeMille who had left his umbrella in the shop so many
years ago. First he made sure that he still had the umbrella and then he wrote
to Mr. DeMille and asked whether his father's name was Henry C. And that

is how one lost umbrella returned home!

* * *

Probably the largest consignment of coal ever ordered in Southern California
at one time was used by the Cecil DeMille production of "Dynamite." Kay John-
son, Conrad Nagel and Charles Bickford had a great time on that picture with
the wind machines blowing the coal dust deep into the pores of their skin.

And you know how blond both Conrad and Kay are.

❖ ❖ ^

Any time seems sun-burn time in California. I happened in at Jimmie
Fidler's office the other day and there were Sue Carol, Marian Nixon and
Jobyna Ralston comparing sunburns and jealous as anything if one peeled more
than another!

£ 3* ^

It looks as if Johnny Mack Brown needn't worry over his future any longer

'CfDr. Karl Vollmoeller, author of "The Miracle," visits Dolores
Del Rio and Edwin Carevje on the "Evangeline" set.

and that George Fawcett knows an embryo star when he
sees one, for Johnny is Mr. Fawcett's 'discovery.' Johnny's
popularity has been something tremendous since "Coquette"
appeared and now he is playing opposite the aloof Miss
Garbo in "The Single Standard," directed by John Robertson.

*fc Hs %

Bill Powell's fan mail has taken about a thousand a week
jump since "The Canary Murder Case" and Bill is to be
starred on the strength of his fine performance in that pic'
ture. It may please the Bill Powell fans to know that their
good wishes helped, too.

^ * H<

Before Give Brook left for Europe he jokingly said he
might not get back because of passports and foreign quotas
and so on. To make sure that there would be an exception
made in his case he planned to leave the children here with
a nurse. His son is American-born, which makes him a
citizen. They were to leave at five in the afternoon and at
two-thirty the authorities called to say that he would have
to take the little girl, who was born in England, with him.
Clive and Mrs. Brook didn't want to leave the little boy
alone so at the last minute they bundled both children and
the nurse on to the train.

And now if there is quota trouble Paramount will have
to do its stuff if Clive is to come back.

Buddy Rogers' mother departed for her
home in Olanthe, Kansas, the other day. Her
younger son was to be in a play and wrote
his mother that it simply couldn't come off
if she wasn't there to see it. "So what can
I do?" she asked. But she's coming right back.
Buddy worries her because he forgets to
answer letters and doesn't attend to anything
promptly unless she gets after him!

H* H* H*

In spite of the slating some of the critics
gave Clara Bow's first talkie, "The Wild
Party," the public refused to be told by the
papers what to think about it. They adore
the little red-head as much as ever — the only
difference being that more people adore her.
She only got thirty-six thousand letters a
month from her fans; now she gets several
thousand more than that; and the box-office

— well, just ask Mr. Lasky and Mr.
Zukor!

# H* ^

There were some outdoor scenes taken
on the Marion Davies picture "Mari-
anne" and they happened to be in a
corner of the lot near a fence. It didn't
take long for the 'public' to discover
that something was happening that a lit-
tle perseverance on their part would let
them in on. So in far less time than it
takes to tell it the fences were crowded
with progressive youths and maidens.
What was their delight to find that it
was a Marion Davies picture, and alas!
- — ■ what their disappointment to be
chased off the fence by the Metro cops.
Someone told Marion about it and she
called the assistant director over to her
and said, "I don't care whether they are
on the fence or not.
Unless there is some
objection from a pro-

C[ Watch out, Doris'.
Suppose that lighter
happens to workj
"Miss Davjson is all set
on c el ebratin g the
Fourth in her own
way.

'(( Raquel Torres is sure of having a
cupid's bow ma\e-up on her lips for
she uses a lip mould while applying her
lipstic\. How if Raquel can only be
sure it will stay on —

duction standpoint let them come back —
don't bother me."

Always the good sport and good pal!

they

In the old days the characters on the set who
were not in the immediate close-ups and the
extra people in cafe and ball room scenes could
converse as they pleased, but not any more. The
little old 'mike' picks up bits of conversation in
the most unheard of places and all conversation
on the set must now be regulated to suit the
atmosphere of the occasion. It's getting harder
and harder to be a movin' pitchur actor.

I have not been able to confirm it yet,
there is a report that D. W. Griffith bought
"The Cradle of the Deep," the sea story
that everybody is discussing, and that the
youthful author, Joan Lowell, will be
starred in the picture. And thereby hangs
a tale!

For years after she left her father's ship
Joan lived right across the street from the
United Artists' Studios. Wistfully she
watched Norma Talmadge, Mary Pickford
and other players come and go in their
beautiful cars and their beautiful clothes
and swathed in the glamour that surrounds
a star. Joan tried every way to get even
extra work. She was an expert swimmer
and diver and I hear that she has as lovely
a face as ever met a camera. On other
lots she did succeed in doing two pictures.
She was featured in one of them, a sea
story, and I am informed by one who knew
her well that she helped materially in the

but

technical work on the boats, and that she did water stunts that the
stunt men refused to do.

She told the story of "The Cradle of the Deep" to at least a
hundred people in Hollywood, offering the information she had to
anyone who wanted it to help them out on a story. She had no
idea of selling it. But no one could see it — perhaps because it was
offered them! Recently Joan was married, and I expect her hus-
band, Thompson Buchanan, realizing the worth of the story, urged
her to write it, and she did, and now she may be a star. Just
another case of sticking to your ideal.

* * *

Fannie Hurst is another one. When Miss Hurst began her
career she lived at The Three Arts Club in New York. To pay
for her bed and board she 'walked on' in a play on Broadway and
during the day she wrote stories which she sent to The Saturday
Evening Post. She didn't have enough money to send the rejected
manuscript anywhere else so she just tore it up and wrote another
story.

When I saw her at the luncheon given in her honor at United
Artists I checked up with her on the number she sent before one
was accepted. "Was it the thirty-sixth or the thirty-seventh?" I
asked. She laughed heartily. "It was the thirty-sixth!" she replied.

Can you imagine the grit and faith that took? It discourages
most people for life if one story is rejected, if it is their first, but
to keep steadily on through thirty-five discouraging rejection slips —
well, the gal certainly deserves the rich reward she has since

obtained.

Is it possible for a wo-
man to keep a secret?

Out of the chorus of
'nos' which the question
always brings forth comes
the voice of a young
Hollywood woman who
has proved the feminine
theory that a woman can
be as 'mum' as a man
when the occasion de-
mands.

The young woman is
Jeanne Kent, whose name
appeared on the cast sheet
of "This Thing Called
Love," the Duffy produc-
tion at the Hollywood
Playhouse with Kay Ham-
mond and Tom Moore.

(\ Lena Malena, German movie star,
is studying English for the tal\ies.

([Moran and Mack., the Two Black. Crows, discussing their first
all-dialogue picture with director Richard Wallace.

Who is Jeanne Kent? She is Mrs. Robert Armstrong. The
audience did not know. The young actress' appearance was prac-
tically her theatrical debut. She had been on the stage previously
only in one role in "Is Zat So," the James Gleason play in which
Lucille and James Gleason and Robert Armstrong played for three
years together and which made all three of them famous. Arm-
strong is now under contract to Pathe.

Hi i'ti Hi

Bebe Daniels has been assigned the leading feminine role in "Rio
Rita." She passed her voice tests with flying colors, according
to William Le Baron of the RKO Studios. Bebe used to be on
the stage as a child actress, so she will be right at home in talkies.
She's been taking singing lessons and her voice is said to be one
of the best yet released by a movie favorite. What's more, she is
the ideal selection for the colorful role of Rita. Brava, Bebe!

* * *

While Mr. and Mrs. James Gleason (Lucile Webster) have
been spending their days on a Hollywood golf course for "Fair-
ways and Foul," the talking comedy they are making, their son,
Russell, has been spending his time in the air, doing scenes with
William Boyd for "The Flying Fool."

The other day a plane circled above the green where the
Gleasons were tearing up the turf learning new golf strokes and a
weighted package was dropped over the side of the airship. It
contained a letter addressed to Mrs. Gleason and signed by her
son and read: "Dear
Mother, don't let any-
one eat that piece of
apple pie I put in
the ice box, I want it

for dinner!"

* * *

Louise Fazenda is
an example of pre-
paredness. While in
school she learned
ventriloquism, and to-
day this voice control
is invaluable to her.
While other actresses
are struggling with
their vocal tubes,
Louise casts her speak-
ing tones to suit the
role she is portraying.
Anyone following the
career of this actress

C[ Virginia Bruce, blonde and blue-eyed Fargo,
Horth Da\ota, girl, who signs her first movie
contract at eighteen. She was discovered by
Mrs. William Beaudine, and will appear in
Beaudine's films.

C[ The home Page — Anita, with
her father, Mr. Pomares.

((.Elizabeth Meehan, scenarist, and Herbert Brenon welcome
Fannie Hurst to Hollywood for the filming of "Lummox."

knows how many characterizations she attempts, and
what a voice to suit each one would mean. But
she is equal to the occasion.

Now playing a mother part, Miss Fazenda em-
ploys a dignified, reserved manner of speech. Her
previous role was that of a stage-struck girl, so she
talked as a silly flapper would talk. Before that,
Louise played a sedate spinster, and spoke with a
nasal twang.

* * *

Last minute news! John Gilbert and Ina Claire,
famous actress from Broadway, met at a Hollywood
party. Ina asked Jack's advice about talking pic-
tures. And two weeks later they eloped to Nevada
and were married! It was a complete surprise to
everyone, especially since Gilbert was sup-
posed to be Greta Garbo's boy friend,
while Miss Claire was said to be engaged
to Gene Markey, well-known New York
writer. Jack and Ina had no time for a
honeymoon, since Miss Claire had to start
work in her first talkie for Pathe the day
after the wedding. Gilbert had two
previous matrimonial ventures — with a
non-professional and with Leatrice Joy;
Miss Claire one — with James Whitaker,
newspaper man. Here's wishing the brand-
new Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert happiness!
* * *

Ina Claire's first talking picture for
Pathe has been put into production. It
is from an original play by Arthur Rich-
man, the title not yet selected. Marshall
Neilan is directing, with Richard Boleslav-
sky director of dialogue. In Miss Claire's
supporting cast are Henry Daniel, Paul
Harvey and Blanche Frederick.

(\Screen land's Review
of the Broad-
way Play
Parade

Love and hate, hugs and hisscsl Props of the
theater as of the cinema. Watch Mr. Rysl{ind s
department jor comments on the new offer-
ings which you will recognize later in
their screen versions. The scenes he-
low are — left, Miriam Hop\ins and
Eliot Cabot in "The Camel
Through the 7\eedle's Eye";
right. Earle Larimore and
Margalo Gillmore in
"Man's Estate" —
both Theater
Guild play*.

5TAGE
POACH

The Camel Through the Needle's Eye

HERE is the Guild offering for the summer season.
A nice comedy written by a Chechoslovakian,
Frantisek Langer, but for a' that, it has a little
of 'It Pays to Advertise' in it. Say, maybe it
pays to advertise even in Prague.

A story of young love that won't be thwarted by
parents or money. That, come to think of it, is what
practically all of this month's shows are about. Or next
month's. Or last month's. And some awfully nice and
interesting Czechoslovakians, quite as admirable in their
own way as Mr. Drinkwater's in "Bird in Hand."

Here is the Guild in definitely a non-cerebral mood.
They've stepped out and got the lovely Miriam Hopkins
for their love interest, and darned smart of 'em, too.
Helen Westley and Henry Travers get a chance to ex-
hibit their wares — and give grand performances. Eliot
Cabot as the none-too-talkative swain is excellent. A nice
evening that all of us lowbrows can enjoy, and still get
the kick of having seen a Guild play.

Man's Estate

As The Theater Guild winds up its eleventh subscrip-
tion season and reaches man's estate, it drops some of the
pose of adolescence. There was a time when the Guild
was radical as Lenine; but the years passed, the Guild
waxed wealthy, bonds grew where there had been only
debts, and today the Guild, while liberal still, moves away
a bit from the Extreme Left, and casts a more tolerant

Kyskmd

eye on property rights in general. In short, the Guild
today is willing to produce a pretty good play that has
elements of popular appeal, even if that play does not
smash all the forms and even if that play may not be, in
the course of time, a classic.

This is not said disparagingly. We have followed the
Guild and its beginnings from the old days at the Band-
box Theater, and nobody is more conscious of its contribu-
tion to the progress of the American theater. We merely
state a fact that is as true of individuals as of the Guild.
The Guild still does daring things, but it also is perfectly
willing to put on something that will make money, too.

Here is "Man's Estate," then, a very nice show that we
can recommend to you in spite of the fact that it has no
chime in it to ring through the ages. It is an honest, work-
manlike semi-comedy of youth in revolt that gets caught
by nature in the snare of love, and gives up its golden
day-dreams for the privilege of working for the wife and
kiddies. It is, ladies and gentlemen, the history of all of
us — and, as we have hinted, of the Guild, too.

Jerry Jordan, poor, young and idealistic, doesn't want
to enter his well-to-do uncle's business. He wants to be
an architect and his winning of the first prize in a com-
petition indicates that he has definite talent along his
chosen way. He's in love, but with a girl who realizes
that Jerry's career will be blocked by marriage. He must
work and study — meanwhile she will wait.

It's a poor love that says it can't wait — and it's a poorer
love that waits, no matter what it says. Jerry has before
him the example of his father, who wanted to be a lawyer

— but Jerry's mother came
along, and he got married
instead. Nevertheless, nature
has her say. In the end, in
spite of the girl's willingness
to waive the conventions,
Jerry picks up the yoke of
the husband and father. His
dreams still ring, but he
hopes that his child will ful-
fill them. After all, there
are worse things than the
hardware business. And, in-
side, the dream still lives. It
has to — or kill the human
race with it.

As usual, an excellent cast
doing right by the play.
Dudley Digges, Elisabeth
Patterson, Earle Larimore,
Margalo Gillmore, Edward
Pawley and Armina Mar-
shall.

Bird in Hand

John Drinkwater, who
wrote this one, wrote "Abra-
ham Lincoln" and achieved
international fame with it.
But we weren't quite con-
vinced. The very name of Lincoln has so much glamour
for us that we feel it next to impossible to write a bad
play about Abe.

But this time Mr. Drinkwater stands on his own, with-
out relying on our attachment to the rail-splitter. And
this time, so dexterous is Drinkwater, that we are con-
vinced. And our saying so is equivalent to the Legion of
Honor in France.

Drinkwater takes a very simple tale: the son of a rich
man is in love with the daughter of a poor man. The

(C Janet Beecher, one of the most distinguished stars
in America, is still playing in "Courage," the longest-
lived of the season's Broadway plays.

poor man, with all the pride
of the respectable poor,
wants his daughter to stick
to her own class. He fears
seduction — and, as much as
seduction, marriage.

A simple story, with the
ending, to anybody who has
seen as many as three shows,
fairly obvious. But what
Mr. Drinkwater is interested
in, more than in arriving at
a solution for the problem,
is the unfolding of characters
and of whimsy. He is in
no hurry: the piece goes
nicely, leisurely and gaily to
its predestined end. But
not until you've met some
swell characters, and had a
glorious time.

Mr. Lee Shubert has had
the good sense to bring over
the original English cast, so
that the integral charm of
the piece remains intact.
Incidentally, Drinkwater
himself directed — with ad-
mirable results.

Jonesy

"Jonesy" has a first act that's third-rate Tarkington.
Even that is not so bad. But the next two acts, aided
and abetted by an execellent cast, let you take this comedy
of a small-town youth to your heart.

There is nothing particularly new, but the types are
those that are dear to the American scene. Donald Meek,
Nydia Westman, Spring Byington, and Raymond Guion
help enormously.

cSfsk

(\An Answer Department
of Information about
Players and Pictures.

Miss Nee Dee

(\ Screenland's Answer Girl will be glad
to answer any questions you may ask
about pictures and picture players. If
you wish an answer in the magazine
please be patient and await your turn,
but if you prefer a personal reply from
Miss l ee Dee, please enclose a stamped,
addressed envelope. Address: Miss Vee
Dee, S Greenland Magazine, 49 West
45/A Street, New York City.

Gary Cooper Fan from St. Thomas.
Ont. Will I tell you about Gary?
With a lot of pride I hark
back to the time Gary played
with Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman
in "The Winning of Barbara Worth,"
for I picked him for a pinch-hitter then.
He didn't get his gal in that picture, but he
gets 'em now. He has appeared in "Arizona
Bound," "The Last Outlaw," "Children of
Divorce," "Beau Sabreur," "Legion of the
Condemned," "Lilac Time," "The First
Kiss," "The Shopworn Angel," and "Wolf
Song."

Lee Bailey. Houston, Texas. Much wel-
come— I've missed you; where you been?
Neil Hamilton was born in Lynn, Mass.,
September 9, 1900. He has dark brown
hair and eyes, is 5 feet 11 inches tall and
weighs 155 pounds. Neil's parents decided
to prepare him for the priesthood and with
this end in view, Neil studied at several
theojogical schools, graduated and was on
the verge of taking the oath when he
changed his mind — having had a secret
longing for the stage he got a job with a
New York stock company. After touring
the U. S. several times with different com-
panies, he tried motion pictures. D. W.
Griffith gave him a part in "The White
Rose" which was released in 192 3. Among
his first films are, "America," "Isn't Life
Wonderful?" "The Side Show of Life,"

C[ Tsjorma Shearer and her mother reading T^orma's fan
She is a favorite with Miss Vee Dee's correspondents.
Such devotion must be deserved, l*\orma!

mail,
too.

"Men and Women," "The Golden Prin-
cess," "The Street of Forgotten Men,"
"The Splendid Crime,"

"Ne

"Desert Gold" and "Diplomacy."

White Heather, Port Huron. Will I be
as kind to you as I've been to others?
I'm the world's kindest answer lady and
just let anyone talk me out of that! Your
favorite, Ronald Colman, was born Febru-
ary 9, 1891, at Richmond, Surry, England.
He has black hair, brown eyes, is 5 feet
10 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds. He
was at the front in the World's War,
wounded and invalided home. His mother
and two sisters live in England and he has
a brother and sister in Australia. He has
been married but is separated from his wife.
His latest picture is "Bulldog Drummond."

Wendy Edina from England. How could
a star refuse to send you a picture if your
letters to them are half a's nice as your
letter to me? That's a bit complicated but
it's my story and I'm going to stick to it.
Mother's Boy in "What Price Glory" was
Barry Norton, and you can reach him at
Fox Studios, 1401 No. Western Ave. Hol-
lywood, Cal. Clive Brook plays with Olga
Baclanova in "The Dangerous Woman."
You can write to them at Paramount
Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood,
Cal.

Mr. W. B. from Chicago. Why do you
think I'm Frances Lee? That doesn't make
me mad but what would Frances think?
Her real name is Merna Tibbetts, and she
was born in Minneapolis, Minn. She was
one of the 1927 Wampas Baby Stars. You
can reach Ramon Novarro at Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer Studios. Culver City, Cal.
Gloria Swanson at United Artists, 1041 No.
Formosa Ave.. Hollywood, Cal. Gloria's
next picture will be "The Love Years."

Inquisitive i^ueenie of Baltimore. You'll
see me in Screenland, will you? No
boasting, but you couldn't see me in a
better place. Victor Varconi played in
"King of Kings" and not Victor McLaglen.
Write to Mrs. John Barrymore, or as we
know her best, Dolores Costello, for her
picture at Warner Bros. Studios, 5842 Sun-
set Blvd.. Hollywood. Cal. We do not send
out photographs of the stars. Dolores' new-
est film is "The Glad Rag Doll." Belle
Bennett is playing in "Reputation" at Tif-
fany-Stahl Studios, 4516 Sunset Blvd.,
Hollywood, Cal.

G. A. ]. of J^ewport "Hews, Va. Many
thanks for your confidence in my depart-
ment. Sorry your reply was so long in
appearing. Louise Brooks was born in
Wichita, Kansas, in 1905. She is 5 feet
2 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and has
black hair and brown eyes. Her latest film

d[ Ah there, Josephine Dunn! The 'As\
Me' fans are as\ing about you.

is "The Canary Murder Case." Ford Ster-
ling was born in La Crosse, Wis. He has
black hair, brown eyes, is 5 feet 1 1 inches
tall and weighs 180 pounds. He was in
"Oh Kay," a First National release. Frankie
Darro was born December 22, 1918, in
Chicago, 111. He played with Norma Tal-
madge in "Kiki" and with Colleen Moore
in "So Big." His latest releases are, "The
Circus Kid" with Poodles Hanneford, the
famous clown; and with Tom Tyler and
Josephine Borio in "Tyrant of Red Gulch."

A Hoosier from Indianapolis. So you'll
dance the Varsity Drag at my wedding if
I'll answer your questions. That's a swell
offer — as I'm somewhat of a hoofer my
self, you'll have to step lively. Mae Murray
was born May 10, 1893. She has blonde
hair, gray-blue eyes, is 5 feet 4 inches tall
and weighs 110 pounds. Her husband is
Prince David Mdivani. They have a young
son born in May 1927. Greta Garbo is
23 years old. She speaks with a delightful
accent. Her latest release is "Wild
Orchids" with Nils Asther and Lewis Stone.
A recent film of Virginia Lee Corbin's is
"Jazzland" with Vera Reynolds, Carroll
Nye and Bryant Washburn.

Mac of Mobile. Ala. I've helped many
a frantic fan from one brain-storm to
another. Never mind, that's just one
of my friendly greetings. Grant Withers
was born in Kentucky in 1904. He
is 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 180
pounds and has light brown hair and gray
eyes. Due to a misprint, Grant's height
was given as 5 feet 2 in the April issue.
Sorry, Grant. John Mack Brown, who is
Mary Pickford's leading man in her new
picture, "Coquette," was born in Dothan,
Ala., September 1, 1904, Johnny has black
hair, brown eyes, is 6 feet tall and weighs
165 pounds. Nick Stuart was born in
Roumania in 1906. He has brown eyes
and dark curly hair. Richard Barthelmess
was born in New York City, May 6, 1895.
He is 5 feet 7 inches tall and has black
hair and brown eyes.. Jeanne Morgan was
born in Port of Spain, British West Indies.
She was one of the Paramount School's
16 graduates, coming to the U. S. about
seven years ago.

Three Florida Blossoms. I'll let you put

yourself in a paper frill and send yourself
to me. Ivy Harris was born in New
Orleans, La. She is about 20 years old, I
believe. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs
123 pounds and has blue-gray eyes and
dark brown hair. Vera Reynolds was born
in Richmond, Va., in 1903. Thomas
Meighan was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. on
April 9, 1884. Evelyn Brent claims Tampa,
Fla., as her home town; born in 1899.
Olive Borden's latest film is "Stool Pigeons,"
produced by Columbia Pictures Corp., 1408
Gower St., Hollywood, Cal.

Merely Me from 7\[.Y. City. There must
be several of you, to produce such an array
of questions. Pass the vodka, I'll need
some after all that rapid fire. Billie Dove's
real name is Lillian Bohny. Matt and
Owen Moore are not related to Colleen
Moore — her real name is Kathleen Mor-
rison. Gloria Swanson has two children — •
her own little daughter and an adopted
little boy. The late Charles Emmett Mack
played with Dolores Costello in "Old San
Francisco." Gary Cooper's real name is
Frank J. Cooper. F. J. C. is not married.
Figger that out! Renee Adoree's real name
is Renee de la Fento. Her next film will
be "The Pagan" with Ramon Novarro.

C[ Don't go yet, Kieil Hamilton.' We want
to tell you that you are very popular
with Miss Vee Dee's readers.

C[ Barry T<[orton inspired the most questions
this month, according to Miss Vee Dee,
of any young star this month.

Hobart Bosworth was born in Marietta,
Ohio; but he doesn't give his age. His first
picture was made in 1909 but his stage ex-
perience dated from 1895. Richard Aden
is 30 years old. Buddy Rogers will be
24 on his next birthday, August 13. Jackie
Coogan has been abroad on the vaudeville
stage and hasn't made a picture since
"Buttons."

Poison Ivy from San Antonio. Unac-
customed as I am to giving out any back
talk for publication, I know a lot of things
I could say, but poison ivy isn't one of
them. You can write to Ruth Taylor, Mary
Brian and Lane Chandler at Paramount
Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood,
Cal. Sue Carol at Fox Studios, 1401 No.
Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal. Her new
picture is "Fox Movietone Follies." Alice
White works at First National Studios,
Burbank, Cal. Alice plays with Jack Mul-
hall and James Ford in "Naughty Baby."
James Ford is one of the new boys. He was
born March 21, 1905, at Lawrence, Mass.
He has curly brown hair, gray eyes, is 6
feet tall and weighs 170 pounds. Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr. has a contract with Tiffany-
Stahl Studios, 4516 Sunset Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal., but has been borrowed by
M-G-M to make "Our Modern Maidens"
with Joan Crawford.

]ac\ L. of Toronto. May all your pic-
ture troubles be brought to my department
and sooner or later, more likely the latter,
they will be taken in and oared for. Just
now I'm suffering from my usual inability
to answer as many questions per month
as I'd like; but don't let that wreck your
composure. The Editor should give us
more space. Anita Page, whose real name
is Anita Pomares, was born August 4, 1910,
in Long Island, N. Y. She has blonde hair,
blue-gray eyes, is 5 feet 2 inches tall and
weighs 118 pounds. She plays with Joan
Crawford in "Our Modern Maidens."
Josephine Dunn was born in New York
City, May 1, 1907. That is her own name.
She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 115
pounds and has golden hair and blue eyes.
She plays with Lawrence Gray in "The
Sin Sister," and also in "Our Modern
Maidens."

C Alice White is delighted with
the result of her $500.00
Theme Song Contest, an
nounced in the April issue

of SCREENLAND. and

tak.es great pleasure
in announcing the
three winriers on
this page.

pinners

ALICE
WHITE

Theme

SONG

(^ontest

^HE winners of the Alice White
$500.00 Theme Song Contest,
announced in the April issue
of Screen land, have been se-
lected. This popular contest proved
to Miss White that there are thousands
of aspiring American lyric writers.
And good ones, too! The judges se-
lected the following as deserving of
the prises:

First prize, $250.00:
H. McFARLAND,

2219 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California.

Second prize, $150.00:
ANDY McALISTER,

Radio Broadcasting Sta. WMAZ,
Macon, Georgia.

Third prize, $100.00:
Milton Tannenbaum,

2444 West Euclid Avenue
Detroit, Michigan.

The first prize lyric follows:

Wherever You Are — It's Springtime!

VERSE:

That tantalizing Baby, she's my April day.
Likes to make me sad, then likes to make me gay.
She's naughty, she's good, she's wicked, she's
saintly.

But whatever she does, she does it so quaintly.

Wicked little angel, saintly little sinner,
I'd give a million — if I had it — to win her.
Wherever she goes, I tag along.
And this is the burden of my song:

CHORUS:
Wherever you are, it's springtime,

And that's where I long to be.
Flash of sunlight — that's your hair.
Rosebud lips say, "Kiss me — dare!"
Velvet pansies, teasing eyes.
There's where my temptation lies.

Do I love you? Baby — say!

It's winter time when you're away.
You're burning sunshine, glowing skies;
You're birds and flowers, you're Paradise!
Wherever you are, it's springtime.

And that's where I long to be!

The second prize lyric:

Knock-About Baby

VERSE:

Gee, I'm lonesome all by ownsome,

When someone else is with you;

Won't you ever realize,

I'm jealous of other guys?

You keep saying you're- only playing,

That I'm the fellow for you.

But there's one thing

Keeps mc wond'ring.

Are you kidding me, too?

CHORUS:

My knock-about Baby

Pretending you're wild.

When really you're only

An innocent child.

Dozens of fellows claim you.

And you're teasin' each one.

I guess that . I can't blame you.

Sweet little devil, for having your fun.

But maybe you'll like to

Someday settle down.

And then say good-bye to

The men about town.

I'd be so satisfied in

A cottage for two

And nobody else to knock-about with
But you.

The third prize lyric:

Come Across to Baby

VERSE:

A girl I know once had a beau

The kind of a friend, who would never spend.

She up and told him where to go

His chance was slim and she said so.

CHORUS:

Come across to Baby or Baby will be cross
with you.

Open up with something besides your heart.
Else you and I will have to part.
If you've got it let's have it —
If not go get it.
If you can't let's forget it.
All you'll get is a long range look.
If you don't come across with that little check
book.

Promises alone will never do for anything more

than an I. O. U.
So come across to Baby or Baby will be cross

with you.

SCREENLAND

A Wild West Location With Ken Maynard

Continued from page 43

"I started out full of pep and did the
trick as I had been taught, that is, with
grace. But it looked too easy and what
was my chagrin to have letters suggesting
that it had been faked. It sure had me
sore. So I began to wobble and half lose
my balance and then everyone thought I
was great.

"The other stunts that I used to risk
my neck doing had to be too quickly done
for the camera to pick up, so they didn't
mean a thing."

I had been quite excited when I heard
that Ken's picture was in the offing for I
hadn't been on a Western since the old
days when I did publicity for Bill Farnum.
Many of the Farnum boys were in Ken's
outfit, too. Pedro Leone, Curly Revier
and some others were among the cowboys.
One of the actors I talked with had been
with Bill too: Fred Burnes, who plays the
'wagon master.' Fred gets shot by Tom
Santschi's henchmen, Edwin Moulton and
Charlie Whittiker, and after winning his
spurs, Ken is elected 'master in his place.

You will see a lot of old friends in "The
Wagon Master," boys who have been in
all the Westerns that have ever westerned
— White Horse, Bobby Dunn, Frank Rice,
Al Ferguson, Tom Santschi, Frank Cooley,
Buck Bucko, Fred Burnes — and by the way,
Fred .said he thought talking pictures would
eventually restore the great outdoors to
the screen because the natural sounds were
so interesting and people were getting tired
of four wall dialogue, with nothing but
interior decoration to look at.

The location was Lone Pine, California,
over two hundred miles from Hollywood.
It was first Ken's intention to fly there and
tote me along in his plane, but a cold spell
such as there has never been in sunny
California hit us the day before and the
flying trip was abandoned, to my infinite
relief. But please don't misunderstand the
reason for the relief. It was not doubt,
because in commercial flying circles Ken is
accounted a good pilot and he has had
years of experience in the air, but his plane
is an open one and since we would have
had to fly at an altitude of seven or eight
thousand feet to clear the mountains you
can imagine what a bitter cold trip it would
have been.

So we drove through the mast lovely
desert country in a motor car. There were
Joshua trees, native to California soil,- in
blossom; r twenty different colored desert
shrubs; changing lights on the mountain
ranges; curious rock formation through the
brilliant Red Rock Canyon where there
were mines to be seen, for 'thar is gold in
them thar hills' — even yet, no foolin'. After
all the ravaging of hundreds and thousands
of gold seekers, there is still gold in Cali-
fornia. And then, at a sudden turn in
the long road — range upon range of snow-
capped mountains! What a sight! The
colorful desert and the high, white moun-
tain tops. Lone Pine is right near the
highest of them all — in fact, the highest
peak in these United States. It is Mt.
Whitney, which rears its hoary head more
than fourteen thousand feet in the air. 'He'
looked like a generous helping of home-
made vanilla ice cream — you know how it
peaks and jags over the plate. But I
must get back to moving pictures.

While waiting for the next shot Ken,
Edith Roberts and I sat in Ken's Packard
straight eight and chattered.

When Ken was twelve years old he
ran away and joined a circus. A week
afterwards his father found him. "And
I sure was glad to see him, too. Because
they had me doing everything — peeling
potatoes, washing pots and pans, scrubbing
floors and sleeping with the horses," said
Ken.

But it wasn't long before he tried it
again, and this time to stick. He was
with Barnum and Bailey and Ringling
Brothers.

"Five thousand hot cakes that cook turned
out every morning of his life," Ken went
on. "There were fourteen hundred people
and he figured that while some would pass
up the hot cakes entirely, others, like my-
self, would take four or five, and he was
dead right. There was never one left.
Thirty-five hundred pounds of meat a day
that bird cooked for the troupe, and the
same amount was bought and fed raw to
the animals.

"After a while I got pretty good, began
to earn thirty dollars a month!" Ken looked
at me with a grin. "Gee, the salaries I
pay out every week now amount to more
than I thought the whole world held in
those days.

"The Palomino I rode got to be pretty
old, and after I left they threatened to
shoot her. They began to call her 'Don't-
shoot-Marie,' because I'd usually get a
hunch that they were thinking of doing it
and would send a wire reading 'Don't shoot
Marie.' I saved her life for some time,
too."

Ken was born in Texas and although he
speaks briskly his words have a mixture of
softness and twang that is very charming.
For instance he says 'dew' instead of do,
and 'tew' instead of to — yet that isn't ex-
actly it, either!

Edith and I wanted to know what a
Palomino horse was. "Well, it is supposed
to mean white mane and tail, but two
or three times I have seen black horses with
white manes and tails and when I asked
the Spaniards whether those were Palo-
minos too they said, 'Well, yes, but — ' and
then they would burst into long explana-
tions and get all balled up, so I really think

a Palomino is a throw-back. You can't be
sure in breeding them that a Palomino colt
will be the result."

They are beautiful horses, cream colored
with dead white manes and tails. They are
daintily made, round and graceful in ap-
pearance, but not in any respect better
than other horses or more intelligent. They
are very warm-blooded though, and some-
one remarked later that they were rather
like blonde women, who can't seem to
rise above the popular opinion that they
are frivolous and can take nothing seriously.
In the slanguage of our day, I would say
that Palominos have It.

Ken has six of them — Tarzan, who is
a trick horse, and the others who are also
specially trained. In some scenes Ken rides
the five at one time.

"How on earth do you manage that?" I
asked.

"Oh, I don't know. I just spread out
over them, or jump from one to the other
when they are riding abreast. I don't
know exactly — but it isn't hard."

You remember Ken said in the beginning
that he 'didn't do much.' It just seems to
be a matter of opinion what 'much' is.

Early in Ken's circus days he had been
taught that half the trick of showmanship
was in the proper use of his hat. So-
when Ken took his bows he did it with a
flourish of his hat and it would put the
most modest act across with a bang.

"Before I learned that trick I could do
my darndest and as soon as I was finished
the people were too busy watching to see
what was coming next to give me much
of a hand when I took my bow. I used
to try them out on it. Sometimes the
simplest stunt, with the right flourish after-
wards, would bring down the house.

"The circus cry of 'Ya-a-a' is also a
great help to the player. I find it very
useful in pictures when I am not just in
the right mood, or am tired, to just cry
'Ya-a-a' and it sort of brings the right
light into your eyes."

We ate our lunch in the car. Ken
brought sandwiches and coffee and pie,
which had been brought from the hotel in
Sid Rogell's car, to Edith and me while

■([Gary Cooper and Lane Chandler investigate the mysteries of the new 'Blimp'
camera just perfected by Paramount to insure noiseless camera operation.

SGREENLAND

he sat outside in his location chair using
the running board of the car for a table.

Joe Brown, the director, had been plenty
busy all morning but did take time enough
to grab a sandwich and a cup of coffee.
"Joe, you ought to take a closcup of those
gloves of yours. They sure are something
to write home about." Ken chaffed him.

Mr. Brown patted the heavy woolen mit-
tens he had been wearing. "Say, I just love
those gloves. They'll be with me in 1934,
if I'm still wearing gloves by that time.
When my hands are warm I'm warm all
over. Try them on," he said, holding one
out to me. They were warm, sure enough.
"And you need 'em, too, in this country.
Every time a breeze comes down off those
snow caps, boy, it sure makes you shiver!"

Bobby Dunn, one of the comedians of
the company, charged past in imitation of
a little boy who got shot in the rompers.

"Hey, Bobby! Pull up those bedroom
slippers!" called Mr. Brown.

"Huh?" .said Bobby, his face a blank,
his eyes two anxious points of light.

"Pull 'em up!" Quick as a flash Bobby
yanked the offending boots into place.

"Bobby picked those boots from the
wardrobe because they were so funny look-
ing. I told him to get another pair and not
to depend on his boots for comedy, but
I knew I had broken his heart. He got
the straight pair but never did turn the
others in. The first day on the set he wore
them, but he was careful to pull them up
where they belonged. They have never
been straight since. Every time I want to
scare the heart out of him I tell him to
pull up the bedroom slippers.

"Come on, Edith. Climb into the old
freighter. No leisure for young ladies on
location."

In a moment the desert was seething with
bucking horses, runaway teams and cowboy
yells; then the work settled down to close-
ups of Edith and her 'father' and the cow-
boys squatted around Ken, swapping yarns
or stretching out in an unused freighter
for a snooze.

The theme of the picture is instructive.
It seems that in the old days, all the food
the miners in some parts of the country
could get had to be brought to them on
the freight train. Except that those words
didn't mean what they do now. The 'train'
was composed of many wagons which were
called 'freighters* because of their heavi-
ness of build. They were often loaded up
with ore for a return trip. Each man had
his own wagon but all were under the
command of a Wagon Master. The men
obeyed his orders rather as soldiers obey
their General. They pulled along to the
tune of a song popular in their day. The
one Ken used is quoted at the beginning
of this story. O, Yes! It's a talking pic-
ture— singing, too.

There was a scene in which Edith was
asked to jump from the plunging wagon.
But the freighters are very high and very
awkward to get out of, and hampered as
she was by the long and voluminous skirts
of the period, Edith decided that in this
instance discretion was the better part of
valor, and did not jump.

Later they were photographing her ex-
pression as she watched Ken bring the
whole troupe under control. Butterfly nets
were held between her and the sun to
soften the light. Suddenly, one of the
middle team of the 'six-up' that had been
standing stock still for over an hour took
a notion to cavort and did so without a
moment's warning. Half a dozen cowboys
sprang to his head and as many to the
other horses in case the mutiny spread.

(( Hobart Bosworth, the distinguished char-
acter actor, with his son George.

But Edith didn't stop to find out what they
were going to do. Like an airplane she
sailed over the side of the wagon and to
the ground six feet below.

"Who said you couldn't jump that
wagon?" Joe Brown laughed, "I'm going
back and take that scene over again."

"I did it that time, didn't I?" said
Edith, who with Ken's help was scrambling
back upon her perch.

"You looked like a balloon going to
ground with those full skirts."

"Where's the powder department?"
asked Ted McCord, head camera man.
Whereupon a property man dug around
among some reflectors and emerged with
a bag of fuller's earth which he patted
over the actors' clothes. They were sup-
posed to be very dusty from their long
ride across the plains, you see.

"Come on, Bud McClure. This is your
big scene," chaffed Joe Brown. "Step up
to the wagon and tell the old man that
now is his chance to get the water while
the men are fighting. Put some dust on
his beard and mess him up a little, boys,"
Mr. Brown said to the property men.

"Yeah," sneezed Bud as the dust blew
into his eyes and nose. "Be careful and
not miss any little space. It might show
in the picture."

"What are you grinding, Ted?" asked
Mr. Brown of his camera man.

"Sixteen, Joe," said Ted.

"Sure?"

"Sixteen, Joe."

"No foolin', now. You know that bloom-
ing sound track has to be figured in."
"Sixteen, Joe."

_^'Well, sixteen is all right — but be sure!"

But Ted had his story and was evidently
going to stick to it. Again he replied,
"Sixteen, Joe."

"All right. I give in!" laughed the
director, adding, "Come on now, Edith.
You are watching Ken wipe up the desert
with Hollister's men. Sometimes it looks
bad for him. Watch me and I'll cue you
for expression."

Whereupon Mr. Brown began to act
thirty parts at once, running hither and
yon so that Edith's eyes could follow him.
while her very expressive face mirrored
fear, hope, relief and finally, elation.

"Smile now, when they hail Ken as
Wagon Master. Whoa! Don't use up too

much of it or you won't have any left
for Ken when he comes to greet you."

There was a wild 'Whoopee!' and shots.
I expected nothing less than a band of
war chiefs, but it was only Ken having
some fun on the side lines with the cow-
boys. He had lassoed one and pulled him
from off the hay wagon where he had
been enjoying an afternoon siesta — to be
thus rudely awakened.

Bobby Dunn was running about in
circles holding on to his trousers and his
funny boots. A comic born.

I was disappointed because the cactus
plants were not in bloom and I had been
looking forward to their beauty.

"Well. I don't see why our property
department couldn't arrange that for you,"
said Ken. "We'll just have a few blooms
by morning. I should think Bill Quinlan
could put a little thing like that through.
If he can't it will be the first thing he has
ever fallen down on since I've known him,
which has been quite some time."

See why Ken's outfit swears by him?
Because he is loyal to them, too.

Work being over for the day, Edith and
I rode back to the Dow Hotel in Lone Pine
with Ken. On the way he showed us a
motor conveyance he designed and patented
for transporting six horses, each having a
separate padded stall. The vehicle has a
roof but it is open for a little over two
feet from the top, so the ponies can see
what's going on and get plenty of air. In
the back is a compartment for water and
one for feed. Also there is a saddle-room.
The wagon is ruby red, is Ken's favorite
color, and has a picture of the star per-
forming a daring stunt on Tarzan's back
painted in natural colors.

All the trucks are red too, with 'Ken
Maynard Productions' printed on the sides
of them, because Ken is his own producer
now and oversees everything that is done,
from the building of the story to the man-
agement of the men.

The second morning I was up with the
troupe and on location by seven thirty.
"We'll show you a few love scenes today,"
said Ken. "How are you feeling. Edith?
Are you up to a love scene this morning?"

"Well. I've arranged my best curl for
it, and it's so cold I won't have to act a
bit to want to snuggle up to you."

Sure enough it was cold — and windy.
When everything was all set Joe Brown
ordered a few sheets of tin to be held
around Edith. "She's blowing away," he
complained.

If Joe Brown ever gets tired of direct-
ing he can go on the screen as a comedian
and I'll wager it wouldn't take him long
to get into the first rank. Every gesture
he makes has comedy to it and he points
his words in such a way as to bring a
laugh to every line. He was a lawyer for
a while after he graduated from Syracuse
University. Perhaps it was his sense of
humcr that made him quit the bar.

Ken and Edith were sitting on a box
beside the old freighter. The wagons were
used as houses too, and Edith hastened
in to get a needle and thread with which
to sew on a button that had come off of
Ken's shirt.

"Where's the needle and thread?" Mr.
Brown asked.

"Ed's got it."

"No, I haven't. Jim's got it. I stuck
it in the top of his hat for safe keeping."

"Oh. pardon me." said Mr. Brown.
"Give him two bits, Sid. He has an idea
this morning."

Sid Rogell is production chief and busi-
ness manager of the company. His brother

SCREENLAND

is Al Rogell, the director, who married
Marion Douglas.

Then they took the scene. While Edith
sewed on the button Ken sang one of the
innumerable songs with innumerable verses
that are included in a cowboy's repertoire.

This is the verse you will hear sung in
the half nasal though resonant twang the
Texas cow puncher uses:
Though not exactly feelin' blue,

Yet you don't feel like you do
In the winter or the long hot summer days,

For your feelin's like the weather
Seem to sorta go together

An' you're quiet in the dreary autumn
haze.

Later we made Ken sing all the verses.
All cow puncher songs tell a story, which
makes them true lyrics, and all are sad.
They are fascinating and one could listen
to them by the hour.

While they were finishing up the scenes
I talked with Sid Rogell. I had noticed
that the company seemed like one big
family and Sid told me that was just about
what it was. "It functions like one, any
way," he said. "With the exception of
the leading woman and principal actors the
same people are carried through from pic-
ture to picture. The only reason the actors
are changed is because it would be like a
stock company which is not good business
in pictures. On the stage it is a different
matter.

"We all feel that having a congenial
crowd is a very important item. It insures
harmony and eliminates waste of time. We
all know each others' ways, know what we
can depend on each person to do. No
time spent in wondering whether the job
will turn out all right. We \now it will,
barring unavoidable accidents. Harmony
and faith in each other makes a lot of
difference."

They did seem to. I never saw such fast,
sure work on an outdoor picture.

Near us Buck Bucko was 'dressing up'
his wagon as they did in the old days.
A barrel was fastened to one side held in
place by a platform. That was for water.
A heavy canvas was stretched from stem
to stern and corded over.

"Buck's taking great pride in dressing
up his freighter because he's going to drive
it," said Sid. "None of these boys mind
turning carpenter or prop men or what
have you when occasion demands. They're
just helping Ken make a picture, and it
takes co-operation to make a picture.

"These boys all have fine careers. Tom
Bay is head of them now but many _ of
them have been heads in other companies.
Fred Burnes handled horses and riders for
Doug Fairbanks' picture The Iron Mask,'
and his brother Ed has handled stock for
Doug for years."

For the benefit of those unfamiliar with
the term 'six-up' I will explain it as Sid ex-
plained it to me. A 'six-up' is composed
of six horses harnessed in teams one in
back of the other, and hitched to one long
tongue. The front team are called 'leaders,''
the next, 'middle team,' and the last, nearest
the wagon, 'wheelers.' Each team is
trained differently. For instance, if you
hitched the wheelers or the middle team
in the leaders' places they wouldn't know
what to do. They would have to be un-
hitched and put where they belonged.

Edith had been put in the runaway
wagon again and she was a little nervous
about it. "Don't you fret, Edith," said
Mr. Brown. "You will be all right. There
never was a girl hurt in any of my pictures.
That's not saying anything about the men,"
he continued with a wink at me. "I re-

member a picture we did in Idaho and our
car looked like a hospital train coming
home. Black eyes, broken wrists, collar
bones and ribs. I had both arms in a
sling. I had been under a wagon and had
given an order to fire. That cowboy let
me have it right in the face. I was stone
blind for days — had to finish directing the
picture, blind. Don't know how many
grains of powder they dug out of my eyes
afterwards."

We went to a lower grade where there
was a real road to take the shots of the
entire train of freighters running away.

The camera car loaded on all the cameras
— first and second and the Akeley, which
does the panning and trick shots and is
operated by William Sickner; and ran right
alongside the charging steeds. Mr. Brown
and the script clerk were also aboard. Tom
Bay rode with the head team because when
the horses get going they don't want to
stop. They probably can't see the sense
of the whole thing anyway, having to stand
perfectly still for hours on end and then
for no good reason made to run like the
devil and stop short just when they were
beginning to enjoy themselves. Maybe they
feel sorry for themselves, just as humans
sometimes do, and think it is pretty tough
to be a horse.

Bill Quinlan, head property man, and
Mack Wright, the assistant director,
stopped rigging one of the freighters to
watch the sport. "There is one thing Tom
Bay sure can do, and that is manage a
horse," said Bill.

A few scenes showing the entrance of
the train into camp had to be taken down
at the Lone Pine ball ground, and you
should see how the villagers and tourists
swarmed about us.

The train was supposed to be at ease
for the night when news of the approach
of Hollister's men reaches them and they
have to jump into a flight and a fight.
HoUister is played by Tom Santschi, but
Tom doesn't appear in these scenes. His
orders are carried out by the two hench-
men before mentioned.

"Put a character hat on Tracy and let
him walk through this," said Mr. Brown.
"Tracy is Tarzan's trainer and Tarzan fol-
lows every move he makes. Also minds
what Tracy tells him to do. Tarzan has a
big part in 'The Wagon Master' and a

C[ Mary Brian exhibits the wedding rings
from the Paramount prop room. They
were purchased from pawnhro\ers for
screen marriages.

good deal of intelligence is required of
him."

Edith had to run up to the bunch of
men and tell her 'father,' who was among
them, the bad news.

In Westerns there is no time for detailed
direction. Everything has to be done in
broad sweeps. Consequently the actors are
left more or less to get through the scene
on general direction and as best they may.
I noticed that Edith's spontaneous work
was convincing and logical and that she
put more than the usual fire into her per-
formance of the terrified though courageous
girl.

She had to do a lot of jumping in and
out of the wagon which she didn't mind
this time because it was standing still.

"My, she has to be some acrobat," said
a little girl who was an admiring by-
stander.

I looked around to see what had become
of the star and there he was on the truck
surrounded by a crowd of little boys who
had had the luck to wander by just at this
exciting hour on their way from school.
Some had roller skates and their school
books under their arms. They patted Ken's
costume and examined the leather fringe
on his trousers with great interest. He had
just started a game of marbles ' with them
when he was called to work, but not before
I had moved the graflex cameraman in his
direction.

Then came the scene where the horses
broke away and you should have seen the
excitement of the children. One little girl
hugged herself delightedly while she said
in a half whisper, "My, I'm getting a little
scared, I think!"

Another child had left her coat in the
car and was just about freezing in a sleeve-
less frock, but she stuck it out until the
scene was over, afraid she might miss some-
thing. I put my arm about her shoulders
as a gesture toward keeping off some of the
wind but I'm afraid it wasn't much of a
help.

"Step on this one, boys," said Joe Brown,
elated because he had accomplished so much
that afternoon. "We'll take it from the
platform and it will be the last shot tonight
and the last of the sequence. Hot dickety
dog!" And whacking his cameramen on
their backs, almost bowling them over, he
jumped to the scaffolding of the platform.

"Oh-o-o! I must say he doesn't care
what he does to his camera men. Isn't he
jolly and nice? I think he is just awful
funny," said the freezing little girl.

Next morning Edith and I went home.
We went to the location just long enough
to take some of the pictures that appear
on this page and some production stills
and then we rolled away in Ken's car
which he sent us back to Hollywood in.
And although everyone had been extremely
kind and hospitable I'll bet that whole
troupe was" glad to see the last of 'the
wimmen folks.'

On the way Edith told me about her
trip to the South Sea Islands where she did
a picture called "Black Cargo" in Fiji. The
company was feasted by the King and his
court and Edith has a little gourd cup from
which she drank and which the King auto-
graphed for her.

Some smartie gave him some whiskey one
evening and he got a little tipsy and began
telling how much fun his father and ances-
tors used to have killing people in different
ways. He got quite playful and was all
for showing how it had been done so that
the Americans were plenty nervous before
he finally fell asleep. His slightest word
was law on the island.

98 S GREENLAND

The High FlierS — Continued from page 21

for the kiddies to save their nickels and
dimes in, and the question as to who
next is taking up the study of navigation
and air currents and who has made a solo
flight is of terrific interest.

"Is Pat (Patsy Ruth Miller) going to
solo this Sunday?" Ben Lyon asked me the
other day.

"No," I replied, "hut she's about ready
to."

"Oh! she's been about ready for the last
year! Bebc will beat her to it if she doesn't
hurry. We both want to be there with
three rousing cheers when she does solo —
you tell her, will you, if you see her?"

Yes, that's the way they talk out here
now.

Certainly flying has been a boon to the
film people who are now able to go places
and see things they never could in the old
days because of the time element. It is an
ideal way to look for locations — a busy di-
rector hops in a plane and covers hundreds
of miles of territory in a few hours. He
can get a general idea of what the country
is like, then his assistant can look into the
detail work.

Hundreds of men were flying daily, mak-
ing it their only means of travel, yet the
world did not realize it until Lindy hopped
the Atlantic. Each additional bit of propa-
ganda has immediate and sweeping results.
Since the release of "The Flying Fleet," in
which Ramon Novarro starred, the Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer lot has gone hay wire.

A good many of the men had seen air
service during the war, but afterwards,
filled with the business of providing a liv-
ing for themselves and their families, they
had dropped out of touch with the air.
"The Flying Fleet" brought it all back to
them.

Three of them, Ray Binger, a camera
expert, Buddie Gillespie and Merrill Pye,
both art directors, conceived the brilliant
idea of forming a club to be known as
The Studio Flying Club. Although it has
been in existence only four months its
future is assured. The idea was to make
aviation possible to people of moderate
means. Sunday is the big day. The mem-
bers bring their families and lunch and
have a great time.

At first there was no initiation fee charged
and the instruction by army fliers at the
Culver City Airport amounted to $12.50
an hour. There are now about fifteen
members. Only people of the studios may
belong, and at present most of these are
from the Metro lot. They are directors,
art directors, cameramen, engineers. Patsy
Ruth Miller is so far the only star but
others are talking of joining. Tay Garnett,
the director, and Pat's fiance, is another
member. Also there is Douglas Shearer,
Norma's brother, who is production man-
ager for sound at Metro.

There have been no accidents and five
or six members are now very good fliers;
two have orders in for their own planes.
Others prefer to use the field planes until
they are crack fliers. Otherwise the expense
of the wrecked plane would fall entirely
upon them. As each member makes his
solo flight it is up to him to give a party
for the rest. Now that the club is growing
so rapidly there is to be an initiation fee
of thirty dollars and the instruction is to
be fifteen dollars. The reason for this
additional expense is to raise enough money
to build a club house. Plans for a modest
one have already been drawn up and the

cost of it will be about two thousand dol-
lars. Arrangements have been made with
the Culver City Airport so that members
are provided with hangar space for their
own planes at a nominal charge.

And did you know that you could buy
a plane for twelve and fifteen hundred dol-
lars? Gosh! I didn't. They arc singles,
of course, but you can get two and three
place ships — that means planes holding two
people besides the pilot — for less than the
price of a good automobile; twenty-five
hundred and three thousand dollars. That's
service!

Flying has actually taken such a hold
on the imagination and sporting instinct
of the film colony that executives are think-
ing of revising contracts which will not
permit directors, stars or featured players
to fly during the making of a picture.
Safety first! say the wise men to themselves,
figuring in dollars and cents what it would
mean to have an important member of a
cast hurt in the middle of a picture.

The other day a little knot of men were
gathered outside the commissary at the
Metro Studio. "Come on, let's have lunch,"
one of them said. "I think I'll fly for
half an hour instead," said Clarence Brown.
"I'm for that too, been up almost every
noon this week" — and off they trouped.

Now can you imagine that?

"It's a fine way to forget your troubles,
if you have any," said Frank D. Williams,
inventor of the Williams process, a trick
in photography. Mr. Williams takes to the
air every time a knotty problem presents
itself. "If you don't forget everything in
the world except flying that ship your
troubles are apt to be removed perma-
nently!"

Not many players have planes of their
own but I don't suppose there are two
dozen prominent stars in the industry who
do not board commercial planes for fre-
quent pleasure or business trips.

C[ Gladys McConnel! has more flying hours
to her credit than any other girl in pic
tures except possibly Mary Pic\ford.

Mary Pick ford and Douglas Fairbanks
are perhaps the greatest air travelers in
Hollywood. Not long ago they chartered
a twelve-passenger Maddux plane and
headed toward the Grand Canyon. Shortly
after leaving the port they ran into head
winds and veered off toward Caliente where
they landed and traded the Maddux for
a Wasp job and made for Arizona. They
were gone twenty hours.

Of course it takes money to do the thing
that way. Chartering a twelve-job plane
costs $175.00 an hour, and gone twenty
hours — you can figure it out for yourself.
On that trip Mary and Doug took little
Mary, their niece, Lillian Gish, and Mr.
and Mrs. John Fairbanks. These trips are
not altogether for pleasure with Mary and
Doug. They are constantly on the look-out
for locations and atmosphere.

John Gilbert is another player who like*
to charter planes and go places with his
friends. Recently he has been so busy
with "Redemption" that he has not had
the time for it, but he will be at it again
as soon as the picture is over.

Now that the enormous Grand Central
Air Terminal at Glendale is opened it is
filmland's own. At the opening more than
sixty stars were present. It is only a twelve
minute motor run from the center of Holly-
wood. And it is really swell. The only
field in America, I am told, that has a con-
crete runway; and the field itself is oiled.
The oil is shot in two feet and worked in
six times. And who do you think is Presi-
dent in charge of operation? Lieut. D.
W. Tomlinson, whom you saw in "The
Flying Fleet" with Ramon Novarro. Lieut.
Tomlinson was one of the three famous Sea
Hawks, the crack Navy fliers, and broke up
the trio to take charge of the Airport.

The other day Bill Hart went to San
Francisco for a book convention. He writes
books for boys now, you know. He told
Arthur Hagerman, press representative for
the Maddux Lines, just before he stepped
into the plane that it was his first trip.
"I have a colt born and raised on my
ranch," said Bill, "that stands seventeen
hands high, and that's the farthest I have
ever been off the ground." The pilot of
his plane was Capt. Jess Hart, no relation
to Bill, but he told him that he had a son
whom he named after the famous actor. It
pleased Bill and he said, "Well, I'll auto-
graph one of my books for the lad if we
get back alive!"

Wallace Beery is the veteran among the
player-fliers. He owns his own plane and
has his transport license which means that
he has had two hundred hours in the air
and can take passengers in licensed planes
either for hire or gratis to any point so long
as he observes aviation rules. I don't know
whether Ken Maynard and Reginald Denny
have this license or not. I don't think
they have. They both have their own
planes and are experienced fliers, however.
Reginald Denny no longer pilots his plane
himself because he says it is a thing you
should do very often or not at all. You
forget things that are dangerous to forget
if you fly just once in awhile. But he
frequently takes trips in commercial planes
and goes half way to his ranch in one,
finishing the trip by motor.

Ken Maynard loves to pilot his plane
himself. He has never had an accident in
the air but he has had two after the plane
landed, neither one very serious and not
entirely his fault. Once he landed in a

SCREENLAND

grove of eucalyptus trees because of some
ill luck. He has plenty of nerve, the com'
mercial pilots say, and instead of quitting
the plane he pulled it out of the trees and
landed it right. Mrs. Maynard was with
him, and for some weeks there were a good
many arguments for and against aviation in
the Maynard family! But Mary is a good
sport and she was as eager as Ken was
when they took the next trip.

It is said of Raoul Walsh that he flew
to Caliente to get married, and before he
started to dress for the wedding he dashed
into the Casino and in thirty minutes won
eighteen thousand dollars!

Caliente seems to do things to people.
Jackie Logan, it is said, had no intention of
getting married when she went there, but
I suppose the beauty of it and the soft,
lazy, air turns one romantic — anyhow, she
suddenly made up her mind, telephoned to
her maid and the Maddux lines to bring
down some clothes more suitable for a
wedding than those she was wearing; and
they chartered a little Lockheed and flew
the things down to her.

And what do you think Ben Lyon is
doing? He has his commercial license now,
which means that he can take people for
hire within a radius of ten miles of the air
port. Every Sunday he gives four hours of
his time to the American Aircraft Corpora'
tion and takes passengers up for a dollar a
person. I suppose I don't need to tell you
that Ben is the most popular pilot on the
field. You should see the competition to
get into his plane! Of course he doesn't
take the money. It goes to the Corporation.
He is very keen for aviation and wants to
stimulate as much interest in it as possible.
A great deal of fear has yet to be overcome,
and those who are very interested in the
transportation of the future try to do all
they can to break down that fear in the
minds of people still unfamiliar with flying.

When Ben has two hundred hours in the
air he will take out his transport license.

Priscilla Dean, as you may know, married
a flier, Lieut. Leslie Arnold, who with two
other men flew around the world in 1926.

Norman Kerry has flown for years but
now uses only commercial planes. Ruth
Elder flies every day. One afternoon on
her way to the field she stopped to buy a
paper from a little newsie. She had no
pennies and he hadn't change so he told
her to let it go until the next time. "But
I may not come by again or I may forget,"
said Ruth. "Oh, no, you won't! I know

C[ Dan Healy, a Broadway favorite, whose
singing and dancing will soon be featured
in tal\ie musical comedy.

who you are — you're Ruth Elder," he said
with a happy grin. "I watch you go up
every day and I know you won't forget."

Among the directors who fly are Victor
Fleming, William K. Howard, Clarence
Brown, Dudley Murphy and Howard
Hughes. George Hill has his order in for
a Loening Amphibian, a cabin plane which
holds six people. Mr. Hill thinks this the
only practical plane for it can 'sit down' on
sea or land.

Both George Hill and Fred Niblo are
great air enthusiasts although they do not
fly themselves. Mr. Hill often hops in a
plane for relaxation and flies to San Fran-
cisco or Caliente; or into a little Navy plane
to Coronado with "Spig" Weed who is
now writing scenarios for Metro — "The
Flying Fleet" was his — and is back again
the same afternoon. Mr. Niblo made his
first flight just twenty years ago. That's
pioneering! And he's proud of it.

Among the student pilots are Patsy Ruth
Miller, Bebe Daniels, Tay Garnett, Gladys
McConnell, Edna May Cooper, George Hill
and a few others. Gladys McConnell has
travelled in almost every kind of plane and
I was told that among the passenger fliers
she had more hours in the air to her credit

than any girl in films except perhaps Mary
Pickford.

There is one little person who is per-
fectly content to stay on the ground, not
only content but resolved to do so. That
is Betty Bronson. She is much happier
in her snappy little roadster which she
drives herself. "It looks so high up," she
apologised laughing.

It's nothing to run up to San Francisco
and see an important opening. Indeed, the
stars never would get there if they had to
go by train or motor. Few actors can get
away from Hollywood for three days at a
time unless it is a definite vacation and then
they usually want to dash to New York or
London or Paris. Bebe Daniels even flew
to New York, and Ben Lyon plans to fly
himself there in the fall. Lupe Velez,
Corinne Griffith, Sue Carol, Nick Stuart,
Dolores Del Rio, Gary Cooper, Richard
Dix, Ramon Novarro — oh, all of them
practically have been either to Caliente,
Palm Springs, Arrowhead, San Francisco
and other places by plane. The Maddux
people have reduced their fare, too, so that
it is not beyond reason. The round trip
to Caliente is $25.00. The train is much
cheaper, but oh, what a long, poky, dusty
trip! And you have to remain overnight,
whereas you can take the morning plane,
have lunch in Caliente and return in the
afternoon plane. It would amount to less
in the end.

Edna May Cooper is taking aviation very
seriously. She is studying all the things
that one should take to be a good pilot and
expects to do her solo flight within a few
days. She has passed her examinations and
told me excitedly that her mark was eighty-
seven and a half, which she thought was
pretty good — and I did too. Two months
ago she knew no more about aviation,
meteorology, navigation and all the rest
than the average person, which is — nothing.

So with all this excitement going on I
don't know what Hollywood will come to.
We even have air police! I suppose New
York has too, but I just found it out today
when they went after a plane that had been
circling for half an hour over our district
advertising some kind of gasoline through
a loud speaker and singing songs and tell-
ing jokes just to show how bright and
snappy they were. I dont' think their en-
ergy was much appreciated. So many
complaints were telephoned in that they
were policed. What will they think of
next?

The New Technique of the Talkies— Continued from page 27

"Great guns! I'm not the man you want
to see. I'm a babe in arms in this picture
racket. Why, if it hadn't been for Mr.
West, and Mae Busch and Pat O'Malley,
fellow players in 'Alibi,' I don't know what
I would have done," he explained. "I've
been on the stage for ten years. George
Cohan turned me from a nice boy into a
stage criminal when he gave me the lead in
'Yellow.' But stage experience doesn't
mean I know anything about pictures."

"Well, at least you can tell me what you
think of the way Mr. West has handled
this talkie," I said. "It all seems new to
me somehow. Different from the first sound
pictures. He has put more action into it
than any talkie I've seen."

Morris' face lit up. "That's right. He
has. And I'll tell you why. 'Alibi' has
made a big hit because West has injected
talking into the picture without lowering
the action one jot. That's a terribly hard

thing to do. And something that a lot of
directors fall down on.

"When talkies first began," Chester went
on, "the directors tried to take a sfage
play and transfer it whole-hog to the screen.
But that didn't work out."

"Why not?" I asked.

"That's simple," Morris answered. "On
the stage you can watch two or three peo-
ple talking quietly around a table for
fifteen or twenty minutes without feeling
any sense of slow tempo. But that won't
go over in a talking picture. We are ac-
customed to lots of action in our movies.
And if we don't have it, the picture falls
flat. As I've said before, I'm not a talkie
expert, but it seems to me that a perfect
motion picture is like playing a chromatic
scale on the saxophone. Each note rises
a half-tone higher than the preceding one.
So in a movie, each scene must rise higher
than the one preceding it. And in a talkie

when all you hear is a knot of people sit'
ting in the same place talking, talking,
talking — the picture is apt to be a flop.

"But never for a second does Roland
West let this happen in 'Alibi.' He's a
wizard, really. He keeps his characters
constantly moving. One bit of action rises
hard and fast on the last bit of action,
increasing the whole in tone and tempo
until he reaches his climax.

"It's an awfully hard thing to explain,
but when -you see 'Alibi' you will under-
stand what I mean. Now there are certain
sequences in the picture when no talking
is going on. But here West is very re-
sourceful. Take the time when Eleanor
Griffith (she plays the heroine and is a
darned fine trouper) is preparing dinner
for her father. She's all alone. But she's
whistling. Then when Purnell B. Pratt
who plays the part of her father was shav-
ing, there was no sound. Naturally a man

100

SCREENLAND

can't talk when his face is lathered. But
West didn't let it go at that. He had a
canary bird continually chirping and sing-
ing, which kept the sound for that scene
stirred up. Again there was no sound at
all part of the time when Pratt, a police-
man, and Pat O'Mallcy, a police sergeant,
were putting Elmer Ballard, a gangster,
through the third degree. But here West
introduced the most awful suspense by the
mere ticking of a clock.

"I know all this sounds infinitesimal but
when you see the picture you will under-
stand, for these very infinitesimal things
keep the action of the picture running
strongly along an unbroken cord. The
tempo never lags. That picture is like one
of those old Roumanian or Hungarian folk
songs. They start off at a normal tempo
but whip up to a furious speed at the
climax.

"When I went out on the United Artists'
lot at Hollywood to make 'Alibi,' " Morris
continued, "I was more frightened than I
had ever been at any Broadway first night.
Up to this time I had heard that all you
need to make a good talking picture was a
cast of fine actors from the legitimate stage.
But the nearer my train rolled toward
Hollywood the more I began to realize that
was apple sauce. You can get the finest
actor on Broadway but if he doesn't have
that intangible screen personality, he's a
flop. Nobody can describe that intangible
quality and nobody knows if he has it until
the camera focuses on him."

Morris had warmed to his subject now
and was walking up and down the floor,
talking eagerly. "You see, Mr. West had
watched my work in the stage play 'Crime'
and offered me this part in 'Alibi.' But I
wasn't at all sure that first morning on the
United Artists' lot that I would register. I
was terribly worked up as you can imagine,
because the technique of the stage and the
screen is so different.

"For instance, on the stage if I want to
say: 'You are a lovely girl', I say just that:
You are a lovely girl." But on the screen
how different!

"If you want to get over that simple
phrase, You are a lovely girl,' long before
you say it, you must strike an elaborate
pose to intimate what is coming and then
say the words. That striking of the
elaborate pose and then saying the words
was what made talking pictures drag.

"Roland West overcame that in 'Alibi'
by making the words and the pose simul-
taneous. That's what gave it that staccato
quality. There's no long dragging wait
for the actor to gear himself up and express
in pantomime what he is going to say later
in words. West gives movie audiences
credit for having brains. He lets you use
your head.

"Now that you know how West inserted
the dialogue without lowering the action,
there is another angle to be considered.
You can't help but lower the action if
you're going to have long-winded speeches,
irrelevant dialogue. That's grim death to
a talkie. One of the first necessities, I
believe, in making a successful talking pic-
ture is in finding the best dialogue writers
you can get. Words that sound fine on
the stage sometimes seem positively silly in
a talkie. Then, too, the novelty merely of
hearing words issue from a screen charac-
ter's mouth is no longer sufficient. The
audience must be amused, stimulated, en-
tertained. The dialogue must sparkle.

"Here is where West gives his public
credit for having brains. He doesn't blue-
print everything for you. He just suggests,
and lets the brain of the audience do the
rest. He has pared his dialogue down to

the bone, leaving a lot to the imagination.
His characters express more by what they
don't say than by what they do. You'll
notice that in Ballard's work when he
is being put through the third degree. He
doesn't say much. But he does as fine a
piece of acting as I have seen in a long
time.

"A third necessity in talkies, in my
opinion, is to have real actors. Now, I
don't necessarily mean stage actors. For
any stage actor has an awful lot to learn
about screen technique. I mean any player
who has a sense of effect, who can say
things and mean them.

"To a stage player, new to movies,
the making of a talkie is absolutely be-
wildering. The first day we were rehears-
ing 'Alibi' — and of course every scene is
as carefully rehearsed as a stage play — Mr.
West said to me: 'Chester, turn around.'

" 'But I can't, Mr. West,' I answered,
Til have my back to the audience.'

"West walked over and patted my arm.
'Don't you worry about your audience.
You haven't one audience in pictures. You
have a hundred. Your audience is wher-
ever the camera is placed.'

"Now just imagine how self-conscious
that makes a stage actor — to know that his
audience can come from any of a hundred
angles! On the stage the audience is fixed.
They can view us from one point only.
But on the screen — ! Immediately I felt
as if my hands were as big as shovels and
my feet young bob-sleds.

"Again there was that matter of keeping
'in character' for the talkie. You are
taught in dramatic school or in stock or
wherever you get your stage training to
keep 'in character.' That is, to pretend
that you are the character you are playing
so entirely that you slough off your own
characteristics and mould yourself abso-
lutely to the personality you are portraying.

"The first couple of weeks a show is
on, you keep in character. But after that
you don't take the trouble to get 'in
character' before you go on in the first
act. You may be cracking a joke with a
pretty girl in the wings, hear your cue,
walk on the stage and snap into your stuff.
But you can't do that on the screen!
You've absolutely got to live the character
you are portraying — and no fooling. Be-
cause the screen enlarges your face and
figure twenty-four times its normal size.
And if you're swapping jokes off stage one
minute and committing murder on stage the
next moment, your eyes, the lines of your
mouth, retaining the memory of merriment
would betray you instantly. It is not pos-
sible to switch instantaneously and con-
vincingly from a joke to a murder because
the impartial eyes of the camera will give
your secret away.

"What trouble I had learning the little
screen technique I know and how good my
fellow players in 'Alibi' were! For instance,
one thing Mae Busch taught me — she plays
the role of dizzy Daisy in this film — proved
of invaluable help. On the screen when
you are talking to somebody in a sequence,
you don't look them squarely in the eyes.
You look at the eye nearest the camera!
That not only makes your audience think
you are intently engaged in conversation
with your vis-a-vis, but it also presents
your profile at its best angle to the camera.

"Another point which distracted me a
lot was the red chalk marks on the floor.
But perhaps I'd better explain those. In
a talkie each word or group of words must
be punctuated with an action or actions.
Just like after a phrase of English you put
a comma or semi-colon or a colon, ac-
cording to what you wish to express. So

in a good talkie you must supplement your
speech with action. Now this is no hit-and-
miss proposition. And every word, every
gesture is figured out like a problem in
higher mathematics. Of course, you know
there are two cameras, one to register
what the audience sees and one to register
what it hears. But maybe you don't know
that every foot of space between the actor
and these cameras is marked out on the
floor in a straight line. This line again is
sub-divided into spaces of twelve inches
each. Now you take your place in a cer-
tain position and as you speak you punctu-
ate your words with action — motion. So
many feet towards the camera. So many
feet away from the camera, according to
the dramatic values involved. And when
you advance or beat a retreat you must
step exactly twelve inches — not thirteen or
eleven. These simple technical things may
not impress an outsider as difficult, but
they certainly play havoc with a stage actor
unaccustomed to such necessities.

"But you can readily understand how
necessary this marking is. In addition to
the part it plays in helping the actor ex-
press exact dramatic values, suppose we
leave off a scene this afternoon. And I
am standing up stage right. Now suppose
the next mornin? when I began I took up
my place up stage left, which anybody
might do in a forgetful moment. It would
prove ludicrous to the audience when the
two sequences were unrolled one after the
other in the completed film.

"Yes, I give you my word, I've been on
the stage for years but when I began to
make 'Alibi,' I felt just as callow as the
day I started my career.

"I'm not really a 'heavy' by nature. I
would rather play straight leads, and I hope
to get back to them some day. Indeed.
I'm so far removed from a killer that I
must tell you a funny incident that hap-
pened while we were making 'Alibi.'

"No matter how hard we tried, we
couldn't get the shots to sound right in this
talkie. We tried 'twenty fives' and we
tried 'thirty fives' but the sound was awful.
Finally we worked it out by getting a
thin lathe and a heavy leather cushion.
When I would pull the trigger of the
pistol, flame and smoke would result but
no sound. We got the sound by letting
the lathe fly back and hit the leather
cushion. The report was exactly like the
sound of a pistol shot but the real pistol
shot sounded like an earthquake.

"In one sequence you notice I have to
fire on Regis Toomey from my pocket. I
had never in all my stage crime career fired
a pistol from the pocket. And I was a
little anxious.

"The prop boy came up to me with an
asbestos glove: 'Here, put this on your
hand before you fire that shot.'

" 'But what for?' I asked. 'Is it danger-
ous?'

" 'Naw, it ain't dangerous. But put it
on all the same.'

"I did as requested but all of a sudden
I had visions of having my hand blown off
from the chemicals which were wadded into
the prop pistol to make the flame and
smoke. And as I pulled the trigger I was
decidedly out of character. For at the
moment my fingers touched the trigger I
subconsciously drew back and put on the
most frightened face you ever saw.

"When I saw that sequence in the rushes
that same night, I burst out laughing.
Needless to say it had to be made over.
And needless to say, anybody who saw that
rush would know that at heart, I'm no
killer."

SCREENLAND

101

ow to^ Emphasize

ersonality

with Make-Up

Max Factor, Hollywood's Make-Up King,
Reveals the Magic in Make- Up, and Tells Why
Every Woman Should Individualize Her
Make- Up as Screen Stars Do.

DOROTHY MACK A ILL
in "Two Weeks Off"
First National Production
Make-Up by Max Factor
When you see this super-feature you
will be thrilled with the magnetism
of Dorothy Mackaill's vivacious
personality. Even Dorothy Mac-
kaill, with all her natural beauty
and fascinating charm insists that
her make-up by Max Factor be in
correct color harmony to blend with
her otvn individual complexion
colorings.

Dorothy Mackaill, 1st National Star, says: "I use your
make-up exclusively, as there is none just as good as
Max Factor s Society Make-Up."

Loretta Young, 1st National Studios, and Max Factor,
Hollywood's Make- Up King . . . approving the correct
color harmony shade in Max Factor's Face Powder.

MAX FACTOR'S Society MAKE-UP

"Cosmetics of the Stars" ^ HOLLYWOOD

AVE you given real serious thought
to your make-up ... or are you just
haphazardly using cosmetics? Have
you studied your colorings, and have you
harmonized your make-up accordingly...
or are you detracting from your beauty
by using off-colors in make-up? And have
you analyzed your type and looked for ways
to emphasize the charm of your personality?

"The first essential of make-up is to have
cosmetics in color harmony", says Max
Factor, Filmlands genius of make-up. "Sec-
ond, the color harmony of the make-up
ensemble must blend with individual color-
ing...whether blonde, brunette or redhead,
And third, make-up must be applied so as
to emphasize features that bring out the
allure of personality".

On the screen, in dozens of feature
pictures like "Two Weeks Off", with
Dorothy Mackaill, you have actually seen
the magic of make-up by Max Factor.
You have seen the lifelike naturalness gained
with Max Factor's famous discovery ....
cosmetic color harmony.

Now, Max Factor has perfected a make-up for day and evening use based
on this same principle which proved so successful in pictures. Max Factor's
Society Make-Up .... powder, rcuge, lipstick and other make-up essentials in
color harmonies to blend with every variation of complexion. Adopted almost
instantly by leading stars, for social and every day use, it will be a beauty revel-
ation to you!

And you may learn, too, exactly what color harmony you should use to bring
out your beauty and charm in the most fascinating way. Simply mail the coupon
to Max Factor for your own individual complexion analysis and make-up color
harmony chart. You'll also receive a copy of Max Factor's book, "The New
Art of Make-Up" — ■ 48 pages of beauty advice and make-up hints. In it you
will read why leading stars — 'Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Loretta Young,
Doris Dawson, and scores of other beautiful celebrities prefer Society Make-Up.
And you, too, will discover that make-up may be really magical in its gift of beauty.

FREE— COMPLEXION ANALYSIS

Mr. Max Factor, — Max Factor Studios, Hollywood, Calif.
Dear Sir: Send me without any obligation on my part, a complimentary copy J
of your book, "The New Art of Make-Up"; and personal complexion analysis. I

BETTY COMPSON,
Independent Star, writes: "I adore the
lovely soft colorings in Max Factor's
Society Make-Up."

Name-

Address-

Completion | Color of Eyes | LIPS

Light

Moist |

Fair

Color of Lashes

Dry 1

Medium

SKIN

Ruddy

Color of Hair

Oily

Dark

Dry

Sallow

Answer in

Age

Olive

spaces with check mark

For the Sun Tan Fashion— Max Factor's Sum'r Tan Make-Up— At Drug and Department Stores

102

SCREENLAND

How They Play in Hollywood — Continued from page 29

kidded a lot, pretending that the little brush
she used to flick the crumbs from the iron
was a paint-brush, and she would stand
back to watch the effect after giving a dab
to the iron.

Buddy served himself last, but Mary
Brian refused to give him any credit for
unselfishness, declaring that he preferred
practicing on us, and Buddy remarked that
he had been waiting to see if Mary would
offer to cook, whereupon Mary with quick
Irish wit said she knew that and that's why
she didn't.

"Never mind," put in Theda Bara,
"we'll come to see Buddy cook waffles in
a window some time!"

At the end, they ran a race, Buddy and
Ann, and I must admit that Buddy was the
quicker, but Ann was the neater.

I forgot to say that that nice Jack Stam-
baugh was one of the guests. He and
John Westwood, you know, are the only
two college boys of the twelve that First
National brought out a little over a year
ago, who have remained in pictures. All
the rest went home to finish becoming law-
yers and doctors and stock brokers and
writers. Jack is doing awfully well, and
seems in a fair way to become a star.

After breakfast we all drove over to the
polo grounds, driving into the canyon with
its great oaks and its ferns and streams, all
beautiful under the sunshine and amid the
green hills.

Tom Moore was there, among the racers,
wearing his green cap and tunic and look-
ing very professional. We liked the fact
that he had apparently pressed out his
tunic, so that it was smooth, and not
wrinkled like most of the riders' outfits.

We went around back of the grandstand
to take a peek at the mounts which Agnes,
Ann and Frank were to ride, with Mrs.
Rork shivering a bit when she saw what
a tall horse Ann was to ride. Then we
went up into the grandstand, which was
packed.

There were some whippet races, and
then came the steeplechase, and we hardly
breathed as we watched Agnes and Ann
dash off. They took the hurdles wonder-
fully, though, and at the last we felt sure
that Ann was going to win.

"Oh, here she comes!" shouted Patsy,
so that everybody looked around at her.

Sure enough, Ann dashed over the last
hurdle, just ahead of Agnes, and bowed
as she received her silver cup.

Then Frank Dazey won a cup and after
that Tom Moore was to race. He did, and
very nearly met with a terrible accident.

It was on the last stretch of the course,
and at the last hurdle we saw Tom hurtle
to one side. Next minute he and his
horse were both down. Nobody on the
grandstand breathed for a moment, then a
lot of people ran to pick them up. They
lay very still, both of them, but Tom had
fallen clear of his horse, and presently both
were up, none the worse, except for a
slight limp on the part of both Tom and
his steed, for their experience.

We found that Tom had swerved out of
the way to let another rider who was evi-
dently about to fall regain his balance.

After the races, we all went back to the
Dazeys' for tea, and there we found a lot
of new guests.

Cecelia DeMille. daughter of C. B.
DeMille, was there, a slight, graceful charm-
ing young girl: but for all her quiet de-
mureness. she is a great little horsewoman.

Virginia Valli was there, and Russell
Gleason, son of James Gleason, Florence
Lake, Jerome Storm and his wife, and a
lot of other people.

We chatted with everybody, and then
reluctantly said goodbye, after Agnes had
confessed to us:

"Honestly, just before a race, you hope
down deep in your heart that something
will happen — like breaking your leg or
some little thing like that — so that you
won't have to be in it!"

"Oh, they're going to give Bessie Love
a garter over at the Breakfast Club to-
morrow night, and we're invited to be
there," Patsy told me.

"Garters given in public?" I demanded.

"Well, it's the Order of the Garter or
something," Patsy vaguely explained.

We decided we just must go and find
out.

It seems that it makes you a Pal of the
Breakfast Club to be given a garter, and
Patsy remarked that she should think that
anybody must be a pal to know you well
enough to give you anything so intimate
as a garter.

We went over there with Dr. Howard
Updegraff, a remarkable surgeon who is
fixing up everybody's out-of-line chins and
noses, and we found Bessie Love and a lot
of her guests in the Dog House, that charm-
ingly snug little bungalow just outside the
Club pavilion, where you meet and say
hello in order to be able to recognize who
is at your party once you get inside the
huge Breakfast Club room.

Blanche Sweet was there, peeping, as
usual, from under a lock of hair that hangs
down from her bob — "just as if," remarked
Patsy, "she were looking out of a little win-
dow in her house before opening the door,
to see if she wants to let them in." She is
looking radiantly well, but said that she had
a bruised arm due to managing somehow
to hit that member with her racket while
playing tennis.

Mary McAllister was there, and John
Colton, the playwright, Gwen Lee, Julanne
Johnson, Paul Bern, Howard Hughes, the
producer, Gregory Blackton. Gus Edwards
and his wife, Lila Lee, who came with John
Farrow, the writer, Johnny Hines. Polly
Moran, Sally Phipps. Doreen Pastor,
Dorothy Burgess — Dorothy had come with
Paul Bern — Billie Dove, Irvin Willat, and
a score of others.

Norman Kerry brought Sally O'Neil,
and very cute Sally looked, too.

Howard Hughes, the producer, had
brought Bessie Love, we learned.

By the way, Bessie Love admits she is
engaged to somebody back in Chicago, but
nobody can find out who the lucky man
is.

Poor little Bessie had broken a rib a
day or two before, doing a dance in a
picture, and declared she was all done
up in adhesive tape, but she managed to
get through the evening without wearing a
pained expression on her face.

Polly Moran sat opposite me, and ob-
served we ought to have a set of telephones
in order to be able to communicate with
each other down that long table.

When the orchestra played some William
Tell music, Johnny Hines did a pantomimic
juggling act as he sat at the table, and
when the William Tell selection got into
its sweetest part, Johnny exclaimed. "Ah,
peace has broken out in Mexico!"

After dinner we found out about the
garter. Maurice Dumond, president of the
Breakfast Club, bestowed the article on
Bessie, the intimate garment turning out to
be a dainty little affair trimmed with a
fluff of ostrich.

"Why don't they give you a pair of
garters?" Polly Moran called out.

"Sh! It's the Order of the Garter."
Bessie admonished her, but Polly kept right
on — "And why do they always give cups
and no saucers?"

Then there was dancing and more fun,
and the party broke up very late.

"Ive been going so hard and so fast I'm
tired," declared the hardly-ever-weary Patsy
the Party Hound. "I saw Mrs. Mitchell
Lewis the other day — she used to be on
the New York stage as Nan Ryan, you
know, sister of Mary Ryan — and she and
Mitch are going up to Arrowhead Hot
Springs for a rest over the week end.
They want us to meet them there."
"Sounds awfully nice," I answered.
So we packed up and took the seventy-
five mile ride from Hollywood in Patsy's
car, to the Springs, which are just in the
shadow of the mountains, but high enough
up so one can take wonderful little rides
on horseback and smart little hiking trips
to discover lovely canyons with their ferns
and their streams and their sycamores and
oaks interlocking overhead.

We found Jack Mulhall and his wife
there, and learned that they had traveled on
horseback over every trail in the country,
and Louise Dresser and her mother had
come up for a rest.

We found that Lew Cody was living
down in one of the beautiful little Spanish
bungalows which belong to the hotel. He
had gone there to recuperate, and we called
him on the telephone to see whether he
wanted company. We found that he did.
and hastened down there to say hello. We
found Norman Kerry there, keeping him
company. Norman was on the way to
location at Banning, to play in a picture
in which he was being starred, but had
stopped off to see Lew.

Lew was sitting up in a big chair, look-
ing very cheerful when we arrived, and
not at all the pale invalid we had expected
to find. He and Kerry kept the ball roll-
ing, about the gay times they had had in
Beverly Hills, with all the kiddish prank-
they had played on each other.

Once Lew had taken a braso band to
Norman's house in the middle of the night
and walked into his bedroom playing,
whereupon Norman had retaliated by an
elaborately planned joke. He took all the
beautiful vases out of Lew's house whe"
Lew wasn't there, replacing them with
duplicates in breakaway stuff like they use
in the studios in pictures. Then Norman
and Buster Keaton had called on Lew, and
'accidentally' upset all Lew's wonderful
vases, breaking them one by one. It wasn't
for half an hour at least that Lew got onto
the joke.

"Here we came to cheer Lew up, and
he's cheering us up instead — if we needed
any cheering," remarked Patsy as we left
for a walk with Mrs. Lewis.

On the path we met Ronald Colman and
William Powell, who had gone up there for
a rest over the week end, and who were
living in a bungalow. They had been play-
ing tennis, and were just going in for a
steam bath, they said.

' After dinner there was a picture show.

SCREENLAND

Hollywood

Wants

103

""""

YOU

// you can
use your
voice

?l hundred opportunities
today in the "Talkies"

and we found both Colman and Powell,
dressed in their tennis flannels, peeping
into the window of the auditorium where
the picture was being shown. They
wouldn't wear evening clothes up there,
where they had gone for a rest, and felt
they shouldn't show up in their flannels.

Just after the picture show there arrived
a big box for Mitchell Lewis and his wife.
On opening it they found a mechanical
dog which Ralph and Vera Lewis had sent
them as a present.

I forgot to say that the Lewises had
brought their own Scotch terrier, Wee
MacGregor, with them, and Wee went
along with us on all our hikes.

Now Wee had an awful time with the
mechanical pup. He smelled around it,
made advances and retreats, barked, wagged
his tail, and seemed to say that the
mechanical dog, which opened its mouth,
barked and wagged its tail in a very natural
manner, looked and acted like a dog, but
didn't somehow have the right smell.

Even as we were leaving, while I was
looking back regretfully at those restful
hills, Patsy, all full of pep was planning
for the party which a rich admirer of Ona
Brown's — Mrs. Brown is the divorced wife
of Clarence Brown, you know — was to
give the next night at the Roosevelt for
Ona and Sally O'Neil.

It did seem as though just everybody
in Hollywood was in that huge dining
room, which Manuel Sertres, Ona's admirer,
had taken over for the party.

Right away, after being greeted by Mrs.
Brown and Jane, we came upon Billie
Dove, Lily Damita, Raquel Torres, Madge
Bellamy, Buddy Rogers and Mary Brian,
June Collyer, Jeanette Loff, Lila Lee,
Camilla Horn, Sue Carol and Nick
Stuart, Mr. and Mrs.- Finis Fox, Jane Win-
ton, Charlie Kenyon, who is Jane's husband,
you know, Irvin Willat, Mona Rico, Mrs.
Doris Arbuckle, Matty Kemp, Bess Mere-
dyth and Michael Curtiz, Doris Dawson,
Lena Malena, Polly Ann Young, Albert
Conti, Don Alvarado and his wife, Gwen
Lee, Molly O'Day, Jose Grespo, Leroy
Mason and Rita Carewe, Priscilla Dean,
Gunther Lessing, the attorney, and his wife,
Billy Joy, and others.

Nick Stuart of course brought Sue Car-
roll, and one hears that they are likely
to be married ere long, but neither will tell
when.

Lily Damita came alone, saying that she
was a 'bachelor girl,' and had come by her-
self because she wanted to pick her own
beau when she arrived.

We had supper at the regular small
tables of the dining room,, but we found
one long table reserved for the use of the
Spanish and Mexican guests, who chattered
away to each other in their common tongue.

"I imagine they must miss their tango
music, though," remarked Patsy.

Our host, Mr. Sertres, didn't speak much
English, but, as Sally O'Neil put it, "Who
cares about mere language when any one
can dance internationally so divinely as he
can?"

Mrs. Brown is" going to Paris soon, and
we all wistfully declared we wished we were
going with her. Jane Winton was there
a few months ago, you know, and every-
body fell in love with her.

We were talking about that, and Sally
O'Neil exclaimed, "Oh, did they? Well,
Ona, of course I'm a lonely little thing
here — " glancing about at the admiring
masculine faces gathered around her — "and
I think I'll join you. Maybe I could catch
a beau!"

NEVER before have there been so
many big chances for fame and
fortune in Hollywood. "Talkies"
have turned the moving picture industry
up-side-down. Many of the stars of yester-
day are gone forever because they cannot
use their voices properly and over night
new stars are rising to instant fame —
earning untold wealth because they have
trained their voices. And there are not
enough of these new stars to supply the
demand !

Hollywood wants you. It is calling now
as it has never called before if you will
spend a few moments daily in improving
your God-given voice. But before you try
to improve it, you must find out how it
sounds to others — how it "registers" — for
it is a scientific fact that your voice sounds
entirely different to you than it does to
anyone else. You cannot, by nature, hear
yourself as others hear you nor tell when
you speak how your true voice sounds.

New Easy Way

But now with an amazing new instru-
ment you can at last hear your voice
exactly as it is heard by others — exactly
as it registers in the microphone. And a
remarkable school in Hollywood will help
you get ready for the "Talkies," the stage
or for a successful business career by im-
proving your voice in your oivn home by
the common-sense audible method.

With the recording instrument, which
you receive in connection with the inter-
esting course in voice development, you
make phonograph records of your voice
after each interesting lesson. You then
send them to the Institute where they are
listened to, orally corrected and returned
to you by a famous professor who is train-
ing many of Hollywood's stars for the

"Talkies." The records are double-faced
—you talk on one side and the professor
gives you his helpful spoken criticisms on
the other. It is easy to learn by hearing
because you simply play your records over
and over again — note your particular mis-
takes and difficulties and hear a world
authority tell you easy ways to overcome
them. The instrument you receive from
Hollywood Voice Institute is not only a'
scientific recording instrument, but also a
beautiful full-toned portable phonograph.

Free Help

A startling new book, "Hear Yourself As Others
Hear You," points the way to success and happi-
ness. It is FREE. You should read it at once
whether you are interested in the tremendous oppor-
tunities open for you in the "Talkies," on the stage,
in public speaking, radio broadcasting or in business.

This amazing book tells you how to become a
forceful, dynamic speaker — how to develop a drama-
tic, resonant, well-modulated voice — how to conquer
fear and "stage-fright" — how to win respect when
you speak and how to make a success of your life
by knowing how to master others. Your copy is
awaiting you — FREE — send for it today — use
coupon below,

HOLLYWOOD VOICE INSTITUTE

(New Audible Method)
1765 North Sycamore Hollywood, California

FREE s

c Hollywood Voice Institute S

Dept. S7, 1765 North Sycamore "
Hollywood, California ■

J| Gentlemen: Please send me FREE and without ■
j| obligation your amazing new book "Hear ■

■ Yourself As Others Hear You" and informa- ■

■ tion on your remarkable school,

■ Name ■

■ Address ■

■ City State 3

104

SCREENLAND

Take i j
Picture's

MAKE MONEY

We train you quickly at home. No experience neces-
sary. Fulltimeorspare time. Splendidopportunitiea
nowinModernPhotography.Thiaiathepictureage.
Newspapers, mag-azines.advertisers. and manufac-
turers use thousands of photographs every year.
Portrait photographers also make more money to-
day than ever before. Commercial photography also
a big pay field.

Get into business for yourself, or make money on the aide.
New plan. Nothing else like it. You can also make money
while learning. Easy method. Quick results assured.

SEND FOR
FREE BOOK

Write at once tor inter-
esting book Ovportuni-
ties in Modem Photogra-
phy, and full details.

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

3601 Michigan Ave. Dept. 632-B Chicago. III.

CULTURED SPEECH

ATLAST'.SomethingNew!;

I^earn Cultured Speech and Cor-
rect Pronunciation quickly from
phonograph records. Also increase
your vocabulary this new easy
way. Be a fluent talker — culti-
vated speech is a social and business
asset of the first importance. This new
"learn by listening" method highly recommended!
by leading educators. Recordssentonfree trial. Write
for information and free Self Test. No obligation.

THE PRONUNCIPHONE INSTITUTE

3601 Michigan Ave. Dept. 632-B, Chicago

Cuticiira. Talcum 1

•<t>ttiseptic • • Prophylactic
Fragrant and Refreshing
The Ideal Skin and Baby Powder. A delightful
perfume for the skin after bathing.
25c. everywhere Sample Free
" Cutic»ira9" Dept. JL, •JMaMen? *lMass*

JIN APT I ST

WJ WE CAN TEACH
YOU DRAWING in
your own home during your
spare time. Thirty-five years of
successful teaching proves our a
Artists receive large salaries.

Write today for Art Year Book

OCK&^APPiiEPAfeT

Boom 3 Battle Cmox Mich.

Make Your Own Face Lotion

A marvelous new lotion that freshens
the skin, removes pimples, blackheads,
facial blemishes, and brings the slow
of youth to the complexion. Make by
simply dissolving "Terra-Sal" (Salt of
the Earth) Skin Tonic powder in water
— one package makes a pint of lotion.
Easily applied. Price $1.00, postpaid.
Mail your order today.

Adele Millar

527 W. 7th St. Dept. 36 Los Angeles, Calif.

NEW CREAM ERASES
HAIR LIKE MAGIC!

Sure. safe, pleasant, economical method. Easily ap-
plied. No irritation or after odor. Does not spoil or
harden. Your money back if not pleased. Large tube
of QIK 75c at dealers or mailed postpaid upon
receipt of price. BERLAND LABORATORIES. Inc.,
Dept. I-D. Los Angeles, Calif.

QIK Cream Hair Remover

Barry more— -Talk less Director of the Talkies

Continued from page 47

there is to it — get a good play and get a
good cast — then let them, use the brains
God gave em."

That's how Barrymore works. He quietly
strolls over to one player, then another,
offering a suggestion, perhaps selling them
an idea — but always quietly, always with the
idea that the actor must not accept any-
thing unless he himself believes it.

"And," says Lewis Stone, who played
Floriot in "Madame X" and is perhaps one
of Barrymore's greatest admirers, "he knows
what he wants and recognizes it when he
sees it — which is why he's great." The
electricians on his sets say the same thing;
they know he is always exactly sure of his
effects.

Personally, the man doesn't suggest either
the screen or the stage. Rather indifferent
as to how he dresses, he likes to slouch
around in a loosely fitting tweed suit that
he seldom troubles to have pressed; if he's
busy with a story and gets up late he
doesn't bother to shave. Besides, that's a
good alibi to keep him away from a camera!

The proverbial director's chair and the
embellishments that go with the office don't
bother him a bit. He directed most of
"Madame X" sitting on the floor under
the window of the camera booth. That is,
he directed the rehearsals that way. When
scenes were actually to be 'shot' the re-
hearsals had been perfected, and Barrymore
retired to the monitor room, where the
voices are heard over the loud speaker,
leaving the stopping and starting of action
on the stage below to his assistant, Harry
Bucquet.

But while careless of the little perquisites
of the screen director, he is a stickler for
the etiquette of the stage. When he's talk-
ing over a point with a member of the
cast, woe be to the person who interrupts
him for anything! That's the stage idea —
when the director talks, all listen.

He has infinite patience. Time and time
again, during the filming of "Madame X,"
when lights, cameras or mechnical details
went wrong, he had to wait, usually just
at the climax of a piece of action. Some-
times he boiled inwardly, but never a sug-
gestion of it appeared on his seemingly
serene countenance. He knew that to 'blow-
up'' would mean to upset the cast. And.
furthermore, he argued that getting angry
does not adjust electrical machinery.

He has a trick of picking nicknames for
his associates. Feo Frank, the 'mixer,' for
instance, he calls 'Mississippi' — because
Frank always uses the word, full of "s"
sounds, to test the microphone. His elec-
tricians he addresses as 'Old man,' or 'Old
chap.' He has a habit of borrowing matches
to light his cigarettes, and the workers
near him usually keep a supply on hand.
He likes to 'ad lib.' For instance, when
John Robertson, the director, • visited one
of his sets in "Madame X," Barrymore
promptly impressed him as an extra, and
made him act in the scene, walking through
the street with him. They are old friends
from the days when both were stage actors.

Barrymore is probably the most talented
man in pictures today. He could be a great

concert pianist, or a great painter. His
gifts as an actor are too well known to
be described. His work as a director has
astonished the industry. He speaks several
languages, and is one of the most widely
informed men in the world. All of which
is echoed in his deft direction.

He knows psychology as few men do.
When he 'sells' an actor an idea, it's usually
by some deft trick of mental manipulation.
He never tries to force an idea, for he
always wants his actors to be natural.

He has a whimsical sense of humor that
enables him to see the humorous side of
almost any trouble on the set. Roland
Young, the stage actor, playing under his
direction in "The Green Ghost," says that
Barrymore reminds him of Gilbert K.
Chesterton.

He hates a fuss being made out of any-
thing. When the talking picture first came
into being, and screen actors began to
scurry to voice teachers to train their speak-
ing voices, Barrymore was the first man to
stem the tide — and his warnings probably
saved the panicky players thousands of
dollars in voice lessons.

"The voice doesn't mean a thing," he
assured them. "As a matter of fact every
one of you has always spoken lines in
silent drama — and there is no difference at
all. So-called fine voices, as Joseph Jeffer-
son said, have ruined more actors than
whiskey. Lincoln had a poor voice, high
and unimpressive — but it was sufficient for
what he had to say.

"That's the whole thing — brains, gray
matter, and personality are what count, and
the utterance of the words will take care
of itself. What the words are is the impor-
tant thing — actors must be given interesting
things to say. After all, it all comes out
of the old bean — and those with beans will
obtain, as always."

This was just before he became a
director. And the proof that he meant
the advice exactly as he gave it is seen in
the fact that he never stages any elaborate
voice tests for actors. If they're actors,
he holds, the voices will take care of them-
selves.

The only thing he's not tolerant of is
stupidity. He doesn't think it has any
place on the screen — in dialogue, in plots,
in actors or in directors. He says motion
pictures are, like other things, worth while,
largely a matter of common sense.

That's why he doesn't wear fanciful
clothes or sit in a conventional director's
chair. That's why he doesn't get up and
enact scenes for his actors. He never takes
the center of the stage while directing;
more often he's hiding up in the monitor
room listening over earphones on the mix-
ing panel.

He doesn't eat at the 'director's table' at
noon, but grabs a sandwich while working
on his script. Sometimes if he's worried
over a knotty point he may play a few
bars on the piano, if there's one on the
stage and there's time. It seems to help.
But as soon as he sees anyone listening, he
steps. Barrymore is no show — any time.

The cornelian elephant offered by Richard Dix for the
best letter from a fan has been awarded to
Pearl King Hinshaw, Windfall, Indiana.

SCREENLAND

10?

HOW DO They DO It?— Continued from page 32

produced hand-raised apple-blossoms for the
garden scenes, forcing the blooms three
months before their time in hothouses and
transplanting them into gardens where arti-
ficial heat could keep them fresh.

When the script called for autumn to
sweep across the garden, workmen sprayed
liquified carbonic acid gas from tanks onto
trees, flowers and shrubbery, thus creating
an artificial frost that nipped the buds and
turned springtime to Fall.

Almost everyone knows that Douglas
Fairbanks flew about on a magic carpet
and bestrode a flying horse in "The Thief
of Bagdad," and almost everyone's hus-
band can tell you how he thinks it was
done. This is Doug's own explanation:

The carpet effect was expensive as well
as amazing. A special derrick with a huge
movable crane was built; suspended by
piano wires from the crane was the carpet,
stiffened with a wooden base so that Doug
and Julanne Johnston could sit on in a
fair degree of safety. The cameras were on
a slightly lower derrick beneath the arm
of the crane.

Douglas rode the white horse up a steep
incline which was lined with black velvet.
When developed, it looked as if he flew
in black space. Clouds were superimposed
and the effect of flying through clouds was
obtained.

All Doug's trick stuff is legitimate and
frequently dangerous. Not the least dan-
gerous was his favorite and perhaps
cleverest trick, which by the way, he has
never divulged before. When he threw
the magic rope up into the air and pro-
ceeded to climb up it, audiences said: "Oh,
I know how that is done! It's suspended
on wires!" But when Doug reached the
top, he bent the end of the rope under
to their horror and amazement. How did
it stay up in the air when it wasn't hung
on anything?

Listen, children! He did the whole scene
standing on his head! The sets were built
upside down for this effect, the rope hung
down, not up, and part of the magic con-
sists in the fact that the star remained
nonchalant throughout the proceeding.

When chairs, dishes and whatnot are
smashed to bits on the screen, no one is
hurt, for yucca, balsam wood and insulex
(a composition of plaster of paris and car-
bonated soda) are used. Yucca stalks,
glued lightly together, make the frailest
furniture, breaking at the slightest impact,
but balsam wood is so soft that a nail may
be pushed through it with the hand. Insu-
lex, properly colored, becomes brick, so
that an automobile can crash through an
imposing wall with no shock except to the
nerves of the audience.

An actor leaps through a plate-glass win-
dow, but he isn't scratched. That's be-
cause the window is made of candy. Sugar
is boiled to a certain temperature, then
poured on a marble slab where it hardens
into the likeness of glass.

Palm trees bend double, over in Univer-
sale prop department, as no real palm
would dream of doing. Why? Because
Universal's tropic forest giants have cores
of spring steel.

Cecil Holland, make-up wizard at M-G-
M, tells us how to make the fearful look-
ing scars worn by our best screen villains.
John Miljan in "The Green Ghost" sacri-
ficed his manly beauty to wear a ghastly
scar constructed with collodion which draws
the skin and forms a line like a gash.

"In a Mary Pickford picture," recalls

Mr. Holland, "I was told to make the lead-
ing man look blind. I remembered read-
ing of spies during the Civil War who
wrote messages on the lining of eggshell
and hid them under the lower eyelid. I
took the lining of an eggshell, tore it to
fit the eye and put it over my eyeball. The
effect was perfect. When I consulted an
oculist, he told me it was in no way injuri-
ous so Miss Pickford's hero became sight-
less."

In Fox's "Cameo Kirby," action called
for a shot of the leading characters reflected
at the bottom of a well. When made,
it was discovered that the reflection was
blurred because the water was ruffled.

"Fix it!" demanded the director.

The property man took thought, then
poured in nycrocene, a preparation pitch
black that looks like black Epsom salts,
and produces beautiful clear glistening
water, smoothing out the troubled well.

It was the other way around in Clara
Bow's "Red Hair." The water was so clear
that it reflected not only the actors, but
the cameras, director and all. Therefore,
they dyed the water blue, with thousands
of gallons of bluing, and presto, the reflec-
tions vanished!

It takes courage to run past a 12?-foot
monarch of the forest a second or so before
it is doomed to fall, but Dolores Del Rio
did it without a moment's hesitation at the
behest of her director for "Evangeline."
Skilled woodsmen assured Mr. Carewe that
they could tell to a split second when the
huge tree would fall: first the wind's direc-
tion was ascertained and then the giant was
sawed through, Dolores stumbled through
the underbrush and crash came the red-
wood!

Talking pictures have their magicians,
too. In "Bulldog Drummond" Ronald Col-
man gets his man but the sound of the
falling body brought a howl of protest from
the mixer. "Sounds like anything but a
man's body!" he declared. A dummy was
hastily substituted. This was even worse.
A cement sack and then a sandbag were
tried in turn. Finally all the property men
went into a huddle and emerged with a
ripe pumpkin, which when dropped sounded
to the sensitive microphone just like a dead
man falling to the ground.

Registering the chime of a cuckoo clock
for this same picture set back Samuel Gold-
wyn some hundreds of shekels. It sounded
either too slow or too fast or too loud or
too faint. "Trying it out costs us $300 a
cuck!" complained the worried assistant
to F. Richard Jones, the director. In des-
peration, Mr. Jones called to the mixer:
"See how this sounds, Bill!" and pursed
his lips around a coy little "Cuckoo-
cuckoo!" of his own. Nothing more was
needed.

The slow ticking of a clock tortured the
wretched victim of the third degree in
Roland West's "Alibi" and added to the
tenseness of the scene. This effect was not
obtained, however, without the addition of
a few more gray hairs in the mixer's head.
A heavy piece of cardboard in the hollow
of the clock where the pendulum would
strike it solved the difficulty.

The city's roar in Vilma Banky's "This
Is Heaven" was obtained after much
thought and effort on the part of the tech-
nical staff. For the symphony of auto
horns on the streets of the Great White
Way, a man sat before a whole battery of
'honks,' playing them like a xylophone. A
few bolts in a box provided the necessary

GRAY HAIR

Outfit — to try at home

SCIENCE now finds that hair can be given y'
natural shade. No mess ... a clear, color- *
less safe liquid is used that gives youthful s'^^
shade and lustre. Fadedhairsparkleswith ✓ x,
girlhoodcolor. Gray streaks disappear
entirely. Nothing to wash or ruboff. *

Go to any drug store and get a <'.?>*•'
bottle. It's called Mary T. Gold- S ' y~ .
man's Hair Color Restorer. If ✓
disappointed you pay noth- * c£*
ing. Don'tdelay. Orsend,'',^
coupon for free "single ✓ & ...

(give color of hair). ' &

MARY T. GOLDMAN'S

Hair Color Restorer

BY THE LAKE

in Chicago

211

East Delaware

5 minutes from the Loop

BATHING

GOLF COURSE

BRIDLE PATH

$80 -$85 up
Including
complete hotel
service
Kitchenette
Apartments
with electric
refrigeration
and all
modern

conveniences
in new 16-
story fire-
- proof building

Phone:
)i Whitehall 4450

Owned and
Operated by
A. W. & I. E.
SOMMERS

JAZZ IN TWENTY LESSONS

Learn to play popular jazz on piano, saxo-
phone, banjo, etc. .with latest breaks and
fills. Write for free Home-study booklet.

AXEL CHRISTENSEN SCHOOL

— 742 Kimball Hall Bldg. CHICAGO. ILL.

106

SCREENLAND

YOU

may know some ambitious
man or woman who desires
to make extra money this
Summer. If so, you will
confer a favor by telling
them to write us at once.

Perhaps some boy or girl
over sixteen has told you
they hope to find work dur'
ing their school vacation.

We have a definite sales
plan that is simple and easy
to follow, by which intelli-
gent effort will produce sub'
scriptions to Screenland.

We do not know of
any other magazine using a
method that makes similar
work as pleasant, easy and
profitable.

Please advise your friend
or acquaintance to write us
fully about their age, and
business experience if any.
How much time they would
have to devote to our work,
also if they would like to
continue permanently at the
work if they make a satis-
factory sum of money each
week in commissions.

The most successful of
our representatives will later
be given an opportunity to
work in different sections of
the country, if they so desire.

Address: —

SALES MANAGER
Screenland Magazine
49 West 45th Street
New York

rattle, both here and in the subway se-
quences. A clever property man invented
a machine which revolved on sand paper
to make the realistic ss-sh-zh-zzh of the
train wheels.

There are more ways of killing a cat
than skinning it. This old adage seems to
apply to pistol shots in the talkies. The
real thing would blast the delicate micro-
phone. In "Bulldog Drummond," they put
it in afterwards — shooting a gun a hundred
feet away and 'dubbing' it into the finished
scene. When Mary Pickford's screen daddy
committed suicide in the courtroom se-
quence of "Coquette," a blank cartridge
was shot into a barrel.

However, a real machine gun was used
in "Alibi" where the crook is cornered by
the police in the skyscraper bungalow. Dur-
ing the filming of this, studio police kept
a constant patrol to see that no one came
within range of the deadly hail. The magi-
cian's hand was needed here to find the
type of door. First they tried an ordinary
one and it sounded like battle, murder and
sudden death, all at once. The precise
sound required for the situation was ac-
complished by constructing a door of two
thicknesses of compo board, so that when
the bullets struck the first piece, a dull
echo brought just the sinister note needed.

Movie animals are not always what they
seem. There's the chamois John Barrymore
lugged about in "Eternal Love." It ap-
pears that chamois flourish only in the
Swiss Alps and parts of Asia. A young

sheep was therefore substituted and its
wool treated with a special preparation to
make it resemble a chamois.

The mouse which runs up the screaming
female's lower appendages is not a mouse
at all. He's a baby white rat dipped in
lamp black. A rat moves slower than a
mouse.

Do you remember the ferocious condor
from whose cruel clutches Rin Tin Tin
saved the curly-haired baby in "Night Cry?"
He was an ingeniously manufactured affair,
operated by a motor inside and suspended
on piano wire.

Black swans are very rare. In a recent
production, since the sable variety were
demanded by the director, white swans were
painted the proper shade. But not being
extras from Central Casting, they stood in
no awe of Mr. Director and, as soon as
they were put back in the water, dipped
and picked until the paint came off!

A bit of commonsense magic is used in
making these animal actors 'do their stuff."
If Mary wants her little lamb to follow her,
she must carry salt in her hand and stroll
toward food which lambie can smell or see.
The bloodhounds who bayed so viciously on
poor Eliza's trail were lured on by raw
meat. These tidbits were buried at inter-
vals along the river bank and were just
large enough to engage the attention of
the dogs the length of time to make them
appear to be sniffing the trail.

No. Hollywood doesn't need Mr.
Aladdin!

Helen Twelvetrees— continued from page %

No wonder Helen is puzzled.

But she likes it. Hollywood is nice, says
Helen — as long as it doesn't make puns on
her name. And from now on she is going
to show Hollywood that she can speak as
correctly as an English duchess and act as
intensely as a member of the Russian art
theater. There was a title at the end of
"The Ghost Talks" in which the leading
man asked: "Do you lisp all the time?"
and the heroine replied: "No, only when
I thpeak." As a matter of fact, often
during the filming of the picture Helen
would entirely forget the lisp and the scene
would have to be re-made!

She is interested in everything — talking
pictures, silent pictures, the stage, Cali-
fornia, President Hoover, the Mexican war,
men — ah, yes, men. Right now she is get-
ting her greatest kick out of fan letters.
She started reading every letter that came
to her. She had to stop that when her
fan mail mounted to several hundred letters
each week. Now her secretary separates
the particularly interesting letters and Helen
reads just those.

Helen Twelvetrees was born on December
25th, in Brooklyn, New York. As a child
she 'played theater' constantly. Her parents

observed her talent and sent her to schools
destined to bring out her dramatic ability.
Her final training came at the Brooklyn
Heights Seminary.

After school days were over, she appren-
ticed herself to the stage and for three
years she was a member of stock companies
in and around New York City. Her
marked ability soon made itself known and
she was given leading roles in plays of im-
portance. Her rise since then has been
meteoric, culminating with a rich offer from
the Fox Film Company to travel to Holly-
wood as a contract member of the Fox
group of actors and actresses.

Perhaps Miss Twelvetrees is the only
actress in history who found herself in the
position of being offered more money than
she wanted. In fact, her agent was asking
a price for her considerably below what
Fox officials were offering her in person.
And while the agent was accepting the
lower offer (without her knowledge), Helen
was in another office of the company
affixing her name to the larger offer! The
smaller salary offered her was equal to what
she had been receiving as a stage actress.
The salary she actually signed for is con-
siderably greater.

The Spanish Conquest— continued from page 23

be made. He gathered together a dozen
or more of Rio's social leaders and they
are now in Hollywood engaged in the
making of their first production.

A year ago, Senora Julio de Moraies —
Lia Tora — won the Fox prize for being the
greatest beauty in Brazil. With the victory
was the offer of a free trip to Hollywood.
A free trip to that young aristocrat was,
however, a joke, and she graciously passed

the prize on to one of the other girls.

Now, however, with her dashing husband
as producer, she is here with all her charm,
jewels and gowns.

If there ever was any prejudice against
Spain it has been utterly erased by this
joyous band of Brazilians, for they are
making their picture work one grand lark
and to the joy of the studios, technicians,
cameramen and costumers, they pay in gold
— every night! ^

SCREENLAND

107

Hair Like the Heroines9!

Continued from page 81

but give the hair another shampoo for
beauty, going over the whole process again.
It is the second process, it is said, that puts
in the shine.

Thorough rinsing is imperative. The
stickiness, gumminess and generally unsatis-
factory appearance of the hair after the
home shampoo is often due to the fact that
all the soap has not been rinsed out. For-
merly, the rinsing was finished with cold
water, but the newer way is to finish with
slightly warm water which apparently makes
the hair lighter and fluffier than does cold
water. Dry the hair by hand with towels,
and whenever possible, in the sunlight and
air.

This is the first step toward cleanliness
and beauty. What next? Thorough, daily
brushing. The business of a brush is to
exercise, clean, air and polish. So choose
your brush with even greater care than you
select a new hat. It should have long,
flexible bristles, and it should be kept
scrupulously clean. The hair should be
brushed not only over the top surface, but
also from underneath, upward and outward
with firm even strokes. Between strokes,
wipe the bristles of your brush with a
clean towel.

Aside from keeping your hair clean,
daily brushing will give it life and vitality,
and will make it glow with a lustrous
beauty you never dreamed possible for
your hair.

To go back to oily hair — a cleansing
tonic, astringent in quality, will not only
help to keep the hair clean between sham-
poos, it will act as a corrective and beauti-
fier.

To use, pour a little tonic in a saucer.
Brush the hair well, and part the hair at
intervals. Dip a wad of absorbent cotton
in the tonic and rub lightly on the parts.
Dry the hair with a hand towel, just as
you do after a shampoo. Massage the
scalp lightly, then brush the hair well. The
tonic may be used every day if the hair
is in bad condition.

For a dry, tight scalp, and lifeless falling
hair, a tonic with a slightly oily base should
be administered and the scalp should be
well massaged to bring the blood to the
surface and to help relax the contracted
condition of the tiny oil glands and stimu-
late them to action. You can buy this
treatment from a skilled masseuse, and it
is a beautiful, restful way to spend money.
But it is perfectly possible to massage your
scalp at home.

Sit down in a low-backed chair and rest
your elbows on your dressing table if it's
a comfortable height. Beginning at the
nape of the neck, work out toward the
ears, then all over the scalp, radiating from
the center out and up with long circular
motions. Never massage with loose fingers,
but with the palms of the hands and the
cushions of the fingers, with a hard pres-
sure against the scalp. Lift and knead the
scalp in circular sweeps until the scalp
glows with a pale pink color and tingles
with new life.

An occasional hot oil treatment will also
be highly beneficial to the dry scalp with
falling hair. Again — it is easier and
pleasanter to have this done by a specialist,
but you can give this oil treatment at
home if you have the time and the will.

I want to tell you, too, of another quick,
effective way to cleanse the hair between
shampoos. Movie stars use this method

when on location, if the weather is damp
or cool or the water hard and conveniences
few — to keep their hair clean and well-
groomed in appearance.

Procure a good dry shampoo powder.
Brush the hair well, then sift the powder
directly on the scalp and hair. Leave on
a few minutes, then brush the powder com-
pletely out, using a long, sweeping motion.
The dry shampoo effectively removes dust
and oil from the hair and renders it soft and
fluffy.

When your hair has achieved the natural
charm of perfect grooming, there is becom-
ing arrangement to be considered. The
hair, like hats, should do nice things for
your face. The question of how you should
wear your hair is not so much a question
of fashion, as of chin, nose and contour.
It's impossible to tell you how to dress
your hair without knowing something about
your profile, the shape of your head, the
width or length of your face, whether you
are tall, short, fat, thin, and whether your
hair is straight or curly, long or short.
There is a mode for all of you, however,
and by careful study and experimentation,
you may find what is most suitable for your
individual type.

If you are bobbed and wish to remain
so, tbere are ways of wearing the bob
which are so chic and so becoming as to
keep even the most fickle of womankind
from tiring of it. If you are letting your
hair grow, there are ways of minimizing
the difficulties of this period, by use of a
smart transformation, or a 'piece' of some
kind, or by clever waving and tucking in
of half-grown tresses. There is also the
expedient, very becoming to some girls, of
simply curling the ends of the hair and
letting it hang loosely.

Among bobs, the hair is worn a lit-
tle longer and is arranged with a softness
of line distinctively feminine. The present
tendency is to make the bob look as much
as possible like long hair, while with long
hair, the disposition is to attain so small a
coiffure as will most nearly resemble a bob.

When it comes to waving, with very few
exceptions every girl needs to flatter her
face with curls. If you are one of the
exceptions, make the most of it, and be
thankful. If your hair is naturally curly,
cherish it as so much gold.

Many find an occasional marcel satisfac-
tory, while women with strong, healthy
hair, not too soft and fine in texture, find
in a permanent wave a solution to many
problems.

If your hair is a bit fluffy, a set of water-
wave combs and a waving fluid will help
you to train your hair into soft, rounded
waves of natural beauty.

In adopting a becoming hair arrangement,
let your conscience and your mirror be
your guide! Don't, no matter how much
you may admire her, try to copy the coif-
fure of your favorite heroine — unless you
happen to be her type. If her hair is
coiled bewitchingly at the nape of her neck
with just one alluring curl behind the ear
it is no doubt picturesque and suits her
regular features and the shape of her head.
If it did not, she wouldn't wear it that
way. But don't sacrifice your curly bob
which may be your most charming asset
to a mode which does not suit you.

On the screen, one sees smooth, shining
heads that are more like shellac than top-
knots, but always they are worn by certain

instantly!

Touch your lashes with Maybelline. No matter how
scant they may be, they, will instantly appear much
longer, delightfully luxuriant and dark. The lovely, rich
fringe which Maybelline makes of your lashes will
impart a striking new note of charm to your whole
appearance, for ic will transform your eyes into deep,
shadowy pools, expressive and noticeably beautiful.
Used regularly by millions of women in all parts of the
world. Insist upon genuine Maybelline because it is
easier to apply, and is harmless.

Solid or Waterproof Liquid Maybelline, Black or Brown,
75c at all totlet goods counters

' MAYBELLINE CO., CHICAGO

Eyelash ^eaufifie.

FRECKLES

Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots.
How to Remove Easily.

Here's a chance, Miss Preckleface, to try
a remedy for freckles with the guarantee of a
reliable concern that it will not cost you a
penny unless it removes your freckles ; while
if it does give you a clear complexion the
expense is trifling.

Simply get an ounce of Otliine — double
strength — from any drug or department store
and a few applications should show you how
easy it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles
and get a beautiful complexion. Rarely is
more than one ounce needed for the worst case.

Be sure to ask for the double strength
Othine as this strength is sold under guar-
antee of money back if it fails to remove
your freckles.

FREE LARGE PHOTOGRAPH

KamoD Navarro

Greta Garbo

Of Your Favorite
MOVIE STAB
Size 8x10 witli every
Order of $2.00.
BEAUTIFUL PORTRAITS

LATEST POSES
OF ALL THE STARS

3 for 50c 7 for $1.00

15 for $2.00 23 for $3.00
40 for $5.00 100 for $10.00
Send for Tour Favorites.

FREE SPECIAL OFFER
5 LABGE PTIOTOGEAPHS
FBEE WITH EVEEY
$10.00 OKDEB
55 Different Poses of

Budolpli Valentino
HOLLYWOOD SCREEN

EXCHANGE
Drawer V-l. Dept. F,
Hollywood. Calif.. U. S. A.

Pne Carol

Rudolph
Valentino

108

SCREENLAND

OPPORTUNITIES

Rate 20c a Word — Forms Close 5th ■ — Two Months Preceding Issue

MALE HELP WANTED

INTEREST TO WOMEN

FIREMEN, Brakcmen, Baggagemen (white or HEMSTITCHING and Picoting Attachment.

colored), Sleeping Car, Train Porters (col- Guaranteed. Pits any sewing machine. The

ored), $150 — $250 monthly. Experience un- old reliable. 60c prepaid or sent C. O. D.

necessary. 923 Railway Bureau, East St. Louis, Circulars free. LaFlesh Hemstitching Co.,

11].. Dept. 45, Sedalia, Mo.

FEMALE HELP WANTED

HOMEWORK: Women Wanting obtain reliable
kinds. Write for information. Enclose stamp.
Eller Co., Z-296 Broadway, New York.

AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS— $50. WEEKLY SELLING SHIRTS.

No capital or experience needed. Commissions
in advance. Samples Free. Madison Products,
564 Broadway, New York.

STRANGE BATTERY COMPOUND charges
batteries instantly. Gives new life and pep.
Immense demand. Big Profits. Lightning Co.,
St. Paul, Minn.

LEG PADS

"LEGPADS" MAKE SHAPELY LIMBS; DEFY
DETECTION. Rubber Busts; Reducing Gar-
ments; Wigs; Eyelashes; Tights; Female imper-
ber Garments; Wigs; Tights; Female Imper-
sonators' Outfits ; Opera and Service Weight
Silk Hose; Abdominal Supporters. CAMP, S-235
Fifth Ave., New York.

EYEBROW BEAUTIFIER

DETECTIVES

BE A DETECTIVE — Excellent paying work.
Write NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 169
East 83rd Street, New York.

SONG AND POEM WRITERS

SONG POEMS arranged for publication. Sub-
mit poems. Brennen, Song Specialist, N1652
B'way, N. Y.

POEMS for popular songs wanted. CLIFFORD,
4695 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif.

SONG POEM WRITERS— '•REAL PROPOSI-
TION." Hibbelbb, D14, 2104 N. Keystone,
Chicago.

SEND IN POEMS you have written. Popular
music composed to them. Hoyer, 1179 West
28th Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

WRITERS

$1250 FOR ORIGINAL PHOTOPLAY STORY.

Our sales department sold unknown author's
first story for above amount. We revise, copy-
right and market stories for both silent and
talking pictures. Located in the heaxt of mo-
tion picture industry. We know the demand.
Established 1917. Free Booklet. UNIVERSAL
SCENARIO COMPANY, 204 Western & Santa
Monica Bldg., Hollywood, Calif.

POETS, AUTHORS & CARTOONISTS I Do
not be misled by elaborate, gilt-edged propo-
sitions. Particulars write, Poets, Authors &
Cartoonists Society, 506 Ft. Washington Ave.,
New York.

FOR SALE

To Screenland
Readers

An Automobile Manu-
facturer seems to think
that our readers do not
own automobiles.

We want to prove him
wrong, so will you help
with your evidence?

Just write us the make
of your car and the
license number.

If you plan on buying
a new car this year, that
will be interesting news
also.

Please address:
Charles A. Menges

Screenland Magazine
49 West 45th Street
New York

BEAUTIFUL ALL WHITE POLICE PUPS
for sale. Arthur Anson, Mose, No. Dak.

DANCING

ART PICTURES— 220 WONDERFUL PIC-
TURES. All Different. 160 Samples $1.00.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sadler's

DANCING ACADEMY

^ y -mi -i-'iij-citriiu iuu oampies q>±.uu. i/. 11 > vjii \ VJ nvjrtL/ijivi 1

Particulars 10c. Howard Sales Co., Dept. 4, Individual instruction in social and modern dancing

liox 529, fean Francisco, Cal. from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. — Classes every evening

. Booklet on request Phone Academy 1581

ART— PHOTOS 4 -$1.00. SCR-GPO Bx471 "Dance Descriptions by Mail"

N. Y. ' ■Bi<W1' 2726 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY

"GIRL PICTURES"

7 C Art pictures and Bathing beauties 25 cents
• *» (coin). Money refunded if dissatisfied.
Photo Sales Co., 15 East Ohio, Chicago, 111.

IMPORT YOUR OWN GOODS, GERMAN
export magazine published in English, offers
numerous bargains latest novelties; opportunity
for obtaining profitable agencies. Copy 60c
Square Deal Supply. 246-G Fifth Ave., New
i ork.

- lo stockings needed. Velvet Legs, a cream '
made to meet new demand. Will not grow hair or open
pores. Leaves skin smooth, soft and velvety.

Price $1.00. Mailed any where in U. S
VELVET LEGS CO. : Bo» 1070, Sta. C, Los Angeles, Cal.|

types and seem natural enough on those
particular types and become them. But
few faces are so pure in outline, so young
in texture and experience that they can
wear hair that looks painted instead of
grown. And no heroine of stage or screen
adopts such a mode unless it helps to em-
phasize her individuality and enhance her
charm.

Every heroine learns, very early in her
career, to know her own individual type
and make the most of it — to conceal her
bad points and cultivate her good ones.
That's why heroines are so fascinating, and
so compelling. And heroines in everyday
life should follow this example, if they
would be what every girl wants to be —
popular.

Mary Brian

(Continued from page 45)
never once allowed to be the hero. I had
to take my villainous and strenuous roles
and like them or go back to the insipid
entertainment of doll parties.

"After several months I was the sixth
member of the gang, and all the dirty work
fell on my willing shoulders. 'Aw, she's
only a girl,' was a scathing insult that would
silence my pleas to be on the winning
side just once.

"The great adventure came when our
gang built a secret lodge-house in a lot
beyond our home. Old boxes and boards
were pilfered from the neighborhood back'
yards and soon the quarters were shakily
completed. My brother added to the fasci-
nation of this place by digging a hole into
the floor and covering it with a table top.
That hole was our secret treasure place.

"To celebrate our success as architects
we played spy that day, and naturally I was
the spy. After alluding my captors by run-
ning as fast as my five-year-old legs would
carry me most of the morning, I was taken
to the lodge for court martial. The boys
decided upon a unique trial. I was placed
in the hole until my fate was sealed. With
my hands tied I gleefully went down into
that dark, damp opening and saw the table
top slowly shut out all light. A heavy thud
informed me that a rock had been placed
over the improvised trap-door to keep me
from escaping.

"Several hours must have passed, when
I realized that the boys had gone off and
forgotten me. There was a terrifying silence
and darkness all around me. I tried to
push up against the table top, but the
rock was too heavy. I succeeded in untie
ing my hands, but the trap would not
spring. I was horribly frightened, but I
didn't dare cry, for I knew that the gang
hated a poor sport. I must come up
smiling when they returned to release me.

"They never returned. I finally dug
and clawed my way out, and returned to
my frantic mother covered with dirt. But
my victory was short-lived when I saw the
lodge slowly sink and collapse. I had dug
away the foundation. I would be an out-
cast forever when the deed was discovered.

"But this story has a happy ending.
Mother called the village carpenter and had
him rebuild the lodge immediately. The
four cousins never knew how I escaped
from the treasure hole, and the mystery
won their respect. In true Algerian style
I remained one of the gang until we moved
to Dallas three years later."

A good sport at five years of age, a
baby who could be tripped, teased and
hurt and still come up smiling every time!
Mary is right — she had priceless training
for the exigencies of studio work.

J§ CAN yOU WORK
tgj'HOLLYWUUD?

SCREENLAND

In New York — Continued from page 79

apartment — meaning a roof. Most of the
guests were New Yorkers, friends of the
groom.

Music was furnished by Paul Whiteman
himself and his orchestra.

Manhattan chuckles over the prospect of
some wag first addressing Bill Seeman as
"Mr. Phyllis Haver," but the fact remains
that Bill is boss of the family, and that
Phyllis is only too happy to be simply Mrs.
William Seeman from now on. She has
even given up her beloved Persian cats be-
cause Bill's pet is a dog — a wire-haired
terrier, who lords it over the Seeman
menage — a huge apartment, by the way,
which covers the entire space of a Green-
wich Village building. There are twenty
rooms and tennis and hand-ball courts and
all the trimmings which make it one of the
most unusual homes in New York City.
Bill Seeman is one of the town's favorite
playboys. Ever since he was a student in
Cornell he has been well and favorably
known as a boy about town. His parties
are famous and he usually has an orchestra
handy to play for his guests. Phyllis will
not be settling down to dull and depressing
domesticity by any means. She will be a
leading spirit in a gay Bohemian set where
her Irish wit and charm will make her as
popular as she was in Hollywood. The
Seemans sailed on the Berengaria for a
three months' cruise. When I said goodbye
to Phyllis she was so thrilled and excited
she couldn't say much except about how
much she loved her husband, and how
gorgeous the wedding presents were. Yes,
she did solemnly announce that she was
positively leaving the screen for good. And
I think she will stick to it — unless the call
of the movies is too strong — and Bill re-
lents and lets her come back.

I met Victor and Nusi Varconi at a tea
before they sailed and I can understand why
they are so popular. Victor is so big and
handsome, with a nice smile and an inimit-
able accent — in fact, why his accent should
be any bar to his success in the speakies
I can't see. It enhances his appeal as far
as I'm concerned. And is it fair, I ask you,
to rave about the accents of the foreign
ladies and not give us femmes a chance to
hear our continental boy friends? Speak
to us, Victor!

Mrs. Varconi is a cunning little thing —
blonde and big-eyed and oh, so adoring!
She beams at her big husband, hangs on
his every word, and then smiles around at
the assembled company as if to say, "Isn't
he wonderful?"

American wives, take notice! The Var-
conis were sailing for Europe, but only to
be gone a few months. They were laugh-
ingly explaining why they did not speak
English better. It seems there is a foreign
colony in Hollywood which keeps pretty
much to itself. Mr. and Mrs. Lubitsch,
Vilma Banky, Greta Garbo, and the Var-
conis spend much time together and nat-
urally speak their native language — or
French.

"The Divine Lady" in which Varconi
plays Lord Nelson, was running on Broad-
way, and so everybody asked how the actor
could have made himself up as the one-
armed naval hero. With vivid gestures
Mr. Varconi told us all about it: how he
had to hold one arm tightly behind him
so the camera couldn't find it, how he had
to minimize his height and stature by slouch-
ing, and how he had to experiment with

make-up to give one of his eyes the correct
effect of blindness. He admitted it was
not easy but he liked the part better than
any other he has played over here, with
the possible exception of Pontius Pilate in
"The King of Kings."

It's no wonder First National snatched
Leatrice Joy from vaudeville to star her in
talkies. The girl's a knockout! Her vaude-
ville act went over in a large way in Man-
hattan and environs. She sings charmingly
and looks lovely. And any movie actress
who can make a hit on- the stage in New
York may well pat herself on the back. It's
no small achievement. This town is just
naturally all set to tell a Hollywood star
where to go — right back to Hollywood,
unless she can 'show 'em.' Leatrice was a
revelation. She expected to close her tour
at an uptown theater. She was so good
they booked her into the Palace on Broad-
way! Most of her time here she spent on
the stage, working. The rest of the time
she spent writing letters, wiring or tele-
phoning for her little daughter, whom she
had to leave behind in Hollywood. When
Leatrice left for the coast she said she ex-
pected to start work right away in "A
Most Immoral Lady," the play that Alice
Brady did on the stage.

Everybody I know is brushing up in
French. Reason: Maurice Chevalier. The
ingratiating Frenchman returned to town to
make a personal appearance at the Broad-
way opening of his first American movie,
"Innocents of Paris," in which he sings songs
in both French and English. M. Chevalier
is a slight and rather shy man of uncertain
age — he's neither awfully young, nor mid-
dle-aged, nor old. I imagine his is a peren-
nial youthfulness, tempered by a truly Gallic
sophistication. He is a very important star
indeed in his own Paris, and in Manhattan
also, where he appeared in Ziegfeld's Mid-
night Frolic. But he is new to our movies,
and he is exceedingly modest about his
qualifications. He worked very hard, days
and nights, making his first talkie. He sub-
mitted amiably to the more or less trying
conditions of the early-talkie period in the
studios, when less famous actors were
grumbling. As to his new label. "The 'It'
Man," as he is being advertised by Para-
mount, he only smiles. And it's a very
nice smile, too.

I declare Claire Windsor seems prettier
every time I meet her! It had been several
years since I saw her last, she's been so
busy making pictures on the coast. And
you might think her fragile blonde beauty
would pall the least bit. Quite the con-
trary. Claire is one of the real beauties of
pictures. Blue, blue eyes; very fair skin;
gold hair — and an unassuming sweetness
and ready good humor that even other
women must admit is genuine. There is a
certain childlike quality about her — a guile-
lessness that is disarming. I'll never forget
that when she spent some time in New York
several years ago — when .she was Mrs. Bert
Lytell — she showed me the exquisite undies
she was making on a child's-size sewing
machine! She's really a domestic soul,
this Dresden-china doll. By the way, she
went to see Bert in his play, "Brothers,"
and they wished each other continued health
and happiness. Neither has married again.

There are HUNDREDS of trades and professions for
men and women in Motion Pictures. What are they?
"HANDS OF HOLLYWOOD" tells you accurately and
in detail — authentic, first-hand information on all posi-
tions, salaries paid and qualifications necessary. How
TALKIES are made and new positions created by them.
Many STABS, DIRECTORS, SCENARIO -WRITERS
came up from the ranks of script-girls, property men,
cutters, set-dressers, readers, etc.

Don't come to Hollywood UNPREPARED! Learn
first! "HANDS OF HOLLYWOOD" opens the way. It
tells you about Actor and Actress, Paper-hanger and
Producer, Director and Designer, Seamstress and Stenog-
rapher. Carpenter and Cameraman, Dressmaker and
Draper, etc. The difference between Star and Featured
Player, free-lance and contract player, "bits" and ex-
tras; how Pictures are made, sets designed, built, lighted,
dressed, painted — all described in "HANDS OF HOLLY-
WOOD." It is the only book of its kind. If you are
interested in a career in the movies, send $1.50 today
for your copy of "HANDS OF HOLLYWOOD" ; beau-
tifully bound, charmingly written. True! Thrilling!
Trustworthy!

FRFF witn this D0olf' a Dictionary and Directory of
* Movieland, containing Picture phrases, studio

slang, technical terms. Names of cafes, clubs and
churches, — where the STARS pray and play, dine and
dance.

PHOTOPLAY RESEARCH BUREAU

Dept. B 5617 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif.

GREATEST of all Band leaders
says: "Complete Equipment of
Conn Instruments enhances musical value
of any band at least 50%. " More than 50
years of experience, and exclusive patented
processes make Conn instruments superior.
Easiest blowing. Most flexible mechanical action.
Most perfect tone. Yet they cost no more. Any
i nstrument sent on free trial . Easy payments
if desired. Write for literature. Mention in-
strument. c G CONNj Ltd.

784 Conn Bldg., Elkhart, Indiana •

WORLD"S LARGEST
MANUFACTURERS y

BAND INSTRUMENTS

SCREEN STARS

2J Pictures of famous
movie stars. Good
clear prints. Size 3'/4X
5 J/2 - Sent prepaid on
receipt of 50c.
JOHN 0. WEIGEL PICTURES CO.
Box - 521, San Francisco, Cal.

Ad Writers

Jliake

BIG MONEY

. Today one of the biggest, best paid fields for .
% writers Is the thrilling, fascinating work of r
\ advertising — the great force that shapes and jf
sways modern business. Here your writing
talent will bring you big money quick— many
make $4,000 to $15,000 a year writing adver-
tisements, booklets, and other literature.

Amazing Opportunities

Millions Being Spent

FREE— Amazing Book

For thirty-one years the Page-
Davis School has been training
men and women in advertising.
Many prominent advertising
positions now filled by our
graduates. In an amazing Free
Book, Hoio to Win Success in
Advertising, you are told all
about our practical easy method
— now to develop your ideas and
realize real money for them in
advertising. Send for this free
book today— it may be the turn-
ing point of your life.

PACE -DAVIS SCHOOL
OF ADVERTISING

3601 Michigan Ave. Dept. 632-B
CHICAGO, ILL.

SCHOOL TEACHER
NOW MAKES $10,000

A woman school teacher
a few years ago — today
she is advertising mana-
ger of one of the coun-
try's beat known depart-
ment stores with a salary
close to $10,000, a year 1

HAS OWN BUSINESS

Your Advertising Course
has been a great help to
me in planning my adver-
tising literature which I
use in the conduct of my
own business.

Arthur B. Pitts

SCREENLAND

Stop Using a Truss

STUARTS ADHESIF PLAPAO-PADS are entirely
diHerent from trussos— being automatically contin-
uous mechanico-chemico applicators of the herbal
muscle-tonic "PLAPAO" to the affected parts.
Made self-adhesive purposely to minimize painful
chafinpr and dangerous slipping and to eliminate
harmful pressure.

ComtorlaDie when—
no straps,

buckles
or springs
attached.

For almost a quarter of a century satisfied thousands
report success without delay from work. Stacks of
sworn statements on file. Process of recovery
natural, so no subsequent use for a truss. Awarded
Gold Medal. Rome. Grand Prix. Paris, etc. PRFT
Test of factor "PLAPAO" sent you f U U fc
Mall Coupon below TODAY. I llbL

Plapao Co., 1325 Stuart Bldg., St. Loais, Mo.

Name — - - —

Address — „„..„..,»..-„... — - ......

Return mail will bring Free Trial "PLAPAO"

(WkoWUMJier?

J J HH ■fl ^TPADTANT bride, starting
V on the greatest adven-
ture in a woman's life— who
Will prepare herfor that in-
timate problem of married
life on which f uturehappi-
ness depends? How often
romance fades — the bloom
of youth is destroyed — and
bitter disillusion is the end
— all because of ignorance.
Happiness, freedom from
worry are impossible with-
out a knowledge of feminine hy-
giene. Dependence on old fashion-
ed, uncertain, unsafe methods
brings only fear and worry. There
is a newer, better way. Modern
brides find happiness and daintiness
In convenient, non-poisonous, non-
irritating Vagi-Slips which effectively
destroy all germ laden accumulations.
Absolutely will not injure delicate
membranes.

Married Women V. Tree Yourself

VAGI-SLIPS require NO frQm U/^rri/.

_ _rom happy
bride to phys-
ical wreck!
D4 No one told
TM her the truths
k I °^ feminine
At hygiene.

Aj Feminine hygiene is now convenient anytime, any-
Jg* where. Carry a box with you for convenience. No

dangerous carbolic acid, bichloride of mercury or
other caustic poisons. Yet KILLS ALL GERMS
ft I instantly . Prescribed by physicians. Succeeds where
Jf\ others fail. No risk.

Onr,cc nvMui Bedainty, healthy . free from all
RDER BY ITl AIL worry. A dollar bill brings you a
generous sized box of VAGI-SLIPS in plain wrap-
per. Satisfaction or money back. Send Name, Ad-
dress and One Dollar To-Day.

Violet <page

143 Fourth Ave. Dept. 67 New York City

Do Hospital, Laboratory,
Analytical and X-Ray work.
This highly paid profession
learned in a few months.
Send for book "The TJn-
crowded Field."

SCHOOL OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
Dc-k 17 St. Paul, Minn.

MONEY FOR YOU

Men or women can earn $15 to $25 weekly
in spare time at home making display cards.
Light, pleasant work. N o canvassing. We
instruct you and supply you with work.
Write to-day lor full particulars.
The MENHEN1TT COMPANY Limited

Subscribe to Screenland
$2.50 One Year

$4.50 Two Years

How To Break In the Movies— Maybe!

Continued from page 71

cents a day, found and keep. Better not
decide upon becoming a goose, however,
as there's one goose in Hollywood who has
the goose racket cornered. He's a gander
named Bozo, and he travels to the studios
in a limousine. He received thirty-five
dollars a day for sharing close-ups with
Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall and others.
Of course, there's the chance that Bozo will
get old — and that's just the chance for you,
provided you decide to become a goose
while you're still young.

There's lots of easy money awaiting you
if you become a cow. Well, why not? If
you're going to get snooty, there's no
sense in me tipping you off to your Big
Chance, is there? Just let me tell you that
a cow that photographs well gets three
dollars a day! You couldn't do better than
that if you were in the army! Pigs are
paid two dollars, horses two dollars and a
half up, and ordinary dogs find two dollars
in their pay envelopes. There you are!
Now you can't say that I'm not showing
you exactly where Opportunity will knock!
I told you I was big-hearted, didn't I?

There's a man in Hollywood who has
a trained chicken — feathered! Well, there
isn't any other kind that you can train!
This chicken struts her stuff at fifteen
dollars a day. Of course, you might not
like the man, but that's up to you. I
can't fix everything, you know. Then
there's a monkey that has played in more
pictures than most stars and has earned
enough money to buy a bungalow. It
seems to me that this proposition is well
worth looking into.

Now, if you prefer to do something big,
elephants draw from twenty-five dollars a
day up, and so do lions. Think this over!
A trained deer earns one hundred dollars
a week. Not so bad. I think I'll look into
this myself. I might be just the type.
Well, I've had some compliments in my
day, and who are you to say that I haven't?

Are you one of these willing workers,
one of these creatures who is satisfied to
receive little credit for what you do? Then
here's your chance! Become a bee! There's
a great opportunity awaiting you if you can
fix it so you can become a bee. Trained
bees — ones that will not fly away and
will not sting actors — can be had for a day
at fifty smacks per swarm. Now, don't get

temperamental and tell me you are opposed
to this swarm thing! If you prove you
can act — and Heaven knows there ought
to be the opportunity if you are a bright
bee and don't sting the hand that feeds
you — you can get a dollar a day at the
lowest, which should easily keep a bee
alive. It's all up to what kind of a bee you
want to be — oh, now!

Up to now we've been pretty good
friends, and I don't quite like to go into
this, but you might just as well know all.
When I started, I promised to tell you of
all the opportunities, and I don't feel as
though I should hedge at this stage of the
game. If — understand, I am only saying
'if — if you can bring yourself to becoming
a flea of the trained variety, there's five
dollars awaiting you for each day's work.
If you have any doubt about your histrionic
ability in this field, don't go into it, as the
common, ordinary, dumb fleas can be pur-
chased outright for three dollars a dozen.
I'm the last person in the world to want
to see you sold down the river for this
measly sum.

Of course, there are no end of oppor-
tunities in this wide field and it is difficult
for me to cover it thoroughly, because how
do I know what you want to be! There
is always a chance for a good seal, provided
you can catch a ball on your nose and
balance it; and there is almost the same
opportunity for a reptile, a good alligator,
or a what-not, such as a lellum-quaw. (A
lellum-quaw is a quaw that lellums. Can
you do it?) Now, take a fish, for instance.
Just try to take a fish! Perhaps you don't
want to, perhaps you haven't the heart, or
perhaps it isn't Friday. Anyway, the cast-
ing director I tipped you off to told me all
about a trained fish once. So before con-
sidering this proposition, think it over well.

"There was just one good fish, and that
was Lawrence," he declared. "By keeping
Lawrence out of the water for a few sec-
onds a day. at first, then a minute a day,
and so on, his owner finally got him so
he could stay out of the water much of the
time. That fish certainly got a good salary.
But it was too bad, you know."

"What was too bad?" I asked him, know
ing you would want to know.

"Too bad about Lawrence. About two
weeks ago he fell into a pond of water
and was drowned!"

Clothes Creations — Continued from page 15

smocked neck-lines and bordered the
aprons that she inquired from the French
needle-women the meanings of the patterns
and to which province each belonged.
Needless to say there were many careful
stitches sewn in these garments by the
admiring little ladies.

It is possible with Marion Davies to
make clothes that are quite practical for
girls of her type to be influenced by.
Being real herself the clothes will not be
too far-fetched or too dramatic to be
adapted to your own wardrobe.

As she is quite American in her manner
and appearance the clear-cut direct ward-
robe is sure to be well suited. Her soft-
ness can easily come out in her evening
clothes. If Marion floats about the room
she is bound to be right; if she slinks about
the room she is bound to be wrong. There-
fore, in adapting her clothes remember the
buoyancy we spoke of earlier in the article

and you will find surety.

She is perhaps more essentially the
American girl at her best than anyone we
have — -her enthusiasms, tastes and bearing
all make her clothes right. You are safer
in choosing her gowns as models for your
own than most stars because she is very
apt to look on the screen as she does off.
Many stars have a tendency to be an en-
tirely different personality when on the
screen than off — too ultra on, and not ultra
enough off! Therefore, Miss Davies is a
happy compromise.

So if your type is the Davies type you
are comparatively safe in copying.

I hope the feminine readers of SCREEN'
land will call on me to advise them about
any problems of costume or colors, whether
they are the Marion Davies type or not!
Just address Adrian, Screenland Fashion
Editor, 49 West 45th Street, New York
City.

SCREENLAND

The Grand (Opera) Young Man

Continued from page 33

require fixed itineraries, and one stands and she became world famous. But it took
stiffly before a piano in store clothes and Mexico to discover her. In Mexico City
sings. the Opera is a beautiful place; a wonder-

"Opera is different. There is the ful temple of music comparable only to the
glamour of costumes, of scenery, of the Paris Opera in grandeur,
drama that goes with it all. And the "So you see, perhaps I learned to look
dramatic appeals as strongly as the music, at opera, as a child, from a different view-
You see, I like to consider music as drama, point than that of the average American
Even when I sing my little Mexican folk- child. When my brother and I came to
songs in my own little concerts, or the America, we had to earn our living as best
monk in the German song cycle, I like to we could. I danced on the stage, but sang
dress and act the part." inwardly as I did so. I practiced con-

"Then, after all, you expect really to tinually — while wondering if I was going
dramatize your opera roles?" to eat. Then came my chance in pictures

"Don't we dramatize ourselves in every — and Rex Ingram. I scored success as an
thing we do?" inquired the star, with a actor, only to find I was further from my
whimsical smile. "When we are children goal than ever before. I could study, but
we play at being this and that, and every I had to go into one picture after another
time we go to a theater, we subconsciously so that I never had a chance really to try
put ourselves in the roles of this or that what I could do on the operatic stage,
character. We even do it when reading "This year Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave
a novel, and we certainly do it in our me my chance, when the company arranged
daily doings. As a little boy, I used to my contract so that, between pictures, I'd
envision myself as the opera singers we be allowed to sing in opera, and my kind
saw in Mexico; I hummed their airs and friends in Berlin did the rest,
saw myself enacting their parts. Of course "Opera in talking pictures? Well, that's
we of the Latin races feel far differently another dream of mine. Don't you think
about opera then do perhaps you colder- that, with a cast of recognized opera sing-
blooded Americans. You know, in Italy ers and a few good screen actors, we'd
every little town has its opera; in France have a wonderful thing, enhancing the spec-
it is far more popular than in America, and taclc of the opera with film technique, with
in Spain opera holds almost the same esteem great sets and lavish pictorial effects to
that it does in Mexico. match the grandeur of the music? And —

"Perhaps you didn't know that Tetraz- this is a business point — good film box-
zini first won fame in my country. The office names combined with great operatic
acclaim she won in Mexico attracted the names? It's still a dream of mine — and
attention of audiences in the United States, it all depends on how I succeed in Berlin!"

The (StockShof Star

Continued from page 83

leaving eleven perfectly good and furious surf. He also has a great liking for auto-
opponents fuming in his zig-zagged wake. mobiles and you seldom will drive up to his

Johnny is a strange figure amid the house without finding his long legs pro-
whoopee whirl of Hollywood. He has never truding from beneath his roadster,
tasted liquor. Occasionally he smokes. Johnny naturally has a strong yen for
Seldom does hard language reach his lips, corn pones, honey and fried chicken. He
And never do you see him at parties, appeases this healthy longing in a very
Not that Johnny is a prude or lacking in normal manner. He eats corn pones, honey
good fellowship. He just doesn't fit into and fried chicken. In fact, until you have
the background. so feasted in Johnny's house you haven't

Johnny's closest friend and chum is old any right even to mention those three

George Fawcett, the lovable veteran who Southern delicacies in the same breath,

made Johnny quit his football career and Johnny also has a weakness for beef stew

go into pictures. If it weren't for Fawcett and it must reluctantly be admitted that he

Johnny probably would be playing profes- goes in for onions in a big way. Onions,

sional football or acting as coach on his old he solemnly tells you, made him big and

stamping grounds at the University of Ala- strong. That's a great ad for onions,

bama where he first won fame. And while poor Johnny's private likes

It was Fawcett who yanked Johnny by and dislikes are being torn loose from their

the nape of his neck, stuck him up in front foundations, let it further be stipulated that

of a camera and gave him the test that re- he is wild about Laurel-Hardy comedies;

suited in his signing a long-term contract shooting galleries; "The Front Page"; old

with M-G-M. Johnny couldn't possibly sweaters; dogs of doubtful parentage; revo-

have stayed together long enough to do it lutions in Mexico and trips to Europe,

by himself. Some day Johnny is going to go back

Fame and adulation fall easily upon home to that dusty Alabama town and the

Johnny's husky shoulders. And when you folks will turn out at the station with a

are reminded that he has been in the pub- brass band to meet him. And the boys will

lie eye since he was fourteen years old, ac- slap him on the back, nudge him with sly

claimed a football idol before he was winks and say: "How's it feel to be a

twenty, it is not at all surprising to find famous picture star, hey, Johnny?"

this chap so utterly unaffected by his mo- And Johnny will wrinkle up his brow

tion picture success. and reply:

An athlete since boyhood, Johnny spends "Well, a-a-all right, I reckon!"

most of his time in gymnasiums or in the And that will be that!

Ill

See the Movie!

Read the Book!

Your favorite moving picture in
novel form — for $1.00

Order any one for $1.00 or 6 for $5.00

Our Dancing Daughters

Mother Knows Best

White Shadows in the South Seas

The Fleet's In (Clara Bow edition)

Lilac Time

Beggars of Life

The Singing Fool

Revenge

Interference

The Divine Lady

Me Gangster

The Broadway Melody

The Barker

The Wolf of Wall Street
Wings

Sorrel and Son

Four Sons

The King of Kings

The Canary Murder Case

The River

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Abie's Irish Rose

The Legion of the Condemned

Noah's Ark

Four Devils

The Patent Leather Kid

Seventh Heaven

The Rescue

On Trial

The Trail of '98

Dracula

Beau Geste

Beau Sabreur

Redskin

Glorious Betsy

SCREENLAND MAGAZINE (Dept. 7-29)
49 West 45th Street, New York City

I enclose $ for which please send

me -■- i

Name -

Address

112

SCREENLAND

wits IBi

.use

Do You Look Like This

Take a look in the mirror. What do you see? A
thin, flat -chested, flabby weakling? Are you ashamed of
your body? The picture above shows how one man
looked before he started
Titus Training. He had
sense enough to know he
needed my muscle develop-
ing svsteml How about
YOU?

Easily-QuicklySafely

YOU young fellow — you business man
— you chap past forty! Send me
your name. I want to tell you the
whole amazing story of MIRACLES IN
MUSCLE! Don't put it off. Don't turn
the page. Man, this is IMPORTANT.
When you see what I've done for other
fellows, you'll open your eyes. And when
you see how EASILY you can become
TWICE THE MAN you are now, you'll
thank your lucky stars that you did your-
self the favor of writing to me.

It's FUN getting strong my way. All
the snap and go of your favorite sport —
just a few minutes a day of honest-to-
goodness, clean-cut pleasure — right in
your own home. But how it builds MUS-
CLE! I don't care how weak or run-
down you are now. I'm going to make
you over. I'll change that puny body
into a superb model of muscular MAN-
HOOD. Gee, but you'll be proud of your
wonderful development! What a nicture
you'll make in. a bathing suit!

And you'll be there when it comes to any
physical contest. You'll enjoy grabbing hole'
of an oar, a tennis racquet, a canoe paddle
— or squaring off for a round or so. You'll
have speed, agility and POWER. Titus-
trained men aren't afraid of competition ;
they never take the dirty end of the stick.
I don't care how big they come — no beefy,
bulky hulk can stand up before the flashing,
crashing power of a PANTHER-MAN. There's
science in Titus Training.

-or Like This?

I'll Make You a REAL Athlete

HERMAN SAXON

World1 s.Famous Strong Man Sai/s:
"Many people who have seen my
feats of strength on the stage have
a^ked mo what exerciser 1 used to
develop my body and how I keep
■t 'in the Pink' now. My answer is
always the same: 1 bought them all
until I found the best. 1 bought
every appliance, from dumb-bells
up, but the one that gave me my
panther-legs and arms is the one 1
got from TITUS. There isn't an-
other apparatus like yours Hi THE
WORLD!"

WHAT'S your favorite sport- Boxing,
wrestling, football, baseball, track ? I'll
give you the MUSCLE COORDINATION
that means increased Ability — Success. I'll
give you the stamina that stands the gaff.
I'll give you the virility of dominant MAN-
HOOD 1 I'll give you the body of a young
Greek God. Other men will envy your
splendid physique — girls will remark on it
with admiration. You know what that
means, friend— POPULARITY plenty I

A NEW BODY — Inside and Out

Stop wasting your time with tedious, okl-
fashioned exercisers. Find out about the
snappy, sporty Titus way — the scientific
method that has developed leading strong
men of the world — that has shown the way
to other instructors. Titus Training builds
up every nerve, every cell, every vital organ,
every muscle in the body. And it does it
so quickly and easily that you're amazed
at the results.

MIRACLES

See the Change in 30 Days

You're going to be the proudest man on
two feet when you see those big, brawny
muscles rippling over your back, your arms,
your legs. I'm going to put INCHES of
solid muscle on your frame. I'm going
to broaden your shoulders, deepen your
chest, trim down that waistline. I'll gvie
you the build of an athlete.

Forget Your Weaknesses

Why drag along only HALF ALIVE?
A run down physical condition makes you
an easy prey to colds, asthma, constipation,
nervousness, insomnia, headaches, impotence,
pimples, and many other maladies. If your
body is sound but undevelpoed, let me
show you the way to a glorious new life.
In just a few short weeks it is possible
for you to be the picture of health, bubbling
over with energy, filled with the vigor of

IN MUSCLE is FREE

And here's another man — the kind Titus builds!
How does your arm look alongside this man's?
Measure your chest against his. Then mail the
coupon below and find out what Titus Training
will do for YOU. That's what Gaston Vielte did
and now read . . .

What he Says:

"I am glad to tell you right
here that I have made a sur-
prisingly great progress since
I took your course. I must
and willingly do my best to
recommend your noble work to
others for the betterment of
humankind" — (Signed) Gaston
Vielte.

Wear This Medal

It's yours free when you join
the great brotherhood of Titus-
trained men. It's the badjre
of strong, virile manhood. You
can be proud to wear it.
Made of solid statuary bronze,
handsomely embossed. Send
for the free book that tells the
whole story.

I can't begin to tell you
here about Titus Train-
ing— how it scientifically re-
builds every organ, every
fibre in your body — how it
makes your muscles GROW
—how it charges you with
new life, pep and energy.
My big FREE Bool; tells
the whole wonderful story.
You MUST read this book.
Just send me your name
and address — that's all.
Mail the coupon, a post-
card or a letter. But do it
NOW.

The One and Only

TITUS

This is Harry Toliti using his Titus Apparatus as a 105 East 13th Street
rowing machine — just one of the many interesting ways mcw vfiDlT M V
in which you can use this compact Home Gymnasium. INfcW lUKIv, IN. I.

• Titus, Dept. V-140

105 East 13th St., New York, N. Y.

' Dear Titus: Send me vour big

illustrated book. "MIRACLES IN
MUSCLE" — -FREE — explaining your
snappy, scientific system of Body-
Building in a few minutes a day.

Name

Address

Town_

State

M-G-M TALKIES

e l

Voice of the Screen's Greatest Stars

EVERYBODY'S

ABOUT THESE

TALKING
ALL-TALKING
ASH HITS!

MADAME X — This deathless story made to live again before you. RUTH
CHATTERTON, Lewis Stone and Raymond Hackett in tense, breathless
drama. Directed by Lionel Barrymore.

CTROM coast to coast they're talking
about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's sen-
sational 100% talking pictures. So far
ahead of the ordinary run of "talkies'
there's no comparison. Living,
breathing, laughing, loving, danc-
ing, singing — M-G-M stars ap-
pear before you in all their
brilliance, in stories that are
masterpieces, directed by
masters. And above all, a
technical superiority in
sound reproduction
that brings you the
living voice of the
screen's greatest
stars.

METRO

N MAYER

''fSTSTAROl*^ "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven"

Not lightly clwsen

"III

One's gowns . . . one's jewels . . .
one's cigarette. . . . These things
are so much a part of the subtle
web of personality, that clever
women choose them as they
would a confidante. . . . And
though every gown is different,
and gems vary, their taste in

cigarettes is strikingly uniform.

They have chosen Camels.

1929. R. J. Reynolds Tobarco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C.

PHYLLIS HAVER

Constance
Bennett

7e//s why

She returns to the screen

ESS I [LOVES Summer Sports Wardrobe FREE!

Ifcii* dunging

now

~]% TOT SO LONG AGO, perhaps within the memory of the reader, horse-
% less carriages whizzed by at the rate of fifteen miles an hour and
* innocent bystanders declared that "wonders would never cease".
Only yesterday, it seems, the talking motion picture was an illusive
hope — something for inventors to dream about. Today it is an actuality,
universally known and already regarded by a public, accustomed to
marvels, as an accepted and established form of entertainment. In a sur-
prisingly brief period of time the miraculous has become a commonplace.

A Glance Backward

Since Movietone is now the accepted method of talking picture production, it
may be well to trace the growth of this new form of dramatic expression.

In 1911, Theodore W. Case started to experiment with a process of photograph-
ing sound on film. In 1916, Earl I. Sponable joined him and they worked together.

Early in 1926, they presented their idea to William Fox as a workable basis
for perfectly synchronized reproduction of sound and action. With characteristic
keenness of judgment and foresight, Mr. Fox recognized the potential value of
the idea and agreed to finance further experiments in his own laboratories.

In January, 1927, Fox Movietone was first introduced to the public at the Sam
Harris Theater in New York. In October, the first all-Movietone newsreel was shown
at the Roxy Theater in New York.

Developments came swiftly. June of 1928 saw the first all -dialog comedy in
two reels — the Fox Movietone production "The Family Picnic." Six months later,
the talking picture emerged as a distinct, full-fledged entertainment with the pres-
entation of "In Old Arizona," the first feature-length, all-dialog talking picture
ever made almost wholly out of doors. "In Old Arizona" not only broke all box
office records — it definitely established the talking picture as a separate, distinct
medium of expression — neither screen, nor stage, nor yet a hybrid combination of
both, but a unique, different form, requiring a new technique and offering new
possibilities for artistic development. '

His judgment in the future of Movietone so completely vindicated, William Fox
spared no energy in the development of this new medium.

Fox Movietone News quickly became a three-issue-a-week feature, revealing
the vocal images of such famous personages as Calvin Coolidge, Alfred E. Smith,
Colonel Lindbergh, Gene Tunney, George Bernard Shaw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Premier Mussolini, King George Fifth of England, King Alfonso of Spain — pre-
serving not only their likenesses, but also their living voices, their very person-
alities, for posterity. Today fifty special Fox Movietone News trucks are in service
the world over — reporting in sight and sound what happens uhen it happens in
England, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy, India, China and Japan. One unit
has actually circled the globe!

At Fox Hills, California, a new $10,000,000 studio has been especially created
for the production of talking pictures. This gigantic plant, occupying 180 acres,
is actually a city in itself — Fox Movietone City. Here alone, twenty-five complete
recording units are now in operation.

SCREENLAND

turns fa

,yUa/tETCM£/

Many of the products of Fox Movietone City have already scored phenomenal
successes throughout the United States — "The Black Watch", "Thru Different
Eyes", "The Valiant" and "Fox Movietone Follies".

A Pledge for the Future

The tremendous provision of physical facilities for the creation of Fox Movietone
productions is impressive. But more wonderful still is the assurance of the future
of Movietone.

From the ranks of concert singers and stage players Mr. Fox has recruited
some of the most brilliant stars of this generation — John McCormack, Lenore
Ulric, William Collier, Will Rogers, George Jessel, Walter Catlett, Dorothy Burgess,
Mary Duncan, to name only a few.

To provide the vehicles in which these stars will be presented to the public,
Mr. Fox has assembled a veritable host of outstanding dramatists, composers and
playwrights. Oscar Straus, the famous Viennese composer, has composed the first
operetta for Fox Movietone, "Married in Hollywood." DeSylva, Brown and
Henderson, famous as popular song writers, have written a musical comedy,
"Sunny Side Up," in which Janet Gaynor is to be heard. Laurence Stallings and
Maxwell Anderson, authors of "What Price Glory" have written "The Cock Eyed
World" in which Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe will appear under the
direction of Raoul Walsh.

Never before in the history of motion pictures has there been marshalled in
its service so varied, so magnificent an array of talent! Never before has the
theater -loving public been able to look forward to such a feast of rare and
excellent entertainment as is now in the making in Movietone City!

And under the intelligent, resourceful and courageous leadership of William
Fox, Movietone will live up to the high promise it holds. It will take the place
it justly deserves in the realm of theatre art — a place unique and distinct.

This is. a pledge to the great entertainment loving public of America. And
the entire Fox organization is united in a determination to keep that pledge!

Now Victor McLaglen as Flagg and Edmund Lowe as Quirt
talk in THE COCK EYED WORLD, directed by Raoul Walsh

Janet Gaynor

sings in an original musical comedy

SUNNY SIDE UP

composed by DeSylva, Brown and Henderson

ELINOR GLYNN'S

first talking picture

SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS

enacted by Warner Baxter and Mary Duncan

Will Rogers

talks straight from the screen in Homer Croy's story

THEY HAD TO SEE PARIS

directed by Frank Borzage with dialog by Owen Davis

Norma Terris& J. Harold Murray singing
MARRIED IN HOLLYWOOD

an original operetta composed for Fox Movietone
by Oscar Straus

Lenore Ulric

in her talking screen debut

FROZEN JUSTICE

with Louis Wolheini

Warner Baxter

THE CISCO KID

in a colorful outdoor talking picture

Augusr, 1929

Title Reg. U. S. Pat. OfF.

VOL. XIX, No. 4

Delight Evans, Editor

CONTENTS

Cover — Phyllis Haver. Painted by Georgia
Warren

Lot Talk 4

The Flapper Fan's Forecast. By Evelyn

Ballarine 8

Confessions of the Fans. Letters from Readers 12

Honor Page- — Myrna Loy and Ronald Colman 16

Editorial. By Delight Evans 18

Rudy Vallee 19

Why I've Come Back. Constance Bennett. By

Rosa Reilly 20

Hushing Hollywood. By Ruth Tildesley . . 22
Summer Sports Wardrobe Free From Bessie

Love ' 24

The Starry Masquerade. By Grace Kingsley . 26

Broadway Invasion. By Rob Wagner ... 28
On Location with John Gilbert. By Helen

Ludlam 30

The Baby Author. Beth Brown. By Sydney

Valentine 32

The Most Beautiful Still of the Month.

Burlesque 33

"It's Surely Summer!" Billie Dove .... 34

William Powell — A Portrait 36

Joan Bennett- — A Portrait 37

Mary Eaton- — A Portrait 38

Dolores Del Rio — A Portrait 39

Victor McLaglen and Myrna Loy — A Por-
trait 40

Her Trial Career. Sally filers. By James M.

Fidler 41

Ronald Colman Offers a Gift for a. Letter 42

•Firing' the Stars. By Gordon R. Silver . . 44
The Bad Boy of Hollywood. William Haines.

By Ralph Wheeler 46

for AUGUST

Delicht Evans1 Reviews 48

Meet the Missus. Mr. and Mrs. Jac\ Mulhall.

By Eleanor Barnes 54

The Dancing Doll. Joyce Murray. By Brad-
ford Nelson 56

Charles Rogers and Mary Brian ■ — A Portrait 57

Nancy Drexel — A Portrait 58

Ben Lyon — A Portrait 59

Douglas MacLean — A Portrait 60

Marie Prevost — A Portrait 61

William Bakewell — A Portrait 62

Sally O'Neil — A Portrait 63

Carlotta King — A Portrait 64

And So They Were Married! John Gilbert

and Ina Claire 65

What Inspires the Stars? By Helen Ludlam 66

Looking at the Ladies. By Charles Ruggles . 68

Directed by Dorothy Arzner! By Julie Lang 70

Warner: H. B. By Logan Carlisle .... 72
Fashions for the Sophisticated Girl. By

Adrian 74

In New York. By Anne Bye 76

Handsful of Charm. Screenland's Beauty De-
partment. By Anne Van Alstyne .... 78
Let's Go to the Movies! Screenland's Revuettes SO
Hot from Hollywood! T^ews of Pictures and

Players 82

Not So Long Ago. Chester Morris and Anita

Page 88

The Stage Coach. By Morrie Ryskind ... 90
Beauty and the Beach. Leila Hyams and

Dorothy Mac\aill 92

Ask Me! By Miss Vee Dee 94

Screen Sisters. June Collyer and Mary Astor 97

Published monthly by Screenland Magazine. Inc. Executive and
Editorial offices: 49 West 45th Street. New York City. William
Galland. President ; Joseph M. Hopkins, Vice-President; C. B.
Mantel. Secretary. Yearly subscriptions $2.50 in the United States,

its dependencies, Cuba and Mexico: S3. 00 in Canada: foreign, S3. 50.
Entered as second-class matter November 30, 1023. at the Post Office
at New York. N. Y.. under the Act of March 3. 1S79. Additional
tional entry at Dunellen, N. J. Copyright 1029.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulations

SGREENLAND

. . . THE NEW

SHOW WORLD

fffp

'roadway and
Hollywood united!

Stage and Screen are one!

r | THESE changing times have seen
nothing so miraculous as the
fusion of all forms of amusement —
screen, stage, music, radio — into one.
Ct,Now, in the talking, singing mo-
tion picture you get all that the
screen has ever given you — and the
living voices of the stars themselves.
You get all that the stage has ever
offered you — and scenes and action
not possible without the far reaching
eye of the camera. ©, It's a New Show
World and all the arts and sciences
are enriching the screen. It's a New
Show World; a famous name is
leading it! CL Paramount — with
eighteen years of quality leadership.
Paramount with the largest and
choicest array of talent from all the
amusement fields, d. Paramount, the
greatest name in motion pictures,
now presents its greatest entertain-
ments— the Super Shows of the New
Show World. See and hear them all!
"If it's €t Paramount picture it's the
best show in town.

SUPER-SHOWS

of the
NEW SHOW WOPiLD

"THE FOUR FEATHERS"
"DR. FU MANCHU"
"THE COCOANUTS"
"GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN
GIRL"

"THE VAGABOND KING"
"THE DANCE OF LIFE"
"THE LOVE PARADE"
"WELCOME DANGER" ft
and more

Cream of Screen and
Stage Stars

HAROLD LLOYD *
MORAN AND MACK
CLARA BOW
MAURICE CHEVALIER
GEORGE BANCROFT
THE MARX BROTHERS
GARY COOPER
DENNIS KING
JEANNE EAGELS
CHARLES "BUDDY" ROGERS
RUTH CHATTERTON
NANCY CARROLL
WILLIAM POWELL
and more

Seen and Heard in
Short Features

EDDIE CANTOR
TITO SCHIPA
RUDY VALLEE

JAMES BARTON
and more

PARAMOUNT
SOUND NEWS

""Eyes and Ears of the World"

►X- Produced by Harold Lloyd Corp.,
Paramount release.

^Paramount (Pictures

PARAMOUNT FAMOUS LASKY CORP., ADOLPH ZUKOR, PRES., PARAMOUNT BUILDING, NEW YORK

SCREENLAND

fOT

TALK

News and Views from the
Sound Studios

Jimmy Gleason has taken the slang
center west with him. New York
will now have to limp along without
this originator of Americanisms..
Jimmy wrote the play, "Is Zat So?" and
the English language has never been quite
the same since. But that was just warm'
ing up. Now he charms the technical staff
at the Pathe studio in Culver City with
his lingo. The funny thing is that they
have no difficulty in understanding him.

The other day Gleason was explaining
a bit of 'business' to one of his cast in
"The Garden of Eatin,' " a comedy in
which he is featured with his wife, Lucille
Webster Gleason, and which he directed.

"Now get this straight," said Jimmy, as
he tried for the third time to give the actor
a word picture of what he was expected
to do. "We open on a long shot. You
ankle in with a nifty benny on and I take
it big when I lay my lamps on it. What
we've got to get over is that the benny has
knocked me for a row."

A lady visitor looked bewildered and
asked her guide for a translation. "Mr.
Gleason is explaining that the person ad-
dressed is to enter the scene wearing a
handsome overcoat, which Gleason so ad-
mires that he wishes he had one like it.
'Take it big' means that he is strongly
moved on seeing it and gasps in admi-
ration."

Taking a long breath Jimmy again
turned on the talk-spigot.

"I'm bearing the traps in this scene and
I've gotta gag where a fly lands on the

C[ Helen Morgan plays a burlesque queen
in Beth Brown's "Applause."

C[ John lAcCormac\, world-famous concert
star, has at last been lured into motion
pictures. 'William Fox has signed the
tenor to a long-term contract at one of
the highest salaries ever paid an artist.
The first ~McCormac\ a!i-tal^ing feature
will be filmed partly on the singer's
estate in Ireland.

button of the pumphorn player and I sock
him with a fly swatter. Get me? Well,
then they truck the box back for a long
shot and I've got a little gag with the
ball-and-chain, but you don't need to bother
about that. Don't get your pan so close
to the mike this time."

"Hey, Mr. Gleason!" called one of the
electricians, "would you mind fudgin' over
till I get this nigger set so'-s to kill that
highlight on your knob? There, that's jake.
Now I can shoot you just where you're
standing."

The lady visitor was led away, mut-
tering.

% & &

The strangest sacrifice ever made for
screen realism has just been brought to
light in filmdom. Winifred Westover, ex-
wife of Bill Hart, who recently emerged
from eight years' professional retirement,
has added seventy-five pounds to her weight
within a few weeks time in order to play
the title role in Herbert Brenon's all talk-
ing production of "Lummox."

Forty pounds excess was acquired by
eating fat-producing foods, and the addi-
tional thirty-five pounds needed to give her
the posture of the servant girl heroine of
Fannie Hurst's novel are the result of

Brenon's ingenious scheme of concealing
lead weights in the skirt hem, collar, sleeves
and shoes. The fictional "Lummox" has
big feet, so specially built shoes, with fif-
teen pounds of lead in the soles, are worn
by the screen character.

Miss Westover's normal weight is 120
pounds. When she stepped on the scales
recently she registered 19? pounds. She
plans a rigid diet and intensive exercise to
get rid of the excess as soon as she com-
pletes the picture.

♦ if ♦

Evelyn Brent believes in a short while
the tables will be turned and film plays
will be made into theater productions.

"There has been much transferring of
successful stage plays into the films, partic-
ularly so since the talkies have come into
vogue," says Miss Brent. "There is every
reason to believe that a new writingcraft,
that of writing directly for the talkie screen,
will come into being. That being the case,
why shouldn't the stories emanating from
this in turn be transcribed to the stage?"

Miss Brent has made three talking pic-
tures.

£ % %L

Does the extra girl in motion pictures
have ambitions to become a star, or is she
working for daily bread and necessities?

William J. Cowen, directing "Half
Marriage," a Radio Picture, made an in-
vestigation this week while 100 of the
prettiest extras in Hollywood were working
on his set. This is what he found to be

Fay Compton from England is Adolphe
Menjou's new leading lady.

SCREENLAND

Prima Oottita of I*ep
. . . "The g fettle si ho.r*
ofliee Star in pictures"
,:Flir1 htg—tlivcri iHg-.
hurling your ftiitutj'
hone in forty fatuous
hits! Jfttsl Jter sltatlow
self has trreeketl It a if
ttretfs of -theatre rec-
ords. IS Hi —

Presented hi/

j omr Mccormick

production

COLLEEN MOORE

■■\.^ *~ Vs.. ' • ^ ^* • .. - ....

Listen! —

"1/ I had fl great treasure— if Iliad ti great
prime.

Gladly I'd trade it for— your smiling Irish
eyes.

There arc stars in the lica-vens—but who'd

ever stiriuise
That they were created for your smiling

Irish eyes!' '

• — that's Colleen JVloorc .singing in ''Smiling
Irish Eyes'' . . , Singing not one, but THREE
songs — and Talking for the first time on the
screen! Here's the one thrill you've been
waiting for Vitaphone to bring you. Think
of all the years you've known and loved her
. . . And now you're going to know her twice
as well! . > . Just double the entertainment
, . . As exciting as your first airplane ride!

Comeback to Erin! — See Colleen as a'
"Colleen". . . Never a part so made for her!
Hitch on behind. her funny two- wheel cart
and come down to the county fair. Make a
wish at the Wishing Well — it can't help
but come true. See how the same crooning
melody can bring two young hearts together
; — and then part them ocean-wide. '"Smiling
Irish Eyes" is chock-full of romance from
the Land of Romance — packed with
comedy from the home of wit. And when
Colleen bursts into song hi three lilting new
hit-ballads, "Smiling Irish Eyes," "A Wee
Bit 0' Love," and "Then I Can Ride Home
With You, she'll "bust" all entertainment
records! r r t t * ■ /'

•"^SMILING IRISH EALES

A FIRST NATIONAL VITAPHONE PICTURE

vflalte a memo
ht your dole*
book — »

pxdtiJM^

\}00%7a^[

SCREENLAND

They're married! Joan Crawford became "Mrs. Douglas Fairhan\s Jr. at the Church 0}
St. Mahchi in J<[eiv Tor\ City, June 3. They came east to he married because Doug's
mother, Mrs. Beth Fairban\s, lives in "Manhattan. Bless you, my children!

the present situation in filmdom:

85 would rather be married than have
a career.

7 would refuse to marry a millionaire.
1 has a desire to become a grand opera
singer.

50 want a home and children of their
own.

12 are taking singing lessons to help
them along in sound pictures; 20
study dancing.

1 is working in pictures to earn enough

to study medicine in college.

2 are studying law and hope to prac-

tice it.

6 are studying stenography at night.
94 arc not married. 4 left college to
work in pictures. 16 were winners of
beauty contests. 22 have had stage expe-
rience. 55 have had some picture experi-

ence. 36 arc professional dancers. 8 are
good swimmers. 43 of the girls live with
their families in Hollywood. Only 2 re-
ceive a remittance from home regularly.

"Some of the favorites came up through
the extra ranks," says director Cowen. "I
would rather help .a girl who had worked
hard for her start than those who have
many advantages. Olive Borden, my lead-
ing lady, was an extra. Morgan Farley,
my leading man. worked for many years on
the stage. He had a hard struggle for his
success."

:|: %L :;:

Richard Dix has been signed by Radio
Pictures. Like Rod La Rocque, also re-
cently signed by Radio, he is to be starred
in romantic roles. His last screen appear-
ance on Broadway was made in "Redskin. '

In Dix RKO have acquired a star ad-

mirably equipped for talking productions.
He was leading man for the Morosco Stock
Company of Los Angeles before entering
pictures.

Mai St. Clair, ace director, has been
signed on the dotted line to transmit "The
Night Parade," an all-talking, all musical
feature, to the audible screen. It will fol-
low "Side Street," which he is directing for
Radio with Owen, Tom and Matt Moore
playing together for the first time, and in
the roles they play in life — brothers.
Kathryn Perry, who is Mrs. Owen Moore
in private life, has the leading feminine
role.

"The Night Parade" looms as one of
Radio's foremost contributions to the
screen this year.

SCREENLAND

pnquering
NEW WORLDS

My ^T^V^IrJ |~

And now — the achievement de luxe — all- "^^^0^^ fks=
talking VITAPHONE Pictures in full ^^flBSBBr*

natural COLOR!

Warner Bros. VITAPHONE — soaring to
new triumphs daily — brings to you —
wherever you are — the great galaxy of
world-renowned entertainers.
Vitaphone takes Broadway to the Main
Streets of the nation. Metropolitan stage
successes — dramas — romances — the
golden voices of the world's great singers.
Vitaphone has made such famous suc-
cesses as "The Singing Fool" — "Noah's
Ark" — "The Desert Song" — and now
that all -talking, natural color triumph
"On with the Show."

Bear in mind always— only Vitaphone has
the life-like Vitaphone Voice. Watch
for local announcements of genuine
Vitaphone Talking Pictures.

You see and hear Vitaphone only in Warner Bros. and First National ^icturef

SCREENLAND

DON'T

Go On Your
Vacation

^ Until You Rend

By Jane Johns

A Girl Who Did
an Unusual Thing!

Whether you go to the mountains or
the seashore you are sure to meet new at-
tractive young men— new friendships and
acquaintances are sure to spring up. That
is one of the main joys of vacation — the
romance, the thrill of making new friends.

Naturally, you want to be as attractive
as a girl can possibly be. If you should meet
Him, you would want to show Him that
you are more attractive and full of pep than
any girl he knows. You can easily do this
if you know how.

A Book of Priceless Advice

In this little book, Jane Johns
treats a very difficult subject in such a
dignified, clear, fascinating and helpful
manner that the book promises to bj
the most important book in your library.
It contains some of the very finest ad-
vice ever given to girls — advice which
is based on patient, keen observation of
the girls and men whom you would
want most for your best friends. You
will learn just what a girl's attitude
towards men should be. You will dis-
cover certain things about the men you
know for which you would pay many times
the price of the book to find out. No
other book like it has ever been pub-
lished and certainly no other book has
ever been and will continue to be as
helpful to girls who want to be
popular.

Mail This Coupon Now

Just fill in the coupon below. Either
take it to your local bookstore or send
it with #2.00 to E. P. Dutton, 3004th
Ave., New York. It will be the most
profitable $2.00 and two hours you spent
in your life.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. S-8
300 Fourth Ave., N. Y. City

Please send me a copy of "THE
GIRLS MEN MARRY."

C. O. D. □
Enclosed find $2.00 □

Name

Address .
City

State

*J LAITERs

©RECAST'

(J Glancing Ahead at the
Forthcoming
Films

C She \oo\s them
over and passes
on her observa-
tions to you!

By Evelyn Ballarine

Hollywood or Hollerwood, as you
prefer, is acquiring more import'
ance with each trainload of
stagees. And it wouldn't be out
of tune to call the Twentieth Century a
stage coach. John McCormack, Lenore Ul-
ric, Helen Morgan. Marilyn Miller, Fay
Compton, the English actress, and Cliff
Edwards (Ukelele Ike) are the headliners
this month.

John McCormack^ is going to give us a
bit o' Ireland in his first picture, the ex-
teriors of which are to be made in Ireland.
John wanted Janet Gaynor, his favorite mo-
tion picture actress, for his heroine, but
Janet is too busy.

Lenore Ulric has been signed by Fox
Films. Miss Ulric's first talkie will be a
drama of the far north called "Frozen
Justice." Br-rr! button up your overcoat,
Lenore. Miss Ulric knows movie technique,
having played in silent pictures some years
ago. Remember her in "Tiger Rose?"
Robert Fraser will have the male lead oppo-
site her. Louis Wolheim and Lina Bas-
quette will be featured.

Helen Morgan, the Julia of Ziegfeld's
"Show Boat," also in the talkie prologue
of the screen "Show Boat," and Broadway
night-club hostess, has been signed by Para-
mount for the role of a burlesque queen in
Beth Brown's novel, "Applause."

Fay Compton, a hit in London, came to
New York and Broadway succumbed. Now
she is in Hollywood playing opposite
Adolphe Menjou in his first talkie, "Fash-
ions of Love." Oh, you'll like her all right!

Cliff Edwards, better known as Ukelele
Ike, is in Metro-Goldwyn's "Hollywood Re-
vue of 1929." And that's not all. John
Gilbert, Marion Davics. Norma Shearer,
Buster Keaton, Bessie Love, Nils Asther,
Anita Page, William Haines, Joan Craw-
ford, Charles King, Marie Dressier and
Polly Moran are also among those present.

Better add this film to your list of Musts.

Marilyn Miller's colorful personality will
have a background to match it in "Sally."
It is to be done in Technicolor. Joe E.
Brown is going to play the comedy role
which Leon Erroll created in both the stage
play and the silent screen version and
Alexander Gray, of the stage, plays the
male lead.

Among the musical comedies destined to
reach the screen are "Rio Rita," "The
Vagabond King," and "Honeymoon Lane."
Our own Bebe Daniels has the lead in
"Rio Rita." It is said that Bebe has passed
her singing tests with flying colors. Bert
Wheeler and Robert Wolsey will play their
original stage roles in the talkie version.
John Boles plays Rita's boy friend. Dennis
King gives us "The Vagabond King."
Eddie Dowling is making "Honeymoon
Lane." "No. No, Nannette" has Louise
Fazenda as the comedienne.

Jack Buchanan, the popular young Eng-
lish star, plays opposite Irene Bordoni in
"Paris." Mr. Buchanan came over from
London a few years ago with "Chariot's
Revue" with Beatrice Lillie and Gertrude
Lawrence. And now all three have been
offered movie contracts.

Mary Eaton is being featured in "Glori-
fying the American Girl" which Paramount
is producing. Olive Shea, a newcomer, also
has an important role. Miss Shea has
youth, beauty, and ability besides.

Those of you who have been wondering
what happened to the Moore boys will be
glad to know that Matt, Owen and Tom
are to be together in "Side Street." And
what's more, they are to play brothers.
The story is an original by George O'Hara
whom you must remember as a movie hero
and is directed by O'Hara's best pal, Mai
St. Clair. It should be a good picture with
such a chummy atmosphere.

Constance Bennett is in the picture racket

SCREENLAND

■►/PS

tew

fffffi

mm
im

Radio comes to the Screen

RICHARD DIX

A screen favorite who oc-
cupies a distinct place in
the hearts of all picture-
goers . . Radio Pictures'
newest star.

RADIO . . . colossus of modern art and science
, . . . now takes its place in the world of mo-
tion pictures.

With the release of the first two of its super attrac-
tions, "Rio Rita," and "Hit the Deck," Radio Pic-
tures inaugurates an era of new entertainment
standards. This new era is the result of the union
of great amusement and industrial interests.

Included in this union are such organizations as the
Radio Corporation of America; the Victor Talking
Machine Division of the Radio-Victor Corporation of America; the
National Broadcasting Company; the General Electric Company; and
the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company; and such
amusement enterprises as RCA Photophone, Inc.; the Radio-Keith-
Orpheum Circuit of Theatres, and the RKO Distributing Corporation.

Commanding the cream of the world's talent, and scientific facilities,
Radio Pictures will disclose for the first time the true potentialities
of electrical entertainment
on the screen.

Watch for Radio Pictures'
first productions. Be pre-
pared for revelations in
investiture, in tonal quali-
ties and in entertainment
values generally.

RKO DISTRIBUTING
CORPORATION

A subsidiary of the
Radio Corporation of America

ROD LA ROCQUE

The "always welcome"
star, who will appear in
two special productions,
with all dialogue and
music, for Radio
Pictures,

BEBE DANIELS
To be featured in the title
role of "Rio Rita," and
starred in three other all
dialogue and music dra-
mas for Radio
Pictures.

Radio Pictures' Coming
Dialogue Attractions

"Rio Rita" . . . Florenz Ziegfeld's great-
est stage hit,

""Hit the Deck*' . . . Vincent Youman's
nautical musical comedy.

"IVight Parade**

play, "Ringside."

From the stage

""The Vagabond Lover" . . . Star-
ring Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut
Yankees.

""High River** ... A Herbert Brenon
production, from the play, "High River
House."

"'Radio Revels of 1929." . . .The
first annual screen review to he released
yearly by Radio Pictures.

THE
GOLDEN VOICE

OF THE
SILVER SCREEN

RUDY VALLEE
The voice that lures ...
a personality that has
won the world ... To be
starred, with his "Con-
necticut Yankees," in
"The Vagabond Lover."

SCREENLAND

icsacne Loff-Pjthe Star

Her little secret!

( Would you care to share it?)

Nobody knows just what Helen does to keep her
hair so attractive looking. It always sparkles ! It never
seems dull(like so many other girls' hair.)

What is her secret?— You'd be surprised! A simple
little shampooing hint that a famous beauty specialist
gave her. Yet you may share it, too! Just one Golden
Glint Shampoo* will show you the way! At your
dealers', 2 5c, or send for free sample!

*(Note: Do nor confuse this with other shampoos that
merely cleanse. Golden Glint Shampoo, in addition to
cleansing, gives your hair a "tiny-tint" —a wee little
bit— not much — hardly perceptible. But how it does
bring out the true beauty of your own individual shade
of hair!)

J. \V. KOBI CO.

633 Rainier Ave., Dept. H, Seattle, Wash.
Please send a free sample.

Name

Address
City

State,

Color of my hair.

' / JM6RICM ACADGMY
OF DRAMATIC ARTS

. J Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent

The foremost institution for Dramatic and
Expressional Training. The instruction of the
Academy furnishes the essential preparation for
Directing and Teaching as well as for Acting.

The training is educative and practical, de-
veloping Poise, Personality and Expressional
Power, of value to those in professional life
and to the layman.

Fall Term Opens October 26th

Extensio" Dramatic Courses in Co-operation with
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Catalog describing all Courses from

Room. 253-H, CARNEGIE HALL, New York

mxmm ifinwfinifinr

SAVE

ONE /
HALF/

or More

On Youi
V Silk Hose

Amazing newdiscoverymore than doubles
life of silk hosiery and underwear. Stops
runsinstantlywithoutremovinggarments.
Will not stain or discolor — washable.

Your Money Back
If KANT-RUN Fails

Apply Kant-Run the moment you snag your
stockings. That ends the "'run." No unsightly
stitches — Easy to apply. One small bottle will
stop a hundred "runs" — and saves its cost
hundreds of times. Your druggist or hosiery
dealer will supply — or write us direct.
We Want There is big money in distrib-
. uting Kant-Run. No house to

Agents house selling. Place in repu-

able stores and collect the profits.
Write today for full particulars of our great
monev making offer.

NEVERUN CORPORATION
Dept. 952, 185 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago

Walter Catlett. Broadway comedian, stepped off the train in
Hollywood and was handed a summons for speeding. Just a

friendly gag!

again and her come-back picture is called
"The Racketeer." Robert Armstrong and
Carol Lombard support her in it.

Speaking of come-backs — Harry Langdon
completed a successful vaudeville tour and
is back in Hollywood 'rarin' to go.' Harry
has signed up with Hal Roach on a five-year
contract. He is to make two-reel talkies.
More power to you, Harry! Nazimova,
Mae Murray and William S. Hart are on
their way back, too.

Catherine Dale Owen, beautiful blonde
beauty from the New York stage, and not
Greta Garbo, is to be John Gilbert's leading
lady in "Olympia." This is to be Jack's
first talkie.

Ina Claire Gilbert is busy at the Pathe
studio making "The Awful Truth."

Walter Catlett, the Harold Lloyd of the
stage, is at the Fox studios making "Why
Leave Home" with Sue Carol, Charles'
Eaton and Helen Twelvetrees. If Mr. Cat-
lett is as funny in pictures as he is on the
stage we are in for high hilarity.

If you enjoyed William Powell in "The
Canary Murder Case" you're in for a treat
because Bill, now a full-fledged star, is
making "The Greene Murder Case." In
this film, he again plays Philo Vance, the
clever amateur society detective.

At last the vast army of fans are going
to get their wish. Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford are making preparations for
their first picture together. "The Taming
of the Shrew" has been selected and it
will probably be presented in modern dress.
This will be the first Shakesperian play to
be made into a talkie. Perhaps it may in-
spire Charlie Chaplin to do "Hamlet." He
has often expressed a desire to do it. Come
on, Charlie, you're next!

Clarence Brown, the director, has become
Clarence Brown the actor, temporarily. Mr.
Brown plays an interesting role in his pro-
duction, "Wonders of Women." He ap-
pears as one of a group of enthusiastic ad-
mirers of the celebrated opera singer played
by Leila Hyams. Clarence Brown has made
it a custom to appear in a bit in all of his
pictures. Al Santell is another director who
always plays a bit in his pictures. Not
superstitious exactly, but .

Renee Adorce and her French accent and
Nils Asther and his Swedish accent are
going to play together in a talkie called
"The Ordeal." Don't know whether the
title is symbolic or not. However, this is
more proof that we are going to keep our
foreign favorites.

Rosetta and Vivian Duncan will make
as their first talkie "Cotton and Silk." Bet
Rosetta, the Topsy of "Topsy and Eva,"
will be the 'Cotton' part of the picture.
That's all right, Rosetta, clothes may make
the woman but they don't make a comedi-
enne. It's a gift, .and you have it.

Marion 'Peanuts' Byron, the tiniest girl
in pictures, and- Charlotte Greenwood, un-
doubtedly the tallest, are to be together in
"So Long Letty.": Both are fine comedi-
ennes.

"The Cohens and the Kellys" are going
to make their next picture in Scotland. The
story will be probably be the one about a
pair of tights. (Joke.) George Sidney is
Cohen and Charles Murray is Kelly.

Mary Philbin isn't leaving Universal as
was rumored, and to prove it the title of
her next picture for that company is "She
Belongs to Me."

Antonio Moreno will be the lead in
"Light Fingers." Is it necessary to tell
you that this is a crook melodrama? Doro-
thy Revier and Carroll Nye are to be his
partners in screen crime.

Will Rogers' first talkie is "They Had
to See Paris," the -story of a rich man who
takes his family to Europe. His wife is
played by Elisabeth Patterson, stage charac-
ter actress; and Owen Davis, Jr. and Mar-
guerite Churchill, both of the stage, supply
the love interest.

Alice White is glorifying Woolworth's.
In "The Girl From Woolworth's" she plays
a salesgirl who 'tumbles' for a subway
guard. Can you blame her — with Charles
Delaney as the handsome guard? Wonder
if she gets paid in nickles so that she may
ride in the subway with the b. f.?

John Barrymore and his wife, Dolores
Costello Barrymore, are busy at work at
the same studio but not in the same pic-
ture. Dolores is making "Second Choice"
with Chester Morris and John is making

SCREENLAND

his first talkie, "General Crack," with
Marian Nixon as the femme lead.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and his wife,
Joan Crawford, are busy at work at dif-
ferent studios. Doug is making "Spring
is Here," from the current musical comedy,
for First National, and Joan is making
"Jungle" for Metro-Goldwyn.

Ernst Lubitsch is to direct the next
Maurice Chevalier film, "The Love Parade."
Lupino Lane has been chosen for an im-
portant role in this picture.

Lee Tracy, of the stage, with "Broad-
way" and "The Front Page" to his credit,
is at the Fox studios making "Big Time,"
a story of vaudeville life. William Coller,
Sr., and Lola Lane are part of the program.

Billie Dove is going to play a night club
hostess in "Give the Little Girl a Hand,"
written by Fannie Hurst. It is said to be
based on the life of Texas Guinan.

And speaking of night clubs — Eddie
Kane, who looks so much like Florenz
Ziegfeld, and whose characterization in
"Broadway Melody" is said to have de-
lighted the famous producer, has been
cast again as an impresario. Mr. Kane will
be seen as the producer of the shows at
one of Broadway's best-known night clubs
in "The Viennese Charmer." Betty Comp-
son, Ned Sparks and Jack Oakie are also
in this picture.

Lila Lee has been chosen by Columbia
Pictures to play the girl in "Flight."
"Flight" promises to be most interesting.
It is a story of mines, airplanes and daring
men in Nicaragua. It is to be directed
by Frank Capra, and Jack Holt and Ralph
Graves have the leading male roles. Lila's
part in this colorful story is that of a young
girl with flapperish ideas and a great spirit
of adventure.

Belle Baker, of vaudeville fame, is to
make her debut in talkies. Columbia Pic-
tures have signed her for "The Cradle of
Jazz,."

(![ Lenore Ulric, celebrated star of the stage,
the latest convert tfi tal\ing pictures.

Miss E. B. Dearborn

Internationally linown educator and
authority on shorthand. After
teaching conventional systems for
eighteen years at Columbia Uni-
versity, Simmons College, University
of California, Rochester Business
Institute, etc.. Miss Dearborn orig-
inated SPEEDWKITING to meet
the overwhelming demand for a
natural, easy-to-learn, thoroughly
practical, scientific system of short-
hand.

Thru SPEEDWRITING, Miss Dear-
born has helped thousands of men
and women win better positions —
earn more money than ever before
in their lives. What they have
done — YOU can do!

Win Success Thru Speedwriting

Marie Turner: "Speedwriting helped
me get my present position, at an
increase of 20% in salary. Speed-
writing is the most efficient short-
hand I have ever used. I recom-
mend it to all."

Welton II. Rozier: "I rind Speed-
writing of intinite benefit in my
work, particularly in briefing cases
and in taking notes of important
testimony. To a lawyer it is in-
valuable."

Millicent Taylor: "With only half
the Speedwriting Course finished
I have been able to take dictation
as fast as an expert stenographer
in a Conventional Shorthand Sys-
tem. Feature writer's, like myself,
will find Speedwriting a means of
taking more accurate accounts of
interviews, etc."

Everyone Can Write It In Plain
A-B-C's

<<157HY didn't someone think of it 'before?" you'll say
when you see this new kind of shorthand — so
simple, so easy, so natural that anyone can learn its
fundamentals in one evening.

Write Shorthand In a Few Weeks

"With just a few minutes' daily practice you can quickly
learn to write shorthand I Right this minute you know
the principle of this amazing new method — you use it in
your daily speech. No need to spend months mastering
a whole "foreign language" of signs, symbols, dots and
dashes. In this new system you use just the ordinary
letters of the alphabet, scientifically condensed according
to your natural habits of speech.

Executives find
writing invaluable
ing time and in
efficiency,

Speed-
in sav-
creasing

J-fxe 'NATURAL SHORTHAND

is the invention of Miss E. B.
Dearborn, eminent authority on
shorthand, who has taught al-
most all systems for eighteen
years. She saw how unsatisfac-
tory ordinary systems of short-
hand frequently are. Clearly
a new system was needed that
would eliminate the tedious
months of study, the memory-
straining difficulties, the inaccu-
racies of transcription.
Speedwriting was the result —
the only scientific system of
shorthand written either with
pencil or on the typewriter.

Valuable to Everyone

Students, teachers, stenographers, professional men, busi-
ness executives everywhere have welcomed Speedwriting
as the only natural, accurate, practical shorthand that
can be learned in a few hours of study.
One man writes : "I have been a writer of conventional
shorthand for twenty years and have taught it to others.
For ease and pleasure in learning, for possibility of speed
quickly acquired and for legibility, Speedwriting so far
excels any shorthand system now in use that there is no
comparison between them."

Coupon Brings Full Details— FREE !

Mail the coupon for interesting free booklet on Speed-
writing, the Natural Shorthand. Whether you are an
experienced stenographer or a beginner, whether you need
Speedwriting in your business or as a means of increas-
ing your own personal efficiency — of assuring yourself of
a better job and a larger income — you should get the
facts about this amazing new system — the shorthand of
the future. Mail coupon for FREE BOOK now.

SPEEDWRITING, Inc.

Dept. BL-3405

200 Madison Ave.
New York,
N. Y.

<Mail

Coupon

Nojvf

Speedwriting, Inc.,
Dept. BL-3405,

200 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.

Please send me, without obligation, your
FREE Booklet and full details about Speed-
writing, the Natural Shorthand.

Name..
'Address..

rCity - ..State

( ) Check for details about Speedtyping

SCREENLAND

CONFESSIONS
of the FANS

-4-

C( 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.

The Editor.

Heralding

The

Talkies

Dear Editor:

Here's to the talkies! Until recently I
tolerated them only because they seemed
unavoidable, and because they gave audi-
bility to favorite stars who had too long
been silent. But since "The Doctor's Sec-
ret" I'm all for 'em. Seldom have I seen
a picture with so many genuinely brilliant
performances. And what a joy to hear the
magnificent voice of one of the grandest
troupers of them all — Robert Edeson! And
as for Ruth Chatterton, she's a knockout!
Then "The Letter" also. Such plays — and
so soon — give one an idea of the screen's
future capabilities — and the possibilities are
breath-taking.

But the talkies certainly sound the death-
knell for many of the beautiful nit-wits and
handsome numbskull who have so long been
getting by with only their looks to recom-
mend them — and who, if they ever heard
of Talma, wouldn't have the slightest idea
what he meant when he said, "Acting, like
every other art, has mechanism," etc.

Of course many of them are very like-
able as long as they're allowed to be them-
selves, but put them in, say, an Arab outfit
and see what happens. The results are
pitiful, as was recently proved beyond argu-
ment.

And as to the voices! Who has not been
disillusioned when his pet juvenile boomed
forth with an inflexible fog-horn — and been
forced to compare them mentally with the
mellow richness of a Robert Edeson or the
delicate shadings of a Lionel Barrymore?

Indeed it does seem as if the sun of the
fragile bisque heroine and dauntless hero
has permanently set and that the day of
the actor is at hand. Who knows but that,
in the not so far distant future, instead
of a "Hot Lips" or a "Burning Kisses" we
may have a "Ruy Bias," "Hernani," or
Ibsen's "Ghosts" and a "Hedda Gabler,"
played by actors who have earned the right,
not because some director saw them dining

at the Montmartre and thought they looked
like the author's description of the char-
acters. "Redemption" is a good sign.

And in closing, I suppose everyone has
some pet ambition tucked away, which he
dreams may someday be fulfilled, if the
gods are kind. Mine is to model heads
of Ramon Novarro and Nills Asther from
life. Who knows? Stranger things have
happened!

Sincerely yours,

William Thomas,
8 IT East 30th Street,

Marion, Indiana.

Theme Song
Enthusiast

Dear Editor.:

Many hearty cheers for the talkie, single,
and dancie pictures. Long may they thrill!
If the majority of the fans find this type
of picture, which is still in its infancy, so
entertaining, just imagine what a complete
success they will be when they are finally
perfected!

And oh. the lovely theme songs! Even
the most discriminating tastes had to give
way before that charming theme song.
Weary River. We fans are chorusing
enthusiastically for more and more theme
songs. And while I am on this musical
subject, I wish to proclaim to the world that
in my opinion, Nancy Carroll has the love-
liest, the most bewitching and melodious
voice of any screen star I've heard to date,
even though she doesn't happen to be my
favorite actress. Clara Bow holds that
place and Greta Garbo comes a close sec-
ond. Along the masculine line, the actors I
like to see and hear again and again are
John Barrymore, Clive Brook, Gary Cooper
and Conrad Nagel.

At this time I wish to take the oppor-
tunity of figuratively patting Bruce Clausen
on the back for his generous tribute to
Greta Garbo in the June Screenland. I

heartily agree with him that Greta's por-
trayal of Iris March in "A Woman of Af-
fairs" was a most outstanding performance.
I had read Michael Aden's "The Green
Hat" but did not realize the greatness of
his story until I saw it on the screen and
witnessed Greta Garbo's masterful depic-
tion of Iris March.

And listen, Miss Editor, before I sign
off, I wish to unburden myself of a secret
grudge I've always held against the powers
that be for not recognizing the splendid
acting ability of Leslie Fenton and Bruce
Gordon. I would be overwhelmed with joy
if I saw them come into their own.

Most sincerely,

Lillian V. Boyajean.
121 — 43rd Street,
Union City, New Jersey.

Hollywood,
Just Another
Town!

Dear Editor:

It seems that everyone within close prox-
imity to Los Angeles, and of course that
means Hollywood, is envied by the rest of
the fan world at large. One reads and
dreams of beautiful women as numerous as
the ocean sands, of Hollywood Boulevard,
the Montmartre Cafe, of the star's homes,
etc., and immediately envisions himself (or
more aptly, herself) in such marvelous sur-
roundings. With the eyes of a fan I have
many times visited that greatly advertised
burg (someone tells me there is a Los
Angeles city limit sign in Nome, Alaska)
with the view of tracing its allure. Broad-
way was jammed — packed — squoze! There
was no show featuring my favorite few,
Arlen. Cooper, etc. etc. There were no
public appearances at the moment. The
celebrated homes were widely scattered —
and perhaps I am too discriminating — but
I could count the really good looking damo-
sels on my digits — not using the ones en-
cased in my number nines, either. Holly-
wood Boulevard at eleven thirty was de-
solate— abandoned. The Montmartre on its

SCREENLAND

second floor has no glamourous exterior, at
least. I gave up the ghost, returning home
to a satisfying second-run wherein the allur-
ing Lilyan Tashman held sway.

But of course, there is another side — the
L. A. on display. The Screen Star Gambol
— with a galaxy of stellar attractions, most
of whom first twinkled on Broadway. Al
Jolson sang his Sonny Boy with that fa-
mous lad, Davey Lee, on his lap. Charles
King, as real as could be, sang You Were
Meant For Me and introduced Anita Page
to us. Anita is better looking on the stage
than in canned drama. Conrad Nagel and
his golden voice — Ted Lewis and his band
— Ann Pennington — Sylvia Fields — Stepin
Fetchit — Marion Harris — Buddy Rogers
played innumerable instruments to the de-
light of his fans — Sophie Tucker brought
down the house (yes, she's dyed her fin-
ger nails scarlet!) and Irving Berlin, one of
eight song writers, sang his favorite brain
child, Always. Altogether it was a mem-
orable occasion, lasting from before nine till
after midnight. And then there have been
personal appearances — Sophie again; Irene
Rich, heightening the graciousness and love-
liness of her screen self; Agnes Ayres with
deep golden hair; Bessie Love, and when
I talked with her my heart went splash
againt my ribs in an unprecedented man-
ner. And Mae Murray, and Charles Mur-
ray, and Sally Rand, and — well, just lots
of them including Mary Brian, Esther Rals-
ton and many others. But they don't ap-
pear every day, and half the time when
advertised to appear they disappoint one —
so don't pine, little fan, if you live in
Peoria, Kalamazoo, or Podunk — you're not
missing half what you think you are.

But there's one thing Los Angeles has —
and that's quite a few movies starting at
8.45 A. M!

Sincerely,

Jack Jennison,
2931 East 15th Street,
Long Beach, California.

Welcome,
John Boles!

Dear Editor:

I knew that sooner or later I would just
have to add my 'confession' to those of
the other fans, and now it's happened —
sooner!

The reason for this sudden outburst is
none other than Mr. John Boles. Having
just seen "The Desert Song," and with
The Riff Song still filling my thoughts, I
must unload my enthusiasm.

Mr. Boles is wonderful and I know you'll
all think so when you hear him sing. Good
looks and a wonderful physique are among
his other assets, so we may all expect to
see him at the top of the ladder shortly.

And now, if you don't mind I'd like to
tell you about Frankie Richardson 'The Joy
Boy of Song,' as he was billed in vaude-
ville. Although he has played in only one
or two Vitaphone sketches he was signed
by Fox Movietone for five years. I hope
we will all see him shortly in a picture
worthy of his talents, for after hearing
Frankie sing Sonny Boy I was pleased to
admit that Al Jolson was a good singer, too.

SHE IS A BEAUTY"

WHY NOT HAVE THAT
SAID OF YOU?

THERE are millions of girls and women
who can multiply their beauty if they will.
In a single evening they can get results de-
lightful and amazing. In a little time they can
gain attractions which every woman covets.

Stars of the stage and screen know how to
do this. Beauty is their career. And they —
without a penny of recompense from us — tell
in these pages, month by month, their premier
beauty help.

If you will listen to beauties and to beauty
experts, you will always use Boncilla clasmic
pack in your efforts to appear at your best.

These Come First

We beauty experts approve the arts of make-
up. But we know that they fail unless a basis
is created, and that basis is this:

A radiant glow A clear, clean skin
An animated look A soft, smooth skin
The skin must be cleansed to the depths. The
causes of blackheads and blemishes must be
removed. Dead skin and hardened oil must
be taken out. Enlarged pores must be reduced.
Blood must be drawn to the skin to nourish
and revive it. That's the only way.

With older women, there are little lines
to eradicate, there are wrinkles to combat. Per-
haps sagging muscles must be strengthened.

The best ways known to do all these things
are combined in Boncilla clasmic pack. The
most famous beauties, the greatest beauty ex-
perts, seem to agree on that.

BUSTER K.EATON presents arms
at the wrong time in a comical scene
with Dorothy Sebastian in Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer's "Spite Marriage."

A Test for Tonight

If tonight you are to mingle socially, do this in
preparation. Apply Boncilla clasmic pack. For a
few minutes, let it serve its wondrous purpose.
Then add what make-up you desire.

Look at yourself in the mirror. Listen to what
your friends say. Never again will you start a glori-
ous evening without this matchless help. If you are
young, your beauty will glow. If you are older, new
youth will appear. We promise delightful results.

All toilet counters supply Boncilla clasmic pack.
Tubes, 50c and $1 — jars, $3.50. Or send the coupon
with 10c for a complete beauty packet — a week's
supply of the four Boncilla aids, including two
creams and the powder. It will be a revelation.
Clip coupon now.

DOROTHY
SEBASTIAN
One of M-G-M's
newest stars
awakening her
skin with Bon-
cilla clasmic
pack.

This photo-
graphic testi-
monial of Miss
Sebastian is
tendered by
her voluntarily.
Boncilla Lab-
oratories. Inc.,
gladly wel-
comes truthful
testimonials but
neither offers,
nor pays money
for them.

FOUR NEW BEAUTY AIDSC^N

Professional treatments - A
in smart beauty and n y - «4§
barber shops V | M J^S\

JfW CLASMIC
PACK

S-829

BONCILLA — Indianapolis, Indiana

Send me your four quick aids to beauty — the pack,
two creams and new hyray powder. I enclose a dime.

SCREENLAND

HAIR REMOVER

Egypti a n D cp il it o ry

■Removes hair in three minutes. Hair takes
several months to return. After several treat
merits the liair stops growing- Simply put it
on and wash it off. Can be used on face, arms,
legs. Safe, sane, simple. $3 jar by mail.

MONSIEUR SAKELE
55 West 42nd Street Now York City

Qet a World Famous

Conn

on FREE TRIAL

Any band or orchestra instru-
ment sent on frco trial. No
obligation. Beauty of design;
effortless mechanical action;
brilliance of tone will all prove
that nothing less than a Conn
can completely satisfy you.
More than 50 years' experience
and exclusive patented proc-
esses make possible today's
perfected Conns. Yet they cost
no more. Used and endorsed by
£>ousa and other famous artists.

C. G. CONN, Ltd.
SS4 Conn BIdg., Elkhart, Ind.

Write Now for illus-
trated book and details
of Free Trial and Easy
Payment Offers. State
instrument you prefer.

Hollywood's Newest \pvelty
-The Hiss Mendinq Rouge Ring

It's a chic, swankish vanity ring
containing a secret compartment,
holding lip rouge and a dainty
French mirror. It's an ever-ready
repair station for mending mussed
lips. Movie ^ stars say it's all the
go at the studio. Collegiates and
the younger set use it on the dance
floor, tennis court, golf course,
theatre, on the beach or at the

table. It's the talk of the town and it's
spreading like wild fire all over the country.
The ring is solid sterling silver, richly
decorated with California Holly on dainty
filigree. The set is modish French
enamel, inlayed with futuristic art
design in sterling.
SEND NO MONEY: .lust give name,
size and address and pay postman $2. ID
(plus the postage) on delivery. Wear
three days, show friends; if not delighted,
return ring and get all money right back.
HOLLYWOOD ROUGE RING CO.
Dept. I Hollywood, Calif.

Anita Page
says: "I use it a
lot on the Lot."

MONEY FOR YOU

Men or women can earn $15 to $25 weekly
in spare time at home making display cards.
Light, pleasant work. N o canvassing. We
instruct you and supply you with work.
Write to-day for full particulars.
| The MENHENITT COMPANY Limited
, 252 Dominion Bide. .Toronto, Can.

EN CYCLOP E DIA
OF MOVIELAND

A ddresses, real
names, birthdates,
weight, color of
eyes, etc.

That the real name of
Al Jolson is Asa Yoel-
son . . . that Joan
Crawford is in reality-
Lucille LeSeuer.

This Blue Book of
Movieland
mailed post-
pa i d a n y-
where for

STARS CO.

Address Department G

P. O. Box 425
Hollywood, Calif.

"Broadway Melody." "Close Harmony,"
"The Sinking Fool," "In Old Arizona."
"The Wild Party," and "The Desert Song"
arc by far the most entertaining pictures I
have seen for some time and since talkies
have made these possible, I'm for them!

Sincerely,

Alberta M. Miller,
South 12th Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hail To
The New
Pickford!

Dear Editor:

Hail to the new Pickford!

"Coquette" has made her bow with a
wink, and Mary has entered into the glori'
ous, ever-new field of versatility, where she
is making quite a success in the role of a
Southern girl, pretty, winsome Tsjorma
Besant, vocally as well as actively. "Dorothy
Vernon," "Rosita," and numerous others
were proofs that she could do it. Cutting
her hair, she saluted the world. A new
Mary had been born! She later had her bob
wind-blown. And, lo and behold! "Co-
quette" flashed us a fascinating smile!

Farewell to the 'Mary' of pigeon-hole
inclinations. Coming out into the open
flutters a 'Mary' whose wings are growing
strong, and will become more agile with
every flap. And hail to that Mary, who
bids fair to achieve immortal fame before
our very eyes — and ears!

Sincerely yours,

John Landers Poole,
1607 Eye St., N. W.,

Washington, D. C.

She Doesn't

Talkies!

Dear Editor:

Stepping on other people's toes seems to
be the favorite hobby of many so-called
movie fans. I only need to whisper that
I like a certain actor to be told that he's
twenty years older than the magazines in-
form us!

I wonder if people don't realize that the
actors of Hollywood are human, like every-
one else. We make mistakes — why can't
they? Fans, think before knocking the
favorites. It is just as easy to find the
good.

Personally, I abhor talkies — although
there have been some films that deserve
credit. As for those sound pictures, who-
ever thought of them? We had some splen-
did orchestras in Buffalo but not any longer,
and I do wish they would come back.

Have you seen Bodil Rosing recently?
She is one of the sweetest women on the
screen today, and one reason why I like
her is because she appreciates the things
done for her. I've had three lovely letters
from her — charming messages that make me

want to beg for more.

Hurrah! I've just heard that Anna Q.
Nilsson is practically journeying along the
Road of Health again. I know that her
big army of supporters will give her a royal
welcome.

Jack Stone — do you remember him in
"Lilac Time," in which his cousin Colleen
Moore was the star? He's another friendly
being, and he's worthy of every bit of suc-
cess he gets.

Then there is Adrienne Dore, a new-
comer, with whom I became acquainted in
"The Wild Party." I wish some producer
would give her an opportunity to show
what she can do.

Anita Page certainly has been very lucky
this past year. I wrote to her before she
had appeared in any films, but I heard of
her through a friend, and my letter brought
a lovely message and also a photograph.

David Rollins, Lucile Powers, and Con
Keefe are all new faces introduced to us
recently.

It is surprising to see how youth has
claimed the screen — but I still like my old
friends. That's what I call them as I have
seen them so frequently and they have given
me many happy hours of entertainment.

Doris Kenyon — Richard Dix — Clive
Brook — Irene Rich and Norma Shearer —
they're still reigning in my heart.

Thank you for admitting me to your
charming department.

Sincerely yours,

Helene C. Braeuner,
210 French Street,
Buffalo, New York,

A Carol
For

Nancy Carroll

Dear Editor:

I might as well confess my weakness for
Nancy Carroll. I think she is what you
would call an answer to any man's prayer.
After seeing her in "Manhattan Cocktail,"
"The Shopworn Angel," "The Sin Sister,"
and "Abie's Irish Rose" I feel safe in say-
ing she leads in her line. Just as there
is only one Mary Pickford, one Greta Garbo
and one Clara Bow, there is only one
Nancy Carroll.

I am glad to see Richard Dix back again
but would like to see more of Mary Brian.
She is a pretty little actress and I miss her
a lot. Hoping to see her again soon.

Sincerely yours,

Jack Weldon,
10549 East Jefferson St.,

Detroit, Michigan.

it?

A Hand
For
Hat ties

Dear Editor:

Just another fan writing to tell you what
I think of the stars.

SCREENLAND

First — just a word about Alice White.
Alice is a cute kid but I think she'd be
much nicer if she didn't try to have so
much 'It.' She overworks that poor word!

I am very fond of Ruth Elder and I
think she is a fine actress. Here's wishing
Ruth plenty of good luck for her future
success.

Nils Asther! I guess we all idolize him.
I never saw him look handsomer than he
did in "The Cossacks." I don't see how
Renee Adoree resisted him in that picture.

I love to watch Lionel Barrymore, Bacla-
nova, and William Powell. They are fin-
ished actors.

Joan Crawford and young Doug make a
grand pair and so do Sue Carol and Nick
Stuart. The two couples are altogether
different, somehow, yet both are ideal.

And Bill Haines! There isn't another
person on the screen whose personality I
like as well as his. He's full of fun, big'
hearted and sympathetic. He's a mighty
bright star.

Phyllis Haver, Jason Robards and Colleen
Moore are all from Hillsdale, (my town).
And we're proud of it!

Sincerely,

Billie Haynes,
215 North Manning Street,
Hillsdale, Michigan

For

Dancing
Daughters

Dear Editor:

Every modern person admires a few
screen idols and I'm not the exception to
the rule. Among my favorites are Joan
Crawford, Nancy Carroll, Billie Dove,
Vilma Banky and Greta Garbo.

I shall never forget Joan Crawford's per-
fect performance in "Our Dancing Daugh-
ters." She vividly portrayed a modern
maiden in a modern age. Joan seemed
like a beautiful, alluring doll, tempting and
dancing her way into the hearts of her fans.

I want to compliment Nancy Carroll on
her work in "Close Harmony." This little
lady possesses talent in dancing, singing and
dramatic ability.

Congratulations to the lovely youngsters
who are making the picture industry an
everlasting factor in the world of amuse-
ments.

Sincerely,

Dolores Koflaw,
2028-69th Street,
Brooklyn, New York.

The bracelet offered by
Corinne Griffith has been
awarded to

Miss Lucille Pickens

Public, Library

High Point, North Carolina

I wish all girls knew
how important this is"

Says a i<)2<) debutante

MILLIONS of women have learned
to depend on Kotex within the
last ten years. It has brought better
health, greater peace-of-mind under try-
ing conditions. Now comes an added
advantage. Kotex scientists have dis-
covered (and patented) a process that
deodorizes, safely and completely. After
several years of research, the one re-
maining problem in connection with
sanitary pads is solved!

Amazingly absorbent and softer
than ever

Cellucotton absorbent wadding, which
fills Kotex, is 5 times more absorbent
than cotton itself. It takes up 16 times
its own weight in moisture. The iden-
tical material used in 85% of the lead-
ing hospitals of the country, Cellucot-
ton absorbent wadding is preferred by
surgeons for its softness and hygienic
comfort.

No more bulky outlines

The feeling of being conspicuous be-
cause of the bulkiness of old - time
methods is gone, too. Kotex pads are
rounded and tapered so there is no
evidence of sanitary protection when

Softer gauze,
softer filler to end
chafing

2 — Corners rounded and

tapered for inconspicuous
protection.

3 — Deodorizes, safely, thor-

oughly by a patented proc-
ess.

4— Adjustable filler may be

changed as your needs
change.

5- It is easily disposed of.

45c for 12 at drug, dry goods
or department stores, singly in
vending cabinets through
West Disinfecting Co.

Kotex Company, 180 N.
Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

worn. You may adjust layers of filler
as needed— a thing all women appreci-
ate. There is a new softness, because
both filler and gauze have been spe-
cially treated. Finally, Kotex is so easy
to dispose of, eliminating all need of
laundering— a factor of the utmost im-
portance to every woman!

KOT6X

The new Sanitary Pad which deodorizes

SCREENLAND

Shared by Myrna Loy

Q Among the Many Sig
nificant Performances
this Month, Two Stand
Out. Try as We Would
to Decide Between
These Two, It Just
Couldn't Be Done!
There Was Only One
Way Out— Co-Star
Them!

C The lovely Loy lady,
who comes into her
own as the wild gypsy
heroine of the talking
drama, "The Squall."
She is a sensation as
well in "The Black
Watch."

CT Caviar, not corned-beef and
cabbage! Like Colman, Myrna
Loy is subtie. She is quiet
but she is clever. What audi-
ence can remain unmoved as
she croons her seductive song,
"Gypsy Charmer," in "The
Squall?" Myrna is optical
and audible charm incarnate.

HONOR PAGE

and Ronald Colman

Q Presenting Screenland's
Double Honor Page,
Dedicated to Myrna
Loy for her Work in
"The Squall" and to
Ronald Colman for
"Bulldog Drum-
mond." Beauty and
Gallantry, Take Your
Bow!

C[ Amid all the acclaim that
greeted his polished and
persuasive performance in
"Bulldog Drummond" there
was not a dissenting voice.
A positive triumph for
Mr. Colman!

C[ Caiman's contribution to
talking pictures carries
him to first place among
the audible artists of the
screen. What a paradox
that it remained for the
talkies to reveal all the
charming subtleties of
the ever-subtle Colman!

y ] i njHE motion picture
of the future will

J I be as widely differ'
ent from the motion picture
of today as "On With the
Show" is different from
"The Great Train Rob-
bery."

And I can prove it!

Look around you. See
what they're doing, every
day!

There's this new wide film, perfected by
George K. Spoor, the lS' of the old Essanay
company, and John J. Berggren. There was a
private showing of the new special wide film
system in a New York studio not long ago.
And it was simply amazing. You sat there and
watched motion pictures projected on a screen
fifty-two feet wide and thirty feet high — motion
pictures having a three-dimensional effect, in
which images recorded at a range of five miles
were displayed. The lights and shades of life
itself were there.

You went to Niagara Falls and if you didn't
almost feel the spray you had little or no imag-
ination. A Niagara fifty-two feet wide! A
bridge two and a half miles from the camera was
seen in all its details. Objects five miles away
could be distinguished.

The new special lens system overcomes many
of the restrictions of the motion picture setting.
By means of it a wider vision is possible, and
you will see close-ups of groups instead of in-
dividuals. It is all pretty exciting, let me tell
you.

Why, on Broadway right now — and on the
Main Street of many towns — is a new picture

Delight Evans,
Editor.

Her Page.

called "On With the
Show." Crowds are flock-
ing to see it. And no won-
der. It is, besides being
good entertainment, tech-
nically the most satisfactory
illusion of life that has yet
been presented on the
screen.

In natural colors,
scenes seem to have
spective. The players stand
out. You are closer to
your favorites than ever be-
fore— and Fm sure no spec-
tator will object to the
illusion of chumminess with
Betty Compson or Sally
O'Neil.

the
per-

Of course, coming right down to cases, it is
always the personal touch that counts. The
inventive geniuses perfect new lens systems and
the natural-color experts accomplish wonders.
But when all is said and done the public asks,
"Yes — but who's in it?" The human equation
is ever present. I thought of this when I
dropped in to see the honeymooners, Joan and
Doug Jr., at the Hotel Algonquin. I thought
it was a movie opening, there was such a mob
storming the lobby. Then I noticed that inter-
est seemed to center in a telephone booth where
a tall blond young man was developing writ-
er's cramp autographing albums and programs
and pictures. It was Doug Jr. Finally he
pushed his way through the crowd and we went
upstairs to see Joan. There she was, writing
her name in other autograph books — that is,
she was until Doug kissed her. Not since Mary
and Doug were honeymooners has a motion
picture romance so excited 'blase New York.'
Just two nice kids who happen to be screen
stars, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr., with the whole world wishing them happi-
ness.

Portrait by Nathan

A NEW RUDY!

Last name, Vallee. New idol of New York. Last word in popular orchestra leaders. Panic at the Paramount, Times Square.
Crooner and writer of singable, danceable tunes. Star of his own smart supper club in Manhattan. And now — potential movie
sensation. RKO has signed Rudy Vallee for film features in which he will act as well as sing. Rudy's first story may be auto-
biographical. Watch for this Jazz Gentleman in his first full-length talkie.

WHY

C[ Constance Bennett today — a poised and interesting young
woman, eager to get bac\ to wor\ — "the only sure panacea
for disappointment or heartbrea\."

it^TT don't object to a life of luxury!" said Constance
Bennett. "I like to play bridge," she continued,
"buy beautiful clothes and entertain charming, cul-
tured people — just like any other girl. And when
I married Phil Plant, I turned my back, as I thought, on
the movies forever. I wanted a real home. Real home
life — that I had never had before.

"I believe," she went on, "that the ideal career for a
woman is not in pictures. It is as the companionable
wife of a successful husband; the interested mother of
healthy babies. And I wish I had been blessed by the
gods to have achieved that. But I wasn't. After two
and a half years in pictures and three years of married
life, I have come to the certain conclusion that I would
rather be creating roles in the films in Hollywood than
to be the wife of a rich man.

"That sounds like a slap at my former husband. But
it isn't. I didn't give up my husband to come back to
the life of a movie star. I knew long before I signed my
contract with Pathe to return to America and play in the
talkies that my marriage was a failure.

"It wasn't Phil's fault that the marriage wasn't a sue
cess. There isn't, even today, any hard feeling between us.
But we just couldn't agree. Both of us have very definite
personalities. Both of us are extremely independent. And

Three Years Ago, on
the Threshold of Fame,
She Retired to Marry a
Millionaire. Now She
Returns

we had no point of spiritual contact. The things
I thought were funny, he didn't see as humorous
at all. And what he considered humorous,
seemed to me exceedingly dull.

"Then, as much as I liked the life of traveling
and entertaining, yachting and dancing, I found
I had too much energy to be satisfied with what
I found out were the truffles of life. A truffle,
as you know, is a table delicacy. It grows under-
neath the ground like a potato and is rooted out
with great difficulty. Well, after a few months,
it became extremely difficult for me to root any
pleasure out of a purely social life. For I come
from a line of hard-working stage people —
people who have been accustomed to creating
dramatic roles for a hundred years or more.

"I'm human. I did enjoy yachting parties on
the Mediterranean; and having a villa at Biarritz,
between the azure Atlantic and the purple
Pyrennes. But would you believe it, even yacht-
ing and house parties grow dull if you have no
interesting work to offset these recreations.

"Of course, entertaining in Paris was entirely
different. It was like the dream of a Schehere-
zade, to be the chatelaine of a wonderful
establishment. To have around your dinner table world-
renowned diplomats, generals, artists, musicians. And
while I never tired of their conversation and diversions —
for they were very inspiring people — after my guests had
gone home I would sit down at the table, watching the
candles melt and the flowers wilt, and say to myself:
'What actual creative work are you accomplishing to keep
pace with all these others?' And the only true answer I
could give was 'None.'

"For three years I tried to subdue my feelings and carry
on the social life. I flung myself into it like an Oriental
princess flings herself into a bath of mellow wine. Nobody's
laugh was gayer than mine; nobody's eyes any brighter.
But underneath, the real part of me was slowly choking,
gasping for some real creative work into which I could
divert my idle mind.

"Of course, the ideal thing would have been for me
to have both a husband and a career. But I knew when
I married Phil that he would never consent to that. No
man really likes the idea of having his wife work. Now-
adays, they may say they do, but they don't really. A
man hates to admit that a woman can have a strong
interest outside of his orbit. And if you could get a
husband to tell the truth, what makes him happiest is
havinsf a wife something like little Golden Bells in 'Messer

&'ve Come ISack"

Constance Bennett Reveals
the Reasons for her Screen
Come-Back

By Rosa Reilly

Marco Polo.'1 A beautiful, delicate counterpart who will
tinkle only when the hand of the master pulls the cord.

"At the end of three years, reluctantly, and with real
grief because of our unmaterialized dreams, Phil and I
separated — were divorced.

"My husband returned to America and threw himself
into a business he had inaugurated known as 'Plant
Enterprises, Incorporated.' And here I am. Ready and
so eager to get back to work — the only sure panacea I
have found for disappointment or heartbreak.'1

In addition to being an extremely intelligent woman,
with a sense of humor and a cosmopolitan perspective
on life, Constance Bennett is the most sirenic- looking

({Above: Constance Bennett as she looked when
she first won film fame in "Cytherea" and was
hailed as the greatest bet in pictures. In the
oval, the 1929 edition of 'the Beautiful Bennett.'

lady I have ever seen — after Greta Garbo. Even her
slightly waving blonde hair suggests fire. It isn't blonde
really, it's the exact color of Roman gold. Her blue
eyes burn, with a deep phosphorescent flame. And her
lips purse into a lovers' loop of sensuous beauty. Yet,
for all that she is a fluff of flame, Constance Bennett
has not one element of coarseness in her whole appear-
ance. She is saved by a gentility which only good breed-
ing can give.

Certainly, in the talking picture industry, Miss Ben-
nett has a great career before her. For besides her
beauty, her speaking voice is like a 'cello — low, mellow,
far-carrying. This must be a heritage from her father,
Richard Bennett, the well-known actor.

Constance Bennett, the daughter of Adrienne Mor-
rison, the actress, and Richard Bennett, the actor, and
granddaughter of Lewis Morrison, a celebrated player
who toured this country for seventeen years in the role
of Mephistopheles in "Faust," was born in New York
City twenty-three years ago.

Adrienne Morrison, while on a summer vacation,
eloped with Richard Bennett and did not return to the
stage until her three daughters Constance, Joan and
Barbara were past their childhood ailments.

"During all my life," Miss Bennett explained, "I have
spent little time at home. (Continued on page 105)

HUSHING

Q Silence is Golden in Talkie Town.
Here are Some of the Soft-Pedal
Tricks of the New Trade.

PTY NJHEY RE

"Hush
talkies k

J/")/ xjhey're using the soft pedal on Hollwood.

sh-hush!" is the chief expression heard on our lots and everyone who works around the
knows that silence is worth much fine gold.
Even the dogs have to learn sign language now that movies have developed vocal organs.
King, the beautiful white collie owned and trained by Frank Weatherwax, and King Tut, E. G.
Henry's clever pup, are the ruling monarchs of cinemaland dogdom because their masters saw the day

dawning when spoken commands would
have to be replaced with signs if their charges
were to remain on the screen.

King has a prominent part in Paramount's
"The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu." "He
couldn't have played this part if I hadn't re-
trained him," confided his owner. "Now
when I want him to bark for a scene, I no
longer give the order 'Speak!' but simply
raise my hand and he barks once or twice
according to direction. I trained him with
a ball but now he will do it with or without
the ball.

"In so many pictures, a dog has to stay
with or follow a certain character. In the
old days, I taught King to do this with the
words 'Stay with him (or her), King!' This
wouldn't do in the talkies because of course
the mike .would pick up my command. So
I spent an afternoon in the backyard with
my brother to help; he would start off around
the yard and I would give the usual order
'Stay with him, King!', accompanying it with

C[ Extreme left and right on
these pages, the 'sound
track' on the film. The
beautiful lady is Norma
Shearer, wearing a bouf-
fant gown designed by
Adrian for "The Last of
Mrs. Cheyney." This cos-
tume had to be re-lined
with flannel so that its
rustling wouldn't disturb
the temperamental 'mike.'

Photograph of Miss
Shearer by Clarence
Si>iclair Bull.

({Ruth Tildesley, author of this
wax training his dog star,

HOLLYWOOD

By Ruth Tildesley

a sort of circling ges'
ture. It wasn't long
before I was able to
omit the words."

The lions, tigers, ele-
phants, et al, out in
Charlie Murphy's zoo
at Universal no longer
hear their master's
voice. Fortunately Mr.
Murphy trained all his

([Neil Hamilton
shares acting
honors with
King, the collie,
in "The Mys-
terious Dr. Fu
Manchu." King
is one of the
first canines to
appear in talk-
ing pictures.

article, watching Frank Weather-
King, for the talkies.

Norma Shearer awaiting the starting sig-
nal for a scene. See the 'hush cloth' above
the set?

wild animals with audible direction plus
a gesture so it is only a matter of a few
rehearsals before the jungle actors learn to
obey the arm or whip flourishes minus the
voice.

"The only thing I have to worry about
is the mike," declared the genial trainer.
"The thing's so sensitive that it's continu-
ally going bust when my animals howl. The
other day I had my elephants over at
Metropolitan and for the picture they wanted all the five calls
this creature gives. The low rumble in his throat which is
friendly like a horse's neigh registered o. k. about five feet from
the mike. The snuffling blow when he wants water was fine
at ten feet. Two of the other sounds — a trumpeting call for
battle and a louder throat rumble which is a message for his
mate — meant moving the mike longer distances but before we
got his shrill scream of terror we busted a $75 needle in one
of the mikes!"

Animal trainers are not the only ones to accumulate gray
hairs since the advent of the talkies. The new venture affects
each and every department of the huge studios. When the siren
blows announcing the start of a scene, all men on construction
work must stop until the two-blow siren conveys the welcome
news that the silence may be broken. Just as the transportation
department must stop all cars at the siren's shriek.

Incandescent lights are in universal use but the studio elec-
tricians soon found they had to equip their lights with a rubber
deadening to combat the noise of expanding metal. The un-
happy cameramen are shut up in sound-proof boxes as a rule
coming out for air between shots; sometimes for outdoor se-
quences when a portable booth is not avail- (Cent, on page 101)

Whoopee.
Qree!

C[ Bessie Love chose this sports outfit
for herself and wants a fan to have
one just like it. Write the best
letter and the gift is yours.

Bessie Love is bright and snappy
because she is going to make some
fan happy.

ACATION time is here with the same
old question — what to wear?
Clothes, clothes, clothes! Bessie
Love remembers the time when she
spent two months (that's about all she could
spend) preparing for her two-weeks' vacation.
Bessie doesn't have to worry any more but
she's still practical. She wants to lighten
your burden by giving away three nice cos-
tumes. Just a lovely custom! All she asks
is that you have a good time!

A vacation wardrobe isn't complete without
a bathing suit so Fairy Godmother Bessie
gives you one of those nice new sun-tan swim
suits in which you can cut quite a figure on
the beach. For golfing, the 'Movie-Mode'
powder-blue sports ensemble is just the thing.
From Best's, Fifth Avenue, N. Y., is the
tennis outfit — of peach and white. So pack
your grip and start out on your trip — this
vacation is on Bessie!

And now the sporting thing for you to do
is to write a sincere, clear and clever letter
answering Bessie's question and the best one
wins the sports wardrobe.

Address : — BESSIE LOVE
Scree nl and Contest Department
49 West 45th Street
New York City

Contest closes August 10, 1929.

<l Typical of
California is
the 'Catalina'
swim suit
with the fly-
ing fish em-
blem and the
sun-line back
chosen by
Bessie Love
for you.

Summer Sports JVardrohe
from Bessie Jfyve

C[ The question you must answer: Do you be-
lieve a star should be kept in the same type
of role in which she scores her greatest
success, such as Bessie Love in "Broadway
Melody?" Give reasons for your answer.

(( Below: Bessie Love in a charming sports
ensemble. The sweater is the smart
Antibes model in peach jersey. A rough
straw braid hat, short light-weight peach
socksK and white kid shoes complete
this costume.

(C The costume below
and to the left is
called the 'Movie-
Mode' sports suit.
It is in powder-blue
with a full pleated
skirt set on a snugly
fitting yoke, hip-
length box style
jacket, and a little
pique vestee with a
narrow red ribbon
which matches the
red beret.

((This sports
suit is a prod-
uct of Country
Club Manufac-
turing Com-
pany.

C[ This sports en'
semhle is a fea-
ture of Best 6?
Co., J^ew Tor\.

€[ Directly above, you see Mr. and Mrs. Bas..
Rathhone, who gave the party. Among
those present— pic\ them out! — were Ruth
Chatterton, Renee Adoree, Billy Haines,
Robert Leonard, Gertrude Olmstead, King
Vidor, Eleanor Boardman, Marion Davies,
George K. Arthur.

Th e S t a r r y

Read About the Party that Had
All Hollywood Talking!

cc^tt-'ll just bet that man over there, dressed as an army
cadet, is Irving Thalberg!" exclaimed Patsy the
Party Hound in an inspired tone. "But who can
the other one, dressed the same way, be? It just
can't be Norma Shearer!"

But it was! Billy Haines, that terror of social functions
in Hollywood, went over and pinched Irving on the arm,
and said, "Oh, excuse me! I thought it was Norma!"

Then Norma laughed an embarrassed and astonished
little laugh, and we knew her.

"But isn't it just too gorgeous!" exclaimed Patsy, catch'
ing her breath at the beauty of it as we looked around.

Basil Rathbone and his wife, Ouida Bergere, were giving
quite the most gorgeous masquerade party that has ever
been held in Hollywood. Or rather this one took place

at the Beverly Hills Hotel, just outside Hollywood. The
whole lower floor was given over to the Rathbones' guests,
and the Venetian ball-room in particular was aglow with
lights and flowers, while even the great terrace was softly
lighted and furnished with easy chairs, little sofas and
small tables; and the guests in all sorts of gorgeous and
picturesque costumes were dancing to the music of the
Spanish and colored orchestras which played alternately,
or were chatting in groups, trying to guess each other's
identity.

Our hostess, beautiful Ouida Bergere, just had to un-
mask beforehand, because otherwise her guests were rather
bewildered, and besides she was dashing about so hard,
seeing to it that everybody was happy, that she confided
to us she was just smothering behind her mask. She looked

d[The cadets above are
Irving Thai berg and
~h{orma Shearer!

JftfASQUERADE

By Qrace f^ingsley

stunning in a Spanish grand dame costume, while Basil
Rathbone looked just too sheikishly handsome in a sort of
Russian peasant costume.

We saw the beginning of a romance, too, though we
didn't know it at the time. Jack Gilbert and Ina Claire
were meeting almost for the first time. Indeed, they didn't
know each other behind the masks, but Jack pursued a
small feminine figure clad as Oliver Twist.

"What's Oliver 'asking for more' of?" inquired Patsy.

"Why, Jack Gilbert, of course!'1 answered John David'
son, who was our escort, and who had come dressed as
Romeo.

Jack danced with Ina several times before he discovered
who she was.

Greta Garbo was there, but we didn't see her dancing

or talking with Jack at all. Indeed, I believe there was
a distant coolness between them, or at least on Greta's part..
I don't know whether Jack even noticed it. Of course Jack
and Greta's romance has been cooling for some time anyway.

Greta was clad as Hamlet, and maintained to a big ex-
tent the aloofness and somberness of that unsociable prince,
who, as John remarked, "never gave a party but once so
far as known and that was when he wanted to get some-
thing on somebody."

"That's quite too hard-boiled a remark for gentle Romeo
to make!" chided Gertrude Olmstead, who was looking
very cunning as the rabbit which Bob Leonard, her hus-
band, as the Nimrod, was gunning for. These two put on
a funny act, by the way, with Bob chasing Gertrude.
Nobody knew either one of them until (Cont. on page 98)

iD WAY

(\How is Hollywood
Withstanding the
Onslaught of Stage
Talent? Heirs the
Answer.

Rob Wagner

((The latest in Hollywood: the rehearsal of
scenes on s\eleton sets before the permanent
sets are built on sound stages and action is
photographed and microphoned. Herbert
Brenon is shown rehearsing Winifred West'
over in the title role of "Lummox" while the
author, Fannie Hurst, loo\s on. ?\Jote stage
directions on the studio floor.

ou remember "The Perils of Pauline,"
"The Dangers of Dorothy" and other
exciting serials in which the beautiful
heroine was once-a-week subjected to
the most threatening experiences? Well, none
of those now classic Odysseys of cataclysm are
to be compared with the crises of Cinematta,
for the fortunes of this beautiful celluloid god-
dess have been in perpetual jeopardy for the
past fifteen years.

When I look back upon the various crises
that Hollywood has experienced I marvel at her
resiliency and marvel still more that each new
crises is taken so seriously.

The first great crisis came with the perfec-
tion of studio lighting which made California
sunshine unnecessary to the making of pictures.
Then why make them so far from the home
office? Lasky-Famous-Players started the ex-
odus back East, followed by Metro, Fox and
others. Big studios were opened in New York
and Florida and it began to look as if Holly-
wood would soon be numbered amonc? the

(C Co'directors — Edward Sutherland, of the movies, and John Crorn-
well, of the Broadway stage, directed "Burlesque" together. 7\o

casualties!

I N VA S I O N

"ghost cities' left over from the days of California gold.

But the crisis was entirely artificial. There were other
reasons why it was cheaper and better to make pictures
in Hollywood, and within a year the big companies were
all back here doing business at the old stand.

The next crisis was the foreign invasion. Great directors
and actors from Europe flocked to Hollywood to the grow'
ing alarm of our native craftsmen. Lubitsch, Leni, Mur-
nau, Stein, Sven Gade and a host of other directors soon
had Griffith, DeMille and Brenon tossing in their sleep,
while Pola Negri, Greta Garbo, de Putti and lesser exotic
movie queens sent our local royalty to their favorite for'
tune tellers that they might learn the worst.

Against this invasion there seemed nothing to do until
the same phenomenon was observed in the lower ranks of
Filmdom. Here the invaders ran up against real organized
opposition. With Russian princes and grand dukes taking
the places of the old-time extras, when it became idiomatic
that the best credential for an 'extra1 job was a foreign
accent — then trouble began. The organisa-
tion of the extras, Equity, The American
Legion, trade and fan papers all went to the
bat to save our great American film industry
from Europeanisation.

Then suddenly came the talkies and another
crisis was passed.

That is, the foreign danger was past. Pro-
ducers right away began to exercise great
caution in renewing options on the contracts
of their foreign stars, irrespective of popular-
ity. The first to leave was Pola, to be followed
shortly by the greatest of them all, last year's
winner of the Academy's first prise, Emil
Jannings. Now the exodus of the foreign
actors is all the other way. They are headed
back to Europe in droves.

Not so, however, among the directors and writers,
Lubitsch, Stein, Leni and Hans Kraly, in the few short
years they have been here, have so completely mastered
our language that they are fully competent to write for
and direct our American actors. Paul Stein, for instance,
though previously knowing nothing about American news-
papers, spent three days in a down-town newspaper office,
and returning directed the action and dialogue of what
many critics say is the best newspaper story the films have
shown: "The Office Scandal." As for Lubitsch and Kraly,
they have a finer understanding of English words than
most of us who have been brought (Com. on page 107)

Two Titans — Ed-
gar Selwyn of
Broadway and
Cecil B. De Mills
of Culver City,
Cal. Friendly ri-
vals!

<C George Abbott, famous Broadway stage di-
rector of "Coquette," "Broadway," and
"Gentlemen of the Press," is now directing
Moran and ~Mac\ for Paramount.

QScreenland's Lo-
cation Lady was
the Only Out-
sider Allowed
on this Talkie
Location for
"Redemption."

(£ Fred l<[iblo and his alhstar location cast: Conrad J^figel, Helen
Ludlam, Eleanor Boardman, and ]ohn Gilbert.

On Location

By Helen Ludlam

J/"*] fNJHE scene was 'set up1 in a grove of beautiful eucalyptus
trees on Lot Two, a dominion of Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer, and about a mile from the studio. A sound
line was strung from the studio to the location
which simplified matters considerably because it did
away with the generating wagon which is a necessity
on sound locations and raises a terrific hullabaloo.

It was a very interesting location, this one for
"Redemption," and Screenland's Location
Lady was all set up, too, that she had been
given an opportunity to cover it!

To begin with — glance at the cast! Eleanor
Boardman, Renee Adoree, Lena Malena,
Claire McDowell, Conrad Nagel, Tully
Marshall, and — oh yes! There was John
Gilbert!

There was so much pulchritude and
personality that I am sure no indoor
stage would have held them all at one
time. Even in the big outdoors the
air vibrated with this and that — to
say nothing of romance. It was the
very next night at the masquerade
ball given by the Basil Rathbones
that the whirlwind romance between
Jack and Ina Claire, which culmi-
nated in their marriage less than ten
days afterwards, began.

Jack wasn't working that first day,
but he had come anyway, to talk
over some business details with Fred
Niblo, his director. He wore a dark

C[ The

'set up' of the gypsy camp in which some of the most
in the barouche; Claire McDowell standing

QFred Niblo Di-
rects Jack Gil-
bert, Eleanor
Boardman, and
Conrad Nagel
and Lets Us
Look On and
Listen.

C[ ]ac\ Gilbert in his costume as Fedya greets Helen Ludlam,
Screenland's representative, on the outdoor set.

with

John Gilbert

important scenes in "Redemption" occur,
to the right; Fred 7\[tb!o directing.

Eleanor Boardman

Photography by Pollock

blue suit and drove his favorite car, a new Ford. He always
drives himself unless he is going to an opening or some social
event. And then his limousine has to work.

Mr. Niblo was in his element at- the moment direct-
ing the crowd of 'gypsies' — well, not exactly in his
element, because the crowd was not large enough.
The director of "Ben Hut" likes 'em in thou-
sands, not just dozens. But it was enough to
bring a sparkle to his eye, and his genial,
enthusiastic personality was hitting on all
six.

They were taking the early scenes of the pic-
ture at the gypsy camp. When Jack, who
plays Fedya and is a great favorite, ar-
rives on his snow-white steed they all
make a great fuss over him. One girl,
scarcely more than a child, throws her
wreath across the fire for him to catch.
That is a gypsy challenge for him to
jump through it, his reward being the
maiden's kiss. Jack gallantly leaps
the flames amid cheers from his
friends and glowering looks from some
of the young blades who were not so
courageous when the other girls
threw wreaths to them. The little
gypsy girl was Lena Malena.

But there were other, and distin-
guished visitors to the camp and just
as Jack bends his head to claim the
kiss, his eyes meet those of Eleanor
Boardman. The gypsies roar with
derisive laughter (Cont. on page 102)

({She's five-foot
nothing and does
not loo\ li\e an
author! Her lat-
est boo\,is "Ap-
plause."

(\The Story of'
Beth Brown

You have heard enough about
Baby Stars. Here's a Baby
Author! And she is a star,
too, in her own field. Beth
Brown is a little bit of a girl, but she
has written and published six books
and has recently received a check some''
where in the neighborhood of $25,000
for the screen rights of her latest book,
'Applause" — and a very good neigh-
borhood to be in, if you ask me!

And she is only in her very early
twenties, pretty, gay, and not, by her
own confession, very much like an
author! To begin with, she always
wanted to go on the stage. So — she
went! She usually does the things she
wants to do, by the way. At the
tender age of five she was on the stage!
But her mother objected so she retired
to private life, convinced, however,
that nothing would ever fascinate her
so much as the sights and the sounds
and the smells of the footlights. And
the stage is still her favorite 'location';
she writes about it in her most popular
books — "Ballyhoo," and "Applause."

When an executive of Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer bought the movie rights to
"Ballyhoo" for Norma Shearer to star
in, he looked at the baby author and
then at the check he was about to give
her, an amazed light in his eyes. "Such
a little girl," he sighed, "and such a big
check!"

Paramount has purchased "Ap-
plause" and thinks so much of its screen
possibilities that it is making a feature
production of it, signing Helen Morgan
of Broadway to sing and act the lead-

BABY
AUTHOR

ing role.

Beth Brown with
Norma Shearer,
who will star in
the film version
of her b o o\,
"Ballyhoo."

By Sydney Valentine

The manuscript of Beth Brown's
latest book is in its finishing stages now,
and it is taller than she is! It is about
vaudeville life.

Her advice to budding authors is:
"First you must have something to say
and then you must say it!" and "Write
about the things you know." She says
of her own work that 'now that she has
finished her sixth books she feels she
lias served her apprenticeship and can
begin to write.'

When she was asked to say some-
thing about herself she dashed off what
she called an 'Autobioglet,' and since
it expresses Beth Brown more com-
pletely than anything I can say, I'm
passing it on!

"I am five foot nothing, do not look
like an author, do not live in an attic
and have a pug nose. I was on the
stage long before my kindergarten days
(my father was a showman) . But my
mother, who is a blue-blood, yanked me
off and sent me away to school.

"When I grew up — a little older —
no taller (sigh), I wanted more than
anything else to be an author. To be
an author, so I had heard, required a
variety of experiences with life. With
this in view, I forged doughnuts in a
sandwich wagon, worked as a check-
room girl in a Broadway cabaret, joined
a Carnival show, then a burlesque
show, went to Hollywood and worked
in movie comedies, wrote two juvenile
books and three novels, and then
Applause.'' Now I've finished another
novel.

"I divide my time equally between
writing fiction and (Cont. on page 111)

Photograph by Gaston Longet

The JMost "Beautiful Still of the <JMonth
NANCY CARROLL in "Burlesque"

"p's purely

Q When Billie Dove Deserts
the Studio for a Day in an
Old-fashioned Garden

(( Billie Dove must have
her day off just li\e
every other working
girl. She dons a sim-
ple dress, so different
from her screen crea-
tions, lets her luxuri-
ant raven loc\s run
riot, and tries to for-
get she is a famous
film star.

Rummer!

C[ All on a summer's day! Billie Dove dreams away an idle afternoon

All photographs on these two pages by Elmer
Fryer, exclusively for Screenland.

((A beauty li\e Billie can't hope to evade the eager photographer. Everywhere that Miss Dove goes, a camera is sure
to follow. Screen stars have no strictly private lives and they learn, li\e Billie, to grin and bear it!

Homme!

THE movie villain comes into his own!
William Powell, after a long career of
screen crime, is now a fascinating hero and star.

THE latest and littlest Bennett — Joan, sister
of Constance and Barbara, who is now a
full-fledged film featurette herself.

interests of "The Black Watch."

^ER
FILIAL
(^AREER

James M. F * idler

V )( "^RIAL marriages have
jjj been topics of dis-
j ['! cussion for two
years.

It remained for Sally
Eilers to introduce "trial film
careers." Like the >
heroine of many
a good old novel,
"she did it for
her mother.'1

(\Said Sally Eilers: (tIf I
don't make good in the
movies within six months,
I'll quit. " Read her story.

Then she propositioned father
and mother Eilers. It was a sport-
ing gamble she offered them:

"Give me six months to show
signs of progress," she said. "If,
at the end of that time, I
have made no forward steps
toward screen success, I will
quit the movies and go to
college. But if I have shown
progress, I shall continue to
Ilk be a motion picture actress."
\ Probably Mr.

Eilers and his wife,
looking at Sally's
red hair and flash-
ing eyes, decided
that if they did not
compromise, their

([Sally — sweet,
snappy, and
successful!

You see, Papa
Eilers wanted his
Sally to go to college.
Mama Eilers was
equally anxious that
her daughter attend a
school where she might learn
costume designing.

The movies? Papa Eilers and
Mama Eilers turned up their
noses in unison.

"Not the place," they chorused, "for
our child."

To discourage Sally's movie ambitions,
they pointed out to her the thousands
of pretty girls who are working as
extras and who will never be more than
that. Sally looked beyond those extras
and saw the hundreds who had suc-
ceeded in getting somewhere.

Then papa and mama Eilers named
a number of stars and players who were
involved in scandals. "The movies," they ad'
vised Sally, "will ruin your morals." For
answer, red-headed Sally named ten times as
many stars and players whose lives have not
been touched by scandal.

For every argument advanced by her parents,
Sally offered a rebuttal. For every bad feature
with which they confronted her, Sally men-
tioned many good features.

daughter would go right ahead without their
permission. So they said "Yes."
That was the inception of the first (and as far as
^ I know, the only) "trial film career."

Sally set forth. The first studio she visited was the
William Fox plant. She got no further. They needed a
fiery red-head for a bit in a picture then in production.
Sally filled their need. She created an impression that led
to other bits. The first two months of the six months'
trial were most productive. Sally would smile at her
parents. Of course, they were not exactly angry.
They trusted their daughter and if she could make
good, why, God bless her.

Then two bad months followed. Sally's good
spirits dropped like the red in a thermometer on
an icy day. Four months of her six were passed
and she had shown little, if any progress. And
then dawn came!

Her first opportunity was in "Cradle Snatchers."
Her part wasn't great but it was good. Her work
was not startling but it was consistent. Her beauty
and personality, however, caused comment in the
offices of those who produce motion pictures.

"Slightly Used," a Warner Brothers production,
came immediately after "Cradle Snatchers." All the
time she was working in the studios, Sally had a
tutor. She studied nights instead of playing. She
earned her high-school diploma by diligent attention
to her books.

Among the friends Sally met at the studio was
Carol Lombard, whom she had (Cont. on page 109)

Ronald Colman

(JRonnie Serves
Doubles! He
Offers Two
Tennis Rack-
ets, with Balls,
to the Winner
of this Contest.
Write the Best
Letter and
Hold Court
All Summer!

C[ Write the best letter — that is,
the clearest, cleverest, and
most sincere answering Ron-
nie's question, and you will
win the rackets.

Ronald Colman at home, in sports clothes
and Beverly Hills!

Onald Colman delivered his Screenland contest gifts
in person. He found the time during his brief and
busy vacation visit to Manhattan to drop in and shake
hands all 'round. He was a huge success in his
Screenland special short subject and we wish we had a talkie
newsreel of the event! Ronald is a tennis enthusiast, you
know, and he selected the two rackets himself — one, a Mary K.
Browne model for a feminine player, and the other, a man's
racket — both from Spalding's, the famous sporting goods store
on Fifth Avenue, New York. Balls are included. Both men
and women are eligible to enter this contest. Whichever wins,
he or she will be able to invite a partner to play tennis!

Address:— RONALD COLMAN
Screenland Contest Department
49 West 45th Street
New York City

Contest closes August 10, 1929

C[ An Englishman transplanted to Hollywood is
still an Englishman.

Offers a Gi

QThe Question You Must
Answer: Is Ronald Colman at
his Best in Romantic Roles Such
as he Played in "Two Lovers,"
or in Modem
Sophisticated
Comedy Such
as n 'Bulldog
Dmmmond?"
Why Do You
Think So?

CC Get in on the rac\et!
Ronnie offers two —
Spalding's best — com-
plete with balls, in
\ha\i zipper cases.

(£ Colman and his fellow-countryman, Clive
Broo\, on the tennis court of Ronnie's English
home in the California hills. What's the
score, Clive?

(\Sowe of the Biggest Stars
in Pictures were i 'Fired'*
Before They were Per-
manently Hired.

C[ Josephine Dunn was 'let out' by one com-
pany because it was said she couldn't or
wouldn't Act — only to be signed to a long-term
contract by a rival producer!

'Cfiring'

even years ago, Joseph Schenck, Caesar of the Cinema,
gazed rather gloomily at some motion picture tests of a
lad from Lancashire, England, who had come to work
at the studio. Schenck looked glum — in fact, particu-
larly glum.

"No chance in the world for a chap like that," he muttered.
"Crooked mouth. Impossible nose. Eyes too light and set
all wrong!" And he promptly told the young man he had
better get through and go into some other business.

The lad, by the way, was Reginald Denny.

But did he take Mr. Schenck's kind advice and hunt around
for other fields to conquer? Yes — he did not! He stuck to the
films and finally got a foothold in them. Today he is one of
Universal^ biggest drawing cards.

It is that way. Many of the biggest stars on the screen to-
day have been 'fired' at some time or other. Mack Sennett,
Jack Warner, D. W. Griffith, Jesse Lasky, Winfield Sheehan —
all hard-headed, far-sighted picture producers, known for their
keen discernment in picking potential stars, have 'fired' players
that later they probably wished for all the world they hadn't!

Screen-ambitious young Lochinvars, would-be Pickfords or
Del Rios, taking an ignominious exit through the back gate of
one studio, are found rolling pompously through the hastily
opened portals of another — perhaps even bigger and better —
within the twelvemonth.

One producer may see nothing but a freckled, awkward boy
in the lad whom a rival executive will visualize as the per-
sonification of impetuous American youth. Or the pretty,
slangy, little extra girl may be termed just a little doll by one
producer and be recognized as a potential Clara Bow or Alice
White when seen by another! It's all a matter of personal
opinion and taste.

Josephine Dunn, for example, is thought to have done a
particularly fine piece of acting in her role as the wife in
"Excess Baggage." When the very first 'rushes' were shown,
Metro-Goldwyn signed her up on a long-term contract. And

C[ Lon Chaney was seen
in so many tough
mob scenes in Tod
Browning's old Uni-
versal pictures that he
became a trademar\.
He left the lot and
when he next returned
it was to star in "The
Hunchbac\ of >{otre
Dame." J^_ow Chaney
is the greatest charac-
ter star on the screen.

the ^tars!

since then there have been many calls from other studios for
the loan of her services.

Yet Miss Dunn, a graduate of the Paramount School of
Acting, spent many idle months on the Lasky lot before she
was eventually 'let out' because it was said she simply couldn't
or wouldn't act.

Nancy Carroll was under contract to Fox. She had ap'
peared opposite Tom Mix in a 'western' and had a small part
in "Ladies Must Dress," starring Virginia Valli. Then criti-
cism started coming her way. Some hinted that she was too
plump; others said that her face was 'too round.' Anyway
Nancy didn't play in many more Fox films. Then one day,
Paramount officials seeking everywhere for a Rosemary in
"Abie's Irish Rose" ran across one of her early screen tests.
They sent for Miss Carroll, who was much disgusted with pic
tures by this time and about ready to return to her first love,
the stage. "Make another test for us," they urged her. "No,
indeed," came Nancy's answer. "You won't take me anyway
and it would only be wasting time." And she simply wouldn't
— but like a woman, she finally did! And now she's one of
Paramount's featured players and considered a real screen find.

Gary Cooper played a bit in "The Winning of Barbara
Worth," for Samuel Goldwyn. After the film was completed,
he was told there wasn't anything more for him to do. He
wasn't given any kind of a contract. For months, Gary
drifted along until Paramount picked him up. At present, he
is one of the most popular leading men of the screen. He
first won bouquets for a small part in "Wings" and later, for
a part in "The Legion of the Condemned." And now bouquets
are coming his way with great regularity.

Charles Farrell and Don Alvarado were both dismissed by
the Warner Brothers. Charlie was signed up by them one
day and put to work in a picture the next. The picture when
finished wasn't so good.

"But I was much worse!" said Charlie, "so bad that they
tore up my contract and told me 'to git'!" (Com. on page 110)

(( Charlie Farrell enjoys
the distinction of hav-
ing been 'fired' by
two of the best pro-
ducers. Mac\ Sennett
put him in a picture
but when the first
day's rushes were run
the famous comedy
impresario cried:
"He's terrible! Some-
body fire him!" And
then somebody else
hired Charlie and he
stayed hired!

Gordon R. Silver

<C 'They told K[ancy Carroll her face was too
round to register. She was about to return
to the stage when Paramount persuaded her
to have a test — for "Abie's Irish Rose."

The BAD BOY

(\ The original Peck's Bad Boy,
Billy Haines surveys the
world with considerable
amusement and would rather
laugh out loud in public than
snicker in privacy. And does.

CThis portrait
of William
Haines, which
Screenland considers
the best ever published
of him, is by Ruth Har-
riet Louise.

Holly^

Q Here's Bill Haines! What's
He Really Like, This Smart-
Aleck of the Screen? This
Story Tells You.

By Ralph JVheeler

illiam Haines is the most impossible ,
person in pictures.

He refuses to take anything
seriously, including himself. Which
is all right since nobody takes him with any
serious regard.

The first thing that strikes you when you first
meet Billy is his enormous size. His booming
voice knocks you down with broad vowels at
once reminiscent of Ireland and the Mason-
Dixon line.

You are completely floored by what first ap'
pears to be outrageously brazen flippancy. Then you get up, brush
yourself off, and feel silly for being annoyed. For, after all, Billy is
just a born clown who looks at the world with considerable amusement.

This workaday life distresses him. He can't see any reason for all
the hurry and bustle and mad rush about things commercial. And
prudishness — well, Billy would rather laugh out loud in public than
snicker in privacy. And does.

Billy was born lazy and in this respect is still in his infancy. It is
entirely probable that he will die the same way without growing up.

They say out on the lot that Billy Haines is a perfect fool.

He is.

Anyone who would announce his engagement to Polly Moran for
publication would have to be. Polly told him so. He followed this up
by traipsing all over Hollywood with Polly, escorting her to gala pre-
mieres and social functions and proclaiming undying devotion.

And now Hollywood doesn't know what to believe. They wouldn't
be surprised to learn that he married her, just to make the joke better.

Billy heard that some stars were insisting upon quitting every day
at 4 o'clock. The next day he picked up his makeup box in the middle
of a scene and pointed to the clock.

"I'm going home, it's four o'clock and I'm a star!" he announced.

The director gasped.

"Come back here and go to work, you big egg — lay off the funny
stuff!" he bellowed.

Under protest, Billy went back to work. But he moved off into a
corner by himself and scowled until excused for the day. Then he
went up to the executive offices and picketed Louis B. Mayer's private
sanctum.

"Unfair, shop!" he explained when a passer-by inquired the reason for
his strange conduct.

And while Billy was chuckling to himself, executives were
wondering if temperament had finally taken hold of Haines.

Now and then Billy is asked to pose for publicity pictures with
directors and other studio dignitaries. (Com. on page 112)

(^Haines will next be seen as
the world's freshest gob. And
that's pretty fresh.

C Ronald Colman' s first talking picture

Bulldog Drummond

OW'ifOu;.' And that's just what I mean, too. "Bull-
dog Drummond" is a good, old-fashioned wow of a
motion picture. I'd come right out and call it a spe-
cial except that it has no musical comedy chorus
tripping down a golden staircase and no flash-backs showing
the great lovers of history; so maybe it isn't a special. But if
splendid acting, intelligent direction, expert photography and
interesting camera angles mean anything — and say they do! —
then "Bulldog Drummond" is one of the best motion pictures
of this or any other season. In other words, you are enter-
tained. And that's no crime even today, is it?

It is Ronald Colman's first talking picture. He becomes, as
far as I'm concerned, the miracle man of the movies. The
Colman charm was always something to make me a little fever-
ish, but now that he talks — well, let it go. What are mere
words when confronted with a great emotional crisis? All I can
say is that with one grand gesture Samuel Goldwyn, Ronnie's
picture papa, makes up for all the silly roles he has handed his
star in the past by presenting him with this custom-made part
of the bored and gallant Englishman in search of adventure.

And Mr. Goldwyn, increasingly noble, surrounds Mr.
Colman with a great cast. Such picturesque personal-
ities as Joan Bennett, as the persecuted heroine; Lilyan
Tashman, as a smart schemer; Claude Allister as the
only funny representation of a stage Algy; and Mon-
tagu Love as First Plotter add to the entertainment.
At no time does the director, F. Richard Jones, nor
any member of the cast take the plot, which is prac-
tically endless, too seriously. That's what makes it
all so charming. Colman, his tongue in his cheek,
strides through the fantastically melodramatic scenes
with incomparable savoir {aire — in fact, I think he
invented it! Miss Bennett is a delicious sprite. I
can't say more about "Drummond" now because I
have to go out and see it all over again.

The Movie
of the
Month

({ Montagu Love men'
aces Joan Bennett and
Ronald Colman in this
scene from the all-
talking production of
"Bulldog Drummond."

Real Old-fashioned Love in Hollywood! The Mul-
hall s" Romance is None the Less Charming Be-
cause Seasoned with Humor and Common Sense!

Mrs. Mulhall laughed with amusement as she recounted
her early and brief experiences in the movies. She was
graduated from a girls' school in Menlo Park and wanted
to become a picture star — nothing less.

Her mother got no peace, and finally Evelyn Winans
talked her into taking an apartment in Hollywood. Well,
she finally won a bit in a picture — she can't even remember
the name — but Jack Mulhall was the leading man.

"The first day I was on the set he came over and offered
some advice: 'You'll pardon me, Miss,1 he said, 'but that
makeup you're wearing is much too dark, I'm sure.1

"Honest, I never was so flattered in my life! I could
think of nothing else but Jack Mulhall.

"He never looked at me again during the making of
the picture. And I learned he was married and had a
child and that he was perfectly happy at home.

"Well, that let me out!

"I was still trying to get into pictures. Finally, I got
a part with Rudolph Valentino and we were on location
at San Francisco.

"Whom do I run into but Jack Mulhall!

" 'How'd you like to go to dinner with me tonight?'
he asked.

"I told him I was sorry, and then, kidlike, I blurted out :
'And besides, you're married.1

"He told me that his wife had died since he saw me.

"But my company was returning and I couldn't go.
He wanted my 'phone number, but we had just moved and
hadn't had a telephone installed. So he promised to call
me up at the studio.

"He didn't call.

"In the meantime, I asked everyone I knew all about
him; I was just crazy about him! Two months passed;
finally I couldn't stand it any longer. I knew one of his
boy friends who lived at the Los Angeles Athletic Club
and told him if he saw Jack Mulhall to ask him to call me
at such-and-such a number.

"The funny part of it is, he gave the number to Jack,
but Jack didn't call!

"Several months later I met him on Broadway, near
Eighth street, and he wanted to take me to dinner. I
asked him why he hadn't called and he said he didn't know
where to find me.

"He didn't even know my name!

"That night we decided we were going to like each other
and Jack escorted me home. The next day, he took an
apartment in the same house and in a week we were mar-
ried. Jack's impulsive, like that. But with me — why I
knew his history backwards and forwards!"

Mrs. Mulhall is frank about things. She manages Jack's
affairs, because he hasn't any understanding of business.
They own a business block in Hollywood and she keeps
the rents and all that sort of thing straightened out.

"We want to take a long trip," said Mrs. Mulhall, "and
we want to travel in fine style — just indulge ourselves in
the greatest of luxury when we do go.

"Jack hasn't had a vacation in three years, and really
he works very hard. You know, between pictures there
are clothes to be fitted, portraits to be taken and many
other things to be done. Jack has always worked hard and
I guess he just doesn't know how to take it easy. So I
try to make things as comfortable for him as I possibly
can.

Mrs. Mulhall has some old-fashioned ideas about keeping
a husband comfortable.

"If a man comes home from the studio tired and finds
his wife home tired, also, there are likely to be some battles,"
is her way of putting it.

Mrs. Mulhall is a great admirer of her husband's ability
and hopes that some day he'll get a 'great picture,1 one that
will give him tremendous opportunities to show his his-
trionic possibilities.

"Sometimes girls call Jack up, only rarely, though, be-
cause it is hard to reach him on the telephone. But they
all seem to feel that he's just a genial, good-natured, hand-
some fellow. He doesn't get 'sheik' letters very often.
They don't seem to feel that way about Jack. "I guess
he's just a handsome Irishman that everybody adores!"

Mrs. Mulhall says Jack isn't the type that makes a woman
jealous. He doesn't do the things that worry a wife. He
likes to play golf, and tennis, or go swimming, but evenings
— unless a few friends come in — he would rather get his
rest.

Nights find him studying lines since the talkies came
into vogue.

He isn't interested in romantic novels. He likes biogra-
phies and his favorite magazine is "Time."

But enthusiasm! His is boundless. Mrs. Mulhall mar-
vels at it.

His latest diversion is singing. He has a baritone voice
which the music teacher says (Continued on page 111)

Genial ]ac\ — one of the real men, real husbands, and
real actors of the cinema city!

Q She's so little and light
they have to nail metal
cleats on her dancing shoes
so she'll ??ia^e enough noise
to suit the 'wti^e.1'

DANCING
DOLL

By
Bradford
Nelson

QThe Story of Sweet
Joyce Murray— 'Cin-
derella of the Iron
Slippers.'

' EET Cinderella of the Iron Slippers, the little dancing doll who tapped
upon the doors of fame with her toes!

Joyce Murray is the name. Never heard of her? Probably not.
-But of course you remember that amazing toe-dance number in
"Broadway Melody." That was Joyce.

When this 98-pound Irish girl drifted out to the Metro studio when the big
musical show was being filmed, she was just another hoofer to the powers-that-
be in the casting office.

Today she is a regular long'term contract player at the studio, and as busy
a mite as ever was born with a bit of the Blarney in her voice and the smile
of Killarney in her eyes.

Just a chit of a girl, elfish and feathery from fingers to toes, no bigger than
a minute and almost as fleeting as a second, she is able to perform dancing steps
of startling intricacies and tremendous endurance. She can stand on her toes
for forty-two minutes at a time and holds a record of steady toe-dancing of
seventeen minutes' duration, the usual toe-dance number being about two
minutes.

And she scarcely had a lesson in her life!

In fact, Joyce made her debut as a professional dancer when she was four
years old and has been on the stage almost continuously since that time. And
yet, until she came to Los Angeles three years ago, she never had instruction.

Like all Cinderellas, Joyce had a fairy god-mother.

It was Bessie Love who waved the magic wand.

Joyce was dancing in "Sunny," then playing at the Mayan Theater in down-
town Los Angeles. One night the ensemble was ordered to report at a film
studio to work in a back-stage scene for "Sally of the Scandals," of which
Bessie Love was the star. (Continued on page 110)

Q 98 pounds of
Irish enthusiasm
and elfin grace —
Joyce Murray.

CHARLES BUDDY' ROGERS and Mary
Brian in a tender scene from "A Man
Must Fight." Yes, and a man must love.

ONE of Hollywood's most popular young
men, in or out uf the studios — Ben
Lyon, aviator and fiance of Bebe Daniels.

OUGLAS MacLEAN — a new portrait.
And his new talkie is "Divorce Made
Easy," a Christie comedy.

MARIE PREVOST is Doug's leading lady,
and she sings the theme song of the
film— "So Sweet." So's Marie!

Russell Bail

AMONG the youngsters scheduled for
stardom William Bakewell stands out.
He is an actor of genuine promise.

William E. Thomas

SWEET Sally O'Neill She returns to the
screen from vaudeville in a blaze of glory,
scoring in "On With the Show."

Russell Ball

THE musical version of "Rose-Marie," now
being filmed, is graced with the vocal and
optical charm of Carlotta King.

({Ina and Jac\ brea\fasting in their Bever]y Hills home.
And they lived happily ever after!

cA nd So
^hey l^ere
(Married!

]ac\ has a
smile for the
whole iv i d e
world now — even
for the photogra-
phers ivho inter-
rupted his honey-
moon!

(\ An argument about
talking pictures
brought them to-
gether. They both
icon.

C[Just as ]ac\ slipped the ring on Ina's finger and ]udge
Roger Foley made them man and wife.

\f )( NJHEY met at a party! She asked his advice
about the talkies, and when he gave it to her,
she, being a woman, didn't agree with him at
' all. Several heated arguments followed this
first disagreement, until Jack Gilbert probably decided
that women and talking pictures are more or less alike
— just an enigma! Yet he was impressed by Ina Claire's
knowledge of the spoken drama gained in her long ex-
perience on the stage, and he listened to her in spite
of himself. Then came the Basil Rathbones' masquer-
ade. Ina was there. So was Greta Garbo. And so
was Jack. Somehow or other, before very long Jack
and Ina found themselves together, and, before they
knew it, desperately in love. As soon as Jack could
be spared from the filming of "Redemption''' they went
to Las Vegas, Nevada, to be married. And now
they're living in Jack's beautiful home, and very, very
happy. Maybe some day Jack and Ina will make a
picture together. We hope so.

JVhat

th e

nquiring Into their
Very Private
Inspirations

(( Olive Borden says
the atmosphere of
the studio is suf-
ficient to inspire
her to do her best
wor\. Incident-
ally Olive has
never yet seen
one of her own
pictures com-
pleted.

HAT is inspiration? What
makes a painter paint, a
musician immortalise melodies
that have the power to bring
tears or smiles to our eyes although they were
written years, even centuries ago? What magic
is it in a poet's musings that will send the reader
out into a world of sunshine or a world of woe?
What enchantment does a dramatist call to his aid
to make his argument so real; what gives the actor
the ability to interpret all of these things and play
upon the hearts of us who weep or smile with him in
his good or evil fortune?

It was said that scarcely a week passed during
the time Clara Morris played "L' Article 47" that
someone was not carried out of the theater in a faint,
so terribly had her magnificent performance stirred them.

The witchery of Julia Marlowe and the beauty of her
voice sent people from her theater in an ecstasy of romantic
vision.

Do you remember an early scene in "The Last Command"
in which Emil Jannings reached for his precious medal that
a fellow extra had put at the top of a sword far above his head?
I have heard several people say that it seems to them the most
important thing in the world that the pitiful old man got that
medal back again. Evelyn Brent was one of them. She told me
she found herself thinking that if he didn't get it, she would have
to get it for him!

Remember Bessie Love in "Broadway Melody?" Waching Bessie's
dream castle crumble was a thing no one could do impassively. It
wasn't the situation, because we have looked at many tragic situations
on the screen quite comfortably. It was what Bessie put into the scene
that made it almost unbearable. In her performance was the grief of all
the women in the world who have loved unselfishly, and have lost witl
shoulders squared.

I saw "Topsy and Eva" seven times on the stage and twice on the screen
in New York. Poor as the picture was, ridiculously as it was handled, the
words of Topsy's prayer alone had in them sincerity and truth. Tears streamed
from the eyes of men and women in that New York theater as Rosetta Duncan

fl[ Jannings, the great, has
been an inspiration to all
the actors who have ever
wor\ed with him. And
Emil says that America has
lelped htm: "It has made
my wor\ simpler, and sim-
plicity is the highest form
of art."

C[ Betty

says:
is so
that

Compson

"If a scene
uninspiring
an actress

has to thin\ of
something in Iter
own life to hiring
reality into her
wor\, she is play-
ing in bad luc\!
Technique is
what counts."

Inspires
St a rs f

Helen Ludlam

Conrad 7\[agel is inspired by
achievement. He often plays
in two pictures at once because
his wor\ interests him so
\eenly. Consequently Holly-
wood recognizes in 7s[age ! a
fine wor\man.

CC Opposition in-
spires Evelyn
Brent. She feels
that her best act-
ing is dragged
from her by Josef
von Sternberg,
because they al-
ways fight over
the way she
should play her
scenes!

<C Clara Bow plays
a scene with her
whole heart and
soul because she
is interested in
the girl she is
playing and she
wants others to
li\e her, tool

drove the agony of the lonely little slave
child's heart home to her audience.'
How do these people get that way? What
gives them the power to reach into your
heart and twist it until you cry for mercy
either from laughter or from tears? What is
their inspiration?
Well, various things, so they tell me!
One of her directors asked Norma Talmadge how
she was able to cry so easily. "That is simple,"
Norma is said to have replied. "All I have to do is
to remember how tired I was when I had to wash the
sheets!" Those early days of poverty made Norma
weep for the little girl who bore such a bitter bur-
den. So far removed is she now in fortune that the
feeling of sympathy is quite impersonal, as though she
pitied some other little girl, and not herself at all.
This, according to Betty Compson, is a sure sign that
there is something wrong with the scene. "If a scene is
so uninspiring that an actress has to think of something in
her own life to bring reality into her work, she is playing
in bad luck.

"I used to think that you had to feel a thing terribly in order
to act. I declared that there was no such thing as technique.
An actress was born and not made, and all the other platitudes a
' young person is apt to indulge in. These ideas were argued out
of me by my first director, George Loane Tucker, who made "The
Miracle Man." As an example he pointed out that if an opera singer
got all wrought up over the misfortunes of the character she was play
ing she would not be able to sing. Her voice would be so choked with
emotion that she would have no control over it. The power to sway
her audience lay in her technique, her ability to project the personality
she was portraying through to her audience by means of her voice. She
must understand so well that she loses all consciousness of self. It helps
an artist if he or she has known life — has suffered perhaps, and has become
tolerant of human failings. I don't think anyone can rise to true greatness in
art unless they are understanding and selfless, in their work at least."
George Loane Tucker gave Betty the grounding that has carried her safely through
perilous artistic waters. Like Bessie Love, Betty has been (Cont. on page 106)

C[ One of Broadway's favorite funny men, Charles Ruggles
made his screen debut in "Gentlemen of the Press,"
and scored a personal triumph. His next talking pic
ture is "The Lady Lies."

A FEW hundred years from now, I suppose they'll
still be saying that just because Lizzie Doakes,
nee Lizette Duchess has her name above the
^ theater in a glitter of mazda, she is different from
her Cousin Susie who may sell cold cream across a counter
in the five-and. Or, just because Lizzie earns her living
by obeying the orders of a director on a movie lot and
Cousin . Susie earns hers tapping a typewriter eight hours
a day in a broker's office, all the world concludes that
Lizzie has a corner on the charm market and Cousin
Susie is just one more girl with the shorthand formulas.

It may have been a swell idea once, but today it's
just so much hooey, to put it vulgarly.

When your editor asked me to tell what I have 'learned
about women1 from my stage and screen experiences, I
was torn between two impulses. I didn't know whether
to mail in a blank sheet of paper or immediately send
out an emergency call for a corps of stenographers and
compile a volume.

An individual woman is still just one huge question
mark to me, to which I haven't found an answer. She
is still the source of shock, dismay, and bafflement. I
don't understand a single woman I know. But, when
I consider as a group all the girls with whom I've worked
on the stage and all the girls with whom I am now work'
ing on the movie lot, I realize that I have learned one

booking

Charles Ruggles

thing about all women — there isn't any real difference
between the types who make whoopee for your amuse-
ment on the bright sides of the footlights and the
girls who watch from the darker side.

For every girl I know in the theatrical profession
I know another whose intimacy with the theater
doesn't extend beyond a seat in the tenth row. And
I've gradually become sold on the idea that, whatever
she may be doing, a woman is essentially true to cer-
tain feminine characteristics.

Just recently, while working on the lot in my first
talking picture, "Gentlemen of the Press," I had still
more experiences to convince me that my observa-
tions are authentic.

After all, each of us possesses about the same set
of emotions. It shouldn't be such a startling declara-
tion for me to say that the personal lives of actresses
vary hardly at all from those of women who are
non-professionals.

I never have understood the theory that the mere
fact of Lizzie's having chosen to dance or sing or act
to earn her pay envelope miraculously differentiates
Lizzie's hopes and ideals from those of the rest of
her sex. Why, in the name stardom, should her aspira-
tions differ from those she would have possessed as a
a clerk, a stenographer, or a school teacher?
I don't want to imply that Lizzie is not a pleasant,
and often a fascinating, young person. However, you
may accept it from one who has known dozens of Lizzies,
that she certainly does not move about her home and
dressing room or on the streets in a cloud of glory. Off
stage, she is the Lizzie who shares a common bond with
every woman watching her in the audience.

She loves and hopes; strives and sacrifices; blunders and
gets 'blue'; is stubborn and contrary; giggles, envies, and
pities — in fact, she entertains all the varied moods to
which all women apparently fall heir. And equally, the
very same sort of thing that makes you happy, has the
power to make her happy.

The next time you watch your favorite actress or your
favorite movie star, don't forget that she gets just as vexed
as you do over runs in the best stockings; over a scorched
dinner; or when her 'boss' reprimands her.

And she gets exactly the same kind of kick that you
do when her boy friends invites her to lunch or when
she discovers an unexpected raise in the pay envelope.
And twenty-four out of twenty-five of the Lizzies I know
want to get married, with the same eagerness for the
'right person.'

Their heartaches are carbon copies of yours. At this
very moment there is being featured in most of the mov-
ing picture houses throughout the country the latest film

at the SADIES

C[ Critics praised
Ruggles' perform-
ance as the re-
porter in "Gentle-
men of the Press."
Here he is in one
of the best scenes
from that picture.

Qln Which a Famous Stage Comedian
Makes his Debut as an Author and
his Bow to his New Public. He
Writes about Ladies First!

in which a very promising young woman is gaining new laurels.
I was working on an adjoining lot during the making of my last picture, "The Lady Lies," and had occa-
sion to see a great deal of this particular girl. For two days she spent her lunch hours crying until her
nose was red and she had to change her makeup. Why should one of the highest-salaried, most popular
screen favorites weep?

Her boy friend hadn't written for two days! He was on the road with a play and she just knew
that a certain blonde hussy in the cast had vamped him away from her. No one could console her.
She knew it!

And then on the afternoon of the second day, she received a special delivery from the delin-
quent boy friend, explaining that his family had descended upon him and he hardly had a
moment to breathe and would she forgive him. Her relief and joy at reading this explanation
made the finish of her latest picture the wow that it is.
How many actresses I know are skimping along on fractions of their salaries, because they
are helping in their homes. Many of them are saving so that they may marry and start
their new life unburdened by debt. One famous screen star is sending all of her brothers
and sisters through college. She never attended more than six grades in a grammar
school.

And it isn't only in the most flattering ways that the personalities of the ladies of
the stage and screen parallel those of girls who think it is a perfect life.
Innumerable times I have seen Lizzie drop her dazzling smile when she comes off
stage and stamp her foot, impatiently upbraiding a long-suffering maid. And
Lizzie constantly grumbles about the monotony of having to smile night after
night, when she would give all of her fame just to be going to a movie with
her best boy friend.
It's an old story that many a great actress would- exchange places with the
simplest little girl, if she had her choice. The majority of stars have
reached their enviable positions despite heartache and denial.
If you wandered through their dressing-rooms and if they would reveal
to you the real women behind their stage masks, you would appre-
ciate that you share practically all the emotions and ideals of these
glamourous ladies.
Of course, you must not forget that I have been writing about
the real Lizzie, not the girl who appears in the play and creates
an image of beauty or tragedy for you from eight-thirty in the
evening until eleven p. m. And make no mistake about it —
the Lizzies of theater and studio are just hard-working
girls! LInderneath the glamour that you see, there is layer
vipon layer of slavish devotion to duty. To the weekly
pay-check too, you say! Perhaps. But the fervor that
some Lizzies put into their best performances cannot
be purchased. It is the flash or the flame or the
\ spark, whatever you choose to call it, that can't

be bribed or bought, but that lifts Lizzie above the
mob. But I digress! I was saying that the Lizzie,
who seems so far removed from the humdrum
irritations of your life, slips on the gaiety
and romance when she puts on her make-up.
It is all a part of her job, just as your
smiling pleasantly to your employer's
client and looking neat and capable
may be a part of yours. It keeps your
name on the payroll.

C[ Dorothy Arzner — just a few years ago she filled a typist's
job; and now she is the director of Clara Bow, Richard
Aden, and other stars.

THE only woman director to wrest consistent success from
a megaphone job. The only woman director under long-
term contract to any studio in Hollywood. The only
woman to rise in the span of a few years from a
typist's job to that of making Clara Bow's first dialogue picture.
Would you like to meet her?

Would you like to know what sort of a person this Dorothy
Arzner is?

Of course you would! So through the pages of Screenlanp
let me introduce you to a quiet-voiced, dreamy-eyed girl, just
under medium height; heavy dark brown hair worn smartly off
forehead and ears; small mouth and nose; enormous gray eyes.
Very attractive, you say?

You discover that she is gracious without any studied effects
with which to impress new acquaintances. But where is that
dominance, that aggressiveness, you ask? Is she cleverly hiding
her generalship and putting on this artful feminine fantasy?

No, the Arzner dominance is entirely mental; and as for
aggressiveness she shrinks from its contact. Field-marshal tactics
have never been employed by Dorothy Arzner, on the set or off;
but cleverness, a great capacity for absorbing knowledge, and a
genius for accomplishing grinding, nerve-crushing mountains of
work have brought very satisfying results.

Now you will want to talk to her, but be prepared to do most
of the chattering yourself. Naturally, the first question will be
on her break into the movies. Yes, ask her that one — everybody
does!

"Very colorless, I assure you," she will answer. "A visit to the
Paramount Studios with the Commander of the Los Angeles
Emergency Ambulance Corps."

Yes, yes, but what had that to do with her career?

"Well, I had never felt any desire to visit a studio, although

Directed

By
Dorothy
Arzner!

C[Miss Arzner coaching
while Harry Fischhec\.

I had lived in Los Angeles all my life," she will
reply very slowly and softly, "and when I first
stood on a klieg- flooded set I suddenly knew that
my future was inside those studio gates."

Now there is an interesting story about DorO'
thy's many and conflicting ambitions before that
eventful visit to the Paramount studio, but you
will never get her to elucidate on the subject so
IT1 tell you.

During the war Dorothy enlisted in the Ambu-
lance Corps and was about to embark for the front
when the armistice was signed. When she re-
turned to Los Angeles she enrolled in the University

QThe Story of the Only Woman to
Achieve Consistent Success as a
Motion Picture Director.

By Julie Lang

of Southern California.

After graduation came the dilemma. "Where
do I belong? I must do something." Although
Dorothy's family was anxious that she stay at
home and elect the playful routine of a debu-
tante, she cast about for an occupation. The
business world loomed up as a colorful globe to
conquer, so she hied herself to secretarial school
(lucky thing she did as we shall see later) and
got herself a job secretarying. But business proved
to be a mundane affair of mussy carbon copies,
dull letters, uninteresting indexes and innumer'
able filing systems. So Dorothy pleased her family
for a few months by attending social gatherings.
But that old germ ambition gnawed at her

Richard Arlen in a scene
her cameraman, loo\s on.

peace of mind.

The next Arzner enthusiasm was medicine.
To become a renowned physician, to help allevi-
ate the suffering and misery of human beings
became her goal, and she enrolled in a medical
college.

It was during this adventure into the land of
bacteria that the eventful tour changed the
destiny of Dorothy Arz,ner. She had anticipated
the studio visit with boredom, but left the gates
with her future a tangible object.

"I pried open the studio gates with a type-
writer," she says laughingly, "for my knowledge

of typing brought about an opportunity to get on the studio pay-
roll as a typist in the scenario department. After four months
of exhausting work, a spark of encouragement brightened the
horizon in the form of promotion to the reading department,
Step number one, said I!"

"I knew that every day's work brought me a little nearer that
canvas chair lettered director; each task finished was that much
knowledge stored away for the big job that would come some day.
A year later I found myself back of the cameras as a script
clerk. Step number two! Out on the sets at last, at the side
of a director, thousands of new details to learn. I asked questions
constantly, of the electricians, the prop boys, the cameramen and
the director when he was not too busy. I suppose many of
those boys put me down as a dreadful pest!"

Script work lead to cutting, and although that was a step
away from the sets, it meant more valuable knowledge to Dorothy
for her ultimate job. Every successful director knows how to cut
his productions. As a cutter she won unusual fame. James
Cruse heard of her prowess and asked her to cut "The Covered
Wagon." From that time the sailing was a bit smoother.

While working on this production Dorothy confided her
secret to Cruse, the first person to know of this very young
person's astounding ambition.

"Well, if any woman can direct, you're the one to do it,
Dorothy," was his encouraging reply.

The next year was spent cutting and writing, while she
patiently waited for that opportunity. (Cont. on page 112)

Clara Bow and Dorothy Arzner are pals. Proving that Clara
is a good trouper and Dorothy a great director!

<t One of the happy
families of Holly-
zoo od—H. B. War-
ner with Mrs.
Warner, the for-
mer Rita Stan-
wood, and their
children, Joan, H.
B. Jr., and Lor-
raine, in their
B ever ly Hills
home.

WARNER: H. B.

QThe Warner Who Works Alone -Not
One of the Brothers, but the Eminent
Actor Who Works in Warner Pictures!

By Logan Carlisle

UNDER a brilliant flood of light a tall man, his
back toward us, worked desperately over a
telegraph key.
A wireless apparatus crackled.
Beside him stood a beautiful woman.
Against a door, bracing himself with all his strength
was another man. The door was slowly being forced open.

It opened. An East Indian prince strode through with
a drawn revolver and without a moment's hesitation, fired
point blank at the tall figure over the key board.

The woman screamed and the tall man, turning slowly,
slid half way to the floor, his body going limp over a
chair.

The Indian prince was George Arliss. The beautiful
lady was Alice Joyce. The 'other man' was Ralph Forbes
and the tall villain with a splendid finish was H. B.
Warner, paying the price of his villainy by dying a villain
but a good sport.

The picture, when exhib'
ited, will be known as "The
Green Goddess," starring
Mr. Arliss and featuring Mr.
Warner who is setting what
is almost a dangerous prece'
dent by making villainish
roles popular while keeping

hem just as devilish as any

director can desire.
And if Mr. Warner is as

uccessful in this part in

'The Green Goddess" as he

las been in many past roles,
you may long remember the
part of Major Crespin while
you may quickly forget that
H. B. Warner created it.
That is the price he pays
for exceptional ability.

No player in the motion
picture industry more com'
pletely loses his own very
interesting personality in a
part, heavy, hero or charac-
ter, than Mr. Warner. In-
cidentally he has played all
of those kinds of roles with
marked success.

From villainy to divinity

ind back again! That is the

ong and interesting road that
H. B. Warner has traveled

C[ H. B. 'Warner — actor, gentleman, and scholar] His
latest appearance is in the a]l-tal\ing picture, "The
Green Goddess," for Warner Brothers.

on the stage and screen.

Famous first for his role as a gentleman yegg, sand'
papering his fingers to find the combinations of safes in
'Alias Jimmy Valentine," famous too, for the role of
Jesus in "The King of Kings," he is playing 'heavies' now
for Warner Brothers, completing one swing of the pen-
dulum.

If H. B. Warner does any one thing better than any
other, it is to bury his own very marked personality under
the cover of his stage or screen characterizations. Noted
though he is, there are more people who remember the
calm and spiritual Messiah of "The King of Kings" than
remember who played it. There are more people who re-
member Sorrell, the elder, of "Sorrell and Son" than know
the name of H. B. Warner or that he played the. part.

His present villainy will go down as suave and polished
meaness, not anchored particularly to the man himself.
His is the peculiar ability to make his roles remembered

and to have himself forgot-
ten!

It is passably difficult to
play villain roles. It is
harder to make villains inter-
esting and attractive, but
never-the-less villains. It is
consummate skill to play a
villain and have the memory
of that villain stand out in
the public's memory.

To start where most in-
quiries about H. B. Warner
start, he is not one of the
'Brothers' for whom he is
now making pictures. He
has, however, contributed to
their success and they have
paid him well for his labors.
A forgetful public may re-
member his work and forget
his name, but not so with
studio officials. When an
actor has pleased he is never
forgotten. In Hollywood,
where pictures are the bread
and butter as well as the cake
and icing for many thou-
sands, H. B. Warner is a
well-known and highly re-
garded player.

Undoubtedly the role of
Jesus (Continued on page 108)

Fashions

Discussing the Clothes Prob-
lem of the Gwen Lee
Type of Tall, Regal
Blonde.

((Gwen Lee is just the
type to wear this blacl{
suede hat with the flar-
ing veil, says Adrian,
who designed it for her.

([Left: b I a c \
moire is used to
fashion this in-
leresling gown
with lingerie
touches and an
edging of tulle.

([Adrian's ver-
sion of the pop-
ular heach pa-
jama Ensemble,
deve- loped
in heavy crepe
brightly em-
broidered.

hen a young
woman takes
advantage of
all of her pos-
sibilities she is great.
When she takes advantage
of some of them she is in-
teresting. But when she
lets most of them slide
into oblivion she is stupid.

Gwen Lee is rapidly
grasping all of her possi-
bilities. She is developing
them quickly and surely.

She has reached the 'interesting state' and it is
with admiration that we look at her hoping she
will use all of them.

Gwen Lee is on that peculiarly balanced line,
being both interesting to look at and almost
beautiful. I say almost because I am glad she
is not really a dazzling beauty — the hair breadth
between saves her from being uninterestingly
gorgeous. It is the indefinable something that
makes her interesting to look at and a bit un-
certain. You do not get all of her with your
first glance; she keeps a little of herself for
herself.

This is a powerful quality for all women to
remember: \eep some of yourself for yourself.
You are all, optically at least, on sale, therefore
keep a reserve stock in case of a sell-out!

Gwen has the knowledge of the grown cat, the wise-
ness of the grown animal rather than the silliness of the
kitten. The kitten we understand at a glance; we never
understand fully the self-sufficiency of the cat. It is one
animal that keeps a bit of herself for herself!

Gwen is regal. She could be radiantly so but her desire
to be free from all aloofness brings her continually to earth
with rapidity. If she had been born in Europe, lived in
Paris or some great capitol she would feel more free in

expressing sincerely the quality of austere beauty that
would go so well with her personality. The American
girl is always afraid of the well-known remark "How do
you get that way?" Therefore, she remains down to earth
and human, which is charming, but she could be so fascina-
ting otherwise!

And now to clothes! Her gowns can have any amount
of dignity, restraint, daringness, simplicity — almost any-
thing she cares to put into them. I find numbers of Amer-
ican girls admiring strenuously that sophisticated, worldly

the Sophisticated Qirl

By Adrian

knowledge, so much in evidence with foreign-born women,
desiring to be like them and then feeling affected and self-
conscious when they try to be like them. It is a matter
of tradition and atmosphere. Here in America our man'
ners are more wholesome but less interesting. We desire to
know sophistication rather than to be sophisticated.

Gwen can wear the most formal evening gowns, grace-
fully and naturally. She never forces a gown. They ac-
quire her personality. She never loses by the gown; she
is seldom overpowered by it. She sells her personality
first; the gown goes into the bargain. She usually makes

C[ Right, below: a
daring evening
gown designed
for the tall
blonde is devel-
oped in starched
chiffon.

it and herself one, and then one is conscious of nothing
but a smart whole.

She is charming in black — velvet particularly. Blues
are perfect for her, browns not too interesting.

The Gwen Lee type is tall. Her movements are slow.
She is much more herself on the screen than off. By that
I mean from a standpoint of clothes.

Her sense of humor prevents her from taking herself
seriously. She knows she is decorative but she doesn't
dare be as decorative as she might.

She can be terribly smart, and when she is she brings
the atmosphere of great cities with her. She would be
much smarter away from Hollywood. But so would most
women who live here. They adapt themselves to the
sports atmosphere until finally it absorbs their personalities
into nothing but a sweater and skirt.

The sunshine, wonderful as it is, melts the smart snow-
lady to a pool of stagnant water!

The Gwen Lee Girl has a great many fascinating qual-
ities which mean really opportunities. She is grown-up
girlhood — still a long way from womanhood — and yet with
a mixture of both.

If you are like her you can be really smart.
My final advice to the Gwen Lee Girl is to be daring.
Don't be afraid to be different! Any girl can follow; you
are among the fortunate few who may lead the fashion
parade.

Aboue: blac\ taffeta and crisp
white organdie fashion this
sophisticated afternoon froc\.

Screen land Fashion Editor, discussing a
new costume with Gwen Lee.

New

Above. Baclanova
and her husband arriv
g to \eep a vaudeville engage-
merit; Hedda Hopper, on vacation; and
George O Brien, on location!

(\When Western Stars Shine
in the East

aclanova came back to Broadway. What, didn't you know she
was a sensation on the New York stage several years ago? Why,
| she was the bright particular star of the Moscow Art Theater
which was brought over here by Morris Gest and which delighted
the eastern intelligentsia tor quite a spell. Olga Baclanova was particularly impres.-ivc
in "Carmencita and the Soldier." Then Hollywood called and she answered and —
you know the rest if you know your movies at all. She has made good on the screen
and, what's more, in talking pictures. She is said to be the only foreign star under long-
term contract in Hollywood. Paramount is proud of its lBaeky,' to use her nickname, and
(inly granted her leave of absence for a big-time vaudeville engagement because she was
'between pictures.'

Baclanova played the Palace on Broadway in an act with her charming hoosban (husband), Nich-
olas Soussanin. Yes, he's Russian, too. It's Baclanova's second matrimonial venture but I'm sure
that it's permanent. The Soussanins are indeed devoted. She is not in the least the temperamental
type of foreign 'artiste,' but an obliging blonde lady who evidently wishes to please. She was
affable about interviews and photographs and everything. And she has a sense of humor. She admits
she is thirty years old and doesn't care who knows it. "In Europe," she smiles, " a woman is not
expected to become an actress before she is at least thirty years old. She is not supposed to have enough
' experience of life before then. Over here, it is different."

But Baclanova may change our styles in actresses. Already she has found enough staunch admirers among the
American audiences to make some of our little ingenues sigh for stage experience and a few extra, glamourous years.

C[ Above, Dick Bar-
thelmess; next, Marian
7S[txon, heroine of '"The Rain-
bow Man" on Broadway; and Charlie
King, one of Broadway's favorite sons.

Just try to keep Dick Barthelmess away from New York for any length
of time at all! Whenever First National grants him a vacation Dick grabs
his wife and jumps on an east-bound train. And while some stars embark on
a regular publicity campaign when they hit Manhattan, Barthelmess forgets he is
a movie star for a while and becomes a private citizen. For instance, instead of
attending the first night of one of his company's special pictures on Broadway, he was
in the midst of a family birthday party, with a cake with candles, and everything.

Just to show you the kind of a boy Dick is — he was persuaded to sit for some photo-
graphs while he was here, and his wife and his mother went with him. The photographer
thought it would be a dandy idea for the senior Mrs. Barthelmess to join her son for one of
those mother-and-child portraits. Dick grinned. "It will be all right if you don't use any of
them for publicity,'" he said. "But I think people are tired of seeing movie stars posing with their
mothers. It looks as if you're using your mother to get into the papers."

V 'fi *fi

The movie and real-estate queen, Hedda Hopper, visited her beloved New York for a grand and
glorious vacation. But such is fame — she was just beginning to enjoy herself when she received a wire
from a coast producer, offering her a fat part in a new picture if she'd catch the first train to Holly-
wood. Hedda sighed, phoned her friends a hasty goodbye, and promised to be back soon.

You know Hedda sells California houses and lots in her spare time, and her commission from the sale
of Frances Marion's hilltop mansion was what is known as a tidy sum. Hedda is one of these rare women
who might have stepped from the pages of a smart English novel. She has everything — (Com. on page 111)

G[Corinne Griffith has Hands to
match her immaculate charm.

^andsful

Q Hands are Second Only to the Eyes
in Revealing Personality. Here are
Simple Rules for their Care.

float," sang the poet lover to his lady-fair. But those were
the days when ladies had little more to do than let their hands
oat or idle over an embroidery frame or the silver strings of
a guitar. Lady-fairs are different nowadays. They work,
most of them, at something useful. If they don't work in
shops or offices, they do their own housework, or drive cars
or airplanes, or play golf and tennis, paint their own furniture
and work in the garden. These things soil and coarsen the
lands only if you let them. And paleness, even
in hands, has gone out of style.

Today, the beautiful hand is the useful
land — hands marked by the character
they gain from effort and accom-
plishment, their fineness conserved
y constant care. A graceful
land, finely grained and
smoothly white, is a beauty
asset much to be desired, and
it is a business asset as
well. The business world
requires that a girl have
well-kept hands. And

VERY normal girl wants to be
popular — and popularity, as
' j you'll agree, is made up of
several kinds of charm. There

(C Esther Ralston, below,
ma\es her liands act,
too.

({Fay Wray
has eloquent
fingers!

is physical charm, the charm of perfect
manners, the charm of personality; and
then there's the charm of careful groom-
ing. The latter is within the reach of
every girl, no matter how limited her

purse. After all, charm and popularity are pretty nearly synonomous
terms. You can have both if you give yourself the confidence that
perfect grooming brings.

The hair and the hands may be the greatest asset — or the greatest
detriment — to one's personal charm. Last month we talked about the
hair, so now we're going to talk about the grace and beauty of the hands.

Hands are second only to the eyes in revealing your habits of thought,
and your personality. They may betray a discordant state of mind,
worry, fear or anger, or they may create an atmosphere of repose,
contentment and charm. Hands show breeding, just as surely as they
show character.

Time was, when it was supposed that all patrician hands were slender
and long with slim, tapering fingers. A square, stubby hand was the
hand of a laborer, never of an artist. But finally, we woke up and looked
about and found that half the patrician fingers do not taper and half
the artists have square stubby fingers.

Time was, too, when no one could be considered a lady who did
things with her hands. "Pale hands, pink-tipped, like lotus buds that

(\This Department is Not Only Informative— it is Entertain-
be glad to answer any beauty questions you may care to ask.

dress: Anne Van Alstyne. Screenland Mag-

arm

Anne Van Alstyne

the charm of lovely hands in the world of music and drama is
not to be denied.

The hands of a dancer, too, are as fascinating as her dainty
feet and no less beautiful and gracile. They seem to have a
life of their own — to exist as bits of beauty all by themselves.

And nowhere are seen lovelier or more expressive hands
than are seen upon the screen. During an interview I asked
a clever young artist the inevitable question: "How did you
get your start?"

"My hands helped most of all," she re'
plied. "An artist asked to let him use
my hands as models. Many promi
nent artists came to me after that,
and they all liked my hands. Such
careful attention I gave my hands
to keep them smooth and white!
I kept my fingers supple by
doing exercises with them, A
quite like the five-finger
piano exercises and scales
of our childhood — • only
that I did them at odd

<C Lovely Thelma Todd's
hands enhance her
appeal.

Lois Moran's hands are part of
her dramatic equipment.

Joan Crawford
has dramatic
digits!

moments on my dressing-table! This
modeling experience was a great help
in my screen work. It taught me
poise and it helped me to be un-
selfconscious before the camera. I no
longer had a longing to put my hands
behind my back, or sit on them, any-
thing to get them out of the way —
as I had at first."
And I met a young woman in quite a different field of work, a
specialist in beauty culture. Her hands may not be perfectly shaped
according to the standard of perfection, but they are trained, magnetic
hands and by their healing touch bring hope and loveliness to women
who trust themselves to their skill. And so valuable are this pair of
hands to their owner that they are insured for fifty thousand dollars.

We might go on, showing you hundreds of equally busy, equally
beautiful hands. Hands of musicians and artists, of stenographers and
modistes, of debutantes and lady policemen! But we won't. What I
want to do is to help you to see that your hands from typewriters to
teacups play an important part in every day's activities. That you
can if you will, create beauty through the care and grooming of your
hands. That you can make your hands so expressive, so much a part
of your personality that you need go no further in your quest for
charm.

How to go about this? Well, of course you want to do your work
whatever it is, and you wrant to skate, coast, play hockey in winter
and go in for all summer outdoor sports and use (Cont. on page 100)

ingl Miss Van Alstyne, Authority on Feminine Charm, will
Enclose stamped addressed envelope for reply by mail. Ad-
azine, 49 West 45th Street, New York City.

J£j t ' s

G o

t o

"Is It Worth Seeing?" is the Question Everybody Asks About
You. Follow This Department of Short and Snappy Re-

Bridge of Scut Luis Rey

Filmed from Thornton Wildcr's Pulitzer, prize-
v, inning novel. This picture is beautiful. It's
a story of glorified love: sensual love ol
Lily Damita for her toreador; half-fatherly,
half-satyric love of Ernest Torrcnce for Lily, his
dancer protegee; semi-mad, semi-motherly love
of Emily Fitzroy for her daughter, Jane Wi'nton;
primitive, inarticulate love of the brothers Don
Alvarado and Duncan Rinaldo — and the un-
worldly, throat-choking love of the convent girl,
Raquel Torres, for Alvarado. Finely filmed by
Charles Brabin, five stories weave into a colorful,
ytirring whole showing us that even the tragedies
which must come to every one are all according
to a divine plan which works out ultimately
lor our happiness. Henry B. Walthall. Damita,
Torrcnce, Alvarado, Rinaldo, Torres and Fitzroy
give splendid performances.

Voice of the City

Willard Mack, of stage fame, wrote, directed, and flayed an
important role in this corking crook talkie. Robert Ames, innc
cent of murder for which he is serving, breaks jail. Mack, the
detective, goes after him. John Miljan, gang leader, Clark
Marshall, dope fiend, Sylvia Field, heroine, are fine in supporting
roles. But especial praise goes to Beatrice Banyard.

The Loves of Casanova

This costume picture in color, deals with that portion of
the famous Casanova's career when he was forced to leave Paris,
travelled to Russia to give Queen Catherine the once over and
arrived in Venice in time for the carnival season and its seductive
opportunities. A slow moving film whose only bright spot is
Diana Karenne, a beautiful young actress.

Betrayal

A morbid story of Tyrol life with Emil Jannings as the hus-
band and Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper as the sweethearts.
Jannings learns his wife had been loved by Gary before her
marriage and that one of her two children is Cooper's. With
Esther dead and Gary dying, he almost kills his own son. It
isn't worthy of Jannings, and it is his American swan-song.

Mot her s Boy

Morton Downey's first starring talkie. He plays an Irishman
who goes out to fight the wicked world, armed only with his
golden voice. He very nearly falls for a Ritzy young lady who
in real life is his wife (Barbara Bennett) but returns at last
to his first humble love, Helen Chandler. Morton Downey is
a good trouper, with a fine, flexible voice.

the <l%C o v i e s !

a Motion Picture. Let Screenland's Revuettes Answer It For
views and Youll Be Guided to the Worth- While Movies.

The Donovan Affair
Jack Holt wins a laurel wreath as police
inspector in this new murder mystery which
hinges around the killing of John Roche, play-
ing a gambling gentleman who mixed amorous
antics with other games of chance. Many had
motives for wishing his death: Agnes Ayres,
who had been having a fling with him; Virginia
Brown Faire, who loved him; Dorothy Revier,
trying to protect her mother and suspected by
William Collier, Jr., her fiance; and, of course,
Alphonse Ethier. Complicated! Guests are
seated around a dinner table when lights go
out and Roche is found slouching in his chair
— stabbed! The solution is worked out with
suspense and a nice interspersing of humor.
Ethel Wales as the mother of twins and Hank
Mann, her husband, an innocent bystander, con-
tribute plenty of laughs.

Hot Stuff

Alice White as a not-so-hot collegiate number. Auntie,
Louise Fazenda, sends Alice to college. But when Alice gets
to college, the film fails to live up to its title. The liquor turns
out to be tea and the sexy heroine tells the hero (William
Bakewell) that she is just an old-fashioned girl after all. Bake-
well is interesting.

Not Quite Decent

A night-club story with Louise Dresser doing a black face,
Mammy-crooning act while her heart is breaking. Reason for
break is she must let her daughter (June Collyer) pass out of
her life without recognising her because of mama's sordid past.
Pretty trite hokum revivified by Dresser's acting and June
Collyer's sympathetic beauty. Allan Lane proves a suitable hero.

The Leatherneck

Three marines in a pretty bad way: one dead, one insane,
and the third, William Boyd, charged with murdering his
buddy. Alan Hale, Robert Armstrong, Fred Kohler, Philo
McCullough and others form strong supporting cast. Diane
Ellis provides the romance. Talking court martial sequence
shows Boyd's voice pleasant and Joe Girard's excellent.

Shipmates

The able comedian, Lupino Lane, is out in front again, twice
as serious and three times as funny. This trip he takes to the
salt air joining up with the sailor lads on a big battleship.
Here he engages in a naval battle where the guns fire charges
of laughter and the only catastrophe results not from death
but from dough! Very, very funny!

The Latest Talk
from the Land of
Talking Pictures!

ell, the Duncan Sisters, Ro-
setta and Vivian, alias Topsy
and Eva, have returned to
Hollywood. The first thing
they did was to buy three red Auburn cars.
Rosetta's is a roadster, Vivian's a cabriolet
and Harold's — their brother who acts as
business manager, a sedan.

"We looked like three fires sailing out
of there," he said.

Rosetta declared she could only drive
with Vivian once in a while. "Since lamb
chops and pineapple put me in the hospital
in London my nerves are not what they
were and Vivian drives — well, that girl
simply can't read what it says on the stop
signals!"

I don't know what it is about Rosetta
that makes so many people want to mother
her — whether it is the dramatic quality in
her husky voice or just something lovable
in the girl herself; but she certainly tugs
at the old heart strings! Even Vivian feels
it. She always mothers Rosetta.

They are looking around for two houses.
"Why two?" one asks.

"Oh, well," said Vivian, "Hime (her
nickname for Rosetta) has my brother with
her and a housekeeper and a secretary and
a couple of maids, and I have father, and —
well, we just have to have two houses
because I can't bear all the excitement that
Rosetta attracts. We are going to have one
little beach house, though, for the summer."

The girls signed their contract to appear
in one picture for M-G-M and the present
plan is for them to start work in July.
So far only the theme has been decided
upon and the girls are a little disappointed
that it is a stage story. "How can we top
'Broadway Melody'?" They both want to
know. "Nobody could be better than
Bessie Love."

The night they signed their contract
they were in a state of great excitement.
They always are over everything they do,
or over any friend's good fortune. We
happened to walk in that evening about
an hour before their act went on at the
theater. You could feel the electricity in
the air before you got off the elevator. We
went to Rosetta's dressing room first; Viv-
ian's is on the floor above. There is a tiny
bath off Rosetta's room and she was taking
a plunge. The enormous St. Bernard dog
you saw in "Topsy and Eva" is with them
still, travels from coast to coast with them,
and he was spread all over the dressing'
room floor. Mervyn LeRoy and Harold
Duncan were playing crap in the hall.

CCNi'icy Carroll invites
you for a ride on

tier SCREENLAND

surf -board. Don't
push!

FROM

<f Miss Sheila Fitzmaurice {aces the camera for the
first time. She's the brand-new daughter of Diana
and George Fitzmaurice.

By the time we got in, it was time to close the lid on
the sardine can. But the girls don't mind; the more the
merrier — and it is usually merrier.

While Evelyn Brent's director, supervisor and scenarist
argued about whether her next picture was to be started
on Monday their star ran off to her charming Malibu
beach house and let the men folks fight it out between
themselves. As far as Evelyn is concerned, she doesn't
care how long they put off the picture. She was enjoying
a much needed and well deserved rest, and looked like
a little girl with her snugly fitting sweater and pleated
skirt.

Her house is perched on a bluff. It is a lovely, woodsy
brown with odd gables and shingles and turrets and
cupolas sticking out every which way, and over it run
orange nasturtiums, in glorious profusion. At the foot
of the retaining wall bursts a lime-green sea, and nothing
to stop one's view but China !

Evelyn is getting a great kick out of being domestic.
She said she couldn't understand it, but it's the first time
in her life that she has ever enjoyed a home. She told
me that arranging a Christmas tree and preparing for
Christmas dinner gave her more fun than anything
that she could imagine. Harry Edwards, her hus'
band, was like a little boy with his presents. He hid
them all in a closet up-stairs and wouldn't let anybody
see them, and he went up later all by himself and opened
them!

When we left her, Evelyn was standing at the gate
looking down the Malibu stretch toward Hollywood, be-
cause she said that it was almost time for Harry to come
home.

* * *

I think we will have to call Herbert Brenon "Herbert

The Great." The day Fannie Hurst left for New York
she had a headache. Mr. Brenon at once recommended
a relief for it and sent an assistant out for a bottle of
medicine. The assistant came back with the wrong thing.
Whereupon Mr. Brenon rose in his wrath, and rent the
air with his protestations.

"This is not what I sent you for — this is of no use to
anybody. Take it back — go to other stores — go to Los
Angeles, if need be, but bring back what I told you to.
Miss Hurst," he turned dramatically to the author of
"Lummox," "the medicine will be at your house in an
hour!" Mr. Brenon is always like that. He was gorgeous.
You would have thought that the Battle of Waterloo was
being fought.

They were taking the most beautiful scene of the picture
the day I was there, and I was so touched by it that tears
came to my eyes. If that scene is any criterion of the
production as a whole, the world will hail Winifred
Westover as an artist to be reckoned with. Mr. Brenon
says that she is, and he is also delighted with the work of
Dorothy Janis who plays Cheta, and who is, he thinks,
a perfect type for the part.

Between 'takes' Winifred removed one of her shoes and
asked me to lift it. It teas heavy! "The first day I worked
in them, said Winifred, "I felt like a cat that has its feet
tied in paper. I lifted them so carefully! And of course
that wasn't the thing to do at all. I had to practice the
shambling walk natural to 'Lummox.' Then when I took
those shoes off! Well, you know how a runner looks in
slow motion pictures — that's the way I felt.

"I was just determined to play this part, so determined

Charles E. Bulloch

Just after Constance Talmadge became Mrs. Townsend
?ietcher in Beverly Hills. We hope rumors of Connie's
retirement from the screen are greatly exaggerated.

that Mr. Brcnon said the

other day he hoped I

wouldn't take a notion, later,

to play Peter Pan!"
* * *

To prove that life is just
one of those things after an-
other in talking pictures, this
remark was heard on the
"Redemption" set the other
day:

"The M. P. D. A. is ready;
the A. E. A. is ready; the
A. S. C. is ready, and the
only thing that is holding us
up is the D. S.!"

Which, translated, means:
the Motion Picture Directors
Association, (Fred Niblo) is
ready; the Actors' Equity
Association (John Gilbert) is
ready; the American Society
of Cinematography (Percy
Hilburn, head cameraman) is
ready; and the only thing
holding up production is the
Darn Sound!"

Neither has the bitterly
mentioned sound any regard
for the tickle in an actor's
nostril. When John Gilbert
was rehearsing the last scene
of the picture, right in the
middle of a sentence he sneered. "That's not in!" he called,
with an upward glance at Jim Brock sitting in the mixer's
box.

Democracy and Henry have won! A Prince takes his
girl friend home in a Ford! The other night while parking
outside of the Chateau Elysee, about ten o'colck, to finish
a conversation with a friend, I saw one of the new biscuit-
colored Fords drive up on the other side and a young lady
and a young gentleman, who was very tall and slender
and wound up at the top in a dark blue beret, climb out.
We were so taken with the stunning American beauty
ensemble that the young lady wore that we did not glance
at her face until one of the party said, "Why, that's Lily
Damita and Prince Ferdinand!" Sure enough, it was! In
a few moments the Prince appeared again, said 'hello" to

us, climbed into his new Ford and steamed off!

* * *

Johnny Farrow, who is writing the screen stories for
most of the Paramount hits these days, gave a housewarm-
ing at his Malibu Beach cottage. Everybody went in
swimming before luncheon which was served on the sand.
Bessie Love was greeted with a shriek of joy when she
skipped out in a cream-colored bathing suit, a blue and
white rubber bracelet — a necklace of blue, spongey rubber
beads, and what slayed the rest of us was a little blue
sponge flower that she wore on her shoulder.

"Well, I'll certainly have to take you for a walk down
the beach in that necklace," said Lila Lee, who had oiled
herself that morning and flopped in the sand for a couple
of hours to get a nice tan. She wore a scarlet bathing
suit with one of those new sun-tan backs that are so
popular.

George Abbot, the author of "Broadway," who will
direct Dick Arlen's first starring picture, cut his toe cn a
shell. When she noticed that it had been hurt, Lila saun-
tered into the house and came out with a neat little box
which she handed to Johnny Farrow. It was the cutest

little first aid kit you ever
saw and John, in his clement,
began dragging out gauze,
cotton and things. Lila ap-
peared on the scene again,
dangling a little pint-sized,
green watering can. "Hold
out your foot,'" she said to
George, who was burying it
in the sand, and when he did
so she sprinkled the wounded
member with the water. Just
as the bandage was finished,
we heard the drone of an
airplane, and Johnny said
that it was probably Howard
Hughes whom he expected
that afternoon.

"Look at him stunt," said
Carlotta King, as the plane
looped and turned and zig-
zagged over the water.

A little later Chink,
Johnny's valet, announced
that an airplane had landed
on the front lot.

"I guess I will go out and
show them my toe," said
George Abbott, "and tell
them that this is a dangerous
world."

* * *

Who do you suppose has

the largest character wardrobe of any man in pictures,

and next to Adolphe Menjou, the largest private wardrobe?

None other than Oscar, the Paramount bootblack! You

have probably seen him in many pictures, because he has

a contract and everything.

# * *

Maurice Chevalier had expected to see New York when
he went there to make his second Paramount picture, but
he worked so hard that all the seeing he did was between

C[ Meet the members of Roland West's "Alibi" Club —
standing: West, Gilbert Roland, Rod La Rocque, Ben
Lyon. Sitting: Chester Morris, Buster Collier, and Gary
Cooper. What's it all about, boys?

G[ A Swedish reunion1. "The Single Standard," under
John Robertson's direction, brings Greta Garbo and
T^ils Asther together again. T^ote the twin profiles of
Greta and T^ils.

his hotel and the studio. At
the finish he was hustled on
a train and arrived in Holly-
wood, just in time to learn
that they wouldn't be ready
for him for almost three
weeks, so he and his wife
hopped the Chief and raced
back to New York to keep
some of the social engage-
ments they had been forced
to turn down.

* * *

Kay Francis landed in
Hollywood with the reputa-
tion of being the best -dressed
actress in New York City.
Of course everybody wanted
to see what she wore, how
she wore it, and what she
thought of the Hollywood
mode. The night of her ar-
rival she started on her pic-
ture and for three weeks the
light of day did not see
Kay Francis. However, she
has emerged and I happened
to meet her on a flying trip
from San Francisco where
she had gone to see the
Golden Gate, while Para-
mount waited for 'retakes1 on
her picture. She had on sea

green pantaloons, an orange sleeveless sweater, a green
blazer, and a batik square around her head. With her
flashing black eyes and red lips, she looked like a pirate
straight from pirate-land, and what a handsome one, too!
I don't know how long Kay is going to stay, but everybody
thinks she is swell.

* * S

There is one couple who have adapted themselves to
the inconsistencies of sound picture life. They are Mr.

C[ ]ac\ 'Warner, with Mrs. Warner and ]ac\ Jr., arrives
at the theater for the opening of a 'Warner Brothers
picture in Hollywood. The Warners, you remember,
started all this tal\ing picture business!

and Mrs. Richard Arlen.
After Dick was on his tenth
week of night work, Joby
began to plan how she could
salvage a little of her hus-
band's society. He was just
coming in to bed as she was
getting up in the morning
and just going out before she
was ready to eat her dinner,
so they never saw each other.

One evening Joby said,
"Dick, I think I will come to
the studio with you and
sleep days just as you do,
because it is so lonesome
never seeing you any more."
So Joby came to work with
Dick every night, bundling
herself up in all sorts of coats
and blankets. But it wasn't
enough to keep the pene-
trating cold away and not
long ago she got pneumonia,
which she has since recovered
from. It ain't all honey, and
it ain't all pie, this being
married to a moving picture
actor these days!

C[ Corinne Griffith at the door of her dressing-room which
wheels her from set to set at the First Rational studio.
This portable room is a great time-saver for the star.

'Dynamic' furniture seems
to be what's in order now in
Hollywood. Charlie Mack
has moved into an eighteen-room modernistic mansion, with
modernistic swimming pool, modernistic garages, modern-
istic landscaping. And the furniture especially designed
for this quixotic abode is named by its creator 'Dynamique.'
So you can expect anything from Charlie from now on.
* * *

A new personality has come to Hollywood. She is little
and dark with big wistful brown eyes and a sweet smile.
Her name is Liska March. She was lunching at the Mont-
martre with Margaret Ettinger one day and Gloria Swanson
and Edmund Goulding sat at the next table. They kept
looking over at Liska and finally Mr. Goulding took Mar-
garet Ettinger aside and asked her who the beautiful bru-
nette was. "Gloria thinks she is wonderful, too," said Eddie;
and the result was that Liska is booked for the next Swan-
son picture which Eddie will direct.

If you watch out you will see her in "Melody Lane"

first, and hear her too, because it is a Universal talking

picture, and Liska finished her bit of it last week.

^ & &

Reginald Denny, with his bride, the adorable little
Bubbles, motored to their mountain cabin atop the San
Bernardino mountains near Big Bear last Saturday. They
took with them several guests for the week end, and with
Earl Snell Reggie expected to remain throughout the week
while they collaborated on his next and last picture for
Universal.

Reggie's contract after that will be held by an English
company and Reggie will make two pictures there and
return to film the rest in America.

What a place he has! The cabin is made entirely of
logs, the furnishings are made of logs, even the lamp and
ash tray standards are *twisted branches, all treated with
some sort of varnish that makes the bark smooth to the
touch. There are three master bedrooms in the cabin and
over the garage one huge room and bath with seven beds
and seven dressing tables for the men of the party when

<C -Dixie Lee and Sue Carol — two little girls from Chicago
who have made good in the movies.

there is a crowd. Then there is a barn with four horses
and there are three dogs, and chickens and everything.

There are five acres fenced in by a split rail fence, and
they overlook the world from an altitude of seven thousand
feet, as far as the eye can reach. On a clear day San
Diego is plainly visible and it is over two hundred miles
away. There are pines of every description, some of
them 100 feet high, and at least twenty different varieties
of wild flowers. Carpets of wild iris, that look like
Japanese iris, and of tiny fuzzy lupins growing about three
inches high and including in their color scheme all shades
of opalescent purple; Wild Sweet William, orange in color
with perfume like a jasmin, and many others. A perfect
fairyland!

Next to Reggies place is Hoot Gibson's, with about
the same amount of land. As we were turning in the
private road which leads to the two places we met Hoot
and hailed him. There was a little boy in our party,
Bobby, the nephew of Reggie's business manager Vernon
Wood. When our car passed Bobby breathed a heavy
sigh: "Gee," he said, "I saw him in person!" Hoot, it
seems, is Bobby's idol next to Reginald Denny.

Bubbles had no sooner settled herself on the couch in
front of the great log fire than she remembered that the
last Mayfair dance was to be held the following Saturday.
"Well have to go back in time for it, Reggie," she said.
"No, darling," said Reggie. "We have a whole week's
work to do on the story and we won't be able to make it."

A mutinous look came into Bubbles' brown eyes, and her
little chin went up. "Well, we won't talk about it how,
but we'll see," she said and settled her little head more
comfortably against her husband's shoulder.

And personally, I bet on Bubbles. It looked to me as
if Reggie would never deny her anything she set her heart
on even though it put him to some inconvenience.

It looks as if Ben Lyon and Bebe were not to be married
just yet. When Bebe started work on "Rio Rita" at
RKO she decided that commuting to the beach was too
strenuous a job so she has taken an apartment in Holly-
wood and furnished it in her own good taste. Ben Lyon
has taken an apartment in a new building across the street,

also buying new furniture, and with Bebe's help has fixed
himself a very attractive place indeed.

Ben is a very neat person and if anything is out of
place or disorderly he is miserable until it is tidied up.

The other evening a friend called him up and asked
that Ben join him at a party. "I cant," said Ben, "I'm
busy."

"What are you doing?" asked the friend.

"Well, at the present moment I'm holding a blotting
paper over some candle grease stains on my new couch, and
over the blotting paper I'm holding a hot iron. And from
the number of spots I judge it will take me most of the
evening."

Ben has one of those enormous cathedral candles in his
living room, and a friend who did not understand the
technique of snuffing it gave a mighty blow that sent the
wax flying in every direction. Hence Ben's busy evening.

Guess who? You can't, so we'll tell you: it's Clara Bow,
all made up for her circus picture, "Dangerous Curves."

By the way, Ben is a sensation over on the United
Artists lot where he is playing in "Lummox." His voice
registers one hundred per cent over the mike and it looks

as if he could stay at U. A. as long as he wants to.

* * *

All gossip to the contrary, while this is not the first time
Patsy Ruth Miller has had an engagement ring bought
for her, Tay Garnett's is the first she has accepted.

Pat is one of the most popular girls in Hollywood with
the gentlemen of the community because she treats them
like a lot of brothers: swims, rides, hikes or plays tennis
with them and invites the whole crowd in for a bite which
she makes them help prepare. No low-lighted, perfumed
rooms for Pat. Fresh, pure air and plenty of sunlight is her
diet, and sleep when she can get it; if anybody in Holly-
wood can sleep these talking picture days.

Pat and her Dad and Tay turned the lights on the
tennis court last evening so that I could see the roses, and
I must say they were a gorgeous sight. All around the
high wire fence climbs a variety of English Rambler rose
which is now in full bloom. It is different from our
rambler in this: each rose is the size of an ordinary one but
they are in clusters. Some of the sprays they picked for
me had ten or twelve roses on one stalk — a whole bouquet
in a spray. Pat told me that they have found as many as

twenty-two on one spray. They are a rich, deep red,
almost the color of a Liberty rose.

Pat has just finished the talking version of a picture made
at Tiffany- Stahl many months ago and will begin work on
"So Long Letty" at Warner's within the next few days.
She has definitely set her marriage with Tay Garnett for
September.

* ❖ ❖

Olive Borden's bob is the neatest thing I have seen.
Her head is very small and well shaped and her hair being
thick and lustrous and just wavy enough hugs her little
head in a most attractive swirl.

"That Borden girl sure has a mean figure," said a
fellow actress admiringly watching Olive's lissom little body
clad in a tight fitting yellow satin evening gown whirl
into a fox trot.

Olive came bounding off the set, her black eyes glowing
with exuberance. "Look at my slippers," she said, holding
up her tiny foot for me to see. "They have to put felt
soles and rubber heels on my slippers so that they will
make no noise, and they are awkward to dance in. They
won't push."

:|: i&

Back of Mary Pickford's bungalow on the lot there is
a large cage, about four feet wide and six feet high, which
is the summer home of Joe, a handsome cockatoo given

C[ T^orma Shearer greets a new member of the Metro-
Goldwyn stoc\ company at Culver City. Luc\y pup!

Mary by her mother about five years ago. In the winter
Joe occupies one of the stars dressing-rooms cn Dressing-
room Row, so that he won't freeze to death.

Joe is a grumpy old soul, but he seems to like attention
and usually grunts a welcome to any one who stops to pass
the time of day with him. It seems to be a tremendous
effort for him to open his eyes at all, but cnce open the
little orange optics take you in from head to foot. Then
Joe swallows a couple of times as he settles himself more
comfortably for another snooze, and the eye that seemed
so wide awake a moment before sinks into placid slumber.

Mary and Doug have started tests for the first all-
talking Shakesperian picture, "The Taming of the Shrew."
I hear that there are to be no liberties taken with the text
or plot, just some judicious cutting here and there.

William Boyd, the stage star — no relation to the screen
star of the same name — who was brought from Broadway
to play in George Fitzmaurice's all-dialogue picture, "The
Locked Door," sees the end of the big legitimate theater
in the near future. He does not say that stage shows
will be killed off entirely by the popularity of sound pic-
tures, but he believes that artistic Little Theaters will
supplant them.

"The reason for this," Boyd explains, "is that the so-
called talkies are able to give us all that the stage has and
much more for a smaller admission price. I should be
the last to say this because my ancestors for generations
have been of the theater, but I have noted with regret the
almost complete decline of the stage. If I had thought
the theater was as permanent now as it has been in the

past I would not have left Broadway for Hollywood."

* * *

Red Grange, the galloping ghost of the gridiron and one
of the greatest football players in the history of the game,
has been signed for a musical feature of college life by
Universal, according to announcement by Carl Laemmle,
Jr. The story is titled "College Heroes."

Except that it has a college locale the story of Grange's
picture has not been announced but it seems certain that
Red will be seen again as a football star. "College Heroes"
will be all talking.

* * *

Leo Carrillo is in Hollywood to make his first talking
and singing production for Tiffany-Stahl entitled "Mr.
Antonio," the stage play by Booth Tarkington played for
a long while on the legitimate stage by Otis Skinner. Mr.
Carrillo is the stage star of "Lombardi, Ltd.," "The Bad
Man," and other well known productions. After finishing
his first picture, he leaves for a tour of the Antipodes,
his first stop being Melbourne, Australia, to be gone about
22 weeks. He will then return to the United States to
make his second picture, the title of which has not yet
been announced.

:■: :;:

John Boles has been raised to stardom by Universal and
will be heard in three talking-musical pictures during next
season. "The Song of Passion" will be the title of the
first of these three pictures.

C[ Fran\ Ross, young Long Island real estate man whose fine
tenor voice has won him a Paramount tal\ie contract.

fNot S

Even a Screen
Villain was a
Pretty Baby
Once!

CC Little did Chester Morris' doting parents
thin^ when they persuaded their darling
to pose for this picture that he would
grow up to be an eminent portray er
of crook, and criminal roles on stage
and screen'. (P.S. They're mighty
proud of him, though.)

CC Chester Morris, one of the sensations
of the talking screen as the craven
filler, Chick. Williams, in the melo-
dramatic "Alibi." Chester has
worked hard and found fame and
fortune as America's foremost young
actor of mean underworldings.

Before a
Famous
Ingenue
Climbed
the Ladder

Little Anita Pomares, vnth her bright
gold hair hanging in curls down her
bac\, went to school in Long Island,
7^1. T. Then she went to dancing school
and finally, they say, tried to enter the
Paramount School, only to be told,
'A[o room.' So she went to Hollyvjood.

C[ Today Anita Page is the leading in-
genue of the screen. Her blonde beauty,
unaffected charm, and incidentally bard
wor\ have made her a world figure —
and she is scarcely twenty! In her
grown-up picture Anita is wearing the
last Hollytuood word in beach adorn-
' ment — necklace and bracelet of sponge!

^he cStage Coach

(J Amusing Comments on Current
Broadway Stage Plays

A Night in Venice

HANDSOME and, in the main, a happy Shubert
revue. Ted Healy steps into his own as one
of the brighter of the Broadway comedians,
assisted by his now famous trio of Beau Brum-
mels. The Chester Hale girls are comely wenches, exe-
cuting graceful steps with robot-like precision. The Miles.
Beth and Betty Dodge imitate birds, swans and roosters,
in addition to whistling, dancing, and singing in French.
Joe and Pete Michon engage in a series of acrobatic stunts
proving that some human bodies, at any rate, contain a
high percentage of rubber. Betty Rees dances on her
toes, and up and down staircases. There is a jungle dance
that has thrills in it. In short, here is a high, wide and

White

(C Joseph Letora and Charlotte Woodruff in a scene from the new
musical comedy, "Music in May."

handsome entertainment for the summer.

Stepping Out

Presented by Charles Dillingham, in association with
Eddie Dowling and Edgar MacGregor, "Stepping Out" is
offered as a 'new and modern comedy' by Elmer Harris,
who used to write things for what was known in our day
as the silent screen. 'New and modern'' it may be, but
you've seen it before in "Cradle Snatchers" and "My
Girl Friday." If you liked those — and we didn't — you
may gather for yourself some chuckles at the tale of two
men who went philandering, and whose wives came back
just in time to spoil the party. The wives, of course, go
philandering themselves in revenge.

Our objection to this sort of play is not a moral one.

Indeed, here and there, we found ourself
giving vent to a few chuckles of our
own. But our main objection comes
down to one thing always: that the play
was not written by the late Avery Hop-
wood. Hopwood could do these things
with a light touch. Most of our other
non-Gallic playwrights are a shade too
heavy-handed.

The Grand Street Follies

Not perhaps quite as up to snuff as
some of the earlier Grand Street satires,
this, nevertheless, turns out to be an
amusing revue. As usual, the apes win:
Dorothy Sands' and Paula Trueman's
impersonations of certain celebrated
names in the theater are gorgeous;
Albert Carroll, for once, is not quite
as happily placed, though even he has
his moments. The ideas — every single
one of 'em — are grand : it is in their
execution that something is definitely
lacking.

For instance, to take a matter near to
our heart, take the landing of the Pil-
grim Fathers as done by the Four Marx
Brothers. There is, certainly, material
for a frolic. And when Marc Loebell
enters, wearing the Groucho mustache,
you are in the mood to laugh at any-
thing. Anything, that is, except the
lines that follow. The idea disintegrates
right before your eyes, and your fun
with it.

Still, Paula Trueman as Ruth Gordon
in "Serena Blandish" will make up even
for that disappointment.

By
Morrie
Ryskind

Co ngratulatio ns

Here is pure hokum, lightly done
and daintily spread. And it makes
a pretty summer dish to set before the
king.

Every once in a while no great
shucks of a play comes out and admits
it, and pulls the audience along by say
ing "You'll have to get into this if you
expect to have a good time." Often
the audience says, "We can't be
bothered." But in the case of "The
Last Warning," the audience did
bother. And so it does with "Con-
gratulations."

A tale laid in the theater with the
audience as audience. Some nice
cracks, some wise ones and a tale of
an actor who was elected Mayor.
Nothing to write home about, but a
good entertainment.

Edicard Thayer Monroe

% Romney Brent, one of the brilliant
stars in "The Little Show," a l*{ew
Yor\ hit.

Vandamm

C[ Albert Carroll impersonating Fannie Brice in a hilarious number
from "The Grand Street Follies."

I i j|

. Ill

Music in May

Whatever would have happened to this romantic operetta without the
broad German dialect and non-romantic attitude of Solly Ward is not even
matter for speculation. The show would have gone immediately from the

try-out period on the road into the storehouse where all shows good and

bad — wind up eventually.

The fact, however, remains, that Solly Ward is in the show. And for
that let us be grateful and stop bringing up silly ideas. Solly Ward is in
the show and Solly Ward is funny. That is, he is funny to us.

Though it ought to be admitted, by one who claims to love the truth as
much as we do; that we are just a sucker for a German comic. Lew Fields
has to do nothing but mispronounce one word to knock us off our seat; when
Jack Pearl fumbles for a phrase and finally comes up with 'Dumkopf,' that
terrific peal of laughter designates where your correspondent is rolling in
the aisle; and when Solly Ward gets involved in a speech, those hysterical
shrieks are emanating from no one but Screenland's middle-aged dramatic
critic.

Of course, some people will go to see this show just because it's a roman-
tic operetta wherein a prince marries a commoner and they spend all their
time singing love duets right after the worst song cues anybody ever wrote.
Even we liked the students' songs and the settings and the Chester Hale
girls and the string orchestra. But don't let anybody kid you. Anybody can
write song cues — except for this show; they were special ones — but this is
the only show in town with Solly Ward in it.

Beauty

Photographs of Miss
Byams by Clarence
Sinclair Bull.

C[ Leila is one of Leo's pet
actresses. Leo? Why,
don't you know? He's the
fierce old Metro-Goldwyn
lion who roars at you from
the screen at the begin-
ning of every M-G-M
feature.

Q Leila Hyams gives
the breakers a break
when she isn't working
before the camera.

AND
THE

(If Talking pictures have given DorO'
- thy Mackaill's career a new lease
on life. 'Mi\e' too\ a fancy to
her from the start and she re-
turns the corHpliment. Her latest
'The Great Divide."

Q Dorothy Mac-
kaill battled suc-
cessfully with the sound waves
and then tackled the Pacific

SCREENLAND

c5Ask (Me!

(\An Answer Department of
Information about Players
and Pictures.

Miss Vee Dee

' Screenland's Answer Girl will be glad to answer
any questions you may care to ask about pictures
and picture players. If you wish an answer in the
magazine please be patient and await your turn, but
if you prefer a personal reply from Miss Vee Dee,
enclose a stamped, addressed envelope. Address:
Miss Vee Dee, Screenland Magazine, 49 West
45tk Street, New York City.

ORTHA R. of Ar\ansas Pass. Some
people have all the luck — I've ah
ways wanted to live in a town
with a name like that but Texas
will have to get along without me until
flying is made easier on commuters. Wil-
liam Hart hasn't been in pictures for a
long time. He has been making cow-
boy poem records for a talking machine
company. He may do a talking picture. He
was on the stage at the age of 19 and
played with many noted stars before going
into pictures. Pearl White is no longer in
films, having retired some time ago. She
lives abroad. You can write to Philippe
De Lacy at 904 Guarantee Bldg., Holly-
wood, Cal.

Connie, Saxy and Tom Boy of Chicago.
Wouldn't that just kill you? But there's
safety in numbers. As the Windy City is
so well represented this month, we'll make
this a 'get-together' meeting and I'd like to
see any one stop us! Jane La Verne
played with Reginald Denny in "That's
My Daddy." She is 5 years old. She
appears with Mary Astor and Charles Mor-
ton in "New Year's Eve." You can reach
Caryl Lincoln and Alberta Vaughn at RKO
Studios, 780 Gower St., Hollywood, Cal.
Step up, Saxy, with the rest of the or-
chestra; it's your turn. You saw Billie
Dove with Larry Kent and Lowell Sherman

Since Ruth Etting has
appeared in Paramount
talking shorts, Miss Vee
Dee has been receiving
letters as\ing about her.
Miss Etting is an im-
portant feature of Zieg-
feld's "Whoopee" and
makes singies in her
spare time.

in "Heart of A Follies Girl." Billie is
one of the beauties of the screen and it
is no wonder you boys skipped a note now
and then on your trusty Saxies. As far
as I know, Billie has been married but
once and her husband is one of Hollywood's
most devoted. He is Irvin Willat, the
director. Now Tom Boy, get in the magic
circle while I pour out another round of
wisdom. Buzz Barton is 13 years old. At
the age of 6, he gained the nickname of
'Buzz,' after riding an unbroken horse and
completely subduing it. You can write him
at RKO Studios, 780 Gower St., Hollywood,
Cal. Junior Coghlan was born in New
Haven, Conn. He has brown eyes and
light hair. He gets his fan mail at Pathe
Studios, Culver City, Cal. Jackie Coogan
is 14 years old.

Marion M. C. of Kalamazoo, Mich. Do
I ever take a long vacation? Well, for the
love of silent pictures! As long as I'm the
world's well-known 'this and that' of infor-
mation, vacation will be a mere word to
me, nothing more. Greta Garbo and Lars
Hanson were born in Sweden. Renee
Adoree was born in France; Dolores Del
Rio and Ramon Novarro in Mexico;
George K. Arthur in England; Jobyna
Ralston in Tennessee, and Colleen Moore
in Ohio.

An Admirer from Montreal. I think

I have the answer to your inquiry about
Norma Talmadge. She hasn't made a pic-
ture since "The Woman Disputed" for she
has been vacationing in Europe — so don't
lose hope, you may get her photograph
yet. Anita Page plays with Bessie Love
in "Broadway Melody," one of the most
convincing of the talking pictures. She
has big parts and good breaks in "Our
Dancing Daughters" and "The Flying
Fleet." Your story would have to be a
sure-fire-hit to be accepted by any picture
producers as they have their own writing
staffs.

Dream Girl from Clinton, Ky. Whose
little theme song are you? Never mind,
that's your own affair. You can address
James Hall and Lane Chandler at Para-
mount Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Holly-
wood, Cal. Barbara Kent and Fred Gilman
at Universal Studios, Universal City, Cal.
Gloria Swanson at United Artists Studios,
1041 No. Formosa Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Larry Kent appears in "The Spirit of
Youth" made at Tiffany-Stahl Studios, 4516
Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Cal.

Miss Betty from Westville, 7^. ]. You
want my impression of Buddy Rogers — he
is as nice a boy as you'd ever hope to
meet. Good looking? I hope to let you
know he is. In his next picture with
Nancy Carroll, called "Close Harmony,"
he will tease the megaphone and bring
happy smiles to all tired business girls.
Buddy played with Marian Nixon in "Red
Lips."

Eddie of Boston, Mass. So you are going
to be a popular bird in the movies, are
you? From your conservative description,
you have everything a high salaried star
should have and plenty of it. Janet Gay-
nor, John Gilbert, and William Haines are
'all American.' Janet is 22 years old, John

SCREENLAND

G. is 31 and William H. is 28.

Dot of Indianapolis. You turn a very
neat phrase or two about Screenland and
why shouldn't you, we deserve it! Viola
Richard is not Charles Rogers' sister; neither
is Richard Dix the brother of Mary Brian.
Billie Dove's husband is Irvin Willat. Lit'
tie Davey Lee is a star at the age of 4
years, in "Sonny Boy" — supporting him are
Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olmstead and
Edward Everett Horton. Davey was born
December 29, 1924.

Curious Virginia, Pawtuc\et, R. I. Yes,
you might call me mis-information but I
ask you, is that nice? Mary Astor is 23
years old and the wife of Kenneth Hawks.
Mary has auburn hair, brown eyes, is 5
feet 5 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds.
You can reach her at Fox Studios, 1401
No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Audrey Ferris was born August 30, 1909.
Write her at Warner Bros. Studios, 5842
Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Cal. Mary Phil-
bin is one of the Universal stars. Her
latest release is "Port of Dreams." Address
Nancy Carroll at Paramount Studios, 54? 1
Marathon St., Hollywood, Cal.

Marge of Sioux City, Iowa. You can
always have the key to my department if
all your letters are as charming as the first

(( Joan Crawford Fairbanks is proud of her
high standing with the 'As\ Me' readers.
(So is Doug., Jr.!)

€[ "Is Clara Bow popular?" "As\ Mel"

says Miss Vee Dee who received more

letters about Clara than about any other
girl this month.

one. Corinne Griffith's real name is Corinne
Scott. She was born November 25, 1897,
at Texarkana, Tex. She is 5 feet 4 inches
tall, weighs 120 pounds and has brown hair
and blue eyes. Her husband is Walter
Morosco. Gary Cooper's latest film is "The
Virginian" with Mary Brian. Gary was
born May 7, 1901, at Helena, Mont. He
has dark blue' eyes, brown hair, is 6 feet
2 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds.
Nancy Carroll plays with Gary in "The
Shopworn Angel."

Waneta from Chester, A[. H. Of course
I'll be a rainbow round your shoulder and
we'll go places and ring door-bells. You
want a picture of Charles Rogers in
Screenland — that's nothing, but to see an
issue without his picture, that's news. Janet
Gaynor gets her fan mail at Fox Studios.
1401 No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Richard Barthelmess at First National Stu-
dios, Burbank, Cal.

La Von ]. of Sanger, Cal. You're twelve
years old and have had the 'movie fever'
for three years — you should have consulted
me before this. I can't give you Richard
Barthelmess' life up to the present day —
his wife and little daughter Mary Hay would
have something to say about that. You'll
hear his voice in his new picture, "Weary
River." Betty Compson is his leading lady
and that makes two good excuses for stack-
ing the dinner dishes when Dick and Betty
come to your theater. Richard was born
in New York City in 1896. He has black
hair and brown eyes. A few of his older
films are, "Nearly Married," "Broken Blos-
soms," "Way Down East," "Experience,"
and "Tol'able David."

Kenneth D. of Bristol, H. You are
one of 'the show-me' boys — you want your
finger in all the movie pies, don't you?
Dorothy Kitchen is now Nancy Drexel in
pictures. She plays with Janet Gaynor,
Barry Norton and Charles Morton in "The
Four Devils." You can reach George
Hackathorne at Hotel Palomar, Hollywood,

Gal. Robert Frazer at 6356 La Mirada
Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. Tom Moore and
Tom Santschi are in "The Yellowback,"
a film from the RKO Studios, 780 Uower
St., Hollywood, Cal. Corliss Palmer plays
with Sally O'Neil and Roland Drew in
"Broadway Fever," released by Tiffany-
Stahl Studios, 4516 Sunset Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal. Gaston Glass is in "The Red
Mark" with Nena Quartaro, for Pathe.

A Ralph Forbes Fan from Brooklyn.
There isn't anyone I'd rather say things
about — nice things, of course, than your
favorite, Ralph Forbes. He has light brown
hair, blue eyes, is 6 feet tall and weighs
165 pounds. Some of his films are, "The
Masks of the Devil" with John Gilbert,
"The Whip" with Dorothy Mackaill, and
"Restless Youth" with Marceline Day. Ruth
Chatterton appears with Emil Jannings and
Barry Norton in "Sins of the Fathers."
Julanne Johnston, who played with Douglas
Fairbanks in "Thief of Bagdad," was born
in Indianapolis, Ind. She is 5 feet 6 inches
tall, weighs 120 pounds and has brown hair
and gray eyes.

A Buddy Rogers Fan, Par\ersburg, W.
Va. You'd like me to slam a few words
around with you about Buddy Rogers — one
of the nicest things I do is to talk about
Buddy. He is very musical, having earned

(f You'd smile, too, if you were as popular
as Richard Arlen is with Miss Vee Dee's
correspondents.

«'<■

SCREENLAND

<C John C. Brownell, ace scenario writer
for RKO, tal\s it over with a pal.

his living before going into picture work
by playing in orchestras. He is 6 feet tall,
weighs 175 pounds and has brown eyes and
black hair. He was born Aug. 13, 1905,
in Olanthe, Kansas. His first big break
in pictures was with Clara Bow, Richard
Arlen and Gary Cooper in "Wings." Then
followed "My Best Girl" with Mary Pick'
ford.

Elizabeth A. of South Euclid, O. I'm
not boasting when I say you couldn't find
a better place to come for the desired in'
formation, for getting down to the bottom
of things, often gets us to the top. Loretta
Young has blue eyes, blonde hair, is 5 feet
3 inches tall, weighs 100 pounds and was
born in 1912. You can write her at First
National Studios, Burbank, Cal. Address
June Collyer at Fox Studios, 1401 No.
Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal., where she
is filming "Not Quite Decent." Anna May
Wong has been in pictures about 6 years.
She is making films in Germany. Pola
Negri is not connected with any American
studio but will confine her picture activities
to foreign productions in the future. Molly
O'Day still gets her fan mail at First
National Studios, Burbank, Cal., but she
hasn't made a new picture since "Hard-
Boiled Haggerty" with Milton Sills and
"Patent Leather Kid" with Richard Barthel-
rness. Molly is at present on a vaudeville
tour.

Marjorie of Toronto, Ont. You're crazy,
to see what I look like? Well, you would
be! Alice White has reddish-gold hair and
brown eyes as we go to press, but you never
can tell about these modern girls and the
color of their locks. Ronald Colman and
John Gilbert are not related. Raquel
Torres played with Monte Blue in "White
Shadows of the South Seas." Her real
name is Guillermina von Ostermann. She
is in "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" with
Lily Damita and Don Alvarado, a forth-
coming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production.

C. W. T. of Chattanooga, Tenn. Have
we any rich men's sons in pictures and why
not? Pretty soft to have lots of dough

but it did not keep Malcolm MacGrc-
gor, Jack Ludcn and Barry Norton out of
the movie industry. Your inquiry about
Neil Hamilton is answered elsewhere in this
department. Owen Moore and Harry
Crocker played with Sally O'Neil in
"Becky." Sally Rand was born in Win-
chester, Ky., and was in Gus Edwards
Revue before going into the flickers. She
is a gray-cyed blonde, is 5 feet tall and
weighs 114 pounds.

A Canadian Fan. Many happy over-
turcs and a heigh-ho for Montreal and all
other movie fans, silent or loud speak-
ing. Dust off the old car muffs and listen
in. Renee Adoree was born in Lille,
France, in 1901. She is 5 feet 2 inches
tall, weighs 105 pounds and has dark
brown hair and blue eyes. Hugh Allan
was born in Oakland, Cal., November 5,
1903. He is 6 feet tall, weighs 165 pounds
and has black hair and brown eyes. Barry
Norton played with Emil Jannings and
Ruth Chatterton in "Sins of the Fathers."
You can reach Barry at Fox Studios, 1401
No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.

Mickey from Lowell, Mass. If I said
all I think, I'd be speechless but what's
one speech-less among friends? No, I don't
think that's so funny, either. Gilbert
Roland was born in Chihuahua, Mexico,
in December, 1905. He is not married.
He is to play the hero in Norma Tal-
madge's first talkie film for United Artists,
1041 No. Formosa Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Ralph Forbes is a native of London, Eng-
land. He was born September 30, 1902.
His wife is Ruth Chatterton who was very
well-known on the stage before going into
films. Ralph is playing on the stage in
Los Angeles right now, but will doubtless
be making pictures again soon.

Allie from San Tsidro, Cal. I may have
dreamy eyes but I'm always wide awake.
I have to be to hold this job, take it from
me! Norma Shearer is 5 feet 3 inches tall
and weighs 109 pounds. Sally Rand weighs
114 pounds and is 5 feet tall. Joan Craw-

ford is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs
110 pounds. Bessie Love has light brown
hair, weighs 100 pounds and is 5 feet tall.

Marjorie W. of Indianapolis. Our next
offering for your pleasure will be a little
ditty entitled. "The Age Limit." Larry
Kent is 28. Barry Norton is 24. William
Collier Jr., is 27. Conrad Nagel is 32.
Marian Nixon is 24. Dolores Costello is
23 and Dorothy Mackaill is 25.

An Admirer from T^ew Yor\. I'm. not
tossing myself any bouquets but aren't you
neglecting me in your pa:an of praise?
William Boyd can be reached at Pathe
Studios, Culver City, Cal. Barry Norton
is loaned to other companies but has a
contract with Fox Studios. At this writing
he is working at Paramount Studios, film-
ing "The Command to Love." Barry has
black hair and brown eyes. George Lewis
can be addressed at Universal Studios, Uni-
versal City, Cal. He is married to a non-
professional, Mary Louise Lohman. Address
Ralph Graves at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu-
dios, Culver City, Cal. Ralph plays with
Ramon Novarro, Carroll Nye, Edward
Nugent and Gardner James in "The Flying
Fleet."

Behe of British Columbia. When all
others fail, try my department — I guaran-
tee my line, all questions answered in time
and you'll all have a whale of a chance
to get inside of something big. John Mack
Brown was born in Dothan, Ala., Septem-
ber 1, 1904. That is his real name. He
has black hair, brown eyes, is 6 feet tall
and weighs 165 pounds. He played with
Greta Garbo in "A Woman of Affairs"
and in "A Lady of Chance" with Norma
Shearer. You can write to Johnny at
Metro-Goldwyn'Mayer Studios, Culver City,
Cal. Dorothy Sebastian plays with Buster
Keaton in "Spite Marriage." Dorothy is
a southern peach, I mean she actually is.
She was born in Birmingham, Ala., on
April 26, 1903. She is 5 feet 3 inches
tall, weighs 115 pounds and has dark brown
hair and hazel eyes with long dark lashes.

<C Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schild\raut in their Beverly Hills home.
She is Elise Bartlett of stage and screen.

Autrey

SCREEN SISTERS!

J. HEY might be twins, but they aren't, really — except insofar as they are both features of Mr. William Fox's motion picture
program. Mary Astor and June Collyer are sisters in celluloid but until it happened that both girls worked together on the Fox
lot, nobody noticed the amazing resemblance. Both are tall, brown-eyed. Though Mary's hair is titian and June's brown, they
photograph the same. And now we suppose they will be getting one another's fan mail!

SCREENLAND

The Starry Masquerade — continued from page 21

they had taken off their masks.

"Oh, who is the sixteenth century knight
who has been playing his mandolin so
badly, and whose sword I have been falling
over whenever I've danced with him?" dc-'
manded Joan Bennett. The mystery was
explained when everybody unmasked and
Ralph Forbes was revealed as the knight.
He had come with his wife, Ruth Chatter-
ton, who wore a charming costume of
Colonial days.

"Oh. there's the newest romance!" whis-
pered Patsy. Just then Lily Damita walked
by with Prince Louis Ferdinand, the
Kaiser's son, both having unmasked, and
the Prince paying devoted attention to the
fair Lily.

"I really want to stay in California," the
Prince told us wistfully. "But I've got to
go to South America to attend to some
business. Then, perhaps — " and he glanced
at Lily, who blushed sweetly. And when
Lily blushes it means something, as she is
usually a very self-possessed young lady.
The Prince is a modest young chap with
big brown eyes that seem to be appealing
to you to like him.

"For all his faraway, wistful look," put
in Patsy when he had gone, "I'll wager he
is as practical as any other German. I
hear he doesn't in the least want to go
into pictures, and that he would love to
own an automobile business."

We walked out under the cherry trees,
covered with blossoms, which our hostess
had brought to the terrace as decorations,
and found — whom do you think? — our host
and hostess embracing under a cherry tree!

They explained to us quite composedly
that this was really the celebration of their
fourth wedding anniversary, and that they
had just purposely waited four years before
saying it with a party, because people were
always so ready to say caustic things about
wedding anniversaries, especially first ones.

Gloria Swanson was there with Ivan
Lebedeff, he being a friend of both Gloria's
and her husband's, and we found that our
hostess considers Ivan one of the most inter-
esting of the foreigners in our midst.

Fred Burt, Helen Ware's husband, got a
lot of laughs with his costume, which rep-
resented The Spirit of Real Estate, the
upper part being a sort of box, representing
a real estate office, covered with signs.

"There's Jetta Goudal," observed Patsy,
"and though she often dresses a bit as if
she might be going to a masquerade any
minute, she shows what she can^ do when
she really goes to a masquerade."

Miss Goudal wore the dress of a Hindoo
dancer, even to the painted toes and little
bells and bangles. She looked lovely and
won a prize.

We discovered that the cherry-blossom
terrace was Romance Lane, when we found
another couple holding hands. About to
be very nice and steal away, Blanche Sweet
called out, "Oh, come on in and sit with
us!"

The man was Micky Neilan, from whom
Blanche is supposed to be about to get a
divorce.

Micky, we found, was very grateful to
Mrs. Rathbone for inviting both himself and
Blanche, and couldn't, we heard, thank her
enough. Evidently he thought she had ar-
ranged for the two to be brought together,
but she confided to us that she hadn't even
thought of it.

Marion Davies was there, wearing a gor-
geous costume, and looking lovely. She

made her appearance uniquely in a basket!

Florence Vidor arrived with her husband,
Jascha Hcifitz, both clad as Dutch children,
looking very picturesque. Florence is de-
lighted over the prospect of visiting all the
musical centers of Europe this summer with
her husband, and of meeting many noted
artists.

"There's one girl I've been following
about all evening," John Davidson confided
to us. "She is wearing a most bizarre and
fascinating costume, with lace stockings and
green wig. I simply must find out who she
is before we unmask. That's the thrilling
part about this kind of a party. Besides,

C[ Sally Starr from the stage ma\es her
screen debut in the first all-talking cam'
pus picture, "College Days."

Romeo met Juliet at a masked ball, didn't
he?"

But alas, when he finally managed to
make the lady disclose a bit of her face —
she turned out to be Lilyan Tashman. and
of course Lilyan's husband, Eddie Lowe,
was close at hand.

"Darn it! I might have known that
Romeo wouldn't have any luck in love!"
exclaimed John.

Adrian, the fashion expert, came as a
tattooed Zulu, and was highly effective.

"And he must be much cooler dancing
than we are, for though his tattoo marks
are all on silk, still silk is a lot cooler than
velvet." sighed Sir Knight Ralph Forbes.

Blanche Sweet was wearing a costume
made up entirely of feathers, so no wonder
if she found the terrace an alluring place.
However, she and Micky Neilan danced
together almost continually.

I forgot to tell you that Billy Haines
wore an acrobatic costume, and brought his
troupe of acrobats with him. doing some
funny burlesque stunts after supper and
unmasking.

King Vidor and his wife, Eleanor Board-
man, were amusing in costume. King as a
Russian peasant and Eleanor as a mediaeval

princess — long gold dress, sandals and all.

"But if anybody ever looked cute, it is
Rene Adoree!" cried Patsy, as Rene swung
by, dancing with Larry Gray. She wore a
Paris Apache's outfit, and was as amusing
as possible.

"Ah, here's another budding romance!"
ejaculated Patsy, as we sat in the ballroom
watching the dancers, and she pointed out
Fay Compton, the English actress, and Sid-
ney Howard. Neither of us knew Fay
Compton, but we nodded to Howard — when
he could take his eyes off his partner for one
little minute.

One of the most striking costumes was
that of Helen Ware, who came dressed as
a red nun with a halo of red around her
head.

"There's the pony team — George K.
Arthur and his wife!"' cried Patsy, as the
comedian and his sweet spouse waltzed by,
George as a Scottish Highlander and Mrs.
Arthur as a Scottish lady of long ago. We
chatted with them, and found that George
is looking forward to a summer in Europe
and to making a few British pictures.

Jack Conway, clad as a clown, and his
wife also in clown's costume, hailed us, and
presently there joined us Lenore Bushman,
Mrs. Conway's sister, looking lovely in a
colonial costume.

Jack said that he knew he hadn't dis-
guised himself much by putting on a clown
costume, but it was cool and light at any
rate.

John Cromwell and his wife, Kay John-
son, were charming. Miss Johnson in Co-
lonial dress and Cromwell in a military
costume, and Miss Johnson said that she
didn't know how a lady in tight corsets and
hoops ever got up gumption enough to
elope with anybody, or how she could think
of anything but the moment she would get
home and get her corsets off.

Mrs. Mitchell Lyson wore a Spanish
bride's costume — white satin with yards of
train on the floor. She sang for us after
supper in that lovely voice of hers.

Charles Brabin came as the Duke of
Wellington, and Theda Bara in a striking
Venetian gown.

There was a lot of fun when the guests
began imitating the entertainers. When the
Spanish dancer, for instance, was doing her
stunt, Billy Haines, Renee Adoree and
others thought they must go Spanish, too,
and drew out shouts of laughter with their
burlesque Spanish dancing, while, when the
girl sang her Spanish songs, everybody
joined in the singing whether they knew
the words and music or not.

A lot of the guests enjoyed themselves
hugely and were very funny, riding on
Maurice Revnes' little boy scooter. He
wore panties like a kid's, with little small-
boy legends written all over them, and took
everybody riding on his wagon. King
Vidor and Eleanor Boardman made an
amusing couple on the scooter. King pre-
tending he was scared to death, and Eleanor
putting on her most high-and-mighty air
as they sailed past.

Fred Niblo wore Lord Dundreary whisk-
ers and Turkish trousers with a red fez, so
we couldn't quite make out what he was
intended to represent, unless it was Blue-
beard, and we forgot to ask him, but he
was amusing as usual, of course, especially
when doing a Russian dance.

Lois Wilson was there, and so were Mr.
and Mrs. George Fitzmaurice, Max Ree,
Robert Castle, Kathryn Bennett and others.

"It is an odd little assortment of people

SCREENLAND

(\ Cliff Edivards brings his u\elele and
pungent personality to the "Hollywood
Revue of 1929," in which he will be
\nown as 'U\elele I\e,' as he is on
the stage.

in some ways, isn't it?" remarked Patsy.
"There is George Fitzmaurice, who used to
be married to Ouida Bergere; and who was
once engaged to Florence Vidor; King
Vidor, who was once the husband of
Florence Vidor; Florence Vidor, now mar-
ried to Heifitz; Eleanor Boardman now the
wife of Vidor; Diana Kane, now the wife
of George Fitzmaurice, and Ouida Bergere,
now married to Basil Rathbone. And yet
all is sweetness and light!"

As the wee small hours came around, the
guests began to disperse, until finally only
a few of us remained, Patsy declaring she
couldn't bear to leave.

We all gathered cosily around the piano
after the orchestras had left, and then it
was that Gloria Swanson sang for us in a
very lovely voice.

Then Jack Gilbert invited us all up to
his house on a hilltop to see the sun rise
and have breakfast, and everybody accepted,
including Ina Claire, Fay Compton and Sid-
ney Howard, Joan Bennett, the King
Vidors, and some others. Some of the
guests donned bathing suits after breakfast,
and hopped into the swimming pool, but
the rest of us travelled homeward, to dream
of the fun we had had.

"I really hadn't intended giving a party,"
explained Norma Shearer, who was looking
radiantly lovely, "but when I saw how 'The
Trial of Mary Dugan' was going — well, I
felt a party coming on, that's all. So I
invited everybody that I could grab at the
picture opening."

"I'm glad 1 was among the grabees,"
answered Patsy enthusiastically.

Patsy and I were at the home of Irving
Thalberg and Norma Shearer, following the
premiere of Norma's first talking picture,
and everybody was quite frantically trying
to get near the star to congratulate her on
her success. I have never seen her looking
so pretty. There is a very genuine sweet-
ness about this daintily lovely girl that draws
everyone to her. So that there wasn't an
envious note, I am sure, in all the con-
gratulations she received.

"When I came into the theater," ex-
plained Norma, "and saw a lot of empty

seats, I thought, 'Oh, dear, they aren't
coming in!' But the seats were soon all
filled."

Thalberg, we learned, had been sent post
haste to the telephone to tell his servants
to prepare salads and sandwiches, so that the
partyers could feast in honor of Norma.

"I've never been so nervous in my life,"
our hostess glowingly admitted. "I heard
somebody sneezing, and I thought, 'Now,
here's somebody who doesn't like me, who
has come to crab my picture"; but the
sneezer turned out to be that very nice
person, Gus Edwards, so I knew that he
had a sincere cold."

Jack Gilbert and Ina Claire were there
together at the opening and at the party
afterward, and Norma has since confided
to us that she feels sure she had something
to do with the success of the romance be-
tween the two, inasmuch as she had finally
persuaded Ina Claire to come to the opening
after that young lady had explained that
she was afraid she couldn't because she had
to study her first talking picture role, since
she had to go to work next day. She and
Jack had come together, and Jack seemed
very attentive.

"Personally," whispered Patsy, as we
watched them that evening, I'm awfully
glad. Somehow Ina seems more Jack's kind
than Greta Garbo. She's a bright, cultured
American girl, and seems to me awfully
well suited to Jack."

We had a nice little chat with H. B.
Warner and his wife, and with Raymond
Hackett and his wife, Myra Hampton.

Lilyan Tashman come with her husband,
Eddie Lowe, and there were Basil Rathbone
and Ouida Bergere, Moon Carroll and her
husband, Ralph Forbes and Ruth Chatter-,
ton, Clifford Brooke; Sylvia Thalberg and
Larry Weingarten, Miss Thalberg's husband;
Norma's mother, Mrs. Edith Shearer — her
children all call her 'Edie,' — ; Mrs. William
Thalberg. Irving's mother; Norma's brother,
Douglas Shearer, and her sister Ethel with
her husband, Howard Hawks; Mr. and Mrs.

William De Mille; Cecil De Mille and his
daughter, Cecelia; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
Hatton, the playwrights; Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Earle; Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Schulberg;
Gertrude Olmstead and Robert Leonard;
Gus Edwards and his wife; Winfield
Sheehan and Mrs. Laughlin; Marion Davies,
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Franklin, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Franklin; Charlotte Greenwood
and Martin Broones, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Conway; Eddie Mannix and his wife; Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Rapf, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt
Stromberg, and a dozen others.

Norma laughingly told us a joke on her-
self.

"Ina Claire sat next to me at the opening,"
she said, "and a woman dashed up to Ina
after the performance, and, totally ignoring
me, exclaimed to her, 'You're Ina Claire,
aren't you? And you're going to do "The
Last of Mrs. Cheyney." aren't you?' 'Yes,
I'm Ina Claire, but Miss Shearer here is
going to play "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," '
Ina answered. 'Well, I do hope,' said the
woman turning to me, 'that she shows you
how to do it!' Oh, dear, how that did
take the wind out of my sails to be sure,"
Norma laughed, "but I only answered
faintly, 'Well unfortunately those things
aren't learned overnight.' "

Norma had taken all sorts of comfortable
chairs and sofas down to the big living
room for us, but everybody was so excited
that nobody sat down, but stood about chat-
ting and even ate their sandwiches standing
up.

Norma told us how at one time she had
adored going to openings, but that lately
she had dreaded them, because something
terrible always happened just as she was
getting out of her car and everybody was
staring.

"Once," she laughed, "I was just stepping
out of my car in grand fashion, and I also
stepped right out of my shoe! The crowd
had started to applaud, but stopped to
laugh! I'm sure I'm going to do a funny
fall some time just as I'm going into the
theater."

C[ Ken Maynard ropes Mrs. Maynard into the first magazine picture
for which she has ever posed.

100

SCREENLAND

Handsful Of Charm — Continued from page 79

your hands just as hard as a boy does.
Yet, you don't want them to look as a
boy's hands look. As I stated before, in
these modern days, no one wants a pair of
softy, white helpless looking hands, but
neither do you want to sit at lunch or the
tea or card tables with rough, red hands
with badly manicured nails.

The rules of keeping the hands in order
are extremely simple. There is the nightly
treatment, the daily
treatment, and there
is the occasional spe-
cial treatment.

I know a girl who
gives her hands what
she calls a 'facial'
when she wants them
to look especially
well. She uses a
cleansing cream, as'
tringent and grease
less cream, all as
though it were in
truth, her face she
was treating. While
giving this treatment,
she massages her fin-
gcrs with a quick,
firm, downward
movement as though
working on a pair
of gloves.

In summer time,
if she wants her
hands to appear
whiter, softer and
cooler, she soaks her
hands for a few min-
utes in cool water to
which a few drops
of benzoin have been
added. And she has
a trick too, in sum'

mer, particularly when 'making up' for a
day in the open, of using on her hands
and arms (and quite often her face)
a foundation cream and liquid powder
which combine to give the fashionable,
sunburn-shade .so much to be desired by
athletic girls. And the beauty of it is, it
not only is an attractive makeup, it pro-
tects the skin and keeps it from acquiring
real sunburn.

But let's go back to the nightly hand
treatment which is, after all, most important.
First, comes perfect cleanliness. Don't use
harsh soaps on your hands, even if they
are very soiled. Use a mild soap and warm
water and use a handbrush to scrub off
obstinate stains. After drying carefully, if
your hands are still grimy, work cold cream
into the skin to let the oils loosen the dirt.
Wash the hands again with soap and water
and they will be clean and soft. Rinse
thoroughly in warm water, then in cold.
Dry carefully, never wringing them or pull-
ing the skin, but stroking them gently from
the fingertips back. Do not leave a trace
of moisture. Hands that are carelessly dried
are hands that age rapidly and become
roughened and chapped. Every night mas-
sage the hands for a few minutes using a
good cream. Rub with light, circular move-
ments into the backs of the hands, the
fingers, taking care that as much cream is
pressed into the knuckles as they will ab-
sorb. Pinch the fingertips between the
thumb and forefinger to coax them into
tapering lines.

If your skin is unusually sensitive, almond
meal is a delicate substitute for soap for day-

time use. Many women too, use corn meal in
place of soap during the day. A table-
spoonful of meal rubbed well into the hands
will remove stains and leave the hands soft
and white. After drying the hands care-
fully, use a good hand lotion, no matter
how many times a day you wash them.
Pour a little of the lotion in the palm of
one hand and rub your hands together,
smoothing it into the skin.

ish
be

If you are
a bit extreme

<C ]ac\ MulhaU an
daughters

d Dorothy Mac\aill entertain Director William Beaudine's two
when they visit the studio. Papa Beaudine at the right.

Not so long ago, glycerine and rose water
was a favorite hand lotion, and lemon or
tomato juice was used to remove stains and
sunburn. But many skins do not take
kindly to glycerine, and lemon or tomato
juice are not always conveniently at hand.
The hand lotions of the specialists and
cosmetic manufacturers of today are kinder
to the skin, and you can find among the
many excellent hand preparation one just
suited to your skin. There are many de-
lightful hand bleaches, too, on the market.
Most of these, incidentally, are drying. So
if you massage your hands with a bleaching
cream, massage again with an oily cream
to prevent dryness.

If your hands are often in water, the skin
of them may become very dry. Or, it may
be naturally dry. Care of your hands,
therefore, must aim to replace the oils which
keep them soft and smooth. About one
night a week, hold them for about ten min-
utes in a bowl of warm olive oil which
should be massaged gently in, as much as
can be absorbed. On this night, wear a
pair of clean, loose gloves to bed.

Doing things with your hands wreaks
particular havoc on your fingernails. If
you do your own manicuring, do it with
careful attention to tiny details of immacu-
late perfection in grooming.

In shaping the nails, it is in better taste
not to leave the nails too long or
pointed. If you curve your nails to follow
the curve of your fingertips, you will find
this an excellent length both for good looks
and convenience. Use great care in pushing
and training the cuticle edge back from

your half moons. Use a good cuticle oil
or cream. If you keep your nails and
cuticle always soft and pliable with oils,
they will seldom break, split or crack.

The color of your nails, like their length,
is also an expression of good or bad taste.
A polish with just the faintest pink is
smarter, in most cases, than a brilliant pol-
the type who can
without being con-
spicuous, you may
wear a deeper shade
of polish if your
nails are exquisitely
manicured.

One of the late
improvements in nail
polishes is a per-
fumed liquid polish.
This imparts a fine
lustre to the nails
and leaves them
smooth and dainty
while imparting the
elusive fragrance so
pleasing to the wom-
an of refinement.
Two coats of this
polish will add great-
ly to its wearing
qualities.

There is little we
can do to change
the actual bone and
muscle formation of
the hands, but there's
one thing you can
do, girls. You can
be careful about the
rings you wear.
Some maintain that
the woman with
badly shaped hands
should never wear
rings at all. And nobody, in this day.
should wear more than one ring per hand.

If you have well-shaped, well-kept hands,
even though large, you may wear a single
large ring with a stone oblong in outline
to repeat the outline of the hand. The square-
set stones are hardest of all to wear per-
haps, unless one possesses a very good hand.

Color, too, is important. An emerald
looks best on a very white hand. Sapphires
make a tanned or brownish hand look yel-
low, while rubies or garnets might be all
right. An opal looks well on a smooth,
fair hand. Diamonds vulgarise the short,
fat stumpy-fingered hand.

Gloves also are to be considered. In
the old days, gloves were standardized and
it was hard to go wrong. But in these days
of frilly cuffs and heavily embroidered backs,
it is easy to go farther and fare worse.

Never wear a glove that is too tight, or
one that isn't speckless. Plain beige or
a grey suede pull-on are always in good
taste. And whether you get the kind that
goes to the cleaner or the kind that you
wash out in the bathroom and hang on the
rack — you will have the consciousness that
your hands are smartly dressed.

There are so many things to tell you
about the hands that I could not possibly
get it all in this space. But if you will
write to me, I will send you detailed direc-
tions for the home manicure, and exercises
for beauty and symmetry of the hands.

I am so glad that my department has
pleased you; and I hope all feminine read-
ers will feel free to tell me their problems,
so that I may help them!

SCREENLAND

Hushing Hollywood— Continued from page 23

101

able, felt muffling is used on the camera
itself.

Wardrobe or costume designers are grad-
ually becoming accustomed to the shocks
of hectic hushing. There was the lovely
gown designed for Norma Shearer in "The
Last of Mrs. Chcyney." This was made
with a taffeta lining for the bouffant effect
desired but when Miss Shearer entered the
scene, the recorder phoned down that her
dress made a noise like a boiler factory
in action. Back went the offending gar-
ment to Mrs. Hallie Piper of Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer's wardrobe department. A
flannelette lining saved the day.

Stiff brocades are out until some way
is discovered to deaden their swishing
rustle. All beads must be sewn on firmly;
if one should fall off and an actor step
on it, the resulting slight pop would sound
like' a gun shot and possibly blow out a
valve.

Over at Paramount, they have experi-
enced no difficulty with taffeta. For
"Magnolia," twenty girls in taffeta period
gowns with double taffeta petticoats danced
the minuet without a murmur from the
microphone. The chorus girls' tulle skirts
in "Backstage Blues" were also lined with
taffeta. In this studio, hair cloth is used
as a lining to deaden sound. But, alas,
Pola's famous dress of pearls hangs dis-
carded in the wardrobe. "We'll never be
able to use it again — it clanks and clanks!
they sigh.

"No bracelets or tinkling earrings, no
long pearl necklaces or beads, no jeweled
trains," shriek the sound experts. A bright
clothes creator out at M-G-M dipped the
jingly ornaments in parafin which is not
picked up by the cameras but which
nevertheless obliterates the jingle. Johanna
Mathiesen, head of Universale wardrobe,
tackled the problem in a different way.
Six or seven bracelets were added to the
delicate afternoon frock designed for Kath-
ryn Crawford who was promptly sent back
with a request to remove the clinking
jewelry. Miss Mathiesen had duplicates
made in amber which doesn't tinkle; she

From England comes . ]ac\ Buchanan to
play opposite Irene Bordoni in "Paris" —
in Hollyu/ood!

avers flexible rhinestone may also be used.

"Oh hush, hush, hush!" runs the eternal
song of Talkie-land.

The felt industry must have had a boom
since all actors are shod with it, most tables
are topped with it and all floors are lined
with it. A shiny wooden floor that looks
like parquet in a picture is composed of
masonite which is noiseless.

No paper must rustle and no fire must
crackle, for when the heroine crumples the
telegram from her false lover it sounds like
a storm on a tin roof and kindling on the
family hearth may pick up like a forest
fire. What to do? Oh, they dampen all
paper used and substitute photoflame for
the blaze because this is not only prac-
tically noiseless but brilliant.

Sound experts are constantly on guard
against squeaks. In the "Hollywood
Revue of 19 29," a platform on wheels had
to be moved onto the stage, bearing Marie
Dressier, Bessie Love and company. It
protested loudly, and the wheels had to be
padded heavily.

In this same picture, girls danced on a
flight of stairs. The sound of their feet
tap-tapping was desired, but the instant
any girl stepped from the last stair, she
was ordered to stand motionless on the
padded floor, as extra footsteps were found
to record like the advance of the German
army.

It's one thing to snap: "Shut up —
YOU!" to human actors and quite another
to make the same remark to frogs and fowls.

The other night they were making an
outdoor scene at the old Vitagraph Studio,
when the frogs set up their evening chorus.
"Chunk-a-chunk! Chunk-a-chunk!" they
bellowed above the dulcet tones of Alice
Joyce.

Before Al Green, the director, went quite
mad, a property man had a thought. He
turned a bright light on the swamps, auto-
matically turning off the offending singers,
who apparently decided that day had
arrived.

Turning lights on roosters, however, has
a different effect.

Over at Pathe, Benjamin Glazer was
directing George Barraud and Lee Patrick
in "Strange Cargo," action taking place in
the crow's nets of a ship at night. "Lights!
Camera!" called Mr. Glazer. Eight sun
arcs penetrated the dark.

Simultaneously, flapping of wings came
from the other side of a fence. "Cock-a-
doodle-do-o-o!" shrilled a neighbor, under
the impression that the 'dawn had came.'

Nothing could quiet him. After wasting
the night and running up an expense of
$3,000, the company was dismissed. They
bought the rooster for $3 next day . . .
He screams no more.

Anyone who can capture an echo will
find a big job open for him on a Holly-
wood lot. No matter how carefully built
a sound stage may be, one of these pesky
little creatures may bob up any time. Dur-
ing the making of a Gleason comedy re-
cently, a maddening echo was caught by
the mike, although inaudible to the naked
ear. When located, Mr. Echo was hiding
in a hollow column gracing the entrance
to the stairways on the set. Stuffing said
column with pillows evicted the unwelcome
tenant.

In "The Mysterious Island," the sound
of men pounding on boilers was called for
in the script. Actually, such a racket

A grateful French parfumeur concocted
a delicious new scent especially for
Bessie Love in recognition of the pleas-
ure her wor\ in "Broadway Melody"
brought him. It's called the 'B'Love' and
all Bessie s friends are begging for
a bottle.

would wreck the recording outfit. What
happened? Robert Barnes, expert in charge
of- sound, doubled the boiler factory by
tapping a knife on an air bottle!

According to Russell Gausman, chief of
Universal's property department, hushing
Hollywood is nothing to make merry over.

You can get musical instruments that
date back to whatever period you desire,
but just try to make 'em sound the way
they ought to sound! The calliope in "Show
Boat" was a real, sure-enough calliope from
the "Golden Rod," once the pride of the
Ohio River, but the poor old thing had
the asthma and developed so many squeaks
and discords that it could be used only
in silent sequences, and an air calliope
had to be substituted for sound.

The piano in this same epic, although
authentic so far as looks were concerned,
was merely pathetic to the ears of the
recorder, so they muffled the strings and
let a modern piano double behind the scene.

An outdoor talkie gives a thousand
times more grief than one on a sound stage.
Over at First National's "Isle of Lost
Ships" set, a marvelously realistic lagoon
crowded with lost ships, a single scene was
shot in one afternoon. First, a train
whistled and action was suspended; then
came an airplane roaring overhead; by the
time the aviator had hummed out of hear-
ing, the second section, of the train had
come along. The director, after this in-
terruption, ordered: 'Interlock!' But the
contractors on the lot had confused their
signals and began mixing cement instead
of stopping, which ruined that take. When
the contractors were straightened out, the
airplane was back again, and when the air-
plane zoomed off, along came two mocking
birds to hoot and jeer at the perspiring
crew that tried to warn them off.

It'll be a great day when they finally
hush up Hollywood, or else invent a micro-
phone with brains that will pick up only
the noises indicated on the script!

102

SCREENLAND

On Location with John Gilbert— continued j rom page 31

as he puts Lena out of his arms and walks
quickly towards Eleanor.

She had conic with Claire McDowell, who
plays her mother, and Conrad Nagel. who
plays her fiance, for the amusement of
watching the dances, and while waiting for
them had been told by a fortune-teller that
she would marry a dark man. Eleanor
laughingly points to Conrad saying that she
is engaged to marry him, and that if he is
dark, so is the sun! And she is very much
put out because the
gypsy still insists up-
on the 'dark man.'

Which all goes to
show that it is never
safe to be sure too
soon, no matter what
appearances may be.
Just look what hap-
pened to Jack Gil-
bert not two weeks
after this. And he
certainly had no idea
that he was going to
fall in love the very
next evening. Yet he
may have had a sub-
conscious idea, be-
cause the next after-
noon when everyone
was freezing someone
remarked that his
hands were warm.
"That means a cold
heart," he said quick-
ly, and then added,
"Well, perhaps it
isn't really cold — just
marking time." So
you see you never
know your luck. In
less than six hours
after he made that
speech Jack's heart
had broken into a
gallop.

Conrad Nagel and
Jack are great friends.
Conrad told me that
they used to have so
much fun with their
boats "in the good

old days when actors had week-ends. They
bought them about the same time and sold
them when the talkies came along and when
they no longer had the leisure to enjoy
them.

It takes forever to 'set up' for one of
these sound scenes, and in the open diffi-
culties involved add anywhere from seventy-
five to one hundred years to a director's
life. There are so many more things to
think of. Just listen to a few of them
told me by Virginia Kellogg and Jim Brock,
the 'mixer.' (Virginia is Mr. Niblo's per-
sonal press representative and also does his
script work. She is one of the most efficient
and conscientious people I have met out
here and she is only twenty-one years old.)
Here are some of the trouble makers.
We will begin with the fires that Jack jumps
through. The ten-foot logs were stripped
of bark and lighted from beneath by a gas
pipe that had been run from the main line
to the location. It was controlled, just like
a gas stove, by a lever about thirty feet
distant. The reason for this was to keep
the fire under control. The roar and
crackle of such big logs, once they got to
burning hard, would sound like thunder
and entirely drown the voices of the actors.
And in order to have the flames photo-

graphically right a chemical called 'photo-
flame' was put into the pipe.

That being taken care of, there were the
Santa Monica trolleys which run just out-
side the fence. They are almost as heavy
and noisy as trains and their toot is as loud
as a locomotive's. These California trolleys-
scare the heart out of you when you are
on the road. You think you are going to
be mown down the way they thunder at
you.

C[ Laura La Plante at the mirror of her modernistic dressing-table
in her new dressing room at Universal City.

The trolleys pass the lot at thirty or forty
minute intervals and to avoid their inter-
ruption a schedule of running time had been
made out as accurately as possible and
handed to Bill Ryan, production manager
for the unit.

Then there were the ditch diggers. And
they were hard! Being employed by the city
the studio had no control over their activ-
ities except such co-operation as the city
cared to give. It was arranged that just
the minute the company was ready to shoot
someone would signal the studio cop who
would blow his whistle for the workmen to
stop.

Those three details taken care of, there
wasn't much to worry about except the
English sparrows. In the first place, it
seems that English sparrows do not live in
Russia and in the second place their chirp-
ing wouldn't do at all in this particular
sequence. Chasing them away became the
steady work of two prop boys and the birds
scolded them plenty. Jim Brock said he
was perfectly certain those birds would vote
against sound pictures in the next election
because a few scenes of Cecil De Mille's
picture "Dynamite" were taken in the same
grove a few weeks ago and the birds had
to be chased away from that. Jim who was

'mixer' for "Dynamite," and also "Broad-
way Melody" said it was all right at first
because there was a canary in the picture,
but then it was supposed to die, and after
this fact had been registered by a closeup
of its little feet curled heavenwards it didn't
do to have chirpings from a dead bird. So
they had to be chased.

Then there was the sun. Just because
they didn't want it to, it shone! Aside from
these few things all was perfection, except
the usual troubles of
course. And in case
Wall Street wants
to know — these are
some of the reasons
why pictures cost
money.

Over on the left
of the set there was
a barouche in which
were seated Eleanor
Boardman and Claire
McDowell. Conrad
Nagel, looking very
natty, stood leaning
against the side list'
ening to the gypsy
woman tell his fian-
cee's fortune. Under
the trees and at the
right of the fire sat
the rest of the tribe,
laughing and singing
and joking. A few
were playing stringed
instruments. Jack
Gilbert was not in
this scene and he
and Irving Thalberg
were walking up and
down another part of
the lot deep in con-
versation.

The 'mike booms'
were adjusted over
the actors and the
assistants stood be-
low to give the test-
ing formula over the
wire. It was picked
up by the receiver
at the studio and
two buzzers told Jim Brock when it was
okay. This is the formula, said over and
over again: "Four, eleven, forty-four, fifty-
fifty, Mississippi!" That's the one for test-
ing the quality and a clear line free of
static.

"One-one-one-wuff-wuff," he went on.
"What's that? Is he just being funny?"
I asked.

"No, that's the formula to test the volume
of the voices. It is called peacs {pro-
nounced peaks). The formula for quality
is called pecs (pecks)," said Virginia.

"Everything is okay, Mr. Niblo," said Jim
Brock.

Mr. Niblo sprang into action. "All right,
girls and boys, let's have some chatter, chat-
ter, chatter! And let's hear some giggling."
The 'gypsies' snapped into character.

"Button up the dog house, boys, we're
all set," said Harry Bucquet, Mr. Niblo's
assistant. What he meant was, put the
metal sound hood over the cameras and
fasten them down. Instead of taking too
many unwieldy camera booths on a loca-
tion these 'dog houses' are being used more
and more, so that the grinding of the
camera will not register over the sound
wire.

SCREEN L AND

103

ersona

Da in ty — Secure —AJjustahle — In Co lors I

Beltx banishes forever the bothersome safety pin — instead, the
pad is gripped with a tiny immaculately clean tit of celluloid
especially designed for absolute security.

Dainty, soft, silk elastic makes Beltx comfortable and gives a
freedom heretofore unknown. Wide enouch for security, yet
aviII not crease or chafe.

Beltx is designed to be worn low on the hips, fitting just snug
— it never pulls or binds — as does the old style, tight-fitting,
wide elastic waistline sanitary belt.

So diminutive^ — it is easily tucked away in a corner of your
purse for emergencies.

In colors — to match your lingerie. A splendid women's bridge
club prize — a charming and acceptable "little gift.' Price,
$1.00, three for $2.00. Vrite today.

(If not available at your
GLEN MARIANNE SHEA, favorite store— Write Direct)

Bell Telephone Building, St. Louis, jMo.

Please send me BELTX personal Lefts for which I enclose $ „ It is understood that I may return

belt for refund if not satisfied. ($1.00 for one; 3 for $2.00).

Check Colors Desired D Orchid \Z\ Peach. D Flesh

Na.

Addr

C-131

104

"Whenever you're mad," said Percy Hfl'
burn, head camera man. And what he
meant was, in case you are not up on the
latest sound expressions, that he was ready
when they were. No one seems to know
where the expression came from. It is just
one of those things.

"How much time have we, Virginia?"
asked Mr. Niblo.

"Twenty-five minutes, Mr. Niblo," Vir-
ginia replied, looking at the trolley schedule.

"Fine."

Hairy Bucquet gave the signal to the
officer to relay it to the ditch diggers and
with his other hand gave the boys the high
sign to chase the birds. Silence was called.
Everything was ready. The 'mixer' started
his various buzzers of communication with
the studio recording room while every eye
was upon Mr. Niblo and all of us held our
breath. Just as the signal for action was
being given we heard a droning sound
which grew louder and louder!

"An airplane overhead, sir!" breathed a
property boy.

It is an everlasting credit to Fred Niblo's
self control that he did not at this point
burst into flames.

Instead, he turned on his heel and took
three quick steps, at the same time running
the fingers of one hand through his hair.
"Hold it, everybody," he called. The dron-
ing passed, the buzzers buzzed, the signal
for the action was given and the scene
progressed smoothly to a close, at last.

Eleanor Boardman was waving to me from
her perch in the carriage. "Will you tell
Claire McDowell's numbers?" she asked of
me. I had told her fortune by numerology
a few days before and we had had a lot
of fun. I climbed into the barouche and
started to work them out. It was too much
for Mr. Nagel, evidently, for he walked
away. But I didn't get far because in a
few minutes they were ready to shoot again.
Eleanor leaned over to me and whispered,
"Get out, but come back!" as I scrambled
hastily out of camera range. The group
worked steadily all afternoon so Miss
McDowell is still waiting to hear her num-
bers, but I promised to do them for her
when the picture was finished.

When the light turned yellow we listened
to the play backs right there under the
trees. It was quite thrilling to hear the
voices coming from a little black box, and
the recording was the best I have ever heard.
If it is possible to keep the whole production
to that level "Redemption" would beat all
sound pictures so far in perfection of tone.

Next day Jack Gilbert was there in cos-
tume. He wore a smock of the most gor-
geous shade of scarlet — almost a cardinal
red — which several members of the outfit had
their eye upon. "They're going home with
me, all three of them," said Jack. "Oh,
you might spare one," said Virginia Kellogg.
'"Why. what do you want to do, Virginia,
go swimming or smocking? You'd swim
in this certainly," teased Jack. But Vir-
ginia was unconvinced.

Lena Malena was pacing up and down,
cramming her lines like a school girl before
an examination. I cued her a few times
before she was called. Lena is working
hard on her English and singing, so that
her already clear voice will lose its accent.

John Gilbert had mounted the stunning
white horse he was to ride into camp. The
gypsies stop singing "Dark Eyes" when they
see him and all stand to give him a rousing
welcome. Eleanor Boardman looks to see
what all the fuss is about. Seeing Jack for
the first time she never takes her eyes from
his face during the scene that follows.
The 'dark man," although the girl is hardly

SCREENLAND

aware of it, had stepped into her life.

Lena, who was a little nervous at first,
made a mistake in one line, and I expect
she was tremendously relieved when Jack
made a mistake, too. When he sees Eleanor
Boardman he takes a wreath of flowers and
walking over to her says, "It is a custom
here to give flowers to strange ladies."
That was the line. Imagine our amuse-
ment when we heard him say, "It is a
custom here to give ladies to — oh!" and
Jack joined heartily in the laugh against
himself.

And I don't want to rob him of a grace-
ful gesture by mentioning it, but I have a
sneaking suspicion that Jack spoke the line
deliberately, to make Lena feel more com-
fortable. It would have been like him to
do it.

Someone was humming a tune on the side
lines. To my astonishment I heard the
words, "Interlocking papa, you can't soft
wax me!" Virginia came to my rescue.
"That's our college song," she said. But
even after her explanation it was all too
technical for me.

I went over to a wooden horse and
draped myself over it to rest my bones.
You become so interested in the scenes that
you forget you are tired. Very soon, Mr.
Gilbert joined me.

I told him I had held something against
him for over six years. He wanted to know
what it was. Someone told me, I said,
that after he made "The Count of Monte
Cristo" he had gone on a location to San
Francisco and on the hotel register had
signed that title instead of his own name.

If I had shot him Jack couldn't have been
more startled. "What do you think I am?
Do you writers think we are all a bunch of
conceited jackdaws?"

That made me mad! My father was a
Shakesperian actor, teacher and scholar,
and I've been mixed up in the theater one
way or another all my life, so I thought I
knew something of its people. Jack and
I almost knocked each other off the horse,
metaphorically speaking, before we remem-
bered that this was a location and not a
squared circle! But we ended good friends.

Jack said the talking pictures almost had
him licked at first. He didn't think he
would ever be able to adjust himself to them.
He even thought he would liquidate all his
holdings and step out of pictures, forever,
and then he decided that was not the thing

to do. "I realized that talking pictures
could give me up with much less tragedy
than I could give them up, and that the
thing for me to do was to battle it out."
I have been told that John Gilbert is con-
ceited, but that didn't sound to me like the
speech of a conceited man. Docs it?

He is dying to play "Journey's End," the
play now running in New York with only
men in the cast and no love interest. And
Metro will buy it for him, too, if Sam
Goldwyn doesn't get it for Ronald Colman
first. For a talking film I suppose Ronnie
would be a better choice because the char-
acters arc English and Ronnie is English
and Jack isn't, although he doesn't roll his
r's the way some American do. He is
very much interested in doing "Redemp-
tion," too, but he is not giving it just the
interpretation he wanted to, because there
is always Mr. Thalberg reminding him that
this world is filled with box offices and that
one has to give the public an interpretation
that it will like and understand. And Jack
has tried to do this. He never saw John
Barrymore do the piece on the stage, so.
his impression of Fedya is not biased by
traditions of any kind, and it is a very
definite one.

"All ready. Jack," said Mr. Niblo, where-
upon Mr. Gilbert excused himself to me and
made for the snappiest dressing-table I ever
saw on location. The makeup case stands
on a steel tripod and contains brushes and
combs and heaven knows what, as well as
makeup. It has a little contraption for
holding a mirror in place. You could put
the whole thing up anywhere with as little
trouble as you would have to unfold a card
table.

"If this is a good one we can go to
lunch." said Mr. Niblo, and all the boys
and girls brightened. But there was some
line trouble that no one could locate so
we went to lunch while they worked on it.
We piled into cars and went to the studio
because it was so near. Everyone had
cither conferences or wardrobe to worry
about so Virginia and I trotted off by our-
selves. The studio commissary was jammed
to the doors. There was a big scene on the
Marion Davies set that filled the cafe with
extras. We then trotted to a little cafe
across the street where we dined with the
quality. For who should be there but Nils
Asther looking very bright and cheerful and

0[ Polly Moran and Marie Dressier are reunited in the "Metro-Goldwyn
extravaganza, the "Hollywood Revue of 1929."

SCREENLAND

eating a delicious looking chicken sandwich.
They don't slice the chicken, large juicy
chunks of white meat are well covered with
pepper and salt and make a swell sandwich
on rye bread. Nils, you know, is playing
with Greta Garbo in "The Single Standard."

The afternoon's work was trying for
everyone but me. The sun was shining
brightly and because these scenes were sup'
posed to be at night a cloudy day would
have been ideal. Night scenes photograph
much better on a cloudy day than when
taken at night with flares. Percy Hilburn
had a face a mile long, so he must have
been feeling desperate because he is such
a jolly fellow.

"Can't you think of anything funny to
say?" asked Nelson MacEdwards, another
camera man whom I remembered from the
old days. He is the nephew -of J. Gordon
Edwards, who directed "The Queen of
Sheba" and "Salome" with Theda Bara,
and any number of William Farnum pic-
tures.

"No, I can't think of anything funny to
say," grouched Percy, "and I don't think
I ever shall again. This is just slaughter.
Look at that sun pick up Nagel's hat.
Makes him look like an archangel," and

forthwith he started in to correct the arch-
angel look of all the gentlemen whose straw
hats had been targets for the sun's rays.

"What would you do with these?"
asked Eleanor Boardman, holding out sev-
eral- thin golden disks, gypsy bangles that
could not be used because of their metallic
sound. All the jewelry is made of card-
board, gilded and painted. "Well, do you
ever go to church?" someone asked wick-
edly. Eleanor laughed. "What a mean
trick that would be," she exclaimed.

Eleanor's costume was the most heavenly
shade of lilac. With her red-gold hair and
deep blue eyes she was a picture. Miss
Boardman has such a charm of manner and
is so straightforward and sincere. And
what an intelligent person she is!

Well, it was a swell location . There
were times when everyone's nerves were
waving about like ferns, but making talkies
is hard work. You must be always on the
qui vive; always on your tip-toes to see
that the thousand and ten things that can
go wrong about them don't happen. And
by the way — none of the voices in this
picture are doubled. They are all the gen-
uine article, and you'll be delighted with
the beauty of them.

Why Vve Come Back— Continued from page 21

My mother established a home for my two
sisters and myself, first on Washington
Square, later on Park Avenue, and in be-
tween, for vacations and the like, in the
country in New Jersey. But since father's
work took him to every city in the country,
the home had to be broken up from time
to time since mother had to divide herself
between her husband and her children.

"When I was just past twelve, I went
away to boarding school for the first time.
For a while I was at Miss Merrill's School
in Mamaroneck, in Westchester County,
New York. From there I spent two years
in a French convent, and completed my
education with several years in England.

"At the age of sixteen I returned to
America — -'finished,' as they call it. But
for all I had been educated at good schools,
my mother looked on me as a baby. One
night I went with father to an Equity dance.
Equity, as most fans know, is the associa-
tion formed by stage people for their mutual
protection. Here I met Samuel Goldwyn.

" 'Why, you should be in a picture,' he
said to me. 'I have a marvelous role for
you.' Mother didn't like the idea and
tried to draw me away. But I was thrilled.
And the result was the next day I went up
to the Biograph Studio where I began work.

"I had only worked for two weeks, when
with one of those sudden changes of plans
we were ordered to leave for California
to complete the film.

"Mother was wild with anxiety. But
father said: 'Oh, let her go. It won't do
her a bit of harm.' And so it turned out.

"I hadn't been there a week before I
wrote Mother to stop worrying about me.
After New York and Paris and London,
Hollywood seemed like a sleepy country town.

"For two and a half years I played in
different pictures: "Cytherea"; "Sally,
Irene and Mary" with Joan Crawford and
Sally O'Neil who were just starting out in
film work; "In the Net"; "Code of the
West"; "Goose Hangs High." There were
so many I can't remember them all now.

"Of course I came back to New York
on trips to see my mother and two sisters —
Joan and Barbara who later started in pic-
tures, too — and it was during one of these

trips that I met Phil Plant. A friend of
mine from Miss Merrill's school introduced
us. Ten months later we were engaged.
But four different times the engagement was
broken. Even then we were both stubborn,
I'm afraid.

"About four years ago I came east pre-
paratory to going to Florida to make a
picture for Oscar Price. Phil and I made
plans to be married the following January.
But on the afternoon of November 3rd —
the day before I was to leave for the south
— Phil said: 'We've been separated long
enough. We're going to get married now.
This afternoon.'

"Piling a few things into a dressing case,
we got into his roadster and drove to
Greenwich where a civil ceremony was per-
formed. One week later the religious serv-
ice was held in New York with the family
and a few close friends present. The next
day we sailed for Europe.

"All that first early happiness is like a
dream now. As far behind me as the
snow on top of the Pyrennes which I
could easily see from the balustrade of our
villa at Biarritz;.

" 'Are you sorry you ever married?' is
a question very often asked me now. And
I can only answer, 'Not one jot.' Loving
and being loved warm the . heart and feed
the intelligence. Even if disaster overtakes
two people who have sincerely tried to turn
a deep passion into a companionable perma-
nency, like the aroma which escapes from
a' newly opened bottle of wine, a fine fra-
grance remains. And that fragrance re-
mains with me as I start for California to
make my first talking picture.

"Despite the trouble and the unhappiness
of the past year or two, I am no longer
troubled nor unhappy. For I am back in
the place where I belong. I am a child
of the theater. I've come home!"

Soon after she gave this interview Miss
Bennett left for Hollywood, where she re-
ported at the Pathe Studios. Her first story
will be a rousing yarn called "The Rack-
eteer," and she is fortunate in her choice
of supporting players — Robert Armstrong,
who will play her leading man, and the
title role; and Carol Lombard.

GROW—

Yes, Grow Eyelashes
and Eyebrows like this
in 30 days

THE most marvelous discovery has been made — a
way to make eyelashes and eyebrows actually
grow. Now if you want long, curling, silken lashes,
you can have them — and beautiful, wonderful eye-
brows.

I say to you in plain English that no matter how
scant the eyelashes and eyebrows, I will increase
their length and thickness in 30 days — or not accept
a single penny. No "ifs," "ands," or "maybes." It
is new growth, startling results, or no pay. And you
are the sole j udge.

Proved Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt

Over ten thousand women have tried my amazing
discovery, proved that eyes can now be fringed with
long, curling natural lashes, and the eyebrows made
intense, strong silken linesl Read what a few of
them say. I have made oath before a notary public
that these letters are voluntary and genuine. From
Mile. Hefflefinger, 240 W. "B" St., Carlisle, Pa.:
"I certainly am delighted ... I notice the greatest
difference . . . people I come in contact with remark
how long and silky my eyelashes appear." From
Naomi Otstot, 5437 Westminster Ave., W. Phila.,
Pa.: "I am greatly pleased. My eyebrows and.
lashes are beautiful now." From Frances Raviart,
R. D. No. 2, Box 179, Jeanette, Penn.: "Your eye-
lash and eyebrow beautitier is simply marvelous."
From Pearl Provo, 2954 Taylor St., N. E., Minne-
apolis, Minn.: "I have been using your eyebrow and
eyelash Method. It is surely wonderful." From
Miss Flora J. Corriveau, 8 Pinette Ave., Biddeford,
Me.: "I am more than pleased with your Method.
My eyelashes are growing long and luxurious."

Results Noticeable in a Week

In one week — sometimes in a day or two — you
notice the effect. The eyelashes become more beau-
tiful— like a silken fringe. The darling little upward
curl shows itself. The eyebrows become sleek and
tractable — with a noticeable appearance of growth
and thickness. You will have the thrill of a life-
time— know that you can have eyelashes and eye-
brows as beautiful as any you ever saw.

Remember ... in 30 days I guarantee results that
will not only delight, but amaze. If you are not
absolutely and entirely satisfied, your money will
be returned promptly. I mean just that — no quibble,
no strings. Introductory price $1.95. Later the
price will be regularly $5 .00.

Grower will be sent C. O. D. or you can send
money with order. If money accompanies order
postage will be prepaid.

LUCILLE YOUNG,
8548 Lucille Young Building, Chicago. 111.

Send me your new discovery for growing eye-
lashes and eyebrows. If not absolutely and
entirely satisfied, I will return it within 30 days
and you will return my money without question.

Price C. O. D. is SI. 95 plus few cents postage.
If money sent with order price is §1.95 and post-
age is prepaid.

State whether money enclosed or you want
order C. O. D

Name

St. Address.
City.

$5.00. _ /J

106 SCREENLAND

What Inspires the Stars — Continued \roin page 67

'.til washed up' as the Hollywood saying
Hues, more than once in the last eight
\cars, only to bob up more successfully than
ever.

"I think the thing that first inspired me
to go into pictures and has kept mc sticking
at it in spite of several failures, was that
1 wanted self-expression, and still do. I
find it, curiously enough, by trying to ex-
press what another girl would do in a
given situation. As for inspiration in cer-
tain scenes — the scene itself gives that, or it
should. I also get inspiration from the
people with whom I play, and just from
acting. I love it. I love to try harder
and harder to put a scene over. There
is a glorious feeling of conquest in it.

"I would like to pass on to younger
actresses the thing that has helped me so
greatly. George Loane Tucker told me that
the most important thing to learn was how
to relax. Speak from your diaphragm,
not your throat. If you are properly re-
laxed you can do it. Make yourself a
channel for the thoughts of the girl you
are playing. Listen to her. Get inside
of her mind but don't be bowled over by
what is happening to her."

He told Betty that if she couldn't learn
to be conscious of everything that goes to
make a good performance she would never
be worth anything as an actress. She
should be able to step out of a scene,
realize that her hair was not so good and
fix it, or that her dress was not doing its
stuff as it should and fix that, and still
keep her mind within the character.

Achievement inspires Conrad Nagel, too.
He often works on two pictures at once
because work interests him keenly. In spite
of the fact that he loves sports and his
yacht, he loves the studio more and whether
you like him or whether you don't you
certainly have to doff cap and bells to
Mr. Nagel as a fine workman. You know
he loves it or he could not do it so well.

Evelyn Brent says that as nearly as she
can tell, opposition is the thing that inspires
her. She feels that her best work is dragged
from her by Josef von Sternberg. They
are always scrapping. Liking and admiring
each other tremendously, their scrapping is
without malice or bitterness. "But don't
make any mistake that it isn't real," said
Evelyn, or Betty, as her friends call her.
"There isn't a foot of the Paramount lot
that doesn't remind me of a fight I have
had with von Sternberg. We argued for
half a day about whether I was to sneer
with my top lip or bottom lip. Sometimes
we start on the set and wind up in my
dressing-room, and sometimes we start in
my dressing-room and wind up on the set,
and between the two places we cover every
inch of space in. a battle royal.

"But we understand each other perfectly
and I often think he does it on purpose
just to get me into the mood to 'show him.,'
and I always rise to do it, in spirit at least,"
added Betty laughing.

"Jannings was the same. I think I did
the best work in 'The Last Command' that
I have ever done on the screen, and what
I suffered doing it! The picture was one
long nightmare. There was a scene, the
one where I am trying to make up my mind
to shoot him, during which Emil deviled
the life out of me. Nothing I did was
right. It went on for hours. When he
saw I was breaking under it he stopped
instantly and became all kindness and sym-

pathy. But he had gone too far! I was in
such a state of nerves that I literally could
not move from the chair I was in. and two
of the boys had to carry me. Emil was
terribly upset but I wouldn't let him come
near me. How I hated him at that moment!
Yet deep inside of me I humbly thanked
him, because I knew that he had helped me
to a priceless thing — the ability to express
the mood I wanted to express.

"When we played the scene he was very

<( Lovely Olive Shea plays one of the lead'
ing roles in "Glorifying the American
Girl." She is all set for early stardom.

pleased. I put into it everything I had
myself and everything I had learned. I
was going to 'show him!' "

David Belasco has this same method of
getting everything there is to get from
his people. He galls them for hours, but
the moment they break he stops the re-
hearsal instantly and calls a recess or has
lunch served on the stage.

I have always remarked that everyone
does better work when they play with
Jannings and afterward. He is one to whom
the production is just as important as his
individual performance. He helps actors
to do their best. He told me once that
America had helped him very much in his
art. He learned to know how other people
besides Europeans reacted under certain
circumstances and why. "I have made my
work simpler, and simplicity is the highest
form of art," he said.

With Rosctta Duncan and her sister
Vivian — well, they went on the stage just
about when they were in the romper period,
and they adore it. It is more than life
and breathing to them. The whole family
have been on, more or less, but 'Hime' and
'Jake' are the old reliables and stick to their
work through thick and thin. There have
been times when both girls thought they
were in love, but when it came right down
to choosing between love of a man and love
of their work and of each other neither
could make up her mind to the break. Ro-
setta can't imagine what it would be like
to carry on without Vivian and Vivian
can't imagine what it would be like to do
anything professionally without Rosetta.

I asked Rosetta what inspired her to put
such feeling into Topsy's prayer. She
screwed her eyes up in the funny little
way she has and said: "Well, I am thinking
about Eva, of course, and Eva is Vivian.
I never thought to put it into words before
but just as Topsy thought she could not
live without Eva, I suppose I put into the
scene as much as I can, what I would feel
like if something happened to my sister."

Olive Borden says the work and the
studio inspire her. She loves it. She loves
everything about a studio including the
people. Sometimes she is criticized for
being too friendly but she feels that all
the studio workers are one family. If the
scene is good she tries to think into the
character she is playing, getting her inspira-
tion in this way. If it isn't she tries to do
it anyhow!

At first Olive never went to see her
rushes. She has never yet seen one of her
own pictures completed. She saw the
rushes once or twice when she first went
into pictures because she was told that it
would help her to find out her mistakes.
Instead of that it depressed her so terribly
that she wanted to give up the screen.
That was because she didn't know how to
correct the faults she knew she had. Now
she does, so it helps her to see the rushes.

Music inspires little Sally Blane. "I
have only had one emotional scene to do,
but music helped me to do it. It takes
you out of yourself and gives you the
freedom you need. On a sound stage
music is impossible so the lines w^ill have
to supply the inspiration or it is going to
be pretty hard on the actors. And on the
audience!"

And then there is Clara. Clara Bow
never does a scene half way. When she
plays a scene she plays it with her whole
heart and soul. Clara went into pictures
because she needed money. She remained
in them because she loved the work and
because she was a wow. She will stay
because she has never been trained to do
anything else and if she didn't work she
would be bored to tears. "What would I
do? I could travel around the world in
three or four years and see everything in it.
I do not like idleness. What would I do
then? My work is all the inspiration I
have. Sometimes I love the girls I play and
then I want other people to really know and
love them too, and so I try to make them
just as clear as possible. That inspires me
to do the best work I am capable of doing."

I remember Elmer Clifton, who directed
Clara's first picture "Down to the Sea in
Ships," told me that Clara lived her char-
acter every moment she was working, but
she stepped out of it just as easily. While

SCREENLAND 107

Emi'l Jannings can't shake the character
from him after he has left the studio,
Clara is able to do this. Their work is so
widely different that a comparison is im-
possible, yet Clara like Emil has the ability
to make you believe in the character .she is
playing.

Mr. Clifton told me that when he tried
her out in a scene for his picture she was
in a little office that barely gave the girl
room enough to swing her arms. Yet when
he told her to throw pebbles to imaginary
sea gulls she did it with as much intensity
as if she were actually the wild, free child
of the sea with the whole beach for her
playground. Her imagination was remark'
able.

Stepping from the sublime to the ridic-
ulous, I was told that a certain actress could
only cry one way. There was a sensitive
nerve in the roof of her mouth. She had
only to touch her tongue to it, the rest
was easy!

Technique counts; but the inspiration, the
soul has to be there too. They tell a story
of Mme. Helena Modjeska that at a dinner
some one asked her to recite. She did so
in her native tongue, Polish. The English-
speaking guests were moved to tears as the
great tragedian played upon their emotions
as it pleased her. In imagination, though
they could not understand what she said,
each guest lived a life-time of romance. At
the end Madame laughed with her country-
men who had with difficulty restrained their
mirth. She had been reciting the multi-
plication table!

Broadway Invasion

(Continued from page 29)

up in the language.

So with the foreign question settled, the
crisis that now confronts Hollywood is the
influx of stage dramatists, song writers,
dialogue hounds and what not that is now
inundating the once silent calm of Movie-
land. With the usual hysterics of this as
yet unstable industry the producers have
again gone haywire and are signing up the
out-of-works as well as the successes of New
York.

But the crisis will soon pass and after the
storm is over I think it will be found that
many of the invaders have returned to New
York's Rialto and Tin Pan Alley. For it
must be remembered that the big Hollywood
directors— the two De Milles, Fred Niblo,
Brenon, Lubitsch, Ford, Borzage, Griffith
and a host of others, have come from the
stage, and besides knowing stage-craft are
masters of motion picture technique.

The same holds true of the actors and
writers. Many of them were of the stage
before coming into pictures years ago, and
this latter training is invaluable in the pres-
ent change to the talkies. No Broadway
dramatist could possibly have better equip-
ment for screen authorship of talking ver»
sions of stage plays that is possessed by
Hans Kraly, Marion Fairfax or Jane Murfin.

I think when the crisis is passed you will
find the old guard still on the job. There
will be a few new actors, writers, and direc-
tors who will be equal to learning the tech-
nique of the cinema, but for the most part
your future pictures will be made by the
present masters of that difficult craftsman-
ship.

START TONIGHT

and Reduce Weight

Reduce 2 to 4 pounds tonight at home
and feel better tomorrow morning
than you have for months. (Every
statement certified from actual
experience.)

Send the coupon for your first three
Fayro Baths

Thousands of smart women have
found this easy way to take off 2 to 4
pounds once or twice a week. These
women take refreshing Fayro baths in
the privacy of "their own homes.

Excess weight has been removed, skins have
been made more lovely, bodies more shapely
and minds brighter.
The Hot Springs are now Brought to You
A study of the analyses of the active in-
gredients of the waters from twenty-two of
• the most famous springs have taught us the
secret of their effectiveness. You can now
have all these benefits in your own bath. Merely
put Fayro into your hot bath. It dissolves rap-
idly. You will notice and enjoy the pungent
fragrance of its balsam oils and clean salts.

Then, Fayro, by opening your pores and
stimulating perspiration forces lazy body cells
to sweat out surplus fat and bodily poisons. Add Fayro to vour bath at night and
immediately you will lose from 2 to 4 pounds in an easy, refreshing and absolutely
harmless manner.

Your physician will tell you that Fayro is certain to do the work and that it is
absolutely harmless.

Fayro will refresh you and help your body throw off worn out fat and bodily
poisons. Your skm will be clearer and smoother. You will sleep better after your
Fayro bath and awaken feeling as though you had enjoyed a week's vacation.

Lose Weight Where You Most Want To

Fayro reduces weight generally but you can
also concentrate its effect on abdomen, hips, legs,
ankles, chin or any part of the body you may wish.

Results Are Immediate

Try Fayro at Our Risk

The regular price of Fayro is $1.00 a package With
the coupon you get 3 full sized packages and an inter-
esting booklet "Health and Open Pores" for $2 50 plus
the necessary postage. Send no money. Pay the postman
Your money refunded instantly if you want it

HERE'S PROOF

Read What Fayro Baths Have Done For Others

Three Fayro baths have reduced mv weight 11
pounds in 8 days. I feel betLer than I have felt
for years."

"I weigh 1G pounds less and feel younger and
sleep better. Fayro is wonderful."

"My double chin vanished in the magic of Fayro
baths."

"My hips were always too prominent until I com-
menced Fayro baths. I have lost 12 pounds."

"Since childhood my thick ankles have always
been a. source of embarrassment. Fayro baths have
reduced them beautifully. Thank you very much."
Names and addresses will be given on request.

FAYRO, INC.
823 Locust St.,

pAYRQ

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Send me 3 full sized boxes of Fayro in plain naclca
1 will pay the postman $2.50 plus the necessary postage,
is understood that if I do not get satisfactory results with
the first package I use, I am to return the other two and
you will refund all of mv monev at once

-8-29

Name

Address

More than a million Fayro
treatments have been sold.

city _ state

If you do not live in the United States send "Tnternational
Money Order with coupon.

108

SCREENLAND

To Wear

and Demonstrate
Amazing Hats

Mv line. sui>el"'Mlillit\ Wool Poll

mill Belgian Fur Fell Hats aria

taking country i>y storm! l n l

men to wear sample liais. show
them to friends, and take
orders. Saving of Si to ?5
guaranteed on every hat.
SAMPLES FREE

RuKh nnme now for cmpleie equipmmt

-.«ent FREE. BJtp»rf«nc« not Deeded.
Suirt upar- time. I furnish till ittock and

rnpitnl. Write now!

i'llnl*o you FRF I: <<>iit]>i'tt hn*

thowina RAINPROOF, MADF-TO-
MFASFRF ( A PS. in m-Mvwf xtylre ami
color*. J. W. Taylor, Pre*.
TAYLOR HAT & CAP MFRS.
Desk L-60. Cincinnati. 0. _

STORIES FOR
TALKING PICTURES

and Silent Screen Productions
in big demand.

There is now- a double market — all submitted
story material whether containing dialogue or
not, is given consideration for talking pictures,
sound or silent screen production. We know
Studio demands and make personal submission
of manuscripts. COPYRIGHT SERVICE.
Full particulars without obligation. Agency
Established 1917.

Universal Scenario Company

504 Western & Santa Monica Bldtf.

Hollywood, Calif.

THE

Doorway of Hospitality

Warner: H. B. — Continued from page 73

<NTER the doorway ot
this popular hostelry and you feel at home.
There's an atmosphere of cordial welcome
which marks the difference between the
Hollywood Plaza and ordinary hotels.

Your room, too, has that added touch
of distinction. Pictures on the wall, over'
stuffed furniture, a floor lamp and reading
lamp . . . these are but a few of the features
that make you feel at home.

Pig'n Whistle Dining Service insures the
best of food. Therefore, when you are next
in Los Angeles be sure to investigate.

THE HOLLYWOOD

PLAZA
HOTEL

Vine Street at Hollywood Boulevard
HOLLYWOOD. CALIFORNIA

in "The Kin"; t)f Kings" is an impossible
role to live up to. In a theatrical sense
it is also a difficult role to live down. Mr.
Warner takes his work seriously and he took
that assignment seriously and with sincer-
ity and reverence. The result will be re-
membered as nearly satisfactory as it is
possible to make a picture representation of
the Man of Sorrows.

Over-zealous enthusiasts in Los Angeles
and Hollywood became almost fanatical in
their approval of Mr. Warner in the sacred
part. He found it nearly impossible to
shed the reflected light of sanctity which
became him so well in that picture; and
serious embarrassments often followed.

For a time he was followed on the street.
Women crowded to reach him, to touch
his clothes, as though some of the spiritual-
ity of the part he had played, must have
clung to him. Men became uncomfortable
in his presence and in awed silence greeted
him when he least desired it.

It took time and the part of Sorrell in
''Sorrell and Son" to overcome the handicap
that his part in "The King of Kings" had
given him. The part of Sorrell was more
nearly the natural H. B. Warner than any
other. Sorrell was English and a gentleman.
Mr. Warner is both.

Long before this, however, Mr. Warner
had played heavy roles. His first great
stage success in the minds of the American
people was "Alias Jimmy Valentine."
There he played first a likeable rogue and
later a reformed and beloved ex-convict.
He played many other parts on the English
and American stage, starring in such pro-
ductions as "The Girl Who Has Every-
thing," "Susan in Search of a Husband,"
"Salome Jane," "The Battle," "The Ghost
Breaker," "Sleeping Partners." "Danger,"
"You and I," and "Silence."

Following the success of "Sorrell and Son,"
a picture which for once at least satisfied
the admirers of the novel from which it was
adapted, Mr. Warner was called into con-
sultation with Warner Brothers regarding a
contract for a number of pictures. Mr.
Warner, the actor, thus describes his con-
versation with J. L. Warner, the vice-presi-
dent of Warner Brothers.

"Why do you want me to play 'heavy'
roles?" the actor asked.

"Because you don't look like a heavy,"
the executive answered.

"And when I thought that over," Mr.
Warner, the actor adds, "I decided it was
a good reason.

"If all villains looked the part, as they
once did on the stage, there could be little
successful villainy. There would be no suc-
cessful confidence men. The real-life vil-
lain is often enough a peculiarly likeable
fellow, popular, genteel, capable. I think
sometimes a rascal is more interesting than
a respectable citizen, often has more attrac-
tive qualities, often is a good fellow.

"I'm interested in this new type of stage
and screen villains. When my father
played on the English stage and I was with
him, there was never any doubt in the
audience's mind as to which actor was the
villain. We had regulation villain music.
His entrance was always accompanied w'ith
minor chords, he wore certain distinguish-
ing clothes. It seemed to be necessary to
give him the mark of Cain before his first
lines were spoken.

"Of course this is not a true nor lifelike
characterization. Even a born villain has
redeeming qualities as well as attractive
angles.

"My present role in "The Green God-
dess" is not a 'heavy' role; unless every
man who is unhappy with his wife as is
Major Crespin in this story, is to be classed
as a villain. The Major was really a good
sport, you know, and died game."

There is an interesting background be-
hind this interesting man. He was born in
England, the son of Charles Warner, a
celebrated English actor. For a brief time
he believed he had been weaned away from
his father's profession and studied medicine
in English colleges. Before completing his
courses however, the professional blood in
his veins had manifested itself and he left
college to join his father in London in the
production of "Drink" which was breaking
records then. He played minor roles and
understudied parts in his father's company
for a number of years and in 1905 came
to the United States to play "Merely Mary
Ann." About the same time came George
Arliss, another English actor of promise.
For years the two of them played in different
shows in New York and the bigger cities
of the country, but it remained for "The
Green Goddess." Yitaphone version for
Warner Brothers to eventually unite them
in one company.

The H. B. Warner family is one of the
most delightful to know in all Hollywood,
or rather Beverly Hills, for it is there they
have their home.

They have a garden, not one in which
a landscape architect was turned loose and
told to go the limit, but one in which
Mr. and Mrs. Warner turned themselves
loose and secured highly satisfactory results.

Their house is not a pink palace such
as clutter the hills of their town, but neither
is it a modest cottage. There are not many
Hollywood professional people who rate a
higher weekly check than H. B. Warner.
He lives comfortably with his family, his
hobbies and his profession.

That family is his great pride. Three
children, Joan, H. B. Jr., and Lorraine
make his house as sunny as his garden and
are first in his long list of treasures which
are found therein. Like all well educated
and much traveled professional people, he
has collected many interesting and valuable
things and some are strange and different
and valuable for their associations only.

Among the former may be mentioned a
collection of rare antique carved ivories,
bought in Vienna following the war and
the collapse of a fortune there which threw
them on to the market at a time that H.
B. Warner was handy with his check book
and his accurate knowledge of values.

Two other items of which he is pardon-
ably proud arc a pair of lamps, made from
ancient Chinese lamps, hand carved and
engraved and known to have graced an
oriental temple of Confucius more than a
thousand years ago. His radio is encased
in an antique Louis XVI cabinet, and so
effectively hidden that the program seems
to come out of thin air.

Among the items of little intrinsic value,
but valued for its association is a framed
presidential pardon for a condemned man
in whom Mr. Warner interested himself,
eventually securing the pardon from Presi-
dent Taft. The actor believes few such
documents are out of the hands of the
pardoned and consequently not many of
them are framed. Naturally a long and
successful career has brought to Mr. Warner
a wealth of friendship and interesting asso-
ciation. He is a delightful conversationalist,
never at a loss for interesting anecdotes and

SCREENLAND

109

reminiscenses. He is as much at home in
the Savoy of London as in the Biltmore of
Los Angeles or the Montmartre of Holly
wood. He is more familiar with European
watering places than with Agua Caliente.

His whole house is filled with artistic
pieces which he and his wife have gathered
because they liked them and knew their
value and beauty. His library is compre-
hensive and somewhat thumb-worn. By no
possible stretch of the imagination can the
H. B. Warner home be called a show place
— yet few others in the film capital have
more to show to a guest.

In pictures H. B. Warner is not a new
comer, nor yet is he an old timer. He
started once for Thomas Ince and then,
after making several altogether successful
pictures he returned again to the stage.
He remembers making seven pictures at that
time. Perhaps the public remembers best
"The Beggar of Cawapore."

In New York, while starring in "You
and I," he began working .simultaneously in
pictures in the Long Island studios. His
first was with Gloria Swanson in "Zaza."
Shortly after that Cecil B. De Mille sent
for him to offer him the role of Christ in
"The King of Kings." This was followed
closely by "Whispering Smith," the screen
version of "Silence" which won for Warner
the rating of one of the ten best per-
formances of 1926.

Next in importance came "Sorrell and

Son" with a characterization that will never
be altogether forgotten. For Warner Broth-
ers he has played important roles in "Con-
quest," a heavy villain part with a com-
pensating sacrifice at the end; "Stark Mad,"
"The Gamblers" and "The Argyle Case";
for Paramount "The Doctors Secret"; and
the role of district attorney in "The Trial
of Mary Dugan" for M-G-M; and last, to
date, is "The Green Goddess" again for
Warner Brothers.

From villainy to divinity and back again.
Perhaps the next picture will return H. B.
Warner to other types of roles. Chosen
for heavy parts because he does not look
like a heavy he has made screen history by
taking the villainous roles still further away
from the kerosene circuit days of riding
boots and windy music.

Someday he may again play heroic leads
because he doesn't resemble an Arrow Col-
lar advertisement, either.

Only one thing more.

I am not sure what H. B. stands for.
His friends call him Harry and that is prob-
ably his name. He has made his place on
stage and screen as "H. B." Warner. His
sons is "H. B." junior . It is a part of
his personality; a part of his personal
reticence that makes him lose his own
personality in the part he plays.

He never remakes a role to fit H. B.
Warner. He works with H. B. Warner
until he fits the role.

Her Trial Career— continued from page 41

known slightly at school. At Carol's invita-
tion, Sally visited the Mack Sennett studio
for luncheon. There she was introduced
to Mack Sennett. He immediately offered
her a stock contract with a salary of fifty
dollars weekly. She refused to sign it.

Undaunted by her refusal, Sennett tele-
phoned Miss Eilers and asked her to come
to his studio to talk business at a higher
salary. The outcome of this conference was
that Sally signed a contract with a big
"If" in it. The "If" was this:

If Sennett decided to use Sally in an
untitled picture known as 'Number five-
ninety-six,' she would be paid one hundred
and fifty dollars weekly.0' If not, then
her salary would be seventy-five dollars
weekly.

During the sixth month of her "trial
career," Sally began work in 'Picture num-
ber five-ninety-six.' During the filming of
the production, it was given a title — "The
Goodbye Kiss."

This distinct step toward success con-
vinced her parents. All objections to her
career as an actress were withdrawn. Like
good sports, papa and mama Eilers shook
hands with their daughter and offered co-
operation . They have been helping her
ever since.

In fact, one of the first things Mr. and
Mrs. Eilers said to this writer when he
arrived for the interview with Sally was:

"We knew our gal would make good."

All parents are like that, you know.

But everything wasn't so rosy for the
little Eilers girl. Following completion of
"The Goodbye Kiss," Sennett ceased pro-
duction of feature-length pictures and de-
voted his activities to two-reel comedies.

Sally did two of them. Matty Kemp,
who played opposite her in "The Goodbye
Kiss," did three. Johnny Burke, another

member of "The Goodbye Kiss" cast, is still
doing them.

Sally's two and Matty's three were
punishment. Sennett would say to the cast
of "The Goodbye Kiss": "Anyone late on
the set will have to do a two-reeler." It
was just like the school teacher saying:
"Those not getting the arithmetic answers
correct must remain after school." Sally
was late twice. Matty arrived behind time
on three occasions.

Following these pictures, Sally found her-
self under contract to Sennett with no work
to do. Other studios wanted to borrow
her. "The Goodbye Kiss" had established
her as a real trouper. But Sennett, not
then certain whether he would make other
feature pictures or continue as a two-reel
comedy producer, asked a very high salary
for her. Other producers would not pay it.

Only a few months ago, she and Sennett
destroyed the contract by mutual agree-
ment. He was making no feature pictures
and Sally would do no more two-reelers.
The fair thing to do, quite naturally, was
for Sennett to release her. This he did.

Her newest pictures, made almost im-
mediately after she parted with Sennett,
were "Trial Marriage" (very coincident with
the theme of this interview) and "Broad-
way Babies." Her next assignment will be
the leading feminine part in Reginald
Denny's picture.

A red-headed go-getter; that's the way
she appeals to me. I've heard people who
know predict real stardom — not just lead-
ing lady parts — for her. I only know that
she is a bundle of wit and ambition and
pep. She is extremely pretty and has a
most attractive personality.

She tells me Sennett never used her in
a bathing comedy. That, little boys and
girls, was Sennett's biggest mistake as a
film producer!

Freckles

Can be Secretly Removed!

"yOU can remove those annoying,
*■ embarrassing freckles, secretly
and quickly, in the privacy of your
own home. Your friends will wonder
bow you did it.

Stillman's Freckle Cream bleaches
them outwhile you sleep. Leavesthe
skin soft and white, the complexion
fresh, clear and transparent, the face
rejuvenated with new beauty of
natural coloring. The first jar proves
its magic worth. At all druggists.

Stillman's

Freckle Cream

Removes T Whitens
Freckles 1 The Skin

ST1LLMAN CO.

8 Rosemary Lane
Aurora, Illinois

Please send me Free book-
let "Goodbye Freckles".

State

I
I
I
I

Writers of Song Poems

(or melodies)

Send for bona fide proposition. Do
not delay — be convinced now ! Ray
Hibbeler, D15, 2104 N. Keystone
Ave., Chicago.

HfOLifijorm

offer
857'

Onr combination method recommended for
Gllinff out legs, arma, undeveloped parta or
general improvement of figure. No pills or
medicinea. 30 DAy TR|AL

Inexpensive, harmless, pleasant. Full particu-
lars and proof (sealed) tree. Write for apecial
TODAY. LA BEAUTE STUDIOS.
SE HAMILTON TERRACE • - BALTIMORE, MO.

"lEfDAnC" MAKE SHAPELY
LtUrAllj LIMBS: DEFY
■ DETECTION

Rubber Busts
Elastic Stockings
Abdominal Supporters
Reducing Rubber Garments

Eyelashes; Wigs; Thermo-racs; Silk
Opera and Service Weight Hose;
Tights; Impersonators' Outfits. S. P.
J. CAMP. 235 Fifth Ave., New York.

The next number of

SCREENLAND will be OH

sale August 5.

1 10

SCREENLAND

FRECKLES

Don't Try ti> Hide These Ugly Spots;
Othine Will Remove Them Quickly
and Safely

This preparation is so successful in
removing freckles and giving « clear, beau-
tiful complexion that it is sold by all drug
and department stores with a guarantee
to refund the money if it fails.

Don't try to hide your freckles or waste
lime on lemon juice or cucumbers; get an
ounce of Othine and remove them. Even
the first few applications should show a
wonderful improvement, some of the lighter
freckles vanishing entirely.

Be sure to ask for Othine — double
strength; it is this that is sold on money-
back guarantee.

Make Your Own Face Lotion

A marvelous new lotion that freshens
the skin, removes pimples, blackheads,
l aria I blemishes, and brings the lilow
of youth to the complexion. Make by
simply dissolving "Terra-Sal" (Salt of
the Earth) Skin Tonic powder in water
— one package makes a pint of lotion.
Easily applied. Price $1.00, postpaid.
Mail your order today.

A dele Millar

527 W. 7th St. Dept. 36 Los Angeles, Calif.

'Firing the Star, f — Continued from page 45

BOW LEGS AND
KNOCK-KNEES

Improved by use of the Morris Invisible
Limb Straightener for Men, Women and
Children— Worn with Comfort, either day
or night or both and is entirely invisible.
Send 10 cents coin or stamps for Actual
Photographs, sent in plain wrapper.

ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE
Sec. 5 1032 Loew's State Bldg.

Los Angeles, Calif.

Stop Using A Truss

STUART'S ADHESIF PLAPAO-PADS are
entirely different — being mechanico-chemico
applicators — made self-adhesive purposely to
keep the herbal muscle-tonic called "Plapao"
continuously applied to the affected parts, and
to minimize danger of slipping and painful
friction. The adhesive fabric is soft as velvet
and clings to the body

without
straps,
buckles

or
springs.

For almost a quarter century stacks of sworn
testimonials from many different countries re-
port success — without delay from work. The
epidermatic absorption of Plapao and the utiliza-
tion of "plaster therapy" tend toward a
natural process of recovery, after which no

further use for a truss. Test of

factor "PLAPAO" sent you CDCC
Mail Coupon below TODAY. lllLbi

Plapao Laboratories, Inc.
1566 Stuart Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.

Gentlemen: Send me a Free Trial Plapaoand 48-page
book on Rupture. No charge for this now or later.

Name..

Address .

CORRECT
your NOSE

Improve your appear-
ance with Anita Nose
Adjuster. Shapes flesh
and cartilage — safely and
painlessly, while you
sleep.

Results are lasting.
Write for FREE
BOOKLET.

ANITA INSTITUTE. H69 Anita Bldg.. Newark. N. J.

Being released from a contract after just
one picture is very, very bad for one's
prestige. Charlie couldn't find a tiling to
do for many a day. Then -at last Mack
Sennett put him in a picture. The first
day's 'rushes' were shown and then and
there the famous comedy producer went
'way up in the air:

"He's terrible — awful!" he shouted.
"Somebody fire him!"

And somebody did. Then somebody —
yes, another somebody on the Fox lot took
pity on him. They thought he might be
valuable some day and so he was invited to
sign a contract at a small salary, about
one hundred dollars a week. Then came
James Cruze's big picture "Old Ironsides."
Since then, Charlie has risen to the very
top of the ladder. Don Alvarado has
fared pretty well, also.

Out on the Universal lot one day. Tod
Browning, directing various pictures, re-
ceived a call from one of the head execu-
tives. "You're using one man in your
tough mob scenes so much that he's getting
to be a regular trademark of your pictures,
and of Universal as well. Cut it out,"
came the order. The 'trademark' was none
other than Lon Chaney, then playing small
bits and whose make-up was so good that
Browning used him in practically all of his
tough mob scenes. So Chaney left the
Universl studio and when he next returned
it was to star in "The Hunchback of
Notre Dame."

"You're not worth a cent more than
you're getting and never will be," Harry
Carey was told when he asked for a raise
to seventy-five dollars a week in the old

D. W. Griffith days. "You're — " stuttered
the 'big boss.'

"Oh. no, I'm not fired." shouted Harry.
"I quit!" And quit he did. And soon he
was starring in Westerns and getting sev-
eral times more than the raise he asked for.

A somewhat different experience was that
of John Gilbert, at the time playing a bit
for William S. Hart. Hart was so dis-
gusted with one scene that he lost his
temper and told Gilbert:

"You'll never make an actor. You're
through right now. Go get your check!"
But Gilbert kept right on talking and talked
so fast and fluently that Hart was persuaded
at last to retake the bad scene and also
to keep young Gilbert on his payroll.

William Wellman, director of that epic,
"Wings"; Joseph Von Sternberg, respon-
sible for "Underworld" and "The Last
Command": the late Mauritz Stiller, who
directed "The Way of All Flesh" — all suc-
cessful at Paramount, failed entirely to
click at Mctro-Goldwyn-Maycr and were
consequently 'fired.' \Vhcn Von Sternberg
had his contract renewed by Paramount
last year, it was for the very first time
anywhere in his picture career, he admitted.

Richard Dix was another who failed to
make the grade on the old Goldwyn lot
and so 'got through,' and now he is one of
the biggest stars and box-office attractions
of the Paramount organization.

And so it goes. You see, it's all in the
game. Stars can be fired — and are fired —
just as easily as anyone else. But in some
cases, certain producers would give a lot
if they hadn't fired certain players just
when they did.

The Dancing Doll— Continued from page 56

"The kid's good," Bessie told the director
after watching Joyce's nimble grace.

"WV11 let her do some bits," agreed the
director, and Joyce made her film debut.

"When "Broadway Melody" was being
shot, Bessie again saw Joyce among the
dancing girls.

"The kid's good." she whispered to
Harry Beaumont. "Catch that tap toe-
dance routine!"

Beaumont did.

Executives were called in to look it over.
The result was a long sound scene written
into the story just for Joyce. A long-
term contract followed.

Gus Edwards also lent a helping hand to
the diminutive Cinderella and gave her
specialty numbers in his talkie revues.
Then the big new M-G-M revue came along
and Joyce landed out front in full glory of
a featured artist in the huge all-headliner
cast.

Joyce was born in a little mining camp,
Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.

Perhaps dancing was born in her. For
her mother had been a partner in a sister
song-and-dance act before her marriage.

At any rate Joyce seemed to learn to
dance before she could walk, bouncing up
and down on her crib, hanging on to the
sides in wide-eyed glee.

While other children were learning to
recite "Twinkle-twinkle little star," Joyce
was doing the buck and wing on the
kitchen floor. When she was four years
old she had a regular dancing routine down
pat enough to go on the stage.

"I just seem to dance naturally," she
explained. "I never had to learn. I

always wanted to dance and it never has
seemed like work to me. When I went to
study with Theodore Kosloff he didn't be-
lieve that I had never taken lessons. My
toes were hard and strong and I needed
very little training for ballet numbers.

While I was doing ballet steps I de-
cided to try jazz routines on my toes. I
did the buck-and-wing and tap steps and
switched into* the Charleston and Black
Bottom. That's how I happened to go
with the Fanchon 6? Marco and musical
comedy shows on the West Coast.

"I still wasn't satisfied and when the
adagio craze started I went adagio and
was thrown all around the stage for months
in those wild acrobatic numbers. No, I
didn't know a thing about acrobatics. I
just let myself relax and take the falls
best I knew how.

"I love to make up difficult dance steps
and master the triple-wing, web-foot and
fast rattle on my toes. It's mighty stren-
uous work but I love to do it and get a
big kick in springing new steps of my own
manufacture.

Joyce, who looks like Viola Dana, by the
way, has ambitions to go in for dramatic
acting and confides a wish to be another
Norma Shearer. She has the bluest eyes
you ever saw and a finely-chiseled profile
to match a beautifully-moulded figure. She
is only five feet tall, slender and trim,
with muscular grace.

And why do they call her the Cinderella
of the Iron Slippers? She's so light and
tiny, you see, they had to nail metal cleats
on her dancing shoes so she would make
enough noise to suit the 'mike.'

SCREENLAND

ill

In Nav York — Continued from page 77

beauty, charm, chic, brains; and, perhaps
more than any other movie personage with
the exception of Mary and Doug, is the
pet of 'society' — and all that sort of thing.
But Hedda is not spoiled. She'll tell you
all about her handsome young son who is
taller than she is, and how she felt when
she was cast to play Tony Moreno's mother.
She is the most amusing woman in pic
tures, and when some smart producer gives
her a chance in talking pictures, she will
create a new type of polite screen charmer;
and then — beware, Baclanova!

Broadway welcomed back Charlie King,
one of its favorite little boys. Charlie has
been a musical comedy and vaudeville
favorite around town for a long time; then
he went to Hollywood — but not Holly
wood, and there's a difference. He's the
same Charlie King, as he proved when he
made personal appearances at the Capitol.
He is absolutely won over to pictures —
well, he should be since "Broadway
Melody." And to prove he is a real
native son now, he left his wife and
daughter in California and hurried right
back as soon as he could. He attended
theaters here with his beautiful blonde
sister, Mollie King, and her husband.
Mollie, you may remember, used to be a
movie star herself.

The George O'Brien company, under the
direction of John Ford, played hide-and-
seek between New York and Annapolis,
Maryland, when they came east on loca-
tion. George was in town for a few days
and looks as big and bronzed and strapping
as ever. I'm always afraid that George
is some day going to bulge right out of
his coat, he's so robust. He's one star,
though, who's genuinely 'athletic' He

always picks a hotel with a swimming pool
when he is here, and has a swim every
morning before breakfast — yes, sir. In
fact, it looks as if George is one of these
model young men you read about.

Little Helen Chandler plays his leading
lady in the Ford picture. (It's one of the
new Fords.) Helen left New York for
Hollywood on a Fox talking picture con-
tract, and she has made good. She looks
all grown-up and everything now, wearing
the smartest clothes imaginable; and she
is in love with California, too, where she
lives in a house on the beach at Santa
Monica.

Marian Nixon is Eddie Dowling's hero-
ine in "The Rainbow Man" and was in-
vited east to make personal appearances
during the Broadway run of that single
dancie. Marian, by the way, is grateful
to the talkies, for they have Carved a brand-
new career for her. Since the Dowling
picture she has made "Say It With Songs,"
with Al Jolson, "General Crack" opposite
John Barrymore, a picture opposite Barthel-
mess and then another with Jolson. In
other words, Marian is booked solid!

Gilda Gray's vaudeville act — an impres-
sive and elaborate number with the shimmy
queen doing her stuff and then some — has
been booked for the middle and far west,
and late summer will find Gilda in Holly-
wood. I know she turned down two or
three picture offers before she left here, be-
cause she wants to be sure she gets just
the right kind of story material and direc-
tion in her first talkie. There's some dis-
cussion about her doing "The Bird of
Paradise" as her talkie debut. I hope it's
true, as there's a splendid chance for her
in the famous South Sea romance.

Meet the Missus — Continued from page 3 5

has great possibilities and — well, if it hasn't
melody, the Mulhalls will be forced to move
from their apartment soon.

"And in five years from now, Jack will
be just as enthusiastic about singing! That's
the marvelous part about it — his fads don't
wear off!"

Jack's son, Jack Jr., lives with his grand-
mother in Los Angeles and visits fre-
quently with his dad. He's a dead ringer
for Jack and despite all the music he is
learning, all the baseball he plays and all
of his father's preachment against acting,
the son, aged eleven, is going to be an
actor, or Mrs. Mulhall has missed her guess.

Jack's brother, many years his senior,

is an engineer on the railroad, driving a
crack-train — and he simply dotes on the
famous brother.

Mrs. Mulhall says her husband possesses
none of the major vices, but he had one
failing that she believes will be cured shortly
— he always leaves the cap off the tooth-
paste tube.

And believe it or not, some inventor with
a new toothpaste container wants him to
finance his putting the product on the
market.

"And when Jack does that," said Mrs.
Mulhall with finality, "he'll be my idea of
a perfect man!"

The Baby Author — Continued from page 32

writing for the screen. My name has
appeared in nearly every theater in the
United States and in every theater on
Broadway. Pictures alone do not satisfy
me; I feel the need for black and white
words; that is why I do both. They seem
to be a scale that balance.

"I love writing best, and am never happy
unless I am writing. I love dancing next,
because with dance steps I have danced
my way into many, many stories. I love
the piano third, but my teacher says I am

hopeless since I am always dancing with
my feet instead of with my fingers. I love
bright colors, bright clothes, bright faces,
ten cent stores, harmonicas, watermelon,
corn on cob, red shoes, swimming, polo,
cooking, my red-haired mother, night-times,
my organ, Broadway, the odor of film-
cement, a certain young man, vaudeville
shows, bright oils of bull fights and fine
etchings of boats, midnight movies, a log
fire, bon-bons and six pieces of soap in a
soap dish!"

And now you know Beth Brown!

aw PHOTO

MARGE

■cnes

198

Size 16x20 inches

Same price for fall
length or bast form,
gToups, landscapes,
pet animals, etc., or
enlargements of any
7>art of gToap pic- _
ture. Safe return of yonr own
original photo guaranteed.

SEND NO MONEY

Just mail photoorsnapshotfany
size)and within aweet youwill
receive your beautiful life-like
enlargement s izelGx20in. guar-
anteed fadeless. Pay postman
98c plus postage or send $1.00
with order and we pay postage.

Special Free OfferS

enlargement we will send Free
a band-tinted miniature repro-
ductionof photo sent. Takead-
vantage now of this amazing
Offer--aend your photo today,

UNITED PORTRAIT COMPANY

1652 Ogden Ave. Dept. K-209 Chicago

FREE

"CQLUMBINA" FACE POWDER
SPECIAL OFFER

A regular size box of this fine imported pow-
der, given with every jar of our "C. M. Co."
Skin Beautifies— a, marvelous cream, producing
wonderful results. SEND NO MONET, pay
postman 50c, plus postage on delivery. Clip this
adv. and order TODAY.

COLOMBO LABORATORIES
453 Essex St.. Brooklyn, N. T.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

STRAWBERRY FROST, new. Most marvelous com-
plexion beautifier. Bleaches but doesn't peel off skin;
perfectly harmless. Users claim it gives them the same
captivating, alluring loveliness that it gives the most
beautiful women living. Nothing is more FASCINAT-
ING AND IRRESISTIBLE to men than feminine
beauty. This sure gives you some beauty. Un-
beautiful complexions, ugly shiny skins and nose go
and the skin is transformed into Lilly Loveliness.
LARGE TRIAL FREE.

MME. D. ARMOND, Dermatologist
Welles Bldg., Wilkes Barre, Pa.

BY THE LAKE
in Chicago

211

East Delaware

5 minutes from the Loop

BATHING

GOLF COURSE

BRIDLE PATH

$80 -$85 up
Including
complete hotel
service
Kitchenette
Apartments
with electric
refrigeration
and all
modern

conveniences
in new 16-
story fire-
it-, proof building

Phone:
Whitehall 4450
Owned and
Operated by
A. W. BC I. E.
SOMMERS

112

SCREENLAND

FREE BOOK
TELLS HOW

Toil can quickly qualify
Tor positions paying j.Vi to
$250 a Wti'k In Motion
ricitiic. Portrait. ComiiuM-
clul or News Photography
and Projection, or M;nt
your own business. No
experience Deeded.
Camera or Projector Given
Learn at home or In our
great New York Studios.
; Free Roolt of Amazing Opportunities,
ml Camera or Projector otter.
INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

West 33rtl Street

New York

Dept. 60

"Arlington Operated"

HOTEL ANSONIA

Broadway, 73rd to 74th Streets

NEW YORK CITY

5 minutes to Theatres and Shopping Districts.
12 minutes hum r. mi. and Grand Central Stations.

1,260 ROOMS (All Outside)

New York's most complete hotel. Everything
(or comfort and convenience of our guests.

TWO RESTAURANTS

Open from 6:30 A. M. until midnight.
Music, Dancing, 2 Radio Orchestras, Ladies'
Turkish Bath, Beauty Parlor, Drug Store, Barber
Shop, Stock Broker's Office. All in the
Ansonia Hotel.

TRANSIENT RATES

300 Rooms and Bath per day £4.00

Large Double Rooms, Twin Beds,

Bath ?6.00 per day

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (2

persons) $7.00 per day

Special Weekly and Monthly Rates
A restful hotel — away from all noise and
"dirt" of the "Roaring I'orties." A'o coal
smoke; our steam plant equipped oil fuel.
Coolest Hotel in New Tork in Summer

THE ANSONIA

In conjunction with the Hotels Marseilles,
Anderson, Richmond and Cosmopolitan

BROWNIE NAME CARDS

Latest Handy Size.

50 Perfect Name Cards and Case 35c

Size li x 21. Choice Of Old
English. Plain, or Script Types.
Address - - 10c Extra

Telephone - - 5c "
With Novelty case and Fancy box.
Send Stamps. Coin, or Money
Order. Satisfaction Guaranteed or
Money refunded. Agents Wanted.
BROWNIE ■ NAME CARD CO.

55 Main St., Coventry, R. I.

(Who mUM Tier?

^ I f |HH|^HHv] ST?ADIANT bride, starting
" V on the greatest adven-
ture ina woman's life— who
willprepareherfor that in-
timate problem of married
life on which f uturehappi-
ness depends? How often
romance fades — the bloom
of youth is destroyed — and
bitter disillusion is the end
—all because of ignorance.
Happiness, freedom from
worry are impossible with-
out a knowledge of feminine hy-
giene. Dependence on old fashion-
ed, uncertain, unsafe methods
brings only fear and worry. There
is a newer, better way. Modern
brides find happiness and daintiness
In convenient, non-poisonous, non-
irritating Vagl-Sllps which effectively
destroy oil gcrvi ladrn accumulations .
Absolutely will not injure delicate
membranes.

Married Women V. Tree Yourself

SLIPS require NO frQm \\fern/.>:

o accessories. J
,'glene Is now convenient anytime, any-
arry a box with you for convenience. No
dangerous carbolic acid, bichloride of mercury' or
Other caustic poisons. Yet KILLS ALL GERMS
instantly . Prescribed by physicians. Succeeds where
_ others fall. No risk.

OjLtt Be dainty, healthy, free from all
RDER BY ITlAIL worry. A dollar bill brings you a
tern generous sized box of VAGI-SLIPS in plain wrap-
per. Satisfaction or money back. Send Name, Ad-
dress and One Dollar To-Day.

Violet 'Page

143 Fourth Ave. Dept. 68 New York City

Directed by Dorothy Arzner

From happy
bride to phyn-

I ical wreckl
No one told
ber the truths
of feminine

| hygiene.

Continued j

J.uncs Cruse again summoned her help on
"Old Ironsides." During this production
Cruse told Dorothy it was high time she
tried her hand at directing, and then slyly
let the subject drop. But when the last
inch of film had been cut and spliced,
Dorothy was called to the offices of B. P.
Schulberg. general manager of west coast
production for Paramount.

"We have watched your work for sev-
eral years." Schulberg told her. "and we
have all the confidence in the world in
your ability to direct. Your first assign'
ment will be Esther Ralston's next produc-
tion, 'Fashions for Women." "

That is the story of one girl's break.
Now perhaps you would like to go out on
the set and watch her work.

A petite woman in charge of a company
of several hundred persons with the re-
sponsibility of "a tremendous production on
her shoulders and the popularity of a
famous star in the palm of her hand, Dor-
othy Arzner is as quiet on the set as in
the drawing room. Her natural poise is
always evident. She dresses in quietly
clever tailored suits that blend perfectly
with her personality. A vagabond felt
hat is usually pulled down to shade her
eyes from the glare of the lights. She
sits back in that canvas chair lettered Di-
rector, or walks about slowly talking with
the players or the crew. She keeps her-
self and her personality in the background,
for she believes that the players should
dominate the set, never the director.

When a scene is about to be 'shot,'
Dorothy talks over the work at hand with
the players. She never goes through the
gestures or repeats the lines for them to
illustrate the tempo or the effects desired.
Through subtle suggestion she gets the
players to feel the mood of the scene so
that their work will have the spark of
spontaneity and not the woodeness of imi-
tation.

How simple it all appears to the onlooker
— all those men and women to assist her
with the work! Yet the most simple things

rom page 71

have complicated foundations. Let us delve
into the simplicity of Dorothy Arzner's job.
Five weeks before a single foot of film is
shot on any production she is working in
her office at the studio from nine every
morning until ten and eleven at night.
Doing what, you ask?
Story conferences, outlining work for
sets, making out shooting schedules, okay-
ing wardrobes, selecting casts, and a thou-
sand other unfilmed details that go into
the making of our movies.

During actual shooting, Dorothy aver'
ages a sixtcen-hour working day and uses
the intervening Sundays and holidays to
help with the cutting and editing. After
production is over comes the labor of trim-
ming and finishing the film. Hours in the
projection room running the reels over and
over again, catching every incorrect detail,
revising, rearranging, until the last snip
of the scissors is heard and the films packed
in their respective cans, and shipped to the
exchanges for the date of distribution.

Then a few days of rest and she's off
again on another production.

You won't be able to resist asking her
about marriage and her future plans.

"Marriage is natural for both men and
women, and does not interfere with one's
career or ambitions," will be her answer.
"Matrimony travels a much less rocky
course when both parties are occupied in
some sort of work during the day. But
then the subject of marriage or careers for
women is such a hackneyed one that I try
to avoid it. I will probably marry some
day, and I hope I will make a success of
it when I do."

But there is little need for conjecture as
to whether Dorothy Arzner will make a
success of marriage or any other job she
tackles. Her spirit will ever be restless:
she will always be searching for mental
stimulation; but she is gifted with the
patience and the intelligence to work, strug-
gle, even suffer to attain her ideals. And it
follows that she does attain them, and what
is more important, retain them.

The Bad Boy of Hollywood

Continued from page 47

When the negatives are developed they
usually show Billy sticking his tongue out
or making apish grimaces behind the other's
back.

Just a few days ago Billy was sitting on
Marion Davies' set when Major, the cari-
caturist, was sketching her. When the
drawing was finished Billy looked at it and
let out a wild whoop.

"Ah. Lon Chaney!" he chortled.

Marion motioned to the caricaturist
to go to work on Billy. A brutal effort
resulted.

"Ah." she retaliated, "Bull Montana!"

Frankly, Billy loves to 'rib' people. The
madder they get the better he loves it.

For instance, when he was making "Tell
It To The Marines," Billy observed the
strict attention paid to rank and seniority
at the Marine station in San Diego where
many of the scenes were shot. He watched
the clicking of heels and stiff salutes until
he broke under the strain. Then he walked
up to the most dignified major he could
find, saluted and clicked his heels as smartly
as an Annapolis upper classman.

"Morning, sergeant!" he said.

This smart-aleck, wise-cracking practical

joking Billy Haines, however, serves as a
mask for humanly fine qualities that rarely
are seen outside of his home.

Billy's home is not a Hollywood road-
house. It is a fine old dwelling such as
you might find down in Staunton, Vir-
ginia, where he was born and raised.

It is a restful home with a sunlit porch
that drips golden cascades of clinging vines
from its shingled eaves. There is a dog
that barks and scampers away at tbe ap-
proach of strange footsteps. And a charm-
ing woman with silver hair who waits to
welcome Billy at dinner time.

She is his mother.

The house is filled with beautiful an-
tiques Billy has somehow collected in his
clowning roamings — porcelains, old silver,
bronzes, tapestries.

There is no romance in Billy's life — as
yet. He is one of the few big stars in
pictures who has not been married at least
once or engaged a dozen times. But it
would not be a particularly amazing thing
to see this impossible Haines person fall
headlong into love and stay there. It's
bound to happen, you know — if he ever
grows up!

Save me, Cyril I" Cried Susie
the Sewing Machine Girl

You don't go to see magic lantern shows
any more, do you? Then why waste time
and money on ordinary talkies? M-G-M,
in marvelous pictures like "The Broadway
Melody" and "The Trial of Mary Dugan,"
has made the early talking pictures seem
just as old fashioned today as the old stere-
optican pictures of our grandfathers' day.

and now

The NEWEST and GREATEST

ALL-TALKING PICTURE

"Sinner? . . . Yes! . . ♦ but in the
eyes of humanity she is an angel!"

The world's most famous emotional drama now truly
immortalized by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the sen-
sational all-talking picture— MADAME X. For power,
pathos, and gripping humanity the screen has not
had its equal. RUTH CHATTERTON, in the finest per-
formance of her career, makes it one of the greatest
attractions of all times. Lewis Stone, Raymond
Hackett and a great supporting cast perform bril-
liantly under Lionel Barrymore's direction. Don't
miss this truly remarkable drama. You'll never for-
give yourself if you do!

Qfladamz

From the play by Alexandre

Cast out
from the 1
ury of her
home. Torn
from the side of
her babe. And then
that never-to-be-for-
gotten moment when
her own son rises (
defend her whom.,
he knows onl
as "Madame
X"!

Dial

ogue

by Willard

Mac!

99
out of
100 people
who see it prock

She sin-
ned, and
the world ex-
acted a heavy
penalty. Follow
the tragic, heart-
breaking career of
the mysterious
i known
as Madame
X."

laim

it the most stirringpicture''
they have ever experienced

Other M-G-M Successes Now Playing

"The Broadway Melody"— conceded to be the greatest all-talking, all-
singing, all-dancing picture ever made.
"The Trial o/Mary Dugan" — greater even than the sensational stage success.
"The Idle Rich" — based on the New York success, "White Collars."

'The Last of Mrs. Cheney" — the famed stage play. With Norma Shearer.

'Thunder" — Lon Chaney's greatest dramatic success.
"Marianne"— the new starring hit of Marion Davies.
"Wonder of Women"— Clarence Brown's sensational romantic drama.

ETRO-GOLDW

"More Stars Than There Are in Heaven"

.JTT

5 e.c^

ou, too, can haVe

EYES that

A touch of "MAYBELLINE1'' works beauty wonders. Even light, scant eyelashes are
made to appear naturally dark, long and luxurious. All the hidden loveliness
of your eyes, their brilliance, depth and expression — is instantly revealed.
The difference is remarkable. Millions of women in all parts of
the world, even the most beautiful actresses of the stage
and screen, now realise that "MAYBELLINE" is
the most important aid to beauty and use it
regularly. Perfectly harmless in every way.

Solid or waterproof Liquid Mayhelline, Blac\
or Brown, 75c at All Toilet Goods Counters.

MAYBELLINE CO., CHICAGO

Liquid Form
[Waterproof]

Solid
Form

Eyelash Qpeautifier

■ . ^Sg.^

••That talking comedy
alone was worth the
price of admission!"

Everywhere you hear it in the lobbies of the
country's leading picture theatres. They come
out still laughing — they wouldn't have missed
that comedy for anything!

Of course it's one of EducationaVs new talking
comedies — the pictures in which the sound film
is at its best. There's a new kind of amusement
for you here, more entertaining, far funnier
than the best comedies of the old silent screen.

And you can see and hear a new one every week.
For the Mack Sennett pictures are just one group
of EducationaVs Talking Comedies that have
brought the comedy back into style in the best
theatres everywhere.

MACK SENNETT

TALKING COMEDIES

LLOYD HAMILTON
TALKING COMEDIES

"HIS BIG MINUTE "
"DON'T BE NERVOUS"
"HIS BABY DAZE"

JACK WHITE
TALKING COMEDIES

"ZIP! BOOM! BANG!"

"COLD SHIVERS"
"LOVERS' DELIGHT"
"LOOK OUT BELOW"

LUPINO LANE
TALKING COMEDIES

"SHIP MATES"
"BUYING A GUN"

CORONET
TALKING COMEDIES

with

EDWARD EVERETT
HORTON
"ASK DAD"
"THE RIGHT BED"
"TRUSTING WIVES"

MERMAID
TALKING COMEDIES

Jack White Productions
"THE CRAZY NUT"

TUXEDO
TALKING COMEDIES

Jack White Productions
Watch for first release soon

"THE LION'S ROAR"

"THE BRIDE'S
RELATIONS"

"THE OLD BARN"

"WHIRLS AND GIRLS"

"BROADWAY BLUES"

"THE BEES BUZZ"
"THE BIG PALOOKA"
"JAZZ MAMAS"

(First All-color All-talking Comedy)

"GIRL CRAZY"

"THE BARBER S
DAUGHTER"

"THE SPICE OF THE PROGRAM"

EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES, Inc.

£. W. HAMMOXS, President
Executive Offices-. 1501 Broadway, Piew York, A. V.

SCREENLAND

SHOWERED WITH HONORS
Fox pictures, actors, directors
receive bewildering array
of awards for artistic merit

FOX wins Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences First Award

This organization, composed of the leading stars, direc-
tors, producers, writers and technicians, headed by
Douglas Fairbanks as President and regarded as the
representative voice of the motion picture industry,
awarded the most coveted prize in the screen world to
FOX for the most unique and artistic production of the
year 1928, "SUNRISE"-* They also bestowed upon Janet
Gaynor, petite Fox star, the first award of the Academy
for her artistic performance in her portrayal of the role

FOX wins the Photoplay Gold Medal

One of the most important awards of the year is the an-
nual PHOTOPLAY GOLD MEDAL, presented by the pub-
lishers of Photoplay Magazine as a result of a poll of

FOX Pictures receive important awards throughout the

In a nationwide poll among dramatic critics, conducted
by the Film Daily, three FOX pictures were named among
the ten best of the year 1928 — this poll included 295
critics in 188 cities representing 326 periodicals. The
FOX pictures selected were "STREET ANGEL", "FOUR
SONS" and "SUNRISE". ♦ In a WORLD-WIDE survey of

FOX Movietone is Americanizing the World

FOX MOVIETONE Talking and Singing pictures also
have an important place in international education. As
an example of this world-wide influence FOX Talking
pictures are being used in the Orient to educate school
children and salesmen to speak the English language.
English being the commercial language of the world,
FOX all-talking pictures are everywhere in demand for

Diane in "7th HEAVEN," this being adjudged the best
screen performance of the year. Miss Gaynor's other
noteworthy performances during the past year in-
clude "STREET ANGEL", "FOUR DEVILS" and "SUN-
RISE". ♦Frank Borzage, director of "STREET ANGEL"
was similarly honored by the Academy, who bestowed
upon him the first award in the field of dramatic direct-
ors. ♦ The awards for the best adaptation was also
won by FOX with Benjamin Glazer as the cited author.

their readers made each year. The American public, as
represented by the readers of Photoplay Magazine,
voted "7th HEAVEN" the best motion picture of the year.

world

25 countries, "SUNRISE" was adjudged the best picture
of the season by Der Deutsche, famous German publi-
cation. ♦ In Japan, "7th HEAVEN" won the contest con-
ducted by Kirewa Jumpo, most popular motion picture
magazine in Japan, for the best picture released in
1927. In 1928 the first award was won by "SUNRISE".

educational purposes. ♦ Artists who will be both seen
and heard in the forthcoming season's FOX all -talking
Movietone productions include some of the most famous
from the ranks of the concert, musical and dramatic
stage. You will HEAR and SEE John McCormack, Lenoro
Ulric, Will Rogers, to name only a few among the many
famous personages appearing in FoxMovietone Pictures.

gKMSMMMMMMM

Watch your local theatre for the latest FOX MOVIETONE ALLTALKING
PICTURE. Don't miss itl And you will realize why the entire world
is showering Fox pictures and players with awards for artistic merit.

G[ Sue Carol, the Girl on
the Cover, will sing and
act and everything in
her forthcoming dialog
film, "Why Leave
Hume?"

C[ Screen land is pub-
lished on the 5th of
the month preceding
date of issue.

September, 1929

Title Reg. TJ. S. Pat. Off.

VOL. XIX, No. 5

Delight Evans, Editor

CONTENTS for SEPTEMBER

Cover — Sue Carol. Painted by Georgia Warren

Lot Talk 4

The Flapper Fan's Forecast. By Evelyn

Ballarine . . . . . . 8

Confessions of the Fans. Letters from Readers 12

Honor Page — Richard Arlen 16

Editorial. By Delight Evans .18

Tagged FOR Glory. K[ew Candidates for Film

Fame 19

Tricks of the Talkies. By Ruth Tildesley . 20
Rudy Vallee! The Story of a T^ew Idol. By

Rosa Reilly 22

Colleen Moore's Gift Fur Free .... 24

And Now — Color! By Rob Wagner .... 26

The New John Gilbert. By Helen Ludlam 28
Those Healthy Hollywood Parties. By Grace

Kingsley 30

Arthur! Arthur! Arthur La\e. By James M.

Fidler 32

The Most Beautiful Still of the Month.

The Great Divide 33

Marion — Maid of Moods. Marion Davies . . 34

Merna Kennedy — A Portrait 36

Glenn Tryon — A Portrait ....... 37

Joan Crawford — A Portrait 38

Vilma Banky — A Portrait ....... 39

Kay Francis — A Portrait 40

Gotham's Gift to Hollywood. Kay Francis.

By John Engstead . . . . • 41

Will Chaplin Change His Mind? .... 42
The Swedish Sphinx Speaks! Greta Garho.

By Ralph Wheelwright 44

How Does Custard Pie Sound? By Peggy

Goldberg 46

Delight Evans' Reviews 48

Bennett the Third. Joan Bennett. By Edwin

Martin 54

Just a Hollywood Boy. William Ba\ewell. By

D. A. Epstein 56

Why, Norma! T^orma Shearer 57

Warner Baxter — A Portrait 58

LlLA Lee — A Portrait 59

Lois Wilson — A Portrait 60

Robert Armstrong — A Portrait 61

Dorothy Gullpver — A Portrait 62

Edward Everett Horton ■ — A Portrait ... 63

Marion Byron — A Portrait 64

Lionized! Nj'Is Asther 65

Lombard — Unlimited! Carol Lombard. By Erie

Hampton . . 66

On Location with Harold Lloyd. By Helen

Ludlam 68

The Pajama Parade 70

In New York. By Anne Bye 72

The Eyes Have It! Screenland's Beauty De-
partment. By Anne Van Alstyne ... 74
Does Hollywood Set the Styles? By Adrian 76
Hello, Hollywood! James Gleason. By Nancy

Smith . . . " . . . • . 78

Let's Go to the Movies. Screenland's Revuettes 80

Oh, Daddy! Picture Papas 82

Hot from Hollywood. Screenland's K[ews De-
partment 84

The Rise of Sharon. Sharon Lynn .... 90

Lenore — Lost and Found. Lenore Ulric . . 91

Ask Me. By Miss Vee Dee 92

Meet Miss Johann.' Zita Johann 94

An Announcement to Our Readers . . . 100

Published monthly by Screenland Macazine. Inc. Executive and its dependencies. Cuba and Mexico; $3.00 in Canada; foreign, $3.50.

Editorial offices: 49 West 45th Street. New York City. William Entered as second-class matter November 30. 1923. at the Post Office

(ialland. President; Joseph M. Hopkins. Vice-President: C. B. at New York. N. Y.. under the Act of March 3. 1S79. Additional

Member Audit Bureau of Circulations

SCREENLAND

The
Whole Show

on the Talking,
Singing Screen!

With Paramount Short Features of
the New Show World you see and
hear The Whole Show on the Talk-
ing, Singing Screen. And what a
show it is! C A Paramount Talking
Picture, rounded out with Para-
mount Sound News, and talking,
musical short features. Bringing
the biggest stars of The New
Show World — stage, screen, mu-
sic, radio — to you. C Christie
Talking Plays featuring out-
standing stars of stage and
screen. C Paramount Sound
News — eyes and ears of a new
world. <L Paramount Screen
Songs — the whole audience
sings! C Paramount Talk-
artoons — humorous novel-
ties— the cartoon figures
actually talk! See and hear
The Whole Show on the
Screen — by Paramount
— your guarantee of
quality entertainment
from the first mo-
ment to the last!

»* PARAMOUNT
/PICTURES

of the

NEW SHOW WORLD
•

HAROLD LLOYD in
"WELCOME DANGER"*
•

MORAN AND MACK in
'WHY BRING THAT UP"
•

THE MARX BROTHERS
in "THE COCOANUTS"
OSCAR SHAW— MARY EATON
•

"THE DANCE OF LIFE"
HAL SKELLY
NANCY CARROLL
•

"THE FOUR FEATHERS"

"DR. FU MANCHU"
•

DENNIS KING in
"THE VAGABOND KING"
•

MAURICE CHEVALIER
in ERNST LUBITSCH'S
"THE LOVE PARADE"
and more
^Produced by Harold Lloyd Corp,
Paramount Release

"If it's a Paramount Picture
it's the best show in town"

^Paramount M^riciur^s

PARAMOUNT FAMOUS LASKY CORPORATION. ADOLPH ZUKOR. PRES.. PARAMOUNT BLDG., NEW YORK

4 SCREENLAND

(01 TALK

News and Views from the
Sound Studios

A lan Crosland, who directed "On
/A With the Show," the first all'
/\i color, all-talking production for
-4- -^-Warner Bros., is an expert on
color photography, despite the fact that this
film is the first color production over which
he presided. A careful study over a period
of many months of the color camera makes
him one of the few authorities in the pic-
ture business on this new and engrossing
subject.

(( lAarjorie White, of musical comedy, ar-
rives in Hollywood with a Fox contract
and a fox fur. Is there such a thing as
fox appeal7 (Our error; it's sable!)

"With color photography the latest rage
of filmdom, Hollywood studios have run
up against an extraordinary situation," he
said. "There are but ten cameras in the
world capable of producing color. Eight
months are required to build a color camera.
Even the ordinary motion picture camera
is three months in the building. Instead
of the one strip of film used in the latter,
the technicolor camera operates with two.
One is green and one is red. They pass
simultaneously before the eye of the
camera, each recording the colors to which
it is sensitive. In the final process, the
two films, are printed on one.

"In the old days bright, harsh colors
were attempted and as a result the films
were a strain on the eye. Through a long
series of experiments, suitable combinations
have been evolved until the technicolor
process reaches its highly satisfactory state
of development in 'On With the Show.'
As a general rule, colors with white in them
are the most amenable to photography.

"New colors continuously are being
added, however. For instance, yellows
were seen for the first time on the screen
in 'On With the Show." It had been be-
lieved even by the technicolor people them-
selves that yellows would blur, but their
cameraman and mine solved the problem
in this picture. The brilliant red of the
coats of the chorus in the fox-hunting num-
ber also is a new color. Still another is
the blue of the sky in the final stage
sequence. Never before have you seen real
blue on the screen. There have been
green blues, but no genuine shades.

"Cameramen worked three days photo-
graphing different bolts of colored silks to
find out which shade would produce that
tint. The expense of photographing a pic-
ture such as 'On With the Show' in natural
colors runs $250,000 more than the same

film in black and white."

& ^ *

Guests at Hollywood dinner parties order
their menu ahead of time. Lo the poor
hostess! Few people eat real meals in
Hollywood today. All because of the 18-
day diet in vogue.

At a dinner party given by Monte Brice
eight different meals were served to as many
people. Each one was on a different day
of the diet. Some had hard-boiled eggs;
one fortunate man was on the steak day
and carried his half pound of red meat
about proudly. Brice was on the lamb chop
day, Dorothy Dwan was unfortunate enough
to be at the sliced orange and cup of tea
stage. Mrs. James Gleason and Robert
Armstrong were both at the shrimp cocktail
place on the list, and Mildred Webb was
eating cold chicken!

^* £ &

The longest perambulator 'shot' in the
history of sound motion pictures was filmed
for "Taming of the Shrew" which is to
bring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair-

banks to the screen as co-stars.

Through a maze of streets on the huge
set, built as an exact reproduction of the
fifteenth century Italian city of Padua, the
cameras and sound equipment picked a
pathway continuously for a distance of
more than 500 yards, a record in the mak-
ing of sound-recorded productions.

Not a bit of colorful activity on the busy
thoroughfares was lost by Director Sam
Taylor. The 500 extras, rehearsed for days

C[ Richard Keene isn't high-hatting us, he's
just dressed in his best for his part in
"Why Leave Home?" Richard is a popu-
lar juvenile from Broadway.

SCREENLAND

NOW
TAKES

ON WITH THE SHOW

Now Warner Bros, pioneer again with another
radical development in motion picture production
— COLOR! Full colors — natural colors — real colors,
reproduced direct from life!

Color breaks the last barrier between you and
Broadway at its best. Now the Screen can give you
everything the Stage can offer — and more . . .

For at "On With The Show" you can sit "out
front" and revel in all the color and rhythm of the
spectacular singing and dancing numbers of a
Broadway revue — than step behind the curtain to
listen in on the strange drama and romance that

wings and dressing-rooms hold secret . . . see heart-
break hiding behind hilarity because — "the show
must go on!"

IN TECHNICOLOR

A $2 Broadway Hit Direct to YOU at POPULAR Prices

With 100 per cent Talking and Singing, an all-star cast of 14 famous names, a glorified beauty chorus of
100, and 3 brand-new hit songs— "Am 1 Blue?", "Let Me Have My Dreams", and "In The Land of Let's
Pretend"— "ON WITH THE SHOW" would be superb picture entertainment, even in black and white . . .
But the added thrill of Technicolor makes it an artistic event of commanding importance in entertainment

history. Make— or break— a date to see it!

^jlYou See and Hear VffitPHQAfE only in Warner Bros, and First National VictureS^

SCREENLAND

C[ A screen villain in the bosom of his family. Reading from left to right: Mrs. Morris,
Mr. William Morris, Adrian, Wilhelmina and Chester Morris himself.

in their respective bits of 'business," por-
trayed a range of characters from nobles
to peasants. The recording instruments
picked up every noise from the chatter of
housewives to the cackling of geese.

The opening scenes of the "Taming of
the Shrew" also saw the introduction of a
unique signal system designed by Assistant
Director 'Lucky' Humberstone which was
used in directing and controlling the group
of players who formed the background ac-
tion. Microphones and amplifiers, of course,
were out of the question in the filming of
a sound production, so Humberstone was
forced to fall back upon a combination elec-
tric flasher semaphore system handled by a
corps of men which gave the players their
cues.

With production on "Taming of the
Shrew" now under way, Director Taylor
estimates that at least seven weeks will be
consumed in its filming. Those who have
important roles in support of Mary Pick-
ford and Douglas Fairbanks in the all-talk-
ing picture are Dorothy Jordan, Clyde
Cook, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn
and Geoffrey Wardwell.

The most valuable piece of furniture
that has ever been used in a Billie Dove
picture is on the set of "Her Private Life"
at the First National- Vitaphone Studios in
Burbank.

It is a teakwood desk, formerly owned

by the late Czar of Russia and presented
to him by King Edward of England. The
desk was purchased in Europe recently by
a Hollywood collector, and is valued at
more than $10,000. It was built to order
for the king, and is the only desk of the
kind in the world. Constructed of teak-
wood, with intricate brass inlays, it has small
porcelain placques showing the coats of
arms of the various reigning houses in
Europe, and the members of the various
n oble families.

Because of its value, the desk was
guarded day and night by special watchmen.
It was rented for the picture, and its debut
before the cameras cost First National a
tidy sum.

* * *

Struck by a midnight cloudburst the
African camp of the "Trader Horn" motion
picture expedition was washed away and
about ten thousand dollars'1 worth of per-
sonal equipment lost, according to word
received by cable from Butiaba in the
Uganda Protectorate.

Director W. S. VanDyke, caught in a
swirl of water was carried bodily to the
edge of the river — the Victoria Nile, where
he was saved by being wedged in a group
of three stumps at the water's edge.

Thirty-five white persons and about a
hundred natives were in the camp, which
had been established about sixty miles up
the Victoria Nile near Murchison Falls.
All were rendered temporarily helpless when

the deluge swept away tent supplies and
foodstuffs and leveled the radio set that
had been erected outside the camp. Harry
Carey, who has the p.art of Trader Horn
in the picture, lost his entire wardrobe and
all of his personal belongings.

The loss of supplies, including films and
cameras, will delay the company about two
weeks, it is estimated, until more are brought
forward from base headquarters in Nairobi.

* * *

The most unpopular woman in Holly-
wood, at least among the fair inhabitants
of the screen colony who are trying to keep
their weight down to certain proportions,
is 'Cupid' Ainsworth, the two hundred-
fifty-pound vaudevillain who has arrived at
cinematic headquarters. 'Cupid' also has a
figure to maintain b.ut the treatment it de-
mands is different from that of her more
sylph-like sisters. When she lunches at
the Montmartre Miss Ainsworth demands
plenty of butter, the richest salad-dressing
in the place, oodles of whipped cream and
the biggest piece of chocolate cake she can
wheedle out of the waiter. Small wonder,
cry the girls who sit at neighboring tables
nibbling on a lettuce leaf and sipping un-
sweetened tea, that they hate Cupid bit-
terly. Their lot is hard enough, they de-
clare, without the torture of watching
Cupid's very evident enjoyment of her
feast. The hefty young comedienne will
first be seen in "Big News," a Pathe picture.

SCREENLAND 7

SCREENLAND

WATERPROOF I

Yet easy to remove

TZATHERINE MacDONALD'S
**■ Lash Cosmetic is the one that
removes quickly and cleanly. Yet
you may swim, dance or what you
will, and it ia ahsolutely water-
proof. Liquid. Easy to apply.

Katherine Mac Donald's Lash Cos-
metic make9 eyelashes eeem long
and luxuriant and enhances the
charm and s park-
le of your beauty
. . . but absolutely
without artifici-
ality.

At most toilet
goods counters
or $ 1 direct to
Katherine Mac-
Donald at Holly-
wood.

KATHERINE MacDONALD'S
LASH

COSMETIC

(WATERPROOF)

KAMEO BEAUTY PRODUCTS, HOLLYWOOD

Are YouAlways Excited? Fatigued? Worried?
Gloomy? Pessimistic? Constipation, indigestion,
cold sweats, dizzy spells and sex weakness are caused by NERVE
EXHAUSTION, Drugs, tonics and medicines cannot help
weak, sick nerves! Learn how to regain Vigor, Calmness and
Self Confidence. Send 25 cents for this amazing book.

RICHARD BLACKSTONE, N-409, FlatironBldg.,N.Y.

THE OCEAN FRON1

"Breakers

ATLANTIC CITY N.J.

PREFERRED—

In all seasons hy those
who know and wish the
best upon either the Amer-
ican or European Plan.

Sensible Rates Withal!

Hillman Management

*J LATTER^

J<NS. « .' ,• '
OR ECAST

A Preview of the Pictures
Now Being
Made.

By Evelyn Balkrine

C Through her
trusty telescope
she watches all
the activities of
stars and stu-
dios.

There seems to be a trend toward
pictures with a newspaper back'
ground. Pathe started it with "The
Office Scandal" with Phyllis Haver.
Paramount gave us "Gentlemen of the
Press" and First National followed up with
"Drag" with Richard Barthelmess. Metre
Goldwyn is preparing "Tabloid." Howard
Hughes, young millionaire producer, has
purchased the movie rights to "The Front
Page." I don't know when this will be
along since "Hell's Angels," which he
started two years ago is still in the making.
Meanwhile Pathe is coming through with
"Big News," featuring Carol Lombard and
Robert Armstrong.

A few thousand girls will soon 'go gob.
And four good good reasons! Billy Haines
is going to be a tar in "The Gob." Jack
Gilbert will star in "Way of a Sailor."
"Allan Hale is making "Sailors' Holiday."
George O'Brien just completed a role as a
'middie' in "Salute." Heigh, Navy!

Was it Colonel Lindbergh or Rudy Vallee
who started the vogue for blond heroes?
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that J.
Harold Murray, of the stage, is blond,
handsome, and then some! He has been
signed by Fox Films. You will see him in
"Married in Hollywood" with Norma
Terris. Don't take the title too seriously,
girls — Mr. Murray is a bachelor.

C[ J. Harold Murray comes from the stage C[ Charlotte Henry, a favorite child of
equipped with voice and versatility. Broadway, is now a tal\ie bet.

SCREENLAND

The Treat of Treats in Music - Beauty - Drama

RADIO PICTURES

PRESENTS

FLORENZ ZIEGFELD'S

Outstanding Success

RIO

ITX DEC

VINCENT YOUMAN'S

Nautical Musical Comedy

HIT the

Glorifier of beauty . . . king of
extravaganza . . . whose radiant
success, "Rio Rita" has now been
glorified for the screen by Radio
Pictures.

Featuring Bebe Daniels as "Rio
Rita," Dorothy Lee, as "Dolly,". . .
John Boles, as Jim, the Ranger
Captain ... and Bert Wheeler and
Robert Woolsey.

Produced in the original settings of
the play with exquisite color se-
quences . . . gorgeous costumes ...
"Rio Rita's" scintillating music, and
new interpolated numbers.

The play that gave the public
"Hallelujah" and "Sometimes I'm
Happy."

A lavish Radio Pictures' musical
extravaganza, in which flashes of
sheer humor mingle with stirring
drama. Glamorous scenes of Chi-
nese revolution. Swinging choruses
of gorgeous girls and gallant
gobs. The rattle of distant gun-fire
blends with lilting melodies.

Master of melody • • • monarch
of comedy . . . producer of "Hit
the Deck," the charm and glam-
or of which have been translated
to the screen, by Radio Pictures,

OTHER COMING RADIO MUSICAL.
AND DIALOGUE ATTRACTIONS

"Radio Revels of 1929"-The first
annual screen review released by Radio
Pictures ... A song and musical spectacle
comparable to anything on stage or screen.

"Street Girl" — An eye-filling, heart-stir-
ring musical drama. Cast includes Betty
Compson, Gus Arnbeim's Cocoanut Grove
Band, Jack Oakie, Joseph Cawthorne.

"The Vagabond Lover"— Starring the
inimitable Rudy Vallee and his Connect-
icut Yankees ... A romantic musical
comedy, full of color and action.

"High River" — A Herbert Brenon pro-
duction ... A majestic story of conflicting
wills and passions in the river-threatened
levee country of the Mississippi.

RKO DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION

A subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America

THE
GOLDEN VOICE

OF THE
SILVER SCREEN

For pictures that forecast the screen of tomorrow — see Radio Pictures of today

II)

SCREENLAND

(£ Two straws and a soda1. Eddie QuiUan's financial resources must be low or maybe it's
a collegiate custom. Eddie plays with jeanette Loff in "The Sophmore."

We probably won't lose Ramon Novarro
after all. He threatened to desert the
movies for the concert stage but the talkies
will give him plenty of opportunity to use
his nice voice. "A Singer of Seville" is
his next. A Spanish romance and Ramon
— what a devastating combination!

Sally O'Neil and her sister, Molly O'Day,
have been signed by Columbia Pictures for
"Sisters." Naturally they will play sisters
in the picture which shouldn't be at all hard
for them or on us. Ann Harding and her
husband, Harry Bannister, are making "A
Woman Afraid" for Pathe. Tom, Owen
and Matt Moore are playing brothers in
"Side Street." Dolores and Helene Cos-
tello are to do a sister act in Warners'
"The Show of Shows." Not forgetting
Mary and Doug Fairbanks in "The Taming
of the Shrew." Mervyn Le Roy is directing
his wife, Edna Murphy, for the first time in
"Little Johnny Jones." Then there are the
Four Marx Brothers but that would only be
news if they weren't playing together.

Richard Dix's last picture for Paramount
will be "The Love Doctor." This film will
probably cause the rise of Dick's stock and
feminine temperature. Dix has been signed
to a long-term contract by Radio Pictures.

Warner Brothers are planning "The
Show of Shows," a big revue with sound
and color and many stars doing special
numbers. John Barrymore will do a sketch
from "Richard the Third." Al Jolson,
Charlotte Greenwood, Ted Lewis, Dolores
and Helene Costello, Irene Bordoni, Winnie
Lightner and Monte Blue are scheduled to
do their stuff. With that line-up it will
probably be the talk of the talkies!

Robert Armstrong and James Gleason are
to be co-starred in a picture called "Oh
Yeah!" Yes, zat's so! And so's Zazu
Pitts in it.

Lupe Velez is making "Tiger Rose." It's
the same picture that Lenore Ulric made
in pre-talkie days.

Harold 'Red' Grange, the galloping ghost
of football, and George Lewis, star of "The
Collegian" series, will be co-starred in "The
Varsity Show." This will, of course, in-

clude a thrilling football game, as well as
other activities of college life. It will be
Grange's first talkie.

Since Evelyn Brent has been made a
star she is stepping out in "Fast Company"
with Jack Oakie, 'Skeets' Gallagher and
Chester Conklin for talkie reasons, of
course.

Little Sally Blane, a very modern young
lady, is making "Tanned Legs." This film
should be made in color to make the title
authentic. Don't know much about this
picture but it sounds promising.

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are
blossoming out as musical comedy stars in
"Sunny Side Up." Both Janet and Charles
are said to possess very fine singing voices.
The talkies are revealing a lot of heretofore
unknown accomplishments among our for-
mer silent stars.

Tiffany-Stahl has acquired the talkie
rights of "Journey's End," a war play,
which is the sensation of New York and
London. To our mind, the most sensa-
tional thing about it is that there are no
women in the play.

Charlotte Henry made a hit in "Cour-
age," the stage play on Broadway, and on
the strength of her success signed a talking
picture contract. Prepare to surrender to
her youthful charm.

Leila Karnelly is another newcomer.
She's Russian and Edmund Lowe and Vic-
tor McLaglen will probably be rushing her
in the interests of "The Cock Eyed World."

Rod La Rocque's first talkie will be a
sea story called "The Delightful Rogue."
Incidentally this will also be the debut of
the sea in sound. A swash-buckling pirate,
the distressed heroine at sea and the sound
and fury of the ocean's storm are all part
of the plot. Sounds exciting already.

The 'Our Gang' talking comedies are a
huge success. Robert McGowan, director
of the gang, believes in giving each of the
kids a chance for a star part in these come-
dies. Farina gets his turn next in "Lazy
Days." As a lazy colored child, Farina
furnishes most of the fun of this comedy.

When Al Jolson isn't working on the

stage or before the camera he manages to
keep active writing theme songs. He
wrote Evangeline for Dolores Del Rio's
picture, "Evangeline," and the theme song
for Norma Talmadge's first talkie, "Tin
Pan Alley," called A Tear From Today.
Al seems to be a master of all trades.

Clivc Brook is going to give us his inter-
pretation of that famous detective, "Sher-
lock Holmes." Raymond Hatton, back on
the Paramount lot for the first time since
his co-starring days with Wallace Beery,
will probably play Watson. This will be
the third time the characters of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle have been revived for films.
This revision will be in sound, of course.

"Kibitzer," Paramount's all-talking com-
edy drama based upon the Broadway stage
play, has Harry Green, who was so swell
in "Close Harmony," in the title role.
Mary Brian and Neil Hamilton supply the
love interest.

George Bancroft will have two blonde
ladies in his next, "The Mighty." Esther
Ralston will 'get her man' and Dorothy
Revier will be the 'menace.'

It's all off between Dorothy Mackaill
and Jack Mulhall, cinematically speaking.
And it's official this time! Dorothy is go-
ing her way and Jack is going to co-star
with Lois Wilson in the future. "The
Great Divide" with Ian Keith is Dorothy's
next and Jack Mulhall and Lois Wilson
are making "In the Next Room."

Marian Nixon knows what it means to
be a favorite of the 'mike.' Marian is kept
busier than a swarm of bees. She steps
from one studio to another. It's all very
nice — in a way — but it sort of cramps ones
style when one is trying to find time to go
on a honeymoon. Yes, Marian is engaged!
Edward Hillman, Jr., he's not in pictures,
is the lucky man. Miss Nixon has just
completed "General Crack."

George Jessel arrives in Hollywood with
his props for his next tal\ie, "The
Hurdy Curdy Man."

SCREENLAND

C[ Elsa Ersi just completed a role in "The
Royal Box," an all-German tal\ie, with
Moissi and Camilla Horn.

Paramount has signed Fay Wray on a
long-term contract because of her fine per-
formance in "Thunderbolt." She is now
rehearsing for "Behind the Makeup," with
Hal Skelly, of the stage. Then she is to
be co-featured with Richard Aden in "The
Lost God."

Musical comedies seem to be the most
popular talkies. Universal bought "Hold
Everything" and "Here's How" for Merna
Kennedy and Glenn Tryon. Radio Pic-
tures are producing "Hit the Deck."

Ronald Colman is working on "Con-
demned to Devil's Island," with Mary
Duncan, borrowed from Fox, for the
feminine lead.

Monte Blue is back in the South Seas
again. This time he is a beach comber in
"The Isle of Escape." Myrna Loy supplies
the South Sea sex-appeal.

Helen Kane and her baby-talk blues voice
are in Hollywood and all set to begin work
in "Sweetie" with Nancy Carroll.

Bessie Love and Charles King are to be
featured in another back-stage-life talkie
called "Road Show." Colleen Moore's new
talkie, "Footlights and Fools," is also of
back-stage atmosphere. Lee Tracy, of the
stage, is working on "Big Time." This is
a tale of vaudeville doings. Stepin Fetchit,
the colored Fox contract player, will con-
tribute his clever comedy to this picture.

Fox Films are using the world as their
studio. The locale of John McCormack's
first talkie is Ireland. "The Cisco Kid"
with Warner Baxter is to be filmed in
Mexico. Will Rogers' forthcoming film,
"They Had to See Paris," has France for
a background. The cast of "The Girl
From Havana" have just returned from the
West Indies. "The Sky Hawk" will have
sequences to be made in London. So if
you want to see the world — go to the
movies!

Universal Pictures has acquired the
screen rights to "All Quiet on the Western
Front," the sensational war novel written
by a German .soldier, Erich Maria Remarque.
Maxwell Anderson, co-author of "What
Price Glory?" is to adapt it for the screen
and prepare the dialog. And now prepare
yourself for some gripping entertainment!

Every girl I know
is grateful for this
sanitary protection

AN active life . . . hard work, equally
■L \ hard play! The modern woman
approaches her day with vigor and with
a new standard of health, new ideas of
feminine comfort. How much of this
new-found freedom is due to that mar-
velous invention, Kotex!

New— in these ways

This first of scientific sanitary pads is
constantly being improved. It now de-
odorizes completely and safely by a
process which has been patented. Cor-
ners are rounded and tapered. A fleecy
softness characterizes the Cellucotton
absorbent filler. Surgeons in 85 % of
the country's leading hospitals insist
upon Cellucotton absorbent wadding
not only because of its downy white
cotton-like structure but because of its
absolutely correct absorbency. It is ac-
tually 5 times as absorbent as cotton.

Former superiorities retained

Layers of the filler are adjustable. Disposal
is easy, instant. This alone has changed
the habits of women the world over.

And, since the price of Kotex has
been so radically reduced, women now

1 Not a deceptive softness, that soon
packs into chafing hardness. But a del-
icate, fleecy softness that lasts for hours.

2 KOTEX FILLER is far lighter than
cotton, yet absorbs 5 times as much.

3 IN HOSPITALS-Kotex is the identical
material used practically exclusively by
surgeons in 85 % of the country's lead-
ing hospitals.

^ ROUNDED, tapered corners— for in-
conspicuous protection.

5 DEODORIZES . . . safely, thoroughly,
by a patented process.

6 ADJUSTABLE . . . Filler may be made
thinner or narrower, as required.

7 DISPOSABLE completely, instantly,
without laundry.

8 EASILY BOUGHT,anywhere,by name.

Kotex — 45c for 12 — at any drug, dry
goods or department store.

Kotex Super, 65c for 12.

discover that it is actually cheaper than cheese
cloth and cotton substitutes. There is no
longer any reason for makeshift methods.

Kotex Company, 180 N. Michigan Ave-
nue, Chicago.

KOT€ X

The New Sanitary Pad which deodorizes

12 SCREENLAND

CONFESSIONS
of the FANS

QThis is YOUR department, to which you are invited to contribute your opinions about
motion pictures. Say what you think about the screen and its stars. Beginning next
month, we will discontinue the use of readers' photographs, offering instead $50.00 in
prizes for the best letters: first prize, $20.00; second prize, $15.00; third prize, $10.00;
fourth prize, $5.00. The next best letters will be printed by way of honorable men-
tion. This prize offer will be in effect in the October issue of Screenland and every
issue thereafter. Letters must not exceed 200 words in length. Sign your full name
and address, please!

The Editor

The Play
is the
Thing

Dear Editor:

What slays me is this business of movie
fans allowing their favorites' social life to
enter into their screen work! I have heard
at least five different girls, at different times,
say: "I adored Gary Cooper — until he
started to go around with Lupe Velez."

Just why do we do it? Why do young
girls prefer their movie heroes unmarried,
and as free from real romance as possible?
Is it because, when we're sixteen, we have
nothing but dreams and ideals, and usually
actors are our make-believe heroes? I
blushingly remember feeling terribly disap-
pointed when I heard a certain star was
in love with a certain foreign actress.

Now that I'm no longer sixteen, it seems
foolish to worry about an actor's private
life. It is the play, and the actor, that
interest me — not the man!

Sincerely yours,

Barbara Rowe,
5639 Goodfellow Ave.,

St. Louis, Mo.

He Met
Dolores
Del Rio!

Dear Editor:

You Americans are fortunate in having
the stars in your country. They are always
making personal appearances in your towns.
In Belgium we never have such opportuni-
ties so you can imagine how thrilled I was

when Dolores Del Rio put in her ap-
pearance.

I went to the station to see her arrive as
did many others. Her winsome smile and
sparkling eyes were enough to make any
mortal lose his head. I went over to her
and expressed my great admiration for her
and her picture work. She answered me in
a few delicious words which I shall never
forget. Being a Mexican myself, I asked
her whether she knew my family in Mexico.
I felt that the gates of heaven were open-
ing when she replied that she did!

Later I went to her hotel and talked with
Miss Del Rio and her mother. They were
very kind to me and Dolores gave me an
autographed photograph in remembrance.

I sent her a drawing of herself and she
thanked and congratulated me for it.

My impression of Dolores Del Rio is
that she is more beautiful off the screen
than on. I shall never forget her. She
will always be my favorite actress.

Sincerely,

Jose Manero,
34 Rue Du Siege,
Antwerp, Belgium.

For Chatter
and

C hatterton

Dear Editor:

Ruth Chatterton, blue-eyed, fair-haired
child of the theater has gone 'movie' with
glamourous results! She has slipped into
starland without fan-fare of trumpets and
has become over-night Hollywood's 'Q. O.
P.' (Queen of Pathos.)

My memory goes back to her as a cute
little girl on the stage in Boston. I laughed
with her that day as only one little girl
knows how to laugh with another. Moons
have waxed and waned and the cute little
girl has turned into a charming young
woman with a delightful voice and an in-
gratiating personality.

Those who are in love with the 'one and
only' man in the world will appreciate the
heart-break in Ruth Chatterton's voice in
"The Doctor's Secret." It is unforgettable!

Scornfully I had viewed talkies, hating
them bitterly. But I hadn't heard Ruth
Chatterton's gorgeous voice!

When in mimosa-scented Hollywood big-
ger and better pictures are made Ruth
Chatterton will make them! But how any-
thing could be better than her artistry in
"The Doctor's Secret" is a mystery to me!
I'm not from Missouri, but I have to be
shown!

Greetings and kindest wishes, Miss Chat-
terton. We learned about genius from
you!

Sincerely,
Adele Louise Simonds,

P. O. Box 1232,
Hollywood, California.

He Doesn't

Talkies!

Dear Editor:

May I enter my protest against the talk-
ing motion pictures? Thanks!

I am not old fashioned, prosaic, or biased,
but frankly I do not like talkies. What a
disappointment to hear some of our heroes
and heroines break in with some untimed,
commonplace remark in a tender love
scene!

The cinema must portray the romantic,
the ideal. We have enough of the matter-
of-fact and the practical in our mundane
lives. There is beauty and sentiment in
silent pictures. To me, the talkies are a
cheap and unfavorable substitute for the
speaking stage.

To quote Mr. Emerson; "Beauty is un-
ripe childhood's cheat." There is beauty
and beauty. Certainly there are fewer
beautiful voices than faces! So let us have
none of this 'babel' in our photoplays; or

SCREENLAND

Carllaemmle

bracntr

100%

TALKING
SINGING
DANCING
THRILLING

With the original play
dialog from the Jed
Harris stage success
by Philip Dunning and
George Abbott.

OU'LL see things you never saw before
Broadway." You'll be plunged deep
into the blazing heart of New York's mad
night life! You'll see people you wouldn't be-
lieveexisted doing thingsyou wouldn't believe
possible! You'll hear songs you'll never for-
get— songs like "Hittin* The Ceiling," "Sing
a Little Love Song," and others! You'll be
amazed at the biggest set ever built.as you're
entertained by the most extravagant girlie
revue numbers ever staged! You'll be
charmed and thrilled by the color scenes
in Technicolor.

As a stage play "Broadway" was the out-
standing success of two seasons; as a talk-
ing picture it swept blase New York off its
feet when it ran at the Globe Theatre at
$2.00. Now you can see it at your favorite
theatre exactly as shown on Broadway.

The cast includes Glenn Tryon, Evelyn
Brent, Merna Kennedy, Otis Harlan, Robert
Ellis; two members of the original stage cast
— Thomas E. Jackson and Paul Porcasi, and
many others.

A CARL LAEMMLE, JR., PRODUCTION

Directed by PAUL FE JOS

SHOW BOAT

» HOW BOAT" keeps rolling up new records
W everywhere. It is truly a talking and singing
triumph. The receipts at box offices in every part
of the world are almost unbelievable. Never was
there a picture with such Universal appeal for
grown folks and youngsters -of every nationality.
You simply MUST see "Show Boat."

The cast includes Laura La Plante, as "Magnolia";
Joseph Schildkraut, as "Ravenal, ' Otis Harlan.
Alma Rubens, Emily Fitzroy, Jane La Verne. Music
from the Florenz Ziegfeld stage production of
EDNA FERBER'S great novel, with the singing hits
of Helen Morgan, Jules Bledsoe and Aunt Jemima.

A HARRY POLLARD PRODUCTION

UNIVERSAL PICTURES

730 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK

SCREENLAND

if it must come, why not a process of selec-
tion and elimination?

Why must we poor fans be subjected to
such torture and discomfiture when we
seek an hour of rest, art and beauty?

So much for the talkie farce!

Where are some of the beautiful faces
we used to watch? Our 'souvenirs' may in-
elude memories of such talented persons as
Olga Petrova, Louise Glaum, Barbara La
Marr, Kitty Gordon, Carlylc Black well,
Bessie Barriscalc and Nazimova. I would
welcome interviews and pictures of these
old favorites.

Of the present-day stars I enjoy Greta
Garbo, Lily Damita, Nils Asther, Gary
Cooper, Gilbert Roland and Jack Gilbert.

It is sad that we have lost the glorious,
glamourous Negri. And what's happened
to Ricardo Cortez?

I'm a Garbo fan from start to finish. I
consider the Garbo- Asther combination the
greatest duo in the history of the movies,
even eclipising the Garbo-Gilbert team.
Sincerely,

Gerald Rhines,
Oil City, Pennsylvania,
(South Side.)

Seeing
Stars

Dear Editor:

Some people get all the breaks! How-
ever, I am not one of them — in spite of
my being Irish. I have gotten so close to
elbowing stars, but — no closer. Let my
friends and family take the bows!

My sister-in-law's college boy friends
from the University of California met Joan
and Doug Fairbanks, Jr., coming up on the
train. They unanimously agree that Joan
is nothing short of an optical knock-out
and that Doug Jr. is a nice kid. And —
that the two are madly in love with each
other!

A nautical but nice friend, who has
appeared in several naval pictures, was sta-
tioned at Camp Lewis, when Richard
Barthelmess was making the "Patent Leather
Kid." He deplored the fact that 'our
Dick' of necessity used a double for the
more dangerous scenes, but said that
Barthelmess was a good scout and a real
actor.

The boy-next-door, who dances profes-
sionally, met Bebe Daniels while he was an
extra in "The Crowd," King Vidor's pro-
duction. Bebe was working on "Senorita"
with James Hall. She is not only pretty
but clever — and listen, my star-struck chil-
dren who have a goodly space reserved for
him in the cardiac region — James is amiable
and natural and not one bit upstage.

The first time the mater, one of the few
residents of L. A. who did not sell real
estate, ever saw Miss Daniels, Bebe was
powdering her nose publicly — and in those
days public nose-dabbing was to be frowned
upon. But Mom decided that Bebe was
nice enough to trespass upon ettiquette.

The maternal parent used to act as big
menu and calory woman at the Beverly
Hill Hotel. In the course of her daily
hoofing from table to table she met many
of the silversheet's stars — people for which
we'd cheerfully give the gold-mining rights

to our back teeth to the nearest pawnshop
to see — but she wasn't properly thrilled.
She usually served Elliott Dexter in his
room. Of all the male notables she met he
vwas the most charming and gracious. Jack
Pick ford and Tom Moore were two of
her steady customers — pleasant chaps both
of them.

Mom was strolling one day when she
saw Douglas Fairbanks hop over the cow
catcher of a streetcar and a few other
things by the way of morning exercise
while Mary Pickford remonstrated gently.
True to type.

Six years ago my one and only sister
was fresh from the portals of high school
and was drawing what she considered an
immense salary. Kenneth Harlan dropped
into town unexpectedly and announced that
he was looking for a girl to act as both
secretary and extra. He spent so much time
trying to convince my sister that she was
just the girl he wanted that he missed his
train. I know you won't believe this be-
cause it is the fashion to believe that stars
are temperamental and fussy creatures, but
he didn't even show annoyance at her
renunciation of art as he had a right to do.
But he did show his disappointment.

Jeanette Loff was a back-door neighbor
of Mom's for several years outside of the
city proper in a little locality called Rose-
way. One Hallowe'en Jeanette was sadly
in need of a large rose ribbon to wear in
her hair as a part of her party costume,
so she ran over to Mom's for one. That
ribbon, since her rise to fame, has since
been used as an embellishment on a boudoir
pillow — and my sister-in-law is the proud
possessor of what we refer to as the 'Loff
pillow.'

Jeanette has blue, blue eyes and golden
blonde hair and is small and sylph-like.
But in spite of her loveliness she has no
conceit and her feet are planted squarely on
the ground.

A theatrical girl friend had the honor
of being introduced to Eugene O'Brien
and Virginia Valli when they filmed a pic-
ture here several years past. S'easy if your
uncle's a film executive. They were most
gracious about autographing her memory
book. She's quite ambitious. She num-
bers among her autographs that of Anna
Pavlowa.

While another acquaintance was bemoan-
ing the fact that she was financially unable
to attend the theater to see Sally O'Neil
in person — this winter — Molly O'Day and
Sally herself passed by so closely that she
could have touched them had she reached
out her little finger. The two were
dressed in swagger fur coats which only
emphasized their Irish charm.

Not long ago in San Francisco, her sea-
going musician brother had the pleasure of
meeting Sally — and she gave him a personal
snap of herself and autographed it, to boot!
Her family must have been born under a
lucky star — the whole tribe of them. Her
other brother is the one who met Bebe
Daniels and James Hall. And her family
used to flock to see William Powell when
he played stock in the City of Roses.

The train pulled into a small and sleepy
hamlet one drowsy afternoon. A fairly tall
and good-looking chap in a dark way, dis-
embarked, got out his camera and started
taking pictures of the town — or lack of it.
A press agent fluttered nervously into the
station restaurant. "Know who's outside?"
he asked the mater. To her "no" the p. a.,
who proved later to be George Ullman,
replied: "Rudolph Valentino!" At that
the entire force made for the great out-
of-doors.

Mom, who had met Vafentino through

one of the large theater owners of L. A.,
had not seen him since his- marriage to
Natacha Rambova, but he spoke to her as
if he had seen her only yesterday.

Buddy Rogers, girlish America's secret
sorrow, used to attend the University of
Kansas with a couple of musician friends of
the girl who met Sally and Molly on the
main drag one evening. The three youths
renewed old acquaintances just recently
while making "Close Harmony."

Buddy and I have one thing in common
— we were both born in the Sunflower
State.

Most sincerely,

Marjorie Pangborn,
720 East Morrison St.,

Portland, Oregon.

A Stroll On

Hollywood

Boulevard

Dear Editor:

I live right in the midst of Hollywood, am
a senior at Hollywood High School, and
have been to most of the prominent places
of Hollywood including Henry's, Roosevelt
Hotel, Cocoanut Grove and the Chinese,
Carthay Circle, and Warner Bros. Theaters.
I also have been through two studios. Often
times after school as I walk down the boule-
vard I say to myself, "Do you realize you
are walking down the most famous boule-
vard in the world?"

Of course it is the most famous boulevard
when such things as this happen: Seeing
Neil Hamilton in a tailor's shop. Clara
Bow making scenes for "Ladies of the
Mob." (I'll have to omit I ditched fifth
period to watch her!) Gertrude Olmsted
trying on a hat in Bess Schlanks. Adolphe
Menjou waiting outside the same store for
Mrs. Menjou. Also another big event was
the appearance of Mary Pickford at our
school. She showed us some of her old
pictures including "Lena and the Geese,"
"New York Hat," and a reel from her
latest, "Coquette." She was a very dif-
ferent Mary than we expected, dressed in
a tan sports frock and bobbed hair, but we
loved her as well that way as with curls.
Sincerely,

Mary Sheahan,
4610 Hollywood Blvd.,

Hollywood, Calif.

Lois

Moran's

Career

Dear Editor:

I do not think a word or two to the
fans about Miss Moran will be amiss. Her
sweet simplicity blends into one of the
most charmingly beautiful personalities I've
ever been privileged to meet. I've followed
the career of Lois Moran, from her very
first entrance into the Land of Pictures.

SCREENLAND

Since her first role in "Stella Dallas"
which introduced her to the world as a
promising actress Lois has had very few
roles that have been worthy of her talents,
and yet she has given us every enthusiasm,
and every effort for her very best. She
has not fallen down, so to speak, in a single
part entrusted to her interpretation.

Lately, after coming out in a few 'dif-
ferent' roles under the Fox banner, Lois is
showing us what she is capable of doing.
In "True Heaven" bits of a genuine actress
were given to us. She was superlatively
emotional. Given the proper chance in her
field Lois Moran is going to surprise all
'of us. Right now, she's beautiful. Life
has not left its mark on her as yet; she is
like the exquisite rosebud, crying to be
picked from its bush, and sent upon its
mission in the world.

Two years have affected a most remark-
able change in Lois. One watches her
talents unfold, as each new picture is re-
leased. I warn you all to watch for her
first 100% talkie picture and see if I'm
not correct. I predict that this first 100%
talkie Lois does is going to .shine as one
of the pictures of the year! Bravo, Lois,
for your patience, your persistence, your
sincerity!

Sincerely,
Genevieve A. Larrieux-Loudance,

P. O. Box 272,
Wilmington, Calif.

were satisfied to just go to the movies, and
even though the Europeans were cinema
patrons, most of us were well satisfied with
the word movies.

What silent feature ever carried the
thrill of such talkies as "The Letter," "Gen-
tlemen of the Press," "Coquette" or
"Madame X?" Even a mediocre theme
developed such interesting features as
"Innocents of Paris," "Nothing But the
Truth," etc. Which reminds me — would
the dialog debut of Maurice Chevalier
have been as intriguing if his efforts were
confined to the silent film? Certainly his
personality could not have swayed the fans
so promptly and completely. Isn't he a
peach? That French accent must never be
lost, for it is so obviously a part of the
inimitable Chevalier's personality.

My toast of the evening goes to Mary
Pickford for her sincere acting in "Co-
quette," despite the changed plot. And to
Walter Huston of "Gentlemen of the Press"
I would nominate one of the foremost
journalists of the country to lead the cheers
in honor of his marvelous portrayal of a
real newspaper man.

Sincerely,
Gladys M. Connaughton,

159 W. Newton St.,

Boston, Mass.

j Clara Bow
J Booster

Her

Favorites

Dear Editor:

I liked "Broadway Melody" and "On
Trial." I think that Lois Wilson and Bert
Lytell have very fine voices. However, one
of my favorite pictures was a silent one:
"Forgotten Faces" with Clive Brook and
Baclanova. They acted so realistically one
could hardly believe they were just playing
a part.

Clive Brook and Lewis Stone are my
favorite actors.

"Evangeline" is also a lovely picture and
Dolores Del Rio makes a charming Evan-
geline.

Thank you for letting me contribute to
this department.

Sincerely,

Mrs. E. Hyatt,
1720 W. Cucharras St.,
Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Dear Editor:

I want to say a few words for Clara
Bow and the talkies. Clara is my favorite
star and I don't care what kind of a pic-
ture she takes part in just as long as she
is in it. In my case it's Clara and not
the play that is the thing.

I think Mary Brian and Charles Rogers
are two darlings. In my estimation they
come next in line after Clara.

Talkies are wonderful! The first one
I saw was "In Old Arizona" and I cer-
tainly enjoyed it. I'm for talkies! I wish
for Clara Bow the best of luck always.
Sincerely,
Miss Roslyn Millar,
238 Durocher Avenue,

Montreal, Canada.

A Feather
for Jeanne
Eagels

Bravo,
Chevalier!

Dear Editor:

Now, if I don't get something off my
chest, I'll simply burst! You've guessed it?
The talkies, of course. Talkies, talkies —
Dear Editor: like Tennyson's oft mentioned brook, they

I'm for the talkies and hope they are seem destined now to go on forever. Even
never rechristened with a more high cross-word puzzles didn't get such a Her-
■sounding name, such as 'Audiens' or what culean hold on us, the dear public. At
have you? For years the American fans first I was rather reluctant and loathe to

enthuse in the talkies' favor, dismissing the
efforts I had seen as a hodge-podge of
cacophony; a tinpanniness intensified by the
seemingly wretched voices of our famous
stars. Then, lo and behold! Along came
such capable persons as Jeanne Eagels, Ruth
Chatterton, and, yea, Sophie Tucker, Fannie
Brice and Belle Baker — recruits from the
footlights who wanted to emote for the new
contraption. "Something in it after all,"
opined I.

One day, with sixty cents in my pocket
and after a fruitless search for a job, I
stopped in front of a local theater where
"The Letter" was being read to capacity
audiences. I hesitated, then, with the
usual 'I-don't-care' attitude assumed in such
trying circumstances, I parked fifty cents
of my paltry pittance with the lady at the
box office and hied myself inside the thea-
ter. Was I repaid? Never, in all my
cinema-going days (with a little effort at
reminiscing, I can place their incipience at
about my tender age of five years) have
I been lifted to such lofty heights of thrill-
dom as when Miss Eagels retaliated to her
husband's decree that her punishment
should be her life imprisonment way out
there in — was it Singapore? Perhaps
Jeanne will do "Rain" (nee "Sadie Thomp-
son") in dialog — though only the dialog
would make it any better (then, would
it?) than Gloria Swanson's brilliant por-
trayal- of that interesting, albeit meritricious
femme.

Later (after I had a job) I saw and
heard Ruth Chatterton in "The Doctor's
Secret." Please allow me to use that sadly
abused, often wrongly applied adjective —
superb. I register keen anticipation for
"Madame X," which madam, it would seem,
is exhumed every other year.

But, let us not forget our own cinema-
tographic artistes. Mary Pickford was
magnificent in certain episodes of that
poorly photographed "Coquette." Corinne
Griffith in "Saturday's Children" brought
her lovely drawl to us, one that is indeed
in keeping with her languid charm. Mar-
garet Livingston, Betty Compson, Bessie
Love (and those terpsichorean proclivities!),
Baclanova — ah! that vibrant, pulsating Russ
— these ladies talk, sing, laugh, scream or
what have you, with profound feeling, in-
telligence; their voices permeate the atmos-
phere with that evanescent spirit of good
showmanship. We have yet to hear from
Swanson, the Great Garbo and Gish. Yet,
all in all, greater love hath no man than
to stick by his favorites, whether in silence
or in sound!

Provincial and trite an expression as 'tis,
and for no reason at all, I say there,
"let's go!"

Sincerely yours,

George Wilton, Jr.,

230 Noe Street,
San Francisco, Calif.

Beginning with the next,

the October issue of
SCREENLAND,
we are offering cash prizes
for the best letters to this
department. Get busy!

SCREENLAND

Dick Arlen is no over-night
screen sensation. He has
slowly but steadily worked
his way to the top. Starting
in small roles, he has risen
to gradually greater parts
through the consistent exer-
cise of a splendid talent. The
fact that he has become a
matinee idol of stellar pro-
portions is a mere incident in
an interesting career.

ONO

Bravo, Richard Arlen,
for Your Fine Work
as the Hero of 'Tour
Feathers"

eldom has Screen land presented an Honor
Page with more pride than this one! For one
thing, this Magazine has always liked Richard
Arlen: for his staunch ambition, his willingness
to give of his best no matter what part he had to
play, and his genuine ability. He flew away with
"Wings." He contributed a real characterisation to
Clara Bow's picture, "Ladies of the Mob." He can
play comedy or drama with equal facility. He is a
dependable actor- — but he is more than that. Ask any
one of the thousands of young ladies who applaud
him and she will tell you that he evokes her hearty
admiration chiefly because he doesn't look or act like
an actor: he is a young American, stalwart, hearty,
honest, who happens to be in the motion picture
business! His work in "Four Feathers" has raised him
to stardom and his success is well-deserved.

C[ Above: Arlen as Harry Feversham in the drama,
"Four Feathers," at the tense moment in which he is
presented with the white feathers of cowardice by his
fellow officers. Below: Richard Arlen in the garden
of his California home, with two members of his
immediate family.

September

1929

E take issue with
our esteemed
contemporary,
for which we have as much
respect as it has for us.

Photoplay Magazine has
'revealed1 the fact that
some of the stars have had
doubles singing or speaking
for them in the talking pic
tures. What our august
contemporary hoped to gain by such an expose
is not precisely clear.

Screen land has no quarrel with the great
industry which makes its existence and success
possible. In fact, Screenland is openly and
unashamedly pro'movie. Screenland is an
ally, a friend, a champion, a lover of motion
pictures; it believes in upholding the traditions
of the screen and preserving the illusions of
the millions who go to the movies. If the exi'
gencies of the talking pictures have made it
necessary occasionally to practice technical de'
ception on the public, what of it? Consider
the motive: to provide good entertainment.
The secret of the success of these deceptions is
that the audience is really deceived. Since
motion pictures appeal to our emotions we love
them for what they appear to be rather than
for what they are.

If the audiences really wish to poke and pry
into the mechanical processes making this sue
cessful deception possible, let them look into
such trade magazines as The Scientific Amer'
ican and Science and Invention. But Screen'
land believes that motion picture audiences
are interested primarily in being entertained.
When an actress cries we cry with her.

Why should we wish to
know what means her di'
rector uses to induce those
pitiful tears? All we know
is that as we look at that
girl on the screen she tugs
at our heartstrings — she
plays upon our emotions —
she makes us weep with
her. And that's all we need
to know. Why should we
care whether it is glycerine
or art? Don't tell us!

Delight Evans
Editor.
Her Page.

After you have been
roused to emotion by a
splendid scene do you want
someone rudely to knock
you out of your exalted
mood with a withering,
"Aw — that's all hokum!"? When you have
thrilled to the sound of your favorite hero's
melodious tenor singing a song from the screen
do you long for Willie Wiseacre to step up,
cup his hand and whisper in your ear: "That's
a voice double!"? No! You want to preserve
your illusions! This art of the motion picture
is founded on the innocent and happy illusions
of a million children, grown-up and growing.
Why shatter that illusion? The whole world
is builded on belief and faith. Rob people of
their illusions and what is left? Nothing worth
having. We need these trips into another land.
We want our fun! Why take makeup away
from a pretty girl? WTiy strip the circus of
its glamour? Let us alone, you wise guys. The
kill-joys who 'expose' the mystery that goes on
behind the screen and makes possible our en'
joyment are the same people who go about tell'
ing children there isn't any Santa Claus; and
who would want Peter Pan to grow up!

But let them come! Screenland is ready
for 'em! Because Screenland knows the real
truth about motion pictures and motion picture
audiences: that when people pay to be enter'
tained they want to be let alone to enjoy
themselves, in an enchanted land.

TAGGED ft

New
Candidates

for
Film Fame

d(Left: Owen
Davis, Jr., in
Fox Movie-
tone's "They
Had to See

Paris."
(C Right: Phil-
lips Holmes,
one of Para-
mount's prom-
ising juveniles.

TRICKS

'How is it Done?' You Ask. This
Story Tells You What You Want
to Know About the Making of
Talking Pictures

^hey're clever, there's no getting away from it.
These talkie makers, I mean.

Look at "Dark Street," wherein Jack Mulhall plays two brothers,
one a crook and one a policeman, arrests himself and takes himself to
jail, all the time talking back and forth to himself. And Jack does all the
talking, mind you!
How does he do it?
It's simple when you know.

The photography is managed as a usual double-exposure, with half the lens
opened at a time and positions carefully marked to match up. The voices
are recorded likewise, thus:

A young stage actor was engaged to 'stand in' as crook when Jack was
playing the policeman and to 'stand in' as cop when Jack essayed the part
of the crook. Together the two rehearsed lines to that tempo and spacing were
exactly the same — in fact, the 'stand in' was a carbon copy of Jack in the
reading of each role. Then the recorder opened the microphone for Jack's
rendition of a scene as the cop and tuned out while
the 'stand in' replied, opening up again with Jack's
answer. When the reverse side of the scene was photo-
graphed, the 'stand in's' remarks were not recorded but
what Jack as the crook had to say was avidly picked up.
Then the two scenes were merged, just as the two halves
of the film are merged, and there we have Jack talking
and speaking to himself!

It seems that animal actors are frequently too tem-
peramental to part with their English accents at the
psychological second demanded by the 'mike.' The donkey
may bray or the parrot may indulge in light persiflage
before or after the fatal 'Interlock'! but this picking up
of cues — oh, too boring, don't you know!

But no dumb actor can foil the talkie men. No, sir!

Peter Kelly, former vaudeville favorite, who can imi-
tate birds, animals and reptiles so faithfully that their
own mothers are fooled, is called on. Over at First
National in "The Great Divide," Kelly has been doubling
the voices of parrots and other birds.

Count Valencia, a Spaniard of royal blood, is another
animal imitator earning at least $25 a day on Hollywood
lots.

Fred Newmeyer, directing "Sailor's Holiday" for
Pathe, needed a parrot. One answering to the name of
Billie, whose repertoire included the singing of Blowing
Bubbles and Over There, was brought in for a test, but
he did so well that Newmeyer decided nobody would
believe he was really doing it.

"No, get me a bird that can't talk. At least he won't
spoil any scenes," ordered the director. However, after
the parrot had been registered in several scenes it de-
veloped that he must scream: "Clear the tracks for
action!" What to do?

Fred Newmeyer doubles for the bird!

(£ The first double-exposure ta\\ie
Mulhall, playing a dual role, car'

((Beh

d th
is directin
telephone

e scenes during the ma\ing of a tal\ing
g action and voices on two sets, shown
and signal systems. Winifred Westover,

ALKI

Ruth Tildesley

is, "Dar\ Streets," in which ]ac\
ries on conversations with himself1.

picture. Herbert Brenon, designated by the arrow,
at left and right, simultaneously with the aid of
in the semi- circle, is enacting her role of "Lummox."

They don't always double these animal actors, though. In "Smiling Irish
Eyes," Colleen Moore is supported by a two-months-old pig christened Aloysius.
As pigs of that age are delicate, a double was provided, but it never worked.
Aloysius liked the limelight and insisted on doing his own stuff. The thought-
ful authorities had also arranged that Peter Kelly should squeal if Aloysius
failed to pick up his cue, but he wasn't needed. The pig developed an uncanny
sense for talkies.

The elusive echo sheds its adjectives when confronted by the talkie cohorts.
If a musical repetition is necessary, an instrument is played fortissimo into the
'mike,' the echo being played on a muted instrument farther off. If a voice is
to be echoed, someone shouts into the mike and at a greater distance the same
shout is gently repeated.

If you walked into the sound effect department at a studio and found three
or four huskies playing on the floor with a roller skate or a child's pop-gun,
what would you think?

Nothing of the kind!

They're trying to discover something that sounds like
an 'L' train or a machine gun — they're not goofy!

"One of the idiosyncrasies of sound recording is that
often the actual sound does not record as it is," explains
Scott Littleton, director of Pathe's sound effects. "Many
noises break the microphone so we have to create others
that will record more like the subject photographed than
that subject would record."

For William Boyd's picture, "The Cop," it was neces-
sary to get the sound of an lL' train. The actual sound
made a deafening roar more like an avalanche, but by
tying an iron pipe to a roller skate and dragging it across
a bare floor the problem was solved.

Two great ships scraping against each other in "Strange
Cargo" blew out some tubes so a cigar box and a piece
of resined string was substituted to advantage.

Sometimes a discovery for sound effect is made by ac-
cident. In "High Voltage," the drone of an airplane
was needed. Nothing quite satisfied the experts. Bill
Boyd was eating salted peanuts as he waited for his cue;
when it came he threw a handful of nuts aside — they
lit on a drum.

. "Country's saved!" shouted the sound expert, leap-
ing forward. He snatched up the peanuts, plopped them
down on the drum again, then bore both props away.
An hour later he returned. The bottom was torn out
of the drum and an electric fan installed inside. Setting
the fan going, and dropping peanuts, aspirin and dice
made just the right br-T'T-r drone of a plane.
Speaking of accidents:

When Universal was making "Climax," canaries
played important roles. Five or six hundred were en-
gaged to sing a sort of theme song throughout the pic-
ture, but when cages of the yellow songsters were deliv-
ered on the sound stage the (Continued on page 95)

'({Rudy Vallee crooned his songs in the New York theaters
and supper-clubs and over the radio and became a national
celebrity. Now he is making his first film feature, "The
Vagabond Lover," for Radio Pictures. He'll sing, play the
saxophone, and act.

hat a man!"

"He looks like the Prince of Wales."
"He certainly does. But he's more like Lindy."
"I'll say. And how!"
The scene was the Paramount Theater at Broadway and Forty-
third Street, New York. Four of the hundreds of girls in the
audience were discussing Rudy Vallee, who, with his orchestra, had
been breaking all attendance records at the Paramount for six weeks.

Up on the stage, Vallee — who looks like a composite picture of
Lindy and Great Britain's Prince — was singing in his tender impas-
sioned voice:

"Fm just a vagabond lover

In search of a sweetheart, it seems
And I know that someday I'll discover her
The girl of my vagabond dreams."
As the tall, bronze-haired orchestra leader brought his song to
a close, he reached for his gold saxophone and began to play. At
that moment, from the thousands of enraptured women in the audi-
ence there swept a sigh. A sigh as strong and as fervent as a
tropical monsoon!

Rudy Vallee had conquered. A new idol had been born. A
new star had risen in the motion picture heavens.

In January of this year, Vallee was broke. Out of a job, and
practically unknown. Five months later, owing to his tremendous
popularity over the radio and in vaudeville, Radio-Keith-Orpheum
signed him to go to Hollywood. There he is to make his first big

RUDY

Here is a New
Idol with Sax
Appeal. Watch
Out!

singing and talking picture, "The Vagabond
Lover." This is presumed to tell the true story
of his life.

New York — as well as points south, north,
west and east — has fallen for the twenty-six
year old Rudy like Napoleon fell for Josephine,
but with happier consequences. It all began back
in January when he started singing and playing
the saxophone and directing his orchestra over
the National Broadcasting Chain. He had been
working before the microphone on and off for
nearly two years without raising any blood pres-
sure. But over night, women became fascinated
with him

Early in February, he played a three days' en-
gagement at the 81st Street Theater. This is
what is called a split-week house, the program
being changed twice weekly. However, so many
radio fans stampeded the place, that Vallee was
held over another three days. The only time such
a thing has ever occurred in that theater, I am
told.

Shortly afterward he began a tour of the
large movie theaters. And just before he started

<C Rudy has no time to spare, so he
sets the alarm for five-fifteen — P. M.

COLOR!

Rob Wagner

attracted to a brilliant spot of red or blue, and would
follow it at the expense of pantomime.

When Doug Fairbanks decided to make "The Black
Pirate" in color, I spoke to him about this problem.

"If you can gently insinuate color you may get
by with it," I said, "but you'll have to be careful to
soft-pedal brilliant spots which the color-cameramen
are so anxious to register."

"I've thought that all out," replied Doug, "and so
Fve told them that they were to forget we are using
color and shoot for black and white."

It was one of the few color pictures that was not
spotted with flaming gobs of color jumping all over
the screen.

In general, however, color was 'out' in most studios.
The fans were attuned to practically perfect black and
white pictures, so why invite trouble in the more or
less imperfect color processes?

Then came sound. And in one year the motion
picture industry has gone through the most intensive
experimental period of its existence. The fact of sound
had been demonstrated; it then became a matter of
testing various processes and perfecting the best. It
is a long way from perfect yet, but it has gone so far
that the sound and dialog picture has practically dis-
placed the silent drama.

Curiously enough, the triumph of sound pictures
are at "the present moment found in two extremes —
individual performance, such as lectures, short talks,

{( Mary Eaton leading a beautiful number in Paramount's
"Glorifying the American Girl," a movie musical comedy.

songs and dances; and in great musical comedies and Follies
shows. The latter, however, absolutely require color. No
matter how photographically perfect, or how ravishing the
music, color is a major motif to such spectacles. Thus we
find the studios turning back to that very much neglected fac-
tor in picture-making. At last in Warners' newest produc-
tion, "On With the Show," we have approached appreciably
nearer the perfect — mechanically speaking — motion picture.
After viewing "On With the Show," Ernst Lubitsch told
me that in his opinion in another year there would be no more
black and white pictures. (Continued on page 112)

(( "The Fox Movietone Follies" was the first of the amazing musical revues, inaugurating a new era in motion picture entertainment.

The NEW

You Don't Know the
Real Gilbert Until
You Read This Story!

"TT Wonder what Jack Gilbert is really like?"

How many times I have heard people
ask that question! I have learned the
answer. I know the real Gilbert. And I
want you to know him, too.

To my complete surprise he is the exact oppo-
site of the opinion I had formed, through idle
gossip and the things I had read. They had pre
judiced me to the extent of hoping that I wouldn't
have to write about him. The gossip about him
was that he was conceited, arrogant and unreason-
able. He hated interviews and would only see
writers he knew and had confidence in. It is an
accident when he talks to a reporter new to him.

He won't pose for publicity stills
and rarely for off-stage pictures of
any kind. Consequently a wall of
G[ Gilbert today — a movie antagonism was erected between
idol with an honest out- Gilbert and those whose job it is

look. In the oval, John , ■ , ,. . ,

Gilbert as he looked in to suPPly the Public wlth anec'

his Fox film days. dotes about the players.

I found that the conceit attri-
buted to Jack Gilbert is a passion-
ate desire to be understood. It
seems inconsistent then that he
G[ Below, the hoy should refuse to meet people. I
John Gilbert with told him he has a terrible reputa-

his mother, Ida tion for being upstage because of
Gilbert, and his ^
step-father, Wal-
ter Gilbert.

JOHN GILBERT

Helen Ludlam

"I know it," he said. "But I'm not going to talk to people
who go out and, to make their story a sensation, magnify all the
human failings of an actor and create a few that he hasn't got.
This after we have had a very friendly visit. I had liked them
and they, apparently had liked me. I had neither wanted nor
expected a flattering interview, but I was unprepared for the
violence of the attack I received."

Yet writers are human, too, and some have found that they
can pen constructive things until the crack of doom with nine
out of ten players, producers or executives paying not the slightest
attention to the story or even looking to see who wrote it. They
have accepted the words therein contained as their just due,
placidly, and have never thought of the matter again. But oh,
the fireworks when something unpleasant comes out! The story
is passed from person to person, from lip to lip; the writer be'
comes famous, and his bank account grows. After all — someone
has said that the business of this life is to get food and shelter
and a good many people believe it. I pointed that out to Jack.

"I know that is true, too. But at least those who don't abuse
their position and power can keep their self-respect, and that
lasts — the rest may be swept away over night."

And there was no argument to
that, either! <C Right: Ina Claire, the

The most cruel articles against woman who has changed

i . 11 • .. i i the course of John Gil-

him are usually written by people bert-s ,jfg_ fij marriage

who are total strangers or whom t0 \na has made him

he has (Continued on page 98) happy for the first time

in his life!

Those Healthy

An Old-Fashioned Outdoor
Barbecue is Often the Height
of Hollywood Hilarity!

Sn't this exactly like the romantic old
Spanish California days! exclaimed
Patsy the Party Hound ecstatically, as
she gazed about her at the big syca-
mores, the little rills, the huge clumps of
fern, of the Santa Monica Canyon. "And
somebody is playing a guitar under the
trees!"

Leo Carrillo was giving an old-fashioned
Spanish barbecue in the Canyon, on the
wide grounds where he is going to build his
Spanish home. It is to be a real Spanish
house, too, of adobe, with a great patio and
fountain. Leo has been playing "Lombardi,
Ltd." for years, but now he is going into
pictures.

Leo stood in the shade of the trees to
welcome his guests, while already the bar-
becue was beginning to sizzle in the huge
oven.

"Well, I choose Leo to play the guitar
to me!" exclaimed Patsy. "You know I

C[ Leo Carrillo gave a real Spanish bar'
becue to celebrate his first talking pic-
ture. Below is a group of his guests.
You'll recognize such stars as Ann
Pennington, Walter Catlett, Alice
'White, Armida, Sylvia Field, Roscoe
'Fatty' Arbuc\le, Clar\ and McCuI-
lough, S\eets Gallagher and others.

Hollywood Parties

By Grace Kings ley

knew him when he was a little
boy living in Santa Monica, where
his father was a township Judge.
No wonder he wanted to buy a
home in 'this canyon, where we
used to hold our picnics when we
were children. Everybody adores
Leo for his Latin charm and
brightness of spirit."

Don Alvarado arrived just then,
which we voted another perfect
touch, and there were Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Porcasi, Alice White,
Armida, and Harry DArrast; but
most of the guests were people
from the stage, come to Holly
wood for talking pictures, and
they were {Continued on page 96)

C[ Reginald Denny gave a wee\-
end party at his mountain
cabin in the San Bernardino
mountains. Here is a glimpse
of Reg and his wife, Bubbles,
in the enormous living room
of the cabin.

C[ Reginald and
Bubbles Denny,
a happy Holly
wood couple!

Arthur!
Arthur!

G[ Arthur Lake's first stage part was the
baby in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He has
been an actor ever since.

His Public is Calling
for Young M r.
Lake. Here's his

Story

James M. Fidler

UNCHING with Arthur Lake, I expected to taste salt
in my coffee. I didn't, but it must have been
j because Arthur didn't think of it. He's full of
pranks. Just a great, big boy!
The day Arthur enrolled in high school, so his sister
tells me, he walked up to a dignified, be-whiskered gentle'
man and asked: "Where's the guy who runs this dump?"
Fortunately for Arthur, the 'guy who ran the dump' pos-
sessed a sense of humor. The be-whiskered gent was
'the guy.'

I interviewed Arthur on his birthday — his twentieth
birthday. His mother and sister were seated with us at
the table. A birthday cake with a single sparkling candle
adorned the centerpiece.

A telegram arrived. It was from an act touring the
Publix Theater circuit, an act in which Arthur's sister,
Florence Lake, had been a principal prior to her contract
for motion picture work. The telegram read as follows:

"The waiters of the Bubbles Restaurant (name of the
ict) wish to serve you a birthday dinner consisting of
health soup, wealth salad, happiness entree with tremen-
dous success for dessert. Also a la carte order of love
and kiss cookies for sister and mother."

Arthur was born in Corbin, Kentucky, but the event
should have taken place in Knoxville. That sounds funny.
I'd better explain.

Arthur's parents were of the stage. His mother is
Edith Goodwin. His father was Arthur Silverlake. It
so happened that his mother, soon to bring Arthur into
the world, decided that Knoxville should be his birthplace.

His father was then a principal in a traveling stock com-
pany and was forced to go on to Corbin for a one-week
stand. Arthur's mother, lonesome and somewhat
frightened, decided also to travel to Corbin in order to
be with her husband when the crucial moment arrived.
That's how it happened that Corbin, and not Knoxville,
now hangs out the 'Our Own Boy' banner when one of
young Lake's pictures hits the town.

Arthur has spent practically his entire life in the show
business. His first stage part was as the baby in "Uncle
Tom's Cabin." Arthur was less than six months old then,
unable to come forth and take his bows. As the years
rolled by, he played baby, child, and finally boy roles.

During their travels, Arthur and his sister were taught
by their mother. She underwent an examination in
Atlanta that won her permission to act as tutor to her
own children. Their fourth and fifth grade schooling
came under their own mother.

Vaudeville brought the Lake troupe to Los Angeles.
The act disbanded there. Everywhere they had played,
critics had commented: "The two kids (Arthur and
Florence) are clever. They should be in pictures." So
when the act ended near Hollywood, the Lake family took
the critics at their own words.

Florence liked motion pictures; Arthur did not. He
cared nothing for a screen career. In fact, he took a job
in his uncle's dye works. His uncle wanted him to start
at the bottom and dye up. Arthur liked the work and
gloried over the princely salary of twenty dollars per
week. All went well until he (Continued on page 102)

The <JMost ^Beautiful Still of the JMonth

DOROTHY MACKAILL and IAN KEITH

in "The Great Divide. "

(( Marion will sing and
dance in her next
picture — her first
talkie, by the way.

anon

The Davies Lady is
Lovely and Lively!

(( She is one of the
best dancers in
all Hollywood.

All photographs of Miss
Davies by Ruth Harriet
Louise, posed expressly for
Screen laud Magazine.

tsn t as easy
as it loo\s, either!

Freulich

FROM "The Circus" to '"Broadway"; or The
Rise of Merna Kennedy. Chaplin's dis-
covery is now a Universal talking picture!

✓ *A It 'V. " *-4 < - V I X \

WHEN Glenn . Tryon plays a trouper on
the screen you know you are looking at
the real thing. He knows his stuff.

Ruth Harriet Louise

BACK to the primitive! Joan Crawford —
Mrs. Doug Fairbanks Jr. — is the heroine
of "Jungle" — oh, so barbaric and beautiful!

ILMA BANKY is studying hard to per-
fect her English. Don't let your star lose
that accent altogether, Mr. Goldwyn.

Homme]

A LOVELY lady from Broadway becomes
a sensation in the sound studios: Kav
Francis, artiste of lines, and lines!

GOTHAM'S

GIFT

HOLLYWOOD

Kay Francis from Broadway
Conquers the Film Colony

By John Engstead

Jtl

ight now, one girl has Hollywood in the palm
of her hand.

Everyone who knows her, women as well as
men, immediately falls into her legion of boosters.
Everyone who hasn't met her — well, that's just his loss.

She's Kay Francis, a lovely New York stage girl, who
has crashed Hollywood in a big way.

Six months ago, she had seen only two silent pictures
in her life and hated them both.

She never gave talking pictures a thought until a friend
at the Paramount Long Island Studios suggested a screen
test for a leading role in "Gentlemen of the Press." The
only difficulty which lay between her and the part was
the fact that the executives, the director, the authors and
the supervisors of the production had definitely decided
to find a blonde for the same role. There was one show
ing of the Francis test. • The result was that this black'
haired, green-eyed girl made her first appearance on the
screen in the feminine lead in "Gentlemen of the Press."
Kay's just that way — instantaneous! (Com. on page 106)

C[ Kay Francis and Richard Arlen in a
scene from "Dangerous Curves.

Kay and 'Snifter,' her Scotty.

Will Chaplin

C[ T/ie most famous and valuable derby
hat, cane, and pair of shoes in the
world, exclusive property of Charles
Spencer Chaplin, Esq.!

<C Below : Charlie di-
recting a scene for
his new comedy,
"City Lights."

don't have to work unless I wish,"
says Charlie Chaplin. "I work for
fun! And' I don't think it is fun
to make talking pictures!"
So says the Napoleon of funny pic
tures; the greatest clown of modern times.
But will he stick to his decision? Will
the talkies lure him on until he follows
Mary and Doug and all the rest into the
sound fields? He swears he won't. But he
has taken just one little step in the direc
tion of the talkies. He has had sound
equipment installed in his studio! This
doesn't mean that he himself will ever
speak into the microphone for talkie pur- -
poses, he insists. Just that his comedies
will have sound effects in them. He him'
self will remain solely a pantomimic char-
acter. But even Napoleon was known to
change his mind!

Chaplin must be more interested in
talking pictures than he will admit, how-
ever. They have forced him into argu-
ments and discussions. Voice culture, he
thinks, is over-rated. "Either you can put
lines over, or you can't," he declares.
"And some of the funniest voices in the
world have been the most popular on the
stasre."

Change his Mind?

The Great Little Clown
Vows he will Never
Make a Talking Picture.
But There's Sound
Equipment in That
Chaplin Studio

"43

The

wedish Sphi

€[ Car bo, since her
Swedish vacation, is
more the girl and
less the woman, bub-
bling with good
hum or, enjoying
wor\ and play with
fresh vigor.

La Garbo Speaks her Mind on the
Talkies — and Other Topics. The
First Interview She Has Granted
to Any Magazine for Months

reta Garbo is going to speak her little piece —
right out loud!

Back from her jaunt home to Sweden, set-
ting at rest rumors that the talkies banished
her from the movies, Greta is head-over-heels at work
catching up on production schedules and getting ready
for her Big Moment.
Her talkie debut!

According to official word from the studios, Garbo is
to do "Anna Christie" as her first audible screen role,
a characterization of drab grimness made famous upon
the speaking stage by Pauline Lord and later enacted
for the silent films by Blanche Sweet.

"'I hated talking pictures when they first came out,"
said Greta, stimulating a shuddery gesture by way of
adding emphasis to her words. "They screetched and
scratched. They were neither of the stage nor screen.
Just monstrous nightmares. I thought to myself, if I
have to appear in anything like that I ought to go home
to Sweden and stay there. Ugh!

"Now — " and Greta threw her head back and laughed,
"I am bored to death when I see a silent picture. It
seems that something is lacking; life is gone when the
players fail to speak their lines. Yes, you might say I
am 'sold' on the talkies. Since I have been in Europe
wonderful strides have been made technically. They are
so far beyond the experimental stage that anyone un-
willing to recognize their superiority to silent pictures
is either hopelessly old-fashioned or plain stubborn.

"For myself I have heard and read much of the 'ter-
rible Garbo accent' that was supposed to have sent me
back home to retire. It may interest some of my sym-
pathizers to know that I signed a new long-term con-
tract with M-G-M just a few days before I sailed on
my vacation trip and that Anna Christie' was already
in mind at that time.

"I suppose I have something of an accent but I do
not notice it. It seems to me that I speak pretty fair
English, especially considering the way I have heard
English spoken by many others. At any rate I am not
afraid of the talkies and can scarcely wait to get work-
ing on the Eugene O'Neill play. I worship the part
and wish I could do it now instead of having to make
another picture first.

"I am really tired of doing the same old thing, over
and over again. To me it will be like escaping binding
fetters to be able to speak my lines, to live my parts
more naturally and more expressively. I do not know
how my voice will record since I have made no tests,
and do not intend to make any until I have my part
to play. I am not taking voice culture or staying up
nights practicing Shakespeare. I will speak naturally
and as I feel the lines should be spoken, just as I play

peaks!

Greta Garbo breaks her
Long Silence

By
Ralph
Wheelwright

any character now. If I cannot play a role nat-
urally and without artificial devices, I cannot give
a sincere performance.

"When I was in Europe, looking back toward
America I was able to obtain a different perspect-
ive upon motion pictures. All the more I real-
ised that whatever fame goes with stardom is quite
impersonal. The public likes or dislikes a player
solely upon what it sees of the player on the screen.
I do not think a star's private life exposed in in-
timate detail serves any other purpose than to
satisfy curiosity. I am just a human being like
anyone else. I resent prying into my personal af-
fairs just as much as anyone in any other station
or position rightfully resists similar intrusions.

"I realise, of course, that by placing myself be-
fore the public on the screen I invite the attention
of the curious. But after all, my private life is
all I have left to myself and I feel I am entitled
to guard it jealously. I do not want to live like
a fish in an aquarium and I suffer no delusions
that my opinions on any subject are of any particu-
lar interest or concern to the public. I remember,
just before I went on my (Continued on page 95)

In "The Single Standard," Garbo's
last silent film, she is seen with J\[t!s
Asther as her leading man.

Now We Can Hear, as Well
as See, the Ripping of the
Groom's Trousers, the Break-
ing of the Cane over the
Head of the Girl's Father,
and the Splash of the Mud
into which the Well-Dressed
Man Falls, in our Favorite
Comedies. But Oh, for the
Squish of the Good Old
Custard-Pie!

C[ A custard pie figures largely and hilariously in the
starring Lujpino Lane. Yes, that's the talented

How Does Custard

C[ An Educational Comedy scene involving dough in
the days before sound.

It's mighty hard to get underneath the crust (figuratively-
speaking) of a custard pie, and discover how it feels
three seconds before it is doomed to destruction, but
it had always seemed to this discerning eye that the
lowly long-suffering pastry was pretty well resigned to its
fate. Even when balanced in the palm of a comedian's hand,
with inevitable demolishment ahead of it, it appeared to bear
up courageously.

Obviously, we've been laboring under a delusion, for now
we know the custard pie is not quite as emotionless as we
had suspected. It does put up a stiff upper lip, to be sure,
but at the moment of its demise, it sends up a pitiful cry of
death. Indeed, that comparatively new contrivance, the talk'
ing picture, has been causing so much disillusionment that
soon we'll be as free of illusions as pocketbooks are of shekels
after Christmas. At every turn we find our most devastatingly
seductive screen sirens piping up in ingenue lisps, cunning
little blonde soubrettes waxing kittenish in deep basso and
wax-mustachioed villains sounding more like adolescent youths
than the treacherous demons they are portraying.

In the case of the delectable confection, however, the syn-
chronisation of the 'splish-splash' indubitably lends a note
of realism to the pie-throwing act. Mack Sennett, equally
well-known for his custard pies and bathing beauties, has
ahead)'' tried it out in his all-talking comedies, and his success
has been phenomenal. In "The Lion's Roar" and "Jazz
Mamas," two of his all-dialogue comedies, the pie (we're not
sure whether it was custard or Boston Cream) was given an
important play. He admits, however, that shooting a comedy
scene with a pie the principal character is no longer the simple

the

THIRD

By Edwin Martin

ut Hollywood way where most of the stories of
over-night successes are written by high-salaried
press agents, there has come a blonde conqueror.
They call her Joan of 'Art1!
And it's all because Joan Bennett, with only one year
on the stage and three months on the screen, has acquired
a success that it took other members of her distinguished
family many years to attain.

Joan's father, the noted stage and screen star, Richard
Bennett, worked 25 years before he became famous on the
American stage. Her sister Constance, formerly the wife
of the millionaire Phillip Plant, has been in pictures for
several years, and has just recently become
a star. Her sister, Barbara, danced on the
stage for two or three years before she
finally received recognition and has only
just been made a leading woman of the
screen.

Yet, in less than three months, Joan Ben-
nett, who came to Hollywood, entirely
unsung in films, and with only one stage
role to her credit, has become one of our
most sought-after leading women.

For this 18 year old girl, the great star
George Arliss and Warner Brothers studio
held up production eight days on "Dis-
raeli," the reason being that Miss Bennett
was working on "Three Live Ghosts" for
United Artists, and neither Mr. Arliss nor
Warner Brothers could find her equivalent
for the part. This is something that has
happened to few stars and hardly any lead-
ing women.

All this for Joan, who is as yet un-
known to the film fans, and whose only
completed picture, "Bulldog Drummond,"
has not been generally exhibited except in
the larger cities.

It all began when "Bulldog Drummond"
was previewed. It was Joan's first role on
the screen. Her statuesque beauty, the
timbre of her voice and her blonde appeal,
were shown to such an advantage in this
film, that producers demanded her services.
Immediately, United Artists cast her for
the leading feminine role in "Three Live
Ghosts," the talkie version of Max Mar-
cus's stage success.

Oddly enough, Joan came to the screen
from a stage play about the screen, as she
was playing the leading feminine role op-
posite her father in "Jarnegan," Jim
Tully's satire on Hollywood, when Samuel
Goldwyn selected her for Ronald Colman's

leading woman in "Bulldog Drummond." Before this film
was released, she played on the Los Angeles stage with
Doris Keane in "The Pirate." After the play had ended
she started work on "Three Live Ghosts," and that is
about all that Joan has done until now. But there is
"Disraeli" in the air, and two other roles which she will
be signed for by the time this article is in press.

Up to about fifteen months ago, Richard Bennett had
seen all his children except Joan acquire distinction on
the stage or screen. Often he would look rather wistfully
at this strange child of so famous a stage family, thinking
not of the heritage she received from him, but one that

went back more
than a century.
Back through her
mother's,
Adrienne Morri-
son's, blood-
stream, to Lewis
Morrison, and the
English actors, the
Woods family,
(Cont. on page 111)

C[ She is only eighteen,
with a year on the
stage and a few
months in the talk-
ies as her whole

Kenneth Alexander

Just a Hollywood Boy

William Bakeiuell
Grew Up in the
Shadow of the
Studios

MONO the great legion of famous motion pic-
ture stars in Hollywood, there are scarcely
half a dozen who were born and spent
their childhood in the cinema city.
William Bakewell is one of these exceptions.
Cradled in the very shadow of the film studios and
dreaming of fame on the silversheet since early child-
hood, this aspiring young actor has just reached the
threshold from where he can view his early visions
being transformed into realities.

"You know/'' he said the other day, "I've been a
picture fan all my life. I remember when I was

By D. A. Epstein

C Billy Bakewell at
twenty — one of the
most promising lads
in motion pictures
since his triumph
in the dual role of
young Louis XIV
and his mad brother
in "The Iron Mask."

about seven years old I used to buy those penny
packages of candy just to get the enclosed picture
of a screen star. Florence Lawrence was my favor-
ite then; so much so that I'd swap five pictures
of Arthur Johnson, another old-time player, for
one of Miss Lawrence."

A slim, colorful, handsome youth, just under
six feet in height, William Bakewell has the spark-
ling eyes which betray a volatile and energetic
character. Fresh from a marked triumph in "The
Iron Mask," lauded by D. W. Griffith and Doug
Fairbanks as a film 'find' and contracted for several
pictures ahead, Bakewell has the happy naivete of
a child who has been let into a store full of won-
derful toys, with which he has been given unex-
pected permission to play.

His attitude towards the films is particularly re-
freshing. Plainly Bakewell revels in motion pic-
tures— in their blustering heroics, their swashbuck-
ling romanticism. One could read the thoughts in
his shining eyes as he watched the movements of
each actor who crossed the set. For he had trans-
formed it into a stage upon which he was the
leading player, the hero of this little world of make-
believe. It didn't matter if the outstanding char-
acter be prince or pirate, (Continued on page 108)

r\utrr\

UST another leading man until the talkie1-
came along, Warner Baxter is now a real
star, thanks to Mr. Fox's magic Movietone

NO wonder she is laughing! Lila Lee,
grown-up and gorgeous, has staged one
of the greatest come-backs in picture history.

Elmer Fr\er

LOIS WILSON was prepared when the talk-
ies hit Hollywood. With stage experience
behind her she has a new career ahead of her

i x *a ir Af v \

MATINEE idol, new style! Robert Arm-
strong's highly individual performances
have helped make this hero business human.

Freuhch

DOROTHY GULLIVER, after a long reign
as the queen of "The Collegians," has
graduated into full-length features. Watch her.

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON is unique
in Hollywood: a comedian with a leading
man's appeal, a hero with a sense of humor!

Lansing Brourn

MARION BYRON has justified Screen-
land's long-standing faith in her ability.
She is the ingenue appeal in "So Long Letty."

LIONIZED!

Nils Asther Adds Lion-Taming
to his Other Accomplishments

LOMBARD

Carol Lombard is the
Latest Sennett Girl to
Indulge in Drama

IT is an axiom of science that if you travel long enough in
one direction on this earth you will ultimately arrive at
the point from which you started. But science had nothing
to do with the application of this theory to a career in Holly-
wood. Carol Lombard did that. As a matter of fact, Carol
could not have made the trip faster around the enchanted circle
of what is coyly referred to as Cinemaland if she had had a
bicycle.

In a little more than two years, with six months out for acci-
dents, Carol has swept through an itinerary of ingenue leads,
Mack Sennett custard, screen vixens, sophisticated characters and

€[ Carol when she was
still helping Mac\
Sennett put over his
comedies, casting a
longing eye toward
drama.

Photograph hy
Edwin Bower Eesscr

By .
Erie Hampton

back to leads. According to the log of the trip, however,
the little blonde beauty veered a trifle from her course be-
cause instead of becoming an ingenue lead again she became
a much more interesting one, a leading lady with a past.

And this seems as good a point as any to start from the
beginning!

Fort Wayne, Indiana, was the town Mr. and Mrs. Lom-
bard decided upon to add one cute little Hoosier to its
population. That was about nineteen years ago and for
seven years a lively tow-headed youngster played dolls with
the girls and prisoner's base with the boys.

The street that Carol was born on evidently was pre-
destined to be significant in motion picture history, because
a few years before that important event a two-fisted little
roustabout saw the light of day and was christened Charles
Gebhardt. That youngster became Buck Jones, cowboy star.

Carol was brought to Los Angeles when she was seven.
California grammar schools and the Los Angeles High
School supplied the necessary intelligence and then came the
dramatic urge. A course in a dramatic school conducted
by Miriam Nelks was the result. Small parts followed in
productions at 'The Potboilers,' a little theater organization.

About this time Carol met Cecil B. De Mille, the god-
father of so many of the present screen great. lC.B.' was
impressed.

"How old are you?" the producer asked.
"Fourteen," replied Carol.

"Go home and grow up. Then come back and see me,"
said C.B.

"Yes, Mr. De Mille," said Carol, unconscious of the fact
that her answer was to go down in history as one of the
by-words of the great motion picture industry.

So Carol went back to her
dramatic knitting under the
guiding eye of Miriam Nelks.
More parts in stage produc-
tions. More complete training.
Better recognition. Then
another opportunity at the
gates of screen fame. This time
it was at the William Fox Stu-
dios through, it is said, a sister
of William Fox who was inter'
ested in the Little Theater
movement in Los Angeles and
had been impressed with
Carol's dramatic aptitude.

This time the age question
did not interfere. Carol was
seventeen years old. A small
part with Edmund Lowe fol-
lowed the (Com. on page 108)

<C Carol to day -
mure and
lighted with
success in talking
dramas.

de-
de-
her

On Location

Watching Harold Work is
Almost as Much Fun as
Seeing the Picture Itself

By Helen Ludlam

Harold Lloyd was shooting alhnight scenes out
at Westwood Hills. Although a good many
directors take night scenes in the day time be-
cause, by a special camera process, they think
they look better on the screen, Harold believes in realism.
When you see night scenes in his comedies you know they
are night scenes!

It was bitter cold, with a west wind blowing that was,
as Irene Bordoni says, 'the business of nobody.' Far
enough from the set so that its noise would not disturb
the actors was a huge generator pumping 'juice' for the
lights — the sun arcs, kleigs, and incandescents. Near the
set were stoves burning charcoal for warmth, the usual
supply of cables for "every one to trip over, and location
chairs for the convenience of a favored few.

Everyone was bundled up in heavy coats and as many
as could stood in front of the sun arcs to get an idea of
what it would be like out there if it was warm. This
luxury was, of course, denied the actors who, because of
the nature of the scene, could only wear the ordinary
business suit.

All the scenes that evening were between Harold
and Noah Young, whom you have seen in almost all the
Harold Lloyd pictures. During his career Noah has
played five hundred cops so he should know all about
the force. He was the cop in "Safety Last" and the tough
sailor in "The Sailor Made Man."

In the story it seems that Harold had taken on himself
the task of doing a little detective work to save his girl's
father, which led him to Chinatown. Noah was supposed
to be a green cop who acted as guide.

Almost anything can happen to a green cop and an
amateur detective, and in this case it does.

In the first place they didn't know where they were
going or why, which is always a help when you are trying
to get to the bottom of anything. They only knew that
somewhere in Chinatown there was something they had to
find out; so they just let events carry them along.

The set was swell — blocks of Chinese dwellings with
balconies lined with flower pots and decorative Chinese
lanterns. There were sudden corners, sudden stairways,
mysterious doorways, as there always are in Chinatown.
Everything you would want for a comedy setting.

When we arrived Harold was doing a clog dance to
warm himself up. Mai St. Clair, the director of these

sequences, clad in a camel's hair coat reaching almost to
his feet, was pacing up and down swinging his arms as
hard as he could and slapping the back of his shoulder
blades.

"Why weren't you here last night?" asked Harold after
he had greeted me. "It was warm and lovely and there
were lots of visitors. You're pretty game to come tonight.
I don't think anyone else will venture."

"Oh, I don't mind with this heavy coat," I said.

"Clara Bow might be out later," said Mai. But Clara
didn't show up, at least not while I was there, although
I left early, a little before twelve.

Joe Reddy, Harold's press representative, tried to take
Harold aside to talk over some business.

"They never let you alone, do they?" I asked.

Harold laughed. "No, and when I get home there are
a thousand and one questions to answer and papers to
sign about that bungalow I'm building on my hill."

The 'bungalow' is what most people would term a man'
sion. It has about twenty rooms, all large, all with a
superb view of the city, hills and ocean. To be really
in the hills of Beverly is a most ideal heritage. The can-
yons of California, particularly after the rains, are intoxi-

With Harold

[Harold with a member of the supporting cast
of his new picture of Chinatown.

Come Along With Screen-
land's Location Lady to
the "Welcome Danger" Set

eating retreats. Then the pungent sweetness of the wild,
yellow azalea fills the air, and stretches of 'purple lupins
and native poppy color up the landscape. There are
carpets of yellow violets and tiny cream- colored flowers
that look like miniature oriental poppies, only they aren't.
And dozens of other flowers that I don't even know
the names of!

"All ready, Harold," said Mai. Harold stripped off
his leather coat and entered the scene. A wind had
started up again and the lanterns were jiggling, ropes
from the latticed screens of the balconies were fluttering
and a state of confusion prevailed generally. After a
few minutes' wait Harold became curious because the
cameras hadn't started to grind.

"Hey," he sang out. "What's the holdup? It's cold out
here."

"The wind's blowing," said 'Dude' Lundin, head
camera man. (Continued on page 105)

({Harold invites you to watch him cavort under Mai St. Clair's direction in a sequence for "Welcome Danger."
Barbara Kent, the leading lady, is the \id with the cap at the right!

(( Evelyn Brent's pa-
jamas are as modem
as Evelyn herself.

((Raquel Torres con-
tributes the Mexi-
can influence and
Hollywood likes it.

<&h.e TAJAMA

The Picture Girls Approve
the New Vogue

((.Alice's are satin
and lace and de-
mure and White.

TARADE

Hollywood Embellishes the
Pa jama Idea

C[ Olive Borden's pajamas
have designs — well,
who wouldn't have de-
signs on Olive?

C[ Above: Douglas
Fairhan\s Jr. and his
bride, Joan Crawford. ~N.ext,
Claire Luce, who's just signed for tallies.
And Mae Murray, coming bac\ to the screen
after a long absence.

(^Hollywood Stars that Shine
on Broadway

"oan and Doug Junior! I want you to meet them. I know you'll
like them as much as I do. Of course, Manhattan is pretty keen
about these kids, because they chose to come east to be married,
wonder how Hollywood feels about that?
Young Doug's mother, Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks, lives in New York, you know;
and that's why the youngsters decided to be wed here. The whole thing is awfully
romantic — even if, contrary to report, Joan and Doug planned the event before they left
the west coast; it wasn't a last-minute decision when they arrived here. And while they were
still in town, Doug's mother was married, too — to Jack Whiting, a very handsome and tab
ented young musical comedy leading man. Isn't love grand?
Well, Joan is a complete surprise. She's so young, and impish, and freckled. Far from the
sophisticated lady she sometimes seems to be in pictures, she is a gay little girl with a healthy
coat of tan, an apparent disregard for frills and fuss, and a disarming honesty. She is madly in
love with Doug and makes no effort to conceal the fact. No vampish tactics for her! No — "Kiss
me, darling!" she cries when she feels like it. Young Doug obliges. "Give me a cigarette!" she
says; and aside to me, "Watch this. Every time I ask him for a cigarette, he lights a fresh one and
then forgets I asked for it and absent-mindedly begins to smoke it himself!"
The Junior Fairbankses stayed at the Algonquin where the senior Doug and Mary used to stay. And their
sojourn reminded me for all the world of the triumphal tours of Mary and Doug some years ago. Crowds
in the lobby; flowers; telegrams; page boys buzzing; reporters arriving and departing; the stars upstairs
trying to find a moment to themselves amid all the mad rush. I think Joan and Doug Jr. enjoyed it all the first

Above: Corinne ^
Griffith, leaving for
Hollywood, after her vacation.
Then Camilla Horn, who has said good-
bye to us for a while. Third, Richard
who has signed with Radio Pictures.

By Anne Bye

few days. But soon it became almost too much for them. After all,
flattering and soothing as adulation is, after a while it palls, and the cry is
for peace and quiet. Joan autographed literally hundreds of pictures — and each
one with the personal touch. More than any other great star, she seems to get a
genuine kick from her fan mail. She disregarded no request and when Doug Jr.
told her about a little girl in a red coat who had been waiting downstairs for hours
hoping to see her she phoned down and had the child paged and talked to her a long
time — while personal friends waited.

Doug Jr. is an interesting young man. He's very tall and blond and casual. He went
to school abroad, you know, and that may account for his rather amazing background. He's
only twenty-two, yet he has the poise and mental outlook of a man of thirty-five. A bit of a
high-brow, Doug — he yearns to do "L'Aiglon" and "The Jest" in talking pictures. He is dif-
ferent! Joan says so; he gave her her wedding ring, a slender diamond circlet, first; then when
they were married he presented her with a huge diamond engagement ring! She gave him a beau-
tiful platinum Watch with diamond hands. And all visitors had to be shown the watch!

Joan looks forward to her first talking picture. She believes she is fortunate in waiting so long to
make her talkie debut. "Tve been able to stand on the sidelines and watch," she says sensibly. "And
perhaps I've picked up a few pointers."

I asked Doug if they weren't sorry that their first picture together, "Our Modern Maidens," made them
'play opposite' other actors. Doug is a keen psychologist — and a good business man! "No," he said. "If Joan
and I had played happy lovers in that film it would have taken the edge off the co-starring (Cont. on page 110)

' The Eyes

Screenland's Charm
Department

"n^he poets who seem to be par'
ticularly susceptible to feminine
charm and who talk about it,
have given us some pretty good
publicity on eyes. Noses, mouths, com-
plexions and hair all have come in for
praise from makers of verse, but they
have given us no real help in telling
us whether we are beautiful or in what
way. In the matter of eyes, they are
no better. We don't know whether
they prefer eyes to be brown, blue, grey
or green. We only know that the poor
versifier has been rendered speechless by
his adored one's beautiful orbs. The
eyes have it!

When all is said and done, it is the
youthfulness and the expression of the
eyes that count more than color. The
girl who is most admired has young,
clear eyes. They may be languishing
or laughing, quizzical or demure; they
may be of any colort but they must shine
from her face happily, the compelling
charm of her personality. You can
camouflage some of your features, but
not your eyes. You can train your
mouth to smile while you're seething
with anger inside. You can brighten
your pale cheeks or colorless lips with a
discreet touch of rouge. But there's no
camouflage for eyes dulled by fatigue
and lack of care.

How disappointing, then, that hurried
glance in the mirror as you add a hasty
dab of powder preparatory to tea, din-
ner, or the dance. You wanted to look
your radiant best. You wanted some-
body's eyes to linger on you with just
a bit of love and pride. But those tired
eyes — they're a real giveaway.

And what to do? If you want your
eyes to be young and brilliant, don't
abuse them. You spend time and
thought on your skin and hair, but how
often do you think of the delicate nerves
and muscles of your eyes? You play
tennis in the blazing sun. You sit on a
glaring beach. You motor long hours
in dust, wind and sun-glare. You read
or embroider in a poor light. A fatigu-
ing day at your desk sends you home
with achins back and head. These

C[ Eyes, eyes, eyesl Reading from
top to bottom: 1, Alice White.
2, Olive Borden. 3, Betty
Compson. 4, Greta Garho.
5, May McAvoy. 6. Myrna
Loy.

Have It!

spasms of pain and annoyance register
on the delicate skin and conspire to
weave a network of unbecoming lines
about your eyes.

The 'ounce of prevention' applies to
the care of the eyes, as well as to the
care of the skin. Cleanse your eyes as
regularly as you cleanse your face. The
eyes are just as open to dust and dirt 8
as- the skin of your face is. Rather
than waiting for a large cinder to an-
nounce the fact, it is wise to wash the
eyes after any exposure. Cleanliness is
an important factor in eye beauty.

Choose a good eye bath that will
cleanse the eyes thoroughly, and also
serve as a tonic to strengthen them and
keep them youthfully clear and spark'
ling. Buy an aluminum or glass eye-
cup. When ready to bathe your eyes,
fill the eye-cup half full of the solution, 9
throw the head back, hold the cup
pressed tightly against the socket and
open and shut the eye at least a dozen
times so it may be well bathed in the
soothing fluid.

Cleanse the eyes in the morning, at
night before retiring, and upon coming
in from an outing, for comfort's sake.
And if you are going out and want to
rest and brighten your eyes, reserve ten
minutes for an eye treatment for
beauty's sake.

To cope effectively with the annoy-
ing fine lines due to fatigue or eye
strain, keep on hand a nourishing eye-
cream. After cleansing the eyes, mold
the cream gently into the skin around
the eyes and leave on for a few minutes.
A good astringent should then be used.
The most effective way to apply this is
to use smooth pads of cotton. Squeeze
these out in ice water and sprinkle well
with the astringent lotion, then mold
over the eyes. Relax for as many
minutes as you can spare. Remove all
traces of cream with the astringent.
When you look in the mirror you will
find that fatiguing lines have been
erased, and that your eyes are clearer,
larger, brighter. This is the quick, just-
before-going-out (Continued on page 103)

C[ More eyes! Reading from top
to bottom: 7, Dorothy Sebas-
tian. 8, Marion Davies. 9,
Clara Bow. 10, Eve Southern. n
11, Baclanova. 12, Bebe *^

Daniels.

C[ T^orma Shearer, says Adrian, has moulded
herself s\illfully and surely into one of
the best-groomed women in America.
Her screen clothes are designed by
. Screenland's Fas/iton Editor.

FS.WE years ago Hollywood could
never have set the styles in spite
of repeated emphasis about its
gorgeousness and originality. It
was ridiculously clinging to the sort of
gown more suggestive of a drapery depart-
ment's most impressive efforts than a really
smart woman.

Bad taste was running rampant, insinu-
ating itself into practically every star's life,
because the pictorial was more important
than smartness; because chic was unnoticed
and a tawdry grand manner the thing.
It was all due to bad taste, lack of knowl-
edge with too much money to spend.

Today, for the first time, Hollywood

DOES HOLLY-

Five Years Ago Bad Taste was Run-
ning Rampant in Hollywood. To-
day, for the First Time, the Film
Capital is Becoming of Value to
the Fashion World

really has a chance of becoming of value to the fashion world. Women
of taste are arriving in the midst of the obviousness and are impressing
the Tightness of simplicity upon the staring and rather tired-out motion
picture fashion-plate.

There is no such thing any longer as that bugaboo, 'dressing for the
screen.' That died with over-acting and red plush and gold rococo
furniture!

One does not need to spend one's time creating revue clothes for
private life.

People who created for motion pictures spent too much time creating
effects and too little time creating smartness. To be sure, a great many
of the bad gowns one sees in motion pictures is because the director de-
mands smartness without knowing what smartness is. His background
may not always correspond with the real meaning of the word and his
idea of a smart woman may be more Broadway than Park Avenue; but
generally speaking the motion picture now has a chance to do really
smart things.

The first reason is because a few motion picture stars \now smartness
and insist upon it regardless of the director's or any other's influence.
Another reason is that stage actresses are usually better dressed — not more
grand, but more elegant, more distinguished. The influx of stage actresses
to Hollywood has brought about an
interest in the gown depending
upon its line and cut rather than
its explosive powers in the form of
trimmings or bizarreness.

Personally I am grateful for the
arrival of the stage actress. Holly-
wood has needed someone who
could raise eyebrows at the tight-
fitting 'burlesque' costumes so preva-
lent here, and ask "But why?"
Surely they are not more alluring.
Tightness until it reaches practically
a bursting point always makes the
wearer look as if she were spilling
over the top!

If it is bad taste to be conscious
of one's clothes in real life it is
equally bad to be thinking about
their effect on the screen.

When we can become absolutely
unconscious of clothes and of the
camera we can have smartness, just
as when a star becomes absolutely
unconscious of the microphone we
can have genuine acting.

The stage has never lacked its
gowns with dramatic fire, yet it has
depended more upon subtlety than
a 'knock- 'em-down and drag-'em-
out' crudity which seemed to be the
only raison d'etre in motion pictures.

WOOD SET

THE STYLES?

By Adrian

Screen land's Fashion Editor

Three years ago Greta Garbo's clothes were the
acme of the most artificial and forced manner. Their
artificiality was supposed to maximize the intensity
of the situation. Today Garbo^fe gowned conserva-
tively and with restraint. Many of the same situa-
tions are in evidence and the fact that she looks
human and genuine in no way halts the intensity of
the drama. Thefe is no doubt that she has become
a reality recently, whereas in the past she was a
curiosity. Her elusiveness has not been obliterated
because it is impenetrable anyway. Through really
genuine dressing she has survived and continues in
the manner of today.

Norma Shearer has moulded herself skillfully and
with unfaltering sureness into one of the best-
groomed women in America. She could be picked
up on Hollywood Boulevard by an airplane and
dropped in Place de Vendome without apologies,
which is more than can be said of many of Holly-
wood's stars — simply because they specialize in em-
phasizing their lack of inter- (Com. on page 102)

C Right; Adrian and
Greta Garbo. He
says of her: "Three
years ago Greta Gar'
bo's clothes were the
acme of the most
artificial manner. To-
day she is gowned
conservatively and
with restraint."

(f The two Adrian
drawings illustrate
the good and the bad
in Hollywood style.
!N(o longer do Holly
wood women gown
themselves bizarrely,
as in the drawing
across the page. They
prefer the more sim-
pie and tasteful type
of gown shown in
this drawing.

Consult Adrian, Fashion Expert

Adrian is an authority on feminine fashions. He is
one of the most celebrated designers of women's
clothes in the world. Every month in Screenland
he discusses style problems of interest to women
everywhere. If you wish expert advice on the sub-
ject of dress write to Gilbert Adrian and he will be
glad to give you the benefit of his sound experience
and excellent ideas. He is the official costume de-
signer for such stars as Norma Shearer, Greta
Garbo, Joan Crawford. Address: Adrian, Screen-
land's Fashion Department, 49 West 45iA Street,
New York City.

<f Cleason — Broad-
way stage star
and playwright,
now writing and
acting for the
films.

HEN you get out to Hollywood, look me
up," James Gleason is writing these days
to his friends in New York. "You won't
have any trouble finding me. I'm the only
guy here with long pants."

It is true the popular comedian and playwright has
shifted his stamping ground westward from Broadway to
Hollywood Boulevard in order to write, direct and act in
pictures. But he has not succumbed to the film capital's
love of knickers.

"The men out here seem to think the big way to show
they are citizens of Hollywood is to wear short pants,"
grinned Gleason. "It doesn't matter whether they have
limbs of an Adonis or limbs like apple tree branches. They
all wear 'em. And don't think for a minute that the
knicker fad is limited. Oh my, no. They wear them to
'first nights,' to dinners. You bump into them every
where on the legs of our best people.

"The next time I'm invited to be master of ceremonies
at a movie premier, I have given everybody fair warn'
ing I'm going to wear a Tuxedo and a pair of golf pants.
Everybody will laugh at me, of course. They won't see
that it's me laughing at them!"

In practically every respect, New York and Hollywood
are as far apart as the continent that divides them, says
Jimmy Gleason. Take the girls of the two cities, for
instance.

"New York has beautiful girls. Hollywood's girls are
healthy-looking young creatures — potential beauties but
lacking the chic which the New York girls possess."

According to Gleason, a stranger coming to Hollywood
very often feels like an interloper. There is so much of
everything. If you have a diploma from New York, you
are all set for success in the film city. Otherwise, you
are just another Hollywoodite with day-dreams of fat
money bags and applause.

"New York gives a person the comfortable feeling of
being wanted and welcome," said Gleason. "I say this
in spite of all that has been said about the loneliness and
unresponsiveness of the Big City. I would like to recom-
mend New York to the young person trying to get a foot-
hold in the acting or writing professions. Be quiet, I
am not hired by the New York Chamber of Commerce
as a ballyhooer. Hollywood is a great place for the
person with money. But New York is the best train
ing ground I know of.

"You can drop in the library building almost
any hour of the day or evening and listen to lec-
tures on really worth-while subjects. Not some-

HELLO,

James Gleason, a Big Boy
from Broadway, Gives His
Impressions of Talkie Town

(("When you get out to Hollywood,
look me up," Jimmy Gleason is writ-
ing these days to his friends in Man-
hattan. "You won't have any trouble
finding me. I'll be the guy with the
long pants!"

({James Gleason is technically the head
of the family, but the real boss is
Lucille Webster Gleason. She is a
clever actress and witty writer; co-
author of "The Shannons of Broad-
way" and "The Shannons of
Hollywood," and one of the most
popular hostesses in all Holly-
wood. Russell Gleason is a
promising young actor under
contract to Pathe for a
series of pictures.

Hollywood!

Nancy Smith

■ ■

C[ He is a star on
Broadway arid
now Hollywood
is claiming him
for her own.

€["/ think I'll just be a Hollywood-to-
New York commuter" remarks
Mr. Gleason. "In that way I'll be
sure the California rose bushes are
watered and I'll be on hand for our
Broadway first nights "

'CC The three Gleasons
in the patio of their
Beverly Hills home.

thing useless like the sex life of the polyp or a disserta-
tion by a mushroom faddist. But something that will give
you a boost along the line you are following.1''

Hollywood Boulevard might just as well be the corner
of Forty-second Street and Broadway these days, says Jim.
Talking pictures are a powerful magnet. The best material
in New York's theatrical world is being picked up from
The Great White Way, whisked 3000 miles across the
continent, and set in front of Hollywood microphones.

The group of New Yorkers who have 'turned Holly-
wood' increases with each transcontinental train that
steams into Los Angeles. Sooner or later these New
Yorkers meet at one of the famous Gleason Sunday morn-
ing breakfast parties. Ralph Morgan, Elizabeth Risdon,
Frank Faye, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Harding, Harry Ban-
nister, Wells Root, Al Jolson, Irving Berlin and Arthur
Caesar are frequent callers at the Gleason's hillside estate.

Mrs. Gleason, known always as a charming hostess
whether within the four walls of a New York home or
the unbounded area of a Hollywood patio, has introduced
something new in luncheon parties.

"After luncheon Lucile lets her guests enjoy a shampoo
or amuse themselves in any way they wish," explained
Gleason, who has never got over being amused at the
luncheon party innovation of his wife's. "It's not at all
unusual to see half a dozen ladies dotting our garden,
drying their locks. I wouldn't be at all surprised to come
home some afternoon and find them all playing jacks on
the stone flagging in the patio. Informal, you know — like
East Forty-ninth Street! Only much grander."

Practically the entire cast of "Strange Interlude" were
old New York friends of The Gleasons. The pro-
duction played for part of its run in the Hollywood Music
Box Theater. This theater is located on Hollywood Boule-
vard at the foot of the hill where the Gleasons live. It
became a very usual sight or the Gleaison limousine to be
waiting outside the theater during the dinner hour inter-
mission to take the players up the hill to the Gleason
dining-room for a dinner table reunion.

"Harry Bannister said that 'Strange Interlude' came to
have a new meaning for him," laughed Gleason. "You
can imagine how eating dinner from a hillside dining-
room during the intermission of the O'Neill play would
be something new and delightful to a New York actor."
Hollywood is the most glorious place in the world as
a background for home life, declares Jimmy Gleason.
Film work has meant more regular hours for the
Gleasons. They are a family who loves to be to-
gether, whether working (Continued on page 112)

"Is It Worth Seeing?" is the Question Every-
Silent. Let Screenland's Revuettes Guide You

Honky Tonk

You've heard of sermons in stones, but
Sophie Tucker is the only jazz-shouting mama
who can put over sermons in songs and make
you like it. This picture brings the real Sophie
to us — the big, voluptuous figure, the big,
voluptuous voice, and a heart that matches both
curves and contralto. The story is poor: about
a night club mama who sings to drunken
crowds so daughter can have a continental edu-
cation. But Sophie did what she's been doing
on the stage for 20 years. She put so much
heart into her husky singing and talking that
the first night audience was alternately weeping
and roaring. Lila Lee, as the daughter, and
Mahlon Hamilton, as a waiter in love with
Sophie, did good work. But when Soph struck
up "Red Hot Mama" and "Some of These
Days," everything faded out but Tucker. It
was her big night!

Two Weeks Off

Dorothy Mackaill, who seems to be stepping out these days,
plays the role of a sales-girl away on her vacation. At the
beach she meets with Jack Mulhall, a plumber, who gets iden-
tified as a movie star. It requires endless feet of film to inform
you that despite his plumber's plunger, Dorothy loves him still.
Eddie Gribbon, Jed Prouty, and Gertrude Astor are good.

Constant Nymph

This English prize-winning picture taken from Margaret
Kennedy's popular book has been sensitively conceived and
directed. The one great drawback of the film is that it's silent.
As a talkie it would have been magnificent, since it deals en-
tirely with music and musicians. Ivor Novello, as the thought-
less composer, and Mabel Poulton, as Tessa, are splendid.

College Love

Collegiate? I'll say. Love? Ummmm! If college is like this
new talkie, a lot of high-schoolers can look forward to Life's
Great Thrill. A bunch of your old friends: pretty Dorothy
Gulliver, handsome George Lewis, and that sex-appealing
juvenile villain, Eddie Phillips, backed by a hummin', playin',
Collegiate Quartette, make "College Love" amusing.

struttin

The One Woman Idea

A nice, old-fashioned romance about a Persian Prince, Rod
La Rocque, in love with a beautiful English lady, Marceline
Day, married to a bounder, Douglas Gilmore. Of course, friend
husband gets killed off and Marceline falls into the princely
arms. Miss Day plays a dual role, doubling as a half-caste
dancer. Both characterizations are clear-cut.

the zJfyf o v i e s !

body Asks about a Motion Picture, Sound or
to the Worth-While in Screen Entertaiment

The Big Palooka

Have you ever wondered how spaghetti would sound if it
were eaten in talking pictures? See "The Big Palooka" and
you will hear Harry G ribbon vocalize this well-known victual.
It's a new note in the comedy scale. In addition, Thelma Hill,
Andy Clyde, bricks and a shotgun wedding give a new Mack
Sennett version of "Get Your Man." All-talking, fast-moving.

Studio Murder Mystery

This hodge-podge of comedy and tragedy isn't such a thriller
but you'll like it because it's shot almost entirely 'back stage'
on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. An actor is shown un-
successfully rehearsing a murder scene. Shortly afterwards four
people threaten him with murder. At midnight he is killed!
Warner Oland and Neil Hamilton steal the show.

Behind that Curtain

From the Saturday Evening Post's splendid
detective serial by Earl Biggers, this is a distin-
guished talking picture, sensitively directed,
finely cast and acted in finished fashion, down
to the smallest bit. Lois Moran, as an English
heiress, elopes with a cad. Warner Baxter, a
renowned explorer, loves Lois. When unfaith-
fulness, blackmail, and finally murder drive her
away from him, she joins Baxter's came!
cavalcade, and crosses the great desert with him,
thus starting a flame of action which sweeps
half across the world. It's seldom an actor can
realistically translate to his audience the pro-
found passion of love. This Baxter does simply
and movingly. Lois lives up fully to the promise
given in "Stella Dallas." Philip Strange, Gil-
bert Emery, Claude King, and Boris Karloff
contribute excellently balanced performances to
one of the sincerest screen efforts of the season.

She Goes to War

Eleanor Boardman, hoity-toity society girl, goes to France
looking for glory. She winds up a heroine, taking her cowardly
lover's place in the line-up, accidentally killing Fritzi, machine
gunner. Big kick comes when the enemy start rolling liquid
fire on helpless Yanks who crowd into tanks which soon become
red-hot and pass through flames to safety. A good cast.

Father and Son

This interesting talking picture with Jack Holt as the father
and ingenuous little Mickey McBan as the son is concerned
with what happens when Papa goes to Paris and returns
with Dorothy Revier, as a stepmama for Mickey. The once-
happy household becomes embroiled in a murder. Miss Revier
and Mr. Holt are excellent, and Mickey is appealing.

Give a Thought to
Father! He's All
Right, Too

<( Right: William J. Cowen,
Radio Pictures director,
with his daughter, Joyce
Antonia.

((Below: Alan Hale, master
villain, amusing his four'
year-old heiress, Karen.

<C Above: one of the most famous
father-daughter combinations in the
world: Richard Barthelmess and
his pride and joy, little Mary Hay
Barthelmess, in the garden of their
Beverly Hills home.

(C Left, below: Milton Sills with his small son, Kenyan,
and Mrs. Sills. Below: Noah Beery and Noah, Jr.

Some Famous Pic-
ture Papas in their
Favorite Roles

({Left: Conrad Nagel with
Ruth Helms Nagel on
Conrad's yacht.

({Below: Monte Blue and his
hobby, Baby Blue, other-
wise known as Barbara.

({Fred Niblo, famous director, with
his children — Loris, age seven;
Peter, age five, and Judith Beryl,
age one. Their mother is Enid
Bennett, the popular actress.

DADDY!

' ({Below: director Millard Webb and his little daughter.
Right, below: Jean Hersholt and young Allen Hersholt.

HOT

IOL

Hot dog! Carol Lombard, Diane Ellis and
Little Bum, their mutual pet.

ouise Fazenda has gone to Alaska for her vacation. The
last time I saw her I had just returned from a location
j in Lone Pine. "The best I can do in the way of a
location," Louise said grimly, "is Yuma in July!1'' Every-
body howled. Yuma in summer is a synonym for the place where
all naughty people go. Louise would pull a joke like that on
herself.

She had brought the most luxuriant-looking angel food cake,
covered with an inch-thick creamy icing. All the fortunate ones
got a piece and the ones left over got cookies. Louise's cookies
are something to write home to mother about, too. Husband
Hal Wallis is lucky and he knows it. I spent an evening on
the "On With the Show11 set with Louise, just to see the color
and costumes. Hal came to go home with his wife, but how do
you suppose they had to work it? Louise had her car and he had
his, so they drove along side by side as much as traffic would
permit! Every once in a while he would turn on his big police
spotlight just to let her know that he was still there.

"I can always tell when Hal is a mile away from me by that
spot,'''' Louise said.

* * *

Speaking of cars, Nick Stuart has a new one, a swell Cadillac
job. It is light fawn with the fenders and trim of a color sug-
gestive of raspberries well squashed in cream. Nick is inordi-
nately proud of it and drives his little girl friend Sue Carol about
a lot. We all went to a picture together and after it was over,
dipped in to the Pig'n Whistle for a sundae. Sue had a fresh
strawberry and I think Nick had a chocolate sundae — anyhow,
he had been rather thoughtful and just as he was about to put
a large spoonful into his mouth, he halted it in mid-air and
said, solemnly, "Oh Sue, you are so cute. The more I see of
you the sweeter I think you are!" and went on eating his sundae!

Mary Brian's laughing voice floated with silvery sweetness out
of her dressing-room window. Two visitors were startled to see

f r

o m

Screenland's
Department
of News

the demure little star's head appear through said
window and hear her shout: "Dick! Come here!
Look at my pants!"

"Ohoo!" said the visitors, with a sharp intake
of horrified breath. "And I thought Mary Brian
was such a refined, nice girl!" Dick Arlen
sauntered down the steps of his dressing-room,
and Mary shook a pair of old fashioned pan-
talets at him, part of her costume in "Magnolia."
"Aren't they a scream?" she cried. The visitors,
I am happy to say, enjoyed a good laugh on
themselves.

* * *

Two little girls were laughing and joking with
the rest of the chorus in a corner of the "On
With the Show" set, while Betty Compson wor-
ried through the rehearsal of her tricky lines.
An extra burst of mirth from the girls
threatened the 'mike' with ruin." "Quiet, Sally

C[ Marilyn Miller comes to Hollywood to ma\e
"Sally" and is greeted by her mother and
her father, Caro G. Miller, a Noble of the
Mystic Shrine.

HOLLYWOOD

All the Talk
from Talkie
Town

O'Neil and Molly O'Day!" said an assistant.
Sally giggled like a school-girl caught in a pillow
light. Molly stuck out a saucy pink tongue at
him.

% %l

The Ken Maynard outfit was ready to shoot
the star with his pet horse Tartan. Well, you
know what I mean — it isn't just what it sounds
like. The moving pictures will be the death of
the English language. Anyhow, everything was
all set, but although Tartan had been called
twice, he hadn't arrived. Ken looked out and
saw his favorite and the five other palominos
with their heads together.

Ken grinned. "Guess we'll have to move to
the other set-up, boys. Tar2,an seems to be in
conference!"

* * *

Girls and boys, you are going to see the New

((Richard AWen and King Tut, the $50,000
dog actor, reading the stoc\ mar\et reports.
King Tut things the tal\ies are great — his
bar\ registers 100%.

(("Here's looking at you!" says Irene Bordoni to a caricature
of herself done by Gourset, the famous French sculptor.

York Follies right in your home town. Yes sir! Sam Goldwyn is
going to send them to you and Floren2; Ziegfeld is going to put
them together. You will see the most beautiful girls, the most
beautiful sets, the most beautiful gowns, and hear the most beau-
tiful music and the funniest jokes, just as New York does for
ten dollars a throw! And there's going to be color, too — Techni-
color! Better sharpen up your eyes so's you won't miss anything.

Said to be the largest set ever constructed for a talking motion
picture the concert hall sequence in "Lummox," directed by
Herbert Brenon, was shot on the newest United Artists' sound
stage. I guess they weren't lying either. It looked the largest
I have seen and while I haven't been on every set of every picture,
I have covered considerable ground.

A seventy-five piece symphony orchestra under the direction
of Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld played several numbers, while a large
audience of extras listened. Twelve cameras and heaven knows
how many 'mikes' recorded the action and sound, while Winifred
Westover, as Bertha, crept in and stood at the back, a pathetic,
dowdy little figure, to listen to the great pianist whom she does
not know is her own son. He is played by William Bakewell.

"I'm so nervous," said Winifred, offering me an icy little
paw. "Do hold a good thought for me, won't you? I need as
many as I can get. There isn't much to this bit, but it is a most
important scene psychologically and everything depends upon my
giving it just the proper expression."

I couldn't wait until it was over because of an appointment,
but Winifred thought they would be working half the night.
As I went out I asked one of Mr. Brenon's assistants whether
they would or not. "What! When we're paying these musicians
thirty-five dollars an hour? I guess not! We'll finish up at six,
don't worry!"

% % !fc

On the strength of Ben Lyon's ability as a flier and his recent
pictures on this subject, he has had an offer to star in a series

of flying pictures.

* * *

Edwina fiooth, the plucky little
girl is in the African jungle for the
filming of "Trader Horn," in which
she plays the heroine, sent the fol-
lowing self-explanatory postal to
Screenland's correspondent :

"Isn't this glorious? Back to na-
ture! No shopping. No white s\irts!
(She had tried all over Los Angles to
get the right kind the day before she
left). Tomorrow begins my second
week in Africa. Wish you were here
to enjoy it all with me." ( So do I,
Edwina, my dear.)

* * *

i . .-

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Niblo (Enid
Bennett) have started upon a seven-
thousand-mile tour of America. Mrs.
Niblo thinks it is about time. Their work has taken them
to almost every other country in the world. This trip
includes the United States and Canada.

It will be a second honeymoon, for they have left the
children at home and gone just by themselves without
chauffeur or maid. They will take turns driving and have
a camping outfit so that they can, when they are in the
humor for it, sleep and eat in the open that they both
love. They also have a complete camera and graflex equip-
ment and Mr. Niblo has his eye peeled for locations on
the way. They are to be gone three months, then back
to work at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in September. It is
Mr. Niblo's first vacation in three years.

Won't they have fun?

% *H %

Lon Chaney has a new Lincoln. It's a one passenger
coupe, and it's grey. So has George Hill, only his is dark
blue; and Dorothy Sebastian steamed into the MGM gate
the other day as sassy as you please in a dark blue Chrysler
coupe.

ti[ Malcolm Stuart Boylan, chief title
writer for Fox Films, at the tele-
phone. "What's that, Mr. Sheehan?
7^,0 more titles are required for pic-
tures'! All right, sir!"

G[ Malcolm Stuart Boylan wrote
Films but he lights his pipe
are here

There are six new Paramount stars! You know and love
them all. They are Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, Richard
Arlen, Nancy Carroll, Ruth Chatterton and William
Powell. Three of them, Gary, Dick and Evelyn, are mourn-
ing over Paramount's decision which they fought for weeks.
No fun being a star — too much responsibilty. The only
thing is the money and they all plan to save it.

What happened I don't know, and no one will tell, but

with Metro fighting for "Journey's End" for John Gilbert,

and Sam Goldwyn fighting for it for Ronnie Colman, who

should get the prise New York play of the year but

Tiffany- Stahl! They don't know whom they are going

to get to play in it, but they have it anyway.

* * *

Eve Southern has recovered completely from the motor
accident she was in months ago. One of those crazy drivers
came dashing out of a side street and struck Eve's car,
completely overturning it. She was in a plaster cast for
weeks, but is now quite right again and everyone on the

many good titles for silent Fox
with them, now that the talkies
to stay.

G[ Malcolm Stuart Boylan is now writ'
ing dialog for tal\ies — and if he
delivers anything as good as his
"What Price Glory?" subtitles he
can write his own contract!

lot is delighted.

* * *

Hollywood's Club de luxe, The Mayfair, which is held
monthly at the Biltmore, closed its season for the summer.
Filmland turned out en masse in the most brilliant attend-
ance of the year. Renee Adoree and Robert Vignola were
the two members of our party of interest to fans, Renee
looking very beautiful in a close-fitting panne velvet gown.
Her favor was a little porcelain dog that was having its
tail bitten by a fly, and its expression was very droll. She
named it Chico and took it home with her.

Evelyn Brent, all sun-tanned from her stay at Malibu
Beach, looked perfectly fascinating in an ivory satin gown,
very low in the back. And there were Irene Bordoni and
Fay Bainter, both of whom have recently arrived in Holly-
wood to appear in films. There was June Collyer dancing
with Buddy Rogers. Lina Basquette did a very clever solo
dance. Bob Vignola asked Estelle Taylor why she didn't
dance too, and Estelle said she didn't think she had better,
because she didn't have on nice lace panties like Lina's.

But leave it to Bessie Love to do
the clever thing! She appeared on
the dance floor in a lemon moire
gown that blended perfectly with her
sun-tanned skin and golden hair. Her
'act' was a pantomime of a young
person walking into a restaurant,
waving to this acquaintance and that,
powdering her nose, receiving an
overture from an admirer to whom
she had not been introduced, her
surprise and complete rit^ing of the
young man, and haughty exit. She
wasn't on the floor more than two
minutes at the most, but it was a
performance. Bessie has a way with
her! Besides being an artist, she is
a fine technician, and everything she
does is intelligent.

& & 3*

In the beginning of "Four Devils" you will see a little
girl who takes the part of Janet Gaynor when she was
a child. Her name is Dawn O'Day, and you want to
watch Dawn, as she grows up. A good many people
think that she will be one of those who will last. There
is a wistfulness in her face and an atmosphere about her
that makes her stand out from the other three very talented
children, among whom is Phillippe De Lacey.

Seven years ago Dawn did her first picture. She was
three years old and her part was almost as long as that
played by the star, William Farnum. Dawn was called
temperamental on occasion. It was her first picture, she
wasn't a very experienced actress, and there were times
when things had to be explained to her by her director,
Mr. Herbert Brenon. Then Dawn would decide that she
just couldn't act, and would leave the company flat — the
$10,000 a week star, and all; and there was nothing that
anybody could do about it!

Miss Garbo is not the first actress after all to say, "I
go home now." Dawn's version was, "I am going to my

' Vivian and Rosetta Duncan pic\ing on a poor defenceless
microphone. For no good reason — their voice tests are perfect.

dwessing-room." Mr. Brenon would coax, cajole, and
use every means in his power to change the young lady's
mind, to no avail.

One afternoon there was a thunder storm and it was
very hot. Dawn hadn't had very much lunch, only some
ice cream, and she was very tired. Her mother picked
her up and said, "Never mind, darling, we will take a
taxi home." And the baby, to whom this unknown lux-
ury did not seem very inviting, wailed, "Oh, Mother,
what can I do with a taxi?"

§ & -K

If one has the privilege of meandering through the
Paramount lot at will, one may find in the wardrobe
department several items of interest. You remember a
picture called "Blood and Sand," made a few years ago,
whose star was Rudolph Valentino? Do you recall the
famous matador costume, heavy with gold braid and

gaily colored silk? Well, it hangs there, and if you think
that Rudy was any weakling, you should lift that cos-
tume! It weighs forty pounds. In another corner is a
coat of mail worn by Wally Reid in "Joan the Woman,"
carefully marked and hung up on a peg, perhaps never
to be used again.

Along with these of precious memory, arc thousands
of costumes worn in "The Ten Commandments" in the
ancient sequence; the trick costume of Chester Conklin;
the dog and cat that delighted you in "Peter Pan," and
many, many others.

Jjc ig& if>

Tom Jackson from Broadway will probably remain in
Hollywood for some time, now that "Broadway" has
opened. What a reception his splendid work received!
Every scene of his was applauded enthusiastically. You
will see him in his original part of the detective. Tom
began his career as the Property Man in the original
company of "The Yellow Jacket," during its initial run.
Arthur Shaw, who is in the present revival, was the
original Property Man, but he left the cast before the
season closed and Tom succeeded him.

By the way, "The Yellow Jacket," the American clas-
sic written by George C. Hazclton and Benrimo, opened

C( Dorothy Sebastian having the squea\ ta\en out of her shoes
so that she won't have a squea\ in her tal\ie!

((Asleep at the fish! Richard Dix snatches a few win\s between
catches, while on vacation between talking pictures.

in the Los Angeles Repetory Playhouse with many of the
film people present. Mary and Doug were there, and wc
also saw Jetta Goudal looking mysterious and gorgeous
in a flame-colored, gold-embroidered velvet cloak that
seemed to serve as a gown as well.

There are some very clever children in Hollywood.
One interesting family are the Johnsons — six of them
— all in pictures off and on. Carmencita plays in almost
every picture Victor Fleming directs. In one she was
to be a Cupid, and she had an idea, because it was to b^
a fancy dress ball, that there was to be a very festive
costume. Her hopes rose accordingly.

"Where is my coskume?" she asked the wardrobe
mistress, and when a bit of gauze was handed to her,
her little face fell in disappointment. Looking it over
for a few disgusted moments she said, "Well, I can tell
you right now that Kenneth won't like it!" (Kenneth
being her brother.)

The gorgeous Irene Bordoni has come to the films via
"Paris," a picturization of the play she did on the stage.
It's a talkie, in Technicolor, too. Irene was getting her
first taste of sound-picture life out at First National the
day I was there. Because of a few technical errors the
scene had several false starts.

"Zees lights!" said Mile. Bordoni. "I am dizzy I Do
not register zat I am dizzy, will you?"

Zazu Pitts plays her maid, just as Irene is slipping
on a very gorgeous Chinese green gown the bell rings
and she says to her maid, "Open ze door." The gown
was very tight fitting, and being so occupied in trying
to get into it she said, "Open ze dress!" and then burst
out laughing, the scene being spoiled of course.

"I was so annoyed wis; ze dress — I got my lines all
mixed up." Then Zazu forgot a word too, which made
them even in the matter of spoiling scenes. Finally it
was taken to the satisfaction of everyone; but the director
let the camera grind on, while Irene wriggled and
squirmed her way into the silken prison. Suddenly she
said, "Well how long do I do zis?" Whereupon everyone
laughed.

❖ ❖ $

Carmel Myers was married on June ninth at the

Janet Gaynor writes her name in the cement of Grauman's
Chinese Theater in Hollywood, recently added to the
William Fox chain.

Glenn Hunter, star of the stage version of "Spring Is Here,"
greets Doug Fairbanks, ]r., who is to play in the tal\ie version
of the same musical comedy.

film for the now extinct Cameraphone Company. Today
the ex-ball player and vaudevillain is appearing in the
cast of "Thunderbolt," a 100-percent dialog production.
It is his first role in the modern audible pictures, al-
though he has played parts in many silent films.

In that audible production made 21 years ago, Donlin
and his wife first sang their songs, spoke their lines and
did their tap dance for phonograph records. Then,
while the records were played back again, they rehearsed
their act to synchronize with the spoken words, the
songs and the dance. When they had it down to a fine
point, they did it before the cameras. When the film
was released the phonograph records accompanied it.
Starting of the picture and the phonographs was per-
fectly timed, resulting in fairly accurate synchronization.
The film was made at the Cameraphone studio at 4th
Avenue and 43rd Street, New York.

Temple B'nai B'rith in Hollywood. The modern Hebrew
marriage is a very beautiful ceremony. They don't prom-
ise to love, honor and obey for life, but they do promise
to keep in their hearts the same friendship for the loved
one that they now have. Surely that is putting as small
a tax on restive human nature as one could expect in a
contract.

May McAvoy was married on June twenty-sixth to
Maurice Cleary. Hollywood has been going shower crazy
what with Carmel and May. An interesting shower was
given by Mildred Davis Lloyd to May at Mildred's new
home in Beverly Hills that Harold Lloyd built for her, to
which all the members of Our Girls club were invited.

After a lapse of 21 years, Mike Donlin, a former big
league baseball player, is back in talking pictures. On
a Saturday afternoon in October, 1908, Donlin and his
wife, Mabel Hite, put on their vaudeville act as a talking

(( Behe Daniels christens the Hollywood-Reno air line said to
be the fastest in the world. Captain Roscoe Turner assists
at the ceremony.

C Sharon Lynn is ane of the movie
girls who is glad that Mr. Micro-
phone is ruling the Hollywood
studios. Fox Movietone gave
Sharon her great chance in "The
Fox Follies" and she sang and
danced and vamped her way into
the hearts of her audience. Yes-
Sharon has arrived!

Photograph* of
Mies Lynn by
Kahle.

<C Miss Lynn had been in pictures for a long time in more or less incon-
spicuous roles; but it remained for the talkies to bring her real fame.

HE %IS E
of SHARON:

C[ Lenore Ulric made her movie debut
some years ago as every good fan
will remember. But she deserted
the studios for her first love, the
stage. Now the films have found
her again. She is the talking and
emoting star of "Frozen Justice."
She's come back home!

Photographs of
Miss Vine by
Fox Films.

4(She is an idol on Broadway as a Belasco star. Her art will reach new
millions as a star in the talking picture drama. Welcome, Lenore!

dENORE^

f^ost and ^ound!

SCREENLAND

ASK
ME!

An Answer Department
of Information About
Flayers and Pictures

(\ Mary Pic\ford, always popular with Miss Vee Dee s
department, surpassed herself this month, with more
letters to her credit than any other star.

f( Miss Vee Dee will be glad to answer
any questions you may care to ask about
pictures and picture people. If you wish
an answer in the Magazine please be
patient and await your turn, but if you
prefer a personal reply by mail, please
enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
Address: Miss Vee Dee, Screenland
Magazine, 49 West Street, New

York City.

Miss Personality of St. Louis.
You'd like to reach Ronald
Colman if he is very unhappy!
I can't promise how unhappy
you'll find him but perhaps your letter will
cheer him up anyway. His latest picture,
"Bulldog Drummond," is a sure fire hit
with the fans, so I figure that everything is
a little bit of all right for Ronald. You
can write to him at Samuel Goldwyn Pro-
ductions, 7212 Santa Monica Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal.

D. E. G. of Rialto, Cal. West meets
East and Screenland makes the whole

GC Cheer up, Ronald Colman — Miss Vee
Dee's correspondents picked you for
their pet male rave this month!

world kin. And I'm your great-aunt Sonny
Boy. Lina Basquette is the wife of Peverell
Marley, Cecil De Mille's cinematographer.
She was born in San Mateo, Cal., on April
19, 1907. She has black hair and dark
brown eyes. She played child parts on the
screen at the age of 9 years. Later, at
the age of 16, she was premiere danseuse
of the Ziegfeld "Follies." In 1927 she
signed with FBO and made "Ranger of
the North." She played with Richard
Barthelmess in "The Noose" and in Cecil
De Mille's "Godless Girl." You can reach
her at the Universal Studios, Universal
City, Cal.

Kenee, Hastings-on-Hudson, 7^. T. Many
thanks for your kindly interest in my com-
plex. If I'd confess my age you'd say I
didn't look it. My eyes reflect most any
color — anything but black; that I won't
stand for. You can reach Gary Cooper at
Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathon St.,
Hollywood, Cal.; Lon Chaney and William
Haines at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios,
Culver City, Cal.

Gloriana from Vancouver, B. C. You've
had your wish — we now have a loud speak-
ing department for the fans and by the
fans. Speak up. Gloria Swanson's next
film will be an original by Edmund Gould'
ing — the saga of a stenographer. "Queen
Kelly" will be remade at some future time.
Johnny Mack Brown is a native of Dothan,
Alabama, born September 1, 1904. He has
black hair, brown eyes, is 6 feet tall and
weighs 165 pounds. He is married but
his wife is not an actress. He played in
"Coquette" with Mary Pickford; and with
Greta Garbo in "The Single Standard."
You'll find Vilma Banky at Samuel Gold-
wyn Productions, 7210 Santa Monica Blvd.,

Hollywood, Cal. Norma Shearer and Joan
Crawford at MetrcGoldwyn-Mayer Stu-
dios, Culver City, Cal. After being a
movie fan for twelve years, you find our
magazine the best on the market — do I
agree with you? I never dispute the word
of a lady.

Anita from Stoc\ton, Cal. It is true that
several prominent screen players have
answered their last call during the past
two years, among them your favorite, Ward
Crane. Others who played their last fade-
out are, Arnold Kent, Larry Semon, George
Beban, Fred Thompson and that 'grand old
man," Theodore Roberts.

Irish Kate from Manitowoc, Wis. Times
have changed. We used to say, actions
speak louder than words but the talkies
have changed all that. We are now
having our nerves stimulated with sound
accompaniment. William Boyd is Elinor
Faire's husband. He was born June 5.
1898, at Cambridge, Ohio. His first screen
work was in 1919 as an extra in Cecil
De Mille's "Why Change Your Wife?" He
has blond hair, blue eyes and is 6 feet
tall. Since "Doomsday" was released in
January 1928, Gary Cooper has appeared
in "Half a Bride" with Esther Ralston,
"The First Kiss" with Fay Wray, "Lilac
Time" with Colleen Moore, and "Shop-
worn Angel" with Nancy Carroll.

Elsie M. of Buffalo, H- T. Who is hap'
pier than a satisfied subscriber to Screen-
land? William Haines uses his own name
in pictures. He was born January 1,
1900, at Staunton, Va. He is 6 feet tall,
weighs 165 pounds and has black hair and
brown eyes. His first talking picture was
"Alias Jimmy Valentine."

SCREENLAND

diLoretta Young, very popular with the
'As\ Me' fans.

Pat from Charlotte, 7s[. C. I'm glad to
welcome you to our cosy nook (printer, now
don't you make that, crazy nook.) You
read me to the last line, do you? What's
the matter with the first line? Charles Far-
rell has been in pictures for five years;
no stage experience. He was born August
9, 1902, at Onset Bay, Mass. He has
brown hair and eyes, is 6 feet 2 inches
tall and weighs 182 pounds. Charles'
notable films are, "Old Ironsides," "Rough
Riders," "Seventh Heaven," "Street
Angel," "Faz.il," and "The River." Janet
Gaynor was born October 6, 1906, in
Philadelphia, Pa. She has red hair, brown
eyes, is 5 feet tall and weighs 100 pounds.
Her appearance with Charlie Farrell in
"Seventh Heaven" was a sensation and
established her well-deserved success. She
has played in "Sunrise" with George
O'Brien, "Four Devils" with Nancy Drexel,
Barry Norton and Charles Morton, and
"Street Angel" with Charlie Farrell. Her
earlier films were, "The Return of Peter
Grimm," "Pigs," and "The Johnstown
Flood." Janet and Charlie are not mar-
ried.

The Girl Friends from Duluth, Minn.
You think Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
are plenty hot but Gary Cooper just
naturally burns you up — and Gary, with
his usual tranquility, keeps on opening his
fan mail! But does he answer the thou-
sands of letters personally? Search me!
I can tell you without batting one of my
famous eye-lashes that I do not know his
home address, but he will receive your
letters at the Paramount Studios. Just

write him a bang-up-good letter and I'll
bet he r~:ads it. And he may even answer
it!

A. M. from Kansas. A. M. post-cards
just one question. Ask two the next time
and letter it. Playing in "A Thief in the
Dark" were, Doris Dawson, Gwen Lee,
Marjorie Beebe, George Meeker, Erville
Alderson, Michail Vavitch, Noah Young,
C. M. Belcher, Raymond Turner, James
Mason, Yorke Sherwood, Frank Rice and
Tom McGuire.

Horace N.. T. of Farmington. One of
the Maine events, aren't you? This is your
first letter to me but see to it that it's not
your last. In "The Poor Nut" Jack Mul-
hall was ]ohn Miller, Jane Winton was
Julia and Glenn Tryon was 'Magpie'
'Welch. John Mack Brown played opposite
Marion Davies in "The Fair Co-Ed." In
"Sorrell and Son" Mickey McBan was Kit
Sorrell as a child and Nils Asther was the
adult Kit. Mary Nolan was the childhood
sweetheart and bride of young Kit. May
McAvoy was Esther in "Ben Hur."

Mrs. Helen E. C. of Hew Jor\. With
praise as sincere as yours and a boost so
high Screenland should sit on top of the
world. Mah-ha-may! You can write Ruth
Elder at Universal Studios, Universal City,
Cal. Paul Lucas appeared in "Wolf of Wall
Street" with George Bancroft and Olga
Baclanova. Mr. Lucas was born May 26,
1895, at Budapest, Hungary. He is 6
feet 2 inches tall, weighs 182 pounds and
has brown hair and eyes. He had a 'very
successful stage career in the large Euro-
pean cities before he came to Hollywood.
He played with Billie Dove in "The Night
Watch," with Richard Aden and Nancy
Carroll in "Manhattan Cocktail," and with
Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll in "Shop-
worn Angel." You can write him at Para-
mount Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Holly-
wood, Cal.

C. E. P. L. of Oklahoma City. If I
know my famous people and I think I do,
Will Rogers came from your state. But
where is Baby Peggy? My stars! How
these little ones grow up, and Peggy is no
exception. Greta Nissen appeared in
"Fazjl" with Charles Farrell and in "The
Butter and Egg Man" with Jack Mulhall.

Betty of Piqua, Ohio. Too many letters
ahead of you to get your request in the
very next issue but think how lucky you
are to break into print in this famous dc
partment. Sally ONeil gets her fan mail
at Tiffany-Stahl Studios, 4516 Sunset Blvd.,
Hollywood, Cal. Clara Bow's last pictures
are, "Three Week-Ends" with Neil Hamil-
ton and Harrison Ford, and "The Wild
Party" with Fredric March. Write to
Clara at Paramount Studios, 5451 Mara-
thon St., Hollywood, Cal.

Wm. A. K. from Halifax, H- S. So I'll
hear a lot from you, will I? Can I depend
on that? Gertrude Olmsted played oppo-
site Richard Dix in "Sporting Goods"; but
in "Easy Come, Easy Go" Nancy Carroll
was the lucky girl who 'supported' Richard.
You can reach Estelle Taylor at 525"4 Los
Felis Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal. Her latest
picture is "Where East is East" with Lon
Chaney and Lupe Velez.

Roxie from Grand Rapids. You couldn't
be busier than I am watching my vita-
phones and vitamines and trying to collect
my scattered thoughts. Ambrose, my land-
ing net! Robert Fraser can be addressed

at 6356 La Mirada Ave., Los Angeles, Cal.
He was born on June 29, 1891, at Wor-
Chester, Mass. He is 5 feet HV2 inches
tall, weighs 168 pounds and has dark brown
hair and eyes. His wife is Mildred Bright.
William Bakewell is the youngster who
made such a big hit in "The Iron Mask"
with Douglas Fairbanks. He appears in
the Warner Bros, natural-color, talking,
singing and dancing picture, "On With
the Show." With him you'll see Betty
Compson, Sally O'Neil, Louise Fazenda,
Joe E. Brown, Arthur Lake and several
other favorites.

June from 7\(eu/ Jersey. I'm happy to
be your favorite answer lady so come on
with your questions. I'm cuh-ra-zee about
questions. Victor McLaglen was Spi\e
Madden and Robert Armstrong was Salami,
his rival and pal, in "A Girl in Every
Port."

Mercedes from Orlando, Fla. I'm not
familiar with prices on large photographs
of the stars, such as you see outside the
theater and in the lobby. Why don't you
inquire at your nearest movie house? Mary
Astor can be reached at the Fox Studios,
1401 No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Virginia Cherrill, the blue-eyed blonde who
is Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in his
next picture, "City Lights," was born in
Carthage, 111., on April 12, 1908. She
is 5 feet 4% inches tall and weighs 110
pounds.

({ Ruth Chatterton is practically new to the
screen but she has been accepted by Miss
Vee Dee's charmed circle and her rating
is high.

Ruth Harriet Louise

MEET MISS JOHANN!

1 \ND still they come! And when 'they' are as charming, as young, and as gifted as Miss Zita Johann, they're welcome to our
city — Cinema City, or Talking Picture Town, or whatever you choose to rename Hollywood. Miss Johann scored a terrific hit
in a play called "Machinal" which had a rather brief hut artistic run on Broadway not so very long ago. Now Metro-Goldwyn
has signed her to a contract to be featured in talkers. Here she is listening to a 'play-back' of her remarkable voice at the

M-G-M Studio in California. You'll like Zita.

SCREENLAND
Trkks Of the TalkieS— Continued from page 21

inmates merely hopped about and chirped
a bit. , .

"It's their tin cages," decided the
director. "They make such a noise the
'mikes' can't pick up the warbling."

You can't put rubber boots on canaries,
so the cages were lined with felt. Still
nothing doing.

A violin player who had had great sue
cess with obstinate songsters came over and
played solos to them. No luck. A flute
player arrived to charm them into melody.
They sounded like a pen full of chickens.

Several big arc lights not required for
a close-up in progress were pushed back out
of the way and their warmth fell on several
cages. This was in winter and the birds
were shivering. Beneath the welcome rays
of the arc lights, they plumed themselves
and burst into song!

One of the difficult talkie shots in "Show
Boat" proved to be that of Laura La Plante
sobbing at a table with her head in her
arms. The 'mike' simply couldn't catch her
sobs, until the sound expert cut a hole in
the table, put a small 'mike' underneath and
covered the table with a thin cloth.

It seems to be agreed that a violent
noise, such as a pistol shot, will wreck the
recording system. Out at Universal they
substitute a leather auto seat and a drum-
stick. At Pathe, a heavily draped, sound-
proof booth has a tiny outlet through which
a pistol is thrust to be fired within the
booth. When they made the courtroom
scene in "Coquette" at United Artists, the
gun was fired into a barrel with the 'mike'
at a determined distance.

But there's more in this than recording.
Technicians may do their darndest and the
result, shown in the studio projection room,
may be perfect. But you may see the com-
plete picture in a theater where the operator
fails to follow his cue sheet and the best
efforts will be lost.

With every sound film goes a cue sheet
containing instructions for the theater
operator. He is provided with a 'fader,' a
dial with 15 points of amplification. Sup-
pose most of the dialog is dialed for 8
points; a tender love scene may be run with
instructions to 'drop the fader' (that means

Clare Kummer, the famous playwright, is
now in Hollywood writing dialog for
Fox Movietone productions.

operator shall dial to 5, 6, or 7, as speci-
fied). For loud noises, as thunder or shots,
or for an exciting scene, he is instructed
to 'raise the fader.'

The pistol shot in "Coquette" should be
dialed at 15. If it sounded muffled when
you saw the picture, you know what's the
matter.

Sometimes the script calls for the simul-
taneous shooting of two scenes which are
to be faded in and out. All very well
in a silent picture but the dumb drama no
longer flourishes.

In "Lummox," Herbert Brenon found it
necessary to direct two scenes which were
to be recorded simultaneously. Sets were
built in adjoining rooms but the sound-
proof camera 'cough rooms' (Mary Pick-
ford's term) prevented the director from

viewing both at the same time. Mr.
Brenon devised a dual set plan whereby
he can guide voices and action on both
sets with the aid of telephone and signals.

According to the story, Lummox (Wini-
fred Westover) has been seduced by the
poet son of the house where she works:
as she goes upstairs, she can hear the poet's
sister playing while his mother recites one
of his poems. Voices and scenes can be
faded in and out.

In "Big News," players had to talk above
the clatter of typewriters, telegraph instru-
ments and falling rain. The machines were
deadened, because the real volume of sound
would smash the vibrator; but they tried
water on a tin roof. A battery of gatling
guns couldn't have roared louder, so the
rain was permitted to fall on a layer of
felt.

Water is a ticklish element to the listen-
ing microphone. Some experts claim that
a drum full of rice equipped with a screen
and wheel will give any water effect de-
sired. By running the rice over the screen
at the proper tempo, waves on a beach,
rain on a window pane or water in a foun-
tain can be recorded.

For the scenes in "Coquette" where Mary
Pickford runs across the brook the mikes
were opened, but quickly closed when it
was discovered that the babbling brook
made a racket like the ocean surf. A prop
, boy stirring a barrel half full of water made
the gentle murmur for which the director
yearned.

A convict on Devil's Island sent Sam
Goldwyn a practical little model of a guil-
lotine when it was announced that Mr.
Goldwyn was about to film "Condemned."
Just a curiosity, until the sound experts
began to prepare for the effects in the
new picture. Then it was discovered that
the real guillotine made many weird noises
not associated in the public mind with the
murderous machine, so the small model
was set before the mike with advantageous
result.

There's nothing the sound experts can't
do.

They're clever.
Didn't I say so?

The Sivedish Sphinx Speaks — Continued from page 45

vacation, that someone wanted me to write
an article giving advice to girls on how to
break into pictures. Who am I to give
any such advice? What could I say that
would help any beginner to get a start?
Marriage is another question that con-
• stantly springs from the lips of interviewers.
I answered that once and for all a long
time ago — I do not see how marriage and
a professional career can be happily mixed.
That is all there is to say, it has been
said and repeated — but still the questions
keep coming. And the very next time I
am interviewed it will be asked all ove?»
again!"

Since returning from Sweden Greta seems
to have reached a tranquility sharply con-
trasting her previous restlessness. She
seems to have whipped the melancholy
moods that frequently gripped her. She
is more the girl and less the woman, spir-
ited, bubbling with good humor, enjoying
work and play with a fresh vigor.

The yacht location trip she took on
"The Single Standard" revealed this to

those of the company. She swam, rowed,
climbed in the ship's ropes, sang, clowned
and romped like a schoolgirl on an outing.

To see her perched upon the stern of
a speedboat, wind and spray lashing her
face, devoid of any make-up, laughing and
singing rollicking chanties in Swedish, was
like catching a glimpse into the real heart
of this strange creature who has spun a
spell of magic lure upon the screen that
has ensnared thousands of worshippers.
Clad in men's white flannels, her boyish
cap pulled rakishly down over her pushed-
back hair, a sweatshirt over her bathing
suit top, Greta cut a striking figure pacing
the ship's deck as the old schooner lum-
bered along under full sail.

Her eyes struck new fire as the hard-
shelled Scandinavian crew hoisted the top-
forsail with a creak of straining blocks and
chorus of 'Yo-ho's' and they seemed to
reflect the opalescent blue of the waters
that slid by the bow as it wallowed through
a fleecy trough of foam like a peasant's
plow in a potato field. Sea-gulls wheeled

overhead as Greta tossed them bits of her
tuna sandwich, screeching chagrin at her
poor aim. The evening wind whistled
through the ratlines and halyards and the
great canvas spread cracked like pistol shots
when the old skipper jibed to change his
course.

As the sun dropped behind the horizon
with a last crimson splash of glory, the
San Pedro breakwater hove into sight just
off the port bow.

"Is that home?" asked Garbo.

John Robertson, the director aroused
from a cat nap, nodded.

"Gosh," sighed Greta, showing first
signs of petulance after a week aboard the
boat, "can't we do some retakes?"

She is not the strange weird woman of
some of her screenplays. There's nothing
erotic about her. She has a curious child-
like quality — an almost boyish enthusiasm,
a real zest for life — that sets her apart from
the hot-house variety of Hollywood siren.
She is as frank and clean as the clear wind
of her native Northland.

SCREENLAND

more than enthusiastic over their introduc-
tion to California.

Walter Catlctt was there and Skeets Gal-
lagher and Pauline Mason, Gus Edwards,
Ann Pennington, Bobby Clark and Paul
McCullough, Florence Cryon, Merriam
Secgar, Charles Judcls, George Sidney.
Geneva Mitchell, Marie Wells, Irving
Fisher, William Collier, Sr.. Gus Edwards.
Van and Schenck, Roscoc Arbuckle, Norma
Lee, Sylvia Field, and dozens of others.

We all clambered down to the beautiful
little stream with its artificial pool under
the great sycamores, its rustic seats amid
the ferns, and even its old well and wind-
lass, all making a most picturesque nook.

Leo pointed, rather sorrowfully, we
thought, to some workmen who were pre-
paring the little plateau across the stream
on which Leo's house is to be built.

"Their grandfathers," he told us, "owned
everything from here away over to Topango
Canyon once upon a time."

Wong Ling, Leo's Chinese valet-actor-
cook, arrived on the scene just then to call
us to lunch. He is a privileged character,
swears like a pirate, and has a sense of
humor that is always on the job. I don't
wonder Leo feels that he cannot do with-
out him.

While the musicians played the concer-
tina and guitar under the trees we sat down
at the long tables, supplied with paper
plates and napkins, and prepared to enjoy
the enchilades and tortillas, the chili beans
and barbecued mutton.

We watched Leo to see how to eat the
tortillas, which are soft like pancakes, and
look like them, except that they are thin
and firmer, and we noted that he non-
chalantly scooped his beans into the tor-
tilla, wrapped the tortilla around like a
napkin, and proceeded to devour it.

Through the trees we could catch
glimpses of the bright blue sea a quarter
of a mile away, on which the Canyon gives,
and overhead the mocking birds were sing-
ing.

"In the moonlight," suggested Patsy,
"with an outdoor platform bearing a roof
of boughs, we could imagine this old
Spanish dance place, made to house a gay
fandango, while the battle of the egg-shells
went on, wherein shells filled with confetti
bombarded the dancers, breaking in a rain-
bow shower on the merrymakers."

We learned that romance was not lack-
ing even if we weren't in the old California
days, since report went around that Skeets
Gallagher, who had brought Pauline Mason,
is engaged to her.

We met little Armida, after luncheon,
wandering about looking for wild flowers,
and decided she looked like a little sprite
of the woods.

Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough did a
funny little burlesque Spanish dance,
though admitting they were a bit weighted
down with tortillas, etc. with perhaps the
accent on the 'etc'

"Of course if it were the old Spanish
days," I reminded Patsy, "we could just
say 'Esta manana,' and let it go at that.
But as this is the year 1929 and we are
brisk — or at least pretty brisk — Americans,
please remember you're due at four for a
permanent wave, while I've- got things to
do for a tyrannical editor."

So we bade Leo and his guests a happy
adios, and were — regretfully — on our way.

"Well, I'm glad there's to be a gay

Hollywood Parties— i

reception right after Carmel Myers' wed-
ding." Patsy whispered, "because I must
admit that a wedding in a huge synagogue
like this is too awfully impressive for my
frivolous nature to bear. But doesn't Car-
mel look lovely!"

The bridesmaids had just tripped down
the aisle, along with the bridal attendants
and the matron of honor, all looking slcn-

({ Dorothy Burgess becomes a blonde for
her role in "Pleasure Crazed" — and most
becoming, too!

derly lovely in their organdies — some pink,
some blue — bearing their huge bouquets.
The bridesmaids were Edith and Irene
Mayer, daughter of Louis B. Mayer, and
Bessie Love, while the bridal attendants
were Rosebelle Laemmle Bergerman, daugh-
ter of Carl Laemmle, President of Univer-
sal, Mrs. Ned Marin and Mrs. Edwin J.
Mayer. Mrs. Zion Myers was the matron
of honor.

"My gracious, but doesn't Bessie Love
look solemn!" whispered Patsy, "just as if
it were her own wedding, and she felt sure
she couldn't get a divorce even if her hus-
band beat her!"

The ceremony was being performed in
the new B'Nai B'rith Synagogue in Los
Angeles, of which congregation the father
of Ralph Blum, the bridegroom, had been
rabbi for many years. Carmel's father, too,
had been a rabbi. He passed away several
years ago, but when Carmel walked past
us on the arm of her brother. Zion Myers,
we saw tears in her eyes, and she acknowl-
edged afterward that she was thinking of
how many times she had heard her father
read the very service which she was to hear
now.

The best man was Marco Hellman, finan-
cier, while the ushers were Ned Marin,
Jacob Blum. William Seiter. Edwin J.
Mayer, Alvin Frank and Sam Norton.

We were just a bit disappointed that
the ceremony was not the full Jewish mar-

Zontinued from page 31

riage ritual, but after all it was very impres-
sive, and Rosabclle Laemmle Bergerman
told us that, standing there for half an
hour, after an hour or two of rehearsal,
seemed quite long enough to the ladies
in waiting!

Anyway, Patsy's romantic soul was
thrilled when she observed that the bride
and groom exchanged wedding rings, and
that a line in the wedding service read.
"Friends and lovers to the end of your
lives."

After the ceremony, we all hurried over
to Carmel's house, where the bride and
groom are to live. It is a charming, homey
place in the fashionable Wilshire district,
and we all decided that it was a very
sensible thing for the young people to do,
to live in Carmel's house.

"Besides," remarked Helen Ferguson. "I
think it makes a bridegroom feel altogether
too independent when he takes the poor
little bride to live in a strange house."

We found a lot of guests ahead of us
when we arrived, including Louis B. Mayer
and his wife. Mr. Mayer was kidding
Bessie Love, telling her that she should
find herself a nice Jewish husband.

"But Bessie, I hear," whispered Patsy
to me, "is engaged to a nice business man
in Chicago. Only she won't tell us his
name."

Bessie was quite equal to the ocassion.
"Find him for me!" was her smiling re-
tort to Mr. Mayer.

Robert Leonard and Gertrude Olmstead
were there, Gertrude delightedly chatting
about her now house at Malibu Beach:
and Blanche Sweet was among the guests:
also Paul Bern, Harold Lloyd and Mildred,
Ruth Roland and Ben Bard, May McAvoy
and Maurice Cleary, Arthur Caesar, Mr.
and Mrs. Hunt Stromberg, Patsy Ruth
Miller and her fiance, the director, Tay
Garnet: Mae Murray and Prince David
M'divani, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sloane, Mr.
and Mrs. Al Rockett, Lois Moran, Carl
Laemmle, Sr.. and Carl, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Jack War-
ner, Colleen Moore and John McCormick.
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Lesser, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernst Lubitsch, and a dozen others.

Nearly all the guests, the day being fine,
went out into the garden at the back of
the house, and we found that the buffet
wedding breakfast was being served under
the trees.

Taking our plates some of us found a
nice shady nook outfitted with a table and
some rustic chairs, with the turf underfoot,
instead of being what Patsy called 'sincere
grass,' a huge mat of property grass.

"I do hope," said Bessie Love, when
somebody dropped some crumbs on the
grass, "that they won't have to send the
lawn to the dry cleaner's after we finish
our breakfast!"

Paul Bern came along just then, bearing
Bessie's bouquet, and explaining in mock
coyness that he wanted to announce his
engagement to Miss Love!

"That's all right," put in Gertrude
Olmstead, "but I think you'd better, in that
case, take the bologna off your plate,
Bessie!"

Carmel and the bridegroom were too
busy receiving good wishes and congratula-
tions, as they stood on their lawn, to have
any breakfast, but Carmel, in spite of all

SCREENLAND

the excitement, looked as fresh as a rose
when she took her leave of her guests to
go and change her dress for her wedding
trip.

Suddenly she appeared above us on the
little roof garden of her house, bearing her
bouquet in her hand. She tossed it, and
Edith Mayer caught it, blushing furiously.

"Now throw down the groom!" admon-
ished Harold Lloyd, "and see what hap-
pens!

Oh, Reginald Denny is inviting us up
to his mountain cabin in the San Ber-
nardino mountains!" exclaimed Patsy in
glee. "And I hear that its a regular
palace of a cabin, though it's all made of
logs!"

That did sound intriguing, and it was
with delight we traveled the hundred miles
from town, through Pasadena, Alhambra,
the desert, between orange groves and vine-
yards, and then through thirty miles of
the most beautiful mountain roads to the
very highest peak in the San Bernardinos.

The house is set on the very edge of a
plateau, and overlooks the most gorgeous
view of mountains and canyons, to the
valley below, where you catch a glimpse of
San Bernardino and Redlands.

Reginald and his wife, Bubbles, are the
most delightful hosts in the world, and we
found a huge fire awaiting us in the great
fireplace, grateful enough after the frosty
mountain air, cool even in summer.

But that so-called cabin!

It has polished floors all over the big
living room and its three bed-rooms and
the dining nook. Over the floors are
placed, in the living room, big bear skin
rugs, while the bedrooms have beautiful
(ndian rugs.

There are lazy easy chairs and sofas,
and the big rustic dressing-tables in the
bedrooms are polished and have great mir-
rors.

Outside is a large guest house, also of
logs, where the men guests sleep when the
house is full of people.

There is a big corral, with horses for
riding purposes, out in the natural park
surrounding Denny's cabin; and there is
an electric house where the electricity for
use in the house is generated. Gas for.
cooking is stored in a huge tank under the
ground.

The beauty and cosiness of the living
room, with its cheerful chintz, curtains, its
ceiling smoked and polished so as to look
very old, its comfortable chairs and sofas,
its table with the covering entirely of fox
skins, envelopes you the moment you enter.

We had lunched down in the valley
during the trip, so the moment we had
deposited our wraps and warmed ourselves
•at the fire we felt we just couldn't remain
shut up in the house, and sallied forth for
a hike and exploring expedition.

Helen Ludlam, of Screenland, was with
us, and we all at once turned into girls of
the big outdoors. We discovered some bows
and arrows in a corner of the living room,
and so tried our hand at archery, with
Bubbles easily ahead of us all, and then
we wandered about the five acres which
Denny owns, under the pine trees, gather-
ing the beautiful yellow wild primroses, the
wild iris, and last but not least the gay
scarlet snow-flower, which blooms, you are
told, while still the snow is on the ground.

You have to clamber down Denny's front
yard to get to the springs, but it is worth
the climb. We did find all the space down

there, however, cruelly blackened from the
forest fire which threatened, a few months
ago, not only destruction of Denny's cabin,
but tragedy to our hosts. It was only by
desperate fighting of all hands at Denny's
house, including our host himself, aided
by a hundred fire-fighters supplied by the
mountain rangers, that the place and
probably the lives of our hosts, were saved.

Denny told us all about it at dinner that
evening.

"I was awakened," said Denny, "by a
light shining into my eyes. I thought the
girls had gone to bed and left the light
burning on the porch. Then I took another
look! A wall of fire was advancing up the
valley before me!

"I aroined everybody, including my care-
taker and lis wife, sent the women away
in an aut: -lobile to Big Bear, and had Art
Manning, the cowboy who was living with
me, get the horses out of the stables and
away.

"I have no telephone, but I sent another
guest to a forest ranger who lives a few
miles away, and who I found was already
on the job. He sent out to his men and
to the Indians at the school, and after two
days and nights managed to put out the
fire."

Then Art Manning, who was with us
in the living room where we were talking,
after dinner, in the glow of the big logs
on the hearth, told us how Denny had
accommodated all the fire fighters in his
house and the guest house, how they ate
and drank and slept there, and then — how
he washed the dishes himself!

"My wife and I went to bed the second
night dead tired," said the cowboy. "We
left a whole ocean of dirty dishes. In the
morning when we got up, we found that

C[ Well, vjell — and if it isn't Marguerite
Churchill! She is one of the most pop-
ular of the little Broadway invaders of
Hollywood.

Mr. Denny had himself arisen early and
washed that mountain of dishes!"

An old trapper lives three or four miles
away on a mountain side. That is, his cabin
is still there and he did live there up to a
few weeks ago. Then he decided that
having neighbors as close as three miles to
him was making the place too citified, and
he moved further into the wilds.

We danced to the music of the radio
after our chat, and then Patsy went outside
to look at the moon. She would. She
called to us, but we had seen the moon
so many times that it didn't really seem
to matter. However, we went, and there,
sure enough, was a sight worth seeing:
we were above the clouds, and the moun-
tain tops were clear in the silvery light,
while those clouds, bathed in the moon-
light, looked like some sort of unearthly
beautiful sea.

We proposed to take a hike next morn-
ing, followed by a ride over to Big Bear
Lake, seventeen miles away. All but our
host, that is. He had to get up at four
o'clock, he said, to assist a forest ranger who
was moving in on the top of Grayback,
twenty miles away. No automobiles there,
just horses and mules.

Art Manning told us that Denny is such
a willing worker on these trips, besides
understanding so much about mountain
craft, that the rangers are always most
grateful for his help.

Little Bubbles wasn't at all pleased about
Reggy's getting up early, because he .always
insisted on waking her up and bringing
her a cup of coffee, while he told her it
was time to get up. She never does get
up, she says, but doubtless it brightens his
way to think that some day she may.

Big Bear Lake sparkled in the sun, and
children played about the doorways of the
cabins. They are building a hotel up there,
and then the place will never be the same
again.

Back at the cabin again, the housekeeper
was supposed, to be having a day off, so
we proposed to cook lunch. William J.
Craft, Reginald's director, had arrived
while we were gone, and he took a hand.

But we all got in each other's way,
couldn't find things, and finally the house-
keeper, hearing the turmoil from below,
decided to come up and do things herself.
Bubbles and Patsy had both decided that
the only thing they could do was to fry
ham, and both had decided they wanted
to contribute that offering to the lunch.
At which trying moment the housekeeper
appeared.

Lunch over, we all went in for target
practice with the weapons which our host
has stowed away in a gun rack, but there
were no casualties.

Our host came back early in the after-
noon, we all went horseback riding through
the lovely canyons and valleys, and then
back to supper and an evening gathered
around the big fire of logs, with Denny
telling us stories of his stage days, after
which bed. And we were so tired that
not even the roar of the wind through the
pines, sounding like the noise of a tumultu-
ous sea, could keep as awake.

In the morning we hunted for wild-
flowers, and then hopped into the car, and
took a fast, invigorating trip around that
curved road, down to the valley and home
again, after bidding our beloved hosts
good bye.

"We shall never," we both declared,
"forget that!"

SCREENLAND

The NeW Johll Gilbert— Continued from page 29

not even met. They get their 'facts' from
gossip, and you know how any story
changes in two or three tellings.

"There are only two things in the cal-
endar of license of which I have not been
accused, and I am expecting the worst at
any time!" said John Gilbert.

Personally I do not think the yarn Jim
Tully wrote about him in Vanity Fair a
year ago did Jack any real harm. His
admirers and his friends only rallied about
the more loyally. I know they did out
here and I think Jim Tully knew they
would. Not meaning to paint either Jack
Gilbert or Jim Tully as a saint, I'm sure
Jim had no malice in his heart when he
dipped his pen in vitriol with Jack as the
victim. He knows human nature pretty
well, and he probably knows too that a
double dose of poison counteracts itself.
Insinuations are dangerous and deadly, but
an open attack usually brings to the fore
thousands of crusaders. In the meantime,
the yarn probably increased Jim Tully's
popularity as an interviewer.

As a little girl said after eating two
dinners, "Believe it or not, I am still
hungry." And a popular young actress
who was climbing but had not quite
reached the top told me: "I would rather
be interviewed by Jim Tully than anyone
I know. And I can stand what he says."
Why was she so eager? Because she knew
that every producer in Hollywood would
read it, and that she would probably get
a contract out of it. Well, Jim didn't and
she didn't, but that is another story.

At the time his Gilbert article appeared,
I asked Jim why on earth he wrote such
a scurrilous attack. "Because I felt like
doing it," he replied. "And if Jack is big
enough he will get over it, and I think he is
big enough. You might imagine by read-
ing the story that I am Jack's deadly
enemy. As a matter of fact I admire and
like him very much. There is another side
to him that is extremely fine. But that
side was not the burden of my song. The
story won't hurt him." And it hasn t.
Not with the box-office, at any rate. But
you can well imagine what torture it was
to a sensitive mind to read such, stuff about
himself.

Jack might have caused a lot of trouble
over it, but he went no further than to
tell Jim, as man to man, just what he
thought of him. And Jim apologized.

Yes — Gilbert is a provocative person
from a writer's point of view, because he
takes everything big — good news or bad.
In spite of his wise resolutions, small things
continue to get a rise out of him. He
is a child of moods, one minute bursting
with joy, radiating it, uplifting everyone
around him with the happiness that is
greater than he can control, the next
minute, for no apparent reason, he may
be down in the depths of despair. And
when a nature as strong and magnetic as
Jack's is depressed, he is not the only one
who knows it! Though he may think he
is keeping it entirely to himself.

He is always good copy and he always
will be. The fact that he is married may
have arrested, but will not change the rest-
less, searching vibrant strength of his per-
sonality. With the passing of his glamour-
ous bachelor days, many maidens may have
written finis to their dreams; yet I am
sure, Gilbert being what he is, their interest
will never stray very far from him.

Born under a mysterious sign, no one
will ever know just what Jack will do next.
His friends know one thing about him —
that he is a swell guy — but how he will
react to any given circumstance, that they
can never be sure of. Neither can he.
And that is perhaps the secret of his great
success on the screen. Things and people
we do not quite understand fascinate us.

Although beginning his stage career at
the early age of one year, Jack Gilbert
had a whack at several professions before
going into pictures seriously. In the first
place he didn't think he would make good.
He overheard Irvin Willat say he never
would, because his nose was far too large.
This blow, coming as it did just when he
was rising out of the five dollars a day class,
and had high hopes of a career, depressed
him for days. In fact, he decided to com-
mit suicide, but his sense of humor saved
him. He wrote scenarios, directed pictures
and then determined to get the best of his
nose, with what success we all know. He
plans to return to his writing when his
days before the camera are over.

He is very intuitive. "Sometimes it is
uncanny," he told me. He will arrive at
a conclusion when other more 'practical'
minds are still groping with logic. Nine
times out of ten Jack will be right. He can't
tell why he knew that it would turn out
that way — he only knew that it would.
His hunches have led him to trust this
intuition, this inner voice, and when he
has a problem to think out, he always tries
to get away by himself and think it out
alone.

He may fret and fume, but having a
sincere nature, his real desire is to get to
the bottom of a difficulty and work his
way out of it. And he can do this only
by thinking things out by himself. Because
being alone is so necessary to his growth,
he often cuts himself off from his friends
and then suddenly realizes that he is lonely.
You would never think the idol of the film
world was a lonely person, would you?
But he is, or was before he married Ina.

It was more a soul loneliness than material.

"It was good for me," he said. "I had
a lot to learn, and I have learned some of
it. I am much more tolerant, much more
understanding than I used to be. Things
that would drive me mad in the old days,
have no effect upon me now. I know that
people often do things because they can't
help themselves. I didn't think that once.
Sometimes things were done that I took
as a personal affront. I would often resent
it bitterly and then there would be a
quarrel.

"I have more to bring to marriage than
I had ten years ago. All I want is peace.
I think the best way to keep it, when
there are indications of fireworks, is to
keep one's mouth shut. Then the mood
passes and good friends are still good
friends with nothing to 'make up." "

Take his marriage with Ina Claire as
an example of one of his unexplainable
impulses. Many people think both of them
weie crazy. Both have fame, position,
wealth. Both are at the height of their
brilliant careers. What more did they
want?

But what most people do not know is
that, although their lives seemed to be the
gayest of the gay, both were lonely. Both
wanted a home that they could share with
someone, someone with whom they had a
great deal in common. Someone who
would understand without having to be
told. Both had about decided that it was
too good to be true and then as usual
when people stop nagging fate for things,
it is handed to them.

As Ina said, she and Jack first quarreled,
and then started to laugh. "And we've
been laughing ever since. I thought Jack
was rather comfortable in his own splendid
opinion of himself, because that is what
most people who don't know him think,
and he thought the same thing about me,
and we both decided to steer clear of each
other — but somehow we couldn't!"

I had heard that Ina was going to chuck
(Continued on page 101)

(faciei Francis, Ziegfeld Follies beauty, is now playing in Pathe comedies
produced by George Le Maire. N.o relation to Kay Francis!

SCREENLAND

Alice White leading the dancing ensemble in the First National- Vitaphone production "Broadway Babies"

from the \rivcde X)mfinq Mahler of

amour

'Hollywood Stars

to rom iMtEtriMG tabu

come there magic aids io
VIBRANT BEAUTY

FOR FIFTY YEARS stage stars, and more
recently, screen stars, have had one
great beauty secret. The feminine public
bas long sought just a hint, but among the
profession a sphinx-like silence reigned.
Now, for the first time, the sponsors of
these famous beauty preparations offer to
YOU the same magical beauty aids that
are being used back stage, on the movie
sets, and in the private boudoirs of the
world's most famous beauties. Their secret
is now an open secret... the riddle of their
thrilling beauty, for half a century the envy
of countless women, is solved. One word
is the key to alluring loveliness . ..a word
that bids fair to be-
come a name synony-
mous for beauty in
every boudoir . . .
STEIN'S!

Fascinating to Use

Today, you can pos-
sess for yourself all
these important aids
to vibrant beauty .The
famous Stein method
is simple and surpris-
ingly economical.Five
differentpreparations... Stein's Cold Cream,

92%:

of this First
National en-
sem b Ie use
Stein'sBeauty Prepara-
tions as do countless other
stage and screen celebri-
ties.

Alice Wliiiet popular First National-Vitaphone Star photographed at her private dressing table.

requires to achieve compelling beauty. Ask

Dorothy Mackaill, ap-
pearing in FirstNational-
Vitaphone Pictures

Wheatcroft Liquid Powder, Face Powder,
Eye Brow Pencil and Lip Stick . . . give every
woman the same easy, fascinating way to
thrilling beauty as enjoyed by the theatrical
profession. Stein's quality and purity have
been unquestioned for over half a century.
The amazing results obtained with this
small number of preparations will be an
astounding revelation. These Stein prod-
ucts are all that any modern woman

BEAUTY PREPARATIONS & THEATRICAL MAKE-UP

COLD CREAM t FACE POWDER f Wheatcroft LIQUID POWDER T LIP STICK t EYE BROW PENCIL |_

for Stein's Beauty Preparations at your
favorite toilet goods counter.

Secrets Revealed in Booklet
Secrets which famous stars prized above
all else are in this free booklet. Read what
the feminine world haslongwaited to hear...
peek into the very dressing rooms of Broad-
way beauties and Hollywood stars. Send for
your copy of "From Behind Guarded Stage
D»©rs" today. It's free!

Est. over

STEIN COSMETIC CO., Inc. so years
51 Madison Ave. New York City

J Stein Cosmetic Co., Inc., Dept. S

I 51 Madison Avenue,

I New York City.
Please send my free booklet "From Behind Guarded

| Stage Doors" to

| Name

I Address

City..

. State..

100

SCREENLAND

(Qur ^Readersc^
An Appreciation!

Q We acknowledge our thanks to Screenland's readers.

Q They have organized themselves into a "Screen-
land Boosters' Club."

Q Our circulation is growing by leaps and bounds.
Each month, from five to ten thousand new readers
have joined the ranks of those who have learned to
love Screenland — those who have learned that our
editorial and publishing staffs are working untiringly
to give of their best to Screenland's readers.

Q Silent and Talking Pictures have become the world's
most popular form of entertainment. Screenland is
dedicated to a truthful, wholesome, and authoritative
portrayal of the activities of all who help create this
great art and entertainment.

Q Why should we not be grateful to you for spread-
ing the news and bringing these new readers into

the fold? ^

Q Join the "Screenland Boosters' Club"; tell your
friends that Screenland has become the best, and
then we'll all agree with Emerson:

Q "Give to the world the best you have, and the best
will come to you!"

THE PUBLISHERS

SCREENLAND

101

her career and settle down as Mrs. Jack
Gilbert. It was arranged that I drive home
with her one afternoon for tea, when her
work was done, to talk it over. We
climbed into a stunning black town car at
the Pathe studio and breezed through
Beverly to the top of Tower Road, passing
John Barrymore's house and new aviary he
is building for the foreign birds he brought
back with him from South America, on
the way. (I might say here that the aviary
is larger than the average home.)

"Over there," Ina waved toward the
back of the house, "Jack is going to build
a wing for me. Then each of us can have
perfect freedom and a chance to get away
by ourselves if we want to — a thing far
more important to the happiness of mar-
ried people than most of us realize. There
I can have my maid and my piano and
make all the noise I like when Jack wants
to read or write. He has the greatest
capacity for enjoyment of anyone I have
ever met, but he has moods of seriousness."

I had already discovered that Jack had
a serious mind. He reads an enormous
lot. He has a standing order with Bren-
tano in New York to supply him with lists
of all non-fiction literature, and he orders
quantities of rare books, old and new.
He has a broker in New York who keeps
him in touch with all the worth-while
plays produced there and who sends him
manuscripts to read. He loves to play ten-
nis and has a court on his hill-top, and a
swimming pool, too. He loves to drive
his own Ford through the hills or by the
sea, but now that he has found Ina I guess
a good deal of that lonely prowling is cut
out.

"Well, has the beauty and peace of this
place affected you to the point of tossing
your career to the winds?" I asked Ina
Claire.

She shrugged her shoulders. "No, but
I want to rest. After all, I've been work-
ing since my thirteenth year. I have these
pictures to do for Pathe and then I am
planning to take several months off for a
trip around the world."

"What! And are
you going to drag
jack from his work
and make him go
with you?"

She looked at me
with a twinkle in her
very beautiful eyes.
"No, I'm not going
to try to make Jack
do anything. And I
don't expect him to
try to make me do
anything. But I am
planning the trip and
if he wants to join
me I'll be ridiculously
pleased!"

And Jack, on his
side, is arranging his
schedule so that after
"Olympia" he will
be given a long vaca-
tion. It looks like a
honeymoon, belated
though it may be.

We talked a little
about her work.
"Pathe is paying me
three times what
other studios offered
— why, I have not the
slightest notion! And
then they ask me

to do 'Paris Bound'! I ask you. Why?
The girl in 'Paris Bound' is a straight lead,
a perfectly nice wife and mother. I have
made my reputation by playing sophisti-
cated women. In 'Paris Bound' I wouldn't
be any better than any one of a hundred
actresses; not as good! Now why should
they pay me this enormous salary to play
something that any straight actress could
do and which the fans would rather see
played by one of their tried favorites?
All I can bring to pictures is the sort of
thing I have helped to make popular on
the stage. And with the same incompre-
hensible wisdom they put screen actresses
not trained to sophisticated drama in
sophisticated plays. No one has ever yet
been able to fit a round peg into a square
hole and I dare venture film executives will
not be able to puzzle it out either. It
was finally decided that I play 'The Awful
Truth,' which is a little better than 'Paris
Bound.' "

She refused flatly to be billed as Mrs.
John Gilbert. And with reason. The
charm she has for her stage audiences will
win her as many friends on the screen, I
am sure; yet that is not the only reason
she refused.

"My personal life is one thing and busi-
ness is another," she said as we sat on the
veranda of her new home, which over-
looks the California world as far as one
may see it. "Metro wanted me to play
with Jack in 'Olympia.' It is a small part
and not suited to me. I wouldn't play it
for two reasons. One, purely business.
It is wrong for one star to play an un-
important part in another star's picture,
even if that star happens to be one's hus-
band. I wouldn't let Jack do it in one
of mine. That is not good business and
it often creates trouble in a home. The
other reason is that I think it is cheap to
make love to one's husband in view of so
many people. I wouldn't mind at all if
we weren't married, but because we are
so newly wed and there has been so much
publicity about it I just couldn't do it and
Jack feels the same way about it.

(\ The Moore, the merrier! Here are Tom Moore, Mai St. Claire
O'Hara, and Owen Moore. The brothers are playing in
St. Claire directed and O'Hara wrote for Radio

"You know," she said, with a half-shy
little laugh, "I don't know so very much
about him. But we seem to understand
each other so well, almost without speak'
ing, and we have the same reactions to
things. It is that that makes me think we
might make a go of our marriage. And
then we are both Irish and that makes a
difference too, I think. He really is a nice
person," she said, her blue eyes wide and
with the look of a precocious child that has
stumbled on a great secret. "In fact, I
think he's swell!"

Jack appeared on the scene and an-
nounced that a fire had been built in the
living room. "Aren't you both cold? Ina,
you haven't a coat on! Better come in
where it is warm."

"I'm so glad to get a breath of ozone
after being on that sound stage all day that
I hadn't noticed it was chilly."

Theirs is a beautiful living room. It is
enormous, with about a thirty-foot ceiling,
and balconies all around it. It is richly
and colorfully furnished with deep cush-
ioned lounging chairs and an enormous
couch before a blazing eucalyptus fire. On
the table was a cage with a grey parrot.
I promptly went over to him and offered
to scratch his head. He saw me coming
and obligingly bent his crest, ruffling his
neck feathers in anticipation of a comfort-
ing scratch. "Oh, look, Jack — she isn't
afraid of him, either!" cried Ina, and came
over to help me in the scratching process.
"Can he talk?" I asked. "Yes," said Jack,
"but I'm afraid his vocabulary was acquired
on shipboard and you know the reputation
sailors have. I don't think Poll has missed
a word."

Ina is small and a natural blonde with
the creamy skin that goes with such color-
ing. Her eyes are very blue and dark and
she has a trick of looking at you every
once in a while like a little girl who is
not so sure she isn't going to be scolded.
Nestled up against her husband's shoulder,
with his arm about her, that blonde head
looked very attractive in contrast to the
coal-black one just
above it.

Time will show, of
course, whether these
two strong personali-
ties will be able to
adjust their lives to
matrimony, but both
have had experience
enough to help them
in this adventure
that they have em-
barked upon with so
much joy and so
much hope of happi-
ness. And I am sure
that thousands will
wish them bon voy-
age!

Jack and Ina will
have a real honey-
moon in Europe as
soon as each finishes
a current picture.
Jack is working on
"Olympia," while
Mrs. Gilbert having
finished her first
talkie, "The Awful
Truth," is starring
in "Negligee."

Along about the
Matt Moore, George last of this summer
"City Streets"" which they will be sailing
Pictures. for the continent.

102

SCREENLAND

Arthur! Arthur! — Continued from page 32

Charming Hair!

Now you can have it
and keep it!

Your hair, soft, fragrant— lustrous! Alive with that
youthful sparkle everyone admires. Having it and
keeping it is largely a matter of proper shampooing.
Not just soap-and-water "washings", but the regular
use of a shampoo that really beautifies — one that was
created especially to improve dull hair and add that
little something extra so often lacking!

If you really wish to make your hair bewitchingly
lovely — just one Golden Glint Shampoo will show
you the way! No other shampoo, anywhere, like it.
Does more than merely cleanse. It gives your hair a
"tiny-tint"— a wee little bit— not much— hardly percept-
ible. But what a difference it makes in one's appearance;
that exquisite softness of tone that everyone admires!
Millions use regularly! You'lllike it! There's a youth-
imparting touch— a beauty specialist's secret in its
formula. At your dealers'. 25c, or send for free sample.
J. W. KOBI CO

633 Rainier Ave., Dept. J, Seattle, Wash.
Please send a free sample.

Name

Address.

City

. State-

Color of my hair.

Free Saxophone

Rnnlr tells just what
DUUIV yOU wont to
know about Saxo-
phone. Write for copy.

\SS£ SAXOPHONE

Easiest of all wind instruments to play and
one of the most beautiful. In one hour, you a»
canlearn the scale. In two weeks play popu- arl
lar music. In 90 days you should oe able to

take your place in a Band. The Saxophone is unri-
valed for entertainment at home, church, lodge or
school. Good Saxophone Players are in big demand
with high pay.

FREE TRIAL— You may have 6 days* free trial
on any Buescher Saxophone. Trumpet. Cornet, ;
Trombone or other instrument. Small amount V
down and a little each month makes it easy to own 1
any Buescher. Mention instrument and complete
catalog will be mailed you free. [638]

BUESCHER BAND INSTRUMENT CO.
2844 Buescher Block Elkhart. Ind.

SupQrfluoujHAIRallGONE

Forever removed by the Mahler
Method which kills the hair root
without pain or injury to the skin
in the privacy of your own home.
Send today 3 red stamps for
Free Bool-let
We Teach Beauty Culture
D. J. MAHLER, CO.. 39-B Mahler Park, Providence, R. I.

All this jewelry is yours for selling
6 Boxes Mentho Nova Salve at
25 cents. Wonderful for catarrh, cuts
burns, etc. Order today. When sold
return $1.50 and all 5 pieces are yours.
V. S. SUPPLY CO., Dept. EI35, Greenville, Pa.

ASHFUL

'Shame on you!" Are you nervous,
embarrassed iu company of the other
eex? Stop being: thy of etrangera. Con-
Querlb eterrib I o fear of your superiors.
Be cheerful and confident of your
futurel Your faults easily overcome)
so you can enjoy lifo to the fullest,
Send 25c. for this amazing book*
RICHARD BLACKSTONE
B-409 Flatlron Bldg. New York

e became inventive, finally dyeing several
hundreds of dollars worth of woolens an
unearthly green that wouldn't come out.
It was about this time that he quit the
dyeing business. (I had to get him out of
the dye business so I could go on with the
story).

His sister secured Arthur his first screen
job. It was in a 'western' starring Frank-
lyn Farnum. Arthur was the juvenile lead.

"I had to ride on a horse and arouse
the sheriff and posse," he relates now. "It
was a horse opera, all right! But it started
me in pictures.

"I knew nothing about motion picture
make-up. I was called one night and told
to be ready for location at seven next
morning. I practiced putting on grease
paint and powder until long after mid-
night. Next day when I joined the com-
pany I found my practice had been all
wrong. I had been putting on a stage
make-up and that is very different from
the make-up used for camera purposes. I
finally seated myself beside another actor
and did just as he did. When he applied
grease paint, so did I. When he put on
powder, I did likewise. I got by, some-
how."

This picture and one more western 'epic'
brought to Arthur a five-year contract offer
with Universal. He accepted and was
made a two-reel comedy star immediately.

One thing that is instantly impressive
about Arthur is his boyish exuberance. He
likes everybody. Everybody likes him.
Enroute to the Universal lunchroom from
the set where I had found him working,
it seemed that everyone had a cheery word
for him and he, a grin, for all.

In the cafe, a group of his boy friends
sat at the next table. Over my shoulder
I heard them kidding him.

"Who is your favorite actor?" I heard
one ask.

"Arthur Lake," came the immediate
reply.

"And your favorite actress?" pursued the
questioning one.

"Arthur Lake," again came the rejoin-
der.

Young Lake pursed his tongue between
his lips and uttered an odd noise. You've
heard that kind of razzberry, I'm sure. But
it was all in fun. Those boys at the next
table would fight Jack Dempsey if Jack
said anything against Arthur.

He has a funny way of being serious
for a few seconds, then absolutely irre-
sponsible. Then he is serious again. You're
never quite certain whether he is kidding
or is deadly in earnest. His sense of humor
is his own give-away. He can't help laugh-
ing when his remarks are spoken jokingly.

Arthur is twenty years old; that I know.
Unkind writers have said he is older. They
have said he worked as a chorus man in
a New York show. But he has never been
in New York.

"That is not true," Arthur says. "Not
that I would mind having been a chorus
man, or anything else that is honest. But
why do people have to make up tales? I'd
rather they'd say nothing if they can't tell
real facts."

He is very modest. I asked him questions
about himself. In a burst of enthusiasm,
he answered. Then he suddenly remem-
bered that it was Arthur Lake he was talk-
ing about. "Aw, don't write that down,"
he pleaded. "It sounds stuck-up!" If I
had kept my promise to Arthur not to
write down the things he said, there would
be no story.

"Any loves in your young life, Arthur?"
I asked him.

He blushed. "Naw, I don't go for girls.
I'm going to be a bachelor," he said.

"What about Virginia Cherrill and Sue
Carol and "

"They were all right," he interrupted.
"But they were just friends. Why, Sue
goes with Nick Stuart and Virginia is just
a good pal. You said loves. I haven't any
loves but I've lots of girl friends."

Just the same, I happen to know that
he reads his fan letters personally and gives
most of his attention to notes from the
girls!

Does Hollywood Set the Styles?

Continued from page 77

national knowledge and believe too much
in picture-frame personalities.

Kay Johnson, whom I would not con-
sider beautiful in the accepted sense of
the word but whose distinction and man-
ner carry her along to the front of the
parade, wears genuine clothes attractively.

These women, with several others whom
I cannot mention because of space limita-
tion, are fighting graciously the enormous
popularity of a very dowdy person called
'Lady Dowdy Fashion.' They're interested
in preparing a lovely funeral for her which
I am sure will have too many carriages in
the procession and too many stars will
sincerely grieve because of her death. She's
been a wonderful friend to a great many of
them, particularly those who have been
brought up in her arms. She was generous
in encouraging their weaknesses and was a
bad mother who could never say no. 'Lady
Dowdy Fashion' has been ill a long time.
In several productions lately she has been
gasping frantically and we almost thought

she was going to live another year or two,
but because of her old age we feel she
will soon have to release her hold.

Her daughter, 'Restraint and Good
Taste,' who has not been very well or
strong since she has come to Hollywood,
has suddenly taken on a new lease of life
and' because she is being sponsored by a
lot of well-groomed women she is soon
to be one of the most popular of the
younger women of Hollywood.

Already Hollywood is looking at itself
and its past with a merry twinkle in its
eye and amusement at its own childishness.
It has been trailing its mother's skirts long
enough and has at last grown up to be a
smart young woman.

Too many women are assembling here
with knowledge and taste who will refuse
to be made ridiculous by imaginary de-
mands of a camera. In a short time Holly-
wood will be a serious force in the style
centers of the world.

Watch it!

SCREENLAND

103

The Eyes Have It!

Continued from page 73

treatment. At night, before retiring, the
eyes should be given special treatment. Use
the cleansing eye'wash, then mold the eye
cream into the skin under and over the
eyes and leave on all night. This cream
is delicate, yet rich. A cream made of
pure oils that seeps well into the skin and
nourishes the worn tissues beneath. Pat
the cream around your eyes, close them,
and pat over the lids. Each pat should
be gentle and distinct. You never must
rub the delicate skin about the eyes. Look
up when patting beneath the eyes, and close
the eyes when you press the cream on the
lids. At night too, is a good time to exer'
cise the eyes, or you may do this any time
during the day.

You can strengthen your eyes by exercise,
for they are controlled by nerves and
muscles just as other parts of your body
are. These exercises will help to keep the
eyes large. As we grow older, the tissues
about the eyes shrink, the muscles relax,
the brows droop, and the eyes appear
smaller. By strengthening these muscles,
the eyes will always appear larger, the skin
about them youthfully firm.

Bright, youthful eyes are rested eyes.
It behooves one to get sufficient sleep at
night. Too much midnight junketings cause
the eyes to be dull and bloodshot the
next morning. If you are up late one
night, try to make up the hours of sleep
the next night. Rest the eyes during the
day whenever possible. And don't forget
that happy thoughts make the eyes sparkle
and glow in a most fascinating way.

Of course you are interested in eye
make-up. First, grooming the lashes and
brows enhances their beauty much more
than makeup. The brows may be scrubbed
occasionally with soap and water to eradi-
cate displaced powder and cream. They
should be brushed with a small eye-brow
brush once or twice a day. First, the
wrong way, then the right way, then
straight up, and finally, gently into their
natural arch. A drop of brilliantine will
be an aid to the finishing process.

To train lashes and brows, they should
be brushed this way nightly with a bit of
petroleum jelly or a .special lash grower.
If this is done faithfully every night, the
most scanty lashes will become long, silken,
curling fringes of beauty.

The make-up which brings out the love-
liness of eyes, lashes and brows is, perhaps,
the most difficult of all to accomplish. But
for the girl with too pale brows and lashes,
it is worth the effort to learn the tricks
which will make them more definitely
alluring.

Eyebrow pencils may be had in various

shades of brown. These may be effectively
used by blonde and red-haired girls and
their use is not easily detected. Don't use
black unless it becomes you. It is well to
experiment until you find the tint that
brings the most natural effect.

For the lashes, apply a little cream to
upper and lower lids with your finger-tip,
and run the pencil just above and below
the line of the lashes, then blend the pen-
cilling with finger-tip wrapped tightly in
cotton. In applying make-up, be careful
not to get it into the eye itself.

For evening, if one feels confident of the
steadiness of one's hands and the flattery of
artificial lights, mascara, the oldest known
beautifier in the world, may be used. No
longer, however, is black the one and only
color. There are soft brown shades that
give a more subtle and more natural effect.
Brush some into the lashes for brilliancy.
Around the eyes, to enhance the sparkle
and intensify the color of your eyes, smooth
some eye-shadow.

Eye-shadows nowadays are as vari-colored
as the skies. But here's a discovery I made
and I'm passing it on to you. if you go
in for the 'sun-tan' or 'sun-burn' make-up
so popular this year, use just a bit 'of this
in 'shadowing' your eyes and see if you
don't like it. Smoothed gently under the
eyes it takes away the tired look, forms an
intriguing shadow and blends well into
whatever shade of powder you have adopted
for summer evening wear. If you are on
vacation and have not regular make-up for
your eyes, this will do nicely for 'shadow'
and is natural in effect.

Don't dress your hair or wear your hair
in such a manner that it will hide the
beauty of lovely eyes or prettily arched
brows. Study color and find out which
ones bring out the beauty of your eyes and
make them more interesting, more mys-
terious or more provocative.

Blue ear-rings, or blue beads, or a hat
faced with blue enhance the beauty of blue
eyes. The girl with green eyes should wear
always some accessory in green to bring
out the fascination of her eyes. The brown-
eyed girl should make shades of brown her
color scheme, and amber helps to emphasise
the flecks that appear so attractively in
brown eyes. It is a simple matter, too, to
make your pupils look larger by wearing
certain colors that produce that effect.

If you want to know more about eye
treatments, eye remedies and eye exercises,
I will be glad to tell you all about them
if you will write me, enclosing a stamped,
addressed envelope. Address, Anne Van
Alstyne, Screenland Magazine, 49 West
45th Street, New York City.

Screenland's gift contests are constantly attracting new
readers and continuing to interest the 'Screenland Boosters' .
Club'! The Anita Page contest, for example, brought an
amazing number of responses. The luc\y winner, Miss Mabel
Myers, 40 S. Colorado Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana, is
delighted with the pajama ensemble which her clever letter
won for her. Don't miss the Colleen Moore contest in

this issue!

An application of Murine before
going out in the evening gives the
touch that charms. It adds sparkle
and radiance to the eyes, and causes
them to look larger than they are.

Murine is used by millions to
beautify their eyes and to relieve
irritation and strain caused by
exposure to sun, wind and dust.
Use it night and morning and
have clear, bright, healthy eyes.

§1 §> wp ~W~1 Ask at any beauty parlor
J/ J\_J2jJJj or barber shop for a 'free
_________ application of Murine.

fOR YOUR

Our combination method recommended for
^a=^_^f filling' out legs, arms, undeveloped parts or
general improvement of figure. No pills or
medicines. 3Q DAY TRIAL

Inexpensive, harmless, pleasant. Full particu-
lars and proof (sealed) free. Write for special
offer TODAY . |_A BEAUTE STUDIOS,
857- SE HAMILTON TERRACE - - BALTIMORE, MD.

WOMEN

don't depend on friends

for information regarding feminine Hygiene.
Marian Heath's Hygiene Capsules are safe and
reliable. $1.00 for box 20 (C. O. D. $1.20).
Money back guarantee. Mailed plain wrapper.

MARIAN HEATH

40 Pine, Hopkinsville, Ky.

(AIL Qh;ll,

WONDER
PEEE PASTE

I = Day Home Treatment

fQr FRECKLES. PIMPLES,

BLACKHEADS, ENLARGED
PORES, WRINKLES, PITS, SCARS, PUFFS

Acne condition of back and shoulders
Wonder Peel Paste gives new life and youth
to aging faces
No failure, No redness afterwards, Price $5

527 W. 7th Dept. 22 Los Angeles, Calif.

104

Rud)

no brass instruments in his ensembles.
(Many people think a saxophone is classi'
ficd under 'brasses.' But it is not. It is
considered a reed instrument.) Vallcc clings
to purity of tone and simplicity of execu'
tion. He has created a peculiar and origi-
nal method of playing which no other
orchestral unit possesses. Broadway calls
it 'sexy.' But it's more than that. His
orchestra plays yearning rather than seduc
tive music. Music with -an evanescent
timbre far removed from the blatancy of
the average jazz unit. And it is this same
appealing quality that you notice when
Vallee sings.

From the time he was a child he was
interested in music. He first started play-
ing the drums in the village band. In his
second year high school, he got hold of a
trombone and mastered it. Next he organ-
ized a dance orchestra and started earning
money after school hours by playing around
for dances and club affairs.

One summer, he worked as assistant
property man with the Jefferson Stock
Company of Portland, Maine. The next
year he was the chief electrician at the
Strand Theater, a de-luxe movie house in
the same city. It was while he was work-
ing here that a saxophonist in the orchestra
loaned Vallee a C melody saxophone.

From that time on the Yankee boy had
no more interest in electricity. His one
idea was to become a concert saxophonist
like the celebrated Rudy Weidoft. The lad
had studied the clarinet. And from what
he had learned on that instrument, he
began practicing on the saxophone. With
no one to assist him, some way Vallee
evolved a method. And it was this method
of clean, rapid, .staccato tongueing which
enabled his saxophone to lay the corner-
stone for what bids fair to be a national
career.

The following autumn when Vallee be-
came a freshman at the University of
Maine, he was almost immediately pledged
to a fraternity. Shortly after, he went to
live at the Frat House. Rudy Weidoft was
still his hero. During all of his spare
moments, the blond-haired, quiet-voiced
freshman tongued his .saxophone and
caught his breath by talking of Rudy
Weidoft. Rudy Weidoft! He spoke so
much of his hero to his fraternity brothers
that finally in desperation one of them
nicknamed him 'Rudy.'

The name has clung ever since.

Rudy's college education never cost
Doctor Vallee a nickel. After his fresh-
man year at the University of Maine, a
friend advised Vallee to go down to Yale
where he would find more orchestral oppor-
tunities.

The following autumn Rudy matriculated
at Old Eli. But Yale would not accept
the work of his freshman year at Maine.
So again he had to start in as a frosh.

During his four years at Yale, Vallee
formed an orchestra and played nearly
every night. Either for his prom-strutting
colleagues or for country clubs, golf clubs
and private houses.

After two years at that university Dio
Data, a well known musician, sent for
Rudy to go to London to direct an or-
chestra in a night club.

Wishing to see a bit of the world, Rudy
accepted, and remained a twelvemonth in
England. Later he returned to Yale and
completed his course, receiving his B. A.
degree.

SCREENLAND

Continued from

That was in June 1927. It was then
Rudy made up his mind to go to New
York. There were three things he wanted
to do: to find Rudy Weidoft; to hear Paul
Whiteman play, and to make a saxophone
solo on a Columbia record!

Arriving in New York, Vallee ac-
complished all three things. After playing
a while in Ben Bernie's orchestra, he organ-
ized a unit of his own. Playing over the
radio and at the Heigh-ho Night Club he
met with fair success. But through a mis-
understanding in January of this year, he
lost his position at the Hcigh-ho. Paying
off the seven men of his orchestra for a
full week's work, Vallee was left flat broke.
Just another saxophone player out of a
job!

Ten days later, Vallee had a chance to
start broadcasting over the National Broad-
casting Chain. In a few weeks, he was
beginning to be idolized all over that vast
radio network.

When I went to Rudy's dressing room at
the Paramount Theater to interview him,
I immediately found myself feeling sorry
for him. The boy was lying on a cot in
his dressing room, dead for sleep. He was
playing four .shows at the Paramount on
week days, and five Saturdays and Sundays.
In addition, he was broadcasting over the
radio several times a week, making records
for Victor every day, and playing at the
Villa Vallee at eight o'clock and at eleven
fifteen each night. To say nothing of
writing songs and publishing them.

His dressing-room was bedlam. Members
of the orchestra were bustling in and
out. The telephone rang without stopping.
Rudy's secretary sat at a desk heaped high
with fan mail. His stenographer was sit-
ting on the floor, her typewriter on a pile
of books. Over in a corner, his personal
publicity man was dashing off copy for the
daily papers.

Everybody wanted to see Vallee: the
Salvation Army needing a donation; life
insurance agents trying to load him down
with policies; pals wishing money or jobs.
The tailor asked 75 cents for pressing a
suit when 50 cents was the regulation price.
Girls, without appointments, were crashing
in the door, hanging around the stairs, and
waiting outside the stage door.

To every request Vallee listened. And he
turned down nobody while I was there.
It seemed a lark to him that he actually
could give help when needed. He answered
about fifteen phone calls to the half-hour.
And to each person he was courteous, un-
hurried and friendly.

He seems to me very loyal. And tired
and worn out as he undoubtedly was. his
manners were faultless. He is reserved,
punctilious and beautifully spoken. In the
old days, I am sure, he would have made
a gallant, faithful courtier. And I can
well imagine him sacrificing himself for his
king.

Since it was soon time for Vallee to go
on for his next performance, the interview
was conducted with Vallee in the bathroom
shaving, calling out to me between strokes.
He wore white linen riding trousers, black
puttees, black silk socks, and black low
shoes. A white linen shirt, open at the
neck, and black and white checked sus-
penders completed this informal costume.
Nevertheless Vallee spoke while shaving as
if he were dressed in morning clothes,

page 23

seated in his mother's drawing room, wait-
ing for time to go to church. He is abso-
lutely unselfconscious.

When I a>ked him how he felt about
women, he answered: "I want to find a
girl. One I can be happy with. But I'm
in a rather unfortunate position. You see,
I have no time to meet and visit the kind
of girl I would be attracted to. I work all
day and most of the night. And I rarely
have a chance to go to places where nice
girls congregate. Often, however, I get a
fan letter from some girl I feel sure I
could learn to like. But there is no time
now to find out. First I'm on the stage.
Then I dash in a taxi to the Villa Vallee.
Back to the Paramount. Off to make
records. Out to the Long Island studio
to make short subjects. Back to the tailor's.
On to rehearsals. And then the whole
merry-go-round starts over again.

"Whenever I sing that song, 'Vagabond
Lover," I always t'atch myself thinking how
indicative of my'/real feelings it is — more
than anybody in the audience would give
me credit for. Because with all the luck
and success I've had, I'm still a vagabond.
Moving here, and there, with scarcely a
moment to seek out a little personal hap-
piness. But I'm sure things will settle soon.
And then "

'Your act next, Mr. Vallee," the call
boy broke in. And so my interview with
Rudy Vallee ended.

An unknown collegian doesn't become
an idol without some logical or psychologi-
cal reason. In Vallee's case, there is both
a logical and a psychological reason. That
he unquestionably has a superior orchestra
nobody can deny. But that does not ac-
count for his prairie-fire popularity. The
reason women go crazy about him is be-
cause he has a dual appeal. On the one
hand he is a stalwart, golden-haired Gala-
had, seeking the grail of love. And that
appeals to the women who want to be
conquered.

Billy Ba\ewell — according to Miss Vee
Dee, the most popular juvenile of the
moment with Screenland readers.

SCREENLAND

105

On Location With Harold Lloyd

Continued from page 69

"You're darn right the wind's blowing.
What's that got to do with it?"

"Well, it wasn't blowing in the last
scene. You don't • want shadows dancing
all over the place, do you?"

"Oh, shoot! The wind blows in China-
town same as anywhere else! Let's go!"

And go they did.

The action called for Harold and Noah
to run around the corner and down the
street after having dodged some Chinamen.
They stuck close to the wall under the
balcony, hanging on to each other and
shivering in their boots, their eyes as big
as saucers.

When they came to one of the mys-
terious doors Harold had a hunch that
they would find what they were looking for
in that building. The door was locked.
Together they heaved into it with their
shoulders, once, twice, and were hauling
off for a third belaboring when the door
opened of its own accord!

To make it still funnier the wind was
blowing their clothes, making their coat tails
wave, their pant's legs flap and slap about
and shadows dance on the wall cast by the
various gadgets on the set. It would have
been a swell gag for a ghost scene. At
that, the air of spookiness was well placed
in this sequence.

Gene Kornman, the still cameraman, was
yawning his head off. "This night work
sure is tough on a guy who can't sleep in
the day time!" he said grinning. Gene is
the proud papa of the Kornman kids, Mary
and Mildred, who have served successively
as the sweetheart of 'Our Gang.'

Most of the people on Harold's staff
have been with him for a long time. 'Dude'
Lundin, head cameraman, has been with
him twelve years; 'Hank' Kohler, second
cameraman, seven years; production mana-
ger John L. Murphy, technical director Bill
MacDonald and art director Liell K. Ved-
der — all have been eight years on the job;
while Lex Neal and Felix Adler, gag men,
date from the days of "Lonesome Luke."

I noticed that all the potted plants were
wired to the balcony.

"Yes," said Mai St. Clair, reading my
thoughts. "At first they weren't wired
and one fell spang on Noah's head during
the action of the .scene. We had a still
made from the film to send to his folks."

The next scene was where Harold and
Noah crashed a Chinese rooming-house, got
tangled up with a handful of humans and
found themselves hurtling down the steps
in a barrel which broke when it bounced
on the sidewalk.

"There goes the barrel scene from An-
heuser Busch," said Felix Adler, who, by
the way, is a relative of the late Jacob
Adler and of Dr. Felix Adler the philan-
thropist. Mr. Adler is always being_ con-
fused with his older relatives — "but it's my
own name so I don't see why I should
change it when I can't think of a better
one," he remarked.

Watching the barrel crash down the
steps and split into twenty pieces with
Harold inside and a mob of fighting China-
men on top, Mai St. Clair said he had
never known a star to take as many chances
as Harold. "He seems to know just how
far he can go and it is a miracle how many
times he escapes a crack-up."

While waiting for the next set-up Harold
took me to another set which they expected
to take during the wee sma' hours of the

morning. The action here requires him,
and Noah, to hide from the Chinamen
underneath an awning. The Chinamen look
all over and come within a foot of the
shivering fugitives. Each time they come
Harold pulls one of his breath-taking gags
until finally someone rips down the awning
and there they are, dangling in space. Then
they have to make a thorough and instan-
taneous get-away.

I asked Flarold what he thinks is the
most important thing in the making of a
comedy. "Everything is important," he
said, "but perhaps if you split hairs I
would say timing and spacing were the two
most important things. A gag can be made
or killed by too sudden or too slow action.
Another thing: an actor must forget that
he is acting, forget that he is facing a
camera to be a good comedian. It re-
quires the most difficult technique in the
business. In tragedy or serious drama
where the emotions are challenged there is
a chance for letting down once in a while.
But in comedy the spectator is on his toes,
so to speak, every moment. His emotions
are not gumming up his thinking apparatus
and consequently the scene has to be pretty
well played to get over. A comedian has
to know his stuff so well that it becomes
second nature to him. Whatever other
qualifications he may have, this is the most
important thing: he must learn the me-
chanics of his trade thoroughly, and forget
them, before he can put humor into his
character."

Harold is one of the most painstaking
stars in pictures. For months he and his
gag men work on the preparation of his
story. When things become dull at the
studio and ideas are coming slowly Harold
says, "Come on boys, let's go to the bun-
galow." There, after a game of tennis, golf,
or a swim their wits are quickened and the
scenes move with more spontaneity.

Lloyd owns forty acres at Westwood
Hills. There he has kennels for his
thoroughbred Great Danes— forty or sixty,
I have forgotten the exact number. When
a set is required too large to be built at the
studio Harold has it built at Westwood.

You'd never think he was the popular
star that he is; the wealthy producer and
successful business man. His manner is
modest, thoughtful and unassuming, rather
as you expect a less important man to be
and as you don't always find that they are.
Only people with greatness of soul are so
genuinely unassuming, whether they are
rich or poor — people who know that there
is something in the world too great for
them to know all of. They are usually dili-
gent workers, seeking to do their bit and
respecting the achievements of others.

Outside of working hours Harold dislikes
to talk 'shop' and most of his personal
friends are in other walks of life.

That is about all I found on that loca-
tion because it was too cold to remain
through the night. Harold and Mai kept
moving me about to lights and salamanders
to keep warm but Joe Reddy had not pre-
pared for the bitter wind and was almost
frozen to death, so we called it a day just
before 'lunch' was served at midnight.

So when you see this scene in Harold's
new picture which goes under the working
title of "Welcome Danger," don't forget
under what wild conditions it was made.

Freckles

Can be Secretly Removed!

"V^OU can remove those annoying,
embarrassing freckles, secretly
and quickly, in the privacy of your
own home. Your friends will wonder
how you did it.

Stillman's Freckle Cream bleaches
them out while you sleep. Leaves the
skin soft and white, the complexion
fresh, clear and transparent, the face
rejuvenated with new beauty of
natural coloring. The first jar proves
its magic worth. At all druggists.

Stillman's

Freckle Cream

Removes T Whitens
Freckles 1 The Skin

STILLMAN CO.
8 Rosemary Lane
Aurora, Illinois

Please send me Free book-
let "Goodbye Freckles".

I
I
I

City State

Address

SONGWRITERS!!!

Successful Songs — Earn Fortunes
SUBMIT POEMS

Robt. Brennen, Song Specialist

N-1654 Broadway, New York

MONEY FOR YOU

Men or women can earn $ 1 5 to $25 weekly
in spare time at home making display cards.
Light, pleasant work. N o canvassing. We
instruct you and supply you with work.
Write to-day for full particulars.
The MENHHNITT COMPANY Limited
2S2 Dominion Bldc.Toronto, Can.

Emxmm

Instantly transforms lashes into a
dark, rich luxuriant fringe of love-
liness. Lends sparkling bril-
ance and shadowy, invit-
ng depth to the eyes. The
easiest eyelash beautifier to
apply . . . Perfectly harmless.
Used by thousands.Tryit. Sol-
id or waterproof Liquid May-
belline, Black or Brown, 75c
at all toilet goods counters.
MAYBE LLINE CO., CHICAGO

106

SCREENLAND

t HEN-

iioTOGKAlPHERS

T «,^ro C'ixian FUETJ BOOK ex-

Larnera uiven plains opportuni-
ties ns Motion Picture Camera Man,
Portrait, Commercial or News Pho-
tographer or in your own business.
Learn at Home or in our great
Now York Studios.
Write for Free Boole and Job Chart
N.Y. Institute of Photography, 10 W.33dSt..N.Y. Dept.A-504

BE A MOVIE

OPERATOR
Projector Given

Wo teach you at
home. Big demand
by Movlo and
Vaudeville Theatres.

Dorothy
Johnson,
talented
young
artist
with her

Conn
Saxophone

Easy

J to PLAY

Will The choice of Sousa and
leading artists. The key to
success for beginners. Easy
to blow, responsive in action,
crystal clear in tone. Special
patented features and more
than BO years' experience are
assurance of supreme qual-
ity. Yet they cost no more.

FREE TRIAL, Easy Payments
on any band or orchestra instru-
ment. Write for special offer,
■ Mention instrument desired.
C.G.Conn,Ltd,984Conn Bld^.
Elkhart, Ind.

WORLD'S LARGEST
MANUFACTURERS o/ .

BAND INSTRUMENTS*

MGRICAN ACAD6MY
OF DRAMATIC ARTS

Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent

The foremost institution for Dramatic and
Expressional Training. The instruction of the
Academy furnishes the essential preparation for
Directing and Teaching as well as for Acting.

The training is educative and practical, de-
veloping Poise, Personality and Expressional
Power, of value to those in professional life
and to the layman.

Fall Term Opens October 26th

Extension Dramatic Courses in Co-operation with
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'
Catalog describing all Courses from
Room 253-1, CARNEGIE HALL, New York

Easy, new method of oil coloring over photo-
graphs and prints. Big demand. No talent need-
ed. Fascinating work for anyone. S35 to JJ00 a
week and more. Free Employment Service. Earn
while learning. We teach you at home. Complete
i artist's outfit given. Write for free booklet to-
day.

NATIONAL ART STUDIOS
Dept. 36-9, 1008 N. Dearborn, Chicago.

Yovl too can Have
a. lovely
Form/

Tie to Home

Method
Brings Quick
-•- Results

1 have helped thousands or Hat chested girls and women
develop a beautiful feminine form. My own treatment
will a.uickl_v give you a full firm form. Ugly lines disap-
pear just by the simple application of mv rich, luscious
MARVELA CREAM. The results are truly magical.
FREE Conflclential instructions how to mould
your form to full, rounded, shapely pro-
portions— included with my jar of JIarvela Cream.
SAVE S I -00 — Send only ?1.00 for large jar. (Regular
S2.00 Size) mailed postpaid in plain wrapper.
Limited time offer.

MARY TITUS

105 East 13th Street, Dept. 915, New York, N.Y.

Gotham's Gift to Hollywood

Continued from page 41

After finishing a role in "The Cocoa-
nuts," it was only natural that she be sent
to Hollywood. As word gets around, the
whole Paramount studio learned of Kay
Francis the day she arrived. Groups of
executives, directors and writers who
stopped to talk on the lot, lost all track
of conversation when she approached.
Office boys delivered packages to the wrong
desks when she passed. Other stars
watched her out of the corners of their
eyes. No one has ever been able to pass
this girl without looking at her twice.

She leaves an indelible impression. Her
hair is done in a sleek bob revealing her
ears. Her eyes are not so enormous as
those possessed by some of the cultivated
motion picture beauties. Her mouth is not
a cupid's bow nor does it have a bee-stung
contour. But men just love to look into
the Francis face and talk to her.

Her voice is low, gay and changes with
her moods. She uses it beautifully. She
doesn't have one of those baby giggles.
Hers is an impressive laugh — yet nothing
marvelous. But men have been known to
miss prize-fights to listen to the Francis
laugh. As for prize-fights — they're just
along Kay's avenue. She's had time to
see just one of the fights in Hollywood
since her arrival. They say, that the night
she attended, so far as the women in the
audience were concerned, there wasn't any
fight at all. They were busy watching the
Francis style — trying to figure out how she
managed to put all the people in all the
parts of the country, which she touched,
under her spell.

No one has yet seen Kay Francis in the
same dress twice. She always wears tight-
fitting hats with modernistic lines and folds
around her face. Her gowns fit. She
prefers to wear evening clothes. She loves
black. She uses just one piece of jewelry
with a costume. Leaving most of her ward-
robe in New York, she brought three trunks
and eleven suitcases of only spring and
summer clothes to Hollywood. That's why
Kay Francis has been called "the best
dressed woman in America."

She's been in the West just about one
month. She has given excellent account
of herself in Clara Bow's "Dangerous
Curves," made a trip to San Francisco,
appeared in Charles 'Budy' Rogers' starring
vehicle, "Illussion," and now has a featured
role in Paramount's "Behind the Makeup."

If any of the Hollywood property men
object to actresses who ask for drinks of
water, food, chairs and stoves every minute,
they should be on a Kay Francis picture.
She's regular — Gotham's gift to the work-
ingman! She's the only actress ever known
to try to help a garage man fix her flat
tire in order that she be at the studio on
time. She's heaven to the portrait photo-
grapher. She's the only actress, star or
'bit' player, who ever moved a small chair
for herself in the portrait gallery of the
studio when she knew it was necessary
before the next picture could be taken.
She's the only actress who has ever volun-
teered to adjust one side of a small rug
while the photographer managed the other
side. She doesn't mind having her picture
taken with new railroad engines, in gag
hats or on top of floats.

Around the studio, people always know
Kay Francis is approaching before they see

her. A definite walk is heard and then
her low, rich voice scolding Snifter, her
tiny puppy, for biting her hand too hard.
Snifter is quite a favorite with his mistress
because he is the first and only dog she
ever owned. Despite his six weeks' age,
Snifter has also had a career. He was act-
ing in pictures the day Miss Francis passed
a dog fancier's shop in Hollywood. But
Snifter's sister, sitting in the window at-
tracted attention. Before Kay ever saw
the tiny Scottie dog, he belonged to her.
His name is an original idea from William
Powell.

This young Francis girl has very definite
ideas about living in Hollywood. One
thing, she is going to save money. She
lives in a bungalow with her colored maid,
Ida. The latter, just as all people Kay has
around her, has quite a personality. The
actress stopped in Chicago and collected
Ida on her way to Hollywood. The day
Miss Francis arrived she bought a Ford
roadster, the first car she ever owned, and
named it Rabbit. Five hours after com-
pleting work on "Dangerous Curves," Kay
Francis, Caddie Stewart, a school chum,
and Snifter left to see the famous Golden
Gate in the Rabbit.

Except for a couple of speed cops, several
flat tires and dogs not being allowed in
three hotels, they had a great time. She
knows they would have been asked to pay
a fine or leave Fresno if she hadn't stopped
Snifter from scaring all the peacocks in
the city park.

Kay says she's a careful driver but
admits that she is still a little bewildered by
all the traffic laws. She doesn't under-
stand how it happened but somewhere in
the middle of California the Rabbit was
followed through three towns by a speed
cop in another Ford. Finally, he overtook
the girls and informed the actress that she
was traveling 62 miles an hour by school
houses, exceeding the speed limit at street
crossings, passing at intersections, riding in
the middle of the road, was a reckless
driver and had passed ten cars in three
miles. Both she and Caddie pleaded they'd
only been in California three weeks and
hadn't learned every rule yet. But with a
ticket checked on several scores, the Rabbit
wandered into the county seat of Lexing-
ton, California. After several inquiries,
they found the judge in his court at the
rear of the library. Less lots of energy
wasted talking to the judge, $25 and two
hours' time, the girls in the Rabbit leaped
on only to be stopped a couple of miles
farther by another officer of the law. Not
that she was speeding or driving recklessly,
but had just passed a boulevard stop with-
out stopping. They pleaded and explained
and finally, with a black mark against them,
this speed cop let the party continue. But
not until he cranked their car and pushed
it out of some sand.

In San Francisco, three hotels refused to
take Snifter into their suites and thereby
lost the distinction of housing Kay Francis.
After going to Yosemite, circling mountain
roads for hours at top speed in order to
make a control and then missing it and
having two flat tires, the Rabbit turned
toward Hollywood and Kay to her career.

Oklahoma City is going to be flooded
with newspaper stories when "Behind the
Makeup" shows in that city. Not so many

SCREENLAND 107

years ago, Kay was born in the Oklahoma
town. During her early childhood, she
lived in Santa Barbara, California, Los
Angeles, and Denver. When she was four
years old, her mother brought her to New
York City. The mother, Katherine Clinton,
well-known repertoire player, went back to
the stage and Kay was sent to school.

After finishing school, Kay entered a
secretarial college in New York City and
learned typewriting and shorthand because
her mother wasn't overly anxious for her
to become an actress. Instead of getting
a job as a stenographer, she took a trip to
Europe and spent eight months abroad see-
ing France, Holland and England. On her
return trip she determined to go on the
stage. Her mother was not exactly opposed
to the move but allowed Kay to make her
way on her own merits. Kay engineered
the part of a lady-in-waiting for the modern
version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." By
imagining that she once played in vaude-
ville, in a Kansas City stock company and
in amateur theatricals and by telling the
producers of her imagination, Kay was
given the role of the queen. A small part,
but nevertheless, a starter. The next five
months, she spent as a 'disciple," the name
of a young person starting in the theatrical
world, in Stuart Walker's stock companies
in the middle west. In Cincinnati she met
David Newell, who is now also under con-
tract to Paramount. They both played
'bits' one week and leads the next. They
both appeared in "Dangerous Curves" as
their first roles in Hollywood.

Returning to New York, Kay appeared
in "Venus," "Crime," and "Elmer the
Great." Not long after, talking pictures
and Hollywood entered her life.

As for her personal self, she's been in
love several times. At present there is no
one in New York or Hollywood to whom
she is engaged or even knows very well.
If she remains in Hollywood, her mother
and all of her clothes will be shipped west.
She likes Holywood quite a lot even if she
hasn't had time to find out what's inside
of giant ice cream freezers, windmills, ice'
bergs and freak buildings in Southern
California.

She was born on Friday the thirteenth
in the thirteenth month of her mother's
marriage. But to Kay Francis, thirteen,
black cats, ladders and all that stuff is
good luck.

Kay's just that way — okay!

Lee Tracy, who played in "Broadway"
and "The Front Page" in the original
stage productions, ma\es his movie bow
in "Big Time."

a Week as

Private Secretary/

"Why, Ruth, I
Didn't Even Know
You Knew
Shorthand."

"I Didn't
Two Months
Ago!"

"TJONESTLY, Irene, it seems too good
_£ J_ to be true! When Mr. Shaw called
me in yesterday and told me he
had decided to make me his private secre-
tary— I was so happy I almost cried. The
other girls can't understand it — they've
all been there so much longer than I
have, you know.

"But I know why — it is because I knew
Speedwriting. When I see other girls
puzzling over their pot-hooks and curlicues,
trying to figure out what they mean, I am
mighty glad I couldn't learn the sign and
symbol system. I tried to, you know, but
gave it up in despair.

"A little over eight weeks ago I heard
about Speedwriting. I was a telephone
operator then, earning $20.00 a week.
Marion Morgan told me about it, and I
lost no time in enrolling.

As Easy As A-B-G!

"Irene, you can't imagine how fascinating
those lessons proved to be. Speedwriting,
you see, is written in the ordinary A-B-C's,
just like longhand, and it's as easy as talk-
ing to you. Why, the very first evening
I had mastered the principle of it. At
the end of four weeks I took my first job
as a stenographer.

"I 'made good' from the very beginning.
I didn't have any trouble at all in reading
my notes, and my letters were so accurate
that all the men in the general office
wanted me to take their dictation. Speed-
writing was so easy,

you see. There were

no signs or symbols

with double meanings

to confuse me. My

notes were in just the

ordinary letters of the

alphabet.

Doubled My Salary!

"Now, this position — at $45.00 a week —
more titan double my salary as a telephone
operator. Take my advice, Irene, study
Speedwriting, even though you already
know symbol shorthand. You will find it
much more accurate and not half the
trouble. And you can learn it in no time ! "

Learned In A Few Hours

Experienced stenographers as well as be-
ginners are learning
Speedwriting because
it is the easiest,
quickest way to a
better position and
more pay. Business
and professional men
and women, — execu-
tives, salesmen,
clergymen, doctors,
lawyers — have also
welcomed Speedwrit- ^'es
ing" as the only nat- writing." who for is

i , years taught practically

Ural, accurate, prac- a|| systems of shorthand

tical shorthand that jf such institutions as

. -• -. . Columbia University,

can be learned in a Rochester Business In-

fpw limir<! nf stiirlv stitute. Simmons College
lew nouib or biuu^ . a|]d the Unive,.sjty of

Write Today For California.

Full Particulars!

Our FREE book tells you about Speedwriting,
"The Natural Shorthand." Whether you are
an experienced stenographer or a beginner,
■whether you need Speedwriting in your business
or as a means of increasing your own personal
efficiency — of assuring yourself of a better posi-
tion and a larger income — you should get the
facts about this amazing new system — the short-
hand of today — Send for FREE book TODAY
— NOW!

SPEEDWRITING, Inc.

Dept. BM-3446, 200 Madison Ave.
New York, N. Y.

[VI A ■ L MOW/

Miss Emma B. Dearborn,
he inventor of SPEED-

Speedwriting Coupon

SPEEDWRITING.

200 Madison Ave.,

Inc.. Dept. BM3446,
New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

Without obligation, please send me your
Free Book, and full detai's about Speedwriting.
the new, natural shorthand.

Name -

Address -

City State

( ) Speedwriting ( ) Speedtyping

10S

SCREENLAND

The Charm of Youth

IT IS a feminine char-
acteristic to capti-
vate by the power
of seductive charm, but
alas I many fail to vis-
ualize the future, and
lose the treasure of
loveliness — the complex-
ion of youth. To the
disappointed, Tez aline
offers a brilliant hope
for successful beauty
treatment. It is unlike
anything you have ever
used; a scientific treat-
ment based on a re-
markably efficient sub-
stance for the embellish-
ment of the skin. It
will assist you to pre-
serve, develop and ac-
centuate the Charm of
Youth.

Tezalino is. in effect,
a knlfeless "lifting" treatment with an effect im-
mediately noticeable. It accomplishes the seemingly
impossible through a modern adaptation of the very
latest research on skin formation and beauty cul-
ture. Tezaline corrects skin defects, lines, enlarped
pores, and promotes a velvety texture of youthful
loveliness. Its use will prove a revelation and
win you from the start with the full consciousness
of a promise rich in fulfillment.

At Leading Beauty Counters

We will gladly tell you more about the remark-
able properties of Tezaline, and will also send
"Informal Beauty Chats", an all-embracing dis-
closure of scientification rejuvenation. Just write
for it at once.

D'HENRI TEZALINE LABORATORIES

200 Fifth Avenue, Office 447-L, New York.

"Tezaline will
revolut to nize.
beauty culture"-

Let Me Make
YOU OVERT

Big Muscles Quick

Look at those two pictures! Which are YOU? A
puny, run-down weakling, scorned by your fellow-
men, avoided by the fair sex, ashamed to show
yourself in a bathing suit? Snap out of it. friend!
Take a look at that big boy at the right and cheer
up. That's the way TITLS builds men. And
YOU'RE NEXT.

Let me cover your body with muscle. Let me make
you over inside and out. Just give me 30daysand
see the amazing change. New health— new strength
-- new energy -- all in a few minutes a day! Why
be a weakling when it's so EASY to be strong?

Mail the Coupon •jj^i** f**S£w;

r Man, it will open your
eye9l Read how scientific body-building makes
weak men strong, and strong men
STRONGER. Rusb that coupon TODAY.

T|TITOI05 E. 13th Street
111 Ud New York, N. Y.

! TITUS, Dept. V-142.

! 105 E. 13th St., New York.

■ Send me by mail your bis

> new book "'Miracles in JIus-

! cle" — FREE.

Lombard — Unlimited — Continued from page 07

Name

Address —
Town _

State..

preliminary mugging process, politely
known as a test, and Carol's work in her
first picture won her a long-term contract.

Then, just to show once more that it's
a small world, who do you think she was
cast opposite next? Yep, Buck Jones —
the young fellow who was born on the
same street with her back in Fort Wayne,
Indiana. Carol became a girl of the great
open spaces and added the art of plain and
fancy riding to her dramatic accomplish-
ments.

Everything was going as it should.
Carol's whirl around the cinema circle had
begun. She was among friends. Stardom
looked to be but a matter of time and learn-
ing the intricacies of a complex art. That
would be easy, for Carol never had been
accused of being a dumb-dora. Then Old
Man Unexpected stepped into the picture
in the form of an automobile accident and
a perfectly good motion picture career so
auspiciously begun was given a set-back.
Injuries kept our heroine off the screen
for six months and nulified her Fox con-
tract.

Six months is a long time in Hollywood.
An actress can be made or can pass com-
pletely out of the picture in that time. In
the particular case of Carol, she had vir-
tually passed out of the picture. But those
who know Carol knew that this condition
was a mere detail. The word 'quit' to her
was merely a four-letter word meaning
apple-sauce and could be found under the
'Qs' in the dictionary if anyone was so
foolish as to want it.

Back on her pretty feet, Carol summoned
her very effective sense of humor and
looked over the field. The first oppor-
tunity came from Mack Sennett. Now,
Carol never was very fond of pie. The
vitamines or proteins or whatever-it-is that
stars should not take too much of, annoyed
her. But after all, getting a custard pie in the
face and putting a custard pie in the face
were two different things. Carol took the
job and signed a contract for a year.

"And if you don't believe I've suffered
for my art," comments Carol anent the
year that ensued, "then you've never
worked in a Sennett comedy."

The first scene that Carol played for
Sennett required her to get a punch in the
nose with a subsequent close-up of her
rather pretty proboscis rouged to a nicety.
Then she was required to have hollow wire
strung through her hair leading to the edges
of her eyes for the purpose of squirting
'tears' many feet so that her public- might
go into convulsions.

Fortunately, when Carol made her debut
in slapstick comedy the famed custard pie
was considered passe. Unfortunately, how-
ever, a substitute even more gooey had
been found in the form of flour paste; so

that at various and frequent times thereafter
our erstwhile ingenue was subjected to
close-ups in which a husky property man
just out of the picture line tossed gobs of
soft, running, sticky batter into her eyes
and ears and nose and mouth. Two-reel
comedies, verily, were a revelation to our
heroine, but, having started the thing, she
decided characteristically to finish it.

At the end of the year Sennett produc-
tion went into a coma and Carol went back
to the Fox Studios, scene of her earliest
efforts before the camera. It was in an
ultra-sophisticated crook role in "Me,
Gangster" and the third step of her trip
around the dramatic circle.

Exigencies of reducing a film to practi-
cal length for general release often necessi-
tates the removal of an entire characteriza-
tion from the story and this was the fate
of Carol when "Me, Gangster" was re-
leased. But the surgical process had not
been completed when a Pathe official saw
the Raoul Walsh production previewed and
another step of the circular cinema trail
was the result. There was a role of a two-
timing country gal that needed filling in
"Power," with William Boyd. Carol got
it. She also got a long-term contract on
the strength of her performance with Boyd
and the prediction of Edmund Goulding,
who was searching for new talent for Pathe,
that she was one of the greatest starring
possibilities in pictures.

"Ned McCobb's Daughter" came next.
A snippy, pampered, selfish girl was the
role that fell to Carol. "Show Folks" and
another unsympathetic role followed, but
it was pleasant inasmuch as Eddie Quillan
played the male lead and there was much
reminiscing to be done anent the custard
pie situation at Sennett's where they had
battled pastry together a few months pre-
viously.

Finally, Carol went back to see Mr. De
Mille, just as he had told her to do. The
visit, however, came at the behest of 'C.B.,'
who borrowed her from Pathe to play one
of the two leads in "Dynamite." Six
weeks of preparation followed; then eight.
Pathe became anxious. The officials began
to wonder when they were going to get
their little girl back on the home lot.
Robert Armstrong was waiting to start work
in "Big News." Conferences followed.
Carol came home by mutual consent, back
to a leading role, with sympathy and every-
thing. 'C.B.' sent her flowers with a note
saying that he was sorry to lose her.

Carol had made the circle. She had
kept going in the same direction for more
than two years. Now Hollywood is wait-
ing to see if Edmund Goulding is right:
whether Carol Lombard, unlimited in deter-
mination and ambition, is indeed one of
the greatest starring prospects in pictures.

JuSt a Hollywood Boy —Continued from page %

soldier or singer, reporter or Broadway
hoofer — he was that person in his own
mind.

"You know Mr. Zanuck was over to see
me this morning," Bakewell said, interrupt-
ing our train of thought. "Guess what he
said?"

Now as Darryl Francis Zanuck is an as-
sociate executive at the Warner Brothers
Studio and supervisor of forthcoming pro-
ductions we hazarded the guess that what

he had said was both interesting and im
portant.

"Right you are," Billy answered cheer-
fully. "He told me he liked my work so
well that when I finished in 'On With the
Show' he wanted me to do the leading
juvenile role in 'The Gold Diggers' for
Warner Bros. It's an all-dialog picture
and will be done entirely in color. Mammy!
Gee — now isn't that keen?"

"Do you know what Doug Fairbanks

did?" he added suddenly. "He gave me
an autographed picture of himself. And
another thing — you know he let me keep
that iron mask that I used in the picture!
Mammy! I'm sure proud of that. That
was keen of him, wasn't it?"

It's refreshing that this youngster, who
has lived all his life in Hollywood, and
knows intimately many of filmland's mast
prominent producers, directors and stars,
can retain so perfectly his fresh outlook
and enormous enthusiasm for motion pic
ture work and his childish delight at the
kindness of its established stars. His is
more the attitude of a newcomer to cinema-
land, one dazzled by the beauty and color
of the industry, than that of an old trouper.

Hollywood has not infrequently been ac-
cused of catering to 'pull,' influence and
what-not. Certainly, in a measure this is
true. Those who are inside nearly always
give preference to their friends and rela-
tives; it is no more than natural.

Bakewell's rise to recognition, however,
is a notable exception to this type of
growth. For two years this youngster
haunted the studios, doing atmosphere and
mob extra work before ever he won his
first 'bit' part. Then he had to prove his
mettle under fire before he received recog-
nition. It wasn't easy. The road was a
long, rocky one and the progress made
seemed imperceptible to the boy, so anxious
was he to do 'big things.'

"You know, it's a funny thing," he said
"how most actors when they're not actually
before the camera, keep off the set. They
sit in one of the canvas chairs around the
place, smoke cigarettes and swap jokes and
stories, while awaiting their turn to emote.
The novelty of pictures seems to have worn
off for them, as well as the glamour and
romance of the game. They regard it as
no more than a prosaic job, even a tough
one, when the schedule of scenes to be
shot is heavy."

Billy Bakewell is frankly bewildered by
these people. He just doesn't understand
them. He can't see how anyone interested
in making a name in the motion picture
world could possibly be so stupid as to pass
up the opportunity for learning the tricks
of the trade, studying without charge in
the studios.

"These same fellows go to the movies
and study the actions of the stars critically
to see how they do their scenes," Billy
said. "Some of them take courses in elocu-
tion, the art of pantomime, and all that
sort of thing. But they deliberately ignore
the finest school of all and actually profess
to be bored when a first-rate actor is per-
forming before the camera in their own
company. I can't understand it."

Together we wandered over to one of
the stages, where a Bowery cabaret scene
was being enacted. The dancing girl was
struggling in the arms of the leering vil-
lain who had seized her and was trying to
kiss her. She screamed. Entered the hero.
With a single bound he was upon the vil-
lain, swung the blackguard round and laid
him low with a stiff uppercut to the jaw.
Sobbing, the girl stumbled into her rescuer's
arms and the couple clinched for a fade-
out.

"What did you think of that scene?"
we inquired curiously, edging closer.
"Terrible," muttered an older actor, his
weary eyes oppressed by the hackneyed
quality of the bit. "Aw, gee, no," pro-
tested young Bakewell vehemently. "That
was — aw, Mammy, that was \een!"

S CREENLAND

109

Everyone** Going Holl

Rouqe Ring J

It's an "adorably smart", genuine
STERLING SILVER vanity ring
with a secret compartment holding
lip rouge and a dainty French
mirror. It is dainty — makes the
linger seem slender, yet it is
practical.

The Hollywood Rouge Ring is all
the rage at the beaches, golf courses, tennis courts
and studios. It's the "smart" thing at collegiate
dinners and dances.

Latest Hollywood Novelty — An
Instant Hit— Smart New Fad.

This solid sterling silver ring is richly
decorated with California Holly in dainty
filigree. The set is modish French enamel
in your favorite color. INLAID with
futuristic art design in sterling.

Send No Money fj™

and address and pay postman $2.49 (plus
the postage) on delivery. Wear three
days, show friends: if not delighted, re-
turn ring and get all money right back.
HOLLYWOOD ROUGE RING CO..
Dept 3, Hollywood, Calif.

GWEN
Lee Says

"It's
Adorably
Smart"

STORIES FOR
TALKING PICTURES

and Silent Screen Productions
in big demand.

There is now a double market — all submitted
story material whether containing dialogue or
not, is given consideration for talking pictures,
sound or silent screen production. We know
Studio demands and make personal submission
of manuscripts. COPYRIGHT SERVICE.
Full particulars without obligation. Agency
Established 1917.

Universal Scenario Company

504 Western & Santa Monica Bldg.
Hollywood, Calif.

The next number of
Screenland will be on
sale September 5.

BY THE LAKE

in Chicago

211

East Delaware

5 minutes from the Loop

BATHING

GOLF COURSE

BRIDLE PATH

r r yrr

7gg im -

$80 -$85 up
Including
complete hotel
service
Kitchenette
Apartments
with electric
refrigeration
and all
modern
conveniences
in new 16-
story fire-
l_, proof building

Phone:
Whitehall 4450
Owned and
Operated by
& A. W. & I. E.
SOMMERS

girdle

reduces waist and hips

— Two to Four Inches in TEN DAYS

TJEEE'S a wonderful new ventilated girdle that makes
■ you look slimmer instantly and actually reduces your
bulky hips and waist — often from 2 to 4 inches in 10
days.

Perfolastic is a cool, comfortable, light-weight girdle made
of finest quality, pure live, fresh plantation rubber — a product
of the famous Goodrich Rubber Company. It fits with glove-
like smoothness, closely encircling waist, hips and thighs, so
that your figure takes on — instantly — straight, slender, youth-
ful lines. And with every breath you draw — every step you
take — its constant, gentle massage-like pressure breaks down
the fat cells — which are 85% water — and moulds away un-
wanted flesh just as a skilled masseuse would.

If you want to regain a slender figure. — to wear the smart
new styles effectively — find out more about this marvelous Per-
folastic Girdle. FREE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET gives full
details and special 5-day trial offer with money-back guarantee
that protects you from all risks. Send for it today. No cost
or obligation. Simply

mail coupon below to
Perfolastic, Inc., Dept.
39, 79 Madison Ave.,
New York City.

Send for !

i
■

Special ■
5-Day Trial Offer j

PERFOLASTIC, Inc.. Dept. 39,
79 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.

Without obligation, please send nie
FREE Booklet describing and illustrating
the new Perfolastic Girdle — also special
5-day trial offer.

Name

Address

City. State..

FINE HATS

Free.

SATS.

for Showing Samples
to Your Friends

Amazing new ulanl Now
jy men gut their own huts
FltlSE just for showing
friends how to save $2 to $5 on
America's smartest Wool Felt and
Belgian Fur Felt Hats. Get yours
(liiick.

$19 Daily Besides

Big pay daily, full or spare time.
No exi>erience ne9ded. Complete
equipment furnished Absolutely
Uasy to start quick. Easy to get FREE
Write!

I'll alio stitd you FREE romplrlr line shoicino RA IN-PROOF,
MADE-TO-MEASURE CAPS in newest styles and color:

Taylor Hat & Cap Mfrs.. Desk M-340, Cincinnati, 0.

SCREEN^tARS

2|J Pictures of famous
movie stars. Good
clear prints. Size 3J4X
5 Yx. Sent prepaid on
receipt of 50c.
JOHN 0. WE1GEL PICTURES CO.
Box 529. San Francisco. Cal.

The HOLLYWOOD PLAZA HOTEL

Vine Street at Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood, California

Entek the doorway of this popular hos-
telry and you feel at home. There's an
atmosphere of cordial welcome which
marks the difference between the Holly-
wood Plaza and ordinary hotels.

Your room, too, has that added touch
of distinction. Pictures on the wall,
overstuffed furniture, a floor lamp and
reading lamp . . . these are but a few
of the features that make you feel at home.

Pig'n Whistle Dining Service insures
the best of food. Therefore, when you
are next in Los Angeles be sure to
investigate.

Cincinnati's Finest

At the Gibson every comfort and
convenience of home is placed at the
command of each guest from the
time of arrival to departure. Gra-
cious hospitality, excellent
service and delicious cuisine
have made it Cincinnati's
finest. 1000 rooms, each
with bath. Rates $3.00,
upwards. Large, airy
sample rooms, espe-
cially desirable.
Royal Hospitality in the Queen City

Make Reservations, or Send
for Booklet
NEW YORK CITY PORTLAND, ORB.
1019 Flatiron Bldg. 1101 Buyers Bldg.

CHICAGO LOS ANGELES

900 Wrigley Bldg. 428, 510 West 6th St.

SEATTLE SAN FRANCISCO

416 University St. 1019, 681 Market St.

Hotel Gibson

C. C. SCHIFFELER, General Homager

SCREENLAND

In NeW York — Continued from page 73

picture we hope some day to make to-
gether."

* * *

Richard Dix came to town — hiding be-
hind a moustache! But he met a friend
of his who said: "For heaven's sake have
a shave!" So Richard sighed and had it
removed.

"I went to Baltimore for my big open-
ing," he told me.

"What picture?" I wanted to know.

"It wasn't a picture," grinned Richard.
"I had an operation. You know I never
quite recovered from that operation I had
some time ago so I thought another one
would fix me up."

And it certainly did. I never saw Dix
look so well — big and brown and husky,
and eager to get to work on his new con-
tract with Radio Pictures. He has one more
to make for Paramount and then — whoopee!
— he will start in doing the sort of romantic
roles he likes, under his new contract.
William Le Baron will be his production
chief and the two men have been friends
for years. So it looks as if Richard's
future is all set. All-talking? Of course.

Get ready to meet a new film star. Ever
hear of Claire Luce? She's famous in New
York, Paris, and London as a beauty, a
dancer, and an actress; but has never been
in pictures. However, since she scored
such a hit in "Burlesque" on the British
stage she has had movie offers aplenty; and
has decided to accept the best — from Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer or Paramount, probably.

Claire is very, very blonde, and has the
enviable reputation of being the best-
dressed girl on the New York stage. She
used to be in the Follies and dances
divinely. Studying voice and stage tech-
nique she went abroad and immediately
clicked in London in a difficult dramatic
role. And now she will go to Hollywood,
where her first movie assignment will prob-
ably be as Roman Novarro's leading lady
in Ramon's first all-talker. Claire's wealthy
and devoted husband, Clifford Smith, will
go with her.

# ❖ £

Corinne Griffith came back from her
three-months' vacation in Europe prepared
to stay several weeks, in Manhattan. She
hadn't wanted to come home from Europe
because she was having such a good time.
But a popular screen star isn't her own
boss. When there is a public demand for
her pictures her company can be very stern
and unyielding about cutting short her
vacation. So before she knew it, Corinne
found herself boarding another train for
Hollywood. It seems the script for her
next talkie, "Lilies of the Field," required
her attention. And, being a conscientious
star, she went back to work.

Have you missed Mae Murray? Or were
you one of the fortunates who had the
opportunity to see her in her vaudeville act
while she was on tour? Either way, you'll

be glad to welcome her back to pictures,
I'm sure. Mae has signed a contract with
Tiffany-Stahl and her first will be an all-
talking and musical version of "Peacock
Alley" — yes, the same story she made some
years ago and which proved such a suc-
cess. Mae was in town for a week buying
clothes for her first talkie and Tiffany-
Stahl gave a luncheon for her at the Ritz.
Mae looked charming when she rose to
make a little speech. She faced the assem-
bled newspaper people with a pretty smile
and then before they could collect them-
selves she had entered into a plea for more
tolerant reviews! She reminded the scribes
that the audiences who pay to see pictures
do not do so in a hyper-critical frame of
mind. They want to be amused and enter-
tained, and critics should take that into
consideration.

Screen land agrees with Miss Murray.
You will always find Screenland's re-
views written in a spirit of fair play — the
same spirit which pervades all of this
Magazine. The editorial this month touches
on this subject; be sure to read it!

Goodbye, Camilla Horn! Don't stay away
too long. Somehow I can't believe that
Hollywood will let Camilla go, just because
she doesn't speak English as you or I.
Because, after all, Miss Horn's accent is-
not heavy; on the contrary, it is charming;
and since she was never called upon to play
American girls anyway, why shouldn't there
still be a place for her in our pictures?

Before she sailed to make a picture or
two in Germany, Camilla played the heroine
in the all-German talking picture made by
Warner Brothers in their New York studio
— "The Royal Box," starring Moissi, the
famous continental star. This picture will
be released in America as a silent film; in
Europe as a German talkie. In the cast are
two other lovely continental ladies — Elsa
Ersi, who has made a name for herself in
musical comedy on Broadway; and Vilga
Nors, a beautiful Hungarian who looks a
little like Vilma Banky and a lot like
Marilyn Miller. You'll like her. They're
calling her 'Vilga from the Volga!'
* ' *

Mary Eaton is the latest Broadway star
to desert to Hollywood. She played the
lead in "The Cocoanuts" and "Glorifying
the American Girl" at Paramount's eastern
studios so Hollywood will not find her un-
prepared. Mary is said to be engaged to
Millard Webb, ■ Paramount director of
"Gentlemen of the Press" and other pic-
tures.

Edwin Carewe sailed for Europe with
his wife, Mary Akin Carewe. And there's
another romance for you! You know the
Carewes were divorced several years ago.
And it looked for a while as if director
Carewe were interested in his Mexican
star, Dolores Del Rio. But — now he and
his wife have kissed, made up, and been
married all over again, and this time it
looks as if it will last!

Mill II llll Illlllllllll

□

Qiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniriii •■■■■iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini

I ARE YOU A SELF-APPOINTED MEMBER

j OF THE "SCREENLAND BOOSTERS'

| CLUB?" SEE PAGE 100. i

[■J •iiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiii iiii iiiim i iiiiii iiiiiiiiiiii tit nit tiiiniiiiii tit in in tinmin I m l ill iH

SC REENLAND

ill

Bennett the Third— Continued jrom page 55

back to the Wodens of Wales. And there
were the sisters, Constance and Barbara,
also noted in their line.

But Joan had never so much as expressed
a desire for the stage.

Then there were physical handicaps
which Richard Bennett thought would for'
ever bar her from following in line of her
heritage.

Joan was beautiful, but she was shy.

Her voice was musical, but weak.

Her eye's were bad and she had a habit
of drooping her shoulders, which ruined
her poise and grace on the stage.

But one day the unexpected happened.

Joan returned suddenly from school in
France. She went immediately to the thea-
ter where her father was rehearsing for
the starring role in the play, "Jarnegan."

"Father," Joan said quietly. "I have
decided to go on the stage."

"All right, Joan," the elder Bennett said,
using his best acting to keep her from
sensing his happiness, "but I don't believe
you will be any good."

"I'll show you," said Joan, the conqueror.

Then her father told her he had just
the part for her first attempt. It was the
ingenue lead in "Jarnegan," a most diffi-
cult and dramatic part.

Joan took the role and started rehearsals
undef the direction of her most exacting
parent. And what a rehearsal it was — all
of them!

"Father told me I was no different from
a thousand other ingenues, and oh, how
he worked on me!" Joan tells it with that
slow smile of hers.

"He made me stand 'way in another
part of the house while I was rehearsing,
so that I could learn to strengthen my
voice. He made me take difficult exercises
to strengthen my back and give me poise.
Soon everything was all right except^ my
eyes, which are gradually improving."

Then "Jarnegan" had its premiere in New
York. Joan was a sensation. Sam Gold-
wyn saw her — and you know the rest.

Then began her breathless rise to fame
in Hollywood where stars have worked
years to become famous.

Joan is a bit bewildered about her fame.
She declares she owes everything to her
father's strict training.

"Father was my director. I am his
daughter. He is an artist. So little Joan
Bennett just had to make good," she
naively explains it.

Joan declares she wasn't a bit afraid,
even on her first stage appearance. The
fact that her father gave her the role and
directed her as his leading lady in his New
York production, calmed any fears she may
have had, because she knew that her father,
underneath it all, had confidence in her.
And, according to Miss Bennett, that was
everything.

"Aren't you afraid?" her friends asked
her, whereupon Joan replied that it seemed
the most natural thing in the world to
act, particularly opposite her own father.

Joan was born in Palisades, New Jersey.
As a girl she was educated at St. Margaret's
a boarding school at Waterbury, Conn.,
and concluded her education at a finishing
school, L'Ermitage, at Versailles, France.

It is hard for a pipe-smoking reporter
to select the best adjectives in describing
Joan: her wavy blonde hair, her Banshee
eyes, her voice and — Joan. Vivid adjectives

are needed, so we'll just have to let you
look at her picture and try to form a mem-
tal description of her yourself.

We found Joan behind the sets of a
gloomy stage at United Artists studio,
where she had been having a rehearsal
with other members of the cast of "Three
Live Ghosts." Max Marcin, the author of
the play, was helping at the rehearsals.

Joan plays Rose, a young artist, who is
reunited with her sweetheart whom she
believed killed in action, in the filmization
of this unusual play.

Miss Bennett learned oil painting in
Paris, but when it came time for her to
do a scene in which she was seen painting
flowers and other decorations on pieces of
chinawear, Joan admitted this phase of art
was not familiar to her. So Thornton
Freeland, the young assistant director, who
won his spurs for his work as assistant to
Roland West in "Alibi," and became a
director for the first time in "Three Live
Ghosts," hired Miss Bess Schubert, artist
and instructor in china painting.

Joan was receiving her first instruction,
between rehearsals, when we saw her. So
we pulled up a studio chair for Miss Ben-
nett, ourselves and one for her Chow pup,
who has been all over the country with
her.

We observed that Joan has splendid taste
in clothes, and at the time we talked with
her she was wearing a street ensemble of
beige-colored woolen material with a sports
hat of shiny straw in a color to match the
ensemble.

Joan declares she is very happy in Holly-
wood. Her sister Constance is here now
making pictures for Pathe, and perhaps her
other sister Barbara, who is now making
talking pictures in New York, may come
to Hollywood later. Also, her father may
come out, if "Jarnegan" ever ends it run.

The little actress in her spare time en-
joys horseback riding, tennis and swimming
for active outdoor sports. She has already
begun to acquire a coat of famous Cali-
fornia tan.

From now on Joan plans to confine her
activities to talking pictures. Would she
return to the stage? Yes, of course, pro-
vided her father wants her to be his leading
lady again. She whispers that the talkies
have simply created havoc with the New
York stage, what with all its players flock-
ing out here with microphone contracts
safely tucked way in their pockets.

Personality, plus confidence and stage
experience, which naturally includes a
trained voice, form the necessary founda-
tion to success in talking pictures, Joan
believes. Naturalness, a stage trait her
father drilled into her, is the essential thing
needed in film work, she says.

Joan bemoans that she seems fated to
play clinging-vine roles, when as a matter
of fact she would like to try her hand at
portraying an independent-minded ingenue.
She would like to play a young character
who didn't have a girlish giggle and ador-
ing eyes.

But it hasn't all been as easy as it
sounds. I believe I had more difficulties
to overcome in both stage and screen roles
than anyone else. I still have some trouble
with my eyes," she concluded, rather
seriously.

But you'd never think it to look at
them!

^/Uie io*Ainicn I
cimMaticmm

Your favorite Movie star
will appreciate letters from
you when written on FIFTH
AVENUE stationery. It's the
choice of Movie stars and soci-
ety folk; More personal and
distinctive; Socially correct.

Your Personal monogram or Name and address beautifully
embossed like die engraving (not printed) black blue or
jade green, (gold or silver 00c extra).

Exquisite Tuxedo linen, an exceptional linen paper jiBS.
of fine texture and smooth writing surface white
or Pearl grey in the ever popular Club size 63dr
5 1-2 100 Folded sheets and 100 envelopes S2
Packed in Beautiful box. Shipped Postpaid ma
week. Add 10 per cent west of Miss En-
close check or M. O. Mention initial of sur- re-
name. Money back guarantee. Sample pack-
age of beautiful stationery mailed free.

FIFTH AVENUE STATIONERS

and £asi/ to

/earn to Play \

In ten days you start
playing popular airs on
your new Pan-American
saxoph one, clarinet,
trombone — or any other
instrument. You'll be in
demand — you'll lead in
popularity wherever you
go.

Act now — write todav for
FREE illustrated cata-
log and Ret our easy
payment plan and Free
Trial offer. Pan-Ameri-
cans are the only mod-
erately priced. factory
guaranteed band instruments
in the world. Write to Pan-
American Band Instrument &
Case Co.. 0(17 Pan-American
'Bldg.. Elkhart, Indiana.

"C-M-CO" Skin Beautifier

A marvelous cream, producing won-
derful results; fine for sunburn or
massage after shaving. Price 50c.

"FLOWER OF HEAVEN"

A perfume of Quality — ■
exquisite and lasting.
Price $1.

"Columbina" Face Powder

Given free with each or-
der— regular size box of
fine imported powder.

SEND NO MONEY, pay post-
man, plus postage, on delivery.
Clip this adv. — order now.

COLOMBO LAB., 453 Essex St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Stop Using A Truss

STUART'S ADHESIF PLAPAO-PADS are
entirely different — being mechanico-chemico
applicators — made self-adhesive purposely to
keep the herbal muscle-tonic called "Plapao'*
continuously applied to the affected parts, and
to minimize danger of slipping and painful
friction. The adhesive fabric is soft as velvet
and clings to the body

without
straps,
buckles

or
springs.

For almost a quarter century stacks of sworn
testimonials from many different countries re-
port success— without delay from work. The
epidermatic absorption of Plapao and the utiliza-
tion of "plaster therapy" tend toward a
natural process of recovery, after which no
further use for a truss. Test of
factor " PLAPAO " sent you CDEE
Mail Coupon below TODAY. iffltC

Plapao Laboratories, Inc.

1566 Stuart Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.

Gentlemen: Send me a Free Trial Plapao and 48-page
book on Rupture. No charge for this now or later.

Name..

Address .

112

SCREENLAND

"Arlington Operated"

HOTEL ANSONIA

Broadway, 73rd to 74th Streets

NliW YORK CITY

5 minutes to Theatres and Shoppinn Districts.
12 minutes from Pcnn. and Grand Central Stations.

1,260 ROOMS (All Outside)

New York's most complete hotel. Everything
[or comfort and convenience of our guests.

TWO RESTAURANTS

Open from 6:30 A. M. until midnight.
Music, Dancing, 2 Radio Orchestras, Ladies'
Turkish Bath, Beauty Parlor, Drug Store, Barher
Shop, Stock Broker's Office. All in the
Ansonia Hotel.

TRANSIENT RATES

300 Rooms and Bath per day #4.00

Large Double Rooms, Twin Beds,

Bath #6.00 per day

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (2

persons) #7.00 per <iay

Special Weekly and Monthly Rates
A restful hotel — away from all noise and
"dirt" of the "Roaring Forties." No coal
smoke; our steam plant equipped oil fuel.
Coolest Hotel in New York in Swmmer

THE ANSONIA

In conjunction with the Hotels Marseilles,
Anderson, Richmond and Cosmopolitan

MoWll%UcHerl

J J jHBSHHHHK] ffjDADIANT bride, startii

. From happy
bride to phys-
ical wreck!
No one told
her the troths
of feminine

| hygiene.

^.■uc, starting
V on the greatest adven-
ture in a woman 's life— who
will prepareherfor thatin-
timate problem of married
life on which futurehappi-
ness depends? How of ten
romance fades — the bloom
of youth is destroyed — and
bitter disillusion is the end
— all because of ignorance.
Happiness, freedom from
worry are impossible with-
out a knowledge of feminine hy-
giene. Dependence on old fashion-
ed, uncertain, unsafe methods
brings only fear and worry. There
is a newer, better way. Modern
brides find happiness and daintiness
In convenient, non-poisonous, non-
irrltatlng Vaol-Sllvs which effectively
destroy all germ laden accumvlations .
Absolutely will not injure delicate
membranes.

Married Women !F

free Yourself

VAGI-SLIPS require NO fr.tm U/nmr
WATER, no accessories. •'/WW WO/Vy....

Feminine hygleue Is now convenient anytime, any-
you for convenience. No
bichloride of mercury or
et KILLS ALL GERMS
physicians. Succeeds where

flnnrn rvMaii Be dainty .healthy, free from all
VKUtK BY IMAIL worry. A dollar bill brings you a
ffl generous sized box of VAGI-SLIPS in plain wrap-
Ff | per. Satisfaction or money back. Send Name. Ad-
dress aud One Dollar To-Day.

Violet 'Page

143 Fourth Ave. Dept. 69 New York City

"LEGPADS" lTmkbI:shdaepfyly

— — DETECTION

Rubber Busts
Elastic Stockings
Abdominal Supporters
Reducing Rubber Garments
Eyelashes: Wigs; Thermo-Pacs; Silk
Opera and Service Weight Hose;
Tights; Impersonators' Outfits. S. P.
J. CAMP. 235 Fifth Ave., New York.

CORRECT
your NOSE

Improve your appear-
ance with Anita Nose
Adjuster. Shapes flesh
and cartilage — safely and
painlessly, while you
sleep.

Results are lasting.
Write for FREE
BOOKLET.

AN IT A INSTITUTE, K69 Anita Bldg., Newark, N. J.

Hello Hollywood — Continued from page 79

or playing. At present all three Glcasons
are working for the same studio. A new
home is nearly ready for their occupancy.
This is the realization of another life-long
dream. Their own home! It is a preten-
tious English house, with spacious lawns
and gardens, a guest house, tennis courts,
swimming pool and a huge garage for the
numerous cars in the family.

Since coming to Hollywood the Gleasons
have all become hikers.

"Great places to tramp," beamed Glea-
son. "Feet that are used to Lexington
Avenue cement seem to like Hollywood
soil. And the stickers! Have you ever
come across stickers? I've met millions of
them in tramping over the hills. They
come off weeds and are all dried up. They
get into your clothes. You get one in the
cuff of a trouser leg yesterday morning and
tomorrow morning you'll pick it out of
your vest lining. They're like fleas, only
they don't multiply."

Writers who complain they have to leave
the distracting charms of Hollywood and
return to a four-walled office in New York
in order to do concentrated writing have
no sympathy from Jim Gleason.

Besides writing dialog for Pathe pic'
tures, acting with Mrs. Gleason in comedies
on several studio lots, and directing some
of his own film productions, Gleason finds
time for writing and revising during his
spare time. With Mrs. Gleason he is at
present rewriting a comedy drama that ran
in New York some time ago.

"We got so many requests for a sequel
play to 'The Shannons of Broadway' that
we have started work on a new comedy

to be called 'The Shannons of Hollywood.'
It will show the funny experiences of a
stage team breaking into moving pictures.
Sure, we'll use some of our own personal
experiences.

"Mrs. Gleason is doing a play in col'
laboration with Wells Root, who used to
be a critic on the New York World. It
will be produced in New York, but will
be given a Hollywood showing first."

In addition, Jim is enlarging into a three-
act play a vaudeville skit in which Lucile
Gleason once played.

"Jim is right," declared Mrs. Gleason
in discussing the question of Hollywood or
New York as a work-shop. "If you have
to work, or want to badly enough, the
place is not such an important factor. It
is delightful to me, though, to be acquiring
a coat of California tan at the same time
I'm working. Jim and I do almost all our
writing out of doors. And most of our
pictures have had location scenes, which
means whole days of working in the sun-
shine."

Gleason says an actor always goes back
to Broadway, some time or another.

"As for me, I think I'll be a commuter.
Any number of people commute between
New York City and Jersey and Connecti'
cut communities. And people who work
in Hollywood think nothing of a hundred'
mile motor jaunt up the coast to home
after the day's work. So I think I'll just
be a Hollywood-to-New York commuter.
In that way I'll be sure the gardener gives
the California rose bushes enough water.
And I'll be on hand when a new play of
mine opens on Broadway."

And Now— Color — Continued from page 27

There is only one thing more — stereo-
scopic — the third dimension. For no matter
how perfect the photography, the color and
sound, utter realism is impossible without
the illusion of distance and depth.

Theoretically, stereoscopic was con-
sidered an optical impossibility unless the
picture was shot from two points of view
and the images pulled together by glasses
worn by the spectators.

For fifteen years every mechanically-
minded man in motion pictures experi-
mented with stereoscopic. Even I had a
try at it. Seeing a few feet of what ap-
peared to be a perfect stereoscopic in a
news-weekly film of a train moving through
a forest, I figured that the lateral move
ment of the train synchronized with the
downward movement of the film, so that
every frame registered a picture just the
width of the eyes apart.

I told my discovery to Rollie Totheroth,
Charle Chaplin's cameraman, and we rigged
up a camera that oscillated the width of
the eyes so that every other picture was
taken with the alternating eye. The result
was interesting, but it was not stereoscopic.
The figures looked like bas-reliefs fastened
to the background.

Then for years I went to projection
rooms to witness some other fellow's 'tri'
umphs.' They had achieved every curious
optical effect imaginable — except stereo-
scopic.

No, it was theoretically impossible.

Nothing, however, is impossible in this
world of mechanical wonders. Now word
comes from New York that stereoscopic
has arrived!

If this is true we are shortly to have
the perfect — mechanically speaking —
motion pictures — movement, sound, color
and the third dimension.

Even the pluperfect picture is possible
— for the fourth dimension will be the art
of registering the psychic.

Thus there lies before us probably the
greatest entertainment the world has ever
seen, for the most magnificent performances
ever given by Ziegfeld or the London Hip-
podrome will look like road shows com-
pared to the spectacles possible in a motion
picture studio. And the best part is that
such gorgeous productions will be just as
available in small towns as they will be
in the cities.

In one way, however, even tne super-
superest motion picture Follies show, with
color, movement, music, song and dialog,
will never displace Ziegfeld or any other
great impresario, for nothing can substitute
the actual human presence of the actors nor
take the place of a brilliant audience. There
is a certain psychic exhilaration in being
part and parcel of a great metropolitan
gathering.

Yet for the average person in smaller
towns, 'the play's the thing,' and in a year
or so, they will see plays that will pop out
their eyes like so many frightened cod-
fish!

THE GREATEST PRODUCING

ORGANIZATION in MOTION PICTURES
LAUNCHES A NEW SEASON

". . .... i .

HE world has come to look to M-G-M

whether they are silent pictures or talkies. M-G-M has gone so far
ahead in the talking picture field that other sound pictures in comparison
seem old-fashioned. The greatest talent, the greatest genius in the amuse-
ment world today is concentrated on the production of M-G-M pictures.
Stars, directors, authors, composers, technical experts — the real Who's-
Who of screen and stage today are working on the M-G-M pictures you
will see in coming months.

FEATURED PLAYERS

Renee Adoree
George K. Arthur
Nils Asther
George Barraud
Lionel Barrymore
Wallace Beery
Jack Benny
Charles Bickford
Edwina Booth
John Mack Brown
Karl Dane

Mary Doran
Josephine Dunn
Cliff Edwards
Gus Edwards
Julia Faye
Raymond Hackett
Leila Hyams
Zita Johann
Kay Johnson
Carlotta King
Charles King

DIRECTORS

Lionel Barrymore
Harry Beaumont
Charles Brabin
Clifford Brooke
Clarence Brown
Tod Browning
Jack Conway
Cecil B. DeMille
William DeMille
Gus Edwards
Jacques Feyder
Sidney Franklin
Nick Grin Je
Bertram Harrison.
George Hill
E, Mason Hopper
Robert Z. Leonard
Willard Mack
Edgar MacGregor
Fred Niblo
William Nigh
J. C. Nugent
John S. Robertson
Chas. F. Riesner
Edward Sedgwick
Edgar Selwyn
Hassard Short
W. S. Van Dyke
King Vidor
Sam Wood

Among the Productions You
Will See Starting Notv—

"Madame X"

'AU-ralking)

"Kempy"

(All-talking)

"Hallelujah"

(A ((-tailing, singing.
Alio a 31l. n1 production)

JOHN GILBERT in

"Redemption"

(All'talking. Abo a silent production)

"Eva the Fifth"
(A (Malting)

GRETA GARBO in

"Anna Christie"

(AlMal Icing)

"The Thirteenth Chair"

(Alt-talking)

"College Life"

(A((-(aI Icing, lingitig)
And many, many more of M-Q-M's

Greatest Shows on Earth

Gwen Lee
Bessie Love
George Marion
Nina Mae McKinney
Polly Moran
Robert Montgomery
Anita Murray
Joyce Murray
Conrad Nagel
Edward Nugent
Elliott Nugent

J. C. Nugent
Robert ObV
Anita Page
Basil Rathbone
Duncan Renaldo
Dorothy Sebastian
Sally Starr
Lewis Stone
Ernest Torrence
Raquei Torres

SONG
WRITERS

Vincent Youmans
Martin Broones
Milt Ager
Jack Yell en
Jesse Greer
Reggie Montgomery
Fred Ahlert
Lois Leeson
Arthur Lange
Fred Fisher
Dave Dreyer
Raymond Klages
Ballard MacDonald
George Ward
Nacio Herb Brown
Arthur Freed
Joe Trent
Jack King
Joe Goodwin
Lou Alter
Roy Turk
Vincent Bryant
Herbert Stothart
Gus Edwards

VAN 8c
SCHENCK

ILDWYN - MAYER

Moments that matter

Romantic, some of them . . . not
infrequently significant . . . and
invariably remembered . . . these
luminous moments that inform
our lives. And it is interesting to
consider how often the fragrance
that invests them is subtly min-
gled with another fragrance . . .
the rich and delicate aroma
of rare tobaccos ... of a
cigarette so marvelously good
that the most thrilling moment
gains new meaning from it.

I use lipstick only
once a day!

A most amazing lipstick — Kissproof! I
put it on once in the morning and knoiv
my lips will look their loveliest all day
long, no matter what I do! It never
stains — never needs retouching — but just
keeps my lips a/ways looking naturally
youthful!

Kissproof, the modern -waterproof lipstick, is
changing the cosmetic habits of women every-
where. No longer is it necessary to be bothered
with constant retouching — to be embarrassed with
ordinary lipstick that stains handkerchiefs, tea-
cups and cigarettes.

Kissproof is such full natural color — just a
touch on the lips rubbed in with the finger tips.
You have the peace of mind of knowing that
your rich, red youthful coloring is as narural as if
it were your very own — and as permanent as the
day is long !

We urge you to find out for yourself how Kiss-
proof stays on — what healthy, natural coloring it
gives. At all toilet countets or send for our —

Special 20-Day Trial Offer

— and we will send you prepaid

20-day supply Kissproof lipstick

(Special brass container)
20-day bottle of Delica-Brow
{The original waterproof lash and brow liquid)

— and a liberal supply of Kissproof rouge
and Kissproof powder.

I Kissproof, Inc., 10-S

■ 538 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111.'

I Enclosed 20c for which send me a 20-day sup-

I ply of Kissproof lipstick, 20-day bottle of

I Delica-Btow. Also include free samples of

J Kissproof rouge and Kissproof powder.

J Name
I Address

\ City

State

*VS1

^disproof
Compact Rou^e
50c

7ftssproof Lipstick 50c

Delica-Brow makes eyes alluring— instantly. aAt your dealer, 75c or send coupon.

For October 19 29

Laugh!

till the tears roll
down your back at

VICTOR MCLAGLEN
EDMUND LOWE
LILY DAMITA

Delight Evans, Editor

October, 19 2 9

LKJ

FEATURES

Cover — Laura La Plante. Painted by Charles
Sheldon

The Flapper Fan's Forecast. By Evelyn
Ballarine

Lot Talk

A Gay Garbo

Confessions of the Fans. Letters from Readers

Another Ten Thousand! By the Publishers .

Honor Page. Loretta Young

Editorial. By Delight Evans

Welcome Strangers!

Will Rogers Talks About Talkies. By Rob
Wagner

Clara Bow's Love Story. By Ian Blake . .

Hollywood's Youngest Generation. By Helen
Ludlam . ,v> • ■ • • •

Olive Borden Offers a Gift Radio ....

Sex Appeal Defended! By James Oppenheim

Gloria Hallelujah! Gloria Swanson. By Her-
bert Cruikshank

The Rise of Dorothy Revier. By Scoop
Conlon

The Most Beautiful Still of the Month.
Kibitzer

Halloween Whoopee! Clara Bow and 1<[ancy
Carroll

George Bancroft — A Portrait

Miriam Seegar — A Portrait

Jeanette Loff — A Portrait

Eddie Quillan — A Portrait . 39

Alice Joyce — A Portrait . . 40

Rediscovering Alice Joyce. By
Sydney Valentine ....

Hollywood Freedom! Alice White

and Anita Page. By David

Strong

What's Wrong With These

Postures? Julia Faye ... 44

4
6
12

13
1?
16
18
19

20
22

26
28

36
37
38

Charles Sheldon, the famous
portrait painter, is the artist
who has so successfully cap-
tured the charm of Miss
Laura La Plante on this
month's cover of Screen-
land. It is Laura to the
life!

On Location with "The Virginian." By Helen

Ludlam 46

Delight Evans' Reviews - 48

Romance Runs Riot at Hollywood Parties.

By Grace Kingsley 54

The Return of an Idol. Crane Wilbur. By

Bradford Nelson 56

Bebe Daniels and John Boles — A Portrait . 57

Edmund Lowe — A Portrait 58

Leatrice Joy — A Portrait 59

Richard Barthelmess — A Portrait .... 60

Mary Duncan — A Portrait 61

James Hall — A Portrait 62

Lois Moran ■ — A Portrait 63

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell — A Por-
trait 64

Short and Snappy! 65

How to Build a Screen Story. By Cecil B.

De Mille 66

The Merry Eatons. By James V. Pond . . 68

Best Lines of the Month 70

A Queen of Kings. Carlotta King. By Sydney

King Russell . . . 71

Sue! Our Authentic Flapper. Sue Carol. By

Ruth Tildesley 72

In New York. By Anne Bye 74

Verdict: Guilty. Raymond Hac\ett. By Robert

Howard 76

Doug and Mary — Together! ...... 77

Let's Go to the Movies! Screen-
land's Revuettes 78

Are You Blonde or Brunette?
Screenland's Beauty Depart'

ment. By Anne Van Alstyne 80

Famous — and Friendly! ... 82

Hot from Hollywood. Screen-

land s Department of Gossip 84

Ask Me. By Miss Vee Dee . . 90

Vol.
XIX

Published monthly by Screenland Magazine, Inc.
Executive and Editorial offices: 49 West 45th Street,
New York City. William Galland, President;
Joseph M. Hopkins, Vice-President; C. B. Mantel,
Secretary. Frank J. Carroll, Art Director. Yearly
subscriptions $2.50 in the United States, its de-

pendencies, Cuba and Mexico; $3.00 in Canada;
foreign, $3.50. Entered as second-class matter
November 30, 1923, at the Post Office at New York,
N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Addi-
tional entry at Dunellen, N. J. Copyright 1929.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulations

No.
6

For October 19 29

Now HEAR
Harold Lloyd in his
first talking picture!

You'd think he couldn't possibly be any funnier, but you'll
hear he is when you see him in "Welcome Danger," his
first sound and dialog picture. Twice the laughs than ever
before, if you J can imagine that! C, You'll be all eyes and
ears when you see it — it has laughs, thrills, romance, youth,
gayety, everything! And what a treat for the children —
more fun than a three-ringed circus. C. Don't miss seeing
and hearing Harold Lloyd in "Welcome Danger" when it
comes to your theatre. You'll laugh at every minute of it,
and it will give you something to talk about for weeks after!

HAROLD
LLOYD

WELCOME DANGER'

Produced by the Harold Lloyd Corporation. A
Paramount Sound and Dialog Release. Also pre-
sented silent for theatres not yet equipped for
sound. "If it's a Paramount Picture it's the best
show in town!"

PARAMOUNT FAMOUS LASKY CORPORATION
ADOLPH ZUKOR, PRES., PARAMOUNT BLDG., N.Y.C.

^Paramount

TftAOt w-H^^jfu MAO

{Pictures

SCREENLAND

*J LAPFERa

WIL

HAIR*

™^ RUTH TAYLOR PARAMOUNT 5TAM

. . . .C Beautiful Oiair!

WHY NOT HAVE BOTH ?

Simply "washing" your hair may keep itr/raw, after
a fashion— but it won't bring you the true beauty you
ate seeking! Any beauty specialist will tell you that
the secret of hair loveliness lies in proper shampooing—
in theregularuseofa shampoo that really beautifies;
one created especially to improve dull hair and add that
little something extra so often lacking.

That's why Golden Glint Shampoo is so popular !
No other shampoo, anywhere, like it. Doesmorethan
merely cleanse. 1 1 gives your hair a "tiny-tint"— a wee
little bit— not much— hardly perceptible. But what a
difference it makes in one's appearance ! Millions use
regulatly! There'sa youth-imparting touch — a beauty
specialist's secretin its formula. At your dealers', 25c,
or send for free sample.

J. W. KOBI CO

633 Rainier Ave., Dept. K, Seattle, Wash
Please send a free sample.

Name

Address

City

_State_

Color of my hair:

J Xi

MGRJCAN ACAD6MY
OF DRAM/OTC ARTS

Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent

The foremost institution for Dramatic and
Expressional Training. The instruction of the
Academy furnishes the essential preparation for
Directing and Teaching as well as for Acting.

The training is educative and practical, de-
veloping Poise, Personality and Expressional
Power, of value to those in professional life
and to the layman.

Fall Term Opens October 26th

Catalog describing all Courses from
Room 253-J, CARNEGIE HALL, New York

SONGWRITERS

Successful Songs Earn Fortunes

SUBMIT POEMS
Robt. Brennen — Musical Director
N1656 Broadway New York

FREE BOOK

Just send your address
and we will mail yoq
Interesting1 Book de-
ecribing that m>
popular of all in-
Etruments — the

SAXOPHONE

The Buescher True- Tone Saxophone '
Is the easiest of all wind instrument!
to play and one of the most beautiful. .
You can learn the scale in an hour, and
ina few weeks be playing popular music.
First 8 1 essons free, with each new Saxo-

fihone. For home entertainment — church-
odge — school or for Orchestra Dane
Music, the Saxophone is theidealinstrument.

FREE TRIAL— We allow 6 days' free trial ,
on any Buescher Saxophone in your own home
end arrangeeasypayments soyoucanpaywhile
you play. Write for free Saxophone Catalog.

BUESCHER BAND INSTRUMENT CO.
2857 Buescher EiocK (637) Elkhart, Indiana

A Fan's-Eye View
of Coming Films

Our F or ecaster
at her post,
poised for duty!

By Evelyn Ballarine

IE!

et's look over the movie menu for Shows," including John Barrymore, the

this month. Ummm — the big Costello sisters, Dolores and Helene, Sally

j revues the producers are making O'Neil and Molly O'Day, Marceline and

look good! Fox Movietone touched Alice Day, Ann Pennington, and of course

on this vogue lightly, very lightly, com- Al Jolson.

pared with the new revues, with the And now Paramount has announced it

"Fox Movietone Follies," with such names intends to stage a grand revue. We will

as Sue Carol, David Rollins, Sharon Lynn, probably see Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers,

Lola Lane and Stepin Fetchit in one pic- Mary Brian, Richard Arlen, Esther Ralston,

ture. Lois Moran and Helen Twelvetrees Clive Brook, Fay Wray, George Bancroft,

were in the "Follies" before it was cut. Evelyn Brent and Maurice Chevalier in one

Their work was so
good that their part
of the film is being
revamped and will
be served to you as
"Words and Mu-
sic."

Next, Metro-
Goldwyn put on
the "Hollywood
Revue of 1929"
and wowed 'em.
John Gilbert and
Norma Shearer
pulling a "Romeo
and Juliet," with
Billy Haines, Polly
Moran, Marie Dres-
sier and Bessie
Love clowning just
had to be good!

Warner Brothers
are preparing "The
Show of Shows"
and from the line-
up it looks as if it
will be just that.
They are signing
the big names of
the stage and screen;
in fact, it is said
there are forty-two
notables signed for
"T he Show of

.4 new boy in town! Senor Don Jose
Mojica of the Chicago Grand Opera
Company will be seen and heard in
Movietones.

picture! It would
be most interesting
to see Clara Bow
and Maurice Che-
valier in a skit to-
gether! It is ru-
mored that United
Artists intends to
make a revue too
- — but don't hold it
against us if they
don't come
through. Imagine
Mary Pickford,
Douglas Fairbanks,
Gloria Swan son,
Norma Talmadge,
Gilbert Roland,
Lupe Velez, Ronald
Colman, Dolores
Del Rio, Chester
Morn's and Charlie
Chaplin — all at
once!

John Boles seems
to be the Boy
Friend of the mo-
ment since he
sheiked his way
through "The
Desert Song." He's
making "Rio Rita"
with Bebe Daniels
for Radio Pictures

For October 19 29

And a new girl! Pretty Mae Clarke
appears opposite Lee Tracy in "Big
Time." She is!

and has been borrowed by Universal for the
lead in "La Marseillaise."

If you've missed seeing Gareth Hughes,
Grace Cunard, Alice Lake, Francis Ford and
Olive Tell you can thank the talkies be-
cause they are all back, with sound. Gareth
Hughes, whom, you must remember in
"■Sentimental Tommy," is making a come
back in Leo Carrillo's first talkie, "Mr.
Antonio." Virginia Valli has the feminine
lead in this picture for Tiffany-Stahl. Watch
for Grace Cunard, pioneer serial queen,
in Joan Crawford's first talkie, "Jungle."
Alice Lake will be in Lenore Ulric's first
talkie, "Frosen Justice." Olive Tell was in
"The Trial of Mary Dugan," and has just
completed a role in "The Very Idea," for
Radio Pictures. Francis Ford makes his
talkie debut in "The Jade Box," for Uni-
versal. Pauline Frederick had a contract
with Warner Brothers. She made "On
Trial" for that company and is now at
work on "Evidence."

Vilma Banky is making as her next talkie
"The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." It's
the same film Florence Vidor and Adolphe
made silently not so long ago. Vilma can
keep her charming accent in the role of the
grand duchess. Harry d'Arrast, who
directed many of Adolphe Menjou's sophis-
ticated comedies, will direct this picture.

Ruth Chatterton is scheduled to do
"Zasa" for Paramount. Gloria Swanson
made a silent version of "Zaz,a" a few years
ago for the same company. John Cromwell,
former stage director, will wield the mega-
phone for this film.

Joan Bennett has been selected as Harry
Richman's leading lady in his first talking
picture for United Artists. Yes, Harry is
the chap reported engaged to Clara Bow.
Irving Berlin has written the Richman
screen story and eight songs. It is tenta-
tively called "The Song of Broadway."

This Joan Bennett has made a sensational
success in pictures. She has only been in
Hollywood a few months.

WHY 9 OUT OF
SMART WOMEN

instinctively prefer this new
sanitary protection

KOTEX IS SOFT .

1 Not a deceptive softness, that
soon packs into chafing hard-
ness. But a delicate, fleecy
softness that lasts for hours.

2 SAFE, SECURE . . . keeps
your mind at ease.

3 KOTEX FILLER is far
lighter than cotton, yet ab-
sorbs 5 times as much.

4 IN HOSPITALS — Kotex is
the identical material used
practically exclusively by
surgeons in 85% of the
country's leading hospitals.

^ DEODORIZES . . . safely,
thoroughly, by a patented
process.

Kotex— 45c for 12— it any drug, dry
goods or department store; singly
in vending cabinets, through West
Disinfecting Co.
Kotex Super-Size— 65c for 12

K O T e X

The New Sanitary Pad which
deodorizes

IT is easy to see why the use of Kotex has become
a habit among women who set the standard
of good taste. For such women have young ideas,
young minds.

Often, it is the young women of a household
who introduce Kotex. Or a doctor, a nurse . . .
recommending it to safeguard health. But, in any
case, once it is used no substitutes will ever do.

Today, Kotex is so inexpensive that home-
made cheese-cloth and cotton pads actually cost
more . . . one need not bother to make them.

Why, think of it ! Kotex filler is used by sur-
geons in 85% of the country's hospitals, not only
for sanitary pads but for all surgical dressings ! Can
you imagine a more eloquent tribute to Kotex?

"I started to use Kotex because of my children,"
said a smart woman recently. "Now I wouldn't
go back to the old way. This is so much more
civilized— how did we ever get along without it?"

You will ask that same question, once you've
tried Kotex. Study its features, listed right here.
Then buy a box and try it.

Kotex Co., 180 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

fOT

SCREENLAND

TALK

News and Views from the
Sound Studios

"hat was hailed by a specially
invited audience as another re-
volutionary development in mo'
tion pictures, comparable to the
advent of dialog films, was a demonstration
by the Paramount Famous Lasky Corpora'
tion at the Rivoli Theater in New York,
of the Paramount Magnafilm, which threw
a picture on the screen that filled the entire
width of the stage and for the first time
gave proof that the efforts of scientists to
develop commercial stereoscopic pictures
were near fruition.

The demonstration, which included scenes
of the seashore and a country road, as well
as a four-reel talking and singing feature,
lasted for more than an hour, and was
attended by an audience of three hundred
publishers, editors,
bankers, scientists
and motion picture
executives.

The pictures,
photographed on
fifty-six millimeter
film, were projected
on a screen forty
feet wide and
twenty feet high.
Standard film is
thirty -five milli-
meters and the nor-
mal size of a pic-
ture shown on the
regular screen at
the Rivoli is seven-
teen feet, four in-
ches wide and thir-
teen feet, six inches
high. _

This demonstra-
tion of Paramount
Magnafilm climaxed
experiments ' which
were begun fifteen
years ago by Adolph
Zukor at the old
Twenty-Sixth Street
studio of the Fa-
mous Players Com-
pany. In 1914 Mr.
Zukor and Edwin
S. Porter, now con-
sulting engineer for
the International
Projecting Com-
pany, began experiments toward stereoscopic
effects on the screen with the view to even-
tually developing a wide film which would
give greater depth of focus than the regu-
lar film in use.

The results of the experiment were
burned in the fire that destroyed the studio
in 1915. The exigencies of the situation at
the time forced Mr. Zukor to give up, tem-

porarily, his plans for the development of
a wide film that would give a full stage
picture. However, Mr. Zukor did not give
up his dream that some day he would be
able to show motion pictures on a wide
screen which would give greater stereo-
scopic values than those obtained in the
present 35 mm. film. Now he has realized
the fulfillment of his plans made fifteen
years ago.

Public attention was focused on the in-
creased entertainment value of the large
screen on the night of December 6, 1926,
when Paramount introduced the Magna-
scope in connection with the showing of
"Old Ironsides." The effect on the audi-
ence at the premiere of that picture was
electrifying when suddenly the screen filled

Every
Roth

matt for himself! Frank Ross, Virginia Bruce, Lillian
and Phillips Holmes lunching while on location.

the entire stage width. The increased size
of the picture through Magnascope was ob-
tained by the use of magnifying lenses and
from an increased film width. It was then
that Mr. Zukor had Lorenzo Del Riccio,
who invented the Magnascope, begin in-
tensive work on wide film.

Work was carried on by Mr. Del Riccio
and a staff of assistants at the Paramount

studios in Hollywood and New York. Just
as they were perfecting their cameras and
lenses for this wide film the new clement
of sound projected itself into the picture.
This brought forth an entirely new problem.
To meet this Mr. Zukor had Mr. Del
Riccio equip a new laboratory across the
street from the Paramount studio in Astoria,
L. I., and there for the last two years he
has been perfecting the Magnafilm.

Wide film in itself is not new, having
been used 3 3 years ago, but Paramount
Magnafilm is the first wide film to be
developed along commercially practical
lines.

# * *

A wide film was shown to the public
for the first time in New York in 1896
when Professor
Latham projected
film two inches
wide by three-
quarters of an inch
high at the old
Daly Theater,
Broadway and
Twenty-Eighth St.,
according to Mr.
Porter. Also the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons
fight at Carson City
and the Palmer-
McGovern fight at
Tuckahoe in 1898
were photographed
on wide film but
on account of the
special machines
that had to be built
none of these ear-
lier experiments
were commercially
successful.

Being mindful of
these aspects to the
early work on wide
film Mr. Zukor set
down three points
to be given first
consideration by
Mr. Del Riccio in
his experiments.

First — There
must be no change
in sound equip-
ment through the
use of wide film; second, the screen must
not be so high that the balcony in the aver-
age theater would cut off the view of the
top of the screen; and third, the change in
projection equipment should be kept in
minimum so that the use of wide film
would not put an expensive burden on
the exhibitor.

With these stipulations in mind Mr. Del

For October 1929

Pert Dorothy Lee, formerly of the stage,
now broadcasting her talents via Radio
Pictures,

Riccio developed Magnafilm. It is 5*6 mm.
wide and 19% mm. high. The sound track
is on the film the same as on the standard
size film. The projection equipment has
been so built that it can be put on the
standard projection machine in five minutes
and can be adjusted to throw a picture on
the screen that will fit the special require
ments of the individual theater.

Magnafilm will introduce an entirely new
technique in the direction of motion pic
tures, according to Mr. Del Riccio, who ex-
plained that with this new medium the
director will now be able to complete action
within the angle of the lens, which, here
tofore he has had to show on the screen
by resorting to different cuts in his action
and in unusual photographic angles.

"While in many instances angles have
enhanced the photographic value of the pic-
ture and have added a certain amount of
atmosphere, the break in the action has had
its effect upon the attention of the audi-
ence," Mr. Del Riccio said. "With Mag-
nafilm the director will be able to complete
his action without breaks which will be
especially valuable in musical pictures where
the additional screen area is of great value
in picturing ensemble numbers."

When is a sound not a sound?

When it doesn't sound like a sound is
the answer that will be given you by David
Forest, one of Hollywood's ace recording
engineers.

A three-legged stool hit Douglas Fair-
banks on the head. That was Forest's prob-
lem.

It all came about when the action called
for the hurling of said three-legged stool by-
Miss Pickford, to land on Doug's head with
the noise naturally given out by a well-bred
stool landing upon a gentleman's head.

The stool was hurled. The stool found
its mark. It was recorded by the sound
machine. And it was played back for the
benefit of Director Sam Taylor. The im-
pact sounded like — well, like almost any-
thing else in the world but the sound of
wood against head!

Despite the pleadings of the battered
Doug, the scene was made and remade.

followed by frenzied conferences on the
part of the director and the engineers.

Finally, Fairbanks, with his head tingling,
settled the matter.

"Believe it or not," he said, "the noise
we heard in the playback is the sound of
stool hitting head whether it sounds like
it or not and that is the way it is going
to stay." So, when you hear the impact
in "Taming of the Shrew" you'll know it
is the real thing. Fairbanks, who owns the
head, will testify to that!

How contagious is a hearty laugh?

Studio officials are wondering, for a
clever director, Millard Webb, is spending
a huge sum of money to find out.

The night club set in "Broadway Host-
ess," starring Billie Dove, employed five
hundred extras. Webb introduced the idea
of laughter as it has never been used be-
fore. All five hundred extras, with the
leading players joining in, laughed together
until the set rocked with the swaying bodies.

man the hundreds of lights used in the
making of color pictures. These color
films require twice the ordinary number of
lamps, and the heat they radiate is terrific.

High up in the rafters of the airless, win-
dowless sound stages sit the 'juicers' at their
lamps. They cannot leave their place of
duty, for they may be called upon at any
moment.

After each scene the doors are thrown
open, the wind machines started and the
actors and technicians on the floor permitted
to rush out into the fresh air. But the
electrician on his high perch stays put,
high out of reach of the fresh breezes at
the open doors, and in a temperature that
ofttimes reaches 12? degrees!

Ice water is sent up to them by means of
buckets, raised by ropes from the overhead
rafters. The men come down only once
during the day at lunch time. For the re-
mainder of the day they are practically pris-
oners in an oven — all for their art!

At First National- Vitaphone Studios in
Burbank, California, several Techni-color
pictures are now in the process of produc-
tion. All are using immense sets, with
hundreds of extra people, and as a conse-
quence millions of candle power to light the
wide expanse covered by the cameras is
required.

"Footlights and Fools," a story of theat-
rical life starring Colleen Moore, has color
sequences on which more than fifty elec-
tricians were required to man the thousand
or more lights used.

"Sally," starring Marilyn Miller, has a
set representing a garden cafe, which covers
more than two acres, taking up the entire
floor space of the studio's biggest stage.
When Miss Miller finished her dance num-
ber on this set one day this week, the ther-
mometer actually registered 125 degrees on
the floor of the stage. Up in the 'juicers'
heaven' it was even hotter.

On the sets of "Paris," starring Irene
Bordoni, the famous French chanteuse, it
was necessary to hait the action several times
in order to permit the ballet girls to go out
into the fresh air before resuming their
dances. But the electricians stuck it out
without a murmur.

Scott Kolk, who was discovered hy Marion
Davies. You'll see him in "Marianne."

Howls and shrieks of merriment filled
the air.

Director Webb refused to tell what they
laughed at — that will be divulged when the
picture is shown to the public. Anyone
envying an extra should have peeped on
that set, when the thermometer registered
90 outside, and much more within the
closed walls. Crowds of people pushed
and jammed. Make-up streamed down per-
spiring faces — but they laughed and laughed.
That is what they are paid for in Holly-
wood— laughing and crying and working!

•fc $

Like the stokers in the bowels of a man-
o'-war during battle, the 'juicers' are the
real heroes, unhonored and unsung, of the
new technicolor motion pictures.

The 'juicers' are the electricians who

Barbara Leonard is under contract to Uni-
versal, She is at work on "The Drake
Case" in which she plays a flippy flapper.

SCREENLAND

A young lady traveler in the old days had The modern girl weighs in for an air trip

her troubles, as Dorothy Sebastian illustrates. while the pilot figures up the excess baggage.

While the ballet master may exhort his
girls to 'get hot' in their dance numbers,
and the orchestra director frequently charges
his men to 'warm it up' in a jazzy strain,
the head electrician never has to resort to
such encouragement. For the 'juicers' in
these days of Technicolor are always hot!
* & ❖

Football honors may have inclined West-
ward a bit last season, but Broadway chorus
girls, in Hollywood to glorify themselves
and the American cinema, took away all
honors in high kicking recently.

The contest was held between the mighty
U. S. C. football team of last year, which
is playing in a First National-Vitaphone
gridiron film called "The Forward Pass,"
and forty-eight shapely chorines under con-
tract to the same studio.

The chorus girls kicked two feet, two
inches above their heads, on an average.
The football team, consisting of the eleven
and five substitutes, kicked only one foot
ten inches above the head.

The highest chorus kick was two feet,
eight inches, accomplished by an acrobatic
dancer, Florine Dalzell. The top kick by
a pigskin warrior was Jeff Cravath's two
feet, one inch. A special measuring device
used in testing chorus kicking was utilized.
It registers the elevation of head and toe
simultaneously.

$ $ %

The art of kissing for the motion pic-
ture love scene has changed since the com-
ing of the talking film, according to Leatrice
Joy. In the silent days, some of the ac-
complished kissers of the screen mingled

souls in long, involved contests that seemed,
Miss Joy declares, to have been gustatory
instead of osculatory! Now, thanks to the
screen's new dimension, sound, the kiss has
changed character. It must be more artful.
It mustn't sound like a fat man with a
walrus moustache drinking soup, nor yet
like the smack of a wet towel, nor yet —
but, after all, who can describe music in
prose?

It must be seen and heard to be appre-
ciated, Miss Joy declares. It will sound the
knell of the old silent screen kisses which
brought fame to various matinee idols and
cinema vamps. In fact, stage experience in
kissing may be needed! Then there will
be the auditory possibilities of the comedy
kiss, the bashful peck — not practical on the
stage because subtleties of sound could not
reach the man in the back row, but quite
practicable for the sound close-ups given
by the microphone.

Walter Pidgeon is the fortunate young
man who will help Miss Joy demonstrate
'sound film kissing' in her first starring
vehicle since her return from the vaude-
ville stage, "A Most Immoral Lady."
* * *

Accent problems can't be overlooked in
a talking motion picture. For the all-
dialog picturization of "The Virginian"
Gary Cooper had to acquire a westernized
accent. Mary Brian was forced to forget
the soft drawl of the south. Walter Hus-
ton had to replace a cultured New York
attorney's inflections with those of an early
Wyoming cattle rustler and Richard Arlen
had to forget the intonations of the circus

performer for those of the cowboy. Cooper's
problem was the most difficult. An orthodox
Dixie drawl had to be tempered with the
inflections of cattle-land as the character he
portrays had lived on the open range of
the West after leaving his native Virginia.
As Charles Rogers' leading woman in
"River of Romance" Miss Brian portrayed
a southern girl and had merely to revive
her own Texas drawl for the part. With-
out a day's delay after finishing that role
she shepped into the character of Molly
Wood, a girl from Vermont, in "The Vir-
ginian." Huston had just completed his
part as a Park Avenue attorney in "The
Lady Lies" when he was cast as Trampas
in the Owen Wister production. The
width of a continent and a gap of forty-
nine years had to be bridged in his manner
of speech. Arlen was a circus tight-wire
walker in Clara Bow's "Dangerous Curves"
before he donned chaps and spurs for the
part of Steve in "The Virginian."

Victor Fleming, the director, had the
biggest problem. He had to guard against
momentary lapses on the part of any of
his players!

^ & #

Have you a little kinkajou in your family?

A kinkajou is a nocturnal, arboreal,
prehensile-tailed carnivorous mammal of
tropical America. It reaches three feet in
length and is easily tamed, but mighty hard
to find when you want one.

Hollywood's market in kinkajous is bull-
ish today, following a week's search on the
part of a Radio Pictures property man for
one of the little pets.

For October 1929

It all started when Luther Reed drank
coffee for dinner one night. It kept him
awake. And in the dark hours before
dawn he had an idea — an idea that sub'
sequently brought grief to the property
department.

Be it known that in "Rio Rita," the all-
musical, all-talking film from the Ziegfeld
hit, there is a dance called the Kin\ajou.
Reed had stopped counting sheep in his
effort to get to sleep that night of the
coffee orgy and had begun counting chorus
girls. That led to his thinking of the
kinkajou and in turn to the idea:

The idea, now current on the 'wanted1
bulletin board, is to have a real live kinka-
jou led around by one of Pearl Eaton's
dancers in the number. Have you a little
kinkajou in your home? A kinkajou is a
nocturnal — well, never mind. We'll 'phone
the zoo!

* * *

Let the average girl dress to suit her
personality, says Norma Talmadge, and she
will increase her attractiveness a thousand
per cent. Norma feels that too many young
women wear the sort of clothes that look
attractive on others.

"And they overlook the fact," says Miss
Talmadge, "that what may appear smart on
one person is ludicrous and unsuitable on
themselves.

"I would recommend that every girl
study her personality and dress accordingly.
It isn't hard to do."

Miss Talmadge feels that gaudiness as it
applies to wearing apparel is a thing of the

past. Colors, she feels, accentuate bad lines
and advertise them blatantly.

"To the girl who is uncertain what to
wear, I should say this: Wear simple
clothes. They are always smart, and what
is better, always correct.

"As to coloring, I believe that neutral
tints such as tans and beiges are the best.
Naturally, the fact must not be lost sight
of that coloring should also fit the per-
sonality. Some persons look best in black,
others in mauves. That again is a matter
of study."

Miss Talmadge is recognized as one of
the best dressed women in the screen
colony. She has made the scientific study
of what to wear, and how to wear it one
of her foremost hobbies. She believes that
the greatest individuality can be expressed
in garments that have the good taste of
plainness. The really smart women, she
contends, has a mania against frills and

decorative effects.

# % &

In evolving a new technique for talking
pictures, producers are gradually eliminating
dialog and restricting it to the essentials
of plot and character development, accord-
ing to Monta Bell, producer-director at the
Paramount Long Island studio, who pointed
out that at first dialog ran approximately
a word to a foot of film. Now it has been
reduced to about one-half word a foot.

"At the beginning of this new era of
screen entertainment everyone thought that
as much dialog as possible should be
cramped into a picture," explained Mr. Bell,

"and naturally the technique of the stage
predominated. All producers were aware
that this was not the ideal way to make
talking pictures, but experiments had to be
made, since there was no formula to follow.
It was not long, however, until it was found
that more action and less words were re-
quired for the proper balance in talking
pictures.

As examples of the newer form for talk-
ing pictures, Mr. Bell pointed to "Glorify-
ing the American Girl," which has just
been completed at the Paramount Long
Island studio and "Applause," Rouben
Mamoulian's first screen effort now in pro-
duction. In these two talking and singing
pictures the scripts have called for a mini-
mum of dialog. Action and stage business
done in pantomime and following the tech-
nique of the motion picture make a greater
proportion of the picture.

Refinements of this formula will bring
producers to the proper form for talking
pictures, Mr. Bell believes.

Frances Grant, who is dancing in the
front row of the "Sally" chorus, isn't there
just because she is pretty and a good dancer.
She's there because she is a walking 'dance
library' and can remember every step she
ever learned!

She is first aid to the memory of Larry
Ceballos, famous New York dance director,
who is in charge of the dancing numbers
for "Sally," which stars Marilyn Miller.
Miss Grant has been with Ceballos for
several years, and would still be in New

The latest Romeo and Juliet of the screen are John Gilbert and Norma Shearer, who, under Lionel
Barrymore's direction, play several scenes from Shakespeare for the M-G-M "Hollywood Revue of 1929."

SCREENLAND

Eddie Phillips, popular 'villain of "The
Collegians" series, will soon be seen in
"Road Show," with Bessie Love and
Charles King.

where he

in positive disorder.

3. The "why don't you?" wife who

York had he not 'gone Hollywood' several

years ago.

When he wants to know the opening
number in the Follies of 1925, Frances can
dance the number through lor him. Or
any other he cares to call for. "My feet
remember, not my head," said Frances.
"They never forget a routine. It's easy,
I don't know why."

As long as Ceballos has a chorus Frances
will have a job— unless her feet start to for-
get!

$ # #

John Loder. young English actor who
plays an important role in "Her Private
Affairs," Pathe's all-dialog production based
on Leo Urvantsov's story "The Right to
Kill." is one screen player who has more
than a passing acquaintance with royalty.
While a student at Eton, the noted English
school, Loder was a classmate of Prince
Henry, fourth son of the English King.
A warm friendship grew up between the
two young men, and when the Prince of
Wales arrived to visit his younger brother,
Loder was among the Eton students to meet
England's most popular young man.

Several years later John, then Captain
Loder of His Majesty's Army, was seeing
service in Egypt during a visit of the
British Heir Apparent to the regions about
the Nile. The two young men chanced to
meet one afternoon, and the Prince stopped
the young captain.

'"Haven't I met you before?" he asked.
Loder replied in the affirmative, and recalled knows more about her husband's business
the Eton incident. The Prince of Wales than he does. She has a sister, the "why
continued to stand for some minutes in the aren't you?" woman who can't understand
hot Egyptian sun, chatting with his why Jim can make piles of money while
brother's friend. her husband struggles along for a living.

"A small incident indicative of his fine 4. The "Well, I'm safely maried now"
simplicity," Loder describes it. waxing elo- type who lets her face become a series of
quent about how human and 'regular' are chihs and her figure a sacklike outline,
the Prince of Wales, Prince Henry and because she has children to tend and cook-
Prince George, another member of the royal ing to do. And because she has a "mar-
family whom Loder met when the third riage certificate."

son of King George visited California some 5. The "why can't I have it?" woman
months ago during a world cruise with a who goads her husband into nervous break-
British battleship. downs to satisfy her selfish desires; who
"Her Private Affairs" is the third Ameri- has a closet full of frocks while the real
can talking picture
played in by Loder,
who resigned his
army commission
several years ago
to appear first in
German and then

in English films.

$ * *

Eight sure ways
of losing a hus-
band's love were
outlined today by
Ruth Chatterton,
former stage star
and now a popular
addition to Holly-
wood's ranks of
celebrities.

Miss Chatterton
classifies the mari-
tal errors of wives
in this order:

1. The watching
type of woman who
constantly suspects
her husband's mo-
tives and turns his
pockets inside out
to find evidence of
philandering.

2 . The "how-
dare you flick cigar
ashes!" woman who
inspires a man to
seek any place

Fred Newmeyer is not only a good motion picture director, but
he can imitate birds. So he 'doubled' on the microphone for
Esmeralda, the parrot who plays suck an important part in
"Sailors' Holiday," while Esmeralda listens admiringly. (Mr.
Newmeyer's language is better!)

moneymaker in the family has one shiny
suit.

6. The "what do you think Junior did
today?" woman who plagues her husband
with unnecessary details of what the kiddies
did all day, the disposition of the woman
next door and what a terrible headache she
has had after washing the breakfast dishes.

7. The "Oh, leave me alone" woman
who is an iceberg where affection is con-
cerned and repulses petting and accepts it
as though it were just part of a job.

8. The "Why can't I go with you?"
woman who demands to attend every golf,
baseball, poker or football game and who
can't understand why women aren't permit-
ted to attend stag functions and why her
husband wants to go to these affairs when

he knows she can't go along.

* * *

Three players have been placed under
new extended-term contracts by Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer. They are Elliott Nugent,
of the famous New York stage family,
Lawrence Gray and Benny Rubin. Gray
has just completed his first singing and
talking role opposite Marion Davies in
"Marianne," while Rubin has a featured
part in the same picture. Gray first gained
screen recognition as leading man for
Gloria Swanson, and Rubin has had a very
successful career as a vaudeville comedian.

Elliott Nugent made his debut on the
M-G-M lot in Sam Wood's "College Life."
and has just completed his second dialog
role in "Kempy," an adaptation of the
popular stage comedy written by his father
and himself.

* * *

"As an outstanding star of the film col-
ony and a member of the most exclusive
social set in both Europe and America, you
have known most of the beautiful and
famous women of the present generation.
From such observation and experience, what
can you tell women in general as to the
secrets of charm, loveliness and fasci'
nation?"

This question was propounded to Con'
stance Bennett the other day at the Pathe
Studio, where she
is beginning work
on "Rich People,"
the starring vehicle
which will mark
her return to the
screen after an ab'
sence of four years
as the wife of the
m ulti - millionaire,
Phil Plant.

"That's a hard
question to answer
briefly," declared
Miss Bennett after
a moment's reflec-
tion, "but I think
the most concise
way of putting the
matter is to say that
success in the char-
acteristics you men-
tion is achieved by
those women who
never forget their
birthright of femi-
ninity.

"Once I read a
story about a fa-
mous American si-
ren now living in
Europe, in which
the writer declared
that, despite her
several husbands
and legion of ad-

For October 19 2 9

mirers, she was real-
ly the most old-
fashioned girl he
had ever met. In
this fact, he be-
lieved, lay the se-
cret of her tremen-
dous appeal to men.

"She was a mar-
velous listener, un-
like, he pointed
out many pert
young things who
want to hog the
limelight with their
own conversational
prowess. She subt-
ly flattered the man
in whose company
she chanced to be
with a suggestion
of deference to his
opinions. Even
her most simple
frocks were dainty.
That, I might in-
terpolate as my own
opinion and not
that of the writer
whose viewpoint I
am discussing, does
not imply fussiness
but a wise choice
of material and cut
and color. The in-
ternationally famous siren was further de-
scribed as having taken pains to learn grace
of walk and carriage, and modulation of
her voice to a pleasing pitch. All these,
the writer believed, were hall-marks of an
old-fashioned girl, too of ten disregarded
by many slangy, hail-fellow-well-met girls
of today.

"I think this enthusiastic gentleman of
the press just about hit at the kernel of
womanly charm in general. The roughest
man appreciates refinement in a woman. I
don't think any man really admires the
hint of vulgarity in a woman, even though
he may be momentarily amused by it. The
ideal girl that every man subconsciously
pictures is always well-groomed and be-
comingly dressed. Nicely cared-for hands,
hair that shows attention, make-up used
wisely and not too lavishly, are all weapons
in a woman's armory.

"A soft, musical voice is another dis-
tinctly feminine quality that never fails to
prove alluring.

"In fact," Miss Bennett stated, "it might
not be a bad idea for the girl who wants
to cultivate charm to steal at least one or
two pages from the book of some grand-
mamma who was the secret passion of all
the gallants of her day. The basic essen-
tials of feminine fascination haven't changed
since Eve selected her very prettiest fig-
leaf, plaited her long hair with flowers and,
thus bedecked in loveliness, set out to be-
guile Adam's exile from the Garden of
Eden with soft-voiced coquetry."

* * *

Paramount is going to bring to the screen
several of Sir James M. Barrie's plays.
Gary Cooper's first starring vehicle will be
"The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," but
will be released under the title of "Medals."
Next they will do "Mary Rose." Ruth
Chatterton played in the Broadway stage
production of this play a few seasons ago.
Wonder if she will play in the talkie ver-
3ion? And here's something to look for-
ward to — "Peter Pan" as a talkie. No cast
for this has been selected as yet. Page
Betty Bronson!

The graduating class of Mrs. Sloan, vocal instructor, is composed
of Bessie Love and Gwen Lee, in the foreground ; and, top row,
left to right, Leatrice Joy, Elsa Schallert, and Cartnel Myers.

Georges Carpentier is in Hollywood
making pictures for Warner Brothers. He
is to have the lead in "Hold Everything,"
Broadway musical comedy. This is an ideal
role for Georges, as the hero is a boxer.
Sally O'Neil, Lilyan Tashman, Joe E.
Brown and Marion (Peanuts) Byron will
also be featured in this soundie.

Marion Davies is to begin work on the
talkie version of "Dulcy" with King Vidor
directing. We expect much of this actor-
director combination because of "The
Patsy" and "Show People." Constance
Talmadge played in the silent version of
"Dulcy," remember?

Motion pictures in their entire history
have never presented a more baffling prob-
lem than that of making the talking pic-
ture understandable to the foreign market.

In the first mad rush to the talking Gol-
conda little thought was given to this mar-

ket. Millions were
to be made at
home. Let the fu-
ture take care of it-
self. But sober
second thought and
the return to the
normal box office
state of affairs gave
producers pause ev-
erywhere. After
all, foreign markets
totaled 40% of the
gross business done.
It is estimated that
there are 20,500
houses in the U. S.
and 27,338 houses
throughout all Eu-
rope. Of course,
the English-speak-
ing countries absorb
almost half of
America's film ex-
port trade which
totals about $35,-
000,000 yearly. It's
the other $40,000,-
000 in foreign bus-
iness that was
threatened.

All sorts of so-
lutions were pro-
posed. But Radio
Pictures has come
believes to be the
In fact, this

Basil Rathbone holds the mirror while
Kay Johnson adjusts her make-up. Both
stars are leaders in the Broadway invasion
of Hollywood.

forward with what it
one really effective method,
method has been adopted only after con-
sultation with foreign buyers of film.

Foreign actors have been engaged by
Randolph Bartlett, Radio Pictures title ed-
itor, to speak prologues and interpolations
to features in their native languages.

The general plot of the story, its charac-
ters and the key situations are described
in a prologue in the language of the coun-
try where the film is to be shown. Then
at the end of each reel, the picture again
cuts to the 'master of ceremonies' who
describe the change of scene and the dia-
log that is to follow.

Lon Chaney is out of pictures for a short
period because of illness but the picture
must go on so Wallace Beery was selected
for the Chaney role in "The Bugle Sounds"
with Lon's approval. Ernest Torrence is
also cast in an important part. Had Lon
remained in the cast it would have been a
silent picture — (he and Charlie Chaplin
refuse to 'go talkie') — but now it's to be
an all-talker. George Hill is directing this
picturization of life in the Foreign Legion.

Warner Oland, who was once in grand
opera, is to be heard again in "The Vaga-
bond King," Paramount's all-color-talkie
version of the New York operetta success.
Dennis King, who was in the original
Broadway production, will hero it again in
the picture.

:;< $

Emil Jannings, making pictures in Ger-
many for Ufa, is all set to do his first
talkie. It will be in German, of course.
Josef Von Sternberg, who directed Jan-
nings in "The Last Command," is going
abroad to direct him. Von Sternberg is on
leave of absence from his Paramount
directorial duties. The man who directed
"Underworld" and "The Last Command"
will not be permitted to stay away from
the home lot very long, we promise you!

SCREENLAND

A GAY

^ARBO

[CREENLAND pre-
sents with pardon-
able pride the very
first studio portrait
ever made of Greta Garbo
in a carefree moment.
Usually the lovely Scan-
dinavian sulks or smoul-
ders when the camera is
turned upon her beauty;
but this time she was
cajoled into casual mirth,
and the result is worth
framing. Incidentally
Greta was hard at work
on her first talking picture
along about the time this
picture was taken, so you
see she isn't worried about
that accent!

Portrait by

Ruth Harriet Louisa

For October 19 29

CONFESSIONS
of the FANS

This is YOUR department, to which you are invited to contribute your opinions about
motion pictures. Say what you think about the screen and its stars. We are offering
$50.00 in prizes for the best letters: first prize, $20.00; second prize, $15.00; third prize,
$10.00; fourth prize, $5.00. The next best letters will be printed by way of honorable men-
tion. This prize offer will be in effect in every issue. Letters must not exceed 200
words in length. Sign your full name and address, please!

The Editor

FIRST PRIZE LETTER
$20.00

We are living in the age of miracles
again! This part of the world is slow — take
it from one of its citizens — but I think I
am pretty nearly right when I say that
should the talkies roll along this way they
will hit Hongkong with a wham!

Imagine my zeal for pictures when I say
that I went thrice to see Emil Jannings in
"The Way of All Flesh." I'd go again
should it return.

During one of my sojourns in the remote
Chinese port of Wuchow, 'way up the West
River, (look it up in an Atlas) I was sur-
prised to find that there are theaters ac-
tually being built and some, to a crude de-
gree, already built. Only three years ago
movies were Greek to them. Being a dis-
tant port and being primitive in the way
of movies the films shown were obviously
of the old type; but, despite that, they
never lacked interest.

"Hot Water" was seen amid the noisiest
but most wholesome laughter I have ever
heard. Those seeing the movies for the
first time were so astonished that they won-
dered whether actual people took part and
as to how the pictures could move— another
miracle to Wuchow!

Anan S. Barker,
87 Parkee Street,
Kowloon, Hongkong, China.

SECOND PRIZE LETTER
$15.00

Theme songs— talking — singing — dancing
— how little I dreamed seeing the day of
such development in the motion picture in'
dustry. And I have followed the progress
of movies since the days when Charles
Chaplin played in a prize fight picture —
along in about 1914— and when the old
Essanay Company in Chicago starred Billy
Anderson!

I haven't forgotten Beverly Bayne and
Francis X. Bushman nor the days of "Bev-
erly of Graustark," and I am not so certain
yet that I prefer the talkies to the old days.
It is a marvelous stride, no doubt, but all
these children do not seem to have the vim,

energy and whole-heartedness that the nor-
mal performer had in those other days. It
was not ill-bred to weigh 125 pounds then.
It was healthy!

Mrs. J. D. Tousley,
1405 East Broadway,

Joplin, Missouri.

THIRD PRIZE LETTER
$10.00

You may all prefer Gary Cooper, with
his soul-stirring look and his six foot three
of ■ gracefulness; or Buddy Rogers, with
his black and white attractiveness; or the
manliness of Richard Arlen, with his straight
look. Then again, perhaps you prefer Wil-
liam Haines, he of the mischief-loving eyes;
or maybe Charles Farrell, who is linked
forever with the tenderness of "Seventh
Heaven."

Well, you can have them all! My favor-
ite is not so awfully tall, he hasn't an ex-

Amotfg our fans' confessions is the inter-
esting revelation that Buddy Rogers ranks
high in their esteem.

pression of deep sorrow in his eyes, he does
not possess any shining handsomeness, nor
an extraordinary amount of virility or
cocksuredness. Nevertheless, he is sophist-
icated and yet is endowed with an abun-
dance of boyish qualities (a combination
quite devastating); he has a sufficient a-
mount of good looks; he is real, human
and likeable; and he has the most infectious
smile that it has ever been my pleasure to
look upon (and you know he has a wonder-
ful sense of humor.) Who is he?

Why, James Hall, of course, the most
charming young man on the screen!

Ellen W. White,
5247 Florence Ave.,

Philadelphia, Pa.

FOURTH PRIZE LETTER
$5.00

While we have a kindly feeling for the
silent movie which has given us such won-
derful entertainment in the past, just as
we have for the horse, that good and faith-
ful servant of former days, yet in each case
we must bow to the inevitable march of
progress. Sound. The human voice. Life
more abundant. Not only is more of the
actor's talent revealed in his speech, but his
individuality comes forth as well. Take
William Powell — but Billy always was a
wow even in his pantomime characters, and
now he is the ace of aces of the talkies, un-
less he divides honors with Ronald Colman.
Give us the talkies, by all means, and our
own movie stars, extras, and the whole
crowd who have endeared themselves to
the heart of the public and have made the
moving picture what it is today. It is a
keen disappointment to go to a talking pic-
ture and see some strange man or woman
taking the leading parts. It is not fair.
We want to see and hear our old favor-
ites in talking pictures; we want them be-
cause we love them.

Louise Ann Vester,
6431 Robel Avenue,
Los Angeles, California.

Including Leo the Lion

I attend all seances of the talkies. That

is, I attend all of them till my allowance

gives out, then I try the ancient skin game

of 'Bringing Up Father.1 It works — some-
times. I tell him Al Jolson is on till we
get past the ushers, then I do a Houdini.
Dad's fond of Al.

Now about that Swedish confection called
Garbo. Literally tons of It wearing a Jav-
anese smile. And Give Brook! Oh, Mr.
Brook, don't leave! I like your technique
very much.

I wish I could tell you what I think of
Norma Talmadgc. She is a charming dream,
too lovely to be real. Of Gloria Swanson,
it would take volumes. Well, I like her!

As you've probably guessed I'm just plain
crazy about the movies from Leo the Lion
to Stepin Fetchit and back again. Did I
miss anybody?

Alice Gleason,
218 Miminger Street,
Greenville, South Carolina.

Paging Miss Hopkins

Here's one fan who has a suggestion for
the producers. Why has Miriam Hopkins,
of the stage, been overlooked as a talkie
bet? To my mind she has the most perfect
voice of all the stage players. I have seen
Miss Hopkins in a number of plays and
have thrilled again and again at the
rich quality of her voice, the decidedly
different intonations and above all the cor'
rect enunciation of the English language.

Why does this girl with her blonde elfin
beauty, histrionic ability and wonderful
voice remain on Broadway? Of course, I
realize that Miriam Hopkins has a New
York following but why shouldn't she have
a world following such as she could have
through the medium of the talkies?

Hollywood, here's a find! Don't let it
slip through your fingers!

Mae Kemp,
858 South Avenue,
Rochester, New York.

Lauding Lupe

I am just bubbling over with praise for
that most charming actress — Lupe Velez!

I was fortunate enough to see Lupe at the
Rialto Theater, New York, at the time of
her personal appearance here. I was so
pleased that I went a second time and, joy
of joys, I sat in the first row orchestra with
her right before me! She gave me a small
bouquet of violets which I have treasured
highly.

To me, she is the greatest personality
on the screen. Her voice is charming, as
all know who have heard her sing Where is
The Song of Songs for Me and To Te Amo.
There is nothing about her which is not
real. She is vivid, primitive and appealing.
May she enjoy the very best of luck.

Lee Romeo,
8784-19th Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York.

New Faces and Voices

We believe the talkies will go farther
than stage plays — combining the sweep and
beauty of the camera with the beauty of
the voice, the thrill of sound. How to do
it is, of course, yet to be seen, but these
things are solved in time like everything
else.

We've been talking about talkies when
we really wanted to talk about new screen
faces and voices. Take David Rollins, who
is the nearest approach to that ephemeral
title, 'Young America.' Nancy Drexel,
who, in former years, would have been
called 'beautiful but dumb." has been able
to prove herself a very clever young lady,-

thanks to the talkies. Robert Benchlcy's
nearest approach to movies, heretofore, was,
perhaps, the loge of the Roxy. He now
proves himself an adroit master of panto-
mime and comedy sketches. Is it not odd
that despite Benchley's humorous dialogue
the convulsive funniness of his skits is in
his pantomime?

Look how well our screen personalities
are standing up against the influx of stage
talent. Stage players with only voices won't
last long. Those with screen ability will
find success deservedly.

And with television peeking around the
corner of the camera, isn't it great to be
a movie fan? We'll say it is!

John Allen,
230 Pine Avenue,
McKeesport, Penna.

Alberta Vaughn introducing her pet dog.
She says she hopes you'll like him!

That Garbo Girl !

I am anxiously waiting to hear Greta
Garbo speak in "Anna Christie." And why
shouldn't I when she is my favorite actress?
I used to have my room full of pictures of
Norma Talmadge but after seeing La Garbo
in "The Temptress" and "Flesh and the
Devil" the pictures of Miss Talmadge were
replaced by Greta, the most fascinating
actress I have ever seen. I am glad she is
not playing with John Gilbert any more.
He did not help her to stardom. She
made it herself.

In her interview in the September issue
of Screenland I was very much sur-
prised at the change in her. She has actu-
ally turned more girlish and she plays like
a tomboy! And I also read that "A Single
Standard," in which -she plays, is a sea
story. It certainly is a great change for
Greta from her society roles to a boyish
sailor.

Also in that interview Miss Garbo sur-
prised us by announcing she will make a
talking version of "Anna Christie." That
means that she is not going to be a failure.
Bravo, Greta! Keep it up. I know, too,
that you will rise to a greater success when
your fans hear you speak in your forth-
coming pictures.

All the criticisms of Miss Garbo are verv

SCREENLAND

unjust. But here is one fan who will never
desert her!

Miss Mary Sandtncr,
5130 Kimbark Ave.,

Chicago, III.

He's Against the Broadway
Invasion

There has been so much discussion about
the invasion of stage stars in Hollywood
that I'd like to add my opinion. It seems
to me we could get along without most of
the stage stars in the talkies. However,
there are some with screen personality as
well as voice. Dorothy Burgess, Jeanne
Eagels, Lola Lane, Harry Green, Helen
Ware, Paul Page, Raymond Hackett and
Helen Kane are good.

What's happened to that young fellow
named John Darrow? I saw him in two
pictures, "The High School Hero" and
"The Racket," and then he seemed to dis-
appear. I thought sure he'd soon be
at the top, but I suppose he hasn't had the
breaks yet. It's too bad that some wise
director didn't grab him and groom him for
bigger and better things. He's good ma-
terial. I'm glad Alberta Vaughn and
Sharon Lynn are getting some breaks
through the talkies. They are two good
reasons why we don't need Broadwayites.

Raymond Hulse.
3512 Elm Avenue,
Baltimore, Maryland.

Films in the Philippines

In Manila, our capital city, the newest
display of silent films are shown in the
city's most modern theaters. Yes, silent
films! It might surprise you to learn that
the talkies have not reached the Philippine
Islands at the present writing. Newspapers
say that the talkies have invaded the Orient
as far as Shanghai, China. Of course, we
are hoping it will be introduced into the
Philippines as soon as possible. We can
hardly wait for the opportunity to hear
speaking films in our country.

The people here are movie addicts, pic-
tures being our chief form of entertain-
ment. The favorite cowboys are Buck Jones,
Tom Mix, William S. Hart and Jack Holt.
In the comedy world. Charlie Chaplin.
Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and the mem-
bers of 'Our Gang' are most popular.

Joe A. Bautista,
Box 17,
Mambajao, Misamis.
Philippine Islands.

Personality Comments

In my opinion, Ramon Novarro takes
his art too seriously — he gives the impres-
sion of being a 'Horatio Alger Hero.'

Greta Nissen — ah, that seductive smile,
those graceful yet modest gestures!

Adolphe Menjou — lady's man. , and proud
of it. But a 'good fellow,' all the same.

Douglas MacLean — good, but in some
of his pictures, he's embarrassed at every-
thing. Seems that a fellow of his age
would begin to outgrow it!

Ben Lyon — too 'boyish'; gives the impres-
sion he's trying to make the motherly
ladies exclaim: "Oh, the dear, big boy!"

Buster Keaton — I once saw a walking
advertisement that looked just like him.
It was called 'The Mechanical Man,' and
one hundred dollars was offered to the
person that could make it grin.

Frank Kenneth Young,
929 West Seventh Street,
Travera City, Michigan.

For

O ctober 19 2 9

Another Ten Thousand!

C[ In our last issue we publicly acknowledged our thanks to Screen land's
readers. We playfully suggested that they had organised themselves into a
'Booster's Club' for the deliberate purpose of building a bigger circulation
for their favorite magazine of picture entertainment.

C[ Of course, there is actually no such organization, but we find we acci'
dentally started something. They evidently liked our frank expression of
appreciation. Hundreds of letters have come to us, telling in one way and
another that that which they have been doing unconsciously, will now be
done purposely. Some tell us they are going to bring a new member into
the Screenland family every month.

C[ We're particularly interested in answering the questions of several
readers who want to know how to become voluntary circulation 'boosters.'

C[ Well, we're happy to know that Screenland's editorial policy is pre
ducing the result we planned. Without fear of contradiction, we hold
that there is not another publication in the country that so completely
enjoys the genuine and sincere friendship and interest of its readers.

C[ And there's a reason behind this. It's a relationship that's built upon
confidence — confidence in Screenland's purpose to give our readers a
wholesome and interesting book of pleasure with every issue; and confr
dence in Screenland's absolute and unquestionable editorial integrity.

C[ But since you ask us what to tell your friends in adding them to the
added ten thousand new readers who bought Screenland last month,
we'll carry our policy of confidence a little farther and let you in on an
advance notice of a few new coming features:

C[ Note the cover of this number, perhaps as beautiful a painting as ever
appeared on any magazine; done by Charles Sheldon, one of America's
famous portrait artists, whose services have been engaged for Screenland,
along with those of other distinguished painters, whose work will appear
on future covers as well as inside the magazine.

G[ Next month a psychoanalysis of Greta Garbo by James Oppenheim,
the distinguished author and psychologist, who will search into the heart
and soul and mind of this wonder woman of pictures and explain the
secret of her unusual hold upon picture patrons — and each month there
after a similar study of an important player; and then perhaps he'll show
you how to psychoanalyze yourself, so that you can answer the questions
that are all-important to you: "What am I?" and "How Can I Become
What I Want to Be?"

C[ But enough, for the present. When you're through reading this copy
of Screenland, pass it along to a friend — a generous gesture— and then
watch for the November issue. It will be the best of all, and with your
help, we'll make each one better than the one before.

THE PUBLISHERS

SCREENLAND

Loretta Young is not being
languorous — merely lit h e'.
She is celebrating her ascen-
sion to SCRBBNLAND's coveted
Honor Page.

CREENLAND

HONOR
PAGE

She is just about the youngest
and prettiest starette on the
Hollywood screens today. And
the nicest thing about Loretta
is that she doesn't seem to
know how pretty she is!

For October 1929

That Young
Becomes the

Lady, Loretta,
First Ingenue

of the Speaking Screen

Ioretta Young has arrived. And she's
only been travelling such a little way!
^4 Just think of it: she started in pic
tures when she was only fourteen. In
"Laugh, Clown, Laugh''1 she made her first
appeal, that of a wide-eyed and incredibly
innocent child. Now she has grown up a
little. Still the very youngest leading lady
in Hollywood, she has added considerably to
her dramatic stature, until in "Fast Life11 she
proves conclusively that she is the loveliest
and liveliest and positively most promising of
all the beautiful little ingenues abounding in
the California studios.

Loretta is one of an aspiring trio of
screen girls — Sally Blane and Polly
Ann Young are her sisters.

That's right, Loretta! You are entitled to a
pedestal and First National supplied you
with a good, strong one in "Fast Life."

SCREENLAND

THE EDITOR'S PAGE

*njHE result of Screen'
land's talking picture
ballot was overwhelm'
ingly in favor of the talkies.
In fact, there is no longer any
argument as far as we are
concerned! The few staunch
supporters of silent pictures
good'naturedly granted that
they were convinced of the
futility of their conscientious
objections — some even went
so far as to admit that each
new talking picture pushed
them a little farther over the
fence, on the '■pro1 side!

C[ Just to make it unanimous — George Bernard
Shaw has been hinting, so they say, that he
may write a play especially for the talkies, be'
cause he considers talking pictures a new art
form that has come to stay!

Mr. Shaw may even permit some of his most
famous plays to be converted into talkies, the
report adds. For a consideration, of course!
That reminds me that it is about time to revive
the classic story about Mr. Shaw and Mr.
Samuel Goldwyn, the producer. Goldwyn was
trying to interest G. B. S. in a little proposi'
tion to come to Hollywood to do things about
the movies. After Mr. Goldwyn had said
everything he had to say, Mr. Shaw replied:
"The difficulty, Mr. Goldwyn, is that you are
interested only in art while I am interested only
in money!"

The Grand Old Man of the modern drama
is as broad'minded as he can be about these
talking pictures. He posed for Movietone. He
entertained Pola Negri at luncheon in London
and discussed with her the possible screening
of "Caesar and Cleopatra." But Mr. Shaw, in
one respect youVe just a little bit old-fashioned!
You are quoted as saying that you believe it

more feasible to teach com'
petent legitimate1 actors to
modulate their voices and re
strain their gestures for the
talkies than to teach Holly-
wood actors and actresses to
use their voices. But what
about those close-ups, Mr.
Shaw?

C[The talkies have invaded
the realm of the text-book in
school. The first educational
talking picture has been
shown at Teachers'" College,
Columbia University, N. Y.;
and the prediction is made that some of the
most progressive schools and colleges will adopt
the talkies as an educational aid. The first
film, frankly experimental, is the work of the
educational research department of the Elec-
trical Research Products Co., a subsidiary of
the Western Electric Co., and was produced
with the co-operation of Dr. H. D. Kitson,
professor of education at Teachers' College.

C[ Screenland is fast becoming a magazine of
controversy! Last month we denounced the
practice of 'exposing1 voice doubles. This
month we take issue with the Century Maga-
zine article, The Other Side Of It,1 by Gilbert
Seldes, in which the learned critic and author
pounces on sex'appeal and declares it is a
machine-made product of the picture producers!
Screenland calls your attention to the answer
in this issue by James Oppenheim, the eminent
psychologist, "Sex Appeal Defended,11 in
which, to our mind, he makes short work of
the decriers of the ancient and honorable art
of 'It.1 We expect to call upon other famous
writers to give their views. And we want
to know YOUR opinion! Let's have it!

For October 1929

Welcome,
5trangers!

Broadway's Loss is
Hollywood's Gain!

Norma Terriss, the Magnolia of
the stage "Show Boat," makes
her movie debut in Movietone's
"Married in Hollywood."

Beautiful Catherine Dale Owen
is the heroine of John Gilbert's
new picture, "Olytnpia."

Frank Craven, actor-play-
wright, arrives in Screen-
town to star in and help
direct his own play, "The
Very Idea."

Right: Jeanette MacDonald,
ingenue prima donna, plays
opposite Maurice Chevalier
in "The Love Parade," the
screen's first original all-
sound operetta.

"Kempy" will introduce Roland Young
to the speaking screen. He is famous on
the stage for urbanely witty portrayals.

SCREENLAND

WILL ROGERS

The talkies have lured Will Rogers back to the
screen. The famous gum-chewing philosopher is
at home in the new medium.

j^~YjpsjiME was when I could walk onto any lot in Movieland
with a "Good Morning, Rob." But not now. Within
the last year everything has changed, especially personnel.
The new 'Monsters at the Gate' give me the mackerel
eye and strip me to egotistic nudity with their questions. As
for getting on the sound stages — well!

Such was the posture of circumstances as I sat down in the
great reception-room of the new Fox Studio at Fox Hills just
outside the walls of Beverly Hills. I was to wait until my crc
dentials could reach a high executive, if any such mammalia hap-
pened to be at the suburban plant.

But the gods are good to artists and writers and I had no
sooner seated myself beneath the Greco-Spanish dome than whom
should wander in but the very man I sought.

"First time I been in the darn place myself," said Will
Rogers. "Thought Fd better get acquainted with the plant now

Rob Wagner

For October 1929 21

Talks about Talkies

Read and Laugh! Will
Rogers Speaks his Mind
about Talking Pictures

that I'm workin' here. Com'on over and let's take
a look at my new dressing shack." As he ushered
me in the Monster grinned amiably. Apparently
no higher credential was needed.

A lot of footage has rolled over the sprockets
since I directed Will in a bunch of twO'reel com'
edies over on the Roach lot five years ago. At
that time, Will had a stingy little dressing-room
in a row occupied by Glenn Tryon, Charlie Chase
and Stan Laurel, all of whom have since risen to
stardom. Now on the Fox lot he was leading me
to an isolated house such as one might find on any
of the fashionable streets of Beverly Hills.

Yes, times have changed. But not Will. "I
haven't been in the darn thing yet," he said with a
grin. "Guess it's locked, but we can peek through
the winders." We peeked like snooping school-boys.

"They're always askin' why I don't move in, but
what use have I got with a house? I don't even
need a dressin' room! It's only five minutes from
the house. I come in the clothes I work in, and
I'm not even usin' grease paint. Well, anyway,
it's a pretty place, but I guess I'll have to let one of
the lady stars have it. Or perhaps I can sell it back
to Fox," he added with a grin.

Rob Wagner says we'll see Will Rogers pretty nearly in
person in the talkies, for talk is the way he puts over his
best gags. Above: Will with Marguerite Churchill in a
scene front Fox's "They Had to See Paris."

"Don't suppose they'd let me
knock in the side and use it for
a garage. A garage is what I
really need — or a corral for m1
horse."

However, I have no doubt that
the "Will Rogers Bungalow" will
go big with the publicity depart-
ment.

Now, the sacred sanctity of the
sound studio was as easy to pene-
trate as the lot, and in five minutes
we were on the set ready to
"Knock on 'em boys. Let's go!"
Will's favorite expression.

"Got a great story, Rob," Will
went on as we sat down to await
the inevitable tests. "Irene Rich
is m' wife and we've made a lot
of money in oil in Oklahoma and
have decided to take the kids to
Europe. (Continued on page 103)

Will's favorite leading lady, Irene
Rich, is reunited with the star in his
first talking picture, "They Had to
See Paris."

SCREENLAND

ara Bow's

Clara Bow + Harry Richman
Romance. Read About Clara's

By
Ian
Blak

Clara, our pet red-
head, on the beach
at Malibu.

Theme Song: "For Em Just Wild About Harry —
And Harry's Wild About Me!"

-^7"0T since the big fire has there been a con-
flagration on the West Coast comparable to
that now raging in Hollywood. It's as if a
million feet of Garbo-Gilbert film kisses had
been touched off by some producer who couldn't
read the 'No Smoking' sign. For in this corner
we have Clara Bow, variously known as the
'Brooklyn Bonfire' and the 'Hollywood Holocaust.''
And over yonder is 'Kid Casanova,' the Jersey
Jazsbeau. In other words, Harry Richman, of the
Newark, N. J., Reichmans, suh, crooner of lulla
bies that have made many a Broadway baby forget
home and Daddy, and now starring in his first talking picture,
"The Song of Broadway."

When those modern Paul Reveres, the Hollywood reporters,
galloped to the telegraph offices with the news that Harry was
wild about Carrie — pardon, Clara — the wires grew warmer than
a Glyn tiger-skin. And Page One of the dailies had to be printed
in asbestos so that the tale of flaming love wouldn't singe the edge
off the story of the Russo-Chinese crisis. Shortly after the papers
reached the streets the Weather Bureau reported the hottest weather

For October 19 29

Ave

St.

=H oily wood's Latest
$10,000 Engagement Ring

in thirty-five years. A couple of volcanoes that had been cold as
the rear end of an ice-wagon for a quarter-century went back into
action purely out of sympathy. Harry and Clara just burned up the
world. And among other things, settled for all time the ancient
question of just what happens when an irresistible force meets an im-
movable body. In a manner of speaking, of course.

It was all so utterly unexpected. True enough, when Bay Ridge's
pride-and-joy was visiting the old Manhattan stamping grounds she
met Broadway's Don Juan. And, they say, she ritsed Richman as
if he had been one of the Six Bounding Ginsbergs instead of the
'heart' of the Flashing Forties. Nobody happened to think that this
might be a very feminine way of betraying an unusual interest in the
curly-headed Broadway, boy. Nor did it occur that Clara's Titian
tresses could make Harry forget all the blondes and brunettes in the
world. The wise ones figured that each considered the other no-dice.
Which only goes to prove that you never can tell.

Neither Clara nor Harry are considered simon-pure amateurs within
the rulings of the A. A. U. (Amateur Athletic Association.) As a
matter of fact, if the country were going in for statuary in the manner
of ancient Greece, there's little doubt but what Clara would be deified
as the Goddess of Love, while Harry would be Cupie. The combination
would be a sort of Bow and Arry, as it were.

Clara, for instance, played her first important role in the same pic-
ture in which Gilbert Roland got his start. And that was when Gil
was lucky to have coffee, let alone a Rolls. But, just the same, she

seemed to like him. And
he her. It was real ro-
mance. And tn~. — well,
things happened. Careers
and other interests inter-
vened. But it's safe to
say the brand of that
love burned deeply into
each of their hearts. Mex-
icans seem to be 'no
bueno' for Clara. Gilbert
drifted away. And as
Lupe Velez wants the
world to know, Gary
Cooper is her exclusive
property now. For the
present at any rate. Gary
was another in whose
heart Clara cut a notch.
And among other candi-
dates for Clara's favor we
seem to remember Ben
(Continued on page 108)

When Harry Richman was only four!
He was lost, and this is the identification
picture which resulted in his return to
home and mother.

Ballad-singer, Broadway play-
boy, star of the "Scandals,"
now screen star and conqueror
of Clara Bow's heart — Harry
Richman!

SCREENLAND

About Some Famous
Screen Children

By Helen Ludlam

Jean Darling,
the 'sweetheart'
of the 'Our
Gang' comedies

Hollywood's

few years ago it was thought impossible for
the average young person to earn money.
It wasn't nice! Children had to stay at
home, marry, or go into their father's busi-
ness. Progress has put a stop to these stagnant
notions. Many young people earn the money that
sends them to school. The children of Hollywood,
as a rule, earn enough to make them independent
for life or start them out in whatever profession
they later care to follow.

I want to tell you about a few of all the wonder-
ful children in Hollywood. Suppose I begin with
Philippe de Lacy and wind up with the Johnsons,
one of the most picturesque families to be found
anywhere in the world.

You all know something about Philippe, the
French child found forlorn and homeless in the war
one of the zone by Mrs. de Lacy, a war-worker, and adopted
sweetest young- b her and brought t0 America. It was Geraldine
sters m pictures. ,-, , i i ni -i • r 1 r

rarrar who suggested that Philippe was a find for

the films, and it was Farrar who saw to it that the
boy had a start in Hollywood.

Mrs. De Lacy was willing, for although she had
moderate means, she felt that it might be valuable
to the child to get an early start in a lucrative pro-
fession. She is careful not to exploit him. She
wants him to go slowly as a child actor because she
believes that he has a future in pictures.

Philippe wants to be a director. He thinks that
is the nicest job in pictures. . On the back porch
of the modest de Lacy home he and a friend of his
built a tiny theater with sets and light effects. There
is a screen and typewritten invitations are issued to
friends for a movie show. They run regulation pic-

Anita Fremoult
and Philippe de
Lacy, two little
aristocrats of
the studios, take
their fencing
lesson (above).

You all know Wheezer, left, the
baby of 'Our Gang.' He is a born
actor and can cry easily at his
director's bidding.

Above: Director Robert McGowan
of the popular 'Our Gang' come-
dies, completely surrounded by his
talented troupe, including Pete, the
devoted dog.

For October 1929

Youngest Generation

tures from Philippe's projection machine. I noticed
that sound pictures were announced and asked him
how he could manage that. "Oh, we have a vie
trola!" he said with a smile.

Philippe won the hundred-yard dash for his
school and likes running better than any other
sport, though he has a gun that he sets great store
by. He has many books, a few autographed, a very
valuable stamp collection.

"Are you going to put Anita Louise in your
story?" Philippe asked me. '"I hope you are, be-
cause she is my girl, and she's very sweet!"

Anita Louise lives with her charming young
mother in an apartment just above Hollywood
Boulevard. None of the children live in palaces,
except perhaps Jackie Coogan. They all seem to
have nice, homey homes, comfortable but not pre-
tentious.

The studio children don't seem to mind practicing
and doing their chores as much as the average child.
Anita Louise and her mother rise at seven and get
in half an hour of French before going to work.
Then she takes half-hour sessions of dancing, music,
singing, fencing and horseback riding. Philippe takes
these things, too. Mrs. Fremoult does not believe
in wasting the receptive years of childhood when
everything is learned easily. She feels that all things
are habits and a child might as well get the habit
of being busy as being lazy. And Anita Louise
can cook. She likes best to make floating island,
but she can make biscuits, too!

I wondered what the (Continued on page 104)

Philippe de
Lacy, the out-
standing boy
actor of mo-
tion pictures.

Left: Dawn
O'Day, who has
been on the
screen since she
was three years
old. Her re-
markable work
was a feature of
"Four Devils."

Above: Bebe Daniels with the
six Johnson children, all of
whom are regularly employed
in motion pictures at the vari-
ous studios.

Remember Anita Louise Fre-
moult in "A Woman of Affairs,"
with Greta Garbo? She is a
real beauty and a clever young
actress.

SCREENLAND

Olive Borden

j/* wv^une in! Olive Borden wants you to
enter her radio contest. The winner
will receive a new RCA Radiola 33, the
very latest model. Olive is asking an
interesting question, to test your cleverness:
whom should she play opposite, of the following
film heroes, all Radio Pictures players — Richard
Dix, Rudy Vallee, Rod La Rocque, and John
Boles? Make your choice and give your reasons
for your answer. The best letter, meaning the
cleverest and the clearest, wins the prize. The
Radiola is a cabinet model which is modern in
tendency but so simple in its lines that it will
harmonize with any type of home surroundings.
It is fully equipped with tubes and the latest
RCA loud-speaker. The cabinet is finished in
African mahogany. Employing the RCA tuned
radio frequency circuit, it has substantial volume
yet fine selectivity. And besides — it's the gift
of beautiful Olive Borden!

Address:— OLIVE BORDEN

SCREENLAND CONTEST DEPARTMENT

49 West 45th Street
New York City

Contest Closes October 10, 1929

Stand By! Olive Bor-
den announcing her
Radio Contest!
Write the best let-
ter answering
Olive's question
and you will win
her Gift Radiola

Olive Borden's radiant smile
expresses her generous spirit.

Below: Miss Borden with the
new Radiola which she offers to
a fortunate — and clever fan.

For October 19 29

Offers a Gift Radio

The Question:
whom should Olive
play opposite on
the screen— Richard
Dix, Rudy Vallee,
Rod La Rocque, or
John Boles? Give
the reasons for your
answer

Olive is a new star for Radio Pic-
tures. Perhaps that's why she chooses
a Radiola as her gift to the writer of
the best letter in Screenland's contest.

Right: Olive Borden listening in at
the radio set to he awarded in her
contest. It — the set, not Olive — re-
quires no battery but can simply be
attached to any electric light switch.

SCREENLAN D

SEX

Do You Believe that "No Permanent
Success Has Yet Come to a Screen
Player who Made Sex his or her
Chief Appeal?" That's What Gilbert
Seldes Declared in Century Maga-
zine. Screenland Wants to Test the
Truth of this Statement. Here is a
Defense of IT by James Oppenheim,
one of America's Foremost Psychol-
ogists. Read' It! Let Us Know What
YOU Think!

Valentino possessed the quality of
'It' to a greater degree than any
other screen personality.

Right: the glamourous Greta Garbo
from Sweden wrote a new defini-
tion of 'sex appeal' for the Amer-
ican screen.

hat has happened
to Gilbert Seldes,
who once assisted
in editing a high-
brow magazine, The Dial, and
has been expiating this sin ever
since by defending, aggressively,
low-brow art and entertain-
ment? In the July Century he
actually attacks IT; he — believe
it or not! — slaps sex-appeal and
puts it on the shelf. A photo-
graph, he says, can't get hot;
and while sex-appeal may shoot
a few stars into the firmament,
such stars, Nita Naldi, Theda
Bara, for instance, turn out to
be sky-rockets. They flame,
sputter, cease. They have not
the staying power of the Mary
Pickfords, the Charlie Chaplins,
the Al Jolsons.

"No permanent success," he
says, "has yet come to a player
who made sex his or her chief
appeal."

Is there sex-appeal in
"The Big Parade," "The
Birth of a Nation," or
"Abraham Lincoln?"

Well, what is IT? What
is sex-appeal?

Seldes quotes the manager
of Caruso's concert tours.
"Blank's voice," he said, "is
essentially monogamous, the
voice of a reliable husband;
Caruso's voice was essentially
polygamous, the voice of a
lover." And what the women
in the audience appreciated
was "the quality of his voice
which was like the caress of
a lover, the warmth and
fragrance of an embrace, the

Below: Gloria Swanson, one of
the greatest stars, has 'It' in
abundance.

For October 1929

APPEAL

Defended!

By James Oppenheim

Author of
"Behind Your Front," etc.

intoxication of secret love'
making." The manager
added: "The moment a
woman heard him she felt
he was making love to her
alone and she wanted to
surrender to him."

This surely is a good way
of describing sex-appeal. But
does it also describe IT?
Seldes rules out Charlie
Chaplin. If memory serves
me, Elinor Glyn says Charlie
has IT just as surely as
Clara Bow and Greta Garbo
have IT. IT, then, isn't
exactly the same as sex-ap-
peal. It is a mysterious
power, a something in a

Even Mary Pickford cultivated
the 'It' qualities in "Coquette."

The original 'It' Girl — Clara Bow,
christened by Madame Elinor Glyn
and still potent box-office appeal.

Left: John Gilbert is a gifted actor
but his possession of 'It' has made
him a great popular idol.

person that casts a spell or lays
a charm.

Certainly without IT no man
or woman could become a
genuine movie star. Let us
consider some men who are de'
void of it, such as Herbert
Hoover, Henry Ford, John Pier-
pont Morgan, Calvin Coolidge,
the King of England, the Queen
of England, Margot Asquith.
Can we imagine any of these
becoming great actors or ac-
tresses? They may be great
men and women, or good; but
a certain flame, or charm, or
magnetism, or seductiveness, or
romantic quality is lacking.
The Prince of Wales has it,
Sinclair Lewis has it. Certainly
Al Jolson and Mary Pickford
have it.

It varies in intensity, like all
gifts. Some actors have more,
some less. There are actresses
(Continued on page 111)

SCREEN LAND

Gloria
Hallelujah;

Gloria Swanson, after a too-long absence, re-
turns to pictures in "The Trespasser." Yes,
she talks — and sings.

he extended a slim hand, too slight, it seemed, to
bear the weight of the great shimmering pearl whose
wearer enhanced its beauty by lending it a little
of her own. The delicately molded fingers caressed
a radio message from beyond the seas : "Love and kisses,
Henry," it was signed. And every littlest word carried
its burden of affection.

"Is this convincing," asked Gloria Swanson, and added,
"these rumors of divorce have existed since the day of my
marriage. It seems so foolish even to deny them. But
anyway, this message is my answer to the question. There
are others like it. Many of them. If you would like
to see?"

But who dares ask the Marquise de la Falaise de la
Coudraye for documentary evidence to substantiate her
word! Or who would doubt the truth that shone from

Miss Swanson Goes March-
ing On. Welcome Back to
the Screen, Marquise!

By Herbert Cruikshank

the clear blue depths of her eyes? The query
had been a disagreeable duty ungracefully per-
formed. It was a relief to speak of other
things. Motion pictures, for instance.

For here, so perfectly clad in a gown of such
a shade of green as to suggest the quiet of a
forest's heart softly lighted by a sleepy sun;
here with the most alluring little hat in the
world pulled jauntily over autumn-tinted hair
— here stood one of the most distinguished
figures in all filmdom. A Crarina of the
Screen, who has battled every inch of her way
to a throne; who has not feared her fate too
much to dare all: and who has won her, dicings
with Destiny! The Sennett duckling whose
brains and courage and talent have brought her
to be the most regal swan of all the fine-
feathered birds in filmdom.

You know her story. An extra girl on the
Essanay lot. A picture poser clad in Sennett's
idea of what the well-undressed bathing girl
should wear. Leading lady to a custard pie.
Heroine of "The Pullman Bride," "Teddy at
the Throttle," and other of the infant indus-
try's contribution to art. And from such rank,
lush soil sprang the lily adored by appreciative
millions all the world around.

You know her story. How she quit her jcb
to go into business for herself. Just five feet
of womanhood turning down an offer of
$10,000 weekly, fifty-two weeks in the year, because she
wanted to produce photoplays her way. The disappoint-
ments and discouragements she encountered. Sufficient to
make the toughest film magnate toss his hands toward the
ceiling and whimper "Kamerad." You've heard about
"Queen Kelly." A million dollars shot, and the picture
shelved. You know how the coming of sound to the
silence of the screen dynamited a tcn-billion-dollar busi-
ness loose from its foundations. And you know how
Gloria, surrounded by the croaking ravens of desperate
ruin and disaster, turned defeat to brilliant victory with
1 he 1 respasser.

"Oh, it was a joy," she says, ""a perfect delight to work
straight through the picture without interruptions. Re-
hearsals first, then three weeks shooting, and it was com-
pleted.

For October J 929

Gloria, in scenes with this studio
child, is at her best; for she is a
mother in reality, devoted to her
own little girl, Gloria, and to her
adopted son, Joseph.

"No, the microphones didn't bother me. They had them
hidden all over the set. I didn't have to confine the action to
the spot where 'mike' was located. The instruments were
placed to catch the action, not the action to accommodate the
sound device. I enjoyed it all ever so much. I shan't make
a silent picture again. I don't believe I could.

"I like the talkies. It didn't seem necessary for me to
change whatever technique I may possess. Sound simply aids
pantomime. It doesn't replace it. But it augments its value.
I had to study the timing of gesture a little. It is best to
move a bit quicker in audible photoplays than was customary
in the silent ones."

So where others have trembled before the great god 'mike',
courageous Gloria grasped this modern Minotaur by the horns
— and proved it more than half 'bull' after all. Her venture
as a producer of her own pictures has added much to her
self-reliance and self-confidence. There is the matter of "Queen
Kelly," for instance.

"It is not a bad picture," she
smiles quietly, "it is a good picture.
Von Strohem didn't direct as
swiftly as I had hoped. But there
is nothing wrong with the film
except that it is silent. My error.
It should have been a talkie. And
it will be. When I return I shall
make it so. This will require some
re-taking because part of the pic-
ture is entirely unsuited to sound.
But it will be all right. I am not
in the least worried about it."

And from the way she says it,
any listener must have confidence
that the golden flood sluiced
through the "Queen Kelly" sieve
will bring back a perfect deluge
of box-office profits. Were Gloria
a real Queen instead of just a
Screenland Sovereign, her knights
would be shamed to return with
any tales of defeat. She wouldn't
know what(Contint'ed on page 109)

Gloria's audiences depend on
her to show them the last
word in feminine fashions.
"The Trespasser" affords the
star opportunity to display
all her skill.

32 SCREENLAND

The RISE OF

DOROTHY REVIER

By Scoop Conlon

The Erstwhile Pride
of Poverty Row
Crashes the Big Time

Dorothy Revier started
her career as a dancer.
Now she emotes in the
talking dramas.

*nJHE Queen of Poverty Row' was the compli-
mentary monicker that was fastened to the lovely
Dorothy Revier along the Hollywood rialto a
few years ago. Poverty Row in the movie capi-
tal is a short side street of little picture studios where
'quickie' pictures are turned out in six and seven days,
and sometimes quicker. Hard work day and night is the
rule in these 'get-rich-quick1 movie factories. There is no
such word as 'art.' Many a noted star, who has suddenly
lost popularity and money, has had to slip down the little
side street to pick up necessary shekels in Poverty Row.
The heroine of this story budded and flowered in Poverty

Row, until lo and behold, she finds herself right up among
the movie elite. Sounds like a fairy story, but it's true.

In fact, her story is synonymous with that of the Co-
lumbia Pictures company which is now considered one of
the rising organizations in the motion picture industry.
Columbia started on Poverty Row seven years ago, but
the astute Cohn boys soon lifted it out of the little side
street onto one of Hollywood's main studio thorough-fares
three or four years ago. With them came their sole con-
tract player, Dorothy Revier, who had been discovered in
the interim.

Today, Columbia is a power (Continued on page 96)

The ^JvLost ^Beautiful Still of the JMonth

MARY BRIAN and NEIL HAMILTON in "Kibitzer"

Halloween
Whoopee!

AU photographs nf

Clara Uou by
Oene Ilobert Richer

Clara, you can come and soap up
Screen land's window any old time
you feel like it. A Clara Bow auto
graph is worth something

All photographs of
Nancy Carroll by Riehee

Presenting Miss J^ancy Carroll in her
own little version of "Halloween in
Hollywood," with spoo\ and sound
accompaniment.

Whoo! Also whist, and ' other Hal'
loween expressions! When you gaze
upon this picture of Hancy Carroll
in her midnight masquerade you will
have no difficulty in understanding
why she is our favorite spoo\.

often bad, but invariably hearty and human.

MIRIAM SEEGAR from the stage was so
charming, optically and audibly, in her
first picture that she has signed a long contract.

Wm. E. Thomas

LOVELY daughter of the Vikings, Jeanette
Loff is one of the many screen-trained stars
who have held their own in the talkie invasion.

EDDIE QUILLAN is a refreshing young
man. In his college comedies he manages
to escape the curse of being too collegiate.

VER since she was 'Sweet Alice' of Kalem
i pioneer days, Alice Joyce has ranked with
the truly important picture personages.

For October 1929

Rediscovering

cAUCE
JOYCE

By Sydney Valentine

Alice Joyce could always get a job at Mr.
Sennett's if she tired of playing emotional
mother roles! Her latest picture is the all-
dialog version of "The Green Goddess,"
with George Arliss.

Alice on vacation in her comfortable cabin at
Malibu Beach, the picture stars' paradise on
the Pacific.

SHE is one of Manhattan's smartest matrons. You see her
at the Fits at tea-time, wearing those terribly simple,
terribly expensive clothes as only a New York woman
who makes semiannual trips to Paris can wear them.
She lights sensible cigarettes with a discreetly monogrammed
briquet, smoking casually. In summer she is fashionably sun-
tanned. In the fall, her silver fox and her severe tailleur are
almost too perfect. She lunches at the Colony; she attends
the better first nights of plays and talking pictures. She is the
kind of woman who fits into the upper Fifties and whose
address is practically certain to be Something-something Park
Avenue. She is, in short, an exquisite.

Her name is Alice Joyce. Mrs. James Regan Jr. in private
life. But if you were to pass her on the street today, you
probably wouldn't recognize her — not if you carry a picture
of her as the gentle mother of "The Squall," her latest release;
or recall her in her roles in "Beau Geste" and "Sorrell and
Son." For Alice Joyce, in the cause of cinema art, deliberately
maligns herself by playing her own great-aunt or grandmother!
In "The Squall" she is cast as Carrol Nye's devoted and sor-
rowing mother. And a good performance she gives, too. But
as it happens I saw Alice the day after the opening of that
picture, and it was all I could do to keep from giving her a
hearty shaking. For Alice was looking particularly lovely and
young and sophisticated and delicately devilish in a frock that
was extremely modern and smart, even for Alice.
"What a waste!" I sighed.

Alice, the slim princess of pictures, looked a little be-
wildered.

I explained the spelling. "May I ask," I demanded, "why
you play old mothers, when you are only a very young mother
yourself? Why you wear ugly aprons and pull your hair back
and otherwise behave as if you are egging on Father Time to
do his worst to your career? Why "

"Because I like my work!" she said decidedly. "I wouldn't
give it up for anything. It's part of me, and now that the
talkies make it possible for me to use the voice I developed
in my flyer on the stage, I'm keener than ever to keep on. I
wouldn't leave pictures " (Continued on page 107)

SCREENLAND

HOLLYWOOD

Alice White's home is a bach-
elor girl's heaven. "It's more
restful having your own home,"
declares Alice.

I'm level-headed !" says Alice White.
I know how to take care of myself."

anc

It's More Fun Living Your
Bachelor Girl. "It's Nicer
Anita Page, Home

By David Strong

lice White and Anita Page are two of
Hollywood's most popular 1929 model
girls.

Anita lives with her father, mother,
ittle brother in a home-like apartment on
Crescent Heights Boulevard.

Alice has her own Casa Del Oriente at the
Patio del Moro court, where the Chinese-red front
door opens on a bachelor-girl's heaven. A maid
and a chow-puppy share the heaven but Alice is
head of the house.

"It's more restful having your own home,"
declares Alice.

"It's more fun having your mother," insists
Anita.

So we went into the matter!
It seems that Alice used to live with her grand-
father and grandmother (her mother died when
she was a child.)

"A couple of years ago, my uncle came out to

visit. We had no ex-
tra room so I offered
to give up mine tem-
porarily and take an
apartment," Alice ex-
plains, "and I liked my
freedom so much that I
never went back.

"Don't get me
wrong. I'm crazy about
my grandmother. She's
a good sport. She al-
ways liked me to
bring my friends home
and have a grand time.
She'd say, 'Well, it's
your life. You've got
to live it. Better make
your own mistakes and
profit or lose by them.'
She never attempted to
interfere with me.

"But you see, my
living by myself is bet-
ter for grandma. I
have my vocalizing and
my tap dancing and
that's not so good for
old people. In my own
place I can squawk my
head off and ncbody
can say a woid.

For October 1929

FREEDOM!

Own Life!" says Alice White,
Living at Home!" Retorts
Girl. Who Wins?

"One big advantage I find since
I set up for myself is that I don't
eat so much. Grandma was always
fixing good things to eat and then
tempting me to eat them and I had
to fight fat all the time. Now I
there's nobody to care whether I
eat at all so I keep my figure.

"Another thing ■ — grandma was '
always worrying about my over'
working. When I'd come home
from the studio and flop into bed
too tired to eat, she'd worry and
worry, want to call a doctor — she
couldn't let me alone. That wasn't
good for her — or me, either.

"Then, you know how it is, a
girl's phone is always ringing. Poor
granny would have to come in
from the garden fifty times a morn-
ing just to tell them I wasn't home.

"I don't think it's a good thing
for all girls to be on their own. You
have to have character. I see as
much of my grandmother as I ever
did — I call her up every day. I
think more of her now I'm away
than I did when I was with her.

"Lots of girls in this business would
be better off without their mothers.
Depends on the girl. I'm pretty level-
headed. I know how to take care of
myself!"

"I know how to take care of myself,
too," replies Anita, "I don't depend on
my mother for anything except compan-
ionship and love. It seems to me that the
big thing is to have someone to share
your triumphs and your troubles.

"Coming home to a bachelor apart-
ment wouldn't appeal to me one bit.
What would you do about all that had
happened that day? Probably it depends
on the kind of family you've been bles-
sed with, but I happen to have the
finest in the world.

"Mothers are people who understand
everything. You need to tell someone
the nice things that have been said, the
good work you've done, the way you've
won through something hard. Other
people, even (Continued on page 106)

Her baby brother is Anita
Page's pride and joy. She taught
him to read and is an all-round
model big sister.

SCREENLAND

What's Wrong

You Don't Have to Turn to the
Back of the Book to Find the Ans-
wer—Just see Opposite Page!

Left: Seven out of ten girls do it —
stand in this ungainly way. Note the
had lines of the body and the ungrace-
ful balance of legs and hips.

Lower left: The art of sitting
with crossed legs went out for
women with the arrival of short
skirts. "Don't do this!" warns
Julia.

"N ever
hook your toes be-
hind chair legs, if
you would be grace-
' says Miss
All right,
Julia!

Left: No lady should
ever sit like this — in fact,
no lady would! There
are other ways of sitting
comfortably — see opposite
page.

How the well-brought-up young
girl should not stand, above.
Well, really. Julia!

For October J 929

with these Postures?

Julia Faye is Just an Old-Fash-
ioned Girl, with Good Taste.
She still Clings to her carriage!

Julia says she may he old-far.h-
ioned but that she is coni'inced this
is the right way to stand by a
chair. And she stands by it!

Lower right: Julia J aye poses in
the correct posture for sitting and
thinking. Pretty!

Above: cross the feet
instead of the legs and
you'll be just as com-
fortable and twice as
right!

Right: a quiet evening
at home with a book,
and a comfortable
knowledge that you
look grand and grace-
ful!

Now this is more like it! Julia
Faye demonstrates erect posture
and firm balance.

All photographs
by Clarence
Sinclair Bull

SCREENLAND

"The Virginian" troupe on location: Gary
Cooper, Richard Arlen, Helen Ludlam, who
worked 'extra,' Mary Brian, and director
Victor Fleming.

By Helen Ludlam

Screenland's Location Lady

ON
LOCA TION

uj/r w x|he Virginian" Special left at five o'clock on a Saturday
afternoon with ninety or more souls on board, includ'
ing Screenland's Location Lady. Gary Cooper, Dick-.
Arlen and Victor Fleming had driven up in Gary's own
car so that they could get in a good night's rest before the day's'
work.

I don't know where the Southern Pacific Railroad found that
train, but I don't think they have made any like it since 1812!
It seems that 'specials' aren't always what you would think.

At five the next morning we were called; and as we were
having breakfast a little before six, Henry Hathaway, Mr. Flem-
ing's assistant, began peering out of the diner windows on both
sides and muttering to himself, "This is it. Here's where we
were to meet the trucks." But there were no trucks in sight so
we all got off the train and sat ourselves down on the car tracks,
the train having pulled out as we disembarked, taking the few
people who did not work in this sequence on to Sonora — Mary
Brian was one of these.

The scene was miles upon miles of grazing field, with all the
grass dried up, divided by railroad tracks. There were patches of
perfectly gorgeous purple flowers that rose surprisingly fresh and
apparently very happy in the parched grass.

We were pretty sleepy so we all crouched down in a little
gully between the tracks and the barbed wire fence to take it
easy and keep out of the wind until Mr. Fleming and the trucks
came. Their coming and subsequent 'set-up' occupied the next
three hours. From somewhere appeared a collie who enjoyed
the whole thing immensely. Victor Fleming tossed a few stones
down the hill for him to catch and as the day became warmer
the dog heaved and panted but never gave up in his desire to
play. If no one would throw stones

for him he would nose them down the ..t, ■,,...„,. ...
.... ,. ., 1 he Virginian himself, in

hill mmselr. his screen incarnation — pop-

Walter Huston, the original lead in ular Gary Cooper, as the

"Desire Under the Elms," "Elmer the stalwart hero of the famous

Great," and the featured player in the Owen Wister play, the role

• . .1 r .i r -n " i j created on the stage by the

picture, Gentlemen of the Press, had iate Dustin Farnum.

'th

For October 19 29

at Hollywood Parties

Cupid is the Most Popular Guest
at Screenland's Soirees

party. Standing, left to ,right: Dr. Stanely
E tiers, Jimmie F idler, Jeanette Loff, William
Nick Stuart, Sue Carol, Edward Hillman, Jr.
Alan Lane, and Mary Brian.

Just then we caught sight of Ramon Novarro, who has
just come back from Europe, and we dashed over to greet
him. He is looking very well, despite the fact that, all the
time he was gone, he was on the verge of a nervous break-
down. He is very fond of his family, is Ramon, and the
death of his younger brother, who was his pal all his life,
was a source of great grief to him.

So he didn't sing in grand opera over in Europe, as
he had expected, after all, which was, we could tell from
the expression of his face as we talked to him, a disappoint-
ment to him.

"But Ramon is a fine pianist,'" Vernon told us after-
ward, "and he spends simply hours practicing when he
isn't working in pictures."

I heard a masculine voice exclaim:

"Say, I cried at the wedding!" And looked around to

see William K. Howard, the director. Patsy told him that
she bet he enjoyed doing it; or else he was jealous because
it was a handsomer wedding than he had ever staged.

Eddie Lowe and Lilyan Tashman were there. They told
us that they are still trying to find time for a vacation
together, and in the meantime are having a grand time
travelling in their minds, as they look over all the colored
pamphlets concerning trips. At present Honolulu is their
favorite, but probably it will be Alaska next time we see
them.

"If there isn't Mae Marsh!" exclaimed Patsy, dashing
off to talk to her. By the time I arrived, Mae was in the
midst of the recital of how her three children had all just
come through chicken-pox, and how they wouldn't let
her, their mother, out of their sight no matter how many
trained nurses were on the job. She said she was very
tired, but she didn't look it. Indeed I think she's far
prettier than in the old days of the wrack and strain of
pictures.

"Oh, Ruth Roland on crutches!" cried Vernon, and was
off to find out what had happened to her.

"And right in the very room," remarked Patsy, "where
she herself was the lovely, triumphant bride such a short
time ago!"

It turned out that poor Ruth had "stubbed her toe or
something on a wave when she was in swimming the Sun-
day before," as Vernon explained.

Laura LaPlante was there with her husband, William
Seiter, and we also greeted Julanne Johnston, Eddie Dillon,
Lester Cole, Johnny Hines, Lloyd Hughes and Gloria Hope,
Belle Baker, and scores of others.

Little Gloria Lloyd, Harold's small daughter, was among
the guests, watching mama Mildred being photographed,
and her nurse said she had been greatly interested in the
marriage ceremony.

"I think it is lovely," remarked Patsy, "the way Harold
and Mildred always take little Gloria about with them
when they can."

May and Maurice went off on their happy-ever-after
way, May throwing her bouquet. I think Irene Mayer
caught it!

"Carmelita Geraghty is giving a breakfast, and tennis
and garden party on Sunday, and we simply wouldn't miss
it, would we?" demanded Patsy.

That was a question with only one answer, and Sunday
morning found us travelling under the lovely tree-shaded
way of Franklin Avenue to the Chateau Elysee, the apart-
ment house where Carmelita lives with her mother and
father, and which stands under huge pepper trees, amid
big lawns and gardens, so that it looks, with its French
architecture, like a real old French chateau.

Carmelita is the loveliest hostess in the world, and looked
charming in a thin figured gown, with a wide floppy hat.

"Just everybody in the world is here," confided Patsy,
as we caught sight of the crowds gathered under the pepper
trees in the garden. Inside, in a (Continued on page 94)

SCREENLAND

Left: Crane Wilbur, the
matinee idol of the pop-
ular Pearl White Pathe
serials. Old-time movie
fans will remember him
as the hero of the hour.

Right: Crane Wilbur to-
day, who comes back to
Hollywood as a success-
ful creator of profitable
plays. He's writing movies
instead of acting in them.

The Return of an Idol

Crane Wilbur Comes Back to Pictures —
as a Playwright. Read his Reminiscences
of the Dear Old Days

By Bradford Nelson

nd now — we have horseless actors!"

Crane Wilbur, one of the earliest of the
screen's matinee idols, antedating even Francis
X. Bushman, paused amid his playwrighting
at the M-G-M studios and contemplated the past wherein
he made feminine hearts of the world flutter. Now
he's doing it by proxy, for
he writes and directs the
plays that a younger gen-
eration of leading men en-
act. And — he gets a
greater kick out of it than
he did while acting before
the camera himself.

"I suppose it's natural,"
remarked Wilbur, "to
look back at the old days
and declare that the
younger generation has an
easier time of it than we
ciders did. I know my
lather used to tell me that
about his boyhood — and
now I look at the new
crop of screen idols — like
Johnny Mack Brown, for
instance, just coming up
— and can't help meditat-
ing on how less strenuous
is their work today. Why,

Wilbur, idol of yesterday, writes his autograph for
Johnny Mack Brown, idol of today, while director
John Robertson looks on.

today they hire actors without asking if he can ride a
horse!

"It wasn't that way when I got into the game. The
first thing a man had to prove then was that he was
a good horseman. Of course there was a reason, for
two thirds of all the pictures I played in then were

westerns, and in other
types of pictures there
were usually chases of
some kind. The Pearl
White serials kept a man
on the move — horses,
motorcycles — anything
that got up speed. The
theory in those days was
that moving pictures had
to move — and move they
did.

"'I remember once they
had a motorcycle for me,
and I had to dash madly
along San Fernando road,
chasing Slim Coles, ahead
of me in another motor-
cycle, while the camera
car ran behind us, and the
camera ground on us from
just over the driver's seat.
Every now and then the
(Continued on page 106)

JUST a little love scene! Bebe Daniels and
John Boles sing sweet duets in Radio Pic-
tures' movie musical comedy, "Rio Rita."

ANEW portrait of Edmund Lowe — pol-
ished gentleman and scholar in private
life, ingratiating rough-neck on the screen.

MARY DUNCAN brought vivid beauty to
silent pictures. Now, in the talkies, she
becomes an entirely original personality.

Gene Robert Richee

JAMES HALL left a promising vocal career
to come to Hollywood. Hollywood is now
discovering its voice and Mr. Hall's.

LOIS MORAN can play good girls with a
dash of deviltry better than any other young
woman on the screen. Lois is interestingly nice!

TOGETHER again! The lovers of "Seventh
Heaven" are reunited in "Lucky Star," to
the joy of Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell fans.

For October 1 929

Short and Snappy

Short subjects in sound
are an important part
of the picture
program

Lloyd Hamilton has succumbed
to the talkies. Here he is with
Little Billy in Educational 's
"His Baby Daze."

Stan Laurel and Olive Hardy
in "Men of War," M-G-M short
talking comedy.

Above: Doris Rocke and
Johnny Burke in "Over the
Top," Paramount 's new jour-
reel Magnafilm talking comedy.

66 SCREENLAND

How to Build

By Cecil B. De Milk

The Famous Producer-Director
of "The Ten Commandments" and "The King
of Kings" Tells for the First Time Some of the

Secrets of his Craft

Cecil B. De Mille has more screen successes
to his credit than any other director. He is
a master showman.

MANY people seem to have the opinion that mo-
tion pictures come out of thin air!
It is amazing how few look behind the
■ entertainment they see on the screen, to ascer'
tain just how its diverting values were built into it.

However, to those who enjoy the 'inside' details of a
profession, the fundamentals of 'building' a motion pic-
ture have definite factors of interest.

Perhaps the best simile would compare the process to
that which would exist if it were possible to take the
individual component parts of a man, put them together,
and breathe the breath of life into the structure thus
gained.

To start a story, for instance, we lay out a number of
'ribs.1 These 'ribs' are interesting situations. They are
sequences of action, if you please, which individually
differ from each other just in the way the various bones
of the body have different size and texture according to
their position and use.

As examples of 'ribs' let me cite the situation where
the church crashes in on the crooked contractor's mother
in "The Ten Commandments"; the escape by the Russian
red with the girl he was to have killed, in "The Volga
Boatman"; and the marriage of a man to a woman, seven
hours before the time set for the man's execution, in my
new film, "Dynamite."

These situations are vitally important, of course, but
they are only the start. You can't hold the public's
attention with them, alone.

Therefore, after we have assembled our 'ribs' and other
'bones,' or contributing situations, we arrange into the
'skeleton' of a story.

This is done by means of what Jeanie Macpherson and
I call 'outline continuity.' This has no 'business' or inci-
dental action. It takes the various situations and expresses
them directly and without flourishes, simply to get a con-
tinuous flow of action. In this form there is no particular
charm of grace to the structure. It has been put together,
and that is all.

The 'skeleton' is then filled out. In the case of some
thirty pictures Miss Macpherson has written for me, she
would take the 'outline continuity,' usually written cn
yellow paper and therefore called, for short, 'the yellow'
and prepare a second script on white paper. It is in this
script that a story is given flesh and blood; little subtleties
are placed in the scenes; refinement of detail.

The director's job is to breathe life into this finished
structure, through the medium of actors and actresses
playing out the various characters of the story.

Even then, however, our simile is not complete. We

For October 1929

A Screen Story

have a man, truly enough, but a man some'
what untrained in the ways of the world,
an innocent who needs to be brought into
contact with everyday life, with reality.
The director, therefore, has the further
duty of manicuring the nails of his 'child1;
seeing that it should wear black shoes with
tuxedo and sports shoes with white flannels,
and so forth!

Yes, the building of a story is strangely
like the process of building a man, if such
a thing were possible. Certainly if the
story we construct is not as living and as
vital as the man himself, we have failed
of our task, because no story has yet suc-
ceeded on the screen which has not touched
the hearts of its beholders, in some definite
way, through sheer force of humanity and
naturalness.

The construction plans I have given you
of 'yellow1 and 'white1 continuities are
basic for all picture-making, whether silent
or talking. Your 'yellow,1 or 'skeleton,1
must be your foundation. Your central
situations must be correct, must hang to-
gether, or you can't tell your story.

In making our 'white,1 however, we pro-
ceed differently for talking and silent
versions.

Marion Davies drops in from her own set at
M-G-M to watch Cecil De Mille direct Kay
Johnson, his new leading lady, in a scene for
"Dynamite."

Cecil De Mille directing Charles Bickford in an
important episode in "Dynamite," the first C. B.
De Mille all- talking picture.

The talkie 'white1 naturally has full
dialog. And because of its speeches, we
can eliminate some action and some scenes
which would be required if we did not have
voice.

The silent 'white1 tells its story in pure
pantomime. Usually it requires about
twice as many scenes. Scenes, furthermore,
must be staged in a different manner, a
manner depending more upon actions; upon
the use of story-telling properties.

These differences, however, are merely
matters of construction detail.

Basically, both talkie and silent versions
must tell an entertaining story, or they will
not be accepted.

Stories, like houses, must be built of
good wood, carefully, and upon study and
prearranged plans, or they will fall off their
own weight. People who will tell you that
'inspiration1 is the principal ingredient of
a picture are merely being silly. Inspira-
tion is important; but inspiration without
creative plan cannot produce an acceptable
result.

So when you see your next picture, do
not think it sprang suddenly into being,
like Phoenix from the flames.

It was built slowly and painstakingly, as
must be the case with all true works of art.

Blonde and beautiful, Mary Eaton is the latest
ex-Ziegfeld star to lose her heart to the movies.

THE funny thing about these Follies girls stories is
that they are true! These 'rags to riches'1 romances
really do take place. Believe it or not, truth is
stranger than fiction. Ripley proved that when
he collected a series of facts far stranger than any imagi-
native creations. Time was — perhaps is — when a diploma
from Old Doctor Ziegfeld, or graduation from the Shu-
berts' Select School for Young Ladies was a surer passport
to affluent success than a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa key. But
the Old Doctor and the Professors Shubert are very par-
ticular about their pupils. It is harder to get in their
classes than to get samples out of the Mint. For instance,
there's the Case of Mary Eaton.

Mary's in the movies now. That's where all good actres-
ses go. But before she crashed the golden gates of the
cinema, she had to learn her facts — and figures. If you
get what I mean. And she began in the little red school-
house called Poli's Theater in Washington, D. C.
' Now Washington wasn't Mary's home town. In fact it
isn't anybody's home town. It's just a station stop between
elections. Mary came from a country where 'corn' is some-
thing to drink. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, where
there are more Colonels than in a California walnut grove.
But long before she knew 'Ziggy' was a man's name, the
folks moved way up No'th to Washin'ton.

Even before gentlemen preferred them, Mary was a
blonde. And that's how it happened that back in the
days when she played in rompers instead of rehearsing in
them she was signed up to enact all the kid roles in the
Poli Stock Company. The first part, by the way, was in
"Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." And to this day
when Mary feels sorry for herself — and don't we all — she
snaps out of it with the memory of that classic line of
Mrs. Wiggs': "Ain't you glad you ain't got a hare-lip!"
Later she injected a bit of childish 'it' into "Little Lord
Fauntleroy." But don't hold that against her.

With the Eatons, money meant something you were
allowed to hold from Saturday night to Monday morning.

SCREENLAND

The MERRY

By James V. Pond

Then you handed it out like rain-checks to the milkman,
iceman, grocerman, thief, gasman, butcherman, Indian
chief. Ma Eaton got callouses on her thumb and forefin-
ger from trying to hold back enough to carry her kids and
herself to the big town. She knew that her seven children
had theatrical talent. Time proved her more than fifty
percent correct. Four of them have clicked — Pearl, Doris,
Mary and Charlie.

Faith moves mountains, so they say. And in any event
faith — the faith of Mrs. Eaton, together with a borrowed
fifty dollars, brought the brood to New York. Not all
at a time, but Eaton by Eaton.

At first Ma, Mary and Pearl settled down in one room
and an alcove, and took turns listening for opportunity
to rap at their third-floor-back. And sure enough, one day
when Pearl was on watch, opportunity went through the
well-known knocking routine, and as a result the family
had a daughter in the Winter Garden Show. Like Monte
Cristo, Mother Eaton held up a finger and counted 'One.'

Now to tell the truth, as a kid Mary was a kibitzer.
Pearl's beaux used to send her out for jelly-beans. You
know the type. And what was more natural than that

All the Merry Eatons.' Mother Eaton sur-
rounded by Charles and Mary, (standing) and
Doris and Pearl. Each Eaton works in
pictures now.

For October 1929

EATONS

And Mary in Particular,
a Broadway Beauty
Captured by Hollywood

she should tag along to Winter Garden
rehearsals? There was nothing to do but to
introduce the 'kid sister' around back-stage.
She met Theodore Kosloff and Ivan Tarasoff,
the ballet-masters. They agreed with Mother
Eaton regarding Mary's potentialities. And
they taught her how to dance. There was
no money to pay. But that made no differ-
ence to these artists. Her lessons were free,
gratis and for nothing. She worked hard.
Her lesson was soon learned.

Miracles happen along the Lane of Light.
But they take their time happening. So
Mary appeared in many a minor role be-
fore she finally achieved an important part
in "The Royal Vagabond." But after that things speeded
up a bit. The Great Ziegfeld saw and signed her. It
meant two years in the "Follies." And what a "Follies"
show that was! Gilda Gray headed the list of beauties
who had heads as well as legs, and used both to such good
purpose that stardom on stage and screen was merely one
of life's accomplishments. And Mother Eaton repeated
the Monte Cristo gesture, counting 'Two.'

Yesterday's papers tell the rest. Eddie Cantor decided
he just must have Mary to play opposite him in "Kid
Boots." She signed for the run of the play — and it seemed
that it would run forever. Crowds clamored for the kid
who had come to town on a fifty-dollar bill and stayed to
conquer Broadway. After "Kid Boots" came "Lucky" —
the hit, not the Strike — and "The Five O'Clock Girl"
followed.

Meantime funny noises were heard from Hollywood.
Some one hollered "Betsy" from a silent drama screen. It
was the shout heard round the world. Conrad Nagel
galumphed from coast to coast in celluloid crying "The
Talkies Are Coming!" Sure enough he was right. Over-
night a ten-billion-dollar business went up in hoke, and
Warners ruled the raves Hearing it so frequently, the
picture producers had come to believe that their stars
were beautiful but dumb. Literally dumb. So they set
about enlisting beauties with tongues — even though some
of them signed for sound films with those tongues in their
cheeks. Paramount beat the competition to it by making
Mary a movie star.

Her first picture was "The Cocoanuts." In four warm
weather weeks it took in $130,000. In other words, it
was something in the nature of a riot. Yet when contrary
Mary saw herself upon the screen she came close to crying.
Star of the stage though she was, there was a lot for her
to learn before she joined the great moguls of moviedom.
So Mary set out to learn it. She studied studio lighting. She
experimented with make-up. She figured angles for her
curves. She practiced pantomime. She combined her
knowledge of the theater with what she knew about play-
ing to an audience composed of cameras and microphones.
She accepted this, rejected that — perfected her technique.

A studio romance! Millard Webb directed
Mary Eaton in "Glorifying the American Girl."
Now they're engaged.

Then out of the West came a Hollywood Lochinvar, an
impulsive, talented duck named Millard Webb. He had
the toughest assignment ever handed a film director. It
had come to be a legend on the Paramount lot that a job
connected with "Glorifying the American Girl" was equi-
valent to a finger pointing 'This Way Out.' It was a
great idea for a picture. But there it ended. They couldn't
get a story. They couldn't get a star. They couldn't get
this and they couldn't get that. So on to the Long Island
studios came Webb, with an assignment and a title for
his picture. On the way East he wrote the story. When
he reached New York he found the star. And she was
Mary Eaton.

Like most of the movie men Webb's motto had been
'sign 'em, shoot 'em, and forget 'em.' But somehow the
forgetting part didn't come so easy this time. Millard's
thoughts of the film's action were oddly interspersed with
close-ups of his star. One thing lead to another. And
one night, Togo, Millard's slant-eyed house-boy, noticed
his boss had a blonde hair on his shoulder, lip rouge on
his cheek and a broad smile touching each ear. There was
only one answer. Next day Togo quietly removed all
other photographs and substituted varied poses of Mary
Eaton. That ring she wears is Millard Webb's.

Well, they finished the picture. And it's a wow. It
just couldn't help being a wow. No outside interference.
Perfect understanding between star and director. And
the exaltation of a prospective honeymoon for inspiration.

When Webb returned to the Cinema City, Mary, too,
followed the course of Empire and wended her way West-
ward for a long-delayed visit to her mother and sister
Doris and the rest who had heard the call of Hollywood
before her. And it wouldn't be surprising if the visiting
Iowans will have an unexpected treat this summer in the
privilege of being right on the spot when Mary marries
Millard.

Wise now in the ways of both screen and stage, Mary
is using the utmost care and diligence in protecting the foot'
hold she has won in filmdom. And Paramount is helping
her in the realization that the studio has a Big Bet.
The production chieftains have (Continued on page 95)

70 SCREENLAND

Best Lines of the Month

Bits of Wit from the New Talkies

The scene shoics Basil
RatKbone and Herbert.
Bunston in "The Last of
Mrs. Cheyncy."

From "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney1,

Lord Elton (Herbert Bunston) : "Well, person-
ally, I prefer the word likeable to attractive."

Lord Dilling (Basil Rathbone) : "I differ. To
accuse a beautiful woman of being likeable is to
suggest that her underclothes are made of linoleum."'

From "The Sophomore11

Dutch (Russell Gleason) : "Why did you take
a chance and lose your $200.00 tuition money
shooting craps?"

Joe (Eddie Quillan) : "Because I thought I
mishit double it and learn twice that much!"

From "Smiling Irish Eyes"
George Prescott (Edward Earle) : "Tell me,
Sir Timothy, how in the world do you manage to
keep two hundred employees contented?"

Sir Timothy (Robert E. O'Connor) : "Contented?
Don't you know that an Irishman is never con-
tented except when he's discontented?"

From "Fast Life"

Douglas Stratton (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) to
Patricia (Loretta Young) : "Gosh, Pat, it's a girl
like you that makes boys like me like girls like you!"

For October 1929

A Queen */ Kings

Concerning Carlotta, One of
the New Sovereigns of Sound

By Sydney King Russell

EDITOR'S NOTE : — Sydney King Russell is the
husband of Carlotta King and the author of three
books of poetry and a dozen concert songs.

Carlotta King was born singing! Her
home abounded in music; as a child
she habitually fell asleep to strains of
melody. Before she reached the age of
six she had made a' public appearance before
several thousand people. At eight, hearing her
mother play strains of a current light opera she
declared that when she grew
up she, too, would sing just
such music. Her sleep was
often interrupted in order
that she might sing for some
guest of her parents a snatch
of song from "The Chocolate
Soldier." Though other duties
summoned her she never
wholly lost sight of her goal.
At sixteen in high school she
sang in "Ben Hur," carrying
off the difficult soprano role
with ease. Experts advised her
to cultivate her voice under
the proper guidance, but the
time was not yet ripe.

The first time that I saw
Carlotta King, and it was a
momentous day for us both,
I found her singing. The affair
was a benefit, to which I had
gone somewhat bored, and
without anticipation of an interesting meeting.
But the little lady with the wistful face who
presently rose and sang caught my attention.
It was only a ballad she was singing, but the
beauty of her diction, the crystal purity of her
tone, held me. And the young lady was very
easy to look at!

"I want to meet that girl," I told the hostess
and an introduction followed. A composer with
several published scngs, I was quickly interested
in Carlotta, and my admiration deepened when
I heard her sing my music. As the days went
by we proved an incentive, a stimulus to one
another in our chosen work.

A year later we were married and returned
to New York, where in our new home music
reigned supreme. We studied and worked,
giving many concerts together. Just a few
months after our wedding Carlotta was offered
a tempting role in (Continued on page 108)

CARLOTTA
1 have said all there is to say.
Slowly

I have drawn silence about me
Li\e a veil.

But I cannot shut you out
J\[or the tenderness of your song.
Into the inmost veil of silence
Where no word has ever ventured
Tour Carissima will follow me.

■ — Sydney King Russell

Miss King, who made
her screen debut in
"The Desert Song,"
will next be seen as
"Rose-Marie."

72 SCREENLAND

SUE! Our Authentic

Hollywood Fame has Not
Spoiled the Fresh, the Winsome,
the Nice Little Girl who is
Known as Sue Carol

Sue's mother had just gone home from her half-year
visit with her daughter, who was a wee bit homesick at
the departure.

"Nothing quite makes up for missing your mother," she
declared. "I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have
Nick's, too. She says she has three children — Nick and his
brother and me, now Nick and I are engaged. Just putting
on the clothes Mother brought for me makes me feel like
a little girl on the first night away at school.

Screenland's happiest engaged couple: Sue
Carol and Nick Stuart. You'll see them as the
co-stars of "Chasing Through Europe."

ue Carol lay among the pastel pillows of her chaise
lounge, the telephone receiver snuggled to her ear.

"Hello!" She spoke into the transmitter, plaintively,
although her eyes were dancing. "Is this Mr. Ross, the
insurance man? Well, this is Mrs. Fizboom. Fizboom, yes, like
a fire-cracker. I called you because I'm always taking out my
teeth and laying them down and forgetting what I did with
them, and what I want to know is — can you give me some
insurance to cover that? Omigosh!"

Crash went the receiver. The pink came in a flood to her
sunburned face while her red lips twitched into a mischievous
smile over her perfectly good and perfectly beautiful teeth. Her
eyes, still dancing, met mine.

"I didn't hear you come in," she explained. "I was just
ragging Alice's husband." (Alice Ross is Sue's chaperone-house-
keeper-friend-and-financial adviser, who has lived with Sue ever
since she entered pictures.)

"I love playing jokes. It seems to me it's terribly important
to be gay. People get such a lot out of laughing." She sprang
up and began a few steps from the 'Break-away,' a bizarre little
figure in the silk-and-lace of her lounging pajamas.

"Nick and I are learning tap-dancing," she confided. (Nick's
last name is Stuart.) "It's fun. But it happened in a funny
way. I was in the publicity office at the studio looking at stills
when I came across some pictures of boys tap-dancing.
" 'Why don't you get Nick to pose for this?' I demanded.
" 'Does he tap-dance?' they asked.

"I thought Nick did everything, so I assured them he'd done
it since he could walk. When I told him to report for stills, he
was horrified. It seemed he could dance everything else but not
that. So we're both learning. That was a joke on me!"

Sue's Sunday morning smile, when she can
linger over her breakfast instead of hurrying
nff to the studio for a hard day's work.

For October 1929

Flapper

Ruth Tildesley

"Not a great grief, of course, because Til
see her again soon. But I believe in being
light-hearted. You can think yourself blue in
no time, so why shouldn't you think yourself
gay? Somebody once told me there should be
schools for happiness, because a good part of
happiness is consciously being gay.

"Look, isn't this a gem?" She displayed a
moleskin ensemble, part of the trunkful of
clothes left by the much-missed mother.

"I love it, but I feel frightfully dignified in
it." She paraded the length of the room in
stately fashion, then spoiled the effect with a
skip and a hop. "Maybe that's why I seem
to be going in for serious subjects this morn-
ing. Like schools for happiness.

"Before you came in, I called Bob, my
chauffeur. I'd told him to sleep late because
I kept him up last night, so when I got him
he was about half awake.

" 'This is Howard Strickling's secretary,' I
told him. You know, Howard Strickling at
M-G-M. Joan Crawford would like you to
come out and have lunch with her.' I think
he thought he was still dreaming. I went on
to say that Joan had given me the message
and that was all I knew about it, but I must
have giggled a little, for Bob said: 'Right-O,
Miss Carol!'

"A telephone is my big temptation," she
caroled, as she led me down to the living
room of her Los Feliz hills home. "The minute
I see one I think of some trick I can play.

"Last night I was listening in on the radio and heard
Arthur Lake talking. He's a champion kidder so I thought
I'd kid him. I flew to the telephone, called the radio
station and asked for Arthur.

" 'Oh, Arthur!' I languished, 'I've just been listening
to your perfectly marvelous voice and I'm just crazy about
you! I never heard anyone say such perfectly marvelous
things and I'm simply slain by your perfectly marvelous
personality!'

"I had the poor boy dizzy while I begged him to make
a date with me. Then foolishly, I gave him my number
to call me up. You can imagine Arthur!

"But Dave Rollins happened to be there with him and
when he heard the number he recognized it as mine. I'm
expecting them to retaliate."

She stood by the great studio window looking down
over the wide-spread city.

"It's a lovely world, isn't it?" she glowed. "Nick's
coming up to bring me my new shoes for tap-dancing."
Any school for happiness that (Continued on page 99)

The first and only pro-
file portrait of Sue
Carol. She thinks her
profile is terrible and
refused to pose, so the
photographer snapped
her anyway!

Portra it by
Lansing Broivn.

7-1

SCREENLAND

New

Victor McLaglen comes to New
York on a vacation, wearing his
Captain Flagg smile.

Left: Charles Ruggles, the Broad-
way comedian who has signed a
long-term screen contract.

Lower left: Jack Buchanan, Eng-
lish matinee idol, who is Irene
Bordoni's movie leading man.

What's Going On in Eastern Filmdom

UCH excitement! Jack and Ina, honeymooners,
spent a few crowded days in our midst.
Everybody wanted to see them, of course —
especially the New York friends of the bride.
They wanted to see if California had changed the brisk,
witty, wise, well-poised Ina Claire. California, screen
stardom, and marriage to a motion picture idol! But they
might have known that nothing could change her. She is
a highly individual person, is Ina. Calm, yet colorful.
Sophisticatedly smart, but kindly and charming.

When the Gilberts alighted from the train at the sta-
tion, Ina proved at once that Hollywood has not impaired
her impeccable clothes sense. She looked extremely Park
Avenue in a blue ensemble with navy blue toque and shoes

to match. When she was asked if she missed Broadway
out there in the wild movie west, she paused a second.
"And do you like California?" someone else asked during
the pause.

"Obviously," replied Ina, looking at Jack; adding saucily,
still looking at her husband: "It's a great state!" Gilbert
laughed: "I'm blushing!"

Both Jack and Ina declared there was nothing at all
interesting and unusual about themselves — nothing different
from the usual honeymoon couple going off to Europe!
"We'll just travel a little, play a little, and fight a little!"
Jack announced with his bad-boy twinkle. They plan to
go to Paris first, then motor through the south of France
and wind up in London, returning to this country around

For October 1 929

Mr. and Mrs. John Gilbert — Ina
Claire — on the first lap of their
European honeymoon.

Right: Alice Terry, back home
after a long absence making pic-
tures in France.

Lower right: New York was glad
to see Clive Brook again. He's
making "Sherlock Holmes."

the first of October. Europe and its smart capitals is an
old story to Ina, but it was Jack Gilbert's first trip abroad.
I think he was slightly thrilled, though of course he masked
his interest successfully behind his casual and scoffing
manner.

Some day they may make a picture together, but that
time is far off. Jack is tied up with Metro-Goldwyn,
while Miss Claire is with Pathe. Her first talkie is "The
Awful Truth," to be followed by "Negligee.'" Yes, the
clothes for the latter picture will be purchased in Paris.
Jack is quite humble about his work in his first talking
picture, but Ina opines that he is exceptionally good in
"Olympia."

I learned that it is one of Gilbert's ambitions to play

opposite his brilliant wife, some day, on the stage.

* * *

That nice Clive Brook came back to Manhattan — on
business. Paramount decided to make "The Return of
Sherlock Holmes" at the eastern sound studios, and Clive
was called for the lead. He is always affable and obliging,
but I gathered that he would have been just as pleased
if his bosses had ordered his new picture made in Cali'
fornia. He hated to leave his pretty wife and his two
children, not to mention his tennis matches with Ronnie
Colman and his other friends in Hollywood. He's hoping
to be able to knock off work one of these afternoons to
keep in trim on the courts. At first he supposed he was
only to be here for five or six (Continued on page 110)

SCREENLAND

VERDICT: GUILTY

Raymond Hackett, the Boy Wonder, is Called
Upon to Defend Himself on the Charge of Steal-
ing the Best Juvenile Jobs in the Talkies

Ray Hackett has been trouping since he was four
years old. His California screen career was launched
by "The Trial of Mary Dugan" and "Madame X."

aymond Hackett is guilty — of excellent perform-
ance in the talking pictures!

So ably did he defend his screen sister, Norma
Shearer, in "The Trial of Mary Dugan," and
his movie mother, Ruth Chatterton, in "Madame X," that
the movie jury brought in a verdict of "Not guilty" for
these ladies; and the public adopted the attorney for the
defense as favorite juvenile of the talkies. Ray has arrived
in Hollywood!

Although still a youngster in years, he is an old, seasoned
trouper in experience. He made his first appearance on
the stage at the tender age of four years. His mother,
Florence Hackett, was widowed at twenty-one, with three
babies to support. She tried her luck in the movies, work-
ing for Griffith at Biograph; and later she went on the
stage.

Robert Howard

So it was in the cards that Raymond, Albert, and
Jeanette Hackett should earn their living in 'show
business.'' Where other children batted baseballs on
corner lots, the Hacketts played under the feet of
the stage doorman at whatever theater or studio
happened to be their professional home at the time.

And now they are all successful: Raymond on
both stage and screen: Albert in "Whoopee," on
Broadway; and Jeanette, who has been a vaudeville
headliner for a decade.

So it is that at an age when most young fellows
are polishing up a shining 'frat' pin, or deciding
whether to accept that job 'at the bottom/ boyish
Ray Hackett is a big shot in American drama. He's
long been a hit on the stage, and now he's being
touted as a potential screen star.
Education?

He hasn't had any in the formal sense.
He has never been inside of public school, high-
school or college.

Outside of three years with a tutor and two
years in the New York Professional Children's
School, he's learned everything he knows from the
stage.

And what he knows!

Ask him about Lincoln — he's a veritable mine of
information. He played Scott, the boy whom
Lincoln pardons, in Drinkwater's play. He played
the son of Lionel Barrymore in that other great
drama of the Emancipator, "The Copperhead."

Ask him about Dicken's haunts, Stratford-on-
Avon, Westminster Abbey — he can describe them
with all the vividness of an actor.
For about the time that the average youngster is a
sophomore in college, he was playing a featured role in
"So This is London," in London.

Ask him about law — his long experience on the road
with "The Trial of Mary Dugan" has taught him more
about Blackstone than half of this year's legal graduates.

Ask him about women — he was two years the sensation
of the somewhat raucous "Cradle Snatchers!"

When interviewed recently at the studios, between tests
of make-up for his part as the Simon Legree of a comic
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" troupe, a comment was made as to
his rather unusual training.

Tall, very boyish, and quite shy, despite the fact that
he has appeared before the public since the days of his
rompers, Hackett ran his fingers through college cut hair
and laughed on an embarrassed note. (Com. on page 105)

For October 1929

K. O. Jtahmn

DOUG AND MARY— TOGETHER!

Here they are, alone at last! Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks of Beverly
Hills, California, offer their first co-starring motion picture, "The Taming
of the Shrew," an all-talker, from the comedy by W. Shakespeare. The
scene shows Doug as Petruchio and Mary as the capricious Katherine.

SCREENLAND

"What Picture Shall We See Tonight?" Let
tion and Guide You to the Worth- While

The River of Romance

This romantic picture of days on the old
Mississippi River is one of the most satisfying
talkies on Broadway. You may have seen it
some years ago as a silent film but nevertheless
you will want to hear it in its talkie version.
Buddy Rogers is the young southern boy who
doesn't want to fight and leaves home with the
stigma of cowardice attached to him. Mary
Brian is his sweetheart, and I want to say, right
here, that seldom have I seen love scenes of
such beauty and tenderness as these two enact.
Mary is lovely — a dream girl — and she really acts.
Wallace Beery has a bag of new tricks. June
Collyer, as the petulant southern beauty, shows
a fine dramatic instinct. Henry B. Walthall.
Fred Kohlcr and Natalie Kingston all have in-
teresting parts. Don't overlook this one!

Pleasure Crazed

Kenneth MacKenna, Marguerite Churchill, Dorothy Burgess
and Douglas Gilmore in an exciting society story, with a crook
angle. MacKenna will win your heart. He has one of the most
sex-appealing voices heard in talkies. Marguerite gives an ex-
cellent performance. Dorothy is exceedingly lovely, and Gil-
more, as always, a grand villain. A good talkie.

Piccadilly

A real picture! With Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong
pitted against each other, trying to dance their way into Jameson
Thomas' heart. Piccadilly Circus, the night life center of Lon-
don, staging a cabaret scene worthy of Ziegfeld. Limehouse
dawns with murder and love creeping through the foggy dark-
ness. Splendid cast. Splendid direction. An English picture.

Wonder of Women

To what low estate has our Lewis Stone fallen? Stone plays
a concert pianist who loves the ladies. Peggy Woods as the
wife is fine. Leila Hyams, as the charmer, is very prepossessing.
Stone did his best as the mis-cast hero; but because of dumb
dialog and a rambling story and weak action the film is uncon-
vincing for the most part. We want to see Miss Wood again.

The Time, The Place, The Girl

This excellently plotted talkie, from an old musical comedy,
will make a hit with men and girls alike. Grant Withers, a
football hero, gets mixed up in a bogus bond racket. Betty
Compson, a gay lady, mixes him up worse. But Gertrude
Olmstead saves Withers from a convict's striped kimono. James
R. Kirkwood and Bert Roach show up well in comedy.

For October 1929

the

<Mo v i

e s .

Screenland's Revuettes Answer Your Ques-
in Screen Entertainment, Talking or Silent

The Sophomore

Here's a rave, so get ready. "The Sophomore"
is the best college picture you ever saw.
It's a scream, a knockout. Eddie Quillan is
the hero, and Sally O'Neil, the waitress hero-
ine, who gets her heart broken because all of
Eddie's swell fraternity friends walk out on him
when he brings Sally to the frat dance. There's
a big game, where Eddie saves the day, of
course. But the smash of the evening comes
when Eddie plays the heroine in the college
dramatic show. With a pair of dumb-bells to
fill out his chest, with golden ringlets, a princess
dress and a falsetto voice, Quillan knocks the
audience into spasms. Russell Gleason, Spec
O'Donncll, Jeanette Loff and Stanley Smith
gave good characterizations. But Eddie — well,
Eddie is just about perfect!

Melody Lane
Eddie Leonard, for years a beloved vaudevillian, makes his
debut in this dialog picture with songs. Unfortunately, this
seems to combine the bad features of all previous films' dealing
with back-stage life. Josephine Dunn, Huntley Gordon, George
Stone and Jane La Verne all work with Leonard in trying to
put the picture over. Due to trite story material, the result
is not successful.

Thunder

The one exciting spot in this slow-moving railroad melodrama
is the climax, when Lon Chaney, cranky old engineer-hero,
shouts: "Where there are tracks, I can go through," as he
speeds his engine over rods, four feet deep in water, and tri-
umphantly carries supplies to a flood-stricken area. Phyllis Haver
and James Murray furnish the love interest.

Charming Sinners

Can this be "The Constant Wife" that we saw on the stage?
Not exactly! It's a 'movie' adaptation which manages to pre-
serve some of the freshness and charm of the original without
quite clicking. All-talking, with Ruth Chatterton perfectly
charming as the wife, Clive Brook amusing as the neglectful
husband, William Powell as the 'other man' and Mary Nolan
the beautiful 'other woman.'

Jazz Mamas

Color! Roses are red, violets are blue, lobsters are green and
Fords' tint true in this, the first all-color, all-talkie two-reel
comedy, made by Mack Sennett for Educational. There is a
sea gull sequence in full color worthy of feature setting. A
detective agency, shy on crime, steals the pearls — with yodels.
See and hear the new Ford gag. You'll chortle!

SCREENLAND

"What Picture Shall We See Tonight?" Let
tion and Guide You to the Worth- While

The River of Romance

This romantic picture of days on the old
Mississippi River is one of the most satisfying
talkies on Broadway. You may have seen it
some years ago as a silent film but nevertheless
you will want to hear it in its talkie version.
Buddy Rogers is the young southern boy who
doesn't want to fight and leaves home with the
stigma of cowardice attached to him. Mary
Brian is his sweetheart, and I want to say, right
here, that seldom have I seen love scenes of
such beauty and tenderness as these two enact.
Mary is lovely — a dream girl — and she really acts.
Wallace Beery has a bag of new tricks. June
Collyer, as the petulant southern beauty, showe
a fine dramatic instinct. Henry B. Walthall.
Fred Kohler and Natalie Kingston all have in-
teresting parts. Don't overlook this one!

Pleasure Crazed

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Piccadilly

A real picture! With Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong
pitted against each other, trying to dance their way into Jameson
Thomas' heart. Piccadilly Circus, the night life center of Lon-
don, staging a cabaret scene worthy of Ziegfeld. Limehousc
dawns with murder and love creeping through the foggy dark-
ness. Splendid cast. Splendid direction. An English picture.

Wonder of Women

The Time, The Place, The Girl

For October 1929

the

Screenland's Revuettes Answer Your Ques-
in Screen Entertainment, Talking or Silent

zJ%C o v i e

s .

The Sophomore

Here's a rave, so get ready. "The Sophomore"
is the best college picture you ever saw.
It's a scream, a knockout. Eddie Quillan is
the hero, and Sally O'Neil, the waitress hero'
ine, who gets her heart broken because all of
Eddie's swell fraternity friends walk out on him
when he brings Sally to the frat dance. There's
a big game, where Eddie saves the day, of
course. But the smash of the evening comes
when Eddie plays the heroine in the college
dramatic show. With a pair of dumb-bells to
fill out his chest, with golden ringlets, a princess
dress and a falsetto voice, Quillan knocks the
audience into spasms. Russell Gleason, Spec
O'Donnell, Jeanette Loff and Stanley Smith
gave good characterizations. But Eddie — well,
Eddie is just about perfect!

Melody Lane
Eddie Leonard, for years a beloved vaudevillian, makes his
debut in this dialog picture with songs. Unfortunately, this
seems to combine the bad features of all previous films' dealing
with back'Stage life. Josephine Dunn, Huntley Gordon, George
Stone and Jane La Verne all work with Leonard in trying to
put the picture over. Due to trite story material, the result
is not successful.

Thunder

C harming Sinners
Can this be "The Constant Wife" that we saw on the stage?
Not exactly! It's a 'movie' adaptation which manages to pre-
serve some of the freshness and charm of the original without
quite clicking. All-talking, with Ruth Chatterton perfectly
charming as the wife, Clive Brook amusing as the neglectful
husband, William Powell as the 'other man' and Mary Nolan
the beautiful 'other woman.'

Jazz Mamas
Color! Roses are red, violets are blue, lobsters are green and
Fords' tint true in this, the first all-color, all-talkie two-reel
comedy, made by Mack Sennett for Educational. There is a
sea gull sequence in full color worthy of feature setting. A
detective agency, shy on crime, steals the pearls — with yodels.
See and hear the new Ford gag. You'll chortle!

80 SCREENLAND

zArc Ton BLONDE

Norma Shearer is a lovely representative
of the medium type of feminine charm.
Each type has its own complexion problems.

hen I planned this beauty talk I meant to
be original and not even mention a best-seller
that appeared a few years ago, the title of
which stated conclusively that gentlemen pre.
ferred blondes. And my intentions still hold good except
that I must say I never could quite make out whether the
author of this book — herself a particularly fascinating
type of brunette — really believed this statement or
whether she just wanted to start something. If it was
the latter, she succeeded. But when the storms of pro-
tests, arguments and flat disagreements had subsided not
a thing had been proven. Some did, and some didn't.
Prefer blondes, I mean.

How are we to know, anyway, which we prefer? And
what difference does it make? Consider the screen hero-
ines. Do we pick our favorite because she is a golden
blonde or a ravishing brunette? Not at all. We are far
more likely to pick her for some trifling, almost intangible
thing — the set of her head, or the glance from her eyes,
or some gesture of her hands — something that creates
the illusion of charm yet has nothing to do with com-
plexions.

And what about the famous beauties of old — the
lovely ladies who broke up families — royal ones at that,

Anne V^an Alstyne

who wrecked empires or created them? Who knows
whether they were blonde, brunette or in-between?
What about Helen of Troy? Some hundreds of years
after Paris absconded with Helen, or was it the other
way 'round? — a poet inquired "Was this the face that
launched a thousand ships?" Yet with all the talk
about Helen, no one mentioned definitely whether she
was light or dark. True, it is rumored that she was
pink and white with yellow hair, blue eyes and curly,
golden lashes. And I have heard it said that she was
a strawberry blonde with brooding green eyes and
raging red hair. Personally, I believe this is more likely
to be true, for this type is nearly always clever, and we
must admit that Helen was that. Yet she may have
been the direct opposite, with blue-black hair, an ivory
skin and turned-up nose. But why conjecture, and as
I said before, what difference does it make?

The thing is, in this day and age, to know your skin

Nancy Carroll has the delicate white skin
characteristic of the red-haired type. A
complexion like Nancy's is born, not made
— but it must be carefully cared for.

For October 19 29

or BRU

Screen land's Beauty Author-
ity Solves Some Problems
of Complexion Care

and make the most of it — no matter what its color. Time
was, when a blonde was a blonde, and if she didn't re-
main one, it was not her fault. She rode or walked,
well-veiled from the sun. If she strolled about the park
or sat on the beach she carried a parasol. To have been
born with a blonde skin was an accident, but to keep
it was a career.

The modern girl prefers a career of a different sort.
She drives her own car, she rides, swims, plays golf and
tennis in summer; she skates, skiis and takes long tramps
in winter. She protects the texture of her skin with
creams and lotions, but she doesn't sacrifice her good
times or health or her comfort to her complexion.

Blondes are becoming rarer all the time, and no won-
der. It's a tremendous responsibility, and there's no
guarantee on lOnce a blonde, a blonde forever.' None
at all. You may be a blonde today, but unless you watch
your shampoo and stay in out of the sun, nobody knows

One of the most beautiful girls in or out
of motion pictures is Vilma Banky. This
star's skin is satin-smooth ; but, like that of
ordinary mortals, requires protective care.

NETTE?

The striking brunette may achieve smartness
by wearing her hair sleek and straight.
Dolores Del Rio is an outstanding example.

what you will be tomorrow.

There is a fundamental difference in light and dark
skins and they need quite different treatment. The dark-
eyed, dark-haired girl suggests warmth and sunshine. Her
hair is all the more lustrous for exposure to the sun's
rays, and her complexion richer. She can expose her
skin, if it's well protected, to extreme heat or extreme
cold and show no ill effects. The girl with the thin, fair
skin is infinitely at a disadvantage, if she seeks to retain
that fairness. She cannot afford to expose herself to the
full sunlight which fades yellow hair, inflames white skin
or covers it with freckles. In winter, wind burns her
skin and cold roughens it. Even though she is willing
to relinquish her extreme fairness, she must be especially
careful of her skin because, owing to its naturally fine
texture, it may become permanently damaged.

I don't mean that the girl with a fair skin must forego
all outdoor activities or spend hours every day coddling
her complexion. But I do mean that she must give her
skin protective care, no matter what the season; and she
must not relax her vigilance even for a day.

Before going out in the open, and upon coming in
from a day at the beach or tennis court, and equally in
crisper weather, use a good (Continued on page 98)

SC11EENLAND

FAMOUS

Above: Phyllis Haver and Marie
Prevost have been fast friends
since their Sennett days.

'Hectic Hollywood' Proves
Be Just as Loyal and Last-

Ernest Torrence and Jack Holt are
particular pals. Both gentlemen, both
tennis enthusiasts, both good actors.

Below: their screen rivalry doesn't
interfere with their friendship. Anita
Page and Joan Crawford fight for first
place in "Our Modern Maidens" but
off-screen they make up!

Left: Johnny Mack Brown, the boy from Ala-
bama, and Charlie Farrell, the kid from Massa-
chusetts, met in Hollywood and discovered
mutual interests. Johnny is a favorite leading
man for M-G-M while Charlie works for
Mr. Fox.

For October J 929

and FRIENDLY!

that Film Friendships Can
ing as Main Street's!

Right: Joel McCrea, a newcomer to
films, and Charles Bickford, a recruit
from the Broadway stage, met on the
Metro lot at Culver City. Now they
are screen rivals and real friends.

Below: Dorothy Mackaill and Aileen
Pringle. The blonde Miss Mackaill
and the statuesque Miss Pringle are
keen companions, each enjoying the
other's lively wit and wisdom.

Right: May McAvoy and Lois Wilson. Lois
is May's most admiring fan, while May thinks
Lois the most talented screen actress. Inci-
dentally, Lois takes some of the credit for
May's romance with Maurice Cleary. She
played the part of Cupid!

HOT

Laura La Plante gets her beach tan from the pow-
erful lights on the set at the studio, because
she was too busy working to take a vacation.

Cupid has been beside himself in Hollywood! The
summer weddings were followed by a flock of
engagements. Clara Bow got herself engaged and
this time they say it is going to take. Harry
Richman, the wealthy New York night-club man so popular
in the musical comedy field, is just handsome and jolly and
bossy enough to make Clara think that he is the answer to
every maiden's prayer, as far as she is concerned. But
you never know with Clara. You never know! In the
meantime the wedding is set for September.
So is Patsy Ruth Miller's to Tay Garnett.
Anita Stewart was married to George Converse. The

SCREEN LAND

from

Studio News!

wedding took place in the patio of the Chateau Elyscc,
the new apartment hotel on Tamarind Street that shelters
so many stars. When they return, Mr. and Mrs. Con-
verse will domicile at the Chateau.

And then there is Harry Langdon. He was married
to Helen Walton, a Toledo, Ohio, girl whom he met in
Hollywood. Harry has been hustling through his pic-
ture at the Hal Roach studios, the second on a long-term
contract, so that he could get away for a brief honey-
moon. The Langdons will motor through Canada.

At a meeting of The Regulars, a club to which many
of the girl stars belong, Marian Nixon announced her
engagement to Edward Hillman, Jr. They will be mar-
ried very quietly just as soon as Marian finishes her
present picture, 'Young Nowhere," in which she plays
the lead opposite Richard Barthelmess. The engaged
couple have tentatively booked passage to Europe for
their honeymoon on the twentieth of August and the
fifth of September, and will take the first sailing the finish
of "Young Nowhere" will permit.

Hi ❖

There is a new and striking personality on the screen:
Charles Bickford. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picked him for
a winner and signed him to a long-term contract before
"Dynamite," his first picture for Cecil De Mille, ever
saw the light of day. But the general opinion out here
seems to be that he is over. Kay Johnson is another
winner. Both are sincere, both know their stuff and both

Harry Langdon and his bride, the former Helen
Walton of Toledo, Ohio. The comedian filed his
intention to wed twenty-four hours after receiving
kis final divorce decree from the former Missus.
Yes — Harry wears cheaters in real life.

For O ctober 1929

Hollywood

Star Gossip!

have that indescribable and lovely thing called charm. We

don't know yet what they are going to do next but whatever

it is, we'll be there! And if it doesn't happen soon we'll

see "Dynamite" a few more times, because it's a swell show.
* * *

During the four hottest days of the year the Coronation
scene in "General Crack," the John Barrymore feature di-
rected by Alan Crosland, was shot. The thermometer regis-
tered ninety-five, believe it or not.

The scene was gorgeous. It was the best costuming job I
have seen out here. About one hundred of the costumes
were particularly beautiful. And the girls! In their pow-
dered wigs and stately gowns, how darling they were, and
how cool they looked — and how wilted they felt! In the old
days of the silent drama it might not have been so bad, but
in these talkie times the doors have to be shut for sound.
And then when the lights and the technicolor lights are on
full blast — well, you can imagine!

Jack Barrymore looked very handsome and very devilish
in his costume and one young lady was perfectly fascinated
by Lowell Sherman's pink garters. They did look neat.

Polly want a cracker? Why should Polly want
a cracker when she is perfectly capable of baking
a good cake? Miss Frederick, demon tragedienne,
really can cook, though you might not believe it
to look at the empty pan she is placing in the oven!

Vilma Banky devotes eight hours a day to per-
fecting her English, under the guidance of Jane
Manner, instructor in dialog. Say "Ah!", Vilma.

The girls' costumes were very low in the neck, while the
men's were buttoned up to the ears. But the moment the
lights went off — off came the men's coats, while the girls had
to endure their velvet gowns! They got one tiny bit of
satisfaction, though. The hoop skirts, if swung back and
forth, made grand fans! One gown worn by Natacha
GiliUen, a Russian girl of noble birth discovered by Elinor
Glyn, was particularly striking. It was cherry velvet with
dull silver lace at the neck and falling gracefully from the
elbows. She was ablase with jewels (paste!) Natacha has
a small, piquant face and a haughty little head, but her eyes
and her smile are friendly.

When a director has as much on his shoulders as Alan
Crosland he is smart if he keeps calm, and Mr. Crosland did.
He had to direct the huge gathering by means of a telephone
microphone and the calmness of his voice had a soothing
effect upon his people whose nerves were pretty ragged.

And Marian Nixon! Those of you who admire her should

have seen her in that pale blue chiffon velvet gown exquisitely

embroidered with seed pearls. A coronet of diamonds rested

on her smartly coifed white wig. She looked like a dresden-

china doll, so tiny and fragile.

* * *

The craze for realism turned some two hundred school-boys
loose on the Paramount lot as actors last week. The picture
was "Sweetie" starring Nancy Carroll, and the locale, a high-
school campus. The only way they could make the thing
look real was to have boys from the Fairfax High put the

SCREENLAND

true college flavor into
enjoyed it, too.

the yells and class songs. They

The ventilators didn't seem to be functioning on the
sound stage Richard Dix was working on the other day.
The other stages were lovely and cool, but Richard's was
terrible. The lights were blazing down on the popular
star's defenceless head and he had a handkerchief tucked
in his neck to protect his collar until they were ready to
take the scene. For some reason the lights had not been
turned off during the wait. "Must you boil 'em?" he

asked. The lights were switched off.

* * *

June Collyer is playing opposite Richard in his last
picture for Paramount before he takes up his new contract
with RKO. We felt very brilliant that afternoon and
asked June how she liked working on the Paramount lot.
Whereupon June beamed and said she adored it.

It's a funny thing, but Buddy Rogers' face lights up

the same way when June's name is mentioned.

* * *

A very picturesque scene was in progress at the Mack
Sennett Studios, a portion of which has been rented by
Tiffany-Stahl, for "Mr. Antonio," featuring Leo Carillo
and Virginia Valli. It is the picturization of the play in
which Otis Skinner starred, and I am sure that you will
find Mr. Carillo just as charming.

The set, though built on a sound stage, represented a
sheltered bit of wood which several Italians had picked
for their camp. They carried along with them a donkey
and a white cockatoo. Virginia Valli, tired and hungry,
stumbles on this camp and is invited to supper by Tony.

We couldn't do much chattering on the set because they
were all working steadily but at lunch hour we went with
Virginia Valli, James Flood, the director, and Leo Carillo
to an attractive little Inn near the studio which is far

This set for "General Crack," the first John Barrymore talk-
ing picture, directed by Alan Crosland, employed over 400
extras and used more lights than ever before on one set. The
picture is being filmed in technicolor.

Norma Talmadge's chic coiffure receives the fin-
ishing touches at the hands of the star's personal
hair-dresser, Nina Roberts, before Norma goes on
the set to make the final scenes for "New York
Nights," her first talkie.

away from Hollywood and all its hustle and bustle. Jimmy
and Leo treat Virginia like a kid sister, tease her unmerci-
fully, and she loves it. "What a relief to work with jolly

people," she told me as we
drove over in her little new
Ford. "Jt makes life so much
happier and easier."

I've heard of artists of one
kind or another being tempera-
mental but I never heard of
not being able to get fried eggs
at any Inn. Mr. Flood wanted
fried eggs, but no matter what
he said or how he said it the
only kind of eggs he could get
at that Inn were deviled eggs.
So deviled eggs he took.

"Now that Anna May
Wong is out of town you
ought to be able to get a job
in pictures," said Jimmy to the
pretty waitress.

"She's not Anna May
Wong. She's Theda Bara,"
said Leo. "Come on over to
the studio this afternoon and
we'll take a test of you." But
the girl ran off giggling and
• embarrassed.

"Zizz-zz-zz-zz-!" went Leo,
looking all over for an imagi-
nary mosquito. "Zizz-zz!" And
whang! his hand came down
on Virginia Valli's forehead.

"Why my forehead?" asked
Virginia ruefully stroking her
frontal extremitv.

For October 1929

Two justly famous California products: sunshine and
Charles Farrell. Charlie takes a sun-bath on the
lawn of his brand-new home at Toluca Lake.

"Because it looks too noble for a mosquito to attack
unmolested!" Leo replied with a bow.
"Idiot," laughed Virginia.

The little waitress reappeared with coffee and pie.

"I think you are mean to tease me," she said blushing.
"If I had a profile like that, I might think of going into
pictures."

Leo scanned Virginia's lovely face disapprovingly.
"If you call that a profile, baby," he said, '"you should
see the cockatoo on our set!"

There is a hill in Hollywood where several famous bach-
elors live and swear to remain unwed upon it. One by one
they have come down until
only a few are left. It was
said that William Powell had
joined the backsliders. We
happened to be at the studio
when the news reached Bill.
"Isn't that interesting," he
said. "I didn't know anything
about it, but it is interesting.
Perhaps more so in contempla-
tion than realisation."

But all jokes aside, Bill is
perfectly satisfied with his hill-
top and while he didn't say so,
I rather imagine he prefers
single blessedness to married
bliss. Not that he has any-
thing against marriage, but he
just figures that there are some
folks better fitted to jog along
in single harness than in a
tandem.

* * *

Richard Dix's advice to girls
about how to get your man.
In pictures, of course. Rule
one: don't let the man know
you are in love with him.
Rule two: keep yourself
scarce. Rule three: make him
jealous.

And, girls, Richard's a
bachelor!

Why is it that winter scenes are always taken in
summer and summer scenes in winter? On some of
the hottest summer days the Harry Langdon com-
pany was doing Alaskan scenes on Hal Roach's back
lot. Furs? Sure, and everything. Thelma Todd
moved about in a bear-skin coat that did more to
preserve her girlish figure than two eighteen-day diets
would.

The picture over, she is leaving for a visit to Boston
and parts east. "Why don't you do something hand-
some for the old home town while you're there?"
chaffed a friend, "like rebuilding the school-house or
whatever noble thing Henry Ford did for his town."

"Well, I'm really going back to lift the mortgages
off the old homestead!" said Thelma with serious eyes.

Some comedy sets are painfully serious but on the
Langdon set, Harry, Thelma Todd and Bobby Dunn
are always wise-cracking.

The day before we were there Thelma had to eat
a whole can of sardines.

"How terrible!" we exclaimed.
But Thelma didn't feel at all sorry for herself.
"Now you know you like sardines," she said. "What's
terrible about that?"

"They are terrible in the morning, and terrible any time
unless drenched with lemon. You couldn't very well have
lemon on them because lemons don't grow in the ice."

"Oh, well," said Thelma briskly, "I just squeezed
Bobby."

Harry Langdon, of course, falls in the hole in the ice.
And when he emerges he is hugging a good-sized fish to
his heart. Scrambling up on the ice bank he puts the fish
across his knee and spanks it. Then taking it in his hands
in his inimitable way he says, "You little dickens you!"
Could anyone but Harry get away with a thing like that

Billy Haines blocked traffic when he and his company, under
Harry Beaumont's direction, went to Indianapolis to film street
and racing scenes for "Speedway." The Hoosier capital turned
out to watch the movie makers at work.

SCREENLAND

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Page, honeytnooners. Paul
and his bride, Ethel A His, met six years ago
when both appeared in vaudeville.

and almost make you believe it? The fish squawks in pro-
test when he spanks it, too — it's a talkie!

Fredric March, who plays the husband in "Paris Bound,"
directed by E. H. Griffith, said the only time he ever really
suffered terribly from stage fright was one night during
the run of "The Royal Family11 in Los Angeles. The old
door-man came to Fred's dressing room and said, "You'd
better be good tonight, lad. He's out front!" He being
Jack Barrymore. Everyone knows that the play is sup-
posed to have been inspired by the goings on of the
Barrymore family and that Ethel had been furious over it.
Fred played the brother who was John Barrymore.

"What I suffered that night! But, mercifully, after the
second act Jack came around chuckling and told me the
whole thing was very
amusing."

* * *

There is a certain
little spot on Foun-
tain Avenue in Holly-
wood where you will
see a sign, Tittle
Tooting.'

A few English ac-
tors and artists have
gradually settled
there, the first among
them being, I believe,
Lionel Belmore. Then
Eric Snowdon, who is
not in pictures, but
has made several out-
standing hits recently
on the local stage and
brings with him a
rich experience as ac-
tor and stage manager
for Sir Herbert Beer-

bohm Tree. Next to Eric lives Alfred Tennyson, twin
brother of Laurence and descendant of England's Poet
Laureate, and Eric Stacey. Both boys are in pictures.

They have a sort of community table, all being bach-
elors. Breakfast is in one house, luncheon in another, tea
in another and dinner in another. It just depends upon
who is at home and has the time to fuss. Lionel Belmore
has been working so hard and so late at night that the
mess hall has seen but little of him. He is now in "The
Love Parade" with Chevalier.

We happened by the other night after the theater, and
seeing the lights, waved hello. "Come on in and bring
the crowd. We're making goulash," called Eric. Sure
enough he had on the red fez that always means with
Eric that there are Things On The Stove, and Lionel had
on the dressing gown and stocking cap that mean the
same thing.

There are visitors to Little Tooting, sort of honorary
non-resident members, so to speak. The most faithful of

these arc Joseph
Schildkraut and Law-
ford Davidson, but

Paul Whiteman takes his cue! The theme song
craze is on and he promises to give us plenty
in "The King of Jazz."

Florenz Ziegjeld and Samuel Goldwyn are to bring the
Ziegjeld 'Follies' to the films. They have formed a com-
pany to produce all-talking, all-color pictures.

becoming one of the
old reliables.

As everyone knows,
Lon Chaney has been
fighting the talkies.
Lon's reticence and
dislike of exploiting
or even revealing his
real personality on
the screen extends
even to his voice. He
thinks illusion is the
charm of drama and
he doesn't want real-
ity to stalk too near.
This only applies to
himself however. He
wants the story to be
true to life and log-
ical. But when he is

For October 1929

acting he is not Lon Chaney, he is somebody else; and he
doesn't want Lon Chaney intruding.

Now he has consented to appear in the talkies if a story
can be found that will give him an opportunity to use
several different voices so that his own will be lost in the
shuffle. And that, between you and me, is why he stepped
out of the "The Bugle Song" and is going to take a much
needed vacation while the studio hunts for a suitable story
for him.

Lon suggested that he play a deaf mute in a talking
picture, but someone else thought a ventriloquist would
be better. So we'll see.

^ ifc ^

Seems to be a lot of information concerning bachelors
in this department this month, but speaking of them and
that hilltop, the one who lives on the very brow of it is

Joan Bennett with Barbara Ann and Beverly
Ann Bus tetter, twins, who worked in the
'bawlie' scenes of "Three Live Ghosts."

in danger of toppling. Meaning Ronald
nothing serious of course, but just the
thinks Joan Bennett
is a nice kid. Not his
words at all — ours.
His are: "Well, how
is the divine lady to-
day?" And he takes
Joan lots of places.

Wesley Ruggles,
who will direct Ron-
ald Colman in "Con-
demned to Devil's
Island," gave a house
warming at his
Malibu Beach home.
It is the most charm-
ing duplex with a
back yard full of
flowers, and a lawn
and a front yard full
of sand and the
ocean!

"Look at Clara,"
said Lila Lee. Sure

Colman. Oh,
same Ronnie

A I Jolson,
of "Say It

Ludwig Berger greets Dennis King, who is in
Hollywood to play his original role in the
talkie version of "The Vagabond King," under
Berger's direction.

enough, there was Clara Bow sitting in her front yard
which adjoins Wesley's wiping the sand from her little
brown toes. She had on a scarlet bathing suit and her
flaming hair catching the rays of the sun made her look
like a little red candle. Clara had come to her beach house
for a rest, so no one did more than wave to her over
the fence.

John Boles and Kathryn Crawford sang a duet. Every-
one knows John can sing, but Kathryn's beautiful voice
was a surprise to some of us. We asked Bebe Daniels to
show off her lately acquired vocal training but the "Rio
Rita" company worked that night and John and Bebe,
who came with Ben Lyon, trouped off early.

Viola Dana doesn't look a day older than when I last
saw her ten seasons ago. She is as brown as a coffee
berry and wears her hair in a long bob which curls in

luxuriant waves about
her vivid face and
neck.

For no particular
reason, except that
they did go places
together for awhile,
when one see Viola
Dana one thinks of
Rex Lease. Rex and
Bob Gilbert, a song
writer, have taken a
place in Laurel Can-
yon and the other
night they warmed
the place with a

weenie roast.

* * *

Rudy Vallee, sing-
ing idol of the stage,
radio and night club,
is making a tabloid
musical comedy.

Davy Lee and Lloyd Bacon between scenes
With Songs." This same trio gave us "The
Singing Fool."

SCREENLAND

ASK
M E!

An Answer Depart-
ment of Informa-
tion about Screen
Plays and Players

By Miss Vee Dee

Miss Vee Dee will be glad to answer any
questions you may care to ask about pic-
tures and picture people. If you wish an
answer in the Magazine, please be patient
and await your turn; but if you prefer a
personal reply by mail, please enclose a
stamped addressed envelope. Address:
Miss Vee Dee, Screenland Magazine,
49 West 45th Street, New York City.

' ii Ha ii 1 1 lite >i»iitfir>»'

Miss Vee Dee's readers collect autographed photographs of
Edmund Lowe, and Eddie collects prize-winning wire-haired
terriers! Here is the star with Champ, officially known as
Champion of Knotts, Jr., and Snoop, otherwise Rover of
Sidlaw, and the cups they have won.

"illiam Haines Fan, Pittsburgh,
Pa. What do I do besides
answer questions? I knew that
was coming to me — well, in
my spare moments, when the pile of fan
letters dwindle down to a mere bagatelle,
if you know what I mean and I hope you
do, I exchange wisecracks with the office
cat. Billy Haines played opposite Norma
Shearer in "Tower of Lies." He also
played with Eleanor Boardman in "Memory
Lane" and with Bessie Love in "Lovey
Mary." Bebe Daniels' films for 1927 were
"A Kiss in a Taxi," "Senorita," "Swim,
Girl, Swim," and "She's a Sheik."

Wilhemtna K. from "Manville, J.
So you've been watching me very closely,
have you? That's all right, I don't mind;
I can stand close inspection. You can
write to Norma Shearer at Metro-Goldwyn'
Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal. Lois
Moran and Mary Astor at Fox Studios,
1401 No. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is appearing in "Our
Modern Maidens" with Joan Crawford, a
M-G-M production. Priscilla Dean is the
wife of Leslie P. Arnold, a round-the-world
aviator.

Mary G. of Indianapolis. You think
you met me some place, do you? I wouldn't
be surprised; I've been places. Nelson Keys
was Lord Montgomery in "Tiptoes" with
Dorothy Gish and Will Rogers. Bob Cus-
ter was born October 18, 1900, at Frank-
ford, Ky. He is 6 feet tall, weighs 170
pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes.
His wife is Anne Elizabeth Cudahy. One
of his latest films, "Galloping Thunder,"
was with Ann Sheridan.

G. H., Marietta, Ohio. You want your
'star measurements' right down to the
ground, don't you? Can't the girls be
weighed and measured in their — er — chi-
ffon-ery? Oh, have a heart! Molly O'Day
is 5 feet 2% inches tall. Dolores Costello
is 5 feet 4 inches, Marceline Day is 5
feet 3 inches, Sally Blane is 5 feet 4%
inches and Edna Marion is 5 feet 1 inch
tall.

Ruth from Old Virginia. You couldn't
wear your welcome out on my door mat,
so drop in any time, there's always a place
to park your personality. Clifford Holland
played opposite Olive Borden in "The Secret
Studio" and Ben Bard was the naughty
artist. The present Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks,
Sr. (Mary Pickford) is not Doug. Jr.'s
mother. His mother is Mrs. Beth Sully
Evans, first wife of Douglas, Sr. Have I
made that clear? Lawrence Gray is 30
years old. He has blue-green eyes, brown
hair, is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs
180 pounds. Larry is not married.

Five Girls from Cleveland. That's my
notion of a big splash. As long as you
confine your questions to a mere one hun-
dred, you're the spoon in my coffee. Mary
Astor has auburn hair and dark brown
eyes. Billie Dove has dark brown hair
and eyes. Norma Shearer has brown hair and
blue eyes. You can reach Lloyd Hughes
at 616 Taft Bldg., Hollywood, Cal. Rich-
ard Dix and Gary Cooper at Paramount
Studios, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood,
Cal. Barbara Kent at Universal Studios,
Universal City, Cal.

H. B. H. of Corfu, 7J_. T. Your praise

of my department cheers me wonderfully
and I always pay strict attention to cheers.
Now give the little lady another big hand
(my other two are busy) and plenty of
huzzas! Don't run out of huzzas. Your
favorite, Robert Fraser, was born in Wor-
cester, Mass. He is 5 feet 11% inches tall,
weighs 168 pounds and has brown eyes and
black hair. His wife is Mildred Bright, a
professional. One of his latest films, "The
City of Purple Dreams," was made with
Barbara Bedford in the cast.

Bubbles from Boston. Are you one of
those Venus de Milo girls — "Hands off!" —
you know? No, I'm never mistaken when
I give the world my famous chatter — but
sometimes misprints occur as in the case
of Gardner James in the January issue.
Allow me to change Gardner's figure. He
is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 139
pounds. Home, James!

A J^ovarro Fan from Toronto. Am I a
Mrs. or a Mr.? I'm just a plain Miss. I
always figure that having no luck at all
is better than having bad luck, so why
change it? Ramon Novarro was born in
Durango, Mexico, on February 6, 1900.
He has black hair, brown eyes, is 5 feet 8
inches tall and weighs 155 pounds. He is
very musical — sings, plays, dances well —
and what in Hollywood doesn't he do well?
Gary Cooper was born May 6, 1901, in
Helena, Mont. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall,
weighs 180 pounds and has brown hair
and blue eyes, two rows of swell teeth and
a cleft in his chin. Take your bow, Gary.

Florence R. of Johnstown, Pa. You
have my permission to write as often as

For October 1929

you like — I'll reply as quickly as possible
but the waiting list grows longer and time
grows shorter as I grow older. Just grow-
ing pains — don't try to stop me! "China
Bound" was the working title for "Across
to Singapore" with Ramon Novarro and
Joan Crawford.

M. A. from Foxboro, Mass. Yoo-ho,
Maggie, come on over! Of course you can
take a chance on my column or a whack
at it — one good whack deserves another.
Nancy Carroll has auburn hair and blue
eyes. She was born in New York City,
November 19, 1906. Josephine Dunn is
5 feet 3% inches tall and has golden hair
and blue eyes. Miss Dunn is a nice, sweet
girl even if they do make her such an
'old meanie' in so many pictures. Ramon
Novarro is not married to Elsie Janis.
Ramon and Elsie are both enjoying the
single life.

Jerry of Oregon. Aren't you the thrifty
soul to get all this information for two
pennies, and then hope you'll get your
money's worth? To show you I'm not
muscle bound, get under the wire. Robert
Agnew was born in Dayton, Ky., in 1899.
He has brown hair, blue eyes, is 5 feet 8%
inches tall and weighs 145 pounds. You
can reach Clara Bow at Paramount Studios,
5451 Marathon St., Hollywood, Cal.

Mary C. of Washington, D. C. You
sincerely hope my information will be satis-
factory. It's going to be too bad if it
isn't. Camilla Horn has made two pictures
with John Barrymore at United Artists
Studios, 1041 No. Formosa Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal. "Tempest" and the last release
was "Eternal Love." Camilla was born
April 25, 1908, at Frankfort-on-Main, Ger-
many. She weighs 120 pounds, is 5 feet
5 inches tall and has blonde hair and
hazel eyes. John Gilbert is married to

George Lewis, star of "The Collegians,"
is one of the most popular stars with our
readers this month. Here's George with
his prize pups.

Ina Claire, stage actress, now in talkies.
David Lee has made several films since
"The Singing Fool" with Al Jolson. He
plays in "Frozen River," "She Knew Men,"
and "Sonny Boy." In his first starring
film, "Sonny Boy," he is supported by Betty
Bronson and Edward Everett Horton.

A. M. A., Fort Bayard, 'H.ew Mexico.
You'll see more of Mae Murray in her
next film, "Peacock Alley" to be produced
by Tiffany-Stahl, 4516 Sunset Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal. Yes, the same story she did
before, but this time a talkie-singie-dancie.
Mae has been on the stage for some time
but has decided to give the film fans a
chance to unload a lot of enthusiasm in her
behalf. She was born May 10, 1893. She
is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 110
pounds. In "Sackcloth and Scarlet," re-
leased in 1925, Orville Caldwell played op-
posite Alice Terry and Dorothy Sebastian
was the wayward sister.

Stanley S. of Freewater, Oregon. The
girls in pictures do not always have the
same leading man except in the cases of
co-starring teams. Clara Bow, Alice White,
Colleen Moore and many others -shift thei--
film affections like nobody's business. Neil
Hamilton plays opposite Colleen in "Why
Be Good?" Richard Arlen plays with Clara
Bow in her latest release, "Dangerous
Curves." Jack Mulhall is Alice White's
best man in "Naughty Baby." Marian
Nixon was born October 20, 1904. Lupe
Velez was born July 18, 1904. Her real
name is Marie Villalabos and her birthplace,
San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Marion Davies
was born January 3, 1900.

The Village Queen, Fort Worth, Tex.
You have no idea how I love to meet a
queen to say nothing of a duchess or two.
Sue Carol is 5 feet 3 inches tall.. Clara
Bow is 5 feet 3% inches, Anita Page is
5 feet 2 inches and Olive Borden is 5
feet 2 inches tall. Sorry I can't tell you
the number of shoes they wear but I'll
bet it would agitate my bank roll.

An English Fan, Gateshead, England.
Your delightful letter deserves a place in
my department but space forbids; but write
as interesting a letter to the 'Confession of
the Fans' Department and give the Amer-
ican fans a treat. Your fellow countryman,
John Loder, plays with Ruth Chatterton in
"The Doctor's Secret." George O'Brien is
28 years old and has dark brown hair and
eyes, is 6 feet % inch tall and weighs 185
pounds. He is an all-round athlete, ex-
celling in boxing, swimming, football,
basketball and volleyball. His latest re-
lease is "Noah's Ark." with Dolores Cos-
tello.

De Orville E. of Mexia, Tex. Of course
you'll see your answer in Screenland and
why not? Wipe off the old binoculars and
take a look. Bob Steele is about 23 years
old. He is 6 feet tall and has blue eyes
and brown hair. Bob's latest picture is
"The Amazing Vagabond," made at the
FBO Studios, 780 Gower St., Hollywood,
Cal. FBO will hereafter be known as
RKO — which means, Radio-Keith-Orpheum.
Fred Thompson died December 25, 1928.
His last picture was "Kit Carson."

Birdie, University of 'Washington. Do I
ever get letters from the west and why
don't I answer them? Where in Seattle
have you been that you fail to read my
gems from a heart of gold? Colleen Moore
will be happy to know how popular she is
in your university. To win a popularity
contest by a majority of one thousand votes

Colleen really doesn't have to go gunning
for new fans. She wins them easily through
the Moore movies. Especially now that
she talks and sings.

■ — hurrah for Colleen! Her latest film
"Fools and Footlights, an all-talkie. Gary
Cooper is 28 years old.

Mimi from T^ew Yor\ City. I have a
nose for news but I've never yet kidnapped
any stars' kiddies to get a picture for my
department, not even to please you.
Leatrice Joy has a darling little girl but
she is known only in the private life of
Leatrice and her close friends. Don't feel
hurt about it; we celebrities must have
our private lives. Since completing "The
Bellamy Trial" Miss Joy has been on the
vaudeville stage. She played with Victor
McLaglen in "Strong Boy" but we don't
see enough of Leatrice, that's a fact. How-
ever, now that First National has signed
her for speakies, wait, look, and listen.

Conde from San ]uan, Porto Rico. After
you read this blurb you'll admit I've passed
my detective correspondence course. Gloria
Swanson's father was a captain in the U.
S. Army. Gloria was born in Chicago, 111.
March 27, 1897. She was educated in
schools in Chicago, Key West, and Porto
Rico, and also attended the Art Institute
in the Windy City. She married Marquise
de la Falaise de Coudray on Jan. 28, 1925.

Canadian Double from Hamilton. Whose
little double are you? It's as easy for a
camel to get through the eye of a needle
as for a double to get through the movie
gate — even the singles have a dickens of
a time. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick-
ford were married March 28, 1920. Jack
Duffy, the Christie cut-up, is 46 years old
and can give some of the younger boys
a run for the big time.

Caroline M. of Atlanta, Ga. Follow my
advice about writing sincere letters to the
stars and get results — and see the thanks
roll into my department. No, I did not
say bank roll. Raquel Torres was born
November 11, 1908, in Mexico. She is
5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 110 pounds and
has black hair and brown eyes. Her real

SCREENLAND

The 'mike' is registering every tap of Charlie Chase's
dancing feet, and you'll see, and hear, the results in
Charlie's next Hal Roach comedy.

name is Guillermina von Ostermann. Her
first screen appearance was with Monte
Blue in "White Shadows in the South
Seas." Her latest film at this writing is
"The Bridge of San Luis Rey."

Babe of 'Vancouver, B. C. Do I think
John Gilbert and Greta Garbo are good
screen lovers? Good? Oh, Mammy! You
can write to Greta at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios, Culver City, Cal. She was born
in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1906. As for a
personal letter from her, that would be
too much to hope for, but then you never
can tell. Her latest film is "The Single
Standard," in which her leading man is
Nils Asther, the handsome young Swedish
heart and home-wrecker — on the screen.

A Myrna Loy Fan, Ton\ers, H. Y.
Come on with your questions — I'm crazy
for 'em. Myrna Williams, as Miss Loy is
known in her home town of Helena, Mon-
tana, has titian hair, green eyes and is 5
feet 6 inches tall. You will see her in
"The Squall" with Alice Joyce, Loretta
Young and Carroll Nye. You can address
Myrna at Warner Brothers Studios, Holly-
wood, Cal.

Brown Eyes from ~Woonsoc\et, R. I. No,
I never get tired of answering questions.
If I'd get tired, I'd get fired, and I must

live — you don't mind do you? Gary
Cooper's real name is Frank J. Cooper.
Buddy Rogers' is Charles Rogers. Buddy
has black hair and brown eyes, is 6 feet
tall and is 24 years old. You will see
Rod La Rocque in "The Man and the
Moment" with Billie Dove; and in "Our
Modern Maidens" with Joan Crawford and
Anita Page.

A ~H.ormd Talmadge Fan, Portsmouth, Va.
What is home without a movie fan? I
don't know, I never had a home without
one. Norma Talmadge was born May 26,
1897 at Niagara Falls, N. Y. She has
brown hair and eyes, is 5 feet 4 inches tall
and weighs 108 pounds. She is the wife
of Joseph M. Schenck, of United Artists
Corporation. Constance Talmadge was
born April 19, 1900, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
She is 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 118
pounds and has blonde hair and brown
eyes. She is married to Townsend Netcher.
Patsy Ruth Miller was born in St. Louis,
Mo. She has reddish brown hair and
brown eyes. Anita Page was born August
4, 1910.

"Marion S. of Sas\atoon, Sas\. You
think I'm funny, do you? I take no credit
for that, you fans made me what I am
today, and I'm glad you're satisfied. My
public (ahem! business of making loud

noise in the throat) seem to be very suc-
cessful in obtaining photos of the stars, so
why not you? You can reach Renee Adoree,
Conrad Nagel and Nils Asther at Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Cal.
Donald Reed is with First National Studios,
Burbank, Cal.

Mary Lou. of Mullins, S. C. You want
to be one exception to get a real-honest-
to-goodness letter from Buddy Rogers. Now
what am I supposed to do? Thousands of
other girls would like to embrace that op-
portunity. Hey. Buddy! As you asked so
prettily, I'll see what can be done about
it. but don't hold it against me if he doesn't
fall for you. You can reach Buddy at
Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathon St.,
Hollywood, Cal.

Mrs. W. H. H. of Hew Orleans. La.
Have I a picture of Ronald Colman hang-
ing around anywhere? You would appre-
ciate it if I had. So would I. But I'm
always glad to talk about that man — the
nice things I can say would fill my page.
Touch your hat, Ronny; I'm not kidding.
He has dark brown hair and eyes, is 5 feet
11 inches tall, weighs 165 pounds and was
born February 9, 1891 in Richmond,
Surrey, England. His first screen appear-
ance was with Lillian Gish in "The White
Sister" in 1923. Since then his notable
films have been, "Beau Geste," "Dark
Angel," "Stella Dallas," "The Magic
Flame," "The Night of Love," "The Res-
cue," "Two Lovers," and his latest, "Bull-
dog Drummond."

T^ellie from Gapland, Md. Imagine my
surprise to open a letter with just one
question. I'm overcome, and all other choice
words of emotion. Rex Bell's real name
is George Beldam. He was born October
16, 1905, in Chicago, 111. He is 6 feet
tall, weighs 170 pounds and has light brown
hair and blue eyes. He did not get in
pictures through a stage background but
just rode in. Lucky boy. Rex plays with
Caryl Lincoln in "Wild West Romance,"
produced by Fox Studios. 1401 No. West-
ern Ave., Hollywood, Cal.

Blondy and Brunette from Chicago.
You'd like to take a look at me — well,
that's better than a shot at me. Sue Carol
was born in Chicago. October 30, 1908.
Her real name is Evelyn Lederer. Her
next film is "The Exalted Flapper." You
can address her at Fox Studios, 1401 No.
Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal. "Hot
News" with Bebe Daniels and Neil Hamil-
ton was released in September, 1928. Neil
plays with Olga Baclanova and Give Brook
in "The Dangerous Woman." "The Cop"
with William Boyd, Alan Hale and Jacque-
line Logan was released in July, 1928.
Lillian Gish was born October 14, 1896,
in Springfield, Ohio. She uses her own
name in pictures. Joan Crawford's real
name is Lucille La Seuer. Joan was born
in San Antonio, Texas, March 23, 1906.
She was married to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
on June 3, 1929.

Spanish Olive from West Broo\, Me.
How could I refuse an olive? Not unless
I'm unconscious. Edward Nugent's first
picture was "Our Dancing Daughters,"
since then he has appeared in "The Bell-
amy Trial," "The Flying Fleet," "A Single
Man," and "Our Modern Maidens." Eddie
was born February 7, 1904, in New York
City. He is 6 feet % inch tall, weighs
150 pounds and has black hair and brown
eyes. Eddie will bear watching. Your
other questions are answered elsewhere in
this department.

For October 1929

Broadway has burst
Manhattan's bounda-
ries. The. world's most
famous thoroughfare is
3,000 miles long now . . .
No longer must you
travel to New York
to see the greatest
stage attractions. Just—

$tep around
the comer**

• • and ym&re
on Broadway!

HERE ARE SOME OF THE
SIGHTS OF BROADWAY THAT
VITAPHONE HAS BROUGHT
"JUST AROUND THE CORNER — "

At JOI 50> — tr.atr.
c.a.dl.D, Im h

lai hi

"9>* ll Wu!> **••>■•.

•'ON WITH Til K SHOW

"THE

tt»d-hnilln| Rntl-
^'■^lUl'l, i'oki^C

"Vitaphone" is the
registered trade*
mark of the Vita-
phuneCorporaliun

a *\ *\ Once Broadway brought
millions to New York . . . Now
Vitaphone is bringing Broadway
bodily to millions throughout the land.

jm. A a Thousands of theatres show-
ing Vitaphone pictures form this new and
greater entertainment highway — run-
ning through hundreds of cities — "carry-
ing the thrill of this magic main street
from Times Square to the Golden Gate.

A a. A. For Vitaphone brings you
the living voices of headline stars who
were once Broadway's exclusive prop-
erty. And now COLOR, coupled with.
Vitaphone, breaks the last barrier be-
tween you and Broadway at its best.

jm, A 4fe With the introduction of
FULL NATURAL COLOR, by the amazing
Technicolor process, Warner Bros, and First
National Vitaphone productions will give you

everything the stage can offer— its cyclonic
dancing choruses, the flaming color of its
glorified revues, its fabulous beauty ensem>
bits in all their glory of costumes and settings.

•4fe a. j*. Come downtown tonight — to
the Vitaphone theatre nearest you. Get aU
the thrills of a night on Broadway — at mo-
lion picture prices'. . . Make "going to a
Broadway show" an every. week event ...

*\ ^fc. A. Look forward to a score of
c-ele6rated musical comedy hits which
Warner Bros, and First National will film
this season exactly as they appeared behind
the footlights of famous New York theatres.

A, A. A Only one thing to make
sure of: — The sign outside must say "VITA-
PHONE"! For Vitaphone is the first and
foremost of all talking screen devices. It is
your guarantee of perfect tone, perfect
reproduction — perfect entertainment t

VITAPHO N E

LOOK FOR THIS" NAME WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR TALKING 'WARNER BROS, and^^^"

PICTURE ENTERTAINMENT. YOU'LL FIND IT ONLY ON p| NATIONAL PICTURES

SCREENLAND

Romance Runs Riot at Hollywood Parties

private drawing room, we found still other
guests.

Anita Stewart and her prospective hus-
band, George Converse, were there, and
when we asked the radiant Anita when she
was going to be married, she laughingly
explained not until she had discovered the
lucky day by numeralization, so that she
could be sure her marriage would turn out
happily.

"I was married the first time on a rainy
May Day, and maybe that's why it didn"t
turn out happily," she explained.

Anita told us that her sister, Lucille Lee
Stewart, whose aviator-husband was killed
in an accident, you
remember, is going
to live with her.

"She is very sad,
these days," Anita
told us.

Joan Bennett was
there, and had
brought her baby!
She looks little
more than a baby
herself. Joan was
married to a man
named Fox, but is
divorced, you know.
She always takes
the baby about with
her when she possi'
bly can.

Speaking ot ba-
bies reminded Car-
melita that she had
just heard of the
birth of Johnny
Mack Brown's baby.
He is very happy
over the fact that
the youngster is a
girl. His wife is
a lovely Southern
girl.

Mary Duncan
was there looking

cool and charming in a green organdie.

"I don't see," confided Patsy, "how
anybody is going to play tennis. Every-
body is all dolled up."

Pat Kearney, the playwright, was there
with his charming wife, and Julanne John-
ston, Colleen Moore, Lila Lee, Hedda Hop-
per, Ilka Chase, Corinne Ross, Lois Wil-
son, Flobelle Fairbanks, Lily Damita, June
Harding, Seena Owen, Virginia Valli,
Blanche Sweet, Irene and Edith Mayer,
Avonne Taylor, Sheila Geraghty, Paul
Bern, Harold Lloyd and Mildred, Tom Ger-
aghty, Pat Dowling and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Glazer, Arthur Hornblow,
John McCormick, Edmund Goulding, John
Farrow, Maurice Revnes, Lawrence Stal-
lings, Eddie Lowe and Lilyan Tashman and
a score of others, were among the guests.

Lily Damita was wearing tennis clothes
and looked very cute in them. She ex-
plained that she never had been engaged
to Harry Richman for a minute — it was all
a joke.

We all trouped into the dining room for
breakfast, or, if we preferred, had break-
fast outdoors on the terrace under the
trees. Patsy and I elected the dining room,
and a bunch, headed by Eddie Lowe, Lilyan
Tashman and Hedda Hopper, joined in
singing popular songs, including Ta\e Good
Care of Yourself, You Belong to Me and

Continued from page 3}

Maying Whoopee.

After that we strolled out into the gar-
den, sat on the lawn, or traveled over to
the tennis court.

We met Eddie Lowe sitting on one of
those rustic benches under a tree. He rose
gallantly to offer us his seat, and then,
catching sight of Joan Bennett, told us
something amusing that happened when
Joan was a very little girl.

"Joan is Richard Bennett's daughter, you
know. He and I were playing together
at the Alcazar in San Francisco when I
was a callow youth just out of college," ex-
plained Eddie. "Joan sat in a box at a

Three youngsters of well-known relatives appear with Nancy Carroll in
"Sweetie" : Fred Kohler, Jr., Jack Chapin, brother-in-law of director
William Well man, and Art Daly, nephew of author George Marion, Jr.

matinee performance of 'Pierre of the
Plains' one day. In the play her father
had to hit me. Joan stood it as long as
she could to see me so cruelly belabored,
and then she leaned away out of the box
and called to her father, 'Daddy, you stop
hitting that man!' "

Charlie Farrell had come clothed for ten-
nis, and made a duck for the tennis court
right after breakfast. Presently we strolled
over there to watch him playing.

Rustic seats under the trees close by the
tennis court provided comfortable resting
places for those of us, who seemed greatly
in the majority, who were too lazy or were
not properly dressed for tennis, and there
we discovered Lilyan Tashman holding
Joan's baby on her lap. We noticed then
that Lilyan and Joan look enough alike to
be sisters.

Lily Damita dashed in to play tennis just
then, and Hedda Hopper, who had joined
the admiring group around the baby, de-
clared that Lily looked more American than
most American girls!

Carey Wilson, the scenario writer, hob-
nobbed with Tom Geraghty, Carmelita's
photoplay-writing papa, for a while, and
then brought his color-movie camera over
and took pictures of the crowd.

Later on, Carmelita disappeared and got
herself into tennis togs, to play, and a num-

ber of other people also took a turn at the
rackets.

Afternoon shadows were growing long
under the peppers when we took our leave,
pronouncing Carmelita, who by the way,
Polly Moran, telescoping Carmelita's first
and last names, calls Carmelarity, the very
sweetest hostess ever.

"Gwen Lee isn't merely a born actress;
she's a born hostess, too," exclaimed Patsy.

We had gone over to Gwen's beautiful
new home with John Davidson, the actor,
and had been greeted by Gwen, clad in a
most becoming flame-colored gown.

We had arrived
early, and so had a
chance to glance
about us at Gwen's
pretty green-and-
gold bedroom and
at the Italian fur-
nishings in her
drawing room.

The house is
Italian and Spanish,
and looks down on
a picturesque curve
in the wooded can-
yon road where it
stands on the side
of a hill. This was
Gwen's house-
warming party.

"Oh, see that
Italian clock," said
Patsy. "It has flow-
ers painted all over
the face of it, so
that you can't tell
what time it is.
Isn't that a nice
compliment to
Gwen's guests!"

Tom Miranda,
the scenario writer,
and his wife, who,
you remember, in-
vented the card game called Kamra, were
the next arrivals. Tom had a box under his
arm, which turned out to be a book which
related a new way of telling fortunes. You
throw dice along with it, so that the system
is called Dice of Fate. The system is really
numerology, which is having a great vogue,
in all its forms, in Hollywood, these days.
The method of telling them is Tom's own
invention.

Tom told us that he had studied numer-
ology in Crotona, Greece, the fountain-head
of all sorts of mystic ideas, and he declared
that the science of numerology had been
discovered by Pythagoras.

"I think Pythagoras is grand," put in
John Davidson. "He lends such weight to
any argument. Personally, whenever I
hear Pythag's name mentioned, I always
go down for the third time, and the other
fellow wins the argument."

"Anyway," Tom retorted, "there isn't
a secret in Hollywood that isn't open to me
now. So you'd better watch out."

Whereupon, Eddie Sutherland, the
director, who had been listening, pretended
to be very much frightened and hid behind
a chair!

We found that Sam Wood's vibrations
all make for great good fortune, so long
as he remains Sam, even if he is a noted
director, and doesn't try to be Samuel.

For October 1 929

We all gathered about Tom, there in the
lovely drawing room, some on the cosy sofas
and chairs, others on pillows on the floor,
to have our fortunes read.

Mary Doran's bright face peeped up at
Tom, who told her that she was very lucky.

"I know it," answered Mary, I won a
jar of marmalade, shooting at clay pigeons,
down at Venice last night!"

When we shot the dice, we found that
Mary was a south-paw, but that didn't keep
her from winning.

Eddie Sutherland told Mary that she was
the cutest girl in pictures.

"Look out," Mary retorted, "I may take
you seriously!"

Pretty Ethlyn Claire was there with
Ernest Westmore, the make-up man, to
whom she admitted she is engaged.

Dorothy Burgess, who was in the group,
told Tom she had just bought a lot, and
wanted to find out how her investment
would result.

"Bought a lot?" demanded Mary Doran.
"That shows the courage of a fireman!"

That pretty Janice Peters, who is just
starting in pictures, is to appear in an
amateur musical comedy and was all excited
about it.

Ernest Westmore said he had just been
fishing at Noah Beerys fishing ground,
where there were so many fish that all you
had to do was knock them on the head
with a baseball bat. Ernie is one of' those
terribly serious sportsmen who wants his
fishing to be as difficult as possible.

"If he's as good as that at story-telling,
this year," remarked Renee Adoree, who
had just arrived, "what will he be by next
season?"

Mary Doran said that Ernie had caught
so many fish this season that he was drunk
with power anyway, and ought to ignored.

Gwen circulated about among her guests,
and somebody finally suggested she ought
to sit down, which she acknowledged she
was glad to do, as she had worn herself
out that afternoon, chasing her parrot,
which had escaped and was leaping from
tree to tree on the hillside back of her
home.

Theodore Von Eltz arrived just then,
plus a heavy mustache, and Mary Doran

asked him whether he cultivated the mus-
tache, or was he born with it?

Renee Adoree had come with Danny
Denker, and Lee Tracy was with Johnny
Ray. Johnny wrote "Alibi," you know.
Mary Doran confided to us that Lee was
one of those people who made her keep
her dignity at all hours.

Johnny Ray was devoting himself to
Renee Adoree, and was laughing at her
jokes, and Renee said she was thinking of
having Johnny's laugh syndicated.

Johnny told us about the last time that
Clark and McCullough were playing in
London — ■ how they sent him post-cards
showing Windsor Castle and Westminster
Abbey, with marks on windows, and the
remark, "Cross shows window of my room!"

Supper was served at 10:30, buffet
fashion — a very excellent supper, to which
everybody evidently had brought what
John Davidson called their picnic appetites.

Then Mary Doran played the piano for
us, Gwen turning the radio off, and Lee
Tracy sang delightfully.

Anderson Lawlor, Helen Mencken's
fiance, was there. They are playing together
at present in Los Angeles.

Cliff Edwards, known to the world as
Ukulele Ike, arrived late, and without his
faithful uke, so that somebody told him
that in that case he would just have to go
into his imitations.

Cliff told us that he had gone to Hono-
lulu, expecting to be a sensation with his
ukulele.

"Imagine how I felt," he kidded, "to
find that they had stolen my stuff down
there!"

Nancy Dover, who played in Cecil
De Mille's "Dynamite," was there, and
proved a charmingly modest young lady,
not at all set up over her success in the
picture.

It was very late when the guests began
to disperse, and even when we left, Tom
Miranda was .still there, sitting on the floor
and telling fortunes to a little group, in-
cluding Gwen, whose fortune must have
been very nice, for she was smiling broadly
when she hopped up to tell us goodnight,
after Tom had been telling her about "the
dark young man."

The Merry Batons ■ — Continued jrom page 69

agreed that she shall have a voice in the
selection of her next story. They have
listened to and agreed with her objections
to several presented for consideration.

In the Fall she must return to New York
to fulfilll a starring contract on the stage.
But after that, who can tell? It seems likely
that Mary, having married into the movies,
will make her home in Hollywood. If
Mary returns with her parrot and her ridi-
culous shaggy dog, it may mean she'll stay
here and make pictures in the Eastern
studios. But if she leaves the bird and the
bow-wow behind, its odds-on that she plans
to leave Broadway for the greater triumphs

of the singing screen.

Meantime the big suite in the towering
hotel where Mary makes her home is sadly
empty without her. If you lift the luxuri-
ous drapes that dress the expansive win-
dows you may look down on Broadway,
a ribbon of phosphorus far below. A few
blocks down and a little to the left stands
a house dingily placarded "To Let — One
Room and Alcove." Perhaps it will be
rented by another blonde kid with wide
blue eyes and a brave heart full of ambition
and what's left of a fifty-dollar note. If
so — let's hope she hears about Mary Eaton.
And keeps on trying!

Anita Page, Metro*
Goldivyn-Mayer Star,

Qll1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIl>l<l>ll<IIIIITIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllll|||l|||||||||||t||IIIIIMIIIMIII1lllllMIIIMIIIIIIMIIIII1ll|||rilll

= Clara Bow's bathing suit contest, Camilla Horn's moonstone bracelet,

= offered in the July issue of Screen- offered in the same issue, ,was won

I LAND, was won by Miss Josa Lee by Miss Mary Glover Quigley,

: Austin, 226 Pearl Street, Hartford, Washington Duke Hotel, Durham,

= Conn. North Carolina.

□

nun it in mi ■ m iiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiii n i ■ in i ii i "''"Miiiiiiiiiiniliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!,, ,,,,,,

THRILLING BEAUTY

hidden for over 50 years

BEHIND GUARDED
STAGE DOORS

now REVEALED

TN the theatre and the movies beauty walks
hand in hand with success. So naturally
no star would divulge her personal beauty
secrets. But today the sponsors of these fa-
mous beauty aids used by nearly all stars are
free to announce to American women
. . . Stein's Beauty Preparations now available
for personal use.

Five wonder preparations... Stein's Cold
Cream, Face Powder, Liquid Powder, Lip
Stick and Eyebrow Pencil are on sale this
very minute at your favorite store. Each
is the same magical beautifier that the great-
est stars are using every day in their private
boudoirs. If you want to remove all chance
from your make-up... if you want to possess
the easy, fascinating way to vibrant beauty,
follow the lead of these lovely women. Go
to any Toilet Goods Counter today, and ask
for Stein's Beauty Preparations.

Unquestioned Purity for Over Half a Century

stein*

BEAUTY PREPARATIONS
& THEATRICAL MAKE-UP

COLD CREAM • FACE POWDER • LIQUID POWDER
LIP STICK • EYE BROW PENCIL

Prom
behind

stage
doors

Secrets Revealed

in Free Booklet.
Peek into the very dressing rooms of fa-
mous Broadway beautiesaad Hollywood
stars. Send for your free copy of "From
Behind Guarded Stage Doors," today.

Stein Cosmetic Co., Dept. S
51 Madison Avenue, New York City.

Please send my free booklet " From Behind Guarded
Stage Doors" to

Name

Address

City State

A Unit of Stein Cosmetics Company, Inc.

;

SCREENLAND

The Rise of Dorothy Revier — continued from page 32

to be reckoned with and Dorothy Rcvicr
is in great demand with other leading pro-
ducers such as Paramount, Fox, United
Artists and First National. Not only has
she played the feminine leads in Columbia's
"The Donovan Affair" and "Submarine,"
but she won gratifying attention with
Douglas Fairbanks in "The Iron Mask,"
and opposite Richard Barthclmess and
Charles Farrcll. More recently she scored
in a featured role with Hal Skclly in "The
Dance of Life," and in "Father and Son"
and "Light Fingers." Like most other
screen stars Miss Revicr's voice has passed
all talkie tests with laurels.

Dorothy Revier is strictly a product of
background and training. Daughter of an
Italian musician, she began her art cduca-
tion very early in life.

"San Francisco was my birthplace," said
Miss Revier, "and I spent almost all my
girlhood there. My own name is Dorothy
Valcrga. My father, Thomas Tancred
Yalegra, was a musician and conductor of
note until he retired a few years ago. My
mother is dead. I am one of a family of
five, all sisters. Gladys and Kitty are mar-
ried and have children, Antoinette is un-
married and a business woman in San
Francisco, and Evelyn, also unmarried,
is with me. When I was a schoolgirl, my
father was either conducting his own or-
chestra or playing in the symphonies in
San Francisco and Oakland. When I en-
tered Oakland high school, my father
started me in dancing school at the same
time. In San Francisco there was a famous
old Italian ballet mistress, Madame Moro-
sini. She had been coach to Pavlowa at
one time, and was one of the finest ballet
dancers in Europe in her youth. For four
years I studied Italian ballet, toe dancing,
and so on under the strict eye and training
of Morosini. The moment I finished school
I joined Boris Petroff and Alia Moscova,
two noted Russian dancers, who toured the
Pacific Coast in a vaudeville act of classic
dancing. I was one of the six girls who
danced in their support. After several
weeks on the road, we returned to San
Francisco where I
continued to study
with Petroff and
also returned to
Madame Morosini.
My dancing train-
ing was certainly
thorough, as I was
getting both the
Italian and Russian
methods.

"My one ambi-
tion at this time
was to get some-
where on the stage,
and eventually to
land on Broad-
way. With this in
mind I used to go
down to the Italian
colony 'way out on
the North Beach
with Madame Moro-
sini to appear in
shows in a little
Italian theater. Al-
though I couldn't
speak Italian, they
liked my dancing,
so I gained that
rich experience for
months, at the
financial reward of

Rex Bell plays the juvenile lead in
Will Rogers' first talkie.

five dollars a performance.

"At this time, in 1921, Tait's cafe was
still one of the most famous restaurants on
the Pacific Coast. Their standard of enter-
tainment ranked with the best vaudeville
and it was the ambition of every San
Francisco performer to get an engagement
at Tait's. Accordingly, when the star of
the night show was called to New York,
I applied for the job. Of course, there
were dozens of applicants but I happened
to be the lucky one. Due to my long and
rigorous dance training in both the Italian
and Russian schools, I was well equipped
to hold my own at first because the patrons
at Tait's had been accustomed to nothing

'You

tickle me!" says Joe. E. Brown to Marilyn Miller.
They clown and dance together in "Sally."

but jazz. I knew that this poularity would
last only a couple of weeks so I hied myself
over to a dear old Irish buck and wing
dancer named Roxy O'Rourke. He taught
me tap dancing and gave me several dance
routines. To make a long story short. 1
simply struck a happy medium between my
classic dancing and jazz, and held my job.
In fact. I was there a year or more, and
I had but one aim in mind — Broadway —
where my predecessor had gone.

"Certainly I had no thought of the
movies. Right here comes an odd circum-
stance: I believe that I am one of the very
few screen players who didn't make a pic-
ture debut in Hollywood. No, sir, I ac
tually started in San Francisco, playing op-
posite Roy Stewart and Louise Lovely. The
picture was a terrible flop, but it gave me
the movie bug. and a few months later
found me in Hollywood to try my luck.

"Like many players, I got my first break
at Universal City, in a Gladys Walton pic-
ture. This former star is now married and
retired. I did pretty well at first as a free-
lance player and when picture engagements
were scarce, I fell back on my dancing
ability.

"Then along came Poverty Row. I knew
the companies worked like the dickens on
that little street, making their 'quickies,'
and I knew the only reward awaiting a
player was steady work and money. At
that time I needed money to live on far
more than I needed art, so I determined
to stay in Poverty Row until I could become
fairly independent.

"Work! I never worked so hard in my
life. The long hours, no vacations and
minor inconveniences made life just one long
working day. But it was good for me. I
honestly believe the training I received in
Poverty Row not only helped make me an
actress, but taught me to be sensible and
content with my career now that I am get-
ting somewhere.

"About that time there was a company
coming to the front. Columbia had started
on Poverty Row a couple of years before,
but under the leadership of Harry and Jack
Cohn, it was oc-
casionally turning
out a real picture.
The Cohn boys took
the curse off
Poverty Row; they
paid such good sal-
aries and worked
such reasonable
hours that soon
some of the lead-
ing players were
not ashamed to ac-
cept a week's en-
gagement or two at
the 'little studio
around the corner.'
In fact, so many
noted stars such as
Jack Holt, Hobart
Bos worth, Viola
Dana, Shirley Ma-
son, Betty Compson
and others worked
there so much that
Columbia became
known as the 'port
of missing stars.'

Old Poverty Row
is a forgotten street.
Its Queen is gone.
She's on the Ri-
viera now!

For October 1929

RED LETTER EVE NTS 1M
MEW DAY SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT

HIO RITA

Florenz Ziegfeld's Most Glorious Musical Com
edy, Now Glorified for the Screen

STREET GIRL

A Star-Sprayed Romance of Life and Love
Beneath the Glitter of Broadway's Night Clubs

At last the screen does justice to the
name of Ziegfeld . . . The master
producer's greatest musical comedy
success, staged on a scale that
dwarfs all other screen musical at-
tractions in beauty and magnifi-
cence...Exquisite color sequences,
gorgeous girls, glittering costumes,
Rio Rita's lilting melodies, and new,
interpolated numbers, and the su-
perb singing and playing of the
title role by Bebe Daniels, make
this production even greater than
the original.

The story of a Broadway Cinderella
and a Prince, who was wot her Prince
Charming ... Music that creeps into
your heart and sets your feet atap-
ping . . . Sentiment, comedy, action,
drama form the background for a
characterization of unusual appeal
by Betty Compson, aided and abet-
ted by a Radio beauty chorus, Gus
Arnheim's Cocoanut Grove Band,
John Harron, and a fast-cracking
comedy trio, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks
and Joseph Cawthorn.

Betty Compson, as the cabaret violin girl, scores
the greatest triumph of her career in "Street Girl."

COMING RADIO PICTURES THAT FORECAST THE SCREEN OF TOMORROW

"HIT THE DECK" — A lavish
Radio Pictures presentation of
Vincent Youman's round-the-
world nautical musical drama,
with the popular songhits,"Some-
limes I'm Happy," and "Halle-
lujah."

"HIGH RIVER" — A Herbert
Brenon production from the
play, "High River House."...
A majestic story of conflicting
wills and passions in the river-
threatened levee country of the
Mississippi.

Elaborate production plans
await the arrival of Rudy
Vallee in Hollywood where
he will make "The Vagabond
Lover" for Radio Pictures.

RKO DISTRIBUTING
CORPORATION

Subsidiary of the Radio Corporation
of America

Richard Dix, newest Radio
Star, who is now completing
the first of his three starring
vehicles for this organiza-
tion.

"RADIO REVELS OF 1930"—
An all-dancing, all-singing, all-
star, all-novelty extravaganza*
The first annual screen revue, to
be presented yearly by Radio
Pictures.

"THE VAGABOND LOVER" —
Starring the inimitable Rudy
Vallee and his "Connecticut Yan-
kees"...Aromantic musical com-
edy, with color, action, comedy
and Rudy's "come hither" voice*

SCREENLAND

GROW—

Yes, Grow Eyelashes
and Eyebrows like this
in 30 days

"■pHE most marvelous discovery has been made — a
■*■ way to make eyelashes and eyebrows actually
grow. Now if you want long, curling, silken lashes,
you can have them — and beautiful, wonderful eye-
brows.

Proved Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt

Over ten thousand women have tried my amazing
discovery, proved that eyes can now be fringed with
long, curling natural lashes, and the eyebrows made
intense, strong silken lines 1 Read what a few of
them say. I have made oath before a notary public
that these letters are voluntary and genuine. From
Mile. Hefflefinger, 240 W. "B" St., Carlisle, Pa.:
"I certainly am delighted ... I notice the greatest
difference . . . people I come in contact with remark
how long and silky my eyelashes appear." From
Naomi Otstot, 5437 Westminster Ave., W. Phila.,
Pa.: "I am greatly pleased. My eyebrows and
lashes are beautiful now." From Frances Raviart,
R. D. No. 2, Box 179, Jeanette, Penn.: "Your eye-
lash and eyebrow beautifier is simply marvelous."
From Pearl Provo, 2954 Taylor St., N. E., Minne-
apolis, Minn.: "I have been using your eyebrow and
eyelash Method. It is surely wonderful." From
Miss Flora J. Corriveau, 8 Pinette Ave., Biddeford,
Me.: "I am more than pleased with your Method.
My eyelashes are growing long and luxurious.."

Results Noticeable in a Week

Remember ... in 30 days I guarantee results that
will not only delight, but amaze. If you are not
absolutely and entirely satisfied, your money will
be returned promptly. I mean j ust that — no quibble,
no strings. Introductory price Si. 95. Later the
price will be regularly $5.00.

55.00 /7 .

Grower will be sent C. O. D. or you can send
money with order. If money accompanies order
postage will be prepaid.

LUCILLE YOUNG.

S54-A Lucille Young Building. Chicago. III.

Send me your new discovery for growing eye-
lashes and eyebrows. If not absolutely and
entirely satisfied, I will return it within 30 days
and you will return my money without question.

Price C. O. D. is S1.95 plus few cents postage.
If money sent with order price is S1.95 and post-
age is prepaid.

State whether money enclosed or you want
order C. O. D.

Name,

St. Address-

City-

_State_

Are You Blonde or Brunette? — Continued from page si

cleansing cream on the face and neck.
Wipe off with cleansing tissues. Then
smooth a good protective cream well into
the skin. By protective cream, I mean
any good cold cream, preferably an oily
one, as most blonde skins are dry in tex-
ture. Leave on for a few minutes or until
the skin has absorbed as much of the cream
as it will, then wipe off and dust with
powder. With such protection, the fairest
skin will not become roughened or red from
exposure to wind and weather.

Upon coming in, whether from work or
play, use cleansing cream again to remove
dust and make-up. Pat in a refreshing
tonic, apply a bit of foundation cream and
powder, and your skin will be fair, soft,
and smooth to the touch.

There are few skins after twenty that
do not need a nourishing cream patted
well into the neck and around the eyes
and mouth, and left on all night. The
blonde, particularly, needs to keep her skin
well lubricated, for a fine, dry skin breaks
early into tiny wrinkles unless well and
intelligently cared for.

The fair woman must eat carefully too.
She should eat sparingly of sweets and
must eschew all heavy, rich and greasy
foods if she would avoid the coarsening
effect of large pores and blackheads.

Another reason for eating carefully is
that as a rule, she must fight the tendency
to overweight. I don't know who first
used the phrase 'fair, fat and forty," but
whoever it was, he evidently had looked
around a bit and registered the impression
that the woman who is fair at forty, also is
fat. And too often, she is! Therefore it
might be well to deal early with this sup-
posed tendency by careful diet and judicious
exercise.

Blonde hair, the crowning glory of its
possessor, is a matter of grave concern, too.
To the dark-haired girl, the difference of
one degree in the shade of her hair makes
no difference. To the blonde, it hints of
the tragedy all blondes live in fear of —
the tragedy of slowly darkening hair.

The dark-haired girl has another advan-
tage. She can delay a shampoo for a day
or two and her hair will look none the
worse for it. But light hair must be kept
immaculately clean. Blonde hair needs
plenty of brushing to bring out its light
and luster.

A great many blondes use a castile or an
olive-castile shampoo. Others maintain
that a cocoanut soap is more cleansing.
But the best thing is, if your hair is light
and you want to keep it so, to find a
shampoo that agrees best with your hair
and then use the right rinse. Of course I
am speaking of natural blonde hair.
Bleached hair is another thing entirely!

The camomile rinse which is used by
many blonde-haired women is made by
steeping very slowly, a handful of camo-
mile (bought at the drug store) in about
a quart of water. Use the tea in the last
rinse. This is not a bleach and will have
no bad effect on the hair. Another rinse
for blonde hair, as I probably have told
you before, is the juice of a lemon in the
last rinsing water after a shampoo. This
brings out the blonde lights and tends to
make the hair more fluffy.

Light hair, to be at its best must be
fluffy and waved. Slick, shingled smartness
does not, as a rule, become the blonde
type. And the blonde must choose care-
fully the colors she wears, also her make-
up. She must by rigid attention to the

laws of health and by intelligent preventive
measures guard against early fading, the
blighting tendency of her type.

All this about blondes! Small wonder,
is it, that many blondes complain about
the upkeep and decide to join the brunettes
and be comfortable?

Yet the dark skin needs unremitting care,
too. Practically the same treatment pre-
scribed for the protection of the blonde
skin should be used for the dark skin.
Even though your skin is naturally dark,
and you don't object if it turns a shade
or two darker, you must protect it from
dust, grime, wind and weather. The dark
or olive-tinted skin to be at its radiant best
must be fine-textured and clear.

The girl with dark hair and eyes usually
has a thicker skin than the blonde, and
often her skin has a tendency to oiliness.
If this is true, she need not use cold cream
quite so freely as does her sister with the
thin, dry skin. She should, however, use a
cream or oil for cleansing, during the day
and at night before retiring. She may
follow the cold cream cleansing at night
with soap and water if she so desires. The
face should then be carefully rinsed and
dried and a good astringent should be used
to close the pores.

If the skin is very young, the face may
be left free from cream during the night.
But about twice a week it will be well to
smooth nourishing cream under the eyes,
over the lids and on the throat. If the
skin is oily and there is a tendency to large
pores and blackheads, do not leave cream
on the chin or nose or around the mouth
where blackheads are prone to gather.

Large pores, too, menace the dark oily
skin, and eternal vigilance must be exercised
both in preventing and abolishing these
pests. Correct diet, adequate elimination,
plenty of outdoor exercise and systematic
habits of cleanliness are absolutely neces-
sary.

Where blonde hair does better with a
wave, the brunette may achieve smartness
by wearing her hair straight or at least sleek
and smooth and but slightly waved. But
such a coiffure demands perfect hair health.
Oily or dull or lifeless hair is never more
conspicuous than when simply dressed.

The dark-haired girl, as well as the
blonde, must look carefully to her shampoo.
She may use an egg or a tar shampoo or
any one of the reliable shampoos now on
the market except those designed especially
for blondes. And to be at its best, her
hair must have the glossy, fresh, well-kept
look that only daily brushing can give.

Many of our American girls are not
definite types — neither blondes or brunettes.
They have hair that varies from ash through
to drab, to mouse brown and eyes of no
one definite color, neither light or dark.
The in-betweens, then, must live up to
their type intelligently by applying the rules
of health and beauty which apply to all
women alike whether they are light or dark.

There are many more things to tell you
about light and dark and in-between skins,
and next month I'll go on from here and
tell you all about it. How the blonde may
accentuate her blondness, or accent her per-
sonality by her clothes and make-up. How
the brunette may accentuate her dark
beauty by the colors she wears and skillful
make-up. Intriguing secrets about shades
of powder, rouges and lip sticks — how to
make up wisely and not too well!

And if you want to know more about
skins, I'm here to tell you. Write me!

For October 1929

Sue: Our Authentic Flapper

Continued from Page 73

wants Sue as a pupil will have to take
Nick too!)

"I'm crazy about my new house. I'm a
roamer at heart, though. I've stayed in
Hollywood longer than I've ever stayed any
where in my life, and I'd like to be out
following the road. I don't know what
keeps me in Hollywood, unless it's pictures
— or Nick."

To be away from Nick is her idea of the
height of tragedy. When Nick was cast
in "Chasing Through Europe" last year,
they both did their best to win her the part
opposite him. In vain. When Nick had
been gone a month, Sue went to her mother,
then sojourning with her, and intimated
that she would like to go abroad.

"Certainly, darling, I'll take you!" cried
her fond parent.

Whereupon Sue went to Fox authorities
and announced that her mother was taking
her to Europe. Wouldn't it save money
to let her play the part in Nick's picture?

June Collyer had already been given the
part and had reached New York but the
studio recalled her and substituted the de-
termined Sue. The mother, however, broke
four ribs on the eve of the trip and an
aunt took her place as chaperone and con-
fidant.

"We loved it, especially Venice, and we
hope we'll do it again some day, when we
can take the time to go to out-of'the-way
places and see everything we'd like to see.

At this moment Nick Stuart arrived
with the talked-of shoes. Nothing would
do but Sue must try them on and then
together they must work out the trickiest
step in the new dance Walter Wills is teach-
ing them. On went the radio, into the
middle of the shining floor went Sue and
Nick and tap-tap-tap went the new shoes
as she followed him through the terpsi-
chorean mazes.

"Oh, Nick!" Sue broke off suddenly and
flew to the window, "look at those two
lovely lambs going out for their airing!"

The 'lambs' were police puppies solemnly
trailing up the winding road.

"Sue's dogs are both in the hospital," ex-
plained Nick, "poor old Fritzi and Sandy
have distemper and she's about broken-
hearted over them. She's dog-crazy, you
know. If she's ever arrested it will be for
kidnapping a dog.

"She goes driving about the city, or out
in the country, and every time she sees a
dog, she stops her car, looks carefully
around and then gives a soft whistle, like
this," he did a creditable imitation of Sue
enticing a canine. "If the pup gets in the
car, she thinks that proves he's lost and
looking for a home. Last week she came
proudly home with a fox terrier and Alice
had to shame her into running an ad.

"Another day, when she was down at
the city pound — a place that has a fatal
fascination for her— she fell in love with
a little mutt of a dog, paid his board and
took him home. But he wasn't a healthy
cur and he spent most of the rest of his
life in the dog hospital. He was mentally
unbalanced, they told her, when they broke
it to her that they had chloroformed him."

"But he was so sweet," sighed Sue.

Just then the radio blared forth again
and the two sprang into the intricacies of
the tap-dance once more, their laughter
mingling, enchantingly young, a living ad-
vertisement of the importance of being
light-hearted.

ALICE JOYCE SAYS:

"'The Etiquette of Beauty' is one of the most helpful
and delightful books on this subject that I have ever
read. In it Dorothy Cocks tells how to get the utmost
from the body in both health and beauty . . . and demon-
strates clearly how dependent the second quality is on
the first.

Alice Joyce."

SECRETS of make-up fill one chapter. Secrets of the Fifth Avenue Salons
and of Paris beauty specialists, for which women pay thousands of dollars.
Secrets of diet, to keep your skin fine and clear, and to make your figure
what you want it to be. A whole chapter on Personality, full of practical
things to do to make you more charming, poised, gracious, alluring. Ideas on
dress, from famous stylists and couturieres, to teach you how to select clothes
to make you look taller, shorter, thinner, whatever you need to improve your
figure. Written by Dorothy Cocks, famous authority on health and beauty,
who was chosen by the Encyclopaedia Brittancia to write the chapters on
beauty culture for their forthcoming edition.

"The Etiquette of Beauty" is on the dressing tables of hundreds of famous
women. They follow its rules every day, refer to it constantly to keep them-
selves exquisitely groomed, smartly dressed, seductively perfumed. Buy a copy
of this book today. It will add tremendously to your knowledge of personal
charm and attractiveness.

The regular price is Five Dollars per copy.

Screen land offers this book for the first time at a popular price — $2.85.
It contains 332 pages, handsomely bound in mauve, with modern jacket in
black and gold. An exquisite gift book or bridge prize. Every woman should
have a copy who values her power to charm.

Fill out the coupon today. Book sent C. O. D., or enclose check or money
order with coupon. Money back if not satisfied. Send today.

SCREENLAND MAGAZINE

49 West 45th St.. New York

Send me a copy of "The Etiquette of Beauty," by Dorothy Cocks.

(Send C. O. D. I will pay postman $2.85 plus few cents postage.
Chtelc one (Enclose money order (or check) for .$2.85. I understand you

(will refund money if I am not satisfied.

Name

Address -

City I - - - State

I(M)

SCREENLAND

On Location With "The Virginian" — continued from page 47

about on the hill top. Fun is fun and all
that, but there is no reason why a cow
should be taken advantage of — or so they
must have reasoned among themselves.

In an endeavor to pacify them the boys
jumped in a car and drove to a cluster
of bushes a mile or two away. They came
back with enough green to turn the queer-
looking things on the hill into a nice green
grove, and that saved the day, although
the bossies still thought it was a fool no-
tion. Mooing and lowing they submitted
to being driven along while Gary rode be-
side them singing a song popular with the
cowboys. One of the verses is quite blood-
thirsty:

If you monkey around my Lulu gal

I'll tell you what I'll do —

I'll carve your heart with my razor,

And I'll shoot you with my pistol, too!

By lunch time it was blazing hot. The
sun seemed to draw all the life out of one's
body. There wasn't an inch of shade so
we sat on the highest point possible, to
catch what breeze there was, which hap-
pened to be the railroad tracks. Lunch
was served by the hotel in Sonora and
brought in metal containers — stew and
beans and coffee. For dessert we had ice
cream and apples.

There was still an hour's work with the
cows and after lunch, the remains having
been cleared away in baskets, Dick and
Gary and I sat on one of the parallels and
listened to Speed Hanson sing the hundred
and some odd verses of several cowboy
songs, accompanying himself with his
guitar. His job was to teach the songs
to Dick and Gary and Walter Huston,
and the easiest way for the boys to learn
was to listen to them over and over until
the music and words and spirit of the
things soaked into their minds.

Soon quite a crowd gathered, and we
were immensely entertained. Gary had a
cold which bothered him a lot. "My first
talking picture, and I get the only cold
I've had in years! People will think I
swallowed a raven."

Gary is very shy. When he is in a

group of strange people he won't talk at
all. He sits back and listens. But his
eyes twinkle with humor and when he
laughs his face screws up like a little boy's.
Then as he begins to feel more at home
he joins in the conversation. But there is
always a little air of dignity and reserve
about him, a sort of mystic quality. And
it is that poise perhaps that adds to his
attractiveness for so many people.

Gary is one person who justified the ad-
vice of friends who told him he ought to
go into pictures. He started out as an ad-
vertising salesman and also injected his
knowledge of art into a few advertisements
for his firm. But he hated the hustle and
bustle of the commercial side of salesman-
ship and while in California he listened to
one of his friends and made a stab at pic-
tures. Once was enough. He instantly be-
came fascinated with whatever it is that
charms people in all dramatic work. It
may be an outlet for the imagination, the
spirit of make-believe that is strong in all
of us. At first he had tough sledding.
His distaste for applying for work led him
to go only to the two or three offices where
he was known, and to those he went con-
stantly. Then his chance came in "The
Winning of Barbara Worth," and you know
the rest. A good part of his money he put
into a dude ranch of which he made his
father manager. In a year or two he will
have five thousand acres where people,
worn and weary from city life, can come
and, for a time, get back to nature.

Both Gary and Dick were very bothered
about being turned into stars; but as long
as they were, they felt cheated that the
first week of the big money would have to
wait in Hollywood until they returned from
Sonora to collect! I remarked that I should
think they would be pleased to become stars.

"It's just the beginning of the end,
Helen," said Dick. "You know that. No
one ever survives it for long. A few years
and then you get all tangled up in the
'system' and can't work out of it somehow.
It is so much fun building! When you are

Colleen Moore has two leading men in "Footlights and Fools" — Fredric March
and Raymond Hackett — and has to choose between them. Which man wins?

John Garrick, an English actor, will make
his Movietone debut in "The Sky Hawk."

a star, it seems that further achievement is
taken from you. I'd much rather be a
supporting player as far as interest goes.
You never know what kind of a part you
will get. When you are a star you know
darn well that you get what is called 'A
Richard Arlen part.' The only thing is
the money, and Joby and I are going to
save plenty — that is, if we can ever stop
building fireplaces and tunnels in our
place!"

It seems that they both like fireplaces
and had two in the living room; but wher-
ever Joby went the crowd would follow,
so gradually fireplaces appeared in every
room in the house. "And," continued
Dick, "everyone who comes to our house
goes into the kitchen, so, by gosh, there's
a fireplace going in there, too! It will be
finished this week.

"And the tunnels — well, Joby is crazy
about tunnels for some reason, and she
and I started digging one from our house
to the road and it is about finished. And
now we don't know what to do with it
although Joby says it is a swell place to
keep preserves, and Dad Ralston is always
sending us a lot from our ranch."

Joby and Dick have a ranch where they
plan to go when they are through with
the picture game, or "when it is through
with us," is the way he put it.

Eugene Pallette, who plays Honey Wig-
gin, was watching the equipment of his
horse. "Say, I don't need one of those
saddles with a horn, I'm not figuring to
do any riding in traffic," he told the cow-
boy harnessing the pony.

Then everyone pitched into work and
kept it up until after six.

"Where is your moustache, Eugene?"
asked Henry Hathaway.

"In my pocket," said Eugene. "You
couldn't tell from where I was whether I
had on a moustache or a bathing suit."

It was an hour's ride into Sonora so
we were bundled into cars and sent on our
way. Gary rode in ours, Mr. Fleming was

For October 1929

101

in the car ahead of us. We had to pass
three gates and he got out and opened
the first. Our car and six others went
through with Mr. Fleming still standing
at the gate. And he must have had a
dusty ride back. I understand that Mr.
Fleming is an honest-to-goodness million'
aire and is considered one of the brainy
members of the profession. But that busi'
ness of getting out of a car filled with
actors and members of his staff to open
the gate, shows him to be a regular fellow
as well. Perhaps you think, "Huh! Any-
one would do that!" And so they would,
any regular fellow; but strangely enough
the motion picture business sometimes
makes some people, particularly directors
and actors and executives, think that they
are something a little more than people.
I'm glad to say that I have happened to
meet very, very few of that breed.

Henry Hathaway met us at the hotel.
"Say, you have to work tomorrow," he
said to me.

It had been planned that I do 'atmos-
here' — extra work in the train sequence.
Just to peek at the other side of the fence,
so to speak.

"When do I get up?" I asked

"Five up and six out," said Henry grin-
ning. And that was the slogan for the
troupe the whole time we were there.

About six of us had dinner together.
At the next table a young man was declar-
ing to a young lady, quite casually, that
she was the most beautiful woman in the
world. Obviously it wasn't true.

Gary made a motion of disgust. "Do
women like that sort of thing?" he
demanded.

"Not many in this day and age, unless
they are in love — then of course the girl
wants to be more beautiful or more desire-
ab1.3 than any other woman in her sweet-
heart's eyes."

"Oh, well, that's different. But idle
flattery — they eat it up!"

So then we had a long argument with
neither side convinced. But it showed me
that Gary has a very sincere nature, above
hypocrisy and superficiality.

My, but I was sleepy the next morning!
I hadn't slept a wink on the train and al-
though it was fun, I had been pretty tired,
dressed as I was in hiking togs and out on
a mountain top from six in the morning
till six at night. Once I had a hot cup of
coffee and some bacon under my belt I
felt better.

This day the action included Mary Brian.
It was where she, as the school teacher,
arrived from New England in the little
Virginian town just as a stampede of cows
swarmed on both sides of the train as it
pulled into the station. Gary heads them
off while Dick and Eugene Pallette and
finally Gary, too, ride beside the train and
joke with the pretty little half-scared school
teacher. "I never saw so many wild cows
in my life," she announced.

Paramount had rented a whole train for
the occasion and it moved up and down a
switch track which passed the station. It
is such a tiny town, there is very little traf-
fic— ,1 think only one train passes during
the whole day. A little portable dressing-
room was put up for Mary and the rest of
us dressed in our cars.

The country store — post office was taken
possession of for the costume department.
All the packing cases containing costumes
were placed there and the contents spread
out along some makeshift tables. The
large sizes in the 'high-class' costumes had
been asked for before we arrived, so I
grabbed an old blue calico skirt, a long cape

Freckles

Can be Secretly Removed!

"Y'OU can remove those annoying,
embarrassing freckles, secretly
and quickly, in the privacy of your
own home. Your friends will wonder
how you did it.

Stillman's FreckleCream bleaches
them outwhile you sleep. Leavesthe
skin soft and white, the complexion
fresh, clear and transparent, the face
rejuvenated with new beauty of
natural coloring. The first jar proves
its magic worth. At all druggists.

Stillman's

Freckle Cream

Removes T Whitens
Freckles 1 The Skin

STILLMAN CO.

8 Rosemary Lane
Aurora, Illinois

Please send me Free book-
let "Goodbye Freckles".

Address_

I
I

j^^City State

Every woman longs for clear, bright
eyes . . . and here is the way to have
them! Just apply Murine each
night and morning. It removes the
irritating particles which cause a
bloodshot condition and imparts
an alluring sparkle to the eyes.

Thisbeautifyinglotionis the for-
mula of a veteran eye specialist.
Many millions of bottles have been
used during the past 32 years. A
month's supply costs but 60c at
drug and department stores.

WpJO f.' fj1 Ask at any beauty parlor
Mm f2j Ej or barber shop for a free
________ application of Murine.

f-OR Y°UR

BeThe Man Behind The Camera

BIG PAY

/ASC/A/A,

$150 to $500 f,nd mT a ™*—tbfs

*r — «*w «.v t)le sa]ary of a motion

picture cameraman, the most fascinating job -
in the world. Play a major part in the pro-
duction of the great movies that thrill the
country.

Trained cameramen are in great demand — not a
foot of film can be made without them. One of
these enjoyable, lucrative positions, a position that
offers big pay and future unlimited, can be yours
— easily — quickly !

EASILY LEARNED THIS NEW WAY

Now, right at home in your spare time, you can
quickly qualify for a well paid position as a
skilled Motion Picture Cameraman.
You leam everything there is to
know about motion picture photog-
raphy— from short news reels to
great feature pictures. In an amaz-
ingly short time you will find
yourself ready to step into a high-
salaried position — capable of going
out "on location" and taking every
kind of moving picture.

SEND FOR BIG
FREE BOOK

Write today for your copy of our
FREE book, which gives full par-
ticulars about the ever-growing
field of motion picture photography
— shows how you can Quickly
qualify for a well-paid position.

N. Y. Institute of Photography.
Dept. B-512. 10 West 33rd St.,
New York. N. Y.

Please send me your FREE BOOK.
"The Modern Art of Photography"
and details as to how I can qualify
as Motion Picture Cameraman.

City State..

YOUR SUCCESS COUPON >

SCREENLAND

ALL FOR ONE DOLLAR

THi; NEXT SIX BIG ISSUES OF

Motion Picture Magazine

I mIi issue L'ont.iin.H .1 beautiful picture in
i nlors r. ul\ lor framing.

SET OF PICTURES FREE

. Send tliw coupon be-
low, with one dollar,
and wo will send you
a fine set of 24 sepia
finish pictures (size
5jx8 inches) or
popular screen play-
ers, (Set No. 0) —
absolutely free.

II.JC FV-A-

Motp$dure

Motion Picture Maga-
zine. 1501 Broadway,
New York. SL-10

Ifere Is my dollar.
Send the next six Is-
sues of Motion Picture

"hr Mmfelcw? Magazine and set of pic-

-sr ^ — '■ tuief lo:

Namo ...
Address

Town. State..

(Print Namo and Address)

Easy, new method of oil coloring over photo-
graphs and prints. Biff demand. Wo talent need-
ed. Fascinating work for anyone. £35 toSiOOa
week and more. Free Employment Service. Earn
while learning. We teach you at home. Complete
artist's outfit given. Write for free booklet to-
day.

NATIONAL ART STUDIOS
Dept. 3R- 10 1008 N. Dearborn, Chicago

Think of it — you can lose a half a pound a day or
more safely without tiresome exercise — without wearing
yourself out — without depriving yourself of tasty, de-
lightful dishes that you always enjoy. A discovery
called TAKOFF, which is the prescription of a well-
known physician, is now put up in convenient form so
that everyone, regardless of where they live, can benefit.
TAKOFF is not a dangerous drug. On the other hand
it is a harmless vegetable compound that speedily cor-
rects and adjusts digestive disorders and arouses the all
important food assimilation fluids to uniform activity.
No matter if you are five or fifty pounds over weight —
whether the fat is on your arms, face, legs or stomach,
whether you are man or woman, TAKOFF accomplishes
the. reduction pleasantly and safely. From your very
first day's treatment you will notice a feeling of better
health, more ambition and energy, because you will
begin to lose from tin very start.

TAKOFF IS SAFE— Contains No Dangerous Thyroid

Unline many other reducers. TAKOFF is remarkable,
inasmuch as it does not contain any dangerous thyroid
whatsoever — nor does it contain any other harmful sub-
stance. It is really nature's own aid for the obese —
it can't harm you and it must help or vour money back.
HOW TO ORDER
While TAKOFF has been recommended and used for
many years by the physician who discovered this magi-
cal formula, it is only a few months since it is avail-
able to everyone. Heretofore it could only be had at a
fancy price by a limited few who lived at Hollywood,
California, the home of this doctor. Now anyone who is
sincere and ambitious to take off weight safely and
without diet or exercise, can secure a nine day treat-
ment which is generally enough to reduce
5 to 8 pounds for the small sum of S2.00.

Send no money now — just sign
'C//I"""~— ^ y0UI nan,e and address to the

I ifyJj^ r^~^—-~^. coupon below and you will

Z- ®.Or<"ja Aii~"~-^ receive your 9 day TAK-
I &V*N 9 OA^l£bl 0FF treatment in plain
IcA , °Wv,~rO Z '^r* C • wrapper by return mail.

/^V JJtt hTV TA Ji'Ve # postman only S2.00 plus

^ Sl2T*e ^oPrPer I n few cents postage

^^~roS7>7 " Ov / Nature's Products. Inc..

" -^^C^^M. / Suite 910. Scranton, Pa.

NATURE'S PRODUCTS, Inc.. Suite 910, Scranton, "paT
Send your 9 day treatment of TAKOFF in plain
wrapper to the address below. I will pay postman
$2.00 plus postage on arrival. It is understood that if
I am not entirely satisfied you will refund my money.

Name _

Street _

City State

and bandana handkerchief, which prompted
Mr. Fleming to ask how Russia was the last
time I saw it. I certainly looked a sight.
Henry Hathaway put us in the coach Mary
was in and as it was another hot day we
were in about the coolest spot going.

Speed Hanson was turned into a con-
ductor, and given a basket of candies and
things people liked in those days. "Will
you have some tobacco?" he asked, offering
a hunk to Mary Brian. She laughed and
said, "I don't think it was done, even
in 1852!"

Three of the extra women were laughing
and giggling over their odd costumes.

"How do we look?" one asked of a
young man dressed also in period. "Would
we have won your heart in 1852?"

The young man looked startled. "Golly!"
he laughed. "I'm afraid you wouldn't."

"Well, we wouldn't give you a second
look either — besides, I think I look very
cute!" said the young lady. She did, too.

The children walked back and forth in
the aisle casting shy glances at Mary, but
it was a long time before any of them got
up the courage to speak. "Are you going
to be our teacher, Mary?" one asked. That
broke the spell and the whole crowd bom-
barded her with questions.

"Sometimes teachers spank little girls,"
someone said.

A dozen pairs of round eyes looked
inquiringly at Mary. *

"Then I could never be a teacher," said
Mary quickly, with her beautiful voice and
the sweetest smile in the world.

Mary hasn't the childish voice you would
expect her to have. It is rich and full with-
out being heavy, and it has a dramatic
quality to it.

The cows had arrived and were more
bewildered than the day before. In addi-
tion to people, here was a train that they
were asked to run beside, then they were
herded in pens and out of pens until they
were thoroughly disgusted. The calves were
particularly indignant. One little fellow,
suddenly losing all control over himself,
turned to the train and looking us full in
the face, put his little front feet sturdily
apart after the manner of very young calves
and 'mooed' at least seventeen times with-
out stopping for breath. Then utterly ex-
hausted he leaned against his mother and
partook of some refreshment.

With the cows all in place and the people
all seated in the train and the 'mikes'
hitched to a front car, the scene was ready
to be taken.

"Rehearse the whistle," said Mr. Fleming,
and in a moment the engine shrieked forth
in obedience to his command. Yet not one
hundred percent obedience — for it being
a sound picture the engineer had to be
directed by signals. He got mixed up and
instead of blowing the whistle he let fly
the steam!

The cows didn't wait for any more!
How they ran! It took a little time to get
them back but it was managed finally.

Then we went through the scene several
times, stopping for lunch at twelve. This
time the lunch was served on the freight
platform. It had a covering so the sun
didn't get at us. It was exactly the same
as the day before.

We had about three quarters of an hour
for lunch and then started to work again.
Gary rode up to the side of our coach and
I patted the nose of his horse.

"He got a bad start this morning and
he's nervous," Gary said.

"What happened to him?" I asked.
"Oh, we were near the engine when that
steam went off and it scared him out of a

year's i growth. He hasn't been the same

since."

"Here's a good publicity story for you,"
said Roy Hunt. Roy invented the 'blimp'
camera, a contrivance for keeping the sound
of camera grinding inside a large hood.

"We're all attention," I piped up.

"Well, a bee lit on one of the micro-
phones and started to buzz and the whole
scene was ruined."

"Did that really happen?"

"No," said Roy cheerfully, "But it's
liable to any minute! There's a 'mike' near
that rose bush in the station yard."

On the way to the hotel Dick and Gary
told us about the frog-jumping contest that
is held once a year in Jimtown, a short for
the famous old Jamestown about twenty
miles from Sonora. A boy in 1886 dis-
covered that he could have a lot of fun
making bull-frogs jump and charged a cent
for admission. His plan was such a success
that he went on training and breeding them.
And now his son is doing the some thing.
The frogs are colossal in size and the miners
bet on them just as people do on race horses.

All the country round about has been
made famous by Bret Harte and Mark
Twain. The next afternoon Mr. Fleming
arranged for me to be taken to all the
points of interest. I went through the
house where the miners took their gold
dust to be weighed, saw the scales and
hundreds of curios. There is a replica of
the nugget found by the manager of the ex-
change who still lives there. His wife took
us through the place. The nugget was
worth $1500. I saw the old fire department
and the first engine used in the town. It
is perfectly good and is often called into
action on gala days.

But to get back to the company. It was
five up and six out next morning, too — in
fact, it was four-thirty when they banged
on my door. That morning there were close-
ups taken of Mary getting off the train and
Dick helping her with her bags. She is
half way across the station yard when a
cow breaks away from little Camilla John-
son and runs toward the watering trough.
The little school teacher, remembering the
surging mass of cattle, thinks the whole
herd is coming at her.

"Oh! A wild cow!" she screams and
runs off, while Dick, his arms full of lug-
gage, shouts reassurance to which she pays
not the slightest attention.

While they were 'setting up' for the next
scene, Mary collected a bottle of soda pop
and sat in a location chair under a huge
umbrella to cool off. Gary and Dick
crawled into a funny little buggy whose top
gave off a few inches of shade.

"Oh," said Mary, "they're doing dia-
logue. I think I'll go over and rehearse
with them." And that lasted for about an
hour. After lunch, the town sequence be-
ing over, we returned to our hay field and
I had to drive fifty miles from Sonora to
take the train back to Hollywood, I left
early so that I could see something of the
towns. Dick didn't have to work any more
that day so he came with me and fell so
in love with an old farm that looked just
as if it might have fifty years ago, that I
thought he surely would buy it before I
could get him away.

I was sorry I couldn't have remained for
the whole two weeks the company was there,
for later there were some charming scenes
taken of Dick and Mary in the pretty part
of the country.

It will be an interesting picture. You
know it is a version of the play, "The Vir-
ginian," by Owen Wister, that Dustin Far-
num made so popular on the stage.

For October J 929

Will Rogers

Continued from page 21

Owen Davis' boy is our son and Marguerite
Churchill is our daughter. Irene was once
a school teacher and when I was young I
was a horse doctor and you can bet Irene
doesn't let me forget it. But the past
doesn't shame me none. I tell her that
horse doctors are really smarter fellers than
human doctors, for a human doctor can
ask his patient where the pain is while a
horse doctor's gotta \now\ Well, anyways,
we go to Paris and "

"How about the talkies, Will? Do you
like 'em better than the silent?"

"Sure; this is just up my alley, for talk
is the way I've put over my gags. In the
silents I'd do a scene and say what I
thought was the right thing, but they'd
always change it in the titles. F'instance,
in 'The Texas Steer' I was a Congressman
and one day I'm walkin' along a street in
Washington — we shot it there — when I met
a white wings cleanin' the street. I said
to him: 'Is yours a political job?' He looked
at me in contempt. 'No,' he answers. 'Civil
Service. We have to pass examinations!'

"That gag had meanin'. What do you
think they changed it to? I say to the
fellow: 'One horse town, what?' and he
answers, 'You wouldn't think so in my
job.' Smart crack instead of satire, and
an old smart'crack at that.

"No," Will went on, "the best part of
the talkies is that when I say somethin' I
say it, and it stic\s. There's no way of
changin' it without cutting the whole
sequence. In 'The Texas Steer' they
turned the titles of the picture over to a
young smart'crackin' boy. They regret now
that they did it. But in this I'm safe.

"Furthermore, Frank Borsage, who's
directing 'They Had to See Paris,' has a
good subtle sense of humor. He doesn't
make me do such broad comedy as I have
had to do in most silent pictures. Also
he lets me ad lib, and that helps, for
some of my best gags come, to me durin' the
action.

'The other day I was doin' a scene in
an automobile. Irene and the kids was in
and I was gettin' in when the door jammed.
That wasn't in the script, so while I was
jerkin' I pulled a gag that gets a big laugh.
It's one more and it doesn't interrupt or
delay the action for a single foot of film.
Yes, Rob, this talkie stuff is right up my
alley."

Perhaps another thing that makes Will
happy is that this picture has reunited him
and Irene Rich. You may remember they
starred together in pictures years ago on the
Goldwyn lot. At that time Irene was
doing 'gingham aprons' and Will was a
tramp or a farm hand. It took the pro'
ducers all the intervening years to learn
that Irene is one of the most beautiful
characters of the screen, whether as a neg'
lected wife or a queen; while Will, instead
of being a character actor or a red-nosed
comic, is America's most whimsical phi'
losopher.

Yesterday at the beach Irene Rich told
me a cute one. Will has never kissed any
body — not even Irene — in all his film work.
As Irene says: "He's probably never kissed
any woman but Betty (his wife.)"

Well, his part in "They Had to See
Paris" called for him to kiss Irene, his
screen wife; and when he did so he blushed
so red that director Borzage asked him why
he was so embarrassed. Will laughed boy-
ishly and said : "Well, it seemed almost
like infidelity!"

103

"GIRL PICTURES"

Art pictures and Bathing beau-
ties 25 cents (coin). Money
refunded if dissatisfied. Photo
Sales Co., P. 0. Box 744-F, Chicago,
111.

NEW HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY AID!

Amagingly simple way to pep up
your skin and

KEEP THE NATURAL
GLOW OF YOUTH

Wonderful Hollywood method
freshens, tightens and refines skin
of face, hands and body: cleansing
and closing pores before using
foundation cream or face powder.
Gives smooth, alluring skin of
lovely texture, free from tiny par-
ticles of dirt or grease that finest
grade soap will not remove.

SEND FOR SAMPLE

Enclose 10c for generous sample — week's supply, or
$1 for SIX MONTHS SUPPLY. (C. 0. D. $1.20)
HOLLY-YOUTH CO., Dept. 17,
1133 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

ARE YOU A
BLONDE?

ts I

GET Blondex, the
special shampoo for
blondes only. Try it just
once and see how much
prettier your hair is —
softer, silkier, brighter,
with a lovely golden radi-
ance. Blondex prevents
darkening— lightens dull,
faded hair safely. No dyes
or harsh chemicals. A
million users. At all good
drug and dept. stores.

traveling Maris Wife

Wins

$36202°

Cash Prize

A Dream That
Came True Be-
cause of a Devoted
Wife's Vision.

ONE evening, before starting on
another selling trip, Mr. Webb
was gloomy and discouraged.
"It's the same old grind that gets
you nowhere," he murmured. "For
years we've been wanting a home of
our own but we're no nearer it now
than ever."

"If I could only do something," his
wife said earnestly.

"There's nothing you can do,
honey," he replied sadly. "It's up to
me to make enough money for a
down payment. The money we pay
for rent would take care of the bal-
ance."

"Nothing you can do" . . . the
words rang in her ears during the
days he was on the road. How they
humiliated her, made her feel use-
less and futile!

One morning she read an advertisement in
a magazine telling of a Cash Distribution
Plan by which hundreds of men and women,
boys and girls, were receiving up to $2,800.00
in cash. The plan seemed too good to be
true. Those who took advantage of this plan
did not have to spend a cent.

At first she was skeptical. It did not seem
possible that she could share in the awards
to be distributed, but the thought of the dif-
ference that $2,800.00 in cash could make
dulled her disbelief. Had she not acted de-
spite her doubts and sent for information,
she would never have had the happy surprise
that was hers when she received a telegram
announcing she had been awarded $3,620.00.
Her surprise was all the greater because her
cash award was larger than she expected be-
cause of her promptness.

For a few days she went around in a daze
until the certified check for $3,020.00 actually
arrived. Almost on the heels of the postman
came her husband, returning from a selling

trip. It was all she could do to keep from
shouting the wonderful news before he took
off his hat and coat. Afraid of his gibes, she
had not told him of her hopes.

"Let's not live in this old apartment any
longer," she cried, seating herself on the
arm of his chair. "Let's have a home of our
own."

"But, darling," he protested sadly, "you
know we haven't even the money for a down
payment."

"We have — we have," she cried, showing
him the certified check for $3,620.00. "We
can have that home of which we have always
dreamed.

There were others who read the advertise-
ment Mrs. Webb read, others who wanted a
home, but while they merely wished, she
acted. Mrs. Webb has been but one of the
many to benefit from the famous Cash Dis-
tribution Plans conducted in the past. Mr. I.
A. Nystrbm won $3,375.00, Miss Anna Linke
won $3,135.00, Mrs. Fannie Kelley won
$2,320.00, Mrs. Robt. Ellington won $1,750.00
and Mr. E. N. Garrett won $2,320.00.

Another of these plans is on now. By it,
hundreds of cash awards ranging up to
$3,500.00 in cash will be distributed. If you
want to share in the cash to be distributed,
fill out and mail in the coupon below.

Mr. L. E. Wilferd,

Dept. 3817 315 S. Peoria St.,

Chicago, 111.

I wish to share in your present Cash Dis-
tribution Plan without any cost or obliga-
tion to me now or later.

Name.

Address.

City.

State.

104

SCREENLAND

W)pular

I EARN saxophone, cornet, trom-
j bone— any bun<l instrument. Be
popular — make more money. It'«
easy. Play tunes flrst clay, Iteady
for band or orcheatra in 60 to 90
daya. The world's greatest band
Icttil.Ti 11 m] olma 1 1 t'litlurwe Conns.
Easiest blowing qualities; epeedi*
tat action. Yet theao BUperior in-
instrumenta cost no more. Write
for Free Book and full details
of FREE TRIAL and Easy Pay-
ment offers. Mention instrument.
C. C. Conn. Ltd. 1 084 Conn Bldg.
Elkhart. Ind.

IOSF.ru FALK,
Alltion . Mut . earned

fS.000 pU>lDK aConO
laiophone while la
cvUtft. Appeared In
8 countries; pUyi 23
Immuurntt, neuty til

Coosa.

ORLD'S LARGEST
\NUFACTURERS >f

HAND INSTRUMENTS

Writers of Song Poems

(or melodies)

Send for my bona fide proposition now.

Don't delay — be convinced.
Ray Hibbeler, D15, 2104 N. Keystone Av.,
Chicago.

CULTURED SPEECH

ATLASTISomethingNew!^

Learn Cultured Speech and Cor-
rect Pronunciation quickly from
phonograph records. Alsoincrease
your vocabulary this new easy
way. Be a fluent talker — culti-
vated speech is a social an d business
asset of the first importance. This new
"learn by listening" method highly recommended
byleadingeducators. Recordssentonfree trial. Write
for information and free Self Test. No obligation.

THE PRONUNCIPHONE INSTITUTE

3601 Michigan Ave, Dept. 6327, Chicago

MOVIE FANS

You'll be pleasant!; surprised with
these photos of all the famous movie
stars. They are S x 10 originals, ready
for framing or that photo album. 25c
each or 5 for $1.00. Also scenes from

all the recent photoplays 25c each or 12 for S2.50. Remember
every photo is an original. U. S. 2c stamps, noney order or
currency accepted. Established 1912.

S. BR A M STUDIO
Film Centre, 9th Ave.&45th, Studio 315, New York City

DEALERS INVITED

STORIES FOR
TALKING PICTURES

and Silent Screen Productions
in big demand.

There is now a double market — all submitted
story material whether containing dialogue or
not, is given consideration for talking pictures,
sound or silent screen production. We know
Studio demands and make personal submission
of manuscripts. COPYRIGHT SERVICE.
Pull particulars without obligation. Agency
Established 1917.

Universal Scenario Company

504 Western & Santa Monica Bldg.
Hollywood, Calif.

Are You ASways Excited? Fatigued? Worried?
Gloomy? Pessimistic? Constipation, indigestion,
cold sweats, dizzy spells and sex weakness are caused by NERVE
EXHAUSTION. Drugs, tonics and medicines cannot help
•weak, sick nerves! Learn how to regain Vigor, Calmness and
Sell Confidence. Send 25 cents for this amazing book*

RICHARD BLACKSTONE, w-4oio. FlatironBldg.,N.Y.

CORRECT
your NOSE

Improve your appear-
ance with Anita Nose
Adjuster. Shapes flesh
and cartilage — safely and
painlessly, while you
sleep. Age doesn't mat-
ter. Results are last-
ing. Write for FREE
BOOKLET.

ANITA INSTITUTE, L-69 Anita Bldg., Newark, N. J.

Hollywood's Youngest Generation

Continued from page 2 J

parents did with the earnings of the chil-
dren. Most of them pay for the children's
clothes and education out of their earnings
and put the rest aside for further education
and future financial independence. Some
of Philippe's money is in airplane stocks;
Anita Louise's is in a savings bank; Billy
Butts' in real estate. Everything is in the
name of the child, even little Wheezer who
also has income property — grapefruit land
in Arizona.

Anita Louise wanted very much to be
in "A Woman of Affairs" because she
admired Greta Garbo. "But can you ride
a bicycle?" asked Clarence Brown. "No,"
said Anita Louise, "but I will be able to
by twelve o'clock tomorrow."

"You never will be," laughed Mr.
Brown. "You have to race down hill on
it, so I'm afraid I'll have to get another
little girl."

"Please give me until tomorrow at
twelve," begged Anita so earnestly that the
director waited. And sure enough, at the
specified time Anita was an expert cyclist!

If their careers are handled carefully Mrs.
Fremoult as well as many other mothers
feel that pictures are of great educational
value to the children. On one picture
Anita and her mother were sent to Europe.
"I never could have taken here there, and
what we saw and the people we met were
most interesting."

From Philippe and Anita Louise, the lit-
tle aristocrats of the screen, we come to
'Our Gang,' reg'lar fellers, up to pranks
every minute. Wheezer was careening
about the set dragging an empty soda-pop
bottle and calling lustily for Bob Saunders.
He had an idea that Bob might be induced
to get him another soda pop until his
daddy set this matter straight in his mind.

Mr. Hutchins, Wheezer's father, told me
he had been employed in the miniature
department at Universal when Snookums
came on the lot. The child's success made
him think. He wanted his boy to have the
advantages that had been denied him as a
child, and while his salary might make it
possible if he lived, he knew there was no
prospect of piling up any vast sum against
a future that might not include him. He
thought if the child could make money in
pictures his future would be assured. Regu-
larly, aside from other investments, a sum
is set aside for this purpose.

"It went pretty hard with me at first,"
said Mr. Hutchins, "because I gave up my
own job in order to be on the set with
Wheezer. His mother didn't feel up to
assuming the studio responsibility and the
home too. But it seemed to me that I
was living off my kid and I made myself ill
over the idea. Mr. McGowan, the director
of 'Our Gang,' whom all the children all
adore, was wonderful. Told me to buck
up and look at the thing in the right light.
And now I'm better."

Wheezer had crawled into my lap and
instantly Pete, the Gang's dog, walked over
and looked hard at me. Evidently, I passed,
for he blinked his eyes, gave a lick at
my fingers and dropped down on the carpet
for another snooze. Anything that touches
any one of the children is Pete's business.
Publicity pictures were being taken and a
property man was lifted bodily into the
crib. Pete rushed at him and tugging at
the man's trousers tried to get him out.
It was so amusing that they took the pic-
ture that way. Pete is really a wonderful

dog. He understands everything said, not
just what his master tells him.

Jean Darling, the 'sweetheart' of the
Gang Comedies, has sincerity and a sense
of humor, also very nice manners.

Mrs. Darling told me her idea in putting
Jean into pictures was first, because the
child wanted to go; and second, to make
her independent if anything happened that
would leave her alone in the world.

Harry Spear is being raised by his grand-
mother whom he insists upon calling mother.
Although he is the tough boy of the gang
he is known on the lot as 'the good little
bay boy' because of his amiability. He has
a penchant for bringing home stray animals.
His grandmother is always prepared for a
new lot every time Harry goes a block
away from home alone. "I just got rid
of nine white mice yesterday," she said in
a relieved tone, "but the goat, the mud
turtles and the dogs are there to stay!"

One afternoon I walked in on Rachel
Smith. Paramount's school teacher, and her
brood. In her attractive study I found
Douglas Haig, Billy Butts, Paul Gertzman,
Dick Winslow Johnson, and Austin Jewell.

Douglas Haig is the lad who played
Emil Jannings' little son in "Sins of the
Fathers," and whom Jannings declared is a
genius. Douglas is now in Harold Lloyd's
latest funster "Welcome Danger." He is
a quiet child, and absorbs everything that
goes on around him.

Quite a different type is Billy Butts,
who, his mother complains, will never learn
that he is not talking to deaf people! He
was born in Texas, speaks with a Texan
drawl and the more interested he becomes
the louder he talks. Mrs. Butts said she
used to cry her eyes out because no one
would let her be an actress, so when Billy
came along and wanted to be an actor she
started right in to make it possible, much
to the disgust of his father.

"If you put Bill in pictures, I'll leave
home," he threatened.

"All right, honey." said his wife, "go
right along. But Billy is going into pic-
tures!" And he did and father is still at
home.

All that Billy makes is invested for him,
but he is given fifty cents a week for spend-
ing money when he is working. When he
isn't working he has to do odd jobs if he
wants more. One day his mother found
him trudging down the road with an enor-
mous pack on his back. "What on earth
have you there, Billy?" she asked. "Well,"
said Bill in his funny old-man drawl, "I've
been helping the canyon rag-picker, and I
earned a dollar!"

Billy was prouder of that money earned
from the rag picker than anything he ever
made in pictures, because pictures don't
seem like work and he never can under-
stand why he gets the fifty cents when he
'works' in the studio!

Dawn O'Day and her mother live in a
little green house on a hill-top in Laurel
Canyon. This talented child is nine years
old, with beautiful auburn curls. You saw
her in "Four Devils."

Dawn is a little tom-boy and loves base-
ball, but she also has a collection of dolls
of which she is passionately fond. She
makes some of their clothes, often putting
in hurried stitches before she goes to work
or to school. They were given her by
Mary Pickford, William Farnum, Pola
Ne°ri, Bebe Daniels. Tom Mix, and other

For October 1929

105

stars. Dawn has a quaint old-fashioned
manner but her eyes sparkle with fun when
you mention anything that amuses her. The
first picture she did was with William Far-
num. He had allowed his beard to grow
because he was supposed to have fallen in
life and turned tramp. The child turns him
back to the gentlemanly state. The beard
sequence was to be done first to save time
but they hadn't counted on the reaction of
a threcyear-old baby who was .supposed to
love this terrible looking man. Dawn was
scared to death. She wouldn't go anywhere
near him, let alone allow him to touch her.
At the end of three days his beard was
shaved. Next morning Dawn saw an entirely
different man sitting in the same chair. No
one paid any attention to her and she
stood off for some time watching Bill talk-
ing with Herbert Brenon. She came nearer
and nearer and then with a sudden resolve
climbed into Mr. Farnum's lap, and that
difficulty was over!

Philippe de Lacy was engaged for a pic-
ture directed by Luther Reed. He broke
his arm. Mr. Reed asked Rachel Smith
if she knew of another child immediately
available. "Leave it to me," said Miss
Smith, she telephoned Davey Lee's mother
that she was going to call for Davey and
put him in a picture. It was the child's
first bow to the screen, and everyone was
delighted with his work. Then came the
picture with Al Jolson in "Sonny Boy";
now he's a star.

And now, about the Johnsons!

There are six of them. Kenneth, the old-
est, is sixteen. Then there are Dick Winslow,
Camilla, Seessel Ann, Carmencita and Cul-
len, the baby, who plays with Thelma Hill
in comedies. He is called 'the Indestruct-
ible' because no matter what happens he
turns up on top! Both Mr. and Mrs. John-

son are newspaper writers. Mrs. Johnson
has started what she chafingly calls 'The
Great American Novel,' which is being
written between patching up the scratched
knee of one child and buttoning up the
trousers of another. When they all grow
up and if the grandchildren don't come
along too soon, she may finish it.

In the meantime she thinks, along with
most of the other mothers of screen chil-
dren, that there is nothing like giving the
children an early start. "No one spends
his life with his family. I want my chil-
dren to have open minds and to know that
the whole world is their family. The only
way they can learn this is, during their
impressionable years, to get out among
people, all kinds of people, and learn to
understand them."

All the Johnson children have earned
money in pictures. You have seen them all,
over and over again. But Mrs. Johnson
doesn't want them to confine their ideas
to pictures, and she hopes they won't fol-
low the profession when they grow up.
They are encouraged to objectify whatever
is in their nature in some form of artistic
or useful expression. They are never jeered
at or told that they can't do this or that.
Consequently all the children down to
Carmencita have written things that have
been published and paid for.

Dick and his family visited San Francisco
not long ago. While they were going
through Stanford University Mrs. Johnson
missed Dick. She found him completing
the tour with the President of the Uni-
versity! Afterwards she asked how they
had met. "Oh," said Dick, in his intelli-
gent, straightforward manner, "I knocked
on his door and told him that as I expected
to be in the college in a few years I just
thought I would like to meet him!"

Verdict: Guilty — Continued from page 76

"You know, it's kind of funny not to
be able to talk about your college or your
high school," he said, "and there are a lot
of times when I feel I've missed a lot.
Especially is this so at Easter and Christmas,
when the college gang pour in at the
Grand Central station, and stations all over
the country.

"On the other hand, however, the stage
has been mighty good to me and my
family. It gave my mother a start when
she was broke; it raised my brother, my
sister and myself, and it gave me an educa-
tion, punctuated with somewhat hard
knocks, that I could never have received
in any other way."

He was only four when his mother car-
ried him on for "The Toymaker of Nurem-
berg," and in the same year he was the
baby with Maude Adams in "Peter Pan."

In 1907 he had his first chance for
movie greatness. He met D. W. Griffith
and played with that great director in one
of his earliest pictures.

But Hackett was only five, and he can't
remember the name of the picture. "I can
only recall I liked Griffith because he let
me play with a lot of tin soldiers in the
picture and then gave them to me!"

Growing up, he played with Margaret
Anglin in "The Awakening of Helena
Ritchie" and with Doris Keane in "Happy
Marriage." Then came three years in pic-
tures with Lubin (1912-15).

But Fate wasn't quite ready to let him
become a film star.

So back he went on the stage to play
"The Outrageous Mrs. Palmer" with Mary
Young and Henry Dixey; "The Copper-
head" and "Abraham Lincoln."

Pretty slick sailing, eh?

But then he hit a long series of flops,
including "The Man in the Making," "Ma
Pettinger," and "Pat." But there's always
a silver lining — for a good actor; and since
"Glory," in 1922, he's been the most con-
sistently successful youngster on Broadway.

We've mentioned all of his recent suc-
cesses except "Nightstick," the last thing
he played before the movies grabbed him.
He came to Los Angeles to play Jimmy in
"The Trial of Mary Dugan," and Norma
Shearer signed him immediately for the
same role in the picture.

Film observers have not been surprised
at Ray Hackett's quick success in Holly-
wood. They point out that while he has
been 90 per cent of the theater, his early
screen work as a boy gave him a thorough
grounding in film essentials; a grounding
topped off by his work with Gloria Swan-
son in "The Loves of Sunya."

"I like the stage," he says. "Maybe I'll
be back some day. But I like the movies
so much more now that they have dialog,
that — well — Broadway may not see me for
a long time!"

Then he added: "Say, you might as well
help me out by stating that I am not a
relative of James K. Hackett. I'd love to
have had that honor — but my dad was in
the wholesale business!"

Richard Dix

Richard Dix, celebrated R. K. O. motion

picture star says:

"I have observed that the real beauties —
the girls that quickly outgrow the 'extra'
class — always seem to have that live, lus-
trous type of hair. It registers so well under
studio lights..."

You, too, may have lustrous hair by using
Hennafoam — the shampoo that contains a
pinch of henna. Buy a bottle at your deal-
er's or send 10 cents for a generous sample
to Dept. 10SL, The Hennafoam Corporation,
511 W. 42nd St., New York City.

CATALOG

AT WHOLESALE PRICES

196 pages of radio bargains. New Screen Grid, all-
electric. A C. Sets in beautiful consoles— also battery
operated sets as low as $15.95. Write today.
ALLIED RADIO CORPORATION
711 W. LAKE ST., DEPT. 68 CHICAGO

Superfluouj HAIR'all GONE

Forever removed by the Mahler'
Method which kills the hair root
without pain or injury to the skin
in the privacy of your own home.
Send today 3 red stamps far
Free Jiaoldet
We Teach Beauty Culture
D. J. MAHLER CO., 30-B Mahler Park. Provide

nee, R.

; Our combination method recommended for
■ filling out legs, arms, undeveloped parts or
■'general improvement of figure. No pills or

medicines.

30 DAY TRIAL

Inexpensive, harmless, pleasant. Full particu-
lars and proof (sealed) tree. Write for special
TODAY. Lfl REAUTE STUDIOS,
•SG HAMILTON TERRACE - . BALTIMORE, MD.

The HOLLYWOOD PLAZA HOTEL

Vine Street at Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood, California

Enter the doorway of this popular hos-
telry and you feel at home. There's an
atmosphere of cordial welcome which
marks the difference between the Holly-
wood Plaza and ordinary hotels.

Tour room, too, has that added touch
of distinction. Pictures on the wall,
overstuffed furniture, a floor lamp and
reading lamp . . . these are hut a few
of the features that make you feel at home.

Pig'n Whistle Dining Service insures
the best of food. Therefore, when you
are next in Los Angeles be sure to
investigate.

'Shorthand

SCREENLAND

HERE, at last. Is tho answer to tlio vital need for
an up-to-date, scientific system of shorthand.
Written In the ordinary A-B-C's, it is so simple, so
easy, so natural that you can learn its fundamentals
In ono evening. Amazing si>eed Quickly developed.

— tho only scientific system that can be written both
with pencil or on typewriter. Adopted by leading
business concerns. Originated by Miss E. B. Dear-
born, eminent authority on shorthand, who has taught
almost all systems for eighteen years in such institu-
tions as Columbia University. Rochester Business
Institute, Simmons College and the University of
California.

A Speedwriter. Grace O. Moorehouse. states: "After
completing only three lessons I took several letters
and the work was perfect. I am now employed as
a private secretary's understudy at a considerable in-
crease In salary."

Full Details Free

Let us tell you about Speedwrit-
ing, the Natural Shorthand, and
how you can learn to write short-
hand in a few hours of fascinat-
ing study. Send coupon today.
SPEEDWRITING. Inc.
Dept. BO-3402
200 Madison Avenue
New York, N. Y.

Send For Free Book

! SPEEDWRITING, Inc., Dept. BO-3402, !

• 200 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. ,'

J Gentlemen: Without obligation, please send me J

i your Free Book, and full details about Speed- •

J writing, the new, natural shorthand. [

i i

J Name - \

' Address i

i i

! City..._ - State '

! ( ) Speedwriting ( ) Speedtyping J

$25.00 to $150.00 aWeek

Have you a likable personality?
Do you get along well with other
people ?

Are you gifted with the ability to
converse intelligently with intelligent
people?

We offer an excellent opportunity
for splendid earnings to one man or
woman in each community — a man
or woman who has high ideals and
practical business sense — with a high
school education preferred, though
not essential — one who is willing
to work energetically and purpose-
fully— to make a real place for him-
self or herself in an occupation that
will keep you in constant contact
with the best people.

Much of the work is done by us ;
we pave the way, your personality
does the rest. A life income and
congenial occupation assured to those
who can qualify. Write fully about
yourself.

Address:

CHARACTER,
Care Screenland Magazine
49 West 45th Street
New York City

The Return of an Idol — Continued from page 56

director would yell to me to turn around
and show my face, leaving the road ahead
unwatched at about fifty miles an hour. I
couldn't wear goggles, either, for they'd
hide that face. We used to get faces into
the camera at all costs in those days, and
now it's a source of pride when an actor
can enact a scene and tell a story with his
back turned to the camera.

"The younger generation isn't as strenu-
ous, but I think we have better actors
among them than the general run in the
old days. Or, rather, I think they're per'
mitted to act. In the old days broad ges-
tures and expressions were called for and
deemed necessary, just as was the case on
the stage of some years ago. Repression is
a fairly new thing, and with it relative
motion showed up."

Wilbur deserted the screen to become a
playwright, along in 1915, and traveled to
New York with his trunk of plays, to win
success as one of the greatest stage dra-
matists of the decade. "The Woman Dis-
puted," "The Monster," which Lon
Chaney appeared in on the screen, "The
Stolen Lady," "The Song Writer" — these
are among the stage hits from his prolific
pen. Finally he went to London to pro-
duce one of his plays, and while there the
talking pictures appeared, and his friends
Lionel Barrymore and Willard Mack started
to direct them.

He decided to come home and get into
the game, and a few weeks later found him
back in California, where in the early days
of silent pictures he reigned as the screen's
most popular hero.

Like Barrymore, he has no desire to act;
he only wants to create. But it's possible
that he will act again, just the same — and
it will be interesting to see the idol of

yesterday's screen among the young idols

of today.

"I have always liked to think," says
Wilbur, "that the old horses of western
movies were pensioned off — just like the
old fire-horses. And I was pleased beyond
measure to find that William S. Hart's old
horses are treated in just that way, living
their old age in memories of the glories
of their past on his ranch near Newhall.
with plenty of oats and nothing to do.
The old western doesn't seem to be as
popular as it was, at least, they're not
making so many of them. Tom Mix's 'Tony'
seems to be the only equine hero to come
down into the present. I think he's the
Lon Chaney of horses — because age doth
not wither nor custom stale his box office
appeal."

The heroines, too, are different.

"They used to be fluffy, curly-haired
blondes — very soft and appealing," says
Wilbur. "And now they have boyish bobs
and boyish figures. I remember the cere-
mony attendant on placing one on a horse
in the old western days, what with the
long skirts and feminine fripperies that had
to be so carefully handled. Today a
modern girl could make a mount in a
running jump and never think anything
about it."

Beauty was at a premium then, but Wil-
bur thinks that the talkies have lowered its
market value. "Speech requires definite
character and personality rather than
beauty, and it's possible that the feminine
film favorites of tomorrow won't be as beau-
tiful as those of yore. But they'll be far
more positive personalities.

"But," he adds, "I'm old fashioned
enough myself to still like 'em pretty as
possible."

Hollywood Freedom — Continued from page 43

your best friends, might think, if they
didn't say, 'Isn't she conceited?' or 'I don't
see much in that!" or 'Yes, but what did
they say about me?' but your mother is
proud and glad about it.

"Mothers are people who can tell you
unpleasant things about yourself without
antagonizing you. You wouldn't believe
you were too cocky if someone else told
you so — but your mother will help you get
over it.

"My mother is eager to have me self-
reliant and brave. Courage is her watch-
word and I'm trying to make it mine. This
sort of courage: I don't smoke or drink,
not because my family object to it but be-
cause I have decided it is a poor thing to
do. In Hollywood, it takes courage to keep
on refusing cocktails and cigarettes when
people call you 'sap' and 'gaga.'

"I'm afraid I don't know enough about
the wrong kind of family to understand the
arguments about leaving home. There are
four of us and we're devoted to each other.
Freedom, if it meant doing without my
father, mother and little brother, would look
like a pretty drab thing. You see, I'm really
free. I solve my own problems, make my
own decisions, and yet if I need or want
it I can have all the help I ask.

"We are an all-for-one and one-for-all
family. Whatever happens to one of us
is good or bad news to the other three.

"My baby brother — well, how do families

get along without babies? When he was
coming, my mother told me about it — I was
thirteen and I'd spent most of my life beg-
ging for a baby brother. Mother and I
prepared for him together, bought the lit-
tle clothes and read the books about how to
look after him. When he arrived I was
simply overcome with joy. It was funny,
he seemed to know I loved him and he
wouldn't go to sleep for anyone else.
Mother used to say: 'Here, take your baby.
He won't take his nap for me.' Wasn't
I proud?

"Do I want to go off and live in a
bachelor girl apartment and miss all the cute
things he says and does?

"The other day some one asked him if
he was going into pictures when he grew
up. At first he said no. but later he
changed his mind. I asked him what made
him think anybody would want him.

" 'But I'm good," he assured me, 'see
how I look sad, how I can laugh, how
I can cry and be mad and be funny!'

"I almost died but I didn't let him see
me laugh. I looked across at mother and
said I'd seen John Gilbert do a little better.
And then he cried out-. 'Yes, but wait till
you see my sexy look!" "

Independence, whether at home or in a
bachelor apartment, is always threatened by
the male of the species.

"I haven't really been in love yet," ad-
mits Anita, "and I hope I shan't fall in

For October 1929

107

love for at least three years, because I have
so much to learn about my work that I'll
need to put all my attention on that. I
know girls aren't wrecked for life just
because they're in love, but it does take a
lot of time.

"Still, love seems to be something that
happens to people whether they want it to
or not, and nothing can be done about it
so far as I know. But you needn't go
around hunting for it. 'Is this he' every
time you meet a man will make you so
impatient that at length you'll get so tired
of looking you'll take anybody just to see
what love is like."

"The thing that gets my goat is these
married women leaping after the single
men," says Alice. "If I was married and
didn't like my husband I'd get a divorce
and be honest about it, not barge about
taking single men away from single girls.

"There are no clinging vines now. Some
women like to pretend they are helpless
and dependent because they think men like
it. They do, too. Men like to be kidded
into thinking they are great. They're
awfully vain. They resent a girl with in-
telligence.

"But I expect I'll marry one of the poor
simps — when I get through with my
career."

And after that — what price freedom?

Alice Joyce

Continued from page 41

"And who wants you to?" I came back
at her. "But must you play old ladies?
Do you yearn to be unique like that?
Don't you think you might have more fun
playing — well, light smart comedy, for
instance?"

She looked a little thoughtful. "I've
thought of that sometimes," she admitted
somewhat shyly. "Yes — I would like to.
The sort of thing Florence Vidor played.
I — I really do dislike wearing awful clothes,
you know — and deliberately making the
worst of myself. Sometimes I think it
would be very, very nice to step out and
pretty up in a picture. But — it just hasn't
happened. And there are always these
mothers. An endless string of very fine
old mothers begging to be played. And
they seem to think I can play them. Any-
way, they offer them to me. And ever since
'Beau Geste' I've obliged. "And," she
added defiantly, lifting her very beautiful
and quite determined little chin, "I'm really
very fond of them!"

After that, I didn't dare mention mothers.
But I couldn't help bemoaning the type
system of the movies, that labels an actor,
puts him in a pigeon-hole marked 'Heavy,'
'Ingenue,' 'Irish comic,' 'Grandmother,' and
keeps him there — well-fed but still hungry.

Alice Joyce has always been in the movies
but not of them. She is the one screen
celebrity who has held her high position in
spite of frequent retirements and thankless
roles. She still remembers the days when
she and Mabel Normand and Anna Q.
Nilsson worked as artists' models in the
New York studios. Anna is still one of
her best friends. She is a real movie fan.

Some day some smart Columbus among
the newer picture producers is going to
glimpse Alice Joyce at a Broadway opening,
ask to be presented, and offer her the lead-
ing role — that of a gay and graceful so-
phisticate— in his latest epic, "The May-
fair Madcap." And then Alice will have
to exchange her shawl for a scepter.

START TONIGHT

and Reduce Weight

Start Reducing tonight at home and
feel better tomorrow morning than
you have for months.

(Every statement certified from
actual experience)

Send the coupon for your first three
Fayro Baths

Thousands of smart women have
found this easy way to take off excess
weight once or twice a week. These
women take refreshing Fayro baths in
the privacy of their own homes.

Fayro contains many of the same
natural mineral salts that make effective
the waters of twenty-two hot springs of
America, England and Continental
Europe. For years the spas and hot
springs bathing resorts have been the
retreat of fair women and well groomed
men.

Excess weight has been removed, skins
have been made more lovely, bodies more
shapely and minds brighter.

THE HOT SPRINGS ARE NOW
BROUGHT TO YOU

A study of the analyses of the active
ingredients of the waters from twenty-
two of the most famous springs have
taught us the secret of their effective-
ness. You can now enjoy these benefits in your own bath. Merely put Fayro into
your hot bath. It dissolves rapidly. You will notice and enjoy the pungent fragrance
of its balsam oils and clean salts.

Then, Fayro, by opening your pores and stimulating perspiration, forces lazy
body cells to sweat out surplus fat and bodily poisons. Add Fayro to your bath
at night and immediately excess weight will have been removed in an easy, refreshing
and absolutely harmless manner.

RESULTS ARE IMMEDIATE

Weigh yourself before and after your Fayro bath. You will find you have lost
weight. And a few nights later when you again add Fayro to your bath, you will
once more reduce your weight. As soon as you are the correct weight for your
height, do not try to reduce further. No need to deny yourself wholesome meals.
No need for violent exercise. No need for drugs or medicines. Merely a refreshing
Fayro bath in the privacy of your own home.

TRY FAYRO AT OUR RISK

The regular price of Fayro is $1.00 a package. With the coupon you get 3 full
sized packages and an interesting booklet "Health and Open Pores" for $2.50 plus
the necessary postage. Send no money. Pay the postman. Your money refunded
instantly if you want it. The booklet also contains dietetic lists and information
compiled by eminent specialists.

fAYRQ

More than a million Fayro
treatments have been sold.

' FAYRO, INC.

I 823 Locust St., Pittsburgh, Pa. N-10-29 I

' Send me 3 full sized boxes of Fayro in plain package.
■ I will pav the postman $2.50 plus the necessary postage. It .
I is understood that if I do not get satisfactory results with |

the first package I use, I am to return the other two and
| you will refund all of my money at once.

I Name - |

Address -

' Citv _ State '

If'you' dio not live in the United States send international
Honey Order with coupon.

108

Eyelash Bcautijier

InjtonelvdirkenseycLnhesand brow
M.ikcs lashea appear longer and
more luxuriant. Gives depth,
brilliance, expression and charm
to the eyes. Harmless. Eisily
applied. Approved by millions
of lovely women the world over.
Solid or water-proof Liquid
Maybelline, Black or Brown,
75c at all toilet goods counters.

laAYDCLLINB CO., CHICAGO

SCREENLAND

I GUARANTEE YOlT
MUSCLES -orh/qCostl

COME ON, FRIEND,
GET A LOAD OF
MUSCLES- J GUAR-
ANTEE TO MAKE"
YOU STRONG- -
MAN, I'LL BUILD
YOU THE BODY
OF AN ATHLETE
-s4ASD I DONT
MB vW MAYBE!

SAY goodbye to that miserable, half dead carcass you've
been dragging around. I'm going to build you a NEW
BODY. I'll makeyouovcrou£sii2e,ana inside, too— strengthen
your internal organs, fill you full of glorious pep and energy.
Man. you'll feel like a two-year old. Give me just a few minutes
a day in your own home, and watch those muscles GROW!
I'll broaden your shoulders— fill out your chest — cover your
body with layers of massive muscles. That's what I'll do for
YOU-andldon'tpromise anything; I GUARANTEE results.

Send for MIRACLES in MUSCLE

FREE

Is your body worth a
t£ stamp? Then write
yournameand address
inthemargin andshoot
it in the mail TODAY.
By return mail you'll
get my big illustrated
book" Miracles In Mus-
cle" — chock-full of
muscle-building facts;
packed with pictures
of men re-built. Read
how a few minutes a
day at home gives you
MIGHTY MUSCLES
of STEEL. No cost,
no obligation Bend
TODAY.

Which is YOU ?

Look at those two pictures I Which Is
SOU? A puny, run-down weakling,
scorned by your fellow -men. avoided by
the girla, ashamed to show yourself
In a bathing suit? Snap out of it friend.
Take a look at that big boy at the right
end cheer up. That's the way TITUb
buildB men. And YOU'RE NEXT.

TITUS

55 East 11th Street
Dept. V-143. New York City

jRnsm

PORTRAIT

ENLARGEMENTS

eaca.

FROM ANY PHOTO
or SNAP-SHOT"
SIZE 16x20 INCH

(or smaller if desired)

The usual price of this work
is $5.00but by taking advan-
tage of this Sp'ecial
Offer you can get a beautiful life-like enlarge-
ment of that favorite picture of mother, dad,
6weetheart. baby or any friend for only 98 cents.
SEND NO MONEY— Just mail 09 the photo — any size (Full
figure, bust or group) and in about a week you will have your
enlargement guaranteed never to fade. It comes to you
j arrival pay postman 98c plus a few cents postage,
or send one dollar cash with order and we pay postage. Money
back if not delighted. You can send ua your most treasured
photograph, it will be returned to you unharmed.
FREE In- 9rder to advertise thia remarkable offer we send free
n ■ 25S every enlargement ordered, o Highly-Glazed
nana Painted miniature reproduction of the photo sent. Theso
miniatures alone are worth the whole price charged for the enlarge-
ment. Take advantage of tbia — "- " ■-- •

your order today. DO IT NOW.

really Amazing Offer and Bend

| ALTON ART STUDIO, Dept. II

| S6S4 West Lake St., Chicago, ill.

I Please enlarge artistically the enclosed photo.
■ Heturn enlargement and FREE Hand Painted
| miniature CO. D. 98c plus postage. (If J1.00
| 13 enclosed yon are to send pottage paid.)

| Name

| AddresB .

I Town
t__ — -

Check Size
Wanted

□ 16x20 in.

□ lOx 16 In.

□ 11x14 In.

□ 8 x 10 In.

Clara Bow's Love Story — Continued from page 23

Lyon, George O'Hara, director Victor
Fleming, and Garrett Fort, the scenario
writer. But despite all their protesta-
tions of affection it remained for Harry,
of the good old Newark Rcichman family,
to sing the love song the words and music
of which charmed a $10,000 diamond
right on the third finger of her left hand.

Clara's been fandom's pal for what seems
like a long time. But Harry needs further
introduction to the lads and lassies who
pay the film freight. More even than that
already vouchsafed him by the red-hot
Cinema Cinder.

'Way back in 1913 Harry was 'beating
a box', as they say, in western cabarets.
He must have been an awful pest to the
neighbors as a kid. For no one can play
a piano a la Richman without fingering
those scales a lot of thousands of times.
Drifting from this to that, he finally ended
up in California, presumably because there
is an ocean there that stops further prog-
ress unless you're a channel swimmer. It
was here and there for Harry. He once
played in a stock company distinguished by
the presence of Richard Dix. At another
time he appeared with Marjorie Rambeau
and Willard Mack. Vaudeville brought
him back to New York, and left him there.

Harry entered a musical comedy. The
funniest thing about it was the title, "Have
You Seen Stella?" Harry hadn't. And the
show flopped. So he read a flock of suc-
cess stories about trying-again and sticking-
to-it, then went out and got a job as ac-
companiest for — you'll never guess, so I
may as well tell you — Mae West. Yep,
"Diamond Lil," herself. This seems to
have been a turning point in his career.
Later he worked with and for the Dolly
Sisters and Nora Bayes, and other big num-
bers. Another crisis came with the advent
of radio. He built an enormous following
over the ether waves, and was smart
enough to capitalize this popularity by
night-club work. Shortly he became a sen-
sation. You've heard him, surely, croon-
ing King For a Day, Muddy Waters, for
which he wrote the music, Will You Re-
member Me, of which he wrote the lyrics.
Laugh, Cloum, Laitgh and a dozen other
hits.

Unlike Clara, Harry has been Through
It All once. The 'Flame of Filmdom' has
never yet been wed. But Harry tried with
Yvonne Stevenson back in 1918 — and failed

in 1922. The marriage took place in
Santa Ana, California. And, prophetically
perhaps, the divorce was granted in dear
old Brooklyn.

The cave man stuff won Clara, Harry
avers, shaking the slave bracelet she gave
him back off his wrist to smooth the waves
in his hair. It may be so. But there must
be more than that, for the Hollywood lov-
ers are not laid out in lavendar.

"She was used to being 'yessed,' "
Harry explained to enquiring reporters.
"I no-cd her, said what I pleased. The
first time I 'phoned asking if I could call,
she said I couldn't."

But did that stop him? You don't know
Harry. He just answered:

"Fine, I'll be over in ten minutes."

And upon the word of Newark Reich-
man he declares for publication that he
kept his promise. And not only that, but —

Fifteen minutes after his arrival he had
persuaded her to marry him!

Clara has the ring. And Harry has the
slave bracelet. You can't imagine what it
says. Just listen!

"To Harry of my Heart . . . Clarita."

So there you are!

Harry says it's not quite certain, but it's
highly probable that when Clara's Para-
mount contract expires she'll retire from
pictures to be 'a good house-wife ! And
if you want more news to talk about at
breakfast, the date is set as some time prior
to September 12. Harry insists that he and
the Little Woman sail for an European
honeymoon on that date!

It's not so improbable as it sounds.
Months back Clara threw a scare into
Hollywood by saying she was sick of it
all, that she wanted to live like other girls:
to get married, and have babies.

"She's needed a boss for a long time."
says Harry. "And I am going to be that
boss!" Does Clara love it? Well, it looks
that way.

Editor's Note: SCREENLAND is not mak-
ing any rash promises that the Clara Bow-
Harry Richman romance will still be flour-
ishing by the time you read this. On the
other hand, Clara may become Mrs. Rich-
man any time now. At any rate, as we
go to press the romance is the chief topic
of conversation along Broadway, N. Y.,
and Hollywood Blvd., so we thought you'd
like to know about it!

A Queen of Kings — Continued fro??? page 71

motion pictures. But we were too absorbed
in our new life to pay much heed to mun-
dane matters. Instead of considering the
silent screen Carlotta continued to study
for an operatic and concert career.

This devotion to her work has been char-
acteristic of Carlotta since I have known
her. It is for this application to the task
she set for herself that I sincerely admire
her. Not that she had no time to spare
for friends or for play. A few loyal friends
and the right amount of play keep a healthy
balance in the artist's life. While we en-
joyed the theater and opera together, our
real work was never lost sight of. Carlotta
gave her working hours to mastering the
lieder of Schubert and Schumann, to polish-
ing her French, German and Italian. With
all this she cheerfully kept her home cosy
and comfortable. No 'home-body' of a

wife wholly devoid of artistic leanings
could have made home half as comfortable
for me.

It is easy enough to be photographed
in one's kitchen or pantry, making biscuits,
or helping mother with the lemon pie.
With the aid of cleverly contrived pictures
you can fool most of the public. But true
love of home is inborn, and cannot be
affected.

It is difficult to give the public a hus-
band's slant, so to speak, on Carlotta King,
becau.se I do not think of myself as a
typical husband. We have never settled
down in the fullest sense of the term. Per-
haps we never shall. We still mill about
and continue pals, and criticize each other
as we see fit. Incidentally Carlotta King's
criticism has helped me to some of my best
work. She knows my best efforts from my

For October 1929

109

worst, and loses no time in telling me.
This brings up an outstanding quality in
her make-up which has helped put Carlotta
where she is. She always knows just what
she wants, and is prepared to make her
decision upon the moment. Others, like
myself, may hesitate and waver between two
courses. Carlotta knows she is right and
goes ahead.

The way has not been all smooth. Car-
lotta's voice had to struggle against handi-
caps, surmount barriers that at times seemed
insurmountable. But it survived, perhaps
by virtue of her faith in the cause in which
she had enlisted.

Her interest in the drama, which she
studied after leaving high school, led her
to play in Shakespearean productions, such
as the all-star presentation of "Julius Cae-
sar" in Hollywood Bowl in 1926. She
also essayed the difficult emotional role of
Mabel Dancy in Galsworthy's "Loyalties."
The golden thread of song still illumined
the pattern of her life, but her great musi-
cal opportunity, the chance to create a role
of distinction, had not yet come.

In the early fall of 1928 Carlotta was
suddenly discovered when Warner Brothers
sought a prima donna for their Vitaphone
production of "The Desert Song." The
screen's first operetta was ready for filming,

but the young woman had not been found
whose voice would record as well as her
features filmed. A story gained circulation
that Carlotta King was discovered on the
radio. Nothing could be farther from the
truth, for she is not, never has been a
radio singer. Carlotta was called to the
studio and her test satisfied executives that
she was the girl for the part. Thus in her
first picture, almost before she had adjusted
herself to this new medium, she was cast
in a featured role, a role that every young
actress in Hollywood coveted.

It was a splendid opportunity, but re-
member that it found her ready, and that
she worked hard to make good.

Thus on wings of song was Carlotta
wafted into cinemaland. A few days after
the premiere of her first picture she signed
a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer. When she was assigned to make
"Rose-Marie" for her next picture, she
nearly cried. Since she had first heard that
operetta sung on Broadway, it had been her
dream to re-create the role.

I can see Carlotta going on to bigger
things, because I know her moods and re-
actions, and feel sure that opportunity will
always find her ready. For the goddess of
song is ever good to those of her worship-
pers who seek her with a whole heart, and
unselfishly.

Gloria Hallelujah! —Continued jro?n page 31

it meant. Nor care to learn.

Yet the courage which pierced the mirage
of despair which seemed about to crowd
her to oblivion, melts to school-girl terror
at a seeming trifle.

She can face a lion, but not a mouse.
It took all of Gloria's bravery to undergo
the trial of attending "The Trespasser"
premiere.

Perhaps we wouldn't like it, she thought.
The sound device was sure to go wrong.
There'd be something the matter with the
projection machine. Her songs wouldn't go
over. A thousand imps devilled her with
three-pronged forks. She couldn't go. She
simply wouldn't go. But, of course, when
the hour struck she was there, perfectly
poised, smiling, triumphant. She had tamed
the talkies. She had proven herself a Sul-
tana of Sound, as of Silence. Gloria,
Hallelujah! She goes right along marching
on!

During her brief rest, the ever-active
story brigade in Hollywood kept busy
evolving new glamourous entertainments
for her to give us. As soon as "Queen
Kelly" is restored to her rightful realm,
Gloria begins another picture. And the
story will fit her as perfectly as that green
gown.

"I plan to make three pictures a year,"
she explained. "Since 1927 I have had
only one release besides 'The Trespasser.'
I dorr't think this is enough. If the public
is kind enough to support me, to buy my
wares, the least I can do is to supply the
demand with my work."

A wise decision, surely. And a happy
one for us who follow the lights that spell
'Gloria Swanson' on theater marquees.

Today Gloria seems far more youthful
than ever. And more attractive, too, ad-
mitting that possible. There is a warm —
an understanding — a tolerance beneath the
fascinating polish of sophistication. She
has lost nothing of her personality. But
she seems, somehow, to have added to it.
She is prismatic. With the rare faculty of
arousing enthusiasm in world-weary, dis-
illusioned men through the mere strength

of her presence, her conversation stimulates
the veriest dolt to loquaciousness, and the
sisterhood of sobbing snobbery is charmed
into lingering commentary about her babies,
little Gloria and littler Joseph. She's a
happy combination, our Marquise of the
Movies.

She's democratic. With reservations.
You'd scarcely slap Gloria on the back. No
more than you'd address the Barrymore as
'Eth.' Yet she is a gracious hostess, superb
in the small courtesies that count so greatly.
She considered it a great lark to apply in
disguise for work as an extra girl. But
she has a certain dignity that commands
respect. And she resents impertinencies,
or too deep delving into the corners of life
which she rightfully considers the very
private domain of herself — and her loved
ones.

And of these there are three. Those
two precious youngsters, ever so carefully
shielded from the tawdriness of publicity,
and the titled gentleman whom Gloria pre-
sents as 'my husband.'

Preparing to depart for Paris, she had
completed the task of throwing into vol-
uminous trunks 'a few clothes for the ship."
For the instant there was a lull in her busy
day. For a too brief moment she was alone
in the great suite that towered high in a
many-storied hostelry. She parted the
drapes at the wide window, and gazed with
clouded eyes over the glittering city far be-
neath her. And beyond the city to the sea
that clamored at its shore. And further
yet. On and on. Deep into the eyes of
the husband who awaited her halfway
across the world.

As she tarried there, her slender beauty
silhouetted against a square of sullen, grey
sky, she ceased to be La Marquise, the Glor-
ious Gloria of the screen. She was just a
girl — five feet no inches tall. A little
weary. A lot lonely.

Slowly she turned away, humming a tune
ever so softly. It was an old song, and a
sweet one: "I Love You Truly." Gloria
has a world of feeling in her voice.

Any PHOTO

ENLARGED

Size 16x20 Inches
Same price for fall 4ffe
length or bust form, ■ ■
EToupa, landscapes, llaf
pet animals. etc.„or^WJ^
enlargements of any mmm m
part of group pic- ^^^^
ture. Safe return of your own
original photo Guaranteed.

SEND NO MONEY

Justmail photo or*enap9bot(any
size)and within a week yon will
receive your beautiful life-like
enlargement aizel6x20in. guar-
anteed fadeless. Pay postman
98c plus postage or send $1.00
with orderand wepay postage.

Special Free Offers

enlargementwe will send Free
a hand-tinted miniature repro-
duction ot photo sent. Take ad-
vantage now of this amazing
©ffer—eend your photo today.

UNITED PORTRAIT COMPANY™

1652 OGDEN AVE., DEPT. M-209, CHICAGO.

ILL.

GOOD OLD FASHIONED EYE-SIGHT

The NATURAL EYESIGHT SYSTEM saves
sight, rebuilds eyes and makes victory over
glasses possible. Now in use in over 20
countries.

Always Sold on 30
Days' Approval

The NATURAL EYE
NORMALIZER is the
revolutionary invention
which makes it easy
to use the Natural Eye-
sight System in your home.
No Drugs or Medicines of Any Kind
Send for PULL and FREE information tell-
ing how thousands have solved their eye
problems at home.

Natural Eyesight Institute, Inc.

Dept. 109-H Los Angeles, Calif.

ASHFUU

"Shame on yon!" Are yon nervous,
embarrassed in company of the other
sex? Stop being ehy of Btrangers. Con-
querthe terrible/car of your superiors.
Be cheerful and confident of your
futurel Your faults easily overcome
•o you can enjoy life to the fullest.
Send 25c. for this amazing book*
RICHARD BLACKSTONE
B-4010 Flatiron Bide. New York

Sell Me Your

Spare Time

Representatives wanted everywhere
to secure 100,000 new readers for
ScnEENLAND — the smartest, snappiest
motion picture magazine published.
Everybody goes to the "movies" —
nearly everybody likes to read a
magazine that keeps them informed,
up to the minute, on the new produc-
tions, the doings of their favorite
stars, screen incident and gossip —
Scueenland does just that.
Let me show you an easy pleasant
way to turn your spare time into
money by representing Screexland
in your community. Be the first in
the field. No experience necessary.
Write me today for full particulars
and supplies. Address,

Subscription Manager

SCREENLAND

49 West 45th Street
New York, N. Y.

"LEGPADS" lTMKbEs:SHdAEPfyLY

DETECTION

Rubber Busts
Elastic Stockings
Abdominal Supporters
Reducing Rubber Garments

Eyelashes; Wifrs; Face Rejuvenators;
Hand Beautifiers; Silk Opera and
Service Weight Hose; Impersona-
tors' Outfits.

S. P. J. CAMP, 235 Fifth Ave., New York.

110

SCREENLAND

MARRIED WOMEN

Order by Mail

C7 JAGI -SLI PS moke feminine hy (dene
'-'convenient' any t lino — anywhere.
Stive yourself the cmoarrassment of
l?olng into a drug store, by taking ad-
vantage of my personal, confuh ntial
eervico rendered to married women by
mail.ThesoHpeciaJly developed antisep*
tic cones destroy all germ-laden accu-
mulation. Carry a box with you forcon-
venience. Safer, simpler to ase than
carbolic acid or compounds containing
bichlorideof mercury . VAGI-SLIPS are
preferred by modern women every-
where. They are reliable; contain no poison; will not injur©
delieute membranes. Bedainty, healthy— free from all worry.

FREE INSTRUCTIONS for use of VAGI-SLIPS in feminine
hygiene included with your package. Send $1.00 NOW for
^ generous trial box in plain wrapper. Money
back if not satisfied,

VIOLET <PAGE
143 Fourth Avenue (Dept. eio)
New York City

MONEY FOR YOU

Men or women can earn $15 to $25 weekly
in spare time at home making display cards.
Light, pleasant work. N o canvassing. We
instruct yon and supply you with work.
Write to-day for full particulars.
The MENHENITT COMPANY Limited
2S2 Dominion Bide. .Toronto, Can

SCREEN STARS

25 Pictures of famous
movie stars. Good
clear prints. Size 3J4*
5 J/2- Sent prepaid on
receipt of 50c.
JOHN 0. WEIGEL PICTURES CO.
Box 529. San Francisco. Cal.

RUPTURE IS
NOT A TEAR

NO BREAK TO HEAL

Rupture is not a tear, but purely a muscular
weakness in the abdominal wall. Trusses merely
brace these muscles but do not strengthen them
— on the contrary, the gouging of the ordinary
truss pad often increases this weakness as it
tends to shut off circulation of the blood.

STUART'S ADHESIP PLAPAO-PADS are
entirely different — being mechanico-chemico ap-
plicators— made self-adhesive purposely to keep
the muscle-tonic called "Plapao" continuously
applied to the affected parts, and to minimize
danger of slipping and painful friction. The
adhesive fabric is soft as velvet, and clings to
the body without straps, buckles or springs.
Easy to apply — comfortable — inexpensive.
Awarded Gold Medal, Rome, Grand Prix, Paris,
Honorable Mention, Panama Pacific Exposition,
San Francisco, etc. For almost a quarter cen-
tury stacks of sworn testimonials from many
different cous£ries report success — without deiay
from work. The epidermatic absorption of
Plapao utilizing "mechanico-chemico" therapy
tends toward a natural process of recovery,
after which no further use for a truss.

Stop wasting your time and money on old-
fashioned devices. Learn how to close the
hernial opening as nature intended, so the
rupture can't come down. Send no money;
just mail the Free Test coupon below. For
your own good — write today — tomorrow may
be too late.

FREE TEST COUPON

Plapao Laboratories, Inc.

703 Stuart Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.

Send me a Free 10 day test supply of
the remedial factor Plapao and 48-page
illustrated book on Rupture ; no charge for
this now or later.

Name ..
Address

In New York

Continued from page 75

weeks; but then the company decided to
make "Escape" at the eastern studio also,
so it means at least two more months here
for Mr. Brook. He is more enthusiastic,
he says over his role in "Escape" than any
he has ever played.

It was nice to see Alice Terry again.
And she never looked prettier! She was
gone such a long time over in Europe I'd
quite forgotten how really stunning she is,
with her dark reddish hair, big eyes, and
wholly endearing smile. Alice is one of
the cleverest girls who ever made a picture,
you know — she has a bubbling Irish wit
and a complete lack of vanity, refreshing
to. encounter in a successful film actress.
She and her husband, Rex Ingram, love
the south of France. Ingram has head-
quarters at a film studio in Nice. He
considers the conditions there ideal for
making pictures. Alice, however, can't for-
get America. She has to visit us several
times a year, at least, or she grows home-
sick. The latest picture and first talkie in
which she appeared in Europe was called
"Broadcasting," for Franco-Films. She and
Rex are both under contract to Franco.
Alice went off to Hollywood to make a
survey of the sound studios to report to
her husband. Edward Corniglion-Nolinier,
well-known French director, is also 'looking
them over' out there.

Jack Buchanan was in town a day or
two before sailing off for his native Eng-
land, which he left to make one picture
for First National- Vitaphone : "Paris," with
Irene Bordoni. Buchanan is tall, handsome,
immaculate, and awfully British. And
quite, quite charming.

"Which do you like better, the screen
or the stage?" I asked this matinee idol
from London.

"Well," he said, "I should hate awfully
to think I should never be on the stage
again; and I should hate awfully to think
I should never be in a picture again!" And
he smiled his nice, English smile, as if that
settled everything!

He enjoyed making "Paris" immensely,
he said; and declared that he thinks Irene
Bordoni will be a sensation on the screen.
As for himself — his role was too much of
a 'straight' part to be exactly the type of
thing he most enjoys doing; but he man-
aged to inject some comedy into it — and
comedy is what he really likes. He has
offers to come back to Hollywood any time
to make more pictures. But his contracts
in England will prevent his taking
advantage of these offers for some time to
come. Ziegfeld wants him for a musical
comedy with Marilyn Miller. He will soon
open his own London theater seating 2,000,
in Leicester Square — which was to be called
'The Buchanan' after him until it was de-
cided that this title might confuse people
into thinking that every play produced
there would star Mr. Buchanan himself.
As a matter of fact, he will help produce
and write most of the plays, and will ap-
pear in a great many of them. A busy
man. Jack Buchanan; and a most diplomatic,
charming gentleman.

"Is it pronounced MacLaglen, McLough-
lin, or McLachlen?" was the first question I
popped at Vic as he came into the office.

"All three, and each correct!" he replied.
He'd come up to Screenland to pay a
friendly call, and immediately seemed to
fill up the editorial rooms with his husky
presence. He's six feet tall and proportion-
ately broad. You never saw such shoulders!
And yet when he sits down to talk to you
he wants to tell you all about his nine-
year-old son and the athletic records he is
breaking at school.

Soldier of forunte. Mclaglen had many
adventures before he began to stage sham
battles for the Hollywood cameras. He was
successively a soldier in the Boer war, en-
listing at fourteen, champion boxer, medi-
cine show man, prospector, World Warrior,
and, finally, motion picture actor. His
favorite film is still "What Price Glory?"
with "The Cock-Eyed World" a close
second. He is anxious to know what you
think of this new picture in which Cap-
tain Flagg speaks from the screen for the
first time — and in what language!

Everybody at the Paramount Long
Island studio was sorry when "The Gay
Lady" was completed. Reason: the star,
Gertrude Lawrence, had such a good time
making the picture that she infected every
member of the cast and the crew with her
good nature and sportsmanship. When she
wasn't doing a scene she'd be singing for
the entertainment of the extras on the set.
She taught the chorus one of her new
songs. And if Gertrude Lawrence isn't a
real hit in her first film feature don't ever
take my word for anything again, because
she looks like a winner to me! She hails
from England, you know, and came over
to America with the first edition of "Char-
lot's Revue," in which she starred with
Beatrice Lillie and Jack Buchanan. Miss
Lawrence made her screen debut in a
Movietone short subject some time ago, and
only stage contracts prevented her from
following up this first success with other
pictures. If "The Gay Lady" goes over
as it should, 'Gertie' will doubtless make
other movie musical comedies next season,
while she is playing on Broadway in
"Candlelight." Right now she is back in
London playing a short engagement on the
stage over there.

Charles Ruggles scored such a success in
his first two talkies, "Gentlemen of the
Press" and "The Lady Lies" that he has
been signed to a long-term contract by Para-
mount. No — Charlie won't go to Cali-
fornia. He will work in pictures to be
made at the eastern sound studios. His
home is Setauket, Long Island, about 60
miles from Manhattan. Charlie is a home
boy. He always goes home. As soon as he
finishes his nightly stint in a Broadway
theater he jumps into his roadster and
motors those 60 miles to his house in the
country, where his wife, 'Ginger,' is wait-
ing for him. Incidentally Charles is the
second Ruggles to achieve a measure of
fame and fortune in the films. Brother
Wesley Ruggles is an esteemed director out
Hollywood way.

For October 1929

111

Sex Appeal Defended— Continued from page 29

that have more of it than Mary Pickford,
and actors who have more of it than Al
Jolson. The movies must entertain: hence,
the players must have a something that
spellbinds, charms, seduces, entrances the
audience. No amount of skill, learning,
education, ability to think, organise or ex-
ecute will be of any avail to a player un-
less this last something is added to it. Mrs.
Glyn has called it IT. It is not necessarily
synonymous with sex-appeal, but usually
it is bound up with it.

When do men and beasts, without es-
pecial talent for it, become artists, become
actors and actresses strutting their stuff?
The answer is simple. In the mating season
the male bird comes out in full color, puts
on an exhibition before the female, and
bursts into song. And when love descends
upon the sons of man, what happens? The
lout dolls himself up from head to foot,
and learns a whole new set of manners.
We say he woos the maiden. And what is
this wooing but an attempt at acting — at
being charming, gorgeous, irresistible, seduc-
tive, delightful, mysterious in order to win
over the audience, although the audience
happens to be only one. Some lovers try
to win with a laugh, others with a tear, still
others by heroics. But whatever the method,
whatever the technic, it is rooted in the
dim backward aeons when the first animal
of intelligence set out to woo and win his
mate.

To say then that sex-appeal is of minor
importance is therefore laughable. Charlie
Chaplin may do it in the clown's way but
he is making love to his audience just as
surely as Clara Bow does it. For the aim
of both is that the audience should have
affection or love for them, so that the
theaters are thronged whenever their works
appear. The star, of course, need not be
conscious of any sexual emotion when he
is acting, but certainly he has that inde-
finable something that bursts out, more or
less, in all of us when we are in love.

It is perfectly true that the direct sex-
drama isn't the only kind that enthralls us.
The story of mother love, of racketeering,
of war and adventure claims us also. But
the power of these stories goes back in the
end to the actor himself, to the fact that
he has that charm, seductiveness, appeal
which appears in youth and maiden in the
time of love.

More than that. Every wise editor, every
wise director will tell you that a story or
a picture only rarely succeeds if it lacks
love interest. Neither "The Big Parade"
nor "The Birth of a Nation" would have
had half their pull if they had not also
had appealing love stories intertwined with
the epic theme.

It's an old question: What is art? But
from one angle we can say that it is a
blend of the spiritual and the sensuous.
It has ideas, plot, story, character — those
are on the spiritual side. But there must
also be a sensuous side. That is, some-
thing which directly reaches the senses.
Music comes to the ear — it is sensuous, it
is sound. A picture comes to the eye —
it is sensuous, it is sight.

Rarely are these two things, the spritual

and the sensuous, evenly balanced in a
work of art. The music of Wagner is more
sensuous than spiritual; the music of Beeth-
oven irri more spiritual than sensuous. A
poem by Shelley is etheral, almost de-
void of the sensuous; jazz music is nothing
but. We say of the latter that it is sexy.
And there we have struck the root of the
matter. All the senses of man are bound
up together in an overmastering sense: his
sexuality. And hence we can say that a
work of art necessarily derives on the one
hand from the spiritual in man, but just
as necessarily from the sexual.

Sex-appeal not important! It is one of
the two chief ingredients in all art. How
often it has been said of a young actor
or actress of talent: "He lacks something.
He has the goods, he has the technic. He
lacks that flaming something. He ought to
have a love experience. He ought to fall
in love. Then it will be awakened in him."

This is merely saying that if he knows
love, his sensuous side will come to life;
he will become a true actor, however
humble. From then on a richness enters
his art which before it lacked.

Are these women with sex-appeal sky-
rockets? I do not think so. Just as many
men and women with small sex-appeal have
disappeared from the movies as those with
much of it. The childlike charm of Mary
Pickford, carefully insulated from anything
sexy, disappeared. And what did she have
to do then? She had to allow her sex-
appeal and appear as a Coquette!

It may be true that Greta Garbo will
cease to hold her audiences much longer;
though I, for one, doubt it. But if she
does lose her hold it will be because her
heart isn't any longer in the work, or she
becomes too 'Americanized,' in the sense
of trying to make herself over, say, in the
image of Marion Davies or Esther Ralston,
a mistake some of the foreign actors have
made. But so long as she holds true to
herself, we shall see the strange spectacle of
Americans by the millions appreciating a
sex-appeal that isn't hammer-and-tongs, like
that of Theda Bara or Mae Murray, but
something that is subtle, delicate, something
that is olives, not prunes.

What is that appeal? It is sometimes
merely in the eyelids coming down over
the eyes as the head is lifted; sometimes in
the rythm of her walk across a room; some-
times in the fascinating, casual almost cruel
look as she watches, for instance, her lover
fighting another man for his life. She is
not the Prize Beauty Contest type of
beauty; she is not made after the usual
pattern. One can't point to any arrange-
ment of features, any outline of body, and
find out just why she appears so beautiful.
It is the flaming something in her. Mr.
Seldes says it is her sex-appeal. Well, if
it is that, let us have more of it. It merely
means that she is a true actress — in one
way extremely spiritual, in another ex-
tremely sensuous.

Sex-appeal needs no defense. Without
it, the seven arts, and what Mr. Seldes so
cleverly calls 'the seven lively arts,' would
simply cease to exist.

Screen land has started something with this sex appeal
debate! This is fast becoming a magazine of controversy.
Watch for some discussions in the next issue!

Wear and
Take Orders for
My Amazing Hats

Ms' fine Super-Quality Wool Felt and
Belgian Fur Felt Hats are taking
country by storm. I need men
to wear sample hats and take
orders from friends. A saving of $2
to $5 guaranteed on every hat.

FREE Offer Sample Hat
Rush name for complete equipment
and sample Hat offer, sent I'KEE.
Experience not necessary. Si art in
spare time. I furnish everything.

Write auick. I'll also send you FREE complete
line Rain-Proof, Made-to-Measure Caps in latest
styles. J. W. Taylor, Pres.

TAYLOR HAT & CAP MFRS.,
Desk P-340 Cincinnati, Ohio

PRACTICAL NURSING
At Home in 12 Weeks

Marvelous calling. Earn $20 to $30
weekly caring for invalid in your
vicinity while learning. We help
secure positions. Write
MISS TULL, H-6206 Winthrop, Chicago, III.

Ybxx too can Have
a lovely
Form/

Tfeio Home

Method
Brings Quick
Results

I have helped thousands of flat chested girls and women
develop a beautiful feminine form. My own treatment
will liuickly give you a full firm form. Ugly lines disap-
pear just by the simple application of my rich, luscious
MAltVELA CREAM. The results are truly magical.
FREE Confidential instructions how to mould
your form to full, rounded, shapely pro-
portions— included with my jar of Marvela Cream.
SAVE $1.00 — Send only $1.00 for large jar. (Regular
$2.00 Size) mailed postpaid in plain wrapper.
Limited time offer.

MARY TITUS

105 East 13th Street, Dept. 1015, New York, N.Y.

DEAFNESS IS MISERY

Multitudes of persons with defective hearing^
and Head Noises enjoy conversation,
go to Theatre and Church because they
the Leonard Invisible Ear Drums which
resemble Tinv Megaphones fitting
in the Ear entirely out of sight
No wires, batteries or head piece
They are inexpensive. Write for
booklet and sworn statement of
the inventor who was himself deaf.

A. 0. LEONARD, Inc., Suite 1 84 70 5th Ave., New York

this jewelry is yours for selling
only 6 Boxes Mentho Nova Salve at
25 cents. Wonderful for catarrh, cuts
burns, etc. Order today. When sold
return $1.50 and all 5 pieces are yours.
U. S. SUPPLY CO., Dept. E235, Greenville, Pa.

Jele Millar

PEEE PASTE

I =Day Home Treatment

I FRECKLES, PIMPLES,
J BLACKHEADS , ENLARGED
PORES, WRINKLES. PITS, SCARS, PUFFS

Acne condition of back and shoulders
Wonder Peel Paste gives new life and youth
to aging faces
No failure, No redness afterwards. Price $5

112

SCREENLAND

WHAT I! THE BE/T TALKING

Ml I C El AHA TCU'VE EVER TEEN

Whatever it is, it will be only second best
after you've seen "DARK STREETS"!

Double the thrills when Jack Mulhall talks
for two in the FIRST DUAL TALKING ROLE
ever screened — a history-making development
you'll want to be among the first to see.

And a story that hits and slashes at every
known emotion, when fate pits brother against
brother — with a tempting woman between!

You'll wonder what you would do if you
were Pat McGlone, a square cop if there ever
was one, and had to wget" your twin brother
for murder . . .

Or what you'd do if you were Danny McGlone,
gangster, when the "mob" marks your own
brother for death!

"DARK STREETS" throws new light on the
possibilities of Talking Pictures. See it for its
exciting novelty, or for its engrossing drama
—or both. But by all means, SEE IT!

Mali Jack MulhalL
A Frank Lloyd
Production. Screen
A crfcioa by Bradley
King. Presented by
Kicbjrd AJiowland.

A FIE/T
NATIONAL —
VIT4PUCNE
PICTURE

■) iiophpfnf if the
rejfiwterctl trade-
mark <jf tit* * ■ to ■

pht*\mCorjx>rati<n

It's New!
It's Different!
It's All-Talking!

(Presented by Corl Laemmle)

ie last cword in (Motion Picture
Entertainment comes from Universal/

The ONE and ONLY

If ever there was DRAMATIC DYNAMITE this is it— with a glorious
musical background. For two years the stage play stood out as the
greatest of the era. ..and NOW all the thunderous drama, the grace-
ful romance, the thrilling situations, the magnetic climaxes of this
wonderful stage play have been transferred to the screen with the
original play dialog. With Glenn Tryon — Evelyn Brent — Merna Kennedy
— T. E. Jackson — Otis Harlan — Robert Ellis — Paul Porcasi — Leslie Fenton
— Betty Francisco — Arthur Housman. A Paul Fejos Production.
Associate Producer, Carl Laemmle, Jr.

100% TALKING— SINGING— DANCING

RED-HOT youth aflame on the campus! A football game
that will thrill you to the core! Moaning melodies put over
by the University of California Glee Club! College chatter
that will surprise you! Sorority parties, fraternity dances,
roadhouse affairs that will amaze you. SEE and HEAR
George Lewis, Dorothy Gulliver,Eddie Phillips, Churchill Ross,
Hayden Stevenson and others of the original Collegians cast
in the hottest film that ever sizzled on the screen. Directed
by Nat Ross. THE FIRST 100% TALKING, SINGING
COLLEGE PICTURE. Associate producer, Carl Laemmle, Jr.

TALKING and SINGING

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD

Pictured with all the movement, beauty, thrills and grandeur
of the colorful floating theatres on the Mississippi River. That
is Edna Ferber's romance of the ages transferred to the
screen. SEE and HEAR Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut,
Otis Harlan, Alma Rubens, Emily Fitzroy, Jane La Verne.
Including the musical hits from the Florenz Ziegfeld stage
production. Directed, silent and in movietone,
by Harry Pollard.
UNIVERSALE TALKING AND SINGING TRIUMPH!

D MARCH «» UNIVERSAL /

Universal Pictures Corporation

730 Fifth Ave., New York

LfaFhJDAVIES

John G1LI

SHEARER

of the Screen's Greatest
Stars — Chorus of 500— Amazingly
Revolutionary Motion Picture!

William HA I,

. URPASSING the dreams of the most op-
' timistic, attaining a goal that was deemed
IRAWFORD impossible only a few months ago, Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer has created in its gigantic
"Hollywood Review" an entertainment that
will stand as a landmark in the annals of the
talking screen. Every important resource and
talent of show business contributed to its mak-
id NAGEI mg. It is star-studded with names, its choruses
are picked beauties, its voices represent the
choice of experts, its songs are from the genius
of the country's most famed, its dialogue was
conceived by the leaders of their craft, its set-
tings and costumes, its recording, each element
of this mighty entertainment is the product of
the top-notchers! Now playing at Grauman's
Chinese Theatre, Los
Angeles, and the Astor
Theatre, New York.

; BENNY

ie IKE

lORAN

"More Stars than there
are in Heaven"

"The
Hollywood Revue"

with

MARION DAVlES'
JOHN GILBERT
NORMA SHEA-RER
WILLIAM HAINES
JOAN CRAWFORD
BUSTER KEATON
Bessie Love
Charles King
Conrad Nagel
Marie Dressier
Jack Benny
Gus Edwards
Dane and Arthur
Laurel and Hardy
Ukelele Ike
Anita Page
Polly Moran
Gwen Lee
Brox Sisters
Albertina Rasch Ballet
Natacha Nattova

and Company
The Rounders

Dances & Ensembles by Sammy Lee

Directed by Charles F. Ricsner

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
Singing -Talking-Dancing Picture

£stst»rC

Buster KE/

Gwen LEE

DANE and
ARTHUf

Bessie '.
and Charley KI

Marie 1

IESSI

Anita^PAGE

LAUREL and HAf

Gus EDWAl

BROX SISTERS

Internet Archive Audio

Featured

Top

Images

Featured

Top

Software

Featured

Top

Texts

Featured

Top

Video

Featured

Top

Mobile Apps

Browser Extensions

Archive-It Subscription

Save Page Now

Full text of "Screenland (May-Oct 1929)"

See other formats