Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

jLA^^TT MINUTE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS has that traveling urge again. This time he sailed to Europe to follow the golfers around and see who will bring home the Walker cup — and yes, there is that ofificial business into Germany for his pictures, too. . . Corinne Griffith has said good-bye to Hollywood for a whole year. She will be gone that long, abroad, studying \oice. . . . Lena Malena came east, so they say, to replace Lily Damita in "Sons O'Guns". . . "Buddy" Rogers is among those now present out at the Long Island studios making "Heads Up". . . Paul Whiteman is back in New York again a'partying all the time between five personal appearances a day. And then, too, he is scheduled to lend rhythm to a Westchester roadhouse some time in the near future. NEW YORK has been flying the W;elcome banners this springtime for almost all of Hollywood. . . Pauline Starke and her husband, Jack White, stopped off for a little \ isit before sailing on the Bremen for a European rendez\-ous with friends. . . Helen Twelvetrees tried the airplane hop all the way from Hollywood to Columbus, O., and then finished up by train into Manhattan. Helen did not stay IJong, but had to hurry west to make a few more talkies. . . Laura La Plante was another eastern visitor seeing things o'nights as well as trying out FiftySeventh Street shops for new things to wear. . . Margaret Livingston, too, is in New York, going places and seeing things. P. &' A. Making things move at RKO: Sally Blane on her bike, June Clyde on her trike, and Helen Kaiser and Roberta Gale on their kiddie kars, all have hopes of getting somewhere THERE are just a few folks going west. . . George Arliss is among them. He's out in Hollywood to do "Old English". . . Florenz Ziegfeld has rented out at Malibu Beach while he is there glorifying the American girl — again. . . And Marilyn Miller took the long train ride to make her second picture, "Sweetheart". . . "The Gypsy Love Song" has recalled John Boles from his pleasures along Broadway. He, too, can be seen along Hollywood Boulevard any day. . . And of course, there's Amos 'n' Andy to lend color to the scene. ATLANTIC CITY is attracting the mighty these days. . . Jack . Warner left Hollywood to pay his respects to the Jersey resort. . . Young Laemmle, too, has been seen taking the air in a wheel chair. . . .And that isn't all, for that ole debbil sea is calling Marion Davies East before she sails for Europe for the summer months. . . Ronald Colman, another eastern visitor, is due in Londontown this spring. VILMA BANKY has given up the screen to settle down to a tranf|uil matrimonial career because it is so difficult to master I hat English language. . . Bert Lytell and his bride, Grace Menken, are going to finish their honeymoon in Hollywood be< ;iusc "Brothers" is about to be started and Bert has the leading role in that talkie. .Much excitement took place in Santa Monica uhcn Irene Mayer and David Selznick were married for e\er, (•ver after. . . And mentioning weddings, what of the report that Lewis Milestone and Agnes Ayres were soon to become Mr. and Mrs? POLA NEGRI and her Prince, Serge M'Divani, are now very frequently being seen places together in Paris and that romance blooming all over again — a sort of pleasant second honeymoon. . . But Colleen Moore and her husband John McCormick have decided definitely to take separate paths and ha\e in fact effected a property settlement, and there are many current rumors of a dix'orce action b> Miss Moore. . . Lola Lane's sister, Leota, i.s seeking her happiness via the divorce courts and plans to enter pictures when she is no longer Mrs. Picard. . . All's well, however, in the Sue Carol-Nick Stuart menage and Sue is e\en growing very domestic buying things for their new Normandy home. . . Elinor P. Ince, widow of Thomas Ince, has found sweet romance around the corner and it is said that she will soon marry Holmes Herbert. PHILO VANCE simply will not be retired from the screen. Therefore S. S. Van Dine has been commissioned to do another mystery. It will be "The Scarab Murder Case," and of course William Powell will be the ingenious detective, Philo Vance. Murder and crime are reaping a golden harvest on the screen right now. "Handful of Cloud"— a gangster movie — is getting under way, with James Cageney seen as the chief underworld character. . . And soon there will be "The Criminal Code" in the talkies. JOAN CRAWFORD is going to see what she can do in the way of singing and dancing and will make her first musical picture, "Great Day" . . . Claudia Dell is one of the latest names mentioned in connection with "Big Boy." Claudia will play opposite Al Jolson. . . 'Tis said here and there that "Diamond Lil" herself may come to the screen if Mae West and Columbia come to terms. Seems as though Diamond Lil would ha\e to be reto the gaiet>' of, well, CaliTheir first strained somewhat. . . And. to add fornia, anyway, the Tiller girls came to Hollywood picture will be "Half Shot at Sunrise." FIFI DORSAY and Victor McLaglen were just made for each other — in pictures at least. They started being f unn\ — and in lox-e together, in "Hot for Paris," kept it up in "On the Level," and they will try out the partnership in "The Painted Woman". . .If Alice White can be released from her present contracts. Earl Carroll will feature her in his "Vanities". . . Elizabeth Forrester, who played in "Holiday" on the stage, will make her screen debut i^n the same pla\-. . . Paramount's Long Island studio is pretty much in an uproar again. The Four Marx Brothers are making "Animal Crackers" there. . . Dolores Del Rio is trying out new characterizations. Her latest will 1 "The Dove," which Norma Talmadge did as a silent picture. HONOLULU is coming right along. Now it's going to be shown in . all its native glory in, why "Aloha," of course. Joseph Schildkraut will ha\'e the leading role. Joseph, you recall, last received mention when Elise Bartlett di\orced him. . . Harold Lloyd, too, got that Honolulu urge and took his "Feet First" company for a fortnight aboard the Malolo. . . Ann Harding is going to be "Borrowed" by Radio to play opposite Richard Dix in "Cimarron". . . Mary Lawlor, too, will be loaned for "Present Arms". . . Monta Bell also joined the Honolulubound passengers and will remain there on that beach of Waikiki | to recover from his recent ill health. . . Rin-Tin-Tin has taken ' to the air-flies to his personal appearances these dog days. . . Edwin Bartlett is the latest to leap into headlines. He has beep handed a contract by Fox, which is said to give him $1,000 a week. He's a Princeton boy and has never appeared on the professiona" stage but has studied for grand opera. . . John Drinkwater, tht English poet and playwright, is to do a biograph\— ^in prose — of Carl Laemmle (Sr.). . . It is rumored that there is to be a sequel to "All Quiet on the Western Front." And that, if true, is news 8