Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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c amera c oasts AND MILTON HOWE There were a lot of prize-fight experts at the studio watching the fight, and they all seemed to agree that Richard is the best boxer the screen has ever had, and that he could become a lightheavyweight champion with no trouble at all. A record is about to be broken by Charlie Chaplin. Xo, he •**■ hasn't been reported engaged more times than Clara Bow anything like that. Charlie has always made all his pictures in Los Angeles, but his present predicament has made it necessary for him to finish '"The Circus" in Xew York. Pie has taken space at the Cosmopolitan studio, and still has about half the picture to make. Charlie's companions at the studio will be Gloria Swanson, who isn't going West for her next picture in spite of rumors to that effect ; a Robert Kane company, and a Pathe unit. If all goes well with "The Circus," Charlie may make all his future pictures in the East. . » ^ .^The cause of Belle Bennett's nervous breakdown has now come to light. It is the result of a long battle with Samuel Goldwyn, her "discoverer," over the little matter of her contract. Belle signed up for five years, with a guarantee of thirty weeks' work a year at a thousand dollars a week. That was when Belle was unknown and Samuel Goldwyn was taking a big chance on her in "Stella Dallas." Since the success of that picture, Goldwyn has been able to farm her out to other companies at five thousand a week, thereby making a handsome profit for himself. Belle thought the extra thousands were rightfully hers. But the interesting part of this story is not the ethics involved. It is that the defenceless Belle, in the course of an argument with Sam, socked him twice in the eye. Sam did not hit back, but explained to the crowd that had gathered that he couldn't hit a woman, and invited Miss Bennett's husband, Fred Windemere, to do battle on her behalf. It is not recorded that Fred accepted the challenge. But at all events excitement and the unexpected exertion completely wrecked Belle's nerves. Xow every evening after her work opposite Emil Tannings in "The Man Who Forgot God" is over, she retires to a local sanitarium for treatment. Jack Holt is too good a Westerner to be long without a horse and a home. Very soon after his contract with Paramount expired, Jack was signed by Metro-Goldwyn. "Judge," the full-blooded St. Bernard, became the proud father of twelve sons and daughters while he was working in a picture not long ago. Eleven of the puppies were brought to the studios and admired by Reginald Barker and 'Aileen Pringle. "Pardner," the mother of the litter, stayed at home and looked out for the runt Hollywood is still talking. The newspaper wires still buzz every time either one telephones the other. Yet, in spite of all this, Greta Garbo and John Gilbert dare appear in public together at openings and other Hollywood functions Olive Borden arrived in New York with her mother, en route for Florida, where they're filming the exterior scenes for "The Joy Girl." Olive's impression of Manhattan is one interviewer and one photographer after another. She hopes no one back West asks her how she liked Grant's Tomb P. &A. 45