Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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The Latest News and Photographs who are taking a fling at Westerns this year. Jack's place at Paramount has been filled by Gary Cooper — young and strong and beautiful. ""There's an epidemic of in•*■ subordination among Hollywood's stars. Dorothy Mackaill has succumbed, and is showing all the most important symptoms. She refuses to work unless they give her a story she likes. It was a disappointment to Dorothy that Richard Barthelmess chose another less experienced girl to play opposite him in "The Patent Leather Kid." And after that she kicked at the story First National gave her as a substitute. She is signed up with them for three years, and they insist that she'll take the pictures they give her and like them, or go without pay for the rest of that period. So that's how the matter stands. All these rows must be most unprofitable for the Mendes family. Dorothy's husband, Lothar Mendes, is still out of a job after his split with Paramount. So who's going to support their Rolls Royces if Dorothy carries on like this. To make up for a couple of Hollywood divorces, Cupid *■ got busy with a fresh supply of arrows and punctured four hearts. The first couple to fall before his deadly aim was Virginia Brown Faire and Jack Dougherty. Dougherty was the husband of Barbara La Marr. The second twosome to appear at the marriage license bureau was Shirley Mason and Sidney Lanfield, a scenario writer. They were married, with Viola Dana, The day is made when you can get a morning laugh from your director . . . that's why Bebe Daniels and darling old Chester Conklin are pulling their stuff for Clarence Badger, their director in the French farce, "The Kiss in a Taxi'' Shirley's sister, and Lefty Flynn as witnesses to the ' event. Both weddings surprised the Hollywood folk. In regard to weddings and divorces Hollywood is the most surprised city in the world. When you see two players going together, you are not quite sure whether they are acting or really mean it, so it is a surprise whatever happens. With the completion of "The Heart of Salome," Alma Rubens will pack her garments and chuck up her job with the Fox company. It is said that Alma demanded good stories and good directors for the coming year. Her demands, however, didn't net her a satisfactory answer, so she is leaving the company. We may be able to give you the low down on Mrs. Ricardo Cortez's future affiliations next month. Another dissatisfied lady of the screen, ** still doine battle with the Metro Greta Garbo, is -Goldwyn-Mayer forces. We have made an appeal to President Coolidge for the Marines, but the leathernecks are too busy playing extra parts in Nicaragua and China to have time to settle our domestic problems. Greta's demands, I understand, are quite similar to Alma Rubens'. Better stories, better directors and more jack (not the Gilbert kind, but the Government species) are what our Greta asks. Surely, she is justified in asking for something since her sensational success in American films. I dont know exactly what Greta is asking for, nor do I know what the company offers. In a case like this the best thing to assume is that they are both wrong. The living image of Wally. ... E. A. Yerbysmith sculpted a bust of Beery as he appeared in "Old Ironsides." We suggest "W allies" to take the place of the "Billikins" that used to be the rage. If a "Wally" failed to spread cheer, you'd have to blame the person's disposition . . . or the Volstead Act It isn't rough "roughing it" any more . . . here's the O'Malley family camping, with a regular course dinner in preparation on their folding-stove?. What next? 46