Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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AH the Gossip of the QPEAKING of his golf game, Jolson admitted ruefully that his might be better. "The only mistake I make," said he, "is standing too close to the ball after I've hit it." "(COMPANIONATE marriage may be ended," ^-/ says Bill Haines, 'but the baby lingers onβ€”" DUT to go back to our openings. "The Trail of '98" premiere was one of the most brilliant I have ever attended. All the diamonds were out -of the moth balls. Joan Crawford, having just been named as corespondent in the afternoon's papers, was there, unperturbed, with Doug, Junior. No one has been able to find out whether they are really married, but she receives telegrams and letters addressed to Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, and signed (so they say) "your loving husband, Doug." 'PHE prologue announced as a unique attraction an "American tenor who can sing one full note higher than any other tenor on earth." Why not stage a contest for tenors? "\X7HXCH reminds me that the art gallery at the New Roosevelt Hotel has long rows of paintings bearing the reassuring legend, "Best Art at Cheapest Prices." JJDUISE FAZENDA gives Dr. Frank Crane authority for the following little tale, which, of course, makes it respectable. An elderly minister attended a brilliant dinner party at which he was seated beside an attractive young woman in a very low-necked gown. The minister kept glancing at her curiously and finally leaned forward. "I beg your pardon, Madam," he asked, "but I would like to ask you a question. What keeps your grown up?" In the top corner is Ethel Jackson, who would rather her name be prominent within the brown covers of the casting directory than β€” as it has been β€” between the blue bindings of the Los Angeles social register If haircuts were our only guide, we'd wonder whether the gentleman before us were John Gilbert or Gilbert Roland. Only one thing tells us it's the latter: his unwaveringly Normal outlook The three big noises in "The Racket" are Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost and Thomas Meighan β€” whose name, in character, we suppose, will be TwoStar Hennessey