Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

(Before) (After) Pretty Eyes in a moment TN a moment — eyes that sparkle with life ■*■ and color! — eyes that enrapture all who gaze into their brilliant depths! — in a moment, in a second, they are YOURS! Here is the secret — -Delica-Brow on your lashes and brows! Delica-Brow is so easy to apply you simply watch and marvel at the transformation it makes in your appearance! Instantly your lashes appear naturally long, dark, and sweeping! Instantly your eyes seem larger, brighter, deeper, radiant with joy and animation! Free {DeUca~'<Bvow You will never know what beautiful eyes you really have until you have used Delica-Brow! Nothing else can give the same effect. We want you to trv Delica-Brow, to see how wonderful it really is. We offer FREE one week's supply. Delica-Brow is waterproof.it will not run or smear and it is harmless tot he eyes. So natural that it defies detection, yet its brilliance is effective even at a great distance. Don't delay — get Delica-Brow today! At all toilet goods counters or direct, 75c, or send coupon NOW for generous free sample! ■FREE KISSPROOF, INC.. DEPT. 1266 3012 Clyboum Avenue. Chicago, 111. Gentlemen: Pleaae send me FREE sample (enough for ona week) of Delica-Brow. Also free booklet, 'Clever Make-up,'* illustrated in colors. Name . . Address. City. TED! You Can Write Them I Right now you may have an idea for a screen story which would put you on easy street, if only you could plan it properly and so gain the attention of moving picture producers. The Hollywood Academy, under the actual and personal direction of a world famous scenario writer of long experience teaches motion picture writing from the ground up — schools you thoroughly in screen knowledge and story construction. All Hollywood is calling for stories. Send now for "The Key to Hollywood" giving complete information and money hack offer. THE HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY Executive Offices, Dept. 1. B 55 West 42nd St. New York City Approved as a Correspondence School Under tlxc Laws of the State of N. Y. Chester Conklin justifies his blowing his own horn by the assertion that music hath charms. But Mary Brian, whose ear is nearest, takes exception to his excuse. It's all accordion, she points out, to what you call music Butchering Brains (Continued from page 29) They are the big guns that the author must propitiate, defer to, conciliate, flatter, begu'le, if he would remain in Hollywood. Golden Rules for Writers ^ladys Unger, playwright and author of "Romance," "Starlight" and many other well-known plays, gives the following recipe to aspiring movie writers : ' Study pantomime, fencing, boxing, Yiddish, Russian and German. Forget English, American, reading and writing." The situation is not devoid of edification to the author. He is filled with unholy joy and admiration as he scans the patent medicine advertisements of his new contemporaries. I AM AN AUTHOR AND I CAN PROVE IT! Thus ingenuously proclaims Bennie Balonsky in a full-page ad in a film trade paper. I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT IT WAS I WHO WROTE: "I AM YOUR WIFE!" Thus another Susy Swipes. Her number is legion in Hollywood. She is perched in the softest and plumpest of the seats of the mighty, and sometimes, so I have heard, she is perched upon the knee of a movie executive. Irvin Cobb is credited with a classic utterance at the end of a chaotic conference. I dare not misquote him, but I do know that his words conveyed a cordial invitation to the manhandlers of his brain product to cut a chunk of their throats and take the trail to a certain city whose temperature is high. Michael Aden left Hollywood gasping and smarting. Hergesheimer studied Hollywood through his shining specs, with resulting excellent publicity for the charming Aileen Pringle. Clever girl, Aileen. The first of the stars to become known as "The Authors' Friend !" George Jean Nathan dodged the limelight in the company of a modest blazing star. Laurence Stallings chucked his tongue in his cheek. Occasionally gargantuan laughter proclaimed his appreciation of the whole large humor of Hollywood. Once, as scenario editor, I recommended Ellis Parker Butler's classic : "Pigs Is Pigs." I was shouted down with the objection that the censors and Will Hays would never stand for a picture about hogs. Dixie Wilson blew into Hollywood — if one of bouffant form may be said to blow, waving triumphantly an extraordinary contract. No mere scenario writer was this girl from the Ringling Circus to be ; but a full-fledged director — so said Dixie. Three or six months later, Dixie exited as silently as a mouse. Carl Van Vechten peeped in at the window, cocked a quizzical eyebrow and, tongue in cheek, extolled the virtues of the movie city, which he proposed to send down to posterity via the pages of his next book. Edmund Goulding Prospers E*dmund Goulding dropped in merely to have a look around. He expected to stay a day or two. He remained to become one of its greatest scenarists and directors. Now he is back in New York, with two of his plays in rehearsal and a novel on the press. He will return to Hollywood. Hollywood is not Hollywood without him, and there are a score of down-and-outers who miss the lift, the encouraging, snappy word and the dollar or two that Eddie was wont to slip into their hands so generously. "Well, how do you like it?" asked a fa 110