Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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Gossip of the T was a movie producer speaking around his gold banded, special-import cigar. "It don't do to be too highbrow in subtitles," said he. "Everybody ain't educated like us, ain't it, Joe? Take that word 'optimist,' f 'r instance. You know what that word means. / know what that word means. But how many people are there that ain't got an idea that that word means an eye doctor?" The Mayor Retracts AYOR Walker has departed, leaving memories. There is the memory of the opening of "Lilac Time," for instance, when he spoke touchingly of Colleen Moore. "The sweetest, prettiest, dearest little Colleen in the world! Wait a minute! I've got to take that back, Colleen. There was once another Colleen as sweet and pretty and dear as you and that was my little Irish grandmother, God rest her soul." On the Tf ay Down /"P WO negro extras were talking on the flying field where Buck Jones is making an aeroplanecowboy picture. "Does you prefer railroad trains to aeroplanes, Pete?" asked one. "No," responded his friend emphatically, "I does not. Because if you is in a railroad train and it breaks down, you knows where you is; but if you is in an aeroplane, where is you?" Russell Ball Not very doggy in dress is Richard Aden — at the top — but most decidedly so in inclination. Here he is with his pet but unpedigreed pup, Whoozit Home to Harlan: Marie Prevost has abandoned her divorce and decided again to resume her place as Mrs. Kenneth Benedicts were ever envious of the estate of the unshackled. But when they see Eddie Nugent thus in "The Single Man" with Marceline Day, they'll go just plain crazy 36