Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1925)

EAST AND WEST ^yCaivork And still they come — the members of the second generation. These two pretty girls with Conrad Nagel are Virginia and Leonore Bushman — daughters of the famous Francis X. They made their screen debut in "Lights of Old Broadway." Now they are going to play in "The Masked Bride," with Mae Murray Lost m the great open spaces and not a covered wagon in sight. Buster Keaton playing valet to a lone cow. But cheer up, Buster, a real estate boom will hit those open spaces at any moment. Anyhow, the cow looks cheerful. The scene is a terribly touching from "Go West" — with apologies to Greeley ■DEBE D.AXIELS, pa>-ing one of her brief ■'-'visits to Hollywood, gave a combined homecoming and house-warming party the other evening, and somebody someday may give a better party, but to date it stands une.xcelled. Funny thing, Bebe bought this gorgeous home in Hollywood foothills a couple of years ago and furnished it beautifully and this is the first time she has ever lived in it. They took her away to New York and every time she has come home before it's been for too short a time to open the house and Bebe has gone to stay at her grandmother's — grandma owning a stately Spanish home of early California vintage. As to the party — it had all that warmth and con\-iviality that only Bebe knows how to manage. You were allowed to have a good time in your own way, and yet Bebe was ahvaj-s appearing miraculously at your elbow to he sure everything was as it should be. ■WARION DAVIES was there, in a frock of ■''■'■real lace, and Florence Vidor, looking unusually lovely in black satin, with little glimpses of rose chiffon \-isible whenever she moved, and Lefty Flynn and his 1 ride, Viola Dana, all in white satin as becomes a bride, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Llo\'d. Mid had on a thing of black georgette over pink crepe de chine that made her look quite grown up. Mr. and Mr?. Rudolph Valentino.Bessie Love. jMayMc.\voy, suitored by Bobby Agnew, Paul Bern, Eddie Sutherland, Ruth Roland, Lowell Sherman, Pauline Garon, Victor Fleming, Kathleen Clifford, and — oh, just everybody. Bebe expects to stay in California for two or three pictures and she has gone golf mad, so no one e\-er sees her e.Tcept on the links. TN the cut puzzle pictures in the September issue there were several sets of pictures in which the width of the faces did not match as evenly as in the previous issues. This was due to an error on the part of the engraver, but seems to have caused little if any difficulty to those who have already sent in their solutions. This statement is made to ease the minds of those who have already sent in solutions, and will be taken into consideration in the award of the judges. VyARREN KERRIGAN, for many years a W leading matinee idol, came back with a great bang in "The Covered Wagon," made a couple of good pictures, and is now working in small stuff on small programs. Francis X. Bushman,' his rival, is playing the heavy role in "Ben Hur," after long absence. We will watch them all with interest as barometers of the change in public taste and senti "p\0 you know that Eleanor Board■'-^ man was once the Eastman Kodak Girl? Before she went mto the movies, Eleanor got some preliminary training by "picturing as she went." '^ALLACE MacDONALD has been makVV ing a picture in the East and he was none too pleased to be separated from his wife, Doris JIay. You will remember Doris as the pretty girl who played opposite Douglas MacLean in his first successes. No more studio work for Doris, according to her husband. "You can't have much home life with husband and wife working in separate pictures. I am not strong for this 'separate career' business mvself. It just doesn't-seem to work out." While he was in New York. MacDonald went to see "What Price Glory?" "I didn't dare go home without seeing it," he explained. "There are tliree assets that guarantee your sotial position on the Coast. You must live in Ik-verly Hills, you must own a police dog. and you must have seen 'What Price Glory?' Wk got the house and I've got the dog and now I have seen 'What Price Glory?' " "V\ THEN Gloria Swanson returned to New VV York she gave a small tea. Gloria wore a white, pleated dress, tied at the waistline with a rope of red yarn and trimmed at the cuffs with red pompons of yarn. For those who look to Gloria for the newest style — and she is a good person to imitate — it may be well to say that the ultra-short skirt has evidently found no great favor witli her. At a luncheon a few days later, Gloria wore an apricot silk frock with a short cape of the same color. Her hat was a wide-brimmed, severely plain felt affair. Incidentally, Gloria seldom wears much jewelry during the day. In fact, her only ornament is usually her plain gold wedding ring. U