Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1927)

Vivian and Rosetta Duncan are making their screen debut in "Topsy and Eva," their stage version of the Uncle Tom Blues. Hollywood will miss them when a stage contract takes them to Paris LEW CODY proved that as a debonair screen lover he was also a devoted husband during Mabel Normand Cody's severe illness with pneumonia when, for days, it was doubtful if she would live. Day and night, with scarcely any sleep, he remained at the hospital while Mabel fought for her life. It was a mute reply to the rumor that the Cody-Normand marriage lacked permanency. TJTERE'S a laugh straight from the lips of Malcolm Mac -^-Gregor. He was watching Lubitsch direct a scene in "Old Heidelberg." A line of expert fencers was drilling. "Lunge !" would say the leader, and rapiers flashed. Lubitsch was satisfied with the rehearsal. "All right," and in his German-coated English, Lubitsch repeated the leader's order, "Lun-nch!" The fencers hesitated, sheathed their rapiers and made a concentrated dash for the restaurant. They thought the little German director had called the noon hour. TULIEN JOSEPHSON made his first trip to New York J recently. Quite out of a clear sky he was handed the script of ".■\be's Irish Rose," one of the most important assignments of the year. Julien was born in Roseburg, Oregon, and he was the gentleman so instrumental in shaping the early career of Charlie Ray. Back of the story of his getting ".\bie's Irish Rose" is an interesting sidelight. Julien is a Jew married to a Gentile. Because of this, Anne Nichols and the Paramount oflicials felt that he could undertake the story with more sympathy and understanding than any other writer in the business. 'THHE height of something-or-other : -*• A sign on a blacksmith shop in Hollywood reads: "Wrought Iron Studio." JUST by way of being in fashion. Jack Gilbert spent several days in a local hospital convincing the doctors that his appendix should remain in his abdomen and not be removed for a clinical specimen. Jack won, and the Gilbert torso is intact. u Dorothy Sebastian went to the beach and got a sunburn that no ordinary powder would conceal. Whereupon Lillian Rosine, make-up expert, came to the rescue and applied a heavy coat of paint with an air brush E\TER the latest social addition to the films. Joseph Medill Patterson's little girl, Elinor, has been signed by Carl Laemmle to wear grease-paint for Universal pictures. She's been sharing honors with Lady Diana Manners and Iris Tree as the nun in "The Miracle." That's how she happened into Hollywood. "IDELIEVE it or not as you may, but there were once girls •'-^that innocent. Wally Beery tells of taking a sweet young thing to a cafe back in the days when foam was fashion, not an offense, and ordering cocktails. A cherry floated in the amber liquid and the girl shyly refused the drink. It was only after prolonged questioning that Wally discovered she thought the innocuous cherry was a knockout drop. LOIS MOR.\N is to be leading woman in the new John Barrymore picture. They say that John is terribly impressed with her. While Lois' mother was in New York, where she went to get Lois' adopted sister, young Lois was under the chaperonage of Rosamund Pinchot. They say that John didn't allow the two girls to pine away from loneliness. HAROLD LLOYD'S visit to New York coincided with the week of the Six Day Bike Race. You cannot tell me that it was a coincidence. Harold spent nearly every evening in Madison Square Garden, hurrying thence after an evening at a show. Mildred Davis was really too iU to get much fun out of her New York visit. She was awfully worried about leaving the baby out in California. And Harold spent much time on the long distance telephone, inquiring about the welfare of little Gloria. 'T^HERE'S a big debate between Lew Cody and Norman -^ Kerry as to whether it should be called Beverage Hills or Bubbling Hills. Just now it retains the aristocratic name of Beverly Hills. THE shadow of ill health haunts the life of one of the most devoted couples in the film colony. Doris Kenyon, the talented and beautiful, was forced to leave Milton Sills, her new husband, to go to New York for special medical treatment. Influenza, which postponed her .\dirondack wedding, threatens her future health. Because of picture work. Sills was forced to remain alone in the lo\-ch' Brentwood Park home he had '^uilt for Doris.