Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)

tacups Fanny the Fan relays the good news from London and chats about film favorites who have recently visited New York. the letter together, and I gathered from their delighted chuckles that Gloria's triumph was complete. "I worked with Gloria in a picture once," the friendly burlesque queen confided. "It was 'Xaza.' I was just one of the crowd, hut one day, when I was all fagged out, she let me sit in her chair for a while. It was the only comfortable one on the set. "After that, the other extras were so jealous that they used to make a bee line for her chair every time she left it for a minute. One day there was a little trouble over who got there first. It was right in the midst of a big dramatic scene. There was hair pulling, and shoving, and quite a lot of people got drawn into the fight. The director bawled everybody out, and said that none of them would ever work in a picture of his again. Gloria just laughed. "I've worked with some great actresses in my day." She fastened an accusing eye on me. quite as though she knew that I was wondering if it were in Billv Watson's "Beef Trust." "And she's one of the best. I hope her picture's a knockout. It will have to be to be better than 'Applause.' That's the one we just made. Helen Morgan's a good actress, Pholo by too, but the fans L"uiM' will never take her to their hearts the way they did Gloria. Her part's not sympathetic enough." Fanny looked a little distrait. Here was some one whose volubility drowned her out. She offered no remonstrance when our uninvited guest took her departure. "New York's really beginning to look like a metropolis, isn't it?" Hedda Hopper is back on the Metro-Goldwyn lot for "The Rogue's Song." hy Fryer Loretta Young is not in danger of getting a swelled head, because she is still the most diffident girl in pictures. Fanny asked, just as if she cared what I thought. "The last few picture openings have had a sprinkling of celebrities among the reviewers, and a lot of picture people have dashed through New York on their way to Europe. "At the opening of Helen Morgan's stage play. 'S Adeline.' there were a lot of familiar faces. Phyllis Haver. Lillian Gish, Jeanne Eagels, and Dorothy Daltotl were all there. Phyllis looks radiant. In fact, she looks so lovely it makes me sad whenever I think that she is really serious about retiring from the screen. "Lillian Gish is leaving for Hollywood in a few da;, make 'The Swan.' That's an ideal vehicle for her. and it is nothing short of inspiration to have Marie Dressier play the domineering old queen. She will make Lillian fragile. All tin cast needs now is Hedda Hopper. She and Marie would have so much fun working together, and what ia little more important to the audience, -he would be grand in the picture. As 1 remember the play, the royal ladies wei pretty dowdy, but I will forgive them if they change the Si just enough to let Hedda play a royal snob who i< -mart looking. "Hedda has paused just long enough in her real-* lion to work in 'The Rogue's Soul;' for Metro-Goldwj finds time to do everything but write letters. Don't kl my fondness for her never fade-, all tl red." While Fanny paused for breath. I demanded n< othy Gish. "Oh, she l t" play in 'The Matriarch' on the she will probably make a picture here for an : One of the English -tudio can't gel t' installed for several months, so th(