Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

Hollywood High Ligkts 53 adversary, though pressed for details. He stated that the casus belli was some inappropriate and distasteful remarks made by the other, and from all acounts Al was adjudged the winner in the encounter. Colleen Flames Again. Colleen Moore will flap, if not also flame anew. She has returned to the sort of picture that made her one of the screen's most successful stars. The film, temporarily entitled "That's a Bad Girl," will show her as short-skirted, jazz-mad, flirt-feverish damosel, who can make neither her eyes nor her twinkling feet behave. Colleen really gave spice to the screen flapper. She almost succeeded in caricaturing rather satirically the type in "Flaming Youth." She has avoided the more obvious display of flapper eccentricities in her past few films, but she is at it again with the speed and spirit of several years ago. And with even a little more pep, and much more versatility. A "Three Weeks" By-product. Elinor Glyn has written a story for Greta Garbo to play upon her return from Europe. And guess what the title is — "Tiger Skin!" Whoopee's Hoops Burn. Hoop skirts may be very beautiful, and redolent with sweet recollections of by-gone romance, but they're not to be worn near open fireplaces. Lupe Velez discovered this while making "Wolf Song." And "Whoopee Lupe" almost burned up while finding it out. , It seems that while a scene was being enacted by the Mexican charmer, she, in her natural impetuous fashion, stepped too close to a grate in which flames were flickering, and one of the folds of her costume ignited. A property man observed the impending disaster, and picked up a rug and smothered the blaze in the garment. Lupe wasn't aware of the danger, and looked both a bit astonished and upset, momentarily, because of the sudden interruption. Immediately afterward, however, she rewarded the property man by patting him warmly on the shoulder, and declaring jubilantly that he was her hero. Olfactory Thrills Next. An "odorophone" is the latest innovation that is being talked about in the studios. This is to project the aromas of a scene, as well as the conversation. it isn't a supper with limburger ed," is the fond wish of Louise Fazenda. Bunny's Son In Movies. The name of John Bunny is linked with the good old days of the movies, but despite the fact that it seems to belong rather far back, now, in the misty film past, it is well remembered. The reason for recalling this famous early comedian, now dead, is that he has a son in pictures, John Francis Bunny. The younger Bunny is not an actor, but a cutter. You could hardly mistake his identity, because his smile is so much like that of his father. Baxter's Future Brightens. Warner Baxter is a name due to rise brightly out of the mazes of the many changes in the studios this season. The reason is that he has been signed by Fox under a long-term contract, with the probability that he will be very prominently featured in their pictures. The inspiration for this recognition of his work in "In Old Arizona," a utirely outdoors. Edmund Lowe leading roles in this, and Baxter's very highly. >we and Baxter appeared together ;les. ure is new. Her name is Dorothy cruited from a stage production of "The Squall" in Los Angeles. Merna Kennedy With "U." Merna Kennedy, the Chaplin leading woman of "The Circus," is another player whose future is settled for a time. She has signed with Universal, and will be seen in their production of "Broadway." Chaplin's new leading woman has achieved a hit socially in Hollywood, and is escorted to parties from time to time by Charlie. As you may recall, her name is Virginia Cherrill. [Continued on page 104] Lillian In New Phase. Lillian Gish's career, suspended for more than a year, is to be resumed. She will be directed by Max Reinhardt, the famous European stage producer, in a picture called "The Miracle Girl." Lillian has just returned to Hollywood after a many months' absence. She has sojourned part of the time in New York, which she likes, and the rest in Europe, which she loves even more. As regards Hollywood, it does not occupy the leading spot in Lillian's affections, but she confesses that it is, after all, about the best place to make pictures. And she has tried various other localities during her experience. Lillian begins virtually a new stage of her professional life with the undertaking of "The Miracle Girl." It will be her first film under her contract with United Artists. After many years, she will once again work on the same lot as Mary Pickford, as they did in the old Griffith Biograph days. "Let's hope that it cheese that is recorded Another Career Resumes. Another career that is again on the way is Maria Corda's. After many months of waiting, doubtlessly watched, she plays opposite Milton Sills in a Venetian romance called "Love and the Devil." The statuesque Maria was cast as an opera singer. Miss Corda's only previous work in America was in "The Private Life of Helen of Troy," in which she played the lovely wife of Menelaos, who flirted with Paris, and caused the Trojan war. This picture could hardly be hailed as significantly popular. Evelyn Brent's expression is that of a wife who will love, honor and obey her husband, Harry Edwards, and laugh with him, too. Baxter's talents was talkie made nearly e and Baxter have the performance is rated Some years ago Lc in stock in Los Ange The girl in this pict Burgess. She was rei