Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

54 Dolores Costello has gone on a long honeymoon cruise. N the springtime other people's fancies may turn to thoughts of love, tulip bulbs, and sulphur with molasses, but in Hollywood we go in for elections on a large scale. The studio publicity men elect the baby stars for the coming year, and the best all-round picture of the year. Various periodicals select the best original screen story of the year and the best titles. The prune raisers, the rodeo promoters and the winter sports carnival all elect their favorite stars. Naturally, it has to be some one who is willing to ride in a parade ; so if your favorite star is left out, just set it down to her retiring nature, and not her lack of popularity. As for me, I can hardly wait until some one promotes an election to determine who is the handsomest property man, and who has contributed the greatest advance in spraying a hose so that it looks like real rain. With all these elections being announced, I was hardly surprised when Fanny summoned me frantically to lunch with her. She has never agreed with a majority vote on anything yet, so I knew that she would be in a complaining mood. "The Wampas' selections weren't terribly bad, -ofjhe *3vxiancler were they?" she admitted. Generous of her, so long as she couldn't do anything about it anyway. "Of course, I will never understand, or forgive, their selecting Ethelyn Clair to represent Pathe, when Carol Lombard was the logical choice. Why, Ethelyn Clair just makes serials, and who ever sees them? And Carol is to play the lead in Cecil DeMille's next production. Anyway, Miss Clair has been in pictures a long, long time, without causing any particular stir, while Carol has leaped into prominence just within the last few months." "Well, they may have figured that this was her last chance to be a baby star, and that Carol would still be in the running next year." Fanny beamed at me gratefully, at the very moment that she was deploring my cattiness. "Of course, it was inevitable that Anita Page and Helen Foster and Loretta Young would be chosen — and Josephine Dunn. Those girls are more than promising; they 'ye arrived. They are a charming lot, young and talented and much too sensible ever to get self-important. But I'm broken-hearted that all the young girls weren't elected. With the two sisters, Loretta and Sally Blane, among the Wampas stars, they really should have elected little Polly Ann Young, too. She must have that forlorn and lonely feeling of being shut in the nursery, while the older sisters go to a party." "What about the others ?" I asked. "Aren't there always thirteen?" "Yes, whether they can find thirteen deserving ones or not. It is supposed to be a free choice of the thirteen most promising young girls in pictures, but it is an accepted custom to select one girl from each company. "I've seen Caryl Lincoln in a couple of pictures, but I don't remember what she was like. The same goes for Doris Hill," said Fanny. And that is what I should call a completely devastating comment on a player. "Betty Boyd is the most adorable-looking youngster // Betty you ever saw, and Doris Compson is Dawson and Jean Arthur the answer are both very pretty. I've t t o w h a t never seen Mona Rico on producers the screen. We'll have to "f are looking wait for the new Barry for. more picture for that, but in real life she looks fasy cinating and vivid. "The other one is Helen