Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

Advertising Section 11 Read It and Laugh. Fans, if you want a big laugh just read an Alice White interview, and you'll laugh yourself sick. No, not that she's witty, but just plain, absolutely dumb! Perhaps Alice has some admirers left, although when they get through reading her "little red diary" in a screen book they'll fade away. When "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" was in full swing, I thought Alice was a wow. No doubt I still would admire her if I hadn't run across two interviews where she raves about "it w-as my first kiss — how it thrilled me," and I nearly went into hysterics. I may be catty to be saying all these things, but I never displayed my diary, and that's plenty catty. Just think — here we all know Gilbert Roland, or feel as though we know him, and to hear him discussed quite freely by a sill}*, idiotic flapper burns any one up — not that he's my favorite by a long shot. It's my first letter to "What the Fans Think," but I just had to break loose and get it off my chest. I'll bet there's a lotmore who think exactly the same about Alice. Anyhow, here's hoping the "big guys" of the studio get wise and tell her to lay off the goofy broadcasting. If any one has met Alice in person, write and tell us what she's like. I imagine it'll be good. , We want bigger and better pictures, not bigger and better "bullers." Adelyne T. Vancouver, British Columbia. Razzberries for Mary Brian. When it comes to acting, Mary Brian gets the prize — a box of fruit — razzberries! I haven't seen her act yet, and I don't think that she can. What did she do in "Varsity"? Don a cowboy suit, shoot a couple of times, drink a sundae, and kiss. Any one can do that. In January Picture Play some one wrote that at last Richard Dix had got rid of Mary Brian. She might be in the picture for the beauty of it, but let Paramount give a beautiful girl with talent a chance. Look at Anita Page and Nancy Carroll. Those two are really making the grade, because they can act. Then Joan Crawford, or Clara Bow, also Nils Asther — when it comes to good looks he takes the cake — they are stars. Every time Mary Brian acts with Buddy Rogers he runs away with the picture. She doesn't put any pep or feeling in her work. Even her talking sounds unreal, and although her voice is very sweet, when it comes through the microphone it's a fake. I hope I'm not slammed for this by the Mary Brian clubs, because I've always admired her, but only for her beauty — never for her acting. Just Me. Chicago, Illinois. A Suggestion. Why not have an interview by Malcolm Oettinger with Sally O'Neil, Dolores Costello, Natalie Kingston, Molly O'Day, and some of the younger stars? We get too much of Greta Garbo and her temperament, Florence Vidor and her charm, and of John Gilbert. Gilbert has only made one good picture in his life, "The Big Parade," and he would have failed in that if it had not been for Karl Dane, and the direction of King Vidor. Dinkum Aussie. Adelaide, Australia. . 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