Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

llllimilllinuiulMlulUllHHIDinmUHUIII*1 Over tKe Teacups 61 program," Fanny mentioned in an awed tone. "Why, that even makes Cecil DeMille look like a piker. What do you suppose they will do with all that money?" That was a staggering question to ask suddenly, and I was not the one to answer it. I understood that already two thirds of the population of Hollywood has offered to help them spend it. "They can't go around and sign up a lot of stars, because practically every one who is good is working. For a few weeks Renee Adoree was out in the cold. Her contract with Metro-Gold wyn expired and they let her out for a few weeks, but the studio didn't seem the same without her, so they signed her again. At Warners it is just like oldhome week. Patsy Ruth Miller is back there, making dialogue films. So are Lois Wilson and Pauline Garon. And Thomas Meighan has arrived to make pictures for them. When they asked him whom he wanted for a leading woman he didn't hesitate a minute. He wanted Lila Lee, of course. Won't it be nice to see them working together again ? They are going to make The Argyle Case,' which was a grand thriller on the stage. Lila's part is marvelous. "All the studios are terribly busy. Pathe has signed Diane Ellis and sent her up to the snowbound country to make 'High Voltage.' The company got there all right, but a bus they needed for some important scenes got snowbound on the way. So Diane and Carol Lombard have been having a great time snowshoeing and bobsledding. Doesn't it seem funny? Here we are getting bathing suits and acquiring our pre-Summer sunburn at the beach and they are at Lake Tahoe, just a few hours away, having arctic weather." It doesn't seem reasonable that any one could be playing in the snow just a few hours' trip away. While Fanny was talking, Claire Windsor had drifted into Montmartre, looking very summery in a robin's-egg-blue frock. Estelle Taylor wandered in, dangling a fox scarf over her arm and exclaiming to every one that she was going to have the swimming pool filled soon. "Estelle is rushing off to Miami," Fanny remarked, "but she is coming right back. She has been so happy since she has been working for Metro-Goldwyn, she doesn't ever want to loaf again. "Did you notice her eyes? She's a martyr. Since she started in Lon Chaney's 'Where East is East' she has had little clamps on her eyebrows to give her eyes that Oriental look. I should think they would hurt terribly, but she says they don't." Speaking of Oriental always reminds me of Myrna Loy. "Why don't we ever see her ?" I demanded of Fanny. "She never stops working. I doubt if she has had a day off in months. She worked day and night on 'The Squall' for First National. Then, just as she was ready to call quits and sleep for a week, Fox came along and borrowed her. She is to play the lead in 'King, of the Khyber Rifles,' with Victor Photo by Louise Renee Adoree was a poor girl without a contract, but only for a month. with her again. Lady' — and I felt away out of his li Photo -by Louise The ugly, unbecoming costume Jetta Goudal wore in court belied the charge of temperament made against her. McLaglen. Myrna loves to have Warners lend her to other studios. She says it is the only chance she ever has to get acquainted. She works too steadily to get around to parties. "First National celebrated the completion of their new sound-stage the other day. They wanted to dedicate it with some sort of ceremony, but they had neglected to provide for the laying of a cornerstone, so Corinne Griffith went out and broke a bottle on it as though she were launching a ship. "Corinne's company is the first to use the new building. She is making 'Prisoners.' It is her first dialogue film and she is frankly nervous about it. She is a brave girl, though. She got Ian Keith to leave his stage play and come out to work opposite her. It must be terrifying to use your voice for the first time opposite a leading man to whom it's an old story. "I'm glad Ian Keith is playing He was so splendid in 'The Divine so sorry for her when he sent her fe. Incidentally, I've never seen anContinued on p;ige 119