The Modern Screen Magazine (Jun-Sep 1931)

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These nifties, which our reporter just uncovered, will keep your mind off old man depression (Above) Here, dear reader, is a bold, bad man, leering horribly. Also a telephone, not leering. If you look carefully at this suave man-abouttown, you will observe that he was made up to look as much like Satan as possible and succeeded in looking like the devil. His name? Oh, yes, Joe Ryan, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience. Joe Ryan played the leader of the wicked crooks in a fluffy little thing called, "The Black Circle." Yes, it was a serial— without sugar or cream. At the left, ladies and gentlemen, is a Grade A demonstration of "love" as portrayed by Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston in "The Squaw Man"— a bath-tubless epic made by DeMille in 1913. Yes, he's just finished the 1931 model. But, getting back to the picture, note the expression on the lady's face— the closed eyes, etc. The fellow has just said: "Gee, but you're a swell gal, baby." And she is about to reply: "And that moustache of yours, darling, simply knocks the spots off my inhibitions. How about a peccadillo, eh?" 85