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CLASSIC
Bert Lytell, Blanche Sweet and Bryant Washburn, between scenes from "The Meanest Man in the World." Did you ever try this on your piano? Below: An interesting view from "Law Against Law" especially posed for Classic by Paul Ivy and Richard De Vilbiss. Below: Madge Bellamy in "No More Women." Plenty of men, tho
Mabel Normand in her endearing role. The Extra Girl
Angeles and putting in his daylight hours at the Lasky studio.
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Ambitious near stars will have to find another friendly angel in Hollywood. L. M. Goodstadt, the casting director who has discovered so many of them, has moved on to another job. From now on, he will be the business manager of Cecil De Mille's producing company. Before going into pictures he managed De Mille's theatrical interests. Since 1916 he has been in charge of the casting for Lasky. During that time he has seen Bebe Daniels, Jack Holt, Agnes Ayres, Gloria Swanson, Wally Reid, Wanda Hawley, Constance Wilson, and many other people now famous have peeked in thru his little window looking for movie jobs,
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Bebe, by the way, is back from New York, about twenty pounds less fat than when she left this salubrious climate. Her first picture in California since her return will be "The Heritage of the Desert'' by Zane Grey.
Norma Talmadge has a more than academic interest in the weather reports just now. She is making the night scenes of an Arab picture yet to be named. And her garb is not of the Arctic. She is an Arab dancing girl, and it seems that Arab girls dont wear. . . . Oh well, the director wants Norma to seem languid and tropical and warm ; and the California climate has suddenly gone upon a most unusual rampage and the gooseflesh comes out on Norma, and the next time she makes an Arab picture she says it is going to be in a baker's oven.
The cold wave is probably the result of the eclipse. And while we are on — or under — that eclipse . . . The most favored spot in the United States from which to view it was a point on the Coast about a hundred miles south of Los Angeles. Everybody who could get hold of a day off and an auto went dashing madly to the scene ; but the studio people had to work. So to appease their disappointment, the management of the big United Studios rigged up a regular theater of chairs on top of the largest studio. The players were excused and ranged themselves with awed anticipation. And then a darned old cloud came humping along and got in the way and 'so they couldn't see the eclipse after all. Yes, it's a hard life, mates. Especially if you live in sunny ( ?) California, and are a poor hard-working movie star. (Continued on page 72)
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