Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

Good Looking Long Lasting Swim Kaps AT last! Mademoiselle Mermaid may have a bathing cap that is not only beautiful but keeps the hair absolutely dry. Lastex Swim-Kaps are easy to put on and easy to take off, and do not pull or bind the hair like other bathing caps. Made of live Para rubber by a special process which gives them pliancy and long life. In smart beach shades and charming patterns.LastexSwim-Kaps are sold onlyatRexall Drugstores. SAVE with SAfWYYatyour 3^ Drug Store You will recognize it "by this sign Liggett's are also ^9/kjoJUL stores Weapons permissible in D. W. GrifiBth's "The Battle of the Sexes" include both razors and shears. Here is one glimpse of the clash, taken in the barber shop of the Hotel Ambassador in Los Angeles, the battlers in the chairs being Phyllis Haver and Jean Hersholt Are There Any Great Loves in Hollywood? {Continued from page 17) Will we all go down to dust leaving no trace behind because we are incapable of flames hot enough to scorch our names across the eternal skies? Now the Exceptions 'T'o every great and fundamental question there are great and fundamental exceptions. It is only fair to consider them. The love of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is the outstanding one. Mary loves Doug as a woman loves a man. Not as a painted mummer loves another painted mummer largely because the eyes of the world focus better on two than on one. Mary would love Doug if he were plain Jim Green and dug ditches for their daily bread. She would love him if there were no daily bread. She makes it evident in every word and gesture, in every thought and act that Doug is the indispensable tfiread in the woof and warp of her life. She has never taken off her wedding ring. It is too precious to her. She prefers companionship with him to convivial evenings anywhere else. And — Time has given this love its place among the loyalties. There are other loves worthy of honorable mention. The love of Estelle Taylor and Jack Dempsey. A great, protective adoring love of a powerful man for a responsive, silken woman. There is the love of Frances and Tom Meighan. Nearly twenty years of it. Through the numerous adventures and misadventures of life. Through temptation and turmoil. Through thick and thin. Love, like cities, attains dignity with Time. Attains its place among the loyalties. There is the love of Daisy and Tony Moreno. Founded in dignity and mutual respect, built of the bricks of endurance. The love of Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe. A ten-year-old love as radi ant to-day as it was in the substantially far-off Yesterday. These are a few of the very few lovesf that matter. And they crop up in Holly^ wood as do hardy perennials in a transient garden spot. "Love," a Topic of Conversation "T^HERE is much talk of love in HoUywoodl Perhaps for want of a better name! Affairs that begin on Monday and end on Saturday night make tabloid tosh for the readers thereof. It is a curious commentary. They havd beauty. They have youth. They are fas from being unintelligent. They havej wealth. They have all read a book. They are familiar with the world they live in. They have had "advantages." They movi" to the music of the spheres and yet — s( few grand chords have been struck. Sc'j'j little music akin to "the sound of a greai'' Amen." So few everlasting echoes to strike the listening ear. They talk among themselves of days that are coming, sooner or later. Days that will leave them stranded on the shoals of oblivion. They speak in muted accents of Time, inevitable, when they shall be seen no more. Has the lack of great love anything to do with it? Might not the modern world, well lost for love, inscribe one name, M least, upon the annals of immortality? wonder. To build buildings brick must be fired and firm. To grow hardy perennials th<rt roots mu.st sink deep into the aching soiljy To build great fame there must be heart' blood and the wrought ecstasy of thj ^' spirit. -^ Where are these things in Hollywood ? . Lace and mists and spindrift. But wher| the iron and steel and sinew? The pacity for human sacrifice? The ster stuff of the loyalties? #t «;• 68 \\ J