Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

Looking Them Over Out Hollywood Way (Continued from page 7j) get a better peek at the celebrities than a studio gatenian. The other night Billie Dove and her husband, Irvin W'illat, were there to watch Pola Negri's "Loves of an Actress," and a couple of nights later Joan Crawford and Doug Fairbanks, Jr., held hands all through the showing of "The Cardboard Lover." Eileen Percy and June CoUyer and Sue Carol are often among those looking on. Genius Prerequisite MO\TE heroes are going to have a lot to live up to from now on. Here's the new recijje: He has to be handsome, expert at f)antomime, ha\-e a good speaking voice and be able to stage a good song-and-dance act. Harry Beaumont promulgated this newformula for a leading man when he started hunting for a hero for "The Broadway Melody." .\nita Page and Bessie Love, both of whom have all these qualities, have been cast. The man hasn't been found yet. The next thing you know they'll be wanting a ventriloquist. Collegiate and Cute ZIEGFIELD picks 'em out of the colleges for his shows. That is, he picked one beautiful little girl, Marj Doran, from Columbia University and now the movies have gotten her. M. G. M. thinks she is going to be a \-aluable addition to their talking pictures. Anyway, she is a cute little red-headed girl and she-dances and sings along with her acting. Regarding "The Regulars" "' I 'HFC Regulars," a club of Hollywood's J_ young screen girls, had their fourth annual dinner partv at the Roosevelt Hotel lately. Duane Thompson succeeds Priscilla Bonner as president of the group that includes Esther Ralston, Sue Carol, Marian Nixon, Sally Eilers, Jeanette Loff. Alyce Mills and Marjorie Bonner. Hollywood's Police Record {Continued from page 21) in these cases. Believe me, I feel sorry for these girls. Right now I ha\-e a man working out of my office whose job is solely to check up on girls whose parents ha\'e written us. Runaways from good homes most of them. I guess we get three or four hundred letters a month from families begging us to look up some girl." "And if you find her? — " Don't Blame the Movies I HAVE a little talk with her and try to scare her into going home if she's under age. .\nd if she isn't, there isn't much we can do. There isn't much we can (in anyway. They all seem to think they're >;')ini^ to be (iloria Swansons or Mary I'irkfords." Captain McCaleb shook his head. "The movies aren't to blame, though. .N()l>ody's to blame. It's just human nature. "I'd like to say right here that it's just the hangers-on in the movie business, the drifters on the fringe, who gi\-e us any trouble af all," he declared. " The real movie folks who are established in their profession seldom see even the outside of this building." {Conttntu'd on page Sj) One Knockout After Another One home run doesn't make a Babe Ruth or one song hit an Irving Berlin or one knockout a Dempsey. Better one than none, of course: but it's not enough merely to perform brilliantly once: you've got to keep it up — to gain and maintain supremacy. That's the way Motion Picture M.vg.^zixe sees it. It has presented, for example, within the last two issues, this one and the November, two of the mast engrossing features ever to be published in a screen peri(xlical: the Love-Life Stories of Clara Bow and .\lice White. Stories that got right down inside the hearts of two of the most popular stars of the screen, told what was there, and all there was to be told. Motion Picture is proud of the opportunity it'b had to offer these articles to its readers. But it isn't stopping with that. Its idea is to keep going, to keep adding to its achievement. And so next month, in the January issue, there will be a third love-life story — that of a third vivid young personality of the films. Besides, of course, a dozen other features of equally exceptional interest. Motion Picture, in short, seems to be just one great number after another. It's not satisfied with publishing just one or two — or a dozen. Every one's got to be good — and the next one better — somehow. You may not l)elieve the next can be bet ter than this one. But you will when you see it — on the news-stands. November 28th. Motion Picture lis the M a g a : i r} e of A ii f h o r i f v