Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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Apeda After playing the leading rdle in "The Trial of Mary Dugan" in New York, Raymond Hackett is to duplicate his performance for sound-pictures R. H. Lou 136 Something unusual in dress design: the short neck and the low-sleeved blouse, enclosing within its folds Doris Brinkman, who is something unusual in herself Rooking ^hem ©ver Close-Ups From the West Coast THERE was something quietly tragic about the exodus of the little Austrian girl, Eva Von Berne, from Hollywood. It was so different from her heralded advent. Billed as a "captivating society belle" of the old world, Eva impressed Hollywood more as a youthfully plump little foreigner who was as bewildered with her contract as were the M. G. M. casting directors after they saw her. Eva's hair was wrong. Eva's figure was wrong. There were the talkies and Eva couldn't speak English. So they shipped her home. The day of her departure she stood on the station platform surrounded by a couple of old-fashioned grips and a few studio officials and newspaper reporters who had dropped down to see her off. Eva's large eyes mutely questioned the group as though seeking an answer to this strange ending of a career that had had an even stranger beginning. A newspaper girl who had befriended Eva threw her arms around her and asked her over and over if she had her ticket, and if she knew about changing trains in Chicago and if she would be all right. "Yaas," said Eva; but you couldn't get away from those eyes that kept asking questions. Making Harry Marry EVELYN BRENT pulled a surprise marriage that knocked Hollywood for a front page headline. Not even the best man or the maid of honor had any idea of what was coming off until they were ushered into the office 60 Using herself as a cat's paw: Rita Wilkes, of the Christie crew of a Justice of Peace at Agua Caliente and asked to stand up with Evelyn and Harry Edwards. Up until the last couple of months or so, Evelyn has been going around with Gary Cooper, and Harry has been looked on as a dyed-in-the-wool bachelor since his engagement to Dorothy Devore was broken years ago. He declared vehemently at the time that he would never marry — but time and Evelyn worked the change. Linked with Lina A KID I used to go to school with has grown up, made a big name as a cameraman, and gotten himself engaged to Lina Basquette. When Pev Marley was a little kid in the grades up at the Gardner Junction Grammar School, he was crazy about taking kodak snaps of anybody who would pose for him at recess, and he certainly made a paying job of his liobby. I understand he rates the highest salary of any cinematographer on the Coast; and after a squint at the square cut diamond on Lina's finger, that isn't hard to believe. Pev has photographed all of Cecil De Mille's super-sermons, including "The Ten Commandments," "The Volga Boatman" and "The Godless Girl." Great Novel Wanted ARL VAN VECHTEN'S "Spider Boy" didn't get over so well with the Hollywood natives to whom it was dedicated. Hollywood still feels that the great story of the movies is yet to be written. Most of them felt that c