Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

An Eye-Opener {Continued from page 71) er too young. Look at her little foot curled -ound the leg of the chair. I'll bet she 3ean't wear bigger than a size-one shoe, wonder? . . .) ". . . we went over to the playground here all the little kids play, and we tried ) do a lot of tricks on the bars. He couldn't o as many as I could, though. While I was oing the 'turn-over' and the 'roll,' he ist sat on the ground and rested. Then I anted to dance. I love to dance, don't ou? So we went over to the hotel and anced. Not for very long, though. He iid his feet hurt, so we stopped dancing, fter I let him rest about five minutes, I 3ld him we should go horseback riding in he sunset. It took me a long time to get im to do that, but after a while we went iding. When we came back I wanted to . . ." (Oh Lord, don't let her have any of those leas this afternoon — my rheumatism'll ill me. I wonder why that song keeps unning through my mind? "Sweetheart Ve Need E^ch Other." How does she make hose big eyes shine like that? I'll bet her oy-friend would like to see her with her hoe off — he'd probably say, ' See, it serves ou right for running me ragged all over 'aim Springs.' Isn't she cute?) Her Disappearing Act SAY, can I use your telephone? I've got to call my mother and tell hersomehmg. You haven't any? Is there one across he nail? All right, I'll go over and use heirs — be right back .... Wait for me, ou got to ask me some questions 'fore I o home ..." Then, with one leap from the top of my cute divan, " she skipped to the door and lided through. While she's gone I'll tell ou something funny about Dorothy: That "Hello Yourself" business isn't iriginal with Dorothy. That was the name (f the last show she played in on Broadway, t was while she was thus employed that she tras "discovered" by a scout from Hollyk'ood and beguiled into signing a contract o appear in the talkies. That s where the augn comes in. Hollywood thinks that hey've put one over on Broadway by arrying away another of their stars — but ^ollywood is slightly cock-eyed. Dorothy ue was born right here in HoUytvood. She ried to eet a chance in pictures long before he finally went to New York for a fling at he stage. No one would give her a chance. The studio which now has her under conract at a nice little figure could have signed ler then at a salary of one-tenth of what ihe now commands as 'a former star of the itage." In other words, Hollywood looks pon their very cute and vivacious little lewcomer as an invader from Broadway — md she went to school at \ irgil High , about mile from the studio where she now cavorts. I'd say that comes about as close to putting one over on the old home town as anything I've heard of these many moons. Ingenious or Ingenuous T3UT, while she is "just crary about playIj ing comedienne parts behind the footlights," she is quite sure that she wants ' to play ingenues on the screen." Of course, when you see her in " Radio Revels," you'll understand that she hasn't had her wish fulfilled as yet. Still a comedienne — and how. Still piloting her five-foot self through a flock of footage with Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey. Just one laugh after another— and the little gal's heart is crying out for "ingenue parts. ' (Hold everything, here she comes back from her telephone call.) ' Mamma says I have to go back to the {Continued on page 97) Get This Album FREE! This Large Black Seal-Leatherette Album — 100 pages, looseleaf, size 83^ by 103^ inches, weight two pounds, is specially made to hold the 53^ by 8-inch pictures that so many of our readers are collecting. All you have to do is send us a one year subscription to Motion Picture Classic — at our rate of $2.00 for twelve big issues — and we send you this Big Album Free! Subscribe to-day for some friend, or extend your present subscription. Money back if you are not delighted. Please use this order hlavk Motion Picture Publications, Inc. "-^ 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. For the enclosed $2.00 enter my subscription to Motion Picture Classic for one year and send me the big Album — FREE! Name. Street Address . Town .State. Start with issue. Extend my present subscription □ Canada, add $1.00 Foreign, add $2.00 (PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS PLAINLY) 89 «