Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

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Them Over By DOROTHY MANNERS .... She must have his Httle joke: it's not that Robert Ames (above) isn't perfectly capable of talking, but when two exBroadway stars get together, as he and Ann Harding do in "Holiday," there's bound to be some close-up mischief and some stage whispers afoot And at right, ladies and gentlemen, you see the first siren in the talkies to lose her pretty head: Norma Talmadge, thinly disguised as Du Barry, Woman of Passion, as whom she loves not only well, but unwisely The minute if leaked out that the blonde flapper and her company had reached a parting of the ways, the rumor hounds began to sing Alice's Swan Song. One enterprising young reporter was on the verge of printing a story to the effect that Alice would sign with a comedy company at one-tenth of her former salary, but before he could get to the papers with his story. First National started dickering for her continued services. The truth is that the little White flapper won't sign with anybody unless she gets a contract very much to her liking. She is one of the few who have salted it away while the salting was good. For three years while she was drawing a thousand dollars weekly, Alice was living in a sixtydollar-a-month apartment and driving a Pord. Incidentally, she told me she had made close to sixty thousand dollars in the stock market during the slump. W ith her usual canniness, she rushed in where the foolish still feared to tread and bought at the bottom. Now she's riding arotmd in a slick new town-car with plenty left over for knicknacks.. John Mieblp JEANETTE Lofi in a vivid uetv sports dress on her zvav to San Francisco to sinp over the radio. Lon Chaney and Edmund Goulding speaking over their hock fence. TheyWe neighbors now. Jeanette Mac Donald practising tap-dance steps. Dick Arlen and Jobyna Ralston joining 'Dick's location troupe in Catalina on their c:vn yacht. EDDIE Cantor was giving a brief lesson on diet to one of his young daughters on the "Whoopee" set. "You've got to eat lettuce because of the vitamins," he explained. "You know about vitamins — Warner Brothers have been making 'em for years!" MAURI Grashin, Pathe scribe, was matched against William dc Mille in the recent Motion Picture Tennis Tournament. Grashin won by default. Inasmuch as De Mille could beat Grashin over the rrlcphone, every 4,S