Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

Roughing It De Luxe like a big estate to me. But there are trees growing around the edges that sometimes have fruit on them — so that's why it's a ranch. Big Boy Williams cares for ranching, too. He used to be a cowboy, you know. Or if you don't know, it's just because you haven't been paying attention. Almost any week-end, you can see him and Charlie Farrell, all dressed up in their cowboy suits, hustling to the ranch for a little broncobusting and roping practice. "What in the world do. you rope?" I asked him once. "You surely don't have great herds of cattle grazing out there, do you?" Because, you understand, in California there is nothing noticeable on which cattle can graz . Big Boy grinned. "No-o-o — " he drawled. "But I keep a few yearlings in a pen and Charlie and I let 'em out and lass-oo 'em when we feel like it. We ride cowboy saddles and everything!" It's ever so wildWestern, of course. But somehow, it seems sort of a dirty trick on the yearlings. Then there are the gipsy types. The ones who feel the call of the open' road every now and then and must needs go a-wandering. Tom Mix and the Tod Brownings and some other people us;d to feel like that every once in a while. When the yearning got to be too much for them, they used to get one of the big stages which ply between Los Angeles and San Francisco. They would have the insides ripped out and would install wicker chairs and couches and bridge tables and a nice little ice-box and bar — and away they would go to Santa Barbara or some place, with a song jn their hearts. You know how it is. Just a lot of merry vagabonds. All the comforts of home and none of the responsibilities. {Continued from page 74) Mary Pickford, I am told, has a little gipsy blood, too. But when Mary goes a-wandering and a-vagabonding, she takes precautions against homesickness. No matter if she is to be gone from home only overnight, Mary must have her own things about her. So she takes along lamps and P. *• A. Sixteen years after: D. W. Griffith and nine of the cast of "Birth of a Nation" celebrate the revival of the first great movie — with sound effects and prologue. Left to right, Donald Crisp, Joseph Henabery, Mae Marsh, Spottiswood Aitken, D. W., Tom Wilson, Henry B. Walthall, Walter Long, Mary Alden and Ralph Lewis cushions and little lace pillows and framed photographs and disposes them neatly about the room, ere she goes to sleep. Just so she won't wake up and find herself in surroundings that are too unfamiliar and frightening. Reginald Denny is a big mountain type. He has a shack 'way off in the tip tops of the High Sierras. Just a shack, my dear — with only four or five bathrooms ! All the supplies have to be packed in on horses and mules, so you can see that it must be really primitive and back-to-nature. He has a couple of generating plants hidden away on the mountainside so that the house may be supplied with electricity and he has arrange for running water and modern plumbin Everything is just too rustic for word All the furniture is made of natural wood polished a little bit so it won't be too roug on ladies' silk stockings. The lamps by th beds are made of little twiglets and th mirrors are all frame in a lace work of tin polished branches taken right oflF th trees! Just too wood sy for anything. W'allace Beery isal so a bacjc-to-natur addict. Hehasaplace far, far from the mad ding crowds of Holly wood. (And goshil how madding those> crowds do get sometimes!) He has a lake somewhere or other and spends his spare! moments on an island in the middle of it where no one can pes1 sibly find him — un1 less they chase him i in an airplane. He flits up there in his own plane and lands on his own tidy little landing field — and there he is, all remote and secluded in atwinkling! Location trips sometimes take people far into the wilds. Of course, there was the "Trader Horn'V company, which wen^ into the interior of Africa and had to cope with all those tse-tse flies and things. And right this minute Dick Arlen is on location over a Catalina Island — making "The Sea God" and living on his own yacht. I don't kno that there are any tse-tse flies to bother them, but I have it on good authority that Jobyna caught a real live eel while she was sitting right on her own front porch or deck or whatever you call it. Anyhow, they all just love Nature and you can see that, even in Hollywood, the primitive instincts do get the better of people every once in a while. Wind in the hair and fog in the throat is lovely now and then — only you don't want to be too uncomfortable. The Answer Man KATHRYN.— Billie Dove was born in New York City, May 14, 1903. Real name is Lillian Bohny. Louise Fazenda, June 17, 1895. Married to Hal Wallis. Milton Sills, Jan. 10, 1882, married to Doris Kenyon. Fay Wray, Sept. 25, 1907, John Monk Saunders. Arthur Lake was born in Corbin, Ky., in 1910. We have had conflicting statements regarding his age but this is the correct year. He is five feet eleven, weighs 145 pounds, has brown hair and blue-gray eyes. Real name Silverlake, he has a sister Florence who is also appearing on the screen. Lake's next picture is Chscr U p and Smile. 82 (Continued from page y6) L. LEWIS. — Josephine Dunn was born in New York City, May i, 1901. She is five feet five inches tall, and weighs exactly 119 pounds. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. Appearing in Safety in Numbers. Lupe Velez did her own talking and singing in Tiger Rose. Leroy Mason played opposite Dolores del Rio in Revenge. William Boyd, June Collyer, Helen 'Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Russell Gleason, Zasu Pitts, William Holden, and Bert Roach have the leading [r61es in Beyond Victory, Pathe Studios. IRENE.— Ian Keith was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 27, 1899. Ian was well known on the stage before entering pictures. He was educated at the Parker Preparatory school in Chicago and later studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. He is six feet two, has brown hair and gray eyes. Most recent pictures released are Abraham Lincoln, What a Widow, The Big Trail and Prince of Diamonds. DIANE. — Norma Shearer is married to Irving Thalberg. She is five feet one, weighs. (Continued on page 106)