Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

MOT fl ON P i CT y 5^[E CLASSIC Vol. XXXII OCTOBER, 1930 No. 2 Notable Features in This Issue: Menaces Of The Movies — Pigmy Golf Campbell MacCulloch 24 Can Thev Stay Retired? The Odds Are Against Them Gladys Hall 28 Hallelujah— And A Percentage— AlMEE SEMPLE McPIIERSON Muriel Babcock 30 Classic Holds Open Court— MACK SENNETT Defends Low-brow Comedv. . Dorothy Manners 36 The Most Dramatic Moment Of My Life— RUTII CHATTERTON Walter Ramsey 38 Tabooed Topics — There Are Some Things You Mustn't Mention Dorothy Spensley 56 The Classic Gallery Lupr f 'elez, Dorothy Mackaill, Claire Luce, Richard Dix 19-22 Classic Talks — Editorials George Kent Shuler 23 Picture page— ANN HARDING 27 Picture page— CHRISTINE MAPLE 31 Picture page— Mary BRIAN 32 Glorifying The American Drunk— FRANK McHUGH— CHARLES RUGGLES Show How Helen Louise Walker 33 Where Is It? — picture pages, CLARA Bow 34 In A Ballet ... It s Balance— picture page. HARRIETT LAKE 40 Another Lon Chancy — The Friend Of The Crook /. Eugene Chrisnian 41 High Hose. Everybody! — picture pages. First National Girls 46 The Land Of Liberties — It's A Wise Brain Child That Knows Its Own Author Helen Louise Walker 48 Picture page— BEN LYON and ONA ML NSON 49 Left At The Halter— picture page, GARY COOPKR 50 Gilding The Lilv — Or How To Improve the Films >X ith Silence Herbert Cruikshank 51 It Pays To lie Poor— CHESTER .MORRIS Etisaheth Gohlbeck 52 Menace Or Messiah — Eisenstciu Of Ked Russia Speaks His Piece Dorothx (.(ilhonn 58 Picture page— ROBERT MONTGOMERY and DOROTHY JORDAN 59 Picture page— LOIS MORAN 62 They Know A Tiling Or Two — Dad 0"'l'an"s Youngsters Dorothy Manners 63 Picture page— JVCKIE COOCiAN and .MiTZI GREEN . . 64 Now Hollywood Has Grace — \nd (ira«e Moore Has Hollywood Gladys Hall 65 The Battle Of The De< ade— picture pages, GARY COOPER and BILL Bo^ D 66 Are You Musical? — If Not. There's No Hope For You In Tlx' T;ilkies Cedric Belfrage 68 Not So ShvOnly Bv Name. And Not By Nature Is Gus Shy Y«ncv Fr\or 70 Fox Pass— picture page. DOROTHY LEE 71 Hitting Thigh Spots— picture page, DOROTHY GRANGER 72 Oh, So Playful! Practical Jokesters Of Hollywood Jack Grant 73 Pic ture page— OTIS SKINNER 75 The Classics Famous Departments Black And While — Read And Write (Prize Letters) 6 Last-Minute News .. 8 Classic's Family Album— (;rETA GARBO 10 My Neighbors In Hollywood K. C. B. 12 Facts and Figures — Intimate Items About Pictures Campbell MacCulloch 14 Looking Them Over — Newsy Close-Uns Dorothy Manners 42 Our Own News Camera — The Screen World In Pictures 53 The Celluloid Critic — Some Current Films In Review. .Laurence Reid 60 The Answer Man 76 Cover Drawing of Constance Bennett hy Marland Stone Laurence Reid, Editor Colin J. Cruickshank, Art Director Classic comes out on the 12th of eivry Month, Motion Picture the 28th Motion Picture Classic li published monthly at 350 E. 22nd St., Chicago, III., by Motion Picture Publications, Inc. Eniertd as second class mailer August jlsl, iQlH. at the Post Office at Chicago. Illinois, under the Act of March j, 1S70; printed in U. S. A. Editorial and Executive Offices, Paramount Building, 1501 Broadway, New York City, N. )'., Copyright igjo by Motion Picture Publications, Inc. Single copy 25c. Subscriptions for U. S., its possessions, and Mexico l^.oo n year, Canada $2.50, Foreign Countries, $,i.oo. European Agents, Atlas Publishing Company, 18 Bride Lane, London, E. C. 4George Kent Shuler, Pres. and Trens.. Duncan A. Dohie, Jr., Vice Pres.. Murray C. Hernays. Secy. 5