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CLASSIC
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WHY all this picking on Clara Bow? Why aU this dragging her down? Since when has it betn a crime to be from Coney Island, and admit it" Since when has it been a sin not to be high-brow?
WHO'S putting on the dog? Not Clara. She is one ot the tew sincere people in Hollywood. She is, if nothing else, herself. From the mob, she is of the mob. She does not pretend to be anything else, ^'ou like her as she is, or you do not like her. Better a stormy petrel any day than a tame pigeon.
THE inevitable has also happened to Greta Garbo. Poi her offstage reticence and aloofness, she is at last the victim of a rumor that her mind is a vacuum, that off the screen she cannot talk. Some of those <\\rft California grapes have turned most sour.
SOMETIMES, the better the box-office title, the more disappointing the picture. W e are thinking of "Love Among the Nlillionaires" and "The Office Wife." The same old fan fodder, dished up in the same old way.
WITH the rising popularity of M-G-M's canine comedies and Tiffany's chimpanzee howls, some of the erstwhile human comedians are beginning to look like white elephants.
ADOLPHE MENJOU, we are convinced, is an L. exceptional man-about-town. Capable of good V rench, he is being allowed to recover his .American fans, beginning with "New Moon." Antonio Moreno, who speaks Spanish, is apparently lost to his English-speaking fans. Ditto Barry -NoittMi. from the .Argentine, a young sensation in silents.
SPEAKING of Greta Garbo reminds us that there was a plan under way to make Marlene Dietiich, Germany's first gift to the native talkies, equally inaccessible, equally mysterious. But Marlene insisted that there was only one Garbo. And such a potential sensation is this girl that she had her way. She can be whatever she wants to be.
JACK OAKIE, making personal appearances in Chicago, did a hide-out act after hours. Local gangsters, it seems, sometimes ask tribute from movip stars (Eddie Cantor, among others, has been asked). And thrifty Jack, in case you didn't krunv. has a saving sense of humor.
THE title of "Frankie and Johnnie" was changed to "Her Man," for fear that the dear eld public would not know who Frankie and Johnnif were. And to make sure that Americana-lovers would not ecognize them, the scene was shifted to Havana, md Frarkif did not kill her man "because he done ler wrong." He was bumped off in the approved novie manner— bv a handy third party. .And / rfir! ■■■ v:iu}< f" .( Ivippv ending.
PERSONAL appearances are, in general, our idea of something to miss. Those who make them never — or approximately never — appear to advantage. They sing, they dance, or they wisecrack. W hy don't they ever appear in one-act playlets, giving them a chance to lead a normal existence — and giving us a chance to retain a shred of our illusions' The impression that screen actors cannot act is gaming momentum at every stage "performance." It will soon reach blizzard proportions.