Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1924)

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Our Reporter's Notebook TKe Latest News In Paragraph Jottings Gatnerea h^ RUTH G. BOWMAN SINCE the lid has been clamped on the studios and an unfriendly "No Admittance" sign greets the tourist to Hollywood, the restaurants and cabarets where the screen celebrities eat have become the Mecca of ti'aveling movie fans. Hence the film people make or break a restaurateur. For instance, the film folk find a nice cozy secluded eating-place and flock to it as to the Promised lland, but no sooner do they settle down to quiet meals and privacy than the tourists' guides nose around, find their oasis and use it as a bait to draw custom to their busses. If JNIary and Doug or any such high lights are expected at the cabaret, something like a near-riot is apt to ensue between hungry actors and curious fans. Should the place have the bad luck to be small the film stars are soon crowded out, and with the attraction gone, tourists no Tommy and Dick paused for the cameraman to get this informal picture of them together when Dick Barthelmess visited the Long Island studios where the Meighan company was at work. Both stars are looking particularly fit. And no wonder! Tommy had just come back from a vacation at Atlantic City and Dick had just returned from a sojourn beneath the balmy skies of Bermuda. Kada Abd-El-Kadir is the Arabian protege of Alice Terry and Rex Ingram. They brought him back from Algeria and plan to educate him. Below is one of the trials of filming scenes on city streets. The crowd are not extras in the new George Arliss picture, "§20 a Week," but curious spectators ! 66 onger patronize it, and the restaurateur finds his cupboard bare and his cash register empty. So lately cabarets big enough to accommodate tout le monde have become the vogue with dancing, midday and evening. Here the t. b. m. and his serious-minded spouse on tour go to get their fill of screen gossip at first hand, and feast their eyes on scintillating stars, while they mutilate pies the like of which mother never saw. But what matter with such cinema stars about as Barbara La Marr, Viola Dana, Carmel Myers, Anita Stewart, Ben Lyon, the Beery brothers, Robert Edeson, and — Jack Dempsey ! Hero worship comes high — ^^Jack Dempsey has signed