Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

„„-,0T10N pictur; id! I MAGAZINE Coast, and eventually brought him under the Kleig with Lillian Gish in "The White Sister." Contrary to his desires again, this took him back overseas, and he had no sooner finished that film and got back to America than he had to turn around and go back to Italy for' his role with Miss Gish in "Romola." Now he's engaged for a part in "Tarnish," and is at last on the Coast for keeps, he hopes. Viola Dana is playing the coveted role of Sally "Flips," the Montague girl, in "Merton of the Movies," with Glenn Hunter in his undisputed part of Merton. This will be the first production in which Miss Dana is starred under her new contract with Paramount covering several years. The glad word is that James Cruze will direct it. On the completion of "Merton of the Movies," Miss Dana will play the lead in "Open All Night," a film which has been adapted from stories by Paul Morand. It will be directed by Paul Bern, his first attempt. in this field. ' "Her Marriage Vow" has been landed by Warner Brothers. It is an Owen Davis play. The cast includes : Mae Busch, Willard Louis, Monte Blue, and other prominent actors. "Can the leopard change his spots?" A fortnight ago, a Detroit exhibitor recognized his former secretary "extra-ing" as a typist on Victor Schertzinger's set for "Bread." He wrung the confession from her that she had resigned from his service to go to Hollywood and enter the movies, but that she had worked only three times and each time as a typist and stenographer ! According to the rules of the story with a moral, she should have gone back home with him a chastened and hungry little runaway but film history doesn't say that she did. It's stories like the film career of Mimi Palmeri that keeps the film-struck girl hanging on. Five years ago, Miss Palmeri was studying music at the Damrosch Conservatory. To help out expenses she became a model at part time and soon had won popularity in that line, and her picture appeared in various fashion magazines. Thru them, she was discovered by Mrs. Arthur Friend, wife of the then President of Distinctive Pictures. She was so unconscious of her possibilities that when she received a note from Mr. Friend asking her to call she ignored it. When, however, someone told her what an important man Mr. Friend was, she rushed up to the Inspiration offices and was given the lead in "The Ragged Edge." She appeared next in "Second Youth," and now is about to go abroad to film "It Is the Law." Zane Grey pictures will be released simultaneously with the publication of his novels hereafter, so admirers of the novelist can be perfect gourmands in the future. Paramount itself has set the fashion of taking Mr. Grey at one gulp, part and parcel — the company has put thru a contract by which they secure all of Mr. Grey's future works. The only string to the productions apparently is that the stories must be filmed in their original location and tho this may not be comfortable for the actors it's going to be mighty pleasant for the fans. Mr. Grey's works already produced under this same proviso include : "To the Last Man," "The Call of the Canyon," "The Heritage of the Desert," and lastly, "Wanderer of the Wasteland." (Continued on page 104) I Would You Like Prettier teeth=teeth without dingy film? You see glistening teeth wherever you look today. You envy them, perhaps. Why not ask for this ten-day test and learn how people get them? Millions are now brushing teeth in a new way. You will adopt it when you know. Please learn now how much it means to you and yours. Film mars beauty That viscous film you feel on teeth is what makes teeth unsightly. Much of it clings and stays. No ordinary tooth paste can effectually combat it. Soon that film discolors, then forms dingy coats. That is why teeth lose luster. 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