Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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Harry Carr's department of news and gossip of the Hollywood picture folk Doug, Sr., is at this writing still hobnobbing with nearroyalty. The Duke of Alba and a party of Spanish nobility are guests at the Fairbanks house. This week Doug and Mary are taking them' to Catalina where a special camp has been erected in a secluded bay under heavy guard against sightseers. They are fishing for tuna and other big game of the deep. Mary is still undecided about her future productions, altho I understand she has about decided not to go thru with her plan to play Cinderella. TLXollywood is very much stirred up over the terrible slam that Mary Miles Minter gave screen celebrities in an interview in an Eastern newspaper. Mary said that all one needed to be a movie star was a French maid, a pedigreed dog and a ribbon-decked footstool. By way of a deep and terrible revenge, the Hollywood folk are telling how fat Mary has become since abandoning her screen career. "^^"abel Norm and says the worm turns at this point. *~ ■*■ She has endured all the rest of the scandal ; but when a woman named Mrs. Norman Church named her as co-respondent in a divorce suit — well, that was just that much too much. Mabel say that the only time she ever saw the recreant husband was when they were both in a hospital and he was wheeled by her door on an operating table. She has brought suit against Mrs. Clark for five hundred thousand dollars libel. T£ ate Lester, once a famous stage beautv and latterly ■^^ a player of mother parts in pictures, met a horrible death at the Universal Studio recently. A gas heater in her dressing-room exploded and she was burned to death. Louise Lorraine had a narrow escape almost on the same day. She was working in a serial of circus life with an elephant named "Minnie," regarded as the most amiable of all movie beasts. Minnie became frightened at a wind-storm stirred up by the aeroplane propellers and stampeded. She kicked over the circus wagons and all but trampled on Miss Lorraine. Tew Cody has returned from Europe filled with excited •*-' reminiscences and denials. He acted as second to Mike Gibbons when Mike knocked out Jack Bloomfield, the heavy (Coiitimied on page 82) Clara Bow not only is a champion swimmer and basket-ball player, but she has had a lot of training in the none-too-gentle art of boxing. You see her at the left umpiring a bout between Gaston Glass and Kenneth Harlan : A Trio of Beautiful Betties "%, Jm* The Betty at the top is little Peter Pan Bronson, chatting with Jesse Lasky and Herbert Brenon. At the left you see Miss Compson looking for a life to save; and above, you catch Miss Blythe racing toward her studio w **. Priscilla Dean entertains the three li flew around the world, at her beautiful home in Beverly Hills 59 PAfi t