Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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On the Camera Coast (Continued from page 59) weight, in London ; and lie didn't get engaged to Nora Bayes. He says that he and Miss Bayes were motoring together and the machine was wrecked. The gallantry of his rescue made the English reporters think they must be engaged or something. X/T ae Marsh has also just returned from Europe. To the excited throng she announced that everybody goes hatless now in fashionable circles in Vienna ; consequently Mae's bobbed hair has no lid. She says that movie experience in Berlin was interesting and that her young daughter learned to talk German like a native. Mae says that the directors over there like to get American screen actresses because they are more business-like. The German stars are all temperamental, coming to work whenever the spirit moves them. Also they all terribly overact. Miss Marsh has gone back to her residence in Flintridge, near Los Angeles, and doesn't care whether she ever acts for the screen again or not. She's fed up. V/Tilton Sills now emulates Mary, the young lady with the lamb. Only he is followed by a cow. He went to Catalina recently on location for a protracted period. As he is on a strict diet,' requiring milk many times a day, they had to have a special string of milk -boats chasing wildly down from Avalon to the location place. Finally, the director Irving Cummings had a large and copious Holstein cow sent with instructions to drive her wherever Mr. Sills should wander. T-Tarold Lloyd and Valentino have both made contracts whereby their pictures will, in future, be distributed by Famous Players-Lasky. This will not, however, interfere with their independent production activities. Valentino will still make pictures with the Ritz-Carleton productions, and Lloyd will make his own. Those with weak hearts are advised to skip a few lines at this point. But the solemn fact is Harold Lloyd is now receiving the largest income ever paid to anyone in the history of the world for services in any artistic occupation — if you can call making comedies that. He receives between $25,000 and $40,000 a week from his percentages from his comedies. All other picture stars are pikers, and the great operatic stars are paupers by comparison. J-Telene Chadwick has encountered a new ambition in life. One of her remote ancestors, Lord Chadwick, started a town in New York State and had it named for himself. The fair Helene wants to buy one of the old California ranchos and cut it up into a model town with a community center and other modern fixings. Dola Negri made a wild plunge into real ■estate this week. She bought Priscilla Dean's Hollywood mansion for something over $100,000. Now she is plaintively and forlornly searching for a cook. Pola says that acting for the screen is easy compared wth corralling cooks. TsJorma Talmadge has started on a long vacation. Her studio closed when the last scene of The Lady was shot, and will not be opened until next March. Norma has just returned from New York, breathing mad devotion for California. p"i<ic von Stroheim is reported as brokenhearted over the way the studio executives have cut his picture, Greed. It was tried out in a theater in Pasadena recently. Von Stroheim wanted to keep it an enormous length and show it on two different nights. A brand-new graft has been discovered by Marguerite de la Motte. Someone in the East has been advertising that for one dollar he will send anyone a "form letter" so couched that, addressed to any screen stars, it will bring a signed photograph and an autographed letter. Miss de la Motte discovered it by receiving four letters in one day all beautifully written— but exact duplicates of each other. TThe Lambs Club members living in Hollywood recently gave a huge benefit in the Hollywood Bowl to build a new church for the parish of the Rev. Neal Dodd, known all thru the film world as the "Padre." Nearly all Hollywood baptisms, marriages and funerals come off in his church. "piRST National, which has been hankering for some time to make pictures in New York, is sending two companies with a special steel film car across the continent. They are to make two pictures, One Way Street, and The Interpreters' House. Lambert Hillyer, the young director who has made so many hits for Thomas H. Ince, has signed with First National to direct one of the pictures. On the other hand. Corinne Griffith is coming back to Hollywood. She has found that New York is quite a town for some things, but not for picture making. The reason they like to make pictures in Hollywood is because they say they have every conceivable thing here for making them. But twice, in the last week, Hollywood has missed its step in this regard. In the making of The Devil's Cargo, a story of the early days of California, the Lasky Studio needed some old-fashioned revolvers — four hundred of them. The Every advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.