Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

Clarence S. Bull . . . she becomes a brunette. Smart folks, these movie gals patience, the boy who answered it told the inquirer that the usual procedure was to write directly to the star herself. "That's what I thought,*' piped a fourteen-year-old voice at the other end of the wire, "but he told me to ring you up and ask for the picture." He turned out to be a close family connection of Alberta's ! Qxf. famous movie feud was settled the other day when Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton agreed that the same screen was big enough for both of them and started to work on "Fireman, Save My Child." But the battle of words between Belle Bennett and Sam Goldwyn still continues. Belle indignantly denies that she was ever "glad to get" the measly two hundred a week which Sam paid her to leave the speaking stage, and accuses him of "barber-shop vanity." "I was getting one thousand dollars a week in stock at the time," says Belle, registering half a dozen emotions at once and severely straining her expression, "but this man persuaded me to accept two hundred a week while I "learned screen technique/ holding out the star part in "Stella Dallas" I did so. He absolutely promised me .hat no one would know what I was getting. We were to share a dark secret, the wise guy and the easy mark. Yet the very next day he boasted of the deal openly in the Christie Hotel barber shop and laughed over how he 'got her for two hundred.' " Belle adds that she "faced privation" for eleven months before "Stella Dallas" brought her a livable salary of a thousand a week. And Lita Grey Chaplin told the judge recently in her petition to be allowed to occupy the Chaplin mansion that she and her babies were so destitute they could not even afford to pay a thousand a month rent for a decent house to live in ! Doesn't it break your heart to listen to the frightful hardships of these poor movie people? The quickest weather change took place on the set of Old Heidelberg in Laurel Canyon when a summer scene was turned in a few hours into a winter landscape by setting the entire company from Xovarro and Norma Shearer to the cameramen to pulling the leaves off the trees and underbrush! The oldest actress in the movies. Ruby Lafayette, eighty-eight, played a bit in this picture. She had to rise at five o'clock every morning in order to travel from her apartment in Los Angeles to the J The art of smiling charmingly is the art of caring properly for one's teeth. That is why Pepsodent, urged by dental authorities, is also universally placed by experts, these days, near the lop of the Use of modem beauty aids. Cleanse Teeth of Dingy Film To Brighten Smiles Quickly The new way to combat the film on teeth — the source of many tooth and gum disorders — which numbers of leading authorities suggest Send Coupon for 10'Day Tube Free WHEN teeth lack gleam and whiteness, it is usually because they are film coated. Ordinary brushing has failed to combat film successfully. Thus thinking people, chiefly on dental advice, are adopting a new way in tooth and gum care called Pepsodent. Now an effective film combatant By running your tongue across your teeth, you will feel a film; a slipperysort of coating. Ordinary brushing does not remove it. Film absorbs discolorations from food, smoking, etc. That is why, according to leading dental opinion, teeth look dingy and "off color." Film clings to teeth, gets into crevices and stays. It invites and breeds _ the germs of decay. And that is why it is judged so grave a danger to the teeth by authorities. Film is the basis of tartar. And tartar, with germs, is the chief cause of pyorrhea. That is why regular film removal is urged as probably first in correct gum protection. Most dental authorities urgently advise thorough film removal at least twice each day. That is every morning and every night. For that purpose, obtain Pepsodent, the special film-removing dentifrice which leading dental authorities favor. Different from any other tooth paste. Pepsodent curdles the film, then removes it; then polishes the teeth in gentle safety to enamel. It combats the acids of decay and scientifically firms the gums. It multiplies the alkalinity of the saliva. And meets, thus, in all ways, the exactments of modern dental science. On dental advice, people are adopting this new way of tooth cleansing. Obtain Pepsodent, the quality dentifrice, at drug stores. Two months' supply at a moderate price — or send coupon for 10-day tube. Use twice every day. See your dentist twice each year. FREE-10-DAY TUBE FREE — Mail coupon for 10-day tube to. The Pepsodent Company, Dept. 1079, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111., U. S. A. Only one tube to a family. Name „ Address Canadian Office and Laboratories: 191 GeorgeSt.. Toronto 2, Ont.. Canada. 2461 PEPSOD ENT The Quality Dentifrice — Removes Film ftom Teeth i When you write to advertisers please mention MOTION PICTUHE MAGAZINE. 119