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Volume XXXVI, No. 3
October, 1928
Features in This Issue
Cover Portrait, Dorothy Devore.
. Marland Stone
Filling Their Shoes . : Herbert Cruikshank 28
The Hollywoods are full of persistent pretenders to the thrones of the established great
A Kid that Looks Like a Gun
Or two that look like Richard Barlhelmess twice: Mrs. McQuoid can find them
.Lamar Trotti 31 .Burt Knight 33
The Screenless Screen
[ This is one marvel that Clarence Brown, wizard of profits and prophesies, foresees clearly
So Good to Their Mothers! Gladys Hall 34
Pampering parents is Hollywood' s grealesls' greatest weakness
Your Neighbor Says— Walter Ramsey 40
Betsy Musser, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, tells what she thinks of Hollywood and the chances of girls who want to go there
Laugh that Off
Donald Reed's sense of humor has reconciled him to Hollywood
Dorothy Manners 42 . . . Cedric Belfrage 44
Baby Stars Learn Talkie-Talk !
All the movie kiddies are learning the fascinating new word game
Nijinska Dances Alone Herbert Cruikshank 49
Once an intimate of empresses, she is in Hollywood a magnificent nonentity
The Star-Diggers Gladys Hall 50
Samuel Goldwyn chooses women trained to please men
Hellywood Walter Ramsey 52
People think that should be the town's name before they see it
A Cynic of the Cinema Dorothy Manners 55
William K. Howard believes in Santa Claus with reservations
Mary Bids Goodbye to Curlhood Dorothy Calhoun 59
Miss Pickford uses scissors to sign her Declaration of Independence
It for the Itless Gladys Hall 64
This is Howard Greer's mission in life. That, and making lily women Illier
In Love and Incog Dunham Thorp 67
Because they were the one, Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg chose to remain the other
Leaves from a Lady's Diary Faith Service 68
Ruth Roland's diary proves that virtue is a gilt-edged investment
Why Movies Go Wrong Cedric Belfrage 71
Technical directors are allowed neither to be technical nor to direct
Gulliver Travels : Mary Bartol 76
Dorothy's young, Dorothy's pretty, but Dorothy doesn't want to be itly
Colin J. Cruickshank, Art Director
Dorothy Donnell Calhoun, Western Editor
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