Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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Stars and Studios the screens this week showing Mrs. AI Smith in a bathing suit. Also the talkie shot of Al making a speech, beginning "This is the foist time ..." Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Little Star "T-TOW do you test the sex-appeal of your players?" gushed the interviewer of the casting director. He heaved a patient sigh. "Madame," said he, "it's really very simple. We have a studio official called a sprinkler." "A sprinkler? How extraordinary!' And what does he do?" "It's this way," said the casting director. "He puts the applicants for the part in a row and sprinkles each one. When he finds one that sizzles, he brings her inside and we sign her up." Dollars and Pennies 1WTONEY! Nobody listens to any sum of money smaller than fifty thousand in this town. Now we hear that Joe Schenck has won two hundred thousand at Deauville and broken the bank. The report doesn't say whether it was dollars or francs. Also that Raoul Walsh and his new bride took a wedding trip to Tia Juana and Raoul won eighteen thousand in the Casino. And at a treasure hunt at one of the beach houses last week Patsy Ruth Miller won the prize, a huge bag filled with twenty-five dollars in copper pennies, and spent the evening counting them in a corner of the drawing-room. Not a Movie Crime A MURDER in Los Angeles that they can't connect with the movies! It's unprecedented. Probably before the case is settled they will find that the butcher boy sheik had once played as extra for four days in "The Thief of Bagdad" and the headline-writers will joyously frame their favorite "MOVIE SHEIK FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE BEFORE JURY." Incidentally, this is going to convert all the ladies into vegetarians — or perhaps it will change them from vegetarians to meateaters! (Continued on page iof) Hesser Gauze and effect: the portrait of Virginia Bradford, above, shows the relationship between her mode of dress and certain consequent emotional disturbances experienced by her fans Freulich Not merely engaging, but engaged, is Mary Philbin, above. The fortunate youth being Paul Kohner and present, beside Mary, in the picture The make-up of Baclanova — at the left — as Lesistrata, the womanwarrior of Athens, is unusually striking. We suspect her of using Greece-paint Richee