Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

New Hair Mode Seen in New York The most beautiful girls in New York are doing their hair the new way. It's so lovely, but so simple. That's why it appeals to popular girls, who need to save time whereever they can. One of the busiest of them is attractive Mary Chandler, for three seasons a member of "George White's Scandals" and now appearing in "Artists and Models." She says: "I am so busy. I don't know how I'd take care of my hair, if I hadn't learned the new way so many of my girl friends are doing theirs. "All I do now is put a few dashes of Danderine on my brush each time I use it. This wonderful preparation keeps my hair looking so lovely that many friends want to touch it. I set my waves with Danderine, too, and it holds them ever so much longer. All dandruff disappeared with a few applications, and my scalp always feels fine. I shampoo just once a month, now. Danderine keeps my hair so clean." Danderine removes that oily film from your hair and gives it new life and lustre. 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PRICE ONLY 25c postpaid. 600 page catalog of novelties, trirks, puzzles, etc. free with every order. Postage Stamps accepted. The Hi-Jackers of Hollywood (Continued from page 53) JOHNSON SMITH & CO. DEFT. 19 RACINE. WIS. somely for the thieving privilege, for his conscience bothers him on pay-days. But then some folks will never listen to reason. So the butler keeps on buttling and tapping the till, as do a hundred of his confreres. A chauffeur with a half-dozen cars at his mercy is well on the way to a career. He could buy and sell a couple of college professors and a preacher thrown in. In fact, he wouldn 't have to sell 'em. He could buy 'em and keep 'em, what with his monthly remittance from the oil and gas man, the battery company, the tire concern, and various other emoluments. "Many a mickle makes a muckle," quotes this smiling youngster. And he'll do better with his six cars than did ever Jesse James and his horse. After all, the James Boys were only one-horse bandits. ONE FOR YOU, TWO FOR ME THE perfect maid of one tolerant star was accidentally discovered in a lucrative business arrangement with a dyeing and cleaning establishment. The late lamented Big Tim Murphy and his scheme for jacking up prices for this sort of labor, were mild and modest in comparison with this Ponzilike paragon. She worked the one-for-you, two-for-me idea. Her mistress's apparel was cleaned like nobody's business. As indeed was the mistress. The dyer got his from the increased business. But to get it, every fifty-cent job was put down at a dollar and a half. And mam'selle got the extra buck. The blow-off came when the star one day dropped by in person to pick up some article, and got the right price from a clerk who wasn 't wised up. One ferret-panned confidant of a busy star pulled a Jim, the Penman, which worked well until a casual comment from the bank on the thrift of the employee and the size of his bank account led to discovery. The scheme was a little manipulation of the deposits with which he was entrusted. The chatter-chambers of Hollywood are in the beauty-parlors. Clever girls, these industrious maidens who toil on hair or hands, while customers spin a fabric of fact and fiction to delight old Mrs. Grundy. And many a palm is crossed with silver by serious seekers after information murmured to a masseuse. Moreover, the word silver is the merest figure of speech, for the hands that handle henna know the value of each tid-bit. No such chronicle would be complete without a mention of the dog-thieves. Persuasive gentry, these furtive creatures, who lure some blooded pup within reach of a tiny lasso. At just the proper distance, a rope flies out to settle around a furry neck with a precision rivaling Will Rogers's best efforts. Then the star receives a call that old dog Tray will be delivered safe and sound for such honorarium as the traffic will bear. Charlie Burr, producer of Johnny Hines's comedies, has bought back his bulldog from these canine cowboys three times in as many months. The dog is the pet and pal of his children. A fact quite well known to the pup-pirates. THE PROGRAM RACKET ANOTHER shake-down racket is the . ancient one of selling space in program or periodical to the harassed Harlequin. Even great newspapers descend to this form of hi-jacking the stars. It 's a special number here, or a benefit there, with the thinly veiled intimation that failure to come across will result in a regular Gandhi campaign of non-cooperation, or the displeasure of the mighty ones interested in the charity, or what-not, represented by the program space-pedler. The banditti of the bridge-tables are, perhaps, the autocracy of the Hollywood W ailing] ords. Never a card is dealt except for stakes of varying substantiality. And the polished eligibles who know their conventions and their no-trump doubles, send many a movie-man, and woman, too, for little intimate chats with the treasurer between regular pay-days. One classic tale of a canny card-player deals with the discovery of a member of his poker coterie who had been fleecing the players in a friendly game for many and many a thousand. But this producer is well able to take care of himself across any baize table, and since the cheat and his winnings were thrust into the outer darkness, many a morning sun has seen all the chips in the house in the magnate's rack. Hollywood, more than any other community, is vulnerable to the sudden boldness of the jackal's foray. Not only are the stars notoriously careless, but they are — believe it or not — rushed to distraction with a never-ending round of activities. It is wellnigh impossible for them to give attention to any details of management, and those who do it for them demand a terrific toll of illegitimate gain. COSTLY CONFIDENCES THEN again there are the midnight confidences of master to valet, of mistress to maid. Entirely human. And always fraught with danger. The very humanness of Hollywood is its weakness. Yesterday's range-rider is today's Western idol, with huge sums to indulge long repressed desires for ham and eggs served on golden plates, and iced vintages to take the place of white smoke. Last year's bathing-beauty finds herself at the head of an extensive and entirely necessary menage. In some cases she arises nobly to her new majesty. In others she is a bit dazed and over-awed. In every case, the underlings scent the situation, and make their tainted hay while the sun of carelessness, childishness, ignorance or incompetence burns the bankroll. Arisen suddenly to the glorious summits of celebrity, glowing with their newly-found and so hard-won triumph, the victims of these predatory underlings have not, for the most part, the faintest notion of their existence. They have, indeed, these children of struggle, known the days when they, although legitimately, watched every move of those above them. But once they themselves become the cynosure cf attention, they forget that below them, as they were once below, are others watching for the veriest crevice of a loophole to use as a place of ambush. Innocent and naive as islanders untaught of vice by Reverend Davidsons, the children of the cinema are plundered right and left, and of all the organizations, there isn 't one to raise a hand in their protection. The faintest breath of scandal will scorch their laurel leaves. No one fights their battles. They are guilty till proved innocent. Put on probation under the slightest accusation. And if you have any doubts as to the difficulties attendant upon proving your innocence of any accusation, no matter how false, you confess your ignorance of. the mighty bulwarks of jurisprudence. Its foundations lie deep-rooted in the mucky gold wrung from innocents in proof of innocence. All of which may be included in listing the contributing factors which provide Hollywood hi-jackers with a land to loot richer than any pillaged by the pirates of the Spanish Main. 106