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Just as an item for the old-timers who loved the early-day silent comedies, it is reported that Joseph T. Rickard died re¬ cently. His film-name was “Kalla Pasha.” Remember ?
Right in the midst of the newspaper hul¬ labaloo over both Mae Murray and Mary McCormic divorcing their respective Princes Mdivani, the latter visited the Fox lot. dropped in to see Will Rogers. So they talked about princes and divorces and Rogers asked then :
“Say, what you girls tryin’ to do to these here now princes ? — Gang up on ’em . . . ?
Explaining her own divorce action to a friend, Mae Murray said, among other things :
“He tried to stifle me. He could never understand my love for the public and the public’s love for me ! * * I like to have people say ‘there goes Mae Murray.
Hello, Mae.’ And almost invariably I hear them add : ‘Isn’t she gorgeous !’ And that’s one word that al¬ ways made David mad.
‘Your public,’ he would sneer. . . .”
Film-hero-worship is international. Look what happened to Jose Mojica on his concert tour in Bulgaria : in Sofia, a society girl bribed the regular maid to let her carry Mo¬ jica’s breakfast-tray up to his room. And when she did — and opened the door saw Mojica, her idol — she fainted!
When it comes to parties, make sure Hyman is there. At Emmanuel Cohen’s party he caught Lubitsch, Wynne Gibson and Jack Oakie in one comer and Jimmy Glea¬ son, Heather Angel, War¬ ren William and Wally Ford in another. Read in “Inside Stuff” what this little scene between Bill Hart and Jay Whidden means
Mae West’s been in jail again ! Last time was when she and her cast were arrested in New York for present¬ ing what New York police thought was a naughty-baddie play. This time, however, it was different. Mae had taken part in a one-reel movie made for adver¬ tising a Los Angeles deputy sheriff’s bar¬ becue — and in return, the deputies in¬ vited her to jail for dinner. “Just like old times,” said Mae.
This business of getting prominent head¬ liners to play themselves in movies ! — first Peggy Hopkins Joyce, in “International House,” played the role of Peggy Hopkins Joyce. And now Mary McCormic, grand opera singer, and one of the wives (or exwives) of one of the Mdivanis, will play the role of Mary McCormic in a Fox film.
And who is the so-popular one of the newer crowd of film-beauties who, because her long-time boy friend (once erroneously publicized as her husband) grew annoyed at the too-many swains who were rushing her, presented him with a chromium-plated white Packard and a regular allowance and told him to be satisfied and stop butting in on ber life? ( Continued on page 68)
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