The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

The New Movie Magazine Gossip of the Studios Li.yan Tashman: Demonstrating the new hair bob she wears in "No, No, Nanette" MALIBU BEACH was once a waste stretch of sand. Today it is a row of beautiful beach houses and one of the most popular summercenters for Hollywood. Ail because Clara Bow and Richard Dix and one or two others started the fashion, last year, by erecting summer cottages there. At the end of this season the list of home owners include Herbert Brenon, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Franklin, Dolores Del Rio, Gladys Unger, Al Santell, Mr. ami Mrs. Irving Thalberg (Xorma Shearer), Anna Q. Xilsson, Ben Schulberg. Wesley Ruggles, Lois Moran, William 1jC Baron, Laura La Plante and her busband, Director William Seiter, and Dorothy Mackaill. Among the regular week-end guests al one house or another, this summer, have been Elsie -Tanis, Ivan Lebedoff, Shayle Gardiner, -loan Bennett, Lilya.i Tashman, Edmund Lowe, Claude King and Harry Riebman. During one of the house parties, a wild screech interrupted the chatter. Everyone dashed to the beach. "What animal was that?" someone inquired. Mrs. Bierbower, mother of Elsie Janis, answered. "I was just calling to Elsie. It is our regular call for one another." TILYAN TASIIMAN has a new hair bob. <(She will launch it, formally, in her role for "No. Xo, Nanette," although the Hollywood flappers are already copying it. And when Lilyan stalls anything, it's news! This time she has parted her hair in the middle from the front to the back, combed it sidewise to one inch above her ears, where the barber clipped it and then curled it in tiny, light loops from the back to the front. It sounds like a take-off on Topsy, but its really becoming — on Lilvan. AT the same time Gloria Swanson ■^ has been sporting a new mode for long hair. Two knots tied low on the neck in the rear; two deep waves on each side of the front. Now, we're waiting for some bright press agent to instigate a prizecontest for which is the more popular. Katharine Dale Owen: Half of Hollywood claims she's the most beautiful newcomer "IA/TIEN reports of "Fast Life" began to sift back home * * to First National from the box offices, they just called Loretta Young in and tore up her contract, then wrote her another with several hundred advance in salary and assigned her as John Barrymore's next leading lady. Whieh means she is made — according to Hollywood's rating. TPHESE stage actors are A slowly hut surely catching the Hollywood spirit. Bela Lugosi of stage "Dracula" fame, left for a week of personal appearances in San Francisco. Immediately before thai lie gave out an interview in which he si that, because be believed in vampires, he would never marry. Then he came bach with a wife! She was formerly Beatrice Woodruff Weeks, widow of a well-known California architect. When be asked her what she would like best for a wedding present, she answered. "A life sized portrait of you in oils, darlii Proving thai she. too, understood actors! HPHE divorce of Dorothy .Mackaill and Lothar Mendez became final lasl month. At this writing neither one has. however, applied for the papers. Does this indicate a possible reconciliation .' QORIS KEENE has succumbed to the lure of the movies along with the rest of Broadway. An energetic writer soughl out her hobby the minute she heard the news and discovered that it was Dresden does. She has more than one thousand in her home, the former country estate of Sir .lames Barrie, in England. Now ( veryone in Hollywood is busy getting dogs for her. She has had ten presented in one week ! JCLTETTE COMPTON and Katherine Dale Owen are running a soil of unintentional beauty contest. Half of Hollywood claims that Miss Owen is the most beautiful newcomer; the other half throws its support to Miss Compton. Miss Compton tells this story on herself to her supporters: She wanted to get a br*eak on the 13