The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

All the News of the Famous Motion Picture Doug Fairbanks, Jr.: Did Douglas, Senior, disown him for his marriage? stage, Itiii none of the big boys would see her and the office boys didn't seem lo appreciate her appearance. Finally, she appeared at Flo Ziegf eld's office for the dozenth time, after six one evening. A man greeted her. "Who do you wish tO see.'" "Mr. Ziegfeld." "He doesn't see people except by appointment. Have you one .'" "No, but he'll see me. I'm a very old friend." "I see. How long have you known him?" I'm such a dear friend that "For years and years. you don't need to worry." "That's strange. I don't know how I could ever forget a face such as yours." It was Ziegfeld himself — hut she got her first engagement. A WOMAN with a twenty-five-inch waist, wellrounded hips and large bust was the unique call sent out by First National for a role in Corinne Griffith's "Lilies of the Field." Hundreds applied. But the straight flapper figure revealed no such dimensions. Finally, Cissy Fitzgerald came around and met the specifications. She was just about to be hired when executives hired her for a more important role in Billie Dove's picture. Broadway saved the day. Mae Boley, famous with Lillian Russell, has kept the figure which once set New York agog with fervor. Since we have seen her in the role, we can understand the requirements. She wears eighteen old-fashiond brooches, including a diamond lizard, alligator, basket of Hovers, cat's face with emerald eyes, sultan's head, daisy cluster, etc. They scoured the jewelers of this country to get these antiques and they just have to have someone with figure enough to support them. TyE visited Ramon Navarro at the close of the first V* day of work on Ins latest picture, "Devil May Care." ' He was working on the rear lot at Metro Goldwyn-Mayer. which contains some fifty acres. His eyes were bloodshot, his face haggard. ' "You will pardon me ? This is my first talkie and it has been my worst day of all days in pictures. We would start to take a scene when an aeroplane would go overhead; we would start another when the ducks i?i the puddle nearby would quack; we would begin again when the carpenters started work on a set nearby. We have not taken one whole scene this whole day on the picture." DUTH CHATTERTON and Ralph ■^ Forbes have moved into their new home in Beverlv Hills. It's an interesting place even in a city of interesting homes. All antiques fur furniture. Not one piece more modern than the eighteenth century. "Now we will always be in style and never will have to decorate," Ruth tells us. There's a writing room for Ruth and a libraiy for Ralph. "If Ralph picks up one thing in my room, I'm going lo put a knocker on the door and he's got to use it." "If Ruth throws anything around in my room, I'm going to put a knocker on my door," Ralph answered. In other words. Ruth likes intimate disorder and Ralph the opposite. Since their near-divorce, they've figured out a way to indulge their own whims without protest from each other. "TS it true that Doug Fairbanks, Sr., has disowned Doug, Jr., since his marriage to Joan Crawford?" is one of the burning questions in Hollywood today. The low-down as we gather it, is : Doug. Sr., didn't like the quiet wedding in New York City without the parental, "Bless you, my children," and said so. Doug, Jr., maintained his right to marry as he pleased. Disagreements between father and son are not new in this family. Doug, Sr., wanted him to wait a few years. TTCWEVER. it is in ■*■ teresting to know the change in popular opinion of these two : A few weeks ago we were in the Montmartre. when a visiting tourist exclaimed, "There's Douglas Fairbanks. He's the father of Doug', Jr.. you know." A year ago the son was known bv Ramon Novarro: As he appears in his first all-talkie, "Devil May Care." his father ! TJ ABY conferences are the latest ! Started by Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hackett. Johnny's girl is five weeks old ; Raymond's seven. They work on the same lot and don't let a day go by without discussing just when is the best time to start adding spinach to milk and giving a little orange juice in-between feedings. And they'll tell anyone who cares to listen all about the proper preparation for teething. Which shows plainly the changing of Hollywood customs. A year ago Johnny Mack Brown was pleading with us all to keep it a secret that he was married. "It would spoil my chances as a leading man — " The influx of married couples from Broadway has changed the rating of Hollywood wdves and offsprings. Q3RINNE GRIFFITH has a new dog. It is a Doborman Pinschor 14