The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

The New Movie Magazine How Hollywood Entertains {Continued from page 79) rare treat when he did some of his priceless grand opera imitations. When Roger sings grand opera you are torn between admiration of his voice and talent and laughter at his touches of burlesque. Mrs. Mae Sunday was in a flowering gown of figured chiffon, the colors blue and purple and a soft orange, and Mrs. Abraham Lehr was in pale blue satin. John Colton, the dramatist of "Rain" and "The Shanghai Gesture" fame, Fanya Marinoff — who is Mrs. Carl Van Vechten — and Jobyna Howland, of New York stage fame, came together. Mr. and Mrs. Basil Rathbone were there. Mrs. Rathbone, who used to be Ouida Bergere, the writer, also wore black, very severe at the neck line, with a long fluffy skirt, and an exquisite necklace of diamonds. Ernst Lubitsch the director who has scored the biggest talkie success to date with "The Love Parade," and his wife were among the guests. Mrs. Lubitsch was all in white, a tight bodice and a long, trailing skirt, the outer drape of net over a tight underskirt of satin. The supper was varied and Mrs. Lowe has one of those cooks for whom the Englishmen of Edward VII's reign would have gone to battle. Beefsteak and kidney pie, roast turkey, and chafing dishes of lobster (after some recipe that is strictly Mrs. Lowe's own) formed the main part of the repast. And, for dessert, there were cocoanut cake and large fresh strawberries, smothered in whipped cream which had been flavored and chilled. There are never any games at Lilyan's parties — not even a table of bridge. Conversation always is the order of the evening. Everyone seemed delighted, because it was two o'clock before the party broke up. The Hollywood Boulevardier {Continued from page 54) Jazz." In the act of inflating my pneumatic cushion, my breath was caught by a flash of magic beauty; before I could recover it, Director Anderson had whisked off the set and produced another from his prestidigitator's box. My cushion poofed down and is now offered at greatly reduced price to anyone covering old soporifics. Director Murray Anderson of New York's Greenwich Village Follies is the ringmaster Hollywood needed. He holds a whip in one hand and a wand in the other. With one he flicks the chorus and with the other he makes sets appear and vanish. Scenes are timed with a stop watch. Dancers whirl on and off. You no sooner fall for a gal than another picks you up. Even the sets move to the baton of conductor Whiteman. Prof. Anderson has, at one and the same time, taken the air out of my cushion and the wood out of Hollywood. CRITICS have much to learn. I regret I criticized Catherine Dale Owen for doing nothing but blink her eyes while Lawrence Tibbett held her tight and sang her Rogue Songs. "How could she help but blink with those blinding lights and everything," protested Adela Rogers St. Johns. "Yes, and you have no idea how these romantic lovers spit when they sing," said Mary Nolan. The screen will develop its own opera. It will not be the antique overstuffed kind that creaks at the Metropolitan, but will apply as plausibly to the eye as to the ear. Nor will singers perform in the manner of apoplectic ivindmills, retching about in anguish until you wish they'd put their fingers down their ih mats and have it over with. AA/OMEN seem to agree that Lawv ' rence Tibbett affects their temperatures with his singing in "The Rogue Song." They say he breathes the hot Sahara that simply wilts them. However, some contend he'll never be LESSONS/ HOW'D YOU LIKE to Play This No reason why you shouldn't. 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Jack Oakie was never elected Mr. Athens in a beauty parade, yet one flash of his fizz and hands start clapping, the femmes getting hot palms as they never have for a perfect profile. Will Rogers as a silent sheik never earned the shekels, but now he could well afford to loan them to John Gilbert. Recall the sad old story ending: "... She's gone with a handsomer man"? Well, now it reads: "... She's gone with a better talker." DEAUTY doesn't mean a thing to •*-* old man Mike. Take 'em, says I, and give me Beryl Mercer. As between a blonde blahblah and tubby, and jouncy little old Beryl my money goes to bouncy Beryly. And have you seen Marie Dressier play the old crow in "Anna Christie"? Even with Billie Dovie in town the same night, I'm courtin' Marie. . . . She's our sex-attraction now. "Alius could get men, alius can," hiccups Marie in ' "Anna Christie." And she's dead right. I Here's a little story about Marie . Dressier. When I was in Venice, Italy, several years ago. 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