The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

The Who's Who of Hollywood— and what the Bebe Daniels: Her car overturns and her mother, Phyllis Daniels, is hurt. friends. It was one of 1 he firsl social events Lew lias attended since his recovery from his long illness and came as a surprise to him, for, when he arrived home after a trip to the sanitarium at Monrovia to .see his wife, Mabel Normand, he found a group of friends waiting to wish him many happy returns of the day. Just after midnight, the guests were shocked and the gay effort to cheer Lew up a little was turned to tears bv a tele phone call that Mabel had passed away quietly at a little after twelve. Those who had arranged the party were Norman Kerry, Cliff Edwards, Jack Gilbert, Marshall Neilan, Walter O'Keefe. Jack Pickford and Hoot Gibson, all old time friends of Lew's. George Fnivcett, the character actor, has written a lot of poems. What is more they have been published. Dozens of 'em. "\\ 0 one really knows Hollywood unless they spend ■"■^ an occasional Sunday at the open house suppers of Jimmy Cruze and Betty Compson at Flintridge. The most interesting people in the film colony drift in and out. Stimulated by Jimmy's wit and conversation and Betty's ease and tact as a hostess, the affair gains the color of a smart salon in Paris. "ly/f OTION pictures started it, talkies helped it along, -* -* and now the new color pictures have added to the general mess. We refer to the words which Hollywood has added to our language — or slanguage. No sooner had we become used to hearing cameramen, emerging from their sound-proof cells, call "the shot" just made in golf terms — -"That was par — or a birdie — or an eagle" as they judged it, than a whole new vocabulary came into existence for the color films. A few of the newer ones are : Filter : A colored prism placed in back of the lens of a. camera, through which the scene is registered on the negative. Strawberry : Ked filter. Mint : Green filter. Lemon : Yellow filter. Swabber : Gent who cleans the color camera. Fryer: A color light. (They are hotter than the gates of Hades. Actors melt under them.) "Clean 'em up" means to remove filters from the cameras and wipe off dust which gathers from rapidly turning film. This must be done 22 every 500 feet to preserve clearness of photography. Main Spring: The delicate spring, aceurate to .000] of an inch, which holds the filters in place and prevents blurring of the colors. Furnace : Color set on a hot day. Batteries: Hows of colored lights. Lily •. A wilted color. Astigmatism : Colors overlapping on the film. Subtractive Colors : Those obtained by removing a color from some other color. Such as#reinoving yellow from green and getting blue. Jelly: A thin piece of gelatin placed over a sunarc to slightly dim the light. Blue Mirror : New mirror with border of different colored lights which actors must use when making up for color pictures. A flower stand near the Paramount Hollywood studios did $2,000 worth of business in one month from the studio alone. A DOCTOR in Hollywood has a machine which tells ■^* you what kind of a person you are. Said machine showed that Vivian Duncan, who always plays the nice, quiet, sad little girl, who is happy but occasionally, is the liveliest of the sisters. And that Rosita, who plays the laughing, cut-up Topsy parts is really the saddest of the Duncan sisters. T AURA LA PLANTE and Universal have come to the parting of the trail, after being together for eight years. Laura still had two years to go on her present contract but asked for her release. She hasn't been any too happy about her roles. She and her husband, Bill Seiter, popular director, are planning a trip around the world. After that Laura will start thinking about the future. The first motion picture in Los Angeles was shot twenty-two years ago last month. The studio was a building and yard which had just been vacated by Sing Loos, Chinese laundryman. Tom Santchi played in it. =* =* & ALL of "Tin Pan Alley" is trek^"* king to Hollywood and the flow of golden dollars for song writers which the talkies started. But further, the talkies are raising merry Ned with the stage — the New York stage. All the actors who were formerly tickled to death to get a part in a New York production are now in Hollywood, trying to break into pictures. This makes it tough on the New York producer who has to look high and low for his casts. -!£ 3t* 3£ Maybe it's a little late to call Gloria Swanson "the dark lady of the Sennetts" — but it's a good line, anyway.