The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

WITH US TONIGHT father and mother and sister and two Llewelyn setters. Take the Gardner-Fairfax car. VUE CAROL: Bend your gaze upon SUE CAROL. *^ There ! there ! that's long enough. We can't spend the whole evening staring. She was born in Chicago, between barrages, and the date, if you wish to make a note of it, was October 30, 1908. But she didn't blow into Chicago with that name, for she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lederer, and they named her Evelyn. But Sue wasn't any poor woiking goil, and so spend no tears about Sue trying to earn a few honest pennies working behind a nasty old ribbon counter. The reason was Grandpa. Grandpa died and left a will. Even if Hollywood turned her out tomorrow morning after breakfast, the wolf would never howl at her door. Nice Grandpa. She made her debut into society at the Blackstone Hotel and you can't debut at the Blackstone on cigar coupons. One of her neighbors in Chicago was Janet Gaynor, and now they live not so far apart in Hollywood. Now and then Sue asks Janet over to spend the evening, and just to get into the atmosphere of old times Sue has the butler explode a couple of bombs in the kitchen. "It always makes things so chummy," says Sue. One time Sue had the butler toss a tear bomb behind the Ampico and Janet clasped Sue around the waist and said, "Oh, you darling ! You are always thinking of your guests." If you have trouble with your Carrolls, remember this : Sue Carol spells it with one r and one I, and Nancy doubles it all the way through. Also remember that Nancy is two years older. You mustn't forget important things like that. Don't get excited, boys. Nick Stuart was there first. And now we will hear what Mrs. Nicelae Pratza has to say. Stand up, ladies and gentlemen — the Queen! IPIFI DORSAY: Here's a little girl I take pleasure -*■ in bringing to your attention, as I had something to do with starting her on her road to glory. She played the part of the French girl in mv own "Thev Had to See Paris." I refer, of course, to FIFI DORSAY. Fifi shook her hip and rolled her eyes for the fii-st time April 16, 1907, and the place was a little suburb of Paris called Asnieres. Her name was Yvonne D'Orsay. but on the way to American she dropped the ' overboard. Her family had always called her "Fifi" and so she became pr< chanyo Fifi Dorsay. Her mother wanted her to become a nun and Fifi thought she would become one — until she arrived in New York and saw Broadway. Here are some interesting things about Mademoiselle Fifi: She was the oldest of thirteen children. And still some people talk about France's population slipping. She started in as a stenographer in New York. Six employers went mad trying to dictate business letters and look at her at the same time. She worked as a model in a New York department store. It is said that during the time Fifi worked there, the husbands of New York took more interest in their wives' clothing than ever before in the history of the city. She played in vaudeville with Freddy Barrens in a sketch called "Ten Dollars a -on." She calls the {Continued <>n page 121) Reading from left to right at The New Movie Magazine's Banquet table you will find: Conrad Nagel Sue Carol Jack Oakie Lupe Velez Richard Dix Fifi Dorsay and Mr. Croy Drawing by Herb Roth foth 55