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BOULEVARDIER
By HERB HOWE
Beautiful, But
New World War of Greta vs.
Marlene Stirs Hollywood — The Tricks
of Old Debil Talkie — Star Salaries
Leap in Movieland
Evelyn Rossman of Milwaukee, asks me to do a story about Buddy Rogers. I tried to. I asked him to fill out a questionnaire. It was no more impudent than the one sent me by California's "Who's Who." I filled mine out, though I admit I oathed. Buddy, on the other hand, was the perfect gentleman and answered mine with the silence of a tomb. So I can only write epitaphically — Buddy Rogers : Silent Star.
Nina Hallelujahs Abroad: Nina Mae McKinney, the little colored girl who starred in "Hallelujah," told me it was her intention to become the toast of Paris, wear gowns like Gloria Swanson's and drip diamonds from her physique like Peggy Joyce. Well, Nina has been chateauxing abroad, drippin' diamonds and wearing pink face powder. According to The Pittsburgh Courier, a paper for the colored people, "the girl of a hundred loves" has signed to do an Ufa talkie for $50,000. She is doing so well, in fact, that she felt she could afford to send her chaperon back to New York. As my colored boy Ambrose says: "That girl am sure a whip!"
Her Steeped Bed: When Nina Mae arrived in Paris she sent her card in to Josephine Baker, the American negress who has snake ^ f
hipped herself into fame and riches. Miss Baker, sensing rivalry, refused to see Nina. After all, Miss Baker is now a countess and recently was chosen "Queen of the Colonies" for the French Colonial Exposition. The colored folks' newspaper, Pittsburgh Courier, says:
"Miss Baker lives in a colonial mansion valued at a quarter-million dollars, with a sunken swimming pool, luxurious motor cars, a number of servants, and she sleeps on a bed which is steeped in historical lore." Steep sleep !
Pola's Passion Bed: Norma Shearer, a sharp wit, told me that when she and Irving Thalberg were looking for a house in Beverly Hills after their marriage, a realtor took them through Pola Negri's mansion. Conducting them to the star's bedroom he pointed to the Du Barrv bed.
"That is the bed," he said impressively, "that Miss Negri used in 'Passion.' "
The New Sirens: The original (Continued on page 114)
Herb Howe reports that he has been getting letters of protest from angry baboons in Africa. They resent the monkeys in "Ingagi," said to be animal impersonators masquerading in monkey skins.
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