Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1925)

84 Photoplay Magazine -Advertising Section Studio News and Gossip [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 76 ] When it's empty, refill it yourself in a fewseconds with your favorite soft powder. stage play, "Moonflower," in which Elsie Ferguson starred. "Betty Compson is costarred with Holt in the production. While in Del Monte Jack hopes to find time in which to engage in a few polo games. It is said the star's polo antics have caused a great deal of worry to the producers. Jack has suffered from several falls with cracked ribs and sprained ankles while playing on the Midwick team. RUPERT HUGHES is one man who believes in keeping his New Year's resolutions. He made one this year and certainly kept it. It read something like this: "Resolved — to get married." And almost forthwith the noted author fared forth and kept his resolution. It was a quiet wedding, with the immediate families of the bride, Elizabeth Patterson Dial, film actress, and Mr. Hughes as the only guests and Judge Russ Avery of Los Angeles performed the ceremony. The author gave his age as fifty-two and the bride, who appears on the screen under the name of Patterson Dial, gave hers as twentytwo years. Hughes is no longer directing, but is writing and adapting his own stories and supervising their production. RAYMOND GRIFFITH, who made such a sensational hit in " Forty Winks," and who is one of Hollywood's greatest little New York commuters, is again in Hollywood, having completed work on a picture at the Paramount's Long Island studio. Griffith is cast for a featured role in "The Night Club," an adaptation of William de Mille's play, "After Five." Frank Urson and Paul Iribe, the directors of " Forty Winks," will use the megaphones. IF Winifred Westover Hart, wife of Bill Hart, famous two-gun man of the screen, ever returns to pictures, she will have to do so as Winifred Westover, and not under her famous husband's name, according to the most recent court ruling in the fierce legal battle which the couple have been waging for months. Mr Hart appeared in court in an effort to return to the screen. She was accompanied by William S. Hart, Jr., aged two years and a few months, and alleged that before her marriage she was earning $500 a week as a screen actress and that she was unable to live on the income of a Sio3,ooo trust fund created by her husband at the time of their separation on condition that she should not allow herself to be photographed for screen or advertising purposes or use the name of Hart professionally. At the same time Hart created a trust fund of Sioo,ooo for his infant son. " CHE won a beauty content and became ^Charlie Chaplin's leading lady — " It reads like the day dream of an extra girl, but it isn't. It's the dream of an extra girl come true after months of waiting, working and almost starving, and the extra girl is Georgia Hale, who two years ago won a beauty conte-t and came to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune. Today, after a hard struggle against fate, in which she was almost overwhelmed more than once, she is under contract to Douglas Fairbanks and is now Chaplin's leading woman, replacing Lita Grey, who shut up her make-up box to put on a wedding ring. Georgia Hale was born in St. Joseph, Mo., of English and French parents, and at an early age moved to Chicago, where she studied music and dancing. It was here she won the beauty contest, the prize being sufficient cash to come to Hollywood, which she promptly did. Her fir-t experience in pictures was a bit of bad luck which almost discouraged he:. She wa^ taking part in a dance scene, her very first before the camera, when she fell and sprained her ankle. She was on crutches for six months and when her parents back in Chicago discovered what a hard time she was having and came to Hollywood, Georgia was down to her last ten-dollar bill. With the encouragement of her parents she tackled the extra job again and finally played From railroad worker to film director and back again— for a picture. When making "Greed" in the Arizona desert Eric von Stroheim came to a spot where twelve years ago he worked as a sectio?i hand. He donned a suit of overalls and showed the company how he used to make his living Every advertisement PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.