Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1926)

Folks, meet Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mauer of Omaha — the world's champion picture fans. They have gone to the movies every night for eight years. Pa is 74 and Ma 63. Their favorite stars are Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Milton Sills, Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford A clean start in life. That's what every guy needs. And it's just what Jack Hoxie got, as this picture of him at the tender age of one-half year reveals. Jack is today one of the wildest riders and one of the most popular Western stars in pictures Mrs. Menjou have come to the parting of the ways. Incompatibility is said to be the cause. There is the story that Mrs. Menjou felt her dapper husband spent too much money on his clothes. A thirty-five dollar pair of shoes once caused a row. A friend of Adolphe's burned a hole in the living room rug one night, which didn't help matters. Kathryn Menjoujjjwas formerly a business and newspaper woman, and felt she was far more capable of managing her husband's career than he was. But producers are loath to do business with the wives and husbands of stars, and the affairs of Adolphe seemed always badly mixed up under Mrs. Mcnjou's management. The truth of the situation is difficult to arrive at as Menjou refuses to discuss his personal affairs with reporters, and Mrs. Menjou declares that her husband will return to his Hollywood home upon the completion of his current film. WE can breathe easier now. Jack Rarrymorc likes "The Rig Parade." However, there is one small llaw that he detected. It's the dying scene where Jack Gilbert gives the poor shell-torn German lad his last cigarette, and then the Uhlan youngster expires . . . with his mouth closed. Barrymore says it can't be done — dying with closed mouth. It's been tried often, 1 ut you just can't expire with your lips locked. T\T answering Mary Miles Minler's suit for an ■•■accounting of her money earned. Mrs. Charlotte Shelby declares thai Mary received all the money due her. She denies thai she had received amounts during her daughter's minority unaccounted for. The mother claims that she is entitled to every rent Mary earned prior to her eighteenth birthday on the ground that up to that time the star was a minor and under her full conl rol. Mrs. Shelby admits receiving 8742,000 from Famous Players over a two-year period, but declares that it was all delivered to Mary. She denies getting $52,000 from the old American Film Company, or $218,000 from Famous prior to April 1st, 1920, Mary's eighteenth birthday. The case will be finally settled sometime in March. Mary is in New York trying to get a role on the speaking stage. She is still considerably overweight, but has promised several producers to get in trim if they will find her a suitable part in a good play. "LJALF of Vilma Banky's charm is -'—'-in the quaint way she contorts our tongue into a language of delicious meaning. The other day she wore a new frock to the studio and Ronald Colman complimented her on it. "Your dress is very pretty, Vilma," said the erstwhile Sphinx. "Ah ! and do you know vhy eet iss so pretty?" queried Vilma. "Why?" "Because eet iss charge account!" triumphed Vilma. AND then there was the evening that Sam Goldwyn look the same lovely star to be presented at a large gathering. The master of ceremonies whispered to Sam: "This is Miss Vilma Hanky of the MetroGoldwyn-Mayer Studios, isn't it?" "No — the Samuel Goldwyn Productions," corrected Sam. And then Vilma leaned over to the speaker and with her confiding, yet important, little wa>'. volunteered: "Ye are much lugger! " HTHE sensational newspapers simply won't ■* let up on Xatacha Rambova. They recently hailed with headlines an inconsequential happening in Bridgeport, Conn., where Miss Rambova opened in her new vaudeville sketch, "The Blue Vial." The theater manager had the bright idea of looking Xatacha 's act on the same bill as Valentino in "Cobra," expecting to cash in on the recent divorce publicity. But the beautiful Rambova put her foot down flatly. She has no intention of selling herself to the public with the Valentino name, and declined to appear on the same program with his picture at the theater. Her praiseworthy motive was ignored by the newspaper reporters, and a thrilling story made of the incident, full of such lines as "Mrs. Valentino proved her dislike for the nearness of Rudy very emphatically when she refused, etc.." and "he can't come messing around her, not even on the screen!" CAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY is making a ■* nationwide search for an actor who resembles Theodore Roosevelt at the age of thirtvfive. The Roosevelt that is wanted must be the vigorous, hard-riding Teddy who led his Rough Riders during the SpanishAmerican War. The man chosen will be the central figure in Paramouni's new feature picture. "The Rough Riders." Only a trained actor will be given the role. Famous believes they will find such a man among t he many stock companies throughout the countr} . V\ 7IIT1.F walking down Broadway, a few ** weeks ago. I >\ as suddenly arrested by the blazoning electric lights in front of the Capitol Theater — Elinor Glyn's "Soulma'.cs." Of course 1 realized what Elinor's naive meant at the box office, but I couldn't help but recall the note the editor of Photoplay received from w