Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1926)

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Writers complain that stars don't appreciate what is done for them. So I just want to say that I'm one star who appreciates very much what writers do for him. So long as Rex Ingram lets Alice Terry spend three months of the year in the United States I can hold my job, and I'm willing to let her spend the other nine with him as I realize he needs three times as many to hold bis. JOSEPH SCHENCK says the greatest need J of pictures is for scenario writers. I'm sure I don't know why so many fellows go around selling oil stock when they could make more just as criminally selling scenarios. The idea that writers starve in garrets is as passe as petticoats. The truth is we're all enormously rich. Frances Marion, queen of the scenarists, has the biggest and highest house in Beverly Hills from which she can toss alms down to the poor little movie stars in their hovels below. Carey Wilson, who collaborated with Bess Meredith on the continuity of "Ben Hur. " is building a house up the street that makes the Tower of London look like a fakey miniature. He has such an elaborate set of burglar alarms to protect his wife's jewels and furs that if a poor little thief ever broke in. the din of gongs, whistles, bugles and cannons would disturb the slumber of cops in Xew York. And Willis Goldbeck, youth of 26 with money in six banks — booty collected from scenarioizing "Scaramouche."' "Peter Pan," "Mare Nostrum " and other trifles — staggered into my villa the other evening in a suicidal frame of mind. He had contracted a violent headache from checking up his fortune to ninetynine thousand dollars cash, say nothing of real estate, and he was wondering what in the world he had to live for. I am glad to say I was able to send him home whistling, as I always have some wildcat solution for friends in this predicament. If I can think of nothing better I borrow from them. Nearly everyone in town owes me his life. GRETA GARBO. late of the foreign fjords. made her American debut in "The Torrent," and I was there to give the little girl a hand, as I always am when a foreigner needs a welcome. Greta exerts an evil fascination — on the screen. True her debut was not auspiciously placed in "The Torrent," which is in reality a babbling brook that runs on forever, with makeups and bust-ups between hero and heroine — now-she-loves-him-now-she-don't until the end and beyond. The only extraordinary thing about the picture is that it is not above the average, which is most extraordinary for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Greta is certainly a distinctive personality. I recommend her whole-heartedly to the men folk (better leave the little wife at home). She h.\> an exceedingly sensitive face. And she's unique in this: she's the first actress with dramatic nostrils. This is not said in a comic strip spirit. They really are expressive. So are her eyes, her lips, her hands, her .... Oh, go see her and sing it for yourself. WILL. I guess that's enough for my diary this month. I've got to go and fix myself up for a luncheon date with Renee Adoree. I wonder if I will affect her like Jack Gilbert did in "The Big Parade." Be sure to get your next issue early and find out, as it is liable to be suppressed when the I censors find out. Even advertisement in PHOTOPLAY magazine is guaranteed.