Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)

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Gossip of All ih PHOTOPLAY hereby hands Lucien Littlefield, one of our favorite character actors, a big bouquet for this almost perfect impersonation of President Coolidge. He has used scarcely any make-up. It is an exceptionally shrewd study in facial expression THE most perfectly poised patootie in all Hollywood is Louise Brooks. No one is going to kid her. A woman writer was trying to gurgle over Louise. "Oh, Miss Brooks," gushed the writer, observing Louise's very black bob, very white skin, very smart printed silk frock, "you are so Manhattan. You are so completely the spirit of sophisticated New York. ..." "From Wichita, Kansas," sighed Louise. " But really, " came back the writer, "you are like the vogue of Fifth Avenue, the lyric of Longacre Square, the ..." "Burnt toast of Broadway," suggested Louise. The writer subsided. \X7ILSON MIZNER was summing up the intellectual " * qualities of a certain supervisor: "An afterdinner coffee cup," he cried, "would make that man a sunbonnet!" HE is the brother of a famous comedian whom, for convenience, we will call Percy Snooks. Recently he came to New York and was invited to a smart Long Island golf club. When he showed up at the first tee, he was carrying a golf bag on which was blazoned this billing: "Mortimer Snooks of the Percy Snooks Film Corporation. " Anyway, it impressed the caddies. They couldn't find a ball all day. AMONG those headed for the altar or who have already taken the matrimonial leap are: Richard Barthelmess and Katherine Wilson; Louise Fazenda and Hal Wallis; Ethel Clayton and Ian Keith; Dorothy Sebastian and Clarence Brown, the director; Anna Q. Nilsson and Ernest Krause, Hollywood business man; Edna Murphy and Mervyn Le Roy, young director; Diana Kane, sister of Lois Wilson, and George Fitzmaurice; Cullen Landis and Loca Hearne; Pauline Starke and Jack White, picture producer. For further comment, see our own News Reel in Rhyme. THERE has been much discussion anent the choice of the comparatively unknown Ruth Taylor for the role of Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Ruth has been Just a happy family and the sort of picture you might find in any home album. Nevertheless, Harold Lloyd is the screen's highest salaried comedian. With him, of course, are Mildred and little Gloria haunting the casting offices for more than six months following the expiration of her Sennett contract, and now all the casting directors who turned her down are trying to think of alibis. It was one of them who was talking to Anita Loos, demitasse authoress of the famous book from which the film will be made. "But how can you use Ruth Taylor?" demanded the casting director. "The girl is a fair trouper but she has no profile. Do you want an actress without a profile?" "I much prefer that to a profile without an actress," Anita answered him. TWTISS TAYLOR was talking to a new acquaintance •^"■about her role of Lorelei Lee. "But I think Dorothy was the cleverest girl in the story," quoth the acquaintance. "But Lorelei got all the bracelets," was the prompt answer. She'll do — even though she is unknown, according to the new acquaintance.