Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)

Constance Talmadge has taken leave from her husband, Captain Alastair Macintosh, and she's asking the daisies who will be next. But daisies, who are not native to Hollywood, won't tell The other night Dick and his wife, Jobyna Ralston, were sleeping peacefully when a great pounding on the window awakened them. "Wake up. I have something to show you, "Charlie ordered. They let him in and he displayed a pocketful of new watches, one inscribed "To the Mayor of Cape Cod." "All the towns on the Cape clubbed together and made me Honorary Mayor," Charlie boasted. "They gave me a these watches and — " "That's nothing," Dick interrupted. "You been mayor of those joints ever since you got those twin fishes." A N out-of-town friend came to visit Chester Conklin. "**■ Chester took him sightseeing. "Oh, look," cried the friend as they drove down one of the more important streets, "the Los Angeles College of Embalming." Chester glanced at the little building. "They give a stiff course there," he came back quickly. WHEN Marcus Loew died, the industry lost one of its finest and squarest executives. Our own Will Rogers said of him that Loew would have been a credit even to a respectable business. Be that as it may, Loew's honesty was sometimes like a beacon in a dark world. LOEW, you know, was a self-made man. He had little schooling, because he went to work at the age of nine to support his family. And his favorite story was of a man who stopped him in his offices and announced, "I want to speak to Loew." " I am Loqw. " " I mean Marcus Loew." " But I am Marcus Loew." "That's odd," exclaimed the man, "but I thought from your letters that you were a big, broad-shouldered man — the college type." "Yes?" laughed Loew. "I never went to college, but I've got plenty of college men working for me." PAULINE STARKE and Jack White, comedy producer, were married recently. Pauline and Jack kept company several years ago. Rut they had one of those little tiffs and for a long time the romance was cold. Then Donald Freeman, editor of Vanity Fair, played swain to Pauline so persistently that Any girl with a heavy black pencil can draw her own stockings and they will look like the sheerest French importations — from a distance. Laura La Plante tries her hand at making run-less hosiery Pauline spent several weeks denying that they were engaged. When Pauline returned to Hollywood from New York, Jack asked her to reconsider. And, pronto, they were married. T^\0 you know the Meighan song? Sure you do. It ■^begins: "Meighan my shadow." Or the four wheel brake song? Like this: "Four wheel brake the news to mother." Or the Ufa song? Follow along: "UFA got to remember." The court is adjourned. WE are glad to report that AI Jolson has a splendid picture in "The Jazz Singer. " One of our scouts who saw it at a secret preview given at a theater near Los Angeles reports that Jolson does some remarkable work in it, and that it ought to be a great box office attraction. LILLIAN GISH is no longer working for Metro-GoldwynMayer, in spite of the lure of the $8,000 per Saturday night salary. At present, Lillian is in New York, taking care of her invalid mother. Dorothy is also in New York, having refused to play in "The Constant Nymph" for an English company. "The Constant Nymph" is frowned upon by Will Hays, hence Dorothy's hesitation about rushing in where Louis B. Mayers fear to tread. H APPY days in the Carewe family. They have a new house and a new baby— Edwin, Jr. f continued on page 98 ] 45