Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1932)

Photoplay Magazine for November, 1932 99 A ND here's the best yet. A well-dressed man with spats and cane strolled into the exclusive executive's private dining-room at M-G-M and sat down at the table, asking for a sandwich. Several writers and producers, thinking him some important guest of Irving Thalberg or Louis Mayer, raced to the kitchen for the sandwich. An order for a cup of coffee came next and this time, impressed by the stranger's nonchalance, everyone raced to the kitchen for the coffee. He ate in silence and then, looking up, demanded to know how much he owed them. It was an extra who thought he was in the studio commissary. Can you see the look on their faces ! "DOOR Jimmy Durante. He was going about looking very glum the other day when someone stopped and asked the cause of his woe. "Well, you see, pardner, it's this way," Jimmy explained, "I bumped my nose on the set yesterday and I'm sore all over. Haaaaaa." "DERHAPS you remember Mozelle Brittone, who, some three years ago, was hailed by Fox Studio as the discovery of the day. But Mozelle never worked before a camera. Shortly after she arrived in Hollywood, she was stricken by an ailment that sent her weight soaring toward the two hundred mark. Her contract with Fox was cancelled. A few days back, I saw a pretty young lady working in the script department at Columbia. You've guessed it — Mozelle completely recovered from her illness. She weighs less than a hundred now and Harry Cohn has promised her a chance on the screen the first time a really good part comes along. TT couldn't be a Cecil De Mille picture without someone taking a bath or two. So one hot day in August two tired workmen filled a huge Roman bath with milk on "The Sign of the Cross" set. At last it was ready. The lights were adjusted and the cameras in place. Elissa Landi was just about to step into the milk bath when there was a wild cry from an assistant director. The milk had curdled. And a Roman lady almost submerged herself in near cottage cheese. So the bath had to be emptied and the work of refilling began again. "\X7HEN Mary Boland arrived in Hollywood she was rushed immediately to the Paramount studios and handed a script to study. She went straight home and stayed up half the night reading the story and learning her lines. The next morning the studio telephoned her, "We're terribly sorry, Miss Boland, we've made a mistake. That was Mae West's script we gave you." And that, gentle reader, is why Hollywood stars go mad. " A CHANEY will never use a double. " Lon Chaney once said those words and now his son Creighton repeats them. Playing his first important role at Radio Pictures, Creighton Chaney refused the offer of a double for dangerous stunts in "The Last Frontier. " Because of his refusal, he suffered a grand total of three broken fingers, a torn ligament in the arm, two blackened eyes and a fractured heel that kept him on a cane for weeks, not to mention numerous cuts and bruises. But he never had a double and he never missed a day's work. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 108 I Film on teeth is dangerous Look at film under the microscope Queer germs live on your teeth. Science links them to tooth decay, gum disorders and many other troubles. Germs are glued to teeth by an ever-forming film. w\ This is what the scientist finds when he analyzes film on teeth I A species of Lactobacilli now held responsible for tooth decay by many scientists. y A species of Streptococcus Pyogenes that ™ gets into the blood through the tis. sues and causes serious infection. YOU don't need a microscope to pick out film-stained teeth. The naked eye can't miss them for film is ugly and disgusting. But where the naked eye sees ugliness the microscope sees danger. Magnify film 1000 times and you will see living germs of many kinds. Look especially at those rod-shaped ones in pairs and groups— Lactobacilli is their scientific Latin name. Destroyers of lovely teeth Lactobacilli are the "germs of tooth decay." They feed on the particles of food that cling to teeth. They give off lactic acid that dissolves the tooth enamel, then devours the part beneath. Finally the nerve is reached causing abscesses and infection. Lactobacilli appear in countless numbers. In fact, the film scraped from a single tooth may easily contain millions of living organisms. The. only way science accepts of removing germs from teeth is to remove the protective film-coat in which they live and multiply. Film clings stubbornly. It defies all ordinary ways of brushing. That's why Pepsodent laboratories have always centered their attention on the film-removing properties of their toothpaste. 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