Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1928)

Gossip of All the Studios [ COXTIXUED FROM PAGE 88 ] Norma Shearer shows her new portable dressing room to Robert Z. Leonard. The dressing room was presented to Norma by her husband, Irving Thalberg, as a wedding gift option on Miss Cummings' contract with De Milk was not renewed, she went right ahead and obtained her freedom from Frank Elliott Dakin, an English actor. AS you know, Florence Yidor's contract with Paramount was not renewed. Paramount claims that Miss Vidor'.s pictures did not bring in the coin at the box-office. So Florence was preparing to go to Germany. That handsome German menace. Mr. UFA, is flirting with lots of the girls. Then up speaks Emil Jannings, whose Paramount contract gi\es him a say-so in selecting his casts. Mr. Jannings would have Miss Vidor and none other for his leading woman. Emil usually gets his way. For Emil's pictures do bring in the coin at the box-office. lyrARION DAVIES, Adolphe Men■'■"-'•joii, Seena Owen, Larry Grey, Fred Thomson, George K. Arthur, Dorothy Mackaill and other Hollywood celebrities were traveling north from Los Angeles on the train recently. A University of Southern California football man going to Leland Stanford to see a game entered the private car by mistake, stood silent a moment, then walked over to George K. Arthur and held out his hand: "I certainly know talent when I see it. Glad to meet you, Mr. Lupino Lane !" Everyone else passed unnoticed. And this is a true story. 96 MARCEL DE SAXO, a promising young director, has set a horrid precedent in Hollywood. De Sano has gi^en up his salary of S3, 500 a week to quit the films and enter the Uni\-ersity of Southern California. He has also .sold his Lincoln and will buy a Ford — all that he may get an education. A FTER one grand row with his wife, Viola Dana, Lefty Flynn packed his nks and disappeared from Hollywood. E^-en Viola didn't know where he was, until Lefty turned up as a ranch owner in Craig, Colo. Viola isn't following him to the great open spaces, neither is she planning for an immediate divorce. And Lefty has been quoted as saying: " If I ncA er see Hollywood again, it will be soon enough." All of which sounds like one of those back-to-nature conversions that you see in western films. "^X/E asked little Mary Brian if '" she's been falling in love, or doing anything exciting, recently. "No," she naively answered. "But I might, if you wish, for publicity." FR.\NCIS X. BUSHMAN has quit the movies for the legitimate stage. And, by way of a farewell address, he calls the mo\ie producers more fancy names than even H. L. Mencken ever thought of. Says Bushman: "The pioneers, the real showmen of the pictures, are all gone. Instead, we ha\e only buttonhole makers and pants pressers. The attempts at economy ha\-e led them to place before a gullible public a crop of high school kids who have no idea of the art of acting." With that parting shot, Bushman went out the door and banged it after him. WHEN word reached Los Angeles from New York that another plagiarism suit had been filed against "The King of Kings," a local newspaper man called Cecil De Mille for a statement. De Mille is said to ha^e answered, "I have always supposed that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were responsible for this story." Whereupon the reporter came back, "Just how does it happen then that Jeanie MacPherson's name is plastered over all the billboards?" Here is a strange photograph of four young girls leaping right out of a sunset on the Pacific Ocean. Figure out for yourself how it is done. The girls are (1) Edna Marion, (2) Dorothy Coburn, (3) Martha Sleeper and (4) Viola Richard