Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929)

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Without cost or obligation, please send me full partlculara about the course I havo checked— n College Preparatory Course Q High School Commercial Course [U High School English Course I I I Address Name.. DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENS Amazlne, startllne FACTS that Srlcnce has actually discovered and PROVEN about AFTER-DEATH and LOVED ONES gone BEYOND sent for 10c in stamps. Pioneer Press, Dept. 140, Hollywood, Calif. SUBSCRIBE FOR PHOTOPLAY Subscription rates will be found on page 142. Remember that the stars whose gowns you copy are not all perfectly moulded. Sophie Wachner told me that Dale Fuller, a character actress, far from beautiful, has the best figure of any woman she has ever gowned. It is up to the designer to conceal the defects and bring out the best points. And when you see how beautiful the stars look you know that deficiencies of form don't matter. Here is a consensus of opinion : Simplicity is the thing. Know when to leave off. Dress in keeping. Hat, shoes and bag must be all in one key to go with the frock. Know yourself. I must quote Collins who says, "There is no mysteiy in dress. A mirror and observation is all that is necessary." Observe, then, from the screen. Look to Hollywood and be smart! Just a Hollywood Day [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 63 ] So to lunch with Nils. And he was not at all the sleek, hand-kissing gallant that Hollywood ravages usually are. I found him bewildered with contract offers and fan mail. In negotiating his contract Nils had not foreseen the liability of fan mail, and so that day Irving Thalberg had been compelled to send a pick and shovel squad to Nils' dressing room to unearth him from a landsHde of 27,891 epistles. The day I lunched with liirti he was handed an additional two thousand. He picked one at random and opened it, and I am a sworn witness before notary and Howard Strickling that it read: "My brother, recently killed in an airplane accident, has left you in his will fifteen thousand dollars, a fur coat and an emerald ring. Will you kindly instruct your lawyers to get in touch with us?" I didn't want to lunch until we'd read the other 1,999 bequests, but Nils' appetite seems above such materialistic prospects. He said he couldn't afford to take care of his correspondence, whereupon I cheerfully volunteered, providing all bequests were turned over to me. Nils is handsome and rather shy, a combination as ingratiating as it is rare. He doesn't compree English thoroughly, and so I trust you'll pardon him when he says, " In the Royal Theater at Stockholm I play Hamlet, and here I play Hot Papa to Joan Crawford." He says he much prefers working over here. T SOMETIMES wonder if fans would envy -'• us magazine writers our fabulous salaries if they knew how hard we have to work. Some days I lunch with three or four stars, dine with as many more and see previews of silent and talkie pictures. For instance, after lunching with Nils I saw four pictures in one day. That doesn't include a talkie trailer of M.-G.-M. stars which is to be presented at the Empire Theater in London. It presents John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Ernest Torrence, George K. Arthur and Marion Davies, and the vocal reproduction is the best I've heard to date, so there's no need to worry about silent fa\-orites in the talkies — they're speakeasies for them. CLARENCE BROWN and Frances Marion were in the projection room to hear a talkie sequence of "Alias Jimmie Valentine" so I listened in with them. Lionel Barrymore, the talkie champion, was in it, and Bill Haines proved no slouch, but it seemed to me that the silent work was w-hat put over the picture. Thence to see Bill Haines in Jimmy Cruze's "A Man's Man." When I returned to Hollywood from my trip to Tunis with Rex Ingram a few years ago one of the local papers asked me to go into my trance and give one of my uncanny prophecies of who the future stars were to be. I hastily consulted friends, and Malcolm McGregor advised me to take a look at Bill Haines' stuff. Bill reminded me of my own fine work as a child reciting, (with gestures), "It's Your Flag, and My Flag, and Oh! How Proud It Waves." But he had a wellmeaning smile and a geniality that suggested Wally Reid. I advised placing bets on him. And I'm glad to say that those who took the tip are now making money. Ihery advertisement In PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE 19 guaranteed. In "A Man's Man" Bill gives a characterization that touches at times some of the best given by Charles Ray — who is still my favorite actor. In this picture Jim Cruze, the director, keeps you entertained with two players in one room for three reels. When I start producing, — as of course I shall as soon as my oil well comes in — I'm going to hire Jim Cruze. He can make a picture for a dollar eighty-nine that beats any million-dollar epic. TTHENCE on a gallop to another projection -' room to see Lon Chaney in "West of Zanzibar." I met Lon when I first came West, nine years ago. He was living in a little bungalow, and his hobbies were carving furniture and cooking swell dinners. He's doing the same today in his Beverly HiUs' mansion. "West of Zanzibar" opens with a flash of a skeleton, which oddly is not played by Lon. Then a flash of a glorious creation named Mary Nolan, who also is not played by Lon. Nevertheless, Mary in her own way is just as wizardly as Lon. Chaney is the champ deacon of aU M.-G.-M. plate-passers. Or, for those who are not church-goers, let me say that he gets more box office dough than any other star. The reason is that his name stands for a certain type of picture well done. /~\UT of the projection room and aboard a ^^high-powered roadster with screaming sirens to see a star off for location on the Southern Pacific. We found her hiding in her compartment, terrified lest her husband or his process servers arrive to drag her off. We cheered her with the thought that her husband couldn't see her for the flowers that had been sent by her admirers. npHENCE to pick up Harry Carr and out to -'• Santa Monica in the high-powered roadster for dinner with Aileen Pringle, who stars off screen as well as on. Harry had never met Pringie, and I complimented him on being able to get as far as he had as a writer without so doing. Now that he has joined the authors' union no Shakespeare can stop him. WITH the supreme determination given only to genius, I tore from Pringie's brilliancies to the Westlake Theater for a preview of John GUbert and Greta Garbo in "A Woman of Affairs," which is a bootlegged version of Michael Arlen's "The Green Hat." I say "bootlegged" because Will Hays banned "The Green Hat" from the screen. But don't worry that Michael didn't get his money and screen credit. Mike is an Armenian, and for all his charm just as much a genius as any Hollywood executive. THE picture follows "The Green Hat" closely, thanks to Bess Meredyth, the scenarist, who has Michael Arlen's appreciation for life as it is. Doug Fairbanks, Jr., as Green Hat's brother, gives a performance that indicates all the future that has been prophesied for him. He appears as a sensitive idealist, and that is what he actually is. A lot of hens have been worrying lest his future be