Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929)

Photoplay Magazine— Aum-:ktising Section dimmed by his marriage to Joan Crawford, Ihe dancing baby. But I'm a xvell wjsher. Joan is utterly sincere, as anybody knows who read her Life Story in Photoplay, and she is striving valiantly to make herself over so that she too, may be received among the nobles at Pickfair. MISS GARBO with her strange world-pain and weariness recalls the Duse o the l,iographies. I never saw Duse '-but I know 1 like my Garbo. Gilbert is a real hero He plays an awfully thankless, spineless part, all for love, I take it. , -.j „ a „.,. The unUcensed prophets of Hollywood art predicting that Jack will flop on his nose if he attempts being his own producer^ \\el as Tack says, it is a capable nose on which to Hup, And we know that the only stars who haxe lasted are those who have become producers; Doug, Chaplin, Mary, Talmadge. _ Furthermore, in an excellent inter^-iew with Helen Louise Walker, Gilbert says the wisest thing ever credited to a movie actor: "I shall go on, of course, as long a.s 1 can, and make as much money as possible. But afterward I am going to work. This is ncH work you know— just walking through a picture Other people have written the story, planned the settings, worked out the action. Why the very things I do on the set are the expressions of the director. I am just a ''""F^am an egomaniac, you know. And I think I could do a lot of these things better than most of the people who are doing them There are a few brain-workers in the industry to whom I take off my hat with tremendous respect. The rest— well, I think I could do a lot better." . And I, for one. agree with Gilbert. Any man worth his gin would rather Hop on his own initiative than succeed on others . FROM the preview I roadstered to the Ambassador's Cocoanut Grove for supper with my Hollywood life-long friends, the Malcolm McGregors and Willis Goldbeck and his sister, Mizabeth Goldbeck. Mai, Willis and I came to Hollywood as poor boys and we re all millionaires now. I must say in justice to Mai that he is the only one who came by his money honestly. He inherited it. The few hundred thousand he has made as an actor don't count, because his gorgeous wife. Gen, shrewdly invested it in jewels and Pans gowns, and if ever a wife helped a man to success the same Gen has. Goldbeck. who started as a fan niagazine writer at fifty a week, now draws two thousand and is about to direct one of his own stones for Pathe. „ , I predict he'll outclass all the geniuses because I'm giving him all my ideas. COCOANUT GROVE was unusually beautiful for our supper, both Billie Dove and Lupe Velez being present. When Billie wasn't dancing she was leaving the room and coming back. The girl is a born movie. And Ringling's parade couldn't give you half the kick ot Billie's. ^ ^ , , Lupe was with Tom Mix, and she too kept flossing out and coming back with fij'ing feathers (she was gowned in ostrich). I don t know where she went when she went out but probably it was to feed Tom's horse, Tony. ICach time she passed my talkie it grew harder for me to restrain myself from arising and shouting, "Viva Mexico!" From the Cocoanut Grove, Mai took us to the Pom-Pom Cafe, where a gifted girl sang a song about IMal and John Gilbert and the other favorites of womankind the world over. And so to bed, at 4 a. m., as 0. O. Mclntyre and Pepys say. Such is the day in the life of a hard-working Photoplay Magazine star. 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