Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929)

104. Photoplay Magazine— Advertising Section Gossip of All the Studios I CONTINUED FROM PAGE 84 ] 66 W. 46th St., New York City. THERE'S plenty in a name, if you ask old Cal. A talkie director in New York, between Thanksgiving Day and the first of February, shot not less than forty short subjects for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. And his name, honest and no clowning, is Nick Grindel RENEE ADOREE is a free woman. She has just made a little prayer (in French) that she won't be seriously e.\posed to matrimony again. She was first divorced from Tom Moore Then she married William Sherman Gill a tailor. She filed suit for divorce just before she went to the South Sea Islands on location. It was her hope that the papers would be put through and aU in order by the time she returned. , = .t. The first news she had when she got ott tne boat at San Francisco was that Gill had not been served for the very good reason that he could not be found. A few weeks later he appeared in Reno and filed suit. The marriage had been a mistake from the beginning. „.„ , , . Renee had only known GiU for three days before they were married. Their interests were never the same. Gill was always the business man, Renee always the artist. Loved by Americans Most Beautiful Women MELLO-GLO Face Powder must be wonderful— so distinctive — so exceptional. Two million of America's loveliest womeri know MELLO-GLO stays on longer and prevents large pores— conquers shiny nose spreads more smoothly and gives a youthiul bloom unknown before. These marvelous qualities are due to a new French Process owned and used by MELLO-GLO only. The purest face powder known! MELLOGLO is made of the finest imported ingredients and the coloring is passed by our Federal Government's chemists before it is used. MELLO-GLO is an exclusive powder made for and used by Beautiful Women. Its purity, smoothness, softness and fineness insure you against any flaky or pasty look or irritation Your favorite store has MELLO-GLO or will get ic for you. Use this truly wonderful Face Powder and protect your complexion. <J MELLO-QLO has become so popular among beautiful women, that any store that tries to substitute docs you an injustice. GREATER love hath no brother than that in the heart of Ramon Navarro. Ramon has his heart set on a career of song, and he has planned for some time on a concert tour in Europe. Now one of his brothers is ill and Ramon is cancelling the foreign trip m order that he may spend every free hour with the boy. „ If the brother improves, Ramon may go as far as the east coast to make phonograph records, but no farther. There's a charming, genuine note among the cream puff desires and plans of some ot the actors! A BRAVE girl double has died. Leta Wishard, doubUng lor Ruth Elder in a parachute jump, was killed when the bag failed to open 2,000 feet in air. To add to the tragedy, the girl's husband watched her death leap from the ground! And so another name is added to the scroll of those who have gone to their death in pictures in order that more famous names might continue to twinkle in electric lights. IF your name was Smith and everybody insisted on calling you Smith, wouldn't you get sore? Baclanova, the Russian menace on the Paramount lot, is tired of having people pronounce it "Back-la-iVO-va." __ The proper way is " Back-IOA-ova. _ And don't blame us if she hurls a tin of caviar at you the next time you get your syllables jammed. WHAT things the sensitive mind of a child picks up at the movies! This was called to Charlie Chaphn s attention by the parents of a New York fouryear-old. They had taken him to see Ihe Circus," and though he had laughed heartily at the picture he came out of the theater in a most serious mood. Evidently the last scene, where Charlie sees the circus wagons fade into the distance and then marches off alone, had made a tremendous impression on his little brain. "Why are you so quiet?' asked his mother. "Poor Charlie! AU alone that way!" the kid said. "Can't he come over and stay at our house?" BESSIE LOVE has a new young man! Bessie is not putting out many press reports on the present romance, as of even date, but she has dropped the hint that he is from Chicago, north of the machine gun belt, and that he has a good supply of doubloons. [ CONTINUED ON PACE 106 1 An all-colored cast brings one of Octavus ^^J Cohen's famous by Christie Brothers under the supervision of Alfred Cohn, torme western editor of PHOTOPLAY advertisement In PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE l3 guaranteed