Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929)

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Over a million Feen-a-mints are bought each day by ex-users of pills and salts. Children love it, naturally. Buy it for the family. On sale at every drug store in the United States and Canada. Feen-a-mint The Chewing Laxative P-4 Health Products Corporation 113 N. 13th St., Newark. N. J Please send free samples and free booklet on correcting constipation. Address Ten Years Ago in Photoplay a: LOOK at our portrait gallery this month turns up strange, almost forgotten faces. Stars that were. Here is Dorothy Phillips, for instance. She married Alan Holubar, the director. Alan died. .And Dorothy seems to have dropped from public view. And Lillian Lorraine, the lovely "Follies" prima donna. Her fling in pictures was over long ago. Here's a beautiful Danish girl called "Valkeyrian." Do you remember her? The caption relates that she worked for Fox and World. Jeanne Eagels — of "Rain" fame. Now she is in talking pictures. One girl who came back to the screen after great stage triumphs. Ekaterina de Galantha — a dancer on stage and screen. But the years have swallowed Pretty Martha Mansfield, who ten years ago had come blooming into pictures from Ziegfeld's girl garden, and who was to lose her life before the camera six years later memories of her. And Grace Valentine — almost, but not quite. And Sybil Carmen. And there is sadness in this picture of a pretty girl. It is Martha Mansfield, beautiful Martha, who was burned to death on a set. One of the few girls in pictures to die in line of duty. Ten short years, and this gallery has almost faded. The mills of the movies grind not only small, but swiftly. npHERE'S a big war on between the friends ■* and foes of the motion picture, in our pages this month. R. L. Giffen is its defender, while no less a viewer with alarm than Channing Pollock attacks the photoplay. Pollock quotes several other writers on the subject. Leroy Scott, says Pollock, remarks — "The movies are the refuge of the second-rater. The man not big enough to try elsewhere, or who has tried." Cosmo Hamilton — "I detest the movies." Gertrude Atherton — "The movies get worse every day." Harsh words, and it is a little cruel to reprint them now. For those distinguished ladies and gentlemen of letters, film prices being what they are, would hardly be so venomous today. "DILL HART writes us a piece on cow-punch■'-'ing in Australia . . . Here's a new picture of httle Annie Pennington and her noted knees . . . "Here Comes the Bride" is one of the big pictures of themonth. Jack Barrymore is the star and Faire Binney the leading woman . . . Johnny Hines has just broken into pictures . . . Bill Hart's new film is "Breed of Men," and Seena 0\Yen is his leading woman ... All who remember her as Signe Auen will please raise their right hands. "LJERE'S an odd thing. X X w'g carry a picture of a scheme to show pictures to seriously wounded soldiers in hospitals. The picture is projected on the ceiling above their heads. Wonder if that was really ever done. ""PNON'T Change Your Husband," says our -•-^learned Julian Johnson, is a great picture. It has Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody, Elliott De.xter and others of the great stock company . . . Here's a new Geraldine Farrar film, "Shadows," by \\'illard Mack, with Tom Santschl and Milton Sills . . . And a long story on Marjorie Rambeau. A LMA RUBENS makes her bow as a star. The picture is "Dianeof the Green Van." Nigel Barrie is her leading man. (Poor Alma! A tragic figure in 1929!) MAXINE, Bozine, Kas. — I cannot tell you the name of Bessie Love's husband — probably because she hasn't one. EDITH MC, Dewey, Okla.— Enid Markcy was leading woman in "Tarzan of the Apes." (.\nd I saw Enid on Broadway a few days ago, looking prettier than ever.) The Queen of Poverty Row I CONTINUED PROM PAGE 51 ] to be our greatest young actor. In the supporting cast are Mr. Otto Lederer, Miss Betty Bronson ..." Everyone went wild. The least he might have done — since it was a radio hour in Betty Compson's honor — was get her name right — Miss Betty Bronson, indeed! Jim apologized for the announcer. Possibly the man had taken a drink or something. AN orchestra mmiber followed, played by a victrola in Jim's garage. The announcer came back: "We wish to make a humble apology," he said. "In announcing the cast of stars in 'The Barker' a grievous mistake was made. It was not Betty Bronson who played the Hawaiian dancer, it was Betty Blythe." Pandemonium such as Russia never vrftnessed — BETTY told me all this in her boudoir. "And that's the wonderful husband who is responsible for my eclipse," she laughed. "After 'The Miracle Man' I was a star — terrible mistake. Because being a star means that you have to carry all the bum directors and poor stories the studio chooses to wish on you. In other words, a star is a waste-basket. "I became thoroughly discouraged. Then I fell in love with Jim and married bim. The director of 'The Covered Wagon' was an Evoi-y advertisement In PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.