Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929)

As We Go to Press Last Minute NEWS from East ^;?^West PHYLLIS HAVER is going to step off the deep end into matrimony about April 23. Place— New York. Party second part — Billy Seaman. He has built her a beautiful pent-house home on the summit of a 16-story building. . . . Nils Asther will be Garbo's leading woman in her first picture after her Swedish holiday. The Gilbert-Garbo picture team seems to be cold at present, but personally, just as warm as ever. . . . Harry Carey, the famous Western star veteran, will have the name role in "Trader Horn." He joins Director Van Dyke, Edwina Booth, Duncan Ronaldo and others in New York and then sets sail for Africa. . . . Bryant Washburn and Dahlia Pears, of Toronto, are married. The first Mrs. Washburn, Mabel Forrest, recently got her final decree. . . . Estelle Taylor, holidaying in the East, decided to go to work in New York. TiffanyStahl offered her a lot of money to play opposite George Jessel ia his new talkie-singie, "The Broadway Kid." It will be Estelle's first talking role. . . . May McAvoy says she will marry Maurice Cleary in June, but that she will not retire from the screen. . . . Doug and Mary start "The Taming of the Shrew" about Jxme 1. This is their answer to the public's prayer that they be seen together in one picture. Mary celebrated their wedding anniversary March 27 by opening "Coquette" at the United Artists Theater, Los Angeles. Now Colleen Moore is going to sing, the occasion being her new picture, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," founded on the pretty ballad by the late Ernest R. Ball. Colleen has been taking vocal lessons for six months and poohpoohs the idea of a voice double. James Hall is her leading man in the new one. Incidentally, Colleen and her husband open their new mansion in May with a housewarming that will show off the electric clock and all her other trick gadgets. . . . Billy Bakewell, who played dual roles in Fairbanks' "The Iron Mask," has been signed by Warner Brothers for four films. . . . And Hoot Gibson has signed with Universal for another year. . . . Jean Hersholt is through at Universal and has no plans at the moment of screaming to press. . . . Dick Barthelmess, who is busy on "Drag," after a Mexican holiday, says the Rebels took one good look at him and began fighting. Alice Day gets a big chance as Dick's leading lady in the new one. . . . Tommy Meighan has completed his first talkie, "The Argyle Case," for Warners, and goes to New York 10 late in April. He will spend some time at White Sulphur Springs before opening his home at Great Neck, L. I. . . . Sally Blane, RKO baby star, threatens to become engaged to Tommy Lee, the son of Hollywood's big Cadillac man. . . . Bebe Daniels may be starring for that company very soon, for Edwina Booth gets the coveted role of the white girl worshipped by African savages in Metro-Goldwyn's filming of "Trader Horn." Edwina is a former bathing girl of the Hal Roach forces and for a long time has played bits in Metro pictures. She hails from Utah and her father is a physician. She got the part because she had (real) long blonde hair. The company had to have a leading woman with genuine tresses because the heat of the tropics would ruin a wig heavy confabs heading that way have been in progress for some time. . . . And Olive Borden is already starring in their first talkie, "Help Yourself to Happiness." . . . Charlie Chaplin, after shooting about 60,000 feet of "City Light," ordered about half of it retaken because a sidewalk on the set was about a foot and a half too wide. Just another eccentricity of genius. . . . Walter Byron, who was once reported engaged to Carolyn Bishop, Gene Tunney's former girl friend, is now being seen at the soda water bars with Isobel Sheridan, Mary Pickford's cousin. Isobel is visibleinpictures,onceina while. . . . Lon Chaney is back in Hollywoo 1 winding up shooting on "Thunder." He and his troupe were on location at Green Bay, Wis., for some time. . . . Those other wanderers, Dolores Del Rio's company, have come back from a long, trying location trip among the bayous of Louisiana, where they were making scenes for "Evangeline" on the real ground. . . . Ina Claire, the lovely stage star, has arrived in Hollywood to start her first talking picture for Pathe. She made many pictures some years ago. . . . Mary Duncan has been paying her first visit to New York since she left "The Shanghai Gesture" to go into pictures. She'll be back in Hollywood by May. . . . Gloria Swanson at last got started on the dialogue version of "Queen Kelly," with Patd Stein directing. He's the third megaphone man on that job, the first two having been Erich von Stroheim and Edmimd Goulding. Gloria has just completed a new six-room studio bungalow, with a black and silver bed on a mezzanine floor, and a bathroom with black tub, black floor and green walls. . . . Clara Bow came home, after a visit to New York incognito, to begin work on a circus picture, and Maurice Chevalier, the French star, will be in Hollywood in time to start his second American picture by May 1. He has been a great stage favorite in New York. . . . April 15 will see Moran and Mack, the blackface buffoons, hard at their picture work, with Betty Brent supporting. . . . Metro-Goldwyn threatens to remake "Anna Christie," this time with talk. It is rumored that Blanche Sweet, who was marvelous in First National's silent version, will get the chance to speak Eugene O'Neill's lines. . . . Johnny Mack Brown, after glorifying himself in "Coquette," is back on the Metro lot waiting for an assignment. . . . Tim McCoy has given up the screen. His pals are grooming him to run for the governorship of Wyoming.