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The World's Leading Motion Picture Publication
LEONARD HALL
MANAGING EDITOR
Contents
Vol. XXXVII
For
January
1930
No. 2
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EDITOR -A:ND. PUBLISHER
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The High-Lights of This Issue
Cover Design
Billie Dove — Painted from Life
Earl Christy 6
Brief Reviews of Current Pictures
A Guide to Your Evening's Entertainment
Brickbats and Bouquets 8
The Voice of the Fan
As We Go to Press 10
Last Minute News from East and West
The Buffet Supper 15
Photoplay's Cook Book Will Help You Prepare It
Friendly Advice on Girls' Problems
Carolyn Van Wyck 18 Photoplay's Personal Service Department
Close-Ups and Long Shots James R. Quirk 29
The Editor Tells You What's What and Who Without Fear or Favor
Watch This Hombre! Katherine Albert 31
Is He the New Valentino?
Secrets of the Fitting Room Lois Shirley 32
Grand Stars Are Only Women to the Dressmaker
"Four Sons" Wins 34
Photoplay Gold Medal for Best Picture of 1928 Awarded
The Gimme Girl (Fiction Story)
Myrtle Gebhart 38
The Vain Love of Little Yellow Gim-Gam
Through the Studios with Pen and Camera
Cal York 42
Doings and Sayings of the Picture People
You Don't Have to Be Beautiful
Marquis Busby 47 Fazenda Is Ahead of a Lot of Pretty Babies
The Girl Who Just Missed Stardom
Katherine Albert 48 The Story of the Circus Girl of Lille
The Shadow Stage
Reviews of Latest Sound and Silent Pictures
50 Years of " IT " Cal York
Polly Moran Tells About Her Love-Life
Here Are Winners of $5,000 Cut Picture Puzzle Contest
Fifty Film Fans Get Awards
Protecting Them from Fame Rosalind Shaffer
How Movie Parents Raise Their Children
Garbo-Maniacs Leonard Hall
To Criticize Her Brings Abuse to the Critic
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Maxine Alton 65
Clara's First Train Ride
As Told by Her First Manager
How Studio Designers Use Lines to Remedy Defects Lois Shirley 66
Ideas for Milady's Wardrobe
Doubling for Death (Fiction Story)
Roy Wilcox 68
A Seedy Double Outsmarts a Glamorous Star
Reeling Around
Leonard Hall 71
Tidbits Served with a Dash of Spice
Why Hollywood Scandal Fascinates Us
Louis E. Bisch, Ph. D.
A Noted Psycho-Analyst Lifts the Curtain
Just Try to Interview Ulric Mark Hellinger This Boy Didn't Get to First Base
"Don't Call Me Lon Chaney" Stanley Burton Paul Muni Makes the Request
DoRe-Mi-Fa-Sol! Maurice Fenton
Photoplay's Theme Song Record Department
Questions and Answers The Answer Man
What You Want to Know About Films and Film Folk
Casts of Current Photoplays
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A complete list of all photoplays reviewed in the Shadow Stage this issue -will be found on page 12
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Published monthly by the Photoplay Publishing Co.
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The International News Company, Ltd., Distributing Agents, 5 Bream's Building, London, England
James R. Quirk, President Robert M. Eastman, Vice-President Kathryn Dougherty, Secretary and Treasurer
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Entered as second-class matter April 24, 1912, at the Postoffice at Chicago. 111., under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Copyright, 1929, by the Photoplay Publishing Company, Chicago.