Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

They scramble photographs as often as eggs these days, and this cameraman certainly did. Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) is singing the opera while Lawrence Tibbett, Met baritone, does that great movie song, "Singin' in the Rain" WE have only two secret weddings of the month to divulge. We have suspicions about two or three more but we'll have to keep the news until later. Virginia Lee Corbin eloped with Theodore Crow, a New York broker, and only recently let her friends in on the secret. Johnny Harron and Betty Egan slipped away last June and were married at Fullerton and kept us fooled until the present time. TD OLICEMEN in Los Angeles say Jobyna Ralston is the most To illustrate the cycle of style ! Gloria Swanson in a fashionable get-up of the vintage of 1919. Don't laugh, either! The cut may be a little comical, but the length is just about right for 1929 dresses temperamental actress they ever encountered. She refused to ride to the police station, after her arrest with the stage cast of "Bad Babies" in Los Angeles, without driving in the front seat and running the siren. And Joby won by riding sixty miles an hour through Los Angeles and grinding the siren. A Peck. YOUNG fellow named Feck is working in the scenario department at Paramount. Peck is the name— LYDELL Janet Gaynor's young husband decided that practising law in San Francisco wasn't quite so attractive as practising husbanding in Hollywood, so he ups and leaves the northern city flat on its back. Paramount cleared off a desk for him. Now young Mr. Peck sits in Hollywood and concocts dream masterpieces for the screen. And the leading ladv of each bears a remarkable resemblance to a girl named Gaynor. IT was at the hotsy-totsy Hollywood opening of "The Cock Eyed World," and the world and all its wives were there. A sweet voice was heard at the microphone before the theater. "Hello, everybody! I'd like to have my husband, Tay Garnett, speak for me!" Then the announcer got helpful. "That was the sweet voice of Patsy Ruth Miller," he said. "You all remember seeing her in 'Twin Beds,' with Jack Mulhall!" Just helping out a young bride! J^LORENZ ZIEGFELD, the famous producer of girl and music shows, is said to be after our Gloria Swanson. For her services, that is, in his forthcoming musical comedy, "Ming Toy," based on the famous play "East is West." Now that Gloria has developed such a nice singing voice, and is looking so smart and handsome, the stage is making googoo eyes at her. Well, we just can't spare Gloria — not after she has turned out such an elegant talkie as "The Trespasser." ANYBODY who still nourishes the notion that a New York first night is a gathering of the most blase and hardest boiled eggs in the world had better dismiss it with a snort. You should have seen the way the ladies went for Charlie Farrell at the Broadway opening of " Sunny Side Up!" Young or old, slender or unpleasingly plump, it didn't matter a dime's worth. At intermission hundreds of them climbed over each other's backs to get at the boy for an autograph. He got writer's cramp in the first four minutes of play, and had to take time out. Incidentally, the report is that while Charlie played about the East his heart was still in California and pumping hard for Virginia Valli. They now say there was never any heavy romantic heaving between Farrell and the Gaynor. Charlie and Virginia are a great team — to Cal's mind one of the handsomest couples that ever mumbled into a microphone at a flossy first night. PERHAPS the many tragedies that have marked the life of Alma Rubens are over. She has been released from the Narcotic Ward of the California State Hospital, cured from the terrible thing that has mastered her in recent years. Her cure is complete after five months of treatment. She has gained in weight, and looks better than she has at any time in four years.