Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for March, 1930 121 Questions£#Answers [ CONTINUED PROM PAGE 96 ] C. Ericson, Chicago, III. — Kansas City, Kans., claims young David Rollins. He's twenty years old and five feet, ten and a half inches tall. David's ancestors were English, Irish and Spanish, which accounts for a lot. N. M., Toronto, Canada. — You're right — Norma Talmadge once made a picture called "The Eternal Flame." Joseph Burke, Chrystine Mayo, Paula Shay and Jack Clarke played in "A Fool's Paradise." You go in for old timers, Canada. Coming up to date, Bill Haines is twenty-nine years old, six feet tall, and has black hair and brown eyes. W. H., East Orange, N. J.— "The Time, The Place and the Girl'' is Gertrude Olmsted's latest picture. Gertrude was the ingenue in "Cobra," but Nita Naldi had the lead opposite Valentino. M. A., Tampa, Fla. — Both statements are correct, strangely enough. Emil Jannings was born in Brooklyn, but bis parents were German and took him back to the Fatherland when he was a year old so he could become a German star. He was brought up and educated in Germany. Virginia Valli was born in Chicago, 111. She is divorced from Demarest Lamson and is seen frequently now with Charles Farrell. Aubrea Smith, Cedarhurst, N. Y. — Right you are — Dolores Del Rio played Paulcik Officld in "High Steppers." The blonde in "The White Monkey" was Flora LeBreton. (No cracks about hers being the title role, if you please.) Marjorie Glreaux, Chicago, III. — The piece played on the violin by Betty Compson in "Street Girl" is called "My Dream Memory." It seems to have made a hit with the fans. "Perctval Bryan," Hays, Kans. — Don't know why you tack a name like that on yourself when you don't have to! Virginia Lee Corbin is on her honeymoon at present. Fay Compton was the blonde in "Fashions in Love." Gary Cooper is engaged to the sprightly Miss Velez who does enough talking for both. Jack Oakie was born in Sedalia, Mo., twenty-six years ago. He attended La Salle College in New York City. K. J. L., Weston, W. Va.— John Holland was born in Kenosha, Wis., June 11, 1899. He is six feet, two and a half inches tall, weighs 185 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. Besides "The College Coquette" he has played in "The Secret Studio," "She Goes to War" and "Black Magic." M. T. Spencer, Ottawa, Canada. — Gloria Swanson has 'had three husbands to date. She divorced Wallace Beery in 1918 and in 1919 married Herbert K. Somborn by whom she had a daughter, Gloria. In 1923 she was divorced from Somborn and in 1925 married Marquis James Henri de Falaise et de la Coudray — better known as "Hank." D. W., Baltimore, Md. — First National is a subsidiary of Warners, having been purchased by Warner Brothers in 1927 — hence "First National Vitaphone Pictures" is perfectly correct. Kathryn and Joan Crawford are not related, nor are Jobyna and Esther Ralston. Neither are all the Smiths in the world. G. G., St. Paul, Minnesota. — Sorry, but Dick Arlen tells us he was born in Charlotteville, Va., and not in your home town. His wife, Jobyna Ralston, was born in Tennessee. Maurice Chevalier is thirty-seven years old. ^J DIRECTLT SERVING ARIZONA'S GUEST RANCHES "Sunset Limited'' New Orlea7is • Los Angeles • San Francisco Via Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Tucson, Phoenix, San Diego Romance and the Rio Grande ... the true West that is Arizona . . . Old Mexico . . . Words that conjured the theme song for many of today's best hits. And the train that blends them all is the "Sunset Limited" — famed 'round the world. Choice of travelers of discrimination. Its luxurious equipment includes rooms en suite, if desired; club car, valet, shower; ladies' lounge with maid and shower. Returning you can take another of Southern Pacific's color-bearers over the four great routes — "Golden State Limited," "Overland Limited" or "Cascade." Only Southern Pacific offers choice of four routes. Go one way, return another. See the whole Pacific Coast, stopping over as you like. Southern Pacific Write to O. P. Bartlett, 310 So. Michigan Blvd., Chicago, or H. H. Gray, 531 Fifth Ave., New York City, for book with illustrations and animated maps, "How Best to See the Pacific Coast." When you write to advertisers please mention PIIOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.