Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

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Gossip! of Stars and Studios! [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 78 I tures lot the other day, while shooting a big dance number for "Radio Revels." A flock of the girls were dressed in a bit of fur and lace which was so little that if anything less were on the lovely ladies, the film would have caught fire. "But naked as they are, they haven't got enough sex appeal!" protested the director. "All right," offered Pearl Eaton, ensemble boss, "Til fix that." And she had the girls put on sheer black stockings, short enough to leave a hiatus between where the stockings ended and the panties began. And did it do the trick? Did it? — why, they had to turn off the radiators! AL JOLSON'S new Mercedes sedan is just about the grandest joy wagon to be seen on Hollywood Boulevard. The final touch of something or other is the radio receiving set, equipped with two loud speakers, one for the driver's compartment and one for the tonneau. Nothing's done by halves in this man's town. Seems a good way to promote a wreck. SOME years ago Cecil B. De Mille took a kid named Peverell Marley out of a Los Angeles high school and developed him into one of the ace cameramen of the picture business. Then he married Lina Basquette, the widow of one of the Warner boys, and a dancer of note. Lina broke in a dance act in New York, not long ago, and among the dancing men was Pev Marley. And De Mille mourns the loss of a great cameraman. Ah! Love! HE'S only a voice, is John Bond! A year ago the lad, from the legitimate stage, went West to act in the talkies. He's been in five — and never yet has his face appeared on the screen! For John Bond, though a Swede, is a German voice doubler. He has been heard as John Boles in "Rio Rita," Joe Schildkraut in "Show Boat," Glenn Tryon in "Broadway" and Ben Lyon in "Lummox." Now he is Chester Morris' voice double in the German version of "The Case of Sergeant Grischa." Well — it's a living, says John Bond. SOME funny letters pour into the Hollywood studios. The following was received in the form of a straight wire at Paramount : "Are you interested in twin boys. Fourteen months. Twenty-five pounds. Fair. Blue eyes. No skin blemishes. Identical in appearance. Starting to walk and talk. Father physician. Mother journalist. References local First National Bank." References for what? TT'S a vise company that knows its own -•■theme songs. Mel Brown was directing Dick Dixin'T Love You," over at Radio Pictures. "Show you're happy when you make your entrance, Mr. Dix," ordered Mel. "Whistle a tune!" "What tune?" came back Dix. "Any tune," answered the boss. "Let's go." So Dix ambled blithely into camera range whistling "Love, your magic spell is everywhere— " Two days later they had to reshoot the scene. Radio would have had to pay royalties to Paramount for using the song. P.S. On the retake Dick tooted "Hallelujah" from "Hit the Deck" — a good old Radio picture, and no questions asked! Tk/TONTHLY song of joy: *■**■ Lloyd Hughes, in the silent days, was just another good-looking leading man. The talkies have made him a sparkling personality and have displayed his excellent voice! See and hear him opposite Bebe Daniels in "Love Comes Along!" WELL, John Gilbert and Jim Tully finallyhad it out! For nearly two years Gilbert has nourished a great hate against the writer because of a mean story which appeared in a monthly magazine over Tully's name, calling Gilbert unpleasant things. Not long ago Gilbert and Ina Claire entered a restaurant. Jack saw Tully. Tossing off his overcoat, the actor went across the room to him. Tully hit Gilbert and Gilbert hit the floor. Ina Claire persuaded her husband to leave the place. Gilbert said, "I only did what any man would do under the circumstances." Tully said, "I did what you or any man would do if a man came charging across a room at you. I knocked him down." The world is waiting for Round Two of a long grudge. REFERRING to the actual instance of a wife suing for divorce because her husband admired a screen siren whom he had never seen, Director Fred Niblo tells of another man being questioned, "And have you ever loved another man's wife?" The man replied serenely, "Surely. Norma Shearer, Vilma Banky, Norma Talmadge, Colleen Moore and Nancy Carroll!" HOLLYWOOD, like every other hamlet in the United States, is overrun with Garbo imitators and doubles. They get in your consomme. But Hollywood has two outstanding examples. One, of course, is this Geraldine De Yorak girl, who once was her official twin, and is now on her own as an actress in the Paul Whiteman "King of Jazz Revue." The other is Elena Komisarjevska, and don't try to say it. The lady is a Russian, appearing with Balieff's "Chauve Souris." While the show was playing Los Angeles, Garbo-Maniacs did all but clamber to the stage in the belief that Elena was Greta. How droll! As we said a few months ago, one God, one Garbo! "THERE'S trouble in the Balkans again! *■ From Belgrade, Serbia, comes word that Dolores del Rio, the Dark Flower, passed through there recently en route to Constantinople. The Turks are said to be mobilizing. Dolores calls herself Marcelle Racier on the trip. She told pop-eyed interviewers that she is studying English to fit herself for the audible screen. FOX has fixed up some pretty fancy dressing rooms for the stars at the. new studios in Westwood. Nothing quite like them has been seen in these parts. Charlie Farrell was not allowed to have a glimpse of his suite until it was finished. He didn't even know the location of it. Every odrertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is Buaranteed.