Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Reeling Around with Leonard Hall Little-Known Facts About the Stars "My dear— really! This baritone must be even worse than he sounds, or he'd have been in Hollywood ages ago !" Gag of the Month Club Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford arc really man and wife. Clara Bow was once called "The IT Girl" by Elinor Clyn. Greta Garbo, a native of Sweden, is said to be able both to spell and pronounce "smorgasbord" which is more than I can. Nancy Carroll has never played the oboe. Tom Mix, according to report, is an expert horseman. What famous woman star named Pickford is married'to what noted actor whose first name is Douglas? Bugs Baer, the syndicate comic, wins his fifth monthly award — best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year. According to Mr. Baer, Mr. Harry Richman, while in New York with his "fiancee," gave Clara Bow the string for a pearl necklace. Ill-Timed Laughter At the Granada Cafe, in Chicago, a popular vaudeville team has been singing a new song dedicated to Rudy Vallee. It's called "I'm Just a Megaphone Lover." . . . The Roxy Theater Hospital treated 13,000 cases last year. I hope 12,998 were broken kneecaps suffered by the end-seat hogs who won't get up to let a fellow pass. . . . George Arliss is said to be burning, in a nice British way. A fan magazine printed a reversed picture of him which put the monocle in the right eye instead of the left. . . . Loew's Capitol Theater, in Atlanta, employs the world's tallest usher — one Henry Mullins, seven feet, six. He is also used to replace burned-out light bulbs in the dome. . . . The latest from Hollywood Boulevard. Hopeful extras stand on the corner of Vine and the Boul' as a New York bam goes by. "Look," say the local hams, "another Broadway actor trying to ritz us. See — he's got socks under his spats!" . . . Jobless actors in the film colony, when asked how's tricks, now reply that they're just between promises. . . . Strange effect of the Hollywood climate on the human race. A middle-aged lady did solitary singing and dancing for six hours on top of the Hollywood Dam, in the hills above the town. What would a casting director be doing on the Hollywood Dam? . . . Variety reports that the veteran William Collier was acting with a whole bunch of young stars in a new talkie. They had dozens of lines — Collier had two. The director noticed that Will didn't have his part in his hand. "Where's your part, Mr. Collier?" he asked. "A moth ate it," answered the grand old man. 80 Getting Personal A young lady named Virginia Stone has been appearing in "Subway Express," a Broadway stage hit. She is the daughter of Lewis S. Stone, who was in pictures when Conrad Nagel still had his hair. . . . The Month's Culture Note — Chief of Police Jake Graul, of Cleveland, is now the Ohio city's entertainment censor. . . . Bebe Daniels is considered one of Hollywood's very best bridge players. . . . Rod La Rocque and Monte Blue, each six feet, three, are the tallest leading men in pictures. . . . Monte, by the way, is through at Warners, after having run up the longest term of solid service of anyone on that lot. He goes back to the days when the Vitaphone wasn't even a wistful thought. . . . London remembers Jackie Coogan's British flop. Not a manager was interested when Davey Lee was offered as a personal appearance bet. . . . Latest bulletin from the Chaplin studio — several months of work still remain on Chaplin's "City Lights," and we shall probably not see it before October. . . . For the showing of "Anna Christie" in Los Angeles, two Garbo studio doubles posed in the theater lobby wearing her costumes from the picture. Their names were (and are) Elsie Adair and Mabel Lash, and the stunt tied up traffic. . . . Alexander Gray, the "Sally" leading man, appeared in no less than five pictures before he saw himself on the screen. . . . New York Communists recently opened a theater of their own to show propaganda films. The opening movie was "The Red Communist's Bride," made in Russia. . . . Ruth Mix, daughter of Tom, is appearing on the stage in London. . . . Six theaters in Detroit, Mich., have been staying open all night, and the trick has been successful. . . . Madge Bellamy is personal-appearancing. . . . Present plans for D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln" picture call for the erection of ninety-five different sets — a record for all time. . . . Erno Rapee, famous as daddy of the theme song and conductor of the Roxy Theater orchestra, gets $435,000 for three years' work at Warners, as general director of all musical activities. . . . Natalie Moorehead, the big blonde menace, is getting a Reno divorce from Husband Ray Phillips. . . . "Hallelujah," King Vidor's all-Negro picture, is a hit in the Argentine.