Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for May, 1930 The studio officials finally located him, and are arranging to buy off his contract with the private individual. Under the "split" terms of his old contract Jack was reported to be earning only $200 per week, although he is one of the most popular drawing cards on the screen today. MARY and Doug on their last trip abroad. Everywhere, crowds. No privacy. "Isn't this tiresome?" said one to the other. "It is. Wish we could go some place where people don't know us," said the other to one. Then, by luck, they hit a small village in the German hinterland, where nobody seemed to recognize them, and they were left very much alone. "Isn't this wonderful?" said one to the other. "Yes, isn't it?" said the other to one. And the next day, they hurried out of the little village to some place where people would recognize them. HOLLYWOOD studio used a radio station not so long ago to broadcast a call for a child actor to play Oliver Twist. Next day, eighty-five kids, with an army of relatives, stormed the studio. RUTH CHATTERTON does a dialect character in "Sarah and Son" — you may have seen it. She plays the role of a German-born hoofer who becomes, eventually, a grand opera star. Her dialect is one of the wonders of the picture. Here's the explanation : Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink coached her. A LISTER MacDONALD — son of England's prime minister — visited Hollywood to study the talking pictures. He says he'd be a producer if he weren't already an architect. He's a silent, well poised young man with a little black goatee. Yes, he's been having a marvelous time in Hollywood. Yes, he's met a lot of the picture stars. No, he wasn't disillusioned in them. What? Oh, heah now, he wasn't mentioning any names. What? Oh , he couldn't tell right out whom he had met. But he did add that Americans must learn to enunciate more plainly for the talkies and he thinks that the producers should give their patrons a more balanced meal of entertainment. Not so much dancing from girls without any clothes on and a few more pictures like "Chang" (which his father liked immensely) and "Disraeli." "P^ON'T believe that Crawford girl is domes-^ — 'tic? Why, you should be spanked and sent to bed without your supper. She spends all her spare minutes making hooked rugs and cross-stitch whatnots for the backs of chairs. The other day the workmen at the store where she has the rugs stretched ruined one. It had taken her six weeks to make it. But. was she downhearted? Not by fifty-thousand stitches. She began on another the next day. LOS ANGELES Glass Manufacturer Goes Simple : Has agents trying to sell new kind of glass to movie stars. The glass is amber tinted. Used in automobiles, it permits occupants to look out, but outsiders can't see in. 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