Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for May, 1930 127 THERE'S no beating these actors for persistency. After Frank Gilmore, president of Equity, returned to New York without having done anything but get a lot of people excited, Will Hays went West and the actors went quietly to work to get what they wanted. A committee, headed by Conrad Nagel (Hollywood's official chairman), met the producers and a new standard contract was effected. One of the biggest triumphs was that the actor is guaranteed a rest period of at least twelve hours after dismissal for the day before the actor can be called back for work. If any dispute arises it will be settled by a committee. Other clauses prevent "doubling" except under exceptional conditions; require that the producer give the actor reasonable notice before termination of his employment; provide that if an actor is called back for retakes after six months and if his salary has increased in the meantime, the producer must pay at the higher rate; etc., etc. It was a great day for the actor and what's more the producers didn't seem to feel badly about it. Everything was amiable and everybody is happy. And Will Hays received a lot of bouquets for his able management of the whole business. ABOUT the first thing Estelle Taylor did when she got back to Hollywood from New York was to sign up with a vocal teacher. She's been vaudevilling back East, but evidently feels she needs more mimi-mi-ing for the larynx. "D EMEMBER Kathleen Key, the girl who -^•played Ramon Novarro's leading lady in the first picture he made in Hollywood and who was also his sister in "Ben Hur"? For the last two years she has been in Paris. She is back in Hollywood, hoping for a break in the talkies. CLINICAL memorandum No. X67: Noah Beery: Stricken at breakfast with appendicitis. Operation successfully performed, although gangrenous condition found. Condition critical for several days. Now okeh and virtually completely recovered. BEFORE Marino Pomares had a movie star in the family he was an engineer, and sort of fancied making charts and diagrams. Mr. Pomares is the father of Anita Page now. He has it all figured out how much more it costs a girl to live if she is in the movies than if she were doing something less spectacular. He has drawn a chart illustrating the relatively increased expenditures out of her earnings because she is in the movies. She must have better clothes, a finer home, and a hundred and one incidentals which would otherwise be unnecessary. Anyway, it figures out something like this: Outside of the movies she would spend about fifty-three per cent of her salary, saving some forty-six per cent, which now goes to "expenses." ARMIDA came intoHoward Greer's shop the other day to buy some dresses. Her measurements were taken. She was exactly thirtyone inches around the hips. Whereupon three of Greer's best mannequins took poison in a jealous rage. FAME!— Rudolph Friml, the composer, went to a Hollywood bank to open an account with his first salary check from United Artists. The teller took the check, looked at it, and asked Friml to wait. A moment or two later, the telephone rang in one of the U-A executive offices. At the other end was an official of the bank. "Kleenex is so dainty for removing make-up! Nothing else seems really clean and sanitary ajter one has used these absorbent little tissues." Brilliant staroftheR.K.O. productions, "Street Girl" and "The Case of Sergeant Grischa." Kl eenex come s in three safe, lovely tints — and cWTivU \y jvieenex is saiest to remove cola cream It s the sure way to Iree your pores ol dangerous dirt ana grime . . . without stretching or irritating skin NEVER use germ-laden cloths to remove cold cream! Kleenex is the clean, the safe way. These delicate tissues are so very soft and absorbent they just blot up the surplus cold cream, along with any lingering dirt and cosmetics. The pores are left really clean. And immaculate cleanliness is the first rule of beauty care. Bacteria, you know, start most complexion troubles, such as pimples and blackheads. And bacteria thrive 'on dirt. There's still another way in which Kleenex protects your skin. Because of its amazing absorbency, Kleenex makes hard rubbing unnecessary . . . the rubbing that beauty experts believe an important cause of large pores and wrinkles. You'll find Kleenex invaluable for handkerchief use, especially for colds and hay fever. Use a fresh, clean tissue each time, then discard it. Thus you prevent infection . . . save laundry . . . and avoid reinfection from cold germs. Ask for Kleenex at drug and department stores. Kleenex TO REMOVE COLD CREAM Kleenex Company, Lake-Michigan Building, Chicago, Illinois. PH-5 Please send a sample of Kleenex to: Name.. Address.. City When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.