Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)

102 Information, Please A department where questions are answered, advice is given, and many interesting phases of motion-picture inent side lights icture W M, ELKHART, INDIANA.— If vv • Anita Page is your favorite actress, you've got lots of company ! Anita has certainly gone over big for the two years she's been on the screen. Anita was born August 4, 1910, and is not married. Nor even engaged. Her newest film is "Navy Blue," opposite Bill Haines. As to whether you would see her if you went to California — that depends on whether she happens to go out on the street the same time you do, and the same street. Joan Crawford's new film is "Untamed." Dorothy Pierce axd Louise Melton.— "iou're all wrong, calling me Solomon. How could I support a thousand wives on my salary? We don't announce fan clubs, but if any one asks about David Rollins or Don Terry, I'll refer them to you. Mary Ann Bailets.— You're verv flattering! If anybody would know, I would? Well, as it happens, I do. Pola Negri's present address is Chateau Rucil Seraincourt, Par Moulan, Seine et Oise, France. Wondering.— You sound like a theme song. Clara Bow was born July 29, 1905. I think M.-G.-M. takes care of sending out Greta Garbo's photographs. A fan club is merely a group of a star's admirers who correspond. Any one can join bv writing to the person in charge. P. D. — Don't tell me the police department has found me out at last! See above. Ramon Novarro was born February 6, 1899, and has never been married. Yes, Dorothy Jam's was the heroine in "The Pagan." V. Lucille Lewis.— Clara Bow and her hair are quite a problem to an answer man. It's been every color, hut she tells me it was reddish to begin with. See Wondering. Clara is five feet three and a half and weighs one hundred and fifteen pounds. As to whether her love life has ever been printed— probably, but not in Picture Play, and I have no files of other fan magazines. Sue Carol's real name is Evelyn Lederer; she was born October 30, 1908. Bruce Stevens.— Poor Gladys Brockwell— killed just as she was staging a film comeback. Her last films were "The Home Towners," "Woman Disputed," and "From Headquarters." In seven years Pauline Garon has made too many pictures to list them all here. Her newer films are "Must We Marry?" "The Gamblers," and "Headlines." Alma Rubens doesn't give her age; her first important film was "Humoresque." Other early pictures were "Find the Woman," "Valley of Silent Men," "The Rejected Woman." No, I have never heard of Kenneth Duncan, but extras' names are seldom heard of. Harry S. Given-. — If you wish to get in touch with the Kenneth Harlan Fan Club, write Mrs. Ethel S. Cottingham, 2228 North Emerson Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. A Don Alvarado Fan. — You'd never guess what has happened to little curlyheaded Richard Headrick, former screen child. He's now a child evangelist ! I suppose Pat Moore is busily going to school. Apparently Sonia Karlov never got anywhere; she was signed 'by DeMille and then DeMille's company broke up". Eugene O'Brien plays in vaudeville, that haven of retired stars. Yes, Louise Brooks has left the American screen — some sort of studio politics — and is now making pictures in Germany. I'm sorry, but I don't even know the maiden name of Airs. Don Alvarado. Charlie M. — I didn't see "The Legion of the Condemned," but as nearly as I can tell from the synopsis, it was Lane Chandler who played the young New Yorker who joined because he was tired of life — Charles Holabird. Lane is from Montana and was passenger agent for Yellowstone Park Transportation Company before going on the screen as extra in "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall." He recently played with Greta Garbo, in "Single Standard." At last accounts, Menjou was going to produce his own pictures on his return from Europe. Anita Page was born in Flushing, Long Island ; see W. M., Elkhart, Indiana. Miss Dorian E. Precourte. — I'll record your Lane Chandler club for future reference. B. C. S. — This voice doubling in pictures quite baffles me. Occasionally it leaks out who sang the star's songs ; otherwise it is impossible to find out, because the film companies pretend the stars do it themselves. I imagine Betty Compson sang her own songs in "Hit of the Show," as she is quite musical. I haven't the least idea whether Sally O'Neil sang hers or not, or Sue Carol, in "Fox Movietone Follies." As to married actresses born in Canada — there's Norma Shearer, Mary Pickford, Barbara Kent, Claire Adams; actresses whose husbands are actors include Jobyna Ralston, Vilma Banky, Mary Pickford. Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Barbara Bennett, Alma Rubens, Ruth Chatterton, Ina Claire, Doris Kenyon, Helen Lynch — quite a list. J. Lubansky. — Virginia Valli was the heroine in "East Side, West Side." Erlene of South Dakota. — You seem all preoccupied with marital matters. Rex Lease and Charlotte Merriam were divorced last April. Mrs. Give Brook was formerly Mildred Evelyn. I know only that Neil Hamilton's wife's name is Elsa, and I don't know the name of Mrs. John Mack Brown. The hero in "Bred in Old Kentucky" was Jerry Miley. The leading lady in "Say It Again" was Alyce Mills, and in "The Man Who Came Back," Dorothy Mackaill. Miss Edna Tow'ell and George H. Smith. — Thank you very much for sending me the address of British International, which I will keep on record hereafter. Aase E. Bay. — The screen version of "Ann's An Idiot" was called "Dangerous Innocence." Laura La Plante and Eugene O'Brien played the leads; Hedda Hopper and Jean Hersholt were also in it. And I wish to thank the five fans who wrote in with this information. Lonesome. — See above. Tony, in "Feet of Clay," was played by Ricardo Corn z. No, Corinne Griffith did not really sing in "The Divine Lady." Doris Kenyon was born September 5, 1897; John Mack Brown, September 4, 1904, Evelyn Brent in 1899 — no month given ; Vera Reynolds, November 25, 1907. I'm afraid Vera Reynolds has not been interviewed recently enough in Picture Play for the issue to be available. Eugenia Gilbert seems to have left the screen, and I don't know how she can be reached unless just Hollywood. Continued on page 120