Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)

I I -*n( l/\ ^rL l/\+i a » t m/ ■ J^di^hi^^I^lza Ochallert Erudite and Playful. Do yon know how to play Guggenheim? No, it's a game, not a character in a picture, and we were introduced to it at Colleen Moore's not long" ago. This latest indulgence is in the intellectual class, and requires a knowledge of everything from the most obscure writings to the very latest advertising slogan. The playfulness of the stars is nothing if not erudite. Guggenheim remotely resembles a cross-word puzzle. To play it, one draws six vertical lines on a piece of paper, and then crosses them with six horizontal lines. If this is done correctly, it should give thirty-six squares like those in .a cross-word puzzle — only they should be larger than the puzzle squares. The square in the upper left-hand corner is left blank. The five squares under that, on the left-hand side of the paper, are filled in with so-called general categories. Anything like rivers, islands, flowers, names of motion pictures, names of stars, names of famous battles — not that they have any relation to picture stars — will do. The i\ve squares at the top of the page are then filled in with a five-letter word — one letter to each square. As previously stated, the first square is left blank. Some five-letter word, like "peach," "pearl," "crane," or anything else that pleases, may be chosen. Then begins the fun. You are given twenty minutes to fill in the remaining squares, and the procedure is to use only authentic words or names opposite the general classification. Each one of these must begin with the letter that is in the vertical space at the top of the column in which it is placed. The more unusual the words chosen, the better wil! be the score. If there are nine people in the game, nine is the top score, and is allowed for each word that is not chosen by any other person in the game. If two persons happen to pick the same word eight is allowed : if three, seven points, and so on. The total of the points allowed for each word is added, and the person is declared the winner who has the highest score. Great arguments ensue, if unusual words are chosen, and this adds to the fun. Those participating in the game have the privilege of turning thumbs down on any Charles Farrell's mother has come son and enjoy huckleberry muffins 51 word chosen, if the person writing it cannot absolutely prove that he i eomet in using it. If there i dou' ■ vote determines whether In shall have the point awarded a go No referring to the dictionary i permitted, under peril of one's lif Contending Intellectuals. Those who entered the tierce competition at Cob home included, anion others, Bebe Daniels, Julanne Johnston, Ben Lyon, and Carmelita Geraghty; but the highest score went to Carey Wil -on, the scenario writer. The big event-, were when some one tried to slip by the name of the card game "euchre," spelled with a "u." and some one else contended that "scene-Stealing" might be listed under the heading of "crime-." The shouting at moments like these could have easily been recorded in microphones ten miles away. Colleen Moore's new home i-. by the wav. a most attractive hacienda. It has all the usual appurtcnai of swimming pool, tennis court, motion-picture theater, et cetera, and one of the most distinctive features : guest room entirely separated from the house. The buildings are low and rambling, and constructed in the form of an open square. With redtiled roof and white walls, it is distinctly Spanish-* ifornian. Its sun parlor is huge, extending the full width of the building. Colleen herself is furnishing the manse, room by room, and she h; plenty of vacation time to do this, since the completion of her contract with First National. The New Democracy. Guests at Hollywood affairs these out to Hollywood to live with her days are an interbefore a New England fireplace. estihg commingling of stage and screen celebrities. In the beginning, there was little mixing ol the two groups, but the walls are gradually being broken down. One reason for this is the fact that many starhave changed their associations, and that since the Equity trouble, there has been much interchanging of players by the various studios. Acquaintances and friendships nearly always begin through professional meetings on sets. At Bebe Daniels' recently we found a compositi semblage, including Beatrice Lillie, Walter Catlett, John Boles, Hen Lyon, Louis Wolhcim, Marie Mosquini, who is an old-time friend of lichc's. and others. At another party given by Wesley Ruggles, the director, with Kathryn Crawford, to whom he is reported engaged, acting as hostess, were Xeil Hamilton. Olive Tell, Sally Eil Lila Lee. Richard "Sheets" ( iallagher, Thelma Todd. Viola Dana. Laura La Plante, and Walter Catlett. Six months ago one could be sure of finding nearly the same group together at any particular set of affair-, but now all is apparently changed with the coming of a new democracy.