Picture-Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)

G6 Hollywood High Ligkts Velez as "Lupe Vela)'," making her French instead of Spanish, and Renee Adoree as "Rena Adorie," and Nils Asther as "Niles Ashcr." "Anyway," remarked Johnny Mack Brown, after the proceedings were over, "they got my name right." May Sedately Wedded. A church wedding always creates a big stir in movieland, and May McAvoy's fully lived up to prophecies of its uniqueness when she was married to Maurice J. Cleary, an investment broker. The ceremony took place in the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Beverly Hills. About two years ago Yilma Banky and Rod La Rocque were married there. Picture folk in numbers turned out for the marriage, and for the reception that followed at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel. Crowds of sight-seers were roped off from the entrance of the church, and waited throughout the service to cheer and applaud the bridal party. May was attended by Louis Wilson as maid of honor, and by Mildred Davis, Gertrude Olmsted, Helen Ferguson, and Edith and Irene Mayer, the daughters of Louis B. Mayer, the film producer. The wedding was in the late afternoon, and very quiet in character. Billie Goes A-cycling. Studio publicity departments often give us our most diverting moments, a piece of copy sent to us not long ago. tains to Billie Dove and is in the nature of a biography. We find the following extract interesting : "Known as the most beautiful woman on the screen, Billie Dove will not discuss beauty. But under the combined pressure of several interviewers she has revealed her plan of exercises, and care of the face and body. She sleeps eight hours a day. Never lets pleasure interfere with this rule. Sleeps in the open air. Takes sun baths in the privacy of her sun porch, and is almost a fanatic about the medicinal value of sunshine. Her biggest meal is breakfast. Usually has a vegetable lunch. Her lightest meal is dinner. She takes stretching exercises morning and night. Ditto cold shower. The most beneficial thing, she says, is bicycling." And here is the real kick to the story. "She does it nightly — in bed. Lying on her back, with legs in the air, she just pedals rapidly. Billie also exercises her eyes before the mirror." an assemblage, a company, or an organization, since there are seven of them — children, we mean. There are nine, including mother and father, but neither of the parents is in the profession. Mary Eaton is the star. She is playing in pictures for Paramount, and is engaged to Millard Webb, the director. Doris Eaton danced in "Street Girl," the RKO film, and Charlie was seen in "The Ghost Talks." Then there are Pearl, who is supervising dances for RKO ; Evelyn, who is married, and has two children ; and two other brothers — one still going to college, and the other married and living in the East. That seems to account for them all. One of the most delightful evenings that we have ever spent in Hollywood was at their home, and the high light was when Mary and Marilyn Miller staged a dance competition to broken rhythms. "Very broken," Mary called them. Assures Its Tastiness. We always suspected that somebody, sooner or later, would make the slip, and so we weren't surprised, but amused, when at a neighborhood theater it was announced not long ago that Mary Pickford was appearing there in "Croquette." Rather Inarticulate. Deduce from this what you will, but it has been made known that in her picture "Footlights and Fools," Colleen Moore will sing a song called "Pilly Pom Pom Plee." Sandals Too Resonant. Add to items of attire unsuitable for use on sound stages — Deauville sandals. They squeak. And the squeaking records. Ann Harding was the Sherlock Plolmes who discovered this during the filming of "Her Private Affairs." An extra was wearing the sandals, but nobody at first ascribed the "interference" to them. They thought it was ground noise. After several takes had been made, and were found N. G, because of the sharpness of the sound, Miss Harding, who was working in the scene, decided the sandals must be the cause. Now, she says, if she ever quits acting, she's going to apply for a job as a sound expert. Ah, Love ! Ah, Love ! Here is another that may appeal to you if you have a satirical mind. It is attributed to Norma Talmadge. It exhales strange Victorian sentiment in this age of flapperistic philosophy. "No amount of dialogue can express the sweet, sincere, and invariably speechless emotion we call love. In the old, pretalkie days we interpreted it by means of expressive eyes, a gesture of the hands, and perhaps twenty to thirty feet of film just looking at each other. It was these delicate love scenes, so near to real life, that tended to popularize motion pictures." Some truth to it, at that ! Eatons Are Refreshing. A most remarkable family are the Eatons ! Really a group to write home about. You might also call them Maurice Chevalier shows what to expect of him in "The Love Parade." Marriage With Embellishments. Stepin Fetchit, gay and clever colored adventurer of the films, had the proud but rather troublesome distinction of marrying and being sued for $100,000 breach of promise almost simultaneously. Stepin was married to Dorothy Stevenson, a seventeen-year-old high-school girl. The lady who alleged the broken heart was also seventeen. Her name is Yvonne Butler. She declared that Stepin, whose real name is Lincoln Theodore Perry, plighted his troth to her last October, and that she was to become his wife in November. Stepin, she said, postponed the wedding. The marriage of Fetchit to Miss Stevenson took place at a church in the negro district of Los Angeles, and was a real event. Somebody facetiously posted a sign on the back of the actor's automobile reading, "I ain't going to sin no more," which caused considerable hilar