Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

Over the Teacups r'liotu bi Ruth Harriet Lou: Anna Q. Nilsson is also in New York again, minus her most recent, but-probably not her last, husband. . look! If you'll hang over the railing and knock one or two heads out of your way, you can see Mae Murray. She has on the yellow ermine coat and feathered sport hat that caused such a sensation in the courtroom the other day." "What courtroom ?" I asked. "Don't you ever read the papers?" She was too busy looking around to explain anything. "Oh, well," she began at length, when she had satisfied herself that she had waved at. two thirds of the people in the room, "Mae brought suit against Charles Duell for rent for her apartment and damage to her belongings. She had sublet it to him last year. She won the suit, and probably would have even if the judge had been listening to her as well as looking at her." "Duell ?" I pondered. "'The name sounds familiar "It should." I'' aunv exploded. "He s the man who formed the Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish companies. First Dick grew dissatisfied and had him eliminated from his company, and then Lillian had to sue him for a lot of her profits that lie had withheld. "Olga Petrova and Rudolph Valentino have been starring in the local courts, too. Some man sued Petrova for plagiarism, claiming that her play, 'The White Peacock,' was based on one that he had submitted to her. Valentino appeared as witness for her, but she lost the suit. "But let's not talk about unpleasant things. I had luncheon with Mae Murray yesterday and she filled me so full of her nice sunshiny philosophy to the effect that there is good in every one and that everything is for the best, that I resolved to mend my conversations. I am not going to be a cat any more." I must have looked slightly incredulous, or at least bored. "Have you seen Dorothy Mackaill?" she exclaimed, by way of introducing an extremely cheerful subject. "She looks like the perfect commuter. Whenever • you see her, she is just rushing to make a train. After having a real home in California, she just couldn't bear the thought of living in a hotel here, so as soon as she came East, she and her mother went out to Mount Vernon and leased a house. Dorothv planned that when she came to town to the theater, she could stav overnight at a hotel, but now she finds she'd rather dash for trains and get home. The minute a show is over, she dons the raccoon coat that is the badge of a true rustic and heads for the station. "She is making a picture with Leon Errol, and as they have known each other ever since she first came to this country and went into the 'Follies,' they have great fun kidding each other on the set. Ever since the newspapers carried that story about the antifat clause in her contract, she has been receiving a deluge of presents — every sort of fat-reducing preparation or apparatus. Even a pair of boxing gloves from Mickey Walker, the prize fighter. "Speaking of Dorothy — you know, she and Pauline Garon are great friends, but when Dorothy left the Coast, the} both tried to reach each other by phone and failed, and each one now thinks it was the other's fault and is offended and won't make a move toward seeing the other. Every time I see one of them, she asks about the other eagerly and then adds, 'But don't tell her that I even mentioned her.' Aren't they funny? "Pauline said she felt just like a hick when she struck New York. She says New York girls are different from all others — claims we have affected, Nowadays Dorothy Mackaill always seems to be rushing to catch a train, for she has moved to a suburb of New York.