Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

Over the Teacups 49 whom I saw in 'Passion's Lure?' the girl just looks bewildered and says, 'Oh, no ! I never even heard of her. Who is she ?' " Fanny grew breathless and reflective, but before I could ask her about Eleanor Boardman's wedding, or how Mary Pickford looks since she came back, or when — if ever — Charlie Chaplin is going to finish "The Circus," she had launched forth again. "You know, one thing I love about Hollywood is that the film colonv is so small and friendly that sooner or later you meet all the people whose work on the screen interests you. I still have hopes of some day meeting Priscilla Bonner. And I have succeeded at last in meeting Barbara Bedford. I've always liked that girl on the screen, and I like her even better now that I have met her. "She was just rushing up to Kernville on location for a Richard Talmadge picture when I met her, but I hope to see a lot of her when she comes back. When Barbara goes on location she breaks the monotony and loneliness by inviting her friends up for the week-end. Unfortunately, I couldn't go, but Vera Reynolds went. She had just finished winning the war in 'Corporal Kate' and needed a good rest. "I met Dorothy Dunbar the other day, too. She is a beautiful girl, somewhat on the order of Betty Blythe — taller and more statuesque than the average film player, and quite stunning. "I saw Theda Bara the other evening and if vou don't want to hear me rave just locate the nearest exit and run for it. I always feel that every one else is mentally lazy and stuck in well-worn grooves when I talk to "her. She told me that she was going to make another comedy for Roach, and seemed quite enthusiastic about it. While we were talking a lot of people came up and recited tales of woe about their struggles. Miss Bara remarked that everybody in the picture business acted as though they were daily fighting Custer's last stand. "Isn't it odd, no one takes up rumors with their old enthusiasm? When any one says that John Gilbert simplv adores Greta Garbo. people just say, 'Well, who wouldn't?' "John's baby is getting to be quite a big girl. Baby Leatrice and her mother go out to a riding academy where they have ponies and little Leatrice never seems to get enough of riding around and around. Leatrice is the very picture of motherly devotion as she tramps around the riding ring leading the baby's pony. She must hold the long-distance record by now. "Baby Leatrice is simplv devoted to the chauffeur's baby, and it is awfully funny to see Leatrice motoring with the two of them — the one so dainty and white, and the other a brown little pickaninny. Baby Leatrice's favorite tune, incidentally, is 'Merry Widow Waltz.' and she hums it on all occasions. Margaret Livingston is going in for limited editions — for her library, not the screen. "Speaking of singing" — Fanny was off again on one of those end Photo by Autrey V Fanny always liked Barbara Bedford on the screen and now that she has met her likes her even better. less chains, but I was no less interested than the strangers at the next table who were all but hanging over into our parfaits listening — "Hollywood is really getting quite musical. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray are taking vocal lessons and they have charming musicales out at their house. John Roche takes a lesson every day when he is not working in pictures, and Walter Pidgeon has a glorious voice. Virginia Yalli is so ambitious she is studying singing as well as French and whatever else occurs to her. "Virginia is going to Del Monte on location for 'Gaby,' and a lot of us have invited ourselves to spend a week-end with her. Zasu Pitts will have several days of freedom while Von Stroheim is making scenes for 'The Wedding March' that she isn't in, so she has volunteered to drive us up there. Carmelita Geraghty will finish a picture with Pauline Frederick in time to go, and unless some quick producer commandeers her services just then Hedda Hopper will go along, too. "I love the friendliness of the girls out here. One would never believe that commercially they are really rivals, if not actually enemies. "The one person I never see — and I think I'll gather up my things and do something about it right awav — is Margaret Livingston. She has gone into seclusion studying and resting, preparatory to Continued on page 104