Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

Advertising Section studio, Raymond was forced to do some nimble taxicab traveling between the studio and the theater where he was playing the part of one of the young collegians in the stage play, "'Cradle Snatchers." The sets in "Sunya" are the work of Hugo Ballin. Mr. Ballin brings no little of that thing they call "art" to the screen, but shows decided signs of pam if his work is grandiosely labeled as such. He mixes large doses of common sense with his art, and makes very little fuss over it. "A cinch." he remarked, when high praise was accorded one of his sets. But Mr. Ballin cannot fool experts, who note the minute attention to detail and the painstaking care which are characteristic of his work. Not the least difficult part of the task of ushering Gloria through a many-sided role fell upon Rene Hubert, her French costume designer. M. Hubert prepared nearly a hundred sketches of gowns to be worn by Miss Swanson in the production. As the actual and visionary adventures of Sunya carry her through many varied phases of life, from an Egyptian princess to a broken-down working woman wandering the streets of New York, the selection and preparation of her gowns was no easy task. M. Hubert and Gloria, however, worked out the problem together to their satisfaction. One of her most striking gowns is the wedding dress which she wears when she marries the rich banker in one of the visionary episodes. The gown is made of lace and taffeta and has a simple, straight bodice. The sleeves are long and tight, and there is a long tulle veil, of course. A large amulet is worn with the dress. In the Paris episode, when Sunya reaches the height of her hectic operatic career, she is garbed in the daring style characteristic of a young diva. One of her evening gowns in this episode is particularly elaborate. It is black and tight fitting. A wrap of silver, lined with white velvet, is worn with it. And so, surrounded by a staff of experts, with an unusually interesting cast to support her, Gloria steps bravely into the field of production, picking as her first offering one of the most difficult films she has yet done. What will be the outcome? Will she be successful and become firmly established among that select group of veteran players, banded together under the name of United Artists, who have so notably taken the production of their own films into their own hands, or will she, like so many others before her, find that she is unequal to the ambitious undertaking and have to return to the shelter of a contract, with a big producing company to control all her screen activities and limit her freedom of action? If she could only, like Sunya, look into the crystal ! Her fate, at the moment, rests with the srods. The Jobs They Quit Continued from page 89 dotted with derricks, the incessant blowing of winds, caused 'William Boyd to give up his job in the oil fields at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and head for California. He was an orphan, alone, unfettered. When he became the motive power for a truck in an orange-packing -plant, people often remarked. "You'd do well on the screen. Why don't you try it?" Thus, a perfectly good truck pusher started out to be an actor. The parents of Ricardo Cortez wanted him to be an importer and exporter like his successful brother. Flow lucky for the screen that he didn't agree ! Ramon Novarro's father wanted him to be a dentist, and his mother wanted him to be a pianist. "I didn't want to be a dentist." Ramon told me. "and I didn't have enough money to be a good pianist. But I did study music and I'm glad I did. My knowledge of it kept me from starving" to death when I came to Hollywood to get into pictures. I taught piano to keep the wolf from the door. Then Rex Ingram gave me my chance in films. I shouldn't have minded being a concert pianist, but I am sure I should never have been a good dentist." When you saw Karl Dane handling rivets in "The Big Parade," you saw him in somewhat the role his parents almost induced him to play in real life. His father was a theater owner in Copenhagen, but he did not want Karl to follow in his footsteps. Constructional engineering was the profession his parents mapped out for him and he studied for it just to please them. But when, as a lad, he used to ring up the curtain in his father's theater, the stage had got into his blood. So he deserted rivets for a dramatic career. To-day's screen idols have come from almost every walk of life. But not many of them have any desire to go back to their former professions or to those that were planned for them. Too much fun in the movies ! 107 IncreaseYourfcy in Cartooning $50 to $250 a Week Paid to Good Cartoonists! 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