Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

Over the Teacups 51 Beverly Hills. It may be two years before the house is built, but Colleen is putting in the gardens and shrubs and driveways, and very soon a swimming pool and barbecue will be installed. Then she can give big swimming parties and picnics on Sundays and nobody will care a lot whether the house is ever built or not. "If you don't want to be considered a conversational dud by picture stars, you ought to take a course in gardening. Eleanor Boardman too is in the midst of laying out gardens — on the new estate where she and King Vidor are going to build. She isn't going to engage a landscape gardener, but is going to plan the whole thing herself. I wonder if she knows what she is letting herself in for. The plants you expect to be dwarflike always turn out Gargantuan, and it is annoying not to have any one to blame the mistakes on." Fanny gazed off into space and I seized the opportunity to remark, "I heard a funny story about an actor the other day " But Fanny, unwilling to relinquish the conversational reins even momentarily, cut in with', '"So did I. I heard there was one actor who hadn't yet been engaged for the cast of 'The King of Kings.' It isn't finished yet, though, so there is still hope for him. "Seriously — and why not?" she continued — "De Mille really has inspired others to grope around for bigger themes for their pictures since he undertook filming the life of Christ. Douglas Fairbanks is toying with the idea of epitomizing in a picture the brotherhood of man. and King Victor's next, 'The Mob,' has a tremendous theme. Fairbanks also is considering a story of the Crusades. Beside his plans Mary's seem rather inconsequential. She expects to film a crook story called 'Magpie' — that is. if the public don't protest against her playing a crook. I don't see why they should. Didn't she play a crook in 'In the Bishop's Carriage ?' That was years ago, of course, but it was in the heydav of her fame as 'America's sweetheart.' "I wish that some one would make a society crook story and let Hedda Hopper play the leading role. I think she would be gorgeous in an arrogant Lady Raffles role. Booth Tarkington wrote a story once that would do. It was called 'His Own People.' "Speaking of the stories that really should be done, why doesn't some one Any time you see Bebe Daniels in conference with any one, you may be sure she is planning a bridge game. Photo by Monroe Fanny expected to be disappointed in Myrna Loy, but found that she actually was as interesting and unusual as she looks. film a story written around the life of Lotta Crabtree? There's romance and melodrama for you. Right now. while every one is digging up the biographies of Barnum and Jenny Lind and others. Lotta shouldn't escape notice. "Marion Davies. with her usual love for contrast, is going to jump from the comicstrip fatalities of 'Tillie the Toiler' to Barrie's 'Quality Street.' Her costumes for Tillie are the last word in exaggerated styles. Her skirts are a little shorter, her boutonnieres a little larger, and her shoes more flamboyant than an) you have ever seen before. They look funny enough now, but think how grotesque they will look a few years from now ! "Nothing amuses me more than looking at old photographs. It hardly seems possible that people really did dress the way the} did a few years back. I know I Continued on page 109