Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

58 Manhattan Medley It was a sad, pale Neil Hamilton who went South with "The Joy Girl' for he had only just recovered from a severe attack of the grippe. troupe, when, as a little girl, she first essayed the stage. There is no end of theatrical lore she can disclose if she has a mind to, and she is studying modern literature, having already gained a fair knowledge of contemporary music. We can recommend no pleasanter way to spend an evening than with the Bellamy household, for there's always a sense of humor lurking there. Nothing Lazy About Gilda. You might not think it — because she's up every morning at six o'clock and at the studio by seven — but Gilda Gray can sing with real feeling that well-known song, "Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning — oh, how I love to remain in bed." Which is just what she does on Sundays — she never gets up at all. Not because she's lazy — her reputation for vim, vigor, and vitality would never permit of such an inference as that — but because she really needs the rest after the week's activities. Gilda is one of the sincerest people we know. She's earnest, terribly so. "You get back," she says, "exactly what you put into things." That is why her salary is now several thousands weekly, while Sally Plotz, who used to live next door, is struggling along on fifteen per. That is why she is a star in "Cabaret." That is why her shimmy is known from coast to coast. Robert Vignola will tell you that Gilda was always the first person on the set during the making of "Cabaret," the most attentive to her work, and the easiest person in the world to manage. She loves it all, too. Her enthusiasm is boundless, her energy indefatigable. But when Sunday comes, she's just like any little worn-out working girl who welcomes her day of rest. "If I didn't relax on Sunday,'' explains Gilda, "I simply couldn't get through at all. That is the day I gather my forces and store up enough energy for the coming week." But Gilda has time, too — time for the "little things" that make people like her and remember her. She is the only star we know who takes the trouble to have fresh flowers in her portable dressing room even day, who always knows your name, and flashes the same bright smile around the studio whether things go right or wrong. Do You Know That Lew Cody is a graduate of McGill College, Toronto, and has a degree in medicine? Marion Davies and Lillian Gish were convent girls? John Gilbert went through Hitchcock Military Academy. San Rafael, California? Romance in School. It's a schoolgirl and schoolboy romance, of course. That is to say, it all happened during their schooldays. She didn't wear ginghams and sunbonnets, though. And he wasn't a bashful, barefoot boy. They used eyebrow pencils instead of slate pencils, the latest novels for textbooks, and received their lessons through a megaphone. They were pupils in the Paramount School when, to quote any subtitle, "they learned to know what love meant."' Since then they have become engaged, and are now appearing together with Ed Wynn. Her name is Thelma Todd and his. Robert Andrews. Ed Wynn didn't exactlv play Cupid, but he did his bit. For the youngsters furnish the love interest in the stage comedian's first film, "Rubber Heels." Thelma is a dashing blonde, gracious and charming, and Robert is a serious, dark-eyed lad. With the ink scarcely dry