Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

44 Over the Fanny the Fan holds forth about of Hollywood's welcome to By the Lois Wilson followed up her revolt against saccharine heroines by signing to do "Tne Gingham Girl," but she insists her role in that is not spineless. NOW that Hollywood's favorite daughters have come back from New York, and all has been forgiven them, the film colony has a new threatened loss to worry about," Fanny announced, always ready to look on the worst side of things with relish. "What now ?" I asked in utter despair, relinquishing the prospect of enjoying a peaceful, pleasant luncheon. "The spirit of adventure has hit George Hill and Lon Chaney and hit them hard," Fanny announced in sepulchral tones. "Metro-GoldwynMayer should never have allowed them to make 'Tell It to the Marines.' At least, they should have played safe and made it with regular extras and not in conjunction with the marine corps. Not only did General Butler and the rest of the marines take our boys to their hearts, but Lon Chaney and George Hill were completely swept off their feet by the promise of adventure in joining the marines. It didn't help matters any to have some war or other break out in China. They were all for leaving the flat and do some fi] business going off to fighting. "Fortunately, both were in the midst of pictures, so the studio did manage to hold them down by keeping them hard at work and not encouraging any of their marine friends to come to see, them. But — just a little more news from China about the fighting marines, and you can start knitting socks and shedding tears over the departure of two of our best citizens. "George Hill is right in the midst of making a marvelous picture, 'The Callahans and the Murphys,' so he has a large and adoring family to remonstrate with him every time he feels the urge to run away. There are Marie Dressier — and I hope you are as thrilled as I am over having her back in pictures after all these years of gallivanting around the world in society— Sally O'Neil, Eddie Gribbon, Larry Gray, and a lot of the most adorable children you have ever seen. "The set where 'The Callahans and the Murphys' work is just across the lawn from Marion Davies' bungalow, and whenever Marion isn't working she can be found there, looking on as interestedly as any fan. It never seems to occur to Marion that her guests might like to see her own set ; the first chance she has she rushes them over to George Hill's. "You can almost always tell what picture is going to have tremendous appeal on the screen by the one that attracts all the supposedly blase people in the studio. You just can't keep any one away from 'The Callahans and the Murphys,' so get in line early when it opens at a theater. "Lillian Gish has always said that the most ingratiating element that a picture can have is a large and devoted family. Well, 'The Callahans and the Murphys' has two large, devoted families." It was all very well for Fanny to go saccharine about the film life of the shanty Irish, but what I wanted to know was about the returning heroines. "You've seen Corinne?" I asked, quite as though there might be some question about the matter. Fanny looked at me as though I had suddenly taken leave of my senses. "You probably read in the papers that she had slipped quietly back into town. Well, there are no picket fences around her house yet. Of After finishing "Seventh Heaven ," Janet Gaynor went back to the old home town in Florida for a hard-earned vacation.