Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

Manhattan Medley 59 just what it's all about. Unless, of course, you're luck}' enough to be a Norwegian. So "few of us are. Anyhow, you suspect all the time that the man is her lover, but you get fooled in the end. He's really her father. It's one of those trick ideas that may work out very cleverly, or may turn out to be just terrible, and we won't know until we see the play. Miss Nissen herself is all enthusiasm. The one thing that worries her, though, is that she has to sign a run-of-the-play contract. Suppose the play runs a year ? Where will her movie career be then, poor thing? She's been off the screen so much lately, she's afraid that in another year the public will have forgotten her entirely. But if you'd ever met her, with her blond beauty and charm, you can just take my word for it that you, who are, after all, her public, would never, never forget her ! Mr. Henry Ford Obliges. Raymond Hatton and his wife were in New York only four days, seeing shows. Shows every performance. Mr. Hatton has left Paramount, and his sigh of relief at not having to play in any more team pictures quite drowned out the noise of the riveting in the big city. He was all excited — as who in movies isn't these days? — at the idea of talking pictures being taken up in a big way. Mr. Hatton is one of those who might be said to be sitting pretty. He has stage training and a stage voice. But where are the poor little beauty-contest winners going to come in, now that every word they say may be used against them ? The Hattons had just come from Boston, where they had been searching for early American antiques. They went there very quietly, just as sight-seers, and told no one they were coming. But how these things do get about ! Hardly had they got their luggage in at the Ritz when the place was filled with reporters yelling, "Surprise, surprise," or words 7~ to that effect. The Hattons had a lovely time in Boston. At least they enjoyed it, though it's not my idea of a really eventful week. They looked at old tombstones, and historic spots marked "Here is about where the Battle of Such-and-Such was fought." Sorry, I don't remember what battle was fought where they looked. Mr. Henry Ford gave them a big surprise. He sent a car, with a chauffeur, for their disposal, to take them around the city. "Oh, you know Mr. Ford?" I asked Raymond Hatton. Very foolishly, perhaps ; plenty of people do know Mr. Ford. "Well, I've met him, and I've bought several cars from him." Now I call that discrimination. If it comes down to it, who hasn't bought cars from Mr. Ford? But does he send limousines and chauffeurs around to all the rest of us who have helped support his company? He does not! Photo by Freulich Jean Hersholt, his wife and thirteen-year-old boy visited New York for the first time. Phoning from Hollywood to England about a "Green Hat." Blanche Sweet was on her way back to Hollywood from England. She had been England several months, m Photo by Alberts Tom Mix was given a royal welcome at the station by thousands of school children. making a film called "The Lady in White" for Herbert Wilcox, the best-known producer there. And, on her return to California, she was to start work with her husband, Marshall Neilan, on "The Green Hat." Of course that was banned once by Will Hays, along with "Rain" and several other stories, wherein the heroine wasn't really what is known as a "nice girl." But the ban has evidently been managed somehow, and Marshall Neilan and Blanche are going ahead on the picture. In fact, she hurried home from England in her eagerness to do her best by Iris March. She wasn't very sure about all the plans as yet. because all the negotiations had been conducted by cable and telephone. Yes, by telephone. You know all the trouble the poor phone company has been having to make that transContinued on page 98