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Fanny the Fan discovers the real mission of sound pictures, which isn't at all what the producers think.
Singing Fool,' though I liked them in the silent parts. That Dunn girl has a charming personality. She's so sort of — well, whatever the opposite of blatant is.
"Every time I pick up a newspaper I read of some stage star, who has been brought to Hollywood under long-term contract to make dialogue films. It is terrible ! There isn't room for everybody. A lot of people will just naturally be out of jobs !"
Just by way of encouraging her mood, I reminded her of the rumor that over two hundred well-known stage players were headed for Hollywood and films.
"There ought to be a law," Fanny declared vehemently. "Can't we promote some kind of immigration law forbidding any more actors from coming to Hollywood until some of the present ones die off? The quota is more than filled for a long time. They ought to give us a year
or two to get adjusted to new conditions. Then if all the present screen stars prove to be washouts vocally, they could let the bars down and admit a few strangers to take their places."
"It's all right with me," I confided to her, "if they get some new talent on the screen. I'm willing to admit that the present incumbents can be improved on."
"Well, maybe," Fanny admitted grudgingly, "but it complicates social life so terribly. Here we were a nice,
Alma Rubens is playing an exotic role in "She Goes to War."
provincial little town, where everybody knew every one else, and a night at the May fair, or an opening, was just like oldhome week. And now with a lot of new people coming along, the small-town, know-your-neighbor atmosphere may be ruined.
"Oh, well, we're enjoying it while we can. There have been more things going on lately that film people flocked to. First there were the big tennis matches and everybody was there, even Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. They've given up being social recluses ; the}' go almost everywhere nowadays.
"Fred Niblo and Enid Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. George Archainbaud, and all the steady-playing tennis set were there, of course. What I can't, understand, though, is why Jetta Goudal always haunts the tennis matches. She sits there without a spark of animation all afternoon. In fact, she has a far-away look in her eyes, and I wonder if she goes to see, or be seen. She always dresses as though she were trying to look like a queen in exile. On a particularly hot afternoon, when every one else was in thin sports clothes, she. wore a tight, black dress, a velvet ribbon around her neck, and a large black-velvet hat. I can't understand that woman.
"As a fashion parade, the tennis matches were an interesting study. Enid Bennett, Mrs. Archainbaud, Doris Kenyon, and a few others, were perfectly dressed in conservative sports clothes of intriguing, light colors. Patsy Ruth Miller characteristically romped right over from her own tennis court in playing clothes. Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson both looked stunning in chic street costumes. But some of the people arrived all decked out in organdies and chiffons, quite as though they were attending a garden party.
The dream of Bodil Rosing's life is to play in "Lummox."