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Over the Teacups
Photo by Brown
Betty Bronson may play the title role in "Sunny."
"Just when the tennis matches were about over, the opera opened and the same crowd, and a few others, were there. Every time Jeritza sang the whole film colony turned out. Even if you're not interested in music, Jeritza fascinates you. Every move is so graceful, and what moves she makes ! In 'Fedora' even stunt players clutched each other and exclaimed in admiration. In the first act she fainted, falling backward down a flight of steps ; in the second act, in a love scene, she made a flying tackle of the tenor that made him stagger, and he almost fell to the floor. And in the third act she took poison and flopped around on the floor like a Russian dancer.
"The first night the audience was out wearing their largest diamonds, of course. Norma Shearer, Leatrice Joy, Ruth Chatterton, Florence Vidor, Dick Barthel
mess and his wife, Elise Bartlett, Jetta Goudal and a lot of others were there, including Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe. You can always count on them at a good opera or prize fight. Jetta walked off with all honors for the weirdest costume. She looked like one of the Borgias, at least. •
"The opera was just well under way when the football season opened. I really don't see how any one has time to work in pictures. Billie Dove is supposed to be hard at work on a picture for First National, but at the last football game she looked as radiant and carefree as a coed of sixteen.
"All the contract players at First National are in the position of stepchildren, now that Warner Brothers have bought control of the company. The only family that is entirely satisfied with the arrangement is the Edna Murphy-Mervyn ' Le Roy menage. Edna is under contract to Warners,1 and Mervyn to First National. They've both been working so hard they've hardly met in weeks. But now there is some chance of their working in the same studio. The same situation exists with Doris Kenyon and Milton Sills. Doris has been working at Warners, and now she can lord it over Milton Sills, because he is just one of the help at the adopted organization.
"I don't see why those two companies wanted to combine. It knocks out all competition in the making of the worst pictures. But I really shouldn't mention their awful ones when they've taken a new lease on life and made some good ones. Warner's have the picture of the year in 'The Singing Fool.' It is just too perfect. And First National has made two — 'Lilac Time' and 'The Barker' — both, you will notice were directed
by Fitzmaurice."
"Is the public ever going to be let in on seeing 'The Barker'?" I asked wistfully. It seems to me that I've been hearing about it ever since I was a child.
"All that's holding it up now is the making of some Vitaphone sequences. Think what a rotten break it is for Betty Compson. Just as she makes a magnificent picture, they withhold it until they put in sound effects.
"Speaking of sound
effects "
And Fanny, like every one else in Hollywood, does just that for hours at a stretch.
"Have you heard that Universal is to make short fashion films, in which their stars not only show off clothes, but give little talks ex
Lila Lee's stage experience makes her a sure bet for talking pictures.