Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

57 • # I 1 ~*r*k /i ■ • ■ J^dtfin ^Elza S dialler t Florida realty broker. Jacqueline Logan was also wedded south of the border, to William L. Winston, but it didn't "take," because the California courts found fault with the legality of the ceremony. You see, she had been divorced only about six months from her prior husband. She intends to be remarried later on. In one case a director went to Agua Caliente to be married and paid all the expenses of a trip there by airplane, and of the big wedding party, from large winnings on a gaming Time Element Emphasized. Elinor Glyn is by this time famous, or notorious, as you will have it, for the titles of the pictures she writes. Two of her latest are "Three Week-ends" and "The Man and the Moment." The former stars Clara Bow, and the latter Billie Dove. "And what role does Miss Dove play in her picture?" somebody asked George Fitzmaurice, who was directing. "Ah," he said, raising his eyebrows, "she is the moment !" Over the Fence Is In. Studios are having all sorts of curious experiences with people attempting to break into the movies. At Paramount, one day, a Belgian athlete scaled a fifteenfoot fence, surmounted by barbed wire, at the back of the studio lot, and actually succeeded in getting a job from Dorothy Arzner, who was directing "Manhattan Cocktail" at the time. On another occasion a long-distance call came into the studio, from New Haven, Connecticut. On the other end of the wire was a young man who asked if he could obtain extra work, should he come to Hollywood. The phone call cost $18, but at that the casting director who received it estimated that the man saved money. It is reputed to take about $2,000 for living expenses, et cetera, even to get started on a movie career. Toasted in Hawaii. It doesn't pay to be too zealous in the cause of art. Dorothy Mackaill knows this now. She learned her lesson from sunburn in Hawaii. Dorothy was told she would have to get good and tanned for "Changeling," and that it might take several Fred Datig, Paramount casting director, measures the height of two recent importations, Robert Castle, left, and John Loder, right, and finds that naught is lacking in inches. days to do it. Dorothy decided, however, that she might be able to help the company out, if she' crowded Che tanning into a single afternoon. So she lay on the beach tor several hours, without regard to the intensity of the rays of the tropical sun, and the result was that she was laid up in bed for two or three days afterward. "I didn't think the sunburn would attack me so violently as that," she said, -because I was a little tanned from a summer at the beach in California. But evidently Hawaii has its own particular brand of sunlight, and the blisters that it brings out are simply terrible." Idols Revivified. Matinee-idols-that-were are enjoying the chance to become matinee-idols-that-are, if we read the signs right Two, who are in line for a revival of their fortunes, are Bert LyteU and William Desmond. Lytell is a featured player in "On Trial," a talkie courtroom drama, and Desmond, in "No Defense," second lead to Monte Blue. Lytell been signed by Warner Brothand it is not unlikely that Desmond will be too, if his voice records as well as expected. Anti-feministic Dwarfland. Midgets are mostly men ! Metro-GoldwynMayer made this discovery while filming "The Mysterious Island." They hired several hundred of the little fellows from shows and circuses in all parts of the country— probably the largest aggregation ever brought together in one place — to impersonate dwellers in a region beneath the sea. When the casting office came to count the midgets, they found that there were only two or three women among them, and that practically no more were to be procured from the entertainment bureaus. It was explained that most of the feminine midgets were stay-at-homes, but that their number is comparatively fewer in any event. The smallest dwarf in the picture is two feet seven inches, and the tallest four feet eight. During their sojourn here they stayed at a hotel in Culver City, not far from the studio, and their daily pilgrimage along the streets, when going to and from work, drew no end of sightseers. Death Claims Three. George Beban, Larry Semon, Arnold Kent — these three names have been stricken off the casting books and the biographies of living players. It is the largest toll of any one recent month. Two names are rather well known to picture fans, Beban and Semon, while Kent was enjoying the beginning of success, after about two or three years of striving. Beban was a veteran actor. His biggest vogue was