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from Hollywood 69
d, Craig Biddle says he is hurt and grieved at the reports that Miss Ann Perdue is engaged but he seems to be consoling himself quite nicely in this picture
press-agent's story can be credited, words and music to another Fox director whose name escapes us at this moment. This director was laboring with Elinor Fair — you know, the fragile little thing in Driven. Elinor was an awful stick back in her Fox days, anyway, — she hadn't yet struck her stride — and on this day she simply couldn't produce the tears that the scene demanded. She tried, but failed. Then the director talked to her.
"You dumb-bell !" he said, in low, passionate tones. "You poor hunk of cheese! And you call yourself an actress. Why, there's a cigar-store Indian over in the prop-room that's a better actor than you are. You couldn't register grief if they doubled your income tax on you. You're through!"
Then the tears came, all right. Elinor thought he meant it. Maybe he did. Anyway, she wept her heart out, and the cameras caught it and that was the only scene in any of her Fox pictures that had any real dramatic feeling in it.
The Baby Charlie Chaplin
I s Irving Thalberg, the youthful production manager of the Mayer studio, out gunning for Charlie Chaplin's laurels
as Hollywood's Don Juan? It would seem so. Irving has been stepping high, wide and handsome with some of screenland's fairest daughters. Some of the gals basking in the Thalberg smile are, reading from left to right and in chronological order, Gladys Walton, Barbara La Marr, Helen Lynch and Constance Talmadge. The effervescent Connie seems to have the inside track, and the gossips are predicting that as soon as the nuptial bond that bound Connie to her Greek tobacco-king are shattered, Irving may become Mr. Constance Talmadge II.
And Speaking of Engagements
H ere's something that must make Mama Biddle of the aristocratic Philadelphia Biddies writhe in agony. Craig Biddle, Jr., who left society and college flat on its back to go into the movies, has just issued the following notice ; via the publicity office:
"I am hurt and grieved at the reports that Miss Ann Perdue, star of the F. B. O.'s production, 'Daytime Wives' says she does not contemplate matrimony for a long time to come. I am deeply and sincerely interested in Miss Perdue.