Screenland (May–Oct 1925)

76 SCREENLAND Marvel Quivey's Godmother— Continued from page 39 as Millet and Corot and the composer, Saint Saens. One of Marvel's aunts is Grace Van Studdiford, Metropolitan soprano, and the other is Mary Quivey, Orpheum headliner. But let's get back to the piece de resistance, the duck. Marvel had soaked up a lot of training by the time she was fifteen and the next year started to haunt the studios for a chance to display her talent. But Hollywood is, as you know, filled full of pretty girls with all sorts of talents, so Marvel hardly got a tumble from the casting directors. It is true she had a part with Gordon White when he made his "Puppy Love" series, but she was dissatisfied with that. Her inability to score an immediate success in Hollywood wore heavily upon her, so her parents decided a rest back on an uncle's ranch in Indiana would do her a world of good. Hence Marvel was packed off to the rustic regions protesting. It was there that she met "Quack" the duck, just one of the plain everyday farmyard variety, faced with a destiny of some day being hung up by his paddlers in front of a butcher shop with a neat price-card pinned to his breast bone. ^ Marvel says that from the very first "Quack" seemed to have something of the super-duck about him. He would follow her about the farmhouse yard like a dog except that he waddled when he walked. "Quack" would even come when called and was able to learn some tricks, like kissing his mistress (although it is very difficult to see anything difficult about that), and to zig-zag in and out between her feet as she walked. Mile. Marvel grew to be very much attached to the duck during her period of rustication and when she returned to Los Angeles she brought "Quack" with her. Another period of haunting the studios ensued with little result. Marvel accepted <3 Esther Ralston has the lead opposite Richard Dix in "Cali, fornia or Bust." the role of the flapper in "White Collars," a utf wblcn nas been running a year and a half at a Los Angeles theater. But she never gave up her ambition to become a motion-picture star. She knew she would be able to achieve it if she could only gain an entry or entree, suit yourself. Then, one day last summer, her luck changed. She was out on the front lawn °n ,„ b°me Peking around with Quack, when a serious young man, whose attire was enhanced with rubber-tired spectacles, stopped to watch her put the duck through his paces. Out came the young mans note-book and pencil, along with a whole flock of questions, which Marvel answered. The next day she was called to report at the Lasky studio. Clarence Badger, the director, went wild about the duck and was not so oblivious to the creature's sophistication, as to miss Miss Marvel whom he signed up for the part of Nancy in "New Lives for Old." Mile. Marvel is not so keen about the work she did in the Compson film. She declares her make-up was all wrong and that practically all of the scenes in which she appeared were left on the cutting-room floor But she has a pound of determination for every ounce of her 118 pounds, and knows that she will succeed since she has at last effected an entrance and gained program recognition. Incidentally she has as many followers as most of the people of the films whose names are up in electrics, for she attended school m twenty-three American cities while her peregrinating, portrait-painting parent was journeying over the country. Hence there will be scores of young people in Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Portland, San f-rancisco, Chicago, New York, Washington, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Detroit. St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and points east and west, who will be eager to see her advance. Yes^she was born in Los Angeles. The Supper Clubs of Manhattan— Continued from page 31 (Continued from base 311 CArne Tk„,-„ ;„ n:* ' • to : . *' -£ O glorified cafes. BecaLe t£y?re called clubs in London^ nd ^ othS^ scaUei e"" cross^t * ^ glrl'S fr0Ck' & S«™ bat Wlth they have privileges denied the lowly res world, but the Manhattan Ciro's has ^ ^ ,C?meS her baby daughter's taurants. They are places, usually small, incense all it Town It is a special haunt IT A ^ T^l b°b' her chlldlsh where you dance and sip mysterious bever of the cinemese-inearch-of-eood tLe Z, a"l .twmkW feet she is the most enages and dance some more until night will see a rounded Xti of SSdo^8 'S ft^V " ^ "^"l her' merges with morning and it's time to re est almost any night not to mention the , , P^SSlMe that Dlck wouId member what time it is In the night clubs, brave boys' whosf screen expE have if that ° P a*a anclng; and * wondered the movie stars can be themselves. Outside thrilled you Ciro's ponulantv is d„ I Um°r dldl? 1 ,St\rt when ^ew To^ the studio, with no cruel camera to record the dancing team thV giv s gL rouslv of who T' " whlch J^V ^ a wife heir every gesture; with no director to tell its talents Lice an evenmg-the team of £ T l™*" ™d getS k desPlte her them for Gawd's sake put a little action Webb and Hay The "Webb" 7s the t U "i obJe,ctlons , into it; with no prying press agent or angular and curiously graceful Clifton he Michael Arlen, author of The Green hungry reporter to appease here the tired "Hay" is the dlmSvf Maiv a o known K Z VT t0 the frince of Wales has filmsters find peace, if you can call it that, as Mrs. Richard BarthelmSs The fh V ^t™ heartS in New York They throw aside their professional pre that Mary and Clifton m™d "their bow^ A ™Y ^ °™ forejgner-he's Bntish ence as much as they ever can; they forget Ciro's the club looked Tke a ving \z a^o'sVT gU6St °I h°?°\ &t a part>' temperaments and caviar and get right edition of Who's Whose in Pictures for h\£n A hls ,very first in Mandown to temper and corn beef and cabbage all the so-ppt. wnrH ,!Tv pictures, tor hattan. A number of screen stars were The screen star is there for a good ^^t^W^ tTrnJ" oTt 1^7^ ^ ^ * Hes among friends. A few outsiders — a applaud little Marv %X °„n scarlet and Alice Joyce, queenly as ever, tourist here and there; a gaping admire? wTlittle Mar/s husband lo ZZZTs ^a,r>,Ha\^lnfd the,Arlen part/ when she now and then; but mostly his own gang. Richard BarthelLss If Dick as rumor 1A? h^wturn , Stars and leading women and "society" hinted, had opposed' the appearance of Mrs f,Jfebb and ^ay are such a not at Ciro's extras. Great directors with their newest Barthelmess in a rfmrfno ^1 ( at thevare also doubling in brass in bigfinds. Pretty blonde ingenues with "scion that t ^confine her ^rm to Vwo? Vaud-ilIe, . Mary, by the way, weafs of wealthy and socially prominent families." to pictures, there was nT si°n of it Hp ' a" ^ cost«rnes-the very All there, all having a good time. looked as if he enk,ved his t?,f ° ^ dref ,n a different color each time The latest supper club is always the best ner former u u 1 P'qUant N° w°nder— it's tremendously becoming A new place to go; new entertainers tri L„l *f ^ °therS' and his But after all> while Susie at Ciro's may applaud 1 that's tie life Scf piS of **d ^e baT^he time of her life, it"^ Broadway. Most of the clubs are on the They have a sent Z I ^l1™' ?r° 8 thAat she wil1 ?limPse the real Passing side streets, but Broadway isn't just a in their ^ancinf tL JF shows !bow" At least, that's the way I feel abou? street; it's an emotion. Right now it's er is an o >Ll , °J ^ ??m' ?r° S: 1 Can 1 answer for Susie. It's a w, its bers is an original eccentric dance. Mary charming place, perfectly charming food