Screenland (May–Oct 1925)

Glenn Hunter held up the production of his latest, The Pinch Hitter — not because of temperament; but because the action of this baseball story required that he knock a home-run; and he's no Babe Ruth. But he finally made it And he didn't say in the meantime, as he might have, Tm a motion-picture actor, not a baseball player." Virginia and Carmelita found time hanging heavy on their hands, so they went off to Europe. The Misses Valli and Geraghty calmly ignored all picture offers and sailed to have a good time. But they may listen to the soft, sweet words of English producers who want them to appear in a picture while they're over there. Carmelita, in case you have overlooked her, is a brilliant brunette of Spanish-Irish extraction. The "Irish" is Tom Geraghty, who writes most of Tommy Meighan's scenarios. * * * TOM Meighan was shooting some night scenes at Sing Sing, by special permis1 sion. He and his gang had been working a while when they were startled by ^a plainI tive voice from prisoners' row: "Say, if you guys don't keep quiet, I'm going to get out of here!" * * * Constance Bennett came back to Manhattan to make a picture opposite Glenn Hunter. Although when she left she was as charming and attractive as she is now, she hadn't then attained the eminence of having parties given in her honor. Now, she's an important celluloid personage, and presided at a tea with all the poise of an established star. Though she's been in what New Yorkers love to think of as the wilds of California, she was dressed in a Fifth Avenue frock. Manhattan is where Constance happens to be at the time. Gilda Gray will probably make her screen debut as Aloma of the South Seas. According to report, Barbara La Marr very much wanted to play the tropical heroine of the Broadway stage success and her managers also aimed to get it for her. Gilbert Seldes, the critic, then employed by the La Marr company, was sent to view the entertainment with the purpose of commenting upon it as a future La Marr vehicle. He returned with the criticism that he couldn't "see" it at all. Sometime later the managerial gentlemen attended Aloma in person, and saw great possibilities in it as a picture for their star. But — and alas! — meanwhile the price of Aloma, first offered the managers for a modest sum, had soared to the skies, and in fact out of their reach. It is perhaps not necessary to add that Mr. Seldes isn't working for the La Marr company any more. Well, it's said he wasn't crazy about it, anyway. Gilda, herself, the famous shimmy expert, will quiver for her equally palpitating audiences as the south-seas heroine, as her first stellar role for Famous Players, unless present plans miscarry. If she makes Aloma, she will do it in Florida where, at Miami, she has already danced into the hearts of the natives and tourists. Before she sailed for Europe with her husband, Gil Boag, for a well-earned vacation, Miss Gray entertained at luncheon. She looked far from the vivid creature she presents on the stage. She looked more like a school-girl in a simple sports sweater, low-heeled shoes, pleated skirt, felt hat, and absolutely no make-up — not a trace of it, or jewels, either. She refuses to take herself in the least SCREENLAND seriously, this Polish girl from Milwaukee who made the shimmy dance a national institution. Her marriage to her manager, Mr. Boag, well-known New York cafe owner, was the climax of a thrilling career. The Boags are devoted, and as domestic as her career permits. She had just wound up a strenuous season dancing in picture theatres from coast to coast, and as a reward for being a good working girl, she was presented by her appreciative husband with a brand-new, shiny Rolls-Royce, with her initials on the door. Right now, the far-famed "Golden Girl" wants more than anything to be a success on the screen, and those who have seen her screen tests predict that she will be. As a second vehicle for pictures, she will use The Tal\ of the Town, an original story especially written for her by Robert ^Sherwood, editor and film critic of "Life," and Bertram Block. tx/tr. and Mrs. Estelle Taylor, or, as they jyi. are sometimes called, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dempsey, returned from a hectic sojourn in Europe, only too glad to be home again. Despite entertainment in their honor, they were home-sick all the time. And it was so cold, take it from them, that they were almost reduced to winter underwear. Jack is through with pictures, but Estelle isn't. Although she turned down an offer from UFA in Germany because it would interrupt her career as Mrs. Dempsey, Miss Taylor will soon be seen in pictures made in California. During their day in Manhattan before they dashed west, she found time to deny the rumors that she was trying to keep her husband from the ring. "I knew when I married him he was a boxer." she said, "and would always be. Fighting is his profession. I couldn't stop him if I wanted to — and I don't!" Jack presented to his bride a shillaleh he picked up over there, in case he ever tried to make a sparring partner of her. But it doesn't look as if that will ever happen, as all is serene and blissful in the Dempsey romance. Jack is saving his punches for his big battle a year from now. Hope Hampton is a busy girl these days. No sooner had she finished a tworeeler in natural color. The Marionettes, produced by her husband, Jules Brulatour, than she began work in the leading role of The Unfair Sex, at the Diamant Berger studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. But Hope, contending that all work and no play would make her a dull girl, if such a thing were possible, decided to give a party. She sent for her friends to come over to Fort Lee and when they got there, called it a day. There was a marimba "band" for dancing, and the stern studio was turned into a cafe. Even the director decided enough work had been done for a while, and put away his megaphone and joined the dance. Speaking of dancing, Hope herself is one of the star steppers on the celluloids. She has been taking dancing lessons twice a week since she was so high, and even now that she's in pictures, she lets nothing interfere with her terpsichorean duties. Ht AVE you heard about Mary Pickford's 1 new portable dressing room? It's one of Mary's most prized possessions. Reasons: it was left to Miss Pickford by the will of Madame Eleanora Duse, famous Italian actress, and was used by Duse on many stages on her farewell tour of this country. The dressing room came clear from Italy and is now serving the queen of the movies, as it served the queen of the stage. 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