Screenland (May-Jul 1926)

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Ine. 3601 Michigan Ave., Dept. 1315 Chicago, U. S. A. the eagle eyes of detectives on a fresh trail. It means business. One more eclair— and no more contract. But after Dorothy Mackaill signed her new contract with First National she went out and ordered chocolate icecream cake with whipped cream — or so I heard. Dorothy is one of those slim, sylphlike girls who is always being urged by solicitous friends to "put on a little more weight; you look like a breath of wind would blow you away." Just the same, that fragile figure of hers is one of her assets. Miss Mackaill usually plays girls who are buffeted about by a cruel fate. Can you imagine a roly-poly Joanna, or a plump Chickie? You couldn't; neither could Dorothy; and neither could Dorothy's big boss, First National Pictures. And although Dorothy can order porterhouse steaks and mashed potatoes and chocc late malted milk and cream pie without in' creasing her weight by an ounce, she, and her company, aren't going to take any chances. There's a clause in that new Mac kaill contract which says that the star must never, no, never tip the scales over 1 30 pounds. Dorothy now weighs 115, and has never weighed more than 120. So she eats pastry when she wants it. Reginald Denny is one enfant terrible — ask his company. The athletic star keeps his managers on pins and needles, except possibly when the receipts for his pictures roll in. He's a fine boy and a splendid actor; but if he has a fault, which Universal is not exactly prepared to admit, it is his love of sport:6' That seems, on the face of it, a perfectly harmless hobby; but take it from Mr. Laemmle, it has caused him more than one anxious moment. Denny swims, plays tennis and golf, drives a car and boxes. But — he also sails a boat and rides in an airplane. It's his own airplane which is self-operated. So far he has suffered no casualties on tennis court or golf links or in the swimming pool or the squared circle; but my goodness, what that boy will do in art airplane! One might almost say, to an airplane. Tail-spins, falling leaves and nose dives, it's all the same to him, if not to Mr. Laemmle. Today, Denny may be working on the nice, safe lot in Universal City; tomorrow, he may be somewhere on the Pacific or he may be several thousand feet above Catalina. Once he went for a little sail and didn't return for several days. It seems a little storm rose and — well, so did the temperature of his company. Reg was found none the worse for his adventure in the elements, and all ready for a little cruise among the clouds. But the company has different ideas now; and it is said that his new contract will contain fancy and assorted clauses about yachting and airplaning and such innocent diversions. If he doesn't behave, maybe they won't let him play marbles in his own back-ground. Anyone will tell you that Lois Moran's appeal is her fresh, girlish innocence. When Sam Goldwyn discovered her, it was that refreshing quality which caught and held his attention and eventually brought about Lois' contract. Mr. Goldwyn is hardly a Simon Legree, but he is a good business man; and he instructed his lawyers to insert a clause in the Moran contract which would hold a whip over the actress and simply force her to be a good little girl. Lois has no inclinations to be anything else, so the contractual provision was all right with her. Lois is only sixteen, and her work claims all her time. When she is older, she may want to touch up her peaches-and-cream complexion just a little, just for fun; but she won't dare. There are no degrees of unsophistication. If you so much as smoke one cigarette, use a dab of rouge or lip <C Cliue Broo\ and "Hatacha Rambova (Mrs. 'Valentino) in "When Love Grows Cold". stick, wear skirts a little too short or hats a trifle too daring, you are not unsophisticated any more. Lois Moran must avoid even the appearance of sophistication as long as she has her present agreement. The nicest clause I ever heard of is the one in Pauline Starke's contract. It must have been worth all her years of struggle and hard, hard work to be able to demand it in her present agreement. She said: "A print of every picture I make must be given to me." That wasn't so much to ask. But the officials were curious. Pauline isn't the kind of star who wants to see herself run off on the screen of her private projectionroom every night after work. Pauline explained, a little shyly: "I want it to send to my home town — Joplin, Missouri — so my family and my old friends can see it." Don't you love a girl like that? And think of the kick it must have given her; and the even bigger kick it must give the folks back in Joplm whenever Pauline's pictures arrive! Even if a successful film career held nothing more than the privilege of being able to visit the home folks by proxy every few months, it would be worth it. When Charlie Ray began his big fight to come back on the screen, he decided to work away from the country-boy roles which he had been doing so many years, and prove to the public he could play other parts as well. His contract therefore says that Mr. Ray shall not be required to play rustic roles unless he agrees, and that preference shall be given to stories which give him other opportunities. A similar agreement is in Lew Cody's contract. Lew once earned much money but more disapproval by allowing himself to be billed as "the vamping villain". Lew's sense of humor soon showed him the error of his screen ways, and when he took up his new engagement with MetroGoldwyn it was with the express understanding that he would not have to play any more cut-and-dried villains. Conrad Nagel refuses to work on Sundays. He pleads a previous engagement. It's a perfectly good excuse; Conrad is an usher in the Hollywood Christian Science Church. "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy" — or might if John Gilbert had not insisted upon a clause in his contract stipulating that he must have a three-months vaca