Screenland (May-Jul 1926)

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"In Praise of James Carabine" — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have squared off a ring for Ralph Graves, who plays the title role. attached, developed engine trouble, and the schooner started drifting towards the reefs. Red flares were burned and these distress signals were relayed by ships in the harbor to the tug company which dispatched another tug to the aid of the schooner. It arrived in the very nick of time, the engine of the first tug refusing to haul its lead, just as the relief beat hitched on. Three women, Esther Ralston, Dorothy Ar?ner, the film cutter, and Lenore Sabine, hairdresser, underwent this thrilling experience, and strangely enough none of them suffered from sea-sickness. The mortality among the men passengers was very heavy, however. Wally Beery, one of the few who escaped, made motion pictures with his portable camera of each member of the cast as he approached the rail. Unfortunately the light was not sufficient for the victims to be recognized in the developed film. One advantage to ten-dollar-a-plate banquets, such as the one given to Carl Laemmle at the Ambassador on the occasion of his twentieth anniversary, is that a guest feels he is free to wise-crack a little without fracturing too many rules of etiquette. C[ Kathryn Perry (Mrs. Owen Moore in private life), tries to teach her new pet to do a "Rin-Tin-Tin". Hence a famous actor sitting at my table, hearing J. Stewart Blackton say he wondered why so many big figures in the industry have been small men, suggested: "I know, because they have been trimmed so often." Henry MacRae, who is at this writing general manager at Universal City, drew continuous titters from the banqueters by referring to the Universal Product as "Universal Filums". It was left to Bert Lytell to commit the inevitable faux-pas. Unaware that the Sheriff of Los Angeles County was an honor guest (Continued on page SO) 71