Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

C[ James Hall has been play ing with the children in "Rolled Stockings". Louise Broo\s's picture of course. out to Carey's ranch and sought to rent some gopher holes. "It's the only safe place for a married man to keep his money these days, bury it," he said. But to expose the joke-loving Tom, he presented Mrs. Mix, on her birthday, with a check for $25,000, and another for $100,000 to be spent on her proposed trip to Europe. If her health permits it, Mrs. Mix will tour Europe with her mother this summer. She is recuperating at present from a serious operation, but hopes to be able to get away from Hollywood within a month. While she is gone Tom will be making more pictures and writing her letters. ■ — o — Romance cetainly does bloom in the spring . . tra . . la. The experienced Pola is now being borne over (I hope) smooth seas to her wedding with Prince Serge Mdivani, brother of David, of the same last name, who is Mae Murray's husband. It was a bracer to me to learn that Pola kept it so secret that nobody in Hollywood knew mything about it until she was on the high seat with her fiance. I am told — ■ I have never seen him — that Prince Mdivani is one fine fellow, C[ Billie Dove, from the tips of her shiny rid' ing boots to the top' most glory of her blonde hair, is beauiful. phine Borio her first part The Woman Trial" with Hegri. who will make Pola a good husband, if she marries him. We in Hollywood are so toughened to seeing them come and go with Pola that we can't believe she really intends to get married. But we hope she does. Pola is a lively adornment to the film colony and we have long wished to watch what she would do to matrimony. It is our bet that she finishes it off with the same Polish polish that she gave to her harmless and entertaining philanderings. — o — Rod La Rocque and Vilma Banky too. But at least we had a little preparation for their engagement. They were seen together several 70