Screenland (Dec 1927-Apr 1928)

SCREENLAND <Tfie ydmbassadoi^ / L/OS Ang-eles 'Plan to enjoy Southern California's glorious climate this year at this world-famous hotel. CARL van VECHTEN Famous author, writing in VANITY FAIR, says: "The Ambassador is, I should think, one of the very best hotels in the world. The service is superlative, the food divine, the courtesy of management and employees unfailing." In the wide range of its attractions, the Ambassador likewise excels. Superb 27acre park, with miniature golf course and open-air plunge. Riding, hunting and all sports, including privileges of Rancho Golf Club. Motion picture theater and 25 smart shops within the hotel. |^ Dancing nightly to the music of the yf famous Cocoanut Grove orchestra. Write for Chefs 'Booklet of California Recipes and Information. BEN. L. FRANK ^Manager Where the Pavement Ends? He put it out and I saw that if he was "Yes, and I can go back to Ebb Tide," to be saved something must be done and I came back at him. quickly. His eyes dilated, his lips dilated, his ears I opened his vest and applied an lmdilated in his enthusiasm. provised tourniquet just above the wound, "And if I don't miss my onions," said between the wound and the heart to stop the Doctor, "you saw a picture called, the circulation of blood. Next I placed Soul Fire." ' bim on his stomach or abdomen, removed This was beginning to look like mind from his mouth all foreign bodies, such as reading, not wire-tapping. false teeth, tobacco and gum, pulled and "Yes', I saw Soul Fire," said I and to kept the tongue forward and rubbed the see if I could shake him off my trail I parts of the body most liable to be affected lied, "I liked Norma Talmadge in it very such as the eyes, nose, ears, fingers and muc'h toes till the danger was well past. "Norma Talmadge," he shrieked like a "Where am I?" he asked, maniac, "Bessie Love you mean." "I told him." I was beginning to become alarmed for "I'm sorry," he lisped, "I had an idea the Doctor . . . his eyes were no longer or a dream or an hallucination that I had dilating, they were hanging out in his ex gone to the South Seas." citement. "We were only talking about it," I said And now, as he warmed to his subject he soothing him, "You look to me as if shot his words at me like so much machine you had a pretty bad case of the South gun fire: Seas Complex yourself," I suggested. "What about Paradise with Betty Bron "I've had it ever since I was a boy," son and Milton Sills, Hever the Twain said he. "Everybody has it. Wherever Shall Meet, with Anita Stewart and Bert you see five men together, all five of them Lytell, Tell It to the Marines, with Lon have the blue lagoons. They'd give thier Chaney and Caramel Myers." shirts to go to the South Seas." "Not Caramel, Carmel," I interrupted to "Oh!" he moaned, "to get away — out of correct him. »* Away!" He ignored me: "And what'shisname 'Atta boy,' said I, "I've got a pass for | Haines" . . . here he snapped his fingers, Roxy's." "Aloma with Gilda Gray and Warner "Hurray," said the Doc, and we went Baxter . . . " he paused for breath and as off hand in hand. So another South Sea he stopped, I shot in my one drive, "Hula Complex was satisfied. with Clara Bow and Clive Brook." Moral: A grass skirt covers a multitude "Yes " he panted. °f cinemas, or Keep those School Girl "Let me see your tongue." I asked him. complexes. A flcU Continued from page 31 while he was making the rounds of all the leading man by any important director or cinema plants in search of work. studio official until he suffered a broken leg. Arlen was born about twenty-seven years Being a healthy young man Arlen had ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, the son of accepted, temporarily, a job in a film laborJames and Mary van Mattimore. When atory, and not in front of a camera. He was he was a young boy his family moved to delivering some negative on a motorcycle St. Paul, Minnesota, and he was educated when the accident occurred. It happened there. At. St. Thomas prep school he right in front of the casting office of the achieved local fame as a football and hockey Paramount studio and the victim was carplayer. He entered the University of Penn ried in there. The casting director (who sylvania and made the freshman football probably had seen him casually scores of team, as well as the hockey team. times before) took a good look at him and The United States entered the war and was impressed by his manly appearance. It Arlen tried to enlist. He was too young, was a face fairly alive with character. The He did what many other adventurous casting director gave him his first encourageAmericans did at the time — joined the ment since he had come to the movie city British Army. Arlen enlisted in the Royal by promising him work as extra when his Flying Corps. He trained in England and ]eg had healed. won a lieutenant's commission. He served Arlen was given, at last, that eagerly as a pilot in taking new planes to the SOught document, a long term contract with front. a big producing organization. The com After the war he returned to St. Paul pany was Paramount, and, unknown to and planned to resume his college career Arlen, none other than Jesse L. Lasky himat the University of Minnesota but changed self was taking an interest in his develophis mind and entered a brokerage office in ment. He was cast in a bit in, In the ?{ame St. Paul. He also played on the hockey of Love and what little he had to do. he team of the St. Paul Athletic Club, one of did well. So he was placed in juvenile the great sevens of the country. Seemingly, leads in Behind the Front, The Enchanted market quotations didn't satisfy his longing Hill and Padloc\ed. His stock took a slump for action, for soon he quit his job and when he was little more than an extra in went to Duluth where, for a spell he Old Ironsides. worked as a sports writer on the News Along with nearly every other juvenile Tribune. in Hollywood Arlen was given a test by About this time much was being written Director William Wellman for the role of about the vast wealth in the Oklahoma oil David Armstrong in Wings. Fame recogfields. Aden thought that he might as nized fortitude and he was chosen well get in on some of it but after spend For six months, together with Charles ing five or six months in the rough and Rogers, and the hundreds of brave United ready environs of Breckenridge, Texas, he States Army pilots who cooperated m the decided that there was nothing in it for making of the wonderful ^ aviation scenes him and continued his odyssey to southern in Wings, Arlen risked hk nte daily. And California. he turned in a fine acting performance Arlen worked as extra in scores of pic which made him one of the most eagerly tures but he never got a break — that is. sought after actors on the Paramount lot, he never was recognized as a prospective when directors were casting their films.