Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

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Coolest Hotel in Nevj York in Hummer THE ANSONIA In conjunction with the Hotels Marseilles, Anderson, Richmond and Cosmopolitan "Arlington Operated" Do you remember Iris Stuart, the 'cover girl,' who came to Paramount and Holly wood about a year ago and who was getting along so beautifully when her health gave way and she had to leave us for an eight months' perfect rest? She told us then that she'd be back as sure as sure could be. She certainly wasn't beaten, nothing could have made me happier than meeting her over at Paramount this month, much heavier, eyes brighter, cheeks filled out and eager to get to work again. Isn't that fine? and aren't we all wishing her luck and more luck in this 1928? Shooting on John Barrymore's Tempest had gone along beautifully until one day last week. On this particular morning, everyone received an eight o'clock call and a lot of work was to be finished. Nine o'clock came and no director had arrived. Ten o'clock came, and all executives were running around trying to find the man. Eleven came, and all but John, who didn't say a word, were wildly telephoning try ing to locate one perfectly good director who was holding up a set that was costing United Artists at least five hundred dollars an hour. But at twelve — at twelve by the clock in walked Sam Taylor, loaded down with candy and cigars, and smiling with the smile that won't come off. 'Well, what is it, Sam?' asked Barrymore. 'Just exactly what we wanted — girl,' beamed Taylor, and pretty soon cigars were One of the screen's greatest actors — ]ean Hersholt in 'Abie's Irish Rose.' handed out, and those who didn't smoke cigars were munching all the candy they could eat. Sam calls the little lady his Christmas present, and I don't blame him in the least when he tells us that she's 'much different than most babies are!' -4 The Stage Coach — Continued from page 6.5 a-lynching. How, in the name of religion murder may be committed; how, in the name of Christ, who forgave, men can avenge. And that vengeance, he shows, is the outburst of all the evil and ignorance that may lie in the heart of a man. He draws well, in the main. He falls down when he attempts to interpret for you what he has shown. He does not realize how well he has drawn. So he has interpolated a Northerner, played by Crane Wilbur, to whom all these things are anathema. But when Wilbur moralizes, you squirm. He says what you feel, but the explanation sounds so silly. It underlines a point that you can't miss. The playwright stops his attempt at literature to see if you know your A, B, C's. Still, Rope, with its fine moments, remains a drama to see. And maybe if the Cabinet could see it, the marines might be withdrawn from Nicaragua, and Sandino might be permitted to send Tennessee a couple of missionaries. "Within the Law" Sixteen years or so ago, our forefathers brought forth — pardon us, that's the wrong speech — Bayard Veiller wrote Within the Law. It ran for two years. Now Chamberlain Brown revises it, and it doesn't creak half as much as you expected. It creaks — yes, because the Maxim silencer is no novelty. And the Maxim silencer in those days was like the new Ford of to-day. But in spite of its creaking, like the old Ford, it goes. And it goes because Veiller, girls and boys, was even then one of our best technicians. When he started a show, he knew where he was going — and still does. The principal interest for this observer was in seeing Charlie Ray on the speaking stage. Charlie, in his screen impersonations of the country lad, remains one of our dearest memories; Charlie on the speaking stage is terrible — so terrible you wish he would go right back and make some more of those comedies that Julian Josephson used to write for him. There's another movie star in the show, however, who will repay you for seeing it. Ten years ago, when she was movieing for Famous, our notion of a beautiful woman was Violet Heming. To-day, older and wiser, our notion of a beautiful woman is Violet Heming. She plays the role that Jane Cowl made famous and does it well. Even Robert Warwick seemed pretty good to our sentimental eyes. Warwick was a good film actor in his day, but on the stage he has always bothered us. He has seemed to be just a ham; in the role of Joe Carson, he delivers. And if you'll pardon us, Miss Claudette Colbert is here too. Miss Colbert is as good-looking a brunette as Miss Heming is a blonde. And, in addition, she is the possessor of two of the best-looking legs in captivity. And so you see, what with one thing and another, we had a fair time at Within the Law. Camilla Horn's Pajamas {Continued from page 37) desired by the soldierly Mr. Ullrich Haupt, gets a chance for exercise) and with a stiff who stepped forth from a sheltering copice Prussian bow halted the damsel. Restoring (don't stop me if I'm wrong for 'copies' her rosary, dropped in her agitated flight, is one of my favorite words and seldom he smiled a smile of pure menace and gave