Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

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Please send me a New PHONIC reproducer for I will pay the postman $3.85 (give name of Phonograph) plus tew cents postage. If I am not satisfied after trial, I will return your reproducer within 10 days and you guarantee to' refund my money; outside U. S. $4,10. Cash with order. Addr<"ts City State.. Pity a Poor Working Girl Continued from page 27 attention were it not for one of the little identifying numbers the police stick on our lawns for the edification of visiting tourists. Even Doug and Mary, despite their wealth and prominence, live as simply as any well-to-do-suburbanite in your own home town. And you never heard of them giving wild or expensive parties. In fact, they don't even serve liquor at their dinners. It is true that Charlie Chaplin may seem to have been extravagant in his ill-starred romances, but despite these costly adventures and his little-known generosities he lives as modestly as an English country gentleman. I have been with him on many an occasion when he has turned down a gorgeous dinner for the simple delights of a stack of wheat cakes at Childs' or a 'ribber, medium' with a baked potato at T-Bone Reily's. Then there is my nearest neighbor, Ruth Clifford, and her enterprising husband, Jimmie Cornelius. Ruth and Jimmie haven't even a permanent home, for they build houses and then live in them until they are sold. Farther up the street lives Patsy Ruth Miller with her father, mother and kid brother. It is a typical mid-west house of mid-west simplicity and gentle hospitality. At a recent 'Hollywood debauch' I attended there, when we left at eleven o'clock the debauchees were sitting in a circle on the floor playing 'coffee-pot!' As I remember the circumstances I think Doug MacLean was 'it!' Then there are Ralph and Vera Lewis, Ernst and Helen Lubitsch — heavens, I could name twenty or more of our leading picture people within five blocks of where I am writing who live less extravagantly than the successful business men of your own home town. While I was still pegging away at the above paragraphs who should stroll into the garden but Leatrice Joy and her little girl whom I had quite forgotten to mention. "Well," I exclaimed as she crossed the lawn, " 'between pictures?' " "Worser'n that!" she replied laughing at the ancient alibi. "The truth is my contract with De Mille is up and I doubt if I shall ever sign another. From now on I shall free-lance and work only in pictures that I li^e.' "But, Leatrice," I asked, "can you afford to be so choosy?" "Yes," she smiled, "you could even make it stronger and vulgarer and say 'snooty.' Pray, what do you think I've been doing with my hard-earned money these past few profitable years — spending it on baubles and gewgaws? Not your little Leatrice; she has been saving while the saving was good, and now she has earned her artistic as well as her financial independence." "But what are you going to do while snootily waiting for pictures you like?" I asked. "That's just what I stopped in to tell you about." And she forthwith unfolded a little scroll which revealed the perspective of what appeared to be a hotel. "I'm going to build that!" she exclaimed happily. "A forty-unit apartment house, with my own apartment on the ground floor containing a projection room and all the trimmings. See, right there! But what's this thing you're writing about?" she asked abruptly. I told her. "Yes," she observed when I was through, "our few foolish spenders are mostly confined to those who were suddenly and bewilderingly thrown into fame and fortune. Those who have worked their way up know the value of money and what to do with it. Look at Ruth Roland, now one of the richest girls in Los Angeles. Not because she banked a huge salary, but because she invested a modest salary in real estate. Then only this morning there is a picture in the paper of a big hotel that Pola is buying. "Take my own case," she went on reminiscently — (incidentally, Leatrice is one of the few girls who is prettier off the screen than on — if that is possible!) — "when I returned home from the convent in New Orleans I suddenly realized that though the old plantation was picturesque, mother and I were darn poor. So after the inevitable big parting scene I heroically grabbed my powder puff and started for New York to break into motion pictures. It was no bed of roses and for two thin years I worked extra, and then finally managed to get out to Los Angeles. I soon found, however, that I'd never get anywhere without stage experience, and so I went to an agent and. lying about my experience, induced him t3 place me in a stock company in San Diego. I got by with my bluff and the training was so helpful that when I returned to Hollywood I got several small parts. It was a long, long time before I really arrived, and it was during those years that I learned the value of preparing against a very uncertain future. And now, by heck. I'm independent, and they won't see me in any pictures I don't like!" There! Leatrice has finished my piece a lot better than I could have done it. She Bosses the Stars Continued from page 32 mood. Again he bounds into the studio fired with ambition to do a lot of work. On days like these we take dozens and dozens of pictures in a very few minutes and he is gone before I realize that he has been there. Sometimes he is very gay and talks a great deal and I have to catch him between anecdotes. But he is always charming and always vivid and I have never snapped two pictures of him that are alike. "Marion Davies often likes to work late and she likes to be quiet and work for a long time. She usually gets to my studio about four-thirty when things are quieting down on the lot, when the telephones are not ringing every minute and when dozens of people are not interrupting; and then we work steadily until seven or eight at night. In this way I always get the best results, because Marion is one of the hardest workers and she loves to see a job well done. She always turns out an amaziny amount of work. "So I work late with Marion and early with Marceline Day. There's a girl who breaks into my rest for she insists upon com