Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

Page scan 000158 from Screenland

Record Details:

Title:
Screenland
Date:
Nov 1929-Apr 1930
Publisher:
[New York, Affiliated Magazines, etc.]
Volume:
Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)
Leaf #:
000158
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals","Television broadcasting -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Mid-range fan magazine. Ran from 1920 to 1952, at which point it changed its name to Screenland Plus TV-Land. Merged with Silver Screen in 1971 and ceased publication. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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32 SCREENLAND Vivian, the pretty one, and Rosetta, the funny one, do their stuff in a rehearsal for "Cotton and Silk" with director Sam Wood as audience. They Traveled 114,000 Miles To Get Into Pictures The Duncan Sisters Arrive By Bradford Nelson Hollywood is the greatest Mecca for beautiful and talented men and women the world has ever known. Charm in both masculine and feminine form floods to the palm-bordered Los Angeles suburb from all over the world. Beauties come from India, Siberia, Italy, France, scores of countries. To none of them, however, does the banner go for having traveled the greatest distance to get a film contract. This championship belongs to two girls who were born and raised not three miles from one of the biggest film studios. "Sure, we had the movie bug like all the other girls," says Rosetta Duncan of the Duncan Sisters, "we knew of Bessie Love, Phyllis Haver, Ramon Novarro and a lot of others coins: direct from high school to Engaged! Vivian Duncan has promised to become Mrs. Nils Asther. They met while filming "Topsy and Eva." success in the studios. "But Ellen Beach Yaw had be' come a friend of the family. She inspired us with a desire to become opera stars — and that was the end of our early screen ambitions!" Today the Duncan Sisters are finally film luminaries. They did one previous picture, en passant, as it were, but their present contract is their first film venture of a permanent nature. Unless vaudeville and revue contracts become too alluring, the great fun-makers are in the pictures for good. They traveled over 114,000 miles to get to a studio in their own home town ! They have been in every city in America. They were a riot in „ngland, particularly when the Prince of Wales 'cuf (Continued on page 112)