Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

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Cameramen sometimes are pretty hard to deal with, because most of them have a very high opinion of their ability to tell, by looking through the lens, the distance from a table or a chair or a tree or an automobile when the scene was shot for the first time. "Some of them are troublesome," according to Miss Thompson. "When we take one part of a scene, I measure out the exact location of every camera, down to the last inch. Then if we come back to that scene, I order the set-ups to be made as I had measured them. Of course if the cameraman wants to be malicious, he can move the lens without moving the camera. But there is a way of telling when a lens has been moved, and it doesn't take me long to find out. To tell the truth, though, there isn't as much friction between the cameramen and the rest of a staff as there used to be. Most of the oldtime hostility was caused by the cameramen's penchant for practical jokes, but the modern studio has no time for that sort of thing on a set. Studios today have achieved a degree of efficiency that makes a veteran of a decade ago wonder how we ever got out a picture. "And with the increased efficiency of everything else about the studio, the script girl has had to stay awake and to progress accordingly." So that's the kind of job a girl with brains can get in Hollywood — one of several that are open to girls who haven't been endowed with extraordinary good looks. But good looks do not bar a young woman from a script girl job. Alice White was a successful script girl and learned a great deal about acting technique while holding down that job, long before she ever had appeared before the camera as an actress. So pretty features and a well-shaped head neither help nor hinder a script girl. All a young woman needs is an encyclopedic head for detail ! Is Romance Synthetic in Hollywood? Continued from page 29 love, we are so used to the other one that we do this or that without thinking. It might tell, instead, pass the potatoes or zvash the dish. No, making love in pictures is just business to us!" It is reported that Gary Cooper refused to do "Dishonored" with the gorgeous Marlene Dietrich. It wasn't because he didn't like the lady, but because he thought the director gave her the best of the picture in "Morocco." Love scenes had failed to create even synthetic romance between Marlene and Gary. But then, they got in their work with Gary in "The Wolf Song" where he met Lupe Velez. Lupe, it seems, keeps him from noticing other screen sweethearts, though June ColIyer was mentioned rather widely as a possible rival when she and Gary made their first picture. The Jack Gilbert-Greta Garbo romance became almost an idyl after their performance in "Flesh and the Devil." I remember being on the set when they did the dancing scene in which the young soldier falls madly in love with the siren, and thinking: "If that isn't real, nothing is!" It raged wildly while it endured, at any rate. If propinquity and the constant necessity for registering love for a beautiful coworker tended to enhance this widely-publicized affair, the same condition had no effect when Jack Gilbert played opposite Lillian Gish in "La Boheme." Report had it at the time that one or other of the stars walked off the set every second day. It couldn't have been as bad as that, but at any rate it was no secret that neither Jack nor Lillian felt even tepid enthusiasm for his or her co-star. Another of the Great Lovers of silent days found himself incompatible with the fair one to whom he had to profess undying adoration. Perhaps the antipathy between Lily Damita and Ronald Colman dated from the day of her arrival in Hollywood. In the interests of publicity, Sam Goldwyn requested Ronald to meet the beauteous Lily at the train, present her with flowers and proceed to a feast in her honor at the Roosevelt Hotel. Ronald was on his vacation ; to break into it involved inconveniencing his friends as well as himself, but his objections were over-ruled by Mr. Goldwyn and Ronald duly appeared at the train to present the flowers and be photographed greeting his new leading lady. After that, however, he considered that the job was done and proceeded to fulfill his interrupted personal plans, while Lily was escorted to the feast minus her expected starry partner. Lily is a girl accustomed to having men fall at her feet at first sight and this cavalier treatment made no hit with her. Thereafter it was war — and I mean war. Sometimes the rosy haze engendered by youth meeting youth under the kleigs and indulging in murmured tenderness accompanied by uncounted clinches departs after the two have been separated a while. Russell Gleason and Marguerite Churchhill thought it must be love when they played opposite one another in "Seven Faces." But Marguerite went out on "The Big Trail" for months and now Russell seems to be rushing June Collyer. After "Harold Teen." if you mentioned "she" or "her" in the hearing of Billy Bakewell he thought you were talking about Mary Brian, but there has been a succession of girls in his life since then. Mary Brian is a sort of ideal girl to nearly all young males who play with her ; there was a picture — "River of Romance'" — in which Mary and Charles "Buddy" Rogers believed for an interval that they had found the thing the river was named for, but they are just good friends now. Clara Bow and Gary Cooper got "that way" during "Children of Divorce," their first picture together. Clara is anything but the personification of the constant nymph, however, so Rex Bell is the way to spell her current fiance. Hugh Trevor was cast as the devoted swain of Betty Compson in "Midnight Mystery," and no matter how many screen sweethearts he's had to make_ love to before the camera since then, he's remained devoted to Betty outside. Betty has had that effect before. Wasn't Grant Withers romantically upset about her while they were playing in an early talkie, before Grant had met Loretta Young ? When Ramon Novarro requested that Dorothy Jordan should be his leading lady for the second and even the third