Screenland (Dec 1933-Apr 1934)

for December 19 3 3 89 barges moving about far below. There Lillian and Mrs. Gish spend their days, surrounded by a group of truly devoted friends. It is a quiet and a gentle life, as Lillian would have it. She has never married, and I doubt that she ever will. Certainly not during the life of her mother. There is no serious swain in the picture. Her long romantic friendship with George Jean Nathan, the dramatic critic, is over. Yet Gish believes in marriage, as the happiest and most natural state for two people who are fond of each other. She has an instinctive feeling for true companionship— the intimate friendship of congenial minds and hearts. I believe she loves and venerates this more than anything else in life. Back to the bustling set — the hurrying crowds which revolve around Lillian Gish, the star. Is this making of "The Great Adventure" the beginning of another motion picture career for Lillian Gish? I doubt it. I know that a great Hollywood studio is trying to lure her to the Gold Coast for a series of films. But Lillian says, with perfect truth, that she feels she has grown past merely making another parade of pictures. She was at it for so many laborious years ! She worked so long and so well, and the name of Lillian Gish, in any possible history of the movies, will loom large as one of the greatest of the silent artists. Of course, if the perfect chance comes — if a story and a part strike fire in her mind — nothing will keep her from the camera. Celluloid, for all the passing of toil and time, is in her artist blood. But just another movie? Thank you, no. And who can blame her? You Gish fans of the grand old days — I wanted you to know of my visit with this lovely ghost. To realize that she is as lovely as ever, and even more beloved by those who come in contact with her. You should hear the ravings of Mr. Young, who is privileged to play opposite her in this new screen adventure. One of these days a talkie called "The Great Adventure" will be advertised at your theatre and mine. And all we Gish addicts will rush down to see it, by way of welcoming our girl friend after this four-year absence. I'm sorry, but you won't be first in the line that awaits the opening of the house. I don't give a toot how early you get up. When you arrive, there will be a weazened little old feller dozing against the boxoffice window. That will be Hall. Reunion on Lo^g Island Continued from page 25 Colbert and Charlie Ruggles and Miriam Hopkins. There the Marx monkeys began their flicker fortunes. There's a story in every fleck of dust on that studio floor ! Suddenly, after that long two-year snooze, the doors were flung open. Five thousand bats flew out — all the souls of bad actors better off dead. "Come on !" said the owners. "Anyone who wants to make a talkie is welcome. You put up the do-re-mi, and in half an hour we'll have a complete crew of stagehands, electrical wizards and technical geniuses on the job." And thus it was that the fun began! In the twinkling of a phoney eye-lash someone started making a picture. _ Eastern movie men who had been reading the want-ads for two years suddenly had jobs. The old lot resounded with glad cries of "Hello, Pete !", "Hi, Jake !" and "When do we eat?" It was too true to be wonderful! I dropped out to the dear old place not long ago, while they were shooting some scenes for the film version of the Broadway musical hit, "Take a Chance." And darlings, it was so mad and marvelous, so truly in the great tradition of the movies — that I sat right down on a sleeping property boy and cried my eyes out ! It was the happy Hollywood of the old days — the movies running amuck ! In the first place, there were the actors ! Who should heave into view but Buddy (no more Charles) Rogers! Heavier, but still beautiful. It was on this sacred spot that the immortal Buddy, with Kansas wheat-dust still in his hair, graduated from the first and only class of the Paramount Pictures School, and went on to glory. Here he first looked pretty for the camera eight (can it be possible?) years ago! I looked again, and saw. James, or Jimmy, Dunn, totally minus a Sally Eilers. He was on from the west to do a fat comedy part. Jimmy with the winning Irish ways, the contagious smile that leaves New York night clubs limp and gasping. And, speaking of Dunn, Romance had already reared its dizzy head on the "Take a Chance" set. The leading girl was none other than June Knight, the blonde charmer who was Jimmy's Best Girl years — not many — ago, when both were winning their ways together in the same musical comedy on Broadway. Jimmy had gone west to pictures, and was mentioned by wire in connection with at least half of Hollywood's prettiest minxes. June, on Broadway, ran up an impressive roster of boy-friends, windingup, not long ago, with Mr. Max Baer, the eminent nose-mangier and ear-scrambler of the prize-ring. And here they were on Long Island — together again, romancing around, and holding hands for all the world to see ! Off with the new love, on with the old ! I saw Lilian Bond lending proceedings an English-Broadway-Hollywood air. And who also was on exhibition but Lillian Roth ! Shucks ! You remember Lillian ! She was one of the earliest entrants in the musical films of the old (four years ago) days, and got her great chance in Paramount's beautiful Technicolor "The Vagabond King." About a year ago Mile. Roth married a New York judge and handed in her dinner pail. But the call of the Kliegs was too loud. And here she was again, prettier than ever, and singing her lungs out on Eadie Was a Lady, the song of the decade. And here, too, was Cliff Edwards, the "Ukelele Ike" of pious memory. 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