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Grist from the Movie Mill
WALTER WOODS, scenario editor, was speaking to a class of amateur writers : "Condense the ending of your scenario," he instructed them. Next day he received a script in which the author finished off his story as follows: "The villain took Scotch whisky, his hat, his departure, no notice of his pursuers, a revolver out of his hip pocket, and lastly his life S"
NORMA TALMADGE was making a street scene and a crowd had collected. "Who's that girl ?" someone asked. "Her? Why, Buster Keaton's sister-in-law, that's all." The crowd dispersed.
receiver at his car when a fragment of conversation from the Catalina Island radiophone interrupted his concert. It was the voice of the daredevil. "I'm in soft, Dolly," he chortled. "Im getting twenty-five berries per to wear Wallie's shirt."
WlLL ROGERS, now with Ziegfeld, plans to return to Hollywood and picture-making. His friends are wondering what he will do with the drop curtains in the miniature theatre at his Beverly Hills mansion. The most conspicuous parf of the decorations on the curtains is a Goldwyn lion, lying on its back, feet in the air. Underneath is the usual caption : "It's a Goldwyn year."
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, himself, tells one on a fellowproducer. A director employed by this producer had achieved a pretty honeymoon ending in a picture by showing, in the final fadeout, two dogs on a station platform, each tied to the trunk of his owner— the bride and groom. The dogs approached each other to the ends of their leashes and kissed. "That's out!" declared the producer when he saw the film. "What for did you get a couple of dogs to play the love scene when I am paying my actors $500 a week to do the job!"
DOUBLES for stars who play "thrill stuff" are always in demand. Fred Kley, Lasky studio manager, congratulated himself on a good stroke of business when he hired a daredevil for what he believed was a dangerous stunt for $25 a day. At home that night Kley had a radio
THERE is the pathetic side to hair-raising picture stunts. A motorcycle rider agreed to do the collision scene in William de Mille's Manslaughter for $1,000. The company offered to furnish him with the latest surgical marvel, a plastic face, if his injuries required it. They did.
IaCK AND SAM WARNER emerged from the Ambassador Hotel to find that thieves had stripped the spare tire from the studio flivver that they were using. "Let's call the police," proposed Jack, excitedly. "Never mind," consoled Sam, "that was the papier mache trick tire that we used in Rags to Riches."
P ICTURE fans hear much of poverty-ridden extras, but Horace Williams, casting director at the Ince Studio, knows four "extra" men whose combined capital exceeds $200,000. But they didn't make it acting. Retired Iowans who hate idleness.
L.OIS WEBER is reported to be separated from her husband, Phillip Smalley. These matrimonial problem pictures, like What Women Want, released recently by Miss Weber, are not bought from scenario writers.
DOUG has inspired Charlie Chaplin with appreciation of the classics. For Charlie is planning to film Don Quixote. With an electric fan instead of a windmill, perhaps.
CHAPLIN'S greatest admirer, Jackie Coogan, wept one day because he had made a mistake in a scene that demanded a retake. "Never mind, Jackie," consoled Coogan,
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