Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

,10r..)ijr,;. !'X-/'!»!» from Hollywood Spicy T.^gr.fh. ,-Ai.ut T<mr Fn.nu Sur, S.nigk fr.m StnalM X You Can't Down Ruche _^HE irrepressible Rodolph is causing Famous Players-Lasky mollis moments of exquisite anguish. When Rudie just naturally refused to play in the Lasky yard any more, Paramount got out an injunction against him, restraining him from appearing in any film or stage production during the life of his contract. Figuring, probably, that along about the time Rudie got hungry he would come back to work like "a good little boy. But now it seems that Valentino is receiving flattering offers to make phonograph records. No one knew that Rudie could sing, but what does that matter? He looks as if he ought to be able to. Fancy listening to Rudie the romantic singing the Kashmiri Love Song . . . "Pale hands I loved, beside the Kalimar ." Or perhaps the "Sheik of Araby." And just as another string to his bow, report has it that a big company is presently going to put on the market a series of Valentino toilet articles. Remembering that Valentino is the son-in-law of Richard Hudnut, the big manufacturer of perfumes and toilet preparations, it wouldn't be a herculean task to guess where the backing is coming from. Reid Story Common Property The peculiar thing about the startling disclosure concerning Wallace Reid and the morphine habit (the complete story of which is given elsewhere in this magazine) is that everyone in Hollywood knew it . .'. had known it for years. Every newcomer to Hollywood from the east was regaled with the story of how Wally Reid was ruining his life and his wife's happiness. But nobody dreamed it would get into print . . . until it did. Imagine the chagrin of the other Los Angeles papers when they awoke one morning to find themselves clearly scooped on a story that had been office gossip for two years ! What About Pola ? Is Pola Negri taking a leaf from Valentino's book and trying to break her contract with Lasky? If the rumor that is floating up and down the boulevard has aught of truth in it, Charlie Chaplin has advised Pola to break her contract and Pola is doing her best to achieve such an end by making her pretty self as obstreperous as possible around the Lasky lot. And she can be awfullv obstreperous when she puts her mind to it, as anybody from the director to the electricians can inform you. It is accepted gossip that Charlie has been informing Pola that she should leave Laskys and set herself up as an independent star, backed by .capital furnished partly by the affluent Charlie, and directed by Lubitsch when he finishes directing Mary Pickford in Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. An Apple A Day . . . Hollywood is still chuckling over this one. A certain prominent physician has a very pretty wife. He had to go East on a business trip recently, and while away was informed by his loving friends that a friend of his, another doctor, was calling on his wife rather too frequently. So he sent his wife a box of apples, 'cause an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Movie Czar Is Hero Will Hays, "czar'' of the movies, preached a sermon at a Los Angeles church recently, and at the conclusion of the services became the hero in a "touching" little drama, A Grace Darmond got the judge to let her change her name of Grace Gilonna to her professional name of Darmond. Evidently Grace doesn't realize how valuable a foreign moniker is in pictures, nowadays. Photo by Spurr 81