Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

She can make old faces bloom with youth, and baby-faces assume the lines of middle-age. She is an artist whose canvas is the human body. Like a master painter, she must know what colors to apply for certain effects, and how. Never in the history of motion pictures has make-up been more involved. If a panchromatic make-up were used when a multicolor camera was employed, maybe your favorite star would look like nothing but a hole in the wall! Miss Rosini personally handles the make-up of Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Anita Page, Marion Davies, Norma Shearer and dozens of others who come and go at the studio. Her thorough understanding of her work conceals from the fans the glaring facial defects of many of your favorite actresses. No wonder Miss Rosini is just about the most popular woman in Hollywood ! PROBABLY the best-known studio research woman is Bessie McGaffey, who organized the first Famous-PlayersLasky department, around 1915, and later joined De Mille. Miss McGaffey can tell you just which of the many styles of ancient Egyptian derbies Pharoah should wear; ' all about the dental work of the cave man; how to hail a taxi in Siam — in fact, there's mighty little she doesn't know, after all these years of research ! For more about her, see story on page 64. "Business Manager" is a very important sounding title; but Henrietta Cohn of Paramount, and Ella Williams of M-G-M, have both earned it. Miss Cohn was responsible for all the expenditures on Sarah and Son. while Miss Williams handles all the business affairs for Cosmopolitan Productions — Marion Davies' unit. OW would you like to be phoned very casually some night and told to pack your toothbrush for a trip to South Africa or Tahiti, or one of a hundred other Arabian Night Verna Willis (right) is one of the cleverest women film cutters in the film city. She edited Paramount's Sarah and Son. Below we see Dorothy Arzner, the only woman director in the movies, talking over a scene with Dick Arlen, whom she recently directed. Among the women writers of Hollywood, Jeahie Macpherson is one of the best known and best paid. For years Miss Macpherson has written all of Cecil B. De Mille's stories. Her salary is reported to be stupendous. sections of the globe? Josephine Chippo has recently returned from ten months in Africa, where Trader Horn was filmed. She handled script — that is, checked off each scene as it was shot — on White Shadows of the South Seas and The Pagan. In addition to this job, "Joe" serves as private secretary to the travelling director, W. S. Van Dyke. Hers is the most broadening job in the entire motion picture industry, since travel is an education in itself. Outside of Hollywood, a "film cutter" is an unknown quantity; but inside a studio he or she is the deity who ,issembles all the scenes of a picture and turns out a finished product — a sort of editorial dressmaker. It is left to the cutter's judgment which of the several shots of the same scene is to be used, and how long certain sequences are to run. Now that talkies have complicated picture-making, the cutter's job includes eliminating words, phrases, even entire paragraphs of a speech. And if your favorite actor lisps, the cutter, with a snip of the scissors, turns all the "th's" to "t's ' ! It is said that Anne Bauchens is the most experienced film editor in the motion picture colony. Not only has she cut all of C. B. De Mille's pictures, but scores of others. Margaret Clancy of Fox; Blanche Sewell and Margaret Booth of M-G-M ; and Verna Willis, of Paramount, are outstanding in their profession. The job of cutter is fairly evenly divided between men and women. F YOU'RE an interior decorator, you might run competition with Margery Prevost, who supervises the decorations of all the modern, English, and Spanish settings for M-G-M productions. If you're a trained nurse, perhaps you could get a job in one of the emergency hospitals, maintained and fully staffed by every studio in the business. Accidents will happen, and doctors and nurses must be ready for everything from hangnails to broken ribs. Peggie Coleman, chief nurse of M-G-M, \^Contihiied on page 84} 38 \