Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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FOOTNOTES By DOROTHY SPENSLEY ODDS AND ENDS Dr. P. Marafioti; Italian voice and throat specialist brought West by M-G-M, is here shown busy with Anita Page. He isn't afraid to comment harshly about Hollywood vocal talents. Charles Bickford with a couple of furry proteges. He prefers being called by either of two brief nicknames, but the practice is not recommended for strangers. Sally O'Neil: "Guess what I found in an oyster last night." Molly O'Day: "Don't be usual and say a pearl." Sally O'Neil: "What do you expect — Rosetta Duncan?" Konrad Bercovici's idea of a Kibitzer is the unmarri-ed half of a Siamese twin. SCRAPS Kay Francis used to write it Katherine^' and Charles Bickford prefers to be called "Red" or "Brick" . . . Clara Bow's cherubic pan may mean orld to Harry Richman or Rex Bell, but it's only a lot of hard work to E. Erskine MacLeod. He has completed five hundred ivory-tinted miniatures for Clara to scatter as intimate souvenirs to as many exhibitors. "I got kind of tired of her face after awhile," was Mr. MacLeod's remark when pressed for a [Continued on page 97} ANECDOTAGE EMBERS of The Big Trail company were trying to teach El Brendel the Indian sign language. "Huh, you don't even know what 'teepee' is." "Don't I.'' What did my grandfather wear for forty years.''" POOR RICHARD THEY'RE mad ,at Dick Arlen in England. It seems that A. E. W. Mason, author of Four Feathers, wrote Dick expressing pleasure in his performance and asking for an autographed picture. But, by mistake, the friendly missive got into the fan mail department. The fan mail department, on one of those grulf penny postal cards, wrote to Mason, requesting either ten, twenty-five or fifty cents for an autographed picture, "becau.se of the expense entailed etc." Mr. Mason maintained grieved silence until some newspapci fellow unearthed the horrible facts, and now Dick is biting at his pen trying to think of somediing nice to say. Fifi Dorsay, attempting to cross the border recently, was delayed because she is a Canadian and had no passport. That's the story, but probably the truth is that they wanted to examine her snappy wardrobe. 71