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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
"DON'T" FOR FILM STARS.
Restrictions As Well As Big Salarica.
Recent statements as to why the world-famous star, Dorothy Gish, refused to sign a contract to appear In the version of "The Constant Nymph," have once more focused the public oye on these contracts. Miss Gish, it is rumoured, jibbed at the "weight" clause.
This is only one of the many undertakings which a star may have
When Shirley Mason did a'lot of riding in a racing car with a high- speed king in offscreen moments her manager decided she was too popular for any risks to be taken; to a clause in her contract kept her. tracks except for business pur out of racing cars and off racing
poses.
MRS. CHAPLIN,
No Intention to Fritter Fortune.
New York, Oct. i. Lita Grey Chaplin, who recent Lon Chaney, "the Man with aly won nearly a million dollars Thousand Faces," had a stipulation and her freedom in the divorce in a contract that no photograph suit against her husband, Charles showing his face in a certain part S. Chaplin, funny man of the should
be publicity shown or movies, does not intend to fritter reproduced until after the release her fortune away. Neither will of the film.
she be in. a hurry to take another This was unusual, but the weird husband, who, may share it with to give in return for ค fat pay-make-up Mr. Chaney uses adds to her, and she advises young girla envelope every Saturday over the value of his pictures; and if against haste in love affairs. number of years. It isn't all honey it is kept a secret that value 18 This sums up the present atti- and jam to be in receipt of a long- trebled. So, on all publicity, pic-tude toward life of the beautiful: term: millionaire-like salary. There tures of this film sent out in ad- former girl wife of the famous are drawbacks.
vance, Mr. Chaney's face was comedian, who came to New York The reason for restrictions in obliterated! Sensation, of course, on shopping expedition and contracts is not far to seek. Once and keen excitament to see what pleasure trip with her mother. upon a time film players had it all he really looked like. their own way; having secured a luscious contract, they proceeded to fulfil it as they chose and the managers had to elt still and grin, having absolutely no remedy,
ductions.
At last the managers decided to take strong measures to protect themselves,
"I have learned many things One Eye On The Scales. through my bitter experiences, and
marked unhappy Actresses Buffer quite a lot for Chaplin says.
life," Mrs. "People perhaps the sake of a valuable contract. will not blame me too much for Nita Naldi, as she is the Arst to not learning them before. I was admit, put on rather too much fleah very young when I married, you at one time. Now she is down to
T
No More "Fast And Furious." The stars reported late for duty, under 180 lb. in weight and looks now, barely sixteen. I am nine- teen now, and while I am not regardless of such unimportant positively gorgeous. Her contract altogether disillusioned with Hie, things as time schedules; or danced says that she must not weigh more I am not in the same frame of mind all night and failed to turn up at tha 130 lb., and she spends her all: or spent their time getting days keeping one' eye on the con- a nineteen-year-old girl should be."
Reallocs Responsibilities, married, or divorced, or run in for tract and the other on her weighing
There were shadows in the beau- "speeding." Sometimes, in efforts scales! to break road records, they indulg-
Gloria Swanson's last Paramount tiful dark eyes of the girl mother ed in accidents that landed them contract, it is said, demended the as she told of her children, who in hospital and hold up big pro-retention of her slim gure--not had been left behind at Hollywood that she ever showed signs of put- with the maternal grandmother, ting on weight.
Mrs. W. E. Curry. And the At the other end of the scales is shadows deepened as she mention- plump, cheery Walter Hieraanded realisation of her responsibility he has to eat, and eat, and eat to in bringing up her two babies, "All right," said the managers hold on to his contract. "you want our contracts and we
"I consider the money given me; "Don't get thin," is his parti- a sacred responsibility to use for want you. Your signature means cular "don't." If the scale regis- my children," she says. "Rumours a lot to us-but we can't have this ters less than 225 lb. when he hops have gone about that I am about fast-and-furious business any more on it, away goes his weekly pay to indulge in riotous apending. Concessions we will grant.
Have
envelopel your dressing-rooms redecorated
That is cruelly untrue. I ahall Some girls had a contract clause look after every cent. whenever you like, any we will foot against bobbing their hair; but never been extravagant, and shall I have the bill. If you are a beginner and that has been struck out In most not begin now, want a car, maybe we will help you enses, except for Jobyna Ralston, clothes and things, but it is not I like pretty to acquire one, till your salary who must retain her lovely curls as necessary to spend an awful lot of climbs a bit. But--there will be long as she is Harold Lloyd's lead- money to get them." just a few DON'TS attached to your ing lady. From Answers. signature."
Thus, the "Morality Clause" crept into contracts. It reads--or did read somewhat on these lines:
The artiste agrees to conduct him CHARLIE MURRAY'S ALL-STAR
self with due regard to public con- ventions and morals, and agrees that he will not do or commit any act
FAMILY.
It takes a brave man to put up thing that will tend to degrade him with one femizine career in the in society or bring him into public! hatred, contempt, scorn, or ridicule, family. Charles Murray of Tulsa, or that will tend to shock, insult, Okla., has to put up with three or offend the community or ridicule distributed between his wife and public morals or prejudice the pro- daughters, the two Marion Mur- ducer or the motion-picture indus- raya, writen "Virginia Swain.” try in general."
When this clause was first intro- duced, there was much righteous in dignation in Hollywood; by now it is regarded as a safeguard for the whole industry, and a wise precau tionary measure.
The first is the career of the elder Marion, whose phenomenal success In oil promotion culminated in her coming to New York recently, to handle & merger involving $25,-
*000,000.
Concerning a second husband, Mrs. Chaplin declares she had none in mind.
In the Future—
"I thought I was in love before," she asserts. "I shall make sure of it, and the man's love for me, be- fore I attempt a second marriage. That is, if I ever do.
"Girls should make sure the man is deeply in love with them, before- giving their hearts," Mrs. Chaplin advises. "And they should" bo sure he loves them enough to want to protect them."-Central Press.
MUSIC AS MARRIAGE TEST.
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Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 7.' Lock your intended bride in a A great-granddaughter fe Chur-room with a hundred phonograph records. If she selects the jazzy syncopated tunes she will not make a good mate, but if she chooses the soft and soothing melodies and songs extolling home, mother-love and domesticity In general she is the ideal mate.
Other "don'ts" in film contracte cover all sorts of possibilities, and chill Downs, the famous Kentucky have a direct bearing on the star's racing man, Marion Downs Murray value to the company even though has mede millions for herself and they may seem comic and inconse- her associates since here entrance quent.
Facial disfigurements and bodily into the oll game five years ago. afflictions have always found a place
in cinema players' contracta; near- ly avery star finds his contract nul- lified if he suffers a serious acci- dent, long and continuous illness,
Dividend Of 600 Per Cent.
The first dividend paid by her all company was a modest 600 per cent. Career number two in the Mur-
or facisi blemish that destroys ray family is the moving picture photographie value. Where ac- tresses are concerned, an important acting of the younger Marion, 14. "don't deals with late hours and Introduced to the screen in a film overmuch social galety.
This is a novel "marriage test" proposed by Leonard Kirkwood, well known orchestral leader.- United Press,
We seem to trace in the last line produced by her mother, the junior the effect of the 'opening bars. — Marion has had Important child Punch. roles in various companies.
The energetic men of the screen are protected against their own daring and recklessness y "don'ts" The third career is the spectacu- in their contracts. For example,
Tom Mix and "Buck" Jones, la lar chess playing of Marion, Jr.
signing on the dotted line, promise She fought Jose Capablanca, world the predictions of specialists she not to ride fractious horses except chess champion, to a draw in a proved herself an eminently effi "In line of duty" and not to take tourney recently, after he had de other rash chances that might feated 42 other challengers. cause them badily harm.
Reginald Denny, the young Eng she beats him and captures the Marion says she won't rest until lishman, who is fast becoming one.
of the most popular screen stars in world title for herself. the world, is a speed maniac. He She never played a game of chess
cient financier, geologist, superin tendent and driller. Her profit far exceed her husband's.
Her father had given much of his Then along came Marion, JE, time to chess of late years. Last winter he taught his little daughter
unmercifully beating him.
loves to drive a racing car-and until last January. She now can to play, and in a few days she was does it in his pictures, undisturbed. carry the entire game in her Apart from the pictures, however, memory, and plays as well blind- It is forbidden, and so is high-folded as seeing. She defeated the speed flying in his private aero American chess champion in a plane.
FOR STIFF, SORE MUSCLES, TRY CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM.
blind-folded game in July.ge
How did the two Marions build their careers? Ask Dad Murray, He knows.
Her Profita Exceed Husband's
Her Success Puzzling, Her success at the game puzzles the chess analysts, who prophesy that she will be the greatest player of aggressive chess that America has known
| Charles". Murray still plays off— and he still plays chess. He says
Bruises and strains, stiff, wollen It is an ironic fact that he taught he is manager of the two Marions, joints of hands, feet or other parts of them both the arts, in which they. But he smiles when he says it, the body, should be rubbed vigorously have since excelled him. His wife He ought to be in the picture of with Chamberlain's Piln Balm. Owing to its penetrating quality, the learned the A.B.C.'s of oil from this remarkable family. But he tirenlation is stimulated throughout the watching his operations. She be- flatly refuses. The two Marlons congested parts, relieving the pressure gan when he failed to bring in s may be celebrities-but he's just and inflammation that cause the pain. much-desired well. And against Dad. Sold and recommended everywhere.
THANK GOODNESS PRETENDED I WUZ SICK SO'S I WOULDN'T HAVE
·TÓ GO OUT SIGHT SEEIN!
WITH MAGGIE!
BRINGING 'UP FATHER.
I SUPPOSE SHE'S SEEIN EVERY OLD
RELIC AN ALL THE RUINS IN ITALY- HERE SHE COMES NO
·FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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