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THE CHINA MAIL.
Behind the Scener in Hollywood
WHIRLIGIG.
[By Dorothy Herzog.]
The enclosed letter arrived this
morn. He, she or it who can read it and not grope for a chair gets a year's subscription gratis to the largest mailing house's catalogue. Breathe deeply and race:
Dear Dorothy: That Hammer- stein family will never be straight ened out in the minds of well, of anybody that's interested. Fur- ther complication has arisen with Oscar's new wite (married, four months). She is a Dorothy, and you know that Arthur's wife is Dorothy Dalton: incidentally, Mra. Oscar is always being taken for Joan Crawford. She Dorothy Blanchard, beauty of stage and Britain. Now content Missus Oscar.
"NOTHING TO SAY."
mar
of comedies which is still memor- able. "The Fatal Mallet," one of them, was revived recently, and revented saucy girl in a long flowered voilo gown, ardently woo- ed by a nimble little man with a bowler and a moustache.
A
Soveral other gentlemons badly made up and with more or less whiskor, ull very agreeably kid in turns behind a barn door and hit each other somewhat violently an the head.
The other day a paper
The two outstanding figures were ran a yarn wherein Maxing Glass. "Mabel" and "Charlie," or Mr. attractive 21-year-old University Chaplin and Miss Normand. They of Southern California co-ed, ad‐were both earning handsome mitted that the diamond rin salaries for those days, both bad an adorning the fourth finger inventive tura for pure film of her left hand Was humour, both were irrespressible, Christmung present from Richard | temperamental, with something of Dix. But she would. not say the surprisingness and pathos of whether it WAB д angage- | all real clowna. Children the world ment or just a ring.
Richard over adored them, and wise dodged telephone calls the day after meh saw here the real comic genius this story appeared. Richard has at work in a new medium. been sleuthed to illuminate engage- Many of the' favourites of suc- ment rumours ere" this. When coeding years have faded almost cornered he just looks a little sur-out of mind. Several of the most used to belprised and confesses: "I have no-brilliaút, most adored, have died in
Australian thing to any."
trkgic circumstances. screen In
There Richard is preparing to begin
was Wallace Reid, most to be just work on his next talkie, “I Love deeply mourned of leading men. You," from a play by William who fought a losing battle with the The Hammerstein line-up is Lebaron. Curiously enough, years drug habit. something like this:
ago Dix was in the Broadway run Max Linder, whó în 1907 was the
play. Oseur Hammerstein, I (deceased), of this
He went into plc-| film's most famous artist, commit- buiff three opera houses in Newtures when it closed and a year or ted suicido. Their death was felt two later signed a Famous Players' as a personal bereavement by the contract. He reckoned as how he older generation of picture-goers, would continue the parts he had as Valentino's was to an even wider portrayed in "The Christian," "The circle. The list of bereavements is Ten Commandments," etc., but it a long one-Gladya Brockwell, Hanson, so chanced that at the game time Fred Thomson, Einer. he joined Famous Lebaron also Barbaraḥla' Marr, George Fawcett. And the list of darkened stars is joined.
even longer.
York.
Arthur Hammerstein, his son stage producer, now in the talkies. Willian Hammerstein, another son (deceased), former voodvil magnate and father of Oscar, II.
Elaine Hammerstein, daughter' of Arthur, former screen star. Oscar Hammerstein. II. librettist and lyric writer, son of William, now writing musical plays for Warners.
Reginald Hammerstein brother of Oscar, how associated with Uncle Arthur at United Artists.
Dorothy Dalton Hammerstelu, wife of Arthur. (Also content). Dorothy Blanchard Hammerstein, wife of Oscar. 2d. The Oscar 2d. have begat the new little Hammer- steins. Now, you know, there's no sense to people begat-ing them selves into crossword puzzles.
wore
Apropos of Robert Miiton years ago he and Doug Fairbanks room-mates. This was before Doug for Bob roached stellar heights. In those days, they dreamed happy dreams of success and lived frugally on a small sum a week. Then they went their separate ways, each vow-- ing they'd never look up the other until their names were in electric lights. They kept the wow,
Come an
Bob afternoon when was swinging along the White Way. A yell, and Doug bounded toward him.
"I told Fob.
༢
you it would happen,
I told you."
And he ploted Milton to 1 theatre near by. Fairbanks's nume [stond out in lights. '
"You come with me," chuckled Bob, "and I'll show you some. thing."
Doug did. Another theatre,
·Electric lights-Robert Milton. Ex- celsior.. Likewise, happy days.
DOUGLAS JUNIOR.
It happened in a theatre lobby, Between acis. Doug Fairbanks. Jun., pulled à cigarette lighter from his pocket, Before be could light it and his cigarette, a young chap dashed up to him with.
"I bet you $5 it won't light!" The man was a stranger to him but Doug took his bet,. And won, The loser handed him the five dollars, which Doug didn't want to take.
"Why" curiously, "did you think my lighter wouldn't work?"
"None do, as a rule.” Doug still refused to take
fiver.
the
Lebaron was put in charge of the Dix unit and it was he who deter- mined that Richard should enact "typical" American roles of breeze, romance and a little plot in pre ference to his more sterner endea vaura,
Quite appropriate, then, that after.
We never see Edna Purviance nowadays, or Marguerite Clarke. and only rarely Maurice Costello, and so fickie is the cinema public that I do not think most people even remember theri.
It was supposed that the films
a time Dix goes to work in a screen would bring a kind of immortality. version of "I Love You," with yet in fact nothing seems farther Lebaron piloting the flicker ship. From the case. Already only bits No leading remain of even the great Chaplin's Mel Brown will direct woman has been selected, but this carly pictures. Fashions in film- bureau picked up
a yarn that making change so rapidly that- Barbars Ken: (who heroined for what seemed perfection in senti- Harold Lloyd in "Welcome, ment or humour ten years ago, seems crude and savourless to-day. Dancer.") will repeat for Dix.
The film moves on, the world favourites are forgotten. And al- ready those of us who are thirty can sit disconsolate talking over, the old days and know that really young people of twenty or less will recognise our dotags and smile superior smiles at the senile bab.
THREE AMBITIONS.
cherishes three
Corinne Griffith ambitions, to wit:
1. A chateau in France.
2. To play Empress Josephine in blings of old fools about meaning-
an all-colour picture.
less names and forgotten faces.
3. To win one
from her Morosco.
game of tennis husband, Walter
But that they should forget Mabel seems monstrous; she came as Mary Pickford did from the old Blograph studios, and sprong with Chaplin into fame. They made film history, those three; they in- vented, combined, experimented.......
FORGOTTEN FACES. they made films what they are to
day-a perpetual delight, solace, experiance, and distraction, with
Stars Who Have Passed now and then a flash of genius.
Away.
[By Iria Barry.I
Ageing folk have always said that one of the bitterest.griefs which come with riper years is the loss of friends.
To those of us who have been filmgoers since childhood that grief comes sooner. With the passing of Mabel Normand we suddenly look back and sec already how long a list of it is of friends we have lost.
There was something of the es- sential spirit of films in Mabal Normand. She came to fame at the time when the cinema, from its earliest peepshow days, had sud- denly thrust its overwhelming growth on the notice of the world at large, Eminent people like Sarah Bernhardt and Herbert Tree' had lent themselves to an enter-1 tainment at first wholly undistin-1 guished. The discovery had been! made that people would go to see "I bet anybody { seg with
á film lasting an hour, which not so lighter that it won't work. Five long before had been thought im- dollars is my smallest bet, I wis possible. on an average of 85 bets out of Ahundred. I can afford to lose the other fifteen!" "
Whereupon Doug pocketed the five dollar bill.
"Go ahead.
Take it. I make my living at this sort of thing."
"How's that?"
OUT OF HOSPITAL.
George Baneraft has come out of the hospital. A little 11-year old chap, named Billy Butts, was the unintentional cause of Ban croft's hospital aojourn.
+
Those of us who are now very adult had dragged here a parent, there an aunt, to join with us in our childish yelps and squeals of joy at the antics of quaint figures that spottily passed across the small screens of those days,
Grudgingly it was being conced- `ed that in films, as in pantomimes and the circus, there was something that could please sensible grown- ups as well as the youngsters.
Those were the days! There is already little use to speak of John George had a scene in Para Bunny, a name only to millions of mount's revua that "pointed up filmgoers, or even of Mr. and Mrs. his much exploited he-man tough- Sidney. Drew. Such of their pic- 'ness. The idea was this. Billy tures as can occasionally be res Butts awaggered but before the cued from film junk stores do not camera and engaged. George In con- seem funny: their names will be versation. He gave him a shin forgotten soon, the laughter, they kick. George merely smiled. evoked has died away for ever.” Whereupon Billy, still talking Francesca Bertini-how she Mo Teh-hui, who la China'e swung back á sual fist and let could roli, het syco, what magnifi- chief delegate to the long-deferred go a telographic smash to George's cent patterns they used to have on Sino-Soviet C.L.R. conference, face. The blow inlesed proper wallpaper in screen homes then- Left Harbin for ploscow, tais mor- timing and instead of whining and Florence Lawrence, even the ning, accompanied by a suite num- harmlessly past the star's nose more recent Eddy Polo, Pearl bering twenty-Reliter, adip
landed smack on his eye. A nerve White, and Sessue Hayakawa" are must have been hit, for, George almost unknown to the new genera- For the first time sound and tele-slumped to the floor cold. He was tlom. vision were proadcast together taken to the hospital and remained But from the Mack Sennett stu- from the twin London transmitters there for four days. He remained dios (which someday may be re- of the B.B.C. Similar broadcasts are until the puffed eye returned to membered even as the commedia to be given regularly...
normalcy.
del arte is) there sprang a series
And Mabel Normand had more than her share, of that Daily Mail.
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