1929-12-27 — Page 11

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1929.

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Behind the Scenes in Hollywood"

HEAD WORK

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[By Dorothy Herzog.]

It seems that. Evelyn Brent has a tonic that she is supposed to take half an hour before dinner time. It seems also that the tonic`tastes like nothing in or out of paradise. Miss Brent, therefore, is in the throes of daily brainstorms plotting ways to logically avoid taking that tonic. She fell upon what promised a sane reason not to down it. She simply. ate a lot of cakes guaranteed to give a boiler indigestion; and of course, had to take bicarbonate of soda, which made her feel like a storm at

SCA.

Hence, she couldn't take the tonic that night, and in spite of the condition of the tummy, Miss Brent wore a triumphant expression.

Scarred and crippled by boiling water when she sought cooling shower, Juanita Hanren, actress, charged in her suit for $250,000 against a New York hotel,

GOLDEN NUGGETS

George Kotsonaros is a character in the talkies.. He recently finished a role in Billy Wellman's production

The recent eclipse of "The Star of Bengal," an unsuccessful play writ ton for Joan Lowell to shine in by her husband, Thompson Buchanan, may have been a potent influence in her decision to seek a divorce from her playwright husband. It is al- leged they are separated and plan to make the separation final.

"HELL'S ANGELS"

For three years, now, "Hell's Angels" has been in the process of becoming a celluloid product. Nary once has this slumberous bureau what's what.

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Being full

balm and no one else in the department willing to sacrifice alesta for cinema, the headman went to the Metropolitan lot. And so, in due course, to the stage housing Howard Hughes, Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, and others.

Discovered:

That "Hell's Angels' w posi- tively be in the "box" in three weeks. You can believe it or not.

TEMPERAMENT

Mr. and Mrs. Lydel, Peck (Janet Gaynor, to be sure) have leased a homo In Beverly Hills. Tother eve., it being the premier of Janet's and Charlle Farrell's flick, "Sunny Side Up", Janet decided to give a little jdinner party. The cook was told there would be twenty-eight guests. The cook promptly packed up and walked out!

But why Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrall in such a soaked-in- sugar musical comedy story? Janet is not quite as miscast na Charlie. But enough so to cause sighs.

This department from now on is plugging for a Zane Grey musical comedy, with horses trained a la the Tiller Girls and trees and racks coming through as choruses for the tenor voiced hero and contralto jvoiced heroine duets. If there be justice, we shall gamble the most fon it....

ALL QUIET ETE.

Those ancient ears leaned Uni- versal-ward and heard that Rus- sell Gleason has been borrowed from Pathe to portray the lead in "All Quiet on the Western Front." Russell is under contract to Pathe and for a lad of his twenty-and years-or is it only twenty?-la a humdinger. Directors Lewis Mile- stone and George Kukor suddenly set their hearts on young Gleason playing this beaucoup important Irole. Negotiations were entered into and all that is necessary row is to iron bound matters via the dotted line signatures.

Honnen Swafor, the well-known London dramatic critle who had ha face slapped by Mias Lillian Foster, American actress, when she re- zented his criticism of her appear ance in a London theatre.

of Joseph Conrad's "Victory." Kot-This department remains neutral. Bonaros is also a wrestler. He Jimmy Hall is dual-ing in cellu- is rated one of the wealthy citizens foid these days. No sooner does ho in the colony. He bought Bank of finish his day in Mr. Hughes' expen- Italy stock in its infancy and is still sive Lick, than he bustles over to collecting golden nuggets. When the Famous lot and changes Into this genial but treacherous looking evening clothes. Jimmy is master. NORMAN TREVOR PASSES mortal works, he clunks in five hun-of-ceremonies for this company's dred dollars a week.

Initia revue, "Paramount on The passing of Norman Trevor Parade." Little is known of this deprives the screen of another good talkics, except it has been fù pro- actor. Mr. Trevor died at the State duction several months and the end hospital at Norwalk after an illness isn't in sight yet.

of some monthe. He was 62. He la At all events, November 14 saw survived by a daughfor. Jimmy master-of- ceremony ing Maurice Chevaller into the revue. Jimmy was called upon to say it in) French, and his troubles are un- printable. Chevalier and his wife boarded the Chief that same eve, bound for New York and the popu- lar Frenchman's next starring ef fort. He has two numbers in Para mount's revue. One with Evelyn Brent. The other a song and chorus stage-full.

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As soon as Jimmy is through with "Hell's Angels," he goes to work in his next Famous picture. "Let's Go Native," with Jeanette MacDonald. His contract expires the end of the year. In the event his option isn't taken up, Hall intends returning to the stage in musical comedy. He will sample the footlights again the first week in December. At which time he headlines at the local Or pheum Theatre in a pretentious song and dance act. The bay is there at that racket.

MEBBE NOT LONG

Perhaps it won't be long now ers Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon up and get hitched.' It was last New Year's at Agua Caliente, that the two first met. Both were there with separate parties, but both aorta teamed. The meeting resulted, in others and pretty soon their engage- ment was the favourite paragraph | rumour. · But, Ben and Bebe had decided not to think of matrimony until they had known each other a year. If they felt like taking the altar promenade then-okeh. And they do, It seems. The year's ex- periment expires January 1, 1980, at which time they will again be in. Caliente for New Year's whoopee. Ben scoils at the notion they'll ̧ be married there and then, however.

He and that little Daniola gal have other plans up their sleer's,

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Guy Oliver Is an elderly actor who enjoys the unusual record of baving been with Famous Playère for thirteen years, mizus a contracti Furely a verbal agreeme by for the thirteen years be drawn

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert 'but qur waders are warned to look out for pccasional phonatio spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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Copyright, The International Syndicate

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sura. These will give you a clua to other words crossing them, and they, in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically 'or bath.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issus along with a new cross-word puzzla, 1

MARY PICKFORD

Mr. A. W: Stockman, secretury of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, writes to correct a slightly errone.

ous

statement made in this column! "....Mias. Mary Pick- ford," writes Mr. Stockman, “is president of the Motion Picture Re- lief Fund, and it is for this organi- zation that she intends to sponsor. a charity ball probably early this winter. It will be held in Los Angeles." This bureau, in its clumsy fashion, stated it would be held in New York.

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