1930-02-21 — Page 11

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930.

Behind the Scene in Hollywood

REVIEW OF 1929

[By Durothy Herzog.l

In 1929 the talkles, prefaced by millions of dollars' expenditure, marched into Hollywood and routed the silent films to the frenzied chatter of producers, actors, Wull Street, bunkers, and newspap.r scribes.

Divorces sprinkled the colony and marriages dashed headlines into obscurity. There were a few births, with little whispering pre- ceding the altar march.

into

Slage emoters stormed Hollywood and shook the confidence of screen-ites. Screen-ites at length pulled themselves together and put up a valiant fight to hold

They succeeded. the spotlight.

Actors Equity, healed by Frank Gilmore and agitated by verbal bomb hurlers, attempt to organise the film players into a union and

failed when they were On the

threshold of success.

Billy Dove, featured motion picture actress, and her husband, Irvin Willay, director, have separated. It has been reported that incompatibility had re- sulted in a dednico rift in her six years of marriage, and that divorce will prob.

Lupe Velez made a trip to Newably follow. York and Gary Cooper's long dis- Lance telephone bill was something to write checks over.

Hollywood divorces helped pub- licize the Eugene O'Neill play, the Strange Interlude.

As long ago as last March, Buddy Rogers began rushing June Collyer. June denied an engagement.

husband. Glorin Swanson's Marquis de la Falaise, returned to Paris in the Spring or thereabouts and there were rumours of a divorce. Hank is still in Paris. Gloria is in Hollywood, but there has been no divorce.

Last February, whlist in Holly- wood making a picture, Sophie Tucker trekked to Palm Spring, a desert suburb. Her trip was a fall

ure,

Sophie didn't see a camel.

Adolphe Menjou finished his Famous Players contract. It was not renewed. Menjou is now in Paris. He expects to make a talk there.

Theme eongs invaded the motion plcture and threatened to fill asylums with , patients. Theme Bonge exited on 3 discord, but musical comedies and still strong.

revues are

Back in February, Eddie Lehman, Chicago bay, visited the town. He was rumoured engaged to Bessie Love. Bessie laughed. Bassle was also rumoured engaged to one of the Foy boys. On December 27, she married Bill Hawks, broker, and Mary Astor's brother-in-law. Bil, during the course of the months, was persistently reported engaged to Sally Ellers. Later, to Mar- celine Day. Sally is now reported engaged to Hoot Gibson, who prior to this was said to be fond of Ruth Elder, aviatrix, but Ruth. Is now married to Walter,Camp, Junr, and Bill Hawks to Bessie.

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Phyllis Haver threw away career to become Mrs. Billy Seamen and also Rube Goldberg's sister-in- law. Phil is very happy and now lives in New York.

Colleen Moore completed her First National contract and has been vacationing for, months.

Nick Stewart and Sue Carol

were secretly married last July,

Emil Jannings returned to Ger- many.

Likewise Conrad Veidt, Camilla Horn, and Lya de Putti.

It was, last February that Milton Sills suffered a nervous breakdown that necessitated his stopping work in a picture called "Pat and Mike." went East with his wife. Milton Doris Kenyon. They only recent- ly returned. Milton is now in much better health. after a tough fight with nerves. and before long may start work again on the First National lot.

Fred Thompson, popular West- ern star, passed away.

writer, Forrest Halsey, screen

up 1929 before it was summed over by saying: "You don't have to be crazy to be in the movies-- but it helps."

STUDIO GOLF

Stan Laurel persuaded to cater the studio golf tournament. Charlie Chase donated the cup. Oliver Hardy also entered. Stan was given thirty points' handicap for the eighteen holes. He used fifteen of 'em to get off the first. He made the eighteen in 186. Stan says fish- ing is his sport. "Yeah?" donates Hardy. "And all you catch la mackerel. I bet if you got lost in a goldfish bowl you'd bring up a mackerel.

MARY LAWLOR

THE

MISS EVELYN LAYE

Petition for Divorce to

Be Heard

A petition for divorce by Miss Evelyn Laye, the actress, who is ΠΟΤ appearing in New York, against her husband, Mr. Sonnie Hale, the actor, is in the defended list of cases down for hearing in the Hilary Term.

The action will be a sequel to the case heard in the Divorce Court on November 21, when Miss Jessie Matthews, the actress, was granted

a decree nisi on the ground of the adultery of her husband, Mr. Lord Alva Lytton. She admitted adultery with Mr. Hale, and the discretion of the court was exercised in her favour.

Miss Laye, who is 29, married Mr. Hale, who was 28 in 1926. Mr. Hale's real name is John Robert Hale Monro, and the case in the list reads:

E. E. Monrs v. J. R. H. Monro (Lytton intervening).

Solicitor for petitioner, Mr. G. A. Herbert;

For respondent and intervener, Messrs. Theodore Goddard and Co.

Miss Jessie Matthews's name in private life is Mrs. Jessie Margaret Lytton.

It has not been decided yet when Miss Evelyn Laye will return from New York; if necessary, it is understood that an application will be made to have her evidence taken in the United States.

The full lists of the coming

CHINA MAIL.

Hollywood Humor

By ROBERT AMES (Fox Movietone Artist)

When I was a boy my ambition was to be an acrobat in vaudeville. At last my wish has been fulfilled, although at

YAUDVILLE

second hand, with

an acrobat's role

in the Movietone picture, "Nix On Dames. When I made the picture I found my on- thusiasm

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swing on a tra- peze had waned with the years. But the experi- ence was none the less interesting to me because I be- came familiar with a great deal of vaudeville slang that before had been so much Greek to pic.

I had to learn it With Mac Clarke, Maude Fulton, Hugh McCormack, Grace Wallace and other vandeville veterans in the company, there wasn't much of what is generally thought of as the English language spoken. Here are some of the most striking terms and their meanings;

African piano-A banjo. Coffee and Cakes-Expense money

-Eur meals.

Flipper (or Wing)--Arm Honey or Sweetheart)--Anything ca

pecially excellent. Not confined to Make the Show-To be able to work

in one's act. Muff-Moustache,

a woman.

Rock Crusher strong grip Square--A quare meal Sprinkle-To cry,

East Meets West

Misa Al-Ling Wu, well-known pillar of the Shanghai moving picture industry, with a fair- akinned colleague of the Wostern world, Mes. Douglas Fairbanks, better known as Mary Pickford. The meeting occurred during the re- cent visit of Doug and Mary to China, where they were lavishly entertained.

divorce action displayed at Somerset House recently, show that there are 622 undefended petitions, including 200 left over from Michaelmaa. 01 the 422 new undefended petitions

Mary (Broadway Musical Com edy Star) Lawlor, who will sing the lead in M. G. M.'s "Good News," recollects the day she was rated a 302 are by wives. penny actor. She was playing in Corse Payton's stock company in Utica, N. Y. Payton made a curtain speech, and in his enthusisem (?) boomed: "Think of it, my friends. Just think what I am giving you for thirty cents. A great play with thirty actors. Only a penny an actor!"

THE TALMADGES The entire Talmadge family have trekked to Lake Tahoe for a week or two of water sports, the family Including: Mrs. "Peg" Talmadge, Norma, Connic, T. Nether, Gilbert Roland and the Buster Keatons. Norma wasn't slated to begin her next talkie "Du Barry" until January 15.

FILM STAR FIGHTS

John Gilbert in Cafe Brawl

ing

in

New York, February 12.

father's

child life

In pre-historic days It appears, from a story circulat-

Hollywood, that John strong arm and heavy club were Gilbert, the celebrated Alm actor, the only safeguards of childhood's fought in a public restaurant with years. Disease swept the world unchecked, and naught that man- Jim Tally, a writer.

Gilbert admitted the impeach-kind could do in its dark ignoz- ment and said: "I got up andance sufficed to save knocked him down."

from its deadly ravages. People present in the cafe state To-day how great the change! that tables were upset, chairs over- In every home where Baby's Own turned and Gilbert knocked down. Tablets are kept at hand parents Gilbert and his wife walked into the for their children's welfare, know- The facts, as related, were that:live in a happy sense of security

restaurant, where Tully was seated ing from practical experience that with friends.

in these Tablets they possess the Gilbert spoke to Tully in a loud | greatest safeguard obtainable voice about an article Tully had against those disorders of the written for a magazine. Words stomach and bowels which are the were exchanged and the two fell to fighting. When friends inter vened Gilbert left the restaurant.

CUTTING TALKIES

Ingenious Device to Offset Censor

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cause of most infantile sickness and mortality.

With the coming of sound to the sereon, the problém of cutting the film has become considerably more difficult than before. The sound Father or mother reader, have track obviously cannot be out at will you Baby's Own Tablets ready. In To meet the need, Victor Schert your home to protect your little zinger, who directed The Laughing ones lives? If not, your chemist Lady Buth Chatterton's latest can supply them, or sent, post free talkie for Paramount, devised a at 60 cents per vial, by the Dz. new method of production which Williama" Medicine Co, 60, Klang- greatly aided in the cutting of that se Road, Shanghal picture,

In preparing the dialogue of "The Laughing Lady" every line of Imp- portance in the story was followed by a line of relevant but less Im |portant dialogue, enabling the cute ting down of a scene without loss of Indispensible speech. Also, in films ing the story

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PLAYED HERE

Death of a Veteran Acrobat

Frederick Zatina, aged 76, a re- tired acrobat, who has died from Influenza, rotired from the verlety stage 23 years ago, He had travelled extensively in China and Japan, and had played in Hong Kong on many occasions and appear. ed before the Emperor at a com mand performance at the Palaco at | Tokyo. The foregoing, has inspired Mr. Paul King" to "write to the China Express and Telegraph follows:

"I wonder if any old. China hands remember the Zeting Troupe in Chiarini's Circus in the Eighties. It came to Tientsin at the time the late William McLeish and I were running the "Gym" there, and Boon a considerable rapprochement sprang up between it and our mem- bere. Zetina and his assistants, male and female, were, I think, Londoners, but Chiarini was an Italian, whose somewhat berserk temperament very nearly brought to grief the Gala Performance "by command" of the famous Viceroy, Li Hung-chang-engineered by the indefatigable Commisioner of Cus. toms, the late. Gustav Detring. Fortunately nothing untoward hap- poned and the success of the Viceroy's initiative paved the way for the triumphal entry of the Circus into Peking later."

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