Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 2/Reeling Around

Charlie Chaplin recently celebrated his 40th birthday and had his dapple-gray hair dyed.... A German physician is said to have deserted the Fatherland for Dolores del Rio, which is, as the old sea song says, Rolling Down to Rio.... Adolphe Menjou's favorite purp is named "Weenie." Obviously, hot.... Greta Garbo drives a Ford.... Phyllis Haver, retired blonde, was married to Billy Seeman by Mayor James "Jimmie" Walker of New York, told the man she was 27, quit Douglas, Kansas, for her career and will live in a bungalow on a 17-story New York building. The spouse has millions, made in merchandise. He is 37.... Romances said to be on at the moment, but don't quote me—Lottie Pickford and Russell Gillard (Michigan Lumberman), Virginia Valli and Charles Farrell, Buddy Rogers and Florence Hamberger (non-professional), Viola Dana and Rex Lease and Pola Negri and Rudolph Friml, the famous operetta composer.... Lois Moran has opened a smart sports shop in Hollywood.... Dorothy Gish is going back to pictures, once more of the British make.... Eileen Percy is playing on the stage in Los Angeles.... Leatrice Joy and Lita Grey Chaplin have been singing on stage and air, but that isn't the reason Marion Talley quit opera. E. Burton Steene was the greatest air cameraman in the business. He had dared death in shooting nose dives and tail spins in all the great air pictures from "Wings" to "Hell's Angels." Recently he died at the age of 43—in bed, of heart disease. 'Slife for you!... The best new bet in pictures recently.... Kay Francis, brunette siren of the quiet-working type. Watch for her in "Gentlemen of the Press" and Bow's new "Dangerous Curves."... There are no talking pictures in India, but 21 companies are producing silent films there.... Pat Rooney and Marion Bent have been married 25 years.... Mary Duncan really fell out of an automobile and really was badly contused.... Lupe Velez has signed to make a series of records for Victor, she to get $15,000 and a cut the first year.... When Jolson's "The Jazz Singer" opened in Sweden, with no sound in Scandinavia, the music was furnished by a choir.... Josef von Sternberg is said to be the only Paramount director who carries a cane. He is also the only Paramount director named Josef von Sternberg, so what of it, anyway? Let's drop the whole thing right here!

From unimpeachable sources I give you the pet names of the John Barrymore-Dolores Costello royal family.

She is his "little egg."

He is her "winkie-dee."

Denials will be filed with Nelson, head of our Broom and Duster Department.

"Charlie and I are good friends—perhaps we are learning to understand each other better"—Lita Grey Chaplin. This appeared in the New York Graphic. The story was signed by Lois Bull.... Paramount thinks the public is fed up with calling Clara Bow-do-de-oh-do "The It Girl," and looks for a new descriptive trademark. Among those it considers is "The Brooklyn Bonfire." Thanks for the kiss on the cheek—that's one of mine. I have a better. The sign on their own Rialto Theater in New York read—Clara Bow—"The Wild Party."... Louise Dresser is confined to her home after having been bitten by a cat. All right, Louise, what was her name?... M.-G.-M. has just sent $250 worth of cosmetics to Edwina Booth of "Trader Horn" in Africa. Go on, there isn't that much face in the world!... Dorothy Parker, the wit, says she wants to write the theme song for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." What would it be but "The San Luis Blues"?... Guy Oliver has just appeared in his 315th picture. Next he'll tell us he played the caboose in "The Great Train Robbery."... In Chicago, during a showing of "Noah's Ark," the synchronization blew a tire. Big Boy Williams and George O'Brien were shown having a hot tiff when the screen said, in Dolo Costello's voice, "Kiss me again for France!".... In Hollywood they call the camera booth the "doghouse."