Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 3

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The World's Leading Motion Picture Publication PHOTOPLAY FREDERICK JAMES SMITH MANAGING EDITOR MARK LARKIN WESTERN EDITOR Contents For August 1929 Vol. XXXVI James R. Quirk EDITOR AND PUBLISHER No. 3
The World's Leading Motion Picture Publication PHOTOPLAY FREDERICK JAMES SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR MARK LARKIN
WESTERN EDITOR Contents For August 1929
Vol. XXXVI
James R. Quirk
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
No. 3

The High-Lights of This Issue

Cover Design Earl Christy
Greta Garbo—Painted from Life
As We Go to Press 6
Last Minute News from East and West
Brief Reviews of Current Pictures 8
A Guide to Your Evening's Entertainment
Brickbats and Bouquets 10
The Voice of the Fan
Friendly Advice on Girls' Problems Carolyn Van Wyck 16
Photoplay's Personal Service Department
Close-Ups and Long Shots James R. Quirk 27
The Editor Tells You What's What and Who Without Fear or Favor
The Girl Who Played Greta Garbo Lois Shirley 29
Hired to Double She Literally Became the Swedish Star
The Passing of the Extra Girl Katherine Albert 30
The 1929 One Must Have More Than Beauty
Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? 34
What Yesterday's Favorites Are Doing Today
Why Jack Gilbert Married Adela Rogers St. Johns 36
"I Simply Met the Nicest Person I'd Ever Known." He Says
Excess Baggage Katherine Albert 40
Being Husbands and Wives of Film Favorites
Hollywood's New Slayer Herbert Howe 43
None Other Than Mary Duncan
An Old Fashioned Girl Steps Out (Fiction Story) Grace Mack 46
Something Happened When the Film Style in Heroines Changed
Gossip of All the Studios Cal York 48
What the Film Folk Are Doing and Saying
How to Make a Talking Picture Leonard Hall 52
The Shadow Stage 54
Reviews of the Latest Silent and Sound Pictures
$5,000 in Fifty Cash Prizes 58
Rules in Photoplay's New Cut Picture Puzzle Contest
It's All Over Now Marquis Busby 63
Joan Bennett Has No Further Use for This Thing Called Love
How They Manage Their Homes Alma Whitaker 64
Joan Crawford Planned Her House as the Setting for a Perpetual Honeymoon
Monahan the Menace (Fiction Story) Stewart Robertson 66
"Tug" Learns Not Always to Judge a Star by His Looks
Reeling Around Leonard Hall 68
Tidbits Served with a Dash of Spice
Amateur Movies Frederick James Smith 70
News About Photoplay's Contest
Eat and Be Merry Dr. H. B. K. Willis 72
Photoplay's Diet Expert Tells You the Way to Do It
What Was the Best Picture of 1928? 78
Cast Your Ballot for Photoplay's Gold Medal
Cook with Bran 81
Photoplay's Cook Book Contains These Recipes
Questions and Answers The Answer Man 86
What You Want to Know About Films and Film Folk
Casts of Current Photoplays 141
Complete for Every Picture Reviewed in This Issue

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Photoplays Reviewed in the Shadow Stage This Issue

Save this magazine—Refer to the criticisms before you pick out your evening's entertainment. Make this your reference list.

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Aloha Hawaii—All Star 111
Argyle Case, The—Warners 54
Black Watch, The—Fox 56
Broadway—Universal 54
Campus Knights—Chesterfield 112
Careers—First National 57
Charming Sinners—Paramount 56
Clean-up, The—Excellent 111
Cocoanuts, The—Paramount 57
College Love—Universal 110
Constant Nymph, The—Gainsborough 110
Evangeline—United Artists 55
Far Call, The—Fox 57
Fashions in Love—Paramount 55
Father and Son—Columbia 110
Flying Fool, The—Pathe 111
Glad Rag Doll, The—Warners 56
High Voltage—Pathe 112
Idle Rich, The—M.-G.-M. 111
Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, The—Paramount 56
On With the Show—Warners 54
Prisoners—First National 55
Protection—Fox 111
Sap, The—Warners 111
Skin Deep—Warners 57
Sophomore, The—Pathe 110
Thunder—M.-G.-M. 56
Thunderbolt—Paramount 56
Tip-off, The—Universal 110
Two Sisters—Rayart 111
Untamed Justice—Biltmore Productions 112
Wheel of Life, The—Paramount 57
Woman from Hell, The—Fox 57

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