Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 3/Miscellaneous

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This contraption is the long-awaited camera equipment for taking three dimension, or stereoscopic, movies. With it are the inventors, John Berggren and George K. Spoor. The machine represents ten years of labor and the expenditure of over three million dollars. A screen fifty feet wide and thirty feet high is used in the projection.

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Producer Announcements of New Pictures and Stars

While all good advertising is news, we consider producer advertising of particular interest to our readers. With this directory you easily can locate each announcement:

First National Page 136
Fox Film Corp Page 138
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Page 135
Paramount Page 4
RKO (Radio Pictures) Page 144
Warner Bros Page 144
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AT home—Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Joan Crawford and young Doug were married on June 3rd, in New York. The ceremony took place at St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, with the Rev. Edward F. Leonard officiating. This is the actors' church, near Broadway, from which Valentino was buried

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Lest We Forget: Rudolph Valentino

Born in Castellaneta, Italy, on May 6, 1895
Died in New York, on August 23, 1926

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PUTTING things down in black and white is a good costume rule for a red-haired girl. Nancy Carroll wears a white silk jersey bathing suit trimmed with black satin squares. The cape is of black velvet lined with white satin

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FROM the little gal of Hoot Gibson's Westerns to leading woman for John Barrymore—that's what the talkies have done for Marian Nixon. Marian's success in the microphonic drama is one of the surprises of the season. The demure little ingenue of dozens of minor films is now playing in big-time company


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Duncan

AT sixteen, Joan Bennett ran away from school and married. At seventeen she was the mother of a daughter. And now at eighteen, she is divorced. On the opposite page you will find the story of a refreshingly unconventional and interesting young actress, who is determined to live up to the traditions of a daring and fascinating stage family

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S newest and best photograph—a portrait study by Homer Peyton. Yes, Charlie is making a comedy called "City Lights," but no one knows when it will be finished, least of all Charlie himself. It may be for years and it may be forever. The story—in its present version—is a comic tragedy or a tragic comedy telling of the hopeless love of a friendless tramp for a beautiful blind flower girl

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Building the Sargasso Sea

TWO pictures of one of the most astonishing movie sets in Hollywood's history, before and after completion. It is that erected on the First National lot in California for the new version of "The Isle of Lost Ships," first made six years ago for the same company by Maurice Tourneur. The locale is the Sargasso Sea, that dank and windless waste of water where dead ships go. With marvelous precision the First National artisans turned thousands of feet of new lumber into rotting hulks—fragments of old galleons, great liners of today, modern warships torn by storm and battle. Five hundred feet away the big studio hums busily!

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Al Jolson's "Mammy" troupe, assembled for his production of "Little Pal." The sweaters were Al's gift to his co-workers. In the center, of course, you recognize Jolson and Davy Lee. Marian Nixon is the girl in the picture and the others are Lloyd Bacon, director, Lee Garmes, cinematographer, George Gross, Vitaphone expert, and Frank Shaw, assistant director

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The trailing evening costume comes back in style. Barbara Stanwyck, a recruit from the New York stage, wears an orchid satin wrap, with a circular flounce for a skirt and a flounce cape effect. The dress is of crepe in a lighter shade of orchid and also has a circular flounce skirt that touches the floor in the back

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Overhead expenses on the sound stages are terrific and so Herbert Brenon has worked out a plan that saves time and money. Rehearsals are held on skeleton sets before the permanent sets are built. In this way a company is ready to work without a hitch once the production actually gets under way. Here is a rehearsal for "Lummox" and on the set are (left to right) Karl Struss, cameraman, Fannie Hurst, author, Herbert Brenon, director, and Winifred Westover, who plays the title rôle

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Carmel Myers and her husband, Ralph Hellman Blum, a Los Angeles attorney. Miss Myers was married on June 9th. Instead of wearing the conventional white, Miss Myers' wedding dress was of beige chiffon, trimmed with old lace from Mr. Blum's mother's wedding dress. She wore no veil, but a lace cap fashioned from Mrs. Blum's wedding handkerchief. She carried a bouquet of white gardenias

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"Dad" Taylor is the oldest extra in Hollywood. He is one hundred and one years old and doesn't believe in all this cry for young faces.

"Dad" was born in Brownsville, Texas, on July 9, 1828, before the Lone Star State was a part of the Union. He went to Hollywood while the movies were still young, to grow up with the infant industry. Edwin Carewe makes it a point to find some "bit" for the veteran in each of his productions

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This snow won't melt, even though the thermometer goes up to eighty degrees. Harry Oliver, art director for Fox, is responsible for this realistic winter scene, which gives you chilblains just to look at it. It is one of the sets for "Lucky Star." In the picture are Frank Borzage, director, James De Tarr, visiting newspaperman, and Charles Farrell

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The return of another wanderer. Years ago Lenore Ulric appeared in motion pictures under the old Morosco banner. Then she went to New York and was starred by David Belasco. Now she is leaving the stage temporarily to appear in talkies for William Fox

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The dark-town strutter and his bride. Stepin Fetchit was recently married to Dorothy Stevenson, a belle of Los Angeles' Harlem. Mr. and Mrs. Fetchit spent their honeymoon in New York

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International

When Tom Mix's Tony, whom we have nicknamed "The Wonder Horse," hit Broadway, he decided he wanted to be all prettied up. So they gave him a manicure and permanent wave before his personal appearance at the Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, N.Y. Tony is hoping the other horses on the Mix ranch don't hear about this sissy stuff, or they'll kick him half to death

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Education goes to the dogs. Carl Spitz goes in for canine culture at the Hollywood Dog Training School and he supplies educated pups for the movies. Mr. Spitz first took up the work in Germany, supplying trained dogs for Red Cross work. The three dogs who are being taught table manners are Wota, Cape and Mae von Berger

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Giving a treat to the old folks at home. Stepin Fetchit gets some advice on the script of "The Dancing Fool" from his father, Joseph Perry, and his sister, Mary Perry Carter. Stepin has moved into a new home in Los Angeles and has brought his family from Key West, Florida, to live with him

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Winifred Westover weighed 120 when she signed for the title rôle of "Lummox." Now she weighs 195 pounds. Forty pounds excess represents eating of fat-producing foods over a period of several weeks. The rest of the added weight required to give the servant girl heroine the correct build and posture was supplied by Herbert Brenon's ingenious scheme of concealing lead discs in her shoes, skirt hems, collar and sleeves. As soon as the picture is completed Miss Westover will diet and exercise to get back to normal weight

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This is the first publicity picture that Mrs. Ken Maynard ever has had taken with her husband. She has always contended that she should not share her husband's professional limelight. But the Western star roped her into this snapshot

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Introducing the Gold-diggers of Broadway, all of whom will take part in the Warners' talkie revival of the stage hit. The girls on the ladder are Gertrude Short, Ann Pennington and Nancy Welford. The girl on the left is Lilyan Tashman and on your right is Winnie Lightner

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