Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 3/Reeling Around
Reeling Around
with Leonard Hall
The Girls of Hollywood
They're made of lipstick, fire and ice.
They wear few clothes with lots of air.
And only speak when they are able.
Their actions, talk and tastes are brittle.
They make few passes at the boys.
They're just like Annie down the block!
EXTRA GIRL—"Can yuh 'majine, Rosalie? Me in the pictures eight years, and that sap talkie director ups and says my use of the English langwidge ain't so hot!"
Good Mean Fun
Science now promises us talkies by telephone.... I can't wait to hang up on a courtroom scene!... And there'll be plenty of wrong numbers!... On dull Sunday mornings in Hollywood newsboys yell "Scandal in Hollywood! Another good girl gone wrong!" But if you think that sells any papers, you're crazy.... The combined salaries of the love-birds, Jack Gilbert and Ina Claire, for the next year will be $820,000. Those young things showed real courage to try marriage, and at that Ina will probably spend most of her time over a wash tub until Jack nicks Louis Mayer for a raise.... The Kansas City Times wrote a profound editorial on the proposal of Doug and Mary to film "The Taming of the Shrew," and now some fool is apt to say "Well, Mary, if the shrew fits, put it on!"... Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia denies his engagement to Lily Damita. Boy, even that's a privilege!... Clara Bow's young step-mother is a red-head, too, and one house seems to hold them!... For the benefit of love-maddened maidens, Davey Lee's phone number in Hollywood is Gladstone 2605.... Now try and get Charlie Farrell's!
The Gag of the Month Club
This month's prize of a pair of Mexican jumping beans goes, without a runner-up, to Howard Dietz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer press agent.
FRIEND ON PHONE IN NEW YORK—"Howard, I want a pair for 'Broadway Melody.' It must be tonight, as I'm leaving for Chicago in the morning."
MR. DIETZ—"We're sold out here. I'll fix you up when you get to Chicago."
FRIEND—"No good, Howard! I want to see the New York company!"
Getting Personal
Norma Shearer is getting very thin, while Greta Garbo has just put on six pounds, as the bosses thought some contour wouldn't hurt. Merely more dangerous curves ahead.... Lilyan Tashman is one of the best dressed women in Hollywood, but burns up the local dressmakers because she has all her duds made at home.... Handsomest couple in Hollywood—Charlic Farrell and Virginia Valli.... Lupe Velez and Gary Cooper always sit side by side at fancy dinner parties and hold hands.... State pride in Kansas! A Wichita theater bills Buddy Rogers as "former University of Kansas saxophone player."... George Baxter, stage actor, and Pauline Garon, are Running Around.... Hollywood is just like the rest of the world. Its commonest cocktail is gin orange juice.... Every English speaking country in the world save New Zealand has at least one theater showing talking pictures. New Zealand steamers are booked up until April, 1937.... Ann Pennington, little stage dancer known as the Knee Plus Ultra, is in Hollywood for pictures. She wears the smallest shoe in the show business—one and a half A—and is now red headed.... Doug Fairbanks is subject to airsickness.... Lewis, Iowa, had one movie theater. While holy citizens were protesting against the showing of pictures on Sunday, the theater burned to the ground. There are now no Sunday movies in Lewis, Iowa.... Fifteen years ago Lon Chaney had just been given a divorce from Cheva Chaney, cabaret singer, and Webb Talking Pictures made their appearance. Their first bill included a talk by Tramp Comic Nat Wills and a scene from "Faust."... Laura La Plante is so near-sighted that at the theater she wears horn-rimmed spectacles and uses a lorgnette at the same time.... Cecil De Mille wears an enormous pigeon-blood ruby on his left hand.... Jean Hersholt, who is a Dane, has never played a Dane in pictures, even a melancholy one. Most people think he is Jewish because of his success in Jewish rôles.... The creaking of crickets held up the filming of a talkie snow scene at the Pathe studio. As soon as the crickets froze to death, the cameras ground.... Talking pictures are going to be made in India in the native dialects. Going to be made? I've heard some!