Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 4/New Pictures

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LOIS WILSON was saved from vaudeville and the quickies by the dear old chattering snapshots. When the new invention was no more than a whisper, Lois joined a stock company in Los Angeles and learned a lot about speaking lines, so when the search began for talkie players, Lois was one movie star whose vowels and consonants were in good working condition. And, incidentally, Lois has achieved her persistent ambition and she is now associated with light comedy rôles, instead of being eternally cast as a lovelorn heroine. ​

JOHN GILBERT'S Juliet―on the screen. Norma Shearer appears in the Balcony Scene with Jack as her Romeo in "The Hollywood Revue of 1929." The revue will include everything from a bit of Shakespeare to more than a dash Ziegfeld. Miss Shearer has the distinction of being the first woman to play a Shakespearean rôle in the talkies. And it is no small achievement to recite blank verse before the all-too-modern microphone

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JOHN GILBERT'S Juliet―off the screen. Although Ina Claire has not appeared on the screen for ten years and although her first talkie for Pathe has not yet been released, she received twenty thousand "fan" letters in one month. That record mail, of course, piled up during the month after her marriage to John. Which proves that all the world loves a lover―and his wife. Miss Claire's first picture will be "The Awful Truth"

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MARILYN MILLER snubbed all movie contracts until the talkies came along. When First National offered her $100,000 to make a film version of "Sally," Marilyn deserted musical comedy and took her dancing shoes to Hollywood. Little incidents like that make things look black for the new theatrical season and explain why so many New York managers are having their theaters wired to accommodate the triumphant talkies

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DO you think she looks like Edna Purviance, the leading woman of Charles Chaplin's early comedies? Chaplin selected Virginia Cherrill to play the heroine in "City Lights" because she is the blonde, blue-eyed Purviance type. Miss Cherrill is a Chicago society girl. Her first studio experience was a "bit" in "The Air Circus," But you didn't see her in that picture because hers was one of the faces on the cutting room floor

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ONE of the first heroes of a theme song―Richard Barthelmess. Richard has worked himself up to be one of the highest salaried stars on the screen simply by playing poor, hard-luck boys. It's more than a gift; it's an art. And don't forget that his career has been one of consistently good performances ​