Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 4/Reeling Around

Hollywood reports an extra girl so dumb that she is studying to be a moron.... After hearing a screen star speak in her first talkie test a spectator asked, "Can she juggle?"... Pitching for the Metro-Goldwyn team in a ball game against a Ford Motor team, Buster Keaton hurled a no-hit game, but it is probable that the batters felt sorry for little Sad-Pan.... Paramount is to establish a film exchange in Athens. When Greek meets Zukor.... Eddie Buzzell, the comedian, says of his Hollywood hotel, "The only thing they object to is letting blood run under the door."... Further proof that France is the most civilized country on earth―the city of Nancy passes a law forbidding the playing of saxophones after 10 p.m.... Greta Garbo is passing her spare time writing scenarios, full of the old Swedish punch.... Harlan Thompson, scenarist, calls his wire-haired terrier "Option" because be is never exercised.... Hollywood's latest gag―"Have you heard from so-and-so?" "No, not a dollar!"... Poor Mae Murray! All she gets in Chicago, for personal appearances, is $7,000 a week for two weeks!

"Reeling Around" recently offered itself a prize of six wet pretzels for the best name for talking pictures.

The new name was to be simple, elegant, popular, grammatical.

"Reeling Around" won!

The new name is "Telephotophonovoxotalkalogacinemaphonosee."

The Citrus Growers' Association is reported behind the 18-day diet, such a rage right now. Note the grapefruit three times a day. However, Molly O'Day is said to have lost eight pounds in a little over a week on it, which is better than having weight taken off with a hammer and cold chisel as she did before.... Hot tips are out that Doug Fairbanks and Chaplin will both retire after their next pictures.... Chaplin by the way, has been flat on his back with lumbago.... Joan Crawford is a highly freckled girl.... Adolphe Menjou has a brother-in-law who is a New York traffic cop. 'Dolphe the Debonair has been taking tennis lessons from Vincent Richards.... Directors call their yachts after big hits, for good luck. Herbert Brenon's is "The Peter Pan," while Archie Mayo calls his the "Mammy," a delicate compliment to Al Jolson and "The Singing Fool".... There is still a five cent picture show! It is the Hippodrome, Oswego, New York, and its kid patrons get candy free!... Now that Farina, the hit of "Our Gang" for years, is growing up, Hal Roach has hired a successor. It is James Allen, aged 20 months, very brunette. The baby was seen briefly in "Hearts in Dixie".... Western Electric now reports 2,039 theaters fixed for talking pictures in the United States. About 300 abroad, of which only six are in Continental Europe, the bulk being in England.... It is said that when Blanche Sweet gets her divorce from Marshall Neilan she will marry Howard Hughes, producer of "Two Arabian Nights" and "Hell's Angels."... The theater in Brooklyn, N. Y., named after the late John Bunny has been closed for lack of trade. So passes a name.... Manager Bert Help of the movie house in Greeley, Neb., celebrated the first anniversary of the theater's opening by letting the whole town in free for six days.... Dagmar Godowsky, the former film vamp, has introduced red enameled finger nails to Nice, France.... Alice White wants $1,500 a week from First National, while the bosses stick at $1,000. Her old contract was at $600.... Beverly Bayne, ex-Mrs. Bushman, is taking dancing lessons in New York.... Matsutake, leading Japanese film company, has moved its studios to Berlin.... The late Fred Thomson, cowboy star, left all his Western paraphernalia to Charlie Farrell.... Mrs. Alvine Lyon, mother of Ben, has sued for divorce, charging cruelty.... Buddy Rogers has been master of ceremonies in Chicago for a little while.... Viña Delmar, author of "Bad Girl," refuses to go to Hollywood to write scenarios, saying she'll do her little pieces at home, thank you.... Grace Menken and Bert Lytell are going to be married in the fall.... Jackie Coogan recovered nicely from an operation for acute appendicitis. Ruby Keeler, Al Jolson's bride, is now starring in Ziegfeld's new musical comedy, "Show Girl."... Victor McLaglen's wife and two children have been visiting in England.