Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 5/Miscellaneous


Marian Nixon and her husband, Edward Hillman, Jr., millionaire heir of a Chicago merchant. This picture was taken upon Miss Nixon's arrival in Chicago for the wedding. Miss Nixon is not going to leave pictures


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:

Educational Page 154
First National Page 141
Fox Film Corp. Page 149
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Page 145
Paramount Page 4
RKO (Radio Pictures) Page 133
Universal Page 131
Warner Bros Page 153

THE first camera appearance of Doug and Mary in William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." United Artists is billing it as "the original sheik story." Petruchio, mad gentleman of Verona, still tames Katharina, beautiful shrew of Padua


RUDY VALLEE―Yale's gift to girls. Ladies cry for him and strong men curse his name. With no other weapons than a saxophone and a come-hither voice, Rudy stepped from the cloistered halls of his alma mater and broke more hearts than the income tax. Now, the Great Vallee is to heard in the talkies


ANN HARDING is now of and in pictures and prefers to stay. Pathe has placed the "million-dollar voice" under contract―and the million-dollar hair, too. Not to mention the million-dollar eyes!


Herb Nacio Brown and Anita Page are "Singin' in the Rain" in M.-G.-M.'s "Hollywood Revue." Herb can sing in the bathtub or any place else that suits his fancy and there'll be no complaints―for he authored "Wedding of the Painted Doll" the smash hit from "The Broadway Melody," and "Singin' in the Rain" from the "Hollywood Revue"


One of the happiest of Hollywood couples―Anita Stewart and her new husband, George P. Converse, snapped right after the ceremony. Well, lots of luck and love, Anita!


Gary Cooper, as "The Virginian," is a-swingin' along the lonely trail singing a range song to his little pinto hoss, and the faithful outdoor microphone, swung on a crane above his head, catches it all―even the protests of the little pinto hoss


This year's prize for the wildest beach pajamas goes, without a struggle, to Bessie Love. If you care or not, they're made of cretonne on good old Spanish lines, and they look like dawn coming up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay!


Stop the press! Gwen Lee does in for the longer bob, and decided to expose the long-hidden ear to the gaze of her public. Note the cunning curlicues at the name of the neck


George Lewis speeding through the open sea at fifty miles an hour, in a thrilling race scene from Universal's "Excuse My Spray." Air hoses and a wind machine are whipping the old studio tank into foam, and Director Holmes, with the megaphone, is cautioning George not to knock the concrete down


The George Lewises at home, and come right in, folks. The popular Universal star, his wife and their wire haired terrier in a corner of the Lewis residence in Los Angeles


Now, says Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel, for a hole in one, or one and a half. The popular comedy team from the Roach lot hacking away on their long and tough private golf course


Marion Davies is way, way out in the studio woods with Lawrence Gray, the staff and some well wishers. Taking a scene for "Marianne," Marion's first talkie


Pauline Frederick found that next to the site of her beach house was one resembling a ship. So Polly built herself one in the form of a lighthouse, which she calls "Strandlight." So now the ship sails safely along the beach past the Frederick home, for a light burns in the forty foot tower