Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 5/Reeling Around

It was so hot on Broadway in July that a cop was chasing George Bancroft across the screen of the Rivoli Theater and both were crawling.... Customer Neal Smith of Florida sends in an ad from the Alcazar Theater, Dothan, Alabama, advertising "The Letter," and starring "Jeanne Eagels, the Al Jolson of France." Any comment would be carrying cigarette lighters to a movie critic.... Fox is taking sound equipment up in planes to film "The Sky Hawk" and all the actors are studying Harp.... Columnist Medbury states that six and six make twelve and sex and sex make a movie.... The Coolidge Theater, in New Hampshire, has been wired for talking pictures, and now all my heart craves is a talking short of the ex-president playing chess on the top of the White Mountains at midnight.... From England comes the cry "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we dialog!"... Warners are reported to have offered Jolson $100,000 to appear in "The Show of Shows," with Al kiddingly asking $200,000. What a sense of humor! Maybe for $50,000 he'd bow to Jack Warner!... Actors Equity members in Hollywood sent the longest telegram in history to Marion Davies. It totalled 1,350 words. I will bet five hundred shares of Technicolor against a Kansas censor that the 1,350th word was "Regards."

Our monthly prize of a cancelled invitation to Clara Bow's wedding goes once more to Dr. Bugs Baer, the wit who began paragraphing during the Hayes-Tilden controversy and has never let up.

He says that Lon Chaney is on the 18-day Hollywood diet and has already lost seven faces.

Stewart Robertson, who writes the swell short stories that Photoplay publishes as fast as they come in, is an engineer by trade and specializes in bridge building.... It is reported that some of the sound pictures May McAvoy had taken of her recent wedding had to be cut because some of the guests talked personal stuff right in the "mike's" ear.... The first Mrs. Doug Fairbanks was recently married to Jack Whiting, popular stage juvenile, in New York. The bride's age was given as 40 and that of the groom as 28.... A lighted plane advertising "Thunderbolt" in the sky above New York charges $1,500 a night for the job.... Reports come in stating that hundreds of women who have served the 18-day, grape-fruity diet are reporting to their doctors with cases of acidosis.... Hoot Gibson has received his pilot's license and made a 340 mile solo flight to celebrate.... Ronald Colman is said to sign 25,000 pictures of himself a year, but I care not who signs the nation's photographs if could sign its checks.... Sad rumors say that Dorothy Gish and James Rennie are not getting on so well, with Greta Nissen mentioned as Angle Three of the Infernal Triangle.... Johnny Mack Brown and spouse are the parents of Jane Harriet Brown, weight six pounds and six ounces, father doing exceptionally well.... Hedda Hopper, between pictures, is selling real estate.... Camilla Horn, the little German girl, instead of going abroad for a holiday in the Beer and Pretzel Belt, is studying English at a New York public school. Her teacher's name is Mrs. M. J. Peterson, who says that Camilla is one of the better behaved youngsters.... Old Hank Walthall, who has been in pictures since epics were one-reelers, has bought a Ford station truck holding eight passengers and has lit out for a camping trip in the high Sierras. Smart feller, Hank. If the pictures die under him he can always meet the trains.... Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez reported house hunting in Beverly Hills.