A\N T \T A GPAWD AWD GLORIOUS' PEELING .' JUNE NUMBER Two black sheep trying to turn white Johnny Mack Brown who is sup¬ posed to have turned straight , hands his pal in reformation, Robert Armstrongs severe jolt by showing him the famous Carson jewels, which have just been mysteriously stolen. quare Crooks CAN a bad man live down his past — or does the under¬ world inevitably “get” its own when a crook tries to turn straight? “SQUARE CROOKS” plays the spotlight on the seamy side of crookdom from an entirely new angle — and shows you a few episodes in the private life of a reformed gangster who is trying to “come back” that will make your skin creep! Thrills, mystery, humor, romance and tragedy move side by side from start to finish of this super-study of the shady side of human nature! There are enough situations in it to make a dozen good stories! And a master story teller makes every one of them count in a feat of skilled directing that will stand as a model for a long time to come ! Watch for the announcement of “SQUARE CROOKS” at your favorite playhouse. You’ll be missing one of the year’s best pictures if you fail to see it! with JOHNNY MACK BROWN— DOROTHY DWAN DOROTHY APPLEBY— ROBERT ARMSTRONG With their men hounded by the police for the theft of the Carson jewels, Dorothy Dwan and Dorothy Appleby set their wits to work to get them out of the net. I ri.M FI X June, 1928. Volume 47 Number 470. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 28, 1915, at the Post-Office in New York City, N. Y.; additional entry Post- Offlce, Jamaica, X. Y., underact of March :i 1879. 82.00 a year, 20c a copy Published Monthly and copyright 1928 by Film Humor, Inc., 97 Fifth Ave., New York. I ext, illustrations, and photographs in Film Fun are copyrighted. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. 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The most suc¬ cessful lady will receive $50 and the tiara head-dress worn by Agnes Ayres in the Tech¬ nicolor subject “Lady of Vic¬ tories.’’ For the next 50 best answers, the “Our Gang’’ rascals will present their pho¬ tographs. Metro 'Goldivyn-Mayerj Greatest of Feature Producers , has become Greatest of Short Film Producers IHow many of the “Our Gang** comedy rascals can you name/ 2 Tell in 75 words why the M-G-M News has become the leader of Newsreels. 3 What company produces the Odd¬ ities for M-G-M/ 41 n what T echnicolor Great Events picture does the Father of our country appear/ 5 Of what great living nationa hero has M-G-M made a specie short subject/ Write your answers on one side of a single sheet of paper and mail to' Metro Goldwyn -Mayer, 1*»40 Broadway, New York. All answers must be received by June 15th. Win¬ ners’ names will be published in a later issue of this maga2ine. Note: If you do not attend pic¬ tures yourself you may question your friends or consult motion picture magazines. In event of ties, each tying contestant will be awarded a prize identical in character with that tied for. ALL of the BEST theatres ARE now showing COMPLETE M-G-M QUALITY programs— M-G-M short films AS well as M-G-M’s BIG feature films — DEMAND the best! THAT’S M-G-M! STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY In “Leave ’Em Laughing” and “The Battle of the Century” established themselves as screen- dom’s newest fun-makers. CHARLEY CHASE has won thousands of laugh - loving followers. See “The Family Groupl” MAX DAVIDSON never permits a dull mo¬ ment when he is on the screen in his uproarious dialect comedies. M-G-M NEWS within a year has become the most popular of all news-reels. Issued, twice each week. The Czarina’s Secret — M-Q-M GREAT EVENTS (entirely in Technicolor) are something new in films. Ask your theatre manager about them. “OUR GANG” chases the blues away. Never pass up a chance to see tnese rascals at work. If your 4. favorite theatre doesn’t show “Our Gang” comedies ask the manager to book them right awayl ^ Battle of Octopus and Lobster — M-G-M ODDITIES are thriil- j. ing moments from Life. Are , jjk you seeing these wonder jg jjfiL films at your theatre l Jm M ETRQ- GOLDWYN -MAYER “WORI STARS THAN THERE ARE IN HEAVEN” Page % POSED BY MARION SIX ON AND CHARLES ROGERS IN CREAM >F THE EARTH." A universal picture POSED BY SAM HARDY AND CHESTER CONKLIN IN "THE BIG NOISE." A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Chester — How about you and your wife com- i n g over for bridge tomor¬ row night? Sam — Well, 1 won’t promise. You know how uncertain mar¬ ried life is. Marion — You poor dear. You’ve had your ups and downs, haven’t you? Buddy — Yes, I’ve had aisle seats three times at the movies re¬ cently. POSED BY JANE WINTON AND MILTON SILLS IN "BURNINO DAYLIGHT," A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Jane — I need some money , hubby. Milton — I’ll give you a hun¬ dred dollars. Jane — All right, but when can l have the rest? Page 3 POSED BY ALICE WHITE AND CHESTER CONKLIN IN 'THE BIG NOISE." A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Alice — You know, our Bobby shows a marked preference for his governess rather than me. Chester — Does George! Well, he’s got to learn to be more po¬ lite to strangers. ic, by simply SCENE FROM "FINDERS FCEEPERS," WITH LAURA LA PLANTE. A UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION. He — Didja ever hear the Hook and Eye Song? Laura — How’s it go? He — “Hook an’ Eye bear to leave thee?” SCENE FROM "SPEEDY." WITH HAROLD LLOYD, A PARAMOUNT RELEASE. Doctor — For heaven’s sake, Harold, what’s the matter with you? You look terrible! Harold — I’ve just been out with a gold-digger, and I’m suffering from shell-out-shock. Page h BS&ff #«STiMWs*2 «U 'SSffi:8 Agnes — I’ve told him a dozen limes 1 won’t let him kiss me! How many times must a girl say no to a tnan like that? Joan— Don’t ask me, dearie. I don’t no. POSED BY LARRY KENT AND BILLIE DOYTE IN 'THE HEART OF A FOLLIES GIRL.” A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Larry — I always get worried when it comes time to tip the waiter and the hat- check girl. Billie — Why’s that, honey ? Larry — Oh, I just get depressed about the high cost of leav¬ ing. SCENE FROM “SAY AH-H1” WITH CHARLEY BOWERS, AN EDUCATIONAL-ROWERS COMEDY. 1st Cannibal— This man says he’s a missionary and you should let him go. Chief — What of it? 1st Cannibal —Well, we’re not going to swallow a thing like that, are we? Page ■'> POSED BY JACK MULHALL. DOltOTHY MACKAILL AND BORRAH MJNNEVITCH, CHAMPION HARMONICIST. IN "LADY BE GOOD.” A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Jack — Is it because this little girl has been trying to make you get her a horn like this that you’re sick of the word "blonde”? Borrah — Yes, it’s become a regular buy-word. POSED BY FRANCES LEE APPEARING IN PAR AMOUNT- CHRISTIE COMEDIES. POSED BY EDMUND LOWE AND MARY ASTOR IN "DRESSED TO KILL." A FOX PRODUCTION. Mary — In the first place, I’m not going to let you kiss me. Edmund— Oh, very well, then I’ll try a second place. Frances Lee tells us that nowa¬ days the girl says that she will love, honor, and oh, boy! 1‘age 6 - — - - “ m r nni IN FIB ST NATIONAL PICTURES. Alice White knows that gir, with long skirts haven’t got show. POSED BY EDDIE CLAYTON, ALICE WHITE. SALLY O’NEILL AND DONALD BLED IN "MAD HOUR.” A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Donald — Hey, Eddie, why don’t you like Alice? Eddie — Aw, she talcs too much. POSED BY RAYMOND HATTON AND WALLACE BEERY IN "PARTNERS IN CRIME," A PARAMOUNT PRODUCTION. Wallace — Halt! Who goes there ? Raymond — ’Tis me, a druggist. Wallace — Advance and give the counter sign. Page 7 SUCKE-R-SNA* Wanta make some money for a rainy day? Play the game of Slicker-snax! FILM FUN pays $3.00 for every oil-skin wise-crack published. I Must Reach the Goal T LONG to be perfect. I crave to reach a state of im¬ maculately unblemished super-excel¬ lence, transcending in its superb matchlessness, the consummate im¬ peccability of the reformer. With all my strength, I am bend¬ ing my efforts in that direction. \t the cost of much mental an¬ guish, I have forsworn tobacco. I have severed diplomatic relations with my knight of the bottle — a prince of bootleggers, if there ever was one. A desire to be out with the boys is far apart from my mind, as is the thought of evading my income tax. Page 8 Violence of speech or gesture I have subdued by a rigorous repres¬ sion. I am cultivating a kindness of manner, a gentleness of spirit, that is the wonder of my friends. I have progressed so far in the subjugation of the baser man within me as to blush confusedly at the sight of a dimpled knee. I seek this seraphic faultlessness of being for but one reason. I am anxious to know, when I have become an undefiled paragon of vir¬ tue, just what in thunder my wife will find to razz me about. — Marion E. Burns A Gentlemen of the Old School A school of courtesy will be opened for New York City prohibition agents. Those entrusted with the enforcement of the Volstead Law will be taught to be courteous and polite at all times to the public. — News Item GRADUATE of the courtesy x * school walks briskly to the front door of a home from which a heavy odor of sour-mash, home-brew and synthetic gin has been emanating for some months past, much to the an¬ noyance of the proprietor of a glue factory not far distant. The agent gives a genteel rap at the door, which, after a ten-minute interlude of heavy rumbling and creaking of machinery inside, is opened. Agent: Good afternoon. It’s a lovely day, isn’t it? Man: What do you want? Agent: You will understand, of course, that this embarrasses me as much as it does you, but the truth of the matter is that there has been a variety of complaints comipg to headquarters about you for quite some time past. It has been bruited about — and, mind you, I know how often people are falsely accused — that you may, perhaps, have been manu¬ facturing some unlawful beverages on the premises. And so I thought, just to enable us to refute these in¬ sinuations, that perhaps it would not incur your disapproval if I were to suggest that it might be well if I were to take a little look through your home, so that I could ascertain for myself just what basis there is for this gossip. Man: You can’t come in now. The baby’s asleep. Agent: Oh, I’m sorry, but it’s nice the little kiddie is asleep. They do have a little trouble sometimes, don’t they? And when do you think he’ll be awake, so that I can come back? Man: The doctor says its sleep¬ ing sickness. I guess you’d better come back about next December. Agent: Oh, I’m sorry. Well, good day, then. It’s a lovely after¬ noon, isn’t it? — Roy H. Fricken ooo Most of the landed gentry in this country have been landed by movie actresses. SUCKE-R?SNA>% Wanta make some money for a rainy day? Play the game of Slicker-snax! FILM FUN pays $3.00 for every oil-skin wise-crack published. Karroll Karroll’s Kiddie Korner l/'OUSIN KARROLL wants you to feel that you are quite at liberty at all times to kome to him with your little troubles. You will generally find him standing on the corner, just in front of the drug store. This is the place he has designated as The Kiddies’ Korner. Don’t be afraid. Just come right up to him and say, “This is your little Kousin Ruth, age 18, and very lonesome. Are you doing anything tonight?” Kousin Karroll will be glad to do what he kan for you. You will rec¬ ognize him because he will be wear¬ ing a pleasant smile. Now to start a Knight Klub. Any girl who has a couple of knights to spare can do this in her spare time and have a lot of fun. Hundreds of girls are having fun out of knight clubs— and making money, too. (The money can be used to buy teddy-bears, for the zoo of course, knight dresses or can be sent direct to the Kiddie Klub, where it will promptly be put to good use in find¬ ing out if that Bacardi Kousin Kar¬ roll heard about at $1.50 a bottle is really any good.) To start a Knight Klub all a girl has to do is know a man with $50,000 and a carefree attitude. Then, if she raids an old tool chest (it is always best to start with a raid) and fills it full of tables and chairs, potted palms and a dance floor, she is all ready to start except for the orches¬ tra and calling up that guy, whose name Kousin Karroll will gladly sup¬ ply, who has it for $1.50 a quart. About the orchestra, just get a num¬ ber of dummies who play the saxo¬ phone. As no one but a dummy would ever learn to play a saxophone, this should be easy. Place a radio behind the dummies and tune in on Ben Bernie. If any static comes through, it may either be Ben speak¬ ing or else be explained to the guests as part of the fun and carnival spirit. Now Kousin Karroll must turn to his mail, for here are hundreds of lovely letters from lots of Kousins all over the Kountry. Kousin Jose¬ phine MacDougell writes from On¬ tario, Canada to ask me when I’m coming for a long, long visit. Just as soon as ever I can, Joe; and I can so make a sentence with the word Ontario, which you bet I couldn’t do. “In dividing 2 into 3 I always put down one Ontariover the balance.” Luckily this doesn’t happen often. Dear GussiE: In reply to your sweet letter of our last date, I can only say that if you expect an answer to those questions you’ll have to enclose a stamped, self-addressed, asbestos en¬ velope. What would people think of Kousin Karroll (and you, for that matter) if they knew the truth? However, in answer to your question, “What should a nice girl wear when asked on an airplane ride?” I will say, because I think all girls should know this, that she had better wear her best jumper. Kousin Karroll is sorry to an¬ nounce that he cannot publish the letter written by Little Tootsie Bliss (age 254 in her stocking feet), of Des Moines, Iowa, which won the prize for this month, due to the fact that the government would not allow us to mail the magazine if we did. However, Little Tootsie, what you say is true and from your letter it is evident that you have a great past ahead of you. You will find a check for the prize ($.00317) in the pocket of Mortimer Gonzales, the street cleaner in front of the Post Office. Tell Mr. Gonzales Kousin Karroll sent you and he will understand. Now, Kiddies, be good for a while and Kousin Karroll will tell you next month all about how to throw an ob¬ streperous party — fun and exercise for all. — Carroll Carroll Page !) NWtjlP Little Mary Ashley shows the latest way a girl can hang on to her guy. This little tar gazer has heard that sailors are good splicers, so we can’t blame her for going out to see. TUST gobs J and gobs and gobs and gobs and gobs and gobs and gobs and gobs. Fibst —Do you think our clothes arc loo tight? Chords — Of course not. They’re. First — Did you know Mavis urns almost drowned yesterday ? Sec — No! Did she go out too far? First — Yes, she was out in water light up to her bathing suit. Page 10 Twinkle, twinkle, little tar. Now we. begin to understand why sea lov¬ ers are salt-water daffy. Jane Laurel— just one of the original Tiller girls. AI.L POSES BY MEMBERS OE CHRISTIE COMEDIES BEAUTY StlUAD IN’ PARAMOUNT RELEASES. First — Wliat’s Mamie do¬ ing these days? Sec — Oh, just a few odd gobs around town. F,nsT _ Did Ernie kiss you the night you wore your new grease bathing suit? Si;e _ A'o, / was too slick for him. Page 11 martai/ Wn«CREAM 0F the earth with mariaa mxon, a universal production She Boys, the man I marry must have the social graces. Are you at home in evening dress? Chorus Not when we have an invi¬ tation to go out. liSTFXLE —You’re so cold to me. Let s (J0 an(j have Q bife somewhere Lowell — Where? Estelle — Oh, somewhere on the back of the neck. Page 1 % LOS ED BY LOWELL SHERMAN AND ESTELLE TAYLOR IN "THE WHIP WOMAN," A EIRST national picture. POSED BY ESTEI.LE BRADLEY, ROBERT GRAVES AND GEORGE DAVIS IN "HIS MAIDEN VOYAGE. AN EDUCATIONAL-MERMAID COMEDY. She — Don’t mind her . . . she’s so dumb she called the zoo on April first and asked for Mr. Leo. He — Did she get him? She — No — the lion was busy. She —Oh, boy, I’m just coo-coo about our being married. Will you love me just as much twenty years from now? He _ Sure, if your husband will let me. lLIK DOVE IN "THE HEART OP A CTT3BK Second Gold-digger — Gee , no — it’s is hard for me to get anything from i at guy as if I was his wife. SCENE PROM “CREAM OF THE EARTH.” A UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION. Page IS “What dost thou think of the king that had fifty court jesters all of ye time?” “Ods Fish! He certainly didst have his wits about him.” Circumstances Alter Cases A BEAUTIFUL young damsel ^ worked in a cleaning establish¬ ment. Came a gay blade, pretty sharp, and made some pointed re¬ marks. But she refused the villain’s suit — a brave thing to do in a clean¬ ing shop. That night the villain gained en¬ trance to her room. Observing she was still a good-looking kid while taking a nap, he kidnaped her. Came dawn as he bore her to a shack on the mountain. The shack belonged to a hand¬ some young fur trapper. He en¬ tered right behind them. “Save me!’’ cried the girl. “Have a care!’’ cried the villain. “She is my wife.” Page lJj. “I want no wife,” replied the young trapper. “You may have a care, not I.” “I am not his wife!” exclaimed the girl. “Save me!” Another look at her pure beauty and the trapper felt thrifty. “I’ll save you,” he declared. The villain slunk away. “Please take me home now,” said our heroine then. “It’s too cold a trip dressed as you are in pajamas and a blanket,” answered our hero. “I must get you some furs first.” The heroine’s eyes sparkled. “Where are they?” she asked. “I’ll have to trap them,” said our hero. “Will it take long?” she inquired. “Only about three months,” he replied, “to secure, cure, and sew them together.” The heroine looked admiringly at him. The villain also had offered her furs in that cleaning establish¬ ment. But this case was different. “All right, I’ll wait,” she said sweetly. — Fred B. Mann ooo Frigid Flames J^HE boy stood on the burning deck He said, “ ’Tis rather chilly, Compared to evenings when I neck With Phyllis, Blanche or Tilly.” ^CENE: The conservatory of a de luxe country place on Long Island. A pretty lady sits alone in the moonlight on a seat near a foun¬ tain. A gentleman strolls that way, sees the lady, and stops before her. He: You! She: Yes, I. He: I didn’t know you were at the house party. She: I came late and came out here early. I’m tired. He: Let’s see, Leila, you were my third wife, weren’t you? She: No, your fourth, Albert. And you were my second husband. He: Well, well, fancy meeting you here! You free now? She: Yes, divorced Jimmy Blew in Paris a month ago. How about you? He: My sixth wife divorced me in Yucatan last week. (He sits down beside her.) You know, I always liked you, Leila. Trying It Again She: Did you, Albert? He: I sure did. In fact, I was mighty wild about you once. She: Yes, you’ve always been rather wild. He (putting his arm around her waist) : I wonder if you and I couldn’t hit it off again? She (leaning gently toward him): I don’t know, Albert. He (tightening his grasp): Those were happy days when we were first married and lived in New Rochelle, Leila. She: We never lived there, Albert. You’re thinking of you and some other bride. He: Well, it is hard to always remember places, ShE: And the faces that go with them. He: Yes, that’s right. Where did we live when we first married? She: Married each other, you m£an. In Boston. He: Oh, yes, now I remember. Those were the happy days. How about repeating them? She: I don’t think you know me well enough. You see, I’m not Leila. I’m Marcia. He: By Jove, I had a feeling that you weren’t Leila! But it’s all right. I know you as well as you know me. I’m not Albert. I’m Jim. She (laughing): If that isn’t a good joke! You were my first hus¬ band then instead of my second. He: Was I? And, let’s see, you must have been my second wife. They both are lost in thought. She: I can’t seem to remember how we - He (interrupting): I can’t either. Let’s get married and find out again. She: All right, let’s. They kiss. — Fred B. Mann Humorist (showing friend his new home) — And this is the music room. Page 15 POSED BY LOUISE FAZENDA. CLYDE COOK. AND BETTY BLYTHE IN ■•DOMESTIC TROUBLES ” A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION. Louise — What is it about married life, honey, that disagrees with you? Clyde —My wife. POSED BY ESTELLE TAYLOR AND ANTONIO MORENO IN "THE WHIP WOMAN," A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Tony — What is the most profitable meqns of getting new students for your school for the blind? Advertising? Estelle — Oh, no. We depend on selling boot- ley liquor. POSED BY' NENA QUART ARO FEATURED IN "THE RED MARK," A PATHE PICTURE. Nen a— Say, Char¬ lie, what’s your favor¬ ite form of recrea¬ tion? Charlie — A neat, trim 36. Page 16 I by THELMA TODD RED IN FIRST NATIONAL RES. i her cool retreat ma Todd sends this Ing summer note to : Clothes bake the man. . v a i "RFRTA VAUGHN AND ftl'E CAKOU Fn0HSsk?Icr^1r/' A I-ATHE picture. Alberta — Hey, what’s your boy friend best at? SUE — At about three in the morn¬ ing . POSED BY GEORGE BANCROFT AND EVELYN BRENT IN' TUE SHOWDOWN." A PARAMOUNT PICTURE. George — There goes the end of a beautiful friendship. Evelyn — What do you mean? George — I just loaned that man a dollar. Page 17 PORED BY YOLA D'AVRIL IN "LADY BE GOOD." A FIRST NATIONAL PRODUCTION. Yola, having been knocked for a roiv of ash- cans by friend hubby, has decided that hus¬ bands, after all, are not made to order. POPED BY LARRY HEMON AND MARIE ASTA7R IN "DUMMIES.” AN EDUCATION AL-LAIUl Y SEMON COMEDY. Mr. — Well, shall u>e go to the Blotto- more’s party tonight, or stay at home? Mrs. — Oh, we can always go to a party — let’s stay at home. POSED BY DOLORES COSTELLO AND CONRAD NAGEL IN "TENDERLOIN,” A WARNER BROS PRODUCTION. Conrad — / wish people always said freely just what they thought. Dolores — / don’t — the silence would be terrible. POSED BY FAY WRAY AND GARY COOPER IN "THE LEGION OF THE CONDEMNED," A PARAMOUNT PRODUCTION. Fay — Gary, you were won¬ derful in that last scene, but why did you shoot that can¬ non off right beside that little boy's ear? Gary — The director has just given him a contract as a child star, and the only way we can keep him young is to keep scaring him out of a year’s growth. Page 18 SCKNE FROM "THE MISSING LINK," A WARNER BROS. PICTURE. Monk — Hey, Wil¬ lie, where’s your husband these days? Willie — Don’ t be old-fashioned, Jocko, ours is a companionate mar¬ riage. iv ART. DANE AND HIS PLAY¬ MATE IN METRO-GOLDWYN- MAYER PICTURES. Karl — Are you happy in there with your new mate ? Playmate — / was until you threw that monkey wench in the works. wfwm iii Louise Lorraine and playmate in "monkey Business," a metro-goldwyn-mayer picture. Louise — Do you think it’s true that the girl of today thinks of practically nothing? He — Certainly, it’s clothes, clothes, all the time. SCENE FROM "DON-KEY,” AN HAL ROACH COMEDY FOR M-Q-M RELEASE. Kid — What’s the important thing to remember. Jocko, when you go out with a gold digger? Monk — Car fare home. Jumping locks Page 19 POSED BY GKRTRt'DE ASTOR AND HOUSE PETERS IN "ROSE MARID," A METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER PRODUCTION. Gertrude— Captain, what was that private saying to you just then ? House — He was saying, ‘‘Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.” POSED BY .TOE YOUNG. RUTH LEE TAYLOR. EDDIE QIJILLAN AND DANNY O'SHAY IN MACK SENNETT'S ' HESITATING HORSES," A PATHE RELEASE. Danny — It sure gives me a pain to think there won't be any races like this here next year. Y’know they’re gonna build an eye hos¬ pital on this property. Eddie — Yeh, it sure is a site for sore eyes. POSED BY DOROTHY SEBASTIAN FEATURED IN M ETR O • GOLD WYN - MAYER PICTURES. From Dorothy Sebastian we learn what a wall flower is: a girl who be¬ longs to the army of the unenjoy.ed. Page 20 POSED BY BEATRICE JOT AND NIBS ASTHER IN “THE BLUE DANUBE." A PATIIE PICTURE. John — You have read Dumas, haven’t you? Leatrice — My Lord! Are they shoiving? POSED BY JFANNETTE LOFF AND RUDOLPH SCHILDKRAUT IN “TURKISH DELIGHT,” A PATHE-DEMILI.E PRODUCTION. Rudolph — I’ve lost my wife! J EAN NETTE - Ho W ? Rudolph — I don’t know. If I did I’d get a patent. POSED BY ANDRE BERANGER AND IRENE RICH IN “POWDER MY BACK,” A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION. Irene — Has your wife come back from her trip to Europe? Andre — Yes, but I haven’t. Page 21 NfW THE TRAFFIC IS PUN BY OREEN LIGHTS' AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS RUN &Y ISRAELITES' /R4/?/.T-'*/RERE SOME AMERICANS GO TO THE BAR FOR DIVORCE OTHERS OUST GO TO THE BAR FLINfB@* FILMS . from "THE COHENS AND THE KELLYS * IN PARIS * A UNIVERSAL PICTURE Page 22 YE EDITOR GOES TO YE MOVIES The Trail, of ’98 A Gold Rush Hour BATTERING, blasting Behe¬ moth of a movie mellerdrammer burst loose on the New York screen the other night. Its name is “The Trail of ’98.” Get out your calendar pad now, you namby pamby galoots and galootesses, and make arrange¬ ments to see this M-G-M epic of the Klondike. V’nu will see the steel sinews of mighty men breaking under the lash of polar cold and gruelling toil; you will see the soul of a beautiful wom¬ an tried with firewater and gold dust. Brothers, you will see life in the raw (as distinguished from the present rah-rah variety) among the huts of Dawson City, the capitol of the bo¬ nanza district. Dolores del Rio is the girl. Ralph Forbes is the boy. Their struggle for the perishable powder that is called gold dust runs along amid stupendous settings. And in the end they conquer. There are shots strung through the film that chill and thrill one’s heart: The snow slide which buries count¬ less weary prospectors ; the torn and tumbling waters of White Horse Rapids; the back-breaking, bone¬ grinding Chilkoot pass. If every¬ thing else in the film were terrible, these three views of unbridled, ber¬ serk nature would be worth the price of admission. There are things in “The Trail of ’98” about which anyone might quib¬ ble, but they pale into insignificance beside the vitality of its achieve¬ ments. See this one, folks, if you have to sell the heifer. The Count of Ten D own and Out (~AUR good old Ray of sunshine, ^ Charlie, is on the job again as the chief boob-of-the-month — a dumb benny who’s gotten into the scrap game and finds to his dismay that ignorance is blisters! When his manager, the sprightly James Gleason, returns from a busi¬ ness trip, he finds his charge dressed up like a dude from sleek hair to puppy-blankets (sometimes known as spats). Cherchez la familiar femme. A marriage ensues and the girl (Jobyna Ralston) and family proceed to spend Charlie’s every penny. After his disastrous Big Fight which he enters with a broken mitt to get money for the little wife, he dis¬ covers that the mazuma was needed to pay a gambling debt of the girl’s brother. But she’s exonerated in the end and everything turns out O. K. for the last long smile. A fight picture which is notable for the fact that despite his winning ways the hero loses his big battle . . . Fair enough, if any guy could be as dumb as Charlie’s supposed to be. The Derby tips this month toward the amiable face of W. C. Fields, that quizzical phiz which decorates so many of Paramount’s funniest pic¬ tures. His latest wow is “Tillie’s Punctured Romance,” a yarn of the Big Top at the Front. As the ring¬ master of the war-weary circus, he sets about making the multitudes happy amid the whizz and whoop of shells, and demonstrates ever and again that while man may now be successfully inoculated against nearly all human ills, he will never be im¬ mune from catching it from his wife. Leeion of the Condemned America’s Spad Boy \\T AKE up and meet a pair of ’ * automobile heaters now being introduced to our palpitating multi¬ tudes by Paramount. Fay Wray and Gary Cooper are the hot stuff con¬ cerned. You’ll get your optics soothed and sweetened when you ob¬ serve the close up neck work of this team of pash peddlers. The story that carries them along is of the war. It is supposed to be a companion piece to “Wings,” and while the flying is not quite so scorching the lip-lapping is more so. Gary, in love with a. girl (Fay Wray) in Paree, finds her in the arms of another man. Desperate youth, love sick and sore, joins the French Flying Corps, anxious to be on the finale end of a businfiss-like bullet. He is assigned to take a spy far into enemy territory and set him down. The spy arrives at the field preparatory to the flight. And who do you guess it is? None other than the great white Wray. Drammer, suspenders, love interest! Hot Dawg! They fly into Germany and the trouble starts. Fay is left all alone to learn important secrets. Some¬ one evidently told her: Sneak and ye shall find. But she speaks out of turn and is arrested, sentenced to death, tied to a post with the firing squad squadding in front of her. And then? Out of the eastern sky pour allied planes and allied bombs. What ho! The Fay is saved in the nick of time. Don’t miss it! It’s a real “love and learn” picture. Dressed to Kill Lowe and Behold f ANOTHER murder-mystery-mel- lerdrammer zooms onto the {Continued on page 58) Page 23 ['OS CD BY ALICE DAY AND WILLIAM HAINES IN "THE SMART SET ” A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PRODUCTION. Bill, — Listen, girlie, did you have any writers in your family? Alice — Yes, my grandfather wrote Annie Laurie, id she answer? 5^ HETTY BLYTHE AND CLYDE COOK IN "DOMESTIC TROUBLES,” A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION. Betty — / can just picture you coming home last night. Clyde — What kind of a picture? Betty — Oh, about five hundred reels. POSED BY CHARLEY CHASE AND GERTRUDE ASTOR IN "THE FAMILY GROUP," A METRO-GOLDWYN -MAYER- HAL ROACH COMEDY. Wife — 1 had the craziest dream last night. 1 thought I saw yon with another woman who was very much like Husband- posed BY SYDNEY CHAPLIN AND BABE LONDON IN "THE FORTUNE HUNTER,” A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION. Babe — I’ve just been to the photographer’s. Come on into the next room and let me show you my enlargement. Sydney — Never mind, my dear. I've been observing it for years. Page SCENE FROM "A PERFECT GENTLEMAN," WITH MONTY BANKS. A PATHE PICTURE. He — Does your little girl play on the piano? She — Oh, yes, indeed. You should see the nicks and scratches all over it. POSED BY AUDREY FERRIS AND CARROLL NYE IN "POWDER MY BACK," A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION. He — Say, honey, your nose looks all right. Why do you keep powdering it? She — Oh, just force of dab it. POSED BY ANDRE BERANGER AND IRENE RICH IN "POWDER MY BACK ” A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTIDN. She- — My husband brought me home a new brand of perfume yesterday and it simply nause¬ ates me. Dr. — Maybe you didn’t mix it right. POSED BY EDWARD CONNELLY AND FRANK CURRIER IN "CHINA. BOUND," A METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER PRODUCTION. Frank — Sorry to be so worn out, but I’m working my head off to support three wives. Edward — What’s the idea, are you a Mor¬ mon or something? Frank — Oh, no, just a Christian gentleman with a wife and two married daughters. Page 25 .. ;*i SCIONS 01 LUCILLE BALART, MONTE COLLINS AND PLAYER IN AN EDUCATIONAL- CAMEO COMEDY. She — What’s that old song the students sing at old Eli? He — “I’d diaper dear old Yale.” JOE COBB. HARRY SPEER AND JACKIE CONDON OK ’ OUR GANG” COMEDIES FOR M-G-M RELEASES. Harry — There goes Stella with her new beau. Joe — How do you know that’s her beau? Harry — I saw her quiver. Buck Black , M-G-M player, says young fellows who raise their first mustaches ought to name them Osh- kosh, because they’re just a dot on the map. SUNNY McKKEN, STERN BROS. STAR, IN UNIVERSAL RELEASES. This book, mutters Snookums, is bound to be a big help to people who want to break . into the movies. Page 26 Cor — What were you chuckling about there? He — I can’t help it; I’m so full of the joy of “flivving.” MILDRED KORNMAN OK HAL ROACH'S "OUR GANG" COME¬ DIES FOR M-G-M. Take it from Mildred, folks, the First National Spank is the official in¬ stitution for the rearing of children. JACKIE MoHTJGH. ROGER KEENE AND HELEN CARTWRIGHT IN EDUCATIONAL- JUVENILE COMEDIES. Roger — Mama told me to bring home seven cents’ worth of toothpaste. Helen — But toothpaste costs thirty-five cents. Roger — Yea, 1 know it. I expected to pay thirty-fwe cents. JACKIE CONDON. JOE COBB AND JAY SMITH OF HAL ROACH'S "OUR GANG." JK- BIO BOY AND JACKIE LEVINE IN AN EDUCATIONAL-JUVENILE COMEDY. Big Boy — What did your sister mean when she said she loved this kind of weather? Other — Ask her boy friend. He knows. Page 27 POSED BY ETHLYNE CLAIRE FEATURED IN UNIVERSAL PICTURES. Summer dresses this year, says Ethlyne, will be about the same thighs. POSED BY CHET A GARBO AND LARS HANSON IN •'THE DIVINE WOMAN," A METRO -GOLD WY N-MAYER PICTURE. Lars — Are you positive your father has all of your furni¬ ture paid for? Greta — Yes, even the divan. Lars — Would you be willing to pet on that? TOSED BY CHARLEY BOWERS IN "SAY AH-H!" AN EDUCATIONAL- BOWERS COMEDY. When a man jumps into a river, says Charley, sadly, you just know there’s a woman at the bot¬ tom of it. Page 28 I POSED BY CLARA BOW STARRED IN "RED HAIR," A PARAMOUNT PICTURE, Clara Bow demonstrates that women should make great strides these dags — there’s not much to hold ’em back! POSED BY CHARLEY BOWERS. JEAN DOUGLAS AND BUSTER BRODY' IN "SAY AH-HI" AN EDUCATIONAL- BOWERS COMEDY. Buster — You’re in pretty bad shape. Gonna go to the woods with the boys this year? Charley — Naw, I gotta spend my vacation at the she- side. POSED BY EDDIE DUNN IN "SAY AH-H!" AN EDUCATIONAL- BOWERS COMEDY. Eddie is of the opin¬ ion that what the flap¬ pers wear nowadays is usually neither proper nor fitting. Page 29 “You know, Arnold, my wife is a little dear, but she’s forever using my perfume!” Be a Writer and Make Millions OAYE you, dear reader, ever tried 1 1 to write pieces for magazines? You must get busy right now. It’s a perfectly marvelous way to make a livfng. Of course, you don’t make much money. But you get lots of mail every day. And it helps you reduce household expenses. * Take my case: Last week the apartment needed repapering. An ordinary job would have cost a lot of money. So I saved money by doing it myself, for I had plenty of material. Now every room is de¬ lightfully papered with thousands of little squares of brown paper, about two inches by five inches. It’s really a very unique effect. If you look closely at the little square, you will see printed on each one: Page SO “Film Fun thanks you for submitting the enclosed mate¬ rial and regrets that it is not available for use in this pub¬ lication.” This morning the cat sharpened his claws on the wall and ruined one of the little squares. But repairs will cost nothing. I’ll simply send this in and get another little square, for only one round-trip stamp. — Chet Johnson. Note to Editor: The part about the cat ruining the wall, of course, is pure fiction, so you can buy this instead of bothering to send back one of those little slips. Editor’s Note: Better guys than you have been shot for less than this. We Had a Lovely Time “V/f Y dear, you simply must see the souvenirs we brought back with us from the Holy Land. Henry, bring us that bottle of River Jordan water and be sure and shake it up well — the mud settles to the bottom so. Yes, I think it’s a beau¬ tiful thing to have, although I do think Henry should have put it in another kind of bottle. When I think of what’s been in that flask! Henry, you simply must change it. There’s a nice vinegar bottle in the basement. And that reminds me. Henry bought a small bottle of the miracle wine at Cana, but when he opened it up it had changed back to water again. Henry was terribly angry but he said he guessed the custom officers would have gotten it, anyway. “Yes, we did have some nails from the cross but we decided they weren’t genuine and one day Henry used them to fix the basement steps. You know, there were so many of those nails offered for sale that I think the Jews must have used the cross as the Germans did that fright¬ ful wooden statue of Von Hinden- burg. Oh, dear, I had so many things that I can’t find now. I picked up a stone on the Mount of Olives, but Henry threw it at the cat one night and I was never able to find it. I picked some olives there, too, but I served them one evening when the minister was here for dinner. Oh, I have one lovely thing — a leaf from the tree Judas hanged himself on. Let’s see. I used that for a bookmark some¬ where. Henry, go to the bookcase and see if it’s in ‘Three Weeks.’ “Oh, yes. Here’s the jawbone of the donkey Samson used to kill the thousand Philistines. Henry swears up and down it’s genuine but I don’t know what to think. There’s a hole in it that does look something like a drinking fountain. Anyway, it came from the Holy Land and you never can tell. “Well, at times I believe the trip did Henry a lot of good. If it hadn’t been for that stopover in Paris on the way back. . . — Paul S. Powers The other night we almost found out what the last thing is a woman takes off before going to bed; but we missed it, missed it by a shade. He — Why not turn around and let the public see your face? She — / can’t, I’m backward. Unalphabetically Arranged Glossary of Farm Terms . O TY— A growth on the eye. A ^ “pig” sty is German, meaning a large one. A pig sty on your eye is not only unpleasant but a nuisance as it makes it hard to keep your face clean. . Silo — A murmur. When he kissed her in the barnyard the silo was full of ensilage. Ensilage — Fodder, meaning a greater distance. Fodder is a greater distance from steak than from corn¬ flakes. Example of sentence: Don’t you dare go no fodder, mister. Stall — Put off. A horse’s stall is where the rider is put off, hence the popular catch line: The Prince of Wales’ horse stalls often. Sickle — A pear sometimes des¬ pair. Examples (a) They certainly would make a lovely sickle if he wasn’t three inches shorter than her. (b) I’m sickle life. A sickle will cut the grass if it is a sickle of little boys. They will also cut their fingers. Barnyard — Three feet of mud. Three feet of anything else is just a yard. For example: Three feet of tramps is a freight yard; three feet of hose is a chicken yard and three feet apart when dancing is a waste of time. Harrow — To frighten. The farmer harrows the ground in the spring and frightens the seeds into growing. The farmer’s son frightens them even more because he always makes an awful face when his father tells him to harrow. Harvest — A college near Boston. Harvest boys will not play with Princeton boys. Their favorite color is crimson and their best dressed man is too cute for words. It is rumored they are . going to have a football team in a year now. Corn Crib — A place to pillow the ears. Also a little round pad with a hole in it that when pasted on the toe saves the corn and keeps it from getting angry. Few babies are ever put to sleep in a corn crib with the exception of Cornish babies; hence their name. Harness — The female of harn; which is a kind of very coarse linen; hence a young lady feels very un¬ comfortable in harness. Sow — A gluttonous animal, as for example, the man who says, “Here’s sow” more than anyone else at the party. Reap — To gather in; hence, when a young lady reaps her blouse she gathers it in. Reappling water is something else again. Furrow — The unpaid bills on a fur coat. Sentence example: The farmer’s furrows of Spring are many. Pasture — The head of the church. Sentence example: When the pasture drops in for tea we open the front parlor. Milk — Life-giving fluid taken daily from a can. Cow — The animal that lays the cans. Also when a cow is run over by a passing motorist it continues to lay still. Chaff — See preceding definitions. Hay Mow — Censored. — Carroll Carroll Also1 a soft radio turneth away wrath. The Advertising Manager for a Soup Company Writes a Love Lyric JT'OR you my heart goes loop-the- loop, I love you as I can; And thoughts of you go in the soup That means so much to man. To-mate-oh fairest one to me Means health and happiness; Our souls would then united be, Condensed to blessedness. No vegetable love for you Is mine; it can’t be hid. So let us wed as others do And live on Campbell’s, kid. <5XX> The Scotch may not be all wet, but a good deal of it is watered. Page SI POSED BY JOHN MILT AN AND NITA MARTA N IN -'LADY BE GOOD." A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Nita — So Helen let you pet her last night anyway? John — Yes, any way. POSED BY LOUISE FAZENDA AND WILL ROGERS IN SAM E. RORK'S "A TEXAS STEER," FOR FIRST NATIONAL RELEASE. Louise — That blankety-blank woman next door got a hat just like mine. Will — Well, you’ll be getting a new one, 1 suppose. Louise — 2 'hat certainly would be cheaper than moving. POSED BY NEAL BURNS AND DORIS DAWSON IN "JUST THE TYPE," A PARAMOUNT-CHRISTIE COMEDY. Doris — They tell me you drink varnish. Neal, — Sure, I call it Veneer Beer. Page 32 SCENE FROM "PRETTY BABY,” WITH MONTY COLLINS, AN EDUCATION AL-CAMIiO COMEDY. Monty — I think Bradley owes a lot of his success to having such a beautiful wife, don’t you? Lucille — Yes, her face is his fortune. POSED BY TINY EARLES, FAMOUS EIGHTEEN-YEAR OLD CIRCUS MIDGET, AND MARSHALL NEILAN. DIRECTOR OF "THREE RING MARRIAGE," A FIRST NATIONAL PRODUCTION. Tiny — I understand that the fellows at the club don’t seem to care for that fellow Park. Marshall — No, some¬ POSED BY DORIS KENYON AND MILTON SILLS IN "BURNING DAYLIGHT,” A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. how he fails to clique. Doris — Your son says he doesn’t want to get married. Milton (cynically) — Does he? Just wait until the wrong girl comes along. Page SS or Wine, Wimmen, and S’long CHARLES PUFFY. STARRED IN UNIVERSAL COMEDIES. Prohibitionists, insists Charles sadly, are trying to halter human nature. IEN LYON AND LYA DE PUTTI IN A FIRST ‘TIONAL RELEASE. ' — You don’t seem very en- tic about my liquor, Ben. — No, this damn drinking es me hie. LAURA LA PLANTE AND PAT O’MALLEY IN UNI¬ VERSAL PICTURES. She — Why do the Norwegians al¬ ways go to the highlands for their drinking bouts? He — Thar’s “Skoal!" in them moun¬ tains. HELEN FAIRWEATHER AND BILLY DOOLEY IN CHRISTIE COMEDIES FOR PARAMOUNT RELEASE. He — I’m always being hauled into jail for drinking applejack. What’ll I do about it? She — Jug not, lest ye be jugged. Page SJf RUTH LEE TAYLOB AND MACK SWAIN IN PARAMOUNT PICTURES. Ruth — What’s the difference between a night club and a saloon? Mack — Well, in the saloon a wistful little girl would pull at your sleeve and whis¬ per: "Oh daddy, oh daddy, come home with me now.” And in the night club a wistful little girl pulls at your sleeve and whispers: ‘‘Oh daddy, oh daddy, come home with me now.” MELBOURNE McDOWELL AND ERIC MAYNE IN A FIRST DIVISION RELEASE. Mel — Did yon know that Goldsmith wrote a play about the Prohibition agent? Eric — No! What was its name? Mel — ‘‘He Snoops to Conquer.” MOLLY O’DAY AND MILTON SILLS IN FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES. No matter what the price of Cali¬ fornia grapes, according to Milton and Molly, wine will continue to go down. SCENE FROM "THE CALLAHANS AND THE MURPHYS," A METRO-GOLDYN-MAYER PICTURE First — Did any group of labor ever carry out that threat of “No beer, no work”? Eddie — Yes, most of the bartenders did! Page 35 EDUCATIONAL PICTURES. Lucille Hutton suggests the height of in¬ advisability: Love ’em and believe ’em. Kathleen coi.lins in “valley of HUNTED MEN,” A PATHE PICTURE. Buffalo Bill- — Peg’s face i. just like a traffic light. Kathleen — How so? Buffalo Bill — About the timi yon think it’s safe to go ahead it turns red. SCENE FROM “LILAC TIME." WITH COLLEEN MOORE, A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. C O L L E E N - Don’t fight over that little nurse, Bill. Al is the one who is crazy about her. Bill — W e 1 1, she necked me for a loop, too. POSED BY NANCY C A It BOLL FEATURED IK PARAMOUNT PICTURES. *4 man should be wealthy before marry¬ ing, says wise little Nancy Carroll, for that’s the last opportunity he’ll have. POSED BY LEIOH JACOBSON, AUTHOR. BESSIE LOVE, STAR, AND WILLIE WYLER, DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSAL- JEWEL PRODUCTION "HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY?" First Jazz Compose r — Where do you get all your ideas? Second Jazz Compose r — “If you knew Sousa like 1 know Sousa . . .” SCENE FROM "SOFT LIVIN'!!," WITH MADGE BELLAMY, A WILLIAM FOX PRODUCTION. Maid — Ma’msellc, are you sure that young man who asked you out is a gentleman? Madge — Don’t worry — if he is I can cure him. Page 37. Vol. 47, No. 470 Even the Gods love jokes — Plato June, 1928 Cover Up! I-IOLD everything! Here comes a swift one! This week’s mail brings this letter from Francis Bensmiller, of Holly¬ wood : “I have admired the covers of Film Fun and often wondered who the artist was doing such splendid work, but the girl in green on the palette is the most beautiful of all. The artist has put a lot of feeling into his work on this particular one, and I know that he must have a beautiful model.” Which reminds us that there’s something in the cupboard which we’re going to put on the table for you folks pretty soon. It’s another contest, a brand-new one that has never been tried before, and it will give the monthly winners the thrill of their lives and enough cool cash for a month’s stay at the local Mills Hotel. That’s all we can tell you. But here’s a tiny tip. Keep your eyes peeled for Film Fun’s covers. Poetess Laureate DEMEMBER reading some stuff ^ in Film Fun not long ago by a girl named Norma E. Kennedy. She’s putting ’em across the plate again. This time she sends us a batch of modern Mother Goose Rhymes (brought up to date). Fred Thomp¬ son is one of the principal objects of her rhythms. Here is the verse: “Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine actor upon a white horse. No rings on his fingers, no bells qn his toes, . But he’s the big noise wherever he goes.” California Woman — My poor man, what brought you to this deplorable state? New Arrival — The pew model Ford, Madame. Alphabet Zoop! TOUIS J. CASSAM, of Cleveland, is ^ another poet who crashes through with more verse than you can shake a stick at. Louis runs up and down the alphabet naming his favorites and the pictures they’re in. We’re sorry, Louis, that we haven’t room to print your contrib. Canned Jags! TINE up on the right, sparrows, and cheer for Mrs. J. F. Thomas, of Daisetta, Texas. She’s the lass with a nose for news who shoots us the paragraph from somebody’s home¬ town newspaper which tells how one far-seeing Negro woman is cashing in on the thirst of her colored neighbors. It seems, according to this yarn, that the girl friend in question heard somewhere or other that persons who persisted in guzzling “canned heat,” an alcoholic liquor designed for use under chafing dishes, would soon shuffle off their mortal coils. She hunted up a doctor and asked how true it all was. “Certain!” he told her. She rushed out, had the lives of a half dozen of her friends in¬ sured, and sat down to await results. Thus far, you sure-thing bimbos, Mrs. Black Cloud has made a net profit of $6,000.72 cents. Laff that off. Collection “^ERTAINLY enjoy your little magazine and wish it was com¬ ing out four times a month, but I guess it would be impossible to get together in a week the amount of quality that is published." That’s the way Robert Campbell (we’ve lost his address) started his letter to us. Atta, boy, Bob. We re with you from the word “CYrtainU Mr. Campbell has been making a collection of movie stars, he tells us. Page 3S ovie If I were a haughty and brave Caballero 1 And you, senorita, the sweet-a my heart; \ We’d ride o’er the pampas in duo to dare oh Do tricks like Tom Mix and we never would part I’d give you a patio y hacienda And you’d be the lass oh to hold me in check We’d have a ranchero and other addenda, Tamales and peons to answer our beck. The world as our filbert, I’d love as John Gilbert Dolores del Rio you’d be oh to me; We’d dig in the hill dirt, the gold nugget filled dirt, And romance, a Goldwyn, life ever would be. With Paramount virtue, why nothing could hurt you, You’d have what is termed Universal appeal, And Fox, the expert few, if someone’ d convert you ind me and our dreams and make everything reel. — Carroll Carroll I’d fight and I’d spar oh like Ramon Novarro, l You’d wear Greta Garbo ( and look most delish). Sans worry or sorrow we’d look toward tomorrow I’d gush and we’d mush and you’d Lillian Gish. Page 39 POSED BY BOBBY VERNON AND FRANCES T.EE APPEARING IN PAR AMOUNT- CHIUSTI E COMEDIES. Bobby — Well, how far along is our engagement, Frances? Frances — It. seems to me it ought to be about at the stone age now. POSED BY JOHNNY HINES AND LOUISE IN "CHINATOWN CHARLIE," j FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Johnny (proudly)— Sure, I’m running a bank. Louise — How wonderful! Johnny — Yeh, I ain’t been in New York a week yet and I got a job as a bank runner already. Page J+O POSED BY JACK MULHALL AND JOBYNA RALSTON IN "SWEET DADDIES.” A FIRST NATIONAL PRODUCTION. Jack — Bill Dundreary asked me to take care of his dog ’cause he and Grace have separated. Jobyna — Oh, so she’s left his bed and bore¬ dom. POSED BY DOT FARLEY AND BILLY SEVAN IN MACK SEN NETT'S "HUBBY'S WEEK END," A PATHE RELEASE Dot — W ate ha thinking of? B i l’l y — Oh, nothing in par¬ ticular. D o t — Don’t be so self-con¬ scious.- POSED BY MONTE COLLINS AND LUCILLE HUTTON IN "A MYSTERIOUS NIGHT," AN EDUCATIONAL-CAMEO COMEDY. Monte — Now, snap out of your trance and name two primary colors. Lucille — Stop and go. POSED BY JIMMIE ADAMS, AND LORRAINE EDDY IN "GOOFY GHOSTS,” A PARAMOUNT- CHRISTIE COMEDY. Jimmie — Heard the song of the Hebrew damsel? Lorraine — No. Howzit go? J i m m i e — “J ew-maid me what I am today.” Page 41 POSED BY JEAN LORRAINE. FEATURED IN FOX COMEDIES. It appears a woman wears a costume like this for what she can get out of it. POSED BY BETTY BOYD AND CLARA GUOIL APPEARING IN METRO-QOLDWYN- MAYER-IIAL ROACH COMEDIES. Betty — Say, d’ya know what they’re calling sorority houses nowadays? Clara — Can’t guess. Betty — Homes for Fondlings. Page 42 POSED BY VERA REYNOLDS STARRED IN PATHE-DE HILLB PRODUCTIONS. Marriage, says Vera, is a bitter pill that — thank the Lord! — is easily dissolved. SCENE FROM A PATHE PICTURE WITH WESLEY BARRY. He — What have i)ou got to report on the Nicaraguan army?. Him — The last I saw of him, sir, he was putting up a stiff fight. Page JfS We are glad to present Harry Carey’s characterization of a professional gambler who knows his bettors. SCENE FROM “THE GALLOPING GOBS" WITH BUFFALO BILL. JB.. A PATHE- P1CTURE. Gob —That fellow Kiddings is quite a practical joker. Other — Aw, I don’t know about that ... he often pulls his stuff on a guy that’s bigger than him. DUNNINGER, LEGERDEMAIN EXPERT, AND FELIX, THE CAT. Dunninger — Did you hear any shady anecdotes at that bridge party the other night? Felix — No, I’m sick of bid¬ time stories. This little lady yclept Fay Webb has played with dominoes so much that her doctor is now treating her for spots in front of her eyes. Page U Just another picture of Card- Hearted Harry, the first all-night sucker. Dunninger — Tell me, Felix, why did your wife’s bridge club break up? Felix — All the members were there every time, so there was never anything to talk about. SCENE FROM "THE CHASER" WITH HARRY LANGDON, A FIRST NATIONAL RELEASE. A reproduction of that fa¬ mous picture called “ Chips That Pass in the Night.” SPECIAL POSES BY FELIX, THE CAT.— PAT O'SULLIVAN’S CARTOON STAR FOR EDUCATIONAL PICTURES. RICHARD D1X AND GERTRUDE OLMSTEAD IN "SPORTING GOODS," A PARAMOUNT PICTURE. Dick — This sure is a pyorrhea hand. Gertrude — What do you mean, honey ? Dick — Four out of five, babe, four out of five. Page 45 posed hy johnny hikes and "SCOOTER" LOWRY IN "CHINATOWN CHARLIE,” A FIRST NATIONAL RELEASE. Scooter — Hey, hey, Johnny, who was the pretty woman you took to the show — your sister or your wife? Johnny — Aw, she hasn’t decided. POSED BY EDNA MURPHY AND MONTE BLUE IN "ACROSS THE ATLANTIC,” A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION. Edna — Do you know, I never went out on a petting party in my life before I met George. Monte — You certainly love that man, don’t you? Edna — Yes, I've known him since we went to kindergarten together. POSED BY NICK GRINDE. DIRECTOR, AND GWEN LEE. FEATURED PLAYER OF METRO- GOLDWYN -MAYER. Gold-Digger’s Daugh¬ ter — Say, Pa, I’ve got the baby stare down to per¬ fection and I’m coming along fine with the in¬ jured innocence expres¬ sion. Ask Ma if l can go out and play now. Page Jf6 What’s the Shootin’ For? Y7"0U must have read about * “One-Eyed Connolly,” the famed gate-crasher of fights and other big sporting events. Now he’s bouncer at the outer gate of the Fox Studios in Los Angeles. There aren’t any tricks the crash¬ ers can play on Connolly ; he knows ’em all. That boy scares ’em off by his looks alone. He’s got a leather awning over his missing optic and believe us, it makes him look pretty durned fearsome. For thirty years that bozo has been thinking up and executing all manner of gags for free at¬ tendance and even now he spends his off time by crashing fight chibs in Los Angeles. One-Eyed” is also playing the role of a convict in “Honor Hound,” a Fox Picture, and just who “No’s!” the gate crashers at such times as Connolly is yessing the director, report sayeth not. “One-Eyed” Connolly sticks to his knittin’ whenever he can, strengthening his rep as a crasher. His motto, you know, is: “Take the crash and let the credit go.” had some job fixing Johnny up as a velly fine Chinaman, but that he finally did a great job even to the sloping eyes of the typical Oriental. Well, that shows that the make¬ up man had the right slant on Johnny. TyHEN a guy or a goil finds a gold mine you can’t blame him or her for wanting to work it. Well, that’s what Anne Nichols is doing with her famous Abie idea. For some months, Robert Benchley’s best friend has been spending her working hours super¬ vising the film production of A — I — R — . But by the time you read this you will already have heard about the sequel — “Abie’s Children” — appearing in a New York theater and making more shekels for its authoress. Our advice to fortune-hunting gentlemen would be something like this: “Take care of the Nichols and the dollars will take care of themselves.” - -ooo JOHNNY HINES’ new picture *“* for First National, “Chinatown Charlie,” has gotten off to a fly¬ ing start — via a sightseeing bus, where the comedy began. Louise Lorraine has the feminine lead. We are told that the make-up man J5ILLIE LOVE is gonna treat us to a whole sequence in her next picture for First National. “The Yellow Lily,” in which she wears an exquisite night robe. 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T.t Mooning at the Mummers XTOW we’re to have a picture dealing with the radical views of marriage entertained by many persons in this country and abroad. Fitting in with the uni¬ versal appeal of such a story is the fact that it’s to be produced by Universal Pictures Corpor¬ ation. Although the story was original¬ ly called “Fifty Fifty Marriage” and “Partnership Marriage” we understand that the final title is “Sex Appeal.” Of course, the most elementary form of sex appeal is “Will you marry me?” ooo '"pHREE cheers and a few whoopees! One of our favor¬ ite actors in the part of one of our favorite fiction characters. William Powell has been promot¬ ed to stardom by Paramount and will play the part of Philo Vance in “The Canary Murder Case.” It’s a bird! 00-0 npHESE changing times! Sel- -*■ dom does a picture reach the screen under its original title. Two First National films are having their names altered with¬ out fear or fervor. There’s Mon¬ tague Love’s picture “Nightbirds” which is to bear the title of “The Hawk’s Nest” and Colleen Moore’s “Heart to Heart” was first named “Tomorrow.” Well, of course, these are just shifts that pass in the night, but we’d like to state a suitable motto for these title changers — “We name to please.” ooo tpLORENCE TURNER, fea- tured in Harry Langdon’s cur¬ rent production, has appeared in more films than any other player in the industry and has contri¬ buted more years to screen work. Why, we remember (believe it or not) when Florence first ap¬ peared in Vitagraph pictures when a five hundred foot reel con¬ stituted a feature. Those were the days when films were made on the roof of an office building in little gold New York. Not that we want to give our age away (we were three at the time) but it was twenty years ago that Florence began her film career. Twenty years! Tsch, tsch. Score one for Florence! Gay and Giddy Gloom Chasers TOMMY MEIGHAN is going to be starred in a screen ver¬ sion of the Broadway stage hit “The Racket.” This is Tom’s first picture for Caddo. “The Racket” is a fast-moving melodrama of the underworld and the chief role is that of a colorful captain of police. In the opinion of its sponsors, “The Racket” will make a big noise when it appears. ooo pOLLEEN MOORE will be supported by Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe in her next picture “Heart to Heart.” Beat, drink and be merry 1 o-o—s* '-pIFFANY-STAHL steps for- ward with a picture called “Nameless Men.” Won’t somebody give these lit¬ tle men a handle? tLJ ERE’S a new departure in A film methods. In making the picture of “Tenth Avenue” Pathe- De Mille has followed the same lines as the stage version of the story by having all action take place in one set. This plan of producing a feature picture in one setting without auxiliary scenes hasn’t been done for several years. 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One day in an off-the-arm restaurant, David heard a black-faced gentle¬ man give his order. “Ah wants some ob dem re¬ spected molluscs, sah,” he told the waiter. “Respected molluscs?” was the startled answer. “What you mean, Blackness?” “What Ah wants,” the man in¬ sisted, “is what Ah wants. Go on an' bring me some ’steemed clams.” VIOLA RICHARDS HAL ROACH PLAYER yiOLA RICHARDS tells us a v very charming story of a little old lady in lavender who dispensed sweetness and. goodness on her missions of mercy in the sovereign state of Indiana. This old sister had a habit of walking through the slums finding families whom she could help. She would stop at a street corner where some urchin seemed to be in trouble, question him, and at¬ tempt to straighten out his diffi¬ culties. One day, while in a slightly better section of town, she hap¬ pened upon a little boy who sat on a curbstone crying as though his boyish heart would burst. The little old lady stooped clown through force of habit and took his hand in hers. “There, there, sonny,” she said. “You mustn’t cry. Tell mammy what the trouble is.” “Boo-hoo-hoo,” cried the little boy, “I’m so unhappy. My father is in jail.” “There now, kiddie, don’t you cry. We can fix that up all right. I’ll use my influence with the gov¬ ernor and everything will be fine.’ The little boy looked up at her pathetically. “It’s no use, lady,” he said. “My father is the governor. SALLY PHIPPS V- FOX PLAYER TT seems that little Sally Phipps has a pretty good line on this here now modern degeneration. She tells us, with that whimsical smile of hers, that her little sister — two months older than Sal, by the by- — came running into the studio one day right on the settee where Sally was emoting. “Say, sis,” said Sally’s sister seriously. “Reggie took me out in his new car last night.” For a moment Sally was alarmed. “I suppose he ran out of gas on a lonely road?” Sally’s sister was all salubrious smiles. “Sure,” she said, “and I ordered him to turn around and take me home to mother.” “Well,” asked Sally, anxiously, “what happened then?” “The worm turned,” said Sally’s sister sadly and simply. ROD LA ROCQUE PATHE-DE MILLE STAR 'T'HE much abused salesman comes in out of the rain for another dig from Rod La Rocque, whom we met on Hollywood Boulevard shortly after he re¬ turned from his trip to Europe. According to Rod, there was once a very dumb and literal¬ minded salesman who always thought he knew everything better than his boss, which wasn’t say¬ ing very much. The boss was Page 50 about to leave the office for a couple of weeks for a brief sojourn in Tia Juana. In order to show his confidence in his employee the boss called the salesman into his office the day before he was to depart and undertook to explain the need of increased business. “While I’m on my vacation,” said the boss, “see if you can’t do a little extra work and get some order out of chaos.” “You must have mixed me up with one of the other salesmen,” said the drummer. “There’s no guy by that name on my list.” ' ,ioiin ciilb.:RT ACCORDING to John Gilbert, one of his friends remembers with some amusement the old days when money did not come easily. At that time this fellow, Wilbur, was occasionally forced, much against his will, to borrow a few shekels from some acquaint¬ ance. One of Wilbur’s friends, John tells us, had a very particular manner of treating anyone who happened to ask him for a loan. Wilbur had asked him for a considerable sum of money with the stipulation that it would be returned in three days. After some conversation, the friend said finally, “Well, you know my rule to lend only one tenth of what a man wants to borrow.” “Yes,” Wilbur answered, “I certainly do. That’s why I asked for $100. I want ten dollars.” “Ah,” said his friend. “Here’s your dollar, old man.” tOJ.GA BACLONOVA iUO-MJP’EATURED QLGA BACLONOVA, who is a little Southern girl from Georgia, Russia, dotes on negro stories. She recently heard one, she told us the other day, which kept her laughing for a heck of a time. The story has to do with a Negro couple who had been on very bad terms with each other. Rastus began to grow repentant of his unfaithfulness. Besides, his wife was his mainstay and he did not think he could afford to incur any more of her wrath and still maintain his sinecure. There¬ fore he began to save up his pennies for a peace offering. Rastus finally managed to scrape enough money together to buy her a gorgeous imitation skunk wrap. Mandy was overjoyed, but the gift so surprised her that she was unable to put her enthusiasm into words. “Well, Mandy,” he said. “Whadda yo’ all think of that there wrap?” “It suah is wonderful, Rastus. But der’s one thing I caint figger out. I doan’ see how it’s possible for sech a beautiful fur to come from sech a low, stinking ani- mule.” “Well,” said Rastus, on his dig¬ nity, “I didn’t expect any thanks for de fur but dar’s no reason, is dey, why yo’ all should go callin’ me names?” WILLIAM COLLIER, JR. WARNER BROS. PLAYER E_J ERE is a college story from A William Collier, Jr. A couple of hard-drinking slicker snakes, Bill tells us, met on the campus one day and started discussing their recent es¬ capades. “I won $10 the other day,” said Joe. “How’d you do that?” asked Jack. “Fellow bet me I couldn’t drink twenty whiskeys — but I did and won the ten bucks.” “That’s pretty neat,” opined Jack, enthusiastically, “but what didja do with the ten berries?” “Oh, I went off and got pickled,” answered Joe LAURA LA PLANTE UNIVERSAL STAR ANOTHER rib rapper that ^ comes bouncing from the West is the offspring of Laura La Plante’s active mind. Laura, you know, is Universal’s blonde and beauteous box-office bet; the way she pulls ’em in is an open secret. Not long ago, a mutual friend tells us, Laura was popping off to London on a sight-seeing tour. 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When they step forth to bat¬ tle with law and order their plans flash through with unerring pre¬ cision. When the Count (Edmund Lowe) does a job it stays done, and the bonds go to His Highness’ se¬ curity vault. One evening’s festivities resulted in the capture of a considerable quantity of bonds. A boy working in the bank was suspected, arrested, jailed. His sweetie swore she’d have him out. She hit the trail of the gun-toters. Lowe, the leader of them all, fell for her. She became his jane and he introduced her to the gang. They accepted her as a decoy — and then the shooting started. Mary is superb. Lowe is positively grand. The story gallops along like the Pony Express. There’s nary a hitch — not even at the altar. Bringing Up Father Whadya Hafta Bring That Up For? QEORGE McMANUS’ Jiggs is up to some new tricks. Ably im- ! personated by J. Farrell MacDonald, he’s in the movies accompanied by his better half, Maggie, the girl who put the row in Frau. Polly Moran plays Maggie; when Polly wants a cracker she always finds it handy in the form of a rolling pin. She just can’t leave poor Jiggs alone. When he takes his coat off at dinner, she shouts, “Hey, keep that coat on — ain’t you housebroken yet?” and she complains angrily to Ellen, their decorative daughter, “I tell him we need a change of air — and he buys | an electric fan!” Good or bad it goes on like that all the way through. You’re sure of a steady stream of laughter — not only from the titles, and the up¬ roarious if vulgar character work of Polly Moran and Marie Dressier, but also from the coo-coo cartoon situ¬ ations — that’s our story and we’ll slapstick to it. We won’t bother you with an ac¬ count of the incredible society- crazy antics of Maggie and of Fath¬ er's temporary cure of her yen-peck¬ ing. If you like the funny papers you’ll like this — and that’s all you need to 'know. Chicago After Midnight Gang Agley! H ERE is another of that endless tribe of celluloid hair raisers de¬ voted to the merry-merry masquer¬ ade. Cabarets and booze caches makes up the locale of this seven reel shiver. Cops and gunmen battle to the death at the drop of a bottle. Blackjacks flash aplenty, and we don’t mean chewing gum. Ralph Ince plays the wishy-washy hero who promises to do right by as trick a little petter as any Yale man could want. Her name is Jola Mendez and she’s the kind of a girl who doesn’t help a man to Mender own business. If you like to see the Howlywocd version of cabaret cut-ups, hi¬ jackers and Jills, bright light Berthas and Underworld Andies, then get a load of “Chicago at Midnight.” It’s one grand and glorious “hooch” dance. Mother Machree A Mither is as Good as a Mile F the people want tear-stories, says Fox films, Sob be it! And, al¬ though nowadays a picture can no longer be gotten for a song, a song can always be gotten for a picture. Faith and bejabbers if it isn’t a song that’s been squeezin’ tears from the eyes of millions of hard-boiled Amer¬ icans for these many years. There’s always a touch of sham in the shamrock — but it’s the kind you’re glad to take, particularly when it’s meted out to you by such masters of pathos as Belle Bennett and Victor McLaglen. A goodly number of us fans have been keep- ing our eye on the Belle ever since she made us cry, cry again in Stella Dallas. As the self-sacrificing Irish mother who turns her darlin’ son over to the principal of an exclusive school and becomes a governess in a wealthy home, Belle strengthens her reputation as the mother of her coun¬ try. The son, well played by Neil Hamilton, grows up not knowing that his mother is alive, and falls in love with the girl whom she has raised. Victor McLaglen as the giant ad¬ mirer of Mother Machree has a way of putting his hand to his mouth and inflating his cheeks to register em¬ barrassment which alone will com¬ pensate you for your expenditure. Next to Belle, to Victor belong the spoils of this film. Sailor’s Wives Empty Goblettes LJ ERE’S a moom pichure that fea- tures Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes. Here’s a moom pichure that is nothing to write Rome about. Here’s a moom pichure about a girl who is going blind, who shoots here- self so her lover will not be saddled with a helpless person, who is wounded by the pistol shot in such a way that her eyesight is restored and who lives to enjoy a fairly ripe old age. And now, all you little tots, if you’ll come back tomorrow night we’ll tell you the story of Hansel and Gretchen and how they went into the woods and played patty-cake with all the little brownies, pixies and fairies. Finders Keepers i Soldier Old Man \X7HEN the snappy, facetious ’ * daughter of the colonel gets in¬ to the midst of her romantic adven¬ ture amid her papa’s training under¬ lings, she wishes that there wasn’t any such word as “camp.” Having arrived there to marry her darling soldier-boy-to-be, the girl (Laura La Plante) has to put on disguise — dis guy’s soldier outfit — to join a regi¬ mental review. The joke’s on Laura — a pair of pants that does its best to slip off. This, we hesitate to sug¬ gest, turns a perfectly good reviewing officer into a rearviewing officer. As a humorous effort Finders Keepers works out well, even though it works pretty hard. Edmund Breese does the sappy colonel-father nicely. For Breese, a jolly good fellow, we have only praise. Laura is cute, and we don’t mean bow- legged. Leopard Lady Aha! Spotted! 'T'HE Leopard Lady starts with a skinful and ends up by being very, very dry. Jacqueline Logan is the spotted spouse in the case and derives her monicker from her asso¬ ciation with circus leopards. For your information, there’s an ape, one of those big he-bull fellows who might have been one of Tarzan’s boy friends a few weeks ago. This hirsute gent plays the villain of the piece, and what a hairy rascal he is. Not that anyone cares. He reaches the climax after many weary gestures, and starts to kill sweet li’l Jacqueline. But she’s a resourceful sister. She persuades him to take an automatic pistol and shoot himself. Nice girl, eh. Good ape, too, now that’s he’s dead. You might see this one, if the old folks insist on staying at home. Or you might not. You never can tell. Whadda we care? It’s all the Simian to us. The Smart Set Bon Ton Truck r>ILL HAINES becomes, day by day in every doggoned way, more and more like the sort of a guy we’d crave to take a sock at if we thought we could get away with it. 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For all along you’re sure that Nickie (Richard Barthelmess plus a lot of awe-inspiring facial ex¬ pressions) is going to be hanged be¬ cause he refuses to disclose why he did the dastardly deed and to say “Pardon me!” to the govenor (who happens to be his step-father). There’s a sassiety girl who skips to Europe after Nickie ’s bad break in order to save her name — but the audience calls her a worse one any¬ way. Besides, there’s a faithful and true cabaret lassie who’s included for the spectator’s own goody-goody. Keep your eye on Lina Basauette — there are those who say that she is one of the coming actresses (which happens to be true). Latest from Paris Getting Back to N orma-cy A/f.-G-M offers this tid-bit to its steady customers for whatever they can be persuaded to cough up. It is written around the proposition that a man may be gowned but he’s never out. Miss Norma Shearer, one of the girls out in Hollywood, is the one ex¬ citing reason for this film. She plays the part of a star salesman for a clothing firm. In order that she may appear to us morons as a like¬ able missy, she is caused to do a heart flop for Little Joe Adams (Ralph Forbes). This boy scout is a rival salesman out to catch Norma's business. He succeeds so well that he catches Norma. Which makes about as pretty a kettle of Fishen- heimer & Bamberger suit salesmen as you ever saw. For a time the poor li’l gal’s love life is as complicated as a pretzel, but God is in hris Heaven, Will Hays is his gravy job, and hard-boiled business men are in the box offices, so the two passionate peddlers wan¬ der out into a snow storm hunting for a place to pet. Ham and Eggs at the Front War R uctions 'TOM WILSON, Heinie Conklin, A Louise Fazenda and Myrna Loy have seen dark days, take it from this boy scout. This here now thing named “Ham and Eggs at the Front” called for the above catalogued hec¬ tors and hectresses to smudge their assorted noses with charcoal and coal soot. For why? Because they’re playing the parts of negro AEFers and the girl friend at the front. The idea of a colored battalion in the trenches is food for thoughtless¬ ness in anybody’s theatre. Action starts first in a Mason-Dixon line Page 60 training camp. There is a card game in which the sharp edge of a razor plays no inconsequential part. Then the troop moves to France. There, amid the frogs and fighters, they are taken into camp by a female Ger¬ man spy who plays black-face puppy love with the two Aframericans. It’s a good show, suckers, with enough shady situations to pull it into the colored movie class. See it! Feel My Pulse Do You Know Your Beets? LJERE’S Bebe Daniels as a germ- 1 1 fighting hypochondriac with simply marvelous ill-power. That girl would have herself innoculated against laughing, for she’s been work¬ ing on the “ail” road ever since her antiseptic uncle started her health bent for heaven. Bebe arrives at her own secluded sanitarium where, unbeknownst to her, William Powell, head of a boot¬ leg gang, has been making applejack to keep the doctors away. However, the girlie’s looks and bankroll en¬ courage him to force his hard-boiled gazabos into wheel chairs and to dress himself as the head doctor. An attack by hi-jackers upsets the works and first thing we know the poor little sick girl is keeping ’em at bay rum by means of kegs rolled down the stairs — and that babe sure knows how to stick to her hittin’I Not to be taken seriously — in fact, you are assured a tummy laugh when the drunk sings “Sweet Adeline” to Bebe, viz: “In all my dreams your bare bace feams . . .” Laugh, crowd, laugh! The Secret Hour But Time Will Tell pUT censors in the movies and you * take out sense. They Knew What They Wanted won the Pulitzer prize as a play. As a movie — The Secret Hour — it doesn’t run any such danger. But it’s not as bad as the profes¬ sional critics may tell you it is. In fact, it’s fairly heart twisting and, what’s more, it made us quite enthu¬ siastic about Pola Negri as the waitress who waits day in, day out for the tinkle of a wedding bell. When the proposal comes by mail she de¬ cides that now it can be tolled and proceeds to give up her job for the Great Adventure. Complications set in when she se¬ cretly marries the hired man instead of the old Italian fruit-grower who had sent her the love letter. Which makes it impossible for Pola to cast the “emote” out of her eye! Well, the picture is engrossing des¬ pite the doubtfulness of the events — so we’ll sign off with the reminder that there are some of us critics left, who, when we look for the most im¬ portant element in a film, don’t go immediately to plot. Soft Living Ease a Jolly Good Fellow 'T'HE merry Moll in “Soft Living” 1 who decides to marry mazuma and then divorce it is none other than Miss Madge Bellamy. She makes up her mind to hit the alimony racket for all that’s in it, and then get out with a roll that will keep her in black silk undies and sunken bath tubs for the rest of her unnatural life. Brother John Mack Brown is the lad who lets himself in for a peck of grief by encouraging the three-alarm riot who is Miss Madge. For the benefit of the knot-hole fraternity we hereby state that the girl friend takes a bath where all can see plenty. In fact, she does more than that. She takes two baths; and brothers, when Missy Madge of the shapely gambs splashes water on two separate occasions in one picture it’s time to take the opery glasses out of camphor. That, or sell the farm and start west. While the tubbings do not con¬ tribute much to the progress of art they do help while away the evening. Some people adore Madge in a tub; others get a severe case of Bellamy ache. 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See it yourself! You’ll find that they can put George into the toughest and most difficult roles in sight — but they can’t break the Bancroft! y\ W. GRIFFITH is still look- -L'* ing for a quiet, home-type girl to round out his cast in “The Battle of the Sexes,” his latest production for United Artists. Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, and Belle Bennett have been sel¬ ected for the leading roles, but after a three weeks’ search the “quiet, home-type girl” has not been found. And all we’ve got to say is that D. W. is a confirmed optimist if he ever hopes to find her at all — in this day and age. But, after all, we’re pretty sini- cal about that sort of thing, and if one doesn’t understand the character of the modern girl one just simply has to try to get the kneck of it. I mean you actually do. ooo 'T'HINGS never turn out the way we expect them to. Here we’ve been all set up about this picture “The Man Disturber” which Fred Newmeyer is direct¬ ing for Universal Pictures. 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Terrible to think what a poor meal ticket has to produce now¬ adays! But here’s a laugh on the other side of somebody’s face. None other than Harry Langdon, who is no more a husband than my Aunt Emma, has discovered, much to his sorrow, that it’s pretty hard for a man of his demands to save on the overhead. Harry ordered three hats for himself. Count ’em. One. Two. Three. Now guess what the amount of the invoice was. You can’t. Well, you can’t be blamed, for blimey if it wasn’t $120. Yes, sir. One hundred and twenty dollars for three hats — forty iron men apiece — made to order (the hats, not the money) — and if you don’t believe us, ask Harry’s press agent, he’ll make you believe anything. Well, well, if money talks, Har¬ ry’s certainly talking through his hat! ooo AND speaking of golfing, here’s a rich item we ran across. It reads: “Farrell MacDonald, the star' clown in ‘The Four Devils,’ is a noted humorist off the screen, except when fishing and golfing.” And we suppose when Farrell plays golf and fishes he just hu¬ mors himself along. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGE¬ MENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, of FILM FUN, published monthly at New York, N. Y., for April 1, 1028, State of New York, County of New York. Before me, a Notary Public In and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Curtis Mitchell, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he Is the Editor of the "Film Fun" and that the following is. to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid pub¬ lication for the date shown In the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. 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Dept. 39 E 6 Page 61f. ‘How My Wife Learned, to Play the Piano in QO Days Ip IIP1 m 1 fe fqi:l ^ _ 'till 1 LI ^ if t-inXCC? . i ' 4 i - V. / If A husband’s story of the fulfillment of a life-long wish — by a new, easy, spare¬ time method which has brought the joy of music into thousands of silent homes. FROM boyhood, I vowed that if ever I had a home of my own there woald be music in it. No wife for me un¬ less she could play some instrument, and play it well. My new home must have no dull, bored evenings, no monotonous Sun¬ day afternoons. I wanted the gaiety, the mental and physical stimulus, the whole¬ hearted, genuine joy of music. No girl could capture me without the lure of musical skill. But one day Beth came along, know¬ ing not one note from another, yet with a merry, humming tune forever on her lips, and a song in her heart for me. And Beth is Mrs. Taylor today. A piano graced our new home, but somehow the old vow was forgotten, and stayed for¬ gotten until Jimmy, Jr., and Beth No. 2 were quite some youngsters. Then along about the time the novelty of parenthood began to wear off a bit, the old vow came back. And one eve¬ ning I spoke out with a suddenness that surprised me, “Beth, I’d give a hundred dollars if you could play something — a piano, violin, banjo, ukulele — something, anything.” Beth looked so hurt I was immediately ashamed of myself, so I said no more, and the matter dropped, as I thought regretfully, forever. About three months later 1 got home early one night, and I heard the old dead piano come to life — sounded good, too, first a little jazzy piece, then a sweet plantation melody. “Company to sup¬ per ; I wonder who ?” I thought ; and I crept into the parlor door to see. There at the piano was Beth playing, and the two kiddies beating time. She saw me, and stopped, "Oh,” she cried, “I’m so sorry !” “Believe me, I’m not,” I shouted, and I grabbed the whole family up in my arms. “But, Jim, I wanted to wait and sur¬ prise you when I could really play. I'm learning fast, but it’s only three months since I found out” — “Found out what?” I said. Beth began to cry. “I know !” Jimmy, Jr., piped up, “Mother found out the way to learn music just like I am learning to read in school — only lots easier.” Well, that little musical party was a howling success. When the kiddies had gone singing to bed, my wife showed me the marvelous new method by which she had learned to play in three months’ spare time. \Fs <5 o £ (r\ O _ C _ _ i - X. - / r SUCCESS! “I do not understand how you can give so much for the money. The course is a musical education in itself. I wish more people in limited financial cir¬ cumstances would realize that one can really suc¬ cessfully learn to play from your course without the aid of a teacher.” — W. E. W., Montesano, Wash. "I want to extend the heartiest approval of your Piano Course. It has done more for me than years of other lessons.” — Moxie N. Lewis, 319 Jefferson St., Neosho, Mo. WHICH INSTRUMENT do you want to learn how to play the new, quick way? Courses for begin¬ ners or advanced pupils. Piano Violin Organ Clarinet Ukulele Fluto Cornet Saxophone Trombone Harp Piccolo Mandolin Guitar ’Cello Hawaiian Steel Guitar Sight Singing Piano Accordion Voice and Speech Culture Harmony and Composition Drums and Traps Automatic Finger Control Banjo (Plectrum, 5-String or Tenor) Jimmy, Jr., had told the truth ; the method was so simple and easy that anyone at all from 8 years up could learn by it. By this method the U. S. School of Music, the larg¬ est in the world, has already trained half a million people, teaching the playing of any musical instrument almost in the same way a school-child learns to read. But very much faster because older children and grown people have better trained minds, and know how to study and think. When first learning to read you look at every letter separately, and spell out every word, c-a-t, m-a-n. Later you do not see the letters; you see the words as units, “cat,” “man.” By and by longer words become units to you, and you find that whole expressions, like “up the steps,” “on the train,” no longer are seen as separate words, but immediately, at one instant, without spelling, with¬ out thinking words, you see each expression in the unit form. This skill in seeing in units develops until you see and know as units hundreds of long familiar phrases; and it is even entirely possible, if you wish, to easily increase your reading speed four or five times the average, grasping paragraph thoughts complete, sensing a whole page instantly, recognizing every part, registering and remembering all, with your pleasure exactly the same as the slower reader. The same easy understanding and complete en¬ joyment is similarly a part of the new way. The alphabet of music follows the alphabet of language. Each note is a letter, and playing is practically spelling the notes together correctly. The first note on the staff above is F. Whether you sing or play, it is always F. The four notes shown above are F-A-C-E, easy to remember because they spell “face.” Certain strings on mandolin, certain keys on piano, certain parts of all instruments, are these same notes. Once you learn them, playing melodies is a matter of acting what you see. U. S. School of Music, And here is where “familiar phrases” come 326 Brunswick Bldg., New York City, in — the “big secret.” It is so simple you probably have already guessed it. The “familiar phrases” . Please s*nd nleT fr?e book “Music Lessons of music are its harmonies. Tust as you instantly Your Own Home with introduction by Dr. - A ., , r ‘ i ,1 rrank Crane, Demonstration Lesson and par- recognize the countless phrases of speech so the ticulars of offer. j am interested in the relatively few of music are quickly a habit with following course: you. You play almost before you realize it — and every step is real fun, fascinating, simple, inter¬ esting, almost too good to be true. . Remember, neither my wife nor most of the half . a million other musicians trained by this method Have you above instrument . knew anything about music. Bet'h learned to play the piano; she could just as easily have learned any other Name . instrument. Jimmy, Jr., is now taking up violin, and (Please write plainly) my daughter is learning singing. Right at home, no costly teacher, no classes at inconvenient hours, no useless study and practice. No numbers, no Address . tricks, no makeshifts. But instead, a sound musical education, learning by notes. The intricacies of City . State . music reduced to a most amazing simplicity, able to develop the inborn talent which is a part of every per¬ son on this earth. When I told Beth 1 was writ¬ ing this out to put in a maga¬ zine, she told me to be sure and say that the school will gladly send a free book explain ing everything, called “Music Les¬ sons in Your Own Home,” also Dem¬ onstration Lessons explaining their easy method. The book is free, asking for it obligates you not at all —but you should send for it right away before all copies may be gone. JAMES W. TAYLOR. Mr. Taylor is enthusiastic. He has a right to be. Yet when you read the facts in our book you will appreciate that his opinion is conservative. You, too, can learn to play your favorite instru¬ ment, or to sing. Mail tlie coupon below to the U. S. School of Music, 326 Brunswick Building, New York City. Or send a postcard. But act at once. Do not delay. 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When all the various generations of this gener¬ ation hurried to their house tops and shouted loud the praises of Joan Crawford for her work in “Our Danc¬ ing Daughters,” M.-G.-M. immedi¬ ately had Josephine Lovett write an¬ other sensation like it and labeled it “Our Modern Maidens.” Which makes a pair of sexes, doesn’t it, Mr. Hoyle. (Wait, I’ll go ask daddy.) Oh, don’t bother. Some other time. ' Can’t you see I must continue? Joan of Heart, which is straight-eight enough, will have Rod La Rocque as her leading man in this tail-spin of the modern whirl. Does the public like Josephine’s startling expose of youth? Listen, folks, they Lovett! ooo YAEP, they shipped him all the way * from Europe to California and said see here, sir, you’ve gotta direct a coupla pictures. You wanna know his name? Max Reinhardt. Oh, you know a Max, too, do you? Well, who can that Max be? It’s only Max Belief, you say? Stop it, I hear my mother coming! When he arrived in Hollywood every Thomas, Richard and Henry pushed and shoved around the railroad station to get a glimpse of this noted Euro¬ pean theatrical impresario. (Would you mind handing me the dictionary, please?) What actress do you sup¬ pose will be the first this movie mon¬ arch will direct for United Artists? To give you a hint — she’s A Gish Fit for a King. Ah! You’ve guessed it. Apun my word. He will guide Lillian in a super, super, super, etc., attraction called “The Miracle Girl.” The title smacks of being the adven¬ tures of a girl who never wanted the last word, always paid the check and never wanted her own way. ooo ‘"-THROUGH THE NIGHT,” a A 100% talkie will be the next Fay Wray-Gary Cooper pet-together. We’re already all flushed, more than a bit confused and having our heart thumps about it. By the time it’s ready our nails will be bitten to a sight. Isn’t impatience the tearrible thing! Tsk, tsk. Lassie, we’ll never forget the last precious time we saw these two love birds thrilling and coo¬ ing. An old maidenly lady in the rear of us during one of their gor¬ geous grapples mumbled to her equally old maidish companion, “That’s no Wray to Gary on!” ooo TIT-HEN we heard that Norma ** Talmadge’s next effort would be “The Sign On the Door,” we were reminded of a story told about Dorothy Parker when the little New Yorker was in Hollywood. She went out there to write for the movies. They put her in a little office which was far down at the very end of a long hall. It was lonesome in so secluded a place. Her friends had difficulty finding her and it was sel¬ dom she had a visitor. Dorothy de¬ cided to put a stop to being left all alone with no one calling on her. She had a sign printed. A familiar sign. She tacked it on her door. It read: GENTLEMEN. ooo TI7HEN Norma Shearer begins work on her next offering she will take her orders from Director Willard Mack. He’s one of the re¬ cruits from Broadway where every one will tell you he made a name for himself. His friends will tell you it was a good name. His enemies a bad one. A • man usually can tell when he’s a success because it’s then he makes enemies. Willard Mack had plenty. They’d go to see a new play of his. When it was over and they passed out of the theatre you could hear them muttering far up the street and into a taxicab — “Mack truck! Mack truck!” But his friends far outnumber those who rise to sneer. If you ask them about “A Free Soul,” Norma’s new one, they’ll say: “Willard be good? You bet it will!” nr HE next jazzity for big blue-eyed -*■ Alice White is christened “Hot Stuff!” She should extinguish her¬ self in it. College life in general will be considered, but in particular there’ll be mush ado about what goes on and comes off at fraternity house parties. We’re to see whether or not the shaking confines itself to hands and cocktails. This won’t be the first time we’ve been shown the in¬ side about collegiates. It’s all been done before and will be done as many times again. Nothing is more cer¬ tain than that some movie producers are living off the frats of the land! Page J, And now She’s on the Vitaphone ^ John McCormick. V Presents r COLLEEN * Why Be Good/ ^TH VITAPHONE- FLAMING YOUTH -1929 MODEL/ She was late to her work hut on time for her (Jr eat Adventure. Her hoy friend of the night before was her boss on the morning after. His father fired her. The son ad¬ mired her. She ignored. He implored. She sophisticated. Father hesi¬ tated. Son investigated. WHAT DID HE FIND OUT? You’re due for an EYEFUL — and an EARFUL ... See and HEAR "Why Be Good?”— Soon! AWilliamA. p, : J SeiterPro. Jwj 7 durtion . . . HBB / ... By Curev ■ ■ / Wilson . . . (m jg|f With Neil H . / Hamilton... fffiB Page 5 They are the bright lights of the screen, these merry Metro- Gold wyn -Mayer stars. Be sure that your favorite theatre has booked M-G-M pictures. Then you will know that you have happy days ahead with the Biggest Stars in the Biggest Pictures— with DOLORES DEL RIO RALPH FORBES— KARL DANE TULLY MARSHALL HARRY CAREY from Robert W. Service’s 'Novel Directed by CLARENCE BROWN Lon Chaney, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, William Haines, Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Buster Keaton in M-G-M Pictures. lAHOWt.v METRO-GO N-MAYER More Slurs Than There Are in Heuren STAR os J Page 6 / EDNA MURPHY AND MONTE BEDE IN "THE GREYHOUND A WARNER BROTHERS PRODUCTION. POSED BY ARTHUR HOYT AND ROBERT ELLIOTT IN FOX FILM. POSED BY BILLY DOOI.EY AND SOME CHORUS GIRLS IN "A GALLANT GOB," A l’ARAMOUNT-CHHJSTIE COMEDY. First Chorus Girl — Say, do you know where that slip of mine is? Second Ditto — If 1 remember correctly, it’s in Chapter VI of your Confessions. (Billy: “Oh boy-y-y-y-yt") Monte — Say, how did that Mrs. Cohen get so badly bruised? Edna — Oh, didn’t you know? Her husband talked^ in his sleep. Robert — Have you a heater in your car? Arthur — You bet she is. Page 7 TOSED BY GEORGIA ODELL AND JACK DUETT IN "SHOULD SCOTCHMEN MARRY I" A PARAMOUNT- CHRISTIE COMEDY. Maid — Noiv, now, your wife told me to hurry and open that Scotch before the guests arrived. Jack — Aw, let it age! POSED BY MARIA CORDA AND BEN BARD IN "LOVE AND THE DEVIL," A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Ben— What is the name of your perfume? Maria — You ought to know; it’s on everybody’s slips. POSED BY THELMA TODD. A FIRST NATIONAL PLAYER. PHOTOGRAPH BY HAROLD DEAN CARSEY. Thelma, a most retiring beauty, believes that Delilah invited Samson in, thinking she might shear him up a little. Page 8 POSED BY COBLISS PALMEB AND SALLY O’NEILL IN "BROADWAY FEVER,” A TIFF ANY- STAHL PICTURE. Corliss— Quick, Sally, my husband must not see me in these undies which the Count gave me. Sally — Why, madam? Corliss — He said he’d kill me the next time he saw me in my lover’s presents. POSED BY SALLY PHIPPS AND FRANK ALBERTSON IN •'SCAREHEAD,” A FOX FILM. Frank — Say, I have a bone to pick with you. Sally —-All right, at what restaurant? People may say whatever they please, says Jane, but after all a gold-digger is 99 U/100% purr. Witt a Curtiss Who Are the Flying Stars? Marion Bryon has joined the air-mad gang and is all dressed up to illustrate that youth must have its flying. Her heart’s so much with Lucky Lindy and such that her poor jealous boy friend is training to be an aviator, but so far he’s only gone up in his own estimation. WHAT YOU DO You decide who the six fly¬ ing stars are on this page. You list them in your letter according to number and send them in to the Film FuN-Curtiss Flying Con¬ test, 100 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C., along with a letter not over 200 words, on the sub¬ ject, “Why I Want to Fly,” to arrive on or before May 2, 1929. HEY, you human flies, stuck on fly paper, gather around while we tell you how to make your castles in the air come true! There’s not a mother’s child amongst you who isn’t rarin’ to go zooming through the ether, piloting your own plane. And here’s your chance. See the pretty pitchures of movie stars on this page? Do you know them? Can you put their monickers next to their numbers? Or are you a trillium, whatever that may be? One boy and one girl will be transported free of expense from their homes to New York. While taking that marvel- our course with the Curtiss Flying Service they’ll receive free room and board, fascinating entertainment and fun in the Page 10 Flying Course! Be One of the Plucky Winner si Here we see Wallace Beery, the Paramount player who’s now a licensed transport pilot, which is the highest rating given by the U. S. De¬ partment of Commerce. Wallace says that in these days of enthusiasm for flying, everybody’s busi¬ ness is looking up. city of white lights and at the conclusion of the course will be brought back home, part of the way by air. Dates will be arranged so as to coincide with their vacations. Why shouldn’t one of the lucky pair be YOU? After you’ve listed the names of the flying stars, boys and girls, write us a letter, not over 200 words, on why you want to fly, and who doesn’t? Get that entry in right away. It must reach us before midnight the 2nd of May. But don’t put it off. Don’t let anything rob you of this swell chance to be one of the lucky few who are masters of the air, pio¬ neers in the greatest industry and amusement of the future! Go to it. Get in on the contest event of the year! WHAT YOU WIN Free air-and-rail round-trip to New York during your vacation from wherever you live in the U. S. A., a $300 flying course with the Cur¬ tiss Flying Service at Curtiss Field, living expenses paid, and entertainment on Broad¬ way including shows, din¬ ners, and meetings with screen and aviation celeb¬ rities. Page 11 These attractive posters broad¬ casting the mysterious flying stars on the previous page have been distributed all over Amer¬ ica by the Hollywood Picture News Service. If you haven’t seen them in your neighbor- !« it »n UJT'i 'i j m n i ti 'J larrinfiSH Mrv nanllnMlV FLY TO FAME Who Arc The Flying Slant? •1= 3=f“ One thing *he lucky winners will learn at the completely equipped Curtiss hangars — un¬ der the supervision of fine instructors — is how to assemble an air¬ plane. Here’s a gang of students learning how to attach the wing to the fuselage of a Curtiss Robin cabin monoplane. Join the fly guys! WT6 Here we have a glimpse of a cou¬ ple of students getting some in¬ side stuff on air¬ planes; under the direction of an expert instructor and demonstrator, they learn the mechanisms of motors and the principles of construction. When it comes to flying, you’ve got to start at the bottom andywork your way upl VAMf- 4S WE told you last /A month, the Curtiss Fly¬ ing Service and Film Fun ar,e giving you an op¬ portunity to be one of the fly¬ ers that bloom in the spring. Come one, come all, and may the best man wing! The Curtiss Flying Service, which offers a boy and a girl that marvelous course in avia¬ tion, is the oldest flying or¬ ganization in the world. In its 1929 program it’s planning to establish twenty-five or more units all over the U. S. A., thereby taking the lead in inaugurating the first nation¬ wide system of taxi services, student training schools, cross¬ country transportation, aerial photography, etc., etc. Dur¬ ing the eighteen years of its existence, the Curtiss Flying Service has transported more than 50,000 passengers, its planes flying approximately five million miles, or the Page 12 MYSTERY GOGGLES! Artp ?OKTUMF- equivalent of 200 times around the earth! That’s the company with which you’ll be associated if you’re one of the lucky (and clever) winners. You’ll get your training at the famous Curtiss Field, near Garden City, Long Island. Curtiss Field is known as the “cross¬ roads of the air” and is famous everywhere as the center for aeronautical activity in the East. You couldn’t pick a finer place to learn the thrills and pleasures of flying — the field which saw the take-off on their gallant flights of men like Kelly, Macready, Cham¬ berlain, Brock and Schlee, and last, but by no means least, Lucky Lindy. In¬ cidentally, judges in this con¬ test are none other than Clarence Chamberlain, Wil¬ liam Brock, and George Haldeman! For rules and conditions see page 64. t “ ground school ” the Curtiss Flying Service students learn about a jew of the problems, and how to meet them, that the young aviator encounters before tak¬ ing-off and before land¬ ing. Soon they’ll be out of the classroom and in the air — be¬ cause you can’t keep a good man down! Rod — Say, listen here, girlie, I’ve been noticing that you go up with that aviator quite a bit. Billie — Yes, I fell in love with him when I saw him loop-the-loop, so now we go around to¬ gether. P08ED BT BILLIE DOVE AND BOD LA ROCQUE IN "THE MAN AND THE MOMENT." A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. Can They Stop Your Flijiht to Fame and Fortune? • r«M*J-lnp (o iC. LA • lrlx« conn. -Hh Ik. Fhln* brrta> mMwmtmtmf on.'** .MUMM In Ik* tMi