Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-07
MOVIE LIFE IN EOLL.YW

HOLLYWOOD, Calf = Among the
most popular pals in pictures are
Jackie and Josie, both veterans of the
screen. Josephine has been in the
movies for nine years, two years
longer than jackie whose last name
is Coogan, and she is four years older
than the child star.
Both have been in more than few
films, but Josephine claims the lead
over Jack in this respect, having hop
ped past the camera in approximately
300 pictures since she made her screen
debute with Dorothy Gish in 1916.
AS monkeys go, Josephine is mid
dle-aged. When her friend Jack, now
IL, celebrates his 18th birthday, she
probably will have disappeared from
the screen, or if not, she will be play
ing nothing but grandmother roles.
Cruel Classification
An odd thing about pictures is that
even an experienced actress like jose
phine is not listed as a player and cast
by the casting director. Animals are
classified as property, and it is the
property man who supplies them
along with furniture, bottles, bric-a-
brac and other inanimate scenery If
human scenery is needed to stand or
sit around while the animals act, the
property man has nothing to do with
it. That is the casting directors job
Preferences
Film fans who wonder what rare,
exotic cigarettes a high salaried star
enjoys in his or her leisure moments
might breathe the sometimes smoke
clouded atmosphere of an ordinary
living room with more contentment
after, satisfying their curiosity on this
question. A cigarette from the quaint,
enameled case carried by Gloria Swan
son, for instance, would be recognized
Immediately as that old fashioned type
which is said to be improved by bak-
ing in the oven, or something to that
effect. Evelyn Brent enjoys a menthol
cratic in price as the other. But Tom
Mix, who might be expected to pull a
little cloth sack and pack of papers
from his shirt pocket, leans instead to-
ward the kind associated in adver-
tiSementS with silk hats and monocleS.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf1-F'or the bene-
fit of those who lie awake nights
wondering how Adolphe Menjou must
have looked without that dapper
mouStache, the star of sophisticated
screen drama has surrendered for pub
lication q photograph taken when he
was 13 years old.
Apparently Adolphe was born
worldly-wise, for even without the
famous moustache and the maturity
of later years his face suggests that
mood of polite amusement which is
part of his present-day screen person
ality.
OmnipreSent
One type of article outnumbers all
the rest in the studio property rooms,
where odds and ends of everything are
in readiness to be carried out upon a
set at a moments notice-the bottle.
Most of the thousands of bottles are
needed for the saloon and wine cellar
sets, SO popular in the movies since
prohibition There are also, however,
many perfume bottles and humber
containers made to hold pickles, cat
sup and the like.
Planes Last Stop
This movie metropolis is the unan-
nounced destination of more airplanes
than have figured in all the trans
Atlantic, trans-Paciifc and cross-con-
tinent flights in recent years.
Hundreds of planes that have out
lived their efficiency as ships of bat
tie, exploration or transport find
final usefulness in the movies. They
are Cracked up or burned to put eX-