Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26
LEATRICE JOY GOES ON STAGE
TO IMPROVE TALKING VOICE

she can't resist the sheiks Of Holly
wood Harlan Thompson. her hus-
band, feels the same way about it,
Viola Brothers Shore has developed
into a full-fledged movieite. In cspa-
bility and capacity for movie work she
will probably be a second Frances
Marion in her line Viola put in some
hard months in the studio of the king
CT poverty row, as Tiffany Stahl Is
sometimes called. She will tell you she
has been everything but ONCE boy. But
it resulted in thorough studio training
and much success nowadays.
Mary Pickford recently confded IN a
friend that she had never seen Douglas
Fairbanks so emotional as ne has pes.
over her loss of her curls
There is tremendous possibility in the
delayed maturity afforded by Movie
land. A movie star who sheds her long
curls in her 30s may be expected to
grow right on up as she approaches the
40s. She may even progress so far
as to deny husbandly authority entirely
by so. And them
If canvass we're made to select the
best all-around worker, business man
and playboy in Hollywood, Harold Lloyd
would win out easily
He has made one kind Of picture and
stuck to 1t. 1t Is his truest form Of
expression. 1t has established clean
comedy as money-maker and an en-
| tertainment value.
| He has married only once, and finds
| in his home and wife and baby the
same ideal companionship and delight
! that any 100 per cent citizen finds
/ Hollywood as movie town, with
Movieland's eccentric WITNESSES, might
be a million miles away
| Lloyd has invested the tremendous
| fortune nc has made practicaIv-rea
estate and stocks and bonds And he
/ has built. or is building, one OF the
show places Of the West-a canoe
/ course. a golf course. motion picture
| projection rooms and sound devices. a
| pipe organ; everything to make modern
life ideal.
AS a playboy. ask the people he
/ gathers around him. Among them ycI
will find the men who have worked
with him through the years-camera-
men, sports writers. gagmen-the bull
Wark OF loyalty and good fellowship
| which have done much to carry Harold
| Lloyd to the top of the slippery noun
/ tain Of movie fame and hold him there.
An outstanding characteristic OF all
| new Hollywood homes of consequence
is the steam bath and exercising rooms
that are being installed
The American Nations present mania
for slenderness got its original impetus
| in Hollywood. The cruel eye of the
| camera catches a curve and diaboli-
cally exaggerates 1t. A foot girl
who weighs 140 is hopelessly fat.
And the Hollywood leading man
whose waist line is not impeccable must
have tremendous personality and out
standing histrionic endowment to sur
ViVe the handicap. Directors choose
d, mainly by the tape measure.
Jokes. it would seem, have to b
finely fitted. The comedy must start
of with certain speed and smooth
flow of humor. broken by occasional
hysterical high lights If the finish
gets 50 ga-ga that you grab your neigh
bor's hat and throw it into the aisle.
you have seen a comedy just full Of
"it."
And Mr.. Fraser admitted to me that
the first laugh is the hardest" but
that realization comes over us in our
installing and boarding-school DAYS.
Breaking the ice of human nature is
about the same. except that there Is
an advantage in getting people into
rows OF seats, turning down the lights
and having the idea Of a good time in
mind.
tcopyrisht. 1929. By North American
Newspaper Alliance