Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-17

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, october II
Village loyalty is more than
a phrase. Producers who think nothing
of stealing ideas from one another stand
by when the cry of the brotherhood
goes out.
Hands off that player!"-or author
means Just that. No other studio in
the colony will touch an employe who
has gone against the unwritten laws OF
movieland. That those laws pretty well
include subservience to producers is well
established, but it is a subServience bet
ter paid for than the slavery OF other
places.
They don't all flock here for the
climate, brochures to the contrary.
Back of the mysterious failure of
beautiful Broadway blond is perhaps
one of the most interesting tales OF the
local clan spirit.
Although the blond came to the VII
lage heralded as one of the accepted OF
Manhattan and has unQuestioned abn-
ity in a line much sought by studio
executives, she went Hoppe so far as
contract offer was concerned, and has
hied her back to the White Way at
smaller salary and for more sophisti-
Gated audiences.
The bonds entry into movieland was
as the heralded fiancee of a young d.
rector. The e-at-first-sight romance
was the tale on which this pulchri-
tudinous damself built-her standing in
a village SO full of beauty that a good,
homely gal is relief.
(That observation is made by an
honest woman, Visiting males don't
feel that way at alts a -
engaged to a young woman in the col-,
ony. sister to powerful executive in
the motion picture industry. The girl
had seen him through some uphill days,
had been a loyal friend and adherent
until the association ripened into some
thing recognized by close friends as the
four-lettered plague.
Imagine the embarrassment Of every
one concerned when the news OF the
big romance drifted back to cinemaland.
There was the usual fluttering and ex-
citment. But through 1t all the girl
here behaved like the thoroughbred she
is. She congratulated the man and
was very friendly to the beauty. If she
had much resentment she certainly hid
it admirably. Perhaps the light had
begun to dawn.
A triumphal entry was made by the
newly-engaged ones. and they sat them
down to wait for offers from local ex-
ecutives--at least the man did; the
blond came here under contract to
leading studio, and was put on the
waiting list while suitable vehicle was
sought The search drew out into
weeks and weeks, with the wedding date
drawing higher and higher. Finally
came the ceremony, and a noticeable
absence Of those professionals who go
to make up the cream of the colony's
elite.
The dear public which had gathered
on street corners and in adjacent gut
tiers to view the spectacle were invited
into the church. 1t was one of the
best breaks for the curbstone gang in
local history.
To make long story short, the studio
did not exercise its option on the blond.
1t bought her out on the picture which
was supposed to be made On the original
option. Nobody ran after the husband.
But as 1t is the fashion to be too busy
to honeymoon this season, the usual
story that both bride and bridegroom
would hurry back to their work at the
studio after a one-day honeymoon"
went forth.
Finding the village obdurate, they re-
turned TO the East Coast, where diff
ferent set of politics reigns and per-
haps different policy. There is quite