Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-28

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. March a.
Lady Hollywood is out to defend her
reputation. Her lifted countenance has
fresh coat of whitewash and two
bright spots of the bloom Of youth have
been painted afresh on her somewhat
passe cheeks.
On the surface she is so eminently
respectable, so absolutely free from
guile, that she cannot see how some
of the writer's can write as they do and
some of the Broadwayites who are
collecting fat salaries for talkies can
talk as they do-away from the micro
phones, l mean.
Gentlemen under contract to write
wiSe-cracking titles have not RETAINED
from few priceless wise-cracks on the
subject of Hollywood. These have been
so good that they have flown from
mouth to mouth, as things have way
of flying in the gelatin village. And in
their merry tour they have come back
to producers ears.
Producers are beginning TO lay down
the law where before they only frowned.
The naughty, naughty OF yesterday
is changing into a more tangible form
of correction. Contracts are being
written which include clause forbid
ding employees to wise-crack or make
joking or seriously derogatory remarks
about Movieland and its inhabitants.
Lady Hollywood looks slantwise out
of sly little eyes at this diSbelieving
world She is putting up a good ex-
terror and wants the world to take her
at face value.
And these ill-mannered creatures who
peep behind the scenes or see through
H. t.,-ir rh HxafVa IN
have their knuckles cracked with the
financial ruler.
Unless they keep their hands in their
pockets!
AS DR.. william M. Marston is
now psychologizing emotion for Carl
Laemmle, we may expect new screen
credit. Pictures of the future can run
produced by So-and-So. directed by So
and-So, art director So-and-So, titles
by So-and-So, story adaptation by So
and-So, and emotion expertly measured
by DR.. William M. Marston.
Which brings me to very good story
about screen credits. A certain dentist,
whom we shall call DR.. Fix En-, is en-
ployed, mainly by directors, to refurbish
the mouths of ladies being groomed for
stardom.
One of the essential points of beauty
for any young lady planning to face the
cameras and dazzle vulnerable world
Is perfect teeth.
Many an actress has eyes like
drowned stars, delicious Greek nose,
pouting, provocative lips and deliri-
ously curly hair as framework for a
nouthful of what country boys call
buck" teeth
The dentist in question solves their
difficulties by saving off the offending
teeth at the gum and replacing them
with faultless porcelain caps-perfect
teeth while you wait, SO to speak.
One of the ladies who has enjoyed
the benefits of this dental art appeared
in picture in which two full slides
were given to screen credits. A cynic
in the audience had been mumbling
these credits aloud. When he got to
the last one he drawled, Teeth by DR..
Fix En-" to the vast amusement OF
every one about.
I received in my mail the following
heartening reinsurance:
ION Easter morn Norman Kerry will
wear a double-breasted blue serge coat.
white flannel trousers, open shirt, no
hat. A black silk handkerchief will pro-
trude from his pocket"
Also:
tom J. Geraghty will wear a gray
suit with invisible stripe, tie that
matches his eyes, wrist watch and light