Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-24

lobby of a London hotel with cable
gram in his hand. 1t was an invita-
| ton to Hollywood, writing dialogue for
leading studio, and a healthy sum
was named as the consideration.
The playwright turned to Otto Kahn,
who happened to be in the group:
| Tell me. Mr.. Kahn, what had bet
ter do. 1 am a European, and do not
understand American movie standards.
Should I accept this offer?"
Otto Kahn read the message.
Il would If I we're you" said he.
And when I come back?" said the
PLAYWRIGHT, still dubious of the outcome.
when you come back" said Otto
Kahn. you will be one of the best golf
players in the world"
Greta Carlo has changed her hair
comb, just when number OF the world
sirens had carefully copied her method
OF arranging the ash-blond hair which
Is an intriguing part Of her beauty.
| Greta the Great changes the severe
| lines of her couture. Instead OF the
straight sweep of uncurled hair brushed
straight back from her brows and BUSH
| ing out at the nape of her neck, the
Swedish mystery affects the exact re-
verse.
! Her hair is curled from the back Of
| the head to the front now-curled for
ward provokingly, with the careless
nonchalance of young boy. Queen
bang. 1t made lovely setting for the
calmest, most beautifully balanced eyes
the world has ever seen.
Lily Langtrv wore the curled bang
also, but her hair was brushed severely
back at the sides, intensifying the in
formal quality of the curled portion.
Greta Carlo has some of the ire
I hall fVN az
eyes that characterized the eyes OF
acknowledgements unrufied depths.
No matter what ha~~ens, Greta the
Great doesn't tip her hand. And that
| is perhaps the primary reason for her
tremendous and undiminishing vogue.
HOLLYWOOD Boul is full of ancient
| genties with full-brush boards amb!ing
well toward the waist line.
It's patriarch season in the village.
The local pilgrimage play is due, and
the apostles and extra men are gather
| ing Some OF these have been playing
small parts in the annual performance
since the first one was given, 19 years
ago.
Before the advent of talkies they
! found a lucrative living doing atInos-
phere bits in motion pictures in be-
| tween seasons. Eut talking pictures
! with smaller casts and trained people
| have cut of this means Of earning a
livelihood.
In some mysterious out-of-the-way
place these ancient actor men have
existed, awaiting the beginning Of the
play season. And now, like so many
newly opened cocoons, they appear
along the village streets. chewing and
chatting and trying out their wings.
Bob Armstrong; wife wanted him to
play bridge the other night. She found
him in his library talking to the most
attractive of the men she had hidden
to her dinner party.
What do men find to talk about
when they get together" she asked him.
You. all look so interested hate to
take you away to play cards"
I'VE are casting-for my new pic
| ture with Jimmie Gleason"
And that was that. A few nights
later Bob found the Mrs deep in con-
versation with a knot of women just
when cards we're about to be dealt
We'll" said he with grin, Il sup
casting?"
I'VE are casting" said Mrs. Bob;
casting few aspersions."
Evelyn Brent was one of the first of
! the stars to take up the sun-tan fad
I
treat the moment studio lights were
dimmed
| Dorothy Mackail emerged from her
sun baths fine, ripe, Van Dyke brown
| But these girls began the process
early in the year and acquired their
patine by degrees. Some of those who
tried to emulate them by coating them
selves in cocoanut oil and spread-eagling
in the sand for half q day received
! f~iA de Ia INn fko1 fON
a while thereafter.
You can't don makeup and do a
talkie when you're all blisters. But you
can pound a typewriter-worse. luck!
There are times when the movies get
the breaks.
Local lunch lizards are having hard
time of it. Now that the colony has
outgrown its one and only bout haunt
and has spread to two or three places
equally popular, the lizard has q lot of
scuttling to do If old-tinne records are
to be kept.
New workers. brought in the idea Of
lunching at various places. So Holly
wood had to reverse its ancient habit
of eating at the same buffet in the
same surroundings every noon.
They came into q soda fountain last
evening with much giggling and rustling
| of bouffant frocks.
vanilla ice cream sodas," piped the
| two in tulle.
and your" The soda jerk directed
at their wilted escort.
"Talkin' tine? jess gimme glass
Worcestershire sauce. m'good mani"
Mary Aston and June Collyer bear an
uncanny resemblance. A favorite trick
is donning identical frocks and con-
fusing the populace in general. They
have been photographed together, and
are as like as peas In pod.
reveals that the conventional camera
features all have something in COM
mon. Often group of IL young star
lets, bear such . strope resennaau that