Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-25
NY ROBBIN COONS


HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 24.-This is
q tale Of dresssng-rooms, with the
moral, II any, this: Greater love
hath no man 49,"
Bebe Daniels, while a Paramount
star, built herself a swanky dressing
room-bungalow on the Lasky lot.
Then Bebe's contract was not re-
newed, and Bebe. maybe with a
laugh up her sleeve, f~igurative.y
leaped the back fence and landed
on the R-K-O lot as a singing,
dancing, acting brilliant.
Before she left Lasky's she sold
her bungalow to Richard Dix. Ere
long Dix, his contract also unre-
newed by Paramount, followed her
over the fence.
Now at R-K-O young Hugh Ire
vor had been doing famously. He
was the first player put under long
term contract by Radio after the
passing Of its predecessor, +. B. ..
The Radio powers called Hughie
aside one day and told him how
pleased they were with him. He was
to have leads in their talkies, and
a young man in that position really
needed a dressing room befitting his
rank.
So they renovated the quarters
occupied by the late Fred Thomson,
western star, and turned them over
to Hughie. Rest rooms, a shower
that worked. space a-plenty. Fine,
thought Hughie, and moved in.
And Out
Well, when Babe jumped the
fence they gave her the rooms once
held by Gloria Swanson, the best
on the lot. But when Dix was
signed as a star also, R-K-O was
faced with a problem. There were
no available rooms good enough
for a big star. Somebody would
have to move. Somebody was
Hughie. Hughie moved.
But does Hughie Trevor mind?
Well. all he is in pictures today he
attributes to Dix, his pal. Dix help
ed him to become an actor, an am
bition he had cherished since child
hood. When he was struggling II
the insurance business in New York.
Dix aided him financially. Dix also
got him his movie opportunity.
So Hughie has vacated. and
cheerfully. And greater love hath
no man-"-not in Hollywood.
At Random
Universal contributes The Drake
Murder Case" to the already we'll
stocked talkie library Of all-court-
room dramas. . There are a few
scenes over which the Judge does
not preside, however And the
late Gladys Brockwell, fatally in
jured recently in an automobilc
wreck, makes an suspicious screen
farewell In the leading role.
Norman Chubby" CLANCY (no
kin to Lon) has replaced Joe Fat
"" Cobb in Our Gang" comedies.
-. Chubby" came from Baltimore,
and FATTY" growing up, went out.
George Lewis, "Collegians Sc
ries" hero. and Dorothy CULVER,
his leading lady. both have risen 70
feature length pictures. Differ
emit ones. too. . Jiggs. HollywoodS
talking dog, has two words in his
vocabulary -. Mama" and Ham
burger"
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 24-The YER
table tidal wave Of new movie tai
ent which all but inundated a COM
placent Hollywood with the breaking
Of the talkie storm has brought the
studios a new full-sized job.
They must familiarize movie q.
soers Of the crossroads and hinter-
lands with the names and personaii-
ties OF the Broadway importatiors
so that those names will mean as
ullch in the wide open spaces as
atbng New York's white way.
They must make the hitherto
strange or vaguely remembered
names Of Broadway's big guns
stand for real, instead Of phantom
folk, in the minds Of the great
movie audience outside Manhattan
and other metropolitan centers.
The several hundred movie maya
zine and newspaper writers in Hol-
lywood eager TO develop every new
angle In a finely combed news ter
ritory, have aided considerably
through the printed word, but the
problem now has given rise to q
new form Of talkie advertising-en-
tertainment-the personality trail
er."
Sell Personality
A variation Of the established
talkie trailer shown in theaters to
herald coming attractions, the per
sonality trailer" will devote itself
TO the player rather than TO the pic
ture, which Is mentioned inciden-
tally II at all. In effect 1t is q talk