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Show People,* famed ones, William S. Hart, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, John Gilbert, Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Leatrice Joy, Aileen Pringle, Estelle Taylor, Claire Windsor were paid $7.50 (regular pay per day for extras) and given a good lunch by Marion Davies for showing their faces on her location. Only she and William Haines were in working clothes that day. taking the last scenes of a comedy about a girl who lets the movies swell her head. Hollywood directors distrust pictures that turn the camera on itself, believing illusion is an asset always more valuable than intimacy...
...heart of the U. S. public was not the little girl who jumped over a cliff in Birth of a Nation. Many cinema fans, their memories bemused by thousands of flickering faces, have lost dollar bets on that fact. The girl who jumped over the cliff was Mae Marsh. Other bets have concerned the sisters' ages. Lillian is 32. Dorothy is 30. Just as pretty as Lillian (5 ft. 4 in. tall, red-blonde hair), cleverer perhaps, certainly shrewder, Dorothy wanted romance to be concrete, loved while Lillian acted, married (James Rennie, dark-haired "legit" actor) while Lillian stayed...
...dollarsign. This year the "Interests" have been cleverly brought back to suit the shift in Hearst politics and, between them, the Messrs. Powers and Brisbane have personified the present-day Democracy as a female donkey called "Diamond Lil." They took the name from a play by much-arrested Actress Mae West?a play about a clever, jewel-laden harlot. They have pictured "Diamond Lil" ogling the farmer, sweltering in a Tammany furpiece, getting blown out of her car by the Maine election, juggling issues in vaudeville, playing the stockmarket, etc., etc. Democratic Chairman Raskob usually accompanies...
Pleasure Man was a ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...late Jack Conway's review in Variety, had gauged the substance of the play, appeared with their cohorts and dragged all the female impersonators and the few remaining members of the cast to a nearby jail. This, it was supposed, would end the silly business; but counsel for Mae West secured an injunction which allowed the performance to be given twice more before it was attacked again. The second arrests were more complete; even Author Mae West was indicted for disorderly conduct and the play did not reopen...