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^ Hurricane Elopement
★ Story of Earhart
* Norma Steps Out
*-By Virginia \ alo
MOVIEDOM is still gasp
ing a little over the
elopement of Frances Lang
ford, the radio singer and
movie actress, and Jon Hall,
who skyrocketed to fame in
“Hurricane” and hasn t been
seen on the screen since.
Just after it was announced that
they wouldn’t marry until he had be
come more nrm
? ly established in
! pictures, they
i slipped ofT to
I Prescott, Ariz.,
j with her mother
and his sister and
got married. But
Hollywood didn’t
I know about it un
til four days lat
er, possibly be
cause he used his
real name, Louis
Locher.
Frances Langford Even ufter Hali1
made such a hit
in “Hurricane" he drew' only $150 a
w'eek for some time—mere chicken
feed in Hollywood—but his salary
was Anally raised to $200.
Kay Francis’ last picture under
her present contract will probably
be based on a story that she herself
wrote and sold to the studio. It’s
all about a famous aviatrix who
goes into a round-the-world flight
contest, and gets lost on a desert
isle. Can it be possible that Miss
Francis heard about Amelia Ear
hart?
Fashion news: Claudette Colbert
has a daytime costume of dark blue
with white floral buttons down the
side of the jacket, like one which
the duchess of Windsor lilces to
wear. Recently, one evening in New’
York, Helen Vinson wore a black
chiffon gown with a skirt yards and
yards wide, banded with many rows
of narrow black velvet ribbon. No
shoulder straps.
The New York revival of those
two Valentino pictures, “The Sheik”
and “The Son of the Sheik,” was
so successful that Agnes Ayres, the
heroine, has been booked for a 20
weeks’ personal appearance tour.
And two more Valentino pictures
will be brought forth.
Speaking of those Valentino pic
tures, Verree Teasdale and Adolph
Menjou were in New York, before
sailing for Europe, when they were
being showm, and he was none too
anxious for her to see “The Sheik”
and see how funny he looked on the
screen in those days.
'I'
Norma Shearer would like to do a
smart modern comedy, after her
long siege of costume pictures, so
you may see her in “The Women,”
NORMA SHEARER
which had a long run as a success
ful play before being handed over
to motion pictures. Norma has a
way of getting what she wants—as
Marion Davies found out when they
both wanted “Marie Antoinette” and
Norma got it.
t'
Remember Eric von Stroheim,
who used to make pictures
(“Greed” and “Foolish Wives”
among them,) that cost millions?
He’s acting in French pictures now
—which usually cost not more than
$75,000.
Incidentally, Jean Hersholt was
reminiscing about “Greed” the oth
er day—how it was way over the
right length, and von Stroheim felt
so badly about having it cut that he
wouldn't even look at the film that
was finally released.
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ODDS AND ENDS—A radio actor
and director who learned nineteen
languages is on the air—as a dialect
stooge and imitator of animals . . .
Many of the professional radio an
nouncers are bad, but after hearing
a dozen amateurs try out the other
day the worst of them sounded mar
velous . . . Bette Duvis refused to be
included in a list of moviedom's ten
most beautiful girls; said “The idea
is silly, because I’m not even a near
beauty" . . . It’s said that Metro spent
$250,000 developing “l Married an
Angel” as a picture, and finally
abandoned it — whereupon it was
bought for the stage, where it’s a tre
mendous success.
© Western Newspaper Union.
UNLIKE the M. D., a tree surgeon can’t choose his working place.
Incisions are made with chisels and mallets, being kept clean and
small. Next (above) assistants Clean out decayed matter.
AFTER the wound is cleaned, a lacquer
antiseptic is painted on the inside
and a waxy mixture is placed in the cav
ity. “Sewing up” the wound is a delicate
step (see above). Van Yahres experi
mented with several substances until
engineers of the B. F. Goodrich labora
tories developed for him a special vul
canized rubber block which takes the
place of sutures used to make stitches
on human bodies: Left: Finally the opera
\ tion is complete, the wound “sewed” and
1 dressed and the “patient” on its way to
recovery. The tree shown here has begun
to roll back its bark over the incision. In
time the wound will close completely.
How Modern Tree Surgeons
Parallel Doctors of Medicine
In Saving Lives of ‘Patients’
MODERN tree surgeons are careful with their “patients” as
the average doctor of medicine. The main differences are
(1) tree surgeons don’t use anaesthetic and (2) the patient sub
mits without being stretched out on an operating table. Among
America’s foremost tree surgeons is George Van Yahres, who
has carried on and modernized the technique developed by the
father of Martin L. Davey, present governor of Ohio.
Only recently has American tree surgery come into its own,
popularized by the ever-growing trend to conservation. Once men
were glad to destroy worm-eaten and ailing trees; now they
protect them, for trees are not as plentiful as they used to be.
In these pictures Mr. Van Yahres shows FOTO-FEATURE
readers how his skilled crew of surgeons restore life and vigor
to sickly trees, following step by step the practices of up-to-date
human surgery in hospitals. Below he makes his “diagnosis,”
examining the bark or “skin” of the tree where symptoms indi
cate there is decay. Vibrations from hammer taps tell him
where the trouble is centered. This is the first step.
LEFT: Human bones sometimes need bracing, and so does the “skeleton”
* of a tree. Hence strong bolts are inserted after the cavity has been
cleaned out. Power-driven drills make quick, clean (and painless, we pre
sume) holes for the braces. Above: Here is the variety of instruments—
each with a definite purpose—which must be at the tree surgeon’s finger tips.
Doesn’t this layout resemble the trays of instruments in an operating room?