Cinema: Variations Jan. 28, 1929

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Because acting and overfeeding caused brown pouches to appear under his melancholy eyes, the face of King Tut, famed cinema dog, was lifted last week by one Dr. G. M. Eisenhower in Hollywood.

Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third.

In Coquette, Mary Pickford film now in production, Mrs. Arthur Loew, daughter-in-law of the late Marcus Loew, only daughter of Adolph Zukor (TIME, Jan. 14) earned $7.50 per day as an extra.

Casting offices in Hollywood last week offered $15 per day to those who could best howl like dogs, make parrot-noises, imitate chickens, cats and neighing horses.

Arriving in Hollywood, Will Hays, interviewed on censorship, said: "Motion pictures are just as necessary in their way as agriculture. . . . Any effort to censor and cut . . . is as great an outrage as to cut the tender tips of newly sprouting corn."

In Old Bailey Court, London, last fortnight, one Robert Williams, carpenter, said he had killed an Irish housemaid in Hyde Park because he had been seized with an epileptic fit during which he saw the face of Lon Chaney, famed U. S. cinemactor. On the day before the killing, Carpenter Williams said he had viewed the film, London After Midnight, featuring Mr. Chaney.