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Reginald Denny in "The Spice of Life."
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Agnes Ayres in "The Marriage Maker."
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Maid of Maryland. — So it's Ralph
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Marjorie F. — Last address I had of
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;iml then i li«>ld touch <>f burlesque.
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which would certainly be out of place
in such a harrowing experience as
lived thru by the romancers.
The plot is heavy-handed dime-
novel material — thrilling in its ex-
posure of the will to live by these
figures in the dugouts left by the
Germans. It's a picture of land-
slides which entomb the priest and
the lovers — a picture of grim and
ghastly situations which terminate
when the girl tells her mother she
cannot marry the wealthy English-
man since she is already married to
the man who was lost to her while
making love in the bosom of the
earth. Of course he eventually bobs
up safe and sound.
The picture carries a certain spir-
itual quality which makes the petting-
party episodes in the dugouts very
much out of order. The most im-
pressive touch to us is Corinne Grif-
fith's portrayal — in reality her first
big opportunity. She endows the
role with sincerity and charm and
plays with vital feeling. Heavy
melodrama that it is, it somehow
lingers in the memory.
PERHAPS Gloria Swanson
thought she could not be a con-
vincing French personage of the
theater unless she resorted to ex-
tremes, but it seems to us that with
half the expenditure of physical en-
erg)' in playing the title-role of
"Zaza" (Paramount) she could have
achieved much better results. She
is a combination of Nazimova, Mae
Murray and Leonore Ulric — and
makes a frantic effort to be tempera-
mental. Such outbursts are wearing
upon one's composure. In her tran-
quil moments— which are few — she
succeeds in being real. On the other
hand H. B. Warner is too subdued.
It is a frigid performance indeed, for
a character supposedly French
The picture is staged with undue
lavishness and really proves interest-
ing in a majority of its scenes — par-
ticularly when Zaza is swinging in
a ballet number over the heads of the
audience. It's a story of a dancer's
romance and a broken heart which is
mended when the good Frenchman's
wife conveniently dies, releasing him
to fan the embers of a previous pas-
sionate love into a quick and vivid
flame.
Miss Swanson may not be at her
best here, but her clientele is so se-
cure that we can hear the box-office
cracking; under the strain.
A CURIOUS composition is
"Red Lights" (Goldwyn)
which is offered as a mystery
melodrama, biit which before it de-
velops its powers takes on the form
(Continued on page 96)
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Import Film Co., 729 Seventh Ave.
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Ivan Film Prod.. i-'6 W. 46th St.
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(Continued from page 94)
of high-handed comedy. The idea
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and Diamond Dick at their dime-
novel best, tho with vast improve-
ment in generating novel touches in
pointing its quite mad hokum.
Word comes to a railroad mag-
nate that he may never set eyes upon
his daughter. He hops a train for
the boundless West and the action
starts a-popping. The story becomes
involved with strange situations ar-
ranged by equally strange characters.
For instance the girl's fellow em-
ploys a crime deflector whose, pro-
fession is checking villainy before it
can get under way. The red lights
of the title come from various
sources — some from the train — some
from the tinting — and most of them
from some eccentric inventor who
has perfected a diabolical machine
whereby arc lights are made to talk.
There is much tiptoeing — much
business of crooks stalking their
prey with the inevitable pursuit
which culminates in the climax when
the bad men are playing tag with
their pursuers over and under and
in and out of a train. It is improb-
able to be sure, but it offers no mo-
ments of tedium. A flickering fren-
zied pot-pourri.
SEASONED with a Cohanesque
dash of paprika, George M's
comedy satire of rural high
jinks, "The Meanest Man In The
World" (First National), carries on
with the same spirit that the original
did upon the stage. The limitations
of the proscenium arch are replaced
by the rustic open spaces — so that
the quaint figures that are concerned
in the conflict of foreclosing and lift-
ing the mortgage seem more genuine
— what with the general store as a
background and an oil spouter in
close proximity.
Bert Lytell is the "meanest man"
who is too tender-hearted to carry
out the designs of his harsh client.
Thru a clever manipulation of the
papers — and the figures, the oil
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The picture is bright and breezy
and filled with Cohanisms in its sub-
titles. It is good-natured tomfoolery
touched off with a spark of rural
burlesque. Blanche Sweet makes a
wistful and charming heroine upon
whose land the w. s. holds the option
— and upon whose store there is a
mortgage. By treating the play in
a satirical manner the producers
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THEY ask for tear- in "Man and
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man. One of the girls runs away
from the farm, marries a city sur-
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— during his absence. He returns
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the very farmhouse from which his
wife made her escape, courts and
marries her sister within a period of
-ix month-! And neither one has
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stay — the despicable villain informs
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her a score or more of other ad-
mirers. This, of course, was not the
truth. The truth was that Fedora
had outlived her day of triumph.
She was no longer 'the rage.' Her
vile ill tempers, her maliciousness,
her covetousness had all served to
eclipse her beauty in the eyes of men,
not so blind as they may sometimes
seem, or not, anyway, for so long
a while. But because she must have
someone to blame it upon, Fedora
blamed her downfall upon me, whom
she had always, secretly, loathed.
"When I announced my coming
marriage to Pauline, her venom had
spread broadcast. She had done all
that lay within her by no means
limited power to undo my approach-
ing nuptials, and if Pauline had not
been a woman with a soul as white
as Faith, she might have succeeded.
"Little wonder, then, that I shud-
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saw this woman advancing up a pre-
cipitous incline in the immediate
wake of Pauline. A slight contact,
an 'accident,' and one could easily
have pushed the other off any one of
the precipices pit falling the narrow
trail.
"And as I looked I knew that this,
just this, was what Fedora had in
mind.
"In less time than my sick heart
took to beat thrice. Fedora had
seized upon Pauline and my beloved
was struggling for her dear and
precious life upon the thin edge of
eternity.
"Mes amis, in that moment I knew
the love that is stronger than life and
more valiant than death.
"I knew, I knew to a certainty,
that the Magic Skin, no larger now
than a garden pea, could grant me
one wish, one more, one last wish.
With the uttering of that wish my
depleted life would go out, as surely,
with as little storm in passing, as a
breath blown upon the head of a
dandelion when it has gone to seed.
"My life for Pauline ... ah,
little, little enough !
"I made the wish.
"As I made it Pauline stumbled
over the edge of the fatal decline and
caught securely fast to a scrubby oak
or bush, growing there, and as I made
it, a trickle of earth and rock and
gravel came thundering thinly down
the mountainside and formed for
Fedora a tomb ... a grim and final
epitaph.
"C'cst tout!"
Raphael ceased, and looked about
him. Still, in the golden candle-light
(Ninety-eight)
the faces of his friends were faintly
blurred with uncertaint)
"You Mill do not understand," the
poet said. . . . "It was like 1 1 1 i-
"lt was your last wish, \»>u saj ."
one of the group broke in, "your last
wish and you were to die with it.
What thru?"
" \s I made that lasl wish," Ra
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creep over me. It was as if a mist
had risen from some cold, north sea
ami in that mist, dimly, dimly, I saw
tin- fact' of tin- antiquarian. Tin'
mouth moved and 1 seemed to strain
thru tin- mi-t to hoar what he might
be saying and what he said was this:
'You have made with your List wish
//(<• first unselfish one you luive ever
uttered . . . tlii' curse of the skin is
lifted . . . you are free. . .
Now the poet Raphael rose from
his chair and stretched with sinuous
grace, lie looked about at the faces
of his friends and found them clear
with comprehension. He breathed a
sigh oi relief and his eyes sought the
room from whence came the sound
iii a dim song, Pauline playing . . .
Hni!" he smiled.
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PICTORIAL OF SCREEN AND STAGE
A UKEWSIER I'UHI.ICA I K)N
Vol. XVIII
FEBRUARY, 1924
No. 6
Cbvi i; PoBTRAIT — Li] u\\ GlSH
Painted by E. Dahl from a photograph by Kenneth Mexander
Now That Winter's Here— An editorial 11
Ci issk 's Favorites
Music Hath Charms- -To sooth the savage cinemese Maude ( heatham . 14
Mme. Olga Petrova, A new camera study of the brilliant Pole 1"
The Mutual Admiration Society, Blanche Sweet and Marshall Neilan Harry Cart
Odious Comparisons, Between the stage and screen "Scaramouche" 20
The Thing We Cant Escape in the Movies l-.Uloti AY//.
The Powers Behind the Screen, The fifth and last instalment Stanton LeeA
La Pucelle, Famous 1 leroines No. 5. I '• >la Negri as Joan .it' Vrc
Au Sauce Piquante, A picture page
Tiger Rose, Told in short-story form Dorothy 1><»ih,:
Rhythm and Rebellion, An interview Maude Cheathan
When Lubitsch Directs ..." //
On Location, Literally all <.\ er the world 4'. / . Wilson 44
The Photographer Takes the Stage, Highlights of the theatrical season 45
The World's Most Famous Nose, Is in "Cyrano de Bergerac," the play of
t ho month Kenneth Macgoxvan 48
The Movie of the Month, I s " Vnna Christie" Laurence Reid 4°
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Current Stage Plays
{Readers in distant towns will do well to preserve tliis list for reference when
these spoken plays appear in their vicinity.)
Ambassador. — "The Dancers." Gerald Du
Manner's old-time British melodrama is both smart
and picturesque. Richard Bennett, Florence Eld-
ridge and Kathleen MacDonnell play the principal
roles. Mr. Bennett's daughter, Barbara, is the
most audacious of the dancing girls.
. I polio. — "Poppy." A musical comedy concerning
a strolling swindler and his daughter; W. G. Fields
and Madge Kennedy in the leading roles.
Belasco. — "Laugh, Clown, Laugh !" An English
version of Fausto Martini's "Ridi, Pagliaccio,"
Lionel Barrymore's characterization of the love-
lorn clown who is forced to give up Simonctta, the
girl he loves, because she loves another, is a stirring
performance. Irene Fenwick plays the role of
Simonctta. Barrymorc is superb.
Belmont.— "Tarnish." A finely acted play about a once idle
rich family, now fallen to a state where the salary of the daughter
keeps the wolf from the door. Ann Harding does some excellent
acting as the daughter.
Bijou.— "The Whole Town's Talking." A farce by John
Emerson and Anita Loos, well-known motion-picture scenarists,
written around a movie director who ignores the Eighteenth
Amendment.
Booth. — "The Seventh Heaven." Hand-made on melodramatic
pattern in a Montmartre tenement in Paris, of an admixture of
love, regeneration, humor and unreality. An excellent perform-
ance with Helen Menken starring.
Broadhurst. — "Topics of 1923." Shubert's new spectacular revue
of dance music, and beauty, brings back the charming -French
comedienne, Alice Delysia. The cast includes many other well-
known and popular principals.
Carroll. — "Kid Boots." Eddie Cantor in a musical comedy
glorifying the game of golf. The cast includes Mary Eaton and
many others and a large Ziegfeld chorus.
Casino. — "Wildflower," in which the lovely Edith Day flashes
thru an exquisite musical score.
Century. — "The Miracle." A spectacular pantomime by Dr.
Karl Voilmoeller, with Lady Diana Manners, Werner Kraus and
Maria Carmi. Personally staged and directed by Prof. Max
Reinhardt.
Colonial. — "Runnin' Wild." A negro revue. The cast includes
F. E. Miller and A. L. Lyles, the stars who helped make "Shuffle
Along" a success.
Comedy. — "The Shame Woman," by Lulu Vollmer, author of
"Sun Up," is also a story about the Carolina mountain folk, in
which a small-town Lothario wrecks the lives of two ignorant and
innocent mountain girls, one the foster daughter of the other
Extremely well acted.
Cort. — "The Swan." Eva Le Gallienne and an all-star cast in
Ferenc Molnar's comedy of romance and imaginary royalty. Not
at all "Graustarkian," however. Very
subtle, witty, deft, sophisticated in per-
formance and lines. Typically Molnar
and as brilliant and unsatisfactory as
Shaw.
Daly's. — "Sharlee." A musical comedy
by Harry L. Cort and George L. Stoddard,
with Juliette Day, a most charming hero-
ine. The cast also includes Ottilie Corday,
Eddie Nelson, Frances Arms and Sydney
Grant.
Elliott. — "Rain." A bitter tragedy by
Somerset Maugham ; a violent attack on
the repressions of Puritanism. Jeanne
Eagels is superb in the leading role.
Eltinge. — "Spring Cleaning." A tense
and bitterly comic drama exposing the
depravity of the degenerate rich and the
general stupidity of preoccupied husbands.
The cast includes Arthur Byron, Violet
Heming, A. K. Matthews and Estelle
Winwood, a quartet of notable leading
men and women.
Classic Lists the Plays in New
York That You Should See
"i?
Tarnish
The Swan
Sancho Panza
Stepping Stones
Cyrano de Bergerac
Laugh, Clown, Laugh!
Empire. — "The Lady." An indictment against "the
stage-door Johnny" in which Mary Nash, as the
dance-hall girl and later as the grey -haired mother,
points a new way to become The Lady. A fine piece
of emotional acting, a play full of the atmosphere of
France, its locale, wit, and humor.
Forty-ninth. — "For All of Us." A comedy given
to moralizing, in which William Hodge, the author,
plays the role of the laborer, who chances into a rich
home, the members of which have permitted their
lives to become somewhat entangled and, in a varying
Irish accent, conveys the message of right thinking
and right action as cures for bodily ills and sets three
lives straight.
France. — "The Heart of Cellini." Anthony Whar-
ton's play with Lionel Atwill and Elsie Mackay.
Frolic. — "Hurricane." A strange and interesting play dealing
with prostitution, by Olga Petrova, with Olga Petrova, I.
Willoughby, John Kingsberry, Camilla Dalberg and others.
Fulton. — "One Kiss." An operetta from the French about a
love affair in which the young man's father and the girl's mother
pretend to be wealthy, altho both are very poor. When the parents
learn the truth about each other, they try to break up the match,
but the girl wins over a rich uncle and gets a fortune for her lad
and all ends well.
Gaiety. — "Aren't We All?" Cyril Maude in a delightful light
comedy that revolves around a philandering husband and an in-
discreet wife. Mr. Maude in a Grumpyish character sets a rare
pace of fun and his support keeps it up.
Garrick. — "The Failures." A strange and fascinating play from
the French of Lenormand in which all its characters are failures.
One, a young poet, marries a girl who becomes an actress with a
small road company and later makes the last sacrifice and yields
to a casual admirer in order to provide for her husband. Jacob
Ben Ami, Dudley Digges and Winifred Lenihan are included in
the cast.
(7/ofrc— "Stepping Stones." One of the best of Fred St<
musical comedies, in which his daughter, Dorothy, does some
exceptionally good dancing and singing and rivals her own father.
Grccnzvich Village. — "White Cargo." Leon Gordon's vivid play
about a young Englishman who succumbs to the wiles of a half-
breed in the absence of white women on the West coast of Africa.
The cast includes Conway Wingfield, Richard Stevenson and A. E.
Anson.
Harris. — "The Nervous Wreck." An excellent farce by Owen
Davis. Otto Kruger plays the part of the nervous wreck, a young
clerk, sent West to cure himself of the diseases he imagines he
has. He wishes to be left alone to die peacefully, but June
Walker, as the entrancing heroine, tries to run away with him
and thus starts an endless amount of trouble for him.
Hudson. — "Sancho Panza." A drama in which the story divides
honors with the ballet. It deals with
Sancho Panza as governor of the City of
Barataria and offers a colorful role for
Otis Skinner. Romantic and utterly
charming.
Imperial. — "Mary Jane McKane." A
musical comedy by Oscar Hammersteiii
2nd and William Cary Duncan, with Mary
Hay, Hal Skelly. Dallas Wei ford, Kitty
Kelly, Stanley Ridges and Eva Clark.
Jolson's. — "The Blue Bird." Maeter-
linck's fantasy of our search for happiness
replete with pictures of the most weird
and beautiful things of earth and the most
mystifying things of heaven— a fairy tale
for the children — exquisite mysticism for
the adult.
Klaw. — "Meet the Wife." A bright and
witty comedy about a modern mother who
is rushing the engagement of her daughter
to a dumb young artist while she is really
in love with a New York newspaper re-
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porter. The performances of Mary Bo-
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as the daughter, are perfect.
Knickerbocker. — "The Lullaby." An
Edward Knoblock drama starring Flor-
ence Reed. This is the story of a sinning
woman's life, seventy-five years of il.
Liberty. — "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly."
A lively musical comedy by George M.
Cohan, with Virginia O'Brien, Emma
Haig, Jack McGowan, Bobby Watson and
others.
Little. — "Chicken Feed." A comedy
dealing with small-town life, setting for-
ward what happens about the fifteenth
year of married life. Roberta Arnold is
featured.
Longacre. — "Little Jessie James." A
musical comedy with Nan Halperin as
Little Jessie. The Paul Whiteman band,
dubbed the "James Boys," takes care of
the orchestration.
Lyceum. — "Little Miss Bluebeard." A
diverting musical drama in which the
piquant comedienne, Irene Bordoni, is
equipped with four delightful songs and
twice that number of delightful gowns.
The climax reveals a situation that comes
as a complete surprise to nine-tenths of the
audience.
Henry Miller. — "The Changelings." A
comedy by Lee Wilson Dodd. The cast
includes Henry Miller, the producer,
Blanche Bates, Ruth Chatterton, and
Laura Hope Crews.
Morosco. — "The Other Rose." A com-
edy by George Middleton, adapted from
the French of Edouard Bourdet, with Fay
Bainter, Henry Hull, Effie Shannon and
Carlotta Monterey.
Music Box. — "Music Box Revue." A
new edition of Irving Berlin's extravagant
display of beauty and humor.
National. — "Cyrano de Bergerac." Wal-
ter Hampden in a perfect interpretation of
Rostand's poetizing, swashbuckling hero
with a grotesque nose who is in love with
his cousin Roxane (Carroll McComas).
The piece is beautifully mounted and
thoroly worth seeing.
Nezv Amsterdam. — "Ziegfeld Follies."
The 1923 edition of the Follies has many
of the famous vaudeville headliners, in-
cluding Bert Wheeler, and a wealth of
beautiful girls.
Palace. — Keith Vaudeville. Always a
good bill, and drawing more and more
talent from the headliners of the regulars.
Playhouse. — "Chains." A drama in
which the heroine (Helen Gahagan) in-
sists upon bearing her share of the blame
following an affair with a young man.
Plymouth. — "The Potters." A stimulat-
ing domestic comedy by J. P. McEvoy,
with Mary Carroll, Donald Meek and
Catherine Calhoun Doucet.
Princess. — "Sun Up." A passionate
tragedy of the North Carolina mountain
folk. The widow Cagle is superbly played
by Lucile La Verne.
Punch and Judy. — "Go West, Young-
Man." A satirical comedy. Poorly acted
with the exception of one member of the
cast, a sweet and pretty newcomer, Kay
Johnson.
Republic. — "Abie's Irish Rose." An
amusing study in temperaments of the
Irish and Jew in which the irreconcilable
is reconciled thru emotion. Terrible, but
incredibly popular.
Rits. — "The Business Widow." A com-
edy from the German of Alexander Engel
and Hans Sassman, adapted by Gladys
Unaier, with Leo Ditrichstein, Lola Fisher,
Adrienne Morrison, John Davidson, Mar-
jorie Wood, Elwood Bostwick, Gaby
Fleury and others.
Selwyn.— "Mr. Battling Buttler." A
peppy musical comedy about a husband
who impersonates a prize-fighter having
tlie same name as his, which enables him
to steal away from his wile on many
supposed training trips. Very funny.
Shubert. — "Artists and Models." A
revue; the professional version of the
Illustrators' Show. It includes sketches by
James Montgomery Flagg, Henry Wag-
staff Cribble and Clarence Buddington
Kelland. Adele Klaer, who acts, paints
and writes poetry has the lead.
Thirty-ninth Street. — "The Alarm
Clock." A comedy adapted by Avery
Hopwood, from the French of Maurice
Hennequin and Roman Coolus. The cast
includes Blanche Ring, Bruce McRae,
Marion Coakly and others.
Times Square. — "Pelleas and Melisande."
Jane Cowl looking as beautiful as a fairy-
book princess and Rollo Peters almost as
beautiful as John B'arrymore in "The
Jest" of a few seasons ago. Everybody
looks beautiful and acts well, but the play
is disappointing, the fault of the play-
wright, one Maurice Maeterlinck. Too
bad, because a great deal of money and
brains have been spent on the production.
Vandcrbilt. — "In the Next Room." Mrs.
August Belmont offers a thrilling melo-
drama which centers about the mysterious
.murder of two men in the "next room."
What Percy Hammond refers to as the
"Who-done-it? drama." Better than the
best of this breed.
Winter Garden. — "Greenwich Village
Follies." Fifth edition. Typical John
Murray Anderson revue ; much beauty, a
little music, less wit. Glorified vaudeville.
OSTIA
By Gordon Malherbe Hillman
Red-golden was the galley and her sail was
dark as wine,
Her oars were flashing silver and her mast
was carven pine,
With awnings rich in silken stuffs; amber,
white and corn,
By Ostia, by Ostia, before the breath of
dawn !
Clean from the salt of marshes, with her
prow like a burnished brand
Set straight for the dim-seen watchers on
the wall above the sand,
Whipped by the slashing spindrift and
blinded by the spray
We drove her into Ostia before the break
of day !
Right gallant was the harbor in the glitter
of the dawn
With sails in blue and crimson and the
roadstead dull saffron,
And all the flags aflutter before a haze of
trees,
And rolling Roman sailormen asleep along
the quays!
TO A CERTAIN MAN
By Mary»Carolyn Davies
You are not worth two women's thought,
Too small a man to make such stir ;
For this, and not because I ought,
I give you up to her.
I have no will to be unkind,
Only relief that all is done ;
I can but hope that she will find
Enough in you for one.
(Eight)
She Dares to TeUtheTruth
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Now That Winter's Here —
"IF winter comes, can spring be far behind — " was first the thought
of a poet, and then a novelist took it for the theme of his story.
Now we are moved thereby, to a brief, humble editorial.
For winter is here, in fact and fancy, for numberless motion-picture
workers. The shut-down of so many of the big studios, even tho it is
temporary, has turned the world upside down for great and small alike in
this industry. But, of course, anyone with half an eye could see that things
could not go on the way they were : with production costs mounting higher
and higher; pictures in quantity piling up and piling up: salaries going the
same gait from prop boy up ; time, meaning money being flung away ;
competition forcing the expenditure of unprecedented sums, and so on and
so forth, ad nauseam.
Now there never was a great revolution accomplished without the
shedding of blood. No change, however trivial, has ever taken place
without a disturbance of some sort. There can be no readjustment with-
out pain. And you who. are down in the valley now, who are out of jobs
and facing the chill of an unknown future, no matter how intolerable you
find the situation, take heart. The discomfort and suffering is only a
question of time — nothing else ; and when you know a thing is temporary
and will pass, you can stand it. If one just finds the courage to stick it
out — why spring will come again, and the movies and its great army of
adherents will once more take their rightful places in the sun.
These things we know to be true.
^raph by Aug. Rupp, Berlin
u
(Eleven)
White Studio
Billie Burke
Not content to be the beautiful wife of the most noted beauty
connoisseur in the country, Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld, profession-
ally known as Billie Burke, must add new laurels to her
crown each year in the drama. This year she opens late in
a comedy whose title is not yet announced
(Twelve)
Classic's
Favorites
These Two Men Are Classic'^
Favorite Movie Stars and We
Dont Care Who Knows It
Photographs by Richee
Theodore Roberts is the d.*an of
cinema character actors. He has
played more fathers, uncles and
grandfathers than any other man
on the screen. He is lovable,
crotchety, irascible, endearing, un-
reasonable, peppery, gallant and
adorable as the case may be. He
has just completed "The Ten Com-
mandments," in which he portrayed
the patriarch Moses with great
dramatic dignity. Just at present
he is on tour in vaudeville
The spectacular rise to
fame on the screen of
Ernest Torrence is
known to everyone.
From the lightest of
musical-comedy come-
dians he became the
heaviest of moving-
picture villains. He is
booked up for months
ahead always. In "The
Covered Wagon," altho
he was unregenerate to
the end, he had his en-
dearing moments, and
in "Ruggles of Red
Gap" he was wholly
amusing. In "West of
the Water Tower" he
has a profoundly mov-
ing part — a disappoint-
ed father. We, person-
ally, go to see any pic-
ture that boasts of him
in its cast
'Thirteen)
Music
Hath
Charms
By
MAUDE CHEATHAM
A great deal of fun is poked
at the necessity for music as
an aid to emotion, but it
really serves a practical pur-
pose. Left is Gladys Hulette
having her heart stirred by
the studio orchestra. Below
is Marshall Neilan's string
quartette, of which he makes
persistent use in all his
pictures. This shot was
taken during the making of
"The Rendez-vous"
" /~\ F all the liberal arts," said Napoleon the Great,
I J "it is music which has the greatest influence
^~>^ over the passions."
This pertinent comment is recalled as we contemplate
an illuminating phase of the motion-picture industry,
which is the development of music as a technical tool,
both in the filming and presentation of photoplays.
Music and drama have always been more or less closely
allied and as far back as Shakespeare and his fellow
dramatists of the Elizabethan period — which was pre-
eminently an age of minstrelsy — plays were studded with
exquisite lyrics to be sung to music. In
fact, in glancing thru Shakespeare's
few stage directions there will be found
many such orders as "Music and Song,"
clearly showing his idea of combining
the two arts in telling a story.
The dramatic use "of music probably
had its birth in the early melodramas
which interpolated incidental melodies to
create atmosphere and heighten certain
effects. The suggestion of the raging
storm — the villain's deadly work and the
pensive home - coming of the lovely
heroine — all these were intensified by de-
scriptive music. It glorified the love
scenes too, endowing them with the
glamour of romance that even the clever-
est actor and stage setting failed to meet.
Every human emotion has its own
musical note, or perhaps a combination
of notes that coincides and emphasizes its
meaning.
Richard Wagner's wonderful success
in setting great dramatic themes to music-
is given a concise description by Bernard
Shaw, an ardent admirer of the composer.
He says: "The main leading motifs are
so emphatically impressed upon the ear
while the spectator is following a strong
dramatic expression that a requisite association is formed
unconsciously."
This is precisely what is being done today in motion
pictures.
To Geraldine Farrar is given the credit of first realizing
the tremendous aid music brings to actors and directors
in their work before the camera.
When she began filming her operatic success, "Carmen/'
Miss Farrar found it impossible to get into the spirit of
the story without the familiar music and asked that the
score be played in the studio the same as if she were
(Fourteen)
illg III till' lllC.lli ! \o\\ tin-'
seldom a -mil demanding emotional
ression i I wit is made without ap
iate musical setting
The great studios in I loll) wood
ilarl) emplo) mans skilled mu
ins, read\ \\ itli a large repei I
in ordei to inert .ill dramatic exi
While 1 irge orchestras are Fre-
quentl) neede
,'l ASSH
still ,i mere bo) 1 1 is auto < areei was
But, anyhow, this is what Blanche u
■ i |i,\ are .ill w i ong about Mi< kie
iround the studio thinks that Mickie
less, happ\ go-luck) idlei who drif
to the studio and just sorl of ma
thing up as he goes along.
I used to think so myself unti
were mai i ied.
" rhe fact is that Mickie is doing 1
hardest work when he appears to be
pla\ ing
"I can always tell at home when
he is working out a big scene in his
mind. Our home life straightwa)
takes on an atmosphere of jazz
and excitement.
"Mickie whuis me a round to
jazz emporiums at loud and un-
usual hours of the night. W e
dance at ro.nl houses and Mickie
to the best fox
trotters and we whirl thru
a round oi pleasure until 1 am
positively dazed and dizzy.
"1 have learned from e\
perience to know that at these
times. Mickie is working out
some big situation in a big story.
"There are many minds — big,
creative minds which work like
this.
"No doubt there are some crea-
tive writers who need quiet and
Left is another "Anna Christie
character study. On another pag
this photoplay is discussed as th
best of the month. Below is th
Irish "Mickie" Neilan who rank
among the first ten directors o
the screen
Kvans
solitude: but the Mickie Neilans of this world nt;<<\
the stimulus of motion and excitement. It seen
rouse their thoughts and stimulate their imaginations
— just as a race-horse needs another horse
pace-maker.
"Mickie very seldom talks about his pictures al
home. I am glad he doesn't. It would be miserable
to have a home life made up of Kleig lights and bab)
spots and scenarios.
"Sometimes he brings up the subject of some play
and discusses the situation. In the earlier days of our
married life I used to torture my brain trying to help
him with these situations. I know better now. 1
know from experience that he never really talks of
the play he is thinking about. When he talks of one.
I know that he is working out the details of -
other one. So 1 have learned that the way 1 can best
help the family fortunes is to sleep with my bool
my bedside like a fireman and be ready to go tearing
around the dance halls and the jazz places while im
talented husband wrestles with the muse.
"Sometimes it takes Mickie a long tithe to work
out a story. 1 know that he had the idea of "The
{Continued on penn S4 |
{Nineteen^
Odious
and Pictorial
The "Scaramouche"
Of the Stage
It is interesting and a bit exciting to have two
"Scaramouches" running on Broadway at the
same time. It invites — no — it challenges com-
parison. Indeed, it makes comparison inevitable.
Classic, which serves the interests of both stage
and screen, finds itself in a difficult position — for
one "Scaramouche" is unquestionably superior to
the other. Making due allowance for the limita-
tions of both mediums, we believe the motion-
picjure the finer, truer and more entertaining
White Studios
This is Sidney
Blackmer him-
self and above,
in the charac-
ter of Andre-
Louis Moreau.
To us he is
still Sidney
BLackmer, a
rather earnest,
serious - mind-
ed, likable chap
Goldberg
White Studios
Above is Margalo Gillmore as Aline
de Kercadiou, who makes of her a
pretty, petulant, sweetly feminine
and altogether human and under-
standable person. She looks as pretty
as it is humanly possible in the lovely
soft colors of her billowing costumes,
but she did suggest the ladies that
conceal boudoir lamps, telephones,
powder boxes and so forth
(Twenty)
-a
Comparisons
Contrasts
I*he ' 'Scaramouche"
Of tho Screen
Ramon Novarro in the title role is satisfyingly
picturesque and disturbing. He swashbuckles a
bit, is scornful and sardonic at times, romantic
and tender at others. At no time does ohe get a
thrill out of Blackmer's Scaramouche. It is
kindly and gentle, quietly determined, persistently
idealistic and not very exciting. This does not
seem to us consistent with the character, who, if
you recall, 'was born with the gift of laughter
and a sense that the world was mad"
Hoover Art Studios
This is Alice Terry as the Lady Aline
de Kercadiou, the beloved of Andre-
Louis. There was a consistent
hauteur and dignity in her perform-
ance, tho we found it less moving
than Miss Gillmore's. Even lacking
the undeniable aid of color, she was
surpassingly pretty. The white wig
also helped the illusion of the period
Melbourne Spurr
This is Ramon
Novarro him-
self, and we
call your at-
tention to the
similarity in
pose and cos-
tume with
Sidney Black-
mer across
the page.
Above is his
Scaramouche,
a romantically
youthful and
beautiful
figure
ty-one :
The Things
We Cant Escape
in the Movies
Drawings and Text
by Eldon Kelley
HE ALWAYS GETS HIS MAN
It is practically assured from the first reel that no half-breed
trader, however bent on trouble, can cope with one of the
Northwest Mounted Policemen. No thrill here
THE CHILD WHO
BRINGS THEM
TOGETHER
Lonely Wall Street
husband — Social
Butterfly wife —
about to live their
own lives when —
"Daddy, is dat my
mumsie?" lisps the
little child. Hus-
band, wife and audi-
ence break down
THE SUPERPRODUC-
TION, "WHAT ARE THE
WILD WIVES DOING?"
Containing for the most part
a cut-back to ancient Egypt
(including a few news-reel
shots of the late lamented
Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb) and
showing Cleopatra in all her
glory — and little else
(Twenty- two)
'Something old,
Nothing new —
Much that's horrowed.
Naught that's truer'
(With apologies to whoever said it first)
THE RURAL DRAMMER
Showing the indispensable picket fence and the compromis-
ing situation that makes it hot for the gal. Ye Gods and
little Gishes!
THE COSTUME FLOOD
Imogene, the daughter, mind you, of an effete
aristocracy, disguises herself in boots and
britches and indulges in numerous imbroglios.
No one penetrates' her disguise — but the
audience
THE INEVITABLE
WALL STREET
STORY
Adolphus Mugg,
financier and only
father of the
beautiful Miss
Mugg, has just
lost all on the
street. Little does
he dream that the
man who ruined
him is the news-
boy he thought-
lessly ran over
years before in
his Rplls Royce.
Does the young
man marry Miss
Mugg before the
show is over? Of
course!
"S
THE
CINDERELLA
STORY
"Oh," she cap-
tions, "how you
frightened me."
Poor thing, she
is working as a
servant in the
mansion of her
aunt, who has
bilked her out of
her rightful for-
tune. Does she
fall in love with
the rich young
man next door?
Ten guesses!
(Twenty- three)
The Powers Behind the Screen
Who's Who in the Motion-Picture Business
By STANTON LEEDS
Editor's Note. — This is the fifth and last of the series of five articles on the busi-
ness end of the motion picture and a discussion and a description of the truly great
personalities that have put the movies on the map
w<=
AT
O.
about the boy politician, the pride of the
P. — what about Will H. Hays? In ducking
out of politics for a fat job in motion pictures
did he sell his Indiana birthright for a mess of pottage?
Should he have stuck to the Cabinet, strung along with
President Harding, or was being boss of the screen worth
more, as his friends declare?
Meanwhile, is he boss of the screen ? Hardly. With
men like Adolph Zukor, Qarl Laemmle, William Fox,
to say nothing of William Randolph Hearst and Frank
J. Godsol with their reorganized Goldwyn company, and
entirely forgetting a dozen or so other fast steppers
already in power or rapidly getting there — with these in
the motion-picture game is it likely a Republican poli-
tician is bossing the works?
It is not. The truth is that Mr. Hays is working with
these men, his backers and employers, and using his keen
political sense, his gift for maintaining harmony, to their
advantage and the screen's. Outside of his original mis-
take, his calm acceptance of the weird belief that there
was something the matter with pictures, that they were
really naughty, his backers seem to feel that he has done
very well.
But the assumption, very generally taken for granted
thruout the country, that so far as motion pictures
are concerned Mr. Will H. Hays is it in the sense
that Judge Landis is it in baseball — this assumption is
mistaken. The power behind the screen lies elsewhere.
It is vested in such as Zukor,
whose history is the history of
the growth of pictures from
nickelodeon to a big-ten, three-
ring circus ; in men like
William Fox, who has fought
it alone; in such as Carl
Laemmle and his right-hand
bower, R. H. Cochrane; in
such an amazing and vari-
ously gifted person as William
Randolph Hearst who, when
asked if there were money in
pictures, replied, "my money
is in them."
There are others, but for
the moment consider these —
consider Carl Laemmle in
particular. During these ten
years when Zukor has been
large in the limelight, during
this time when H. E. Aitken
and many others disappeared
altogether from the field, dur-
ing this time that saw at
least the temporary eclipse of
such men as Samuel Goldwyn,
P. A. Powers, R. A. Rowland,
W. W. Hodkinson, Lewis
Selznick, J. D. Williams, R. S.
Cole, J. Stuart Blackton and
so on — during this time
Laemmle has persisted.
Undeniably one of the "Powers," is Carl Laemmle,
president of the Universal Pictures Corporation
People got into the way of shouting at his pictures,
Universal pictures, "cheap." But Universal went right
on. Others made more expensive pictures. Others went
under. Laemmle and Universal went on. Year in, year
out, with the pace pulling this, that and the other runner,
Laemmle kept them coming to see his pictures.
The price seemed to please them, and the pictures, and
when, all of a sudden, out of a clear sky, this same Carl
Laemmle produced the most expensive picture ever made,
it seemed time to seek information concerning this in-
dividual who kept his head above water where so many
others had drowned.
It seems that the man knows figures. Others may guess
about art and have all sorts of notions, but he, Carl
Laemmle, bases his ideas on bed-rock, facts, the food of
the fattest bankrolls. Also he remembers actual pictures.
Knowing what they paid, he has a fair notion of what
other pictures will pay if they follow similar lines, for,
after all, the number of possible plots is strictly limited.
In short, the hot air that artists and dreamers are given
to — this doesn't bother Laemmle. He has (and right in
his head) the statistics.
All morning he studies these same statistics. In the
afternoon he sees anyone who calls. If the idea stands
the acid test of the figures, it's a Universal idea.
An entirely different type, William Fox is generally
credited with being himself the best film editor in the
business. Before the time of pictures, he had a small
vaudeville circuit and he saw
the possibility of using films
in those same theaters. Rather
than be dependent, he got into
the habit of making his own
pictures. In more ways than
one, they are his very own.
Either assertively masculine
or correspondingly feminine,
they have a quality that keeps
audiences saying, "if that
isn't the truth!"
Their humanity, their story
value, however, is only part of
the story so far as William
Fox is concerned. From
political life, he picked as a
partner a young Irishman, a
former reporter and once
secretary to the Police Com-
missioner of New York, Win-
field R. Sheehan. A man
whose abilities are so extraor-
dinary, whose vision is so
far-sighted that he has been
given, to hold him, almost a
controlling interest in the Fox
enterprises, the boyish appear-
ing Winnie Sheehan is one of
the comers in pictures, one of
that industry's assets.
His future is problematical,
{Continued on page 85)
*
(Twenty-four)
La Pucelle
JOAN OF ARC, THE MAID OF ORLEANS
Famous Heroines No. V. Posed by Pola Negri
Everyone knows of the peasant girl of Domremy who watched her sheep on the hillside
and saw the visions that raised her from the ranks of common mortals; that fired her
with the divine determination to free her country of the English yoke; that placed her
at the. head of the armies of France, which she led to unforgetable victory. She was
finally betrayed into the hands of her enemies and burned at the stake in 1431, when
she was just nineteen years old. Her true story reads like a golden legend. Her
martyrdom was the most shameful in history, but her glory redeems the dark past.
( Twenty- fire )
Foreign
Cineman Glances Over
Above is a scene from a
German film called "Such Are
Men." Mr. Ziegfeld's influence
seems to have extended to the
Eastern hemisphere. Right is
the beautiful Russian star, Mme.
Kovanko, who has the lead in
a photoplay based on Tur-
genef's "The Song of Love
Triumphant"
FRANCE
THERE are certain advantages in failure
and the failure of French films to conquer
the American market, tho marking a defi-
nite commercial setback for French .producers,
is already beginning to show artistic benefits
which might have been much longer in develop-
ing had the effort to invade America been suc-
cessful. t As pointed out last month, French as
well as other foreign producers, with the vast
transatlantic market luring them, have been
concocting film monstrosities supposedly con-
ceived after the American pattern but in the
end failing to be either American or anything
else ; a mongrel product in
which American invention
was grotesquely travestied
and European artistrx
basely betrayed. The mis-
take of the foreign produc-
ers was that they chose to
compete with America in
the one field in which they
had no chance, lavishness
of production, while they
ignored the one element
which alone could place
them on a footing with
American productions, the
advantages of Old World
background and Old World
artistry. This error has
evidently been perceived
now, and the result, so far
as France is concerned, is a
series of films which, diverging widely from the American
standard, yet can hold its head up beside the best American
productions. The completeness of the about-face in French
film methods may be seen in the fact that within the last
two or three months at least half a dozen productions have
appeared in which extreme simplicity of setting is the rule
and in which the native soil is dramatized and native talent
is given the full burden of the film.
A beginning in this direction, and a most successful one,
was made with "Crainquebille," Anatole France's master-
piece, with the star role entrusted to De Feraudy, one of the
Above is Pedro de Cordoba in an
English film, "I Will Repay." Right
is a scene from the picture version
of Mallarme's immortal poem,
"Genevieve"
(Twenty-sir)
Films
Tho European Studios
neatest character actors in Prance. I
foot of this film is French, with no effort to
disguise us nationality, and the result was thai
it was sold at once for the American market
This success has paved the wa> for a aeri<
productions in the same manner, real native
products, both subject and treatment faithful
to the -"il and spirit of France, ^mong the
new films of this kind arc "Little Jacques,"
[tales Claretie's classic, a French "Oliver
Twist" with a strong strain of Gallic intensity
running thru it; "Genevieve," Mallarme's
classic pastoral romance, picturized with all its
beauty and poetry charmingly preserved; "The
Urchin of Paris." a homely, humorous
domestic drama which loses
none of its interest tor be-
ing written for an older
generation . "Faith fill
Heart." the traged) of a
French port town against a
sombre background of har-
bor life ; and several other
films of a kindred nature.
Pictorially, "< renevieve"
is perhaps the most beauti-
ful of the series, the pho-
tography and poetic treat-
ment being faultless, but
e m o t i o n al 1 y "L i t tl e
Jacques" is the most effec-
tive. The story is hardly
original, verging on the
melodramatic, but it is so
well told, so truthfully ex-
ecuted, as to give the nar-
rative the quality of stirring reality. The picture is a great
advance over the abortive efforts d /'. linerieaine which pre-
ceded it.
ITALY
Simultaneously with the French reversion to native sub-
jects and native treatment, the Italian producers reveal a
similar tendency, after having exploited, like the other
European producers, ill-starred efforts to make films in the
(Continued on page 81)
Above is a Russian picture
based on the life of the great
Shakespearean actor. It is called
simply, "Kean." Left is a ven-
detta about to be consummated.
It is from an Italian film called
"Supreme Love." Below is a
Swedish picture romantically
titled "The Eyes of Love"
Left is a bit from a French film, so
typically French in every aspect that
one might call it "one hundred per
cent. French"
(Twenty- seven >
Au
Sauce
Piquante
Cinema Spice for
Jaded Appetites
.Melbourne Spurr
Some of us like
our movies highly
seasoned, and then
again some of us
can take them or
leave them alone.
We for one, like
them well flavored.
It saves mental
indigestion any-
way. We dont go
to the movies to
be put to sleep, but
to be entertained,
and no one can
deny the entertain-
ment v a 1 u e — per
capita, we'd better
say — of this page
Nickolas Muray
Clarence S. Bull
Upper left: Norma Talmadge
as an Ouled-Nail dancing girl
in "Dust of Desire" is most
provocatively beautiful.
Above: Jean Haskell, a little
Goldwyn treasure, gives a
pleasant tang to many an
otherwise flat movie. Left:
Dolores Rousse, a delicious
bit from Fox's box of spices
(Twenty-eight)
THREE men. that golden
morning in Northern
Canada, were thinking of
one thing, a woman, and they
thought of her according to
their three points of view. To
Michael Devlin, of the North-
west Mounted, a woman was
something to be possessed. He
had known — and possessed
many in his thirty hard-lived
years, but none like this one,
wild and elusive and, for all of her life lived among
trappers, miners, drunken Indians, fiercely virginal. Rose
Bocion . . . the hoofs of his horse on the hard forest
path beat out the name, Rose, a blossom to be plucked.
a fragrance to give delight or what were roses — or
women — for?
With hot, desirous memory he conjured her up now
and she danced before him down the path, the sun
sprinkled on her dark hair, the young curves of her,
the lips that invited, the eyes that mocked, and the look
of his face was not good to see. "Damn her!" he
muttered, "she gets into a man's blood! I'm drunk with
her. She's, a fever I've had since that day I found her
on her raft drifting toward the Anger o' God Rapids and
brought her ashore to the Trading Post. That gave
me a right to her, didn't it? I thought she felt it, too,
but last night "
His great hand with the white furrow of an old wound
across it tightened on the reins with the suggestion of
crushing something. Last night he had held her in his
arms, and it had been like clasping the wind. She had
not been there. And when he had demanded of Mc-
Collins, the old factor who had adopted her, the meaning
of the change, he sensed in her, that canny Scot had been
evasive and taken refuge in philosophizing.
"The mair I know wummen the less I know about
'em ! But one thing certain, they dont gie their love for a
debt that is owed but for a gift whaur they will."
Michael Devlin uttered an oath, and because his
Tiger Rose
Written in Short-Story Form
by '
DOROTHY DONNELL
instinct was the simple primi
five one of hurting when he
felt pain he lashed at hi-*
patient horse. "If it's that
dude engineer chap. Norton.
I'll teach him to meddle with
what's mine!" he muttered.
"When I get back from this
trip I'll settle it— I didn't drag
her out of the river for him
to kiss "
In the Company's Store.
McCollins the factor was thinking about Rose too; the
anxious, timid thoughts of old age which knows humbly
that it is helpless to aid youth because it speaks another
language. He had lived a long existence here in the
Northland, he had read few books, known few people,
yet he had seen Life. When he thought of Rose Bocion
he thought of her as a duty, something to be guarded,
protected, a flower to be sheltered from harsh storms.
'"Tis a hard thing." he reflected as he sorted the
settlement mail which had just arrived by canoe, "that
we must pay so dear for experience in this world and
then 'tis no use to anyone; we cant gie it to them we lo'e.
I hae ma doots about this young city mon. He doesna be-
long up here and Rose does. An' there's a look in her eyes
these days that wummen dont wear unless the thocht o'
some mon puts it there. But there's nae use meddlin' wi'
young folks. They must cut their own fingers before
they can learn that a knife can hurt, an' there's the pity !"
The other man who was thinking of Rose Bocion wa»
tall and good to look at. and wore his rough homespun
with an easy grace, all of which the girl was aware of.
tho she was not looking at him as she sat on the
broken oak limb swinging her feet and singing a wild
folk-song about a maiden who loved a loupyarou
To Bruce Norton, engineer in charge of the railroad
surveyors, women in general were something of a
nuisance; in particular, incomprehensible creatures of
mysterious moods who wanted to marry one. But this
girl before him, with her naive remarks, her amazing
(Twenty-nine)
simplicity and her beauty which was half that of a wild
wood creature, and half the age-old lure of Eve. vaguely
disturbed him. Rose . . . Rose, a flower of the forest
instead of the garden. Last night, in his board shack he
had written a poem about her, called her "Tiger Rose."
"You know about thas loupgarou?" she asked, paus-
ing abruptly in her song. Under the elfin masses of her
hair her eyes grew wide and solemn, her voice dropped
a full octave to the deeps of awe, "he is ver' bad to fall
in love wiz, because on'y half he is nize han'some young
man and the res' of the time he is a wolf. The loup-
garou eat the heart ri' out of a girl who love wiz heem.
Yes, thas so ! Ask anybody !"
Bruce leaned against a tree, arms folded, watching the
play of emotion on the vivid face under lazy eyelids.
"You dont believe that, Rose! Aren't you a Christian?"
She nodded with conviction, "Yas, I'm a Christian,
sure as hell !" she affirmed, and looked startled at his
shout of laughter, "all the
same I know what I know !
Me, I saw a woman thas
had her heart eaten by the
loupgarou — always she put
the hand over the place
where the wolf man hurt
her, always she hunt for
heem wiz face that mek
like this !" Amazingly the
young, fresh curves before
his eyes took on haggard-
ness, the eyes were haunt-
ing wells of tragedy. Bruce
TIGER ROSE
Fictionized by permission from Warner Brothers'
production of the adaptation by Edmund Goulding
of the play by Willard Mack. Directed by Sydney
Franklin and personally supervised by David
Belasco. The cast, starring Lenore Ulric:
Rose Bocion ("Tiger Rose") Lenore Ulric
Michael Devlin Forrest Stanley
Father Thibault. . .' Joseph Dowling
Pierre Andre De Beranger
Dr. Cusick Sam De Grasse
Bruce Norton Theodore Von Eltz
CLASSIC
Michael Devlin of the
Northwest Mounted
finds Rose Bocion drift-
ing down the river on
a raft toward the
Anger o' God Rapids,
pulls her out just in
time, carries her back
to the trading post,
where she collapses
Norton straightened
as tho a whip lash
of memory had
flicked him on the
heart. His face grew
grim.
"There are men
who make a woman
look like that — damn
them !" he said slowly,
"I knew one once.
Wolf man fits him
very well. Wolves are
dangerous. They
should be killed."
He got hold of him-
self hurriedly, smiled
at her. "Go on ! Tell
me more. I know
you're not Mr. Mc-
Collins' real daughter,
but I dont know
whose daughter you
are. Perhaps you just
growed like Topsy —
that's the way you
seem, like a part of
all this " his ges-
ture brought the
dappled forest, the
blue rushing river
with the surveyors staking out a line along it, the far hills
into the woods.
Sitting lightly, swinging her feet in their Indian moc-
casins, Rose told him her simple Odyssey, her lonely child-
hood in the 'far deep woods with only her trapper father
and the tame wildcat for companionship, her father's
death "I buried heem," she said simply, "the ground
was froze and it was ver' hard work. He wanted a priest
to read prayers before he died. He theenk mebbe he go
to hell wizout. Me, I don' theenk so. Monsieur le bon Dicu
is a gentilhomtne."
What a child she was, Bruce thought, feeling her words
tug at his heart. Before such marvelous simplicity he
felt old and disillusioned and paternal. He was only
twenty- four, and one can be older at twenty- four than
at any other age. "Then you came to the settlements?"
he prompted, for she had fallen into one of her rich
silences. That was the reason he had noticed her first
and taken her from his
general category of women
who talked incessantly. If
Rose hadn't anything to
say, she said nothing.
"I mek a raft," she nod-
ded, "but the river he is
ver' bad. I goin' be drown
mebbe but Michael Devlin
hear me yell and comes.
Papa McCollins got no
daughter. I stay. Thas
five year now."
"Michael Devlin," Bruce
(Thirty)
i ISSIC
frowned, "the big Mounted, eh I suppose you
ml to linn
Rose was puzzled Grat'ful: I don' know thas
fill-' He breeng me red ribbons from the beeg town.
It mu>' be ver' nize in the town "
Bruce shook Ins head. "You'd hate il ! Nothing green
<>i sweet grey, dirt) -tone canyons where the sun nevei
ihines," be went on to p. nut a sordid picture of ugliness
and dirt and people, all hurrying, hating each other,
thinking of money, lighting each other for money, but
.it the end Rose onl) smiled She slid down from her
branch and stood before him, looking up with unwavering
"But you would be there," she said. "] tink me I lak
any place where you wire there too!'1
Under the tight jersey she wore her low breasts n
and fell swiftly. Her cheeks were the color of sun-
ripened fruit, but the warm tint did not deepen altho
Bruce Norton could feel himself blushing. She was not
such a child after all, seventeen or eighteen perhaps, and
lovel) enough to turn any man's head. He adopted a
fatherly tone, taking one hard little hand in his own.
"The place for Roses is out of doors, not shut up in stone
5! I'll send you a picture of the kind of houses
people live in in the city when I go back, houses like
mountains- — "
Terror sounded in her voice, "You're going away, yas?
Dont go! I love you — I love you lak hell !"
Bruce Norton stood still, staring startled into the im-
placable face of Memory. "Think what you came here to
do ! Think of the vow you
made beside your mother's
bed- your mother who died
of a broken heart ! Are you
free to play at love-making?"
As tho lie could forget
for more than a few mo-
ments at a time the thing
that had brought him up into
this wilderness, the thing
that had shadowed his youth,
the thing that lay between
him and any hope for the
future! But just for now.
just for a few days might
he not he free from it. free
to he young and happy ?
He lifted the brown little
paw he held and kissed the
back of it ceremoniously.
"1 in not going a\\a\ yet.
little Rose." he smiled, "you
dont mean what you just
said, of course. Some day
when you've grown up voull
marry Devlin or some one
who lives up here and be
very happy hut now before
I go we'll be friends, wont
we ?"
She looked at him slant-
ingly, hid her eyes behind
smooth creamv lids. " Ml
ri""
\oii lak (has Into ! . I lal- thl
Indian summci with its poignant hint
goldi • beauty and sunshine without pr<
future, made of the Northwest woods in th<
a magic place, an enchanted land to B
out yesterdays 01 tomorrows, P>< 1 ause he km
ness of lus momenl he made the mosl of it. While his
surveyors languidly drove then while th<
murmured a background to their voii
together under the trees and he talked .is he had n<
talked to anyone before, of the books thai h< had •
the shy unspoken DO) dreams he had dreamed
chatted too. in her quainl broken English, and made
wreaths of crimson and yellow maple leaves Her mood*
wire sudden in their changes, one moment sin
teasing elf. crowned with red haws, the next and sh<
become a tragedy queen reciting a weird folk I
And then one evening at dinner in the factor'- house
McCollinS said casual, ) : "We're tae have another I ni/en
in the settlement. Meester Norton, a mon frae your own
part o' the wurruld. The new company doctor 1- rooming
tomorrow. His name is Glendenning— Robert 'den
denning."
Bruce Norton laid down his knife and fork, hut said
nothing. Surprised at the silence, the old factor glanced
across the table and saw a strange thing; he saw a man die
before his eyes and go on breathing, Indeed in a mo
ment Norton spoke, too. about some trivial subject, but he
was a dead man speaking nevertheless, a man who had
definitely resigned his hold on life.
sighed Tiger Rose, "if
She came closer, her face
ghastly. "They 'ave foun'
heem?" "They haven't — yet,"
Cusick snapped, "the damn
fool could have gotten away —
but he said he had to come
back to see you. Where can
we hide him?"
(Thirty-one)
CLASSIC
Only at the end of the meal did he refer to the new
company doctor. "Tomorrow, I think you said Doctor
Glendenning was to arrive?"
McCollins nodded, puzzled. "Aye, he wrote that he
wud drive himself froom the Landing. He'll be here
by noon I'm thinkin'. Do ye — perhaps ye might be
knowin' him?"
Bruce Norton shook his head. His voice had an edge,
"I have never had the pleasure of meeting the doctor
personally. But I had a — a friend who knew him some
years ago. I — have heard of him."
He went out into the darkness and presently, not know-
ing where his steps were lea*- g him, he found himself
in the grove where he
had spent enchanted
hours this last week,
as a ghost returns to
the scene of old
happiness. The moon
was up now and in
the white light that
lay across the grass
he saw Rose, and as
she came toward him
he knew that she was
no longer a child or
an elf but a woman, a
woman to be held
close, to be kissed. . . .
He kept his arms
rigid at his sides for
Above: He started to
his feet with the groan
of a savage beast and
had made two bounds
for the door when the
revolver in Rose's hand
spoke shrewishly
fear that they might go out to her. "I am going away,
Rose," he tried to speak matter-of-factly, "I have some-
thing I must do "
Her cry stripped the words from his lips : "You tak'
me too ! I will be ver' good — I dont be any trouble.
You tak me !"
"I— cant "
She was Tiger Rose now, fighting for what she wanted.
"Ees it then some other girl? I will keel her — I will
scratch her dam face ! I will mek an image of her and
stick pins into her heart !"
Bruce held the quivering little figure by the wrists.
"There's no one else, Rose. I cant explain "
He felt the fierce-
ness ebb from her.
The small face under
the wild dark hair
seemed to shrink still
smaller : "Then — you
don' want me? Scuse
please — Michael Dev-
lin, he lak' me, I didn'
think "
Her agony awoke
echoes in his own
soul, taught him his
heart "No, no. Rose!
Not that, not that—
God, if I only could
stay with you, marry
you, live here all my
Left: Tiger Rose in
agonized suspense
watches the tramping
feet of her lover's
hunter until at last they
lead him up to bed.
But they soon came
back
(Thirty-two)
years " Somehow she «.i> in his arms 1 1 1* \ clung
thcr, two children frightened of the dark Against
haii Ik- whispered wild things, 1 >r . >U<.- 1 » word
tenderness, and at last a little of the truth Yean ago •»
man had wronged his sister, lefl her to die in disgi
l'lu- shock had killed their mother. He had been search
for the man ever since, and now he knew where
to find him. . . .
"1 see," riger Rose said quietly, "you d<> nol need
to tell me what you inns' <\o. But afterward — "
He shook his head dumbly, his hands, ^>n either side
Of her face straining it hack to his gaze as if he were
committing it to memory, "1 have given you my trouble
to hear." lie said bitterly, "1 ha\e made jPbu grow tip.
Rose Will you ever forgive m<
"Forgive? I don' know thas word." she smiled thru
her teats. "1 guess when you're in love wil
someone thas all the word you know !"
He did not ki>s her good-bye. be-
cause he knew that if he kissed her
he would nol .
A heavy-eyed Rose
pouring the factor's coffee
next morning when Mich J
Devlin, wearing his uni
form, a g g r essi vel y
brought his news.
"I'll be staying here
a few days, sir, if
you can put me up."
he announced, por-
tentously, "may he
y o U haven't
heard? There's
been murder'
done ! The new
company doctor
was shot early
this morning
between here
and the Land-
ing, and what's
more it's known
w h o did it !"
He shot a spite-
ful glance of
triumph at Rose:
"no more nor less
than the fine city
dude that's been
staying under your
roo f — one of the
Injuns s a w h i m
running thru the
woods',!"
McCollins' cup went
down with a clatter. "So
that was the meanin' of his
face last night! Deviin, I've
been a God-fearing mon a' ma
days, but yon laddie is no common
criminal. I hae na doot the
mon needed a bit o' killin' an
I'm dommed if I dont hope
Norton gets awa !"
The Mounted Policeman
laughed unpleasantly. "Small
chance! We've got fifty men
on horseback beating up the woods — he'll be behind bars
before night — ouch!" he uttered a yelp of anguish as
R.ose neatly overturned a cup of scalding coffee on
his hand.
The settlement joined the man hunt. All day the baying
The policeman's revolver in his hand, Bruce came
to the side of Tiger Rose. "My brave little girl!
But it's no good, dear. I've decided to face
the music"
Of dogt and tin- fai "It ihoUtl of till
the straining i • Bo< ioi d behind
i ounter in the i oni| weighed
out sugar, and measured ofl calico sh< ing to b
I e Bon I hell to let hei I
Dieu,.you couldn* htlp heem, but tnebbe You jus'
the other way one hi' minute "
I Hisk hiiti^ like cobweb* ui tl if the room
when Doctor Cusick, the settlement physician, •
closing the door behind him. He was a middle-aged man
with a face chiseled by old emotion «rorn
by Strong currents. lie spoke rapidly. "Rose, I think
you are a f^irl who can be trusted not to faint or go into
hysterics if 1 tell you something."
She came closer, face ghastly, "I hey 'ave foun1 htm?"
"They haven'l yet," Cusick snapped, "the damn fool
could have gotten away clean, but he cJlO
come back, said he had to see you again.
Well, love's a disease there's no cure
for but time! I found htm on the
hack road and brought him here.
under the buggy robes. Where
can we hide him ?"
She pointed to the trap-door
in the rough flooring.
"Down there among the
boxes Queek ! I
hear them come. Mon
Dieu. all the day I
'ave the great fear
but now I fear
nothing! Now
there is somesing
I can do "
( )ne moment she
stood folded in
Bruce Norton's
arms, then
violently s h e
thrust him
away. "W'e are
mad! Me. I
t'ink thas a dam
bad time for
mak' love."
"She's right, my
boy !" Cusick said
grimly, "^et down
into the cellar. To-
morrow we'll figure
some way to start
y o u toward the
Stat
The trap-door slid into
place. Rose turned to
the doctor. "W "y you do
eet ? W"y you help US?"
usick looked suddenly old.
"Because his shoes fit me!" he
answered' slowly, "if he hadn't
killed that skunk I should have.
You see Norton's sister hap-
pened to be — my wife. Hark!
neone's coming "
When Devlin opened the
door. Rose, humming a little
song, was measuring out
castor-oil with a steady hand.
Her face had lost its pallor, her eyes shone, she gave the
policeman a gay nod. "Mebbe you lak' the house to stan'
treat wiz this, yas? Bon nuit. Mis'eu Doctor! Come in
tomorrow and see w'y Papa got him seek in his back "
{Continued on page 78)
(Thirty-three)
Waxman
Eleanor Boardman
Tradition chained this young girl to a narrow
path, bound her to a past generation, linked her
with a staid old family atmosphere. But early
in life she asserted her right to be a person on
her own account and not just an echo of past
formality. A pretty pioneer, Eleanor!
(Thirty-four)
-J
Rhythm and
Rebellion
By
MAUDE CHEATHAM
Right is a recent portrait and below is Eleanor
Boardman's appealing Amelia Sedley in "Vanity
Fair." Her current picture is "The Day of Faith"
ELEANOR BOARDMAN spells Re-
bellion! You would never gins-, it
when you sec her on the screen in
those sweet, sympathetic roles that have
brought a delightful rhythm to a num-
ber of recent pictures.
"That's just it." wailed Eleanor, "They
always give me goody, goody parts when
1 would rather play characters "
I laughed. It was amusing to find
a girl with her lovely angelic face,
and eyes that flood quickly with
womanly tears, craving to mask her
charms in vampire and worldly I
It is nearly always the other way
Her rebellions date away hack.
In fact, they first hurst forth when
she suddenly discovered that her pio-
neer spirit had been placed in a staid
old Philadelphia atmosphere. Accord-
ing to the program, her life la) cut and
dried before her. Traditions chained
her to a narrow path.
When she asserted her indepetn'
to think for herself, which she fre-
quently did. she was rebuked. She
was expected to be merely an echo of
past generations.
"Families are a wonderful institution."
admitted Eleanor, "hut they have a dis-
ressing way of arresting any development
individuality. Seldom is a child given
freedom really to grow — to become a
nite personality."
magine the battles were spirited. She was
bird hopping about on the family limb,
at the sun and longing to try her wings
teen she ran away to .New York.
"For the first time I really breathed." she explained.
"Of course. I had a hard struggle. 1 expected this, and I
also had several bad experiences but these taught me to live.
(Thirty-f.tej
[ could feel myself waking up, a delicious sensation of vivid reali-
ties swept me along and I began to feel — to thrill — to grasp dimly
what it was all about. I think I had been numb before. And then
I found that life is very short when you begin to live — there is so
much to crowd into the days. Our span is so brief — in point of
years — we must fill it to the brim."
It wasn't very long before Miss Boardman landed in a Broadway
chorus, then she won a small part in Arthur Hopkins' "A Very
Good Young Man." She lived in a
dingy little boarding-house and
spent most of her salary on bal-
let lessons as a part of her
dramatic training.
This is illuminating, for a
it discloses the directness ,
of her ambitions. To-
day, she is as slim and m
straight as a young
tree, with every
muscle in full co-
ordination ; she has
mastered that rarest
of all accomplish-
ments, a perfect
gliding walk in
which every move-
ment is of grace.
We'll admit that
Eleanor Boardman
forced her first steps
toward a career but her
sudden and phenomenal
jump into motion-pictures,
playing leading roles after
two films, shows she is a petted
child of the fairies.
CLASSIC
She was both down and out. She had
no job and no money ; things were hope-
lessly quiet in New York and she was
beginning to wonder if, after all, she wa<
to be beaten. And then came the won-
derful opportunity to come to California
with a chance at the Goldwyn studio.
She hasn't lost the thrill of it yet,
despite her level head and poise, and I
rather suspect she pinches herself some-
times, to see if it is really true.
After luncheon we drove up to her
home on Whitley Heights where she lives
alone with a funny little maid. Eleanor
says that people with opinions should
travel the single path.
The house is typical of its owner. It is
extremely artistic and there is a spacious-
ness in the large living-room with its
friendly fireplace, grand piano' and rows
of books. Long windows on three sides
offer magnificent views of Hollywood
and the hills. A few pieces of rare tap-
estry decorate the walls — "I hate new,
shiny things — they have no background."
she explained.
(Continued on page 76)
Upper left is Eleanor Board-
man in her own back yard.
Above, she tries to paint a little,
and we'll aver we'd like to 'sit
for her whether she knows how
or not. Left, a Waxman portrait-
(Thirty-six)
Nickolag .\fur.i%
Lowell Sherman
Who is the hero of one of the most picturesque and colorful dramatic successes on
the New York stage. That is "Casanova," in which he was billed as an "Arch-Rogue,"
but turned out to be rather a gentle than a villainous Casanova. It looks as tho he had
deserted the movies for good
(Thirty-seven)
The stars of "The Marriage Circle," which
Lubitsch is making for Warner Brothers.
They are: Marie Prevost, Adolphe Menjou,
Ernst Lubitsch, Monte Blue, Creighton Hale,
and Florence Vidor
When
Lubitsch
Directs
By HARRY CARR
WHEN Lubitsch is directing a picture, he has an
odd way of entertaining a visitor. At the end
of the scene, he comes over to where you sit and
gives you a little character sketch of the actor who has
been performing.
For instance, when Florence Vidor finished her scene
and the camera stopped clicking, he came over and painted
her psychic picture: "She haf beauty; but she got dis-
tinction ; she got good family. It show on the screen."
Which made us all wonder what he was going to say
about Marie Prevost. Marie has many ardent admirers,
but I think that even Marie
herse.lf gulped a little with
astonishment when
Lubitsch picked her as one
of the finest actresses he
has seen in America and
gave her the big part in
bis new picture, "The
Marriage Circle," upon
which he is staking his
career.
Marie Prevost says of Lubitsch: "To act even
one scene under Jiis direction is not only an educa-
tion but a revelation." Lubitsch says of Marie
Prevost: "She is a goot actress — she haf life und
animation und she got emotion. But she got
boomer too. No actress is goot in a heavy role
unless she haf got also a sense of hoomer."
"When 1 first came to America," said Herr Lubitsch,
"my position was a very difficult one. The war was just
over. I didn't know a soul. I arrived in Hollywood one
drizzling cold foggy night when it seemed that even the
climate was against me. As a matter of fact, I was
treated everywhere with kindness and sympathetic cor-
diality ; but, of course, I couldn't know that was going
to happen. Consequently, in my first picture, I had to
make all kinds of concessions to what they told me the
American people wanted. I made my first one that way.
This one I am going to make to please Lubitsch."
So, just as he tossed
away all the other stale
ideas that movie convention
had built, so he airily
ignored the actresses whom
Hollywood had stamped
"great" and picked out a
graduate bathing young'
lady for his great acting
part.
At the end of one of her
(Thirty-Eight)
CLASSIC
Irenes, Lubitsch came bustling oul of the
let, dragged me oul of the studio and
around l>ehind an alle) and explained
himself
"\K peechaai I donl know if he ia
^m>.l 1 [e cani know about a peechaar until
von see him on the screen but Marie
Prevost she is gi tot. She is a g
she li.it life and animation and sh<
emotion. But she got hoomer too. No
actress is goot in a heavy role unless they
i sense o\ hoomer, especiall) what
.ill vamps."
Marie, herself, is a very frank oul
■poken young lady. And being such, she
makes no secret of the fact that •die is
ered by what lias happened to her.
It isn't so long since Marie's chief claim
to artistic distinction consisted of the most
beautiful legs in the world. They got her
I job at Mack Sennett's old comedy lot.
Mario was sitting on a camp stool on
the edge of the Lubitsch set a- she talked
about it. She was all covered up this time
in a very beautiful evening gown. But she
just the same candid, unspoiled Marie
as in the one-piece bathing-suit days.
"Over at the Sennett lot," she said. "I
was one ^i the few K'ds who could really
swim. I had to double for the girl stars
and sometimes I even doubled for the
men. In those days, it didn't matter what
happened to me if the pulchritude of the
Above is the great director in an informal moment and
below he is directing Florence Vidor in a troublesome bit.
He says of her: "She haf beauty; but she haf distinction;
she got goot family. It show on the screen"
real actresses was
n< e mother was
a very strict Presby-
terian with a natural
horror of young
women who made
their living play-
acting.
"My hoy friend
tried to convince her
that I was different.
His arguments pre-
vailed to the point
where I was invited
to a family dinner
to be put thru my
(Cont'd on page SO i
Thirty-nine)
"On
Location"
Above is the awe-inspiring tract of land known as Death Valley for
the appropriate reason that sixty-three out of sixty-five miners died
of thirst when they went prospecting there in 1849, and many others
have died since. It is in the southeastern part of California and the
hottest place in the world. Von Stroheim completed "Greed" there
In the oval is
a location
picked for
"Cap'n Dan."
It is off the
coast of Cali-
fornia. Below
is the historic
Weeks Hall
Estate, "Shad-
ows - on - the-
Teche," in and
around which
D. W. Griffith
shot many
scenes for
"The White
Rose." It is in
western
Louisiana on
the bayou
Teche
Above is an ancient Roman
ruin, one of the beautiful and
authentic backgrounds for
"The Eternal City." It is
just outside of Rome
In no one field of endeavor,
artistic or commercial, is there to
be found so much beauty, interest
and variety as on the screen, not
to mention its educational value.
Movie maligners' most frequent
taunt is that we are "commercial."
We offer the evidence on these two
pages in refutation
Right is a section of the endless Florida
swamps, unwholesome and treacherous,
where King Vidor took his company to
make "Wild Oranges," the Hergesheimer
story, for Goldwyn
(Forty)
i
From (j reen land s
icy mountains
To India s coral
strands —
[Or thereabouts)
Across the page is an American desert, but the picture above was
taken in the Egyptian desert at Ghizeh, near Cairo. For most of us
that are sit-by-the-fires, the view of the great pyramids and the
mysterious sphinx to be had in the movies, will constitute our travel-
ing experience. William Fox had "The Shepherd King" made here
Above is a view in our own
most beautiful spot, Yellow-
stone National Park, where
Rupert Hughes took all of
the final scenes in "Law
Against Law"
These wonderful locations are
spread practically all over th
globe and you must appreciate that
it costs a great deal of money to
take whole companies to these far
places. This, however, seems to
us a justifiable expense, far more
worthy than the building of lavish
sets. The artistic return is greater
Left is a beau-
tiful vista up
in the Cana-
dian Rockies.
Tom Mix,
seeking au-
thenticity for
his picture,
"W here the
North Begins,"
selected this
mountain
chain for it.
Below is the
e x q u isitely
beautiful Bay
of Naples in
whose haunt-
ing vicinity
"The White
Sister" was
made
Left is a doorway and the moldering walls
of a thirteenth-century abbey, Beaulieu in
Hampshire, England. This interesting ruin
served as a background for J. Stuart
Blackton's "The Virgin Queen"
(Forty-one)
Photograph by Evans, L. A
A Midwinter Maid
Colleen Moore has adopted a new manner, like Mae Allison and Lillian Gish. It is a
roguish flapper sort of halo, and we find it very becoming. As the unrestrained flapper
heroine of "Flaming Youth," she has at last come into her own. All the critics
commend her. More power to ye, Colleen!
(Forty-trio)
Classic
Considers—
The Great and the Near Great
-i..nc View
ttdc
Rarri-
I.orvir.n
CECILIA LOFTUS
Just because she is back over here in the United States again amusing and
delighting us as she used to do more years ago than we can remember.
Because age has not withered her charm and vivacity, nor has custom had
a chance to stale her infinite allure. Because she literally stops the show
whenever she offers her imitations on the Keith circuit. But mostly
because we shall never forget her. tho we have forgotten her name, when
she played with E. H. Sothern in "If I Were King"
GEORGE WALSH
For the very good reason that he has taken a new lease on life in the
movies and has the most promising future ahead of him of any other star
who started when he did. Because he is June Mathis' choice for Ben Hur.
and we remember that she discovered Valentino. Because also, altho he is
a wonderful athlete and has, without exception, the most perfect physique
of any male star of the screen, he has gone in for things that required brain
rather than brawn and gotten away with it
OTTO H. KAHN
Chiefly because of the dignity and charm of his letters to
Caruso, which were published in Caruso's biography. And
because he is at once a banker, a philanthropist, a financier
and a liberal patron of the arts. He is president of several
railroads, director of numerous trust comoanies. honorary
member of various opera and theatrical companies, including
our own Metropolitan; a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
of France, a Knight of the Order of Charles II of Spain, a
Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, and — a
Citizen of the United States
Carence
S. ilull
< Forty-three)
W Somerset Maugham Is With Us Again
By B. F. WILSON
EVERY time I
see Somerset
Maugham he
is in the act of being
sketched. The last
time I saw him a
well-known news-
paper artist was
sweating blood in a
mad endeavor to get
the famous author's
features down on
his sketch-pad ; this
time a very young
Mexican boy with
an unspellable name,
who by the way has
an uncanny gift of
caricature, was try-
ing to catch a straw
of likeness from the
inscrutable face of
his subject.
The portrayal of
this English writer
has been the despair
of every artist and
cartoonist on both
sides of the Atlan-
tic. They have
all tried and failed.
Every well-known
caricaturist from
Max Beerbohm on
down has had a
sling at it — but Mr.
Maugham says : "I
can draw only one
conclusion — my face
must be so utterly
void of interest that
there is nothing to
work from."
This, however, is
polite rot. The face of the author is one you could never
forget. Disillusionment marks the lower part with deep
lines about the mouth. The keen eyes ordinarily cynical,
can upon occasion warm into human tolerance. When he
laughs — a rare occurrence — he is transformed. He seems
momentarily to throw off the cloak of worldly scepticism
and becomes almost boyish in expression.
He had visited this country again for the purpose of
rehearsing his latest play, "The Camel's Back," which the
Selwyns have produced. He very rarely behaves in this
fashion — in fact, he never goes near the theater when a
play of his has been accepted for production. I asked
him why he had done so this time.
"I had rather an unfortunate experience with my last
play," he replied. "You know, I dont exactly care to
have my plays rewritten by the managers. So I decided
that I would attend the rehearsals personally. I've been
frightfully busy of late with nothing but rehearsing'.
You know, I have just had a play put on in London which
I am glad to say has turned out to be a sensation. The
name of it is 'Our Betters.' It was produced in this
country some years ago, but unfortunately, it didn't seem
Maurice Beck and Helene Macgregor, London
England's most distinguished author-playwright, Somerset
Maugham, came over to this country for the rehearsals of
his play, "The Camel's Back," a scene from which is
pictured on page 46 of this issue. This is positively
the only interview he gave and Classic is fortunate to have
secured it. "Rain" is also from his gifted pen
to please American
audiences."
I recalled having
heard that it was
one of the most
brilliant farces ever
seen in this country.
Its author was at
that time compara-
tively little known
over here. It was
before the days of
"The Moon and
Sixpence," "The
Circle," and others.
Also before the days
of "The Demi-Vir-
gin," "Getting
Gertie's Garter," etc.
Even when the first
two were produced,
they made very little
money for their
owners, while the
parties of the second
part reaped a golden
harvest. Which goes
to show you that
you never can tell
what an American
audience will like.
"The English
stage is in a period
of stagnation," he
continued. "Nobody
is writing any plays,
no one, comparative-
ly speaking, is pro-
ducing any. I think
America at the pres-
ent time is the theat-
rical center of the
world. A producer
over here- can see
possibilities and can take chances that a European man-
ager would never dare to. He hasn't any money he
can afford to lose. You people over here have a whole
mass of theaters which of course have to be filled. Your
managers have so much money that they can say when
a play is offered them, 'Now look here, this is a new idea.
I wonder how it will get over. I think I'll try it and see
what happens.' Very few of the writers in Europe, there-
fore, have turned out plays recently. They feel it a
waste of time. I happen to be particularly fortunate, but
after I get back to Europe I dont intend writing any more
plays immediately.
"They are going to turn 'The Moon and Sixpence'
into a play to be produced here next season. I hope they
will be able to get Lionel Barrymore for the lead.
"I expect to be here for about six weeks then I shall
return to London, shut myself up in my house and get
to work on my novel. It is going to be a long one. the
provisional title is 'The Painted Veil.' However, I have
had so much misfortune with titles that I dont know what
I shall really call it. Every time I get a very good one
(Continued on page 84)
(Forty-four)
Right is the
beautiful Japan-
ese Print scene
from "Artists
and Models."
In the oval is
Otis Skinner in
another of his
delightful char-
acteriiations.
This season it
is S a n c h o
Panza, the phi-
1 o s o p h i c a 1
squire of Don
Quixote
Below is thr
Stone family:
Fred, his witc
Allene, and Ml
daughter Doro-
thy, bright star
of the new
musical extrav-
aganza "Step-
ping Stonei."
Dorothy made
a great hit —
almost stole the
show from her
father
The Photographer
Takes the Stage
White
Left is Beryl Mercer in
her interesting role of
Queen Victoria. Beside
her is George Forren as
Gladstone. Below is the
banquet scene from the
hit of the season, "The
Swan," by Ferenc Molnar.
The set is so dignified and
lovely that the audience
bursts into irresistible ap-
plause before a word is
spoken
White
tpeda
(Forty-five)
Classic's
Monthly Department
of the Theater
White
White
Above is a scene from a curious drama called "Spring
Cleaning," in which a man (Arthur Byron) introduces a
prostitute (Estelle Winwood) into his own home by way
of showing up his wife and her friends
Above: One of the nne plays of a wonderful season,
"Tarnish." Ann Harding is pictured with Mrs.
Jacques Martin
White
Above is a moment from the
Maugham comedy-drama, "The
Camel's Back." The actors are:
Violet Kemble Cooper, Arthur
Lewis and Charles Cherry. Right
is "The Failures," a rather more
grim than usual Theatre Guild
offering. Left to right: Winifred
Lenihan as the actress, Jacob Ben-
Ami as the author, Erskine San-
ford as the musician, Dudley
Digges as the Art Theater manager
Bruguiere
(Forty-six I
Variety
Is the Spice
of This Season
Ir.i 1> Schwan
Four of the leads in "One Kiss." Clare Kummer's "comedy
with music." They are: Oscar Shaw, Louise Groody, Ada
Lewis and John Price Jones
Above is Roberta Arnold in a typical Golden produc-
tion, "Chicken Feed," which deals with wives and
their nearly always inadequate allowances
White
Above is Jane Cowl as Melisande,
with J. Sayre Crawly as Arkel, in a
scene from the most tragically beauti-
ful of all Maeterlinck's haunting and
beautiful dramas, "Pelleas et Meli-
sande." Left are: General Stuart
(James Durkin), Robert E. Lee
(Berton Churchill) and Stonewall
Jackson (David Landau), all from
Drinkwater's "Robert E. Lee," which
took a bad flop
Richard Burke
(Forty-seven)
Walter Hampden,
Playing Superbly,
Makes "Cyrano de
Bergerac" The
Play of the Month
This is the second
of Mr. Macgowan's
monthly articles on
the stage for
Classic. An un-
fortunate accident at
the height of Mr.
Hampden's success
in "Cyrano" caused
a three weeks' sus-
pension of perform-
ances. They have,
however, now been
resumed and those
interested may see it
at The National
Theater, New York.
Mary Dale Clarke
The World's Most Famous Nose
By KENNETH MACGOWAN
AFTER creating the greatest nose in all history any
writer ought to be satisfied to die. Edmond Rostand
Lwas not. He insisted on living on into his thirties,
his" forties, even his fifties. And all to no purpose. The
author of "Cyrano de Bergerac" never created a facial
blemish, let alone a whole character, to equal the nose or
the soul of the Gascon cadet.
Perhaps Rostand made a mistake when he did so well
by Cyrano. Certainly the fellow threw "L'Aiglon,"
"Chanteclair," and all the rest of his plays in the
shade. More than that, he was too Francis
tremendous a hero to get
himself very much
acted. Coquelin ^^
learned the
hundred pages on which Cyrano monopolized attention
in the two hundred and fifteen pages of the play, and
actor after actor has stood in awe of Coquelin ever since.
Richard Mansfield played this Gargantuan part over here,
and, tho a few American actors have talked about reviv-
ing the play, the only one who had done so up to the
present season — Robert Lorraine — cautiously turned
Englishman and emigrated before he tried it. A great
part and a great acting tradition have almost killed a
great play.
Bruguiere
But now Walter Hampden comes
cheerily along, and revives
"Cyrano" as a mere
(Continued on
page 92)
(Forty-eight )
The Movie of the Month
By LAURENCE REID
Mr. I\',i(j StltCtS "Anna Christie" c;.< ///<• /'.
Photoplay of This Month and Explains Why
EUGENE O'NEIL'S Pulitzer prise play. "Anna
Christie" (Firsl National), cornel to the screen a
vigorous, --tirrin^ document. Here is one instance
where the producer has not made a single departure from
the original. ( )n the contrary, he lias approached the
author's vital subject with deep appreciation of its dra-
matic sweep, it-, rich characterization — and its very human
attributes- -with the result that we have a picture of
breadth and substance — a picture comparable to "A
Woman of Paris" in its direct, progressive action, tho
carrying a much more significant theme.
Thomas H. Ince. like Chaplin, has marked out a clear
path for himself. Defiant of censorship, he has had the
audacity and the sincerity to tell the truth as ( )'Xeil
painted it —
without throw-
ing a sop to the
sentimentalists.
\nd so we
have "Anna
Christie" — one
of the boldest
dramas of life
in the raw
that has ever
been screened.
In certain
States, we can
hearthecensors
crying : "This
is too strong ; it
is liable to of-
ferfd." On the
other hand,
those of us
who would see
life expressed
realistically are
crying in the
wilderness for
just such
screen treat-
ment as is re-
vealed here.
Mr. Ince has
gambled. H e
has chosen no
path which
beats around
the bush. He
has seen his
goal, striven
for it and
reached it — and the O'Neil drama is his profit. The en-
comiums we passed on to Charles Chaplin will have to
be shared with Thomas H. Ince. One has plunged into
the superficialities of life, the other into the realities. And
yet how like each other are these stories — -in the manner
of their compact treatment.
Eugene O'Neil, a realist, sketches life as he sees it.
That life may expose raw crudities — but it is invariably
moving and compelling. Woven deep in the fabric is
a vital spiritual note. We will say that there is more
These are the people who most
Christie" better than all the other
right: George tyarion, John Wray,
of a spiritual quality in "Anna Christie" than in all the
sugar-coated slices of sentiment which masquerade under
the name of humanity. It carries a comforting quality
in its revelation of human frailties because it strikes
at the very \itals of character — showing us how tricks
of circumstance guide our destinies If the cenSOCT
would look beneath the raw surfaces and see the rugged
heart-heat inside, they would have no occasion to point
thumbs down.
It is seldom that such a bold document reaches the
screen with its vital ingredients intact. Surely Ince hasn't
been guided by the idea that his throbbing opus will be
passed along to the tender fledglings. Yet, even these
fledglings will take nothing from it but worthy impulses.
The director
has kept faith
with the play
— right d o w n
to the most un-
imi>ortant de-
tail. We may-
miss the rug-
gedness of the
spoken line, but
compensation
is effected thru
the range of
the camera to
catch a most
authentic at-
mosphere. Ince
has so shaped
his scenes and
guided his
players — that
we seem to be
actual partici-
pa n t s. He
makes us feel
O'Neil's psy-
chology of dis-
tressed souls —
that emotions
guide the heart
and mind. The
author has
played upon
the superstition
.that molds
the character
of sailor-folk.
His figures
have tasted the
dregs of life — yet all are playboys and playgirls.
O'Neil knows his subject and Ince has kept faith with
the text. He releases no sentimentalities, nor any con-
ventional sops. He takes the subject and penetrates into
the cross-currents of the human heart — showing us a
superstitious, child-like old sailor who ridiculously tries
to defy the deep with a futile cry : "Dat old davil sea !"
He would keep his daughter away from it — knowing the
anguish he has caused his wife who had waited in vain
(Continued on page 95)'
profitably helped to make "Anna
screen plays of this month. Left to
Blanche Sweet and William Russell
(Porty-mneJ
The Celluloid Critic
T
WO adaptations of highly
successful novels bid for
recognition in the First Na-
tional entries, "Ponjola," and
"Flaming Youth." The first men-
tioned is an adventure yarn fash-
ioned from a familiar formula,
but thru a clever manipulation of
plot and incident framed against
an effective background — and
played with creditable feeling, it
takes oh a value which should also
cause it to
become high-
ly popular on
the screen.
If you are
not in the
know con-
cerning the
title, let us
state that
"Ponjola" is
the Kaffir
word for
whiskey. And
it serves as
the medium
toward the
degeneration
of a man who
has given too
much thought
to business
and romantic
reverses exe-
cuted by a
crooked partner and an unapprecia-
tive girl.
The idea will be recognized as
having served the screen many
times before. But its treatment is
different. It features the exploits
of a beautiful young Englishwoman
who journeys to South Africa to
escape the embarrassment of the
law.
While in Paris she is balked in a
suicidal venture by a stranger who
is returning to the veldt. He takes
her into his confidence — as a result
she takes a new lease on life — and even goes so
far as to accompany him to South Africa disguised
as a man.
What follows is an extremely conventional line
of adventure and incident — with the masquerader hold-
ing the interest thru her radical disguise. While her sex
could be easily identified, for the purpose of the plot —
she gets away with it. And regenerates the man who had
run away from his character.
There is a deal of melodramatic incident and a fair
quota of thrills in this picture — which, as a sample of its
kind, is interesting screen fare. Anna Q. Nilsson makes
a startling appearance as the heroine. She has not spared
the shears in trimming her locks and she makes a wonder-
fully attractive young man.
James Kirkwood employs his poise and repression to
good advantage. He can convey more soul tortures than
most of his contemporaries.
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Above: Young
Douglas Fair-
banks in
"Stephen Steps
Out.1* Left:
Harrison Ford
and Ethel
Shannon in
"Maytime"
Right: Bar-
bara La Marr
in "The Eter-
nal City." Be-
low: Anna Q.
Nilsson and
James Kirk-
wood in "Pon-
jola"
effort to be naughty but
nice is the little- movement
behind "Flaming Youth,"
which is the latest visualization
of flapperdom. So we have the
usual expose of the fast jazz life,
tho it is shown against a much
more effective background than
what is customarily depicted.
Some may call it risque — but it is
mostly suggestion — without much
flair of subtlety. We are offered
an undress-
ing party for
the big swim
(no picture
of society
fast- steppers
is, complete
without its
s w imming
epi sode) —
and so on un-
til we dis-
cover that
mamma's
little girl is
growing up
and demands
expression.
Colleen
Moore, once
the story gets
under way,
gives a capa-
ble perform-
ance of the
jazz-crazed flapper. She is pert in
appearance and to the point in her
craving for a good time. She gives
pure "white" kisses and when "red"
kisses are forced on her pouty lips,
she flames up with indignation.
She is not far from being a patho-
logical study — is little Patricia
Fentriss. She observes hectic "do-
ings" in her home and decides to
participate. Her mother has been
discovered in the arms of a man —
a mother who has succumbed to
the giddy life. After her death her
most faithful admirer shows a great interest in the girl —
who must experience a harrowing adventure aboard a
yacht before she is lugged out of danger.
It is artistically designed — this picture, and its petting
and "necking" parties will doubtless establish long lines
at the box-office. But it skims the surface most of the
time. We would catalog it as bright and playful, but
artificial.
THERE seems to be no end to a picturization of the
stormy days of French history. Here we have in
"Under the Red Robe" (Cosmopolitan) an elaborate
expose of the silk and satin period when Richelieu ruled
the affairs of state during the reign of Louis XIII. Un- «
fortunately this vital character — one of the dominant
figures of his time — is allowed to pass almost unnoticed
once he is introduced — in order that the picture conven-
tions may be obeyed. Thus we have a long, tiresome
(Fifty)
Laurence Reid Reviews the Latest Photoplays
Alma Ru-
b e n s in
"Under the
Red Robe"
Edward Horton in
"To The Ladies"
r i> in a ii
developed be
t \s c e 11 .1
voung scala
gifted
w i t h the
I, who i>
sentenced l>\
Richelieu to
brine luck a
rebel or •
ler the loss
of his head
in the basket
— a n tl th e
rebel's sister.
A n u n -
wieldy pal
tern — this,
which falter^
in robbing
the cardinal
of the spot-
light — and
p e r mi tt in g
the romance
to take away
the historical
value.
Furthermore,
there is little
variety in the
love episodes.
On the credit
side is a gor-
geousness of
design — cap-
italized in an
array of
beautiful set-
tings and cos-
t u m e s —
which are
truly sugges-
tive of the
period. There
is not so
much an air
of solidity
and massive-
ness as there
is one of
color and richness. Occasionally it stirs us with a
dramatic stroke — such as the death of the spy — and
Richelieu's humiliation when he suffers the loss of his
power for a day. It's a picture which has a distinct ocular
appeal, but which is not skilfully constructed to indicate
the real intrigue of court.
Most of the acting leaves us cold. John Charles Thomas
is a robust and fleshy cavalier, but is too awkward and
too stiff of posture to be the gay charmer of Weyman's
book. Alma Rubens does not scale any emotional heights
as the heroine. Robert B. Mantell's Richelieu is too
theatric of expression.
ANOTHER unwieldy design is "The Eternal City"
( Goldwyn-First National), which has little in
common with the book. True, it carries Hall
Caine's atmosphere, title — and a suggestion of his
Below:
Thomas
Meighan
and
Lila Lee
In
"Woman
Proof"
Bill Hart in
"Wild Bill
Hickok"
Colleen Moore in
"Flaming Youth"
it 1 c
Mllnt. but
thi th
i ng impri
live about it
ide f roiu
ime Ron
background i,
such as the
F a
storming the
( oliseum —
and o t li e r
ancient land
marks.
We are of-
fered an arti-
ficial story of
children who
grow up as
lovers. Xow
comes the
( i r e a t W a r
with the boy
enlisting thru
patriotic en-
thu si asm —
and the girl
reading the
report that he
has been kill-
ed in action.
Which plants
the reason
why she be-
comes victim-
i z e d by a
wealthy roue.
One may see
th e cl imax
indicated far
in advance.
It is a cer-
tainty that
the youth
will return
from the war
and surprise
his erstwhile
sweetheart
with another.
So when he
comes back, the picture has lost every suggestion of
surprise. The puzzling query here is why the sponsors
relied upon such an ancient theme in their modernization
of the novel. There is a deal of storm and stress before
her honor is vindicated. Indeed, the scenes become in-
volved with much melodrama — which introduces conflict
of a propaganda quality when the Fascisti are introduced.
The hero has enlisted as one of Mussolini's most trusted
lieutenants. At the proper moment he strikes against the
arch-rebel who is the very man who involved the girl in
scandal.
The picture is rambling of story and tries to cover too
much ground. The spiritual note is striven for, but
poorly indicated. And the acting is anything but in-
spired. Barbara La Marr is permitted too many close-ups.
so that her portrayal impresses us as a photographic
(Continued on paqc 96)
(Fifty-one)
The salary of June Mathis as
editorial director for Gold-
wyn pictures is $100,000.00 a
year. It is not surprising
that she should have a
charming home. It was de-
signed by Louis Benton, of
Los Angeles, and decorated
by Miss Mathis herself with
the assistance of the designer.
These photographs were
taken by George D. Haight
Above is the dining-
room in dull blue
and rose with ivory
woodwork. The
furniture is Circas-
sian walnut, the rug
an oriental. Right
is Miss Mathis' own
study with its typi-
cal California at-
mosphere. It is done
in red and green
and the furniture
is mission. You
should have great
respect for this
room, for it is here
that Miss Mathis
earns her salary
(Fifty-two)
Hollywood Homes
No. XVI
The home of June Mathis, Goldwyn's Editorial Director, is pictured here
At the top of the
page is the view
from the street.
The house is of
soft Italian pink
stucco with a
dark-red tiled
roof. The plant-
ing is admirable
and the lawns and
garden unusually
trim
Left is Miss
Mathis in her
living - room ar-
ranging the roses
from her own
garden. A charm-
ing home and a
charming hostess.
Note the odd
effect the Cali-
fornia sun has on
the tiles of the
roof at the top of
the page
(Fifty-three)
FROM the movie vocabulary in "The Best Moving
Pictures of 1922-23," by Robert E. Sherwood:
GROSS, v. To make money. It is applied only to pic-
tures. ("This film will gross a million dollars.")
In other words, William Fox's "Temple of Venus" is a
million dollars' worth of grossness.
+ + +
"God never meant laughter to be full of daggers that
dig into the heart," says the heroine in "The Temple of
Venus."
This fella, now, Fox, just knows everything, ain't it?
+ + "b
At this writ-
ing, Gene Sara-
zen, the golf en-
thusiast, is to be
married to
Pauline Garon,
the First Flap-
per of Filmdom.
Looks as if he
had an almost
perfect ap-
proach.
Later : Miss
Garon has de-
nied that she is
betrothed to Mr.
Sarazen, thus
laying him a
mean stymie.
*r" + +
If you ask us,
it's our opinion
that the whole
affair's the bunker.
Whatever harsh words may be
justly spoken of the
legitimate stage, at
least it spares us the
puerile effect of the
gel's face appearing
deep in the heart of a
rose. Nor, as in "His
Children's Children,"
do devils ever emanate
from wine-cups and
flaming matches to
philosophize in illiter-
ate subtitles. We
fatuously thought
such trick photog-
raphy was as dead as
a dinosaur's egg.
Courtesy of Ina Anson
ond Goldwvn Pictures
Devils in their proper place, to be sure, are not without
a certain dignity. Embellishing the advertisements of
corn-cures, dyspepsia tablets and Underwood's Picnic
Ham, for instance, they are hot stuff.
+ + 4*
"His Children's Children" also offers an interesting
example of the proper Christian sentiment. In what
might be called a prolog, Grandpapa is shown whooping
it up on the observation platform of his private car with
a Fancy Person. A lassie, however, from a nearby group
of Salvation Army choristers brings him the Light.
Grandpapa morally renovated, his mistress becomes most
offensive to his sight. "Get out !" he says in a fine frenzy
of righteousness. "Here are your things — go!" And out
she goes, without benefit of clergy, or any spiritual rein-
forcement whatever.
Now that's no way for a gent to treat a lady !
+ + +
Our Own Censorship Standards
A casual examination of the platforms of the various
state censorship boards has practically forced us to form
one of our own. So far as we are concerned, the boards
have failed
utterly in the
proper execution
of their duties.
And then, one
always gets bet-
ter results when
one does things
oneself, doesn't
one?
Our rulings
are as below :
1. There will
be not more than
three bathing
beauties shown
in any one scene.
All bathing
beauties must
enter the water.
Bathing suits
obviously de-
signed not for
comfort but for
the exploitation
of the female
form divine will be frowned upon.
This need not apply to news reel pic-
tures of beauty contests.
2. There will be no mare pic-
tures of swimming-pool parties coun-
tenanced until July 24, 1978.
3. Scenes of motion-picture actors
and actresses presumably engaged in
a set of tennis will be strongly
disapproved. This goes for
golf, also.
4. No actor over forty-five
will be permitted to take the
part of a student in scenes of
college life.
5. Scenes displaying the star
in improper lingerie will either
be cut out entirely or given a
reasonable amount of footage.
A little knowledge is a danger-
ous thing.
6. The wearing of caps with evening clothes by male
actors will be discouraged.
7. All scenes showing the actual consumption of food
at a civilized repast will positively not be tolerated unless
the performers are made to stop acting naturally. (Very
probably to be continued.)
+ + +
"Surely," said the Boss (who is more of a Darn Good
Pal than a boss), "you are going to write something about
'A Woman of Paris.' " And so we are. Charles Spencer
(Continued on page 90)
(Fifty-four j
The Immortal Clown
With Specially Posed Photographs of Larry Semon
by Lejaren a Hiller
IITERATURE is filled with portraits of the tragic clown, the
fun-maker who carries in his heart the burden of ■ great per-
*"'sonal sorrow, but who laughs away the hours in gay hearted
abandonment, while his soul sutlers because of grief lie dare not
reveal in his guise of purveyor of
merriment.
In all literature there is no more
tragic figure than the clown made fa-
mous by Caruso, the Pagliacci of the
opera, with whom we have all laughed,
over whom we have all wept ; the
shadow of whose tragedy has brought
to the stage one of those wonderful and
sublime moments which are the very
pinnacle of human experience.
There have been many sympathetic
portrayals of Pagliacci which have
added dramatic art to lash the imagina-
tion and awaken in the heart and soul a
sense of grief so almost divine as to be
next to unbearable.
It was a daring thing to plan — to give
to art-lovers photographic portrait
Right: Here the
clown has yielded
gradually to con-
viction and the
grim determina-
tion to avenge
betrays itself in
his features. Be-
low is portrayed
an abject and
hopeless despair.
Revenge has not
brought relief.
These are fine
and sympathetic
studies. Bravo,
Mr. Semon!
Here is a new
Larry Semon tell-
ing the familiar
story of Pagli-
acci's grief and
despair. Above is
the funny man
without a care in
the world, the
old Larry Semon
at his best. Left is
the first hint of
his wife's unfaith-
fulness, which, in
his surprise, he is
not quite ready to
believe
studies of Pagliacci ; to believe that any
man could, by mere facial expression, bring
to us the grief portrayed by the classic
clown, relive for us the scenes of that
tragedy in silence, making us remember our
hurt and crying sympathy which the voice
of Caruso has left as a memory in our ears.
Lejarena Hiller, well-known artist-photog-
rapher, has made such an attempt, and he
chose from his long sought-for subjects and
original of his picture-studies, Larry
Semon. . . . Semon, who has made us
laugh till we cried . . . Semon, the clever
. . . the agile . . . the merrymaker,
without a suggestion of sorrow in the world.
"I looked and looked almost in vain,"
says Mr. Hiller, "for a man who could in-
terpret these master-studies, but could find
no one. However, when I met Larry Semon.
I felt, at last, I had discovered my man. Mr. Semon has shown a new-
side of the artist in him thru these portraits. He portrays his own
story and in a way that you can fairly hear the sobs, the grief of one
betrayed.
The studies are of the clown — in his usual mood ; the funny man
without a care, giving of his fun. What did he know of grief? What
did he suspect of treachery ?
Then the first hint of his wife's unfaithfulness; the surprised man.
not quite ready to believe, not quite ready to yield to the impulse of
jealousy. Life is still funny, tho something in it is becoming
complicated.
He yields gradually to conviction, then all his pent-up emotions are
aroused . . . the gay nonchalance for which he is famous, droops
{Continued on page 94)
(Fifty-five)
Flashes From the Eastern Stars
Apeda
Above : Alice Delysia, of "Topics of 1923."
Below: J. Hartley Manners and his wife,
Laurette Taylor, back in New York
© Underwood and Underwood
Of the Stage, on the Screen ,
Caught by the Editor
THE pleasantest thing we can think of that has hap-
pened so far in the movies, is that Lillian Gish and
Richard Barthelmess will play "Romeo and Juliet" on
the screen. There is no debating the appropriateness of
the choice. Lillian and Dorothy are both in Italy for the
filming of "Romola." "Romeo and Juliet" will also be
made there, and "Joan Of Arc," starring Lillian Gish, will
be deferred until later. * * * Richard Barthelmess is
in the midst of "The Enchanted Cottage," upon comple-
tion of which he will join the Gishes in Italy. May
McAvoy has the lead in this picture. Holmes Herbert is
playing Major Hillgrove, the blind officer. John S.
Robertson is directing. He will also direct "Romeo and
Juliet." * * * Al Woods has put
into rehearsal a new play by John
Hunter Booth, titled "Softy." Robert
Ames is the featured player. Elizabeth
Murray, Florence Flinn, Jack Raeffael
and William Calhoun are in the cast
* * * Flora Le Breton, the English
motionrpicture star, who is creating a
very favorable impression on American
producers, thinks New York is about
the most interesting place she ever
visited. She is fascinated by the elec-
tric signs. The other day the Wrigley
Spearment sign attracted her interest
so long that she stood watching it for
quite a long time until the crowd
gathered around her. Miss Le Breton
was not aware of the crowd until a po-
liceman came up and informed her that
she was obstructing traffic * * *
Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, author-
producer, and Alma Rubens, star of
"Under the Red Robe," now playing at
Cosmopolitan Theater. New York
City, have announced their marriage.
It took place last August * * *
Fourteen gallons of chewing gum re-
mover have been used since the opening
of the Music Box Theater in keeping
theater chairs safe for the spectator.
The liquid has been used to separate in-
dividual piles of fully masticated gum
from furtive parking spaces under the
theater seats. Fifteen cuds of chewing
gum has been the average discovery
following performances. The objection-
able wads of gum have been found on
bannisters, walls of the theater, carpets,
under seats in the beautiful lounge, and
under arms of chairs. Every known or
suspected place is explored each day by
the cleaning squad. Do you do this?
We hope not * * * Gloria Swanson
does an apache dance in her newest
Paramount picture, "The Humming
Bird," which will be a revelation. For
weeks she has been practising the weird
dance creation with Aurelio Coccia, who,
for the last ten years, has been
dancing it thruout the United States.
(Fifty-six)
Above is John P. Brawn on
tour with Frank Craven in
"The First Year," playing
with conspicuous success
the Mr. Livingstone of the
play. Below are the dear(?)
familiar "L" tracks of New
York, in, on, and around
which, Director Emmett
Flynn made most of "Nellie
the Beautiful Cloak Model"
_j
Left are Pauline
Frederick and Lou
Tellegen playing to-
gether in "Let No Man
Put Asunder." Right
are Jane Cowl, Rollo
Peters and Kate Terry,
famous sister of Ellen
and one of the great
Juliets of the stage.
Below is "Mother Ash-
ton," with her little
niece and her staff of
deft, polite and atten-
tive Japanese, who help
make her newly opened
tea-room the success it
deserves to be, and is
"The apache dance is cruel, fierce, and wild," explained
v ia. "Many people believe that it has been exag-
gerated by dancers, but that is not so. One night in
Paris while making the rounds of the cafes in the
Montmartre district in search of color for my dance, I
was fortunate enough to witness a little triangle drama
between two apache men and a girl. One of the
apaches, seeing the woman with his rival, picked up a
bottle and smashed it to fragments on the floor. He
deliberately cut bis hand with a piece of the glass, ad-
vanced to the defiant girl, seized her with his bloody
hands and began to dance to the strains of the noto-
rious Mattischiche. It was a fascinating sight." Miss
Swanson had to give up work on this picture for nearly
two weeks due to a particularly severe case of "Kleig
eyes" * * * Glowing reports of the effectiveness
of F. Scott Fitzgerald's comedy, "The Vegetable," drift
in from Atlantic City, where Sam H. Harris first pre-
sented the play. It is being prepared for a Broadway
showing with Ernest Truex as star. * * * Lee
Kugel, who says he counted them, reports that 3,000
actors, actresses and dancers yesterday afternoon
stormed the doors of Morris Gest at the Princess
Theater seeking engagements in Max Reinhardt's
"The Miracle." * * * Homer
Croy, author of "West of the Bail
Water Tower," has just
offered a prize of $100
for the best bit of
writing done dur-
ing the current
school year by a
student of the Uni-
versity of Missouri.
The award is very
unusual. Mr. Croy
says he doesn't
want any red tape
connected with it
and wants to "en-
courage some stu-
dent who has the
writing germ
buried in his soul
and who thinks no
one cares." Mr.
Croy was formerly
a student at the
University of Missouri. Just at present he is a kind
of literary hero among the undergraduates because
"West of the Water Tower" has become a best-seller
and has just been produced as a motion picture by
Paramount, with Glenn Hunter in the .star role.
* * * Probably no member of the theatrical pro-
fession has traveled more extensively than Miss
Georgette Harvey of the "Runnin' Wild" company,
the all-colored musical show now playing in New York
City. Miss Harvey, tho comparatively a young
woman, has spent fourteen consecutive years playing
thruout Europe and Asia, ten of which were spent in
Russia. During her long stay in the latter country
she witnessed five revolutions, and was in Petrograd
at the time of the overthrow of the late Czar. Her
recital of the terrible experiences which she was
forced to undergo are dramatic in the extreme. De-
siring to leave the country, she was thwarted at every
move and accomplished it only after traveling across
Russia to Siberia and the far East. During this trip
she personally saw more than two hundred executions.
An uneviable record ! * * * After four months of
searching the market for a suitable story for George
Fitzmaurice's second independent production, Samuel
Goldwyn announces the acquisition
of Joseph Hergesheimer's
novel, "Cytheria," and
work will begin the
latter part of this
month. The direc-
tor is now in Cuba,
selecting locations.
* * * Nita Naldi
is in New York
again after a long
stay on the Coast.
Her plans are un-
decided. * * * Col-
leen Moore has been
honeymooning, a
bit late, but still
honeymooning, in
this greatest of
cities. She has been
buying furniture
for her new home.
She has been
(Con. on page 102)
(Fifty-seven)
"I'VE seen people clown in the mouth before," said
Jarvis with mournful relish, "but I never saw one
clown in the mouther than Mr. Ainsworth. No, sir.
Thank you, sir." Jarvis always thanked you. He was
imported from England, and he knew what was expected
of him,
"No desire to gather him roses while he may, eh?"
Morrell commented sympathetically, reaching for the
bottle of Bourbon on the tray in the butler's hands, "finds
no comfort in the jolly old flowing bowl and all that
kind of thing? Maybe some girl has turned him down.
We must cherchez la femme in cases where a fellow
with everything he wants in the world suddenly discovers
that he doesn't want anything."
"I dont think it's that, sir," Jarvis shook his head, "I've
been thru three affairs of the 'eart with young gentlemen
I've 'ad the honor of serving and I know the symptoms.
Thank you, sir."
"It cant be money troubles," Morrell reflected, "his
income tax looks like a movie star's salary. Liver,
perhaps."
"I've been butler to two livers, sir, and one gout."
Jarvis sighed, "there's nothing wrong with Mr. Ains-
worth's 'ealth, I'm certain. If I may venture a sugges-
tion, sir, I think he needs a h'interest in life and if he
doesn't get it," he made an eloquent gesture of putting
an invisible pistol to his forehead and pulling the trigger,
"I was once second footman to a suicide, sir. Thank you,
sir."
Left to himself and the Bourbon by the grateful Jarvis,
Tack Morrell laughed, then frowned. He had known
The
Yankee Consul
By NORMAN BRUCE
Dudley Ainsworth since freshman year at Yale and
between them existed that rare thing that men never put
into words — friendship. If he had occasion to speak of
it, Morrell, shying in horror from sentiment, would have
said that they were Dud Damon and Jack Pythias. He
had noticed his chum's depression but Jarvis' report gave
him the first hint of'its seriousness.
"I must put the old bean at work," he told himself, "it's
hard to think with nothing to do it with, but it's got to be
done ! Let's see, if he isn't in love he ought to be- "
Dudley Ainsworth, lounging in shortly afterward,
barely glanced at his friend. He flung himself into a
chair, fumbled for a cigaret and when the match went
out, irritably tossed the unlighted cigaret away. The
muscles of his handsome young face were drawn so taut
that he looked as tho he were wearing a mask but
his hands shook, and catching Morrell's glance he thrust
them into his pockets.
"Damn !" he said drearily, "Damn everything !"
"Come out to dinner with me." Jack suggested, "I can
manage the wine and the women and I might even be
persuaded to oblige with a song!"
Ainsworth shook his head. "Have to dress, and I'm
sick of dressing. D'you ever stop to think, Jack, how
many more times we'll have to dress before we die?
How many shirt studs we'll have to put in — Gad ! When
I look ahead to forty years of tying my necktie and brush-
ing my hair, I feel as tho I couldn't go thru with
it !" His voice had risen to the pitch of hysteria. Jack
Morrell was shocked. Lord, but the poor chap was in
a bad way — in another moment he'd be bursting into
tears !
"Dont worry, your hair wont last another forty years,
m'boy !" he said flippantly, "do come along, Dud ! I want
you to meet a girl, reg'lar stunner, my sister's chum at
Vassar, but she doesn't wear blue stockings, and she
doesn't flap either. Hairpins instead of a bob, and uses
her head for something besides a parking place for a hat.
You'd like her."
It appeared that Ainsworth wouldn't go across the
street to meet Helen of Troy. Women talked, which was
bad, or else they expected to be talked to, which was
worse. Argument and pleading were of no avail, and
then Morrell played his trump card.
"The trouble with you, Dud, you're out of the game,
you're sitting on the side-lines instead of being out on
the field where you belong. A job is what you need.
Look here, I'm willing to bet you ten thousand dollars
that if you go to work for a month and live on what you
can make life will look entirely different to you."
Ainsworth stared wanly. "A job ! What d'you sup-
pose anyone would hire me to do — I'm the most useless
object on God's green earth. I'm as worthless as a corpse
and I take up a good deal more room. Job ! I couldn't
get a job to pound sand in a rat hole !"
For reply, Jack turned to the telephone. "Listen, girlie.
I'm not doing this to exercise the 'phone," he added
earnestly after giving a number. "I know, sweetie, that
the line is busy and the party dont answer and all that.
Why not be original and get me the number?"
Dudley Ainsworth listened with a wry smile. He told
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himself that the plan was preposterous, that he wouldn't
be a part \ to u. and yet he made no move to interfere,
■ven when, from the one Bided conversation on the 'phone,
he deduced that he had been lured i>y the Happ) l>a\s
Travel Bureau to sell steamship tickets and distribute
gaudy booklets over a counter for twenty two dollars and
titty cents a week, somewhat less than he usually ipenl
on cigars. Morrell hung up the receiver triumphantly.
"There you arc' Remember the conditions, one month's
work and vou're to live on your pay. It at the end of
the time you dont confess life is worth living, I'll hand
you a check for ten thousand!"
"You're a fool. Jack," Ids friend remarked listlessly,
"hut I'm desperate enough to try it. And if it doesn't
succeed 1 wont want your money, I'll just let you treat
BM t» a cyanide cocktad. I'm tired of sticking around
this stale, flat and unprofitable world waiting for some-
thing to happen ."
"I have a hunch you'll find your job — interesting."
Morrell said cryptically, "well, so long! Of course I dont
mingle much with the proletariat, and our stations in life
will be different from now on. hut maybe I'll drop in noV
and again to wring your horny hand of toil."
The first two days at the travel bureau were unusual
enough to provide a young millionaire who had never
been into such a place with a few novel impressions.
Faithful to the terms of the wager, Ainsworth took a
frightful room in a lodging-house on Twenty-third
Street where the sheets smelled of boiled cabbage and the
carpet was like decayed vegetation, and since he must
choose between three meals a day in dirty lunchrooms
or one meal a day in a decent if modest restaurant he
decided on the latter and found himself really hungry for
the first time in weeks. He was even able to smile feebly
at the thought of Jar vis' horror if he could see the tin tub
in the lodging-house's one bathroom and the pink powder
scattered on the lav-
atory by the hall-
bedroom manicurist
— a determined
blonde.
But on the third
morning the dark
cloud of depression
settled down again.
It was all so futile —
the booklets of
standardized tours
with their specious
pictures of pagodas
and Roman ruins,
the cheap people
who came in to talk
about cheap cabins.
With the morbid
fancy of a sick and
jaded mind, Ains-
worth seemed to see
the Inverted Bowl
of old Omar and un-
derneath, crawling
"For love of ze good
Saint Mike zat you
Americans worship,
do not leave mt — I
am in so great trouble
— but I cannot tell
you jus' now — I
write " The ven-
tilator clicked shut as
another woman's hand
drew the girl away
from the window
aimless .is ants, the human millions caught m tin- tr.t
tent e F rora these thoughts Iv
familial voice asking casually for a ticket to San Domingo
"San Domingo," stuttered Auisworth, "for I:
sake win would you want a ticket to San DomingO?1
"In order to travel there, "I COUrSC, my good fellow'
Morrell s.ud blandly. "Steamship Mariposa, sailing this
afternoon. I Mine. COme, hurry up'"
"1 say, Jack, if you're really K<>inu to San DomingO, 111
come along," Ainsworth automatically placed a blue ticket
in an envelope and pushed it over the Counter, "sou wen-
wrong — there's no kick to this job, and the fellow in the
room above mine plays '< >ld Black Joe' on a cornet
all the evening!"
"Tut. tut, what are the working classes coming t<
Morrell grinned, "think of your wager I Picture me
sitting under palm with a book of verses, a jug of wine,
and a charming Thou, but as for you work hard, my
boy — work wins, you know ! See you later !" With an
airy wave of his hand he strolled out, almost colliding
in the doorway with an agitated young lady of such un-
usual beauty that Ainsworth who had been about to dash
after his friend stood still in his tracks staring dazedly at
the dark pale loveliness revealed by the lifting of the heavy
black veil she wore.
'"As the Mariposa she sail yet?" the young lady in-
quired with a foreign accent which Ainsworth could not
quite place, '"ave the boat to San Domingo a'ready de-
part?" And now he saw that she seemed to be laboring
under some emotion. The bosom of her dress rose and
fell swiftly and she cast frequent glances toward the door.
Dudley Ainsworth had led an entirely average life. The
women he had known had been dancing partners or dinner
neighbors, charming, carefully trained to please, perfectly
understandable even to the meaning of the conscious look
in their blue, black or brown eyes when they gazed at him.
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"I'll be damned if I will!" Ainsworth returned promptly. What would have happened next he
did not know and he did not particularly care. A fellow like a musical-comedy king giving
orders to a citizen of the United States!
But this woman was different, tantalizing, mysterious.
She was like a flirt of a scarlet fan in a carnival crowd,
laughter in stormy moonlight, she was like
Confusedly he heard his own voice assuring her that
the Mariposa had not gone. Dizzily he was conscious of
following her hurrying figure to the door, of standing
bareheaded on the pavement watching a foreign-looking
gentleman and a lady with diamonds in her ears hurry
her into a taxicab which a moment later was lost in the
tide of traffic, but not before he had caught a memory of
a wild white face pressed to the window, the gesture of a
little hand, whether in farewell or entreaty he did not
know.
A snicker brought him back to his surroundings and
the conciousness that he lacked a hat. Behind his counter
once more Ainsworth sold several tickets with entire
disregard for such small
details as destination and
date, then for the third
time that morning the
Steamship Mariposa was
the subject of excited in-
quiry. An elderly man,
face almost hidden behind
an underbrush of ginger-
colored whiskers, stood as
close to the counter as his
girth would allow, banging
a tattoo with a rusty cotton
umbrella.
"Looky here, young
man," he addressed Ains-
worth belligerently, "my
name is Abijah Boos."
He seemed to expect
THE YANKEE CONSUL
Fictionized by permission from Associated Ex-
hibitors' production of the screen adaptation by
Raymond Griffith and Raymond Cannon of the
musical comedy by Henry M. Blossom, Jr., and
Alfred G. Robyn. Directed by James W. Home.
The cast:
Dudley Ainsworth Douglas MacLean
Jack Morrell Arthur Stuart Hull
Leopoldo Stanhope Wheatcrof t
Donna Teresa Eulalie Jensen
Don Raphael Deschado George Periolat
Maria Patsy Ruth Miller
John J. Doyle Fred Kelsey
Duncan, ship's purser L. C. Shumway
Ripley, retired consul Gerald Pring
Servant Bert Hadley
some comment, but not exactly the one his hearer made.
"Of course," Ainsworth murmured, "it couldn't be any-
thing else. What can I do for you, Mr. Boos?"
The umbrella increased its tempo. "You can take this
here passport and ticket and go aboard the Steamship
Mariposa and git my luggage off'n her before she sails.
I've changed my mind. I'm going to stay over for the
Independent Order of Woodman's Ball."
The Unknown Lady had asked for the Mariposa — in
ten minutes Dudley Ainsworth, before whom even head
waiters were wont to grew servile, was hurrying up the
gangplank and diving down into a hold odorous of bilge
to seek the belongings of one Abijah Boos. Over
mountains of trunks and foot-hills of suit-cases he toiled,
bruising his shins and barking his knuckles. At last,
triumphant he emerged from the nether regions and
beckoned a steward : "I
have a couple of trunks
down here," he said briskly,
"I want you to throw them
off on the dock."
The man stared, grinned.
"Sorry, sir, but I cant
throw that far," he snick-
ered, jerking a thumb
toward a porthole, "you
see we're ten miles out
already !"
Ainsworth rushed to the
port-hole — green billows,
foam embossed, and not a
sign of land ! He shrugged
all responsibility from his
shoulders. Morrell, with
his idiotic wager had got-
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him into this. Morrell must gel him out Bill
Norma Shearer
Is one of the younger movie set in Hollywood, of more than usual
promise. She has just completed the engaging role of Mimi, in "Lucretia
Lombard," second only in importance to the star
(Sixty- five)
The Hollywood
N
Above : The female
apache is Viola Dana,
pretty thoroly disguised
too. The young man-
about - to - end - it - all is
Warner Baxter, who is
playing opposite her in,
"In Search of a Thrill."
Right: Even Farina, the
great Hal Roach star, has
her directorial moments.
Her-or-er-his name, by the
way, is Allan Clay Hos-
kins. Below: Netta Wes-
cott, the English beauty,
visits Tom Forman's com-
pany while they were mak-
ing "The Virginian"
Transcribed by
OW that the worst of the excitement is over and we can all
breathe again, it is discovered that the casualties of the
motion-picture shake-up were not quite so terrible as they
sounded. Sundry and various people — mostly scenario writers —
are out of jobs; but the good old wagon is trundling along just
the same.
The truth is, the motion-picture panic was brought on deliber-
ately to reduce salaries to a sane point. Last April arid May
there happened to be a sudden scarcity of actors and the resultant
emoluments rose to a point that sounded like a handful of German
marks. Every actor bought an arithmetic and hunted up the
highest number he could find by way of weekly pay envelope.
There were various other business complications, but this was the
main reason for the closing of several studios.
Altho some of the big stars are a trifle chagrined to find themselves
"rented out" by the Famous
Players-Lasky Company to other
companies, th?re are not many
out of work.
Leatrice Joy has been passed
along to Thomas H. Ince who is
about to make a South Sea pic-
ture something on the order of
"Rain." The part of the mis-
sionary, in this instance, will be
taken by Percy Marmont who
made such a hit in "If Winter
Comes." The indifferent, cynical
husband will be played by
Adolphe Menjou. It is a terrific
tragedy.
Even Bebe Daniels, the darling
of the Lasky lot, has been rented
out. She is going to play
Katherine, in a modernized ver-
sion of "The Taming of the
Shrew," which is to be screened
by the youngest of all the pro-
ducers, Bennie Zeidman. Petruchio will be
played by Norman Kerry. Bebe feels very
much excited at the prospect of playing in a
Shakespearian production.
Bebe is also thrilled by the fact that her
young and girlish aunt. Elena Griffin, who
was formerly an actress, is going back to her
screen career. It isn't every girl who has an
opportunity to chaperon aunty past the pit-
falls that lurk in the cinema.
Charlie Chaplin, I understand, is again
busy with soul revelations. Every so often,
Charlie feels that he should write the real
story of his life, sparing nothing; just ripping
the cover off his innermost ego in the fashion
of Mary MacLean. The trouble is, when
Charlie comes to read it over, it always em-
barrasses him so that he tears it up.
Charlie has a devoted friend who is one
of the great surgeons of the world. They
have the most ferocious quarrels over
Charlie's autobiography and the doctor
(Suty-sur)
Boulevardier Chats
HARRY CARR
llways ends bj storming out of the house with the remark " \H
I ask is to get that fellow in a bed in my hospital sometime;
I'll show him."
So mam girls are pouring into Hollywood looking for fame
ami fortune in the movies that the Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce is issuing a circular warning, to be sent to the four
quarters of the earth, telling pretty girls thai the movies are
already overcrowded and there isn't a chance in ten thousand of
getting a living joh in any studio.
The overflow of talent and beauty has created a curious industrial
condition in Los Angeles. The
employment agencies are so
crowded with youth and baffled
beauty humbly looking for jobs
stenographers, etc.. that a
plain girl hasn't a chance.
Los Angeles business men,
seeking help, have grown so
amazingly particular as regards
the pulchritude of their hired
help that one man even sent in
an order for a girl who would
look well with his new set of
mahogany furniture.
The disappointed girls who
cant even stenog will face a
hard winter. The charity or-
ganizations of Los Angeles
have helped many to go back to
the homes they left.
The champion scandal of the
winter has been provided by
Barbara La Marr, who electri-
fied Hollywood by causing the
arrest of a well-known theatri-
cal lawyer on a charge of black-
mail. According to her accusation, he de-
manded $25,000 to suppress a divorce suit
about to be brought by her husband, N.
Bernard Deely, in which, the lawyer said,
thirty-seven co-respondents were to be
named. Mr. Deely denies that he had any
connection with the affair. Thru the help
of Miss La Marr's manager, a trap was laid
for the lawyer with marked bills. He is
now out of jail on bail.
When the detectives searched his office,
they found what seemed to be the papers
of a suit for divorce in which Blanche
Sweet was plaintiff and Marshall Xeilan,
her husband, was defendant. According
to the allegations of the suit, Blanche al-
leged that Mr. Neilan had married her only
to defraud her of her legal rights and had
thereafter refused to live with her. Both
Xeilan and Miss Sweet say that the paper is
a fake ; that they are living together happily
and that no divorce suit was ever thought of.
Above: Ella Hall, the
wife and star of Emory
Johnson, and their two
cunning youngsters, pose
for their picture in their
own charming garden.
Left: Walter Hiers dem-
onstrates his versatility
in a most alarming man-
ner. We trust the sword
swallowing is not to be a
permanent performance.
Below: The beloved clown
of the screen, Will Rogers,
is introduced to "Our
Gang" by little Mickey
Daniels, their leader
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Above: The great
prima donna, Mar-
gar etc Matznauer,
and her daughter
Adrienne meet
Elinor Glyn on a
recent visit to
Hollywood. Right
is a sketch of Jaq-
ueline Logan as
Bessie Brook in
"The Light That
Failed"
Cecil De Mille who will start the new production program,
at I^asky's, with "Triumph," has just returned from a bear hunt
in Sonora, laden with trophies and with the profound thanks
of an old mother bear. He found some rough gentlemen bears
and slew them, but all that his hunting companions could find
was a mother bear with a cub. In spite of his protests, they
insisted they would hunt her to death the following day.
Whereupon Cecil arose at the dewy hour of 4 A. M. and
covered up the bear tracks and popped noisily around with a
gun until he had warned the mother bear. He finished the trip
more popular with lady bears than with irate hunters.
He celebrated the end of his summer vacation with a grand
outing party at his ranch in the Little Tujunga Canyon at which
he gave each of the guests a jewel of great price as a souvenir.
De Mille's ranch is a wonderful estate but extremely inac-
cessible in the heart of the mountains.
Renee Adoree cracked five ribs and all but mashed her face
in the other day when the brake of her automobile kicked
up and let her slide down-hill into the front of a
rapidly approaching street-car. Her motor was
smashed into splinters and so was she — almost.
She is now in a hospital dwelling in deathly
terror least some of her friends will visit
her. The reason for Renee's lack of so-
ciability is that her nose was badly mis-
used by the street-car and she has to
wear an immense plaster right across
the front of her countenance.
When Claire Windsor sailed the other
day for the wilds of Algeria to ap-
pear in a motion-picture with Bert
Lytell, she is reputed to have left an
aching heart behind her, said organ
pounding' in the thorax of John Steele,
the tenor. Claire runs neck and neck
with Constance Talmadge in the number
of engagement rumors.
The beautiful Connie, by the way, has re-
turned to the Coast after a Fifth Avenue vaca-
tion, quite content to be a
Californian. She has always,
until now, felt like an exile
when in Hollywood ; but the
big town didn't seem to have
the same charm this time.
For some reason, very few
of the actors want to return
East to live any more.
Tit A
Above: One of the
cast of King Vidor's
"Wild Oranges"
looks things over.
Right is — well,
really, the picture is
self-explanatory
W I AT iH
K I C K
Eugene O'Brien, who is
one of the California con-
verts, is in the throes of
house-building. That is to
say, of house-settling, for the
edifice has been completed.
His friends accuse Gene of
trying to carry off all their
furniture. They say that
whenever he comes to call
now, he casts baleful and
covetous eyes at all the choice
things in the house and
wants to convince you they
(Continued on page 74)
(Siity eight)
Jin Interview with Mrs. O.H.P BELMONT
on the care of the skin
•■A wiiman who neglect! hr i personal ap-
pearance loses hall h« influence. 1'hc wise
care ot one' i body consti ucti the frame en-
circling our mentality, the ability ot which
insure* the luccesi oJ one's lite. 1 advise a
ilailv kinc «>t Pond' a I wo Creams."
CUuk * ■ fitbuycC—
JT was in the beautiful great hall
of Beacon Towers on Sand's
Point, Port Washington, Long
Island, that I first talked with
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont.
1 was excited and eager for the inter-
view because I knew that Mrs. Belmont
not onlv has given lavishly to women's
causes from her colossal fortune, has been
and is a tremendous worker, but also is par-
ticularlv interested in woman's special prob-
lem of how to keep her force and her charm
through middle life and later.
From all this I expected to meet a very
commanding woman the day 1 visited Beacon
Towers. But Mrs. Belmont, on the con-
trary, is quiet and gracious and sweet. She
could not have been a more charming
hostess.
She herself opened the grilled iron door
and I stepped into the big hall with its im-
pressive mural paintings of the life of Joan ot
Arc and its wide doors opening straight onto
Long Island Sound. Here, I felt instantly, is
the spirit of beauty strengthened by sincerity.
After we had admired the glorious view
she showed me the pictures of her two sons,
and of her grandson, who will some day be
one of England's dukes, and — very proudly
— the latest snapshot of her very young Lady-
ship, a small great granddaughter.
"How fine textured and fresh her skin is,"
I thought. And she has just acknowledged
herself a great grandmother!"
'Begs Women not to D^Cjglect Themselves
""KTOW," she was saying smilingly, "I
i.^1 suppose you want me to tell you what
1 think is the relation between a woman's
success and her personal appearance."
"Yes," I admitted, "Just how important
do you think personal appearance is?"
"It is vital. That is just as true for the
woman at home or in business as for those
who are socially prominent.
"Don't you know," she said, "how
often the woman with an unattractive face fails
in the most reasonable undertaking ? Nothing
is so distressing. Neglect of one's personal
attractions generally comes from ignorance
and as I am greatly interested in the success
ot women in every possible way, 1 urge
them not to neglect themselves."
The Library of \Mrs.O. H. P. Belmont
at Beacon Towers on Long Island, >here
this interview was given.
Mrs. Belmont, now President of the
National Woman's Party is known all
over America for her active services in
securing the suffrage for women. Mrs.
Belmont is also interested in better condi-
tions for women, is strong for the aboli-
tion of child labor and for the improve-
ment of Children's Homes. She is a
trained architect; her three magnificent
residences — Villa Isoletto in France,
the famous Marble House at Newport,
and the imposing country home, Beacon
Towers on Long Island, being the products
of time not devoted to politics and business.
Frtnckw»mm '>, Cltanst and Prtttct
Ykin.
Leave it on a minute. Then remove it with a soft cloth.
Dirt and excess oil, the rouge and powder you have used
during the day, are taken off your skin and out of the
pores. How relaxed your face is. 'Do thu t-.vice.
Now finish with ice rubbed over your face or a dash of
cold water. Your skin looks fresh and is beautifulk
supple again. If your skin is very dry, pat on more cream,
especially where wrinkles come first — around the eyes,
the nose, the corners of your mouth — and leave it on
over night.
After every cleaning, before you poicder , and aliia\i
before you go out — Smooth on Pond's Vanishing Cream
very eienls — just enough for your skin to absorb. Now
if you wish, rouge — powder. How smooth and velvety
your face feels. Nothing can roughen it. When you
get up in the morning, after a dash of cold water, this
cream will keep your skin fresh and untired for hours.
And it will stay evenly powdered.
Use this method regularly. Soon your face will be
permanently fresher, smoother and you can count on
the charm of a fresh, young skin for years longer than
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Nime-
Street-
Citv—
(Sixty- nine)
\1be Movie uhcyc lopdedi
Brown Eyes. — Hope you haven't broken any of your resolu-
tions. Gertrude Messenger is fourteen and Buddy is her brother.
That was Hope Drew in "Hollywood." Marie Prevost and Harry
Myers in Elinor Glyn's "How to Educate a Wife."
Mildred P. — Well, I will try to believe you, but as Ovid said :
"We are slow to believe what, if believed, would hurt our feel-
ings." So you like Mary Hay. So do I. Richard Barthelmess
in "The Enchanted Cottage." All right, come along any time.
I'm always here.
A Reader. — Tom Mix has deserted the Western pictures for a
story of the North, "North of the Hudson Bay." Kathleen Key
supports him, but Tony the famous horse is not in the cast.
Bertha C. — You have the right idea, "God made the country,
but man made the dangerous curves." Watch your step. Yes,
Bert Lytell is married to Evelyn Vaughn. He is in Europe now.
Conrad Nagel is with Goldwyn, and is playing in "Three Weeks."
Also in "Blood and Gold." Yes, I shall buy me some buttermilk
with the fee you enclosed.
Margaret M. — You had better watch your calories, and re-
member that there are 3,000 calories per pound in peanuts. This
is nearly three times as much as in any other food. The colon
is five feet long. Why Hope Hampton has red hair. Oh yes,
Alice Calhoun, Miss Dupont, Wanda Hawley, Pat O'Malley and
Warren Kerrigan in "A Man from Brodney's."
Cherry Stone. — Yes, I love them too. Any kind of shell food.
I see you are all for Richard Barthelmess. Yes, he is twenty-
eight, and born in New York City. Married to Mary Hay. Pola
Negri in "Shadows of Paris" and "Sans Gene."
Marguerite. — I should say you are not old. The oldest widow
on the U. S. pension rolls is now past one hundred and four
years of age. No, Norma Talmadge is not playing in "The
Garden of Allah" now, but she hopes to do that picture some
time. Cullen Landis is twenty-eight.
Waipukuran. — No, I am not that old. I dont remember the
Battle of Waterloo which was fought on June 18, 1815. Yes, I
would be glad to have the views. No, I have never been to
Honolulu, but I should like to go some time.
Evelyn Brown Eyes. — Alas ! Many an enamored pair have
courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in prose. Barbara
Castleton, Albert Roscoe and Raymond Bloomer in "The Net."
Edna B. — Thanks for the card. Guess you know all I know
about Valentino, so there isn't any more.
Jeanie. — As Charles Kingsley says : "Never lose an opportunity
of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God's handwriting, a
wayside sacrament, it is a charmed draught, a cup of blessing."
Jack Mulhall is married to Evelyn Winans.
Feathers. — Cheer up, no man is free who is not master of
himself, and hope is a splendid thing for such as have the
strength to bear it. Eddie Burns in "Jazzmania." Rodolph
Valentino was born on May 6, 1895. No, I dont know his favorite
color. What next !
Bright Eyes. — Knowledge will
introduce you, and good breeding
will endear you to the best of com-
panies. So you should like to see
me dancing with my long beard.
You'd be surprised. I can do the
new finale, too. So you would
like to see more of Miriam
Batista. She is playing right along.
Yes, Mahlon Hamilton and Betty
Blythe in "Recoil," now being made
abroad.
Syrie. — Well, the highest exercise
of charity is charity towards the
uncharitable. That was Orvtlle
younger. I certainly
another birthday too.
Blue is not married,
her husband's name.
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Caldwell in "The Eternal Two" with Corliss Palmer. Yes,
Wallace Beery in "Patsy." Ramon Novarro in "Thy Name is
Woman." He is now in Egypt playing in "The Arab."
June. — Your letter is mighty interesting, and I would advise
marriage and a home with kiddies for you, in preference to a
business career. You dont seem to belong to the business world.
As Robert Louis Stevenson says : "To marry is to domesticate
the recording angel. Once you are married there is nothing left
for you, not even suicide, but to be good."
Mama's Baby. — Well, well, well, what do you mean by saluting
me as "Hello Kid." Well, I should worry, it makes me feel
am over eighty years old, and just had
Father Time and I are twins. No, Monte
Aileen Pringle is married, but I haven't
No, Richard Dix is not married.
Tuesday. — Call on a business man at business time only, and
on business, transact your business and go about your business,
in order to give him time to attend to his business. I should say
you are frank. Address Constance Talmadge at United, 5341
Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
American Beauty. — What do you expect? He that would
have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of
it. Noble Johnson was Friday in "Robinson Crusoe." No, none
of the players you mention are married. So long for this time.
Happy.— I'm glad of that. Address Ruth Roland at 3828 Wil-
shire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. The little boy is Edward
Treboal. Come in again some time, but you must shun idleness,
as it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Mrs. C. R. T. — That's pretty classy paper you are using, was
it a Christmas present? Lucille LaVerne was Gloria's Aunt in
"Zaza." You know that Mary Pickford adopted her sister
Lottie's child. Tell your hubby he is all wrong.
Tom Mix. — So you think I am very successful. 'Tis to laugh.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions. Yes, Tom Mix is with Fox, 1401
Western Avenue, Los Angeles, California. He has brown hair.
Address Rodolph Valentino at Ritz-Carleton Productions, 6 West
Forty-eighth Street, New York City.
Olive. — No, I never lend. Friendship ends where loan begins. Flo
Hart was Kenneth Harlan's first wife. Yes, to your last. Selah!
Anna S. — No, Monte Blue is not married now. You can reach
him at Warner Brothers, Bronson Avenue and Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California. Conway Tearle is married to Adele
Rowland. I know that King Baggott has been asked to produce
"Ivanhoe" by an English company, but I am not sure that he .will
do so.
Dulcy. — Oh, are you a dulcy ? Knowledge and timber should
not be much used till they are well seasoned. Norma is twenty-
eight and will be twenty-nine May 2nd. Jack Mulhall is free
lancing right now, and Claire Windsor is with Goldwyn.
Comanche Kid.— Hurrah I Well,
if you ever come across some one
who thinks he knows it all, treat
him as if he did, and let him go.
Buck Jones is twenty-eight and is
playing in "Cupid's Fireman." I
do believe Jane Novak is Swedish.
Emma F. M. — And books are
windows thru which the soul looks
out. Barbara Bedford was Mona,
Carl Miller was Claude, Barbara
La Marr was Kate in "Cinderella of
the Hills." Reginald Denny is married
to a non-professional. The same of
Buck Jones. Write me some more.
(Continued on page 82)
(Seventy >
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The North Wind Doth Blow
And We Shall
Below is Beverly Bayne
(Mrs. Francis X. Bush-
man) and her little son
out at the Whitman
Bennett studios enjoy-
ing themselves between
scenes
Have Snow-
Above : Little Fay
McKenzie and
Frankie Darro
are tired and cold
and they dont
care whether
they lose their
jobs or not. They
are on location
for "Judgment of
the Storm." Di-
rector Del An-
drews excused
them for the day
Across the top of the
page are Tom Mix and
some of his company
way up— "N orth of
Hudson Bay." Below
is Hedda Hopper at
her home on Long
Island
(Seventy-two)
Are You Ready for the Ash-Can?
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Ho-w the Trite Tint Came to Light
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Rhythm and Rebellion
(Continued from page 36)
Two important events had oc-
curred the day of our interview.
First, she had turned down one of
the most coveted roles Goldwyn had
to offer, the film to he made in Italy,
too. "If anyone had told me a year
ago that I would do such a thing, I
would have thought him crazy,"
said Eleanor. "But after considering
it from everv angle. I felt it was
best."
Then, Goldwyn had loaned her to
Universal and on the morrow she was
to begin work on a film version of
Booth Tarkington's "The Turmoil,"
under Hobart Henley's direction,
playing the leading character.
We fell to talking of her various
roles. Her first was in "Gimme,"
then came "The Stranger's Banquet,"
where she had her only chance as a
"heavy" — and liked it. Then came
Amelia in "Vanity Fair," which she
feels was too weepy but which the
critics united in declaring to be a
beautiful portrayal. This brought
her to the leading role in Rupert
Hughes' "Souls for Sale," and every-
one recalls her delightful Sidney in
"Three Wise Fools." "The Day of
Faith," soon to be released, shows
her in a straight leading role.
Miss Boardman has an intriguing
way of viewing herself and her work-
in a detached manner, and she studies
her limitations as well as her possi-
bilities. This is an encouraging sign. ,
She is not content to win thru her\
beauty, nor are her eyes blinded by
her success, but are sharply alert to
future triumphs.
Do' dreams come true?
Ask Eleanor Boardman.
O FOOLISH WIND
By Louise Liebhardt
O sighing wind among the willow wands,
O sobbing wind among the willow wands
Where rests thy heart whose breaking
seems to shake
The fragrant stillness of the night, and
moaning cadence make
Of all that borders oh this secret pool.
O grieving wind among the willow wands,
O weeping wind among the willow wands,
Hast lost thy love, who fickle from thee
now hast turned
To seek new romance ? Ha ! Hast thy
love fires burned
Thy heart to ashes ? Thou art fool.
O moaning wind among the willow wands,
O foolish wind among the willow wands,
To mourn one love when many wait but
for the breaking dawn
To seek thy kisses, and upon thy favor
fawn.
Waste not thy tears. The night has turned
thee fool.
O simple wind among the willow wands.
O silly wind among the willow wands.
(Seventy-six)
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FROM rhe day we starred to school, Charity
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A party of us had gone to the Drake Hotel
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{Continued from page 33)
For the next few hours Rose's
gaiety was unflagging. At supper she
made them all laugh with her mimi-
cry of the squaw who drank the
violet perfume. Afterward she
danced for them, flinging coquettish
glances at the sullen Devlin over her
shoulder until greed crept to the sur-
face of his muddy eyes and he licked
his thick lips with his tongue. At
Jast the danger for the evening at
least seemed over. Devlin, candle in
hand, creaked up the stairs to bed,
the factor kissed her good night and
followed. She was making the
rounds of the oil lamps, blowing
them out when a heavy hand fell on
her shoulder. Without turning she
knew by the odor of tobacco and
gin that Michael Devlin had re-
turned.
"Came back for a good-night kiss,
girlie," he chuckled, "maybe I'll take
two — or three. I've waited long
enough for them, you tantalizing
little devil !"
She would have struck him across
his leering face but a sudden thought
held her hand. Bruce Norton must
not hear anything. If she could only
cajole this man into forgetting his
drunken love-making just for this
time
She drew away, but his great arms
dragged her back. His hot breath
scorched her cheek. "Guess you're
not grieving over that dude after all !
Like Michael a HI' bit, dont you?
And you're going to like me a whole
lot more before I'm thru!"
Never before in her tempestuous
life had Rose smiled when she
wanted to rage, spoken sweetly when
she wanted to shriek out the pictur-
esque epithets of the settlement.
"Wat they say — 'Get your man' firs',
and then get your woman !" she
urged, with desperate guile. "Pleas'
not tonight ! Mebbe tomorrow I lak'
you HI' bit."
"No you dont!" Devlin grinned,
his embrace stifling her, "tomorrow
may never come." Hot lips sought
her throat. She struggled silently,
futilely, biting back the cry that
surged to her lips. Only the sound
of shuffling feet and panting breasts
broke the silence.
"You beast, let go of her !"
The dropping of the trap-door
brought Devlin around, hand on gun.
Rose, freed from the intolerable em-
brace, fell back against the counter
staring from the furious face of the
man she loved to Devlin's exultant
grin as he leveled his revolver at the
newcomer. "You, eh ! Say, this
means promotion for me all right!
Set a trap to catch a bird and get a
ba'r ! Better not move now, I'd just
love a chance to use this, you damn
murderer !"
"Executioner is a better word,"
Bruce Norton suggested quietly,
"I'll come along with you all right.
Rose, as soon as we're gone, go up
to your room and bolt the door.
Good night, dear !"
"Make it good-bye !" Devlin
grated, and burst into a jangling
laugh. "Give yourself away for a
woman ! That's a hot one "
"Mebbe it's not so dam funny!"
Rose's voice sounded behind him.
"Put your hands up — queek or I
shoot you. Me. I t'ink you forgot
you had two guns ! I got this one
when you try to kees me. Thas
right ! Bruce take his gun away —
lak' so!"
The policeman's revolver in his
hand Bruce came to the side of Tiger
Rose, "My brave little girl! But it's
no good, dear. I've decided to face
the music ! I wouldn't be worthy of
you if I ran away."
Never moving her eyes from the
discomfited Devlin, glowering in the
corner, Rose tried argument and en-
treaty in vain. It was for Cusick,
shambling in at this point, to add
the final plea. "Beat it, boy! D'you
think it's going to make this little
girl any happier to have you in jail?
If you love her, go while you've got
the chance."
Devlin watched the leave-taking
sullenly. To the righteous anger of
the Mounted Police was added the
jealousy of the mere man. This girl
was his — hadn't he pulled her out
of the river? And now he must sit
here helpless and watch her give an-
other man the kisses rightfully his !
As the door closed behind his rival,
he started to his feet with the growl
of a savage beast and had made two
bounds toward the door when the
revolver in Rose's hand spoke
shrewishly. The policeman stopped,
wavered, and with an absurd expres-
sion of amazement sat heavily down
on the floor clutching at his arm.
"She winged me," he muttered in
vast astonishment as Cusick bent over
him examining the wound, "that little
tiger cat winged me. Say, what is ,
women comin' to these days when a
fellow cant beat em up lawful?" he
was quite plaintive about it. "Dont
tell 'em she did it ! Say I shot my-
self accidental," he begged the
doctor abjectly, "I'd never hear the
last of it on the force."
The docfr opened. Bruce Norton
stepped back into the room. To the
(Seventy-eight)
eyes of I iger Rose he had never
looked so tall, so strong, so much a
man like one of the more than-
mortal heroes of her old folk tales,
It was to ( usick and Michael De\ lin
that he sj>oke a-> tho in some
language that she could not under
stand. "God knows I want hei to
be happy, but a fellow cant hide
behind a woman's skirts I I'm not
ashamed of what I did to ( rlenden
ning, but it" 1 sneaked off now and
left her to bear the blame of helping
me I'd hate myself the rest of m)
days. Blow your whistle, Devlin
urn get your promotion after all!
rhe shriek of the whistle tore the
silence to ragged shreds. The re
volver clattered from Rose Bocion's
nerveless fingers a^ -Ik- --auk sobbing
into a chair, crying the first tears
her fierce young eyes had ever shed.
For all time the Hger was gone,
lca\ ing only a woman.
Outside sounded footsteps, voices.
In the moment that was left him
Bruce Norton bent above her. patting
her hair clumsily. "I'm sorry, dear.
but there's some things a man cant
do. Dont grieve so — somehow I've
i notion that when the jury hears
how it was they wont he hard on
pie."
She lifted her head, eyes shining
thru the tears. "Grieve! 1 cry
because 1 am so glad !" Rose an-
swered womanwise. "I cry because
I t'ink you are mos' brave an mos'
best man in all the world!"
( me ki>>, held close against the
strong pounding of his heart, and he
was gone. "Cheer up, Rose," Doctor
Cusick called back from the door-
way, *'if there's any justice in
Canada and any chivalry left in men's
hearts he'll soon come back to you."
Rose smiled. "Yas, me I t'ink he
will soon be back wiz me!" she
answered confidently. "Monsieur. I.e
Bon Dieu ees — what you say? — a
gentleman !"
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] vices. I was so polite and demure
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Marie left the comedies flat to go
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"At first it was terribly discourag-
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■ — fifteen or twenty times. At first
it seemed as tho there wasn't any
sense to it all. Then it began to
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tolerably and impossibly difficult.
Then I began to see as he saw it.
"He is a tremendous and wonder-
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And, as for Lubitsch, he only says,
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boomer too.
"Is the picture goot ; veil, I hope.
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Evening Mail. — Constance Talmadge in
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and Wyndham Standing are playing in
Alma Rubens' "Blood and Gold." Baby
Peggy in "Captain January."
Georgette. — Ah, but I do like it. Lon
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twenty-eight. Yes, they do say he is en-
gaged to Lois Wilson. Holmes E. Herbert
is playing in "The Enchanted Cottage."
Your English is splendid, and I hope to
hear from you again.
Cy.— Well, as Carlyle says : "Make
yourself an honest man, and then you may
be sure that there is one rascal less in the
world." Ralph Graves is twenty-six. and
Antonio Moreno is married to Mrs. Daisy
Danzinger.
G. M. L. — So you have been reading the
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Australian Admirer. — The great diffi-
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Logan is not married. She played in
"The Light that Failed." Viola Dana's
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Rodolph Valentino Fan. — Most of the
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California.
Mary E. — You've got to be stronger
than that. A woman's hopes are woven
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Be brave. Bessie Barriscale is not play-
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Manuel. — I'm sorry, but I dont know
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Ivy M. W. — All I know about canary
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Males only sing. King Vidor is directing
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(Eighty-two-)
hunt Lloyd Hughes ami Be be Daniels
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Anxious. — Glad to see yourself here,
are you? Lois Wilson and I.ila Lee are
not sisters. Douglas Fairbanks was mar-
ried to Beth Sully. He and Mary Pickford
have been married since March 28, 1°20.
OU would like to see a picture of
Milton Sills and one >^i Gloria Swanson
On the eo\ er.
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what Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "1
should like to see any kind of a man dis-
tinguishable from a gorilla, that some
i and even pretty woman could not
shape a husband out of." Anna Q. Nilsson.
in "Flowing Gold." Pearl White is play-
ing in Paris.
Golda Baker. — Yes, it is the lack of
moral balance that makes genius akin to
madness. J. Warren Kerrigan is thirty-
four, and be has never been married.
He is with Vitagraph now. (dad to hear
from you. Do write to me again.
Irexe F.- — Richard Barthelmess is five
feet seven, and Conrad N'agel is six feet.
Wildflower. — That was Forrest Stan-
lev in "Bavu." Xaomi Childers is play-
ing in "Restless Wives." Gloria Swanson
in "The Humming Bird." King II.-il
takes credit for discovering Mary Philbin
when she made her first hit in "Human
Hearts." She is playing in "The
Inheritors."
Swf.ft Blue Eyes. — How are you to-
day5 Cullen Landis in "Pioneer Trails."
Glenn Hunter is twenty-four. Anita
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are in vaudeville.
Cucu Blue Eyes. — As a rule, we suffer
more than we inflict. Yes, Pedro de Cor-
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Florexce R. — Another foolish child.
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Eternal Three" for two or three
years before he finally worked out
the details to the point where he was
ready to begin shooting."
Now, by rights. Mickie should be
interviewed about Blanche. We know
what Blanche has to say about
Hubby. What has Mickie' to say
about Wifey?
Well, just try to interview Mickie!
Just try it; that's all. You might as
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eclipse. If you ask Mickie about
the national debt, it makes him think
of a story about a rattlesnake which
tried to swallow a gopher. And then
he sees an army aviator he used to
know on the other side of the cafe
and- that's that.
But one day Mickie and T were
sitting in a darkened projecting-room
looking at an old Biograph picture in
which Blanche and Mickie were both
acting. Mary I 'ickford and Dorothy
Gish and Henry Walthall and a lot
more were also in it. Blanche was
then a rather sallow girl with
enormous masses of blonde hair, a
funny-looking long dress hanging
around her heels.
Suddenly out of the darkness I
heard Mickie mutter half to himself
and half to me.
"By God, Blanche just had it —
even then. In spite of all that crude
stuff, she was wonderful. She's got
the stuff you cant learn. You just
gotta have it. And she's got it."
W. Somerset Maugham Is With
Us Again
(Continued from page 44)
some one comes along and uses it be-
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expect to get to work on another
play. You know, I envy people who
haven't an idea in their heads. I
have this mass of mental notes and
no matter what I do, I cant escape
from them. I should like to have
about six months' holiday, for I am
very tired, but I am simply forced to
go on writing."
Maugham has stopped giving
"messages" in his late work. He
declares it is like butting a stone wall
to try to put over the truth. In "The
Circle," as brilliant an exposition of
human kind as anyone would ever
hope to see, he discovered that the
message shocked everyone who saw
it. There was truth in it — there was
an inevitable futility, and a terrifying
knowledge of what humanity is
really like — but humanity doesn't
care to have the mirror held up too
closely to nature.
(Eighty-four)
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In Mr 1 fearst, moreover, in so
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Marshall Neilan plays both the
piano and pipe organ and as he
shouts "Shoot" to his cameraman, he
calls the name of the selection he
wants played to his orchestra.
It would seem, "Once a Russian
always a Russian" so far as music is
concerned, for Theodore KoslofF and
Madame Nazimova both demand
those glorious melodies of their
native country, the works of
Tschaikowsky, his "Chanson Triste,"
"Meditation." Rubinstein— his "Bar-
carole," "Melody in F" — for their big
moments.
Tho Mary Pick ford loves music
and insists on real artists for her
orchestra, she does not need this aid
to stimulate her emotions.
"I rather doubt the wisdom of too
much music on the set, for it causes a
false estimate of our own work,"
Miss Pickford pondered the question,
wrinkling her pretty forehead.
"While we were on location mak-
ing 'Tess.' we discovered that one of
the truck drivers played a mouth
organ. He had a list of favorite
tunes like 'Shall We Gather at the
River,' 'Buck and Wing,' and
'Swanee River,' and these were in-
spiration for most of my scenes."
Mary especially likes Charles
Wakefield Cadman's "Land of the
Sky-Blue Water," while the minor
strains of Massenet's "Elegie" make
a profound appeal to her susceptible
little heart and many of those wist-
ful, poignant moments that live in
our memories, were enacted to these
melodies.
Warner Baxter makes the girl's
hearts go pit-a-pat to operatic selec-
tions. He once shone in musical
comedy, and let the orchestra burst
forth with "Kiss Me Again," or "Oh
Promise Me." and there's no holding
Warner. Cullen Landis says he's
afraid his emotions are jazzy, for it
takes such classics as "Livery Stable
Blues," or "Three O'Clock in the
Morning" to make him emote.
Milton Sills takes his arts sepa-
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during his work and if he could have
his way there would be none. This
may be the result of his discriminat-
ing taste, for unless the music exactly
supplements his mental balance he
finds it disturbing rather than help-
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good it does for him is to put a spark
of life into the barnlike skating-rink
atmosphere of the large studios
"We respond to music just as a col-
umn of soldiers quicken their steps to
the cheer of the drum corp," he said.
Gloria Swanson loves luring
waltzes, and "Visions of Salome"
(Eighty-six)
thrill hci ; Anita Stewart asks for
Kreisler's "< >ld Refrain" awl the
Meditation from " Thais," and the im
mortal songs of Schumann,
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bn athe romance t<> I .eati •■
pl.n ei has .1 favoi ite ea< h
Kinds to the wave of tonal lan-
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the action to the climax and wholl)
i ide with the drama there must
o oh\ ions break in the emotional
urge of the actor.
The extent to which music has
become an important adjunct to the
motion-picture industry is shown by
the elaborate programs that accom-
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on the serein. 'There must be music
elp carry the theme of the st« irj
and the spirit of the dramatic efforts
of the players to the spectators. 'This
has lead to a fascinating new art of
welding together illuminating ex-
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But, as Kipling says, That is an-
other story !
Dixit
i ( ontinued from page 64)
the Bunch sang "Shine ( >n. < ) Sil-
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years old and yet. in this town of
lovely, lovable and often beloved
ladies he is a bachelor. He has never
been married, almost married or un-
married.
The plain little stenographer with
the shell spectacles had gazed wist-
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table; the starched waitress behind
the counter had been recklessly lavish
with the cream in his coffee; the
famous scenario lady in the imported
gown had patted his shoulder when
she went by : but still he has managed
to remain Hollywood's only bachelor.
"How do you t^et away with it ?"
we asked — for interviewers rush in
where theatrical angels fear to tread.
Dix seemed honestly puzzled.
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to get acquainted with girls?" he de-
manded pathetically. "I dont sup-
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on exhibition and that makes your
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brought up!" he chuckled reminis-
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home town. Too many old ladies to
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played in stock three years in
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find people who will take them as
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Anyhow that was the way with me."
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when they began to develop in high
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kleptomania or any other misfortune
that afflicts the best of families.
Pish ! The boy was to be a doctor —
let's hear no more of this play-acting
nonsense !
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sight of blood is as badly off as a
burglar with hay fever. The Uni-
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till Richard found that studying in-
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work which was the dramatic club.
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then leading man with the Morosco
Company in Los Angeles and then
the screen.
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director can do anything. I want to
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great play for you ! Screen people
who act like human beings. . . ."
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IRIS OUT
(Ninety)
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The Yankee Consul
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discovery brought a whistle to his
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married now three or four months
and still adores her Irish husband.
The New York critics liked her
part in "Flaming Youth." * * *
A new studio has opened down in
Florida, in no wise discouraged by
the big shut down. This studio is
located in Hialeah, a suburb of
Miami, and is available for imme-
diate use. * * * A play deal-
ing with the custom of married
women's retaining their maiden
names, titled "The Waning Sex,"
by Frederic and Fanny Hatton,
has been produced on the West
Coast and is to be brought to
Broadway at the end of the season.
Lucy Stone League, please take
warning! * * * Oliver Morosco
will put into immediate rehearsal
a play by Richard A. Purdy, en-
titled "Across the Street." * * *
Eugene O'Neill, author of "Anna
Christie," says that Thos. H. Ince's
motion picture of the play is a
"fine, true representation, faithful
to the spirit and intent of the orig-
inal." He formed this opinion and
expressed it in a telegram to the
producer when the film was pro*
jected for him at the home of
Kenneth MacGowan, his associate
in the direction of the Province-
town Playhouse. Altho the show
lasted over two hours because the
eight reels were projected by a
small machine at less speed than is
usual in a theater, the playwright
gave unflagging attention to the
first of his dramas to reach the
screen. * . * * D. W. Griffith
returned yesterday from Virginia
to his Mamaroneck studios, after
photographing scenes on eleven
historical spots for his Revolution-
ary film, "America." The surren-
der of Cornwallis was taken in
Yorktown on the ground where it
actually occurred. More than
forty persons whose ancestors
were present at the surrender took
part in the scenes. Yorktown gave
Griffith a thrill by parking his spe-
cial train on a siding around which
was buried a cache of TNT said by
government officials to be valued
at two hundred million dollars.
This is the army base for high ex-
plosives and the tracking where the
train stood was on government
property. * * * Dr. Luigi
Pirandello is seated on a pier on
the Mediterranean awaiting word
from Brock Pemberton that one of
the Broadway theaters is available
for his plays. Mr. Pemberton will
probably come in with either
"Right You Are" or "Henry IV."
It is worthy of remark that Piran-
dello gained Continental recogni-
tion thru America. After "Six
Characters in Search of an Author"
was produced here, Paris conde-
scended to look at it. The play
was a sensation and it was fol-
lowed by "The Pleasure of Being
Honest." Preparations were made
to show it in London, but censor-
ship supervened. Then a German
manager dashed to Paris to buy all
the rights in the world to Piran-
dello's plays. Mr. Pemberton just
managed to secure the American
rights. * * * Booth Tarking-
ton, who wrote "Pied Piper Ma-
lone" especially for Thomas
Meighan, has consented to write
another original story for the
screen, according to Mr. Meighan.
So pleased was Mr. Tarkington
with what he saw at the Para-
mount Long Island studio where
Alfred E. Green is producing "Pied
Piper Malone" that he immediately
agreed to write another story in
the near future for Mr. Meighan.
This is the first time that the fam-
ous Hoosier author has taken an
active part in the filming of one of
his stories. He is chief supervisor
of the present film and has spent
several days at the company's
studio getting the story into shape.
Mr. Meighan's father died unex-
pectedly last month and altho both
Thomas and James Meighan
hurried to Pittsburgh, they were
too late. We extend our true sym-
pathy to Mr. Meighan. * * *
The memory of Martha Mans-
field's tragic death is still with us.
Her body was sent to New York
for burial and many friends of both
stage and screen paid their last re-
spects. We are deeply sorry for
the passing of a sweet spirit. * * *
Doris Kenyon just refused a
motion-picture offer of $2,500.00 a
week, to play the leading role in
"The Gift," a stage play by Julia
Chandler and Anna Lambert Stew-
arj. * * * Rehearsals are un-
der way by Joseph Schildkraut in
Gladys Unger's "The Robber
Knight," which Sam H. Harris is
producing. Another of Miss
Unger's plays is now in the
hands of Leo Ditrichstein and
Lola Fisher. * * * Old Fort
Schuyler, New York, which
has been practically abandoned
for a number of years, has
been reconstructed to appear like
the St. Lazare prison of Paris for
(One hundred and two)
CI \
nes m " I he I lumming Bird."
'ii information received from
is thru Jules Sevilli, of the
French Bureau <>i' Information in
NYw V'ork, the ai t department at
the Paramount Long Island studio
u as ahle ti ■ reo instruct the prison,
using the old fort as a foundation.
* * * No theatrical person lias
ever taken the town quite so by
ni as did Dorothy Stone, oldest
daughter of Fred Stone, when she
made her debut with her father and
mother at the Globe Theater. The
many things that have been writ-
ten about this seventeen-year-old
prodigy have not been inspired by
mawkish sentimentality, if one
takes as evidence the manner in
which even the hardest boiled crit-
ics have raved about her talents
Much has been said about how she
was trained for her part in the
mimic world from the time she
was seven years old. It was not all
training that did it. If ever the
theory oi heredity was proved, it
is, in her case. * * * A whole
Warner contingent has arrived
from the West Coast studios,
headed by Jack L. Warner, Ernest
Lubitsch, his wife, and Erie Locke,
the hitter's manager. Lubitsch's
purpose in coming to New York is
threefold. He has completed his
new picture, "The Marriage .Cir-
cle," and needs a rest ; his children
are en route from Europe and he
has come to meet them : and he has
to find material for his next picture
to he made under the Warner
banner. * * * The Cosmopolitan
Corporation announces that it has
selected "Janice Meredith" to star
Marion Davies following her ap-
pearance in "Yolanda." "Janice
Meredith" has been adapted from
the novel of the same name by the
late Paul ! Ford, II
.1 romance ol the Revolution
period ol American h and
man) ol it i i hai a< tei 9 ai e tl
w ho w ei e found ei • of the Amei i
v .in Republh ,oi w ho w ei c •
spicuous in its eat ly de> elopmenl
I hose famous in history w ho will
appear in tl
Ma s li i ng t i in, Benjamin
Fl a n k I i n, I. a I a \ e 1 1 e, Sam uel
\dams, John Hancock, Rocham-
beau, General Charles Lee, Paul
Revere, General Cornwall is, Lord
Howe, Major Pitcairn, King Louis
XVI, and Marie Antoinette. The
research necessary for the planning
of costumes, settings and multi-
tudinous details of the production
has consumed nearly a year. It
has been found necessary to scour
antique shops, museums and Co-
lonial homes in New England and
New York for paraphernalia, such
as muskets, swords and clothing
appropriate to the time, which will
give a note of accuracy. * * *
Thomas Meighan and his company
of fifty-nine players ended their
stay in Georgetown, S. C, where
they have been filming exterior
scenes for "Pied Piper Malone,"
with a benefit performance for the
poor children of the town which
netted six hundred dollars. Mr.
Meighan contributed one hundred
dollars and other members of the
company gave two hundred dol-
lars, the balance coming from the
townspeople who paid to see the
performance. * * * Vitagraph
announces that it has purchased
world rights to "Borrowed Hus-
bands," by Mildred K. Barbour,
for the third J. Stuart Blackton
production to be released by this
firm. The scenario is now being
written by C. Graham Baker,
edit 01 -in-i Imi ol Vitagi aph. *
All.. • • 1 Smith, pi 1
in London
win I al Sabatini.
authi 'i ol "< aptain Bl< ■ -r 1 < 1
pit tin c to w In, h Mr.
Smith pun hased. I le had the
ptional ex| 1 tid-
ing a da\ with the author and
tramping over th<
Bridgewater, w lure the laid.
Whitman Bennett an-
nounces thai Ins -, reen production,
"The I lousier Schoolmaster,"
almost finished. From what he has
already seen of the film edition of
Edward Eggleston's story, Mr.
Bennett believes thai the produi
tion adheres faithfully to the
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OCTOBER, 1924
No. 2
Com k Portrait Bi bi Danih a
Painted bj E, Dahl from a photograph by Russell Ball
Classic's Gallery Of Players, Stage and screen "
Where Was the Camera? Dorothy Donnell 16
Jetta and Her Temperament I lorry (. 'at r 20
Some Costume Caricatures De Pamv 22
Cleopatra, Famous Heroines No. \ 1 1 1 Posed bj Jane Cowl
The Drama's Pousse Cafe, Classic's department of vaude\ ille 24
K The Unknown, A short story Patricia Cork Dugan 27
"Great Britain's Queen of Happiness" 31
Hollywood Homes No. XXIV. Marshall Neilan and Blanche Sweet's 32
"Elsie Janis At Home," A picture page 54
The Romance of the Extra Orville C aldtvell 35
On the Wings of Song, Two sonnets Doris Kenyan
Doug and Mary Vacationing at Aix-les-Bains W
A Thousand Dollars a Day! Jim Tully 40
Classic's Gallery Of Handsome Men No. V. Conrad Nagel 42
Who's Who? On stage and screen 43
The Photographer Takes the Stage 44
The Play of the Month, Is "Abie's Irish Rose" Kenneth Macgowan 4<>
The Picture of the Month, Is "Manhandled" Laurence Reid 47
The Celluloid Critic, M r. Reid goes to the movies 48
Iris In, Pertinent and impertinent screen chatter H. //'. Hanemom 50
Flashes From the Eastern Stars, Of the stage, on the screen Caught by the Editor 51
The New Contest, I >ont miss this page 52
In A California Garden, "Fine Arts", series No. IV 55
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Written in short-story form Dorothy Donnell 56
Rex, King of Wild Horses, His story Tom Reeves 62
The Hollywood Boulevardier Chats Flurry Carr 64
Dick At West Point, A picture page 68
The Movie Encyclopaedia By the Answer Man 11
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Classic comes out on the 12th of every month. Motion Picture Magazine on the 1st, Beauty on the 15th
Announcement for November
MARION DAVIES and her "Janice Meredith" curl on a lovely lavender cover
"WHO'S ZOO AT THE STUDIOS?"
Is the title of one of those clever and informative articles by Dorothy Donnell about
the animals, wild and tame, in the movies: How they are trained; where they are kept; their
habits, family life, working hours and so forth.
"Almost the only animal that cannot be found in Hollywood is the well-known wolf
at the door."
Says the writer of this original and wittv storv. There's another Jim Tully story too,
and Harry Carr interviews the firm's first villain. Wallace Beery. You cant possibly over-
look the November number of "That Different Screen
(Five)
Current Stage Plays
Tabloid Reviews by Marion Martonc
(Readers in distant towns trill do well to preserve this list for reference when these
spoken plays appear in their vicinity.)
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Ambassador. — "The Dream Girl." A musical
version of "The Road to Yesterday." Music by
Victor Herbert. With Fay Bainter, Walter Woolf,
Edna May Oliver, George LeMaire, Billy B. Van,
Harry Delf and Wyn Richmond.
Apollo. — "Scandals." George White's new re-
vue ; an elaborate and lively show. Among the prin-
cipals in the cast are : Winnie Lightner, Lester
Allen, Tom Patricola, Will Mahoney, Richard Bold,
Helen Hudson, Newtown Alexander, Thea Lightner,
Olive Vaughn, The Williams Sisters, Elm City
Four, Alice Weaver, Sally Starr, James Miller, and
the De Marcos and their seven sheiks.
Booth. — "Dancing Mothers." A play by
Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Goulding, with
Helen Hayes, Mary Young, Henry Stephenson,
John Halliday and others.
Broadhurst. — "Beggar on Horseback." An odd and interesting
dream play, in which a poor struggling composer, under the in-
fluence of an opiate, goes off into a troubled sleep and has a night-
mare. Roland Young gives a fine performance as the composer
who moves through the nightmare. A fantastic pantomime with
charming music is introduced in the second act.
Carroll. — "Kid Boots." A gay musical comedy with gorgeous
settings and costumes. Eddie Cantor furnishes some excellent
comedy as caddie master and private bootlegger, while Mary Eaton
supplies some exceptionally good dancing and singing.
Casino. — "I'll Say She Is." The clever Marx Brothers' quartet
in a delightful musical comedy revue. It has a splendid cast
which includes Cecile d'Andres, who performs some sensational
and daring dances, and the three De Villon sisters of the Folies
Bergere, Paris.
Century. — -"The Miracle." A gorgeous spectacle which no one
should miss ; magnificently staged and acted.
Cherry Lane. — "The Way of the World." Congreve's comedy.
Review later.
George M. Cohan. — "The Haunted House." A play by Owen
Davis. Review later.
Colonial. — "The Chocolate Dandies." A Negro revue. Review
later.
Cort. — "Fashion." A revival of a comedy of manners ; the
sensational success of 1845.
Daly's. — "White Cargo." Leon Gordon's vivid play about a
young Englishman who succumbs to the wiles of a half-breed in
the absence of white women on the west coast of Africa. The cast
includes Conway Wingfield, Richard Stevenso:: and A. E. Anson.
Empire. — "Grounds for Divorce." A comedy from the
Hungarian. Review later.
Fifty-second Street Theater. — "The Crazy Quilt." A revue
something like "Chariot's Revue."
Forty-eighth Street. — "Expressing
Willie." A delightful comedy by Rachel
Crothers in which a simple girl from the
Middle West happens among a week-end
party in a country house on Long Island,
and, by her goodness, exposes and humbles
the demi- fashionable and demi- fakes.
Forty-ninth Street. — "The Werwolf."
A play from the German of Rudolph
Lothar, adapted by Gladys Unger, with
Laura Hope Crews, Lennox Pawle, War-
burton Gamble, Leslie Howard, Bela
Lugosi, Marion Coakley, and others.
Frazec. — "Sweeney Todd." An excel-
lent and well-acted revival of the old
English melodrama about a murderous
barber. The program also includes "Bom-
bastes Furioso" — a sensational burlesque
operetta.
Fulton. — "Top Hole." Musical comedy.
Review later.
Garrick. — "Fata Morgana." An ironic
Classic Lists the Plays in New
York That You Should See
The Miracle
Chariot's Revue
The Show-Off
White Cargo
Expressing Willie
comedy of Hungarian country manners and Budapest
morals. The cast includes Morgan Farley, Emily
Stevens and Helen Westley.
Gaiety. — "Silence." A play by Max Marcin.
Review later.
Globe. — "Keep Kool." A clever and comic revue
with Hazel Dawn, Johnny Dooley, Charles King, Ina
Williams, and others.
Greenwich Village. — "All God's Chillun Got
Wings." A tragic story of a stumbling, groping
Xegro law student who tries to break down the
barriers separating the white and the black races.
Harris. — "Plain Jane." A lavishly produced mu-
sical comedy in which the heroine, Lorraine Manville,
invents something new in rag dolls. This comedy is
made popular by its slick, smart, exciting dancing and
extremely beautiful tunes. The cast includes Joe Laurie, Jr.,
Marion Saki, and May Cory Kitchen.
Hippodrome. — Keith vaudeville. The greatest entertainment in
the world's largest theater.
Hudson. — "Cobra." A well-acted play of sex reactions. Judith
Anderson plays the role of a snakish charmer who lures a rich
youth into marriage.
Imperial. — "Rose-Marie." A musical comedy. Review later.
Klaiv. — "The Green Beetle." A play by JohnWillard. Review later.
Liberty. — "Vanities." Earl Carroll's annual revue. Review later.
Little. — "Pigs." A comedy. Review later.
Lyceum. — "The Best People." A comedy by David Gray and
Avery Hopwood, adapted from David Gray's story, "The Self-
Determination of the Lennoxes," with James Rennie, Florence
Johns, Frances Howard, Hope Brown and Charles Richman.
Miller's. — "Strange Bedfellows." A pleasantly foolish comedy
in which William Courtleigh plays the role of a Tammany type
political boss who proves he is honest when he tries to beat big
business and high society grafters by directing the campaign of a
woman's party. Majorie Gateson, Glenn Anders, Alice Fleming
and others make up the cast.
Morosco. — "No Other Girl." Musical comedy, with Helen
Ford, Eddie Buzzell, Francis X. Donegan, Henry Mortimer,
John Sheehan, Ruth Conley, Doris Eaton, and Helen Carrington.
Music Box. — "No, No, Nanette." Musical version of "My Lady
Friends." Review later.
Neighborhood. — "Grand Street Follies." Is somewhat of an
American "Chariot's Revue." Exceedingly smart and "peppy."
Pokes fun at everything and everybody. "Little Theater" groups
should see this perfectly splendid "spoofing."
New Amsterdam. — "Follies." A new "Follies" in which the
American girl is again glorified in the characteristic Ziegfeld way.
A lavish production. Will Rogers, Ann Pennington, Lupino Lane,
Viviene Segal, Irving Fisher, Evelyn Shaw, Martha Lorber, and
George Olsen and his orchestra are mem-
bers of the cast.
Palace. — Keith vaudeville. Always a
good bill, and drawing more and more
talent from the headliners of the regulars.
Playhouse.— "The Show-Off." A highly
entertaining comedy of an American
family, the daughter of which is in love
with a vain and untrustworthy braggart
who is forever getting himself and those
about him into some kind of mess.
Princess.— "The Wonderful Visit," by
H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, in which
Catherine Murphy plays the role of an
angel who falls to earth and exposes the
evil doings of the earth dwellers.
Republic— "Abie's Irish Rose." An
amusing study in temperaments of the Irish
and the Jew, in which the irreconcilable is
reconciled thru emotion.
Rite. — "Hassard Short's Ritz Revue."
(Continued on page 8)
(Six)
ITS HERE AT LAST/
cIhe Great American Picture
AND what more natural than
/% that it should tell the en-
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American — in many ways the
greatest of all Americans.
"Here is a screen epic if
ever there was one — some-
thing to be mentioned in the
same breath as 'The Birth
of a Nation,' which it even
surpasses. "
- BOS TON A D VER TISER.
AL and RAT ROCKETTS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Scenario by FRANCES MARION Directed hu PHILIP ROSEN
THE best proof in the world that fact can be every
bit as thrilling as fiction is to be found in this re-
markable photoplay. It is film entertainment of
the finest sort. Happily it was realized that the life of
the great emancipator, unvarnished and unaltered,
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During its tense moments you scarcely dare breathe lest
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Yoar local theatre will shew "Abraham
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Current Stage Plays
(Continued from page 6)
Revue by Anne Caldwell, and Roy and
Kenneth Webb ; music by Jerome Kern and
others. With Charlotte Greenwood, Tom
Burke, Myrtle Schaaf, Hal Forde, and
Brennan and Rogers.
Selwyn. — "Chariot's Revue of 1924." A
London revue produced by Andre Chariot,
and imported by the Selwyns, with Beatrice
Lillie, Gertrude Laurence, Hobert Munden,
Nelson Keys, Jack Buchanan, and others.
57n<&<*;f.— "Marjorie." Musical comedy.
With Elizabeth Hines, Richard Gallagher.
Andrew Tombes, Roy Royston, Ethel
Shutta. Review later.
VanderbUt. — "The Exiles." A play by
Arthur Richman. Review later.
Winter Garden. — "Innocent Eyes." A
musical comedy-revue of extreme sophisti-
cation. Lively and swiftly-moving.
ON TOUR
"Abie's Irish Rose." An amusing study
in temperaments. Second company.
"Artists and Models." Second company.
"Blossom Time." A musical comedy
based on the life of Franz Schubert.
"Dew Drop Inn." Wherein a black-
faced comedian leads the musical show.
"George White's Scandals." A de luxe
edition.
"Good Morning, Dearie." Entertaining
musical comedy.
"Greenwich Village Follies." Musical
revue.
"Helen of Troy, New York." A good
musical comedy.
"Icebound." A dramatic study of New
England life.
"Lady in Ermine." A musical comedy
concerning a romantic legend.
"A Lesson in Love." An emotional
comedy-drama.
"Lightnin'." The comedy that Frank
Bacon made famous.
"Little Jessie James." A lively and en-
tertaining musical comedy.
' Loyalties," a Galsworthy play with an
English cast — the story of Semitic conflict.
"Magnolia," a Booth Tarkington comedy.
"Merton of the Movies." About a self-
visualized movie hero.
"Shuffle Along." A Xegro revue.
"The Bat." The Hopwood - Rinehart
mystery play of record run.
"The Business Widow." A comedy
from the German.
"The Changelings." A comedy.
"The Dancers." An old-time British
melodrama.
"The Dancing Girl." Song and dance.
"The Fool," a drama about a minister
who tries to follow the life of Christ in
modern locale.
"The Gingham Girl." Good comedy and
better music.
"The Good Old Days," a prohibition
divertissement.
"The Nervous Wreck," an Owen Davis
farce. Second company.
"The Perfect Fool." Edwin Wynn
making it perfect.
"Thumbs Down." A somewhat wild
but amusing mystery play.
"Topics of 1923." A spectacular revue
with the French comedienne, Alice Delysia.
"Up the Ladder," a drama concerning
the newly married and their extravagance.
"Two Fellows and a Girl," typical Cohan
comedy -drama.
"Wildflower," which has a delightful
musical score. Second company.
(Eight)
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PHOTOPLAYS
THE MAN WHO
CAME BACK
Jules Eokert Goodman's
play from novel by John
Fleming Wilson
An Emmett Flynn
production
THE FOOL *
From Channing Pollock's
stage triumph of the same
name
A Harry Millarde
production
DANTE'S INFERNO
A modern version of the
classic
A Henry Otto production
THE DANCERS
From stage play by
Gerald du Maurier and
Viola Tree
An Emmett Flynn
production
HUNTING
WILD ANIMALS
IN HOLLYWOOD
A thrilling Comedy
Melodrama
A Thomas Buckingham
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production
nn Reynolds produi tion
IT IS THE LAW
A m>Mrr\ Drama that swept
A J. Gordon Edwards production
FLAMES OF DESIRE
Adapted from 1 1 Strathmore"
A Denison (lift production
HEARTS OF OAK
Janus A Heme's celebrated Melodrama
A John Ford production
THE LAST MAN
ON EARTH
A fantastic novelty
with 1,000 beautiful girls
A J. G. Hlystone production
GOLD HEELS
Based on "Checkers," by Henry
M. Blossom, Jr.
A Lambert Hillyer production
IN LOVE WITH LOVE
From Comed: Drama by
Vincent Lawrence
A J. G. Blystone production
DARWIN WAS RIGHT
The Human Monkeys in a screen
novelty
A Lewis Seder production
TROUBLES OF A BRIDE
At what age should a girl marry ?
A Thomas Buckingham production
NEPTUNE'S ROMANCE
A fantasy of love, beauty and romance
A Henry Otto production
DAMAGED SOULS
A chapter from life today
A 1 ihn Ford production
THE HUNTED WOMAN
James Oliver Curwood's novel
of the t-reat outdoors
A John Eord product
SHE WOLVES
A storj of Paris
A Maurice Elvey production
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Vol. XX
No. 2
W. F ?cc!>
BETTY AND EVELYN FRANCISCO
Here is another pretty pair of sisters who ornament the screen. Betty has already
"arrived," and Evelyn is a Mack Sennett beauty, which will eventually mean the
same thing
Miss Faire is an
American girl
with an odd Ori-
ental charm. She
is one of the
several Brewster
Fame and For-
tune Contest girls
who have made
good in pictures.
Her current film
is the wonderful
Conan Doyle
story, "The Lost
World," which
First National,
Inc., is screening
Rail
VIRGINIA BROWN FAIRE
Waxman
CARMEL MYERS
The lovely Carmel is commuting these days
between Germany and Italy miraculously,
managing to make a picture in either country;
"Garragan" for Germany, and "Ben Hur" in
Italy. At least, as we go to press, she was
still in the "Ben Hur" cast
!
Waxman
Fox's pretty popular starlet has just finished
making "The Great Diamond Mystery," and
is plunging gaily into the scramble to be called
"Her Husband's Wives." Bet he wishes they
were all Shirley! Any husband would, for one
cant have too much of a good thing
SHIRLEY MASON
VN axman
JACK PICKFORD
Who represents the sartorial perfection of Holly-
wood and New York. His next film will be "Her
Son." We cant help wondering why his wife,
Marilynn Miller, doesn't star with him
Above: Getting a closeup in motion.
Jacqueline Logan and Malcolm McGregor
Above: Altho it looks dangerous, it isn't.
The scene was shot down a hill
Where Was
By DOROTHY
AX English actress who has played a lifetime of successful
roles on the speaking stage was persuaded to take a part
L in a motion picture. Her contempt for the proceedings
grew during her first morning's work at the studio and when
the director shouted to her not to look at the camera it found
most forceful vent.
"Look at the camera !" shrieked the outraged actress, "why,
my good man, I dont even know where the thing is I"
Something of the poor woman's bewilderment fills the mind
of the picture fan who watches a troop of horsemen gallop
straight out of the screen toward him. or finds himself peering
into an eagle's nest perched on a dizzy crag. Where, oh, where
is the camera ? It seems to be able to go everywhere, and see
everything — sometimes, indeed, it reveals to us intimate scenes
which convict it of peering thru keyholes !
When Rod La Rocque was whirled on a seething rip tide
toward the rocks in the "Ten Commandments." where was the
camera? When Dorothy Devore, the feminine gender of
Harold Lloyd, hangs by one hand from the tenth story of an
office building, what is the cameraman who catches her plight
doing ? And when Douglas McLean in "The Yankee Consul"
gazes at us over the railing of the top deck of an ocean steam-
ship, is our mental picture of a photographer suspended by
one hand from an aeroplane while he cranks his machine with
the other the correct explanation ?
The eye of the camera is only one-eighth of an inch in
diameter. Yet into this tiny opening millions of dollars are
poured every year, thru this Cyclops eye pass French
Revolutionary mobs with thousands of extras, and closeups
of a single face, exteriors showing the restless horizons of the
sea or the skyline of a city, and interiors of a de Millionaire
bathroom, speeding automobiles and peregrinating snails. The
exodus of a race, and the passage of the Red Sea in "The
Ten Commandments," came to us thru the same camera-
eye that recorded the humble supper^table in the
second half of the picture.
The secret of these widely different shots lies
in the camera angle, the position from
which they were taken. There used to
be a saying to the effect that a camera
doesn't lie. Dont you believe it ! The
modern movie machine makes Ananias
a piker by comparison and Mun-
chausen's record look as spotless as
George Washington's. For instance,
the camera tells you — doesn't it? —
that these children in an "Our Gang"
comedy are in deadly peril of falling
at any moment some twenty stories to
Above: Leatrice Joy was followed
to the top of this structure by the
Ackley camera
Above: By the
clever angle at
which this was
shot, the on-
looker is made
to feel he is
listening, too.
Right : King
Vidor and his
cameraman,
Charles von
Enger, getting
the wheels of
a speeding car
(Sixteen)
The Camera?
donnell
the street below, while, a-- a matter of fact, the) are just as safe
as tho they were in their own little beddy byes. The plank
on which they are so dizzily balanced is only a few feet from
the top of a hillside, and the camera has simply shot the scene
at an angle which doesn't show the ground and does show the
street far below at the bottom ^\ the hill.
As for the incredibly beautiful beings who people the silver
in well, of course, the stars are a nice-looking lot of hoys
and ^irls, hut at that the camera tells a few polite fibs ahout some
of them. It can make an ordinary every -day actor into an
Adonis and a girl with features of Celtic architecture look as
tireek as Mrs. Menelaus oi Tl
What the camera sees and shows us on the screen, is not what
the cameraman sees. The human eye has a wider range of
vision than the lens but it can focus on only one* point at a time.
Thus the cameraman who shot the magic-carpet scene in "The
Thief of Bagdad" saw not only the seething crowd of three
thousand extras in the market square of an Eastern dream city
which the camera saw, but the board fence where tourists from
Keokuk were getting splinters in their noses trying to peek
thru, the hot-dog wagons on the outskirts of Bagdad and
the chewing-gum signs and radio masts on the roofs of the
apartment houses beyond. On the other hand, he saw only a
few faces in the crowd distinctly while the camera saw every-
thing with equal clearness.
If the motion-picture camera couldn't do things impossible to
human eyesight, there would be no motion pictures. It must
be able to depict the emotions on the face of a man standing on
the farther side of a deep chasm, to follow a speeding auto so
swiftly that its occupants are plainly visible, to get above
people's heads and see around them — in short, it must possess
the powers of a telescope, magnifying glass, X-Ray machine,
and an old maid's spy-glass at one and the same time.
The increased flexibility of the camera angle is perhaps the
most important advance in cinema taking since the
days when screen husbands turned erring wives
into the driving snow with a stern semaphore
gesture of the arm, screen villains struggled *MK
with the heroines until their hair came
virtuously down, and screen comedians
sat down suddenly on a screen banana,
all within a carefully chalk-marked
triangle with the camera as its apex.
Film wives still stagger thru the snow,
film comedians still heave the same
kind of pies that mother used to throw,
but the camera is no longer on the floor
in front of them. It may be peeking
Lady Teazlingly from behind a screen,
This scene from "Babbitt" is a natural eye-
level angle, very intimate all around
Above: An elaborate device for taking a
man at the wheel of a car
Above: Here
the camera
was lashed to
the topmast
of a sailing
vessel in Los
Angeles har-
bor. Left: To
get these
charging
horses, the
camera was
buried in an
underground
dugout
Above: We give up guessing
where the camera was Tor this
scene in "Law Against Law"
(Seventeen)
CLASSIC
the angle from which a human being would be likely to see the
same scene in real life and not from a distorted position as
tho the onlooker were perched on the chandelier or draped on
the picture molding. The audience is added to the cast of
characters. Step right up onto the screen, Ladeez and Gen'le-
men! Meet Mist* McTeague and th' wife and make yourselves
at home !
In one scene in "Greed" you sit with the McTeagues and
their gabby friend Marcus as one of the group, while a slight
change in the camera angle would make you an eavesdropping
outsider. In another scene where an old woman presses her ear
to the wall in order' to overhear what is being said in the next
room you feel an actual sensation of ear strain, so close does the
camera bring you to the wall !
"A Woman of Paris" leads the
spectator onto the screen first by a
long shot of a house, then a closer
view of the same house with the
heroine's face looking out of an
upper window, and
Below: Here the camera
is raised thirty feet above
the mob to include several
thousand people in the
angle of vision
Above: An odd camera angle
was required for this monster
shadow. It is not the shadow of
the man present in the picture
snooping up thru a knot-hole in
the floor or slung from the ceiling.
As the average man can tell the
make of a car with a single knowl-
edgeable glance, as the scofflaw can
distinguish Bourbon from bootleg
with the first sip, so the seasoned
movie fan can name the director of
a picture when it first flashes on the
screen. And it is the difference in
their uses of the camera angle more
than anything else which gives per-
sonality to pictures. William de
Mille is more interested in his
characters than their setting, while
his brother Cecil shoots his scenes
from the audience angle, never
losing sight of their effect as a pic-
ture. Griffith alternates long shots
with closeups and George
Melford works from the
story angle, and in order
to catch interesting and
revealing bits of action
takes his camera right
onto the set and
eavesdrops on what
is going on from be-
hind the piano or
thru the shower-bath
curtains. One direc-
tor, perhaps, has a
penchant for close-
ups and so we have
enormous glycerine tears
the size of marbles rolling
down the giant cheeks" of
beauty in distress, another
likes wide angles with solitary
horsemen on the horizon, while still another treats the
onlooker to such intimate viewpoints that he has the
uncomfortable sensation of having opened the wrong
door by mistake.
In "Greed." von Stroheim. the celluloid Bernard Shaw,
has taken a motion picture entirely from a "practical"
angle for the first time. By this, he explains, he means
last of all he is
brought inside the
room with her. This
is a familiar use of
the camera angle,
but there are no such
rapid alterations of
distance in "Greed,"
during the course of
a single episode. It
leaves an audience
mentally breathless,
von Stroheim
claims, to approach
within three feet of
something, then in-
stantly to dash back
a couple of blocks
and the next moment
pounce to another
viewpoint like a
restless kangaroo
afflicted with Saint
Vitus' Dance.
If you are one of
those who hoist an
opera-glass at emo-
tional moments in a
(Cont'd on page 90)
Left: The closeup is the screen's substitute for opera-
glasses. Below: The only way to get faces in a crowd
is to shoot from above
/'Eighteen)
G. Eder
Albertina Rasch
One time premiere danseuse of the Imperial Opera of Vienna, this famous dancer
is now in this country interpreting her art. She is a stern and relentless maitresse de
ballet, and the men and women of her ensemble betray an effortless technique no
less perfect than her own. She recently danced a few feet of film in "Virtuous Liars"
(Ninetten)
Jetta and Her
Temperament
White
NOT since Pola Negri arrived from Germany with her five-
carat diamond has Hollywood had such a thrill.
The lady's name is Jetta Goudal. She looks like a
beautiful Cossack. She looks like an Oriental princess. She
looks like . . . well, whatever it is that has changing hazel eyes
that slant at the corners ; that slumber and drowse ; then blaze
with fires.
But Jetta insists that she is none of these thrilling and excit-
ing things. She says she is just French.
She came here from New York to play a vampish role in
"Open All Night," which is being filmed at the Lasky studio.
By
HARRY CARR
Elle Est Francaise,
Mais Oui ! Et Ce
N'Est Pas Tout!
White
Above is Jetta Goudal in the
fascinating role of La Pilar
in "The Bright Shawl," in
which she first attracted the
attention of the critics. At
the top of the page, a late
portrait and left, with Paul
Bern, who directed her in
"Open All Night"
(Twenty)
CLASSIC
In addition to the Holl) wood advent
of tht- beauteous Jetta, tin- picture ia
ible in some othei w ays it is the
■ independent free-lance engagement
i I tana since she \ oluntanly re
nounced stardom; it is the first picture to
Ik- directed bj Paul Bern, the brilliant
u io hi iter recentl) promoted to a
gaphone ; the scenario is the work ot
Willis Goldbeck and is said to be the
ript evei written in Hollywood.
altogether, Jetta has stepped into fast
company.
In hoarse stage whispers, Hollywood
anged the information that she is
in be the most temperamental actress
that has ever been on the screen. \\ hen
you ask Jetta about this, her eyes wander
up and down your personality; then they
half close and she says with a tired little
smile that she isn't temperamental at all ;
she just has her own ideas about things.
She says otherwise she never would
been here in America at all.
You see it was this way. When the
war broke out, Jetta was a very young
sixteen or seventeen.
But she was engaged to be married.
Her fiance was a lieutenant in the French
f. He was wounded in the very first
gement of his regiment. They re-
d him in a hospital as well as they
could and detailed him to special work
in connection with the diplomatic corps.
This kept him galloping from one allied
country to another, so Jetta never saw
him. She worked for a while with the
Belgian refugees. Then she couldn't
stand it any longer. It was too harrow-
ing. She decided to come to America.
Here was where Jetta's far-famed tem-
perament began to function. They told
her she couldn't possibly get a passport in
lest than three weeks.
Edward Bower Hesser
White
Just now this fascinating foreigner is one of the vamps
in Valentino's picture, "The Sainted Devil." Harry Carr
says of her: She has the French instinct for gesture and
the French adroitness of suggestion
"There's a steamer sailing tomorrow and I am going to be
on board," she said.
"There aren't any berths," they faltered.
"I'll have one," she told them. And she showed me the
way she looked at the offending French officials. If Germany
had attacked suddenly while the French Government was
still quailing under that look, the Kaiser would right now be
collecting taxes in Paris.
"When the boat sailed," says Jetta, "1 was on board and I
had a berth."
She said she didn't want to act over here. She just wanted
to hide and forget. But somebody was always dragging her
out of her solitude and making her act. So, if she was tem-
peramental, it was because she didn't want to. anyhow.
She appeared in the "Bright Shawl"' and "The Green
Goddess" and on the stage in "Simon Called Peter"; and now
she has come to Hollywood.
"They always give me parts where I have to be drunk," she
said the day she struck Hollywood. "I hope they give me a
(Continued on page 78)
(Twenty one)
Some
Costume
Caricatures
By
VICTOR De PAUW
Above is Valentino in his double role of
aristocrat and barber in "Monsieur Beau-
caire." Right are three characterizations of
Milton Sills in the manly role of The Sea
Hawk; this picture is still filling a big New
York theater daily, by the way
Left is George
Walsh when he
was making "Ben
Hut," Mary Pick-
ford as Mistress
Dorothy in
"Dorothy Vernon
of Haddon Hall,"
and Ernest Tor-
rence in "The
Sideshow Of
Life." It looks
as tho Mary was
telling George to
"cheer up, the
worst is yet to
cornel"
(Twenty-two)
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Cleopatra
FAMOUS
HEROINES
NO. XIII
POSED BY
JANE COWL
This Queen of Egypt
is perhaps the most
famous woman that
ever lived. The world's
greatest poets, musi-
cians, artists, scholars
and soldiers have vari-
ously sung, painted,
written, and waged
wars in her praises.
She had not only
fabulous beauty and
what is now known as
"sex appeal" but con-
siderable mental en-
dowment as well. It
was her pleasant cus-
tom to give one
glorious night to her
lovers, then have them
thrown into the Nil* to
the crocodiles. She died
by putting a poisonous
asp to her bosom and
with her ended the
dynasty of the Ptole-
mies, and Egypt be-
came a Roman province
Mura»
(Twenty-three)
.._.
The Drama's Pousse-Cafe
Classic's Monthly Department of the Vaudeville Stage
White
Across the top of the page
is a row of the "incredibly
rhythmic" Tiller Girls, as
Percy Hammond calls them.
This group is the "Sunshine
Girls," late of "Stepping
Stones" and now in the two-
a-day. It affords everlasting
interest to see sixteen girls
move as one, for that is the
way. these English dancing
girls are taught. They move
together in perfect time with
the precision of a machine.
Charles Snyder
Henry Hull, another stage and
screen star, is "revueing" in
vaudeville with Edna Hibbard.
Theirs is a two-scene playlet
called "Five Minutes From
the Station"
Left and right are
Paul McCullogh and
Bobby Clark, late of
"The Music Box
Revue," who are add-
ing to the harmless
gaiety of nations by
their comic skits, "The
Interview," and "The
Bath Between." They
are reported to be
funnier than Gallagher
and Shean
A great many vaudevillian
rumors are rife around Times
Square. One is that Elsie
Janis will be back this
winter on the Orpheum cir-
cuit at $3,500.00 a week and
Mother Janis' car-fare. An-
other is that Florence Wal-
ton and Leon Leitrim will
dance at the Palace; that
Charles Foy, son of Eddie,
will do an act; that Beryl
Mercer, Frank Mayo and
Jacob Ben-Ami will also
Charles Snyde
(Twenty- four)
Pictures
and
Gossip
Gathered
Around
Longacre
Square
and
Tin Pan
Alley
Above is Bird Millman, "the
Little Queen of the Wire,"
who is undoubtedly pre-
eminent in her entertainment.
After an absence of several
years, in the circus, "Zieg-
feld," and "Greenwich Village
Follies," she and her silver
wire are back in vaudeville
Below is Adele Rowland, the
wife of our own Conway
Tearle, who has taken a little
flier in vaudeville. Her turn
is called "Story Songs"
Melbourne Simrr
Above is the greatest female
impersonator of them all,
Julian Eltinge, who is billed
as "America's Foremost De-
lineator of Feminine Char-
acterizations," and who has
quite a repertoire of acts for
his brief vaudeville tour.
Back to his first love, for a
while, anyway
Below is Pauline Lord of
"Anna Christie" fame, who
makes her two-a-day debut
in a tabloid drama called
"For Five Thousand Dollars"
J. H. Connolly
Here on the same page
with America's Fore-
most Delineator of,
etc., is "A m e r i c a ' s
Greatest Male Im-
personator," Kitty
Donner, who is also at
home in musical
comedy or vaudeville.
Her skit is called
"Twenty Minutes in
Paris." She is a top-
hole dancer and wears
evening clothes better
than most men
National
(Twenty-five)
Hori
La Habanera
Especially posed for Classic by Fokina, the talented wife of Michel Fokine
(Twenty-sis)
K-The Unknown
Written in Short-Story Form by Patricia Cork I)i <,an
C
11 \K1 OTTE
TOWN was a
little town. It
didn't even aspire
tn he a big town.
It had a substan-
tial, settled,
matronly sort of
air that p r o -
claimed a placid
satisfaction in it-
self. Contentment
hrooded upon it.
Not for Charlotte-
town the hectic
rush, the mad
clamor, the eager
thirst for this, that.
and the other that
characterized great
cities. Its concerns
were little con-
cerns, its lives
serene.
Not that Char-
lottetown lacked
excitement. Oh,
no. There was al-
ways Sidney Page
and Slim and Joe
to speculate about.
Since her gram-
mar school days
Slim and Joe had
been courting Sidney, and no
one ever knew which was
ahead in this amatory mara-
thon. For that matter, neither did Sidney. That is, she
really never thought seriously of marrying either one of
them, altho the announcement of this fact to both young
swains served only to redouble their efforts.
The truth is, Sidney had suddenly begun to take life
seriously. Being the belle of a small town was pleasant
in its way but hardly absorbing enough for a lifetime.
Sidney had decided to go to work. Charlottetown buzzed
with the news and was relieved when it was discovered
that she had taken up nursing at St. Luke's Hospital.
This was by all Charlottetown standards, at least "gen-
teel," and the village breathed calmly once more, giving
its interest to the mad exploits of Slim and Joe trying to
get sick or hurt enough to be sent to the hospital. Finally
Slim did manage to get himself appallingly disfigured with
poison oak and he was turned over to Sidney to nurse. It
was an inimical triumph, however, because by that time
Sidney had another pair of suitors hot upon her heels.
Dr. Max Wilson, "Doctor Max," as everyone called
him. had just been put in charge of the hospital. He was
new in Charlottetown and therefore mildly exciting to
the inhabitants. Thev wondered collectivelv and individ-
">
It was a page from Mary Blum's chart and underneath
Mary's fever zigzag it said: "Ice pack; drops every two
hours; light diet: broth, cereals, etc.; I love you"
uallv about this
arlotta person"
who arrived with
him. She was said
to be his private
nurse and a purely
professional un-
derstanding was
reported to exist
between them ; but
Charlottetown ele-
vated its several
e y e b r o w s, ex-
amined the lady,
and just didn't be-
lieve it was alto-
get h e r profes-
sional. Neither did
they quite believe
it in the hospital.
In fact, no one
really credited it
but Sidney who
liked Doctor Max
from the start, and
who was quite sure
that Doctor Max
liked her. Indeed
she had the proof
of it right with
her, folded up in-
side the front of
her stiff . starched
waist, where it
crackled with pleasant re-
assurance from time to time.
It was a page torn from
Mary Blum's chart and underneath Mary's fever zigzag
it said in Doctor Max's quick nervous handwriting: 'Tee
pack; drops every two hours; light diet: broth, cereals,
etc. ; I love you." Thereafter, the frequency with which
Sidney consulted charts to make sure of— er proper direc-
tions, was commendably regular. Sidney was very happy
and she made her patients happy — and well, which was
more important.
In the nurses' restroom one day, Carlotta, who was
head nurse, waited for Max Wilson to come to her. She
caught him as he walked by the door, hat in hand, and
with a coat over his arm. It was Sidney Page's coat.
"Oh. Max!" cried Carlotta. "it's such a hot day. wont
you take me for a little ride ?''
"Cant do it. Carlotta." the man answered hurriedly. "I
have a call to make "
"On Sidney Page, I suppose," angrily retorted Carlotta
and her habitual restraint gave way. "You're with her all
the time — everybody is talking about it. What did you
bring me here for, to flaunt that girl in my face? You
owe something to me, Max Wilson, and you're going to
pay it. Do you think after I've given you my whole life
I
(Twenty-seven)
CLASSIC
— everything a woman can give — that I'm going to see it
thrown away for a miserable little upstart. You have
no right *'
"Calm down, Carlotta," interrupted the man a little
anxiously, for Carlotta's voice rose with each accusation,
"I have a right to do exactly as I please. I'm not mar-
ried to you "
"Oh, dear God," moaned the woman, "you said you
wanted to — you said you would marry me as soon as your
practice was assured. You said "
But Max had gone and a girl snuggled down content-
edly at his side, in his big
red car and said shyly,
"You're so good, Max, no
wonder the nurses all love
you and your patients adore
you. I dont see how you
can love only me."
"That's the easiest thing
I do, honey," answered the
man, for once in his life
telling the absolute truth.
"You are the only woman
K— THE UNKNOWN
Fictionized by permission from Universal's screen
presentation of Mary Roberts Rinehart's novel
"K." Directed by Harry Pollard. The cast:
Sidney Page Virginia Valli
"K." Le Moyne Percy Marmont
Carlotta Harrison Margarita Pollard
George "Slim" Benson Francis Feeney
Dr. Max Wilson John Roche
Joe Drummond Maurice Ryan
The doctor dropped untidily to the
floor and slipped in a ghastly comic
sprawl down the stairs, "You dirty
cad!" screamed Joe, mad with excite-
ment and terror. "You dirty cad — to
treat a decent girl so!" "Never mind
that, young man," said the proprietor,
"just come along with me"
in the world for me, that ever will be
or ever has been," he added in his
more habitual manner, and Sidney
was content.
"I was told at the station," said
the gentlest of voices to Mrs. Page
as she stood in her doorway regard-
ing the man before her, "that I could
perhaps rent a room here. You have
such a pretty yard and such a pleas-
ant faced house — I'd like to live
here "
Mrs. Page hesitated. She knew,
of course, the hazards of taking in
strange men, but this one looked so
kind, so clean and kind, and so tired.
His clothes, altho they needed press-
ing, were not the sort one got from
the local tailors, she recognized that.
A fine piece of cloth, too. He had
white, firm-looking hands, an artist's
or a surgeon's ; delicate, skilful-look-
ing hands that bespoke breeding as
well as ability. Besides. Sidney s ap-
prenticeship in the hospital was tak-
ing money out and not adding to the
slender family purse. She consid-
ered another moment.
"I'll pay in advance," said the man,
feeling her distrust.
"Oh, it isn't that," answered Mrs.
Page. "It's nothing, really. Come
in. I'll show you a room."
"My name is " he hesitated the
fraction of a second, "Le Moyne
K. Le Moyne," and followed her into
the house.
For three weeks Charlottetown
was occupied with the stranger.
Where had he come from and why ? What was he doing,
or going to do in Charlottetown? Dr. Max could be
accounted for, one knew a number of things about him ;
but one knew absolutely nothing of this "K. Le Moyne"
beside the fact that he kept to himself, seldom straying
beyond Mrs. Page's garden, speaking to no one. volun-
teering nothing. Mrs. Page hotly defended him as she
was called upon to do several times. Aside from the
exemplary habit of paying the rent in advance, he kept her
garden like a professional — was tidier about his room
than any man she ever saw — no more trouble than no one
— never asked for a thing
— never intruded — was
gentle as a lamb with the
children and strong as an
ox for work. . No, he never
told her anything about
himself — she wouldn't ask
—anyone could see he was
a gentleman W'hen
Sidney came home on her
leave, she'd be glad to have
her daughter know him.
(Twenty-eight)
CLASSIC
When Sidney did come home the next time, it was to
•nay. Something terrible had happened at the hospital
and the long-looked-for leave was lengthened indefinitely
— or it would have been if Doctor Max hadn't interfered.
A heart-broken and tearful girl sobbed out her story to
her mother.
"You know, mother," Sidney told her, "Slim was get-
ting better Max Doctor Max said I had done
wonderfully and then I was ordered to increase his dose
— I thought it seemed a lot, but you know we're not sup-
posed to think under orders and — and he got
so sick — nearly died — if Max — Doc
tor Max hadn't acted promptly
he would have died. Oh,
he was wonderful,
mother." Sidney
hugged her mother
ecstatically, forget-
ting her grief in
admiration of her
adored doctor.
"And then," she
Above:
"Gentlemen,"
she said a
few breathless
minutes later,
standing with
K before an
astonished
group of phy-
sicians, "here
is a surgeon
who can save
the life of our
Doctor Max.
I will stake
my life on
that. He must
be allowed to
operate at
once"
went on. "when they investigated they discovered I had
given the dose — but mother, you believe me — I had orders
and when I went to find the order blank on my desk it
was gone, tho, of course, I keep all instructions. I cant
understand it. Max has been so sweet, mother, I wish
you liked him a little more. He says he'll get me back-
in a month or two."
"I hope so, dearie," answered her mother. "It isn't that
I dont like your Doctor Max — it is just that I feel I
couldn't trust him, but probably it's just an old woman's
notion. Now, wait until you meet Mr.
Le Moyne— K."
Sidney didn't like the idea of
a roomer. She really was
hurt and stunned by
her suspension from
the hospital and she
wanted to be alone.
However, as the
days went by, she
could not fail to re-
spond to the man's
Left: "I alone
am responsible
for the death
of Dr. Ed-
wardcs' pa-
tients. I did
it so that Max
Wilson would
get his place
on the staff of
Flower Hos-
pital. I loved
him so — I
loved him so
— he said he'd
marry me
when he got
on the staff"
(Twenty-nine)
CLASSIC
quick sympathy and his sensitive understanding. They
got to know each other rather well ; that is, Sidney knew
how K's mind worked and the way he reacted to certain
things, and the way his hair grew rakishly up over one
eye, and the proud way he held his head, and the odd little
trick of halting his speech right in the middle to smile at
her, and the quick electric touch of his hands, and many
little things like that she learned, but of his former home
or activities never a thing was hinted.
Max called her up every day, but he thought it better
not to go there until the affair had blown over. Slim was
out of the hospital, and he and Joe, still undaunted, clung
to their hopes of Sidney. Once Sidney turned 'from the
telephone to see K looking at her rather oddly, almost
absently. She misunderstood the look. "I suppose," she
said, "that you thought that was a pretty affectionate
conversation. But, you see, I was talking to my fiance —
Dr. Max Wilson."
"Wilson — Wilson," repeated K, a little stupidly. Sidney
thought. His lips tightened and his eyes closed almost
involuntarily as if to shut out a horrid sight. Sidney
stared at him wonderingly.
"I hope," the man said, quietly recovering himself,
"that you will be very happy — my — my dear."
Sidney didn't exactly like the way he said "my dear."
Or, rather she did like it. It kept repeating itself in her
ears all the rest of the evening, "my — dear," so soft, so
hesitating, but so
decided, some-
how. "My — clear
. . . my dear. . . ."
At the end of
three months the
stranger and Sid-
ney were "K"
and "Sid" to each
other, but neither
really knew how
each had filled
the other's heart.
Only Sidney felt
an odd tugging at
her heart when
one day Dr. Max
telephoned that
he was coming to
take her back to
the hospital. She
was standing
with K in the
garden when the
big red car drove
up and Max
cleared the drive
in one bound.
"Sidney — sweet-
heart !" he cried
and drew the girl
to him. Over the
top of her head
he s a w K. A
curious look came into the
eyes of both men, but neither
said a word.
"This is Dr. Max, K," Sidney cried gaily, "and this is
K. Max. I want "
"I am acquainted with the — ah — gentleman," answered
Max surprisingly.
K raised his hand almost involuntarily.
"Never mind," spoke up Max with malicious good
nature, "I wont notify the police "
"What do you mean?" cried Sidney helplessly. "I dont
understand K — explain — cant you ?"
The first thing Dr. Edwardes did after his public ex-
oneration was get into trouble again — at least some
folks call it trouble. What he did was get married
But the man stood silent before her and Max gentlv
led the dazed girl to his car.
K's unhappy reverie was interrupted by the arrival of
a much-excited Joe Drummond. "She's gone back to the
hospital with that crook," he yelled.
"Yes, I know," answered K. "He isn't a crook.
There's nothing we can do about it."
"Oh, yes there is," retorted the boy angrily. "I hap-
pen to know he's going to Schwitters tonight with some
dame from the hospital — they lived together before thev
came here — I'm going to get the dope and give it to Sid-
ney straight — she wont marry me, but by God, I cant see
her marry a dirty cad that will break her heart !"
Carlotta was making one last desperate effort to keep
Max. He had picked her up again during Sidney's
absence almost as tho there had not been any indifferent
interlude. Poor, deluded Carlotta believed he had come
back to stay. She would get sick at Schwitters and. pre-
tend to faint. Max would be a little drunk. They'd have
to get a room — a dozen desperate expedients occurred to
her, but she would be governed by the moment. Poor
Carlotta !
It was a wild ride Joe and K took following the pair
from road-house to road.-house. They couldn't recognize
the girl, and Joe finally decided that it was Sidney.
Whereupon K firmly refused to follow, feeling that after
all it was her right to go where she pleased with the man
she was going to
marry. Joe, how-
ever, had worked
himself up to a
fever heat and
with some half-
formed quixotic
notion of protect-
ing Sidney was
right behind Doc-
tor Max and the
woman as they
entered Schwit-
ters.
"Oh, Max,"
said Carlotta ex-
pectantly as they
took their seats
in a shaded
alcove, "you do
love me, dont
you?"
"Sure," an-
swered the man
without looking
at her, and the
lack of conviction
in his tone regis-
tered even with
a woman who
wanted desper-
ately not to feel
it.
Carlotta ran
her hands thru her hair a
little wildly. Tiny beads of
perspiration stood out on her
forehead. She really did feel sick. "Oh, Max," she said
again, "I'm ill— I feel— faint."
Carlotta had seen too many women faint not to know
how to do it properly. With visible annoyance Doctor
Max picked her up and carried her upstairs to a hastily
requisitioned room, from which an excited management
was with difficulty expelled.
From the details of the sordid ugly bitter quarrel that
(Continued on page 80)
(Thirty)
"Great Britain's Queen of Happiness"'
Who Wins a Popularity Contest Every Six Months. How Do You Like Her?
Betty Balfour is England's favorite
screen star, and that means, we hope,
that we'll see her pictures over here
She is under contract to Welsh, Pearson
& Co., in case any of our American
producers want to look her up! Below,
left, is Miss Balfour as she appeared in
"Love, Life and Laughter." Below,
right, in "Squibbs' Honeymoon"
With Ralph Forbes in
"Reveille"
As "Squibbs," the Piccadilly
flower girl
(Thirty-one J
S. M. Cooper,
L. A.
Architect
M. Herbert,
L. A.
Decorator
Blanche Sweet
and
Marshall Neilan
Tone Down
Their Colorful
Personalities
by a
Conventional
Home
It is a little odd that two of the
most arresting and original per-
sonalities in Hollywood should
elect to live in a house just like
other peoples'. You would expect
exotic colors and bizarre hangings
and all sorts of unexpected fea-
tures. But nothing of the sort
obtains here. The home of Mar-
shall Neilan and Blanche Sweet
is quiet, modest, comfortable and
unassuming. The exterior is white
stucco with a red-tiled roof, square
and substantial-looking
Above is the living-
room. The rug is grey
velour, the walls white
damask, and the dra-
peries are soft subdued
colors. Ornaments,
pillows and upholstery
furnish the high lights.
Right are the owners
on their front lawn
with a distinguished
guest, Rebecca West,
the celebrated English
novelist. Mr. and
Mrs. Neilan are at
present in England
(Thirty-two)
Right is a
junshiny
corner of the
reading - room
with Mr. Neil-
jh's desk and
Mrs. Neilan's
chair
This room,
too, has white
walls and grey
velour rugs.
The furniture
it rich old
mahogany
Hollywood Homes— no. xxiv
Above is the
dining-room,
conventional
but charming,
and in perfect
taste
Above is the
informal
b reakfast-
room where
the Neilans
sit and talk
over their
next picture
Right is an-
other favorite
corner flooded
with sunshine
This room is
grey and
green and
white, a pleas-
ant and livable
combination
(Thirty-three)
"Elsie Janis
At Home"
Photographs © by Abbe
Our Elsie isn't really at home, she's over
in London, and that is what she calls her
skit, revue, act, or whatever the thing is.
At any rate, it is one of the three shows in
London that is making money. To date, it
has sold out for every performance. Elsie,
we suppose, feels under some patriotic obli-
gation to do for America what the Chariot
players have done for England. Fair ex-
change is no robbery and all the rest of it
Above is Elsie playing the
piano, we think, but this
fascinating person be-
witches us so completely
that we never really know
what she is doing
Left: The tall gentle-
man supporting Miss
Janis is a "pleasing"
barytone named
Pidgeon and the "ac-
complished" pianist
is named Lester.
They all help in
Elsie's at home.
Upper left: Elsie as
a sort of glorified
costermonger (look
it up in the diction-
ary) with a million
"pearlies." The props
for this show, we are
told on reliable au-
thority, consist of
one grey velvet drop
and two gold pillows
(Thirty-four)
mi
The Romance of the Extra
By ORVILLE CALDWELL
$ ■
WHEN I firsi be-
no to rehearse
tor niv part in
l'hc Miracle." the army
if extras i soldiers,
nonks, nuns, foresters,
ts. ft ill ; wire sini-
mob with no indi-
ity whatever but
ij little as rehearsals went on and then the big spec-
tacle began its run at the Century Theater, inure and more
individuals called themselves to my attention. The
nob of extras one by one became definite personalities to
me and 1 am glad to say many of them have since
e my friends.
In the background
>f each life there
■ dramatic epic
- depicting the age- ^_
ild story of a strug- ,■
de to keep soul and H^IK
ody together. It is
tot my subject to
vrite a "sob sister"
so I am not go-
dwell on heart-
iches and heartbreaks
—they were all there
—but in sketching
;ome of the characters
[ hope they may serve
o prove that one can
lever judge by ap-
pearances.
Many were Rus-
sian refugees who
ame here after Lenin
gained control in
\ussia. One, a splen-
lid old man of aris-
ocratic appearance
tad been a Supreme
lourt Judge in Mos-
"W. He also owned
chain of dairies that
ircumrailroaded all
treat Russia. All
ts wiped out in the
evolution. He is
ij,Thty-six years old
nd speaks eight lan-
:uages. He ekes out
in existence by teach-
ng languages and
acting in "The Mir-
cle."
There are two
'rothers in their earlv
hirties, Russian
■ rinces with a strain of royal blood. They came over
iere with the Russian Commission in 1916, then returned
o Russia where everything was taken from them. Thev
ame back to New York where they sold enough jewels
0 live on for a time, finally went broke, washed dishes in
i restaurant and are now numbered among the extras of
The Miracle." They are both highly educated and fine
(Tkirtyfivt)
Mr. Caldwell confesses that he is an actor not a
writer and asked to have his story edited, but he
has told it in SUCh a straight forward , interesting
manner that we haven't touched a single eomnui. —
The I'.ni roa.
-
fellows '1 bey hop
find enough work on the
itage and icreen to
them going.
\ Russian girl, formerly
a member of the Im;
ballet, is also doing extra
Work, I -ike the Otl '
the revolution drove her
from Russia and she is supporting a father seventy-five
and a mother sixty-six. entirely on her earnings in "The
Miracle," and teaching dancing on the side whenever she
has time.
Another girl is the daughter of the erstwhile owner of
Petrograd'a leading
newspaper. He also
owned a chain of the-
aters in Russia, all of
which were confis-
d by the Bolshevik
government.
There is also a
former Colonel of the
Imperial Guard who
served two years in a
< ierman prison and
another man who was
an impresario on a
par with Belasco.
There were other
Russians but the
above were the most
interesting.
Among these high-
born extras were two
charming women, an
aunt and her niece,
both Roumanian
Princesses who were
descendants of the
Paleologue's. the An-
cient Greek royal
family. The girl is in
hopes of a dramatic
career and the aunt
is with her heart and
soul.
There were also
two French girls, one
a countess, who
taught French, and a
Russian and a Ger-
man girl who each
taught their language
in addition to work-
ing in "The Miracle."
But everyone who
was interesting was
not foreign by any
means. One was a boy who belongs to one of Chicago's
first families. His dramatic career was highly frowned
upon by his family so he struck a bargain with his parents.
They gave him two and a half years to make good on the
stage and if he falls down he must give the next two and
one-half years to his father's business. He is a graduate
(Continued on page 79)
J/. 7, '4-
Orville Caldwell is now in California making pictures, but
New Yorkers will remember him as the beautiful Knight
of "The Miracle," and it was in that extraordinary mob of
extras that he found so much interest and pathos, romance
and heartbreak and gallant conquering of insurmountable
odds. This sketch was made by the mother of Lady Diana
Manners, the Duchess of Rutland
I
^~ i
Muray
Doris Kenyon
This time appears as a poet. Inspired by her work with Valentino in "Monsieur
Beaucaire," and her contact with his wife in the interests of the same picture,
Miss Kenyon, who is a dreamer of lovely lyric verse, wrote the two sonnets on
the opposite page, which we think the most gracious and charming tribute one artist
could pay another and which we are proud and grateful to offer in the pages of
CLASSIC. The sickening cant about professional jealousy must now forfeit its right
to be heard
(Thirty-six)
L
■I
On the Wings
of Song
Two Sonnets
By
DORIS KENYON
Rudolph Valentino
He is the reason for Venetian nights,
Ami low-swung moons and shadows thai
caress.
And all the unsighed sighs and unsung songs
Hidden so deep 'within night's throbbing
breast ;
He is the chant pale slave girls situ/ at
dan
He is the whisper from a lover's tryst;
Xo I 'Won nor a knight of olden times
Had more of romance horn within his soul;
A Shelley nor a Keats could not express
More with his pen that he in pantomime;
The lure of silence just before a storm
Lurks in his slumberous eyes and in his
smile.
Friendly yet strange, familiar yet unknown.
Are memories and unfulfilled desires.
Victor Gcorg
Russell Ball
Mrs. Rudolph Valentino
She is an iris, swaying on its stem.
Poised, cool, elusive, in the evening dusk ;
Her eyes, low-curtained by a veil of mist,
Speak of strange dreams, remembered
yesterday
In some far land — as echoes call again;
The lilt of her proud grace and gentle
tread
Is like a tnusic played on muted strings;
Out of the beauties of an age-old Greece
Was born her mind, reflecting these
today;
Her heart reveals a sheltered garden
close,
Where none may enter save he knows
the key
That turns the magic lock, but once
inside,
Is filled 'with wonder at the rare perfume.
(Thirty seven)
At the top of the page is Doug
in his more habitual manner.
He is demonstrating jiu-jutsu
to a fascinated audience of chil-
dren in the garden of the Hotel
de l'Europe. It seems to de-
light Mary also, tho you'd
think by this time she'd be used
to Douglas
Doug and Mary
Vacationing
AT AIX-LES-BAINS
All Photographs by Abbe
Below is Doug being quiet. The Graflex
caught him resting — a breathless moment —
between leaps and bounds. Left is Mary
in a Lanvin gown in the gardens of their
hotel at Aix-les-Bains
{Thirty-eight >
mm
Abbe
The Siren
As Portrayed in England by Fay Compton
Fay Compton, one of England's better known actresses, has just com-
pleted her long and successful run as the spectacular vampire of the
more-than-spectacular "Hassam." She has accepted a motion-picture
engagement to play Queen Elizabeth, a long step from the fascinating
voluptuary whose naughty career she just finished. When "Hassam" is
produced here in the fall, Mary Nash will have the interesting title-role.
Comstock and Gest appropriately sponsor the spectacle in America
'Thirty-nine)
A Thousand Dollars a Day !
By JIM TULLY
A THOUSAND dollars a day ! There are those who
claim that Jim Cruze receives that much for direct-
ing pictures. No one would think of calling Cruze
James. He is Jimmy to most people. This forty-year-
old ex-vagabond and fisherman is undoubtedly the most
dynamic and vivid personality in pictures. I would call
him the ideal director. Long vigils on fishing vessels
plying Alaskan waters, gruelling rides on freight trains as
a youthful hobo, long days spent traveling over Utah and
Montana deserts with a wagon show, in which months
passed without seeing a
railroad, the descendant
of a long line of Danish-
Americans who trekked
across valley and moun-
tain in covered wagons
and on foot — this man
Cruze was for thirty-
eight years absorbing the
masterpiece which he
later made and called
"The Covered Wagon."
It was my good for-
tune to be down among
men from my twelfth
birthday. One learns
much from such a train-
ing— the most valuable
thing being — to appreci-
ate the genuine because
it is so rare. Jim Cruze
is all man in the highest
sense of that much
abused term.
It is only once in a
while that destiny meets
the man. Napoleon fret-
ting his heart away over
love for a Parisian demi-
monde whom he later
married, was vaulted
into the saddle by Paul Barras
— a lover who was tired of her.
The man whom Josephine
laughingly dubbed her "little
corporal" then dashed away to
fame and fortune as Comman-
der of the Army of Italy. I
should apologize to Jim Cruze
here — he would allow no
Josephine to bother him for
twenty years . . . but when the epic of the West was
ready to be filmed — Cruze was accidentally vaulted into
the saddle by Jesse Lasky, who knows men. Lasky felt
that the job of directing "The Covered Wagon" would
require a man who could obtain the required effects of
distance and primeval backgrounds. Cruze had directed
some pictures which gave evidence of this knowledge,
among them "The Valley of the Giants" — but he was
known principally as a high-class comedy director. Lasky
had faith.
Cruze was born in Ogden, Utah, and left home at fif-
teen to travel with a medicine show. It was during these
days while bumping over yellow leagues of desert that
destiny prepared the boy for the man that was to be.
Out of the vast caldron of life an atom is now and
Heavy shoulders, quick
observing eyes, a dark
complexion, not at all re-
vealing the Scandinavian
background, James Cruze
is a Rabelaisian character
with great gusto and a
fine sense of humor.
Right: Working on the
script of "Merton," his
last picture
then thrown up that is charged with more energy — more
vitality — more tremendous lust for surviving. Cruze
was such an atom.
Heavy shoulders, a restless mentality that pounds at
things, quick observing eyes, a dark complexion, not at
all revealing the Scandinavian background, Cruze is a
Rabelaisian character with gusto and a fine sense of humor.
In other words, he knows what everything is about.
He puts life into films but there is no film over his eyes.
He was just born a thorobred and he cannot be explained.
It is seldom that I meet a man that
I feel instinctively that women would
like — for men are a sorry breed —
but I can imagine how women would
like Jim Cruze — like him for the rea-
son that he is the master always.
For men who lose their hearts to
women, lose the women. House-
keepers for ages — women always
place doormats outside the door. The
real men walk over the doormats
with the dust of life on their feet, and
chant compelling songs in the hearts
of women and lock the doors. Cruze
is that kind of man.
Jim Cruze knocked about the West
with the medicine show for some
time and then tramped about the
country, meeting another chap on the
road who was destined to become
known. The two young hoboes ex-
changed their views on things in gen-
eral and told one another of coun-
tries where sandwiches grew on
bushes and lager flowed
from the hills and then
went on their devious
ways ribald in the joy
of their picturesque
existence. The
other chap's name
was Jack London.
We talked for a
moment of Jack
London. "Jack was
a poseur always.
He died one. He
was a poseur as a
hobo. But he wrote
some damn fine things."
These are Jim's words
about London — no sentimen-
tality, no film over his eyes, just a plain statement.
Cruze became weary of tramping, as smart tramps will,
and became a fisherman. He lived thru tales of death and
disaster, and saw fanatics at prayer being swept into the
sea and oblivion, and battles with whales and the elements
— all too long to record here — but they made Jim Cruze.
We talked a long time. Cruze, the man who carries his
life locked up within him as a strong man will, had met
a fellow rover. His secretary said when the chat wa>
over, "I never knew him to talk so much — what did you
do to him?" "Nothing," I answered. "We're blood
brothers, that's all."
There were certain things about directing I wanted to
(Continued on page 77)
(Forty*
Ball
To Be Or Not To Be—
Back again in pictures, is Mabel Ballin's particular query these days. Every week we
get a different report about Mabel: that her husband is to direct her, that he is not to
direct her; that she is to be a free-lance star, that she is to form her own company,
and so on. Meanwhile, the screen languishes without her quaint, elusive charm. We'll
leave it to you that she should be back
(Forty-one)
Conrad Nagel
CLASSIC'S GALLERY OF HANDSOME MEN— NO. V
Altho Conrad Nagel has been a married man lo, these many years, his youthful
charm never seems to have deserted him. He is undeniably one of the
handsomest of our younger leading men, and one of the most popular as well.
His last picture was "Mrs. Paramour," and his next will be "So This Is
Marriage!" Watch for it
(Forty-two)
i
Who's Who;
On Stage and Screen
c ( landc H*i < is,
BERNARD SHAW
Has had so much written about him that there
is absolutely nothing left to say. This famous
Irish scoffer, author of many subtle, brilliant
and sophisticated plays, has at last written a
play totally unlike any of his others. That
is "Saint Joan," which has just ended its
most successful New York run. It is humble,
beautiful and moving, a drama with a soul.
It is now published in book form by
Brentano's. If you like Shaw, or, dislike him,
get the book
White Studios
JANE MURFIN
Is the owner of Strongheart, distinction enough for
one woman in one lifetime. She has written a
number of successful scenarios; directed and pro-
duced several pictures; collaborated with Jane Cowl
on "Smilin' Through" and one other stage play and
is at present resting on her laurels in Hollywood,
where this picture was taken
W. C. FIELDS
Played on the stage for twenty-six years and never
spoke a line! He was a pantomimist and juggler in
every country on the face of the globe, once jump-
ing from Australia to Syracuse, N. Y., for a one-
night stand only to find when he got there that his
part had been written out! His first speaking part
was in "Poppy" and it was an instant hit. Let us
hope he'll always talk after this
(Forty-three)
The Photographer Takes the Stage
Right is a pretty
pose from the
Japanese music-
d a n c e-d r a m a,
"Ka-Bu-Ki," that
Michio Itow is
producing for the
Threshold Play-
ers. Left to right
they are: Mar-
garet M a n s o n,
Betty Calender
and Marion Robb
Next month
Classic will
have scenes from
all the early fall
openings, a stag-
gering number
of which are
promised. The
new dramatic
season is still in
its experimental
stage and needs
a lot of re-
vamping
Hori
Below are Mr.
and Mrs. Al-
fred Lunt
(Lynn Fon-
tanne) who
are appearing
together for
the first time
in "The
Guardsman,"
by Franz
Molnar, the
Theatre
Guild's first
production
Burke
Apeda
Above are Richard
Sterling and Louise
Closser Hale in "Express-
ing Willie," one of the
few plays to survive the
summer
Abbe
Above is G r o c k, the
famous Swiss clown, who
has been imported for
Selwyn's great interna-
tional revue, the "Rue de
la Paix"
(Forty-four)
THOSE FOUR FUNNY FELLOWS IN "I'LL SAY SHE IS!"
The four Marx Brothers who have conquered New York without a single casualty.
Left to right they are Chico, Groucho, Beppo, Harpo, Leonard, Julius, Herbert and
Arthur respectively
(Forty- five)
The Play of the Month
By KENNETH MACGOWAN
White
CRITICS have certain very entertaining habits. One is
to lay the faults of the newspaper reviews to the fact that
they have to be written in the first forty-five minutes
after the curtain falls. Another Hazlittian habit is for the
critics on the weeklies and monthlies to review the reviews
instead of the plays, to pan the forty-five-minute opinions
of the daily critics instead of panning the play.
In writing about "Abie's Irish Rose" in the year of grace
1924, I naturally escape a lot of the troubles connected with
that habit-forming drug-on-the-market, dramatic criticism.
On the May evening of 1922 when Anne Nichols' play
was exhibited to the pained, but not at all surprised collection
of second-string reviewers, I was watching a chorus of bulky
Berlin damsels coyly pulling a petticoat half an inch above a
Gargantuan ankle while they sang about the naughtiness of a
"Maedel von siebzehn Jahr." If I had been in New York, I
should have revenged myself on the weather and the whole stage by
completely losing patience with the kind of show we have to see ninety-
seven evenings out of one hundred and twenty-one. I should have
declared that "Abie's Irish Rose" was as obvious as a Third Avenue ham
sandwich and about as tasteful.
And — blissfully unable to pene-
trate two years of theatrical
history — I should have declared
that this bit of hokum would
never, never last out the week.
Now this would have been
perfectly all right as a revenge
and an estimate on the level of
Broadway drama. But I would
find it just a little embarrassing
today to read the electric sign
outside the Republic Theater —
"3rd Year." And as for hear-
ing that "Abie's Irish Rose"
had spent fifteen weeks in
Washington, twelve weeks in
Baltimore, seven months in
Pittsburgh, eight months or
more in Cleveland, ten weeks in
Montreal and twice as long in
Toronto, twelve weeks in Co-
lumbus, ten in Atlantic City, and
eighteen nights in Erie, Pennsyl-
vania— the spectacle of going so
(Continued on page 89)
The phenomenon of "Abie's
Irish Rose" is still puzzling
theatrical savants. When it
first appeared nearly three
years ago it was universally
condemned by the critics.
Since then it has earned
more than a million dollars
for its author and producer,
Ann Nichols, pictured below.
Left are Alfred White, Jack
Bertin, Harry Bradley and
Andrew Mack
Apeda
(Forty-six)
The Picture of the Month
Bv LAURENCE HEID
"M=
KNHANDLED" (Paramount) is one of those
r\ rare screen entertainments thai serve to
projecl the entire business of motion picture
production on to a pi. me closely parallel with the artistic,
if indeed, it doesn't project it to the very plane of art
itself. Here is a picture, not new in it-- essentials of plot
tn an) means, that is so humanly told, so truthfully
sketched in characterization, so convincingly acted and
cleverl) presented, that it makes us forgel the un-
deniable fact that sometimes pictures are poor and at
other times very had.
It presents the very simple story of
a girl and a hoy in New York
City. And for the most ^
part it draws accurate _v^
and true pictures
o i c 0 m m on.
every-day types.
In this, indeed,
is its great merit.
Here are char-
acters living and
breathing the
very air of Man-
hattan. They are
not stuffed
p u p p e t s who
jump into activity
thru the manipu-
lated strings of a
director. They
are wholly ani-
mate and alive.
They are truly
the characters of
which scenario
editors beg
amateurs to
write. They are
the people next
door or in the
apartment across
the hall. There
is drama in their
apparently drab
existences. I f
you are a clever
dramatist or
story-teller you
can find it.
Arthur Stringer
found it and
wrote "Man-
handled." You,
who distribute
prizes, step for-
ward.
Mr. Stringer
was fortunate in
that his story fell into thoroly competent hands. Gloria
Swanson is the girl, a department-store worker, and
Tom Moore is the boy, an automobile mechanic. Theirs
is the life of Xew York, of early rising and trips to work
in crowded underground cars, of long, hard days
of labor, and of subway rides back "home" again. Some-
times a chop-suey dinner is thrown in to round off the
day. It is a simple yarn, rather slight of plot — but it is
In "Manhandled," Gloria Swanson sets herself a new record. She
is a brilliant screen comedienne, a quality hitherto unsuspected in
her make-up. She and Tom Moore share the honors as simple,
human, every-day young people of the working class
told so humanly that the picture rises above its talc b\
means of the introduction of 'plaint divert) - m-iii<
Neither Chaplin nor Lloyd has done anything funnier
than Miss Swanson's pictured adventure in the ul.
at rush hour. It is the opening sequence of "Man-
handled" and it carries a gale of laughs. It is burlesqued
slightly, but nol much at that. It ma) seem ridiculoui
eople in cities where there are no subways, but then
so may all New York seem ridiculous,
The story, as said, is utterly simple. While the b
is away exploiting a mechanical invention,
^^^^^^^^ the girl tastes a bit of Broadway life.
.1^1^^ She has left the subway for
od after the first -cene
— a subway in which
^^ the men arc-
heavy to be
young anil too
crowded to be
wealthy. So she
rides on a
cushioned seat in
taxis or private
cars. Well, the
upshot of her
rise from the
department-store
trenches is that
she escapes with-
out harm, but the
escape is close
and at first, when
the boy returns,
he wont believe
her. A 1 1 t h e
gowns are honest,
as she explains
when he comes
back to find them
hanging guiltily
in her wardrobe.
But there are
signs that de-
termine her true
character that he
cannot ignore.
So there is a very-
happy love scene
for the finale.
The scenes be-
t w e e n Miss
Swanson and
Tom Moore are
some of the
prettiest the cel-
luloid has re-
vealed. They re-
in i n d us of
Griffith at his
best. Often these two players are motionless yet their
scenes seem to vibrate with a vital current. They are a
great credit to the players themselves and to Allan Dwan,
who directed the picture. Previously we have associated
Mr. Dwan with unreal stories and similar settings.
Rooms in plain houses have become as enormous as the
Louvre under his evident desire for space. Here he gets
(Continued on page 92)
(Forty-seven)
The Celluloid Critic
REX INGRAM did the only thing possible in filming
"The Arab" (Metro-Goldwyn) — he went to the
Orient to stage it — thus compensating for a story
which has become frayed at the edges thru long and faith-
ful service. The director came back with some striking
photographs. The ornate horizons of the East have
served Ingram's camera as they've never served anyone
else who went overseas to capture
them. Scenically, the picture is hard
to beat. But Edgar Selwyn's play
is stereotyped fictional fare. It
hasn't enough variety of situation,
nor enough dramatic substance to
cope with its backgrounds. And
these are as easy on the eye as the
story is tiresome on the mind.
We will not say that these fine
shots diminish the plot values en-
tirely. But it is really of little con-
sequence and countless serials
which have gone before it — serials
exploiting the same idea — take
away the dramatic sting of show-
ing impending massacres of Chris-
tians by the
Moslems. So
we return to
the back-
grounds and
pronounce
them good.
We also pro-
nounce Ramon
Novarro's per-
formance
good. Except-
ing the pic-
torial quality
of the film, his
work is the
outstanding
feature. He makes the Arab
scornful, insolent and bold,
but a likable fellow for all
of that. His heroism in be-
half of the missionary's
daughter wins him the neces-
sary sympathy. Alice Terry
wearing her own brunette
tresses (the blonde wig hav-
ing been discarded here)
appears as beautiful and
charming as ever. She
brings appeal to a rather in-
consequential role. There
are several foreign actors
whose work is excellent.
The picture will draw
crowds because of its sheik flavor — and the
fact that the names of Novarro and Ingram
carry weight. These crowds wont see much
of a story, but they will see Nature at her
best with her clays and paints.
A scene from "Wine of Youth"
Top of the page:
Mae Bush and sup-
porting players in
"Bread." Above:
Ramon Novarro in
"The Arab"
WILLIAM J. LOCKE'S story, "The Mounte-
bank," which was adapted to the stage last season,
has finally emerged as a Paramount picture under
the colorful title of "The Side Show of Life." It is
treated sympathetically, if with not sufficient feeling — and
serves in registering as a very good film, if not a brilliant
one. It lacks the Locke quaintness, a quality which is
woven in all his stories — and there isn't enough of the
Locke wistfulness and tender humor. But it does hold
you — even grips you at times, principally because of the
gifted pantomime of Ernest Torrence who plays an Eng-
lish buffoon in a French circus.
Circus stories are always senti-
mental— and embroidered with
pathos. And this clown suffers
when the show becomes bankrupt
and when he returns from the war
to receive the jeers of his audience.
But the picture doesn't move with
that steady heartbeat — and it often
lacks color. Torrence uses his
plastic face to draw upon his emo-
tions and he gives a touching per-
formance in his moments of pathos
— especially the burial of the dog.
You may have to use your hand-
kerchief here to brush away a tear.
But he is not the hapless clown —
the pitiable clown of all song and
story! Which
■B^^^^_ makes us
wonder if he is
not more
adaptable for
comedy and
heavy char-
acter.
The picture
is finely
staged, carries
restraint and
considerable
charm. And
there's a new-
comer, Louise
La Grange,
who will be heard from some .
day. She shows sincere
emotion and a wide range of
expression. Anna Q. Nils-
son plays a small role with
her usual skill. A more
sprinkling of humanities, a
little more balancing humor
— and the picture would
have been a real triumph.
Still, we'll call it good enter-
tainment as it stands.
BREAD" (Metro-
Goldwyn) would be
a real human picture
if the director had brought
out the pathos and mental conflict which are
found in Charles G. Norris' original story.
It fails to touch the inner feelings of the heart
— and yet the central characters fairly cried
for sympathy. It may be that Victor Schert-
zinger, the director, tried too hard to establish a moral.
But we fail to find it here. What we do find is a lot of
marital trouble stressed with too much unimportant detail.
What should have been a compact picture contains sev-
eral loose ends which are not well tied together.
Yet it is interesting. Any one will have lots of fun in
A scene from "Babbitt
(Forty-eight)
Laurence Reid Reviews the Latest Photoplays
accompanying Mae Busch thru her maze of marital
trouble. It is fairly true to life without tugging at the
emotions. It sketches a cross section of humdrum lift
it pertains to a poverty stricken family determined to keep
up appearances, rhe central figures are a proud mothei
and her equally proud daughters. The latter arc con-
•id. One marries a hard-working man and finds
solace with a
brood of chil-
li r i- n : t h e
other plunges
into business
and eventually
marries a
young boaster
— a character
not well inter-
preted by Rob-
ert Frazer who
it miscast as
an Irishman.
The best work
i- contributed
by Miss
Busch, Pat
I >'Malley and
Eugenie Besserer.
The book hasn't been tam-
pered with to any extent, tho
the Irish husband undergoes a
too sudden change of character
as depicted here. As we said
above, it touches life fairly
accurately, contains some first-
rate comedy — and is appropri-
ately staged. And it offers a
pleasant hour and a half.
BOTH as an example of
flapper expression at its
highest peak and as en-
tertainment, "Wine
of Youth" ( Metro-
Gold wyn) leaves
but little to ask for
in the way of en-
tertainment. It is
similar to others of
its cloth in that its
theme brings forth
that Youth of to-
day is no different
than when grand-
ma was a girl. But
where it surpasses
the others is in its
prodigality of
scenes.
King Yidor, you are responsible
for this effort. And you have
brought out the jazz spirit here so
that the picture eclipses anything
heretofore presented along this line.
The heroine has her fling — a good,
big one — then she sees the error of her ways, and accepts
matrimony as the best solution of a conventional exist-
ence. She has been goaded into wedlock thru her quarrel-
some parents, each of whom has accused the other of
being responsible for Man's streak of wildness. The
picture is an adaptation oi Rachel * i ither'a play, "M
the Third." \n
•fr + +
While we are
on the subject,
Tommie Mun-
din, of Chariot's
Revue, says he
wants to do a
movie, or a series of
shorts built around
"Jarge," the rural
lout, or oaf, who has
made such a hit in
the revue. In this
case, all that is needed
is someone intelligent
enough to write him a
script, and somebody
else intelligent enough to
direct it, and somebody
else intelligent enough —
but here ! here ! we're
getting idealistic.
K*
Decoration
Thru the Courtesy of
Hal Roach Studios
Posed by
Beth Darlington
and
Billie Beck
There is, we frequently notice, a touch of Socrates.
Christ, Mohammed and St. Joan of Arc in our attitude
toward the movies. Try as hard as we can, and that isn't
so very hard, we cannot refrain from announcing — in a
pleasant, conversational tone, to be sure, just what is
wrong with the movie under inspection. And invariably
the five rows in front of us, and the five rows in back of
us grow very, very peeved — altho it's really all in their
interest.
Eventually if we are not burned over a rotisserie grill,
we expect we shall be dragged forth by a howling mob
of movie fans and made to drink a Nedick orange drink.
Hh + +
Speaking of Socrates, in his preface to "St. Joan,"
Shaw says, "he had no suspicion of the extent to which
his mental superiority had roused fear and hatred against
him in the hearts of men towards whom he was con-
scious of nothing but good will and good service."
Ah, that's the idea, exactly!
Milton Sills, it is rumored, will play the title-role in
"The Life of Christ."
We understand perfectly what faction is back of this
subtle propaganda and we
intend writing a letter to
Henry Ford.
"T* T" "T*
Is Marriage Marriage?
(Twenty-ninth Instalment)
Note: The preceding instalments
were mysteriously stolen from the
back seat of an aquaplane while the
author was crossing the Andes on
roller skates. But dont let that
worry you.
Essmore Dismal, our
hero, after various adven-
tures is finally driven by
the friendly realtor to the
shores of beautiful Lake
Apopka. Here he
leaves him, rather
suddenly. Essmore,
enchanted by the
scenery, is wandering
thru an orange grove
when a grapefruit
drops from a tree on
his head and knocks
him unconscious.
When he comes to,
he finds his head in
the lap of Guava Golightly,
the girl he has come to
Florida to seek. Insert :
Fate plays many strange
tricks when Cupid winds
the dice.
"Where am I?" asks Ess-
more, just as if the realtor
hadn't been telling him
about the natural beauties
of citrus-growing Florida
for five hundred and
(Contini4ed on page 93)
^
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(Fifty)
AND THE BEST
CLASSIC'S LIFE-STORY SCENARIO CONTEST
Cl ASSIC, after its seven years in the motion-picture
field, has come to the conclusion, first, that ninety
per cent, of movie fans after seeing ninety per cent,
of the pictures come away believing that they could write
ood a one, if not better; second, that their own story,
if properly told, would make a more thrilling picture than
any they have seen. This is not surmise — it is the
inevitable conclusion of experienced facts.
Now :
Every human being has his story, no matter how drab
or uninteresting he may appear on the surface. You
remember your girlhood on the farm and the amazing
thing that happened there, that you can never forget, tho
only three people knew about it. You remember when
you first ran away from home as a mere boy, and the
exciting adventures that you never dared tell, that you
had before you got safely home. You remember that wild
survey up in Canada and the dangers and hardships and
loneliness ; the forbidden voyage
to the South Sea Islands; the
mutiny ; the railroad wreck ; the
fire and the heroism of the
mysterious stranger ; the curious
neighbor that never left his
house without an overcoat, no
matter what the weather ; the
suspicious couple that drifted un-
expectedly into your life and left
as inexplicably as they had come ;
the dope raid in your own here-
tofore respectable neighborhood ;
your own love story that you
have never told before ; and so
on ad infinitum. Life is full of
thrills — they cant all have passed
you by.
We want you to tell us your
story, the story of your life, the
thing that has happened to you
that would serve as the nucleus
for a moving picture. Dig deep
in your memory — and find a
movie plot, or just an idea, or an
incident that could be elaborated
into a scenario. More exciting
things happen daily in real life
than one could ever find on the
screen. Truth is stranger than
fiction no matter how often it has
been said. Every fiction story
has its counterpart in reality.
Just read the daily papers ; just
keep your eyes open and your
THE RULES
1. No manuscripts will be returned.
2. Positively no exceptions will be made to
Rule 1. Keep a copy.
3. Manuscripts must not exceed 600 words
(about two typewritten pages).
4. Your name and address must be distinctly
printed at the top of every manuscript. If
you wish another name used, sign it at the
end of the story.
5. Manuscripts are better typewritten, but long-
hand will be accepted.
6. Address your manuscripts :
Life-Story Scenario Editor
MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC
175 Dufheld Street Brooklyn. X. Y.
THE PRIZES
1. Every month as long as the contest lasts
Classic will print three Life Stories; the
best to win $15.00; the second, $10.00; and
the third, $5.00.
2. At the close of the contest, which will be
announced later, Brewster Publications, Inc.,
will engage a competent author to develop
the story or plot adjudged the best of all
those submitted, published or unpublished,
into a workable scenario and will use its in-
fluence and best effort to sell it to some pro-
ducing company, whatever price obtained to
be paid directly to the winner.
\Vatch each issue of Classic for news,
awards and announcements.
wits about you and you'll find a story in real life — if not
your own story, your friend's, or your neighbor's. Life
is nothing but stories, true stories that have been lived
You've got one — send it to us.
Never mind the form. This contest has nothing to do
with literature. Correct spelling, a neat paper, big words,
style, the proper approach — all these things that have been
of importance in determining tire winners of other con-
tests, mean nothing here. It is the story we want — the
idea — the plot. We'll put it in its proper form if it proves
saleable. All you have to do is write it down as you
remember it. All you really need is to know how to write !
Every month Classic will publish three of these
stories; the one judged best in the opinion of the editor
and her staff will be awarded $15.00; the second. $10.00.
and the third, $5.00. These three awards will be given
every month as long as the contest lasts, so that your
chances multiply indefinitely.
At the end of the contest
Brewster Publications, Inc., will
engage a competent author to de-
velop the story or plot adjudged
the best of all those submitted,
published or unpublished, into a
workable scenario and will use
its influence and best effort to
sell it to some producing com-
pany, whatever price obtained to
be paid directly to the .winner.
Naturally, if accepted, your
scenario will get publicity in all
three of our magazines. You
are also free to sell your story
elsewhere, even if it has been
published in Classic, any time
after the contest closes.
It seems to us that this is the
opportunity of a lifetime. It is
the sort of thing that practically
everybody can try for. since it
requires neither education, nor
skill, nor any technical knowl-
edge whatever. The moving
picture is badly in need of origi-
nal stories, real life stories. Thru
you, and you, and you. Classic
is going to supply them.
The rules are as simple as we
can make them. You must fol-
low them. They will be printed
every month. Because of the
enormous bulk of material we
(Continued on page 86)
(Fifty-one)
Flashes From the
Of the Stage
Caught by
Above: Bcbe
Daniels in a
blonde wig and
Richard Dix in a
merry moment
from "Sinners In
Heaven." Right:
Adele Astaire and
her mother and
her husband
Fred, who are
leaving their
London triumphs
to come home to
star in a comedy
by Guy Bolton
THINGS theatrical are
picking up after the sum-
mer slump that makes
each year a quiet country
lane of Broadway — almost.
There have been dozens of new openings and some of them
have stuck. * * * After several disappointments with foreign
revues early last season, Andre Chariot's revue upset the dope
and now, confident that novelties from abroad are fixtures,
Arch Selwyn already has arranged for a second revue by
Chariot. Prior, however, will come "Rue de la Paix," with a
cast of interna-
tional names :
Raquel Meller,
Grock, the
clown, the Rus-
sian Lilliputians
(who originated
the "parade of
the wooden sol-
diers"), Maurice
and Leonora
Hughes, Ivor
Novello, and
Patou, the Pari-
sian fashion de-
signer. Because
of the wealth of
revues nominated
for New York
in the fall, "Rue
de la Paix" has
been timed to
enter after the
others, about
November 1st.
* * * Edward
Laemmle, Uni-
versal director,
is making shots
of the shrine of
St. Anne de
Beaupre near
Quebec, for use in Clarence
Budington Kelland's story,
"Miracle," which is being
filmed. * * * Judith Anderson,
who plays the wicked, wicked
lady in "Cobra," was greatly
incensed recently when a
letter, addressed merely to
the wickedest woman in New
York, was marked "Try
Judith Anderson, Hudson
Theater," by some one in the
Post Office Department. The
letter was a scathing arraign-
ment of women vampires,
and altho the actress takes
pride in her realistic work,
she thinks that is going a bit
far. Altho Miss Anderson
has been signed by David
Belasco for several years and
will appear in a play under
his management in the fall,
the idea has occurred to Mr.
Williams, of the Ritz Pic-
tures Corporation, that she
(Fifty-hvo)
Eastern Stars
On the Screen
the Editor
would be i ver) kri,,i(l bet
to play the part which she
created on the stage in ■
pictui c \ ei si< 'ii whether
her appearance in the film
ean be arranged with Mr. Belasco remains to be seen, but so
favorably impressed was Mr. Williams by the acting of the
young star that he is endeavoring to arrange it. * * * Rehearsals
of Billic Burke's latest vehicle, tentatively called "Annabelle,"
which her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld, will produce this season,
have begun on the lawn of the country estate leased by the
producer on Long
Island. Edward
Royce is staging
the piece. Ernest
Truex plays the
male lead. Clare
Kummer, author
of the play, is di-
recting most of
the rehearsals in
conjunction with
Mr. Royce. * * *
Richard Barthel-
mess is complet-
ing "Classmates"
at the Tec-Art
Studios which
they leased for
this picture. The
company just re-
turned from Flor-
ida where some
exteriors were
shot. * * * Wil-
liam Brush, pro-
ducer of Kings-
ley's "The Water
Babies," is in
Miami, Florida,
trying to per-
suade a sword
fish and a shark
to give him a mortal combat
for his picture. He is going to
stay aboard his lugger until he
gets it. Mr. Brush has selected
little Charles Gould for the
role of "Tom." Charlie has a
record of remaining under
water eighty - eight seconds
which is supposed to be the
world's record. * * * It is con-
sidered likely Madge Kennedy
will be seen this fall in Lynn
Starling's new comedy, "In
His Arms," which was tried
out on the coast this summer
by Margaret Lawrence. * * *
While abroad, Gilbert Miller
saw "Antonia," which his
company will present here,
and he brought back a trans-
lation by Somerset Maugham
of Luigi Chiarelli's "The Mask
and the Face." Mr Miller also
obtained the rights for Ameri-
can presentation of Barrie's
"Shall We Join the Ladies?"
Above: Dorothy
Dalton and her new
husband, Arthur
Hammerstein, re-
turning from their
honeymoon
Abbe
Above: The
Dolly Sisters
with their best
friend, Pearl
White, pose to-
gether before the
Dollys left Paris
for the United
States to star in
the new "Green-
wich Village
Follies." Left:
Two of our own
movie stars in an
English film
called "Swords
and the Woman."
They are Pedro
de Cordoba and
Holmes Herbert
(Fifty-three)
CLASSIC
Puffer
Above: Flora Le Breton direct-
ing her director, E. H. Griffith,
in "Another Scandal." Right:
The first of the "Follies" girls
to get her millionaire, Addie
Rolph, now Mrs. Cecil Sillman,
posing on the most famous
fire-escape in the world, that
behind the New Amsterdam
Theater which houses the
"Ziegfeld Follies"
O Keystone View
An exciting moment from Commissioner Enright's screen
serial, "Into the Net." Both Jack Mulhall and the camera-
man risked their life on Brooklyn Bridge for this stunt
* * * Eve Stuyvesant, well-known scenario writer, together with
Helen Klumph and Elizabeth Stuyvesant, have incorporated The
Stuyvesant Pictures to produce a series of split reels featuring famous
women of our time. The company intends making a pictorial hall of ;
fame or historical record in motion-pictures of what women are doing
in the way of world's work. * * * Recently, while making "Dixie" in
Charleston, S. C, Allan Conner, who plays the lead, met Charles
Durand, millionaire clubman, and the latter became so interested in
picture making that he took an active part in the picture. Both Mr.
Durand and Allan Conner are expert duelists, and in one of the
scenes for the picture a duel was staged. Unfortunately Mr. Conner
wounded Mr. Durand so badly that he was taken to a hospital. * * *
Hope Hampton bought more than one hundred gowns while in Paris
recently. Francs, Miss Hampton said, were selling at twenty-eight
for one American dollar the week she selected the gowns and she
quickly learned to compute the price of the raiment in dollars and
cents as soon as it was announced to her by the shopkeepers. But
alas, when she went to pay for the gowns which she had selected, she
learned that only seventeen francs could be purchased for a dollar !
And so that shopping expedition cost Miss Hampton nearly ten
thousand dollars more
than she had expected !
* * * The McCall Pub-
lishing Company will
produce a series of fash-
ion films which probably
will be called "Notes
for Women," in which
Miss Hampton will star
with her one hundred
Paris gowns. A regular
story has been woven
and the film will not be
merely a fashion parade.
Miss Hampton plans to
go abroad at least twice
a year to bring back
gowns for the McCall
series. This is the first
time that any such thing
has been attempted on
the screen and it should
prove interesting as well
as profitable. * * *
Horace Liveright, book
publisher, heads a new
firm of theatrical pro-
ducers just incorporated
with offices 'at 61 West Forty-
eighth Street. Four plays, includ-
ing one musicaT comedy, already
have been obtained by the firm for
October production. The first
offering will be an American
comedy by Edwin Justus Mayer,
a young author, with scenery and
costumes by Lee Simonson. * * *
A new Owen Davis play is sched-
uled for early presentation under
the management of Lewis & Gor-
don. It is entitled "The Haunted
House." Wallace Eddinger will
be the principal player. This piece
was tried out at the tag end of last
season under the name of "Find
the Woman," and later as "The
Long Arm." * * * After an out-of-
town tour "The Green Beetle," by
John Willard, is to be brought
into the Klaw Theater early this
month. * * * Herbert Brenpn is
in New York chafing to begin
(Continued on page 97)
(Fifty-four/
In a California Garden
BEING THE FOURTH OF CLASSIC'S "FINE ARTS" SERIES
This lovely spot is a corner of one of the many beautiful gardens of the
Jewett Estate in Pasadena, which was most generously loaned for the
exteriors of First National's "Single Wives." An appropriate setting
for Corinne Griffith, who starred in this picture, we think. This one
charming view is a perfect example of what the screen can do to bring
beauty to those whose lives lack it altogether. If one cant have, one
can at least see lovely things, merely by going to the movies
(Fifty-five)
Fictionized by permission from the Marshall Neilan production of the
screen adaptation by Dorothy Farnum of Thomas Hardy's famous novel
IT all seemed so queer like, thought Tess, watching the
hot red moon behind, the haystacks. Harvest moon
again, a farm dog baying somewhere beyond the
downs, the doves making a sound like running water in
the thatched eaves, and she sitting here in the dimsey
— waiting
Like as if, thought Tess, it was meant somehow.
Always it was that way, things just seemed to happen.
She was like that leaf there blown along the ground by
the wind. It had to go the way the wind sent it, and
the wind was strong and cruel. There was no use trying
to hold against the wind. Her
arms which had been cradling
something invisible fell listlessly
at her sides. Leaves — blown into
the hedges — or into bonfires —
leaves blown among tall stones,
strange, grey, old stones —
"I must be fey !" Tess
whispered, "why should
I always be dreaming
of stones standing on
end ? And yet — it
frightens me sore —
that dream " a
shudder ran thru her
slight frame, "they're
so cold "
Thru the shadows a
deeper shadow was
moving toward her.
Tess knew well who
came, yet she watched
him coming with
horror washing in a
chill tide over her
soul. The moon-
flashed night became
another night when
the Wessex woods and
fields of her childhood
had looked to her
waking eyes unfamiliar
under a pallid moon,
like the dead body of a loved friend. In the pale light
the face that she lifted to Angel Clare was stamped with
fear.
"Why, Tess!" he said, in that gentleman's voice of
his that was the echo of another voice, "Why, Tess, my
dear little girl — did I startle you?"
Fear and the weight of memory slipped from her
spirit as she looked up into the sensitive, clear-cut face
that made her think of Saint Michael's in the stained
glass window of the church. Angel Clare was beautiful.
rather than handsome, but his slight figure in its rough
homespun farm garb had a man's
„„ „ -, . . , „, strength. Yesterday he had lifted
He gave me no peace, Tess pleaded, but . °, , ■ \ ■ t
I knew 'twas not the right way of loving. a slck sheeP in hi% arms and
... I begged him to let me go" carried it from the fields to the
byre, crooning to it all the way
like a mother soothing a sick
child. And today she had
seen that nervous, slender
hand double into a fist
and knock down a
hulking yokel who was
teasing a dairymaid.
"No I beant afeard
— I'm not afraid," she
corrected herself,
cheeks scorched with
shame of her uncouth
tongue.
Angel Clare laughed
as he sat down on the
bench beside her. But
there was no mockery
in the sound, rather a
rushing tenderness.
"Dont be ashamed of
your Wessex dialect.
Tess ! With your face
it gives you a charm-
ing air of a great lady
masquerading as a
milkmaid — for you
have birth and family
in every line of you !"
(Fifty-six)
CLASSIC
Die small head beside him with iti crown ol hair like
metallic gold lifted with an odd pride "Please. Mr,
Garel Fve told you afore that I'm from verj humble
folk, born .md reared in .1 cottage Fathei did ">li bonfirei bonfires that
sume wind-swept ih ( Jod, hint not good
enough for met"
"I've always known I would have to tell the woman I
wanted to marry." went on Clare, almost with a fan;:
pride of confession, "But years ago when I was onK
a- boy I went to London for a school vacation " it
was a common enough experience he had to relate, that
of an ignorant boy initiated into sin by a woman he met
in a restaurant, a tawdry little incident of a night of gin
and love in a red-papered room over a pub. but it had
evidently assumed terrible proportions in his eyes from
order to learn how to
manage a dairy farm
of his own, but — the
Clares had been
gentlefolk since
Alfred's reign, and
he never forgot that
fact even in his sleep.
"Why, Tess ! Do you
realize that's a fine
name — a great
name?" He saw that
she was trembling
violently, and drew
her down beside
him, "There ! There !
We wont talk about
it any more, you
queer, proud little
thing! We'll talk
about something else
— something that I
came out here to tell
y o u tonight,
Tess — — "
He thought that
that was true, swept
away from his life-
long moorings by the
warm, sweet near-
ness of her, tl-ie touch
of her hair on his
face. "I love you —
nothing's been the
same since I saw you
six weeks ago, com-
ing in at the gate
with your little bag —
I've — I've been want-
ing to tell you so ever
since, but I didn't
dare! You're such
an easily frightened
little thing. Tes~'"
"It died," whispered Tess, "the parson wouldn't baptize it so I did it myself.
Such a little pretty baby . . . but it died"
(Fifty-seven)
CLASSIC
Angel Clare discovers that poor Tess Durbeyfield is one of a fine old family
formerly called D'Urberville, whereupon he asks her to marry him
long brooding on it. His sensitive soul had been scorched
by the everlasting firev».
Tess listened, hardly hearing his stumbling abasement,
and happiness which had seemed so far away and im-
possible a moment ago suddenly reached out a hand to
her. She who could never, now, marry a stained-glasf.
saint perhaps might still be the wife of a human being
who had sinned and suffered and who could understand
— the way of leaves in the wind. Strangely enough, he
grew only the dearer for his sordid little story, for his
ludicrous fall. And then, at the end of it, his head went
down on her knees she gathered it against her breast with
mother-tenderness.
"There, there, my deary! I'm glad you told me — glad!"
"Then in spite of what I did you can still love me?"
Angel asked humbly, and yet complacently — for after
all not every man would have confessed ! "You will
marry me, Tess — Tess of
the D'Urbervilles !" He
gave the name its aristo-
cratic form. Tho he had
loved Tess as he had told
her, since her first coming
to work in the dairy at
Talbothays. he loved her
even more now that he felt
her connected with the
nobility. She would be
easier to explain to the
narrow-minded old
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
A Marshall Neilan production for Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer. Starring Blanche Sweet. The cast:
Tess Blanche Sweet
Angel Clare Conrad Nagel
Alec D'Urberville Stuart Holmes
John Durbeyfield George Fawcett
Joan Durbeyfield Victory Bateman
Dick Courtenay Foote
South American Priest Joseph J. Dowling
North Country parson,
his father, and that
(laughter of a Squire,
his mother.
And then — for he
was only a boy and
very much stirred by
the white loveliness of
this girl, the dross of
self was gone from the
moment and only the
gold remained. He took
her gently into his arms
and held her close,
murmuring broken
words — "Tess — so beau-
tiful— love — always and
always "
A little wind came up
sending a shower of
leaves dancing by in gay
carousal. A lamb in
the near-by byre made
a thin plaintive sound.
Why, thought Tess,
when she was safe in
Angel Clare's arms
must she be minded of
other arms, ruthless —
terribly strong? Would
it be so always? No.
no, thought Tess, she
would be happy, she
must be happy
And the wind whirled
the leaves on and on.
The master and
mistress of Talbothays
would have given them
a fine country wedding
with hearty eating and
drinking and dancing in
the great kitchen, but
Angel Clare refused in that gentleman's way of his. "We
shall go to her people in Wessex," he explained.
Tess said nothing at first when he spoke of his plan
to her, only one small hand went up to her throat and
for a moment her eyes seemed to look on some terrible
thing. Then she laughed it off — no, she wouldn't go home,
nor to his home either ! She wanted no staring folk eating
her up with their greedy eyes and making a fuss !
Angel Clare remembered afterward the way she had
clung to him, as tho something was tearing her away.
"No one at our wedding, dear heart! Just the parson
and you and me — and God !"
On his wedding eve Angel walked for miles across
field and down, wondering at the beauty of the world,
a-tremble with his own happiness. But Tess knelt all night
by her window gazing into the darkness with desolate
eyes. "Maybe I'll never tell him,'' she whispered once.
then in passionate denial,
"Why should I be afeared !
He will understand. He'll
see that it wasna my fault
— 'twas meant to be — I'll
tell him afore we go to the
church " her hands
wrung together convul-
sively, "— —or maybe
afterward !"'
The eglantine was
a-bloom on all the hedges
when Tess and Angel
(Fifty-eight)
CLASSIC
Clare walked along the road to the village the next da>
I'lu-ir simple luggage was to follow on ■ cart
wagon and after thr\ were married the) would
take .1 train for the nexl town, Hie kinc'
mistress of ralbothays had helped Tesa make
the plain white dress she wore, commenting
d\l\ the while thru a mouthful of pint,
"Well, well, art thin as a rail, my dear] '
Ess faj ' But never mind a rafl of
young 'uns will plumpen 'ee up wum
full W hy, .what's amiss, lass! I >id I
■tick 'ee wi' a pin that you trj to jump
OUten your skin ">"
ress was feverishlj gay, pulling
- from the hedge and tearing
them to tatters with restless fingers.
The molten gold of lu-r hair dazzled
Angel's eyes. It made a radiance in
the dark little church with the smell of
mold and candle grease that lie. a par-
son's son. had learned to associate with
religion. It seemed the only living thing
in a world oi shadows as they whirred end-
lessly thru green English landscape afterward
and later sought supper and lodging in the busy
shire town.
When at last they were alone in a clean, hare little
room high above the rattling carts and clamor of tongues
in the market square, he took Tess into his arms and they
1 so for a long time, not speaking, while the flicker:
ing candle cast a grotesque shadow embrace upon the
whitewashed wall. "Are you happy, Tess?" he whispered,
and she answered almost defiantly, "Yes! I am happy."
"Do you know why I came here?" Angel Clare asked,
presently. "1 played a little trick on you, darling! You
asked where we were going, but I didn't tell you it
was to Marlott " he laughed boyishly, "I'm jealous,
Tess ! Jealous of the long years when I didn't know you.
So we're going to your home village and you shall show
me all the places where you played when you were a fat
little girl with tow-colored pigtails!"
He stopped, for Tess had made a strange sound. Step
by step she drew away from him till she was standing
against the wall. Something in the stricken face she
turned toward him warned him not to follow. Then her
arms dropped helplessly. "See!" said Tess in a dead
tone, "things just happen wi'out our contriving. I
At the top of the
page: Tess and
Angel Clare on
their honeymoon,
at last alone in a
clean little bare
room, high above
the rattling carts
and clamor of
tongues in the
market square,
Tess tells her
story. . . . Left:
"I . . . killed
him," said Tess.
"I suppose they
will hang me,
wont they? 'Tis
proper queer how
things come — I
never wanted to
be wicked and
now I must be
hung — — "
(Fifty-nine)
CLASSIC
thought I'd never see Marlott again — and I'm going there
on my wedding trip!" She laughed rather dreadfully.
"Tess!" said Angel Clare. His face had grown hard
and stern, a stranger's face staring horrified at her, "what
— can you mean ?"
In the silence the bang of the shutters as some trades-
man closed his shop for the night came to their ears,
and the light, empty sound of a girl's laugh.
"I'll tell 'ee!" said Tess, stonily, "you'd hear it anyhow
afore you'd been ten minutes in Marlott. There was
little else they talked about when I ran away to be beyond
the clack of their tongues "
It was a year and a bit more ago — said Tess — that her
father got it into his head that he was by rights one of
the D'Urbervilles and after that nothing would do but
they must claim kin with the family that lived in a grand
house on the hill beyond the village. By night nor day
her mother would give her no peace till she promised
to go to the D'Urberville house and ask them to do some-
thing for their blood relations. And at last she went,
tho she thought she'd die of shame telling the parson's
silly guess to the haughty lady, and seeing her smile so
scornful like.
But the lady's son, Alec D'Urberville, a fine young
gentleman with rings on his fingers, was there, too. and he
spoke up and begged his mother to give her work in the
poultry yard. So she stayed on in the grand house and
Alec D'Urberville
"He gave me no peace," Tess pleaded, and now her
stony calm was gone and she rushed on wildly, "he told
me he loved me, but I knew 'twas not the right way of
loving and I tried to keep away from him. I begged
him to let me be but he only laughed — and then one night
I was walking home from town with some o'
the other maids and they • started
quarreling and shoving, and Alec
D'Urberville came riding by
and offered to drive me to
the big house himself. I
was afeared • of the
girls, for they'd been
drinking so I
climbed into the
cart with him
and I fell
Sobs choked
her. Thru
them
Angel
voice,
came
Clare's
harsh
with
"And
scorn
I w a
afraid to kiss you !
God! What a fool
I've been !"
She ran to him,
with frantic hands, "but I
wasna to blame ! I was asleep
and when I woke up — I wanted
to die ! Angel, dont look at me
like that. Why — why you look
just like the rest of 'em when I
come home wi' my shame "
He moved his rigid lips with an effort, " you mean
— you have a — child?"
"It died," whispered Tess. Unconsciously her arms
made a cradling motion, "the parson wouldn't baptize
it so I did it myself wi' a basin of water. Such a little
pretty baby, Angel — but it died. And I couldn't bear
the staring eyes and the whispers, so I went away. And
then I met you and it seemed maybe God was sorry and
was going to give me a chance to be happy after all."
In the grim grey shadows of Stonehenge
the "strange men" find Tess
He put her away not ungently and strode to the
window, frowning out into the darkness, "and you let
me marry you "
"But you told me — about that night in Lunnon "
Tess pleaded, "it didn't make me love you the less! After
all, how am I different than I was? I always wanted
to be good !"
He had loved her very much, tremulously like a boy,
bitterly like a man, and the struggle between love and
hurt pride was a sharp one. But after all he had been
the lover but a few weeks, and he had been Angel Clare,
the parson's son, for twenty-four years. The end was
marked from the beginning, tho it did not come until after
devastating hours of tears and futile words and fierce
spasms of rage on his part toward the man who had in-
solently stolen what belonged to him.
Toward morning Tess, sunk upon the floor by the
window, fell into the troubled sleep of utter exhaustion
to dream of great grey stones towering over her and
when she awoke Angel Clare was gone. A note pinned
with some bills to the window sill said briefly that he
thought it best for both of them not to see each other
again. "I am going to South America." he wrote, "I
love you, but things cant ever be the same after what
you've told me. If you need money write to my
father " he gave the address and that was all.
In the grey dawn beyond the window a tiny object
whirled by, a leaf borne on ;the gust. The easy relief
of tears was beyond Tess now. She had wept herself
dry thru the dreadful scenes of the night. In a stony
calm she took off the crumpled white bridal dress, put on
a coarse clean smock from her bag, and smoothed the
heavy gold of her hair. "When there's nothing more as
can happen to 'ee," she said to the white face
in the glass, "you're safe."
This fatalistic sense of being
driven by forces outside of her
went with Tess Durbeyville
thru the drab days that
followed when — back
in her native village
again — she moved
a u tomatically
rK thru the old
^^i familiar
drudgery, un-
heeding the
avid stares of
old crones who
paused by the
gate to watch
her, unheeding
her mother's per-
petual whine.
"Live on fat o'
the land 'ee could, an'
a'd rather see her own
brothers an' sisters starve,
an' the mother who bore 'ee !"
Tess knew that she referred to
Alec D'Urberville and the money
she might be able to get out of
him. She knew that their situa-
tion was growing desperate and
that soon something must be done or they would be put
out of the miserable cottage, but it was the hungry wails
of her youngest brother which finally pierced the numb-
ness of her heart. They were a little like the thin plaint
of the hapless scrap of life that she had held for a short
few weeks in her arms.
x\nd when Alec D'Urberville rode his curveting black
horse down the winding street, flung the bridle rein to a
(Continued on page 76)
(Sixty)
Star Light
A Billion Dollar Cast
The combined glory of this group would outshine the sun. We never saw so
many stars together before. The occasion was a party that Conway Tearle
gave in honor of Ethel Barrymore at the conclusion of her Los Angeles
theatrical engagement. The group includes: Conway Tearle, Ethel Barrymore,
Laurette Taylor, Bessie Love, George Archainbaud, Natalie, Constance and
Norma Talmadge, Leatrice Joy, Colleen Moore, Theda Bara. Donald Brian,
Vivian Martin, George Fitzmaurice, Percy Marmont, Buster Keaton, Ernest
Torrence, Owen Moore, John McCormick, John Gilbert and others. How
many can you recognize?
iSirty-one)
Rex, King of
His Story
THE making of "Rex, King of
Wild Horses," featuring a
wild horse, under the Hal
Roach banner, has marked a new
epoch in the production of animal
pictures. It has brought to the
screen the impossible, and in days to
come will bring many more new pic-
tures of real, original and interesting
entertainment.
When it was decided to make "The King
of Wild Horses," Hal Roach very naturally
wanted the best man obtainable to handle the
selection," training, and direction of the
animal. He wanted a man who could go out
on the ranges, get a real wild horse, tame it
sufficiently without breaking its spirit, to carry the lead
in this picture. There was little doubt in the producer's
mind as to what man he wanted, and he succeeded in gain-
ing the services of Chick Morrison, the dean of horsemen.
After a search thru several states, Morrison found
Rex, an untamed, yet registered stallion in Colorado. It
may seem peculiar to the reader to call Rex a real wild
horse and at the same time say that he is a registered
Morgan stallion, but the following few lines will explain
this complex. When this horse was but a colt, he dis-
played every sign of what might be called meanness. He
was treacherous and dangerous and developed an extreme
hatred for man. Deciding to leave him alone for a while,
as he was yet too young for commercial purposes, his
owner gave him the freedom of the range. The call of the
wild was greater than that of civilization and after a short
while he became a character not unlike the "Black," which
he portrays in the picture. Many attempts were made to
capture him, none meeting with success.
Wild Horses
Rex and his trainer,
the late "Chick"
Morrison
By Tom Reeves
The State Reformatory, located in
the little town of Golden, found
themselves in need of a work horse.
The most economical thing for
them to do was to take a horse from
the range. In their search. Rex was
discovered. His beauty attracted
them. Several times individuals at-
tempted a capture, but in vain. A
round-up took place and they succeeded
in driving the stallion into a large corral.
The next move was to rope and break him.
Many attempts were made which resulted in
serious injury to the participants and to one,
even death. They gave up the job as hopeless
and driving him into a box-stall, left him un-
molested. Even those who fed him did so with the greatest
caution. It was then that Morrison appeared on the scene.
After an examination of the animal, he knew that Rex
was the horse he wanted. Of course, having gone thru
the excitement of being captured, which was none too
gentle, the horse had increased his hatred for man. Such
a thing as kindness from a human was beyond his imagi-
nation. Overcoming this was Morrison's task. It cost
him a good deal, from a physical standpoint, to do this.
He was kicked, stamped, bitten and pawed by Rex, many,
many times. Morrison's leg was broken twice during the
production of this picture. Each time thru the treachery
of Rex. But this did not stop him. It was really pitiful
to watch him hobble around on crutches, talking to Rex,
telling him to do this and that.
That's how Rex was trained. Not thru beating, but
by first being shown, using a certain set of words or
phrases in explaining. This same set of words were used
(Continued on page 83)
(Sixty-two)
Alexandresca
Havral
This interesting woman is considered a great beauty in her own country, Roumania.
By any standards she is fascinating. She lends atmosphere and color to Rex Ingram's
picture, "The Arab." Let us hope the screen will keep her
(Sixty-three)
The Hollywood
Above is Bessie Love answering
her fan mail probably. Right is
"Peter the Great," a rival of
Strongheart, and his trainer, or
should one say director, Chester
Franklin. They are making "The
Silent Accuser"
Left: They are using
everything in First
National's "The
Lost World," from
a dinosaur to a
baby. This is the
baby and another
small actor whose
name we didn't get
Clarence.
Badger and
Laurette
Taylor lunch-
ing on loca-
tion, while'
making "One
Night in
Rome." Dont
they look cool
and comfort-
able and satis-
fied?
Transcribed by
BEX TURPIN finds that
the business of acting is
taking too much of his
time. It interferes with the
progress of his art. Ben's
favorite form of art is acting
as an amateur traffic cop.
It began some time ago
when an enterprising pub-
licity man arranged to have
Ben boss the traffic on one of
the busiest corners in the
business section. The experi-
ences that he had that after-
noon were like strong drink
to a reformed inebriate. Every
other experience in life has
become tame by contrast.
Every afternoon, at six
o'clock, Ben takes his station
at the corner of Western Ave-
nue and Santa Monica Boule-
vard— in the heart of Holly-
wood's heaviest traffic. Until
eight o'clock, he stands there
Jike an island in a swirling sea
and bosses the passing motor-
ists. The official glare that he
gives offending chauffeurs is
said to be particularly terrifying from the famous eyes
built on the bias. Meanwhile Mrs. Turpin stands on
the corner and watches him, simply transfixed with
admiration.
Ben excused himself reluctantly from his duties the
other day and I hauled him over to a corner behind a
telephone post where he told me about it.
"No more of this actin' stuff for me," he said.
"Wha* do I want to act fer? I got all the money I
want ; got lots of property and everything ; my
wife isn't so well and I gotta stay home
and keep her company." Ben says
that the producers are trying to
get him to sign another con-
tract, so he might slip back to
play acting after all. Mean-
while he will not lack for en-
tertainment— not while the
traffic trundles on down the
boulevard.
Charles Brabin, who is suing
the Mayer - Goldwyn - Metro
corporation because he was
ousted as director of "Ben
Hur," is returning to Holly-
wood. He is going to direct
Colleen Moore in Edna Fer-
ber's "So Big." This will be
a big change from Colleen's
flapper stories. She plays the
part of a worn and weather-
beaten woman who earns her
own living by running a vege-
(Sixty-four)
Boulevardier Chats
H\KHY CAKH
table farm Possiblj t< ■ get
It ,n >appi<>t with tin-
Colleen has planted her
back yard full of cab-
\\ allace Beery, who has the
distinction of having been the
first husband of ( iloria Swan-
ibout tn he married
The bride is Rita ( iil-
a motion picture actress
Wallace is building a very
handsome home in Holly-
wood. In the process of
building, his contractor sud-
left tor parts unknown ;
wherefore Wallace had to pay
all the gentleman's hills to the
hired help. The consequence
is that his house cost him just
double the contract price.
A sprightly young lady who
runs a gossip column in a local
newspaper has brought word
to a breathless and astonished
world about "slave bracelets." It appears that the thing
to do is to present your favored swain with a bracelet
showing ownership. It seems that Ben Lyon is wear-
ing one and the young lady writer has a feeling that
it was Barbara La Marr who gave it to him ; and John
Bowers has one and Lois Wilson gave one to Richard
Dix. Constance Talmadge, to tease her sister Natalie,
has presented a slave bracelet to Buster Keaton, her
brother-in-law.
J
Above is Nazimova greeting her
director, Edwin Carewe, before
beginning her return picture,
"Madonna of the Streets." Left
is Dorothy Mackaill trying to get
fat on five quarts of milk a day
Right is Beverly
Bayne, the wife of
Francis X. Bush-
man, who is making
"H er Marriage
Vow," while her
husband is in Italy
working in "Ben
Hur"
Irene Rich returned to Hollywood
from Europe the other day, and
the Warner Brothers gave
an immense luncheon in her
honor. Irene thrilled every-
body to the marrow bones by
telling them how she went to
the Queen of England's lawn
party and another time,
danced with the Prince of
Wales. She said all they
talked about was the movies.
Probably to start the right
trains of thought in operation,
many yeanling Hollywood
girls are having themselves
photographed as Peter Pan.
Gladys Hulette says that she
wanted to have some publicity
stills taken in a Peter Pan cos-
tume recently. Every Peter
Pan costume in every costum-
Young Mr.
Ben Lyon,
who has been
in the lime-
light lately,
getting an
eyeful during
the making of
"The White
Moth"
(Sixty-five)
CLASSIC
At the top of the
page is Ben
Turpin in "Two
Week s," bur-
lesquing von
Stroheim and
Elinor Glyn
all in one picture.
Above is Fox's
baby star, Marion
Nixon, getting a
free ride in "The
Circus Cowboy."
Right is George
Fitzmaurice with
Irene Bordoni,
the popular musi-
cal comedy star,
and Samuel
Goldwyn
er's store in town was "out" except one ; and
that one was literally worn to rags by over-
use. Every copy of the book has been worn
to pieces in the public library by ambitious
young ladies seeking to get themselves into
practice — if it should happen.
The month of August, by official decree
of the Mayor of Los Angeles>, was set apart
as "Better Film Month" with street parades
and all sorts of public demonstrations. The
object is to stimulate interest in pictures.
The big exhibitors are alarmed at the falling
off in attendance. It is estimated that the
daily attendance, which was 20,000,000 in
the years between 1912 and 1915, has
fallen off to about 5,000.000. The gen-
eral opinion of picture producers is that
this is not due to poorer pictures ; the trouble is high prices for tickets.
Will Hays is in Hollywood at the time of this writing. He is making a
great crusade against off-color pictures and off-color advertising. He made
an address before a meeting of the Wampas (an association of motion pic-
ture advertising men) at which he hurled fire and brimstone against the
practice of placing decent pictures before the public thru the medium of
smutty advertisements.
Ora Carew's domestic affairs, which usually keep the public keyed up to
a pitch of excitement, took another turn last week. Miss Carew accepted a
vaudeville engagement at a local house. The second day of her appearance
she appealed to the police for an armed guard because she explained that her
husband, John C. Howard, was jealous of the theater manager. Mr.
Howard is, by occupation, a manufacturer of salad dressing. It is suggested
that he has too much paprika in his cosmos.
Shirley Mason has announced her engagement to Harlan Fengler, a dash-
ing young automobile race driver. They are to be married in the fall.
Word comes to Hollywood by the way of private letters that Mrs. Doug-
las Fairbanks, the first, is having hard sledding in Paris. She has dropped
the name of her second husband and calls herself Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks
again. She is said to have
lost a lot of money in the film
ventures of her son, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., whose brief
picture career was a tragic
failure. His one picture,
"Stephen Steps Out," is down
on the list as one of the worst
selling pictures of the year.
Alice Terry has announced
that she is a blonde for keeps.
For one of the first times of
her film career, she appeared
with her own hair in "The
Arab." Having taken one
look at herself, Miss Terry
has taken a never-again
pledge.
Oddly enough, the three
women who are always di-
rected in pictures by their
beloved husbands have all dis-
(Coutinued on page 70) ,
(Sixty-six)
Gloria Gould telLs -uhij
the care of the^kiais ^vital
I hi WOMBM of the younger set today never
permit the strain of many engagements or the
attacks of wind and sun to mar the smooth
delicacy of their complexions.
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GLORIA GOULD, who has recently become Mrs.
Gloria Gould Bishop, is the youngest — and many
think the loveliest — daughter of one of America's
oldest families of great wealth. She commands a unique
position in New York's exclusive younger social set.
When in the cream-and-blue drawing room of her
smart Fast Side apartment she gave me her views on
the care of the skin, the simple friendliness of her manner
delighted me, but still more, her vividness, her enthu-
siasm. Even her lovely ivory skin seemed to breathe life.
" Mrs. Bishop," I asked, "what in your opinion is the
most important factor in a woman's looks?'"
"Three things, I think," prompted Gloria Gould,
"are vital to the woman who wants to keep an impor-
tant place in the social world. Fine eyes, white teeth
and a lovely skin. The latter, luckily, any woman may
possess, if only she'll take the right care."
Then we spoke of the young women of her set, who
in their need to keep themselves looking fresh and
lovely have turned to Pond's Two Creams which pre-
vent all weariness from showing and keep the com-
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(Sixty-seven)
Dick at West Point
Below is Dick, dressed
as a plebe, with John
Robertson, his director,
and Cadet Officer E. L.
Johnson. Left is Dick
(first row) in a real
plebe drill
Above is the winning
West Point class
marching out to take
the Oath of Allegiance.
Dick is among them.
Below, he stands with
Mary Hay, his wife
The young
cadets got the
thrill of their
lives being in
the picture
with Barthel-
mess,and some
inter e s t in g
and original
material was
shot
Left is the
fine o 1 d en-
trance gate
where many
scenes were
taken. The
routine was
not disturbed,
Dick was just
included in
the drilling
(Sixty-eight)
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(Sixty-nine)
The Hollywood Boulevardier Chats
(Continued from page 66)
solved partnership the same week. Mae Murray is to be
directed by Eric von Stroheim in "The Merry Widow,"
while her husband, Robert Z. Leonard, will go to First
National to direct Corinne Griffith. Mabel Ballin, hereto-
fore working only under the direction of her husband, is
free-lancing, while Hugo Ballin is directing Dorothy
Devore in "The Prairie Wife." And Alice Terry, who
has seldom worked under any other director than her
husband. Rex Ingram, is in "The Great Divide." working
under Reginald Barker. In each case it was a purely busi-
ness separation, no domestic storms involved.
Irving Cummings tells a quaint little story about Carl
Laemmle,- the big chief of Universal. While Mr. Cum-
mings was making a picture for U, an amiable dispute
came up over money. Mr. Laemmle good-naturedly
disposed of it by saying they should toss up a quarter
and decide the matter
was embarrassed the other day when the owner of the pet
seal "Freddie," used in the "Galloping Fish," made her a
formal present of his darling swimmer. She took
"Freddie" home and put him in a fountain in her yard.
The first thing he did was to eat all the goldfish. Love is
at times embarrassing.
They are making a picture at First National, "The Lost
World," in which prehistoric monsters are seen fighting,
breathing, eating, running. It promises to be one of the
greatest trick pictures ever made.
How's this for a test of true love? Rod La Rocque
and Pola Negri, who are reported to be engaged to be
married, are to act in the same picture — "Forbidden
Paradise" to be directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
of the thousand dol-
lars. The old magnate
produced a quarter
and Cummings tossed
it — and won. "Well,
I won,'' he said
absently putting the
quarter back into his
pocket. "Yes, you
won the thousand dol-
lars, but you dont get
my quarter," said
Laemmle, laughing
and holding out his
hand.
Nazimova, who is
working in ''A
Madonna of the
Streets" for Edwin
Carewe, says frankly
that her future screen
career depends upon
this picture. "I didn't
turn against pic-
ture s," she sard
candidly to an inter-
viewer. "Pictures
turned against me.
This picture will de-
cide whether or not
they still want me."
The truth, of course,
is that pictures did
not turn against
Nazimova. She will
be always recognized
as one of the great
artists of the history
of the screen. She
was all but wrecked
financially when she
tried to make a too-
high brow picture out
of "Salome."
Louise Fazenda
At the time of going to press the producers are still dead-
locked over the choice for Peter Pan. It's been worse than
the Democratic convention. By the time this appears some-
one will undoubtedly have been chosen, but no matter who it
is, Classic still casts all its votes for Mary Pickford and
will keep right on doing it indefinitely
John Bowers has
taken a leave of ab-
sence from his film
work to train for an
automobile race to be
held Thanksgiving
Day. It is regarded
as the most danger-
ous course over
which a race has ever
been attempted. In
some places the
grades are so steep
that the wheels skid
when locked, the
brakes will not hold.
Ian Keith is the
latest sheik to thrill
Hollywood. He was
brought out from
New York to appear
with Florence Yidor
in "Christine of the
Hungry Heart," at
the Ince Studio. He
is handsome, but
haughty.
Madge Bellamy has
been selected to play
the lead in Adela
Rogers St. John's
"Inez of Hollywood."
Anna Q. Nilsson,
Lloyd Hughes and
Lewis Stone will also
be in the cast.
S a m u e 1 G o 1 d w y n
has won a decree
from the courts per-
mitting him to use his
own name in his own
(Contd. on page 82)
(Seventy)
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Dot B. — I hope you have had a pleasant summer. Mahlon
Hamilton and Lillian Rich played in "Half a Chance." Glenn
Hunter played in "Grit." D. W. Griffith has signed a contract
to make pictures for Famous Players, at a salary of $10,000 a
week, to take effect after completion of his latest picture for
United Artists, entitled "Dawn." Under his new contract, Mr.
Griffith is to produce three pictures in two years.
Washti. — But, we promise according to our hopes, and perform
according to our fears. Address Mary Hay at the Abbott Cottage,
Mamaroneck, New York. Betty Blythe, Lon Chaney and Forrest
Stanley have been added to the cast of "The Breath of Scandal."
Bonnie. — You must not believe all the critics. Burns once
said : "Critics are cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame." Well,
I am over eighty, whether you believe it or not. Plenty of butter-
milk is the secret. So you didn't like Gloria Swanson in "The
Society Scandal." You dont like her new personality. Well,
you must grant she can wear clothes. Clara Bow is nineteen.
Ben Lyon is twenty-three. Mrs. Wallace Reid is playing in
"Broken Laws" for F. B. O.
Rhea R. — Thanks a lot for the fee. Ramon Novarro at Metro-
Goldwyn, Culver City, California. Enid Bennett, also. Dorothy
Mackaill is with Principal Pictures, 7250 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California. Well, I hope I am sane. The defects
of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
Reed Hawes, the Arrow collar man, and Lefty Flynn are playing
in F. B. O. pictures.
Mimi H. — Most of the players you mention are with Famous
Players.
Ginny.— Well, to fall in love is much easier than to get rid
of it. Enid Bennett with Metro-Goldwyn and she was born on
January 22, 1896. No, I dont think Richard Barthelmess and
Lillian Gish will play in "Romeo and Juliet." Lucille Ricksen
is only sixteen and not married.
M. C. B., N. J. — That was Joseph Schildkraut in "The Song of
Love," and Rudolph is his father. No, I never did hear what
happened to Irene Rich's husband. Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie
and Pedro de Cordoba are playing in "The Desert Sheik," which
is taken from the Conan Doyle novel, "The Tragedy of Korosko."
Florence S. — No, I never got the cast for "The Timber Queen."
I should say not, Florence, no picture of me. Yes, I like all
the players, no favorites. Anna Q. Nilsson is playing in "Vanity's
Price," for F. B. O. It' was made under the working title of
"Purchased Youth," and concerns a woman who has been re-
juvenated.
Ellen A. — You can get the September, 1923, magazine by
writing to our Circulation Department, at this address.
Fay Blossom. — It is difficult to define love; we may say of it,
however, that in the soul it is a desire to. reign ; in minds it is a
sympathy and in bodies a secret inclination to enjoy what we love
after difficulties. No, Gloria Swanson
is not dead. You must not believe
all you hear. Thomas Meighan is
playing in Peter Clark Macfarlane's
novel, "Tongues of Flame."
Classic Reader. — Thanks for
yours — I know that Monte Blue has
been married, but he isn't now.
Sunny. — It is impossible to love
those a second time whom we have
really ceased to love. Yes, the Moore
boys are brothers. Ernan Hansson
in "The Blizzard." He is a for-
eigner, you know. Tom Moore has
been engaged to play opposite Bebe
Daniels in "Dangerous Money."
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Robin DeG. — It is most dangerous nowadays lor a husband to
pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people
think that he beats her when they're alone. The world has grown
so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
I understand First National will film "The Life of Christ." Buck
Jones in "The Desert Outlaw."
Renault. — Well, I have never found the one best seller to be tlu
wine cellar. That was an interesting picture of the tree growing
from the stone roof of the court-house tower in Greensburg, In-
diana. It was a very interesting picture. The soft maple fifteen
feet six inches seems to have rooted from seed carried by birds in
1872, now fifty-two years old. Address Rod La Rocque at the
Famous Players Studio, 1520 Vine Street, Los Angeles, California,
and Nita Naldi at Famous Players, Astoria, Long Island. Mary
Pick ford at Pickford-Fairbanks Studios, Los Angeles, California.
M. E. F. — Most of the players you mention are with Famous
Players, at the above address.
Miss L. O. — That was good of you, and I hope you received
your answer by now.
M. C. B. — Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
Doris Kenyon is playing in "If I Marry Again." Sylvia Breamer
arid Ben Lyon also in the cast. Well, it happened this way. About
twenty-eight years ago, short-length pictures were shown at the
Eden Musee on 23rd Street, New York City. They were "The
Crying Baby," "Jumping the Hurdles" and "Feeding the Sheep."
The first three-reel subject produced in America, so far as I
know, was the "Passion Play," about twenty-six years ago. It
was taken on the roof of the old Grand Central Palace and ran
continuously for nine months at the Eden Musee and was con-
sidered to be the highest production of the cinematograph art
at that time. That was Joseph Schildkraut you speak of.
John? — All right, John, see how prompt I am? Baby Peggy
was born October 26, 1918. Address her at the Sol Lesser Pro-
ductions, 7250 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles. Richard
Talmadge is playing in "American Manners." Helen Lynch
opposite him.
Irish. — If you marry a girl who is disagreeable to every one
but you, you will get your share of it — after the knot is tied.
Robert Ellis is married to May Allison. Helene Chadwick is
playing right along. No trouble to answer your questions. Be
sure to write me again.
Dream. — Yes, Alma Bennett is five and one-half feet tall and
weighs 130 pounds. She has dark complexion and black hair and
brown eyes. You are right. We are by no means aware how
much we are influenced by our passions.
Edith. — That is Irene Rich's real name. Jackie Coogan at
Metro-Goldwyn. " Why Marion Davies has a sister, Rosemary,
and another, Renee. Glad you like the Classic. Tell us what
you like and what you dont like about it.
Elita. — No, I dont mind getting
old. even tho old age is a tyrant,
which forbids the pleasures of youth.
Harrison Ford is playing opposite
Rosemary Davies in "Souls Adrift,"
after which he will return to play
opposite Marion, her sister, in "Zan-
der." He recently played with
Marion Davies in "Janice Meredith."
Margaret R.— You want to know
why Cecil De Mille had Miriam
younger than Moses, when the Bible
says that Miriam was old enough I
to care for Moses when he was a
boy. I really dont know.
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The Breath of Scandal
Do you prefer to know "the
truth" about the private lives
of your favorite stars? '
Does this make you more —
or less— interested in their
films?
Gladys Hall puts this ques-
tion to the readers of Classic
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Animal Actors and Human Stars
They work together very calmly (sometimes) says Dorothy DonnelL
And as for the pictures! You'll want one of the cubs, or perhaps
a full-grown tiger, the minute you see these photographs we have to
illustrate the story.
The Man Who Sold Himself
Monta Bell, the director of one of the best pictures of the year,
"Broadway After Dark," broke all the supposedly cast-iron rules
for directing. And got away with it. Jim Tully tells the story.
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Arnold B. — That was Marion Nixon in
"Circus Cowboy." Hope Hampton is
going to play in a series of one-reel fashion
pictures in which she will display the ex-
tensive wardrobe that she purchased in
Paris with her husband, Jules Brulatour.
Buck Jones in "The Desert Outlaw."
Movie Fan. — You should see me in my
one-piece bathing suit. Yes, Patsy Ruth
Miller and Matt Moore are playing in
"The Girl on the Stairs." Percy Marmont
and Zazu Pitts have the leads in "The
Legend of Hollywood." William Duncan
is with Universal. Ben Lyon with Famous
Players.
Billy F. — Just pronounce it Ne-gree.
They say she was born in Poland, of
German extraction. Gloria Swanson and
Pola Negri are each twenty-seven years
old and Thomas Meighan is forty.
Myrtle H. — Well, the pleasure of lov-
ing is, to love ; and we are much happier
in the passion we feel, than in that we
excite. I'm not much of a connoisseur on
the subject, being an old bachelor. Harold
Lloyd at the Harold Lloyd Studios, 6642
Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles,
California. Edna Murphy is with Pathe.
Yes, the Lloyd daughter is named Mildred
Gloria Lloyd.
Billy. — Pearl White has red hair.
Norma Talmadge has dark brown. Buster
Keaton has purchased the screen rights
to "Seven Chances," from the stage-play.
French Doll. — Sometimes I consume
as much as two quarts of buttermilk a day.
There's nothing like it. Alice Terry is
with Metro-Goldwyn. No, I never heard
the answer to question Number two.
Ramon Novarro is with Metro-Goldwyn.
Betty Sweet 16. — You must write to me
whenever you feel like it. I nearly died
with the heat this summer. Besides my
movie fans, I had all the electric fans
going. Yes, I read "A Tale of Two
Cities," quite some time ago.
Cutie. — Pola Negri was born January
3, 1897. You know her father was a
gypsy and her real name is Apollonia
Chalupez and she was once the Countess
Dombski. She appeared in the Russian
Imperial Ballet and her first picture shown
in this country was "Passion." She is five
feet four and weighs 120. Black hair and
grey-green eyes.
Serial Fan. — Moderation resembles
temperance. We are not unwilling to eat
more, but are afraid of doing ourselves
harm. Marie Prevost and Raymond Mc-
Kee have the leads in the latest Grand-
Asher production, "Desires of Men." You
refer to G. O. Williams and George Routh
in "Hazards of Helen." ''"hat was some
serial.
The Westerner. — You cant be so bad-
Wild oats never grow near wall flowers.
Robert Frazer was born in Worcester,
Massachusetts, and W'illiam Boyd was
born in Cambridge, Ohio. Constance Binney
is touring for the stage right now. That's
all right, I dont mind.
Beaver Meadow. — Bebe Daniels in
"Dangerous Money" with Tom Moore.
Norman Trevor has been signed up by
Famous Players as leading man in Gloria
Swanson's "The Wages of Virtue."
Teenee. — No, I am not a genius; if I
were I could cheat my grocer, rob my
neighbor and betray my friend's wife, and
all would be excused. That is Robert
Agnew's real name. He was born in Day-
ton, Kentucky, in 1899. His first big part
was in "Clarence."
N. D. G H— You must not.
A Collecting Bug. — You've got it too,
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Any bachelor would order this list of groceries for food, and for food only.
But a woman buying these things might not have thought of eating them.
Far from it! But she would use them in another life-saving way which is,
perhaps, just as valuable — for the magic beautifying properties. It s aston-
ishing what happiness and comeliness can be found on the pantry shelves.
If you believe it isn t so, read all about what s what, in The Kitchen Beauty
Shelf. And when you have read, you 11 not be able to resist trying their
effects on that ever-present problem that is yourself.
The Problems of the Girl Who
is Not an Acclaimed Beauty is told by
Alice Brady, the very attractive stage and
screen star. She writes of the joys of the
girl who has no worries about the sun, or the
wind, or rain, butwho has other cares. ...
The Problems of the Acclaimed
Beauty are those that concern Mary
Eaton. She is well qualified to write on this
subject, for is she not radiantly, blondely,
beautiful? And hasn t she been "glorified
by Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld in his Follies?
The motlth is a '"dead give-away," If yOU care to keep your five senses
says Penelope Knapp. And it isn t so much '"until the end, you 11 care for your eyes
the words you speak that counts; it s what and ears and nose now. See how to do
your mouth says when you are silent. this in Coddling the Five Senses.
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scraping old grandsire and strode
into the yard where she was digging
in their standing garden, with his
lordly air of owning the earth by
right of inheritance, Tess only flung
back the dull gold wisps of hair with
one arm and listened to what he had
to say.
Old flames fanned themselves to a
blaze behind Alec's dark eyes as he
looked at the sweet curves of her
young body in the tight outgrown
gown. He was sorry, he said with
a light laugh, for the way things
had gone with her, but he was will-
ing to make amends.
"I couldn't forget you, Tess!" his
hand was hot on her bare arm.
"You were such a sweet little thing,
but upon my word now you are
positively beautiful ! In the right
clothes — with the jewels and furs
that belong with beauty, why there
isn't a woman in London could touch
you !" He had come prepared to
override her fury but this still calm
disconcerted him, and intrigued his
fancy. "Listen, Tess ! Come to
London with me — let me give you a
fine apartment — clothes, luxury.
I'll see that your family is taken care
of for life!"
"You know," said Tess in a flat
voice, "that I'm married?"
Alec D'Urberville laughed, "I
heard all about that ! You'll never
see that sanctimonious prig of a par-
son's cub again. Come to London,
Tess, where you'll be appreciated !"
He saw himself beside this glorious
creature in the opera, stared at
enviously. "Damn these gaping
clowns! I'm afire for you, Tess!
You beauty — you cold tantalizing
beauty! I want to kiss you all over
from your golden head to your little
feet."
"I ought to hate you," Tess said
wearily, "but somehow I cant feel
anything any more. Maybe I will
some day, and then you will be sorry
I came with you. But perhaps my
heart is dead — it feels dead, and
cold — and so if you will give my
mother a thousand pounds so the
little ones wont go hungry I will
come to Lunnon."
With the voluptuous idea of giv-
ing his passion a perfect setting,
D'Urberville made no attempt to
claim Tess' promise until he had in-
stalled her in a handsome apartment,
and bought her the clothes that
would flatter her strange white
loveliness. Like a marble woman,
Tess stood in softly lighted, deeply
carpeted rooms while they put soft
silks and chiffons and laces upon
her, did amazing things to her hair
and skin, decked her with jewels.
The winds were whirling the lost
leaf into strange places, and the
wind was too strong for leaves.
She moved thru the days and the
new sights and sounds like one in
a trance, and Alec D'Urberville, see-
ing, smiled a distorted smile. When
the time came he would waken her,
and — he drew a slow breath — the
time was almost come. He had
chosen the horse show as the setting
for his first display of Tess in all
her glory.
The world could not know it was
a dead woman sitting in regal dis-
dain of their staring eyes in the box
beside the handsome, insolent young
man who gazed at her instead of at
the ring. They couldn't know that
when she leaned forward suddenly
and looked down at someone in the
audience below they were witnessing
a dead woman coming to life with all
the agony of the birth throe. But
Alec D'Urberville, following her
eyes, had seen the tall, slender man
who started up from the benches and
was fighting his way thru the crowd.
His fingers sank into Tess' bare
(Continued on page 85)
(Seventy-sis)
A Thousand Dollars a Day I
(Continued from pogt 40)
know, bul Cruze wanted to talk
about far places. "1 low do you «li
rect, Jim " i 'raze hates to speak in
the first person.
"Dont know," he answered. "Donl
like to talk about pictures. Direct on
impulse ; wait foi o< casions. Put in
the thing I think is real. Don! follow
rule- Never did. Never will."
"What quality is absolute!) essen-
tia] in directing
"Resourcefulness bul hell, a fel-
low has to he resourceful if he drives
an automobile a hundred miles."
He really does not like to talk pic-
tures, hut in talking about life- he's
a great conversationalist. One can
see that he abhor S the academic and
bloodless makers of rules that real
talent breaks. For the benefil of the
longhairs taking walks in pseudo
Greenwich villages, Cruze never uses
the word "art." And for the benefit
of the too well educated it may be
well to remember that Cruze is a
brilliant man and had less schooling
than any man 1 know schooling in
the academic sense.
"What is your routine of direct-
tog?"
"There is none. It changes with
every picture. No two pictures —
no two situations — even no two
leaves are exactly alike. A fellow
cannot steep himself in stock meth-
ods, he's got to have guts, imagina-
tion, sympathy. He must make the
story live. But I've said enough."
I once talked with an old Mormon
in Salt Lake City. The conversation
turned to the best-known man from
Utah.
"You know," he said, "about seven
years ago a young fellow came down
here from Hollywood and talked to
a lot of us about filming the history
of our coming across country in
wagons. He said he'd weave a love
story thru it and make it a big pic-
ture and we'd all make a lot of
money. He stayed down here with
us four weeks hut none of us would
spend any money, for we all knew
the youngster and didn't think he'd
make good. So he went back to
Hollywood and we decided to make
use of his idea. We made a picture
giving our entire history — but I
guess it's no good. We're ashamed
to show it to anyone now. Anyhow,
the fellow who talked to all of us was
that youngster we all know. Jimmy
Cruze. So you see. he had that pic-
ture in his head a long time — or one
like it, 'The Covered Wagon,' I
mean. That Cruze hoy always was a
smart kid."
Jim Cruze entered pictures in 1908
— rather a long time ago. In fact.
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many of the leading financial men in
pictures were still in the cloak and
suit business and had not developed
the spiritual in their natures in 1908.
Cruze played leads for some time
and then started directing, his first
picture being "Too Many Millions,"
in which Wallace Reid was starred.
Since that time he has made many
good pictures and it is claimed that
he is the only man in Hollywood who
has never made a financial failure.
That is not a bad record for a lad
brought up in tent shows and on
freight trains and fishing vessels.
Cruze is the master of broao
and subtle humor. Like all people
with a delicate sense of humor —
Cruze may be laughing at you and
not with you — and you may not know
it. Cruze learned so much about
chivalry and all-round fakiloriums
in the salons of fishing vessels, just
as Shakespeare learned so much
about English aristocracy while hold-
ing horses in front of theaters. I
said before that Cruze just is. He
has something that approaches
genius. A better-rounded man than
Griffith — not a propagandist — an art-
ist if you will — and like all real
artists . . . unconscious of it. . . .
The First American Director.
Jetta and Her Temperament
(Continued from page 21)
part out here in one of Cecil De
Mille's bath tubs. It would be a
change." But when she came to ex-
amine her part she found she was a
young lady of unfortunate morals in
a French dancehall. She sighed and
made the best of it — or the worst of
it, whichever way you look at it.
Her first days in the part showed
her to be a thoro and a subtle artiste.
She has the French instinct for ges-
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suggestion. Also she is really beau-
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suggests both Pola Negri and Bar-
bara La Marr — a more tingling and
more electrical Barbara.
So far she hasn't exhibited the
famous Jetta temperament except to
cry when the railroad lost her trunks.
But Hollywood reflects with the
gooseflesh of anticipated thrills that
Pola and Jetta are working on ad-
joining sets. And if they should
ever ! Oh, my. . . .
Welt, they never did! Since this
sketch was written , Jetta Goudal has
left Hollywood and is playing in
"The Sainted Devil" with Valentino
in New York, and to date she seems
to have the famous temperament un-
der perfect control. — Editor's Note.
(Seventy-eight)
The Romance of the Extra
of Princeton and his real ambition
i> to become a playwright. So be i->
Studying at first hand stage direction,
etc. I le has one more year to
I certainly wish him hick. 1 le has
ted a play ami from what In-
to nit- I think he has a chance.
There are four boys from my
home town, Oakland. California, also
king as extras I lu \ arc stud) -
ing art here, and between their pa)
and selling an illustration now and
again the) manage t>> live. \lto-
er I found twenty-one hoys who
studying in the universities here
in New York City working in "The
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of the dressers also act as extras
and each one has an objective in life
not seen on the surface. ( >ne is
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another is studying stage direction.
The most remarkable character of
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rs old and everyone in "The
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world, only six years age losing her
husband, two sons and a daughter
thru the capsizing of a catboat.
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and certainly enough to sour her
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I almost forgot one old gentleman
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closed his eyes and fired twice. The
doctor dropped untidily to the floor
and slipped in a ghastly comic sprawl
down the stairs. "You dirty cad!"
screamed Joe, mad with excitement
and terror. "You dirty cad — to treat
a decent girl so !"
"Never mind that, young man,"
said the proprietor, "just come along
with me."
Doctor Max still breathed and he
was carried thru the excited diners
to an ambulance from St. Luke's that
Carlotta had summoned. She fol-
lowed him to the hospital to await the
verdict of the staff who discussed the
case in shocked excited whispers.
One by one they came away from the
sick room, each one graver than the
other. "No hope," was the verdict
Carlotta read on every face, but Car-
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could save him.
Throwing a shawl over her eve-
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dark quiet streets of sleeping Char-
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Page, but it was not Sidney she
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"The price of my — my silence
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l tesperate measures < equii
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thereafter u the i lie in working the
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not drive the shadow away.
And then one night she woke
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he said, ''the old Druid temple not
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Tess sighed, "Then — all my life
I've been coming here — I didn't tell
'ee, Angel, but yesterday I saw
strange men about the downs. \Ye
will wait anion" the stones "
In the grey dawnlight they stood
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"but not now. And I wont be
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the downs tossed a handful of
autumn leaves into a crevice among
the tall grey stones. . . .
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{Continued from page 51)
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i. Holt is playing in "Nortl
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Lucille Ricksen is not married. Natacha
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Barnes is playing in "Reckless Roman
Earle Foxe has been cast in the lead in the
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At uk L— Mildred lime and Bobby
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Logan has been engaged to play oppo-
Rjchard Dix in •'Manhattan." Conrad
! and 1 laire Windsor in "So This Is
Marriage."
Glen.— Kl Dorado is given as a name to
wealthy country. It was really a
lous region in South America, which
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Beatrice Joy is twenty-five and Dorothy
Mackaill is twenty. Blanche Sweet and
Lew Cody in "The Sporting Venus."
Margie.— That was some letter of yours
Malcolm MacGregor is married and a
lather. \\ rite me any time.
Bettie and John-.— How charming.
Richard Dix is not married. Valen-
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playing in "Sandra."
Richard T.— Douglas Fairbanks' last
Picture was "The Thief of Bagdad," which
till running on Broadwav. Walter
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in "Souls Adrift."
JeaNne. — "The Humming Bird" was re-
leased January, 1924. Gloria Swanson has
had her hair bobbed for over a year now.
Charlotte Merriam, due to her splendid
work in "The Code of the Wilderness,"
has signed a long term contract with
\ itagraph.
Dorothy W.— Sir James Barrie has
decided upon Lillian Gish to play in "Peter
Pan." If she can be released from her
Inspiration Contract, she will probably
play in it for Famous Players. Mae Marsh
is second choice. Address Conrad Nagel
with Metro-Goldwyn.
Helen J.— Colleen Moore's real name is
Kathleen Morrison, so she is no relation
to the Moore boys. Frank Mayo, Mabel
Ballin, Harry Morey, Wanda Hawley and
Arline Pretty are playing in "Barriers
Burned Away."
Iris L. — Men may as well expect to
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nourishment. Tis thought and digestion
which makes books serviceable and gives
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M. R. F. — Well, twenty years of ro-
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something like a public building. Corinne
Griffith was born November 24, 1897, and
her real name is Corinne Scott. She is
playing in "Wilderness." Mahlon Ham-
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Frank Mayo in "The Lawful Cheater."
Sum Jim. — Hoot Gibson is married to
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that blushes is not quite a brute. Warner
Baxter is being co-starred with Florence
Vidor in "Christine of the Hungry Heart."
Elinor. — C'est une autre chose. Yes,
Conway Tearle is married to Adele Row-
land. Milton Sills is married to Gladys
Wynn.
Desdemona. — Antonio Moreno is play-
ing in "The Wildcat" with Estelle Taylor.
Lillian Gish is twenty-eight. Dorothy is
twenty-six. After completing her part in
"In Hollywood with Potash and Perl-
mutter," Vera Gordon signed up to star
in "The Golden Spoon," a legitimate play.
Red Cheeks.- — No, Theda Bara is not
playing in pictures now, tho she is expected
to do "Declassee." ' Wallace Beery is mar-
ried to Mary Gillman. Beverly Bayne
is playing in "Her Marriage Vow." Kath-
ryn Bennett, the attractive sister to Enid
Bennett, made her screen debut in Norma
Talmadge's "Sacrifice."
Hector.— You sure are a promising
young artist. The likenesses were very
good. Gloria Swanson's next picture after
"Her Love Story" will be "The Wages
of Virtue," from the novel by Percival
Wren.
Anna S. — Corinne Griffith is a blonde,
tho she wore a wig in "Black Oxen."
Dont know about that foreign picture.
Pauline Garon is twenty-three, and she is
five feet one.
Movie. — Earle Foxe was Jimmie in
"Fashion Row." Robert Leonard, the hus-
band of Mae Murray, is directing Corinne
Griffith in "Wilderness," while Eric von
Stroheim is handling the megaphone on the
next Mae Murray picture, "The Merry
Widow."
Bertha S. C. — So you dont like the
plays Mae Murray is playing in. Wait
until you see "The Merry Widow." Agnes
Ayres in "The Story Without a Name."
Antonio Moreno in "The Border Legion."
Norma S. — You say you dont like Val-
entino but you do like Alec B. Francis.
They are both so different. I like them
both. Thomas Meighan, after playing in
"The Alaskan," will play in "Tongues of
Flame." Harold Lloyd in "Hubby," which
is only the working title, however.
Josephine. — Nita Naldi is about five
feet nine. Pola Negri five feet four. Con-
way Tearle five feet ten and a half. Polly
Archer of the Follies has been signed to
play opposite Richard Barthelmess in
"Classmates." Henry Walthall in "Single
Wives."
Cherry* Blossom. — You want Lloyd
Hughes on the cover. Address Wesley
Barry at Warner Brothers. Lloyd Hughes
is playing opposite Virginia Valli in "In
Every Woman's Life."
Lady Paradise. — No, Mary Miles Min-
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ing opposite Tom Mix in "Teeth." Julanne
Johnston is playing the lead in "Garragan,"
made in Berlin. Mary Astor, one of our
contest winners, is playing in "The Price
of a Party." Eleanor Boardman, Earle
Metcalfe and Raymond McKee have the
leads in "The Silent Accuser," in which
Peter the Great, a German police dog, is
also being featured. The picture is being
made by Metro-Goldwyn.
Darling. — No, child, I dont mind an-
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grees in the shade. Niles Welch's last pic-
ture was "Wine of Youth." He is mar-
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back in pictures playing in "Chalk Mark,"
which stars June Elvidge and Helen Fer-
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Tornado," which King Baggot is direct-
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virtues of that interracial ma
piec
V a matter of fact, I feel very
much like doing just that. The play
is no worse than mi »st of our faili
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our successes. In May. 1022. I sup-
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and tired enough, after a season of
just such trash, to ignore the fact
that Miss Nichols knows as much
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George Middleton. In August, 1924,
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playwright or manager can achieve
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of natural dramatic effects — the con-
flict of Irish bigotry with Jewish
bigotry. Kither race can ordinarily
he depended upon to supply plenty
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their children and the result is bound
to be effective — so long as the play-
wright is a good critic. If he can
choose between the less and the more
entertaining, then he will have in-
cidents just a little more theatrically
amusing than those of "Welcome,
Stranger!'' Aaron Hoffmann's
comedy about the Jew who invaded
a small Xew England town.
It is hard to present on paper any
concrete evidences of Miss Nichols'
virtue as a playwright. They are
clear enough on the stage. But her
faults — or, rather, her main fault —
is another matter. It cries out at
you. It shrieks : "I ain't got no
style!" That is the secret of
"' Vbie's" inferiority — and some of
its popularity. It is common — in a
common way. It ought to be com-
mon in a fashionable way. If Sam
Harris had produced it, it might be
as ordinary in its emotions, ideas,
and wit as it pleased, hut it would
he fashionable. It would ride along
with the procession. The' hokum
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(Continued from page 18)
stage play the better to enjoy a hero's
sufferings, you will appreciate William
de Mille's thought fulness in bringing
the camera close to his characters'
faces when they are registering grief
or despair or love. The closeup is
the screen substitute for the opera-
glass habit, and Mr. de Mille has a
telescopic camera grinding with every
scene he shoots as well as the regular
machine ; then when he wishes to use
a near view at any particular point
the cutting from the full scene to the
closeup face will be perfectly smooth.
His brother Cecil recently used seven
cameras simultaneously in taking a
small but important shot centering
about a blackboard, thus giving an
unbroken sequence of the action from
every possible angle. When the
scene is flashed on the screen, the girl
will not have a lock of hair loose in
the long view and be wearing a hair
net in the closeup, and the man will
not be smoking a fresh cigaret at a
distance and a butt in the nearer shot,
as happens so often when the two
views are taken at different times.
James Cruze, however, uses but
one, or at the most two cameras in
shooting a scene and leaves the matter
of its position to his cameraman,
Carl Brown, giving him carte blanche
to work out his own ideas. Before
taking "The Fighting Coward," Mr.
Brown studied the art form of the
period, steel engravings, and dis-
covered that they were all made from
a low angle of vision, the artist sitting
on a stool below the scene he was
depicting and looking slightly up at
it. By straddling the tripod of his
camera to its full width, he was able
to reproduce the engraver's view-
point, giving a quaintness to the pic-
ture which the audiences will not
understand but will feel.
"Taking motion pictures isn't quite
the same thing as turning an ice-cream
freezer or cranking a Ford engine,
tho the motion may seem similar !"
says he. "Personally I believe a
cameraman should try to interpret the
spirit of the action by his photog-
raphy. There was a scene in 'Stella
Maris' I have always remembered,
the one where the little drudge has
killed the woman who tortured her.
The lighting was flat and dead and
the camera angle deliberately dis-
torted to give a feeling of despair.
Mechanically it was bad photography,
but artistically it was great work !"
To Cecil De Mille a motion picture
is first of all a picture, something to
look at. Detail, finish, beauty of set-
ting, clearness of background charac-
terize his work and he has a director
of photography, Bert Glennon, as
well as a cameraman. Chummy
camera angles have no place in a
Cecil De Mille picture ; to his mind
the audience belongs in its seats, not
on the screen. When there are more
than two or three people on a set, his
camera is raised above their heads.
In the great mob scenes in "The
Ten Commandments," the cameras
were hoisted thirty feet from the
ground on scaffoldings, in order to
obtain the widest possible range of
vision. A telescopic lens caught the
closeups of Rod La Rocque's face
as he stood in the tossing motor-boat
from the top of a breakwater half a
mile away, while the Ackley camera,
a machine arranged on ball bearings
so that it can lie down, roll over and
over and stand on its head, was used
to follow Leatrice Joy to the roof of
the cathedral and to panorama the
pursuing chariots of the Egyptians.
Most screen players have a "bad
angle." Perhaps one side view is not
so good as the other, perhaps the pro-
file is better than the full face. It is
said that even Mary Pickford has one
angle which is never shown on the
screen. The camera can perform
miracles for them, flattering their
good points, concealing their not-so-
good ones and aiding them to put
their best faces forward as it were.
A low camera angle combined with a
high background has often made
short actors like Henry Walthall ap-
pear supernaturally tall, while the
reverse of the trick is called upon to
conceal the sudden alarming tendency
to legginess of some screen • child.
Nowadays the crash of breaking
traditions is heard on the movie lots.
The actors turn their backs upon the
lens, or look straight into it. The
chalk marks which kept them toeing
the line are gone and they may now
emote without fear that when they
fling themselves in despair upon the
floor perhaps their heads will be miss-
ing from the finished pictures. The
migratory camera is at home in autos
and aeroplanes. It burrows into the
ground or hides in a concre'.e dug-
out thru which its single eye may
watch a stampede of buffalo thunder
by overhead and it climbs nimbly
above the heads of a society dinner.
It conspires with the stunt actor
to make him seem to do that which
cannot be done. It makes bricks of
straw, silk purses of sow's ears,
builds Rome in a day, creates a
mighty ocean from little drops of
water, and a sheiky desert from little
grains of sand and — greatest miracle
of all — it makes stars out of ordinary «'
mortals and dreams for a whole
world from a dingy strip of celluloid.
(Ninety)
Into the attic
FEW youngsters to-day ever saw a horsehair
sofa. They wouldn't know what to do with a
fire taper, carpet stretcher, or coal-oil lamp.
They couldn't braid rags into a rug, or wind yarn
without tangling. But they know the how and
why of typewriters, phonographs, telephones,
automobiles; what happens when a push of the
button gives light, or a kodak's flash fixes their
image on paper.
Their education is as modern as the advertise-
ments they see. They have no more use for the
lamp and chimney of yesterday than you for the
wick and tallow of the day before.
Advertisements induce such progress. They
urge wide use that means improvement. They
help you lift the out-of-date into the attic — rid
you of the water buckets and soap kettles of
slavedom. They bring late improvements
within your reach.
Read the advertisements regularly. Keep
alert to the new.
Without advertising, you would never
know a product's worth until
you had bought' it
(Ninety-one)
Have You Wondered Why
Some Toilet Goods Clerks So
Persistently Push One Line?
A REPRESENTATIVE of the Federal Trade
Commission made an address at the last con-
vention of the National Association of Toilet
Goods Manufacturers calling their attention to a
situation which threatens the good faith between
department stores and their customers. Now that
the spotlight has been turned on this evil practice
which has grown up slowly, it must inevitably
disappear.
Many women have, no doubt, been at a loss to
understand the persistent and often adroit methods
by which clerks at toilet goods counters in depart-
ment stores attempt to make them take some brand
other than the one they had intended. They are
frequently irritated by this, but how completely
they would resent it if they knew the real facts.
The young woman who is trying to substitute is
not an unbiased clerk of the store, but in truth, the
employe of a manufacturer masquerading as a
clerk.
In a great many department stores of this
country the salaries of all the clerks at the toilet
goods counter are paid by individual manu-
facturers. The advantage to the manufacturer
is that the young woman so employed will divert
to his brand all wavering or undecided customers,
and within the limits laid down by the store rules,
switch from other brands.
There can be no objections to the open demon-
strator. She often serves to perform a useful
demonstrating and sampling job. But the hidden
demonstrator — who masquerades as an unpre-
judiced clerk speaking in the interests of the store
and with its authority — tends to break down the
good will that is the greatest fundamental asset
which the department store possesses.
At present the only real protection the customer
has is to know what she wants and insist upon
getting it.
The Play of the Month
(Continued from page 89)
would be the latest thing. It would
be just a little smarter, just a little
more exclusive. When the Jewish
hero had to invent a kosher name
for his bride, Rosemary Murphy, it
wouldn't be so obviously impossible
as "Murphysky." The verbal humor
would run above the following:
"For why you want to get Abie
married? He's heppy."
The final fact about this play s
success is that it appeals to the non-
theatergoing populace. The theory
has been that, between the Irish and
the Jews, it was bound to make a
mint of money. It happens that out-
side New York and Boston there
aren't so very many of these
peoples. It happens, also, that the
audiences — if mine was any sample
— are shy on both varieties. The
people who go to "Abie's Irish Rose"
are mainly the kind of people who
went to "Ben-Hur" and "Experi-
ence." The fact that the gentlemen
frequently bring a two-pound box
of candy as well as a girl defines
their familiarity with the ways of
the theater. They like a certain
amount of religion in their plays,
and a certain amount of good old-
fashioned hokum. But above all
they need the obvious. And they
get it from "Abie's Irish Rose."
The Picture of the Month
(Continued from page 47)
down to earth. He puts before us
human characters in real places.
"Manhandled" might be criticized
on the ground that there is just a
little too much space given its star.
Perhaps such is the case, but at least
Miss Swanson deserves more space
here than ever before. She is a real
actress — and demonstrates here that
she is a gifted comedienne as well as
an accomplished mimic. And she
offers a distinctly new touch in hair-
dress. She wears a bob like no other
bob — with the front ends long enough
to curl forward in a crescent over the
cheek. It adds more color to her
personality and makes her charac-
terization sure. Is she a real actress?
We offer in proof of this the fact
that she wears a dingy dress thru
half of the picture and still holds
the attention.
There are others who give good
performances. Tom Moore is a per-
fect representation of what he pre-
tends to be — an every-day youth of
the workshop, and Ian Keith (with
profile), Arthur Housman, Frank
Morgan, Lilyan Tashman and Paul
McAllister act with authority.
(Ninety-two)
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siunis are worked to exploit tilm>.
The ingenuity of the angles and tie-
ups— i" -a\ nothing of the turn-
overs and overheads, is sufficient to
arouse one's competitive spirit even
if the Olympic Championships dont.
Here's what this department sug-
gests for the Fi Jlovi ing :
"The Red Lily." ( live the patrons
of the theater in which it is playing
a pot of fresh mint.
"Neglected Women." Have a big
register in the lobby and make all
the lady patrons put down their
names and telephone numbers.
"Feet of Clay." Arrange with the
Mayor of Cincinnati to have him
jump in Lake Michigan.
"Excitement." Set the house on
fire on alternate evenings, hut dont
give out the dates in advance.
"That French Lady." Hire a
Chinese Orchestra to go thru the
streets on skis playing bagpipes and
zithers.
"The Warrens of Virginia." Give
out pet rabbits. (This will be a
wow in Chicago.)
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business. Which proves beyond all
question that the English can cer-
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Manufacturers, Distributors and Studios of
Motion Pictures
NEW YORK CITY
Advanced Motion Picture Corp., 1493
Broadway
American Releasing Corp., 15 W. 44th
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Arrow Film Corp., 220 W. 42nd St.
Associated Exhibitors, Inc., 35 W. 45th
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Ballin, Hugo, Productions, 366 Fifth
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Community Motion Picture Bureau, 46
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Consolidated Film Corp., 80 Fifth Ave.
Cosmopolitan Productions, 2478 Second
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C. C. Burr Prod., 135 W. 44th St.
Distinctive Prod., 366 Madison Ave.
(Biograph Studios, 807 E. 175th St.)
Educational Film Co., 729 Seventh Ave.
Export & Import Film Co., 729 Seventh
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Film Booking Offices, 723 Seventh Ave.
Film Guild, 8 W. 40th St.
Film Market, Inc., 563 Fifth Ave.
First National Exhibitors, Inc., 383
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Gaumont Co., Congress Ave., Flushing,
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Graphic Film Corp., 729 Seventh Ave.
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The Celluloid Critic
(Continued from page 49)
who says and does the obvious things.
This actor who flashed such talent in
"Beau Brummel" is a good likeness,
but there the comparison ends. He
seems to be as much in the dark as
the director in how to draw the char-
acter vividly and compellingly and
sympathetically.
The picture will arouse discussion
— for Lewis is either liked or tossed
aside. It may be that some readers,
disappointed in the novel, will admire
the film — and those who like the
story will probably be disappointed
in the screen version. More light-
ness and humor would have made it
more human.
HOW to Educate a Wife"
(Warner Brothers) is one
of those satires on modern
married life written by no less an au-
thority than Elinor Glyn. She
doesn't tread on the sob pedal this
time — and somehow by getting away
from sermonizing on this eternal sub-
ject she comes closer to the truth
than what is usually revealed under
her signature. It's extremely light
fare, but pleasant withal — and the
idea points out the impossibility of
educating one's spouse when she
wants to become contrary. Most any
husband will agree with this.
The story offers a lot of little pre-
tentions. There is a scheme afoot
here when the husband's friend
advises him to use his wife for vamp-
ing purposes. He cant see the plot
at all. But she steps out and vamps
one of the customers. And there's
an end to the love nest. The rest of
the fun deals with hubby trying to
run his house single-handed — enjoy-(
able incident interlaced with some
delicate make-believe tactics toward
reconciliation.
Marie Prevost and Monte Blue,
who are much together in pictures
these days, make an excellent pair of
battling lovers. And Claude Gilling-
water furnishes some of that fine
character talent as the "fall guy."
The piece moves at a lively pace,
keeps its sparks lighted thruout — and
exudes more than a share of realities.
Monta Bell, who directed "Broadway
After Dark," shows that he hasn't
worked with Chaplin in vain. There
is subtlety in his work.
F
OOLS in the Dark" (F. B.
O.) is as near an approach to
clever melodramatic satire as
we've caught on the screen in some
time. We who have grown accus-
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RANDOM IMPRESSIONS OF HOLLYWOOD Eugene V. Brewster 54
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No Book Learnin' Alice L. Tildesley 18
William Boyd worked In ■ rolling mill at the ane ol twelve
If They Staged Baseball in Motion Picture Fashion . Ellison Hoover 27
A cartoon you shouldn't miss
Famous at Fifty Milton Howe 31
Edward Martindel isn't exactly fifty. He's forty-eight
Just Legs ... 32
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The Candid Kid . Verne Kibbe 34
Laura I. a Plante is 110 bookworm and she has no particular ambition
The Master Mind of the Movies Speaks H. W. Hanemann 36
How the High Lord of the cinema thinks — Drawings by Kliz
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Anent Miss Adoree, the girl of THE CLASSIC cover
Cella Lloyd Crashes Hollywood ! John Held, Jr. 40
The further adventures of Mr. Held's bathing girl heroine
Richard Barthelmess 42
A new study of the popular young star
Masterpieces of the Screen Eugene V. Brewster 49
sideration of the big pictures of the past
Presenting Dupont of Berlin Heinrich Fraenkel 52
The first interview with the German director, Ewald Dupont, now in America
That Chaplin Complex Harriette Underhill 56
The famous comedian considered from a new angle
Evolution of a Laugh 57
The development of a Harold Lloyd guffaw
High Hat 62
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THE CLASSIC S much talked about department is now enlarged
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The Incidents of the film world told in pictures
The Celluloid Critic Frederick James Smith 50
The new BCreen plays in review
Letters to King Dodo Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith 58
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Classics Late News Page
5AMUEL GOLDWYN producing Harold Bell
Wright's "The Winning of Barbara Worth,"
with Henry King directing. Vilma Banky
and Ronald Colman have the leading roles, while
the scenario is the work of Frances Marion.
First, however, Miss Banky will play opposite
Rudolph Valentino in "Sons of the Sheik."
Metro-Goldwyn starts story of marines with
co-operation of United States Marine Corps.
Due to this arrangement, the Marine Corps has re-
fused to co-operate with William Fox in making
"What Price Glory," claiming Metro - Goldwyn
has exclusive motion picture rights to Marine
Corps. Fox officials declare they may go to court
and, if necessary, appeal to the President. Metro-
Goldwyn picture to be called "Tell It to the
Marines." It is being directed by George Hill.
Richard Barthelmess signs two-year First Na-
tional starring contract, which makes him one
of the dozen leading stars in earning capacity.
This contract will follow the completion of his
present Inspiration Pictures contract, expiring
this fall.
Contract between Dorothy Devore and Warner
Brothers terminated by mutual consent. Warners
announce they will star Dolores Costello.
Dorothy Gish returning to England to make
three more pictures for British producer, Herbert
Wilcox. "Nell Gwyn" to be released by Famous
Players-Lasky.
Cecil De Mille signs Donald Crisp to direct.
Title of Mary Pickford's "Scraps" changed to
"Sparrows."
Roscoe Arbuckle to direct for Metro-Goldwyn
under another name.
Virginia Valli leaves Universal to free-lance.
Sessue Haya-
kawa playing on
New York speak-
ing stage in "The
Love City."
Ramon N o -
varro's next to be
"Bellamy the Mag-
nificent," adapted
from stage-play by
Roy Horniman.
Hobart Henley di-
recting.
William Haines
and Mary Brian
have the leading
roles in Metro-
Goldwyn's produc-
tion of "Brown of
Harvard." This is
the picture for
which staid old
Harvard refused
to co-operate in
permitting scenes
to be shot at Cam-
bridge.
Bessie Love has
title-role in Metro-
Goldwyn produc-
tion of "Lovey
Mar y," Alice
Hegan Rice's story.
WATCH FOR THE MAY
Motion Picture Classic
A striking cover, in the spring spirit, of Colleen
Moore!
A sensational article, by Tamar Lane, on FAMOUS
BLUNDERS; revealing some of the mistakes behind
the screens of our motion pictures.
A remarkable article on MOTION PICTURES IN
JAPAN by a leading Japanese critic, Kimpei Sheba, of
The Tokio Times. This will be illustrated with some
charming pictures of popular Japanese film idols.
Clarence Brown, having completed the direc-
tion of Norma Talmadge in "Kiki," takes his
megaphone over to the Metro-Goldwyn lot.
Ernst Lubitsch to have Irene Rich in a leading
role of his next picture, "The Door Mat."
Reported that Joseph Kennedy, a Boston finan-
cier and a son-in-law of former Mayor Fitzgerald,
and associates have purchased control of the
Film Booking Offices, R-C Pictures Corporation
and subsidiaries from Lloyd's Bank and the
Grahams of London. Major H. C. S. Thomson,
president and managing director of the com-
panies, remains in active charge.
Metro-Goldwyn obtains screen rights to writ-
ings of Queen Marie of Roumania.
Thomas Meighan's brother, King Meighan,
enters films with Columbia Pictures.
First National to build studios at Burbank,
California, close to Hollywood.
Georgia Hale, now under long term Famous
Player contract, to have leading feminine role
in "The Rainmaker," a Gerald Beaumont . story.
Clarence Badger is directing and William Collier,
Jr., plays the male lead.
Greta Nissen goes from Famous Players to
Universal. She had been withdrawn from cast
of D. W. Griffith's "Sorrows of Satan."
William de Mille finishing his last Paramount
release, "The Flight to the Hills."
Margaret Morris signed to play opposite Doug-
las MacLean in "That's My Baby."
Gregory La Cava signed under long term Fa-
mous director contract as result of hits scored
by his recent Richard Dix pictures.
Metro-Goldwyn to make elaborate film version
of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island," with
Lon Chaney fea-
tured. Underwater
scenes will be
made in Bahamas
with Williamson
filming appliances.
Ricardo Cortez
and Alma Rubens
remarry. Original-
ly married on Jan-
uary 30 at River-
side, California,
and point was
alleged that this
was six days be-
fore the divorce
granted Miss Ru-
b e n s from Dr.
Daniel Carson
Goodman became
final.
Wallace Beery
given two year
contract by Fa-
FREDERICK JAMES SMITH writes an absorbing
inside story of the making of "THE BIG PARADE."
King Vidor evolved a brand-new way of making pic-
tures in screening this film classic.
Over a Dozen OtherUnusual Features!
mous.
Rosemary The-
by and Harry
Myers reveal that
they have been
secretly married
for a year and a
half. Married in
San Francisco.
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Romeo -Juliet Contest Winners
THK I ircal I ov€i
t Ik- winners oi
w li i c li « e i e a n -
nounced lasl month, at-
I much attention, but
thi-N was as nothing com-
tlie widespread
interest aroused bj the
Romeo and Juliet Contest,
nail) announced in
.inu.ii} issue of The
I'icTURE ( 1 \SSIC.
The Romeo and Juliet
Contest brought an
tvalanche of Utters and
VOtes to tin.' od it (i rial
offices of The Classic.
E \ i r y o ne o t' T ti e
army of
readers seemed to want to express herself or himself on
tlif subject of the screen's ideal Romeo and Juliet.
When the letters and votes were finally tabulated,
Ramon Novarro was found to be chosen as The
- Romeo, altho John Gilbert was a comparatively
- second. Some distance hack. Ronald Colman and
Rudolph Valentino were practically tied for third place.
Then came John Barrymore, Ben Lyon and Richard
Barthelmess.
The Classic readers selected Lillian Gish as their ideal
Juliet, altho. as in the case of the Romeos, there was a
■ second. This was Vilma Hanky. Mary Philbin
5 safely entrenched in third place, while, some distance
behind, came Betty Bronson, Norma Talmadge, Greta
Mary Astor and .Mary Pickford in close for-
mat]"'hi.
'hi: Motion Picture Classic presents its con-
gratulations to Miss dish and Mr. Xovarro. Long may
they reign as the perfect cinema Juliet and Romeo.
The first prize letter, which, by the way. was a tele-
gram, is published on this page. The first prize was
twenty-five dollars. The second prize, of fifteen dollars,
went to Karlene A. Armstrong for the following letter:
Second Prize Letter
The qualification- of Romeo are: youth, idealized
fervor of youth, romance,
beauty, chivalry and cour-
age— thus Ramon Novarro.
The qualifications for
Juliet are: youth, idealized
fervor of youth, romance,
beauty, innocence and
abandon — thus Vilma
Banky.
Karlene A. Armstrong,
8th Street and 64th Ave..
< >ak Lane Park. Phila., Pa.
First Prize Letter
The romance of Romeo and Juliet carries
a lyric quality of spiritual passion. Ramon
Novarro and Mary Astor reflect no modernity,
no haphazard tricks, but play with dignity and
glowing beauty. They have the youth, in-
tensity, personal thrill and imagination to por-
tray the old-world charm of Romeo and Juliet.
ELIZABETH CARMICHAEL,
Care Mason Theater, Gorilla Co.,
Los Angeles, California.
ait would complement
ih-> and his supplement
hers ; because they are both
intelligent, sincere, and
blessed with < ternal youth
Lillian Gish and Ramon
Novarro would make an
ideal couple to play Romeo
and Juliet.
Marc \ri i 1 1. Jon \
3518 Fulton St.,
( hicago,
The third prize, ten
dollars, was awarded to
Margaret H. Johnson, for
the following letter:
Third Prize Letter
Because she is ethereally
beautiful and he is stal-
wartly handsome; because
The Ideal Romeos and Juliets
The letters and votes in
this contest resulted
in
the following selections, presented in the
order of final tabulation:
Romeos
Juliets
1
Ramon Novarro
Lillian Gish
2
John Gilbert
Vilma Banky
3
Ronald Colman
Mary Philbin
4
Rudolph Valentino
Betty Bronson
5
John Barrymore
Norma Talmadge
6
Ben Lyon
Greta Nissen
7
Richard Barthelmess
Mary Astor
8
Ricardo Cortez
Mary Pickford
9
Douglas Fairbanks
Norma Shearer
10
Richard Dix
Blanche Sweet
Honorable Mention
T choose Lillian dish
and Ramon Xovarro, he-
cause —
1. She has the dcep-
feeling, everlasting youth,
and the keen sense of romance so necessary to any Juliet.
2. Me has romance, spiritual quality. He ha- glow
and sweet lire.
3. The work of both would thus bring the fine spirit
of fire and youth necessary to the roles.
Catherine Luksii ,
1505 Warner Street.
X. S. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Honorable Mention
Romeo and Juliet were young, but with maturity i'i
feeling of the Italian race; were of brilliant and strong
character, of sweet, generous soul, passionate, but not
daring or devilish.
Thus my selection would be: Norma Talmadge and
Rudolph Valentino.
Both are fine artist- with depth of expression, romantic
appeal, splendid physical appearance and illusion of
youth.
Florence Shannon.
2428 Park Avenue. Apt. 3,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Honorable Mention
For her incomparable youth and beauty of face and
youthful figure— even among the youngest rivals — Lillian
Gish's superior ability to
interpret the fourteen-
year-old S h a kespear e a n
Juliet should be an inspira-
tion for the romantic,
(lashing, fiery Ramon
Xovarro, the Adonis of
the screen — thus vying
with the great tragedienne.
the one object of his screen
admiration — to play the
role of Romeo a la Shake-
speare opposite her Juliet,
so increasing the already
excellent histrionic powers
of the two greatest artists.
D. [.Allen,
2661 Valdez Street.
Oakland. Cai
Honorable Mention
Who shall be the screen
(Continued on page 82)
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DOROTHY DWAN
A
Remarkable
Real Life
Document
The Inside FACTS
By Percy Knighton
WITH the exception of a few nationally important
topics of the day, "Have you a chance in the
movies?" is close running in majority to the
world's greatest problems.
So far as an accurate record shows, there are many
examples of those who began at the bottom and soared
gradually to the top, a portion of their success is, of
course, due to the rapid growth of the motion picture
industry from obscurity to fourth or fifth place in the
world's gigantic affairs.
But it is true that those same men and women who
achieved fame as stars came by it honestly. In most
cases it was sweat and blood, ability and the spirit of the
conqueror, that did the trick — not pull or "stand in."
And to the exception of this rule embracing phenomenal
rises, such as, stars being made overnight, is a matter
of circumstances and luck.
I am only speaking to you whose future is bent upon
a berth in the movies, and maybe a grave, too. Other-
wise, go to California, lots of other fine men and women
conduct other lines of legitimate business. For instance,
real estate. The climate is unsurpassed, the cafeterias
unlimited. No ! I am not advertising California, Florida
might get jealous, besides, I am only a poor "extra"
character in a land where, perhaps, fifty thousand other
folks are working — mostly not working. In the movies,
I mean.
I happen to be here. I am among those present. I am
one of those queer "odd" creatures better known as "ex-
tras." I am out here in "Calif orny" taking pot-luck and
uneven lunches and playing roles from a Bolshevik to a
Roman soldier, also doing odd jobs — odd indeed ! But I
love it just the same.
Five Days' Work a Month
At present, however, we are only con-
cerned with those who are working
from five to ten days a month as extra
people — and they are lucky and glad to
get that much. But especially are we
concerned with you whose eyes may be
turning toward the great Golden Gate
with a hopeful gleam of their future
stardom ; their visionary dream turn-
ing to reality.
Who will be the Douglas Fairbanks
and Mary Pickford of tomorrow? The
John Barrymore and the Gloria Swan-
son? And who will be the thousands
of other stars? Who will gradually
slide into the thousands of vacancies
which Time makes inevitable? Who
will fill the mechanical, technical and
business places in the annals of our
great, great movies?
You may guess the answer, you may
solve the riddle, you may be right or
wrong in calculating the solution to the
above questions. You may even be the
very one who will make the grade
from the ranks of the thousands. But
whatever the answer, whosoever you
may be, please take along a few of these
facts and stamp them indelibly in a re-
mote corner of your brain — that is, if
you are movie-struck, if you are an
"extra" or prospective material for the
mill — the mill, it grinds slowly and too
often with deadly accuracy.
In the first place, tho, if you happen
to be "one of the family" with a chip
on your shoulder, you may hoot and
sneer at some of the things I tell you.
But if you are considering a trip to
Fairyland — California, where a large
part of the world's movies are made,
then consider, my dear little innocent
one, some true situations existing here
— before you take the leap.
.. ^» — -~
How men and
women by the
thousands can
clamor into a
stuffy room and
receive the daily
stab of rejection
is beyond the
power of reason-
ing
16
About the EXTRA
The Story of a Real Extra
The
Heartaches
Behind
the Screen
So here goes for hotter or worse!
Lure Like a Drug
as a warning, let me tell you thai it once you ever work
** in a picture, it is worse than a high-powered drug, it
! in your Mood, it is a very contagious habit Im-
mediately, an uncanny, unbelievable sense of fascination
it. ^rips you; in fact, strikes you with such force
that your endurance to run the race is surprising. But
too often it is the other way round. However, you find
to your amazement that at times you really have a chance
which is the first symptom of the hobo's disease. I
call it mental inertia. But when reaching this stage you
have advanced to the first degree in the Royal Order of
Moviedom, you have been permanently annexed, and,
you are prepared to make any sacrifice for your art,
sometimes you have many to make, too Bui the struggle
IS Oil.
\\ ltliout the slightesl -hadow of douht, this husi:
of playing the movies as an actor extra is the grCfl
game of chance ever invented by man. The uncertainty
of it is heart-breaking, sickening at times, often beyond
endurance. It holds first place in the baffling element-
of a minus average. It is the most hitter, ironic and
cruel, peculiar and unusual topic to discuss. And yet.
despite this, there is no end of material on which to
base true and helpful illustrations.
There are no groups of people working in any other
business in the world, any other trade, who would tolerate
the fateful result, the usual failure, the treatment received
(sometimes while engaged on the production of a pic-
ture). I do not mean that you are ill-treated or horse-
whipped, nothing of the sort. I do
mean, tho, in a mob scene that the dis-
mal existence gained, the action one
has to do, the delay and foolishness
of it all would never be accepted as a
road to success by many men and
women in other walks of life. Your
patience is put to the supreme test by
the minute. It appears a losing
game.
Hard to Get a Job
It is often much harder work getting
a job than working after you get
it. And the discouragement that goes
with the business is almost beyond the
understanding of an otherwise intelli-
gent person. Really, the whole scope
is far too technical to give in com-
plete detail. But a few points will
serve as examples.
How in the name of Moses, men
and women by the thousands, can
clamor into a stuffy, musty and dirty-
little room or shed and receive the
daily stab of rejection is beyond the
power of reasoning. Especially, after
waiting for hours to get a peep at the
assistant casting director, possibly
only an office boy.
How day in and out those starving
souls tread wearily from Universal
City in the early morning, then to
Hollywood by noon, thence to Culver
City by the waning afternoon with
the tiny spark of Hope burning dimly
in their heaving bosoms merely to ask
the fatal words. "Anything doing to-
day," and get the fatal blow. is. so
far as I know, too problematical in
the sphere of normalcy for one so
insignificant as I to render a correct
reply.
But if one-half the energy expended
in trying to break the almost impos-
sible barrier would be applied to
{Conti»ucd ov page 83)
17
William Boyd says he ac-
quired his education by
listening to other people
talk
IF William Boyd ever
decides to become
president of these
United States, they had
better get the White House
ready, for he'll be there !
Bill — he's the kind of man
one cant call "William" — is in
the great American tradition.
He's the Satevepost chap who
started out with nothing, worked
before he was in his teens, did any-
thing and everything — steel-mills,
oil-fields, orange groves, groceries,
driving trucks — and, having tried
all sorts of jobs, finally picked
out a profession and followed it
No Acting Temperament
"I haven't an actor's temperament at all, so I'm afraid I
cant talk like one," he apologized, as we strolled along
the sunny gallery at the De Mille studios.
"In fact, I'm not an actor. You don't have to act on the
screen. You have to understand the technique, know about
spacing, timing, camera angles, lights, make-up and all that,
and you have to understand the character you're playing and
simply live him. The camera will show you up if you're just
acting. You have to be terribly sincere and natural. You
18
No
BOOK
Learnin'
By Alice L. Tildesley
must have the whole personality and history
of your character inside your head and then just
open up your face and let your audience see
what's going on in there. You're not acting then.
You just are!
"When I was .getting ready for 'The Volga
Boatman,' I was worried about what to do with
him. I had read the script and knew he was a
Russian peasant, and I'd read Russian stories —
Tolstoy — and Russian history, and I thought I
knew what was back of this fellow, all the cen-
turies of oppression and injustice — the revolt he
felt inside.
"Victor Varconi played the other male role,
which made mine more difficult, since he and I
are about the same height, build and coloring.
Varconi was an officer and would, of course,
play it straight, I must be 'character.'
"First, I decided against wearing a wig and
had my hair curled. I had misgivings
about that, — afraid it would weaken my
face, — but it didn't.
And then, the very
night before we
began to shoot, the
thing came to me.
"I was walking up
William Boyd plays a
Russian peasant in "The
Volga Boatman." The
circle above shows him
in this role. At the
right, in "The Road to
Yesterday"
doggedly to success.
Pearsall
.
Bill Boyd
worked in
a rolling-
mill at
twelve
ami down in my room,
like t h i s " He
paced the length of the
dressing-room we had
appropriated, three
Strides taking him from
one wall to the other,
aiul suddenly stopped,
standing with his head
lowered a trifle, look-
be up from under
sullen lids, a figure
tense and yet quiet, as
of terrific power held
in leash. "There ! It
came like that. I saw
him in the mirror and
recognized him."
Bill Boyd has a
splendid body under
perfect control. He
isn't vain of it, but he
takes care of it because
it is part of his stock
in trade.
Worked in Oil-Fields
'T^ot my strength
swinging a sledge-
hammer ten hours a
day in the oil-fields,"
he explained, "I was
sixteen. I began to
work when I was
twelve, when my father
died, but the oil-field
was the hardest job I
ever had. I used to get
tear me down because I
going to beat me !
"I think any boy who wants to grow up into a he-man
ought to go out and get himself kicked around all over
the place and fight and struggle and endure — that is, if he
has spirit. If he hasn't, he'll go under.
"But I've never done anything that hasn't been of use
to me in pictures afterwards. Strength from the oil-
fields. In 'Steel Preferred' I was at ease among the
ladles of molten metal because I had worked in a rolling-
mill when I was thirteen. I knew how to handle myself
so that I would never be in danger. . . . Oh, I could go
on indefinitely!
"I've always worked. I didn't care what kind of job
it was, but I tried to get one that would take me among
educated people so that I could learn by listening to them
talk. That's the way I got all the education I have. Asso-
ciating with people who knew things helped a lot. I wanted
to know so desperately that I couldn't help remembering.
so tired. But I wouldn't let it
had too much spirit. It wasn't
At sixteen William Boyd swung a sledge-hammer
in the oil-fields for ten hours a day. He has
driven trucks and delivered groceries. Now he
is a film favorite
"Seven years ago, I ran out of things to do. I had
some money that I'd made in a summer resort I had con-
ducted in Arizona and at the Post Exchange I ran in
March Fields, and I bought a good wardrobe. I was in
California and everybody was talking pictures, so I de-
cided to try them. I asked Frank Miller of the Mission
Inn how you got in.
A Note to De Mille
'"r\H, Bill, you wont like pictures!' he said, but he gave
me a letter to Cecil B. De Mille. I didn't know who
Mr. De Mille was — he might have been the janitor at
Lasky's — that was how ignorant I was then !
"Mr. De Mille saw me. He told me that he thought I
might do something in six or seven years, if I started
{Continued on page 78)
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HAMLET
John Barrymore as the immortal fourteenth-century
libertine, Don Juan
JOHN BARRYMORE says he is crazy about the
movies. He must be — literally — otherwise he would
not immerse himself in a tank of cold and mucid
water — suffering tortures that would make a starving
stuntman throw up his job — in order to inject the serum
of reality into the final scenes of "Don Juan."
.This is no pabulum of praise for a movie star — none
of that belly-wash about the handsome chappie who is so
keen for art that he insists on crocheting his own doily
for the big tea-room scene. I saw Barrymore go under
this stinking, algid flood, with a wind-machine playing
against his soaking back — saw' him go under and remain
two minutes by the watch. Then saw a hand come up —
a groping, abysmal hand — the hand of a drowning man,
clutching at the rotted straws floating on the surface.
The Aquatic Barrymore
After the hand had registered, the head and shoulders
emerged and Barrymore — in the character of the
great fourteenth-century libertine — struggled thru the
torrent to safety. I am still sneezing and sniffling from
the mere sight of it. For the scene was made at night
and the nights in this land of sunshine and roses are
frequently the chilliest, clammiest, most dismal monsters
ever loosed from Erebus.
Attendant figures — actors, property-men, electricians,
wearing oilskin trousers belted about their waists — said,
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By Don Ryan
yes. that was Barrymore's way. When they suggested
a double in some of the scenes of "The Sea Beast,"
Barrymore snorted, "Double, fudge!" (Only he
didn't say fudge.) "I'd have to do it myself anyway!"
And thereupon plunged into the sea to grapple with a
whale or something of that sort.
Standing in dripping tights with his back against a
salamander — a small, charcoal-burning heater thought-
fully provided by the Warner Brothers— Barrymore
had the nerve to tell me that he considered the movies
a fascinating game — lots of fun — more fun, he implied
than the stage.
Far From the Greenroom
O e was a long stride removed from the subtleties of
"The Jest." A far cry from Barrymore emerg-
ing by the stage door after a comfortable performance
of "Hamlet" — emerging into a scented crowd of
women who ogled and fluttered like a barnyard when
the ruler of the roost appears.
Barrymore had yet to re-enter the tank. Waiting
for the next set-up, he sipped a cup of coffee — he is
on the wagon — smoked a Tareyton, and gave me his
opinion of pictures.
The modern demiurge who manufactures Rotarians
wholesale also gave us John Barrymore, and he must
have been a bit under the Greek influence when he
modeled this un-American-looking young American.
It is a compliment to the designer that, in spite of a
bedraggled figure, in spite of the ugly cut with pendant
streams of dried blood which had been painted on the
forehead of the actor, Barrymore was superbly hand-
some. The water-soaked garments clung to a figure
proudly delicate and strong : the line of forehead and
nose in the steamy light as pure and radiant as anything
in classic sculpture.
I attempted, evilly, to trick the defendant into some
sort of delation against the movies. But he loyally and
adroitly defended his favorite mistress. This scion of
the oldest and most celebrated acting family in America
was on the stage at nineteen. A few years later he
entered pictures, working in comedies for Famous Play-
ers. At that time he was struck by the possibilities of
this brand-new medium. He is still thinking about them
—these immeasurable possibilities — as yet only scratched
by a few of the more daring and imaginative producers.
The Amazing Possibilities
"It's an amazing thing," he said, "these possibilities of
the pictures. The pictures are not inferior to the
stage — different. Truly I have been more moved by
good pictures than by anything seen on the stage. 'The
Birth of a Nation,' 'The Four Horsemen' — pictures such
as these are as fine as anything ever performed on the
legitimate stage.
"You hear a lot of talk about inferiority of the screen
— how childish the stories, how happy the endings must
be. But they dont have to be. It is true that many pro-
ducers have not realized this fact. But I think when the
story is authentic — when the audience can smell it — they
will not only stand for an unhappy ending, they will
_-
and the FILMS
John Barrymore
Likes Pictures
K.
Drawings by
R. Chamberlain
illy enjoy it, it it is the real and
al ending for the story. The
the same in both instances —
the moving picture public is just as
intelligent a> the stage public.
"In The Sea Beast' — a classic
story by a great author — we retained
the integrity of it absolutely. This
.1 difficult thing to do, because
we hail to impose a love-story which
wasn't in the book, 'Moby Dick,' at
all 1 think we performed the trick
without doing violence to Melville."
In doing "Don Juan." a different
problem confronted him : how to
v the hero as the "personifica-
tion of amorousness," as Barrymore
explained — and, at the same time
polish him off with a satisfactorily
sympathetic ending.
The way we did it," elucidated the creator of
Don Juan, "was to make him funny during the first
part of the picture. After he is disillusioned he be-
comes a sinister character. But he is regenerated in
the end.
"Here we met our greatest difficulty. It would not do
to make Don Juan put on carpet slippers and have the
BARRYMORE ON THE
Making pictures is a fascinating game .
the stage . . . not inferior — different.
MOVIES
. . fine a medium as
I'm crazy about the movies . . . always something new . .
good pictures have moved me more than good stage plays.
The audience will stand for unhappy endings if these are
logical . . . movre public just as intelligent as stage public.
I'm disgusted with these sweet-scented jackasses I've been
playing . . . want to play somebody with intestines !
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" the only picture of mine that was
any good. . . . I'm satisfied with "The Sea Beast" and "Don Juan."
The movie comedies are the greatest thing in drama . .
nothing in "Hamlet" any better.
We'll have finer pictures when producers cease to undervalue
public taste.
picture fade out in a clinch. So we had him drop out of
sight. His contemporaries think he is dead, thus preserv-
ing the tradition of the great philanderer."
(Continued on page 66)
Don Juan struggles thru the torrent to safety. The
torrent was real — but Barrymore refused to let
a double do the scene
21
Four Famous Writers
Courtesy George H. Doran
Thomas Burke
Sir Anthony Hope
Pacific & Atlantic
By Henry Albert Phillips
Thomas Burke
Sir Anthony Hope
TN the small group of photodramas that stand T FOUND Sir Anthony Hope (Hawkins) of
•*■ out in my mind and memory under the **■ quite a different mind in regard to American
selective title of "the greatest" I always include films. It was a cold, foggy night and Sir Anthony
"Broken Blossoms." In fact, it tops the list. So,
then, it was but natural that I should seek out
Thomas Burke, the author of "The Chink and
the Child," which furnished D. W. Griffith with
the story of such unique blend of character —
brute and bully, tender, helpless innocence
and inscrutable Oriental passion — that made
"Broken Blossoms" the most delicate and poign-
ant study of character that the screen has ever
seen.
"The Chink and the Child" is among the
stories that make up one of the most remarkable
books in the English language — "Limehouse
talked standing with his back quite close to the
small English grate.
"I think the films are interesting, very inter-
esting. I go to see them often. They give you
so many things the stage cant. They read be-
tween the lines of stories and speak undertones
that the stage actor cannot utter. Too, the stage
cant bring in the Perfect sequence the way they
do it, nor the novel, for that matter. But they
never move me so deeply as the stage Perform-
ance does. They are, after all, 'the shadow show,
I call them!" He laughed in that voice which is
the deepest I have ever heard. "Yes, one misses
Nights." The reason of the popularity and ap- the Personality of the actor, which is, after all,
Pea! of both the book and photodrama is to be the Personality of the author
found in the fact that it is so largely the life story
of Thomas Burke himself.
As you may have gathered from "Broken
Blossoms," Limehouse is one of the worst — //
not the worst — districts of London. Here I
found the dock rats and dives, dope and dissipa-
tion just as he had described it, and lived it.
For Thomas Burke was born and bred in this
environment, and his best friend thruout years
(Both Continued on Page 64)
I was particularly interested in "The Prisoner
of Zenda," the most Popular of all the Pseudo-
romances that was ever written.
"Rex Ingram directed the last Production made
of my 'Prisoner of Zenda' — this is the third
time, by the way, that they have made it into
films. I have watched Ingram's work in other
films and I am inclined to think that he is as good
as any they have Produced. I was tremendously
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Consider the Films
"I like the German pictures best — or the
Swedish. In them you will always find skill,
background, finesse of story, maturity, mel-
lowm
— Thomas Burke.
"I am looking forward to the appearance
of moving photographs of the fairy and spirit
world. They are bound to come."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
"I think the films are interesting. They
give you so many things the stage cant. They
read between the lines of stories and speak
undertones."
— Sir Anthony Hope.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The First of a Series of Talks About Motion Pictures
With Famous English and Continental Authors
Ralph D. Blumenfeld
J1ALPH D. BLUMENFELD, editor-in-chief
-*^ of "The London Daily Express," and ac-
counted one of the greatest journalists in the
world, is an American, by the way. It was none
other than this same Blumenfeld who, with
Stanford White, built the Herald Building in
Herald Square under the financial leadership of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
C/£ ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE is as different
*"^ from Burke as day is from night, which is' a
fitting simile. He is a great big, smiling, spon-
taneous fellow; enthusiastic about everything,
particularly some new "finds" he had made in
the spirit world, of which he showed me the nega-
tives. Then he showed me some alleged photo-
James Gordon Bennett. .Mr. Blumenfeld has graphs of fairies that had recently come into his
been an editor in London now for more than hands.
thirty years. All movie fans will readily recall "The Lost
The films," he told me, "particularly the World," taken from a book of the same name by
American films, have done much to lower the Doyle, by the way. It is no more the story of a
literary and artistic tastes of the whole world, group of scientists who went out and stumbled
There is usually a cowboy story or a thoroly over a lost world of still-exi sting prehistoric un-
pad story in which crime more often than not civilization than it is a spectacle of the drama in
triumphs. An audience is tied down in their the lives of those mastodonic animals under the
seats — for it is not like a book you can toss aside Pressure of a great catastrophe. The marvelous
— and cant escape the bad influence. From a feature of the Picture lies in the reproduction of
British standpoint they are intensely annoying all the antediluvian — "auruses — dinosauruses,
from the fact that they all have an American tchthyosauruses, etc. — in the life.
background — / sPeak now of nine out of ten —
and an American story — which rs no credit, by
the way, to anyone concerned. The stories are
seldom big enough for universal application,
which is the test of great literature or drama."
(Both Continued on Page 64)
"How did you like the filming of The Lost
World'?" I asked Sir Arthur.
"Oh, the films did it very well, very well, he
said enthusiastically.
"Do you go to the cinema much?'
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The Film Stars Tell
Here Are Facts that Will
Help You This Summer
By Alice L.Tildesley
Spring is in the air!
That is, for most of America. Californians get
more than their sltare of sunshine, but they miss
the lure of Springtime, too.
Right now everyone is thinking of his or her
garden. The screen folk are just like everyone
else. The Classic assigned Miss Tildesley to
ascertain the favorite flowers of the stellar celebri-
ties— and how they groiv them. Here are her
findings, of genuine interest to every garden lover
everywhere. — The Editor.
Some
Colleen Moore
/^olleen moore is a tulip fan.
"I plant my tulips in the spring,
people put their bulbs in water with enough
stones to hold them upright, but I prefer to
plant mine in rich soil in the garden. I think
they thrive better. They should be covered
with about four inches of earth and watered
daily. Keep the soil loose around them, so they
can breathe.
"A lovely effect is achieved by planting them
in beds alongside tuberoses, iris and other
flowers of the same family."
Estelle Taylor
ELLE TAYLOR-.
like trees better than flowers for my
garden. One of my favorites is the English
myrtle, probably because we had a hedge of
them around my home in Delaware, brought
ESTEI
"T
Top, Colleen Moore in her
tulip garden. Center:
Adolphe Menjou trimming
his oleander hedge. Right,
Noah Beery with his water
hyacinths in his rock garden
24
J
AboutTheir Gardens
The Players Explain
About Their Favorite
Flowers — and How
They Grow Them
m England by my grandfather, so they
always seem like old friends.
i can keep myrtle trimmed down to
a hedge two feet high; but give it plenty of
m, sunlight ami water and it will grow
10 ten feet. It stands intense heat well and
live for three weeks without water,
altho I advise frequent watering. Black
Kale is its great enemy. The tree should be
protected by tanglefoot to prevent the ants
from carrying this plague, and I use a spray
whale-oil soap dissolved in hot water
with kerosene and a green coloring matter
that prevents it from being seen on the
leaves. After forty-eight hours, I wash off
the spray."
Willard Louis
YI71LLARD Louis is known at all California
* flower shows as a champion dahlia
grower. He has created several new vari-
eties of his favorite flower and has taken
many prizes for his choice blooms.
"After your dahlias have been cut for the
Top, Of all her garden Estelle Taylor is most inter-
ested in her English myrtles. Left, Charlie Chase,
the comedian, specializes in silver daisies
season, get your tubers out of the ground and let
them stand thirty days before you separate them
from the root and 'mother bulb.' Keep in a cool,
dark place. In getting tubers ready for the next
planting, saw them — dont break them — from the
root. Be sure each one has an eye and a neck.
This is most important, as the slip must have an
eye in order to bud, and planting tubers without a
neck is a waste of time — you will not have plants.
"I plant the tubers in furrows in ground that has
been carefully cultivated and enriched. I plant in
April or May — for late season flowers, as late as
June. You need a careful eye in the selection of
tubers, little ones are likely to be much better than
big ones, but this does not always follow.
"Do not water until the plants are up, and then
water the ground, not the top of the plants.
"Deep, soft loam is necessary. Different soils
demand different treatment, but it is important not
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The STARS and Their GARDENS
Gene Kornman
Mildred Davis Lloyd
loves her poinsettias.
Right, Willard Lewis
has won many prizes
with his dahlias. Be-
low, Irene Rich and
her climbing roses
to use the same
ground year after
year — virgin soil
gives better dahlias.
It takes three or
four years to pro-
duce a good new
variety. Polleniza-
tion has everything
to do with this, but
anyone by constant
care can raise very
fine flowers.
"I have named my new varieties after favorite
parts — Babbitt, Wales, etc., and one for my
little girl, Dorothy."
Marshall Neilan
Marshall Neilan is so fond of the blooms
that his studio is a bower of roses.
"Roses require three things — good soil, sun
and water. But remember to water around the
roots, never touching the leaves. Watering the
leaves will cause a mildew to appear. If your
roses mildew, however, you can treat them by
wetting the leaves again and sprinkling them with
sulphur."
Irene Rich
the roots, water only after the sun goes down and
believe in careful pruning. A broken or scarred branch
is cut off cleanly and the wound covered with tree salve."
Seena Owen
"/~\ld-fashioned stocks are my delight.
"Of course, in California we plant them almost any
season, and aside from watering them, leave them to
grow as they will ; but in cold climates they should be
grown from seed planted in a hotbed early in March.
The seedlings should be transplanted several times, each
time in a richer soil, and when they are about ten inches
high, they may be set out in the garden.
"The biennial variety should be sown the season
previous to that in which the flowers are desired, the
plants wintered in a cool house and grown the following
spring."
Noah Beery
To Noah Beery, the pale-blue water hyacinth has a
*■ fascination. He grows them in a pool in his sunken
garden.
They add tre-
mendously to the
striking effect of
his rock garden.
"They grow
best in from nine
to twelve inches
of still water,
thrusting their
roots into the rich
soil under the
water. A minia-
ture waterfall
keeps the pool full
of still water,
and the rest I
leave to Nature."
(Continued on
page 68)
Irene rich,
L ~„«, has
is
rose
also the
climbing
whose favorite flower
rose, nas a "Tausendschoen"
over the pillars of her home.
"I agree with Mr. Neilan about the essentials
of rose culture, but I keep the ground loose about
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_l
By
ELLISON HOOVER
IF THEY STAGED BASEBALL IN
MOTION PICTURE FASHION
27
PAGING the FILM
By Dorothy
Donnell
Clara Bow and her
father, who now man-
ages his daughter
FATHERS are the unknown
quantity in the movies. You read
all about the stars' motor-cars,
their bungalows, their Pomeranians,
their man servants and their maid
servants. You wipe a sentimental
tear from your eyes as you gaze upon
pictures of them sitting on the edge
of Mother's armchair, or perched on
Mother's knee, their cheeks laid
against the dear silver that shines in
Mother's permanent wave. But you
would not think that the stars ever
had any fathers, tho that seems
biologically probable.
In some cases, picture players, in
their swift rise to fortune, have dis-
carded their male parents on the same
general principle that they discard four-
cylinder cars, cotton hosiery, and ready-
made clothing, as being unsuitable to
their new way of living. Many of these
fathers do not fit into the splendor of
their daughters' careers.
The Unknown Fathers
AX/hen motion picture fans discov-
ered a brief note in their news-
'/ papers recently announcing the sudden
death in Los Angeles of the father of
Norma and Constance Talmadge, they
were surprised. Mr. Talmadge never had
achieved a line of publicity, altho Ma Tal-
madge has appeared in scores of newspaper
and magazine interviews, besides being the
author of a book about her famous daugh-
ters. Indeed, Mr. Talmadge never had his
picture taken.
Research reveals that most movie fathers
are inconspicuous by their own wish. Busi-
ness and professional men, they have their own
work and have no desire to borrow any of their
offsprings' glory, proud as they are of it.
There are movie fathers who have helped their
children as faithfully as any mothers could have
done. There is J. Darsie Lloyd, for instance,
who, in the lean days of Harold's movie career,
used to cook their dinners over a two-burner gas-
stove, mend his son's coat, patch his trousers and
set clumsy darns into the heels of stockings
trodden thin with the search for work.
Treasurer of Lloyd Corporation
ow he is treasurer of the Harold Lloyd Cor-
poration and, by a newly discovered talent for
real estate, he has increased his son's fortune
many fold. But proud as he is of his famous
son, he has his own little prides, too. "Joe,"
he said not long ago to the Lloyd publicity
man, Joe Reddy, showing him a clipping from
a newspaper story, "I see here that you say
that I used to be a sewing-machine salesman.
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FATHERS
. of course, it's nol especially important but,
w write, you mighl ju->t men-
the fact that before 1 got thru 1 was appointed
; for
>j
41
Frank Bangs
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
Dick hankers for a Western picture of the great open
spaces where stars are cowboys. Here's how he'll
look when he gets it
42
Super- Realism in the Movies
By Matthew Josephson
Mr Josefhson is a well-known young radical n
n taking a profound interest in motion fic~
i !r has ■ vrckm i e, The I >oi
I'm \'iu Republic, The Nation <'m/ other
He was an editoi of I'm Broom and
N
ONE returns as from a Robinson sojourn of
several years' absence from the cinema temples to
find that the movies have unconsciously, and by
imperceptible stages, grown up. Curious, quiet, blood
revolutions have come and gone under the surface.
The last winter season offered such spectacles as
-Stella Dallas." -The Big Parade," "The Merry Widow,"
"Lad) Windermere's Ivan." Names that are already
conjured with as landmarks in the history of this new
art. And it is astonishing also how clearly the directors,
Henry King, King Yidor, von Stroheim, Lubitsch, emerge
the dominating spirits of these dramas in black and
white. It is as if you had been listening to the same or-
chestra play the same music for a long time, and then sud-
denly became aware of a more competent and inspiring
leadership, of an unflagging spirit knitting it all together.
intensifying the shadows and the lights. . . .
And quite as gradually it dawns upon your Robinson
Crusoe of the brief nap away from the movies that the
technique of them is now cleaner and firmer than that of
the older pictures. Both directors and actors seem to know
more about what they want to do, and to have profited
silently by their own experiences or errors. The camera
itself has undoubtedly become a more devilishly accurate
instrument. And there are so few waste motions: every
piece of furniture, every bit of foliage is properly placed
or composed within a de-
sign ; the directors seem to
realize that even their stars
are only tools, things that
reflect so much moving
light and shade back to the
camera-lens, so that if a
book or a hat is more im-
portant to the whole effect
than the expensive and
temperamental actress, the
book or hat has its own
bright holiday.
Says Mr. Josephson
"It is astonishing how clearly Henry King,
King Vidor, von Stroheim and Lubitsch
emerge as the dominant spirits of these dramas
in black and white.
"American pictures outbid all others abroad
because of their vivid movement and energy.
"Lubitsch I regard frankly as a dangerous
influence.
Cf.veral years ago, in the
° winter of 1922-1923, I
chanced to visit, in Rerlin,
the sumptuous studios of
UFA. where I saw that
brilliant fermentation out
of which came so many
famous German pictures. Talking to the German direc-
tors, I became aware of the rapid developments that were
taking place. They were proud of their historical
romances. "Henry VIII," "Peter the Great," "Othello."
all lavish with perfected detail, scientific atmosphere,
and artfully composed studio sets. Also of that weird
and imaginative "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," black flower
of post-war Expressionism, which I had already seen in
Paris in the guise of a Swedish masterpiece. And yet,
much as I respect and hope for from the Germans' gift
"Henry King's 'Stella Dallas' was undoubt-
edly the outstanding achievement of .the
winter."
for the theater, the drama, 1 come to America for certain
qualities and achievements in the film thai are inimitable
and unrivaled. . . .
♦ * *
Cok my own part. I never forget that the motion picture
means JUS1 that: it involves motion. It has seemed
necessary to me thai the forms in the screen be afo
in an eternal movement. The moment they stopped, or
had the effed of Stopping, 1 lost interest. Now e\en in
the best German films at times, the directors had a way
of getting lost in the "literary" content of some clever or
ironical hook or play. The picture suddenly became si
{i.e. motionless), and I found myself watching a dull.
reasonable-looking sel that rarely changed or assumed
any fresh meanings for me. while the wise or witty prob-
lems of life were being worked out between conscientious
actors and overworked subtitles.
Now our restless and animated Americans, with their
Spectacular American scene, make the most admirable
subjects for the film. American pictures still hugely out-
bid all others abroad because of the magnetic attraction
of their vivid movement and energy. Always the Amer-
ican films seemed to "follow the ball," even in those
innocent pictures of Western life as it never was. there
were things that escaped them, moments of a tremendous
reality that the eye as it watched knew was deeper and
more revealing than any reality it had ever seen !
Cixce the motion picture is purely a visual art, the eye
^ strains to see things untampered with, unaltered, just
as they are, in the penetrating flashes of the camera.
Motion we have never
actually seen before. The
mass of a face spread over
twenty feet of screen in
mobile lights and shadows
we have never been able to
study with so much com-
posure. The spinning of a
wheel, the gallop of a
horse — all these common-
place things have for us a
super-reality that no other
art ever presented ; and
since we know so little
about the world we live in,
and are assured now that
all is relative (!) we hunger
incessantly to see more of
this world we never really
see. In every direction and
every corner of our daily
lives the screen brings such
illumination that unconscious habits or gestures or ex-
pressions of the mouth and hand become tremendously
important things. To me this has always been the genius
of the films.
Ts it not time to take stock, then, of the present-day films"'
*■ Do the directors on whom the whole business depends
realize these qualities? Delighting in the competence,
orderliness and intelligence of these men. Cruze, Lubitsch.
(Continued on page 70)
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E
AST month we picked some flaws
in the skill displayed by the
Pacific coast organization of
FLASH
By F. J. S.
press-agents, the Wampas, in select-
ing baby stars. If we remember
correctly, their selecting average,
running over a period of five years,
ran to exactly .138.
Modesty prevents us from making
a comparison with the discerning
ability of the Wampas. However (business of The magazine is called NICKELODEON
blushing), in the August issue of THE CLASSIC MASTERPIECES and it is given over to the
we mentioned the fact that during the coming best thought in the industry.
year 950 motion picture dramas would be pro- For instance, we would publish contributions
duced but that just twenty of them would be of from all the leading New York screen critics,
consequence. We would have F. Mordaunt Hall, of The
Yes, we named the twenty. And all but Times, contribute one of his characteristic re-
one of the box-office hits of the subsequent views, except that we would insist that he tell
months were in that twenty. For our chosen the plot in detail of the film in question. And
twenty included : "The Big Parade," "The Merry we would have Quinn Martin, of The World,
Widow," "Ben-Hur," "The Gold Rush," "The tell exactly how he discovered Harold Lloyd
Freshman," "Don Q," "The Pony Express," some years ago.
"Sally of the Sawdust," and "The Unholy We would get an article from Fannie Hurst
Three." Our list included too, "La Boheme," telling the literary throes of creating such a great
"Mare Nostrum," and "Moana of the South story as "Mannequin." This would be a fine
Seas," the fates of which remain to be seen, help to people planning to enter future scenario
We missed guessing just one big hit, "Stella contests.
Dallas." We would answer everyone who attacked the
Pretty soon we are going to select our chosen screen by declaring, with as much heat as we
list of next year's hits. Producers and exhibitors could generate offhand, that the aforementioned
are welcome to look over the list — and reap attacker was just a disappointed person who
their respective fortunes.
Yes, come to think of
it, with nine hits out of
twenty selections to date,
our guessing average is
.450.
Naturally, it is the
easiest thing in the world
to make lists and predic-
tions. We ■plead guilty
again in selecting the sex
best sellers of the screen
at the present moment
of palpitating to press:
Vilma Banky
Norma Shearer
Dolores Costello
Renee Adoree
Greta Nissen
Esther Ralston
Everybody loves to im-
agine things. We have
an imaginary film maga-
zine in which we publish
(mentally) all the things
that we (personally) like.
44
ALICE JOYCE
An impression by Wynn, Paris
had tried to sell sce-
narios.
We would run a lot of
pictures oi Hollywood
stars' backyards, showing
the complete extent of
the bathing-pool vogue.
And we would have
Marie Prevost pose on
the edge of everyone of
the pools.
We would run a lot of
pictures of the young
ladies mentioned in the
preceding item on this
page. And we would
throw all pictures of
Ernest Torrence et ah
into the wastepaper
basket.
We would run only
such interviews as the
one in this CLASSIC
with Laura La Plante ;
i.e., chats with frank
cuties who did not try to
palm off the idea that
they loved Strindberg.
We would only review
productions by King
BACKS
About Pictures and People
Probably the moil interacting
CVCMlt <>t tile- ilUtllMIM -
a ill be the launching <>t I I
son as a star in special pi ms.
As Miss Swanson herself point
out in a recant CLASSIC, she i
been starring in moder.i *i i-pri
program pictures, altho critics have
frequently commented upon these as
it they were specials.
Vidor, Ernst Lubitsch, Eric von Stroheim and Gloria lifted these to prominence hy sheer
John Robertson, or, upon favorable report, those personality. We doubt if there is a more vivid
of certain German directors. Rex Ingram and feminine figure in all picturedom than Miss
Henry King. Swanson. She has gone through a number of
We would review more pictures starring eras in the development of her career, be it noted
Richard Barthelmess and Richard Dix because, She was under the De Mille influence for a
in NICKELODEON MASTERPIECES, we time and then after that she was a devotee of
wouldn't care how much our personal liking for Elinor Glyn, the lady who discovered the
these chaps brought superlatives rushing to our asterisk. She threw off these influences, began
typewriters. to develop rapidly and hit her stride in "The
We may go on baring our editorial soul (or Humming Bird.''
lack of it) next month. We 11 see. Up to that time she had been looked upon as
a wearer of picturesque attire. In brief, she was
a clothes horse. But she has used her brain in
Last month we handed out a lot of medals to developing herself and she has forced her ac-
the unsung heroes of the screen, the men who ceptance by the public as a big star.
do the real work and never get the credit. Some- Miss Swanson's first vehicle, we understand,
how we overlooked the unhappy fellow who did is to be an ornate adaptation of 'The Miracle,
the cutting of " Ben-Hur. the Max Reinhardt spectacle which was 1m-
Imagme trimming the thousands of feet of ported a year or so ago witk a great deal of
original negative down to the mere twelve reels theatrical hokus-pocus by Morris Gest. This
of the "Ben-Hur as it
is being shown now! The
by the
cutter s name,
way, is Lloyd Nosier,
and something ought to
be done about getting
folks to rush some fan
mail his way.
My spies report to me
that 1,600.000 feet of
negative were shot in
making "Ben-Hur," from
which 800,000 feet of
positive were printed.
Nosier cut this 800,000
down to 12,000.
The Jof>pa Gate se-
quence, shot in Italy, was
trimmed from 100,000 to
1,000 feet, while the
Roman galley sequence
was lof>f>ed from about
132,000 feet to 1,500.
The chariot race occupied
originally 200,000 feet of
negative. The race now
runs 1.000 feet.
Nosier must have cut
his film like a dyspeptic
city editor.
ROD LA ROCQUE
An impression by Wynn, Paris
is a version of the old
medieval legend which
also served as the basis
of Maeterlinck's ''Sister
Beatrice.
This old Dutch legend
is a delicate subject for
the screen. It relates of
a nun who is seduced
away from her convent
by a brash crusader.
When she returns, she
finds that her place has
been assumed by the
Virgin, so that her ab-
sence has passed without
notice. The legend points
the moral that love ex-
tenuates all.
We suspect that Miss
Swanson will play the
runaway and the image
of the Virgin which comes
to life and assumes the
role of the nun. In the
Reinhardt production
these parts were played
by two actresses. Lady
Diana Manners being the
(Continued on page 86)
45
Out^
OWN
NEWS
CAMERA
Harry Cooper, winner of the $10,000 Los
Angeles national golf championship, visited
the Lasky studio right after the tournament.
Naturally, he talked to Bebe Daniels, who
loves golf. And naturally, the press-agent
snapped 'em both. Cooper hails from Dallas,
Texas
No, Virginia Bedford isn't
doing a seven-league-boot
stunt. No, indeed! She is
merely jumping over a mo-
tion picture miniature, a
tiny farmhouse built in the
studio
46
.,
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the
King and the Queen of "The 1'iest.i
of the Tropics." held in Miami.
Florida. The City of Realtors had a
gay celebration. You will note that
Ben Lyon was the king and Eugenie
Selma the Queen. The hobo whiskers
had to be grown by Ben for his next
screen role. Hence the comedy king
appearance
Joan Crawford breaks into The
Classic so frequently that we hardly
know what to do about it. Just when
we had made a resolution not to use
her picture for awhile, she went and
was snapped demonstrating a high
kick. Do you blame us for breaking
our resolution?
Thomas Meighan went to Florida to film scenes of "The New
Klondike," in which he plays a baseball pitcher. Here you may
observe Gene Tunney, the fighter (at left), and Gene Sarazen, former
open golf champion, looking him over at Miami
47
The CLASSIC'S Own News Camera
Hollywood Honeymooners: Roy D'Arcy and his bride, the
former Laura Rhinock Duffy, daughter of the vice-president
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures: Remember Roy as the
crown prince in "The Merry Widow"?
Stellar disclosures continue! Here is
Norma Talmadge as the piquant French
gamine, Kiki, played on the stage by
Lenore Ulric. Herewith is the Talmadge
Kiki in the theater scene of the screen
version
*-w-^WR-
Being a stellar favorite has
its tribulations, as we have
intimated before. The item
of avoirdupois is a vital
problem, for instance. Here
you have Bebe Daniels keep-
ing in training with her
friend, Marie Mosquini. They
do this — and twenty other
convolutions every morning.
All these are designed to
keep the. hips at the right
i weight
48
Masterpieces of the Screen
By Eugene V. Brewster
IF anybody were to ask who was the
greatesl general thai ever lived,
who was the greatest phil
pher. or the greatest prize-fighter,
or what was the greatest paint-
or novel, or poem, how
could one answer"- How can
one compare a race-horse with
indeer, both being per-
animals of their kind?
And so. how are we to
compare "The Birtli of a
Nation" with "The Last
Laugh"' We have no yard-
stick with which to measure
the qualities of a picture
and, therefore, we cannot
compare pictures with scien-
tific accuracy. Again, a picture
may not please us and yet be a
masterpiece. Likewise, a picture
may be very bad technically and yet
please us immensely. Let us see if we
cannot formulate some sort of diagram,
chart or schedule of qualities that a one
hundred per cent, picture should have.
First, it must have story interest. While
pictures of a mere rose, and a simple "scenic" might be
masterpieces of their kind, they could not be rated as
one hundred per cent, pictures because they do not include
many of the qualities that a one hundred per cent, picture
must contain. Strictly speaking, a one hundred per cent,
picture must have all the elements and qualities that a
picture could possibly contain. Let me try to name some
of those qualities :
EUGENE V.
© Lumiere
BREWSTER
Drusilla with a Million
Foolish Wives
perhaps, that has ever been conceived;
therefore, it other things were equal
the lattt far tin- greater pic-
ture. I he former mighl bi
hundred per cent ol its kind,
just a- a picture of a
might he, hut the "kind" i^
not the greatesl possible and
therefore, these cannot he
classed as one hundred
cent, pictures. The
movie drama ever pro-
duced, "The Great Train
Robbery," was a ma
piece of its kind and for it^
time, and so was "The Birtli
of a Nation." which came a
dozen or so years later ; hut
neither of these would be a
Y masterpiece today. Here is a
group of dramas that were master-
pieces of their kind and for their
time :
Driven
The Jack-Knife Man
The Lady
Tol'able David
Broken Blossoms
Revelation
A Tale of Two Cities
B
Story interest
Direction
Theme
Acting
Heart interest
Beauty
Instructive value
Characterization
Dramatics
Titles
Climax
Construction
Universal interest
Suspense
Spectacle
Box-office value
Photography
Cast
Morals
Historic Value
Finesse
Eugene V. Brewster selects the six masterpieces of
the screen:
The One Hundred Per Cent. Picture
There are other
qualities, but these
will suffice. Some
of these may not be
necessary to a one
hundred per cent,
picture, you may say,
such as "morals" —
a picture need not
preach or point a
moral to be one hun-
dred per cent. Yes,
but if it does contain this quality, is it not so much the
better ? A one hundred per cent, picture, you may say. need
not be a spectacle and have gorgeous sets and stupendous
mobs; but. if it does, is it not a greater picture with than
without? The theme of "The I^ast Laugh" was very
simple, while the theme of "Ben-Hur" was the greatest,
"Ben-Hur"
"The Wanderer"
"The Ten Commandments"
Masterpieces of Their Kind
ut the same class of picture has since been equaled
and surpassed ; therefore, they are not one hundred
per cent, pictures. "The Lost World" was a masterpiece
of its kind and unique, but it did not contain all of the
elements of a one hundred per cent, picture. "Shoulder
Arms," "The Kid." "Safety Last," "Introduce Me,"
"Seven Chances" and other comedies were masterpieces
of their kind, but they were not of the one hundred per
cent, kind and could not possibly contain all of the ele-
ments of a one hundred per cent, masterpiece. "The
Miracle Man" and "The Four Horsemen" were also
great, but they were not of the one hundred per cent.
kind. Several of the pictures of Mr. Fairbanks were
masterpieces of their kind, notably "Robin Hood," and so
were some of the "histories" like "The Thundering Herd"
and "The Pony Ex-
press," but none of
them contained all
of the elements of
a one hundred per
cent, picture, even
tho they were per-
fect so far as they
went and even if
it were impossible
to have added any
of these elements
without marring the picture. There is still another group
of great pictures :
The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Sea Hawk
The Phantom of the Opera He Who Gets Slapped
The Merry Widow The Unholy Three
The Vanishing American Kiss Mc Again
{Continued on page 79)
"Stella Dallas"
"The Big Parade"
"Lady Windermere's Fan"
49
The Celluloid Critic
By Frederick James Smith
I
A WEEKLY magazine re-
cently conducted a contest
in conjunction with the
Famous Players, offering a prize
of $50,000 for the best story
adaptable to motion pictures.
The fifty thousand smackers
were awarded to Fannie Hurst
for a story called "Mannequin."
The story, in brief, is the old
hokum of the baby stolen from
her crib and later reunited to her
real parents. Even the old situa-
tion, of the girl being tried in a
court, of which her own real
father is the judge, is trotted out
for inspection.
That Winning Story
f this ancient dramatic wheeze
was the best story turned in by
the magazine contestants, then
motion picture companies prob-
ably are right in refusing to read
unsolicited scripts. Miss Hurst
must have chortled in her Paquin
sleeve upon receiving the $50,000 for this venerable junk.
"Mannequin" was a darn sight better produced than it
deserved to be. Doubtless, the eminent Famous Players
realized the weakness of their prize and decided to dress
it up as best they could. Director James Cruze gives the
creaky tale a whole lot of human atmosphere. And he
gets superb assistance from Dolores Costello as the girl
and Alice Joyce as the mother of the kidnaped kiddie.
I am not going to go further in exposing the bones
of this ancient plot for your ribald laughter. I will
explain that the stolen child is raised in the tenements,
becomes a clothes model and is unjustly accused
of murder, everything being explained by a
deathbed confession. Personally, I think
Miss Hurst ought to donate at least a
James Kirkwood and Carol
Dempster in "That Royle Girl"
<
Ball
Frederick James Smith
part of her $50,000 to the great-
great-great-grandchildren of the
original author of this plot, pro-
vided he can be traced.
As I have intimated, Miss Cos-
tello gives a striking performance
of the girl, Joan. This Miss Cos-
tello is going to be a big star of
the screen, or I shall miss my
guess. She looks a bit like Elsie
Ferguson when she first dawned
upon the theatrical horizon and
she possesses a singular sympa-
thetic charm. With any sort of
break, Miss Costello is going to
do big things.
Miss Joyce gives one of those
understanding performances au-
diences have come to expect of
her. And Director Cruze has in-
jected a human note here and
there. For all its antique machin-
ery, "Mannequin" will touch you
now and then, thanks to Miss
Costello and Miss Joyce.
Watch Miss Costello!
A New Dorothy Gish
T viewed "Nell Gwyn," an English product, at a special
showing. It may not reach the general public of
America, which will be regrettable, since it reveals a
Dorothy Gish you have never suspected heretofore.
"Nell Gwyn" tells, in leisurely English film fashion,
the story of the orange girl who became an actress and
who won a portion of the flitting affections of the gay
Charles II. It is practically a film monolog, barely
sketching the gay court of those dissolute roistering days.
"Nell Gwyn" is singularly lacking in drama, altho
the period was vibrant with color, as any
reader of Samuel Pepys' diary will testify.
I suppose the producer-director,
Esther Ralston and Laurence
Grey in "The American Venus"
The New Photoplays
in Review
Herbert Wilcox, would explain that he did
wish to distort histoi \ with the inj<
turn of romance 01 dramatic climax. But
^t<«r\ has plent) of distortion, as, for
ance, the metamorphosis of the Duke <>t
York into .1 doui faced Puritan. \nd there
i uracies galore
I have said that "Nell Gwyn" reveals a
new Dorothy Gish. 1 use the word liter-
ally. Nell's attire leaves little to the
imagination. However, Miss Gish stands
the revelation admirably. Hei playing lias
to, buoyancy and humor. The roister-
-pirit of the real Nell, as she must have
existed in those rough and merry days,
i>n't there. But the characterization has
more breadth and verve than anything Miss
Gish has given the screen. If her work
is repetitious, it is because the direction is
decidedly amateurish. The work of Randle
rton as Charles 11 is good, but, outside
of Miss dish, the real honors go to Roy
t Iverbaugh, an American cameraman, for
his photography.
Those Dempster Limbs
HAVE noted Miss- Gish's revelations.
Then there are those of Carol Dempster
in "That Royle Girl" to be considered. If
I may say so, Miss Dempster's legs are the
real features of this decidedly mediocre
effort by D. W. Griffith.
"That Royle Ciirl" is adapted from a
magazine serial by Edwin Balmer. It con-
cerns the tribulations of a cutie whose
father is a lazy student of prohibition and
whose sweetheart is unjustly accused of
murder. It moves thru the underworld of
Chicago and terminates with a cyclone
somewhere in the outskirts of that metropolis. The
cyclone is mildly interesting, wrecking the roadhouse
where Daisy Royle is held prisoner. There is a certain
unsavory element running thru "That Royle Girl," prin-
cipally centering about the chief villain who carries a
little whip and is palpably a subject for Dr. Krafft-
Ebing. Miss Dempster's histrionic contribution to "That
Royle Girl" isn't much, altho that is the fault of a rush-
ing and false melodramatic story, but she does lead
piquant support to the tottering tale. No one can ever
say that this Griffith picture hasn't a leg to stand on.
V\ . C. Fields is in the story, playing the father, but he is
only allowed to catch the camera once or twice. Even
in those flashes, he reveals his fine comic spirit. Fields is
going to be as great as Chaplin in three years. Wait
and see.
To continue the revelations of the month, let me next
consider "The American Venus," an original story built
around the late lamented national bathing-girl contest at
Atlantic City. I resent "The American Venus" because
it is essentially cheap and tawdry, being built obviously
upon the idea, already a success at Atlantic City, of
exploiting gals in brief bathing attire. Like everyone
else, I like pulchritude, but I hate to see it retailed in
circus and Chautauqua fashion.
Dorothy Gish in'"Ncll Gwyn"
C K O. Hoppc
The plot of "The American Venus" almost makes
"Mannequin" look like a literary masterpiece. This
tremendous mental effort of Mr. Townsend Martin dis-
closes how the daughter of the owner of a small town
beauty-cream factory enters the beauty contest. The pro-
prietor of a rival cream works holds a mortgage on the
plant and is going to foreclose unless the gal will marry
his son. Honest, that is the story.
Another Literary Gem
Vol' will have to go to see "The American Venus" if
you wish to know the denouement. I left, but not un-
til the camera had proved to my satisfaction that Esther
Ralston, in a one-piece suit, completely eclipses Fay
Lanphere, the real winner of the 1925 contest, who also
appears in this big literary gem. Ford Sterling was
showing signs of stealing the picture when I left the
theater. The much-exploited Broadway chorus beauty,
Louise Brooks, is in the piece. She has a provocative
face, but she hasn't learned yet how to make her knees
behave.
"Womanhandled," Richard Dix's newest starring
effort, amused me a lot. A great deal of the credit for
the diverting qualities of this comedy goes to one
{Continued on page 89)
51
Ewald Dupont, the director, and Emil Jannings between
scenes of "Vaudeville," which features Mr. Jannings
CERTAINLY Ewald Andre Dupont can be called
one of th'e most interesting personalities in motion
pictures. In Germany he is the most popular of
all film directors and in Berlin they are predicting that it
wont be long until his name will be just as popular in the
United States. He has had a contract with Universal for
many months and he is now in California about to start
his first American picture.
Dupont was born in 1891. He comes from one of
those old Huguenot families which emigrated from France
in the eighteenth century and became the special pets of
Frederic the Great, who strongly favored their immigra-
tion into Prussia. The Duponts, during two centuries,
have yielded quite a number of strong personalities in all
walks of life. Since the second half of the last century
they have gone in mostly for newspaper work and
many of them have played important parts in German
journalism.
Born Into Journalism
UPONt's father was editor-in-chief of the then most
popular Berlin daily. He died, however, when young
Andre, or Ewald as he is generally called by his friends,
D
Presenting
DUPONT
of Berlin
was barely six years of age. And. strange to say,
the fact of his being the famous journalist's son
did more to impede than to help the boy's own
rnalistic career. In the big publishing house, where
ago his father had played such an important part,
it was not at all easy for that young and highly ambitious
journalist to be recognized on his own merits. He had
literally to force himself on these people by writing under
an assumed name before they at last accepted "Old
Dupont's son" as an editor who had won his way thru
sheer efficiency.
Very soon (this was about fifteen years ago, at the
time when film production was at its very infancy in
Germany) the young editor began to revolutionize his
columns by starting a thing unheard of at that time. He
began to take the movie seriously. He was the first man
who ever wrote a film review in Germany.
First German Film Critic
A NY amount of ridicule was showered upon the young
editor for giving serious thought and valuable space
to so silly and unimportant a thing. But Dupont was not
to be discouraged. Once he had recognized the impor-
tance of the new silent art, he considered it his duty to do
all he could towards improving it.
Much as the trade and the film producers were
delighted to see their work taken seriously in an impor-
tant newspaper and by a recognized journalist, they very
soon began to be rather scared by that young man's
frankly outspoken criticism.
It was mostly the story and still more the continuity
of those pioneer films which elicited those severe and
highly dreaded criticisms from the young reviewer. And
it certainly was not a bad idea when one of the producers
approached the young editor with the request that he try
to write a continuity himself instead of condemning every
story he saw on the screen.
Writes His First Script
P\upont jumped at this opportunity. Within the next
year or so he wrote more than thirty scenarios. For
the first one he received a salary of $10. Very soon,
however, he was considered by the steadily growing
trade to be a crack scenario writer or, as a matter of fact,
almost the only one of his time and he was paid the then
enormous weekly salary of $250 for continuity. Indeed,
this was a great deal, considering the fact that at that time
the cost of production hardly ever reached the $2,000
mark. The leading stars, mostly famous Berlin stage
actors, were quite contented with
a salary of $25 a day, plus
Ewald Dupont direct- second-class railway expenses in
ing nigln stuff on the case of exteriors.
Ufa • • • o jt was not jong before ]3Upont;
52
Another German
Directory Graduate
Journalist, Comes to
America
By HEINKICH FRAENKEL
of Berlin
who was just twenty two at that tunc
in for the production of a film
and not merely continuity writing.
He was successful from the verj
start. .Altho he lias already produced
than thirty films, there has
hardly been one failure among them.
Most of them have been artistic suc-
cesses and have scored high in box-
receipts in Germany and other
European countries.
A Successful Director
[ shall not mention the titles of all
* those pictures, but it is interesting
that in one of them the producer in-
tentionally did not use a single star.
preferring to take into the cast only
"quite new faces." In this he was
successful and he has always laid
special stress on giving a chance to
young artists.
Dupont has long been keenly in-
ed in vaudeville business. He
even went to the extent of running a
big vaudeville organization some two
years ago. There isn't anything worth
knowing about the business that he
doesn't know. Surely this intimate
knowledge was useful to him last
year when he directed the biggest ami
most ambitious of his productions, the one which Berlin
believes will make him popular in America as well. This
was "Vaudeville," featuring Emil Jannings. His Univer-
sal contract was made, however, before this picture wa-
ff a
Ewald Andre Dupont
comes of a long line
of journalists and he
was himself a promin-
ent Berlin editor before
he became interested
in the screen
released, which implies that it
was offered on the strength of
former merit.
It is not necessary to mention
here any details
about "Vaudeville,"
featuring Jannings
and Lya de Putti, since the picture will be
released soon in America.
Quiet Home Life
C wald Dupont's private life is and always ha.s
been a rather quiet one. He is a married
man and he likes his home in town as well as in
the pretty little bungalow he owns near one of
the beautiful Bavarian lakes. Here he retreats
for a quiet spell of recreation whenever he finds
a short time from his work. He likes gardening
and he is also quite a keen motorist.
He told me. before
leaving Berlin, that he
was looking forward
to his Amercian trip
and all the possibili-
ties for work which
seem to be in store
for him there.
Shooting a scene of
"Vaudeville." The
rotund man at the
camera is Karl
Freund, who became
famous in America
for his photography
of "The Last Laugh"
Ufa
53
Random Impressions
[Eugene V. Brexvster, the editor-in-chief of the
Brewster Publications, has been visiting the Coast studios.
You will be interested in reading his impressions of the
Western capital of Celluloidia.]
N front of the Fox studio in Hollywood is a small
grass plot on which is a little black and gold sign
reading thus :
I
I AM GRASS,
NOT gas;
DONT STEP ON ME
pvo you remember Virginia Pearson of the dim and dis-
tant past? That vivid, beautiful brunette who was
right up among the leaders a dozen years ago? Well, at
a Preview of Commodore Blackton's latest picture the
other night, there was a very striking blonde, young and
beautiful, the observed of all observers, and her hair was
a shimmering gold. It was the same Virginia Pearson.
And her husband. Sheldon Lewis, sat by her side, look-
ing much too old for her.
ver at Fox's studio they think they have the coming
greatest star of all. I had a good look at her and
she looks the part. It is Olive Borden.
O
YK7 ho do you think . is Hollywood's greatest pianist ?
" V No, it is not Eleanor Boardman, altho she seems
artistic and looks very much like a musical artiste of
some kind. It isn't a woman, anyway — it's a man. No,
not Ramon Novarro, altho he plays the piano very well
indeed and sings excellently. Yes, and he looks the part,
too. Nor is it the suave, polished Valentino, nor yet
Ronald Colman, who might well be a musician. No, you
are not even warm.
Well, I'll let you in on it. Remember "Tol 'able David"?
Remember that terrible, gigantic tramp who oozed villainy
and wickedness from every pore? And that big, ugly,
raw-boned chap who nearly ran away with "The Covered
Wagon"? And that
monstrosity who ran a
blacksmith shop with
one hand while holding
a Bible in the other in
"The Pony Express"?
Yes, that's the chap —
Ernest Torrence ! But
who would think it?
And he carries a big
gold medal as the star
opera-singer of the
Royal Academy of Mu-
sic in London, too !
The finest speaking voice I ever heard issue from a
human throat came out of the face of Noah Beery the
other day while I was dining with him at the Montmartre.
It is rich, deep, resonant, clear and what I would call
perfect. He says he can sing several notes below lower
C, and I doubt not. And yet the poor man cannot (or
will not) make a public speech. What a pity! Charles
Murray and he should do some swapping.
And speaking of anom-
alies, of queer
freaks of unnatural
selection, who do you
think is the star master
of ceremonies, toast-
master, etc., on the
Coast? You will at once
think of all the hand-
some, dignified, cul-
tured, polished, suave,
smooth-voiced men you
have heard of, but you'll
never guess, because he
is the lowest of low
comedians, always play-
ing absurd comedy parts,
and you picture him as
a comical Irish hod-
carrier. Yes, it's
Charles Murray, and
he always makes a
hit.
Vou may not believe it, but Hollywood goes to sleep
about 9 P. M. It is really a quiet town. During
the day it is all bustle and hustle like any other big city.
The film folks work
hard all day and they
take it easy all night.
They have to.
LIandsome Jack Gil-
bert looked anything
but handsome fixed up as
a burlesque Red Grange
at Marion Davies*
costume ball. And he
didn't try to look pretty,
and he wasn't, and I
told him so, and he
liked it and I liked it.
Pharlie Chaplin
certainly enjoyed
taking off Napoleon at
the ball, and he looked
the part amazingly. I
told him if he could find
some humorous inci-
dents in Napoleon's life
and play the part
straight, in a feature
high-class comedy, it
would be a knock-out.
And it would.
Our idea of a charming lad, otherwise Marion Davies
masquerading in "Beverly of Graustark"
Vou can ride around
Hollywood for hours
and never know but
what you are in Phila-
delphia, or Atlanta, or
Chicago. You might
come across some
54
of Hollywood
By
Eugene V Brewster
players and a studio 01 two, and you might not.
I u m ki d m on .1 sel .u First National and saw Norma
' falmadge in a suit of men's striped pajamas doing
"Kiki." The previous night I had seen a Vitagraph
revival which Commodore Blackton put mi at "The
Writer-.," ir which Norma* appeared in a 1912 picture,
and I swear that Norma looked far younger in 1926 than
she did in 1912.
b) the way, she is one of thi I and most charming
little ladies I ever met. Everybody loves her. She
everybody .Yes, her eyes are not quite the tame color,
but almost. She laughingly let me look into than and I
still live!
at the Lasky studio 1 saw them making a miniature
elevated railroad structure with real cars and engines.
It was about one hundred feet long and the cars each
about a foot long. The whole thing was complete and
perfect in every little detail and many men will work
many days to complete this railroad. When you see it
on the screen, you will feel sure that it is the real thing.
rearing up .some twenty feet in the air with full-size cars
and everything. And this scene, costing thousands of
dollars, will be on the screen perhaps less than one
minute.
I k.\.\ into Maurice Costello on Hollywood Boulevard
and had a chat with him. No, he is not directing his
daughter Dolores as reported, and doesn't intend to lit-
is, of course, proud of her and everybody else seems to
be. Maurice is free lancing. Not working just now hut
hopeful. And this is the first great screen idol the world
ever saw !
0
N almost the same spot an hour later I met my old
friend, F.dgar Norton, who made a hit in "The King
on Main Street." He was once stage manager, for the
great Richard Mansfield, and is now the champion butler
of the screen and a mighty good all-around character
man.
Y\J \rnkk Brothers have the handsomest studio -from
"V the outside and First National has the handsomest in-
side. The Fifth Avenue of First National (exclusive
section i is about two
hundred feet long and
contains three bunga-
Norma T a 1 -
madge's, Colleen
Moore's and Valentino's.
Warner's studio looks
like one of those stately
rnment buildings in
Washington with a
dozen big pillars run-
ning all the way up in
front. Colonial style, and
very picturesque.
LIOLLYWOOD is surrounded
tains, and your chauffeur
Pick ford's house up there,"
IflNG YiDOR. who did
1X "The Big Parade"
and who is therefore one
of the world's greatest
directors even if he did
nothing else, looks to me
like a big, overgrown
boy, simple and unaf-
fected. Seems to me
nearly all the great direc-
tors are young fellows
now.
Qolleen Moore is
very pleased with
her little studio bunga-
low and garden, and
well she might be. She
proudly showed me
thru, and pointed out
every item of interest,
including her stove and
cooking utensils. And,
with hills or young moun-
keeps saying: "That's Mary
"That's Tom Mix's,
over there is where Fitz-
maurice is going to
build." etc. Every hill
is represented by one or
more players and their
places all look like
money. All the hills are
not yet working, but
from the looks of things
they soon will be.
They are building roads
and things everywhere.
Talk about Florida,
everybody here is land
crazy. Everybody is
making money buying
and selling lots. Prices
are already tremendous-
ly high and they are go-
ing up every ddy. The
players are all dipping
in, too, and Rockefeller
and Ford will soon be
poor men in compari-
son.
[F you want to be very
smart and proper, call
a studio a "lot." That's
the correct word, "On
the lot" — "He's not on
the lot," etc.
W. F. Seely
A brand-new study of the Lloyd heir apparent, Mildred
Gloria Lloyd
Mearlv all the studios
are on one street —
Sunset Boulevard — and
here you see all kinds of
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That Chaplin Complex
By Harriette Underhill
DON QUIXOTE without a windmill; a mute dilet-
tante ; a faun or a sprite ; a will o' the wisp ; just
a fantastic cuss ; a marionette with Charlie Chap-
lin on the other end of the wires ; a grown-up Peter Pan;
a phantom ; a wraith with
a sense of humor ; a
nomad ; Charlie Chaplin,
himself, but a Charlie
Chaplin known only to
himself.
These are some of the
answers we have received
' to the question we have
been putting to our friends
recently. For we have been
going about like the in-
quiring reporter; and these
answers we have had to dig
up from divers places, for we had them jotted clown on
the backs of envelopes, on calling cards, margins of news-
papers and on theater tickets.
One of the most popular fallacies in the world is the
belief, culled from the movies, no doubt, that newspaper
reporters carry notebooks. They dont. We kept one
once when we were young, but what good was it ? None.
For in consulting it, how could anyone guess that
T.S.O.M.D. might mean, "Tell story on Marion Davies,"
or that T.C. rec. P.N. could possibly mean, "Traffic cop
recognized Pola Negri" ? Along with the answers
to our question was a scrap of paper with these
letters scribbled on it : "Get C. St. R. by the 5."
and we had sense enough to know that that
meant "Get the Classic story ready by the fifth."
So here it is.
The question we have been eagerly asking each
one we meet is, "What is your idea of
the funny little man which Charlie Chap-
lin has put on the screen? Is he a char-
acter study? Is he the same character
in each picture? Is he a real person or
a figment of the brain?"
And the answers are all here at the
start of this article.
We think the man who said, "It is
Chaplin, himself," comes nearest to the
truth. For, when finally we put the ques-
tion to Mr. Chaplin, he replied without
hesitation, "He is an inferiority complex."
And what a simple solution that is ; espe-
cially now, when nearly everybody has at
least one in the family. It seems to be one
of those cases where, after he learns the
answer, anybody will exclaim, "Of course !
I might have known that all the time !"
And it is quite apparent, too, to anyone
who believes in signs, that that inferiority
complex is dwindling with the years. In
Chaplin's earlier pictures the funny little
man on the screen never had any happy
endings to cheer him on his way. And how
well we remember the first time that the
"phantom lover" was permitted to enjoy
requited affection. It was in "The Immi-
grant" that he married Edna Purviance in
the office of the justice of the peace and that was the first
ray of sunshine allowed to creep into his sad life. The
first time one felt that Mr. Chaplin was going to attempt
a "materialization" and allow love to awaken a soul in
the lonely little marionette.
Miss Underhill says the Charlie Chaplin you
and I laugh at is just an inferiority complex.
Chaplin is an egoist, she says, and what he
has put on the screen is the thing he once
feared he was, at least in the eyes of others.
Thus his inferiority complex became a shadow
for the whole world to laugh at.
Recently, Mr. Chaplin was
a guest at a house party
where we were. Some-
one accused him of being
the most famous person in
the whole world, not ex-
cepting the Prince of
Wales, himself. To prove
this, the man who made the
assertion said that when
they were traveling thru
China, one of the coolies
grabbed up a derby lying
on the ground, stuck it on the side of his head, and,
twirling a stick in his hand, gave a Chinese imitation of
the Chaplin walk.
"He laughed that funny head with a pig-tail nearly
off, and seemed to feel that one touch of Chaplin makes
the whole world kin," said the narrator.
"Well," replied Mr. Chaplin, "it is something, isn't it,
to unearth a Chinese sense of humor!"
While Mr. Chaplin is a very friendly person, he is.
withal, so modest that it is difficult to tell him that he is
the most famous man in the world. He doesn't
give the usual polite protest, which means, "Let
any man deny it if he dares !" He just blushes
and begins to talk about something else.
During supper we sat next to Mr. Chaplin,
and it was then we determined to ask him about
his elusive character that is known all over
the world, yet with whom none is
acquainted.
"You give us no clew," we said.
"Because your 'Wanderer,' your
'Prospector,' your 'Immigrant,' never
yet has spoken a word on the screen.
If only you would let him say, 'When
I was in Engknd last year,' or
'Mother is waiting for me.' T was
sensitive about these big feet when I
was a kid in school,' you would give
one something to work on. But was
he ever in England, this nomad of yours?
Was he born here, one hundred per cent.
American? Has he a mother? Does he
worry because his feet are large? Did
he ever go to school ?"
Mr. Chaplin shook his head, and then it
was that he said : "He is just an inferiority
complex." He did not add, "my own,"
but what he told us later made us realize
that that was what he meant.
"I became terribly unhappy," he said,
"when first I began to be well known on
the screen ; and I shall tell you why. It
was because people insisted on lionizing
me. I was invited out everywhere, and if
I accepted, as I often had to do, I would
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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EVOLUTION
of a LAUGH
67
No, Elinor Fair isn't just a willing target. This is
Cecil De Mille explaining a scene of "The Volga
Boatman" to William Boyd
Renee Adoree has just been given a shining new
contract by Metro-Goldwyn. Louis B. Mayer is
congratulating her
Letters to King Dodo
HOLLYWOOD.
Dear Majesty:
I should advise against Your Majesty coming to
Hollywood at this time. Hollywood is not yet ready to em-
brace Your Majesty's daring design of making motion
pictures that would show human beings acting as human
beings act in real life. Hollywood would give Your
Majesty the loud guffaw if you proposed such a radical
departure from the accepted tradition of the cinema in the
place of its birth.
There are hopeful signs, however, which indicate that
at some future time Your Majesty's ideas may be put
into practice. Louis H. Tolhurst has been making pic-
tures showing the lives of insects. It is possible that
somebody may take a chance and show the lives of men
and women just for the novelty of it.
But I am not so optimistic about the future of the
films as Laurence Stallings, who has not lived in Holly-
wood so long as I have. Stallings thinks they have a
brilliant future — ah, where have I heard that phrase
before?
Meanwhile, in accord with the expressed desire of
Your Majesty, I shall keep you informed of what is hap-
pening in Hollywood from clay to day, so that Your
Majesty may judge for yourself the trend of celluloid
culture.
New York.
Dear King :
Richard Barthelmess, who has been ill in a New York
hospital with ear trouble, as Your Majesty has probably
heard, has departed for California to make one picture
in Hollywood. This will be Richard Harding Davis'
"Ransom's Folly," which you may remember as a story
of an army post in the old days when an army review
looked like a parade of the Smith Brothers. Not that
Dick is going to wear whiskers in this piece. No, no !
All sorts of rumors are current regarding Dick's next
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stellar plans. His present contract with Inspiration Pic-
tures expires in September. Dick has been doing con-
sistently good work and his next contract will carry a
whole lot more of mazuma for the young star.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty:
Since I last wrote, Hollywood has been elevated by the
presence of young Anthony Asquith, son of Lord
Asquith, former Premier of Great Britain and Earl of
Oxford and Asquith. I think Your Majesty will recall
the father from certain negotiations relative to oil con-
cessions in Your Majesty's beautiful Island of Oz, which
were abruptly terminated by Your Majesty when a radio
set and two strings of glass beads were not forthcoming
as promised.
Your Majesty may also recall the mother, Margot,
whose memoirs caused many a monocle to drop from
many an eye and many a teacup to fall from many a knee
when they burst upon poor old Mayfair.
However that may be, young Asquith is the latest lion
to be captured in our jungles and he roars complacently
from his suite at Pickfair, the Beverly Hills estate of
Mary and Douglas. His sister, the wife of the Rouma-
nian Ambassador, the Prince Something-or-Other, is
also a guest at Pickfair. Anthony is here to learn the
moving picture business. He hopes to become a director.
He is a very intelligent and studious lad, homely even
for an Englishman, with a pair of trousers quite like
Charlie Chaplin's and his collar much too big for his
neck. He has delicate and aristocratic hands.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
The Laurence Stallings whom I mentioned in a previ-
ous letter is back in Hollywood, lending the luster of his
name to the script for Paramount's production of "Old
Ironsides."
While abroad Rudolph Valentino visited the
UFA Studio. Left to right, Valentino,
Director F. W. Murnau and Manuel Reachi
John Drinkwater, who wrote the drama, "Abraham
Lincoln," drops in to call upon Phil Rosen, who filmed
"Abraham Lincoln." Carmel Myers at the right
By Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith
Your Majesty will recall Stalling* as the one-legged
ier who co-authored in "What Price Glory?" the real-
war comedy that pleased you when Your Majesty
on a tear last winter in New York. He also did
"The Big Parade" for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Stallings' name will go on "Old Ironsides" as the
author, altho the real author is our mutual friend. Harry
Carr. who conceived and hatched this astonishing movie.
Harry put over the greatest tie-up in celluloid history
when he got Secretary of the Navy Wilhur to back the
production with the co-operation of the United States
N'avy. The frigate Constitution, now at dock in
Boston Harbor, will be the principal prop used in recon-
structing a chapter from our naval history dealing with
the war with the Tripolitan pirates. .
The Government is raising funds to restore the old
-el ; hence the tie-up. All the kiddies who give pennies
will go to see the picture. This is what Will Hays might
call super-salesmanship.
Jesse L. Lasky thinks it safe to spend unlimited mil-
lions on making "Old Ironsides." It will take about a
year to do the thing right, that is, to out-Benjamin Ben-
Hur. Already a fleet of eighteen sailing ships has been
built and some two thousand extras are assured of cakes
for some months to come.
Jimmie Cruze, who is directing this spectacle, spent
many weary weeks in toilsome research work among the
bazaars of Tripoli, along the Riviera, at the Folies
Bergeres, the Casino, the Crystal Palace and other dull
and out-of-the-way places, just to make the picture
authentic.
New York.
Your Majesty :
It you follow the public prints, your royal highness has
doubtlessly noticed that Adolphe ' Menjou has filed suit
for divorce from his wife, Katherine Menjou. Menjou
charges cruelty.
It takes a brave man to chance public disfavor like this
and I hope Your Majesty will reward Menjou with a
special proclamation of your appreciation. Menjou al-
leges that his wife scolded and found fault with him. call-
ing him "good-for-nothing, pufTed-up and conceited."
and charged his mother with being a prevaricator.
Thus does the famous screen - under stander - of -
women get his troubles off his chest. .I'm with him heart
and soul and I trust Your Majesty will back me up. We
men must stand together.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
I should like to call Your Majesty's attention to the
career of Roy D'Arcy, because it offers the finest ex-
ample I could cite of the way to get ahead in pictures.
This competent actor had knocked about for many
years in Shubert musical shows, working under his real
name, which was Roy Guisti. When he was working in
Los Angeles he was seen by Eric von Stroheim, who, out
of a clear sky, presented him with the part of the Crown
Prince in "The Merry Widow."
Roy used to drive up to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
studios in his little Chevrolet coop, accompanied some-
times by Jean, the girl who had liked him for himself —
before he got a big part in pictures. Towards the end
of his first engagement Roy began to appear in a huge,
roaring touring-car with the top down and smartly en-
closed in a patent-leather boot. He had been .signed for
a five-year contract.
Recently the studio was visited by Mrs. Laura Rhinock
Duffy, widow, the daughter of old J. L. Rhinock, vice-
president of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer outfit, and.
oddly enough, president and treasurer of the Shubert or-
ganization. The widow had seen a photograph of Roy
as the Crown Prince. When she saw him in real life,
wearing the cute little whisker cultivated for the heavy
role in "Graustark," the daughter of the vice-president
and treasurer gave her heart to the actor.
They are married. Roy D'Arcy — the other name was
considered too tough for the fans — smiles to himself
when he remembers how he used to caper and envort on
tired dogs because he had to please Jake Shubert. From
a performer in musical road shows he has jumped into
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CLASSIC
The real barber-shop chord. Director Mai St. Claire, Louise
Brooks (getting the bob) and Adolphe Menjou at the Famous
studio. Next!
Colleen Moore gets telegrams from all parts
of the world on her birthday. What one?
Now that would be telling
the same as part ownership of the Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer interests. As for Jean, by-gones are by-gooes.
She merely liked him for himself — before he got a big
part in pictures.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
At this time of writing the pictures are really moving.
The Paramount Studios are being transferred to the lot
formerly occupied by the United Studios. The property
of Paramount* occupying two blocks at Sunset Boulevard
and Vine Street, became too valuable for studio purposes
and will be subdivided into business lots.
Among both classes of the population — I mean movie
actors and realtors — there is considerable speculation
about what Joe Schenck will do. Schenck, who formerly
functioned extensively at the United Studios, is ensconc-
ing himself temporarily at the Pickford-Fairbanks
Studio. But those who speculate in futures say he will
build.
Schenck has just effected a combination with Sam
Goldwyn to produce "The Garden -of Allah" on large
scale, using Norma Talmadge as the vamp and Ronald
Colman as' the priest. Henry King, who made "Stella
Dallas," will direct.
Norma has finished "Kiki," in which she played the
part of a French gamine. The script called for one
sequence in which she works as a chorus girl.
New York.
Sire :
Movie ranks have been a bit upset recently at what it
called the entrance of nudity into pictures. Famous
Players tried some undress in "The American Venus"
and Universal has gone a step or two further with "The
Midnight Sun." Critics have wondered why your prime
minister, Will Hays, permits this and then draws the line
at the production of a seriously written drama such as
"Rain," f instance
Meanwhile, the speaking stage goes 'right along its
lurid way. David Belasco has just revealed Leonore Ulric
in a drama of the New York negro cabarets. Indeed,
Leonore plays a "high yaller" who dances her way from
the Harlem gutters into the home of a French nobleman.
The dialog, too, is what even you would call profane.
Dont think I am advocating this sort of thing for the
screen. I'm just mentioning it to show the broader scope
of the speaking stage.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Your Majesty has graciously requested me to give you
some idea of the sports and pastimes of movie actors in
Hollywood. The movie actor always endeavors to live
what we call "La Vie d'Hollywood," no matter where
he happens to be, for he realizes instinctively that if he
once permits himself to get out of this atmosphere he
may be compelled to think.
William Powell, who has just come in from location on
the Painted Desert, told me about a New Year's celebra-
tion he attended while working with the Paramount
company engaged in embalming Zane Grey's "Desert
Gold" in celluloid.
Bill said he had been impressed. Nature in the
Painted Desert is rather splendid. The sets she has
reared of twisted rocks and the mighty back-drop of
desert sky which she has hung there are rather awe-
inspiring. They made a man feel very small, Bill said,
and as if he would like to be alone with himself for
a while.
But on New Year's Eve there was a pleasant surprise
for the company arranged by Eddie Brandstetter, the
caterer for this trip. Eddie had been busy all day in
the closed dining tent. When evening came he flung it
open and invited them inside.
The tent had been decorated just like the Montmartre,
Eddie's celebrated boulevard cafe. There were paper
caps for everybody, tin horns to blow, turkey to eat,
things to throw at each other — everything to make them
think they were back in dear old Hollywood. And at the
conclusion of the riotous evening, Bill said, they all went
out and sang and the cowboys discharged their six-guns
at the silent desert sky.
Yes, they beat the desert. Bill said. They made them-
selves forget they weren't in Hollywood. But, for some
reason or other Bill said he wished he could have been
alone that night, under the blazing stars that made the*
sand strangely white, listening to the coyotes howling in
the distance, imbibing something that is not for sale in
Hollywood.
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CI. A
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas MacLean return to
Hollywood after a trip East via the Panama
Canal and Cuba
Florence Reed drops in between scenes of "The Light
Eternal" and is received by Director Benjamin Christian-
son, Norma Shearer and Carmel Myers
New York.
Your Majesty :
There arc all sorts of denials, but I feel that your royal
hig! ' ild know of the reported tribulations in the
Jack Pickford-Marilyn Miller marriage. The domestic
bonds in this instance are likely to be severed when Miss
Miller goes abroad next summer, if reports are to be
believed.
Do you know who has been taking Miss Miller to social
events about New York? No other than your loyal sub-
Ben Lyon. Xot so long ago Ben was squiring
Barbara La Marr. How time flies.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
The craze for things Russian, which has passed over
London, Paris, and Your Majesty's own capital of Oz,
has just hit Hollywood. Cecil De Mille, who successfully
transferred the Ten Commandments to the screen, has
just performed the same office for Chaliapin's song about
the Volga Boatman. Not to be outdone, William Fox
sicked \ ictor Schertzinger on to a Russian revival of
'Siberia," the old melodrama that Your Majesty no doubt
witnessed as a child when it was being performed by
touring repertoire companies.
The making of these pictures revealed the fact that
there are hundreds of Russian exiles in Hollywood, rang-
ing from dukes, thru exiled bureaucrats and intelligentsia,
i to droshky drivers — tho I have never met one who
admitted to the latter occupation.
Pola Negri, who cherishes a warm feeling for the icy
steppes, assembled all of the Slavs in Hollywood for a
Russian musicale. Chaliapin who was appearing at the
Philharmonic, was a guest. The great basso sat at the
piano for two hours playing and singing Slavic airs, the
longest time on record for him.
The Negri mansion in Beverly Hills was the scene of
this affair, at which Pola incidentally displayed the wealth
that accrues so easily in this land of great opportunity to
progressive actresses. The house is colonial, the appoint-
ments French and Spanish, the gardens Japanese. Amid
this potpourri of luxury the hungry exiles consumed thou-
sands of cakes and unlimited gallons of tea.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
I have neglected previously to tell you about the annual
Wampas Frolic and Ball which was held this year in the
ultra-smart atmosphere of the new Shriners' Auditorium.
The new auditorium is much nicer than the Odd Fel-
lows' Hall. And Sid Grauman, a notorious showman, put
on a series of acts that were almost worth the five dollars
Your Majesty would have had to expend to gain a seat.
Many of the acts presented actual scenes or prolog
effects based on feature pictures of the various studios.
De Mille's act was a rendition of the "Volga Boatman"
by a large chorus ; Universal gave "Custer's Last Stand"
from "The Flaming Frontier," and so on.
The movie stars were presented in a manner that only
Sid Grauman could conceive. The stage represented the
court of Grauman's Egyptian Theater. The stars drove
on in their private purple limousines, just as they do at
an opening.
There were a great many sarcastic snickers among us
wiseacres when the thirteen Baby Stars of 1926 were
introduced. These infant prodigies, discovered by the
astute press-agents who compose the Wampas. turned
out to be for the most part already well known in pic-
tures. At least half of them had been billed as stars
already by some of the studios where they were working.
To predict that these talented young women will be-
come stars during 1926 is like betting that Cal Coolidge
will continue to steer the ship of state, that Wayne B.
\\ heeler will denounce the demon rum, or that Gilda Gray
will perform a dance called the shimmy during the same
period of time. The truth is that the press-agents were
unable to agree in the annual log-rolling contest that pre-
ceded the ball and had to compromise on these candidates
already practically elected to stardom.
Next month I shall write Your Majesty more fully
concerning the affairs of Hollywood. Meanwhile I re-
main Your Majesty's humble and obedient secret agent in
this curious country
"Where cowboys are made
But actors are few."
(Continued on page 74)
61
HIGH
HAT
Now that the surface of the in-
dustry really has been scratched,
the silk topper is coming to be
quite the thing. All the stars are
wearing 'em.
Not that the films are becoming
•Ritzy. They are heading toward
the smart, the ultra and all that sort
of thing referred to so glibly by our
noble opponent, Vanity Fair.
Alas, gone is the good old
custard-pie era when mortar was
mortar and tomatoes were tomatoes.
62
1
The Answer
Man
Mildred N. — Greetings ! Did the
March winds blow you in? So
ou think John Gilbert was won-
lcrt'ul in "The Merry Widow."
••cry body thought so. He
a.i* born in Logan. Utah, but so
tar as I know he has had only one
rife, Leatrice Joy, from whom he
> divorced.
Bobbie. — Yes, it was woman who
irst tempted man to cat. but he
look to drink on his own account
itterwards. William Haines was
fd Kelly in "Little Annie Rooney."
f'ola Negri is playing .n "Because
1 Love You," which Dimitri Buchowetzki is directing. A rather
titting title tor Madame Pola.
Marjorie S. — Bull Montana is now an American citizen but
*as once an Italian, because he was born in Voghera, Italy, ten
:ter our Fourth of July, thirty-seven years ago. You
ret'er to Youcca Troubetzkoy.
Me. — Oh, is that you? You know the Venus of Milo derives
ts name from the island of Milo where it was discovered by a
in 1820. who was trying to uproot a pistachio-tree. Mary
Brian is eighteen years old. Irene Rich has two children, Jane
wer these questions without it. You refer to Ivor Novello
>j>posite Mae Marsh in "The White Rose." Alfred Lunt opposite
Carol Dempster in "Sally of the Sawdust."
k C. Scott. — I should say I do go out in the fresh air, it
s the king of physicians. Sure I go ice skating — that's how I
retain my equilibrium. Bert Lytell was Baron Madox in "Eve's
!o\er,'- with Clara Bow and Irene Rich. And now Gloria
Swanson and Eugene O'Brien as her leading man are playing in
Fine Manners."
Y Susie. — Never write what you dare not sign. You
refer to Gwen Lee as the stenographer in "His Secretary." Yes,
I thought Norma Shearer was beautiful in that picture.
E. B. C. — So you always plant a tree on Arbor Day. Governor
Morton of Nebraska first created Arbor Day, and the first was
\pril 20. 1872, when twelve million trees were planted. You
refer to Templar Powell in "Monsieur Beaucaire."
The Ol' Lady. — Aral Aral! Your letter sure was all about
villains. You want to know who the fellow with the Persian
lamb fez was in "The Phantom of the Opera." Guess you
refer to Arthur Edmund Carewe. Come on down to Brooklyn.
Larena. Fort Worth. — You want the whole truth about Val-
entino. Well, he and Winifred Hudnut are divorced. Absolutely,
ind finally. Norma Talmadge is thirty-one, Constance is twenty-
sfac and Natalie is twenty-eight. So you think I must be terribly
nice, and young. Ouch — you know I am over eighty years old.
Irene's Fan.— Well, no woman has faith in another, but she
that man shall have faith in her. Viola Dana is playing
in Wild Oats Lane" now, she was born right here' in Brooklyn,
ind her sisters are Edna Flugrath and Shirley Mason.
Ruth A. — Here, write this in your album —
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
For a day. perhaps a week,
After that we're prone to wonder,
\t our love for the antique.
Hear ye, hear ye! All you (oiks who have questions
to ask, come this way and you shall be heard — and
answered. I have learnt a lot during the last eighty-
two years, and it's all yours (or the asking. Been
answering ??? (or the last fourteen years, and still
going strong. If you want an answer by mail, enclose
a stamped addressed envelope. If you wish the an-
swer to appear here, write at the top of your letter
the name you want printed, and at the bottom your
full name and address, and mail to me. The Answer
Man, care of Classic, 176 DufHeld Street, Brook-
lyn, N. V.
You refer to Eileen Sedgwick in
"The Riddle Rider." Ymi can get
a picture of Richard Barthelnx
Inspiration Pictures, 565 Fifth
Avenue, New York. So you liked
bim in "Shore Leave."
D. M. & M. D.— I agree with you,
a word to the wise is not sufficient ;
take a club. That was Jack Joyce in
"New Lives for Old." No, I draw
the line on the Charleston — you
think St. Vitus must have originated
it. Pauline FYederick is working on
"The Nest" at the Whitman Bennett
Studios, in Brooklyn, New York.
Agatha D. J. — That sure was pretty peach paper you used.
So you think The Classic is a great magazine. So do I— why
dont you tell your friends about it. Sure, that's my salary —
$15.00 a week.
Ruthie. — Perhaps I was too frank. In the language of the
poet, I seen my dooty and I done it. Rod La Rocque is playing
in "Bachelor's Brides" from the stage-play and also in "The
Dancing Man" from the Edna Ferber novel. See you later.
Sighned Shortie. — Well, I never really have taken the time-
to figure out how old Douglas, Sr., was when Douglas, Jr., was
born, but for your benefit, Shortie, Douglas, Jr., is about nineteen
and Douglas, Sr., is forty-three, so that makes Doug, Sr., twenty-
four when he was born. Righto !
Brown Eyes. — Dont be too sure, the well-fed are not always
the well-bred. You want to know who receives the higher
salary — Norma Talmadge or Gloria Swanson. Well. I'm betting
on Norma.
Sweet Sixteen. — Well, I dont want for a dull moment. I'll
tell you that. Only the scissors-grinder invariably finds thing>
dull. You refer to "The New Commandment" with Ben Lyon.
Louise Fazenda made her debut in pictures with the Keystone
Company in 1915.
Helen. — I sure was glad to hear from you. Fire away. So
you would like to see Carol Dempster stop the kiddish pictures
and appear in something that fits her noble personality. I'll
speak to Miss Dempster. D. W. Griffith paid Monte Blue his
first screen salary, which was just $1.50 for the day's work. His
birthday was January 11th. He has made lots of hits, but his
first home run was in the part of Danton in "Orphans of the
Storm."
Leo H. G. — Well, there isn't much history to Clara Bow. except
that she was born in Brooklyn in 1905 and won a contest that
this magazine started, thereby getting into pictures. As I under-
stand it, she is doing very well.
See A. Why. — What do you bet I dont look like the picture
at the top of the page? Well, I should say on the first of the
month there is no female or anything else more deadly than the
mail. Blanche Mehaffey who was formerly in the Follies and
with Mack Sennett has signed a long-term contract with Uni-
versal. See you later.
Clara R. — You refer to Colleen Moore in "Broken Chains"
and not Lillian Gish.
Ronald B. — Hello there, thanks for yours. Mauric- Costello
played in "The Fast Pace." Johnnie Walker isn't playing now.
Run in again some time.
Peaches. — So you would like to have me for a pal. I wont
object — I like peaches. Antonio Moreno is playing in "The
Temptress' directed by Mauritz Stiller.
Billy S. — The only sweeping reform that has succeeded is the
{Continued on page 68)
63
Famous Writers Consider the Films
THOMAS BURKE
(Continued front page 22)
of poverty and squalor was a "Chink."
I expected to meet a great big husky —
thinking probably that only a big rough
man could have weathered the hard life it
had been his fate to live. But Burke is a
little man with a delicate, sensitive face and,
a habit of licking his lips before he speaks,
which is usually after hesitating to think
a moment. There was something about
him that reminded me of Charlie Chaplin.
Burke took me to The Ivy for lunch.
It is a sort of Hotel Algonquin of Soho
— the Great White Way area of London —
where actors, artists and writers congre-
gate and tell each other what they are
going to do "some day."
"I never knew an author who didn't spit
at the films," said Burke quietly.
"But didn't you like the production Grif-
fith gave your 'Broken Blossoms' ?"
"Yes. I think it was extremely good —
but extremely overdone as well."
"Were you allowed to pass any judgment
on it before it came out?"
He suppressed a smile and hesitated,
licking his lips for a moment. "I didn't
know it had been sold until it had been
produced."
"You didn't receive any exorbitant price
then — in five figures?"
Mr. Burke smiled ironically. His silence
was eloquent and I would not be surprised
to learn that he had received almost liter-
ally as well as figuratively — next to noth-
ing. And this for what I consider the
finest picturization on the screen ! But you
see this is ancient history. While they
have just paid $100,000 — and an additional
percentage — for the film rights of "Is Zat
So!"
"I like the German pictures best — or the
Swedish. In them you will always find
skill, background, finesse of story, ma-
turity, mellowness. The American pictures
are all the same. Once they were all In-
dian pictures, then cowboy, then all pictures
either featuring Mary Pickford or a thou-
sand like her trying to imitate her. Now
they are all of a peculiar brand of jazz
life that has no lines of society, breeding,
taste or aristocracy to hold them back. Is
that what you would call jazz?"
"Yes," I told him, "as possibly applied to
the melodies of life."
"I really try to see and enjoy your films
— but I cant, really. They sicken me."
"What about Chaplin?"
"Ah, that is different," he replied more
quickly than usual. "There is only one
Charlie. He is all Art — especially his feet.
When Charlie came over the last time, I
was one of the first persons he came to see.
Strangely, we both worked our way up
from the bottom, climbed out of the hell
of English lower-class life at about the
same time. We came here to The Ivy and
had a bottle of wine together just like you
and I are doing and had a jolly talk over
old times — and new ones."
Kul
RALPH D. BLUMENFELD
Editor of The London Daily Express
duction — action, romance, plenty of inci-
dent, costume and a rapid dash of plot.
One reason for its success as a story of
the films was that it is so foreign to com-
mon experience — which is all there is to
romance in a way, isn't it? People read or
see films to gratify one of two desires usu-
ally; that the story shall be absolutely dif-
ferent from their own personal story — or
just like it! That is the difference between
Romanticism and Realism."
When I asked him if he had collaborated
in any way, he shook his head.
"They just took the book, you might
say without my knowledge — which is all
the more to their credit, if they made a
go of it. I have heard that the more an
author interferes with the production, with
his attempted collaboration, the worse he
makes the resultant screen picture. Why
bother?"
And that phrase, I find, sums up the
diffident English character in relation to
almost everything American — except the
films.
And I wonder sometimes if they could
— or would — produce film pictures of a
higher, better and finer tone than we are
producing. I hope so. But I am of the
opinion that they did not consistently do
so, when they had their fling at it. And
why did their industry collapse before the
assault of our bad pictures?
SIR ANTHONY HOPE
(Continued from page 22)
satisfied with his version of 'The Prisoner.'
Of course, it is the sort of story and set-
ting that especially lends itself to film pro-
RALPH D. BLUMENFELD
(Continued from page 23)
I reminded Mr. Blumenfeld that not a
few of the books filmed were from the pens
of English authors.
"You may be right, but the ones I see
are all turned out in the same mold.
What do you suppose the great uncon-
trollable inland populations of the colored
races of India, Japan, China, the Philip-
pines, Africa, must be set to thinking when
they see the 'superior' white man reeling
about their civilization with dope and
drink, intent on crime, being kicked about,
handcuffed and imprisoned by inferior
policemen. Doesn't tend to lighten the
White Man's Burden, do you think?
Rather helps to make a menace of the
'rising tide of color' we hear so much
about, and not without foundation. In
these populous centers of China and the
Uganda they have never seen, never con-
ceived of the white man being so easily
handcuffed and made prisoner. I tell you,
these low-toned films complicate the world
problem, which heaven knows, is bad
enough already."
I confessed that this was a fresh view-
point that demanded serious consideration.
"Mind you, I dont say you are not turn-
ing out any good pictures, but what makes
the British well-wisher mad is that for
every good film you put forward you de-
mand that the exhibitor take six duds!
Block booking, that's what makes all the
trouble. I am working and my paper is
working to make block-booking illegal."
I was a little skeptical of the drastic
carrying out of this idea as he pictured it.
Whereupon Blumenfeld seized the latest
edition of his paper that had been laid
on his desk a moment before. "This is
what I mean," he said, beginning to run
his finger down the list of cinema theaters
' 'Too Many Kisses,' 'Too Many Kisses,' "
he read over and over again. "Now, un-
less the exhibitor takes 'Too Many
Kisses' " — he smiled at the patness of the
title — "he gets one big kick from Holly-
wood and finally gets nothing. And that's
just the sort of film the whole world
would be better off without — 'Too Many
Kisses' — England is sick of that sort of
film, but cant help herself — yet."
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
(Continued from page 23)
"I cant spare much time for them — you
see, I have my own little shows to carry
on." He indicated a long box full of slides
he was looking over. "I'm on my way to
Brighton now to give a lantern-slide lec-
ture. This little box has been all over
America with me — competing with the
films." He laughed good-naturedly.
"Did you collaborate at all in the making
of 'The Lost World'?" ■
"Oh, no. Why should I ? They know
their work amazingly well, it's a great
art in itself. They made an amazing thing
out of my book, I should say. Dont you
think so? Altho I confess, I dont think
it will ever add much to my reputation—
you know what I mean — it's not the sort
of thing I'm really doing, you know."
I thought I knew what he meant and I
told him that I did not think that anything
could ever add to his reputation after
doing "Sherlock Holmes." But Sir Arthur
did not know that Holmes had been filmed.
He shook his head uncertainly about it.
"What I am looking forward to is the
appearance of moving — that is, animated —
photographs of the fairy and spirit world.
They are bound to come I"
He always came back to his fairies or
his spirits. "It's my life-work," he added
later in explanation. "But there is n<
doubt whatever that the films reach a grea'
audience and their power for good — am
evil — is enormous. For that reason alont
they all ought to be good — I mean wel
conceived, well done and bring about well
being. Come, wouldn't you like to ruf
down and see my Psychic Book Sho
which I have just opened in conjunction
with Sir Oliver Lodge? I'll call a taxi
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HAMLET AND THE FILMS
(Continued from page 21)
The Two Mediums
Dakrymokk explained more in detail his
theory regarding the differences between
the two mediums — stage and screen.
"It is chiefly a difference of dimension,
isn't it?" he postulated. "Take a thing
such as 'The New Sin.' A genre piece.
The characters are all men. You can do
that in a play — you can take a morsel of
life and hold it up and analyze it before
an audience for two hours at a stretch
and make it interesting. The most excit-
ing scene I ever saw in a play was one of
Bernard Shaw's scenes in which three men
sit at a table and talk. On the stage it was
more exciting than a Mexican bull-fight.
"In pictures it is very different. You
cannot photograph a thesis. You do not
have the flesh and blood and the voice to
work for you. But the reality is just as
great. The picture is purely ocular, isn't
it ? In a play there are more facets work-
ing— more dimensions presented. But in a
picture there is greater scope, a broader
sweep — more power — a larger canvas. On
the stage a certain artificiality may not de-
tract, but in the pictures it is fatal. They
are so damned alive !"
Barrymore illustrated his point by refer-
ring to scenes from pictures of the past,
incidentally paying high compliment to the
pictorial acting of Mary Pickford, Lillian
Gish and John Gilbert. The scene in "The
Big Parade," in which Gilbert as a dough-
boy teaches Renee Adoree, the village
mademoiselle, to chew gum, was mentioned
by Barrymore as one of the best pieces
of acting he has ever encountered.
Contrary to a general impression, Barry-
more is not at all cynical about his con-
temporaries. I even fell flat in trying to
draw from him a sneer for poor old Robert
Mantell. Barrymore said he thought Man-
tell's soliloquies in "Macbeth" were "great."
And he fairly glowed when he spoke
of the cast which trouped with him thru
"Don Juan." Mary Astor, who plays op-
posite as Adriana; Warner Oland as
Cccsar Borgia; Estelle Taylor as Lucresia
Borgia; Nigel DeBrulier as Marcus Ri-
naldo— those and all the others were
"great."
The Modest Barrymore
It was rather surprising to hear Barrymore
1 talk this way, because there is an opinion
abroad that the brother of Ethel and
Lionel is inclined to feel his own impor-
tance. If he does so, John Barrymore is
a greater actor even than I thought him.
To all appearances he was as earnest, as
honest, as simple in his enthusiasms as if
he were a little girl' from Medina, Ohio,
who had just won a beauty contest and
was working in her first picture. I am
almost inclined to believe that envy has
given rise to rumors about Barrymore
being high hat, autocratic, temperamental.
Temperamental — my stars! If any direc-
tor had asked an average group of extras
to get into that slimy, chilly tank, the
ensuing outburst of temperament would
have reverberated thru all filmdom. Of
course, Barrymore's check is larger than
an extra's. But by the same token, a star
drawing such a check as Barrymore's is
not usually expected to do such stunts,
while extras are. Jove ! I would give an
eye to be there when some director asks
Mae Murray to take a similar plunge !
"And the comedians !" exclaimed Barry-
more, enthusiastically. "I think they are
wonderful — Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton. The
Mack Sennett comedies are the greatest
thing in drama!
"I remember a scene from a Sennett pic-
ture where a coon is beset by a crowd of
The strenuous movies are quite different from the speaking
theater. The studio is a far cry from "Hamlet's" stage door
1
comedy highwaymen. He cries 'God hep
me !' And a clock falls down from its
tower, squashing the bandits. 'That's what
I call service !' exclaims the coon. There's
nothing in 'Hamlet' any better than that !
"For this reason I like pictures. They're
so real — so fresh — so new. Making 'The
Sea Beast' didn't seem like a movie at
all. It seemed absolutely real.
No More "Sweet-Scented Jackasses"
"I consider 'The Sea Beast' and 'Don
Juan' the first decent things I have
done in pictures since 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde.' That was the only thing I had
ever made before that was any good. I
got so tired of these sweet-scented jack-
asses I had been playing that I wanted
to do some character with intestines. They
were good enough to let me take the
story of 'Moby Dick.' "
I reminded him that other less celebrated
actors were less fortunate. Barrymore
admitted the existence of purblind pro-
ducers, unable to see the possibilities of
screen characterizations. He said he got
a chance to play Jekyll and Hyde by a
ruse. He made a strip of film showing
two characters — one sinister, one benevolent
— and presented it to the head official of
Famous Players. This gentleman swal-
lowed the bait, thinking he had made a great
discovery — Barrymore for Jekyll and
Hyde! And he trotted off to persuade
the actor he ought to tackle the dual role.
"Pictures are fascinating," resumed
Barrymore, "because in pictures we pro-
duce things of fantasy such as 'Siegfried'
and 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.' This
mighty field is just beginning to be ex-
plored. The possibilities are limitless.
Years ago, I was asked by a producer what
kind of picture I wished to make next
and I said, T want to do a picture in which
I have a fight with a horned toad.'
told me I was crazy. But I am goir.
make that picture some day — I hope befort
very long.
And Then Next
"""There is already the beginning of a new
movement in pictures — evidences of it
in such pictures as Fairbanks' "Thief
Bagdad,' and 'The Lost World.' I hopt
that my next picture "
Whatever Barrymore hoped for his i
picture must wait, for at this juncture «
loud voice called out to inform us thai
the water was ready for the last shot o:
"Don Juan."
The man of the movies shed the arm>
blanket he had wrapped around his shoul
ders and with a grim smile plunged intc
the slimy depths.
The scene represented an escape fron
prison — a ghastly chaos of rushing watt
and struggling arms beneath the cold glar|
of studio lamps.
Don Juan, confined in a dungeon a
Rome, had loosened a stone and burst hi
bars. But his efforts also had loosed
flood of murky water from the Tibei
Under gaunt, cobwebbed arches swept thi
foaming cataract, while from the grate
cell adjoining, he whose wife the philar
derer had filched— the character played 1>
DeBrulier — screeched imprecations at th
wounded, struggling swimmer.
I waited long enough to see Barrymor
fished out and headed for a warm dressing
room with a bath, a rub-down and a month
fishing trip ahead of him. He deservt
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The Stars Tell About Their Gardens
(Continued from page 26)
Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Menjou's
especial pride is an
oleander hedge (Neriutn
Oleander) .
"I had a nurseryman
set out the plants where
they would have plenty
of sun. I dont allow
them too much water.
Each spring the soil is
enriched and each au-
tumn I carefully prune
the hedge.
"I do not recommend
the oleander except for
climates like ours, since
it will 'winter kill.' "
Raymond Hatton
Day Hatton rejoices
** in a flowering al-
mond-tree.
"I planted it four
years ago, when it was
no more than a lone-
some shoot, setting it
carefully in sheep ma-
nure. Since then it has
had no attention except
yearly pruning and fer-
tilizing."
Anita Stewart
To Anita Stewart there is a charm
about the "Shasta daisy."
"If you live in California, plant your
seed in January, or set out your seedlings
in February. For a hedge of daisies,
scratch a groove an inch deep in moist, fine
soil. Keep the ground soaked until the
shoots appear, then thin out the plants to
a distance of five inches apart. Be care-
ful to mulch them in hot weather until
the root-stem becomes woody close to the
ground, or thev will be burned and die."
Dorothy Phillips .
Qorothy Phillips: "Calla lilies are a
satisfaction because they are easy to
raise and so decorative.
"Bulbs should be planted early in the
spring. If arranged in a hedge, they bloom
best. When the bulbs send out shoots, dig
very carefully around the plants ; then give
them plenty of water and — that's all there
is to it !"
Warner Baxter
VT/arner Baxter
thinks his Spanish-
style house is best set
off with Amaryllidacece,
a cactus of Mexican
origin, better known as
the century-plant.
"The beauty of these
plants is that you put
them in and let them
alone for fifty years.
They need nothing but
sun and water."
H. B. Warner
LI B. Warner has
" been in California
only long enough to buy
a house, but he has al-
ready planted some tiny
pansy plants.
"I know that all that
is necessary to grow
pansies, once they are
planted in good, rich
soil, is to keep them
Warner Baxter devotes his spare time to cultivating a cactus of
Mexican origin
a lot of time thin-
ning them. In winter,
watering once a week
is sufficient (for Cali-
fornia), and in summer
every other day. Every
two years transplant to
a new bed.
"Keep the tops cut
down and dead stalks
removed and you will
have the neighbors beg-
ging for slips.''
Louise Fazenda
I ouise Fazenda is
another lover of
pansies.
"If you want your
pansies to look their
best, separate the
clumps into single
plants to give them
room. The advantage
of this, also, is that you
can arrange your
colors to suit your own
fancy. I like to gradu-
ate my flower beds and
have the pansies backed
with taller flowers and
sometimes bordered
watered and carefully pick off the blooms.
The more you pick them, the more they
will bloom."
Mildred Davis Lloyd
JV/Iildred Davis Lloyd: "Poinsettias be-
• gin to bloom in November. During
the blooming season, supply with plenty
of water, and when they have finished the
flowering, cut down almost to the ground.
Plant these cuttings in rich soil in an-
other part of your garden and they will
bear flowers the next year."
Charlie Chase
C^harlie Chase: "The silver daisy makes
a very decorative flower border. It
has a faintly purple-silver bloom and each
daisy lasts a long time. I raised mine from
seeds, planted in soil that is rather sandy
early in February. If you set out plants,
be sure you set them well apart, as the
daisies spread and you may have to spend
with the lovely sweet alyssum."
Anita Stewart and her Shasta daisies
The Answer Man
(Continued from page 63)
vacuum cleaner. The players you men-
tioned are with Famous Players. Wallace
Beery and Neil Hamilton are playing in
"Beau Geste." Of course, I go to the
office every day.
Muriel D. — You refer to Ray Howard
in "Sally, Irene and Mary." Baby Peggy
Jean Montgomery will be eight years
young on October 26th, while Jackie
Coogan will be twelve on exactly the same
day. Ten years from October 26, she
will be eighteen and he will be twenty-
two, so it is quite possible, you see.
Carolyn G. H. — So you are going to
Scotland, and you want your Classic
sent there to you. It shall be done ! I
didn't know you were right around the
corner from me.
Gerald from Movie-
land. — Well, the best
way to be contented
with your lot is to
build a house on it.
Shirley Mason is not
playing now. Sally
O'Neil has been loaned
to Buster Keaton for
the lead in his next pic-
ture, "Battling Butler,"
from the stage-play.
G. S. D.— What beau-
tiful orange stationery.
Well, Ramon Novarro
is twenty-seven years
old. The only way you
can get a personally
autographed picture of
him is to write to his
most able, alert and con-
scientious press-agent,
Herbert Howe, Metro-
Goldwyn Studios, Culver i
City, California.
Rebecca B.— Wei!, we
have a lot of things in
common. And you know
(Continued on page 71 J
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Marion Davies entertains George Wilson (left) of the Los Angeles
Tigers and Red Grange (right) of the Chicago Bears. Here are two
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Super -Realism in the Movies
(Continued from page 43)
King, von Stroheim, Vidor, Ingram, I am
nevertheless worried about their attitude.
Lubitsch I regard frankly as a dan-
gerous influence, much as I admire his
sophistication and his wizardry. Stro-
heim is a tortured, unhappy spirit, who
plainly never does what he is after, but
has a boundless genius for cinema com-
position ; he has been developing down-
ward from the dynamic "Greed" to the
virtually static "Merry Widow." Vidor in
part of the "Big Parade" creates some-
thing of sheer perfection. Henry King's
"Stella Dallas" was undoubtedly the out-
standing achievement, the master stroke,
a picture which, like "The Last Laugh,"
seemed to have absolutely everything the
motion picture could give us.
YY/hat I fear much is the influence of
the Lubitsch of "Lady Windermere's
Fan." Mind you, he is amazingly clever
and sure of himself. But to me he seems
to depart steadily from the true character
of the motion picture. People sit in a
salon, or in a hotel room, weeping their
closet dramas sardonically over each* other's
shoulders, and one of them, behind the
other's back, grimaces, mocks. On these
. subtle gestures of people in a London
drawing-room he centers the spotlight of
your attention. The beauty of these stunts
is not of motion, or of dynamic forms, it
is "literary" and stationary. The movies
become a vehicle for his particular brand
of skepticism. But I cant bear watching
merely skepticism spread over a large
screen. I must see things, people, in re-
lated motion. Here they stay in a room,
the tempo is slow, and everything is re-
duced to little smiles and grimaces, or
hand waves that move back and forth to
each other. ... I would rather read
Lubitsch.
I do not .question the all-important business
of the director (conductor of the whole
symphony) to select, to arrange the order
of things, to relate the movements, to
compose his "shots" in order to gain the'
utmost effect or atmosphere.
"I prefer to suggest ideas .and situations
in my pictures," says Lubitsch, "rather
than to load them down with nothing but
the starkly realistic."
And Rex Ingram says likewise:
"The most convincing atmosphere is
often far from realistic. Because the di-
rector aims to get over the effect of th<
atmosphere he desires, rather than th<
actual atmosphere which exists in sue!
scenes . . . which, reduced literally to th*
screen, would be quite unconvincing."
Yes, this is all very sensible and ven
clever, when it does not go too far. Bu
you must not get away from the camera
you must give it space to roam and worl
in, room to breathe. Otherwise, you los^
(1) the particular revealing super-realise
that the motion picture has, and (2) th
significance and beauty of objects in re
lated motion which is the very soul of th
cinema.
It is fashionable to be subtle and "arty
just now. To be suggestive. In "Th
Merry Widow," von Stroheim blurred th
film every time Mae Murray wept. 1
was like the false impressionism of painter
some years ago. Why should we look i
colors or faces thru a fog, if we were neai
sighted. In the same film there were mai
velous shots of John Gilbert's head, isolate
in a close-up, as he reacted to some shod
Here the firm, clear tones of the pictui
made it seem like a great piece of sculptur
The effect of the unabused camera was iiJ
finitely stronger than the fake impression
ism they go for when they try to color c|
touch up a picture, or when there is y
sunset, or moonlight over water. And Jul
as bad as the gushingly sentimental fad*
outs of the end are the places where til
sets have too definitely the air of beiifl
fresh from the scene factory. I know, <*|
(Continued on page 77)
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The Answer Man
(Continued from page 68)
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May's Bud. — Well, the trouble with
>st marriages is that a man always
ikes the mistake of marrying the woman
\o carries him off his feet — instead of
' ing to find one who will keep him on
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Margaret Louise. — Yes, that was
Urold Austin in "Black Lightning."
m "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
t Sea" was done about seven or eight
Jdrs ago. Sure, but when days go wrong,
member they aren't self-starters.
Zhic— Just mark down 1895 for Valen-
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■weft Turpentine. — Women can ask
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Cria Swanson was born in 1897. Con-
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pen to me, unless it be enlarged condition
of the cranium due to excessive flattery.
Norma recently completed "Kiki," from
the stage-play.
Ramon Novarro Fan. — Of course, if
you feel- like writing to the editor, you do
so. He will be glad to hear from you.
Gladys W. W.— I think she is, but I'm
not sure. No, David Powell was mar-
ried. Webster Campbell directed Doris
Kenyon in "The Half-Way Girl."
Magdale. — Yes, the Brooklyn Navy
Yard is not far from our office. That's
why we dont eat peanuts here — afraid the
shells might scare the sailors. Patsy Ruth
Miller is with Warner, and address Jack
Mulhall at First National. Fred Thomson
owns the horse, "Silver King."
Anna. — That was some stationery you
have. No, I never get tired answering
questions. That's what I get my $12.50
(Continued on paye 74)
Random Impressions of Hollywood
(Continued from page 55)
actors running around loose, going to and
from restaurants and soda fountains with
their make-up on. Elsewhere the city is
just like any other.
L-Jarry Carr is very popular here with
everybody and much beloved. He is
now doing a little work for Lasky, but
Brewster Publications still have a lien on
him and hope soon to haul in on the chain.
I
saw "Don Q" in New York last spring,
and in London last August, but it just
arrived in Hollywood late in January.
"Ben-Hur" and "Lady Windermere's Fan"
are not here yet. Yet they were all made
here.
Cox is fixing up their lot. It now looks like
a rubbish heap — part of it — but they're
going to make all the other studios take
a back seat. The outside of Lasky's looks
like a lot of old sheds and barns nailed
together. They are going to move out
soon and take over First National, and
First National is going elsewhere.
In every studio now they have at least two
cameras on every scene, and they take
every scene twice, which makes four nega-
tives of every scene. You folks see only
the best of the four.
Jack Holt has the prettiest cigar-lighter
in Hollywood. He works it with one
hand, which he cant do with a match. He
was smoking a cigaret and I said, "For
shame — you should smoke a pipe." He ad-
mitted it, adding that he does so at home,
but at the studio a pipe is awkward and
is likely to be mislaid.
YY/hen I first saw Esther Ralston on a
First National set, I said, "Hello, I
haven't see you since 1913 at the old Kalem
studio when I was photographed with you
and Alice Joyce and the Answer Man."
She looked puzzled and said "Y-e-s." Then
I discovered that I was not speaking to
Anna Q. Nilsson, and we all laughed, in-
cluding Anna Q., when I told her a mo-
ment later. They do look something alike,
now dont they ? Only I guess Esther
doesn't date back quite so far.
Cince I have been in Hollywood I have
kept my lamps trimmed and burning,
and I think that Tom Mix is the finest
specimen of He-manhood I have yet dis-
covered. He looks good to me, and he
talks even better than he looks. He is a
mature man of well-thought-out ideas.
C~V course, anybody would recognize the
six feet three of Ernest Torrence a
mile off. When I got within hailing dis-
tance, I said, "Come hitherward, little one,
I wouldst make speech with thee." He
came hitherward with knitted brows and
piercing eyes and pierced me. "Ah, 'tis
thee," he answered and then we shook
hands. Mine is sore yet.
Qnk who has traveled thru France and
Belgium observes at once when travel-
ing thru America the striking difference
in the houses of the poorer classes. Abroad
the poorest and humblest are picturesquely
beautiful ; in America they are monstrosi-
ties of ugliness — until you get near Los
Angeles. There are very few ugly houses
around here, and I guess those were built
by Easterners.
"Daruon my persistency of vision " 1
said gravely to Constance Talmadge
when I found myself in the same elevator
with her at the Great Western Costume
Company. "To what fortunate circum-
stance do I owe the honor of this imperti-
nence?" she replied haughtily. Then we
both laughed heartily and shook hands.
You see we were old friends — at least of
nine years' standing.
VT/uen I was introduced to Ricardo
Cortez, he greeted me with all the gal-
lantry of a cavalier and knight errant but
quite naturally. He looked quite as hand-
some and polished as ever Valentino did
and he has those dreamy eyes with the
whites showing under them that always
makes feminine hearts flutter. I think this
man will perhaps be counted among the
screen idols of the near future.
"In thy arms let me taste the delights of
paradise," I greeted Alec Francis on
the Lasky lot, and then we embraced like
two Frenchmen. I had not seen him for
twelve long years, and he looks younger
now than then. .
If I were asked to name the most popular
player in Hollywood, I would hesitate
between Florence Vidor and Marion Davies.
Neither is at all up-stage, and both are
charming.
If you think you have a few automobiles
in your town, wait till you see Holly-
wood and these parts. Everybody ha-
— even the cook. Cars are as important
here as shoes — more so.
17 very day a Santa Fe train leaves Chi-
cago for California, and each train
has four long sections full. Returning,
two sections are usually empty. Soon
evervbody will be in California and Florida.
There are real-estate offices on nearly
every business block, and some have men
out in front laying for you.
Assistant directors are more important
*~* here than directors. At least, the>
think they are.
''There are 2,479,781 directors her.
(approx.). Nearly everybody has di
rected or thinks he can direct, and want
to try. Multiply this by five and yon hav*
the exact number of those who can ac
or think they can act and want to try
If you thought of coming, too — well, donl
Paging the Film Fathers
mlmued from pogt
emained behind to till Ins fields when
■ir and daughtei went to Hollywood,
t ittx them home soon Hut instead
»ent tor him!
en Norma Shearer was a girl in
eal, hei lathi i was master oi tin
A picture ot him in his hunting
i hangs over her Hollywood dreai
luit Norma hasn't seen her fathei foi
His business keeps him in
ind Mis Shearer travels across
mtinent twice a yeat to he with him
.i tew ilass so the movies are responsible
tor the breaking up oi one happy home.
Fathers in All Walks of Life
From all walks oi life the players have
■eome; from the New England factory
where Neil Hamilton's father worked
metal polisher ("But I took Dad out
shops last year," says Neil happily) ;
Pennsylvania coal-fields, where the
rider O'Malley toiled and Pat himself was
i breaker boy ; from the Chicago apart-
ment house where Mary Philbin's father
in his street-railway uniform brought the
newspaper announcing that his little girl
v.in a beauty contest Mr. Reynolds,
Vera's father, is a Los Angeles politician.
Howard Davis, father of Mildred, is a
paper man Marion Davies' dad is a
justice in New York City.
In the war George Arthur's father had
to salute his own son. He is a contractor,
formerly of London, now of Hollywood.
At first the Arthurs did not like the blaze
>f California sunshine after London fog
md returned home. Ten days later they
rabled that they were sailing for America.
Sometimes a screen star does not add
uster to the paternal name, when that name
j not considered dressy enough for electric
ights. J. Cronk found his surname no
lindrance in the banking business, but his
laughter changed her name to Claire
A'indsor.
One evening last year Hollywood ob-
served Mae Busch dining at the Cocoanut
jrove with a handsome, grey-haired man
vho seemed very devoted. The next morn-
ng's paper announced her engagement — to
in "Australian millionaire." It was a week
>efore the mischievous Mae revealed the
:act that it was her own father. For
nany years Mr. Busch had lost trace of
tis daughter. Mae had left Australia with
l traveling road show. Then one day he
ead an interview with her in a fan maga-
:ine. and that very night took a boat for
-os Angeles.
A favorite movie plot in the early days
>f the movies was that in which a locket
dentified a long-lost child. Life has quite
is impossible plots, as Jack Gilbert dis-
overcd last spring, when a perfect stranger
ame to his dressing-room and holding out
lis arms in the fashion beloved of melo-
Irama greeted him with, "My boy ! My
>ov !" Papers he carried proved unmis-
akably that he was Jack's real father,
vhom his mother had divorced when he
vas a baby, and of whom he had never
>een told !
In the eyes of the fathers of the stars,
s thev gaze at their famous children, is
ride — and something else, bewilderment.
Vre they thinking, perhaps, of the days
■ hen these glorious beings were not screen
tars, but little boys with grubby hands,
nd little girls with missing front teeth,
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Letters to King Dodo
(Continued from page 61)
New York.
Dear King :
Your Majesty must begin giving a
thought to your wardrobe at once. I have
just seen Rudolph Valentino upon his re-
turn from Europe and I realize that your
regal raiment is sadly out of date.
Valentino came back with a dozen or
so fur-lined bathrobes. Scores of pleated
trousers. (A lot of Italian relatives, too.)
He still wears his slave bracelet. On the
other wrist a watch held in place with a
second slave bracelet. A couple of plati-
num chains across his decorative waistcoat
complete the ultra touch.
With his new divorce, Rudy was de-
cidedly happy. ' There's just one cloud upon
his horizon. His pictures have been barred
in Italy because of his recent plan to be-
come a naturalized American. Suppose this
international problem should ultimately lead
to war, Your Majesty! Just suppose.
Imagine your subjects rushing into enlist-
ment camps with the cry "Make the world
safe for Valentino !"
New York.
Your Majesty.
Reports have filtered all the way to
Manhattan anent one Greta Garbo, a luxu-
rious appearing Scandinavian actress who
is yet to make her debut on your majesty's
screen. When the Metro-Goldwyn powers
looked over Ibaiiez's "Torrent," in which
Miss Garbo makes her American debut,
their eyes glistened. '"Here," they chuckled,
"is the sensation of the next film year.''
"Torrent," I am reliably informed, is but
an indifferent production of Monte Bell
but Miss Garbo flashes like a bolt of
lightning from the silverscreen. So plans
for the immediate making of Miss Garbo's
next picture, "The Temptress," also an
Ibanez effort, have been held up tempo-
rarily while the aforementioned powers
consider how best they can embellish Miss
Garbo's vibrant dramatic qualities.
Hollywood.
Dear King :
By this time Your Majesty will know
definitely whether or not your subjects
have taken a fancy to "La Boheme," in
which Lillian Gish makes her first cellu-
loid appearance since that turgid effort,
"Romola." Doubtless Your Majesty has
heard of the tribulations encountered in
meeting Miss Gish's insistence upon lengthy
rehearsals before each scene. Miss Gish
was developed in the Griffith school, which
calls for weeks and weeks of rehearsal
before anyone unpacks a camera. Director
King Vidor, on the other hand, likes to
shoot spontaneous stuff.
Miss Gish had her way and "La Boheme '
was made as she wished it. Now reports
afe leaking out of Metro-Goldwyn that
Victor Seastrom is having his difficulties
with Miss Gish in "The Scarlet Letter."
Still Miss Gish, who starts for Art with
a capital A, always has her way.
The Answer Man
(Continued from page 72)
per for. Leatrice Joy's first under her
contract with Cecil De Mille was "Hell's
Highroad," in which Edmund Burns played
opposite her.
Miss Ruth. — Yes, it is true that Vita-
graph sold out to the Warner Company.
Thus disappeared from the movie land-
scape a landmark of antiquity.
Jere De L. — Corinne Griffith was born
November 24, 1897. Wallace Beery in
"Devil's Cargo."
Gill, Mexico. — Listen here, you must
not include your questions in letters in-
tended for other departments. When you
do, I have to put on roller skates and skip
all over the map. May McAvoy is twenty-
four, single, and address her at First
National. Yes, Barbara Bedford is mar-
ried to Albert Roscoe. See you again.
Nellie E. O. — Your letter was a gem,
and I'm sure I understand. Anyway, some
of us have to suffer more than others. I
will be glad to hear from you any time.
Katharine L. P. — Yes, there is a Kath-
ryn Perry who is married to Owen Moore.
Marshall Neilan left Metro-Goldwyn to
start his own producing company. His
first picture was "Skyrocket," with Peggy
Hopkins Joyce and Owen Moore, which
had its premiere on the U. S. S. Leria-
than. I have never computed the number
of times Peggy Joyce has been married.
A Movie Girl. — Johnny Walker has
black hair and brown eyes. Percy Mar-
mont played the lead in "The Shining
Adventure," directed by Hugo Ballin.
Betty. — David Powell's last picture be-
fore his death was "Back to Life,"
in which Patsy Ruth Miller also appears.
Mr. Powell died of pneumonia April 16.
1925, and left a wife, living in this
country, and a child, now attending school
in England.
Thistledown. — Wrong! My nose is
not red. But in winter it is like one of
Oppenheim's novels — read to the very end.
Holmes Herbert was born in Dublin, Ire-
land, in 1882. He is six feet tall.
M. T. — Warner Brothers have been busy
developing the new "sheik," Don Alvarado,
and he has been signed under a long-term
contract with them. He is twenty-two; a
Spaniard, five feet eleven, weighs 160
pounds, and has black hair and eyes, of
course. Did you ever see a blond sheik?
Richard Barthelmess in "Just Suppose.'
No, I pass.
Mildred C. — Most of the players you
mentioned are with Famous Players.
Roy S. O. — A new camera was used
for the first time in this country for Betx
Daniels' picture, "The Manicure Girl."
is called the gyroscope, and by using this
camera the cameraman can follow tht
player from room to room and thus get th<
effect of continuous action. It was firs'
used on the German picture, "The Las
Laugh." Tom Mix is forty-six. Hoo
Gibson is married to Helen Johnson, am
Marion Xixon is with Universal. I'll se<
you in my dreams. Good night !
Frenchie.- — Thank you for the drawing
It looked just like Pola Negri. She woul'
be flattered at seeing it, I'm sure. Ramo:
Novarro is twenty-seven. No. I neve
argue. I find that those who argue mo;
are those who know least.
The Ol' Lady.— Hello there, you her
again ? So you received a picture froi
John Gilbert. And you have ridden in ou
Times Square shuttle and know what
is — yes, just like the subway scene i
"Manhandled."
Rose D. — That was a great letter, Ros*
You must write me again, buf you mu:
ask some questions.
Super -Realism in the Movies
ntinutd from page 70)
,. ih.it it i^ generally better to pro
ilmc even exteriors undei the perfectly
tiled light of the studio, and that
oi tin- most triumphant!} realistic
« have hern worked out indoors Hut
what 1 applaud is the realistic spirit with
which von Stmheim, in "Greed," repro
duces .i dentist's othce. Because here he
how varied, fantastic and
lovel) .ill the "business" of such a room
ne when translated to the black
and white of the screen.
Hut when the director orders a certain
kind of bedroom, shaped like a gondola,
let us say, .i bit of fantastic Orientalism)
formal beauty i^ created not bj the
camera, but by the art-director, then I
•, and heroine unhappy.
Tiik more high handed the director be
mes, the more he tampers with the
ra, and so much the more stagy
dives, cafes and boudoirs do you get. You
more and more uncomfortable-looking
rs and more blots and blurs and gloz-
ings on the film. It all seems inevitably
cheap and offensive, and really harks back
lO the trick film that SO completely went
out of fashion. The "expressionisticism"
of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" was
really this same stuff on a much higher
plane Now "Caligari" was actually a
of tableaux invented in the hot-
house imagination of the art-director.
Everything was distorted and twisted, in
accordance with the demands of some
other art — except the more or less life-
like players, who really should have worn
masks. It was a bizarre and fascinating
experiment, but led us in the wrong direc-
entirely. For, once you begin tug-
gesting and touching up, once you stop
photographing people in natural settings
and place them in a distorted cheese-cloth
paradise (whether distorted by sentimcntal-
ism or "expressionistic" fantasy, it does
not matter) you may as well go on scene-
painting everything in your photoplay.
And the further you go in this dirt ■
the further you get away from the impor-
tant and particular qualities of the motion
picture.
T*he camera is a greater artist than any
property-man ! He may try a daring
stunt in the way he handles the perspective
of a building or a wall or a window. But
the camera with its super-human powers
beats him ; it is tar more daring in what
it discovers. For it is an instrument which,
left to itself, seems to have a soul of its
own.
In "The Last Laugh," direct clear camera
shots of a revolving hotel door made a
more beautifully fantastic picture or sym-
bol than any painted contraption in
"Calgari."
I have heard of times when the camera
turned up with effects that the director
scarcely counted on or hoped for. James
Cruze and his colleagues, in making "The
Covered Wagon," became a little afraid
lest the endless trains crawling over the
desert might draw the picture out too
monotonously. But in the act of cutting
and editing it, they realized suddenly that
it was the long line of wagons winding
slowly and rhythmically that carried the
whole picture and even became the hero
of it.
Diausm, Realiam. More Realism Th<
movie camera when used in connection
with real oi natural formi is alwaj
capable ol giving us lomething better and
mole imaginative than when taking form
cenea which have been deprived <>i
their "natural" character thru the in
in fei ence "i the si . n< paintei , Scent
painters, when the) are merely that, should
back t.i the theater, and lei the camei i
do its own work. I in tlu ii com
ii ol interior as well as exterior
scenes should chug to natural forma as
much as possible. They should especially
try to get away from the had tendency
of dressing up rich people's homes in the
most elaborate and horrible had ta.stc.
In von Stroheim'a "Merry Widow" there
were exquisite cinema compositions. But
in their weaker moments they had two de
fects: at times the) seemed complete!) i
tuial and Stuffy ; at other times they would
seem to Stop, like motionless tableaux.
The early portions of "The Big Parade"
had an amazingly natural quality. Life in
the French village behind the lines was
as if in a strange new home; one placidly
lovely picture moved into the other. And
when the big kick of the story came, it
came thru the energy, the motion. There
was a scene where Milisande rushes up
stream, against the mad torrent of motor
transports, looking for her doughboy. In
constant motion, her frail human anxiety
is centered always against a background
of madly rushing force — "The Big Pa-
rade !" f doubt whether anything better
has ever been done with the movie camera.
One remembers also for such beauty
the scene in "Stella Dallas," where Stella
goes into the comfort station: the square
window to the right, the hard bench, upon
which she sits weeping so miserably that
the mascaro dribbles down her face, and
the hard young woman beside her smoking
a cigarette. Supremely imaginative treat-
ment of real detail.
"Ctella Dallas" is perhaps the ideal
picture so far. It has the barest thread
of a story, and resembles the "Last Laugh"
in being essentially the portrait of a char-
acter. In the progression of the film there
was an illusion of reality which only frag-
ments of other pictures attain. Nothing
seemed artificially "composed"; the direc-
tor never thrusts his ideas at you. He
seems so restrained that you have the
illusion of watching, unobserved, from a
window, a life. The vulgar, weak, sym-
pathetic soul of Stella is revealed by a
hundred little gestures and objects: the
cheap, bric-a-brac of her flat, the shiny-
glassware, the posies and favors that her
addle-pated mind loves, assume the greatest
meaning and arrange themselves into the
most intricate and beautiful patterns. Her
predicament is tremendously real and be-
comes steadily more and more intense as
the film clings steadfastly to the single,
poignant idea of Stella Dallas, until she
becomes one of the most tragic figures that
any part has ever presented. I saw no
sentimentalism here; I felt only that the
director had helped the camera to find its
soul in its realistic searching of depths
such as we only suspect and pass by every
day in our own lives.
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No Book Learnin'
(Continued from page 19)
at the bottom at seven-fifty a day (when
I could get it) and if I worked, studied,
watched and learned all about every de-
partment of the studio.
"Air. De Mille is the most wonderful
man in the world ! I'm all alone. I
haven't anyone belonging to me and no one
to work for. He is the reason I didn't
go under in those seven years, because I
wanted to show him I could top anything
he had said I might do if I stuck.
"I use psychology on myself. I talk to
myself and make myself follow what I
decide is best. I knew that I very likely
wouldn't stick to such a disheartening
business if I had money back of me. I
was only twenty-one and I had twenty-
five hundred dollars.
"You've got to get rid of that money,"
I told myself. So I stayed at the Alex-
andria for five weeks and spent the money
right and left, only keeping the wardrobe
which I needed for pictures. Then I
worked as extra for weeks, sometimes one
day a week, sometimes three, sometimes
not at all.
"The first day on the lot I was abso-
lutely bewildered. There's never been
such a green extra ! Didn't know any-
thing about make-up and I looked so
funny after I got it on that I was afraid
to go out.
"After three months of this, I was
down to twenty cents and knew something
had to be done. I met Goodstadt, the
casting director, and asked him if he
wouldn't let me go up north with the men
who were to make 'The Sea Wolf.'
" 'Bill, we want men on this picture !'
he said.
" 'I'm a man !' I told him.
" 'But these are tough birds.'
" 'I can raise a beard in a week. I can
look so tough you wouldn't know me !
Just let me go !' "
His First Contract
"LIe looked at me a minute and said:
A A'Come into the office!' And there he
gave me a contract beginning at thirty
dollars a week ! I was so happy — I
thought I was sitting on the world. I
walked all the way from the Lasky Stu-
dios to Los Angeles, stopping every five
blocks to take out the little pink paper
that had 'contract' written on it. You
see, De Mille had said I might be a job-
less extra for years and this was only
three months !
"Every time I had a chance I talked
to Mr. De Mille. Half the time I didn't
know what the devil he was talking about,
but I thought about it and wondered and
finally some of it began to seep in. After
two or three years I realized what he
meant by timing, spacing, and other cryp-
tic remarks. For instance, he might say :
'This will be a six-foot fade-in.' I had to
know when six feet had been ground and
start the action then.
" 'Skip over the center — we're going to
put a title in these.' I must know how
long to hold it for the title and when to
go on."
But after the first few years, the Fates
who sit up yonder spinning destinies
began to get the thread of Bill's life
snarled and knotted. Everything went
wrong.
Then— Hard Luck
Qke day, after a period of hard luck,
Fox gave Bill a contract for two pic-
tures. The wolf was so uncomfortably
near the door that Bill looked on the slip
of paper as a gun to keep the animal
away. . . . That night — of all nights ! —
there was an automobile accident and
"William Boyd — broken leg" was entered
in reporters' notebooks. . . . The contract
was as useless as an unloaded gun !
For nine months the leg refused to
mend.
"The first three months I felt sorry for
myself," said Bill, "I thought I was get-
ting a raw deal and it wasn't fair and so
on. Then one day, as I sat with my leg
propped up, I said to myself: 'See here,
this isn't getting you anywhere. I know
you haven't had anything to eat for two
days, but you've gone without eating
longer than that before this, and it didn't
kill you. You came up then, and you can
come up now !'
"I think that experience helped me de-
velop my spirit. Anyway, a man must
have ideals and ambition and never let go
if he's going to get to the place he's
headed for !"
It's Bill's ability to get something from
every experience, his willingness to learn
even from the most unintelligent fan letter
that has brought him from the rolling mill
of fifteen years ago to screen prominence.
"Oh, but there is no part that isn't
worth playing!" he cried. "Somebody had
to think in order to write the part, no
matter how small it is, and if it was worth
creating in print, it's surely worth cre-
ating on the screen. Perhaps you can
develop it so that it stands out. My part
in 'The Road to Yesterday' was developed.
It wasn't much to begin with.
"Sincerity is the whole thing. If you
are sincere and know what you want to
do, go to it and let 'em stop you if they
can !"
They cant stop Bill.
KIMPEI SHEBA, of the Japan Times, of TOKIO
has written a remarkable article
THE MOTION PICTURE
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for the May CLASSIC — it is illustrated with
some striking pictures of Japanese film favorites
78
Masterpieces of the
Screen
nlinued from pain- 4C>)
these, " I lu Vanishing American"
nearest to hcing .1 masterpiece, yet
ntaiued several i;I.uuil; defects that
it out ol the one hundred per cent.
1 lu- Merr> Widow." "He Who
Slapped" and "The lluiuhli.uk ol
Dame" rould hardly he improved
their kind, and yet they fall shot t
ie one hundred per cent, rating. "ki-s
Mr \ lines in the same class with
I) Windermere's Kan," hoth almost
perfect in their way, hut the latter had
. ,.| the cue hundred per cent, ele
ts, so that the former cannot he rated
quite -it one hundred per cent. As for
. Hawk," "Hen llur" contains .ill
the fine points that "The Se.i Hawk" cor-
d plus many more, hence it is not in
the one hundred per cent, class. There
are possibly several dozen more threat pic-
tures that 1 have overlooked, but these
will suffice, lli.it leaves us the following,
•i I nominate as the great master
pieces ol the si reen :
lien iiiu
The Wanderer
The Ton Commandments
Stclhi Dallas
The Big Parade
> Windermere's Kan
The Six Great Films
f\- these, according to my lights, "Ben-
Hur" is the greatest. Far greater
than "The Wanderer." which falls in the
il.iss, much better than "The Ten
Commandments," also of the same class;
it seems to contain all the qualities and
elements of a one hundred per cent, pic-
ture, and. therefore, I award it first
honors. I cannot conceive of a more
masterful production. Next to it 1 place
"Stella Dallas," altho it lacks many of the
qualities of a one hundred per cent, pic-
ture. And yet it is certainly the greatest
emotional drama ever produced and a
greater picture of its kind is beyond my
wildest hopes and dreams. "The Big
Parade" is a war picture and stands in a
class by itself unapproached. One can
hardly compare "The Big Parade" with
"Stella Dallas," they being so different in
scope and theme, and they both come very
close to the one hundred per cent, mark
because the great qualities they do possess
are far beyond one hundred per cent. — if
that is possible. According to our chart,
"Lady Windermere's Fan" falls consider-
ably below the two last mentioned, but yet
it is so wonderful of its kind that it must
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When you have seen "Ben-Hur," I am
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My first cast elicited the information
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re-mi as well as for art's sake, and that is
not her boy friend's name either. Since
she is a blonde, this was entirely unex-
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carve the gold out of one's teeth or
tooth, as the case may be.
Not for Art Alone
""The next throw produced the return
that she is entirely satisfied with doing
pleasant parts with Reginald Denny and
not parts unknown and attempted by as-
pirants with a burning ambition and
adenoids.
As a matter of fact, Laura does not
think that she can put the Great Eleanora
Bernhardt on the bum. She deposes that
since she seems to be fated to be an actress
until death or matrimony doth intervene,
that she may as well try to be a fair to
middling performer and a good trouper.
Next she proved to be a genuine girl
by almost lapsing into an emotional coma
at the mere mention of the name of
Ronald Colnian. She said she got the
best weep of her life from "The Dark
Angel."
A Film Fan Herself
""Then she proved that she was different
by not becoming delirious at being ques-
tioned anent her views of that bold, bad
boulevardier, Lew Cody. In fact, she even
defied him by saying that she was going
to move out into his Beverly Hills neigh-
borhood where all the husbands wear the
marksmanship medals they won in the war
all over their vests.
Laura was full of candor. She said
she felt sorry for Lew. She might even
be called the candid kid even tho being
sorry, for Lew has been known to be
serious if not fatal.
Of this she was informed, so the re-
sponsibility is her own.
The conversation progressed thru po-
lice dogs to the carelessness of latter-
day vestals, cigaret smoking and psycho-
analysis, even to nearing the last hope of
all interviewers, the Volstead law. Then
the b. f. returned and started to wind his
watch.
Laura got -her start in pictures with her
candor. After taking a flicker at the
flickers as an extra, Laura braced Al
Christie for a job in stock as an ingenue.
She got the job.
Laura's Career
Cince then her rise has been rapid. She
^ is now one of the best bets out at
Uncle Carl Laemmle's Universal joint.
But she has not even dropped back into
second.
You will note that I have not attempted
to describe her. Who has been able to
dissect a dimple with a typewriter or catch
the lilt of a liquid laugh. You are able
to look at the pictures. If you are not
satisfied with Laura's looks, you are a sap.
If you would read and believe a lot of
applesauce that I might write about her
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It has never been a question of Laura s
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The Candid Kid's got what it takes.
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In the May CLASSIC
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"You ire -n. ii. Master," I breathed.
-In motion pictures." he replied mod
eitly, "1 am I N' ything. Ml that has
that i- I Ml th.it is hfinj!. thai is
1 \u thoughts, my plans, mj dire< tion,
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••LT\\ .\." he -viiil "That .iN<> is mine.
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heart of a rose."
" \nil that lets out a lot of people." 1
"People!" he puffed, "what people?
Lubitsch, Griffith, IV Mille, Ingram,
Neilan, Robertson, Brenon, Fox, Gold-
w\n. Lask) pawns, tools, puppets of my
genius; my raw materials, my clay, my
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do it I"
"Indeed they do, Master," I agreed,
politely.
"And now," he said, with a vague ges-
ture of finality, "you know what you know.
Which is not much. And you may tell
the World. Which is also not much."
"Thank you, Master," I said. "Shall I
ack the same way 1 came?"
"You have seen ME!" he replied. "You
cannot possibly go hack the same way
that you came."
The Master is right 1 am a changed
man. Now. whenever I look upon a super-
special extra gold star fifty-two jewel
feature picture, 1 lose my appetite and
black spots appear before my eyes.
And sometimes I have to carry a heavy
cane.
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Why, he is the only actor I know of who
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Honorable Mention
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Barrymore, the polished artiste, giving
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in the motion picture industry in the past
eighteen months. I have purposely talked
with "i interviewed these people, inside and
outside, everywhere, in ordei to u< 1 the
real truth as to yoiu chance in the movies.
I have particularly concerned myscli with
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tunately, 1 have closely observed the ways
and means ol the biggest men and greatest
mi the game today. But this does
not make me immune from error. Am
other extra charactei hail the same, or
almost the same, chance to put his or her
nations down on paper for the benefit
of his or her fellow workers, as 1 am
doing here.
Hut back to the subject.
The Element of Chance
r\o not be discouraged yet. I will give
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that there are always two view-points to
subject. The matter of chance is
simply being balanced by the weights of
de whose springs and point of accuracy
are so often uncertain, having no fixed
destination. Now read on.
It is true that there are hundreds of
people who get work. I have gotten lots
of it myself. But by no means is the
age up to a fairly good weekly salary.
Say, thirty-five to fifty dollars a week
would be a figure unheard of as an average
— it would really be a catastrophe for an
: to average this amount of money
tor one month straight. Of course, there
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five hundred dollars a day; perhaps they
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the picture. But we are only dealing with
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banners of the extra. In other wcn-ds, you
(are here in our fair land and are read) to
begin your journey for work. You have
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etc.
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Flash Backs
(Continued from page 45)
most prominent of the footlight Virgins.
Our bet is that Gloria will get away
with "The Miracle" neatly. We dont
know who will direct, but Fritz Lang, the
man who made "Siegfried," would be a
good selection.
Now that Dolores Costello seems to
have arrived definitely as a potential star,
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cago paper when they were chorus girls
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Small film roles were offered them — and
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Famous at Fifty
(Continued fi <>m pogt 31 >
time everyone had tlu feeling that he could
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uragement that tires one with thi
thusiasm to give him more and bettei work.
"When we had finished the picture,
tsch said, 'See, Euldlc, 1 made you an
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me .it tn ^t wondci s n he knows
what lie is doing. It is not long before one
tnul- out. Lubitsch has thai artistic in
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wrong. He inoculates you with the scene
that you are amazed .it your-
on the screen. Vou begin to wonder,
did that man make me do that? I believe
that it I had a few more.- pictures with him
I would be a good actor.'
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jV/f \RriNi>i i has been in the theatrical
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MAY, 1926
No. 3
Notable Features in This Issue:
FAMOUS BLUNDERS
Immortal acreen ">|tn>|"— and theli costl) dan
HAS THE GREAT LOVER BECOME JUST A CELEBRITY?
rhc problem ol Rudolph Valentino and all mum Drawing bj K. k. t bamberlaiu
MEN
pkina Joy< •■ dl* Unity and matrimonj
MAKING "THE BIG PARADE"
King Vidoi tella the Inside facta behind the big production
HOW FAIRBANKS TOOK THE COLOR OUT OF COLOR
Minn Parker, the director, telli how "The Ui.uk Pirate" wai made
MORE IMPRESSIONS OF HOLLYWOOD
ditor-ln-chiel lella his experience* In the capital ol celluloldia
THE MOTION PICTURE IN JAPAN
A Famous Japanese critic Leila how the screen baa won cherry-blossom land
I. mi. a I. .mi- l'i
Don Ryun 20
'.i Redway 22
Froderii h /antH Smith 26
Dunham Thorp 28
Eugene V. Brewster 32
Kimpei Sheba 34
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Heinrich Fraenkel 18
H. W. Hanemann 24
The Classic Gallery .
■l.i Negri, George O'Brien, Vilma Banky and Ronald i olman
The Toast of Berlin
l.y.i de 1'iiiii. famoua Hungarian screen beauty, is now in America
Silverscreen: The Model Movie Community
ell-known humorist discusses the Ideal film colony Drawings by Khz
"So's Her Old Man!" 27
A new stud) ol Dolores Costello
Cella Puts the Foreign Vamp in Her Place John Held, Jr. 30
The further adventures ol Mr. Held 'a bathing-girl heroine
Moana: A Poem of the Cinema. Matthew Josephson 37
A critical discussion ol Robert Flaherty a S.imoan classic
Joby from the Tennessee Hills Alice L. Tildesley 38
Jobyna Ralston has been Harold Lloyd's leading woman lor four yean
New Styles in Screen Girls Harry Carr 40
-iiion in film heroines changes often — Drawings by Eldon Kelly «
Pauline Starke (Portrait) 42
The Nation of the Happy Ending Francis L. Perrett 43
S Ernest Vadja, Hungarian dramatist now in Hollywood, describes America
Corinne Griffith (Portrait) •. t 49
The Northern Star Alice L. Tildesley 52
reen'a newest meteor, Greta Garbo, is a moody daughter of Sweden
Old Pictures in New Frames Sara Redway 54
Hayakawa Bays screen dramas .ire bigger now but they aren't any bettei
Came Spring 56
The minds of tilmdom turn lightly to thoughts of golf and tennis
Meet La Cava Dunham Thorp 62
liiny Richard Dix's new director, the latest film sensation
The CLASSIC'S Famous Departments
Flash Backs F. J. S. 44
Be sure to read this much-talked-aboul department in its enlarged form
Our Own News Camera 46
The incidents of the film world told in pictures
The Celluloid Critic Frederick James Smith 50
The new screen plays in review
Letters to King Dodo Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith 58
An amusing series .it letters upon the gossip of celluloid ia
The Answer Man 63
Cover Portrait of Colleen Moore by Don Reed
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CLASSIC'S Late News PAGE
JOSEPH SCHENCK signs John Barrymore for
United Artists.
Reported that James Cruze is going to United
Artists after completing "Old Ironsides," now
under way, for Famous Players.
Plans for Gloria Swanson to do "The Miracle"
appear to be off. Morris Gest is asking $200,000
for the screen rights to the spectacle and the
interests behind Miss Swanson's coming United
Artists activities look upon this as too high.
George Bancroft playing prominent role in
"Old Ironsides." Esther Ralston has lead.
Dorothy Gish returns from California visit with
her sister and departs for England to begin con-
tract with British National Pictures, Ltd.
Eleanor Boardman playing opposite Jack Gil-
bert in Rafael Sabatini's "Bardelys the Magni-
ficent," now being directed by King Vidor in
California.
Sally O'Neil playing opposite Ramon Novarro
in "The Heart Breakers," directed by Hobart
Henley.
Mary Pickford has changed the name of Mary
Pickford Forrest, daughter of her sister, Lottie,
to Gwynne Pickford. Gwynne was adopted some
time ago by her grandmother, Mrs. Charlotte
Pickford. Little Gwynne went to Europe re-
cently with her illustrious aunt and uncle.
Jobyna Ralston, subject of an interview in this
issue, was loaned to the M. C. Levee-First National
production. She plays the leading role opposite
Jack Mulhall in "Sweet Daddies." ,
George Sidney selected for David Warfield's
role of Simon Levi in William Fox production of
"The Auctioneer." Frank Borzage directing and
Madge Bellamy playing the femitiine lead, done
years ago behind the footlights by Antionette
Walker.
Work started by
Director Mauritz
Stiller on Ibanez's
"The Temptress,"
starring the highly
promising Greta
Gar bo. Antonio
Moreno plays op-
posite Miss Garbo.
Josef von Stern-
berg, the maker of
the ill-fated "Sal-
vation Hunters,"
is back at work
again. He went to
Europe after his
break with Metro-
Goldwyn and now
has returned to
work, making "The
Sea Gull," starring
Edna Purviance,
for Charlie Chap-
lin. Chaplin, it
would seem, still
believes in the
erratic von Stern-
berg.
Alia Nazimova
returning to stage.
LAST MINUTE REVIEW
"The Black Pirate"
"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest,
Yo-ho, and a bottle of rum."
Buccaneers, cut-throats, desert islands, black flags, captive
princesses in despair, boats scuttled on lonely seas, prisoners
walking the plank — they're all in Doug Fairbanks' newest effort,
"The Black Pirate."
There is a fine boyish spirit to "The Black Pirate." Here
is a rampantly wild tale told with a superb sense of youthful
exaggeration. It is the great imaginary adventure of boyhood —
the sort of thing that for generations has set boys building
rafts on old mill ponds. "The Black Pirate" isn't just an in-
teresting experiment in subdued color photography. Actually,
it is a much finer thing. It is a roystering adventure pictured
thru the eyes of a boy.
The black pirate sets out to avenge his father's death at
the hands of sea marauders. He masquerades as a pirate — and,
of course, outwits the whole brood. There is a superb incident
where the black pirate, in his false role, demonstrates how he
can capture a merchantman single-handed. He puts the rudder
out of commission and slides down the sails, ripping them to
bits with his sheath-knife.
Doug never had a better role than the Black Pirate. In
fact, he never had a better picture. A great deal of the credit
should go to the director, Albert Parker. Here is direction
superb in its directness and simplicity, capturing and retaining
the fine spirit of youth. It ought to put Parker at the top of
the directorial heap. F. J. S.
Cecil De Mille planning big million-and-a-half
dollar special to be made during the coming year.
Announced this during New York visit. Believes
he has biggest bet of the screen in William Boyd.
Report that Mary Pickford may make a picture
during her European trip with Doug. Said to
have negotiated with Ernst Lubitsch to make the
picture in Germany.
Mae Murray signed again by Metro-Goldwyn.
Sam Taylor has ended five years directorial
association with Harold Lloyd. His last comedy
for Lloyd was "For Heaven's Sake."
Buster Keaton has completed his Metro-Gold-
wyn contract and all future comedies will be re-
leased thru United Artists.
Doug Fairbanks' "The Black Pirate" is a big
New York hit. Biggest advance sale of any Fair-
banks picture yet produced. Apparently a London
hit, too, judging from the critical notices of the
English press.
W. C. Fields' first Paramount starring comedy,
"The Old Army Game," filmed at Ocala, Florida,
with Eddie Sutherland directing.
Charles Brabin signed by First National to
direct Doris Kenyon in "Mismates" for First
National. Picture now being made in New York.
D. W. Griffith's "Sorrows of Satan" under way
at last with Adolphe Menjou, Carol Dempster,
Lya de Putti, Ricardo Cortez and Marcia Harris
in cast.
Fred Niblo returns from European trip. Re-
ported that he will direct Norma Talmadge in
her revival of "The Garden of Allah."
Ann Nichols, author and producer of the stage
success, "Abie's Irish Rose," announces suit
against Universal Pictures claiming that "The
Cohens and Kellys" strongly resembles her play.
Clarence Brown
selecting his cast
for the Metro-
Goldwyn specta-
cle, "The Trail of
'98."
Harry Langdon
visits New York.
Victor McLag-
len gets coveted
role of Captain
Flagg in Fox pro-
duction of "What
Price Glory."
Conrad Nagel
and William
Haines renew con-
tracts with Metro-
Goldwyn.
Jean Hersholt to
play in new von
Stroheim picture
and then to go to
Fox for a David
War held role.
Harold Lloyd in
New York for rest.
Has called off plans
for building elabo-
rate Beverly Hills
residence.
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\?{ameless -homeless ~Kiki!
^nothing could stop herf
|UT of the dust of the gutters — into Paris' frenzied whirl <>(
riches anil romance .... all in one daz/lmg hound!
Yesterday nobody .... today KIKI — darling
of a delighted audiemi .
Then luxury and love almost within her
grasp! .... Can Kiki reach them — and keep bet
impish child-heart happy and unstained?
It's a breath-taking gamble — that last
desperate ruse of Kilci's. Your eyes won't
leave the screen — you'll forget the folks
around you — as you follow plucky, ador-
able Kiki's amazing fortunes to their
climax of cleverness.
Norma Talmadge's t
greatest success^
A brilliant screen production of the
famous Belasco play which ran two
years on Broadway. Great supporting
cast including Ronald Colman.
"No other actress on the cinema
today cou Id play this character with
the artistry and faithfulness of in-
terpretation that Norma has put
into the role.*'
David Betatco
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'Norma Talmadge
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difficult to define." Particular mention is
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Conway Tearle and Thomas Meighan are
included in the same category.
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is an article, "Simplicity Is Being Paged."
Does not this article explain and define the
question propounded in the former article.
Dont you think, just as the public is de-
manding more simplicity and realism in their
pictures, they are also demanding the same
thing in those who interpret the pictures?
Once upon a time not so long ago moving
pictures as a form of entertainment were
almost the exclusive prerogative of women
and more particularly the very young
women or the older and more disillusioned
ones.
Times have changed. The saloon is gone.
So is the cafe. Only the man of wealth
can afford clubs. Therefore the ordinary
man, the everyday fellow in the street, has
had to find some way to pass his evenings.
Some have found the radio a means of
passing their evenings. Still more, and of
these I am one, and I believe a typical
one, have become movie fans.
This trend of men toward the movie
theaters has been evolutionary. The movies,
however, have not exactly kept up with
these changing times and changing class
of audience. That is, not until lately. Now
the change is beginning to work almost
without their knowledge and they do not
seem to realize what it means.
Well, to me it seems simple. Sills,
Meighan, Tearle, Wallace Beery and such
players are just every-day sort of men —
that is, men such as you and I. Possibly
I take a liberty in classing you with the
rest of us, but you are a newspaperman
even as I, and I have found that news-
papermen the world over are pretty much
the same.
Now look about you. Have you any
friends that look like or act like Valentino,
Novarro, Cortez, Lou Tellegen, Charles
De Roche or any of the other Mexican,
Spanish, Italian or metamorphosed
Jewish boys who for so long have
been the "heroes" and sheiks of
the films ?
But surely among the doctors,
lawyers, businessmen and other
ordinary mortals whom you know
you can recall a double of either
Sills, Meighan or Tearle. Tearle,
during my work as a newspaper-
man, I have met. I found him
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being. Sills and Meighan I have
never met personally.
Now as for the acting of these
players. Stop and think. Take
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the double of any of these players.
Does he not in a given situation
act just about as they do on the
screen. In other words, does it
not occur that their unaffected,
natural way of carrying them-
selves— they do not act — carries a
greater semblance of reality to grown men
than does the sheik stuff that the Latin
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Dont you think that possibly movie maga-
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admirers of these so-called sheiks? Do
you really believe that young girls are in
the preponderance among movie audiences?
Of course, I never have the opportunity
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a week.
And what do I find ? That the audience
is about evenly divided as between men and
women and that the flapper type is greatly
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the various acts of the program, are more
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director of the "Super-Jazz Soloists" who
stands with his back to the audience and
beats time with his hips and knees than
they are in the feature picture.
Therefore, do not overlook the fact that
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dinner the wife or the sweetheart suggests
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They, however, want realism with their
romance. They want the kind of romance
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of joy in this blue, dry land. But it de-
stroys their sense of romance to unreel
before them an impossibly pretty boy
taking the world and the hearts of all the
ladies by storm with such action and such
a manner of making love as was never seen
either on land or sea.
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for the best letter, ten dollars for the second
and five dollars for the third. If two or
more letters are found of equal merit, the
full prize will go to each writer.
Letters must be constructive and inter-
esting. They must deal with pictures or
screen personalities. And — please note —
they should be typewritten.
So please give us ordinary, every-day
men a little consideration also in the future.
We like the movies, we want to be enter-
tained, but we want life to be depicted
somewhere near as it is — that is, real life
just smeared over with sufficient romance
to make it interesting and real men to
portray it for us.
As for the women, I have little to say.
Leave them, with the exception of Mae
Murray, as they are, God Bless Them. We
want them to be exotic, different, strange
and mysterious. In other words, just the
opposite of the men and with all of those
attributes which we do not want in the
men.
As for Miss Murray, cannot you use
your influence to have her stop pouting
her lips and posing all over the scene like
a dressed-up doll ? Because she is, for
some unexplained reason, sometimes cast
in real pictures, we have to see her. Voicing
the opinion of all of my men friends, it
is painful to say the least.
Sincerely,
Edwin Myers.
San Francisco Bulletin,
San Francisco, California.
1467 Sixth Avenue,
San Francisco, California.
Editor, Classic :
I have just read an article in the Classic
for February. The article closes with the
following sentence :
"The Classic is in favor of the old-
fashioned film theater at decent admission
prices. We would like to know what our
readers think about it."
I have not been appointed by many of
my friends to tell their opinions, but I
know what they are, nevertheless. We
most emphatically are in favor of a theater
where FILMS are shown; not a higgledy-
piggledyr combination of cheap vaudeville
and a picture, cut in half or three-quarters,
separated by an hour's parade of cheap
singing or worse dancing, so that one com-
pletely loses the thread of the story, all
interest.
Our big theaters have been getting worse
and worse, to our way of thinking.
Admission is fifty cents. The fea-
ture picture is just an hour long.
There are screeching females, al-
most bare; there are child WON-
DERS, singing "I'm the Hottest
Baby in Town" ; there are dancers
who leap around the stage with
no clothes on, and no art, not
even talent. We sit thru all this.
Then we decide that "this week
we wont go down-town. We'll
go to the neighborhood thea-
ter."
Ye gods, they're bitten, too.
Either it is a grocery-store night,
and we have to wait one-half
hour while sugar and rolled oats
are handed to the winner of the
door prizes; or the KIDDIES'
REVUE tortures us for another
half hour. We want a picture
house. Yes.
Ed. Blakey.
8
CECIL BDeMILLES
PRODUCTION
%eVOLGA
BOATMAN
By LENORE J. COFFEE
Adapted from Konrad Bercovici's novel
w,THWILLIAMBOYD, ELINOR FAIR,
VICTOR VARCON I, JULIA FAYE.
and THEODORE KOSLOFFn
CECIL B. DeMlLLE
the Master 'Qenius
who thrilled the world
with "The Ten Com-
mandments" surpasses
himself in this inspired
production.
AGAIN the master magician De Mille has waved
the magic wand of his directorial genius and
brought to life on the screen a mighty, epochal
drama that sounds a new and triumphant note in
the history of motion picture entertainment.
Brushing aside the cobwebs of motion picture tradition, he has
approached the subject of the Russian reign of terror with a sympa-
thetic and human understanding. In "The Volga Boatman" is
depicted the heart-beat of a nation in revolt— pulsating— human-
dramatic— irresistible.
And from this maelstrom of flame and strife emerges a heroic and
sublime story of love and devotion involving a Prince, a Princess
and a Volga Boatman. Never in the history of the cinema has
there been depicted a more fascinating, thrilling and never-to-be-
forgotten theme— A Veritable Achievement.
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Ibanez' Torrent! Rushing flood of mighty emotion
Sweeping us on — ever on — breathless . . .
Ricardo Cortez — dashing — gallant— torrid ....
Greta Garbo — Perfection!
Discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in stark Sweden-
She is setting the heart of America aflame!.
Monta Bell is the director.
You positively musn't miss Ibanez' Torrent!
A Cosmopolitan Production
Scenario by Dorothy Farnu?n,from the novel by Vicente Blasco
Ibanez. Titles by Katherine Hilliker and H. H. Caldwell.
"More Stars Than There Are In Heaven"
10
Ruth Harriet Louise
GRETA GARBO
MOTION PICTURE
MAY, 1926
POLA NEGRI
Harisook
GEORGE O'BRIEN
£
VILMA BANKY
Melbourne Spurr '
Melbourne Spurr
RONALD COLMAN
Hoover
The most famous of early blunders was
made by the Biograph Company when it
gave the wizard, D. W. Griffith, his re-
lease, rather than grant him a small
increase in salary
BY Their Blunders Ye Shall Know Them."
These few words, paraphrasing a well-
known proverb, sum up to a large degree
the successes and failures of most of our film
personages and companies.
The Blunder Mile-Stones
o blunder is human, and the careers of nearly
all of our famous stars, directors and produc-
ers are marked with blunders of one sort or an-
other that have played an important part in their
professional lives.
In many cases it has not been the blunder itself
which has had such a disastrous effect upon their
T
William S. Hart made the mistake
of quitting the screen at an inoppor-
tune time. In his absence Tom Mix
and others stepped into the limelight
Famous
By Tamar Lane
careers, but the celebrity's failure to perceive quickly the effects
of his blunder and take drastic steps to offset it by corrective
measures.
Blunders have been in vogue with the motion picture world
almost from the very inception of the industry. In fact, hardly
a year passes that one or two of our most prominent film person-
ages do not commit a faux pas of some kind which does them
great and lasting damage. This is but natural with such institu-
tions as the screen or stage, catering as they do to the fickle public.
The Griffith Blunder
Ane of the most famous of early blunders was that made by the
Biograph Company when it gave the wizard, D. W. Griffith,
his release, rather than grant him a small increase in salary.
Griffith was then in the heyday of his career and had built the
Biograph Company into the greatest film organization of its time.
The advance in salary which Griffith had demanded would have
amounted to a few thousand dollars in the course of a year. By
not granting it to him Biograph Company eventually lost millions.
When Griffith left the concern, along with him went not only most
of the firm's most popular players, but the. master mind which
had been really responsible for the company's success. After
"D. W.'s" departure, Biograph went rapidly into decline until
finally it passed entirely out of existence.
Vitagraph was another of the old companies whose successful
career was vitally affected by lack of foresight and poor business
judgment. At one time Vitagraph had what many consider the
greatest aggregation of screen favorites the film industry has ever
known. This was in the day of the one- and two-reeler.
Vitagraph's decline came with the arrival of the feature-length
photoplay. The Famous Players-Lasky had just come into exist-
ence and were presenting famous Broadway stars in films pro-
duced on a more lavish scale. The five- and six- reel pictures
featuring famous stage stars quickly became the vogue. Vita-
graph failed to see
the importance in
the new trend of af-
fairs and stuck to
its old policies.
Vitagraph's Error
"The company's
*■ films soon lost
their popularity
with exhibitors, be-
cause they could not
compete with the
elaborate produc-
tions being pre-
sented by Famous
Players-Lasky and
other new com-
panies that had
rushed in to offei
features. Vitagraph
finally saw its mis-
take and took hasty
steps to get into the
swim. But it had
waited too long and
never regained its
lost prestige. Vita-
Rudolph Valentino's mistake was
in allowing the term of "sheik" to
become too firmly attached to him.
He is still suffering from this term
16
Blunders
Immortal Screen Mistakes
graph also erred in releasing several of its best players, rather
than raise their salaries.
Other Company Mistakes
"The other famous film concerns of bygone days, Edison, Lubin,
' Essanaj . Selig, Kalem, etc., all fell by the wayside thru the mis-
take of adhering to ancient policy, instead of keeping abreast of
changing conditions.
Generally speaking, film concerns rise or fall upon the strength
or weakness of the personalities in their organization. Producers
must know just what stars and directors to hold onto, and just
which ones to release. This requires both analytical powers and
foresight, two qualities which are noticeably lacking in most pro-
duction outfits.
Conversely, stars and players, rise or fall thru their ability to
perceive what companies to remain with and what companies to
abandon, when a contract terminates. Many players have made
the fatal mistake of quitting a company or producer merely be-
cause a little "more money was in immediate sight, when they
would have profited more in the long run by remaining with the
outfit that could have carried them to greater success.
Ray's Famous Blunder
Charles Ray's quitting of Thomas Ince is marked down in
film history as one of the greatest blunders ever made by a
star. At the very height of his career, Ray deserted the Ince
guiding hand to shift for himself. In spite of his tremendous
popularity and talent which amounted almost to genius, Ray was
never able to make a go of it on his own hook. One or two of
his independent efforts were successful, but slowly and surely he
slipped farther and farther down the ladder, until finally he was
forced to return to the Ince banner. Misfortune continued to
dog his footsteps however ; Thomas Ince died, and his company
also passed out of existence. Ray is now trying to stage a
comeback with
M-G-M.
Dorothy Dalton
was another noted
star who tried to
leave Ince's guiding
hand, and failed.
Dorothy maintained
her popularity for a
short time after
leaving Ince, due to
the prestige she had
gained while work-
ing under the Ince
banner, but a year
or two later she
passed off the screen
entirely.
The Case of Mae
Marsh
Ceveral players
made the blunder
of leaving D. \V.
Griffith. Mae Marsh
is the most noted
case. Under Grif-
fith's direction Mae
Carsey
Nazimova blundered into the idea
that she was not only a great actress
but a great producer, director and
business woman combined
Spurr
Many are of the opinion that the greatest
blunder in recent years was Cecil B. De
Mille's cutting loose from Paramount — in
taking so much responsibility upon his
own shoulders
Marsh gave performances that were rated among
the finest in the annals of the silent drama.
Away from his megaphone her portrayals were
but mediocre. There were many who predicted
that Lillian Gish would rapidly decline after
leaving "'D. W." While Lillian by no means has
done as fine work in the past two years as with
Griffith, nevertheless, she has succeeded in hold-
ing her popularity to a great extent. It will take
one or two more films to ascertain definitely
whether Lillian has blundered or not.
Richard Barthelmess, another Griffith protege,
is one of those who set out for himself and made
(Continued on page 79)
Charlie Ray's quitting of Thomas
Ince is marked down in film history
as one of the greatest blunders ever
made by a star
17
The
TOAST
of
BERLIN
By
Heinrich Fraenkel,
of Berlin
Lya de Putti really comes of the Hungarian aristocracy. Her
father was the Baron Hoyos von Biixenstein, and she herself
was married to a Hungarian baron
A LTHO not yet twenty-five years of age,
A-\ Lya de Putti can boast of being the
most fiofiular of aJJ European film
actresses at the present moment.
Hers has been an adventurous and interesting
career. To begin with, Lya de Putti is her real
name, ahho most fieoftle consider it far too well
sounding to be real. But it cant be helped. It
is so. And she can firove it documentarily if
you would dare to doubt it to her face — which
I am sure you wouldn't.
As a matter of fact, she comes from one of the
best families of
Hungarian aris-
tocracy. Her
father was the
Baron Hoyos
von Biixenstein,
and young Lya
was married to
Baron de Putti,
Colonel in the
Hungarian
army, just be-
18
Dunky, Fivertlc
The earliest existing picture of tne fair Lya
(right), taken with a playmate in Hungary
Lya de Putti is not yet twenty-five.
Her father was a Hungarian baron. At the age of sixteen
she married the Baron de Putti, a colonel in the Hungarian
army. Her married life was brief. At eighteen she married
again — an attache of the Norwegian embassy in Berlin. Her
husband died two years ago.
She was discovered by Joe May, the German director, while
dancing in a Berlin music-hall.
fore her sixteenth birthday. She was not mar-
ried for a Jong time, however, and, ahho her
family kicked uj> a considerable row about it,
she insisted on going in for a dancing career
on the stage.
In her eight-
eenth year she
lived in Berlin
and married an
attache at the
Norwegian em-
b a s s y. Inci-
dentally, this
was more or less
responsible for
her future
LyadePutti,
the Famous
Hungarian
Screen
Beauty, Is
N o w i n
America
At the right, an interest-
ing study of the Hun-
garian star as she ap-
pears in "Vaudeville"
with Emil Jannings. Be-
low, as Manon Lescaut in
the recently completed
German film production
of that name
Photos by Binder, Berlin
screen career. She wished to join her
husband, who was staying in Norway at
the time. In view of the Hungarian
revolution, however, she could not go
back to Budapest to get her vise and,
having to stay in Berlin much longer
than she had expected, young Lya ac-
cented an offer to dance at a leading
Berlin music-hall.
Here she was "discovered" by Joe
May, the famous German film producer.
He instantly recognized the immense
screen value of her beautiful face and
gave her a good f>art in the picture he
was just embarking on: "Das Indische
Grabmahl," which has also been shown
in other fiarts of the world under the
title "The Indian Tomb."
It was a tremendous success for the
young debutante and offers to star in
■pictures were virtually showered ujion
the youngster, who had hardly dreamed
of going in for screen work.
An Amazing Career
AS a matter of fact, she was launched
•£*• now ufion her amazing career.
Since "The Indian Tomb," she has
worked in at least three or four pictures
a year and, as befits her strong energy
and restless temperament, has hardly
ever had any sjtare time except a week
or two in between her films; especially
{Continued on page 73)
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Has the
GREAT
LOVER
A
By Don Ryan
ND yet, Rudolph Valentino, ne Gug-
lielmi, is a very creditable actor.
Rudy is going to
resurrect the sheik
in the hope of again
climbing back to
public favor
Audiences are strange birds, as Valentino
has found. America will fondle a movie
actor, but its embrace is half mockery, like
that of the grubby little cash-girl of the
department store, who gives herself gig-
gling into your arms.
She is kidding. America is always kid-
ding like that. Valentino acts for it, but
America doesn't care for any. It craves
him for a public character.
And yet, Valentino is really a very
creditable actor.
Rudy and American Men
Oe used to be, if we may believe the
various stories, a bus boy in a hotel.
He was earning his living in a new country,
having come from Italy to make his for-
tune in America. Many compatriots of
high and low degree have been bus boys and
bootblacks in America. Why not ? I know a
count, who drives a laundry wagon.
But the men of America dislike Valentino.
They like to say, when they are
compelled to sit beside their
dames and see the fire and grace
of Valentino as a lover — they
like to say, "Once a bus boy, al-
ways a bus boy."
They also like to sneer at Val-
entino as "Vaselino." Then they
sneak home and rub more grease into their own
stubborn cowlicks in futile emulation of the
shining sheik.
It is Valentino's misfortune to have been the
innocent cause of more fads than any man since
Volstead. Sideboards (miscalled side-
burns), peon pants (the wide-bot-
tomed corduroys since supplanted by
those that are wide all the way up),
the very word sheik, applied to pubes-
cent lovers — such are his contribu-
tions to the transient
foibles of youth. As
these fads go out of
fashion, Valentino like-
wise goes out. He has
to swim hard against
20
Become
Just a
CELEBRITY?
Drawings by K. R. Chamberlain
the current to keep abreast of his public, which is
more interested in his divorce cases than in his screen
performances.
And yet, Valentino is quite a good actor.
It is no longer smart to live in Hollywood. I sup-
pose you know that ? So Valentino lives in a stucco
house on a minor peak of the Beverly Hills, sur-
rounded, for his immediate neighbors, by Jack Gilbert
and Frances Marion.
The place is approached by a winding road going up,
up, till it seems about to lose itself in the rain clouds
hanging low above the hills, and then ends within the
walled enclosure of the mansion.
From the wide window of Valentino's library the
hills are seen to raise their backs below — dark and
glistening in the recent deluge, like seals just risen from
the sea. Far out, on the plain, the lights of the city are
warm, yellow. The
red roof of his stables
Wax man
Valentino has been the cause of more fads than any man
since Volstead
is straight down at the base of the greater eminence.
In the stables Valentino has quartered five horses and
about the same number of dogs. Most of his leisure
time is spent with them. He has the taste of a country
gentleman in these things. (Continued on page 69)
What good was it that he could
sell more autos than the rest of the
sales force put together? Beside
this sleek-hair son of Satan he was
an oaf
CWIa u.,.
21
Peggy Hopkins Joyce has just stepped from the
newspaper front pages to the screen in "The
Skyrocket"
(In the March issue of The Motion Picture Classic
Adolphe Menjou told what he thought about Women.
Mr. Menjou spoke as an authority, at least cinematically
speaking. This month Peggy Hopkins Joyce tells what
she thinks of Men. And Miss Joyce may be considered
an authority!)
THE lecture hall is crowded. Professor Ennelbesser
has just finished his brilliant lecture on ichthyology.
"And now if there are any questions you wish to ask,"
he adds in conclusion, "I will be glad to answer them."
Someone helps the oldest lady to her feet. "I have a
question to ask, Pro-
fessor," she says in a
quavering voice.
The Eternal
Question
The professor is
1 flushed with pleas-
ure. He has reached
the peak of his career
after a lifetime of
study. He has fol-
lowed fish from
North Pole to South
studying them care-
fully, and now he
feels that no matter
what the question is,
he cannot fail to know
the answer. "Certain-
ly, certainly, my dear
Madame," is his kind-
ly reply. "What do
you wish to know?"
The old lady ad-
justs her ear trumpet in order to hear more clearly what
his reply will be. "Well, I want to know just what you
think of marriage as an institution,"' she trembles. "My
22
M E
nephew has been going to see a young lady lately "
But there is a sharp retort. The professor has beaten
himself unconscious with the jaw-bone of a whale.
And so it goes. If a banker after years of sacrifice and
toil, years of wearing rubbers to save the wear and tear
on his shoes, so far forgets himself as to talk about bank-
ing at a dinner-party, he is labeled an old bore, and in the
future is left severely to himself to eat his crackers, milk
and a baked apple in the gloomy silence of his own dining-
room. But let him talk about women, brilliantly or stu-
pidly, and even the most correct salad fork will pause on
its way to the mouth.
Moving pictures, magazines and books tell us how to
hold our husbands or our wives. But they dont tell us
how to lose them. The most popular column in the news-
paper begins, "Dear Miss Banana Oil : For two years I
have been keeping company with a young man four years
my senior. He seems to like me, but whenever we go out
he wears a false mustache. What shall I do?" And the
answer always comes, "Keep his respect, my dear, and he
will tire of the others and eventually return to you."
But there is so little good advice on men, so little au-
thentic news, that most of us are content to rely on a good
pack of fortune-telling cards to tell us, "Be true, he is a
good friend."
For pretty girls, beautiful women, will not talk about
men. They leave all that to visiting celebrities, for they
are too busy with their own affairs to generalize, too much
a part of the world's romances to get a perspective on love.
But every now and then, there is a famous beauty with
intelligence, and she will have a few ideas on what is
wrong with the picture, and why four out of five of us
are psycho-analyzed before we are forty.
Probably most of you have not seen a picture called
"The Skyrocket" yet, and therefore you have not seen its
star, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Miss Joyce is a lovely blonde,
slender, with blue
eyes, and a large
thickly coated aura of
romance and charm
enveloping her. And
having reached the
heights of moving
picture stardom, she
must be submitted to
the acid test, "What,
Miss Joyce, do you
think about men?"
Says Peggy Hopkins Joyce :
"I think it is very obvious that men have changed.
"Financially, women have been forced from the home.
Twenty-five years ago a girl helped about the house spas-
modically until she got married. Once married, her role
changed only slightly. The house was still her setting.
"Now a girl goes to work at seventeen or eighteen.
She is thrown with all sorts of men. Her judgment
grows sharper. She learns the value of money, so her
demands grow larger.
"I believe in marriage. It is absolutely necessary, of
course. It is the world's greatest convention. We do
it to please our mothers, our friends, ourselves, but it
seems to me that right now something is wrong with it."
Men Have Changed
"Of course> * cant
very well say
anything general
about them," Miss
Joyce replies. "But I
think it is very obvi-
ous that men have
changed. I dont mean
in your time or in my
time exactly, but it
seems to me that with
all the discussions about the women of today, there ought
to be at least one word said about the man.
"Recently women have been cast into a part formerly
In a recent
Classic,
A d ol p he
M e n j o u
talked
about Wom-
en Here
Miss Joyce
answers
him
By
Sara
Redway
e*
Peggy Hopkins Joyce is a lovely blonde, slender with blue eyes and a large, thickly
coated aura of romance and charm enveloping her
supported pleasantly, and her position was assured.
"You hear a good deal about the work the old-fashioned
woman had to do. I do not believe it was so bad. There
was more room in which to raise a family. A tiny baby
in the country taking its air on a sunny veranda, is not
the care and responsibility that a child raised in the city
is, one who must be taken to a park and watched, actually
watched, every second of his play time or nap time.
"Then, too, there were more servants in proportion to
the population, and their wages were cheaper. Life was
not so exacting. If a husband or so strayed away, it was
usually temporary, he returned home after a while, the
incident was ignored, and every thing ended happily.
Women were divided into two classes, good and bad.
Think then of the irreproachable position of a good wife
and mother. She was where she was. Her stand was
as strong as Gibraltar's. The rest of the world came
around to her way of thinking.
(Continued on page 72)
not their own. Financially, they
have been forced from the home.
Twenty-five years ago, a girl of
eighteen whose parents were of
moderate means lived at home,
had pretty clothes, beaux,
gave parties, and helped
about the house spasmodi-
cally until she got married.
Once married, her role
changed only slightly. The
house was still her set-
ting. She did not have
to look about for new
material. She did not
have to keep up with
the times. She could
settle back, grow fat,
raise children, be
23
SILVERSCREEN:
By H. W. Hanemann
COMPLETELY
surrounded by
an exact repro-
duction of the Great
Wall of China, Silver-
screen — the Com-
munity Super - Beauti-
ful, the Home of
Cinema Art and the
Playground of the
Public's Darlings —
nestles against vine-
clad hills, drowsing the
while to the murmur
of the opalescent sea
fringing its palm-shot shores. Here nature conspires
with man to create the ultimate in beauty. Fresh-water
lakes set like sparkling sapphires in the green gold of the
lush foliage that leans above mossy marges to kiss (but
only in the most Platonic fashion) each sun-caught rip-
ple, reflect the glory of Switzerland. The cleanest and
purest possible are filters from the Formaminted firma-
ment to assail the clear-cut nostril as the headiest of rare
wines ever guaranteed to contain less than one-half of one
per cent, of alcohol by volume. At night, the very con-
stellations lean closer, beguiled from their places in the
Heavens by this Earth-Paradise. Here it never rains
rain, but violets — and frequently orchids.
Decorum Plus
Cuch, then is Silverscreen. Which is saying absolutely
^ nothing of its shady, broad walks and its orderly, dig-
nified business district, wherein traffic moves with the
suavity of a symphony orchestra under the baton of a
super-maestro. Decorum is more than perfectly main-
tained by the Sennett comedy
police force to whom is given
this opportunity for serious
work toward which the heart
of every true comedian secretly
yearns. In the realization of
this opportunity, the police
may be strict, but they a're
ever just. Boot-
legging, drug-
running and
husband - shoot-
ing are unknown
to Silver-
screen.
A new arrival
from the farms
of Iowa is ar-
rested while the
Sennett beauties
register "Shock-
ing!"
Sponsored by Will Hays, arbiter of the cinema, a
model movie community has been on the celluloid
horizon for a long time. Most reports have placed its
probable location on Long Island.
Mr. Hanemann has taken Mr. Hays' idea and devel-
oped it along practical — and humorous — lines.
Here, then, is Silverscreen, the Community Super-
Beautiful and Super-Moral.
Accommodations, and
Manner of Living
I ife, in Silverscreen,
is based on the old
patriarchal system of
"we are all just one
happy family" upon
which has been super-
imposed the guiding
principle of the Mar-
shal Stillman Move-
ment— "give the movie
artist a square deal."
The girls and boys are
housed in separate dormitories, situated at the opposite
ends of the community and further safeguarded by wide
moats filled with broken glass and sulphuric acid. Each
"dorm," however, has a large, well-ventilated and sunny
community room, where, under proper supervision, girls
and boys may on occasion gather to sing hymns, pull
taffy or indulge in such
stimulating games as "Logo-
machy," "Clap in and Qap
out" or "Going to William
Fox's." Further classifica-
tion is made by housing
those actors and actresses
24
The Model Movie Community
Drawings by KHz
ulio-o similar types give them interests in common. Thus
we find the sinister sisters living happily together along
the "Avenue des Vampires," while gay girlish giggles
may be heard at almost any time of day emanating from
the rose-clad purlieus of 'Flapper Terrace." Over on
the boys' side, all the Western types listen in to the radio
at "The Ranch 1 louse." while the fan mail of the Sheiks
may he addressed care of "The Mosque" on the corner
iHigan Street and Mae Murray Avenue.
With the curfew-hell ringing regularly at ten o'clock,
it is readily seen how easily any particular member of the
community may he located, when wanted. Furthermore,
there is no marriage or giving in marriage in Silver-
screen. The major portion of the success of the com-
munity has been ascribed to this admirable precept. True,
many of the Supervisors are married, and live in pretty
little cottages dotted about the landscape. But the Super-
visors are in reality beings apart,
busy with the administration of the
community and like the gods on
high Olympus rarely mingle with
the less exalted inhabitants. And
when they do, you can jolly well
rest assured that they arc as closely watched as anybody
else.
Places of Interest, Buildings
/■""«. \kkii:i> out to the smallest detail in the finest example
^ of Cecil B. De Mille architecture, each building in
Silverscreen is a veritable "thing of beauty." Space
scarce permits detailed description of the- many studios
and permanent sets which, as Mine. De Montespan said
of the Grand Canon of Arizona, "need to be seen to be
appreciated." One might mention, however, the gigantic
cafeteria-automat where all of Silverscreen takes its sim-
ple but wholesome meals. The exterior of the cafeteria is
patterned after Mont St. Michel (with improvements and
additions), while the interior blends the best features of
the Blue Grotto at Capri, the grand ballroom at Ver-
sailles and the lobby of the Pennsylvania Hotel. Another
building of note is the Silverscreen Museum, which con-
tains (among other things) a collection of canes loaned
by Mr. Charles Spencer Chaplin, a curl shorn from the
infant head of Mary Pickford, the original illuminated
subtitle, "Came the Dawn," and the first pair of puttees
ever worn by David Wark Griffith. The Administration
Committee is now negotiating for the purchase of the
1920 Robert E. Sherwood derby, which, if secured, will
be encrusted with a quarter-inch layer of twenty-two-
carat gold-leaf and mounted on the head of a Milesean
Venus, sculptured by Mr. Ferdinand Pinney Earle and
posed by Miss Bebe Daniels.
Even of greater interest, perhaps, is the Artcrafts
Building hard by, which contains the Play-
time exhibition of the actors and actresses.
Here may be seen the beautifully wrought
samplers and
knitted woolen
goods, done by
the girls in
their spare mo-
ments, while
the boys show
their ingenuity
in examples of
chip carving,
model boat
building and
pottery. A
handsome med-
a 1 is g i v e n
every year for
the best work,
and competi-
tion is always
at a feverish
heat.
Recreation
and
Amusements
J\io little at-
tention is
paid to the
{Continued on
, page 77)
25
Making "THE BIG PARADE"
By Frederick James Smith
SAYS KING VIDOR:
"The motion picture play must have a rhythmic flow,
a steady movement, a genuine musical beat.
"Every scene of 'The Big Parade' was filmed to the
music of the doughboy song, 'You're in the Army Now.'
"It isn't possible to achieve complete realism on the
screen. In fact, the photoplay can never become an art
if it tries to."
KING VIDOR believes the motion picture comes
nearer music than any of the other arts. He sees
the photoplay as breaking away steadily from the
drama and literature. Whether or not you believe this,
you will find Vidor's theories to be highly interesting.
"The motion picture play must have a rhythmic flow,
a steady movement, a
genuine musical
beat," he says. "I
believe that The Big
Parade' is successful
largely because we
kept to this idea.
"Every scene of
'The Big Parade' was
done to the music of
the doughboy song,
'You're in the Army
Now.' There is, in-
deed, a very real rea-
son for its use in the
subtitles.
The Belleau March
"To most audiences, the big moment of 'The Big
Parade' is the march thru Belleau Woods in the face
of German machine-gun fire. That march evolved in an
unusual way. Before we started shooting 'The Big
Parade' I had studied a mass of official war film made at
the front. Each time this mass of film was projected,
one brief stretch of celluloid hit me between the eyes. It
shows the burial of a young officer in a small French
town.
"Now there was nothing particularly gruesome about
that scene and yet it chilled me each time it flashed upon
the screen. In fact, it annoyed me so much that I told
my assistant to cut it from the film before running it off
again.
"Then I began to wonder why that bit of film got to
me. I had it projected — and suddenly I realized it was
the slow march of
the soldiers that
chilled me. The
doughboys were
schooled, of
course, to move at
a normal drill time
and the funeral
march slowed
them down to half
that. Each time a
man lifted his foot
there was an odd,
hesitating, grue-
some second. It
symbolized the
doubt of death.
"I'll try that on
the march thru the
woods," I thought.
"So when the
march was filmed
— and it was the
first episode we
mad e — I had a
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drummer beat the slow time. Involuntarily, the men
moved thru the woods with the slow shambling yet steady
march that stands out so strongly as picturing the de-
struction, terror and mental drunkenness of war.
"The first day we tried the drum the military experts
rushed up to me. 'That's all wrong,' they protested. 'It's
impossible.' 'I know
it,' I said, 'but we're
going to do it that
way.'
KING VIDOR
Complete Realism
Impossible
"It isn't possible to
achieve complete
realism on the screen.
In fact, the photoplay
can never become an
art if it tries to. The
films must translate
life, even idealize and
temper it. They must
give the feeling rather than the photograph of a scene.
"Suppose," said Vidor, pointing to a table in the Am-
bassador dining-room, "suppose John Gilbert were sit-
ting there. Suppose he looked out the hotel window and
saw the girl he loved. In real life he would mask his
feelings and go on with his bread and butter. On the
screen he would have to mirror a half-dozen emotions. It
is the same way with the picture of any happening."
Vidor returned to his description of the making of
"The Big Parade." "After the march sequence," he went
on, "we realized we were right. We shot every scene
to march music. In fact, we went thru the continuity
and, with the aid of a metronome, marked the time of
every scene.
"The parting of the lovers was filmed to this march.
When the drama speeded up and the men were sweeping
away to the front, the action speeded up to double time.
The beat doubled — and you unconsciously feel that in
watching the boy
torn away from
his French sweet-
heart. Thru all
those scenes of
Renee Adoree
seeking for Gil-
bert, a squad of
soldiers ran up and
down at double
time."
Pictures Plus
Music
\7idor continued.
"You are going
to find a steady
movement toward
the blending of
pictures and
music. Every suc-
cessful picture
must have its
rhythm. I am
(Con. on page 71)
Apeda
Melbourne Spnrr
"SOS HER OLD MAN!"
Dolores Costello has been pronounced a fine artist of the screen, proving that she is following in the footsteps
of her father, Maurice Costello, the first idol oi the films. Dolores played child roles at old Vitagraph.
Today, critics declare that she is the most promising young actress in all celluloidia
27
How Fairbanks Took
Doug Fairbanks, as the adventurous hero of "The Black Pirate," watches the buccaneers on their lonely treasure island
THE motto : "Take color out of color" would hardly
seem an apt choice for a picture in which there is
not one single foot of black and white ; yet Albert
Parker, the "director of Douglas Fairbanks' latest picture,
swears this was "The Black Pirate" slogan from six
months before the
first scene was shot
until the last scene of
the last print was dry.
An incessant battle
was fought from the
beginning to the end;
and the enemy was —
color!
If you and I were
to speculate upon the
making of a colored
picture, our first
thought would most
likely be to push to
the furthest extreme
what we considered
its most obvious po-
tentialities. A thought
somewhat like the following would undoubtedly be the
first to enter our minds: "Color? — ah, sunsets and
Doug Fairbanks experimented for six months before
he started shooting "The Black Pirate" in color.
First a definite color scheme was worked out, green
and brown. Costumes, make-up, even wigs, harmonize
to this color scheme.
rainbows ! Brilliance ! — play it to the limit !" But what
would we find as our result ? In all probability a product
that could only be fittingly described by some such bur-
lesque title as "The Cullud Buccahneah." But it was
not so with these pioneers in the field of what we might
well call "controlled"
color — after the first
they took the precau-
tion to have a second
thought.
But I'm getting
ahead of my story.
Fairbanks followed the precepts of art in idealizing
nature. His skies are almost white, with a tinge of
warm brown.
It was found that twice as much light was needed
as in black-and-white photography.
'The inescapable im-
pression made by
Mr. Parker when one
first met "him — an im-
pression strengthened
by each succeeding
moment — was of a
man bursting with
enthusiasm for this
new idea, but trying
hard to control it for fear that, being so close to his
subject, he could not focus sharply, nor get a true
The Color Idea
the Color Out of Color
The Man who made "The
Black Pirate" explains how
the Menace of Color was met
and overcome
By Dunham Thorp
perspective. But, before even a very few mo-
ments had passed, a second enthusiasm, of a
ngth sufficient to wage lusty battle with the
first, appeared and made itself observed. And this
enthusiasm focused sharply in the person of one
man: Douglas Fairbanks.
"It's a revelation to work with him. For a director,
even one who thinks he has a thoro knowledge of the
industry, it's like going to college after completing
school !"
And the reason for this interesting statement is un-
doubtedly admiration for the thoroness with which
everything is undertaken — the "second thought" alluded
above being an excellent example.
"Mr. Fairbanks' first reaction to the mention of colo
"Would you rouge the
lips of the Venus de
Milo?' But then he
had a second, and that
was to find out why
color should seem to
be an unnecessary
'painting of the lily.' '
Six Months'
Preparation
And this simple sec-
ond thought meant
work, and plenty of it.
In fact, it was six
months before the la-
bor entailed by this
little "why" was
considered sufficiently
advanced for them to
feel justified in start-
ing work upon the first
scene. Six months ! —
how many of the usual
"feature" pictures
could they have made
in this time spent in
preparation for just
one? But, also, which
would we rather see?
This six months'
period was spent in
searching new and en-
tirely unexplored
fields' At first, all the
fields explored seemed
barren deserts ; not one
yielded a single kernel
Fairbanks holds off the villainous pirate crew in
"The Black Pirate" to protect the heroine, Billie Dove
Albert Parker, who di-
rected Doug Fairbanks in
"The Black Pirate"
of even the poorest grain.
But, at last, one was found
that seemed to hold mag-
nificent promise of a fruit-
ful harvest — and this was a
study of the Old Masters.
Mr. Parker's enthusiasm
grew beyond all bounds as
he started to illustrate the
reason.
"If I show you a Rem-
brandt, then take it away
and ask you the color
scheme, what would you
say? 'Black and white.'
most likely."
"Yes — or 'light and
shade.' "
"Exactly ! But it isn't !
It's simply that the whole
composition is in harmony.
There may be reds, blues,
and greens in it — but they
are so harmonized it is the
picture, and not a spot here
and there, that impresses it-
self on your mind.
The Color Scheme
"Qf course, we had to deal
with movement as well,
so we found it necessary to
(Continued on page 87)
29
CELL A Puts the Foreign
By
JOHN
HELD,
Jr.
WHAT'S GONE ON
BEFORE:
Cella Lloyd, who used to
star behind a counter in
Blatz's Emporium back
home, is now a Hollywood
luminary, thanks to a bath-
ing-girl contest and her
own snappy one-piece suit.
Cella has achieved leading
role in the great Horace
De Grind's boudoir super-
specials and she has a
Hollywood bungalow of
her own. Indeed, Mama
and Papa Lloyd are now
sharing the bungalow.
Now read on!
Scene I
Max Epic, the pro-
ducer, introduces Cella
to his newest foreign
star, Mile. Hebe Jebie,
the Mary Pickford of
Czecho-Slovakia. Is
Cella pleased! She is
NOT
Scene II
Mile. Hebe Jebie begins
to demonstrate some of
the wiles that make her
the talk of the boule-
vard tables of Czakli-
azarkiz. She vamps
Cella's cameraman!
30
VAMP in her
PLACE/
Scene III
The limit is reached, how-
ever, when the foreign
devil rolls her Czecho-
slovakia orbs at Cella'a
press-agent. Is zat so?
■ays Cella to herself
Scene IV
Cella rushes to her dressing-
room and dons the one-piece
suit that made her famous.
The vamped ones all come
flocking back. Forgotten is
Mile. Hebe Jebie. What will
Hebe do? See The Classic
next month
31
MORE IMPRESSIONS
WE arrived at noon and Mary Pickford welcomed
us cordially. They were setting the table in a
little white cottage on the Fairbanks-Pickford
studio lot, and Mary took us across the lawn to her
beautiful bungalow. She showed us thru with some
pride, and well she might, because it was a completely and
elegantly furnished little home with every convenience,
including bedrooms, kitchen, baths, etc. After that, Doug
came up and shook hands with Corliss Palmer and me,
then introduced Joseph Schenck and another man, all
dressed in athletic clothes. Doug looked very fit, but Mr.
Schenck looked quite undertrained and a trifle overfed.
Doug announced that they must have their daily dozens
before luncheon, which consists of a mile and a half
canter around the course which bordered the lawn.
Doug led them a merry chase, but Joe Schenck was right
there with the goods. At our backs were some of the
walls used in "Robin Hood," the huge ship used in "The
Thief of Bagdad," and other massive "props" that figured
in recent productions, including "The Black Pirate,"
which had just been finished.
"Now that the United Artists are to use this studio,"
Mary said, "I think we should change the name of
the studio, because it would not be fair to the other
producers."
"No," I said, "you and Mr. Fairbanks are the pioneers,
and the others should honor you by recognizing that fact Mary is very proud of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and is
and letting the name Fairbanks-Pickford Studio remain * anxious for him to make good. "How fortunate,"
as a landmark for all time." she said, "that he can sit here and listen to all you learned
men. These boys will be the men of the future who will
shape and guide the destinies of the future movies."
manner, because he is just as democratic, good-natured,
and unassuming as a man could be. "Ah, liver and
bacon !" shouted Doug joyfully, and the way he sailed
into it indicated that it was a favorite dish in the Fair-
banks-Pickford family. And we all enjoyed it, also the
many delicacies that Mary had provided.
Then for three hours we talked. If you think that
Doug is merely an acrobat, you are very much in error.
He is a highly educated, thoughtful man and his com-
mand of language is remarkable. They say that he is
the best "showman" in the business, but this word should
never be applied to a gentleman and a scholar of the
attainments of Douglas Fairbanks. And Little Mary is
in the same class. She is a far-seeing, wise, thoughtful
little woman with high ideals, and her principal worry
just now is about the way they are destroying beautiful
Hollywood by cutting down so many trees in order to
widen the streets, and because people are allowed to
build houses that are not in keeping with the character of
the community. But — more about this later. Also, more
about the several other topics of conversation, which
proved to be very enlightening.
1
T is quite obvious to any visitor that Mary is very fond
and proud of her husband. As Doug and the others
were cantering around the running course, she pointed
out to us the youthfulness of his figure and the splendid-
ness of his muscles. "You know," she said, "I never
noticed muscles until I married Doug."
\A7hen the run-
' ners had com-
pleted their mile
and a half, and
taken their shower
and donned citi-
zen's clothes, we
sat down to
luncheon. The
table was wide
enough to permit
the host and host-
ess to sit at one
end of it, side by
side. I sat at
Mary's right, on
the side, and Miss
Palmer at Doug's
left, opposite ; next
to me sat Mr.
Schenck, who is
per ha p s the
wealthiest and
most prominent
picture magnate in
the world, but one
would never sus-
pect it from his
Mr. Brewster visits Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman and
Director Clarence Brown
Pvouglas Fairbanks is the champion perfume collector
and consumer of Hollywood. He has fifty-seven
varieties and then some, and he is a connoisseur. I told
him that I was glad to know at least one he-man who
had the nerve to defy the conventions, and he said that
he did not intend to deprive himself of the luxury of
cultivating one of
his senses simply
because somebody
once said "They're
not doing it."
There is a wonder-
ful fragrance in
the atmosphere
in residential
Hollywood, par-
ticularly in the
evening, due to the
orange-trees and
every variety of
flowers that bloom
winter and sum-
mer, but Doug
likes to have his
fragrance all the
time — at home and
at work. Shall
we call it aesthetic
taste, or one of the
eccentricities of
genius ? And Doug
certainly is a genius,
and from many
different angles.
32
of HOLLYWOOD
By Eugene
V. Brewster
r\sv peculiarity about Doug ia thai he seldom weara
^ jewelry Perhaps he can! afford it. He carriea hii
rets loose in his pockets, there is no stick-pin in nil
i and no rin^s on Ins ringers except a tiny wedding-
ring. Instead of an elaborate, gold, diamond-studded
f-clasp such as most men of wealth wear, he uses an
ordinary, common pin.
* * *
I w \s curious to know it" Mary was like most wives
* permitted her husband to manage her business. I s
and
soon.
found that she was not. She manages her own produc-
tions and Doug manages his. And they even have
quarrels about them, but in a perfectly good-natured
I even imagine that Mary is a wee bit jealous
of Doug's successful methods of exploiting a picture,
altho she refuses to copy them. However, she thinks
she lias a masterpiece in "Sparrows," her latest pic-
ture, just finished, which deserves a "premiere" on
Broadway commensurate with its importance, and I
think she intends to hold it back until late summer and
put it on in a big way for a limited run before it is
released generally.
* * *
[ fear," said Mary, "that my public is not the same as
Doug's. He appeals to the people of all classes, par-
ticularly the boys, while I appeal to the poorer classes
such as those we see in 'Little Annie Rooney.' " We all
assured her that this was not true, that her appeal is uni-
versal. And it is.
I wish that I had had a stenographer present taking
notes at this remarkable luncheon. Mary, Doug and
Joe Schenck are about the wisest trio I ever encountered,
and a report of their remarks would make an interesting
and valuable book. I shall try to give the gist of it to
our readers in later issues.
At the Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer
Studio they
showed me a few
reels of Greta
Garbo's unfinished
picture. This strik-
ing young Swedish
actress will doubt-
less appeal to
many, but some-
how I could not
see the great com-
ing star in her that
her company ex-
pects.
want all the
young ladies
and young men
everywhere to
know that, just be-
cause they can get
a photographer to
pose and light
them so that a good photograph will result, tins docs not
mean that ihcy will icreen well The photographei
spend hours in getting just the righl angle, lighting and
expression to show the subject at his or hut this
is quite different from appearing before a movie cat
which sees all the had angles and expreSSIOl I] SJ
the good. It is a hard game, my d( and girls, as you
would soon believe if yOU could he here with me and seethe
thousands who cant break in, in spite of the wonderful
photographs that they have had made in a photo gal:
T'here are several large studios well outside the limit
Hollywood, such as Metro-( ioldwvn-Mayer and De
M die's at Culver City and Universal at Universal City.
Real estate is getting too valuable in Hollywood for a
company to own several acres right in the heart of the
city. First National is moving out near Universal City
between Burbauk and Lankershim, and several other
movie magnates including Harold Lloyd and Cecil De
Mille are buying acreage out that way, indicating that
this locality may perhaps be the studio center of the
future. Famous Players-Lasky have already arranged to
vacate Hollywood's business center, but they are moving
only about half a mile away. Fox is contemplating mov-
ing from Western Avenue, which is another crowded
business street where real estate is high. But Hollywood
will always be the residential center for movie people
of all kinds.
* * *
'They have all sorts of research experts in Hollywood
who are prepared to tell what color Caesar's eyes were,
what size sandals Cleopatra wore and the height of Joan
of Arc's horse, etc., and they will show you photographs
of houses, streets and people in the Fiji Islands or in
any part of the world. But with all this, the directors
sometimes make mistakes, and sometimes it is not their
fault, because once in a while the star will refuse to wear
a certain kind of head-dress or body-gear just be-
cause it is not be-
coming.
[and in
around
Brewster drops in to call on Buster Keaton
and interrupts a boxing bout
and
Los
Angeles seems to
be almost as high-
priced as it is on
Broadway, New
York, and yet the
Universal lot com-
prises no less than
six hundred acres
of it — and a mile
across it.
Dight near the
Universal lot at
Burbank will soon
be the new First
National. They
have already started
building, and it will
cost about a mil-
lion and a half.
33
K o m a k o
Sunada, of
Nikkatsu, a
popular Japan-
ese screen
actress, as she
appears in
O cciden tal
garb
Miss Sunada
in a scene of
a Japanese
H Wl I
Aiko Takash-
ima, another
Japanese fa-
vorite, in a
scene of
"Queen of the
World"
The
MOTION
PICTURE
in
— ■ >■ ■ in ■■—'- ■< ■
-2
JAPAN
THO subjected to every species of police
restriction and censorship during the last
half a dozen years, the motion picture
industry has, nevertheless, made such tremen-
dous headway in the land of chrysanthemums
and cherry blossoms that today the movie is
by far and away the most popular national
amusement in the country.
Three-fourths of the number of the popula-
tion of the empire go to the picture theaters
every thirty days, altho most productions are
scissored mercilessly by the censors, rendering
the stories in some instances almost incompre-
hensible.
When one considers that the average
Japanese fan is unable to read English, he .be-
gins to understand the subtleness of the
Oriental mind, which is trained to perceive in
mere suggestions the hidden meaning of
things and the added complication he en-
counters.
The fans of staid Pennsylvania are well off
compared with those in Japan. Kissing scenes
have long been taboo. Hold-ups and ardent
love scenes very often do not get by the cen-
sors, who consider such acts injurious to
public peace and morality. Views of revolu-
tions, especially those of the overthrow of a
crowned ruler, are frowned upon by the
police.
Yet, with all the limitations and obstacles in
its path, the popularity of the movies grows
rather than declines. Scarcely a month
passes in any of the larger cities in which a
new playhouse is not opened. There are six
hundred theaters today showing motion pic-
tures exclusively in the tiny island empire.
Fifteen years ago there was none. The the-
aters are, however, with a few exceptions, tiny
affairs.
Every motion picture house is divided into
three sections — one for men and boys, another
for women and girls, and a third for married
couples. Police officers are assigned to each
theater to see that the regulations are observed.
Regardless of how crowded the men's section
may be and how vacant the women's is, no
male is permitted to sit in the enclosure re-
served for ladies. This was done some years
ago to safeguard public morals, when it was
34
The Screen Drama
Has Won Cherry
Blossom Land
By
Kimpei Sheba
Theater Editor of
The Japan Times
discovered that love scenes on the screen
caused the more emotional among the audi-
ence to behave improperly.
A Japanese generally sees at least twice the
number of photoplays that an American does,
for the reason that whenever he goes to a
show he views a "double bill." Two or three
feature pictures, besides a newsreel and a
comedy, are run by practically all houses.
Recently, in an effort to safeguard the eyesight
of the people, the police have issued a regula-
tion to playhouses forbidding them to exhibit
more than thirty reels of film at a per-
formance.
A thirty-reel performance, however, is a
comparatively short program for a Japanese
theatergoer who is a habitual viewer of stage
plays, for that person has been in the custom
of entering a playhouse at four o'clock in the
afternoon and remaining until eleven at night.
In fact, until comparatively recently, it re-
quired three days to stage certain lengthy
spoken plays, the performers acting several
hours a day, and the audience bringing along
dinners with them. Even at present every
stage theater has a cafe, where meals are
served during the intermissions, while in prac-
tically every playhouse hawkers carry candies
and soft drinks up and down the aisles.
In America the loud subtitle reader is a
menace. In Japan he is a blessing. Subtitle
readers are hired by the dozen by each theater
to translate the titles as they appear, and to
shout their translations to the audience. There
are more than eight thousand regularly paid
subtitle readers in the country, and a skilful
interpreter increases the value of a picture to
a great extent. Imagination is employed by
some of the men, who succeed frequently in
altering a weak story.
Photoplays were first produced in Japan
about twelve years ago. Shortly thereafter, an
ingenious stage director chanced on the idea
of taking close-ups and long shots of stage
scenes in studios and out on location. His
actors and actresses would begin a perform-
ance on the stage, but as the story progressed
and necessitated a broader field of action, or the
registering of emotion by the players, that par-
ticular scene would be flashed on the screen.
Sumiko Kuru-
shima, star of
the Kimiti
Studios, re-
ceive! the
largest film
salary in
Japan, a thou-
> a n d yen
(about $430)
a month
Yukiko Tsukuba,
of Shochiku,
playing a Japan-
ese housewife of
the lower class,
indicated by the
black kimono
collar
Miss Tsukuba,
again, this
time as she
appears in a
Japanese Mack
S e n n e t t
comedy
35
y-s~.
Kayoko Saijo, another popular Japanese actress, in American and native dress
This, however, while still occasionally seen, is gradually
disappearing, for the reason that many of the stage celeb-
rities do not photograph well, and those that do register
satisfactorily become movie actors and actresses.
While on the stage, the majority of feminine roles are
played by men, women have from the very beginning
established themselves firmly in motion pictures. At the
Kabuki-za, the largest theater in Tokyo, no actresses are
employed. On the other hand, while there are only a
handful of male film stars, all studios are crowded with
actresses.
Love, such as is known in the West, was something
little known in the Far
East until the advent of
the photoplay. Marriages
were invariably arranged
by parents and friends.
This system was agree-
able until American
movies were introduced.
Then, the Japanese, being
great imitators, decided to
give Cupid a tryout. He
turned out to be a com-
parative success.
Unlike in the Occident, hawever, the happy ending of
Western love in Japan seems to be death, and as an indi-
cation of the rapid spread of this variety of "love," one
has but to note the tremendous increase in the number of
Motion picture theaters in Japan are divided into
three parts: one for women, one for men and a third
for married couples.
The average program numbers thirty reels.
Since few can read English, subtitle readers are
employed by the theaters. There are eight thousand
regularly paid subtitle readers in Japan.
Film kisses are now permitted in Japan for the first
time.
"double suicides," in which a couple binds itself, the man
and woman facing each other, with a rope or sash, and
jumps into the ocean, the pit of a waterfall or into a lake.
Thus, a certain percentage of photoplays end with a
double suicide scene, for it is difficult to produce a pic-
ture that is not based on love, while it is difficult to por-
tray a "happy ending" on the screen in Japan owing to
the censorship ban on kissing and embracing.
Recently the censors lifted the ban on kissing, so far
as American and European actors and actresses were
concerned, to see the effect this move towards Westerni-
zation would have on public morals. Should the result
be satisfactory, it is likely
greater freedom will be
permitted Japanese actors.
Today special scenarios
are being written for Ori-
ental players, and it is a
question of time when
Japan will produce a
"Passion," bring forth a
Pola Negri, or perhaps
another Sessue Haya-
kawa, who, by the way.
with Madame Miura of
operatic fame, is extremely unpopular in his native
country because of the parts he and Madame
Miura have played in stage and motion picture produc-
tions.
36
MOANA:
A Poem of the
Cinema
By Matthew Josephson
OX certain notable occasions the cinema, but
recently elevated to a place among the Seven
Lively Arts, has positively suggested the
strongest claims for a place in the major arts, where
"liveliness" is utterly beside the point.
Such a case is Robert Flaherty's poetic film of the
South Seas, "Moana." In the unique hour of beauty.
understanding of life, peaee-with-one-
self, that it gave, this film rivaled
some of the highest flights of
any human arts.
Unique Production
after all, the supreme
™ quality of any art is
to create so powerfully
the illusion of your liv-
ing another's life, or
within another man's
vision of the world, that
you swiftly forget the
disagreeable breakfast
only this morning, the
day's quarrel, the bills at the
end of the month — in your
own complete ab-
sorption or merg-
ing with what is go-
ing on before you.
"Moana" will
probably remain the
unique picture of
this season. There
was no plot ! No
Hollywood stars!
Only beautiful sav-
ages living their
simple lives in a far-
off tropical island
that might very well
have been the Gar-
den of Eden. ... I
do not propose to
review it here. I
should like only to
extract, if I can,
some of its magnifi-
cent hints of what
can be done on the
screen. Men have
progressed only
thru great gambles
or experiments with
the unknown. The
cinema perhaps may
read its future
greatness in such Fwn-ga-se, the heroine of "Moana
things as "Moana." the South Seas"
Bros.
Robert J. Flaherty
"Moana" begins in the upper branches of
two kava-trees, weird, feathery, luxuriant
Well, what is it that Flaherty tried to do
— he who had given us something so differ-
ent from the usual Hollywood product in
"Xanook." Different and yet universal in
its appeal.
"The art of- life," Flaherty said to me,
"interests people everywhere, more than
anything else — how people live, fight, suf-
fer, worship God, anywhere in the world,
Alaska, Xew York, or the South Seas."
I think Flaherty has touched the heart
of it all right here. This is evidently what
"Moana" had that made it so thrilling to
watch, altho lacking in more obvious tricks
of the screen or the stage.
Study in Physical Beauty
In every film you feel the style of the di-
rector dominating players, sets, sequence,
photography ; you feel whether he is senti-
mental or cynical, intelligent or frivolous or
sensitive. Flaherty, then, seems more than
anybody else to respond to the physical
beauty of trees, human figures, water, sky.
He dwells on these things lovingly ; they
have meaning for him, and he goes from
one to another in such wise that they take
meaning for us. He is a poet, and in Samoa
he found and brought back almost more
beauty than a single film could hold.
But above all he is a thinker — how few
directors are that! — and in "Moana" he has
touched on certain ideas which at this
moment concern us all very deeply.
If the public flocked to "Moana.'' 1
ascribe it to the Florida boom and the rage
for the Charleston. These things seem to
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Gene Kornman
Jobyna Ralston grew up on a little farm in the Tennessee hills.
Five years ago she went to Hollywood
WHEN Jobyna Ralston has all the money she wants and needn't
worry about parts in pictures, she knows what she is going
to do.
"There's a woman who drives around Hollywood in a perfect
wreck of a car, wearing a man's battered hat and a flannel shirt. The
car has a peach of an engine, and the woman always looks comfortable
and seems absolutely happy. Whenever I see her, I say to myself :
'There / go — some day !' Wouldn't it be fun ?
"She's terribly attractive and so free! Makes me remember when
I was a little girl on our Tennessee farm going coon-hunting in the
dark of the moon. I never wore anything but overalls then. My
brother was no more of a boy than I was. He's a year younger but
we were about the same size.
I
Back in Tennessee
went back last summer. Everything here is clean and new and
beautiful, and in five years I'd forgotten how old and dirty and
ugly it is back there — only what God made was lovely. California
spoils you !
"When I came here, I was very much of a kid and I didn't want
to be. I saw important stars at Cocoanut
Grove, sitting back — not dancing — but wear-
ing terribly smart, sophisticated clothes, and
I yearned to be like them.
"After I'd been working awhile and had
some money, I went to town one day and
In Harold's new pic-
ture, "For Heaven's
Sake," Miss Ralston
plays a little settlement
worker
JOBY
From the
Tennessee
HILLS
By
Alice L. Tildesley
38
Miss Ralston
has been Harold
Lloyd's leading
Woman for four
Years
bought a gown. Not a dress, but
a gown minus a back and with
practically no front. I looked
like the Queen of Sheba or
rheda Bara before she went into
comedies. Hut before I could
get out of the house I had to pass
inspection by my mother, and by
the time I got away from her, 1
bod bibs and shawls and guimpes
tacked in the gown and nothing
could have persuaded me to go
out in it !
'Oont I look the perfect
ingenue today?"
Beneath her black poke bonnet
with its shell-pink lining, her face
looked out demurely, chestnut
curls framing its pink and wrhite.
blue eyes starry, lips a Cupid's
bow. A rose caught the fichu of
shell pink above the black satin
skirt. She might have stepped
from an 1830 painting.
Clothes Make the Girl
"O lothes give me a different
feeling. In these, I'm al-
most useless. Somebody has to
pick up the things I drop. That's
why I brought him."
The pronoun referred to Roy
Brooks, one-time comedian on
the Roach lot, now making him-
self invaluable with Harold
Lloyd.
"I like sports things. If I had
on a sports dress that I felt right
in, I could meet the Prince of
Wales and never quiver. . . .
There goes something else, Roy.''
"Your purse Oh, wait — here's your handkerchief !
The trouble with you is you have too many props," com-
plained Mr. Brooks, as we entered the dining-room.
"Count 'em and I'll gather 'em up when we leave. I warn
you I wont go bouncing back after anything. Four.
Sure that's all ?"
"I make five," observed Jobyna. Her mind returned to
wearing apparel.
"The second part I had after I arrived in Hollywood,
was leading lady to Max Linder in a burlesque of "The
Three Musketeers.' I wore the wide skirts Marguerite de
la Motte wore with Douglas Fairbanks, but I was so very
flat in the tight bodice that I looked like a broom-handle
sticking ud out of a straw stack. I was just a kid.
"Take Her— and Pad Her!"
Max Linder took one look at me, tore his hair and
cried: 'Am I to make love to a child? Take her
away and pad her!' They did — rolls of it — I swear I
Gene Kornman
Jobyna Ralston's second part after coming to Hollywood was leading
woman for poor Max Linder in his burlesque of "The Three Musketeers"
was like a sausage tied in the middle, or a washwoman
out on a holiday !
"After that, I went to the Hal Roach lot and did one
reelers for a year. One a week. Every Saturday we'd
finish the current picture at two or four or six o'clock, and
dash down to the wardrobe rental house to get fitted out
for next week.
"Great training — this week a South Sea islander, next
week a Quakeress, the week after a Turkish princess and
then a circus girl with a trained seal."
"Remember the Arab picture and how nobody knew
how to put on the costumes?" broke in Roy Brooks.
"They were mostly pieces of cloth and we hung them
around our waists or over our heads or wherever seemed
likeliest."
"Remember how the lion got away in the African pic-
ture? What was I that day? Something with a lot of
heavy clothes, I know, for I could hardly run !" laughed
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39
The tender flower with
the curls finds herself
disappearing over the
"horizon
New STYLES
Drawings by Eldon Kelley
MOVIE weather inch
cations are for less ice
' Especially in heroines.
Fashions in girls change just about
as often as fashions in shoes and skirts
And they are on the edge of another change.
And two girls have made the change.
Dolores Costello and Renee Adoree.
The tender flower with the little corkscrew curls
dangling like Christmas tree decorations over her shoul-
ders finds herself disappearing over the horizon.
The Girl Cycles
A nd the extreme haughty and distant young icicle has
■** an uncomfortable premonition that moving day is
coming for her also.
I have seen all the girl cycles come and go ; and this
was the order of their coming and going :
Mary Pickford started the first spasm. She created
a cult — an order of movie sisterhood, so to speak. This
was so well recognized that the producers were entirely
frank about it. For years, no producer ever said that he
had found a new star. He said that he "found another
Mary Pickford."
Good heavens, they used to drop in from everywhere.
They came not only from Chicago, Montreal and way
stations ; but there also
were Swedish, Nor-
wegian, Argentine,
Greek and Chinese
Mary Pickfords.
That none of them
ever completely suc-
ceeded in being a
Mary Pickford is an-
other matter. But they
were Mary Pickfords
in so far as they had
curls and round faces
and innocent eyes —
relatively innocent,
anyhow.
There was a reason for them. When Mary Pickford
first blossomed forth, all movie lighting was extremely
crude. It was so raw and unrestrained that only the
youngest face, with the rounded contours of babyhood
40
Then came
the vogue of
ritzy stars
with the air
of "You can
look but you
mustn't touch"
Harry Carr says that the fashions in film heroines
have changed as often as the vogue in shoes and
gowns. . Mr. Carr divides the girl cycles as follows :
1. The Mary Pickford.
2. The Lillian Gish.
3. The Pola Negri.
4. The Gloria Swanson.
5. The peppy, unrestrained type of 1926.
could
stand the'"1*
fierce glare. The
slightest suspicion of a
line or a wrinkle looked like
the moat of a castle. As a con
sequence, a movie actress at twenty
years looked like an old hag tottering
on the edge of eternity. •
The Mary Pickfords faded away in herds for
two reasons. One was better lights.
It was discovered that the real Mary Pickford had the
soul of a great actress under the dangling curls ; and
most of the imitation Marys were just sappy. They
were nothing but corkscrew curls to their backbones —
and beyond. They affected baby stares and canines.
But nevertheless,
Mary started a cult
that lasted a long
time. This was, in
fact, the first movie
species.
Came Lillian Gish
'The next raging sen-
*■ sation of the screen
was the Lillian Gish
kind.
She didn't really
start a cult like Mary.
But she started a
technique.
Even to this day, I very rarely see a big emotional pic-
ture that I do not trace back some of the stuff to this or
that play of Lillian Gish.
That futile beating of the hands on the locked door.
in SCREEN GIRLS
By Harry Carr
That spasmodic clutching of the throat.
That maimed twitching of the lips. Perhaps it
unconscious on Miss Murray's part; hut the
pitiful movement of the corners of her mouth as
she lav broken hearted on the bed in "The Merry
Widow'' was taken directly from Lillian Gish's
death scene in "Broken Blossoms." It was so
like it that I half expected to see Dick Barthelmess
come in, dressed in Chinese clothes.
Some girls have tried to copy Lillian's funny
of running around in circles; but nobody has
ever been able to get away with that except Lillian her-
self; and even she doesn't always. She says she got the
idea from the fact that animals, when overjoyed, all run
around in furious circles to show their joy.
Lillian did not start a cult because there weren't any-
more Lillians.
Now that I think of it, however, I observe that three
of the most popular
women ever seen on
the screen have had no
imitators. They stand
alone.
They are Pola Negri,
Gloria Swanson and
Lillian Gish.
Oddly enough, it hap-
pens that these three
are devotedly admired
by other actresses. The
most passionate "fans"
I have ever known are
movie girls themselves.
They follow Mary
The recent popular hits of the screen have not been
scored by flappers, says Mr. Carr.
Witness Irene Rich in "Lady Windermere's Fan."
And Louise Dresser in "The Goose Woman."
And Pauline Frederick in "Slumbering Fires."
Audiences today want acting.
Pickford
around the
street and step on
each other's feet stand-
ing in the lobbies at her pre-
views— just like other girls.
Three Stars With No Imitators
They are little Pola Negri gangs; little Swan-
sons gangs and Gish gangs.
They burn incense before one or the other of these ;
but they do not try to imitate them.
You might as well try to imitate Yosemite Valley or a
storm at sea as Pola. She is as much a thing apart as
the smell of mountain sage, or the flash of sea phos-
phorus. She is just Pola; that's all.
It is impossible for anyone to be like Gloria ; because
Gloria is a strange combination of the exotic with the
downright practical. Just when you decide that Gloria
is a cafeteria cashier stepping out, you suddenly change
your mind and decide she is the Queen of Sheba come
back to life. No one knows well enough where one be-
gins and the other ends ever to make as much as an
attempt to imitate the lady.
Just so, nobody knows what the real Lillian Gish be-
hind the technique is like, well enough to imitate her.
So none of these ever created a cult.
The next cults that came along were the Norma
Shearers and the Corinne Griffiths. They brought a new-
note. The -aristocratic air. They frankly upstaged us;
they ritzed us. They
had a little the air
of "You can look ;
but mustn't touch."
And how we
loved it!
The Ritzy
Cult
They were
a relief
from the
P o 1 1 y a n n a
girls who tried to
look like Mary.
These Polly-
anna young
ladies were per-
petually making
round eyes at
the world — oh
so wistfully.
And the y
thought that
{Continued on
page 90)
recently.
Furthermore, it appears that the classic line — "I used
to be a newspaper man once myself" — isn't confined to
the United States. Mr. Vajda used to be a newspaper
man once himself — he tells you — in Budapest, the capi-
tal of Hungary. Being a newspaper man —
or journalist as he calls it — in Hungary is
merely another way of saying that one has
starved in one's day.
On to Hollywood
Ceveral months ago Ernest Vajda came
to New York where he had three plays
successfully running on Broadway. His
idea was to write another, one particularly
suited to American life. He took up the
study of English and progressed rapidly.
Meanwhile, Brother Victor, his business
manager, was always at his elbow. Brother
Victor doesn't write plays. But he does
know English.
Paramount had purchased the picture
rights to one of his plays, "Grounds For
Divorce." Soon after his arrival in Xew
York, Jesse L. Lasky had a talk with him at
lunch. Jesse has a poker face, you know,
so Mr. Vajda thought
nothing of the conver-
sation. It was just a
nice social chat.
About three days
later Mr. Lasky re-
quested that Mr.
(Cont'd on page 64)
Ernest Vajda,
Betty Bronson
and Ricardo
Cortez between
scenes of Mr.
Vajda's "The
Cat's Pajamas"
43
H
AVE the films changed in the
last year?" said Irving
Thalberg, the little czar of
the Metro-Goldwyn organization, re-
peating my question. "I'll say they
have. The photoplay has been to-
tally transformed during the last
twelve months.
"A year ago our best stars, direc-
tors and players were moving along
in a mass. Today a few stars, directors and
players are galloping ahead. The rest of the
army is straggling behind. Feature pictures to-
day are really feature pictures, with better
acting and better direction than was visible any-
where on the screen a year ago. And, when I
say acting, I mean acting all the way thru a
picture, to the smallest role.
"Audiences are no longer content with the
average program picture of yesterday, con-
tinued Mr. Thalberg, in paying his tribute to
the present tendency, in many film theaters, to
subordinate the film to cheap vaudeville. "That
seems to me a confession of weakness in picture
making," he said. "It can not last. It is just a
passing incident, an attempt to substitute some-
thing a theater manager can get easily for
something he cant get. Pictures are here to
stay. Nothing can stop their progress.
FLASH
By F. J. S.
We hasten to add Miss Garbo to our list.
Since Pola Negri flashed her smile over Louis
XVs boudoir screen, the films have had no one
so vivid as Miss Garbo promises to be.
Thalberg's belief in the progress of pictures
seems to he proved, on Broadway at least, by
the presence at this writing of a number of
highly successful features: "The Big Parade,
"Stella Dallas," "The Black Pirate," "Ben-Hur"
and "The Merry Widow."
The weakness of Rex
Ingram's "Mare Nostrum"
is another jtroof of Thal-
berg's argument . The
Ibanez tragedy seems four
or five years behind current
productions in directorial
technique. Yet Ingram has
Ipeen away from America
hardly two years. In those
two years, however, the
cinema has burst its bonds,
as Mr. Thalberg contends.
Again the American films seem to have safely
disposed of the German menace. Once before
German productions frightened our native
screen strongholds. We can recall when
Hollywood threatened to arm itself against
"Passion," "Dr. Cahgart" and kindred decadent
films.
However, screendom solved the problem by
engaging Pola Negri and Herr Lubitsch.
Now, with another German advance on the
horizon, our film fathers have signed Emil
Jannings, Lya de Putti, F. W. Murnau and
other threatening figures of celluloidia.
Herr Jannings will be flaying Bebe Daniels'
father before long, Miss de Putti will be getting
engaged to Rudolph Valentino, and Murnau will
be directing Tom Mix. Screendom is like the
ancient Chinese empire. It swallows uj> its
enemies and never loses its bland and guileless
smile.
Last month we named the
sex best sellers of the
screen. At that moment of
mental stress we had not ob-
served Greta Garbo, who
makes her American debut
in "The Torrent," by the
Spanish Elinor Glyn, Senor
Ibanez.
Douglas MacLean
An Impression by Major
Last month we modestly
mentioned the fact that, in
the August, 1925, Classic, we
had selected twenty pictures
out of the years 950 produc-
tions as the probable hits for
the next twelve months. Out
of the twenty selections, we
hit ten positive hits, "La
Boheme," having romped
home a box-ofnce success
since last month. Thus our
guessing average advanced
to .500. We missed just one
hit of the year, "Stella
Dallas."
For next year, we re go-
ings to select twenty-five, of
which fourteen are here
given :
James Cruze's "Old Iron-
sides.
44
BACKS
About Pictures and People
Clarence Brown s "The Trail of 98.
Von Stroheim's "The Wedding March."
"Old Heidelberg," if Ramon Novarro plays
the lead and if John Robertson directs it.
Harold Lloyds "For Heavens Sake.
John Barrymore's "Don Juan.
Lillian Gish's "The Scarlet Letter."
Greta Garbo's next, "The Temptress.
Chaplin's circus comedy.
D. W. Griffith's "The Sorrows of Satan."
Emil Jannings' "Variety," made in Berlin.
Henry King's "Winning of Barbara Worth,
with Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky.
John Gilbert's "Bardelys the Magnificent."
Fritz Lang's German special, "Metropolis.
We'll add the rest next month — when the
next special of King Vidor, whatever it is, will
be included.
tion of an experienced put-
wearer, Sam Wood.
One thing is proved clearly : it
isn't possible to turn out players this
way. The first class of the school
reveals one boy of promise. Buddy
Rogers. But almost any set of
twenty aspirants selected with any
sort of care would disclose one
possibility.
The truth is, as we have said, you cant make
actors this way. The right sort of experience
can only be gained in actual studio work. True,
the students are taught etiquette, proper deport-
ment, swimming, fencing, dancing, how to fall
gracefully, and other of the finer arts.
We cant help being reminded of the remark
made by Richard Dix when he glanced over the
school's graduation program. "Why, I wouldn t
have lasted a week at the school, he sighed,
can swim but I cant fall down with any sort of
grace. I cant fence, I'm a rotten dancer and
what I dont know about etiquette would nil a
book. I certainly was lucky to land in pictures
before they started schools !
We base our selections, as you may note,
largely uj>on directors' ■past performances.
Making a Jist of possible hits, consequently,
gives an interesting insight into the shortage of
good directors. It is possible almost to name
them on the fingers of your hands.
Of native directors, we
would name King Vidor, D.
W. Griffith, Henry King,
John Robertson, James
Cruze, Clarence Brown,
Malcolm St. Claire and pos-
sibly Gregory La Cava.
Of the foreign contingent:
Erich von Stroheim, Ernst
Lubitsch, F. W. Murnau,
Fritz Lang and possibly
Ewald Dupont.
Gone are the Dwans and
Neilans. The list seems to
shrink each year.
Now that the first pupils
of the Paramount School
have been graduated, it is
possible to take stock of
actual results. We have
even viewed a complete
motion picture play made by
the students under the direc-
Since this Page is largely devoted to Predic-
tions, let's venture another.
John Robertson has just joined the Metro-
Goldwyn directorial staff. Robertson has made
at least two pictures hovering on the edge of
greatness: "Sentimental Tommy' and The
Enchanted Cottage!' Thalberg, who helped lift
the promising King Vidor to Practical leadership
of our films, will be able to bring out the best in
Robertson.
Robertson is one of our
best screen stylists. He has
charm, singular appreciation
of beauty and a whimsical
imagination. He has been
handicapped by having to
make star Pictures. Now he
is going to do something
really big — or we 11 miss our
guess.
John Gilbert
An Impression by Major
'Here is a bit of fresh com-
ment by George Bernard
Shaw upon the movies :
The danger of the cin-
ema is not the danger of
immorality but the danger
of morality. People like my-
self who frequent the movies
testify to their desolating,
romantic morality. There
is no criticism of morals by
(Continued on Page 70)
45
Left:
Lillian Gish being
fitted with a set of
stocks for a moment
of "The Scarlet
L e 1 1 e r." Director
Victor Seastrom is
giving Miss Gish and
Lars Hanson final in-
structions for their
scene in Nathaniel
Hawthorne's famous
story
Belotv:
Bill Hart, Jr., snapped for The Classic at
Thomasina Mix's party, pictured on the opposite
page. The glint in the eyes of Bill, St., is re-
flected in the son's eyes. Perhaps Bill, Jr., may
grow up to be a screen two-gun man, too
l'acific & Atlantic
Just a playful moment
between scenes of
Metro - Goldwyn's
"Monte Carlo," di-
rected by Christy
C a b a n n e. Evelyn
Atkinson, otherwise
"Miss Seattle," is sup-
porting Diana Morris
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J
Oun
OWN
NEWS
CAMERA
Charlie Chaplin's new comedy, "The
Circus," is going to bring a new discovery
to the screen. She is Merna Kennedy, and
she is now playing the pretty equestrienne
of the comedy
Thomasina Mix,
Tom's little daugh-
ter, gave a birthday
party the other day
in Beverly Hills
and all juvenile
Hollywood was in-
vited. Thomasina
may be observed
acting as hostess on
the pony, while Bill
Hart, Jr., is holding
the near-bronco's
head
Pacific & Atlantic
47
The CLASSIC'S Own News Camera
International Newsrecl
Gertrude Olfnstead and Director Robert Leonard have
announced their engagement. Mr. Leonard, you know,
is the former husband of Mae Murray
Lya de Putti, the subject of an in-
teresting interview in this issue of
The Classic, arrives in New York
from Berlin. The pretty Hungarian
is to play in Famous Players pictures
and her debut will be in D. W.
Griffith's "Sorrows of Satan"
International New
Farina, the dusky star of the "Our Gang
comedies, is growing up. Here he is, sport
sweater, dapper cane, yellow shoes and all
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CORINNE GRIFFITH
Soon to be seen as the heroine of "Mile. Modiste," once sung so successfully by Fritzi Scheff
■ vilie
49
The Celluloid Critic
THE cinema ides of March have
come and gone, leaving the laurel
wreath more than slightly askew on
the brow of the silverscreen Duse,
Lillian Gish.
The histrionic talents of Miss Gish
have come to be a sort of film tradition.
We have been told of her genius by
everyone from George Jean Nathan
(not recently, however) to Joseph Her-
gesheimer. She was the lily maid who
walked the lonely heights.
At various times I have been im-
pressed with the Gish abilities. How-
ever, they have never dazzled me since
Miss Gish departed from the Mamar-
oneck plantation of Marse Griffith. I
looked upon both "The White Sister"
and "Romola" as mediocre tests of
genius.
It remained for "La Boheme," built from the Henri
Murger story from which the Puccini opera was con-
structed, to disillusion me completely. Not, mind you,
that "La Boheme" wont be a box-office smash. But it
discloses the limitations of La Gish in ghastly fashion.
Lillian Gish's Limitations
IVAurger, you know, was the first to write of the Latin
Quarter's glamours. Du Maurier and others followed,
but Murger was the pioneer in exploiting Bohemia, with
its amours, its starving artists, its beautiful models and
its gay abandon.
In "La Boheme" Mimi loves the poet, Rodolphc, she
sacrifices everything for her love and she dies — a Camille
of the Paris garrets.
My complaint about Miss Gish is that she does not fill
the role of Mimi. She is pathetic, she is wistful, she is
a Broken Blossoms waif, but she is never the little sister
of the four Bohemians — Rodolphe, Coline, Marcel and
Schannard — who gave her all for love. She has good
moments — Miss Gish is too good a technician to fail
utterly — but she is never Mimi. The performance sharply
defines her limita-
tions. She can play
suffering, broken
heroines — but genius
seems to me some-
thing else again.
The actual honors
of "La Boheme" are
captured by John
Gilbert. Here is an
actor with three
astonishing charac-
terizations in a row :
the prince of "The
Merry Widow," the
doughboy of "The
Big Parade," and
now the poet of "La
Boheme." Any one
of these would make
an unknown into a
star. I am not sure
but that his Rodolphe
is the best of the trio.
It has more breadth,
swing and surety. It
Ball
Frederick James Smith
Adolphe Menjou and Florence Vidor in "The Grand Duchess
and the Waiter"
is a corking performance. Renee Adoree
is a delightful Musetta and George Has-
sell, ex-musical comedy comedian, makes
the role of Schaunard stand out. But
the major credit of "La Boheme" must
go to King Vidor, the director.
Vidor has now pretty definitely proved
himself the best of our native directors.
He injects a spirit and movement into
"La Boheme." The tragic romance
has both color and verve. Music
lovers are likely to quarrel with the cellu-
loid "La Boheme" because it fumbles
favorite situations of the opera. This
can be laid to the scenarist, Fred de
Gresac, who doubtless was endeavoring
to fit the romance to the milk-and-water
way Miss Gish intended to interpret
Mimi. This is not the fault of Vidor,
who took his materials and achieved
admirable results.
"La Boheme" will doubtless be a popular picture. But
I can not forget the Broadway premiere giggles that
greeted Miss Gish when, as Mimi, she fled thru the
woods of the Bois de Boulogne on that gay spring day
with her passionate Rodolphe in pursuit. Mimi was just
a New England schoolma'am fleeting with her histrionic
traditions. Miss Gish will have to do a lot of cinematic
suffering before I can forget that.
Greta Garbo Arrives
\A/hile it is painful to detail the eclipse of Miss Gish,
"it is pleasant to report the appearance of a new
luminary on our screen horizon. The newcomer is a
somber-eyed Norsewoman, one Greta Garbo, who seems
to me to have more possibilities than anyone since the
Pola Negri of "Passion." This Garbo has a fine abandon,
a splendid fire, a surprising sense of characterization.
She isn't afraid to act. That she was able to stand out
of an inferior story, poorly directed, is all the more to
her credit.
Miss Garbo makes her debut in Vicente Blasco Ibanez's
"Torrent," directed
by Monta Bell. The
Ibanez story is a
cumbersome tale, of
a Spanish girl tossed
aside by a young
Castilian dandy. She
goes away, becomes
a great singer and
comes back to the
little town, drawn by
the old love. But, be-
cause of his mother,
Don Rafael Bridl re-
pulses her again and
she goes back to her
footlights and her
high notes. So La
Brunno goes on her
glittering way and
Don Rafael putters
about his fireside in
carpet slippers, sigh-
ing for his lost ro-
mance. Ibanez points
the un-Haysian
50
Frederick James Smith Reviews the New Photoplays
moral that one should seize one'i
moment of happiness when and
where one can.
The [bafiez story
full of claptrap, includ
|H| the dam that
burst.- without hav
anything in
ular to do
with the story.
Monta Hell lias
ed it into
film form with-
out taking any
apparent interest.
i ust a medi-
ocre production.
Still, as I have
said, it has Miss
t iarbo as La Brunno
Here is a genuine spark.
Miss Garbo ought to burn
up the screen with any sort of
logical role. Ricardo
Cortez is pretty colorless
as the drab Don Rafael.
"The Torrent" wasn't
the only Ibafiez novel to
arrive during March. "Mare Nostrum," which Rex
Ingram has been building casually between sun-baths on
the beach at Nice, reached Broadway at last.
Another Ibafiez Story
"Mare Nostrum" unfortunately came along about six
years too late. Translated, "Mare Nostrum" means
"Our Sea," the sea in question being the Mediterranean.
Its story deals with a young Spanish sea-captain who for-
gets his wife and his son when he falls in love with a
beautiful German spy. He becomes a tool of the German
U-boats and, when he comes to his senses, he finds that
he has un-
wittingly
helped kill his
own son. The
spy comes to
her death be-
fore the rifles
of a French
firing squad
and Don Este-
ban Ferragut
himself dies
when his ves-
sel is tor-
pedoed by a
German sub-
marine.
The tragedy
is studded
with the old
war hokum.
Once again
German spies
rush about
with satchels
of germs. The
story itself is
pretty in-
Greta Garbo and Ricardo Cortez in Ibanez's "Torrent"
Lillian Gish and John Gilbert in
"La Boheme"
ferioi [baflei arrived in the midst
"i tin- war hysteria, ai
third rate novelist who
wanted to achieve pub-
licity and to tone his
neutral homeland int..
the world war. With
the return of
sanity, it is pos-
sible to view
Ibafiez clearly.
This is, of
course, beside
the point. Our
case against
"Mare Nostrum"
concerns its un-
healthy note. There
is an extended love
scene before a glass
tank in an Italian aqua-
rium. Here the passion of
the heroine is awakened by
her observance of the way
live crabs are fed to an
octopus. The heroine
thruout the story borders
on the edge of being a case
for Dr. Kraft-Ebbing. The director, Mr. Ingram, takes
a left-handed swing at religion by playing upon an
ignorant and drunken servant and his faith in sacred
emblems.
I credit most of the unsavory nature of the "Mare
Nostrum" to Ingram. I doubt if any picture has ever
nauseated me as did this production. I dont think the
screen is the place for even a long-distance study in per-
versions. True, there are several interludes in "Mare
Nostrum" that are very well done. One comes when
the spy, Frcya Talberg, faces the firing squad. The
other develops in the bowels of the German U-boat.
But these are
off balanced
by one of the
worst con-
tinuities that
has ever
reached the
screen — and
by Ingram's
general insist-
ence upon
harping upon
a n unhealthy
note.
Miss Terry-
plays Freya
Talberg rather
well. She far
overtops An-
tonio Moreno,
who plays
Don Esteban
Ferragut. I n
fact, I cannot
u n d e rstand
how Moreno
(Cont'd on
page 70)
Antonio Moreno and Alice Terry
in "Mare Nostrum"
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The NORTHERN STAR
By Alice L. Tildesley
"It amazes me,"
says Greta Garbo,
"that these Amer-
ican girls can
manage so many
things at one
time — pictures,
society, love. Me
— little Sweden
girl — can do one
thing on-ly.
Some day I shall
leave pictures and
give all to this
love!"
Russell Ball
mmaa
Sweden girl-
YOU have not seen Greta Garbo unless you have seen
her in a storm.
True daughter of the sea-kings — tall, white-
browed, and most divinely fair — her face lifted to the
sweep of the rain, with a sort of exultation, water drip-
ping from her yellow curls, lashes impearled, a strange
light in her blue, blue eyes.
But you may not walk with her then. She walks in a
storm "a-lone."
She Loves the Sea
c he lives by the ocean, and spends all her time away
"^ from the studio beside it.
"I love the sea, yes. It understands me, I think. It
is like the Old World, it is not happy, it is always yearn-
ing for something that it cannot have. . . . Here you
are all so gay — you laugh — you talk, always very high —
you run about — you live in lights and music, this jazz
music — you are never still
"Me — poor little
come from a leetle con-tree where all
things do not make for happiness.
You — you would go mad if you live
there. No jazz — no party — always
quiet, yes? What would you do?
"American girls, they are wonder-
ful ! They can do everything. They
ride, they dance, they play the games,
they drive the car, they makt their
pictures, they run to parties, and —
they fall in love. So-o, is not that
am-azing?
"Me — poor little Sweden girl — can
do on-ly one thing at a time. Now,
for my new picture I must learn to
dance the tango and to rkle the horse."
She looked down at her trim riding
suit, ruefully. She had just come in
from riding the horse, and her strong,
slim hands turned her black tricorne
hat, slowly.
"That horse ! He is so beeg. They
bring him to me, and I look at him
and he look at me. 'You are so beeg,
I will never get on you,' I tell him.
They put me on him and he stands
still. 'How do you make him go?' I
ask. American girls, you see, they do
not have to ask. They know. Al-
ways they know.
"A Strange Con-tree"
"It is a ver' strange con-tree to me.
But nize. You are all so happy.
Everybody smiles and makes a joyful
noise. I hear mothers say to their
children: 'Are you happy, dear?'
That is what is to you important, yes.
Happiness. In the Old World, we do
not think of happiness at all."
A moody young thing, Greta Garbo,
with the true temperament of the
artist and no idea that the present fad
in Hollywood is to be "just folks."
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The
Screen's
Newest
Meteor Is
a Moody
Daughter
of Sweden
"T
MIC.
she
suddenly, reaching
the package of
rs that had just
thrust into her
dressing-room, "what
is tan mail? 1
do not understand.
These people,
win do they write to
\\ h) do they
want my picture?
They do not know
me. In Sweden, we
do not have letters
from people we do
not know. Tell me.
tell me what 1 must
dor-
She is so helpless —
90 charmingly help-
--when she
widen.- those almond-
shaped eyes at you !
e has the longest
lashes in the world !"
sighs an enamoured
youth.)
Seafaring Family
Che does not come
of a theatrical
family. Indeed, so
far as Greta know-.
not one of the Gar-
bos before her ever
trod the boards on
any stage. They were
seafaring men, who
must, like Greta, have
loved "the feel of the
wind in their hair."
Greta went to dramatic school in her native city of
Stockholm. Why? She cannot tell you, altho she has
learned much English since that fatal day when she
appeared on the set of "The Torrent" with her first
American word — and so proud of it — ''Hell.'"
The dramatic school, like all such schools in Sweden,
put on an Ibsen play. Greta was cast in a small role.
W hile she waited in the wings for her cue, she could see
a shadow on the wall back of the boxes. It looked like
the shadow of a giant.
"That's Mauritz Stiller !" one of the other players
hissed in her ear.
But Greta thought mure of what she would do on the
stage than of those who might be watching her. She gave
all she had to give. The tall man standing in the door
Ruth Harriet l.nuise
Greta Garbo has corn-colored hair and somber blue eyes. She is naive, oblivious yet
of her success. And she is not yet twenty
of the box was forgotten. . . . Until the next day when
Greta Garbo was summoned to his office.
In Swedish Films
Drkskntly the school was electrified at the announce-
ment that Mauritz Stiller — the great Mauritz Stiller —
had made little Greta Garbo the ingenue lead in "Gdsta
Borling's Saga."
So young she is — not twenty — half-woman, half-child.
Naive. Oblivious of the sensation of her passing. Greta
alone fails to note that most of the men on the lot have
found something to do on Stage One when Greta is
called there, and that they stay there long after that some-
thing is done.
( Continued on page 71 )
53
Manuel, Paris
Sessue Hayakawa has just returned to the New York speaking
stage after four years abroad. He may return to the screen
IT has been said that, when a tree falls in the absolute
solitude of a forest, it makes no sound. And a sup-
position such as this undoubtedly planted the devas-
tating thought in the human brain that nothing we do is
important unless it is seen or heard by someone else.
When we are very small and rock over backwards in a
rocking-chair, we cast a canny
eye about to see whether or not
mother is about before we be-
gin the first blood-curdling yell.
If she is not in sight, and not
in hearing distance, we get up
and try it all over again. As
we grow older, we may begin
to paint what we honestly be-
lieve to be a masterpiece. And
when a careless circle of friends
shouts "raspberries," we pre-
tend we were only fooling all along
and take up stenography.
Eternal Longing
If the friends do happen to find the
painting good, our desire for
praise becomes insatiable. We want
the critics, the world, to give us their
attention, too. The streets of New
York, St. Louis and points west
may be filled with pretty girls, and
we may know it, but the big thrill
doesn't come to us until some dusty
English lecturer .who has never
Old
PICTURES
In New
FRAMES
looked into anything except thru a telescope,
tells us that American women are the prettiest
women in the world.
Fortune-tellers are swamped by intelligent
men and women waiting to hear, "You're very
sensitive, aren't you, dearie? And you brood
too much."
The docks are crowded with reporters waiting
to ask visiting celebrities who have never set
eyes on us before what they think of us. Every
now and then a prodigal son returns to the old
home town after a few years' stay in Paris or
London. And then how we rush to ask, because
we feel pretty sure that he, knowing the native
pulse, will find it in his heart to approve of us.
Just recently Sessue Hayakawa landed in the
United States after three or four years abroad.
He has been touring England in a play by the
late William Archer, the author of "The Green
Goddess," with considerable success. He has
been making moving pictures in France with a French
company. "La Bataille" is the most successful one. I
have proof of his popularity there, for one night when I
visited that ridiculously expensive and aloof resort,
Chariot's Rendezvous, to watch Beatrice Lille, Gertrude
Lawrence, and Jack Buchanan disport before the merry
villagers, I noticed that the attentions of
the entire company were turned toward
the enigmatic Mr. Hayakawa. He even
had songs sung in his direction. That's
fame.
Hayakawa decried the modern
tendency to standardize every-
thing. Clothes, houses, even
whole towns are exactly alike
these days
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Screen Dramas
are Bigger and
More Expen-
sive, says Sessue
Hayakawa, but
They are Not
Different
By
Sara Redway
Mk. HAYAKAWA is playing in
'"' "The Love City" at present
and later, I hope, he intends to
start west to make more pic-
tures. And he, being an old
hand at the picture business,
must surely, I thought, be
amazed at the progress made by
them in the last few years.
"Well, what do you think of
all our fine new movies?" I
asked, " 'The Big Parade,'
Stella Dallas,' 'The Merry
Witlow, ' to only name a few."
"Very nice, very, very nice,"
answered the imperturbable Mr.
Hayakawa, "but not so very
different from anything that has
been done before. After all, the
ideas are not new nor startling."
"But the productions are
different," I protested.
"Yes, they are bigger and
more expensive than they used
to be. But to make my meaning
clear, please do not think that I
take an aloof and haughty tone
of these undoubtedly fine pic-
tures. I merely say they are
not different. After all, there
are not a great many plots in the world. There is always
a heroine, a hero, a villain. There is always the struggle
between good and evil. The hero may not be a person, it
may be a situation ; the villain may be a war, or some form
of treachery, but the idea of the conflict must be present.
Shakespeare and the Danes
'' V EARS ago. when Shakespeare was writing his immortal
plays, he wrote them not so much for everyone as for
a selected few. The queen and the court wanted some-
thing they alone could understand and appreciate, some-
thing that the common mind would find tiresome or
baffling.
"So his plays were not written to make money by get-
ting it from the multitude ; they were not written to please
all of England, they were written to please a chosen few.
"The thing then was to have something that no one
else had. A house that was different ; a gown made solely
for you ; a bit of music or a poem written for you and
to you.
"But now that is all gone. Everyone now must be like
Muhkin
Sessue Hayakawa believes that to centralize the making of pictures in one
place, as Hollywood, is dangerous. To form a community is death, he says
everyone else. To wear a long dress when a short dress
is in vogue is a sacrilege, all tastes must be alike. A man
will say, 'I wish I had a house like So and SoY ; he doesn't
think of saying, T wish I had my house to my own taste
and of my own design.' With the result that many of
our cities look as tho they were scattered with row
after row of match boxes, all alike, all tiresome. You
find your way to your house by its number, not because
it is different in design.
"Before the war in France, there was much more in-
dividuality. Now with the new houses being built, the
reconstruction going on, the match boxes are creeping in
everywhere.
The Match Box Rush
'The reason for this is simple. French taste has not
changed, but the French are suddenly forced to face
the world commercially. They have not time to play with
ideas any longer, they must get out and hustle. And to
compete with the rest of the world they must hurry, hurry.
( Continued on page 78)
55
-- — -.. . - *m» it„i^
CAME
SPRING!
These are the days when a young man's fancy turns lightly to
the golf-links and the tennis-court. Screen folks are just like
everyone else. Besides, they have to be systematic about their
exercise in order to keep in trim. Ramon Novarro (upper left)
likes tennis best — and he plays a scintillating game. Eddie
Burns (center) is a fast tennis-player, too. Rudolph Valentino
(left) likes boxing — and finds it the most satisfactory exercise
to protect him from that dread enemy of the cinema star,
avoirdupois
56
Tennis and Golf
Are the Favorite
Recreations of
the Stars
The gent on the fly-
ing rings? No other
than John Roche
(above), who plays
wicked lounge
lizards so well. All
of which shows you
never can tell
Despite the riding
habit, Bebe Daniels
(right) is a real —
dyed - in - the - wool —
golf nut. Just back
from a ride, Bebe is
trying a putt on the
lawn of her home
The Hollywood method of putting — with
the hands on the hips — demonstrated by
Vera Reynolds (right)
57
Don Gillum
Director Jack Conway shooting the football scenes of "Brown
of Harvard" with- William Haines as the Cambridge
gridiron hero
International Newsreel
Constance Talmadge marries Captain
Alastair Mackintosh, an Englishman, and
announces she will leave films
Letters to King Dodo
HOLLYWOOD.
Dear Majesty:
Obedient to your request to be kept informed
upon the march of progress in Hollywood, I am writing
to apprize Your Majesty that our immediate craze is war
pictures.
Your Majesty well knows the ovine nature of movie
producers, who all follow each other like sheep when
some bell-wether happens to show the way. It was in-
evitable that the success of "The Big Parade" should set
loose an avalanche of war pictures, altho if anybody had
shown the script of a war story to a producer six months
ago the unfortunate author would have been thrown out
of the office.
But the amazing particular of this situation is the way
in which the various' arms of the United States military
organization have been put to work for the movies.
Lasky had barely completed "Behind the Front," with
Raymond Hatton and Noah Beery co-featured ; Warner
Brothers had no more than christened their war baby,
"The Sap," featuring Kenneth Harlan, than William
Fox went them one better by purchasing the original
stage play, "What Price Glory?" — the play that was re-
sponsible for launching the craze for war-time stuff.
But Metro-Goldwyn had been quietly preparing for
the filming of a leatherneck epic to be called "Tell It To
the Marines." And M.-G. had a contract with Major
General John A. Lejeune, the commandant, giving the
exclusive right for one year to film marines for photoplay
purposes !
"What Price Glory?" is about marines at the front.
Fox expected to take scenes of the real leathernecks in
camp, on the drill field, at combat practice — thus cutting
the cost of extra talent. So Saul E. Roger, his lawyer,
proposes now to sue the United States Marine Corps.
He will allege monopoly, conspiracy in restraint of trade,
and so on. '
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Our military establishment has never boasted any great
dignity, but the Marines have a tradition to maintain. The
tie-up with the studio must have been made for publicity
purposes, tho why General Lejeune desired publicity for
his leathernecks when there are more applicants than can
be recruited under congressional appropriation is puzzling
to decide.
A dreadful thought comes to me. Suppose it should
be necessary to call out our military again, to make the
world safe for democracy, and we should find that all
our forces had been farmed out to the movies and were
unavailable !
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty:
I am happy to say that now I can supply Your Majesty
with the data on Elinor Glyn requested in your gracious
communication of recent date.
Your Majesty sought to know why Madame Glyn's
characters so rarely die with their boots on, as is the usual
fashion in movies, but endure long, lingering death
agonies in bed. The reason is explained, I think, by the
circumstance that Madame Glyn receives one dollar a
word for her scripts. At a dollar a word Madame's
characters can well afford to utter an ah, an oh and a
couple of ughs before passing into the great beyond.
Even a series of inarticulate gurgles just at the end will
rate a dollar a gurgle.
When I visited Madame Glyn on the set, it was her
Tea Hour. Everybody had stopped work to sip. The
electricians, I noted, satisfied themselves with an extra
chew of scrap.
Your Majesty may recall my mentioning that Madame
Glyn is accustomed to select potential star material by
means of a subtle quality which she is able to perceive
and which she calls for short — It. In "Love's Blind-
ness," the film on which she was engaged, Madame had
International Newsreet
Ren6e Adoree holding two trophies con-
tested for by the 11th United States Cav-
alry at the Presidio, Monterey, California
Director Donald Crisp arrives on the De Mille lot and is kidded
by Directors William K. Howard, Rupert Julian and Paul Sloane.
Crisp has just been signed by Mr. De Mille
By Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith
need of a child for certain scenes. Before her in review
passed the infant genius of Hollywood.
Suddenly Madame exclaimed : "That's the one ! She
has It!" A consultation with the mother, and then the
little girl, who had been instructed to "be very nice to
Madame and be sure and thank her," approached the
presence.
"How would you like to play in my picture?" inter-
rogated la Glyn, with a gracious smile.
Only for a moment did the child hesitate. Then — "I
dont think I care so much about it — thank you !" she
replied shrilly.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Your study of the cinematic art has already made Your
Majesty familiar with peculiar slogans which rapidly suc-
ceed one another in the mouths of the movie publicity
managers. Your Majesty will remember how in times past,
various parts of a picture have been acclaimed "the
thing." First it was "The star's the thing!" Then story,
director, and all the other elements were so lauded, each
in turn.
But now a new slogan sweeps the boulevards. With
the purchase of the Ella Cinders series from Bill
Counselman and Charles Plumb as a vehicle for Colleen
Moore, the press-agents have raised the shout : "The
comic strip's the thing!"
Very likely they are right, for it has been demonstrated
that more Americans read the comic strips of the news-
papers than any other literature. In fact, they are the
chief intellectual stimulation of our population, from the
Tiny Tot at his mother's knee to the Big Business Man
at his flat-topped desk of fumed oak.
One astute press-agent, who figured slightly in the
Ella Cinders deal — a young man with vision, as we say
in our country — hopped a train for New York and pro-
ceeded to sew up the sales rights on all available comic
strips. The Ella Cinders strip will be utilized by I'irst
National. Andy Gump, the popular national hero, has
already been immortalized by Universal. In a short time
we may expect to see Mutt and Jeff, Jiggs, Barney
Google and other hundred-per-cent. Americans imper-
ishably embalmed in celluloid.
And Your Majesty need not fear that any evil effect
will come out of this daring excursion into the realm of
fantasy. For the young press-agent — the one with vision
— has eliminated any such possibility. Let this idealis*
speak for himself.
"I have," he says, "eliminated those comic strips in
which the sordid and disagreeable predominate and re-
tained only those that possess all the touching, lovable and
human things so dear to the hearts of the great American
public."
Will Hays will bestow his papal blessing on that young
man.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Suing Harold Lloyd has become the favorite pastime
of American authors — to such an extent that the popu-
lar comedian has been compelled in self-defense to issue
a decree. Hereafter no stories, published or unpublished,
received from outsiders, will be given a reading at the
Harold Lloyd establishment.
As I am in the act of preparing this report to submit
to Your Majesty, the news comes that Lloyd has filed
an answer to the suit in which Owen Davis asks for two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars damages, representing
that the comedian palmed off the playwright's "Xervou<
Wreck" as a movie comedy entitled "Why Worry?" The
suit of Mr. Davis is based chiefly on the circumstance
that in both stories the hero is constantly taking pills —
a favorite laugh-getting device, as Your Majesty no
CLASSIC
Marie Prevost was welcomed at the Cecil De Mille studio, upon
her arrival after her recent illness, by Mr. De Mille himself.
Miss Prevost is to be starred in Metropolitan Pictures
Pacific & Atlantic'
Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso of the
Metropolitan Opera House, visits Pola
Negri at the Lasky studios
doubt recalls, in the days of the Elizabethan dramatists.
H. C. Witwer, writer of sporting tales, has also
brought suit for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
laying claim to Lloyd's comedy, "The Freshman," on the
ground that it is an infringement of a football story he pub-
lished in 1908 entitled, "The Emancipation of Rodney."
Mr. Witwer bases his claim chiefly on the fact that in both
stories the fool substitute goes in and wins the game.
Now if Burt L. Standish were still alive, he would have
sufficient grounds for action. For Your Majesty will
recall in the Frank Merriwell stories, which were read
with such pleasure in your boyhood, that the substitute
always went in at the last minute of play and saved the
game. And very likely the only reason Cecil De Mille is
not a bankrupt today is that Moses had gone to his re-
ward long before the Great Director filmed "The Ten
Commandments."
Lloyd is now engaged in making "For Heaven's Sake."
in which he is probably safe from legal action, because
Anatole France died last year and so far as is known the
author of "The Revolt of the Angels" left no heirs.
Hollywood,
•ear Majesty :
It is improbable to a degree that the fame of Horace
Wade, Hollywood's youngest scenarist, should have pene-
trated as far as Your Majesty's distant Island of Oz.
But in America we are prone to make much of what
Darwin and his successors designate as sports — any
creature divergent from the norm. Infant prodigies are
our especial delight.
Master Horace, who is just turned seventeen, recently
achieved a quantity of publicity by writing for the news-
papers. In these days a seventeen-year-old who can put
an English sentence together is indeed a novelty — of a
piece with the horse that can count — altho William
Cullen Bryant composed "Thanatopsis" at eighteen, and
(which is much worse) Conrad Nagel recited it last
summer in the Hollywood Bowl.
Pardon this digression, Your Majesty. What I mean
to state is that Metro-Goldwyn, sensing the publicity
value accruing to his name, snapped up Master Horace
as a scenarist and put him under long-term contract — to
the envy, it may well be imagined, of Joseph Herges-
heimer and others.
Master Horace signed the contract just before
luncheon. At 1 P. M. he received the assignment for
his first story. He was to do a script for Peter the Great,
the M.-G.-M. dog-star, and bring it back to the studio
in the morning.
I must crave Your Majesty's pardon again, for, in
spite of most assiduous efforts, I have as yet been unable
to ascertain whether or not the finished story received
the star's O. K.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty:
I have the honor today of imparting to Your Majesty
a piece of advance information that has not yet been
promulgated by the Paramount press-agents, but which
I happen to know is well authenticated.
Mary Brian will play Mitzi, the persecuted heroine of
"The Wedding March," the story which Erich (correct)
von Stroheim will soon begin making. The story was
written by von Stroheim and he will play in it. Mitzi is
his wife, the unappreciated spouse of a philandering scion
of the Austrian nobility.
Needless to say, if she plays with von Stroheim, this
young woman, now trembling on the brink of stardom or
oblivion, will be securely tethered and Paramount will
cash in on their investment in Mary. Mae Busch. Dale
Fuller, Mary Philbin and Zasu Pitts all are von Stro-
heim discoveries. The truth of the matter is that von
Stroheim can make any woman act.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
The latest mot in the Montmartre is the one designat-
ing Phyllis Haver as the eighty-thousand-dollar baby. It
is a good laugh on the boulevard and a startling jolt for
those benighted beings who believe that movie damsels
are beautiful but dumb.
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Pacific 4 Atlantic
Alma Rubens and Ricardo Cortez arrive
in New York on their honeymoon. They
were married in California
Pauline Starke is playing the leading role in Elinor Glyn's
"Love's Blindness." Here they are having tea between scenes.
Quite English, y' know!
Miss Haver outslicked a retired Omaha business
man in a real-estate deal so badly that the speculator
from the hinterland is crawfishing on his deal. He
has brought suit against the bathing beauty for the
aforementioned sum. Miss Haver, having long since laid
aside the one-piece suit, is struggling towards stardom
in dramatic roles and investing her earnings in shrewd
realty transactions. The Hollywood Chamber of Com-
merce is proud of her.
There is another indication that movie beauties are
developing intellectually. One of them recently appeared
on the speaking stage in a very advanced drama. Leatrice
Joy it was who made her stage debut in a production of
Karl Schoenherr's play, "The Children's Tragedy,"
which, for bedtime reasons, was retitled "The Candle."
It was shown with some success at the Potboilers'
Theater. Miss Joy is under contract to Cecil De Mille
and the press-agent took due notice of her excursion into
the realms of art for art's sake.
I hope that Your Majesty will visit us soon and see for
yourself the wonders of Hollywood.
Hollywood.
Your Majesty :
Corinne Griffith is in line for a big contract when her
existing one with E. M. Ascher, releasing thru First
National, expires in October, and it is known that she
has been approached already with several big offers.
An executive of the Paramount organization offered
her a cash bonus of fifty thousand dollars if she would
permit him to buy up the existing contract, provided it
could be negotiated with Ascher, and the signing of her
services for a period of years. Miss Griffith rejected this
because she does not want to sign for more than one or
two years. Had it gone thru, she would have had her
own unit releasing probably thru Paramount.
Warner Brothers made her an offer some time ago of
ten thousand a week on a contract to start upon the ex-
piration of the present one. As Miss Griffith's husband,
Walter Morosco, has been made a director by Warners
recently, it is thought that company has a good chance of
interesting, altho it is said the star favors an independent
unit and that Joseph Schenck is interested in her as an
acquisition for United Artists.
Miss Griffith's pulling power has steadily developed in
about as bad pictures as any star has had. With "Classi-
fied," a real box-office attraction, she has shown what she
can do with good material. She has completed work in
"Mile. Modiste" for First National and is starting soon
on a Russian story, "Into Her Kingdom." She has two
besides this to make before the termination of her
contract.
New York.
Dear King:
Doug and Mary arrived in town in time for the open-
ing of "The Black Pirate." The usual mob surged about
the Selwyn theater to watch the stars enter, while police-
men shoved, pushed and punched the crowd back.
Patrons with first night tickets literally had to fight their
way into the theater. The New York police department
seems unable to handle a screen opening.
When Cecil De Mille had to jam his way thru the
struggling coppers and- film fans, he said: "We do this
much better in Los Angeles." "Well," snarled one of
Manhattan's finest, "why don't you go back there then!"
Hollywood, /ornia.
Your Majesty .
I know your regal interest in Constance Talmadge.
Consequently, I know you will be interested in details
of her sudden marriage to Alastair Mackintosh, late
captain in the British army.
I hear reports that Connie had a quarrel with
Willie Collie. Jr. Willie and Connie, you know, wen
considered to be hovering on the edge of matrimom
for a long time. Then came the quarrel. Connie had
met the Honorable Alastair but a week before. She
married him abruptly.
And now she says that she's going to give up mo-
tion pictures after her next two pictures and that
she's going to dear old Lunnon to live. We shall see.
we shall see.
(Continued on page 70)
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Gregory La Cava
IN early youth a young man's fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of ART" — thus might we well start an
extra verse to be added to that famous song. Thus
also, begins the story of Gregory La Cava, the director
"found" by that smiling brute, Richard Dix. Once the
young artist leaves the "ivory tower" and enters the
turbulent waters of the sea of life, the lightness of his
fancy may perhaps be seen — and then comes that groping
for firmer and more concrete foundations upon which to
build the structure of a life. So, again, it was with
Gregory La Cava — the man who, when first he embarked
upon this sea, took the name of George Gregory, that he
might not hurt that other Gregory who
dwelt within the tower — but more of this
anon.
The place was the basement restaurant of
the Famous Players' Astoria studio ; and
the time, lunch hour. Richard Dix gave his
director a warning outline of the questions
I would probably ask (birthplace and date,
ideals, scarlet past, ambition, struggle to
win, age, weight, pets, etc) ; and then, with
one fell sweeping blow, smote me mightily
upon the back — undoubtedly on the theory
that this counter-irritant would take my
mind from any possible sting his words
might have carried.
Now that the background is indicated, let
us focus our attention upon that central
figure who is our subject.
Starting in Rochester, La Cava soon
moved to Chicago, and there entered the
schools and pursued his quest with great
intentness. And, being an artist, naturally
with great poverty.
"Three of us lived in
a room we rented for
eight dollars a month ;
with housekeeping
privileges — when the
landlady was absent."
Meet
La CAVA
With Two Richard Dix
Comedies This Young
Director Has Estab-
lished Himself
By Dunham Thorp
At this time his one means of earning a livelihood-
for, of course, his art could not support him — was
job as usher in the Garrick, a theater owned by th
Shuberts. His salary was the truly munificent sum o
ten dollars a week. His job was, under all circum
stances, to bar every person not possessed of a ticket o
the proper date, size, and color. One day a man entere<
who insisted that the trivial matter of a missing slip o
cardboard should not bar him — nevertheless, he ciu
barred. And this man was Jake Shubert ! He waxet
wroth ; and then gained peace in contemplation of thi:
magnificent example of the steadfast devotion of a lowh
menial to his duty. The usher La Cava's salary wa;
raised to twelve dollars a week ! He was now the wealthi
est member of his circle !
Still he painted on ("I believe I destroyed mon
{Continued on page 66)
La Cava, Richard
Dix and Esther
Ralston between
scenes of
"Womanhandled"
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The Answer
Man
Replies to CLASSIC Readers
Mamik S. — GreetinKs to thee,
friend; come hither and I will con-
duct thee on a pleasant journey,
ne! Let us reason together.
Ronald Colman is married, but sep-
arated, and Norma Shearer was
born in 1903.
Rfnkk B.— Well, you know what
Shakespeare said, " Tis beauty doth
oft make woman proud ; 'tis virtue
that doth make them most admired ;
'tis modesty that makes them seem
divine." Jackie Coogan's first was
"The Kid."
Lois M. M. — Yes, I have heard
that, but music is the language of the soul ; jazz is its profanity.
Bert Lytell was David in "The Eternal City." Yes, George
O'Brien is playing in "Rustlin' for Cupid" with Anita Stewart.
Pil. — You can write the UFA films at 1540 Broadway, New
York City. I haven't their Berlin address.
Jeanne M. S. — Righto, but moving day comes on May 1st, but
every day in the year is movie day. Vilma Banky in "The Son
of the Sheik." Yes, it is true that Harold Shaw, director and
husband of Edna Flugrath, was killed in an automobile accident
last January. He was a brother-in-law to Viola Dana and Shirley
Mason. The husbands of all three sisters have died, but Viola
remarried recently and is now Mrs. Maurice B. Flynn.
Shorty. — So you think I am getting thinner. I'm on a diet,
you know. Plenty of buttermilk, but no butter or milk. Bert
Lytell is playing on the stage in California. Doris Kenyon in
"Mismates."
Accordion W. — Well, I asked that player how old he was once,
and this is what he said : "As old as my tongue and a little
older than my teeth." Most of the players you mentioned are
with Famous Players-Lasky, 1520 Vine Street, Los Angeles,
California.
Una S. — Well, you know Harry Carey's father was a judge
and Harry came near being one. Henry B. Walthall got him
to go with him and see Griffith at the old Biograph and that was
the beginning of his screen career some fifteen years ago. Yes,
you should see "Stella Dallas." Take plenty of handkerchiefs
with ydu.
Eva R. — But every why has a wherefore. No, Richard Tal-
madge is not related to the Talmadge sisters. Georgia Hale and
William Collier, Jr., in "The Rain Maker."
Elva. — Colorado Springs first became famous by having Lon
Chaney born there. Ten years later the stage claimed him, not
as an actor, but as a stage-hand, then later a chorus boy, then
a comedian, and then came "The Miracle Man" and Lon started
on his way up the screen ladder and never stopped climbing.
Just S. B. T. — Yours was mighty interesting. Someday I will
run up and see you. Well, Ronald Colman, who recently com-
pleted "Kiki" with Norma Talmadge, is to play the leading role
in "Beau Geste." Herbert Brenon is directing and Alice Joyce
has the feminine lead, with Neil Hamilton, Mary Brian and
Wallace Beery in the cast.
Julius A. P. — Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago. I dont
know what her father ever did for a living. Richard Barthelmess
is playing in "Ransom's Folly."
Lady Violet. — That's some violet correspondence card you have.
Claire Windsor and not Mae Murray in "Dance Madness." Billie
Dove, Francis X. Bushman and Grace Darmond are playing in
"The Star Maker."
Juliet J. — Please, please dont send me any more chain letters.
I have all I can do to answer my regular correspondence. HELP !
Hear ye, hear yet All you folki who have queationa
to ask, come thii way and you ahall be heard — and
answered. I have learnt a lot during the laat eighty-
two years, and it's all yours for the asking Been
answering ??? (or the laat fourteen years, and still
going strong. If you want an answer by mail, encloae
a stamped addresaed envelope. If you wish the an-
swer to appear here, write at the top of your letter
the name you want printed, and at the bottom your
full name and address, and mail to me. The Answer
Man, car* of Classic, 176 Duffield Street, Brook-
lyn. N. Y,
The Prodigal Daughter. — What's
that you say about me — "You're
darn, dog-gone, ding-busted clev-ah."
Thanks, my child. No, I am not
related to George Ade, First Aid
or Lemonade. You just pronounce
it Give, with long "I," as in hive.
V. S— All right, win your $10.
Lillian Gish is not and never has been
married. Jackie Coogan's twelfth
birthday will come off on October
26, next. He started his career at
the age of twenty months, but it
was an- accident. His father was
on the vaudeville stage dancing and
singing when the youngster walked out unexpectedly. The audi-
ence laughed and so daddy made him do his bit right there and
then. Charlie Chaplin made him a screen star by getting him
for "The Kid."
Jean M. — I envy your going to California. Best wishes.
Clarissa. — So you think Percy Marmont is a great actor and
has a beautiful personality. Madge Bellamy was born irr Hills-
boro, Texas, June 30, 1903, so now you know her birthday and
can send her a Rolls-Royce. She went on the stage in New York
at the age of five.
Ruth L. — I dont see why it takes any courage to write to me.
You want Richard Dix to choose the right one when he gets
married. How can he do that? Gloria Swanson played in the
following for 1925 : "Madame Sans-Gene," "The Coast of Folly"
and ."Stage Struck."
Sexora de A. — Your letter certainly was full of comment for
James Kirkwood. Norma Shearer's next will be "The Devil's
Circus." "Kathleen Mavourneen" was written by Louise Craw-
ford, an American writer of the nineteenth century. The music
was written by F. N. Crouch.
Quentin F., Hong Kong. — How are you? So you think Mary
Astor is the prettiest woman in all the world? To begin with,
she was born in Quincy, Illinois, on May 3, 1906, and is playing
in "High Steppers" with Lloyd Hughes. I haven't the address of
Lucas Kanarian.
Dolores 19. — Thanks for the gum. You know you can no
longer put a man in jail because he owes money. For that mat-
ter, you can hardly put him in jail if he has money. Your letter
was very interesting. Write me again.
Victorine V. — Railroads killed only 149 persons in the United
States during 1924, while automobiles killed more than 10,000.
So take your foot off the gas. I think you are a very' good type.
But try and get in.
Rose A. — Well, I think you are a very nice girl from your let-
ter. When girls are young they play with jacks, and when they
get older they play with Jacks. You have the right idea. Yilma
Banky and Ronald Colman in "Beauty and the Beast." Betty
Bronson and Ricardo Cortez in "The Cat's Pajamas."
Dot. — Does that end it? Thanks for all you say. John Barry-
more is playing in "The Tavern Knight." Yes, they do say-
that Eddie Cantor, the stage comedian, is going to play in "Kid
Boots" in the movies. Run in again some time.
The Cat. — Well, are you that curious? No. Lillian Gish is
not married, and she never played opposite Ramon Novarro.
That's that.
Alma, England. — So you think The Classic does not use
enough pictures of Pauline Frederick and Alma Rubens? Mr.
Smith, N. B. Well, I guess you are the only one I've heard of
who didn't like John Gilbert in "Tht Merry Widow." *
(Continued on page 66)
63
The Nation of the Happy Ending
Vajda come to his office for another talk.
It was a nice little talk. Mr. Vajda ex-
plained that he had come to New York to
write a play of American life, and was
leaving again for Europe.
But Mr. Lasky felt that travel broadens
one, and that surely Mr. Vajda shouldn't
go back home without seeing Hollywood.
Anyhow, the upshot of the pleasant little
conference was that Mr. Vajda and
Brother Victor found themselves getting
acquainted with the Pennsylvania railroad
— en route to Hollywood. Mr. Vajda was
enabled to make the trip because he had
a contract in his pocket which called for
four original screen stories at a price
reputed to be $20,000 per story — on de-
livery.
Vajda an Exception
Mow famous authors have come and
gone in Hollywood. They come with
a blare of trumpets. They address the
women's clubs. They have offices at one
studio or another. But they go, oh, so
quietly. One hardly knows they have
done. Witness Michael Arlen, who came
to write an original story for the screen,
stayed long enough to give various
luncheons and get acquainted with his
office, and next was heard of back in dear
old London, giving interviews — albeit very
flattering ones — on the subject of Holly-
wood. No, Mr. Arlen didn't get around
to writing a story for the screen. But he
did like his- little trip to Hollywood.
But the story of Michael Arlen is not a
new one. It has been done before, very often.
In fact, it has been done since the days when
Sir Gilbert Parker and a score of other
noted authors were imported to Holly-
wood to write for the screen. They lived
at the best hotels — on expense accounts.
Sir Gilbert, he of the magnificent
whiskers, stayed a whole year trying to
get an inspiration, and then he, too, dis-
appeared. He lent an air of distinction to
the promenade at the Lasky studio — but
he wrote nothing.
So when Ernest Vajda hopped off the
train in Los Angeles, with the usual blare
of trumpets, Hollywood merely said, "Ho,
hum. Another famous author." Hollywood
waited for Ernest Vajda to fade out
quietly and be heard of next in Buda-
pest, giving interviews on the subject of
Hollywood.
A Story for Pola
M1
[r. Vajda went thru all the motions.
He was asked to speak before wom-
en's clubs, and did. He was asked what
he thought of Hollywood and the Cali-
fornia climate, and he said yes — as he
was supposed to. He stopped at the Am-
bassador hotel, and it was announced that
he would write an original screen story
for Pola Negri. It is nearly always an-
nounced that famous authors will write
stories for Pola Negri. But they seldom do.
But then quite startling things began to
happen. The rumor got around somehow
that Ernest Vajda was working. He
also moved out of the Ambassador hotel
because he said it was too expensive.
This, too was strange, because the studio
was paying the bills. Authors seldom
move out of the Ambassador as long as
the studio pays the bills. He moved into
a big spacious house, but not a fashion-
able one.
Mr. Vajda also liked the air and the
scenery. Motoring was such a pleasure
on California's fine roads. So he had
Brother Victor, the business manager,
(Continued from page 43)
buy him a second-hand, medium-priced
coach.
This was what really brought Holly-
wood to life. Authors and actors on their
arrival in Hollywood, usually buy a Rolls-
Royce or at least a Lincoln — on the in-
stalment plan. Mr. Vajda bought a sec-
ond-hand, medium-priced coach, and paid
cash for it.
Meanwhile Pola Negri, who had been
to Albuquerque, or some similar place,
on "business," returned. Mr. Vajda talked
with her, and was seen no more for three
days. Then he appeared at the studio with a
seventy-six-page story, in "treatment" form,
written especially for her. The studio
officials liked it immensely. It was turned
into a scenario, "The Crown of Lies,"
and Pola was starred in it. Brother Vic-
tor rang up the cash-register.
Then— "The Cat's Pajamas"
"Then he met Betty Bronson. She was
a nice girl— so typically American. Mr.
Vajda decided to write a story especially
for her. He appeared a week later with
it. It was called "The Cat's Pajamas,"
and was a delightful story of American
life. The studio immediately accepted it,
and co-starred Betty and Ricardo Cortez
in it. And Brother Victor, the business
manager, rang up another $20,000.
Mr. Vajda had originally planned to go
back to Hungary when he completed the
four stories. But it is now reported he
has a new contract in his pocket for four
more stories, and will remain in Holly-
wood for some time to come.
He has just completed his third screen
original, "The Great Illusion," probably
the greatest story of the three. He wrote
it in two weeks. Hollywood hasn't caught
its breath yet from astonishment.
Incidentally, an amusing story is told
about the experience of the amazing Mr.
Vajda with a publishing firm which de-
sired to turn "The Crown of Lies" into a
novel. They asked him what he would
take for the book rights, or if he would
let them have them for nothing.
"But I am not a business man, I am
an author," said Mr. Vajda. "Why is it
you should ask me to say how much?"
"It will be wonderful publicity for you,"
they said.
"Oh, will it?" explained Mr. Vajda.
"But, alas, I am not a business man."
"Think of the publicity," they said.
"What will you take?"
"I am not a business man," deplored
Mr. Vajda, "but on account of all the good
publicity, if you want the story I will let
you have it for $20,000."
The story rights, needless to say, still
remain intact.
Mr. Vajda's reactions to American life
are startling Hollywood.
His Reactions to America
"I^issing in America is very badly
done," he declared shortly after his
arrival. "It seems your American men
do not understand how to kiss. They
give their wives a perfunctory kiss when
they leave in the morning. I have seen
men, quite as an afterthought on boarding
a moving train lean back and take a ran-
dom shot at a kiss in parting from their
wives — never minding where it landed. It
was an afterthought to business. Kisses
are usually given in haste, in such public
places as subways and railroad stations,
•or on the front-door step.
"Hollywood is the only city where kiss-
ing is properly done. A kiss properly
done should be a long and lingering caress
of affection and deep significance, not a
casual salutation. Kissing is done prop-
erly in Hollywood because the movies
know the technique. It is a beneficial
thing, and I hope the vogue will spread
thruout the nation.
"Hollywood is a city of too many too
beautiful women. It is not alone in the
movies, but in every walk of life — I do
not know why. Venus de Milo waits on
you in a cafe. Cleopatra checks your hat
at the hotel. Beauty is everywhere. Beau-
tiful girls no longer mean anything. They
pall on one.
"The most interesting woman I have
met in Hollywood is a homely one. She
has a fascinating personality and a splen-
did mind. She was such a novelty that I
was entranced. I shall not mention her
name. That would be unfair.
Nation of the Happy Ending
"America is the nation of the happy
ending. This is frequently criticized.
But I believe it is a good thing, because
it expresses a national view-point, a spirit
of youth and strength and enthusiasm.
American life is vigorous, ambitious,
idealistic. In Europe a man is what he
is. If a man is born in a middle-class
family, he expects to remain middle-class.
If he is a beggar, he expects to remain a
beggar, and everyone expects him to re-
main one. In America he would be am-
bitious to become a capitalist in a few
years, and no one would be surprised if he
did so. America makes up in its youth
and strength and idealism what it lacks
in the charm of intrigue and contemplation.
"American women of all classes have
the most beautiful clothes in the world.
Even the stenographers dress well, and
wives of all classes are always well
gowned. But, alas, American women have
not learned that half the art of beautiful
clothes is in the wearing. They buy
more beautiful things, but they do not
wear them so well as European women
wear simpler clothes. This is mostly due
to lack of bearing, lack of taste, or the
belief that spending money will buy any-
thing, and that good clothes automatically
look good.
"Screen authorship means but little in
the realm of immortality. This is because
the screen author thinks in pictures, not
in written words. On the stage, the play
lives, the player dies. Shakespeare will
be living a thousand years from now,
after every great actor who has played
the roles he has created has sunk into an
oblivion that is beyond redemption.
"The great actors of the screen will
continue to live thru centuries, but the
screen authors will be forgotten. I doubt
if Ernest Torrence will ever be forgotten.
Charles Chaplin, Pola Negri, Douglas Fair-
banks, Mary Pickford, Wallace Beery, all
are sure of their niche in the hall of fame.
Yet even a quarter of a century hence I
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We all desire our meed of immortality.''
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canvases than Rembrandt ever painted"),
and still he lived in poverty.
About this time, he moved to New
York ; thinking, perhaps, that in a larger
city a larger market for his paintings
might lie hidden. But it was not so — in
New York as well as in Chicago, he
failed to make a living from his art. But
still he persevered. The National Acade-
my, The Art Students' League, and a bat-
tering from one odd job to another con-
stituted his life at this time. And when
the bills began to get a bit too heavy, he
resorted to his mother.
"I thought nothing of it — there was
money there, to be had when I wanted it."
But soon the pressure grew too heavy —
it became absolutely necessary for him to
find some way of earning livable income.
He looked about, and, after some looking,
the field of newspaper cartooning seemed
to offer the greatest opportunities.
But that would mean the degradation of
his art 1 — making of her a vehicle for
existence, rather than expression ! And
later, when he would become a famous
artist, the critics would know of his dark
past, and trace the influence of the comic
strip thruout all his most serious work.
This second thought was more than could
be born — so, to circumvent it, he took his
second name as a surname ; and blossomed
forth as the cartoonist, George Gregory.
As he entered further in this work he
had at first thought of as only a lesser
species of "pot-boiling," he became aware
of the fact that one cannot serve two gods
at one and the same time — that, if he was
to be a cartoonist of any importance, he
must devote his whole time and energy
to it — and let the dreams of his painting
go the way of all other dreams. The
dream faded, until at last the reality ab-
sorbed all his interest, as well as time and
energy.
He was not long in the newspaper game
before the field of animated cartoons —
then in its wailing infancy— began to draw
Meet La Cava
{Continued from page 62)
him. Here it was that he first made ac-
quaintance with the camera — and gained
knowledge that is now invaluable.
"Timing, for instance. I can almost al-
ways tell just how many frames it will
take to make a given gesture."
It was natural that he should use the
animated cartoon only as an entering
wedge into the wider range of the film
industry as a whole, and not as an end in
itself. From cartoons to directing come-
dies for Johnny Hines was but the
first step. And from there his rise was,
for a time at least, steady — to culminate
in a production that was remarkable.
This was a picture called "Restless
Wives" that he made for C. C. Burr, a
producer in the states rights' field. We
have all heard of the impossibility of mak-
ing a presentable picture for the paltry
sum of $125,000 — of the inability to get
actors who can act, decent sets, costumes
— but you know all this fully as well as I.
Well, the cast of this picture was : Doris
Kenyon, James Rennie, Naomi Childers,
Montague Love, Edmund Breese, Burr
Macintosh, Russell Griffith, Edna May
Oliver, and others — and it was finished for
the exorbitant sum of $35,000! — and was
made in seventeen days ! — which, of course,
is the answer to the seeming riddle.
"In the early stages of his career," says
La Cava, "one picture may well ruin a
director. Making pictures with so small a
budget was — well, to say the least, risky.
If, for an extra five dollars I could make
the picture look as tho another thousand
had been spent on it, the picture had to re-
main looking a thousand dollars cheaper!
"But the risk was the main thing. For,
one breaking into the game must watch his
step. If it rains, they fire the director !"
And so it was that, instead of jubila-
tion, he turned back to groping. And to
grope with any prospect of finding any-
thing, he must give his whole time and
thought to it. So he decided to quit the
industry entirely until such a time as the
course to be followed should become clear
in his mind.
And — there was another consideration.
"You know how it is with one of my
type — you get a little money ahead, and
you're not happy until it's spent and you're
broke again — you'd throw the whole world
down for $7.80 !
"I had married a short time before. So
now I took the $7.80, my wife, and the
Buick — and the four of us set forth on a
belated honeymoon."
His groping was not aimless ; nor was
it directed to no point. After a time of
searching, he found a course he felt satis-
fied might lead him up the mountain. This
was : to return and become a director for
Famous Players (there is no vagueness
here — to decide definitely on one company,
and that one of the largest in the field!)
But . one cannot walk into Famous and
say: "Good Morning, I want a job di-
recting."
So he pulled the few strings he had
access to, and secured a job as a sort of
general handy writing- and gag-man. As
gag-man, he was assigned to the Richard
Dix pictures. He met the star and liked
him — and was, in turn, liked by him. But
the course he had set himself called for
the position of director, not gag-man.
An opportunity came: "The Shock
Punch" was dropping badly behind sched-
ule^— La Cava was told to do the last two
reels to help speed up the work. Upon
examination, these last two reels proved
not bad at all — so he was given two in
"The Lucky Devil." He had done two-
reelers in the early days — now he was a
two-reel director in five-reel productions!
Here, Richard Dix took Fate in his
own hands and choked the lady into ac-
quiescence. He requested that La Cava
be given entire charge of his next picture
— this request after the exertion of a
steady pressure, was granted.
La Cava made "Womanhandled" and
"Let's Get Married."
International Newsreel photos
Tom Gallery, and his wife, Zasu Pitts, are going to adopt Barbara La
Marr's son, Ivan. Here are the Gallerys with Ivan and their own
daughter, Zasu Anne
The Answer Man
{Continued from page 63)
Selmy. — I envy you when you say you planted
some watermelons. Yum, yum! They ought to
have plenty of water in them if you planted them
in the spring. Lloyd Hughes was born in 1899,
and he is with First National.
Jane T. — The quotation, "Frailty, thy name is
woman," is from Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Joseph
Schildkraut in "The Road to Yesterday." Ricardo
Cortez was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France. So
they tell me.
Fippie Two. — I'm sorry, but I haven't a cast
for "The Tenth Woman." Why pick out the tenth?
Elliott Roth was Harold. Poor little Farina ! Of
course, he is a boy, and his name is Allen Clayton
Hoskins. Now will you be good?
M. T. — Well, it isn't the way you look at other
girls that spoils you with your sweetheart, but the
way you dont look at her. Conrad Nagel is playing
in "Memory Lane."
F. F. — So you are for Richard Dix, and you
say you have four of his pictures on your walls.
Richard should feel flattered, but what will Rudolph
and the others say?
Pretty Peggy. — Oh, my ! You know Dolores
Costello won one of our popular contests ten or
twelve years ago. So you really saw Alan Forrest
and Marion Mack taking pictures of "The Whip-
hand" right under your window. That must have
been thrilling.
{Continued on page 83)
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FROM the day we started to school. Charity Wlnthrop
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Bve years — not until last New Year's Eve.
A party of us had gone to the Drake Hotel for dinner
that night. As usual I was terribly embarrassed and
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While there was something strangely familiar about her
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About this girl's face was a halo of golden curls. I
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returned. One will do a hundred and
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And so on.
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The stucco mansion so recently acquired
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situation is symbolic — after the fashion of
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He bought the estate in Beverly Hills
with money garnered from the fickle pub-
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and like everything in the capital of movie-
land it proved unsubstantial. A reputation
in pictures is likewise subject to caprice and
may crack and easily crumble beneath the
obloquy of the mob.
(Continued on page 78)
The Nordic sneered at Valentino while his women folk thrilled
to this jungle python of a lover
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could give such a completely colorless
performance. I liked Mile. Kithnou as
Ferragut's wife.
The Lyric "Moana"
LIaving disposed of "Mare Nostrum," I
can turn to "Moana," Robert J.
Flaherty's study in Samoan tribal life, with
a sigh of relief. Here is beauty such as
you are not likely to encounter on the
screen in many a day. It is lyric — and
thrilling.
You will recall Flaherty as the man who
did "Nanook of the North," that study of
man's primitive struggle for existence when
the Arctic winds sweep across the desolate
stretches of Northern ice. "Moana" pre-
sents another — and totally different — study
in man's fight for life under the tropical
sun.
Here the natives of the South Pacific
fish, trap wild animals, transform roots
into bread and win a living from nature.
I doubt if the motion picture camera will
ever catch anything more beautiful than
the way the boy, Pea, climbs lofty palm-
trees in quest of cocoanuts or the way
Moana and his father master a giant turtle
in the deep, clear waters of a coral reef.
Thru this picturing of the daily native
life runs the thread of a romance, the love
of Moana for Fa'angase. Here is the
lyric note, for the two are utterly unmind-
ful of cameras, of conventions, of self-
consciousness. I understand some Cana-
dian censors have barred "Moana" because
Fa'angase does not wear a brassiere. I
can only say that these censors would be
able to see evil in anything.
The native love dance — the Siva— of
Moana and Fa'angase is an exquisite thing.
The film reaches its high point when the
stoical Moana undergoes three weeks of
tattooing, signifying the passing of the
threshold of manhood. Coloring is cut
into the skin by means of needles of bone.
This may seem cruel — but I doubt if it is
any more painful than the broken bones
our own Moanas encounter upon the grid-
iron or the hockey ice. It's all in the point
of view.
Anyway, Flaherty's picturing of the
Polynesian life under the swaying palm-
trees of Savai'i becomes a veritable cinema
poem.
An Adult Comedy
'""The Grand Duchess and the Waiter," a
Malcolm St. Clair effort featuring
the suave Adolphe Menjou and charming
Florence Vidor, possesses genuine sparkle.
This is built upon a French farce by
Alfred Savoir and revolves around a Rus-
sian grand duchess, traveling with her
entourage but little real money, and a
gay and wealthy man-about-town. The gay
dog masquerades as a waiter and wins the
duchess' heart just as she is pawning her
last royal jewel. The comedy is an adult
one, done with intelligence and delicacy.
I congratulate St. Clair for his direction,
and Menjou and Miss Vidor for their
shrewd playing.
In contrast to "The Grand Duchess and
the Waiter," "Irene," Colleen Moore's
adaptation of the musical comedy of some
years ago, is just comic strip hokum. The
story ?. A wealthy young man falls in love
with an Irish hoyden who delivers bundles.
Your liking for "Irene" will depend upon
whether or not you like Miss Moore's
hoydenisms. I dont. I know I am in
the minority because Miss Moore's com-
edies are what they call box-office wallops.
So you must use your own judgment her*.
Personally, I think this comedy, directed
by Al Green, is slower than some of this
star's recent efforts.
I liked Richard Dix's newest comedy,
"Let's Get Married," immensely. This is
just the story of a rich and rough playboy
who gets sent to jail for thirty days. Dix
keeps improving in his comedy and Edna
Mae Oliver scores a real hit as one /. W.
Smith, the world's biggest buyer of Bibles,
who likes to play in cabarets when she
isn't following the straight and narrow
purchasing path. Lois Wilson is a pleas-
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Letters to King Dodo
(Continued from page 61)
New York.
Dear Majesty :
Lya de Putti has arrived in New York,
slightly upsetting the placid calm of Man-
hattan.
She was taken ill right after her arrival,
finally going to a New York hospital for
an operation. In the interim she received
reporters while reclining in bed, strikingly
negligee and smoking a cigaret.
Anyway, Lya gets the role in Griffith's
"Sorrows of Satan" for which so many
actresses were considered. Greta Nissen
had it once, before the quarrel that re-
moved her to Universal.
Hollywood.
Your Dear King:
The screen colony out here is all agog
over the Pola Negri-Rudolph Valentino
"engagement."
You know, of course, that Pola an-
nounced her engagement to Rudy, stating
that it was in the nature of a "four months'
trial engagement," covering the period of
her coming trip to Europe.
This announcement was followed by
several days of dead silence from the
slipping Maison of the Sheik. Then came
Rudy's statement that he had never men-
tioned marriage to Pola at all. Moreover,
he said the engagement was news to him.
And there you are, Your Majesty. May-
be they're engaged. Maybe they're not.
Maybe it's just press stuff. And, again,
maybe Pola is interested and Rudy isn't —
now.
Flash Backs
(Continued from page 45)
ridicule or otherwise; no exposure of the
unpleasant consequences of romantic senti-
mentality in real life; nothing that would
give a disagreeable shock to the stupid or
shake the self-complacency of the smug."
Meanwhile, the censors of New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Virginia,
Maryland and Florida still are busy with
their scissors.
70
Making "The Big Parade"
ntinutd from pagi
tins principle in anothei !>i^
I hope, .m>l 1 shall apply
possible to .ill m\ pictui
luestion "I the development of " Hie
is been raised fre
tin- picture scored on I
he ^t.'i \ is credited on the -
tilings, who was co authoi
■ i the >|».kc" wai play, "What Price
It can he said with authorit) (and 1
mi not quoting Vidor here) that few
i Stallings' original story outline
emain in "The Big Parade" as it stands
n celluloid form.
"1 owe to Stallings the courage to go
ihead and make 'The Big Parade,' " says
i might have doubted or faltered
it He gave me the enthusiasm to
How "The Big Parade" Grew
Thkrk was, for instance, no inarch thru
Belleau Woods in Stallings' original
story. The shell-hole episode was there,
nit the cigaret-sharing moment was not.
Mailings contributed the early doughboy
>ath scenes, but other important incidents,
;uch as the gum-chewing interlude, were
levised as the scenes were developed be-
fore the camera. That the hero ends with
Hit one leg was created by the scenarist.
Perhaps it was suggested by the fact that
Stallings lost a leg in the World War.
In other words, Stallings supplied the
dea that a story' of the war could be told
■vithout the usual saccharine bunk about
nilitarism. He contributed the requisite
;nthusiasm.
The rest of the success of "The Big
Parade" is due to King Vidor and the
»ble and sincere assistance of John Gilbert
ind Renee Adoree. Vidor had been mak-
ing good — and, in several cases, extraordi-
nary— pictures for years, but he hadn't
.aught the eye of the public.
The Northern Star
(Continued from page 53)
"Why should they look at me? They
do not know me."
She wears her corn-colored hair straight
back from her classic brow in a long bob
that curls at the ends. She uses no make-up
and the California sun has not had time to
spoil the wild rose and lily white of her
complexion. Nothing can take away the
haunting sadness of her eyes.
Perhaps it was her eyes, perhaps her
sensitive lips, perhaps her very real charm
— or it may have been something deeper
that Mauritz Stiller caught and imprisoned
on the screen in the "Saga."
Whatever it was, it reached out magic
hands and transported the young unknown
from the snowy shores of Sweden to the
sunny beaches of California. And here is
the way of the thing:
Louis B. Mayer makes it his business
or his pleasure to view in his private pro-
jection-room all important foreign films.
Sitting in his easy chair one day, Mr.
Mayer saw Greta Garbo looking tragically
out at him.
Signed for America
"Rl'N" that again," he directed, when the
film was finished. And then : "We'll
get that girl."
Fred Xiblo was then in Rome working
m "Ben-Hur," and Mr. Mayer had planned
o to see him. On that same trip, the
-M head proceeded to Stockholm,
(Continued on page 77)
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"Dut now a girl goes to work at seven-
teen or eighteen. I am not speak-
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altho sometimes they work, too, but I am
speaking of the average girl. She is
thrown with all sorts of men. Her judg-
ment grows sharper. She learns the value
of money, so her demands grow larger.
But it is not her fault that she is working.
Her parents can not give her the pretty «pRETTY soon propinquity takes its toll
things she craves. Organdies and dimities tv.p vnnno- muni* o-pt marnVH
made by the village dressmaker do not
as a signal that she must hurry down an
make it snappy. He doesn't get out an
come to her door. And she doesn't de
mand it. If she did, he would drive t
the very next house, and get another gir
just as pretty, just as smartly dressec
and her evening would be lost. An eve
ning is a very long time when you ar
eighteen.
Toll of Propinquity
look well when placed side by side with
Patou's latest sport creation.
"The terrible tragedy of girlhood must
not defeat her, the tragedy of being dif-
ferent from the rest of her world. So she
goes out to seek her fortune, like the
princess in the fairy-tales. And like them,
she dreams that by some magic, she will
land on her feet.
"And she, too, has her idea of an ideal
man. At least, she has at first. But her
desire to have a good time, to see what
she can while she can, the latest play, the
newest cabaret, leads her to accept all
kinds of invitations from boys earning
very little more than she is. They are
not exactly what she wants, but they are
the only youth with which she has any
contact. The pleasant, lazy, good-na-
tured young boy who drives up in the
latest sport model, and blows the horn
The young couple get married. The;
feel that the beautiful excitement of thei
youth must keep up. Her husband spend
a good bit on his clothes, and she know:
that she must not get frumpish herself
Hasn't she read of the horrid fate tha
will be hers if she once lets down. Mone?
is scarce. The good-looking young bo;
just doesn't seem to grow older. Hi
doesn't develop into the man she hopec
he might be. His father gives him :
small allowance and it seems enough t(
him, but not to her. She has been oui
in the world and knows better. There i;
no use being mistress of a home thai
consists of two rooms and a kitchenette
All very well to pour tea from the ole
family silver, polish the priceless walnut
wash the egg-shell china with your very
own hands, and graciously administer to
the lovely romping children. But if the
family teapot is a cocktail shaker, the
(Continued on page 83)
72
Iirulrr. Krrlm
Lya de Putti as the acrobat heroine
of "Vaudeville"
The Toast of Berlin
(Contimied from path' \{>}
0 in the first year after her husband's
icath, sonic two years ago, when she ac-
ually plunged into work and hardly ever
ud (or wanted ) a single day out of the
tadJO for more than a year.
Her latest productions have been for
The first of these, "Vaudeville,"
lirected by K. A. Dupont and co starring
m with Kmil Jannings, will be .seen on
(roadway before long. And the same will
irobably hold good for her latest picture,
ust finished. This is "Manon Lescaut,"
lirected by Dr. Robinson. This, indeed,
las been a part most ideally suited to
his artist
As regards her private life, I should
Motion at first the fact that she is
i very good Catholic and never fails to
o to church regularly. It would, how-
ver, be wrong to suppose that pious as
he is she would be averse to any joie dd
•tire. On the contrary, she likes to have
. good time and to spend her evenings in
uerry company, dancing and enjoying her-
elf. As a matter of fact, she is known
o be the life and soul of every party,
,nd altho she has learned German quite
veil by now, there is no end of teasing
ler for her rather pretty Hungarian accent.
Up to the moment of leaving Berlin, she
vas busily learning English, everybody
iclp'ng her to accomplish this task as
luickly as possible. As a matter of fact,
he was taking this work just as seriously
s her screen work — and that seems a lot !
^nd she had mastered quite a nice smat-
ering of the language.
As regards her private hobbies, the best
me could say of her would be that she
s a "sportsman" in every sense of the
vord. Practically speaking, she is quite
i keen (and rather reckless) motorist, and
he also likes to go up into the air, and
ven knows how to pilot an aeroplane,
iltho, between us, I would not advise any-
body to entrust himself to her aerial abili-
ies before having closed a considerable
nsurance deal.
She told me that she is looking forward
o her American trip. She will be accom-
>anied by her mother, whom she is very
!evoted to, and, as regards blessed old Cali-
fornia, she is expecting a fine chance to
io a lot of good work.
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Joby from the Tennessee Hills
(Continued from page 39)
Jobyna, "Poor
old Sam was
blind and when
he heard us all
yelling and
running, he
ran, too, but he
ran toward the
lion. When we
were all para-
lyzed with fear
he'd be hurt,
one of the
spear-bearers
jabbed it at the
lion and it
went the other
way. We
thought him a
hero, that boy."
"But he
wasn't really,"
said Roy, "he
was too scared
to move and
when the lion
got near him
he started to
drop the spear
and the lion
thought he was
brave."
Jobyna and her mother
Doing a Hula-Hula Girl
T\ o you remember the day I was a hula-
hula girl and you were in my tribe
and we were working by the ocean?"
cried Jobyna, "We'd made up pur arms
and legs with brown powder before we
left the studio. The day was so hot we
said : 'Let's go swimming !' and when we
came out we were white. instead of brown
and had to play the rest of our scenes that
way ?"
"Whenever the script called
for anything exotic in the
way of shoes," explained the
temporary guardian of
Jobyna's "props," "I wore
bedroom slippers."
"And I wore a pair
of sandals thru
everything!" bubbled
Jobyna. "They were'
so comfortable! They
went tripping over
desert sands, into
slum cellars, up
palace stairs and into the
ballet. Even the girl of the
wide-open spaces and the
pert Fr&nch maid wore
them. It didn't matter.
"After a year of that —
my, how I thrill now when
I think of it ! They called
me up one morning and
told me to come to the lot.
I thought I was to do an-
other one-reeler, but
when I arrived, they
said: 'Get into Mil-
dred's clothes, quick.
You're to be Harold
Lloyd's leading
lady !'
Selected By
Lloyd
"I'd met Harold
on the lot, of
course. I re-
member how de-
comedy
lighted I wa
the first titn>
when he shool
hands a n (
smiled. I didn'
know then tha
it was his reg
ular compan;
smile a n (
wasn't specialh
for me !
didn't wash mj
hand for ;
week!
"It seemec
that Mildrec
had expectec
to be able tc
work in Har-
old's pictur<
and in a fea-
ture outside
but she had toe
much to do and
couldn't make
it, so Harold
said : 'Get the
little Ralston
girl!'
"Most girls
who are to be
leading ladies
to stars have to go after the job, take
screen tests, and worry for weeks for fear
somebody else will get the job, so that
when they are signed, they are too ex-
hausted to care.
"Mildred's clothes were a good fit ex-
cept that the sleeves were too short, and
there I was being pinned into them, two
people lengthening my cuffs, more people
fixing my hair, putting on my shoes and
the whole lot shouting : 'Hey, Joby's
going to be Harold's leading lady!'"
"I'll bet Jobyna ran up and.
down the stairs ninety times
before she was ready," chuckled i
Roy. "Buzz-buzz came from
every dressing - room and
office. It was halleluia
day for us all, we were so
tickled about Joby!"
"I was so scared!" re-
membered Jobyna. "We
began with the blue pills
scene in 'Why Worry" and
my hand shook so that I
spilled most of them. I
heard my teeth chatter.
No doubt Harold heard
them, too . . . And now
I've been working with
him for four years !
Pour Years as Leading
Woman
"It's great. I'm the only
girl on the lot and
they've practically ruined
me. I dont know what I'd
do on another lot. I was
visiting Bebe Daniels the
other day and if she
wanted anything, she
called a maid and it was
brought, just like that!
... If I want any-
thing, I can go get it!
"We work so long
on a picture — six or
seven months — that
every dress I have has
to be duplicated, or
triplicated, and I Set
(Continued on page 86)
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bowling-alleys, polo fields, hull nu^s. velo
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\ U itun 'I tin' sporting side oi Silver-
•i i> its "May Walk." Led In the
house mothers ami flanked In a troop ..i
:i lull dress uuiiorni, the «irls
tin- various dormitories, dressed in
lawn, march in a column ot two's
to the great statue oi Will II Hays, which
un.l exactly in the middle ot (
B, De Mille Boulevard, the principal thoro-
Wrea thing the statue with smilax,
the> march singing hack to their quarters,
where foi the rest of the day "open house"
is held, culminating at eight o'clock in the
evening with a wild weenie roast. Each
girl may unite a "boy friend," tor whose
behavior the management is not ace. united
responsible. Saturday afternoons mixed
bathing is held in the huge Byzantine
Swimming Pool in the fashionable Fau-
bourg de la Marquise de la Falaise de la
Iraie. Armed guards patrol the pool.
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movies, "yessing" the producers and com-
pulsory chapel attendance. Sunday is given
over to meditation and catching up with
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halt -hour for prayers.
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the watch tor suggestions for additional
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the Police Bureau, the Supervisors, 1 1 » » -
various Administr: tin
Board ol Censorship, the Supreme ( ouncil,
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hundred and eights two commandments
(expanded and improved from the original
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the lull. It the criticism is passed that
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where he not only signed (ireta Garbo, but
Mauritz Stiller and Lars Hanson, the lead-
ing man. Contracts delayed their coming,
but a year later all three could answer
roll-call on the Culver City lot.
Mauritz Stiller is scheduled to direct
Greta in "The Temptress," for which she
is thankful.
"I shall be at home with him. My first
picture I make with an interpreter and it .
is not easy, no. I am not sure I have
always what the director is saying.
"In American everything is so beeg.
Our whole studio in Sweden was not so
beeg as one of these stages. Its top was
open so that when it rained or snowed —
oh, we have snow in Sweden!" (How her
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took six months to make a picture. But
everybody does not hurry so there. We
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Or I shall learn to do two things together,
as you do. . . . But I do not know.
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Has the Great Lover Become Just a
Celebrity
The Valentino engineers have been rack-
ing their brains for a defense of fame. In
"The Eagle" they tried comedy, which was
not altogether successful. Now they will
go back to the greatest hit of Valentino's
career, on the principle that what pleased the
public once will be enjoyed a second time.
Valentino will start soon on "The Son
of the Sheik," a sequel, by the woman who
concocted that aphrodisiac for high-school
girls. He is hopeful about making a com-
plete come-back with it.
The same machinery of excitation will
be employed: that delicious, masochistic ap-
peal of the fair girl in the strong hands
of the ruthless desert tyrant. But in the
second opus the young sheik does not ab-
duct the beauty because he desires her.
He hates her at first, but comes to love
her. This is a far less original idea than
the first of E. M. Hull, elderly authoress
of the passion-in-a-desert books.
Vilma Banky will do the girl. She is
blonde and the heroine is described as a
dark French beauty. They are making a test
of Vilma wearing a black wig for the part.
Frances Marion, who has a reputation
second to none as a scenarist, will do the
script. George Fitzmaurice, with a num-
ber of recent successes under his belt, will
direct. Valentino said frankly that the
first sheik picture was abominably done. He
hopes for a more artistic product in the next.
Cut will the movie public appreciate a
more artistic product from Valentino?
Or can the same machinery of excitation
again arouse the stolid damsels of the hin-
terland igloos?
That remains to be seen. I am afraid
Valentino is on the wrong track. His suc-
cess as a sheik is so wrapped up with
the outworn fancies of a few years ago.
The very word sheik is falling into disuse
— a transient slang term gone to its early
grave. Sheik, because of its former uni-
versal usage, has acquired the half-
humorous, half -contemptuous insignificance
of all such words.
Valentino's fame rests upon his physical
charm. He was the first man in the
movies to whom the term &ex appeal was
applied. Postmeridian maidens, baffled
wives of husbands who have never learned
the ABC's of love, and adolescent girls,
feeling the first powerful surge of Mother
Eve's blood in their veins — these were the
materials ready to his hand.
These thwarted women had been treated
in the movies to strong, noble heroes —
chaste Nordics who could fight like hell,
but made love like butcher-boys.
Suddenly there dropped a burning meteor
from the skies. The thrilled and aston-
ished womanhood of America saw for the
first time a real Latin lover — not the re-
spectful pachyderm they were accustomed
to, but an oily, jungle python of a lover,
who mastered you with silken cruelties, who
{Continued from page 69)
went after you with the appetite of a
hungry but well-bred dog.
Worsting the Nordic
\Io wonder American manhood sneered at
"Vaselino." The poor Nordic was
sadly worsted. Ungraceful, overfed, with
his uncouth hands and feet — the fellow who
had always accepted the credo of manli-
ness as synonym for awkwardness was out
of the running. What good was it that
he could sell more automobiles in a day
than the rest of the sales force put to-
gether? What mattered it that his lapel
glittered with the recognized symbol of the
Nobility of North America? Beside this
sleek-haired son of satan he was an oaf.
So the Nordic sneered. And his girl
giggled — and the next time went to see
Valentino alone, or with Mabel, her girl
friend.
And in the subtle way that is inexplain-
able, the admiration for Valentino as an
actor was transferred to a personal inter-
est among the women. His divorce from
Jean Acker came to fan this interest into
a flame. Again the worsted Nordic sneered
about "Vaselino" to his girl.
Valentino married once more and the
newspapers made capital of "artistic tem-
perament." Valentino's second divorce has
had the effect of destroying the last shred
of interest in him as an actor. Whatever
he appears in next he will be viewed, not
as the son o*f the sheik, but as the ex-
hu band of Natacha Rambova — and won-
der if he'll marry Pola Negri?
Pola.has a curious faculty of becoming
involved with famous fellow craftsmen.
First Chaplin, who outwitted her. Valen-
tino, it is true, is being more or less
obviously pursued. I dont think he is
greatly interested.
Helpless Before Popularity
Tr Valentino could gradually have risen to
fame, in the cautious, substantial way of
Jack Gilbert, for example, his future would
be more secure. But he was helpless in
the jet of popularity that shot him up to
the zenith. He has taken his fame where
he found it — as every movie actor has to do.
Unpopular in his native Italy — because
he recently became an American citizen —
he faces, in the land of his adoption, the
uncertainty of a star making a come-back
in the midst of keen competition. For
the vogue set by Valentino has produced
a whole flock of dark-eyed lovers, equipped
with sex appeal and suave address and the
advantage of new faces.
The son of the sheik must win his way
under the severest handicap in the world —
'that of having a famous father. It is a
pity. Today the Great Lover is chiefly a
celebrity.
A no yet, Rudolph Valentino, nee Gug-
lielmi, is really a very good actor.
Old Pictures in New Frames
{Continued fro
and build faster, and faster, factories,
houses, stores. They must join the parade.
"They haven't made many pictures nor
have they made very good ones. Condi-
tions haven't been satisfactory, and they
weren't very interested in doing it. But
now they see that there is great money to
be made in pictures, and that the United
m page 55)
States and Germany are making better
ones than they are. So now they are be-
ginning to try.
"But I do not believe that any country
can compete successfully with this one.
We have the money, the climate, the stu-
dios, and the best stars. You can not
(Continued on page 86)
78
Famous Blunders
nlinued from /M \\ 's" guidance, Barthelmess In-, done
ili. in cvci before. Marj
ford, oi com se, is anothci who sue
full} broke awaj from her sponsor,
the comedians, ihc most noted
bhindei was made b> l-'ord Sterling.
Back m the old Mack Scnnctt Keystone
days, Sterling u.is the king pin ol all
■i comedians. 11^ films drew packed
bouses whercvci sluiwn. It seemed as
n there would be n>> stopping him from
nj; the idol oi tin' da) .
Mistakes of the Comedians
I' ime cause or other, Sterling
ddenl) terminated his contract with
Mack Sennet t and started in t«> make his
own comedies. Awaj from the Sennett
Studios, however, Sterling seemed to lose
much of hi-^ former power and persori-
ality. It wasn't long before he was down
among the "also rans."
In the meantime, Sennett, casting about
- imcone to take Sterling's place, be-
to feature a young man by the name
harlie Chaplin. Chaplin's rise was as
rapid as Sterling's fall, and soon the
little comedian with the funny feet was
all the rage. Sterling was never able to
regain the same popularity. 1 1" he had
remained with Sennett, Sterling would
today have been one of the foremost
comedians on the screen.
There are some who are of the opinion
that Harry Langdon has made a mistake
in leaving Sennett. Langdon, however,
is a creative artist and there is little doubt
but that he will made good, now that he
is producing for himself.
Nazimova's Descent
Qxf of the most sudden stellar descents
in the film heavens was made by
Nazimova. Thru dint of excellent pic-
tures and remarkable performances, Nazi-
mova had risen a few years ago to the
point where she was considered one of
the six biggest attractions on the silver-
sheet. Suddenly, and for no cause ap-
parent to the general public, Nazimova
i to skid rapidly down grade. Her
films were inferior and her playing
lacked the old fire. The answer was,
Nazimova had blundered into the idea
that she was not only a great actress but
a great producer, director and business
woman combined. Attempting to give too
much attention to production matters,
which should have been left to others, she
neglected the talent and screen person-
ality that would have placed her at the
top. Screen disaster was the result.
Once a star starts to slip backwards in
the public's esteem, it is almost impossible
for him to recover and go forward,
again. Several have tried, few have
succeeded.
Valentino is now faced with this very
task. Rudy made two great blunders,
each in itself enough to sink completely
the average star. His first mistake was
in allowing the term of "Sheik" to be-
come too firmly attached to him. The
Sheik error was but a momentary fad
and the American public quickly set them-
selves against it. Valentino is still suffer-
ing, however, from his connection with
this term.
Valentino's Slips
J^vdy's other error was in quitting the
screen at the moment when all things
were working favorably for him. During
his absence, Novarro and Gilbert all
forged to the front and won many hearts
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going to make another Sheik picture.
This film may be momentarily success-
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will do the star irreparable damage.
William S. Hart also made the mis-
take of quitting the screen at an inoppor-
tune time. The Western film was just
coming in vogue, and during Hart's ab-
sence from the silversheet, Tom Mix,
Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson and others
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monopolized and the famous "two-gun-
man" will find that he has now a battle
on his hands to win back his lost popu-
larity. So far as actual merit and ability
go, however, Hart is the greatest por-
trayor of Western roles the screen has
ever had.
It is well-known truism in the silent
drama that it is not the getting to the top
that is so difficult — it is the staying there.
To the star, director or producer who has
reached a prominent position in the film
industry, there are all kinds of pitfalls
that must be avoided, if he would continue
safely along the road to fame. The big
stars and directors are those who, in ad-
dition to possessing unusual talent, are
also gifted with the ability actually to feel
the public pulse and make their films
accordingly.
To keep a short step ahead of the
public taste is the ideal arrangement for
best results, and will bring even greater
rewards than keeping directly abreast of
the public demands. To step too far ahead
of the public, however, is one of the worst
blunders that can be made and always
brings direful results. It is in some in-
stances worse than falling behind the
times.
To cite three examples : Theda Bara
went into oblivion because she persisted in
playing vampire parts on the screen long
after the public had tired of them. She
fell too far behind the public's taste in
entertainment.
Anent Colleen Moore
Tx "Flaming Youth" Colleen Moore for
the first time portrayed a daring ultra-
modern flapper. Previously, Colleen had
been playing simple and demure roles with
only average success. When "Flaming
Youth" was made, the time was ripe for
flapper roles, the public knew all about
them, but they had never been presented
graphically on the screen. Colleen Moore
and "Flaming Youth" were an immense
success, because the star had only slightly
anticipated the trend of public thought.
Flapper films immediately became the
vogue and Colleen became one of the
leading stars on the screen.
Gloria Swanson, on the other hand, has
now stepped too far ahead of her public.
She is playing too many different types of
parts. Gloria is by all means the greatest
actress that the silent drama has ever had.
With the instincts of a real artist. Gloria
does not wish to confine herself to any
particular type of role. She desires to
attempt something different each time, to
give a new characterization in every pro-
duction. This should be the aim of every
great actor and actress.
To follow this line of action on the
screen, however, is playing with fire. The
film-going public is slow thinking and
once a player has established herself, or
himself, in a certain kind of role to the
satisfaction of the public, the latter pre-
fers the star to remain in that type of
role consistently. Gloria's sudden switches
from emotional drama to fine character
work, and from character work to slap-
stick has been too rapid for theatergoers.
80
Gloria Ahead of Her Public
GLORIA Ml.iN lose .1 lot ot her clil .hi-
mirei i mam. ol w hom ai e wi II l" i
thru her commendable efforts t" break
aw.i\ from fill screen traditions, but in
the long inn she will win admirers t" the
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liu von Stroheim and, to some extent,
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among those who have suffered more <>r
less tlnu being U'i> fai in advance of the
publi< rhese men have blundered in
thinking that American theatergoers that
is, those who make up the hulk of film
tan. thruout the count r> are really de
is of something line and worthwhile
in tin- u.i\ i't screen entertainment.
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nves.
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furniture not quite paid for, the china
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Mo$l all his friends' urns work.
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The Answer Man
(Continued from page 66)
Harold L. U— So you think I am a
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Ford Sterling is playing the lead for "The
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Mary T— Yes, Eugene O'Brien will
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Lili.ie 17. — I should say H. B. Warner
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(Continued on page 91)
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Old Pictures in New-
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(Continued from page 78)
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a matter of fact, it runs to 8,500 feet."
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And, while we are on this subject of
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Another lively, sparkling issue, beautifully illus-
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Remember the remarkable article published last
year by THE CLASSIC, revealing the real salaries
of all the stars and players for the first time. It was
the sensation of the motion picture world. Frederick
James Smith and Tamar Lane are combining forces
on another article, presenting all the salaries as they
are today. Some startling changes have taken place.
You cant afford to miss this article.
Agnes Smith has contributed a humorous article on "If They
Conducted Other Businesses Like Motion Pictures." You will
find a lot of real laughs in this amusing contribution.
The second of Henry Albert Phillips* remarkable series of
interviews with the leading British and Continental authors on
the subject of motion pictures. In the June CLASSIC you will
find striking comments by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Frank
Swinnerton, A. A. Milne and E. Temple Thurston.
And a dozen other features you will find all your friends
talking about!
New Styles in Screen
Girls
(Continued from page 41)
babies were left under the bushes in the
garden by the dear little rabbits; and the\
believed in Santa Claus ; and they believer
that girls should never be kissed until th(
minister said the last word.
And they got darn tiresome — if anybody
should ask you.
These haughty young ladies were even a
relief from the girls who tried to do what
Lillian Gish did — even tho they didn't.
These young ladies lived, apparently, to
be chased by villains. They were at their
very best when a Walter Long sort of per-
son was chasing them round, upsetting the
tables, chairs and other parlor appurte-
nances. Personally, I never could get up
much sympathy for the fugitive young
lady; but my heart bled for the villain. It
must be a great nuisance to spend your life
galloping around the tipped-over furniture
in pursuit of young ladies whom you never
catch.
And so the Norma Shearers and the
Corinne Griffiths were a great relief. Xo
villain ever chased them around the parlor
furniture : well, hardly ever. They would
just have annihilated a villain with a look.
They were always somewhat distant and
looked like thorobreds. They came to the
"love clinch" at the end with an air of
condescension.
You knew when they were married what
kind of wives they were going to be. They
were going to be the kind that interrupted
hubby's best story with the crushing re-
mark : "No, my dear, you have it all
wrong. It was Wednesday, not Thursday."
Of course, I refer to the screen version
of these two young ladies. Off the screen
they are quite different. Witty, pally,
friendly girls — both of them. With gay
hearts and sound, level heads.
Then — Renee Adoree
The new girls came in with Renee
Adoree in "The Big Parade."
In my opinion, it was the love story that
made it one of the great pictures of all
time. It wasn't the war stuff. It was one
of the few great love stories of motion
picture history. Mostly, it was Renee
Adoree.
She brought something new and vital
and real to the business of screen love-
making. Something warm and vibrant.
You knew that the chap who married her
would have a lot of quarrels over the
family gas bills. But a lot of sympathy,
too.
Dolores Costello has the same impulsive,
tender qualities in a somewhat more deli-
cate mold.
I think these two girls are the best bets
that have come to the screen for many
years. Two others — Betty Bronson and
Yilma Banky — give promise; but in a dif-
ferent way.
But they are warm and human, too.
Still, I doubt if the lovely Vilma will
ever seem quite our own. Betty Bronson
will always appeal to the head more than
the heart. She is likely to make herself a
great actress, however.
I go back to Renee, however. A physi-
ognomist— a student of telling character
from faces — told me once that she had
the actress face — more than any other girl
in Hollywood — sympathy, impulse — the abil-
ity to "let herself go" ; almost no inhibi-
tions ; great intuition. She doesn't have
to think what to do. She just does it as
naturally as a cat strikes at a ball of yarn.
There is every probability that Renee
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.tlin •
■n'll see that older
and more mature women will become popu
een. Lillian Ciish at i
11 -, hence I will be more pupulai
ilun I
The Day of the Real Actress
Ilher words, the day ol the real ac-
., is coming in I he \ ision ol youth
and beaut) is slipping out.
There are two 01 three reasons for this.
all, no real stoi > is possible to a
youiiK girl especially the little ice
maidens we have adored in the past Vou
- that they have had no experiences
■ad 'bit they have lived thru no stories.
\ll that has ever happened to them was
when a dentist pulled one of their wisdom
teeth. Their idea ol heavy tragedy is to
et to give some one a ( hristmas pies
■ to get a inn in a silk stocking at a
If you will look over the hits of the year
• m "The l'ng Parade" you will
that most of them have been made by
women no longer in the flapper class.
Irene Rich in "Lady Windermere's Fan,"
Louise 1'resser in "The Goose Woman/'
Pauline Frederick in "Smouldering Fires."
\s screen lighting continues to improve,
round, youthful faces will no longer
be in demand. In fact, they will be rather
sniffed at.
The day of the great actress— the
trained expert— with natural emotion and
tenderness and the skill to show it to the
folks.
The slim white lilies will give way to
the full-blown rose.
MO ANA: A Poem of the
Cinema
(Continued from page 85)
Florida boom and our hunting for bread
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more with this wonderful instrument that
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with a sudden intensity, "it I could only-
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down there, in the maze of traffic, as it is,
with all its fantastic overtones, just as
barbarous as the life of Moana or
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Four Years in Small Parts
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Marion Davies and Lillian Gish.
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the June issue.
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REVIEWING PICTURES ON BROADWAY
Tlir interrsi hk experii critic
BETWEEN SCENES
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FOUR FAMOUS WRITERS CONDEMN THE FILMS Henry Albert Phillip* 24
\ Milne, Frank Swinnerton and E, Phillips i Ippenheim
MORE IMPRESSIONS OF HOLLYWOOD Eugene V. Brewster 38
Hie editor-in-chiel tells his further experiences in the capital oi nlmdom
The Classic Gallery ~ — ~ 11 15
■ !ht Ralston, Swi Chaplin, Louise Brooks, John Barrymore and Marii Prevost
Filming "Beau Geste" Alice L. Tildesley 26
How they are making tin- best seller Into ■ film in the Vmerican desert
Gilda Gray (Portrait) 27
Things That Will Never Happen K. R Chamberlain 28
Only five miracles can bring these things about
Her Royal Highness Alice L. Tildesley 30
Corinne Griffith is the regal lad] ol Hollywood
They Told Buster to Stick to It Harry Brand 32
Even as .i child, Keaton attracted wide attention
Greta Nissen (Portrait) 33
How the Keystone Kops Happened Berr Ennis 34
How chance brought about the famous comedy policemen — Drawing by Kliz
She Wants to Succeed Alice L. Tildesley 36
i Clara Bow, the girl of our cover
Cella Lloyd Solves the Problem of Pa John Held, Jr. 40
Tin- further adventures of Mr. Held's bathing-girl heroine
Another Bathing Girl Makes Good 42
Vera Reynolds is doing nicely in the drama
Starring Lady Luck Norma Johnstone 43
Dame Fortune has been first aid to Jane Winton
Charlie's Find 49
Something about the piquant Merna Kennedy, his new leading woman
Masters of the Motion Picture Matthew Josephson 52
;ical discussion of the screen's advance
The Sheik Returns 54
Tin- firsi studies of Rudolph Valentino in his new picture
The Off-Stage Laugh Glenn Chaffin 55
Tlie p.iri played by Mrs, Raymond Hatton In her husband's stu
All's Fair in Love Mary B. Chapman 56
How Elinor Fair met and married Bill Hind
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Flash Backs F. J. S. 44
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Our Own News Camera 46
The Incidents of the film world told in pictures
The Celluloid Critic Frederick James Smith 50
The new screen plays in review
Letters to King Dodo Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith 58
An amusing series of letters upon the gossip of celluloidia
The Answer Man 64
Cover Portrait of Clara Bow by Don Reed
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CECIL DE MILLE selects "The Deluge" as his
next big superspecial. The selection was
made as the result of a contest conducted
by Mr. De Mille, the first award for the idea
going to Catherine Comstock, 1625 East Street,
Long Beach, California. Mr. De Mille hopes to
duplicate the success of "The Ten Command-
ments" in this new production, which will have
a lengthy prolog showing what the director's
press-agent describes as "the mightiest cataclysm
in all the world's known history."
Richard Dix breaks his hand in a prize-fight
scene of "Take a Chance," directed by Gregory
La Cava. Production held up for a week.
Famous Players-Lasky announce seventy-five
productions for release between August 1, 1926,
and July 31 , 1927. The greatest of these appears
to be "Old Ironsides." The proclamation offi-
cially' promotes Florence Vidor and Esther
Ralston to stardom.
Gregory La Cava signed under two-year con-
tract by Famous Players-Lasky.
Universal announces "Love Me and the World
Is Mine" to be directed by E. A. Dupont, former
Ufa director. This is based upon a novel, "The
Affairs of Hannerl." Mary Philbin and Norman
Kerry will have the leading roles.
Lillian Gish will do "Annie Laurie" next, with
John Robertson directing. Miss Gish is also con-
sidering a story of early California in the old
Spanish days.
Gene Tunney, contender for the heavyweight
pugilistic championship, has been won over to
the films. Pathe has signed Tunney for the lead-
ing role in a serial film going into immediate
production.
William Fox signs Belle Bennett to play the
leading role in his
production of
David Belasco's
"The Lily." Victor
Schertzinger will
direct.
Famous Players-
Lasky buys Anita
Loos' amusing
novelette, "Gen-
tlemen Prefer
Blondes." This has
just passed its hun-
dred thousand in
book form.
Cliv e Brook
playing opposite
Florence Vidor in
her first Para-
mount starring ve-
hicle, written by
Ernest Vajda.
"Kiki" breaks
house record at
Capitol Theater in
New York, playing
to $74,241 in one
week.
Edmund Lowe
selected for role of
Sergeant Quirt in
Full Results of
YOUR OPINION CONTEST
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CLASSIC for July. This announcement will in-
clude a complete list of the winners, 105 in number,
receiving prizes ranging in size up to a thousand
dollars.
Of absorbing interest to motion picture fans
will be the result of the popularity contest con-
ducted in conjunction with YOUR OPINION
CONTEST. You will want to know what actresses
received the highest vote, what actors led in the
voting and what motion picture plays were deemed
the most popular in the contest.
Watch for the complete announcement
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William Fox production of "What Price Glory."
Victor McLaglen is Captain Flagg and Dolores
Del Rio is Charmaine. J. Farrel MacDonald will
play a comedy company cook.
Svend Gade and Universal sever relations.
Gade is to direct Corinne Griffith in her next
picture. Miss Griffith's future plans still indefi-
nite. First National wants to re-sign her at a
big advance and a number of other companies,
including United Artists, are after her.
Jack Hoxie's contract with Universal expired
on March 20. Hoxie's future plans unknown.
House Peters being considered for lead in "The
Trail of '98," Metro-Goldwyn's big special to be
made by Clarence Brown.
Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson playing leads
in June Mathis' new picture, "Sinners in Para-
dise," based upon Clarence Buddington Kelland's
"Nazareth." Charles Murray also in cast.
Metro-Goldwyn buys New York stage success,
"Twelve Miles Out," for $40,000. This is a
thriller of bootlegging and hyjackers.
Cecil De Mille to do an all-negro feature, sug-
gested perhaps by the success of David Belasco's
stage hit, "Lulu Belle."
Dimitri Buchowetski to direct Emil Jannings'
first American picture, "The Thief of Dreams,"
based upon Richard Connell's "A Friend of Na-
poleon." Jannings scheduled to arrive in Sep-
tember.
Ben Lyon to be featured in Robert Kane's
production of "The Great Deception." Aileen
Pringle also featured.
Mary Alden playing Mrs. Wiggs in Metro-
Goldwyn's "Lovey Mary." Bessie Love has title
role.
Helen Ferguson signed to play lead in Uni-
versal serial, "The
Fire Fighter." Jack
Dougherty has
leading male role.
Reported that
Norma Talmadge
plans to do "Cam-
ille" with Sidney
Franklin directing.
"Camille" was
done some years
ago by Nazimova.
Harry Pollard
recovering from
critical illness in
New York. Taken
sick while filming
version of "Uncle
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John Barrymore
shelves plans to do
Sabatini's "The
Tavern Knight"
and substitutes
"Manon Lescaut."
Dolores Costello
will have the lead.
Buster Keaton
doing Civil War
comedy, "The Gen-
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the heights of stardom. Douglas Fairbanks
is, of course, a great exception and, of course,
there are others. Rudolph Valentino is sup-
posed to be a perfect lover. He probably
would be in the Elysian Fields, where we all
hope to go some day, but in this every-day
world how many men are there who go to
the extremes that Valentino does in making
love? Consequently he, to me, is not
natural. Even the Frenchman, who is the
dernier cri in the art of love-making,
does it with greater finesse and at the
same time with a finer sense of feeling
than our perfect lover. I believe the reason
for Gloria Swanson's popularity is that,
like Fairbanks, she takes the part as the
world sees it and not sometimes as she
would like to do it herself.
And now we come to the Box-Office
Puzzles. The writer of the article speaks
of Thomas Meighan and wonders at his
popularity. In the first place, he is a red-
blooded man. Every woman and every
man admires that type. In the second place,
his plays are true to life and they dont
overestimate the joys or sorrows of every-
day existence. People can see themselves
thru his acting. When he fights, he fights
like a man and when he makes love he
can be at the same time tender and strong.
Those two things, strength and gentleness
combined, are the two most human and
therefore most popular characteristics found
in a person. Consequently, I be-
lieve that is the reason of Thomas
Meighan's popularity in gate re-
ceipts.
The same thing is true of
Milton Sills. While in some ways
he is a little colder than Thomas
Meighan, he puts across to the
public the idea of a red-blooded
fighting man and also that of a
wonderful lover, but not wishy-
washy, as is sometimes the case
with Valentino and the old favor-
ite, Eugene O'Brien.
There is one other who is not
mentioned in this article and I
have no idea whether he ranks
among stars or not. That one is
Bert Lytell. To me these three
men, above most of the others I
can think of, can give the public
what they want. They are all
strong masculine types that both
men and women like, and at the
same time are able to show in their pic-
tures the gentleness and kindness which
will always be a strong drawing card with
women.
Therefore I cannot see why any of these
three should be a puzzle to the box-office.
Very truly yours,
Mary Smith.
Box 515,
Carmel, California.
Editor, Classic :
The article in "Flashbacks," by F. J. S.,
in the February number of your magazine
on "The Menace of the Super-screen The-
ater," gives me the opportunity I .have
wanted for months, to voice my ideas and
opinions on the subject.
It is with increasing dismay that I have
watched the growth of vaudeville and
variety show houses, and the corresponding
decline of the houses devoted to motion
pictures only.
As an ardent, intelligent and more or
less elderly "fan" who believes in the
motion picture and in its far-reaching and
artistic possibilities, I am convinced that
a continued policy which includes any other
form of entertainment on same bill, is not
conducive to the well-being, or indeed, to
the life itself of the moving picture.
In a recent issue of The Boston Herald
I read that "Peter Pan" and "A Kiss for
Cinderella" have been adjudged not a "suc-
cess." These pictures are only two of
many others which have been placed in
the same category, and which are, in them-
selves, perfect, as artistic achievements,
giving joy and inspiration to the intelligent
beholder as incomparable triumphs of artis-
tic and lyric beauty.
Can it be that we must draw the con-
clusion that such pictures are unappre-
ciated and not wanted by the majority?
To illustrate why, in my opinion, we
cannot continue to have the "bigger" and
"better" movies while present conditions
prevail, or even have any assurances that
the industry can continue to exist, I will
give the following statistics as to standing
of Boston theaters.
There are three theaters only which give
first-run shows and that are, so-called, all-
movie houses. All three give the same
pictures weekly — usually — but not the same
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Fifteen dollars will be paid each month
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bill entirely, one of the three being a
de luxe Paramount house, giving more or
less variety, usually music, the two others
being under same management and giving
only pictures.
Besides these houses there are four which
give all-movies, not first-run shows. And,
at least nine vaudeville houses showing only
one picture (and not always a first-run
one) which is sandwiched in between the
cheaper form of entertainment, consisting
of vulgar skits — and short acts, acrobats,
dancing, third-rate music — the usual va-
riety show. The people continually passing
in and out interrupt and obstruct the
view, and disturb the enjoyment of the
picture. Added to which, in these houses,
because they were not originally designed
for moving pictures, the screen is usually
in the wrong place — either too high or too
low — seats are not placed conveniently for
seeing of moving pictures properly, which,
added to other disadvantages too numerous
to mention ( poor ventilating among them )
also disagreeable behavior of uncultivated
people and other such joys make the seeing
of a picture to any advantage an impos-
sibility, a hideous travesty in many cases,
and prevents an intelligent or enjoyable
appreciation of plot or picture. If one, as
in my own case, dislikes the "variety" form
of entertainment, it is a real punishment
to have to sit thru the few minutes im-
possible to avoid and necessary in order
to see the whole of a picture. No wonder
the "people" are indifferent to the latter,
under such conditions, and that the ma-
jority who haven't sufficient intelligence to
appreciate the best in anything pass the
movie by and make it a secondary con-
sideration.
I assure you that the inconvenience and
discomfort of trying to take in a screen
play under the above conditions is more
than a handicap. It is a calamity ! I speak
from positive knowledge gained by long
observation and experience.
So, it would seem that in Boston, at
least, the "box-office" majority (if that
phrase means what I think it does) arc
of the lower class of intelligence.
What is the remedy? It certainly docs
seem that something drastic ought to be
done — but what? To attempt the impos-
sible task of educating the "people" so that
they will know and enjoy a sin-
cere performance of the better
class when they see it? Or, must
we allow the worst only in the
movies to survive because it i^
the only kind desired by the
majority? It is a tremendous
problem.
A case in point to illustrate the
passing of a movie theater. Up
to a week ago Loew's "State"
was one of our best, but they
then inaugurated a new form of
entertainment, giving only one
picture, in the usual way, inter-
spersed with the usual variety
and vaudeville performances. I
wrote the management that they
would lose one regular patron,
in me, but that I knew what a
small minority I, unfortunately,
represented, and since it must be
a "box-office" matter with them,
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MOTION PICTURE
Ql^^^io
JUNE, 1926
LOUISE BROOKS
JOHN BARRYMORE
MARIE PREVOST
Harold Lloyd
Campbell
Mary Pickford
Charles Chaplin
Alexander
Lillian Gish
Strauss Peyton
Doug Fairbanks
The TRUTH About
By Frederick James Smith and Tamar Lane
WHEN The Motion Picture Classic revealed
the inside facts about screen salaries a year ago,
there was general astonishment. The figures
were exact, disclosing the astonishing fact that the motion
picture pay-roll ran to $750,000,000 every seven days,
exclusive of extra players. This huge figure appears to
have shot up a little further during the past prosperous
twelve months.
Not that slumps haven't occurred among stellar sal-
aries. But, in the main, the trend has been upward.
There have been some slight
changes among the ten big
money-makers of the screen.
Harold Lloyd is still the
biggest earner of filmdom.
Last year his earnings were
estimated to run to $30,000
a week, or $1,500,000 on the
year. They have advanced
since that to about $40,000
a week or, in other words,
two millions a year. Here
we might disclose a bit of
inside information. Lloyd's
"The Freshman" had passed
the two-million mark last
March, an unprecedented
record for a comedv.
The Big Ten and Their
Earning
Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
Doug Fairbanks
Gloria S wanson
Mary Pickford
Norma Talmadge
Tom Mix
Thomas Meighan
Lillian Gish
John Barry-more
was a big success at the box-offices of the country and,
judging from its New York hit, "The Black Pirate"
seems likely to be Doug's biggest success. Fairbanks'
earnings ought to run around $20,000 a week easily.
With her shift to United Artists, Gloria Swanson slips
still further upward in the ten big money-makers of
celluloidia. Miss Swanson was getting about $8,000 a
week from Famous Players at the finish. It is said that
she was offered $20,000 a week to remain. Instead, how-
ever, she accepted the offer from United Artists. This,
we are told, provides a
guarantee of $10,000 a week
and a percentage of the
profits. Miss Swanson must
have estimated this total to
be greater than the Famous
offer, for she accepted it.
Like other United Artists,
Miss Swanson will head her
own unit.
Yearly
Harold Lloyd's Earnings
It must be pointed out that
Lloyd finances his own
picture organization, makes his own pictures, and ac-
tively heads the company. Thus everything his comedies
make over and above expenses is his own. Then, too,
the revenue from his old comedies continues, providing
added royalties.
Charlie Chaplin had a good year. To all the royalties
from all his old successes must be added the amount
earned this year by "The Gold Rush," probably well over
a million and a quarter.
Third place in earning power, as last year, goes to
Doug Fairbanks, who is the super-showman of the
screen. Fairbanks has had a big year. His "Don Q"
16
$2,000,000
1,500,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
780,000
675,000
500,000
400,000
Mary Pickford's Million
Mary Pickford's earnings
on the year ought to run
better than a million. Her
'"Little Annie Rooney" has
been doing exceedingly well
at the box-office of Amer-
ica at large and her next
picture, "Sparrows," may be
another winner. Indeed,
the Fairbanks-Pickford
menage has been doing itself proud.
A year ago the general theory was that Thomas
Meighan had passed his crest as a money earner. He
was getting about $8,000 a week then. Perhaps,
Meighan had some doubts himself about a contract re-
newal, for he signed to co-star with Norma Talmadge in
a single picture. Then the wiseacres had to eat their
words. Meighan was offered a million dollars by Famous
for six pictures more. He signed — and the plan to co-
star with Miss Talmadge was shelved. Meighan will
make about four of these six pictures during the twelve
months. Which gives him better than $12,000 a week.
W.tzcl
John Barrymore
Gloria Swanson
Tom Mix
Muriy
Norma Talmadge Thomas Meighan
FILM SALARIES
Inside Facts About the Stars' Earnings
Lillian Gish is in the big-money class again. Her
Metro-Goldwyn contract is estimated to run variously
at $8,000 to $10,000 a week. This will be a crisis year
for Miss Gish. Her "La Boheme" was a personal dis-
appointment. She must do better during 1926 to con-
tinue among the big ten.
Norma and Colleen
At least two of the big stars, Norma Talmadge and
Colleen Moore, owe their
tremendous money-making
capacities to their husbands.
Norma Talmadge is man-
aged by her husband, Joseph
Schenck, who is a power in
the picture world and who
also directs the activities of
Constance Talmadge, Buster
Keaton and Rudolph Valen-
tino. He has just added
John Barrymore to his
screen string.
Mr. Schenck has been
shifting gradually his stars
to United Artists. Norma
Talmadge's earnings can be
placed at over a million.
Here we may as well pre-
sent the earnings of the rest
of the Schenck string. Con-
stance Talmadge has earned
as high as $3,000 a week,
when she is working
steadily. Buster Keaton
probably averages over
$4,000 a week. Valentino
has been paid $100,000 per picture by Schenck. "Son
of the Sheik" is the last production under this arrange-
ment and doubtless the reception of this film will decide
Rudy's future contracts. In boxing parlance. Valentino
won a decision with "The Eagle." but the result was no
knock-out. Rudy's result with "Son of the Sheik" will
have to be more decisive to earn a continuance of a
$100,000-per-picture arrangement.
Surprising Film-Salary Facts
The four most popular men on the screen
today — Richard Dix, John Gilbert, Ramon
Novarro and Ronald Colman — receive less
than a half dozen or so leading men and
character players. These four, however,
have placed roles and opportunities ahead
of remuneration.
At $3,000 a week, Conway Tearle, Eugene
O'Brien and Lewis Stone are the highest
paid screen leading men.
Wallace Beery is the highest-paid char-
acter actor. He gets $3,000 a week.
Among the smallest star salaries are
Betty Bronson's $500, Dolores Costello's
$300, and Vilma Banky's $500.
Mr. Schenck is placing Barrymore upon the same
$100,000-a-picture basis. His "The Sea Beast" has been
a box-ofhce clean-up for the Warner Brothers, who had
Barrymore under contract, and doubtless won the atten-
tion of the astute Mr. Schenck.
The Biggest Flat Salary
Tom Mix still continues to receive the largest straight
salary. (Most of the salaries we are enumerating are
the combined results of sal-
ary guarantees and percent-
ages of profits.) Mix gets
$15,000 each week, week in
and week out, from William
Fox.
Under her Metro-Gold-
wyn arrangement, Marion
Davies receives $10,000 a
week.
There are a number of
high -power money -making
players close behind the
leaders. We have men-
tioned Colleen Moore.
Lifted to prominence by the
success of one picture,
"Flaming Youth." Mis^
Moore has been jockeyed to
the big money by her hus-
band. John McCormick, one
of the executives of First
National. Miss Mcxire was
in the $800 class when she
did "Flaming Youth." Now
she is getting around $8,000.
Pola Negri is receiving
around $4,000 a week, having recently renewed a
contract.
It is an interesting commentary upon the haphazard
business methods of pictures that the four most popular
men on the screen today, Richard Dix, John Gilbert,
Ramon Novarro and Ronald Colman, receive less than
a half-dozen or so leading men and character players.
{Continued on page 70)
17
The Movie Tribes Desert
Holly wood for Beverly Hills
Tents in
Don John Gilbert's mountain-top haci-
enda, viewed from his drape-protected
Dougledyas court and swimming pool
The costly homes of Moviedom
How solemnly they stand!
Amidst their tall, transplanted trees
On subdivided land.
THIS blasphemous parody may cause Mrs. Hemans,
pale poetess of the Victorian cachexia, to heave feebly
beneath the sward. But then Mrs. Hemans was never
in Hollywood.
I say in Hollywood advisably. Hollywood is not a place.
It is a symbol. Try to find it. As for living there — that
18
By
Don Ryan
is no longer being done
either.
The outside world incon-
siderately considers Holly-
wood a place, and a quite
definite place — to the bitter
disappointment of each ar-
riving visitor. Hollywood
thinks Paris a very wicked
city; but what Paris thinks
of Hollywood — ooh, la, la!
Persistent rumors have
given the world this con-
ception of Hollywood : a
place where one may expect
to see a motion picture
director and some other
scoundrel engaged in fisti-
cuffs on the corner of the
Boulevard, until a couple
of gentlemen come out of
an adjoining hop-joint and
stop them.
But if you ask the Holly-
wood Chamber of Com-
merce, it will tell you in-
dignantly that Hollywood
is the business center of
multifarious industry. The
Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce wears knickers
and its collective head is
bared to the kiss of the
California sun. But these
outward symbols do not
mean that it ever gets
frivolous. The Hollywood
Chamber of Commerce is
deadly serious.
A State of Mind
T^he truth is that Holly-
wood is a state of mind.
Of course, there is an under-
sized Gopher Prairie which
on the maps is labeled with
the name. This place — as such — has become the
Deserted Village of Moviedom. It no longer houses
the elite of the so-called movie colony. The studios re-
main, but even they are going — to make room for office-
buildings. The only substantial remnants of the Twelve
Tribes of Moviedom still tenting on the old ground are
camp followers such as poor devils of writers.
I myself live in what had been a chapel consecrated to
one of the legion of strange religions that spring up and
die down like mushrooms in this sunny land. Before the
exodus, in demand as a Studio Apartment, it brought a
rental ot $150 a month. I get it for $50.
The movie stars who formerly lived all over this hill
Canaan
A Visit to the Ornate Homes
of Several Silverscreen Stars
Drawings by
K. R. Chamberlain
Krotona, sacred to the con- /""^l
cepts of the lamented Mme. //
Blavatsky, have moved ^ j\*jy^
iwaj to Beverly. There
we see their expensive
new houses perched
each on its separate
crag, a monument to
the emolument of
popular public en-
tertainment.
If you s h o u 1 d
come out here to see
&C sights, you would
be obliged to hire a
large automobile - — with
good brakes : be sure of
that — and drive thru the
lonely slopes and canyons
of Beverly Hills, observ-
ing here and there the
Widely spaced dots of white
or pink which index the
tastes of those various archi-
tects employed by
various stars to
concoct The Home
Beautiful.
All Period
Residences
If you took the trouble
to drive up closely
enough to examine each
house separately, you would be
pained to make this observation :
all these places are period dumps
Italian villas, English country homes, An
Spanish haciendas. You look in vain
for an American house. You realize
there isn't any such thing; that a rich American, casting
about for a genteel way to spend his dough, must of neces-
sity go in for some damned period or other. This is not
the fault of the movie actors. We haven't any more a
national architecture than we have a national literature —
even less.
If you must choose a period, choose wisely. What style
of architecture is most consonant with California? You
win ! The Spanish. Those who have followed in the
footsteps of the Dons have chosen best of all. And here
we are, at the entrance of John Gilbert's new Spanish
Colonial residence.
Jack Gilbert's Home
Tack lives at the top of Tower Road. The tower that
named it broods on the apex of this range; crenelated
and roofed above the ramparts, stained with time in the
manner the studio sets are treated — dark streaks applied
with a crafty brush. The tower shelters no robber baron's
S//'
troop, it supplies Beverly Mills with water
for purely domestic purposes.
The raina that threatened to wa h
Valentino's hill from under him
have subsided. Swiftly in their
- I (j wake lh<- gnat deseil that is
\.y California has gone from brown
6 N\ to green — rioting in its
j\ brief period of verdancy.
}r\ From (dlhert's hill you can
A see fifty miles along the
ming plains and raise
the Island of Catalina
away at sea.
The country unrolls
at your feet like a
green plush rug,
pushed up into many
hillocks where the
baby has left his
blocks under it ; with
the spikes of oil der-
ricks over near the coast-
ine door, where baby
has been playing with
Erector.
To the left, handful after
handful of tiny toy houses
have been tossed around
and left in confusion: Los
Angeles. And twenty-five
miles across the
room the significant
hand of Mr. Heintz
has chalked in gigan-
tic white against the
sloping green the nu-
merals— 57.
You can watch the sea —
confides Emil — sometimes
so near, sometimes so far
away.
Emil is the sotnmeUer, a Belgian,
a good butler, not above being a bit
of a poet.
He conducts us thru the walled patio
planted with palms dug up and trans-
ported from San Juan Capistrano — palms a hundred and
fifty years old. The frieze on the wall is a trifling thing,
but it lets us have at once the feel of the place — the
giveadam atmosphere which is of its proprietor. The
frieze presents a shrouded Mexican slouched on a horse
before a ruined mission, behind him an indifferent cactus
and an impracticable ox-cart. Manana, says the frieze.
Jack Gilbert is himself a poet.
Proud of His House
Cmil has drawn up leather chairs before the window
" which displays a twenty-foot canvas of the world
below, beginning to be covered now with the pale gauze
of evening. Yellow stars twinkle into life, a handful at a
time — the lights of towns along the sea.
Jack is talking to us lazily, with the boyish candor which
always charms me. He is proud of his house. He has
just two things — this house and the studio to interest him.
(Continued on page 63)
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impression of Charles Ray
at home
"Old Ironsides" Sails
How a Screen Spec-
tacle Is Being Built
About the Famous
Old Constitution
Off Catalina
The battered old Constitution as she lies in Boston harbo
has been built at Catalina from the navy's original
WELL, anyway masculinity is having a first-class
renaissance in motion pictures, wherever else it
is under a cloud.
We have rather had our fill of the flapper girlie-girlie,
pretty-dear films, haven't we ?
The motion picture industry may be still in its infancy
— but hurrah, perhaps it's a boy, after all !
This story, written around good "Old Ironsides," the
famous old frigate, the U. S. S. Constitution, is thoroly
and completely masculine. It is much more than just an-
other super-special put out by the Lasky studio. It is
much more than a fine patriotic film reviving American
national sentiment in its navy, reminding us of its proud
beginnings way back in 1804 A. D. and of the highly
creditable exploits of the third vessel built by a newly in-
dependent nation that was to rise in mighty world power
a century later.
It's all that, but it is also a magnificent masculine
gesture, designed, I suspect, to jolly well help in the new
vogue to put femininity back in its place.
Epic in Masculinity
"\A7ar, the sea, hard pioneering in remote lands — these
* " are still masculine strongholds. So behold, they have
given us war in "The Big Parade," in "What Price
Glory?" Not much eclat for the flappers in those. And
they have given us pioneering in "The Covered Wagon,"
"The Iron Horse," "The Pony Express." They have
given us the "Sea Hawk," "The Sea Beast,"
and "Down to the Sea in Ships." And now
they are going to give us "Old Ironsides" — the
sea, bilge-water, rope, seamanship, masculinity
in daring and endurance, masculinity in
courageous patriotism, masculinity in heroic
endeavor, mean masculinity, great masculinity,
fond but strong masculinity, clean and dirty
masculinity — but masculinity all thru in
an undiluted masculine setting.
r. A replica
plans
Everything conspired to create the
right occasion for the production of
"Old Ironsides." Just whether the
film will be good publicity for the navy
and help to restore the nation's pride in
this governmental branch, or whether
the government's activities in inviting
school children's pennies for the re-
- storation of the fine old boat will prove
dashed good publicity for the film.
doesn't much matter. The god of
Destiny is probably smiling in content.
The idea of making "Old Ironsides" the feature of a
picture had been simmering in the brain of Harry Carr
for years. Then one day his old school friend. Secretary
George Bancroft,
plus real whiskers,
plays the chief gun-
ner of the U. S. S.
Constitution. Ban-
croft saw actual ser-
vice in the navy for
six years
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the Seven Seas Again
By
ALMA
WHITAKER
A painting, by
Duncan Gleason, of
the U. S. S. Con-
stitution, under full
tail. Below, James
Cruze, who is direct-
ing the film pro-
duction of "Old
Ironsides"
Curtis Wilbur of the Navy
Department, talked of his
dream of restoring the
noble old boat. Harry
Carr was thereby moved to
read up on its history —
and glowed to envision it
as a film.
Harry Carr's Idea
Derhaps Jesse Lasky was
inspired to prompt re-
ceptiveness of the idea because of the navy's "Old Iron-
sides" fund. But, anyway, Walter Wood, he who wrote
the script for "The Covered Wagon," "The Pony Ex-
press," and other achievements of Director James Cruze,
was called in. Equipped with Harry Carr's research
labors, he made a fine faithful historical record. At this
stage it was undiluted veritable history, with Admiral
Decatur of the U. S. S. Constitution as the arch hero.
But the wiseheads who knew their box-office tastes felt
that straight history would not quite do.
So here we find Laurence Stallings, co-author of
"What Price Glory?" called in to add the box-office
touch. It was Laurence who suggested the injection of
the good ship Esther, and of The Boy and The Girl.
It meant side-tracking Admiral Decatur a trifle — but even
admirals must make way for love's young dream. But
dont you suppose for a moment that love's young dream
subtracts one iota from its masculinity — it only com-
pletes it. It is so advantageous to have a sweet quiver-
ing maiden around to show masculinity off at its
best.
So there is just one maiden in it— the fair sweet Esther
Ralston, and her name is Esther in the play (and Esther
is a name associated with dutiful enchantment!).
Esther is permitted to have a mother in a few brief
glimpses, but, beyond that the only other female who has
anything to do with it is Dorothy Osier, who will ''cut"
the picture for James Cruze — and she has a boyish bob
and wears sailor trousers on the lot !
A novelty that is injected is that all the players bear
their own names in the play. Thus the villainous and dis-
reputable old bo'sn of the good ship Esther is pro-
gramed as W. Beery. The chief gunner of the U. S. S.
Constitution is G. Bancroft. The first mate is Fred L.
Kohler, and George Godfrey, the heavyweight colored
prize-fighter of the real-life sport sections, is the cook on
the Esther. Eddie Featherstone will play Commodore
Somers of the U. S. S. Co>istitution and Johnny Walker
will masquerade as Admiral Decatur.
The Boy is to be played by an almost unknown young
man — Charles Ferrell — until very recently a mere
"extra" of over two years' sighing standing. He is only
twenty-four now. He was an extra in "The Ten Com-
mandments" and ever since, until he slid over to Fox
and better pay and a five-year contract a brief couple of
months ago. So altho Lasky once had him, they have
had to hire him from Fox for this role.
And the film opens with The Boy, gazing at a navy
recruiting placard of those far-off days — an actual one,
borrowed from government archives in Washington :
Encouragement to Seamen
All GEXTLEMEN ADVEXTURERS and able-
bodied seamen wishing to share in the honors of war and
the spoils of victory in the present heroic venture of the
magnificent new ship "Constitution" against the Barbary
pirates at Tripoli ..." etc.
(Continued on page 85)
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Reviewing- Pictures on Broadway
By Mordaunt Hall
PICTURES are presented on Broadway every week
during the four seasons of the year and therefore
with the regularity of a postman who brings the
morning mail the newspaper critic goes forth two or three
days a week to look at the films and write his impressions
of them. Sometimes the work is amusing, sometimes it
is even inspiring, and then there are also times when it
is incredibly dull. Conven-
tional themes of the wide-
open spaces and melodra-
matic mixtures of the
Great Northwest are not
apt to act as a mental
stimulus.
In the last three years I
have written criticisms on
more than six hundred
productions, and like a
number of other persons I
have thus beheld hosts of
men slain, countless heroes
emerge triumphant from
very nasty predicaments,
scores of maidens cap-
tured, rescued and kissed
with terrific, violence, in-
numerable tornadoes, cyclones, floods, fires and other
types of so-called thrills. I cant say how many times I
have seen the heroine's father reach into the right-hand
drawer of his desk and pull out a revolver because he
had met with financial reverses. This situation has lost
its tragic touch, -and become almost comic. I have men-
tally measured great rooms and figured out their rental
in Park Avenue. I have seen bathrooms large enough
for a company of soldiers. Then there have been
scented fountains, after-dinner bathing parties and tales
of hysterical flappers, whose chief activities are drinking
cocktails, speeding in Rolls-Royces and dancing the
Charleston. I have seen the birth, and I trust the death,
of comedy situations. For instance, there is the crack-
brained young man who tries to create laughter by not
knowing whether to use a knife, fork or a spoon on his
grapefruit, and there is his prototype who thinks it funny
to shake hands with the butler.
Mordaunt Hall is the motion picture critic
of The New York Times.
Since The Times holds a pre-eminent posi-
tion among metropolitan newspapers, as well
as among the great newspapers of the world,
Mr. Hall can be said to speak with unusual
authority.
Mr. Hall knows pictures thoroly and his
opinions each week are awaited by New
Yorkers with keen interest.
B
The Reviewer's View-Point
ut with all its shortcomings, this work is not uninter-
esting. I have reached the stage when I realize that
a producer, after all, may not have intentionally made a
dry production to annoy me. And then there are the
broad comedies, which have made me sigh, but which
nevertheless have appealed to the majority in the audi-
ence. Molasses poured on a man's head always brings
down the house, and so does the idea of the character
falling over some obstacle into a pool of mud. Pictures
are made to appeal to as many people as possible, and if
you dont like them, somebody will.
When it comes to writing criticisms on some dreary
mile of film, one becomes bored with even one's own
combinations of words. There is "mildly entertaining,"
employed to let a production down lightly. You really
mean that the readers can take it or leave it. "Quite
diverting," refers to something a little better, but the
"quite" qualifies the entertainment value of the effort.
"Told with his tongue in his cheek" once had its appeal,
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but now it has taken on the semblance of a bromide.
"The fabric of this story" is threadbare, and so are "clap-
trap," "tawdry," "sloppy bit of sentimentality," "con-
traption," "slow-moving," "adequate acting," "trashy,"
"sparkling," "interesting" and even "attractive." "His-
trionic," "opus," "whilom," chef-d'oeuvre" and such like
make you think you are posing as you write. "Quite the
most interesting" sounds
as if you have stolen it
from a paragraph in "Town
Topics" and "sustained sus-
pense" seems as if it were
water-logged.
An ambiguous story is
one of my chief bugbears,
especially when the pro-
duction has some excellent
photographic effects. As
you cant make head or tail
of the plot, you can dismiss
the beauty of the scenes in
a word or two. The acting
may be negligible and like-
wise the titles. You feel
as if you would like to
write :
"This is an awful picture with some good scenes," and
fading out on that.
The Mediocre Pictures
C everal months ago there was put on one of the Broad-
way cinemas a picture which had so many characters
and was so bewildering that it would have made three
different stories and perhaps four. Then the hero in the
first chapter showed himself to be a gullible numskull,
and the heroine was no better than the young man, with
whom she falls gradually in love, while her caddish hus-
band, whom she had not seen for years, turns up at the
psychological moment. The story went on and on, drag-
ging most of the time, then picking up a bit, and finally
it was with intense relief that one perceived the ending.
As one man who seldom went to see pictures remarked,
it was the sort of picture which could have gone on for-
ever. There was no reason why it should have ceased
even when it did.
Soon after I began writing motion picture criticisms,
James Montgomery Flagg took offense at my review of
William S. Hart's "Wild Bill Hickok." Mr. Flagg saic_
that it seemed to him that I was a pale-faced spaghetti
hound, and he insisted that Mr. Hart's picture wa
worthy in many respects. I thought that the best thing tc
do with this letter was to print it, which I did, and the
head on it was very simple. It read : "He Does Not
Agree With Us."
On another occasion I wrote a sort of reminiscent re-
view of the last picturization of "The Light That Failed."
It was a fair picture, but it had not caught much of the
author's spirit. Somebody wrote, upbraiding me for hav-
ing made him come all the way in town to see what he
thought was an execrable bit of work. Another reader
objected to my review of the "Pony Express." He
wondered why I had not referred to the easy way in
which the hero polished off the villain's underlings. But
I must say that frequently I receive some rather nice
(Continued on page 74)
By
Everett
Shinn
The celebrated artist has caught the spirit of that strange interlude
between scenes — when cameramen and extras doze off to sleep and
principals begin to worry about their make-up. At least half of a
studio's working time is spent in this fashion
BETWEEN
SCENES
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Four Famous Writers
E. Temple Thurston
A. A. Milne
Frank Swinnerton
Barney
By Henry Albert Phillips
E. Temple Thurston
P TEMPLE THURSTON I shall always re-
J-J • member as the author of "The City of
Beautiful Nonsense," a booh that for sheer
whimsicality captured my fancy completely.
Mr. Thurston's first wife — now deceased — was
Katherine Cecil Thurston, the brilliant author of
that fascinating novel, "The Masquerader.
Mr. Thurston told me that he had considered
seriously plunging in and learning the fihotofilay
technique in the studios, but that conditions
were not receptive.
"The American films are so infinitely superior
to the British that I dont wonder at the state of
things here and the poverty in English film
circles. English producers never really studied
A. A. Milne
A A. MILNE is the author of one of the most
*£"**• delightful books of the century — "When
We Were Very Young." When I saw him in his
charming home in Chelsea, London's Latin
Quarter, he told me that his publishers had just
reported British sales of this book more than
one hundred thousand and American sales even
in advance of that number. So it is quite pos-
sible that many of those who read these lines
may have enjoyed Mr. Milne's little book as
well. Or, you may have had the privilege of see-
ing on the boards — as well as on the screen —
that jSlay of rare charm, "Mr. Pirn Passes By.
"I think the average film drama is most
ghastly," replied Mr. Milne. Then like all the
the thing. In the main they are made uft of others, he partially reversed himself so as to say
cheafi photographers . Not one that I can think of
who has the faintest conception of what a story
is, let alone of how to tell it when he has it. All
they want to jSut on are ftretty pictures. In story-
telling, a certain abroach of mind is necessary,
lacking which one is unable to tell a story well.
The English film fieojSle dont begin to have that
talent. I might compare the British film pro-
ducer with that taxi driver down yonder."
that he liked the film as a medium, but not the
sort of things called the "film drama." "You see
what I mean is, I like Chaplin — and Harold
Lloyd. They are no end of amusement. And
that — uh — what is it called? 'The Adventures
of Felix!' And seeing plants grow before your
eyes • — and stunts of that sort — I'm all for
th
em
r
Isn't that just like you would think the fellow
(Both continued on fiage 68)
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~I
CONDEMN the FILMS
FRANK SWINNERTON:
"I think the movies are a men-
ace to civilization. They malign
life."
A. A. MILNE:
"I think the average film drama
is ghastly. But I like Chaplin
and Harold Lloyd."
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM:
"I find the films disappointing,
I mean in actual progress. They
seem to have fallen back, got into
a rut."
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Second of a Series of Talks About Motion Pictures
With Famous English and Continental Writers
i/t
Frank Swinnerton
J7RANK SWINNERTON is generally recog-
nized as one of the most promising novelists
of the younger generation. H. G. Wells ana
Arnold Bennett openly acknowledge his genius
and hint that their mantle of greatness will
probably fall on his shoulders. All of which
bothers Frank Swinnerton not a jot. He goes
right along his own sweet way doing what he
pleases and gets there just the same.
The first time I met him, in London this was,
I asked him offhand what he thought of the
"films," as they call them in England, he said, "I
think they're a bore. I never go unless I have to.
I think they're awful!"
I learned later that he had been annoyed into
this ruthless statement by the several "inside"
contacts he had had with the cinema. "Wells
and Bennett go to see the films all the time
tho," he added almost penitently, to show that he
wanted his statement to be taken impersonally.
However, I adore Chaplin," he went on con-
cihatonly. "I think he is the one genius they
have produced as an actor. Just to see him do- And here is where Oppenheim comes to get his
mg the tiniest bit is a pleasure. It does not wonderful local color and to Pick uP these char-
matter how subtle your mind may be, you will acters at random — and does it so successfully
(Both continued on page 68)
25
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Z7 PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM has a,wa
•*-*** been my idea of the supreme story-teller.
I had always hoPed to meet Oppenheim some
day in or near the realm in which he creates his
literary and dramatic beings. If you will recall,
most of his stories are concerned with "foreign-
ers" of high degree or of low villainous motives,
which sooner or later brings us into the midst of
some breath-taking international intrigue. And
the scene of most of these exploits is the Riviera
and Monte Carlo, of course.
Here, at Monte Carlo, where I am writing
these words, I have seen ALL of Mr. Oppen-
heims characters — either taking tea on the ter-
race in front of the Cafe de Pans, at the Royal
Opera, in the gaming rooms of the Casino or at
one of Baroness Orczy's famous receptions at
her Villa Bijou. Russian princesses financially
embarrassed, swarthy Italian counts, Hungarian
nobles with long beards and monocles in one
eye, Austrian barons looking for jobs and, of
course, suave Englishmen — they are all here,
Fuming BEAU GESTE
By Alice L. Tildesley
T
??
WENTY-EIGHT miles out of Yuma, Arizona,
across the shifting sands of America's Sahara, a
plank road leads to a valley where a dream is coming
true.
The dream is Herbert Brenon's, but over seventeen
hundred men are laboring with a hearty good will to bring
it to realization.
A year ago, when Mr. Brenon was mourning the loss
of his second and dearest brother — the first having passed
on to Elysian fields some years before — someone put
into his hands the tale of the devotion of three "gay
romantics."
And "Beau Geste" of the screen — this dream of a di-
rector's heart — is to be in the nature of a memorial of
those elder Brenons, an offering of fraternal love, dedi-
cated to all brothers everywhere.
"A lions, Brenon, void la Legion.
Tiens, Voila les Francois; Voila les
Anglais; les Americaihs,
Qui combattent les Tonaregs
Nord Africain.
We come from the East ;
we come from the West;
We'll work like Hell
and never rest.
I say, Old Chap,
we'll do our best
To help you make
'Beau Geste' !".
The Foreign
Legion
YKIitk this
" paraphrased
version of the
famous "Song
of the Foreign
Legion," com-
posed in his
honor, the legion-
naires of the picture
greeted the chief when
he entered the African
fort which has been built
on the sand dune crest. . . .
And the spirit of the song is the
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spirit of the making of the picture. It's "Beau Geste."
The war of the Riffs is responsible for the largest loca-
tion in history : since the company could not go to
Algiers, Algiers must come to the company. And who
will deny that it has come? Sand dunes — great golden
powder-fine heaps of dust stretching interminably to one
horizon — piling up in shifting outline toward a distant
range of purple mountains, to another : sand dunes
a-bloom with desert primrose, silhouetting ungainly
camels against a blue, blue sky !
The finding, building and running of this camp for
nearly two thousand men is a story in itself. Imagine
digging a well in a desert, establishing two electric light
plants, a complete telephone service, five miles of water
pipes, six miles of wire, twenty carloads of lumber — to
mention just a few figures in the staggering total.
Keeping in the spirit of the story, the location camp
is a military one. A bugler wakes us at
dawn and punctuates the day with
calls from assembly to retreat.
A captain commands the
army, four mounted or-
derlies stand by day
and night, and three
flags fly in "Beau
Geste Square."
"I have to pinch
myself some-
times and say:
'The war's
over!'" said
Ralph Forbes,
who plays
John in the
(Continued on
page 62)
Top: The mimic Sahara
fort in the Arizona
desert. Oval: Neil
Hamilton, Ronald Col-
man and Ralph Forbes
as the three brothers of
"Beau Geste"
Carsey
J
M. I. Boris
GILDA GRAY
Broadway awaits with keen interest the stellar screen debut of the little Polish girl
who captured its heart
27
Things That Will
Sk Never HaPPen
•i^ ""^siSs^ By K. R. Chamberlain ^—
Marion Davies suddenly finds
there isn't a single heroine
of history she hasn't played
\ John Barrymore decides
to make personal ap-
pearances with the show-
ing of his latest film, "Don
Juan"
Eric von Stroheim plays
the callow lover and
Louise Fazenda the vamp
in a film written and
directed by Elinor Glyn
28
^
>
hi
Two of Cecil De Mille's Yes-Men say "No!"
Doug and Mary decide to appear as Pa and Ma
in one of those Old Homestead stories, with
Valentino and Menjou as the wholesome, Charlie
Ray boys and Lon Chancy, Pola Negri and Gloria
Swanson as the glad, glad, ronjpy kiddies
Above, a cheery study of
Corinne Griffith when she
was a star at Vitagraph.
Next Miss Griffith is to play
Tatiana, daughter of the ill-
fated Czar Nicholas
THE next story selected
for Corinne Griffith is
one concerning the
imagined adventures of
Tatiana, daughter of the Czar.
For which give thanks !
Miss Griffith is the one real
princess in the land of Movie-
Make-Believe.
To Play Czar's Daughter
The illusion of moonlight
and music that she brings to
the screen is as real when you
meet her face to face. She
is as stately and exquisite as
one of her own white iris
fringing the woodland pool
beneath her pepper-trees.
When Walter Morosco
took her to Hawaii as a bride,
the islanders recognized this
quality, instinctively, and paid
it tribute. There was a pier
stretching out over the waters
that caress Hawaiian shores —
a pier overlooked by the
honeymoon bower — and here,
under a tropic moon, the
30
Her* j
ROYAL
HIGHNESS
By Alice L. Tildesley
natives came with guitars and ukuleles, offering incense o-
sweet and melancholy airs. They danced, too, the ancien'
island dances.
All of which entertainment is given only to those who in-
spire it and cannot be bought with gold. . . .
Came the Carpenters
Tt may be all very well to seem a princess in a setting as redolent
* of romance as Hawaii, especially on a blissful honeymoon — but
try to look the part in your own home with servants on the point
of .leaving, the upper floor full of carpenters and painters, the
Mandeville
Corinne Griffith has never considered giving up the screen because of marriage. "A woman with an ambition should
be careful to select a man who has a tolerant attitude towards her career," she says
grounds fairly teeming with gardeners requiring advice !
Yet there was Corinne Griffith, clad in April green
touched with buttercup yellow, maintaining perfect poise
in situations that would at least have furrowed the brow
of any other cinema star.
A private projection room is being built in the Beverly
Hills home. The mistress of the house stood in the half-
finished place, among pots of paint and cans of varnish,
surrounded by inquiring workmen — making swift de-
cisions, settling unexpected problems, with a despatch
and efficiency to be envied by a queen at court.
Somehow aloof from the pettiness of housekeeping,
she seems still beautifully capable of home-making. For
her home is the darling of her heart.
"We're going to have a well, a rustic well," she ex-
plained, bringing out a drawing of it, "The rocks are
coming this afternoon. I wish I could stay here and
watch them build the wall. Going back to work in a
picture after a vacation is like going back to school. I
have that sinking sensation — that vision of long weeks
of hard labor!
"Of course, I wouldn't give up pictures, any more than
I'd have given up an education, but — there you are !
The Fun of Planning
'It's such fun to plan things. This is the first vacation
Mr. Morosco and I have had together for a long
time, and we've spent most of it on the house and
grounds. We have an unwritten rule that pictures are
not to be discussed at home — we have enough of them
all day long. So we have a fascinating time witli
furniture and furnishings and landscaping.
"We have put in the most delightful hours reading
about periods of furniture and delving into the histories
of kings from whose reigns th.y date. You can almost
tell the disposition and habits of monarchs from the look
of furniture made under thei rule. Remember the
intrigue of France's courts at the time most of the French
dressing-tables and desks had secret drawers !"
The Grass Is Delivered
At this point, Japanese grass was delivered, and we
adjourned to the gardens to superintend its planting.
The sun brought out the gold in her brown hair as she
stood under the lime-tree, giving her serene directions.
That lime-tree, the row of eucalypti, and the gnarled
peppers that edge the drive are all part of the old estate
founded by the fortunate soul who was presented with
the land by the government. But the rustic lookout
house high up in a tree — the trickling fountain cunningly
arranged among the rocks and giant stump to make a
bird bath for her feathered courtiers — the tea-house by
its shaded pool, and the flowers that paint the gentle
slopes, are all Princess Corinne's.
White and yellow jasmine, purple wistaria, narciwi-
and heliotrope are among the fragrant blooms.
"We wanted to plant things that smell sweet," she
(Continued on page 88)
31
They Told
Busteii
to Stick
to IT
By HARRY BRAND
Stick to it, kid, and you'll be
a great comedian some
day."
Celebrities of the theatri-
cal world gave that advice
to a pint-size vaudeville per-
former a quarter of a centurj
ago.
The prophecy has been ful-
filled, but on a scale exceeding
the expectations of the most
wildly imaginative trouper. Fate
has given the youth the world
for a stage and an audience of
millions.
It was ten years ago that
young Keaton cast his fortunes
with the "movies," after travel-
ing hundreds of thousands of
miles and trouping all over the
United States and in foreign
lands since babyhood. The past
decade has witnessed the former
vaudeville actor's rise to the
heights as a screen comedian,
but to the old-timers who al-
ways'visit his studios when they
(Continued on page 80)
Melbourne Spurr
Buster Keaton as he is today — and when he was the kid of
the Three Keatons
Bushnell
32
William Totter
GRETA NISSEN
Altho the fascinating Scandinavian has been banished from the royal courts of Paramount to the
Siberia of Universal, we still have hopes. Won't somebody rush a pardon to the gal?
33
How the KEYSTONE KOPS
A scene from one of Mack Sennett's first Keystone comedies. Sennett
himself is the desk sergeant, while the trembling prisoner is Ford Sterling
IT'S a far cry from a second-hand clothing store, in
the grime which makes Sixth Avenue, New York, to
the old Keystone company studio on Allesandro
Street, Hollywood, but it serves to prove that a fellow
named Kipling, who once made the wise crack, "East is
East and West is West," was wrong.
All of which gives me a running start on the "inside
story" of how the Keystone cops came to be — those
amazing gentry of the law (in movies only) who
aroused, at one and the same time, the mirth of a
nation and the ire of numerous police
heads thruout the country. There was
a time when folks resented the affront
to the dignity and majesty of the law
offered by the spectacle of cops who
never caught anything (except a pie),
cops who believed they were cops be-
cause they wore a cop's uniform, cops
who always ran the wrong way.
cops who fell out of windows
(yes, you're right, always into
a tub of water or a bed of
mortar), cops whose uniforms
made th* conductor of the
Toonervine trolley look like a
fashion-plate, cops whose clubs
were made of rubber and who
always were run over by their
own patrol wagons.
The Inside Story
And still, if it were not for the
aforesaid Sixth Avenue
palace of second-hand ward-
robes, our own guardians of
the law might never have risen
in a body against their bur-
lesquers of the screen, the
chucklers of the world would
have missed millions of
34
Mack Sennett's fa
mous comedy Police
man developed fron
a chance Purchase ii
a New York second
hand Store
By Bert Ennis
chuckles and Mack Sennett's only clair
to fame might be that he gave to th
screen Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normanc
Ford Sterling, Charley Murray, Fart
Arbuckle, Gloria Swanson, Marie Prevost
and a few other fairly well-known actor:
and actresses.
Which reminds me of the fact that this
HAPPENED
same Sennett
was respon-
sible for the
origin of the
Keystone cops
thru the medium of
a wire which came to
the New York offices
of the Keystone Film
Company in the year
1912 while I, in the
role of press-agent,
was begging editors to print the
then unknown names of the afore-
said Chaplins, Arbuckles, Nor-
mands, et al. In those hardy days
of the leaping tintypes many duties de-
volved upon the press-agent (they call
them directors of publicity now) and
therefore it was entirely in keeping that
Mack Sennett's wire, which requested the
urgent shipment of a quantity of "comedy
character clothes for ladies and gentlemen,"
should be turned over to the chronicler.
The Second-hand Store
ittle thinking that the result of my attention to duty
was to bring about a new era in laughs, I hied myself,
rire in hand, to the establishment of Harry Guttenberg,
rtio ran one of the most remarkable clothing emporiums
t has ever been my good fortune to see. Guttenberg
nade a specialty, and a most profitable one, of buying and
elling the wardrobes of various theatrical productions
rtiich suffered "box-office anemia," a disease, which, by
he way, will cause rotund, healthy magnates of the screen
nd theater to turn pale and shudder at its mere mention,
rhe Guttenberg establishment dealt in costumes of every
lescription, both straight and comic, and incidentally,
many <>f the evening
gowns and dress suits worn
by your favorite celluloid
hero and heroine in the early
days of picture making, came
from the shelves of this Sixth Ave-
nue purveyor of wardrobes. Shades
of Gloria Swanson and Jack Gilbert,
think of it!
Keeping in mind Mack Sennett's insistent
desire, expressed telegraphically, for comedy
character clothes, I successfully bartered with
Harry for the acquisition of bell-boys' suits, por-
ters' uniforms, rube clothes, dancing girls' costumes,
sailor suits, soubrettes' dresses and frock coats, not to
mention an odd assortment of coats, pants, vests and shoes.
The Police Uniforms
Peeling that I had done well by Mr. Sennett and his
comic inclinations as regards proper wardrobe for the
Keystone players, I was about to depart when Gutten-
berg pointed out insinuatingly that he had a choice line of
police uniforms, including coats, pants, helmets, clubs
and sockets. His Sixth Avenue eye for business then
and there gave birth to the foundation on which the
Keystone cops were builded in far-away Hollywood, into
a tower of strength for Sennett and all those original
comedy film producers who aped the successful innova-
tion of burlesque police.
Giving little or no heed to size, fit or condition. I
obliged my outfitting friend by purchasing these police
uniforms and shortly thereafter sped the entire assort-
ment of comedy clothes, in several trunks, to the studios
of the Keystone company.
Came the Keystone Cop
he astute eye of the man responsible for the screen's
first bathing beauties fell upon the conglomerate assort-
ment of uniforms, helmets and clubs, and delighted to
find that the oversized garments worn by the law's repre-
sentatives lent an especially ludicrous appearance to un-
dersized extras in the roles of policemen, it took him
little or no time to direct a comedy in which the now
famous Keystone cops played an important part. Movie
goers everywhere greeted the crazily dressed, awkward
police squad with howls of glee. Justly proud of his
comedy bull's-eye, Sennett delved farther into the trunks
and unearthed the balance of the police raiment. Key-
stone cops ran riot in. every Sennett production. They
were fooled by the wily Chaplin, tripped by the innocent
Arbuckle, vamped by the scintillating Mabel — and they
became an institution.
It may interest readers of this magazine to glimpse a
copy of the clothing contained in the shipment which
helped to make film history, and it so happens that the
writer of this story saved a list of the contents of the
various trunks which went to the Keystone Company
in 1912.
The Original Bill
Oere it is :
n Policemen's outfits. — Thirty uniforms consisting
of short coats, long coats, double-breasted, single-breasted,
{Continued on page 74)
35
She j
WANTS
to
SUCCEED
By Alice L. Tildesley
T
Clara Bow has been called variously "a little roughneck,"
"the screen's madcap" and "the Happiest flapper of them all"
HE girl is Clara Bow.
The idea is success.
And I defy anybody or anything to keep
her from her goal.
She. has been called variously, a "little rough-
neck," "the screen's madcap," and "the flappiest
flapper of them all."
But she is a human dynamo, overcharged with ambition
and energy — a frank and amusing child possessing the
grit and determination of an army.
Back in Brooklyn
\X7hen she was a Brooklyn high school freshman.
' even then movie-mad, Wallace Reid made a personal
appearance at a local theater.
36
Clara Bow
has one goal
— Fame
Nothing else
counts
"I got there at noon
ami sat in the trout row
until he came on at half
seven," remem-
sd (lara. "1 wanted
iee him close up —
ami 1 did. I thought he
was marvelous. 1 de-
cided that I'd like to act,
too, and 1 knew I'd do
it. some day.
"I dont know why I
had the nerve to think I
could. I was fat and
short and funny-looking
irt of an ugly little
thiiiL
The dark-eyed young
beauty on the chaise-
longue in the studio
bungalow hugged her
tweed-k nickered knees
and tossed back the red-
gold glory of her hair.
The ugly duckling has
repeated the history of
the swan.
"The minute the fan
magazines were on the
stands I bought 'em. I
read Classic and Mo-
tion Picture and
Shadowland and all of
'em — and one day I saw
a Brewster contest men-
tioned. It said. 'Send in
your picture' — and I
went to a cheap pho-
tographer that very day.
"The pictures were
rather bad, I thought,
but I sent 'em anyway.
I waited. I dont think I even hoped very much. I could
see what I looked like in the mirror.
"One day I went down-stairs for the mail and saw the
postman standing with a long envelope in his hand.
Before I took it I called up-stairs : 'Daddy, I've got in
pictures !' — It was marked 'Brewster Publications' and
it read that I was to come to the office for a test.
The Contest Test
T was fifteen and I hadn't any fancy clothes. I wore a
gingham dress and went with my father on the street-
car. When I got there, other girls were getting out of
automobiles. They all seemed to be wearing silk or velvet
or chiffon. I wanted to go home, but my father wouldn't
let me.
"The judges were there — Mr. Brewster and some
others. I suppose they were surprised to see me but they
didn't say anything. They had someone make us up
for the screen tests.
"I watched the others. They looked at me as if I was
'I'm never going to give
I can
up the screen. I have to have an outlet for all this energy,
pour it into pictures — and I love pictures!"
Orphant Annie — sort of down the side of their noses —
but I saw what they did and when the director said :
'Dont do this or that,' to them, I thought 'I'll remember
that's a bad thing to do.' The trouble was, I thought,
that they were all trying to do it like somebody they
had seen on the screen, not the way they'd do it — the
way they'd feel themselves. When it came my turn, I
did it the way I'd do it myself.
"Nobody said anything. We all went home. Fretty
soon there were more tests — eight in all — and finally
nearly everybody was eliminated.
Clara Wins!
"all this time I had to go to school, but I was late and
never knew my lessons. I was always kept in and I
simply couldn't study. All 1 could think of was picture- !
I figured out what to do for tests and what tests they
might give me — I was a nervous wreck from hoping and
worrying.
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MORE IMPRESSIONS
AT the Pickford-Fairbanks studio they have an
/A Arabian desert so perfect that the sun seemed to
beat down upon my -bare head, the sand got in my
shoes, and many miles away (apparently) I could see
shadowy trees and mountains of sand. Arabs and all
kinds of queer characters were wandering around, and it
was for all the world just like the edge of the great desert
I saw last spring.
It was a scene in "Son of the Sheik," and Fitz-
maurice was directing. Vilma Banky and Rudolph
Valentino soon appeared, and after a few rehearsals
Rudy made violent love to the fair and voluptuous Vilma
and carried her not unwillingly off while the camera
clicked. But one of the rocks overturned and they both
fell down in a heap. They tried it again, but this time
they got tangled up in some of Rudy's flowing robes and
Vilma's gauzy draperies and again they sprawled in the
sand. They both took it good-naturedly and even Fitz-
maurice enjoyed it. Four more times they tried it and
at last they did it perfectly.
"I doubt if you have ever had or ever will have a
handsomer couple than that to direct," I said to Fitz.
"Quite true," he replied, "and they are both splendid
to work with. Rudy is a fine fellow and a true artist.
He's always ready to work and he likes the rough stuff
as well as these tender scenes. He's as strong as an ox,
too, and he loves to get in the fights and treat 'em rough.
Vilma is also one hundred per cent, and it is a pleasure
to work with such artists."
At the Fox studio the other night they gave a little re-
*^ ception and dinner to some of the stars and a few
invited guests, and there I met lots of my old friends,
including Paul Panzer, and made a few new ones, includ-
ing Edmund Lowe. It was hard to believe that this was
the tall, handsome, straight, dark Edmund that I have
admired so much on the screen. He gave me the im-
pression of being a blonde, or red-headed, and blue-eyed
— quite different than I expected, and not so good-
looking. Yet, he was very democratic, unassuming and
likable. Olive
Borden was also
there, a vivid
brunette and
beautiful, but
what attracted
me most was a
pair of midget
stars — Georgie
Harris (male)
and Barbara
Ludder. They
are both well un-
der five feet and
they were like
grown-up chil-
dren not yet
grown up.
Georgie was ter-
ribly "cute" and
conversed
sparklingly and
all the women
were flocking
around him.
Barbara was
equally so and very charming and pretty, and all the men
were flocking around her. They are playing together in
two-reel comedies and are getting quite popular I'm told.
Mot a great way from Los Angeles is Arrow Head Lake
on the top of a huge mountain where -many players
go for the week-end. The lake is over a mile higher than
the road at the base of the mountain, and it is some climb
in a car, the narrow road winding up like a snake going
up a telegraph pole. And it makes your ear-drums sing.
Before you are half-way up you begin to gasp for
breath, but you soon forget this when you look out upon
the gorgeous scenery and the towering mountain peaks
and the placid Pacific in the distance. And it is thrilling
because you realize that one little slip of the steering-
gear or a moment of inattention by the driver and you all
will go plunging down the abyss over the rocks and cliff
below for perhaps half a mile, where you will wake up
and find yourself in Heaven — or the other place.
[ spoke before the Wampas at a dinner given by them
recently, and before the Wasps, a couple of weeks
previous. The former are the pressmen of these parts,
the latter the presswomen, and a fine lot of fellows and
girls they all are.
B
obby Vernon took me out for a day's outing last
Sunday in his beautiful motor yacht. We sailed all
around the harbor, and out in the Pacific nearly to Cata-
lina Island and he pointed out all the yachts of film celeb-
rities and others, many of which were very pretentious,
indeed. Bobby himself was at the wheel, in yachting
costume, and he made a jolly and capable captain. His
yacht is about fifty feet over all and contains every mod-
ern convenience including sleeping accommodations for
about a dozen. In the party were his charming little
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Bowling, of Christie Comedies,
Corliss Palmer, the skipper, and myself, but Bobby was
the life of the
party. He is a
regular fellow in
every way, . a
good host and
quite a wit. His
. boat was so spick
and span every-
where that it
gave the impres-
sion of having
never been used
— even the en-
gine-room where
the brass work
shone like gold
with not a speck
of dirt or grease
anywhere.
Ul R G I
v B R o
Eugene V. Brewster visits
Laura La Plante while Director Mel Brown
acts as reporter
N I A
W N
Faire favored
me with an invi-
tation to dinner
38
of HOLLYWOOD
By Eugene
V. Brewster
Saturday night at the Biltmore Hotel and I found her
just u charming as she was in 1919 when as a mere child
ted her in her first screen tests which won 1km a
•i the Fame and Fortune Contest. All she needs
ood part ami she will yel stage a big comeback.
•stewart. Edmund Lowe and Mice Calhoun were
ind were very good to look upon.
\nv where some four hundred guests were as
tnbled to do honor to Carl Laemmle, J. Stuart
Bkckton made a splendid speech, followed hy Edwin
. arewe. Bert Lytell and others. They also showed some
novies mimicking "Uncle Carl" and doings at Universal
,'ity. Among the jokes was a topical song satirizing the
fact that there are several dozen Laemmles employed at
Universal, the chorus being:
"Send all the extras off the lot,
( >nly Laemmles will be in this shot."
There was also a movie of several thousand men walk-
ng in procession, introduced by a title :
"S<>me of the recent business managers of Universal."
They are still wrangling at Universal, and poor little
Mary Philbin has been doing nothing for many months
except draw her salary. 'Tis a crime, says I, for this
wonderful little lady would soon be at the top if they
would only give her a chance. Erich von Stroheim tried
:o borrow her recently for a very important part but the
L'niversalites are not particularly fond of Von and they
would not let Mary go. True 'tis 'tis pity, and pity is
tis true.
|i\st after seeing a private view of "Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp," Colleen Moore took me to a corner where
>tood several men and said, "I want to introduce you to
Harry Langdon." I looked them all over before holding
Dut my hand and then said, "Which one?" They all
aughed and one of them held out his hand. "You dont
mean it !" said I. But
le did mean it. It
was really he. He
wore a regular
Fedora hat with the
jrim pulled down
:>ver his forehead,
ind glasses. I would
never have believed
:hat it was Harry or
iny other actor. We
:alked about the pic-
ture and he showed
:hat he was about as
wise as they make
:hem, and thoroly
businesslike. Fur-
:hermore, there was
nothing funny about
aim. But wait till
you see that picture!
If you dont get a
:housand laughs out
3f it. you haven't got
i funny-bone.
| DiM.i) with Larry Semon and his wife, Dorothy Dwan,
at their tine home which is, i,f <"iirse, up on top oi a
hill. Why is it that SO many players always try to ^'
high as possible in the world? Perhaps because
want to get near Heaven. Larry is very happy, in spite
of the fact that he le.uhed the high spots in pic turedom
a few years BgO and has imt been able to keep himself
there. But he told me that he was only thirty-five and
full of fight and that the world would SOOU hear from
him again in a big way. He is now doing another
feature-length picture and is full of hopes. So am 1.
He deserves to win out.
* * *
Dudolph Valentino invited Pola Negri, Corliss
Palmer and me to dinner recently, but at the last
minute Pola phoned that she had been vaccinated the
previous day and that she was sick in bed with a fever.
I found a large photo of Pola in Rudy's bedroom, how-
ever, and it was the only one! Rudy has a fine Italian
villa on a mountain top in Beverly Hills, and while it is
all white within and without, the hangings are mostly of
a brilliant red everywhere, and the woodwork in his
bedroom is bright dark green. His brother and sister-
in-law were the only other guests and we enjoyed a
pleasant evening together.
* * *
Dobby Vernon will have his little joke. In all serious-
ness the other day at luncheon he said he had picked
up quite a little money by teaching Spanish. He said he
got a dollar a lesson and guaranteed to teach the language
in one lesson. I bit, paid him a dollar, and took a lesson.
Pointing to a knife, fork, spoon, etc., he said: el knifo,
el forko, el spoono, etc., and now I am a full-fledged
Spaniard.
* * *
V
Eugene V. Brewster drops in to call upon Mary Philbin
alextino is considering whether he will play a double
role in "Sor of the Sheik," and he has been making
some tests as the old. father. He is strongly in favor of
playing both parts, but Director Fitzmaurice fears that
double roles are inclined to detract from the story and
destroy reality. However, if the tests prove excellent, he
will probably yield
the point. Hence, I
think you will see
Rudy playing both
parts. And you will
see a newer Valentino
than you saw in "The
Eagle." He is full
of confidence now.
and chuck-full of en-
thusiasm and ambi-
tion, which is plainly
showing in his work.
A shower was
given to Kathleen
Clifford the other
night at the beautiful
and elaborate home
of Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Mix. Mr s.
Clarence Brown is a
society leader here
and she got it up.
{Cont'd on page 73)
:J9
CELLA LLOYD SOLVES
Scene I
Pa Lloyd spends all his time with the
property-men and all the rough boys on the
lot. Where else, demands Pa, can you find
honest guys?
J[l ^ETURH
n^WPKOP!
Lathis meai^$ VooJ
40
THE PROBLEM OF PA
WHAT'S GONE ON BEFORE
Now that Cella Lloyd, winner
of a bathing-girl contest, is safely
established as a Hollywood lumi-
nary, the problem of Pa Lloyd be-
comes a serious one. Like all
movie pas, Mr. Lloyd cant accli-
mate himself to the glories of the
film world. He's just his natural
self — and where, in Hollywood, is
there a place for such a gent?
Now read on!
Scene III
So Ma and Cella bundle
Pa off home. Pa is a little
depressed, but he re-
members how good the
fishing is along Spruce
Creek
Scene IV
Now every evening Cella and
Ma are seen at the Alameda
Gardens, dancing and having a
jood time with one of the re-
:ently imported Swedish leading
men and Dr. Wienberg, the
popular psychoanalyst. Continued
next month I
41
Another
Bathing
GIRL
Makes
Good/
Right out of the Polytechnic High
School in Los Angeles, Vera Reynolds
started her screen career in Mack
Sennett and Al Christie comedies. Vera
had read all the stories of the screen
stars and she knew just the right place
to start. Her first mild hit was scored
as Gloria Swanson's daughter in "Prodi-
gal Daughters." Then Cecil B. De Mille
found her. She was in "Feet of Clay."
And recently in "The Road to Yesterday"
42
Starring
LADY
LUCK
By
Norma Johnstone
JANE WIN TON is a favorite of the
god of Chance — possesses a potent
rabbit's foot — or is vibrating on the
right plane.
Take your choice.
To most of us Luck is a fugitive elf,
never around when needed, but to Jane
Luck has played a
big part in Jane
Winton's career. A
few years ago she
ran aw ay from
school. Now she
has a prominent
role in John Barry-
■'- r'Don Juan"
mores
Melbour
Winton he is constant as a shadow on a sunny day.
She had never studied dancing, yet she was in the
Fokine ballet. She had no stage experience, yet Ziegfeld
put her in his "Follies" ; no screen training, yet Lasky
made her sign a contract ; no roles of any importance, yet
John Barrymore gave her a coveted part in "Don Juan."
And so it goes.
Her loveliness may account for Luck's faithfulness.
Her hair is bright brown, her eyes long-lashed and gray,
her features perfect, and her hands have been a sculptor's inspiration. But
besides beauty, she has brains, and besides brains, she has ambition. . . .
Makes the Ballet
hen Jane was a little lonely girl in New York, a runaway from Phila-
delphia, trying to make two dollars do the work of six, she heard that
Fokine was selecting girls for his ballet.
She had not had a lesson in her life, but she had always danced. Attired in
a one-piece bathing suit, Jane sat in the orchestra of the theater,
watching the other applicants being tried out on the bare stage.
"Oh, why did I come?" she kept saying to herself, as girl after
girl, attired in delicately beautiful ballet costume, and carrying her
own special music, appeared behind the "foots."
Jane had just decided to vanish unobtrusively when her
name was called.
"Where's your music?" asked the pianist.
"It's — I thought you'd know how to play it," she sparred,
struggling to think of some music — any music! "I didn't
bring it. It — it's 'Kiss Me Again.' "
(Continued on page 77)
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N
OW that Hollywood has sat
isfactorily disposed of tru
FLASH
By F. J. S.
German film menace, a new
screen ogre has arisen. The new
bugbear has its habitat in Russia
and isn't going to be dislodged so
easily.
The ogre, to be exact, is the Rus-
sian Goskinprom producing practi-
cally all the Russian motion pic-
tures. This organization has the backing of can film industry. "Variety" was a story of the
the Soviet Government, which, for a long time, circus, the romance of an acrobat and a pretty
has been studying the screen from both propa- aenahst. In the German story the acrobat was
ganda and amusement angles. Only recently married and had several children. This original
it is said that an invitation was extended to film was shown with success in London, without,
Charlie Chaplin to come to Russia for a single we think, seriously damaging the morals of the
picture. Just before Doug Fairbanks and Mary British Empire.
Pickford sailed for their European vacation, However, the story is being reconstructed for
which, by the way, will take them into Russia, our delicate tastes. The acrobat no longer will
it is said an invitation came from the Russian be guilty of moral turpitude. In fact, he will
Goskinprom. be the father of the firetty aerialist, who, by the
We doubt that the Russians will win over way, is no other than Lya de Putti. This f>rob~
Mary, Doug or Charlie right now. But there ably isn't going to helfi the story any, but it will
is no question but that the Russians are reach- keeji the screen safe for Americans.
mg out for stars and directors. Fritz Lang, the It is interesting to note that one of the last
director of "Siegfried," has just accepted an Ufa films was "Manon Lescaut," starring Miss
offer from the Russian Goskinprom and has de Putti. Is this screen version to be shelved
gone into the land of the Soviets to produce.
We can imagine the problem the offer pre-
sented to Lang, torn between the adventure of
Russia and the lure of money in America. Lang,
incidentally, has just completed "Metropolis,
which, if reports from Berlin are to be believed,
is likely to prove a sensation. It is a mingling
of satire and fantasy, a picture of a strange
Utopia of the future.
now that John Barrymore is to do the story?
Or are we to have two "Manons," one with the
ornate de Putti and the other rebuilt to fit the
needs of a highly fiaid male star.
Right now the metropolitan critics are greatly,
exercised over the fact that D .W. Griffith is to
film Theodore Dreiser's two-volume "American
Tragedy. ' Many of the commentators appear
Lang's first Russian picture is adapted from to have thought of a number of other directors
a native story and will be called "Panther Skin." they would like to have direct the Dreiser tale.
Meanwhile, the film industry has due warning This story, by the way, concerns the son of
an evangelist who.
of its latest men
ace. We doubt if
it will swallow the
Russian Goskin-
prom as easily as
it downed the Ufa
organization. The
Soviet Govern-
ment stands in the
way.
Sneaking of
Ufa reminds us
that the local film
magnates are at
present tinkering
with " V ariety,"
the last Emil Jan~
nings picture to be
made before Ufa
became a subsidi-
ary of the Amen-
44
Hollywood now has a baseball team in the Pacific Coast
League. Clara Bow is its mascot. The gent behind the
bars is Lester Cook
upon ruining and
killing a girl, dies
in the electric
chair. It is a trag-
edy of small-town
morals, being
based upon an
actual murder
case up York
State.
As we have said,
some of the critics
have taken it upon
them selves to
worry about Grif-
fith's probable
treatment. They
intimate that he
may even insert a
ride to the rescue
and point out that
BACKS
About Pictures and People
tfon. No eotnodp, utuoot vou got a
chuck),- out Of Francts X. Bushman
in armor. I he St-u Beast ? An-
other leg lost here and the whole
effort studded with B arry more s
ga-ga emotionalism on the loose.
Not a chuckle, unless you got one out
of the whale. La Boheme ? A gal
doing a Camille while Jack Gilbert
slides in and out of scenes after the
he has already saved a gangster from the chair fashion of Ty Cobb making third base. A mild
in the modern episode of "Intolerance. giggle in this. "Stella Dallas"? A veritable
Personally, we cant see anything wrong with handkerchief extravaganza.
the choice of Griffith. In fact, there s a lot in No, we'd hirdly call it comedy year.
common between the two. Surely both are dis-
tiriL-tlv American. Both have the same weak- Last month we started naming our twenty-five
nesses and strengths. They weave loosely, in- hits of the oncoming screen year. We presented
sert a lot of extraneous matter, love to dawdle fourteen of them and postponed predictions as
over details, and every now and then evolve a to the remaining eleven to this issue. The added
crashing, tearing interlude.
We would like to see a Griffith discovery of
the past, Charles Emmett Mack, in the role of
Clyde Griffiths. George Hackathorne would be
our second choice.
Anyway, here is an interesting slant upon
changing public opinion. In 1900 or thereabouts
eleven
Ernst Lubitsch s "Revillon.
W. C. Fields' three comedies.
Pola Negri's film directed by von Stroheim.
Griffith's "American Tragedy.''
James Cruze's version of Copek s "R. U. R.
Harold Lloyd's next comedy, said to be a
Dreiser's first novel, "Sister Carrie, was throt- mountaineer story. But Lloyd s next comedy,
tied by its frightened publishers. Fifteen years whether or not it is a mountaineer story,
later his "The Genius'' was the storm center The other three places we reserve for what-
of a concerted attack by the Comstockians of ever big pictures are attempted by King Vidor
the day. American literary tastes developed and John Robertson.
in the interim. Now Dreiser is to be filmed.
Incidentally, the Devil s advocate of twenty- While were on the subject of screen authon-
six years ago receives $90,000 for his "American ties, we want to take uj> the subject of "The
Tragedy'' and a pretty
definite guarantee from
Herr Lasky that it is to
be produced as is.
Only a few months ago
the screen authoriti e s
were naming the mcom~
mg season as the great
comedy year. The twelve
months were to be de-
voted to laughter and
giggles, it was to be the
year in which our come-
dians came into their
own. The good old drama
was to be crowned with
a custard jSie.
Let s jSause to consider
how these jSredicti ons
have made out. No, not
so good. Take "The Big
Parade," without much
comic relief. And the
hero loses a leg. "Ben-
Hur ? An orgy of Chau-
tauqua religious emo-
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Doug and Mary, accompanied by Mary's adopted
daughter, Gwynne, sailed away for a European
vacation early in April
Tower of Lies. every
time the critics want to
take a crack at the Jowly
taste of our film audi-
ences, they comment
ujion the lukewarm re-
ception achieved by this
picture produced by Vic-
tor Seastrom.
Even my confrere ,
Tamar Lane, is ujSset
about this. "That the
movie industry itself has
allowed the fineness, the
beauty, the brilliancy of
The Tower of Lies to
ftass by unnoticed is not
unusual," he sobs — but
he cant arouse an an-
swering sob in our flint-
like bosom.
We considered The
Tower of Lies' to be
jSseudo-arty. It was the
story of an old feasant
who became the local
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Bessie Love is proud of her dancing ability. Between scenes
of "Lovey Mary" she takes lessons from Flynn O'Malley, a
professor of the Charleston
Left: June Marlowe demon-
strates the newest thing in
Deauville bathing attire. The
suit is of silk and wool, the
hat of vari-colored woven
straw and the parasol also of
straw
Lower left: Leatrice Joy and
Helen Ferguson at the
Hawaiian party given by
Miss Joy in honor of Don
Blanding, artist and writer,
upon his return from Hawaii
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Coach Dean Cromwell, of the University
of Southern California, shows Greta
Oarbo the fine points of running. "The
start's the thing," says Cromwell
Compare the Deauville costume with the
California bathing-suit style demon-
strated by Barbara Worth. Local style
makes good, say we
Don Gillum
A bird's-eye view of Charlie Chaplin's studio, with the "big top" now
being used in the circus comedy. Charlie used to live in the house at
the left, just back of the tennis court
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How the Charleston
would have looked to the
staid Puritans. Edna
Lyons and P a u 1 e 1 1 e
Neville, extras in "The
Scarlet Letter," demon-
strate their Charleston
dexterity
The newest thing in bath-
robes on the California
beaches is a Navajo blan-
ket. Here is Pa^sy Ruth
Miller illustrating its
effectiveness
Do you want to take off ten
pounds or so, without injury to
your health? Estelle Clarke
says this exercise will do it. Lie
flat on the ground and, keeping
the arms straight, touch the
toes to the ground back of your
head. How many times? Oh,
forty or fifty, says Estelle
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Charlie's FIND
International Ncwsreel
Altho she was born in Chicago, Miss Kennedy was raised in Los Angeles.
She has known Lita Grey (Mrs. Chaplin) since childhood. They went
to the same dancing school. Later Miss Kennedy appeared in vaudeville
with her brother. They were dancing at the Hotel Ambassador when
Lita and her grandmother happened to see them again. This meeting
led to Chaplin's signing of Merva as the little bareback rider of his new
comedy. Meanwhile, Doug Fairbanks has been reported as interested in
Miss Kennedy
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Ball
Frederick James Smith
HAROLD LLOYD has hit the comedy gong again
with his newest laugh effort, "For Heaven's Sake."
This comedy isn't another "Freshman." it should
be explained. "The Freshman" is still the high point in
Lloyd's humorous career.
"For Heaven's Sake," however, is highly diverting.
If anyone but Lloyd were its star, it would be looked
upon as a sensation. This time the spectacled Boy, other-
wise Lloyd, is a young millionaire without an aim in life
until he meets the Girl. The Girl is the daughter of an
East Side evangelist. There are a half-dozen amusing
episodes, starting with the way the Boy gets the tough
gangsters of the neighborhood into the newly opened
mission. The Boy, of course, becomes eventually the pal
of the East Side gentry. There is a hilarious finish when
the Boy attempts to keep to-
gether his wedding reception
committee of five gangsters,
in hired dress suits and ex-
pensively acquired buns.
Lloyd is admirable in this
comedy and he is given excel-
lent assistance by Jobyna
Ralston. You will find "For
Heaven's Sake" well up
among Lloyd's second-best
comedies.
Lardner's Baseball Hero
T liked Thomas Meighan's
1 "The New Klondike" im-
mensely. This is far and
away ahead of anything this
star has contributed to the
screen in a long time.
"The New Klondike" is an
amusing story of the devas-
tating effect the Florida real-
estate madness has upon a
baseball team. It is written
with a fine sense of humor by
Ring Lardner, who knows
more about ball players than
anyone I know. The story
itself — of a baseball star who
is canned by a crooked man-
ager and who wins his place
50
THE
CELLULOID
CRITIC
on the team along with the managership — isn't much.
The Lardner slant upon these grown-up children of the
diamond and upon the Florida Klondike (that was)
makes it diverting. The direction of Lewis Milestone,
too, is excellent.
Thomas Meighan plays Tom Kelly, the baseball star
who is so basely treated by the scoundrelly manager.
Meighan is just himself in a role that shrieks for char-
acterization. This star was once an excellent actor. Re-
member his work in "The Miracle Man" ? Now he
seems afraid to characterize.
The real honors of the comedy go to Paul Kelly, as a
boob bush leaguer breaking into big company. There is
a delightfully done bit, of a real-estate shark at work
upon the boobery, by an unnamed comedian. The man-
ager is well played by J. W. Johnston, an actor capable
of far better roles than this.
Norma Talmadge and Ronald Colman in "Kiki
Norma Talmadge's Kiki
D rob ably Norma Talmadge's screen version of the
A Andre Picard's comedy, "Kiki," will be highly popu-
lar. We had difficulty getting into the huge Capitol
Theater in New York to view
it. Furthermore, the observ-
ers about me gave every evi-
dence of liking the celluloid
"Kiki" immensely.
Unfortunately, when
Lenore Ulric played Kiki,
some seasons ago, we fell cap-
tive to her performance.
Kiki, you know, is a little
gutter gamine who works her
way into the chorus of a
Paris music hall, sets her
queer little cap for the hand-
some manager, and actually
outwits the prima donna who
has him in her train. In fact,
Kiki ends by winning the
manager completely.
Miss Ulric made Kiki, for
all her sordid gamine tricki-
ness, saucy, sparkling and
wholly captivating. Miss Tal-
madge follows the Ulric in-
terpretation in every detail,
even to the costume and the
queer little walk. There the
comparison ends. She sugars
Kiki and sentimentalizes her.
The Ulric verve isn't there.
Still, as we have said, pic-
ture audiences will probably
Frederick James
Smith
Reviews the New-
Photoplays
like Miss Talmadge's Kiki. All of
which can not keep us from thinking
of other players who could have
done so much better with Kiki.
Constance Talmadge, for instance.
In one thing the silverscreen
"Kiki" far surpasses the stage ver-
sion. The footlight "Kiki" cer-
tainly did not have Ronald Colman.
Ami Marc MacDermott does very
well with the role of Baron Rapp.
The direction of Clarence Brown is
adequate, revealing a fine variety of
camera shots. It is workmanlike
but not distinguished.
1926 "Taming of the Shrew"
Uannie Hurst received $50,000 for writing '"Manne-
quin." We dont know how much she got for "The
Untamed Lady," but she owes some of it to Will Shake-
speare, since the story is a modern adaptation of "The
Taming of the Shrew." Yes, this comedy has been
modernized be-
fore.
The only
item of interest
in "The Un-
tamed Lady" is
Gloria Swan-
son. The star
plavs the self-
w i' 1 1 ed St.
Claire Van
Tassel, spoiled
young lady of
wealth. Larry
Gastlen starts
out to break her
spirit and, hav-
i n g accom-
plished this,
marries her.
The comedy
limps along un-
der the direc-
tion of Frank
Tuttle. Nor
does Lawrence
Gray, the over-
praised leading
man, add any-
thing to the
general effect.
Miss Swanson
has a few inter-
esting moments
—and that's all.
Dorothy Mackaill and Conway
Tearle in "The Dancer of Paris''
Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston in "For Heaven's Sake"
"The Dancer of Paris," based upon a story by the
much-talked-about Michael Arlen, is just a carefully de-
vised boob shocker. Altho Arlen has passed from the
center of the spotlight in the literary and stage world, the
remnants of his fame will still carry a screen story or
two to success in the hinterland.
Aden's Boob
Shocker
"The Dancer
of Paris" is
the ornate yarn
of a rich spend-
thrift flapper,
who, upon be-
ing spurned by
a sick English-
man, starts out
to wreak her
vengeance. She
becomes a pro-
fessional dancer
and follows him
about the
world, taunting
him with
her unattain-
able loveliness
which, if we
may believe
Arlen, is "like
the gold dust
that lies on the
floors of the
dungeons of
gaiety." Fur-
thermore, her
laughter is "like
lightning against
a tortured sky."
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page 83)
Norma Shearer and Charles
Emmett Mack in "The Devil's
Circus"
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RASTERS OF THE
By Matthew Josephson
" A FTER all, the motion picture is only at the beginning
/A of its greater career. It has its own medium of
motion within pictorial beauty, to which it adds
whatever it can use from literature, painting, dancing,
drama, and, above all, music. But we are still groping,
and we are simply going to take ideas, wherever they
come from and whenever we think we can apply
them. ..."
Thus, King Vidor, one of our most talented and far-
sighted directors. At which the writer conceived the
somewhat ambitious design of setting forth thru a longish
ramble over the ground of the past and present "master-
pieces" of the cinema, trusting that by means of a fair
and reasonable analysis of them, a sifting to the bottom
of their actual accomplishments, some light might be
thrown on what the movies have gone thru and where
they are going.
What Are Masterpieces?
I et us consider the great films of the past as explora-
tions in an unknown land. We are looking at them
only from the point of view of the more or less sensitive
animal who sits in the darkened theater peering at the
dancing black and white of the screen. After all, the
powers that be in the movies are concerned with what
happens in the brain of him who consumes their millions
of feet of reel.
And what is a "masterpiece" of the cinema? Is it not
one of those pictures that is hard to forget, perhaps im-
possible to forget? As to the qualities that force us to
remember them, we shall recognize them better by
examining the pictures we have not been able to forget.
"The Birth of a Nation" is still running somewhere in
the United States ; it must be nearly a decade since it
was made. In some respects, the movies during this time
(and Griffith him-
self) have never
exceeded it.
This picture
marks a period,
when the movies
ceased to be a
form of cheap en-
tertainment,
nickelodeon, a
"joke," a "lot
of photography."
Griffith, the pio-
neer, gave the
world a new shud-
der; that is, a
thrill such as they
could not have got
out of books,
plays, operas. He
had a big enough
mind to deal with
a universal theme,
war and peace, in
a big and serious
way, altho in the
movies. First, he
utilized the ability of the cinema to spread over a large
slice of history and over a vast panorama of events,
armies, men, dramas. To realize graphically the sweep
and power of a story that spread over many years and
many states was a new "effect" that the book which gave
germ to the film never approached. It was a revelation,
and showed that you could do serious pictures on a heroic
scale, and that you could hold a public a whole evening
thru ten or a dozen reels. The handling of groups,
mobs, in order to secure the utmost emphasis on the
action they symbolized ; the composing of these pictures,
some of them so precise that they are of historical value ;
the intelligent direction of the actors, so that they were
deeply convincing and never looked like foolish movie
people — all this marked a great forward step.
Griffith's Film Dramatics
Altho Griffith thru this picture and afterward became a
master of tempo, a wizard at building up everything
to the single concentration point of action, "The Birth of
a Nation" seemed to fall distinctly into two episodes : the
Civil War, and the post-war reconstruction period. The
war period was very loosely put together, and weakened
the structure of the whole film, to my mind, by provid-
ing an anti-climax. But in the second episode Griffith did
some amazing things in the way of film dramatics. He
had three or four stories going on at the same time, all
working to their common climax, in their various ways.
The besieging of the little party of whites in the cabin;
the attempted violation of the girl ; the rising disorder
and debauchery among the blacks ; all are brought to a
happy and just (it is supposed) solution by the tremen-
dous raid of the Klansmen. And as for the Klansmen,
he had created them dramatically by providing in a
logical sequence one scene after another of mounting
horror, calculated
to make revolt and
violence inevitable
for the down-
trodden whites.
Early Chaplin
Comedies
Among the things
we must drag
back out of the
past are the early
Chaplin films.
Chaplin in "A
Dog's Life," "The
Rink," "The
Immigrant," pre-
sented the dance
of life. He was
the greatest dancer
of all ; and in his
pictures, every-
thing danced, his
walking stick, his
splay feet, his
mouth, his mus-
tache, his hands.
Gilliams Service
Scene from a new German film drama based upon the life of
Frederick the Great
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C7H0TI0N PICTURE
A Critical Discussion of the Screen's Advance
his trousers It was not the minuet, or the old-
fashioned waltz, or even the fox trot It was the rhythm
and balance of an infinite variety of movement! and
•ires, from the wildest shocks and rebounds to the
it delicate twirlings or nuances of his facial muscles.
It was such a mirroring of life as we would rather look
it in the tilin^ than read in a book, or hear in music,
or look at in a painting. In his own style he was a poet
of motion ; and his own energy, his dynamo of a figure
was hurled against a world that was inert and insensitive,
the world of Mack Swains, of policemen, of order and
peace. Sometimes he set everything to dancing about
him. as in "The Immigrant" where we are convulsed by
the backward and forward sliding of the food on the
peerage table. But always he possessed this secret of
skidding, skating, careening thru life at a pace, or
rhythm that created a new laughter, a new happiness, that
we should all have been much poorer not to have had.
Nobody, of course, could ever duplicate the personality
which Chaplin created as well — the Mona Lisa like smile,
a certain wistfulness combined with insolence toward all
the things that are proper and sacred.
Harold Lloyd adopted cunningly all the farcial ma-
chinery Chaplin used, which had really been hatched in
Mack Sennett's studios. Here we have again an uproari-
ous poetry of motion, which is inimitably of the cinema.
It is exquisitely created in the elaborate farces of Lloyd ;
and, characteristically enough, his face is a perfect mask
while his body never stops moving. Lloyd developing
from Chaplin mastered also some of the secrets of tempo.
That is. starting at a given speed, he would work up to
a frenzy of motion in different directions, when until
we were convulsed he would devastate us by a still more
outrageous combination.
One of those German scientists who write books on
the cinema said :
"The reason why
the American come-
dies are so infinitely
superior to Euro-
pean comedies, is
that they realize the
humor of motion,
kinetic farce."
Deaders of The
Motion Picture
Classic will recall
that the tvpical prod-
ucts of 1915-1920
were the old Triangle
society drama, the
cowboy films of
William S. Hart,
and an occasionally
high-minded piece
of work, such as
John Barrymore's
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde," "The
Miracle Man," or
"The Spoilers."
Scene from a new German trick film, "In the Land of Fortune,"
soon to be seen in America
Many of the old thrillers realized the beaut) ol mo
tion Unconsciously, The cowboy pictures mure than the
others. The attraction of B William S. Hart ;i> a ■
Kaufman, I imagine that they might reveal a native and
ingenuous charm all their own.
"The Spoilers," based on Rex Beach's novel, and again
exceeding the literary work, had one of those herculean
struggles that we are glad enough to witness from a
seat. But the fight was perfectly logical, in the film at
any rate. Moreover, the villain in this case had a per
fectly sound chance of getting away with the hero's gold
mine, in view of his power and the lawlessness that pre
vailed in Alaska.
The same sense of a struggle on a heroic scale is found
in "The Miracle Man," altho in this case the hero, played
by Thomas Meighan at his very best, seems to be in
opposition to a supernatural force, spiritual faith.
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," belonging to approximately
this same period which ended five years ago, was a piece
of serious film-drama, seriously conceived, intelligently
directed by John Robertson and cast, so that everyone
played with great skill and sincerity. However, we seem
now to have gone very far from even the acting of John
Barrymore, which completely lacked that "movie-way"
that the stars have now.
None of the three films just mentioned overcomes the
handicap which exists in our minds now as a result of
the tremendous strides made in camera technique. None
of them is equal to
modern pictures in
the firm, clear
beauty of their
cinema composi-
tions.
It is impossible to
have seen every-
thing; life is too
short for that. Al-
tho it is now
possible to revive
nearly everything,
thanks to the en-
lightened Film
Guild. We can re-
call enough from
the already dim past
of the movies to
feel that the early-
work realized a tiny
part of the broad
medium which the
cinema offers. They
kept things moving
before our eyes, in
(Con. on page 72 1
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Nealson Smith
We
SHEIK
Returns
With the big Fairbanks-Pickford lot trans
formed into a sandy stretch of the Sahara,
Rudolph Valentino has been at work upon his
"Son of the Sheik" for some time.
"Son of the Sheik" is E. M. Hull's attempt to
duplicate her best-selling shocker of several years
ago. The film version, bad as it was, helped to
lift Rudy to his meteoric popularity.
Will "Son of the Sheik" turn the trick of
denting the box-office for Valentino? We shall
see. Anyway, Rudy will have the glamourous
assistance of Vilma Banky, who has been termed
the Hungarian rhapsody. And the superb direc-
torial aid of George Fitzmaurice.
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The Off-Stage Laugh
The Part Played by Mrs. Raymond Hatton
in Her Husband's Career
By GLENN CHAFFIN
THE thing began when the Hattons
were youngsters together "on the
road." They had been married
only a short time, but had already
missed a few meals together. They
played a different show and a different
town every week. Sometimes the
changes were more often than that.
Pay envelopes were at a premium.
One night when Raymond was doing
a comedy bit in a play his humor failed
to create more than a mild ripple of
enthusiasm from the Middle-Western
audience. He had gone without dinner
and he felt more like playing for tears
than laughs.
Suddenly from the wings off stage
he heard the half-hushed laugh of a
girl. A laugh subdued, but in-
toxicating.
Its effect on the
comedian was electric.
He told me the other
night that it was
as cheering as tho
somebody had
tossed him a ham
sandwich, or a
five-dollar bill.
"That's a left-
handed tribute to
Frances," he added,
"but you see in those
days we got most of
our inspiration from
lunch counter. It's
right for the philosophers to
parade the theory that genius is born of want, but it's
hard to act funny when the thing you want is a square
meal.
Then Frances Laughed
" J glanced off stage and there stood Frances, laughing
to beat the band. I dont know yet just what my re-
action was, but in a few minutes I had everybody in the
house roaring. Say, neighbor, I swaggered off that stage
with the world at my feet. And, no joking, I could have
taken bows out there for an hour."
Aside from the fact that I spent a great many of my
Raymond and Frances
Hatton have been mar-
ried for years, since
they played together in
road shows. Now she
does her bit out of
sight of the camera
week-ends last summer as the
guest of the Hattons and
Milt Howe, who have adjoin-
ing beach cabins near Santa
Barbara, I have never actual-
ly been a neighbor of Ray's.
But it is a term that he uses
frequently to his friends and
he has a way of saying it that
makes you feel as tho you'd
fought Indians with him. Or
homesteaded by his side in
the great open spaces. The
kind of fellow you feel that
you can ask for a free meal
without losing his friendship.
The idea for this expose of
the Hatton professional alli-
ance originated in an incident
which occurred on a stage at
the Famous Players-Lasky
studio in Hollywood a short
time ago. Ray was playing a
scene with Mary Brian in
"Behind the Front," a war
comedy in which Hatton and
Wallace Beery clown their
way thru barbed wire en-
tanglements, shell holes and
what-not.
Evans
"Behind the Front"
Crances and I were stand-
ing off stage watching Ray
fill his coat sleeves full of silverware. The thing was
funny, but at first I confined my enjoyment to a grin,
figuring that my cue was to be neither seen nor heard
while there was action in the air.
Not so Mrs. Hatton. She laughed outright and
heartily. The camera was grinding away and I made the
faux pas of my young life by trying to "shush" her.
She looked at me in amazement.
"Dont shush me, silly. I'm doing this for Raymond's
benefit. This is my contribution to his art. I'm the
'off-stage laugh that you hear so much about in the
'speakies' realm."
Just as soon as the scene was finished, Ray came over
to where we were standing.
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All's
FAIR
in
Love
By Mary B.
Chapman
Melbourne Spurr
At fifteen Elinor Fair made her debut as the little cripple girl in
"The Miracle Man." Remember that touching performance?
THERE is much controversy in Hollywood — and elsewhere —
concerning careers versus matrimony, and many and varied are
the opinions advanced on the subject.
But there is one girl in town who found the passport to success in
both lines handed to her because a director spent one spare hour in a
certain picture house.
% The girl is Elinor Fair, the director is Cecil B. De Mille, and the
p'icture was one starring Buck Jones and with scenes laid in a Western
lumber camp.
Found by De Mille
/~)nce during the picture, Elinor in a sudden 'flare of mimic
temper slapped Buck Jones
in the face ; at another time, she
opened a door, smiling, and be-
fore she had closed it her ex-
pression had changed from joy
to bitter tragedy. Mr. De Mille
observed and made mental
note at nine o'clock one eve-
ning.
At ten next morning, the
brown-eyed Elinor was in-
formed over the telephone that
Mr. Goodstadt, casting direc-
tor for De Mille productions,
wished to see her.
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Elinor Fair as the princess in Cecil
De Mille's new production, "The
Volga Boatman"
*-**.•
How Elinor Fair
Met and Married
Bill Boyd
"I thought he wanted to see me about
a lead with Rod La Rocque," said
Elinor, dimples dancing in the rose. of
her cheeks, "but instead he took me up
tu Mr. De Mille's office, and 1 learned 1
wts In-iti}; considered for the part of the
princess in 'The Volga Boatman.'
"No, 1 wasn't nervous. I've never
a afraid to meet anyone. I believe 1
could go and talk to the president and
feel no more impressed than if I were
conversing with the Moorman of the
stiulio.
"Sign Her Up!"
"Mk. De Mii.i.k told me the story of. the
picture, asked me a few questions
ahout work, and then we discussed
foreign countries and men, women and
dogs. At the end of half an hour, he
called Mr. Goodstadt and said: 'Take
William David l\
your girl down-stairs and sign her up,' and that's all
there was to it."
It was her work in this picture that caused Mr. De
Mille to give her a contract calling for featured roles.
But the most important development of her signature on
the dotted line, according to Elinor herself, was the ac-
quiring of a bridegroom.
Shortly after the name "Elinor Fair" had been ap-
pended to the paper on Mr. Goodstadt's desk, the owner
of it was given a screen test for hair-dressing and
costume.
As she stepped up on the set, she noticed a tall, fair
youth standing near the camera, doing nothing in par-
ticular.
"Miss Fair, let me present Mr. William Boyd."
mumbled the director of the test, and in the same breath
began to explam the action of the scene.
At the left, Elinor Fair in a scene of "The
Volga Boatman" with William Boyd. Two
months and four days after she met Bill, the
two were married
The two young people looked at one another
briefly, bowed, and walked awray — one to her
place before the Kleigs, the other — but where Bill Boyd
went. Elinor doesn't know, for she was so little inter-
ested that she failed to notice wffiether or not he was still
on the set when the test was over.
Meets Bill Boyd
Co much for love at first sight.
They met again when Mr. De Mille read the story
to the cast, and a week later found them together on
location near Sacramento.
"We played around with each other, as leading players
of a picture always do," admitted Elinor, "hut until the
last day of our stay there was no more to it. Then — it
happened."
What "it" was is to be interpreted by those who have
been in love.
*AYe were to leave that day. and Mr. De Mille hoped
to make one last shot of me by the river, so I had m\
make-up and costume on, while Bill was in civilian
clothes ready to go home. We were waiting for the sun
to come out, you see, so we sat on the barge by the river
with the clouds hanging low and a chill wind blowing.
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International Newsreel
Clara Bow again is reported engaged. This time to Gilbert
Roland, a film player of some prominence. The wedding date
is still unnamed
Pacific & Atlantic
Mr. and Mrs. Buck Jones drop in to call
upon Will Hays before sailing for Europe. Both
Will and Buck spent their boyhood in Indiana
Letters to King Dodo
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty:
ONE of the strangest phenomena of Hollywood is
the Writers' Gub of the Screen Writers' Guild of
the Authors' League of America. -I hope to have
the pleasure of conducting Your Majesty to dine there
incognito when you visit this country. The busy writers
do not frequent the club by day, but in the cool of the
evening they come down to feed on the tender asparagus
tips and the young squabs provided under the careful
management of Major Hughes, Our President.
Here Your Majesty will observe a discreet nook,
reserved for the celluloid samurai, palpitant with well-
bred interest. A Maker of Stars is revealing to a chosen
few the secret of her success. Voluminous in a batiked
frock that encloses her as in the nimbus of an ample
sunset cloud, she rolls her eyes expressively.
"I take no credit to myself. I realize that my hand
is guided by the souls of generations long since
departed !"
The table stiffens, gaping.
"Well do I remember those wonderful nights on the
Nile!"
She sighs voluptuously.
"I was his mother in that incarnation. But I wronged
him."
The table buzzes with respectful comment.
"And listen ! I take no credit for my wonderful
screen stories. They are all written for me. I go to
bed at night and promptly at 4 A. M. the subconscious
mind — heritage of generations of the best brains of all
lands — begins to work for me. When I wake up, the
story has been completed."
The table twitters its appreciation.
"But this gift of recalling the past so vividly has its
drawbacks."
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She looks coyly sidewise.
"Just the other day on the set a tall, dark, East Indian
gentleman stepped up to me. He looked me right in the
eye and in a deep, magnetic voice he said, as he held my
hand : 'Do you remember that night in Babylon four
thousand years ago ?'
"I was so embarrassed !"
New York.
Dear King:
Pjoubtless, you are interested in knowing about Alastair
Mackintosh, who married your favorite, Constance
Talmadge. The Hon. Alastair departed from California
shortly after the wedding, sojourning in Palm Beach and
other Florida points for a time. Thus Connie spent part
of her honeymoon alone.
My spies report to me that the Hon. Alastair is a
personal friend of the Prince of Wales and a former
captain in the Seaforth Highlanders. He is a member
of the prominent Inverness family and was at one time
equerry to Princess Beatrice. Later he acted as A. D. C.
to the governor of Bombay.
Still, that doesn't explain to your highness, I know,
how a bridegroom could ramble off to Palm Beach,
leaving the fair Connie behind.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Jean Hersholt told me the other day that he hopes to
be able to work with Erich Von Stroheim and also to
play "The Return of Peter Grimm" for Fox. If he per-
forms this feat, Fox will have to hurry Peter's return to
enable Jean to begin with Von the next month.
The sudden but determined rise of jean Hersholt will
interest Your Majesty, because it was not an accident as
most movie careers happen to be, but was actually
irnulioiul Xewtrtcl
Laura La Plante and Hedda Hopper come to
New York for a brief visit. The CLASSIC
cameraman met them at Grand Central Station
The dangerous difficulties of being a cameraman. John Boyle,
from Director Lambert Hillyer's car, films a race at thirty-five
miles an hour
By Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith
engineered by the climber, who used business methods on
the business men who make the pictures. His salary is
now something scandalous.
Hersholt had been a small-fry director for years. He
played the villain with Mary Pickford in "Tess of the
Storm Country." The shrewd eyes of Von Stroheim
noticed him and gave him the part of Martin Schuler in
"Greed." Hersholt scored and was promptly deluged
with demands that he play the identical character in
other pictures — this is the system when an actor makes
a hit in a certain part.
But Jean was not to be caught in this vicious system.
He managed to slip in some characterizations that were
not Martin Schuler1 s but were equally good ones. And
his last impersonation, that of The Old Soak, places him
definitely as the first character actor of the screen. I am
excepting Lon Chaney, whose genius lies in the direction
of eccentric characterizations.
"It's a joke," laughed Hersholt, telling me about his
sensational arrival.
"If I had suggested playing a Warfield role a few
years ago, the producers would have laughed at me.
Yesterday I found myself up against this situation. Von
wants me to be co-starred in 'The Wedding March.'
Fox wants me to play 'The Return of Peter Grimm.'
Lasky wants me for 'The Rough Rider,' a story about
Roosevelt — all at the same time."
If necessary, Jean will choose to go with Von Stroheim,
the director who really made him, and sacrifice the other
parts. His part in "The Wedding March" is a butcher,
the rival of the aristocratic militarist to be played by Von
himself.
"In The Old Soak,' " said Jean, with the remnants
of a Danish accent, "I had to laugh. They were afraid
to keep the ending of Don Marquis' play because the
play was a flop in the middle of America where the senti-
ment is dry. So they added a scene to the picture in
which the old man repents and sits there crying — smash-
ing all his whisky bottles! It may satisfy the censors,
but the old soak would never have done that in real life."
Xew York.
Y'our Highness :
VOUR telegram for further facts about Lya de Putti
was. acted upon at once. Lya, as you know has re-
covered from her operation and is working in the Grif-
fith effort, "The Sorrows of Satan." My spy Xo. 47,
located in Berlin, tells me that Lya's real name isn't
de Putti, after all. It's Amalia Janke. She was at work
at the Ufa studios when she signed up with Famous
Players. She finished the film on a Saturday, where-
upon she boarded a train without informing anyone.
Various claims as to debts were advanced immediately.
These claims amounted to eighty thousand gold marks.
One of the creditors complained to the police and Lya
was held up at Cologne. She was allowed to continue,
however, after depositing five thousand gold mark-.
Other alleged creditors appeared, but Lya was across
the border. Her motor car and other valuables left
behind in Berlin were seized. For a time it seemed that
Lya might not sail to these shores. Finally, some sort
of arrangement was made and Lya departed.
The fair Lya is reported to be getting $1,000 a week
at Famous.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty:
In my last epistle I had the honor to comment to Y'our
Majesty upon the bizarre practice in moviedom of
altering the intention of a play in order to escape censor-
ship. Better not make it, at all, you would think — but the
producers believe they must have the play for its name.
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CLASSIC
- .
Buster Keaton gets encouragement during the filming of
the comedy, "Battling Butler," from Mickey Walker,
welterweight champion
Alice Lloyd, the English comedian, calls upon
Charlie Chaplin. Years ago they played on the
same bills in the English music-halls
The Puritan thread which runs thru American life is
evidently just as tough as it was in the days of the Salem
witchcraft. There always has been, of course, plenty of
opposition. But Your Majesty could never guess the
quarter from which the latest anti-Puritan propaganda is
coming. Lillian Gish is making "The Scarlet Letter"
into a picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, acting on her
own initiative. Her own ancestors were New England
roundheads and she always wished to reproduce Haw-
thorne's masterpiece as a movie.
Securely hidden behind a tall "nigger," I watched the
frail Lillian making a scene for the picture — the scene
in which Hester Prynne meets her husband after she has
been decorated with the letter of shame. I never saw so
much pains being taken with any scene — and I have
watched Von Stroheim at work again and again. Lillian
was rehearsing her own scene apparently without any
direction from Victor Seastrom, who was just sitting on
the side-lines.
But the most pains were being taken with the lights.
The lights were the invention of Lillian's own camera
wizard, the former Herr Professor Hendrik Sartov, of
Rotterdam. This physicist, weaned from his university,
but not from his long pipe and flowing tie, was putting
one band of light over Lillian's eyes while with another
arrangement he was getting rid of her cheek-bones. He
is undoubtedly a monumental asset.
Lillian and her friends are going to make "The Scarlet
Letter" without softening the hard Puritan character, I
was told. It will be a lesson for the long-hairs of today,
the same lesson that Griffith attempted to convey in "In-
tolerance" and failed magnificently in the doing.
This picture begins to look like another big success for
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; and with such a bright young
man as Joseph Hergesheimer for her press-agent, I see a
bright future for Lillian.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty:
John Gilbert is being fitted at the Western Costume
Company for the trunk-hose, the doublets, the velvets
and laces and armor he will wear as the hero of a piece
the title of which, when he pronounced it for me,
sounded like a savory sauce: "Bordelaise, the Magnifi-
cent," or something of the sort — by Rafael Sabatini, the
modern romancer of the Middle Ages.
I am inclined to agree with the opinion, expressed after
viewing "The Big Parade" at Your Majesty's theater in
Oz, that Jack Gilbert eclipses in sheer histrionics, any
leading man who heretofore has graced the celluloid
drama. In answer to Your Majesty's question anent the
secret of his outstanding superiority, it seems to me that
Jack possesses all the qualities of the others with the
addition of a more subtle personality. He is of a finer
grain. His acting never jars. Watching Gilbert gives
the same satisfaction as riding in a perfect foreign-built
motor-car.
It is almost impossible to believe that the drab and
wrinkled extra whom I encountered the other day wait-
ing for some scrap to be thrown from the casting window
at the Fox Studio could be Jack Gilbert's father. Yet
such is his claim, and Jack himself does not attempt to
deny it. The son sends a monthly check, but he does not
wish any closer contact with the man who says he is his
father.
"He didn't show himself till I was on top," said Jack.
"When I needed a father, he wasn't there. To save my
neck I cannot feel any affection for this man who is a
stranger to me."
Physically, there is no resemblance between the mouse-
colored old stock actor, whose name is John Pringle, and
the dark, vivid, romantic-looking Gilbert, who resembles
his mother. She was Ida Adair, once a favorite on
Broadway — a flower that quickly withered and died in
the hectic glare of the calciums. As a boy, Jack knew
little of either parent. He was indeed a Dazid Copper-
field of the stage.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Here is one of the odds and ends of movie life which
n may afford Your Majesty some amusement. Three
years ago a girl named Gladys McConnell graduated
from Hollywood High School and tried to break into
pictures. For weeks she haunted Fred Datig's ante-
chamber at Universal City — without any result.
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Syd Chaplin demonstrates the only safe
way to be a cowboy. However, this
pony isn't so good in a stampede
Greta Garbo helps Lew Cody make up as Othello for an episode
of "Toto," being filmed at Metro-Goldwyn. Would you
recognize Lew? We wouldn't
It happened then that her sister Hazel, a leading
woman in West Coast stock theaters, took a six-hundred-
test of herself to show to Datig. In the last scene
Gladys, the sister, appeared as a maid, handing a wrap
to the aspiring screen actress. After the test Datig said
to Hazel :
"I dont think we can use you but — who was that girl
who appeared in the last scene?"
"My sister," replied Hazel.
"Send her out." said the Universal official, and the
girl who had given up hope of ever getting a job, was
placed under contract.
Gladys has been playing leads for Hal Roach. She
recently signed a five-year contract with Fox. What hap-
pened to Hazel ? Oh, she got married.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
There was a time when Hollywood looked with some
contempt upon the comedy producer. Comedies were
still fill-ins. However, a new comedy era threatens to
make the bathing-girl motif an antique, according to
plans that are blooming at Hal Roach's plant. Roach
possesses in Katherine Grant, Martha Sleeper, Glenn
Tyron and othtrs some very possible feature material.
Whereas they were merely comedians yesterday, they
have now become factors worthy of more than passing
consideration. For under the new regime, Hal Roach
has inaugurated a series of all-star comedies in which
such personages as Virginia Pearson, Eva Novak and
Lionel Barrymore have already appeared. The astute
producer recently signed Ethel Clayton and will, no doubt,
close his negotiations with Irene Bordoni to come West
and make a two-reel comedy.
It may soon be possible for the big studios to farm out
their contract players to Roach, and there are few com-
panies that will not seize this opportunity to let the
comedy producer pay for their players' idle hours. The
actors realize that it is a means of getting a greater num-
ber of film appearances, and while comedies are comedies,
business is business.
Before long we may see Norma Shearer. Jack Gilbert,
Madge Bellamy, Leatrice Joy, Belle Bennett, Francis X.
Bushman, even John Barrymore, engaging in the idle-
hour game.
Why not? Many of Mack Sennett's comedies are
better than the heavy dramas they burlesque.
New York.
Dear Rex :
[ know your highness will be amused at the way an
executive of a big New York newspaper whipped a
certain motion picture company into line.
A former member of this paper's editorial staff had
been a scenarist in Hollywood. The company advanced
the writer to the post of director. In the course of
events something happened. The writer-director, on
location, was relieved of his post and ordered back to
the studio. Someone in power hadn't taken a fancy to
him, it seems.
Back at the studio, the writer-director resigned. By
chance he told his story to the executive of his old news-
paper, who happened to be visiting in Los Angeles. The
executive dropped around to see the president of the
film company, also in town. He intimated that the whole
thing was unethical, and that the writer ought to be paid
the full amount of his contract. The film president
stalled — but the executive was obdurate. Finally, the
writer-director was paid in full.
Unfortunately, your highness, few screen workers have
powerful friends. If they did, there would be fewer
dirty tricks pulled in what we pleasantly term the fifth
great industry.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
My friend Carey Wilson has never ceased to talk about
the halcyon days when the "Ben-Hur" company was
spending Marcus Loew's money so gaily in that dear
Italy.
It has been nearly a year now since Carey was resur-
rected from an ancient Roman tomb. Carey, who is a
professional scenario writer — but that should not be laid
too heavily against him — still delights to tell about the
Bragaglia Cafe.
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Filming "Beau Geste"
(Continued from page 26)
picture, as we
watched the lower-
ing of the colors
at sundown — two
Americans folding
the Stars and
Stripes, two Eng-
lishmen folding the
Union Jack, and
two Frenchmen
the flag of France.
A Cast of
Veterans
IV/Iost of the cast
are veterans of
the World War
and take to soldier-
ing naturally.
Victor McLag-
len, Hank of the
picture, was cap-
tain of police in the
city of Bagdad, and
has dealt with the
children of the des-
ert first hand.
"Killing a white
man brings an
Arab nearer his
heaven," he ex-.
plained, his eyes
on the long line of
mounted Arabs,
whose flowing
robes and giant
shields no longer
terrified their
trained steeds.
Training the
horses to bear such
garbed and yelling
riders was part of
the task of Jack
Moore, in charge
of all stock used
in the picture. His
was also the feat
of "breaking" the
150 mules ridden
by' the Senegalese
troops, bringing them within two weeks
from the status of wild mules on the range
to army steeds working in formation.
It was the war that put Victor McLag-
len in close sympathy with Herbert Brenon
on the making of "Beau Geste." Victor
is one of eight brothers all over six feet
tall, and England's declaration of war
brought all of them home from various
parts of the world to enlist.
Fred was Victor's elder and favorite
brother.
"He used to be always talking about
'my young brother Vic,' " remembered Vic-
tor, "and people would expect to meet a
youngster about thirteen. Then I'd come
in — bigger than the side of a house! Well,
anyway, when I left home the first time,
I was seventeen and Fred took rne to the
boat. . . .
"I met him, when we gathered to en-
list, on a corner in Piccadilly. 'Leaving
tomorrow for Mesopotamia!' he greeted
me, and presently : T say, do you remem-
ber how I took you to the boat when you
first went away? I'd like you to do the
same for me tomorrow, Vic. That will
be our last good-bye.'
"I was horrified. 'Oh, you'll come back,
old man !' I assured him. He shook his
head. . , . He was right. He never
did come back."
There are brothers of the blood — and
there are brothers of the heart. Of the
latter are Ronald Colman and William
Alice Tildesley on
Paul McAllister,
Tildesley, Norman
location with the "Beau Geste" company. Left to right:
William Powell, Noah Beery, Victor McLaglen, Miss
Trevor, Director Brenon, Ronald Colman and Neil Hamilton
Powell, who share a tent on "Beau Geste
Square." (The twenty-five streets in camp
are named for the various pictures made
by Director Brenon.)
Not since the filming of "Romola," when
the two spent an idyllic year together in
Italy, have they appeared in the same
cast.
There is a certain tender memory be-
longing to these two concerning a table at
a sidewalk cafe — a table always reserved
for them. It was here they sat on their
last day in Italy, under the budding green
of an April now two years past. Ronald
was called back to New York, William
was headed for the North.
"When shall we two meet again?" was
the burden of their thoughts.
"Beau Geste" is the answer.
Wherever Noah Beery goes, the records
of Tito Schipa, that brother of his heart,
go also. When the terrible Lejaune of the
picture rests in the shade of his tent, the
golden voice of the tenor is heard. And
so wherever Tito Schipa travels, the first
thing he does on arrival in a town is to
scan the theatrical bill of fare and choose
one of Noah's pictures. . . .
Norman Trevor, Beaujolais of the story,
was born in India ; when he was grown
he visited Morocco and saw the Foreign
Legion in its desert forts.
"The only difference between our lo-
cation here and the country there," he
observed, "is tfo
color of the sand
Ours is a rich gok
— theirs is paler
But in the dawn 01
at sunset you not(
the same effects. A
sunrise the dune;
take on a rosy tint
with a faint blue
in the shadows; al
the close of day
they are a strange
Nile green, deepen-
ing to purple."
Difference in
Deserts
A nother differ-
ence in deserts
was pointed out by
Paul McAllister
(St. Andre)— the
trail of a bobcat
over the hills !
"You can dig
down in our desert
and strike water —
so men and animals
lost on it can live,"
explained Mr. Tre-
vor, "but in Africa,
except in an oasis,
you would dig in
vain."
One of the laws
of the Foreign Le-
gion is that when
something is stolen
the man from
whom it is stolen
is punished instead
of the thief.
"I have watched
a legionnaire wasli
his hands," said
Mr. Trevor. "Xot
daring to lay down
his soap, he holds
it in his mouth. An
article of clothing
he is not wearing is securely fastened to
a board. If by chance someone gets his
belt or button, he promptly steals from
another."
But we need not depend on second-hand
tales on this location, for Leo Sleeman is
a seven years' veteran of the real Foreign
Legion and carries with him his "Livre
de la Legion Etrangere."
The little book contains the "thou shalt
nots" of the legion and the grim word
"Mort" follows twenty-six of the com-
mandments.
Three medals of the legion decorate the
breast of this genuine legionnaire, but one
of his hands is minus a finger.
"Arab," he explained, to the listening
group lounging in the oasis beyond the
fort. "I am smoking the cigaret in the
night outside the walls. I have come off
from sentry-go. I take the cigaret from
my lips and hold it out — so — while I blow
forth the smoke. Ping ! An Arab sharp-
shooter from the great dark aims at the
light and gets my finger."
And once, when Sleeman was guard on
duty in the barrack room, a fellow soldier
got "le cafard," drank too deeply, and in
a drunken rage killed a comrade.
The commandant of the fort called the
clerk, had him read above the unconscious
form of the murderer, who had slumped
down over a table in a stupor, the legion
rule pertaining to his offense — one of those
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Tents in Canaan
(Continued from page V> I
rkshop — a home — by Gadl He seeks ■ reference
mething. We rise and follow him into Ins bedroom
where Jack has a few immediate books. His library lias
ft\ arrived.
The door turns at the clutch of a great black key three
feet long, duplicated from the product of a sixteenth-
century workshop. The books are in a small rack at the
foot of the bed, a massive four-poster, heavily hung in rose
brocade. The books Jack has just been reading — "Arrow-
stuith." "The World's Illu-
sion'," "Haunch, Paunch and
fowl," "Husbands and Lovers,"
Sadakichi Hartmann's mad
"( untucius."
Yes, presented by the author.
The old satyr had presented me
likewise, then called and carried
away two books written and
presented by Ben DeCasseres.
There is a method in his mad-
ness, for he played on Jack the
same trick.
Typical of Gilbert
Jack belongs — in this house
of neo-Spanish feeling. His
brown, liquid eyes, his hair
with the oily gloss of a raven's
back, definitely place him here.
One lock of long hair is falling
carelessly down his forehead,
curling like a dark, lively vine
— a graveyard vine, somber
with youth matured before its
time. For Gilbert, a poet at
heart, an actor by the gift of a
great power of feeling, has a
mottled groundwork of back-
stage life instead of a boydiood.
He benefited in that he grew
up an unconscious philosopher.
It is give and take with Jack,
in that elegant casualness which,
the world over, betokens a
gentleman aware.
Casually talking, we stroll
thru Jack's rooms, joking
about his saints and virgins
which adorn ceiling and niche.
Jack's bathroom is what an
ancient Roman would have done
with modern plumbing.
Nobody except Jack Gilbert,
who doesn't give a damn what
the lady fan writers write, could get away with his break-
fast-room— canary yellow, with a window full of yellow
canaries. Out in his garden, up a pathway, is the water-
fall and Jack's beloved fish. At hand, an athletic diversion
— a new Hollywood perversion — a court for the game
called Dougledyas, invented by the inimitable Fairbanks.
A big swimming-pool with its miniature beach of shingle
and dressing-rooms labeled Senoritas, Caballeros.
Casually talking about women, a plaything of which
we have grown sufficiently contemptuous, but, unwilling
to abandon it, continue to experiment with new color series.
Agreeing that light browns are most desirable but arguing
about which browns, Jack extolling the Plantation enter-
tainers of the Great White Way while I am all for Creole
Carolynne's gals of the local Cotton Club.
Pola and the Borgia atmosphere of her
home
Out at the gate, poised on the ledge, from which, if he
felt temperamental, the star could hurl empty bottles down
on the mansion of his director, King Vidoi fully
(lumbering beneath him. And so along the steep Tower
Road descending toward the scattered settlements.
Evening. The white Spanish house cool without and
dark within, touched by fulgurous streaks in rich tapestries
and occasional glints of steel. Repose. Meditation. And
B hiur of melancholy.
The Ray Home
I F early evening is the time to
visit Gilbert^ house, then
early morning is the only pos-
sible hour to invade the Eng-
lish cottage inhabited by Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Ray.
It stands down on the level,
still in Beverly, but actually on
Sunset Boulevard. The rubber-
neck busses ploughing by merely
slow up while the distant voice
of the megaphone shouter is
wafted over the hedge to those
within.
Ray's garden is the dream of
a nostalgic Anglo-Saxon made
to come true as nearly as pos-
sible in the unfitting, semitropic
flora of Southern California.
Hedges and fountains and
velvet turf. A swimming-pool
like a four-leaf clover, designed
by Charley himself.
Mjs. Hemans would have
loved his place. Of Charley's
place we can repeat reverently
the original of the parody with
which I led this story :
The stately homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall, ancestral trees
O'er all the smiling land.
An English maid in stiff
white peers thru the wicket.
Charley comes down — in carpet
slippers and flowered bath-robe,
with his thin tenor voice which
seems to fit the drawing-room
admirably. It is the same voice
as that possessed by his marvel-
ous glass clock, a bower of thin-
spun fragile posies in which a
pair of shepherd lovers nest.
The clock speaks the early hour of nine in its thin,
melodious voice. Light, light, pale, fair, English rooms.
Cupids and dolphins, filigree. A priceless fan of
Watteau's in a glass case. Even the piano painted after
the style of Louis Quinze with one of the absurd scenes
in which lords and ladies play at being shepherds and
shepherdesses.
There are a few books scattered neatly about. Most
of them relate to the theater. Charley takes his work
seriously. There are no books about movies. There is
a copy of The House Beautiful and Theatre Magazine,
which, I recall bitterly, still owes me for that story on
Hollywood that Papa Hornblow printed in 1924. The
{Continued on page 82)
The Answer
Man
Just, Canton. — Dolores Costello's
first starring picture for Warner
will be an adaptation of Winston
Churchill's "The Crisis." I say
little, but I think more. A flow of
words is no proof of wisdom.
K. A. Med. — You say, if I am a
bachelor, I must be a singular man.
Quite right. I have never mar-
ried. You see, I didn't want to
marry when I was young, and when I got old, no one wanted to
marry me. Madge Evans has gone to Europe to travel and study.
Her last picture was "Classmates."
Mary L. P. — Thanks for the drawings. So you really dont
think I am an old man of some eighty years. You'll have to take
my word, Mary. Buster Keaton in "The Engine Driver."
Pat, Detroit. — So you are going to California. Are you going
to Ford it? Yes, I would like to have one of your kittens, but
where could I keep it, here in my hall-room? Then I would have
to get milk instead of buttermilk. Why, Mae Murray is playing
in "Altars of Desire," directed by Christy Cabanne.
Mary S. — I have stopped at the Plaza, Havana. Couldn't afford
the Sevilla-Biltmore. Yes, Lon Chaney is married. Baby Peggy
is playing in "April Fool."
Grant K. — Never mind the business outlook. Be on the look-
out for business. I cant give you Clara Bow's home address,
but you can reach her at Famous Players-Lasky, 1520 Vine Street,
Los Angeles, California. Gertrude Short and Creighton Hale in
"A Poor Girl's Romance." See you later.
Bill, U. S. N. — Heave ho, my lads, heave ho. Wait until you
see "The Black Pirate." It certainly is thrilling, and Doug is
marvelous in it. Mary Astor at First National, 5341 Melrose
Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Maria Eugenia Reachi is the
daughter of Agnes Ay res, born March 25, 1926.
Neil. — I should say you are ambitious. Keep it up. Ambition
is an appetite never satisfied, a spur that never spares us. You
know that courtship is a bow-knot that matrimony pulls into a
hard knot. Renee Adoree does not give her age. Your letter
was a gem, and it had some sparkle.
Sarah K. — See here, what's this. Why is a dog biting his
tail a good manager? Because he makes both ends meet. No,
William Haines is not married. And some men are known by
the company they cant get into.
E. K., N. Y. C. — No, I never get tired. This is the time of the
year I like to take a hike out into the woods. But try and find
the woods around here. Yes, it is true that D. W. Griffith is to
do Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" for Famous
Players-Lasky, with Glenn Hunter in the lead. Famous will
guarantee Dreiser that the book will be filmed exactly as it was
written. Write Richard Dix direct.
Slippery Sue. — Put on your brakes. You're skidding. William
Boyd is married to Elinor Fair. You know they met while
playing together in "The Volga Boatman" and were married
about six weeks after. Harry Pollard directed "The Cohens &
Kellys."
De W. — No. Edwin Carewe and Arthur Edmund Carewe are
not one and the same person. The former is a director. Roy
D'Arcy doesn't give his age. Lou Tellegen was born in Greece.
Harold Lloyd's next picture will be laid in the Kentucky hills.
We'll probably see some stills.
Betty S. — Your joke was like the little boy who asked his
father if the 2*ebra was a black animal with white stripes or a
white animal with black stripes. What is that which is put on
the table and cut, but never eaten? A pack of cards. That's
splenderiferous. So you want a picture of Irene Rich and Aileen
THE ANSWER MAN is at your service. If you
want an answer by mail, enclose a stamped addressed
envelope. If you wish the answer to appear in THE
CLASSIC, write at the top of your letter the name
you want printed, and at the bottom your full name
and address. Address: The Answer Man, Motion
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Pringle in The Classic soon. You
also want to know what salutation
to be used when writing to Rin-Tin-
Tin. Well, you can address him
"Dear Sir" and he wont know the
difference.
Gloria. — Noah Beery is an old-
timer, having made his first screen
appearance some fifteen years ago,
and he got five dollars a day for
He now gets more than that an hour. Yes, George O'Brien
the lead in "The Iron Horse." Esther Ralston in "Old
it.
had
Ironsides."
Hamilton W
has played in :
W. — Here is a list of pictures Ramon Novarro
Thy Name is Woman
The Arab
The Midshipman
Ben-Hur
The Lover's Oath
Trifling Women
Prisoner of Zenda
Scaramouche
Where the Pavement Ends
He is playing in a new picture with Sally O'Neil which is untitled.
Cecil S. — I hardly think we will start either Shadowland or
Beauty again. Have you seen a copy of Movie Monthly?
Maurice E. N. — This is for you — during the past year more
than 21,000,000 letters and 803,000 parcels went to the Dead Letter
Office of the post-office because of carelessness in addressing. It
has been estimated by the postal officials that every year more than
100,000 letters are sent thru the mails in perfectly blank envelopes.
During the same period about $55,000 in cash, and about $12,000
in postage stamps, are removed from misdirected envelopes. On
account of misdirected letters, during the course of a year, some
$3,000,000 in checks, drafts and postal money orders never reach
their proper parties. Write to Maurice E. Neel, Route 3, Forrest
City, Arkansas, for the Carol Dempster Club.
W. J. H., Hongkong. — You show good taste in selecting your
favorites. And you think Esther Ralston is more beautiful than
a rose. George O'Hara and Ralph Lewis are playing in "Bigger
Than Barnum." Write me again some time.
Susie. — I dont quite understand.
D. O. M. — Emil Jannings is to play in Paramount's "The Thief
of Dreams," with Betty Bronson and Ricardo Cortez. This will
be his first American screen debut. Dolores Del Rio, one of the
Wampas Baby stars, is playing in "What Price Glory." This is
just the time for buttermilk. I have mine every day.
Foster J. B. — "The Fighting Heart" was adapted from the
novel "Once to Every Man," by Larry Evans.
Alabama Bound. — Why all this demand for birthdays? Birth-
day presents, eh? Colleen Moore's will come off August 12th,
so you will have plenty of time to buy her a diamond necklace,
Rolls-Royce, yacht, castle, or anything like that, but I guess she
would be just as pleased with a rose or a card. She will then
be the ripe old age of twenty-four. You want a cover of
Esther Ralston. No, Jack Gilbert is not married now. See you
later.
N. D. P. — Well, the last time I heard of Kitty Gordon she was
on the stage playing in vaudeville.
Mary L. M. — So you are reducing. You know more than half
the human body is composed of water. Keep up the good work.
Just write to D. W. Griffith at the Paramount Studio, Astoria,
Long Island. Cecil De Mille at Culver City, California.
(Continued on page 71)
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Dix is receiving about $2,000 on a contract
which has almost a year and a half to
run. Famous Players is offering a new
contract for considerably more, but for a
long period of time.
John Gilbert is getting $2,000 from
Metro-Goldwyn. Ramon Novarro is re-
ceiving the same amount from the same
company. Ronald Colman is said to be
getting but $1,700 from Samuel Goldwyn.
Against this, check the fact that Conway
Tearle and Eugene O'Brien get $3,000 a
week. So, too, does Lewis Stone. Wal-
lace Beery gets $3,000, likewise. On the
other hand, William Boyd is paid but $300.
The Underpaid Favorites
""There are several reasons for this odd
difference in earning capacity. Dix is
working out a long-term contract. Like
Gilbert, Colman and Novarro, he is more
concerned in getting good roles than with
a top-heavy remuneration. These shrewd
young men have studied the elemental les-
son of the screen, that a big star salary
lasts but briefly. They want to stay, de-
velop and progress in pictures. Hence,
their willingness to work at what is 'really
a moderate celluloid salary.
Consider the case of the ill-fated Bar-
bara La Marr. When she was overtaken
by her fatal illness, Miss La Marr was
earning $2,000 a week. Yet, after her death,
it was found that she had saved but $6,000
out of her entire life's earnings. She had
nothing to show for her meteoric success.
Corinne Griffith is receiving more than
$3,000 a week. Milton Sills gets $2,500.
Florence Vidor is said to get $2,000 a week
under her new Famous starring contract.
Bebe Daniels gets $2,000 as a Famous star.
This same amount is earned weekly by
Owen Moore, Antonio Moreno, Nita Naldi
and Anna. Q. Nilsson. Adolphe' Menjou
draws $2,500. As a First National star,
Dorothy Mackaill gets about $1,200. As
a free-lance, she got $1,500.
The Character Players
("""onsider the character men. Jean Her-
^ sholt gets $1,500, altho he is frequently
loaned by Universal for as high as $2,500.
Noah Beery gets $1,500. Ernest Torrence
finds $1,750 in his Saturday-night pay
envelope. George Siegmann finds that film
villainy pays, to the tune of $1,000. Wal-
ter Long also gets this for his realistic
leers. Lon Chaney gets $3,000.
Francis X. Bushman leads the old-timers
in earning capacity. He is asking and re-
ceiving $2,000 a week. True, he didn't
get this for his work in "Ben-Hur," but
he is now considered a strong comeback.
Hence, the $2,000. Henry B. Walthall, the
"little colonel" of unforgetable memory,
receives $1,500. Bryant Washburn gets
$750. Charles Ray receives $1,500.
Turn to the comedians. Harry Langdon
is getting $50,000 per comedy as a First
National star. Raymond Griffith has ma-
neuvered his salary at Famous to $3,000
as a comedian. Sydney Chaplin receives
$2,000. It is interesting to note that his
"Charley's Aunt" was one of the big com-
edy hits of last year. It earned $1,500,000.
Mack Swain gets $750 as a comedy foil.
Charley Murray and Chester Conklin draw
down $800 to $1,000 as first aids to screen
dramas. Louise Fazenda earns $1,250.
The Freak Salaries
""There are still some freak salaries in
filmdom, relics of old high salaries of
the earlier days. Pauline Frederick still
gets $3,500 to $4,000 when she works be-
fore the camera. Lionel Barrymore asks
and receives $2,500. Mae Murray is said
to get $3,000 under her new Metro-Goldwyn
arrangement. Betty Compson js asking
$4,000 a week. Since she has put aside
a good bank-account and is the wife of a
successful director, she doesn't have to
worry about working steadily.
Pause to compare some of these abnor-
mal salaries with the small sums paid some
recent foreign newcomers. Vilma Banky
is reported to receive $500 from Samuei
Goldwyn, altho she is loaned to other pro-
ducers for as high as $1,500. Cecil De
Mille offered $50,000 for her contract.
Greta Nissen had climbed from $75 to $500
when Famous dropped her contract. On
the day she was released Universal offered
to borrow her for $1,500. Now Universal
has her, at a reported salary of $750. Greta
Garbo is getting so little that Hollywood
jokingly remarks that she is being paid in
kroner and canned sardines. Miss Garbo
really receives $400.
Dolores Costello is under a $300-a-week
contract to the Warners.
Norma Shearer is said to be getting
$1,500. Sally O'Neil is receiving but $300.
Metro-Goldwyn discovered her — and signed
her under a long contract. Lillian Rich
is getting $350 from Cecil De Mille. She
is loaned frequently for $1,000. Clara Bow
'gets $750 a week from Benjamin Schul-
berg, now an official of Famous, altho
she is . frequently loaned for far in excess
of this. When the loan figure goes over
the thousand mark, Schulberg and Miss
Bow split the difference.
The $2,500 Class
Iet us return for a moment to the $2,500
1-1 class. Reginald Denny is now receiv-
ing this from Universal. This, too, is the
figure earned per week by Bert Lytell, Anita
Stewart, Viola Dana and Mae McAvoy.
Kenneth Harlan draws down $1,750. Lew
Cody, Irene Rich, Monte Blue and Helene
Chadwick each earn $1,700. The $1,500
class is larger, including Jacqueline Logan,
Norman Kerry, Harrison Ford, Bessie
Love, Mae Busch, John Bowers, Marguer-
ite de la Motte, Huntly Gordon, Leatrice
Joy, Matt Moore, Rod La Rocque, Conrad
Nagel, Marie Prevost and Alice Terry.
Billie Dove and Patsy Ruth Miller get
$1,250 each week. Receiving $1,200 we
find Clive Brook, Jetta Goudal, Neil Ham-
ilton, Pauline Starke, Lois Wilson, Robert
Frazier, Pat O'Malley and Virginia Valli.
Belle Bennett and Louise Dresser were
getting $1,000 per week when they scored
their hits of last year. Doubtless they
are getting more now. Still in the $1,000
class are Wanda Hawley, Barbara Bed-
ford, Allan Forrest, Ricardo Cortez, Dor-
othy Devore, Laura La Plante, Aileen
Pringle and Claire Windsor.
Lois Moran, the recent find, gets about
$750. So, too, does Margaret Livingston,
Claire Adams, Warner Baxter, Charles
Emmett Mack, Herbert Rawlinson and
George O'Brien. Mary Philbin is now re-
ceiving $800 from Universal. A year ago
she was the poorest paid of all the stars,
getting $300. Betty Bronson receives about
$500 from Famous. She was getting $300
a year ago.
Western Melodrama Remunerative
Ctarring in Western melodramas pays
•^ better. Against the $15,000 received by
Mix, check the $7,000 earned by Fred Thom-
son and the $4,000 by Buck Jones. Hoot
Gibson is trailing a bit at $2,500 a week.
Now for the directors. No one knows
exactly what D. W. Griffith receives, but
(Continued on page 87)
The Answer Man
(CVitftMifd from Pogt f*-*>
iMiujiiM M Yes, that wan m\ erroi
Claire Windsor ami not Mac Murray in
Madness." Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
j las l-'airbanks, Si 's son, and !li<-\
arc nineteen and forty-three years old.
Mar Murray is rive (eel three.
Makim\ I' So you want to see more
■1 Normand. 1 clout blame you.
Mabel's birthday will be on November 10th,
iml she -.t.it ti «t in pictures at the old
Biograph under Griffith in 1°10. For ten
years at least she was noted for her beau-
< ire aiul she certainly could dive
mi You saj you were vaccinated
yvith a phonograph needle. It's no secret.
iy, ] enjoyed yours.
; ie. — Be careful how you put others
inder heavy obligation to you — it often
•hem to detest you. Yilma Banky
.vas born in Budapest, January 9, 1902.
Rudolph Valentino has been married twice,
wee to Jean Acker and then to Winifred
iludiiut, but isn't now.
Thkda Birdie. — Yes, Pauline Frederick
I going to appear in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
ior Universal. Margarita Fisher is to
play EHsa. No, I dont think I will ever
rim my whiskers. If I did I would lose
ill my personality, and then I wouldn't be
ible to answer questions. May Allison
las blonde hair and blue eyes.
Tfrriblf. Kit.— You certainly are. You
enow the fool often succeeds where the
vise man fails, for the former usually has
he courage of his folly, the latter fear of
lis wisdom. Jack Mulhall and Carl Miller
n "We Moderns." Fay Lanphier is with
-"anions Players-Lasky at Astoria, Long
Island. This is the shortest poem I know :
We
De
Spise
Flies
John C, Alexandria, Egypt. — So Pearl
kV'hite is in Egypt with the French troupe,
'La Cigale," and you say you were disap-
winted in her. Glad to hear you liked
'The Gold Rush." Right now Charlie
Ihaplin is playing in "The Circus." Write
ne again soon.
Nan C. — So you like the green and
irown tints in the Classic. Theodore
Roberts will celebrate his sixty-fifth birth-
lay on October 8th. His eyes are blue and
hey generally twinkle with humor. Rin-
rin-Tin has a son called "Gin-Gin-Gin."
Hope. — You say you are compelled to go
o church every Sunday, that your
ireacher is very dull, and you want me to
uggest what he should preach about. I
vould say about twenty minutes. Tell him
o read Hendrik Van Loon's "Story of
he Bible" and learn how the best story
:w told can be told in the best possible
vay. He will never be dull after that. So
ou like the Classic, but you want more
ibout Ernest Torrence and Ricardo Cortez,
tut less of Swanson and Valentino. Aye,
iye, sir! I'll tell Mr. Smith.
Ruth G. — Well, my business consists in
mswering a few fool questions, and a few
housand sensible ones. No, Ben Lyon is
ot married. Madge Evans is only seventeen
nd she has brown hair. John Barrymore
s playing for Warner right now. No in-
leed, I dont mind answering questions. In
act, it has become such a habit that I
ouldn't live without it (nor without the
15.00 a week).
Spinole Hanks.— Please dont ask me
bout religion — I dont know whether any
>f the players attend church, but I hope
hey all do. Jackie Coogan was born
(Continued on f>age 88)
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(Continued from page 53)
the slap-sticks or the Western pictures ;
or, they gave us a huge, eye-filling spec-
tacle ; and finally they had begun to realize
that they were not merely translating books
or plays into a sort of dumb play of what
happened in a book or a theater, but that
their business was to catch the "movie way"
of representing life, so that it was quite
clear enough and forceful enough without
the words.
Compared to what we choose to call the
modern era of films, they were still, how-
ever, giving us a "lot of photography."
There was a great deal of unnecessary and
unimportant detail in even the best pic-
tures. And as for the handling of the
camera itself, their technique might be
likened to the thin tone of the harpsichord
of two hundred years ago, before Bach
invented the piano with its immense range
and richness.
Flexibility of Today
"The modern film as we know it today,
which may be compared to a full or-
chestra, with its variety of shade or tone,
its deepened graphic power, its lightness
of touch, its complete flexibility to the will
or whim of the director, was ushered in
by the foreign invasion of about five years
ago. .
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," which I
saw in 1921, made a profound impression
on the film people here. Its weird con-
tinuity, which might have been taken from
one of Poe's alcohol nightmares, prompted
the director, a certain Herr Wien, to seek
the most uncanny and fantastic effects.
He did this, on the one hand, by using
"expressionistic" studio sets that transmit-
ted the exact degree of insanity he wanted
to put over ; then by keying up his players
to chime with the "expressionistic" sets ;
and, finally, by the multitude of camera
angles which he resorted to in order to
get a startling effect of unreality.
It was a marvelous experiment if we con-
sider merely the manipulation or control
of the camera. I had often heard direc-
tors here complain about the "babylike"
mind of the movie camera. It was mad-
dening, the way it included and featured
things that had simply escaped the direc-
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that had nothing to do with his scheme.
And if you blurred or touched up the film,
the whole thing looked rotten. And now
came "Caligari," with all its "distortions"
and its completely sustained atmosphere of
unreality. The inspired acting of Conrad
Veidt as Cesare, the somnambulist, and
Werner Krauss as Caligari, was easily
superior to any work we had yet seen. And
as for the staging, a police station was a
mad dream of leaning walls and masked
officials sitting on absurdly high stools; a
prison cell was a high, vaulted room, whose
toppling pillars seemed to be falling eter-
nally upon the prisoner bound in massive
chains to a painted disc on the floor. There
were bursts of poetic motion in it : Cesare
carrying off the girl, leaps thru an arched
window, her dress opening like a great
fan and describing an arc, as they dis-
appear; Cesare dancing across the jaggedly
pointed roofs of the village, with her
swooned body in his arm. . . . Thruout
there was the perfection of related move-
ments.
"Caligari" suggested immediately the
amazing degree to which you could control
the camera to secure any desired effect of
fantasy or suggestion. It suggested also
a complete control over the material pho-
tographed: the use not only of artfully
selected background, but of synthetic back-
ground, this latter stunt being taken over
bodily from the modernistic German thea-
ter of Gordon Craig and Max Reinhardt.
In its use of artificial studio sets.
"Caligari" went too far, in the opinion of
many keen observers, from the genius of
the motion picture. The completely arti-
ficial sets have the same effect as trick
photography, and become after a while
very stuffy and boring.
With the immense improvement of the
(Continued on page 79)
72
Filming "Beau Geste"
[Continued from /,'i>"
,- which was the dreadful "Mort."
Then the commandant drew his pistol,
handed n t" Sleeman, said: "Legionnaire,
ur dut> '" and Merman put the pistol
r drunken man's temple and fired. . . .
uorc Much more
T
"The Katienjammera"
HERE is a lighter side of camp lite,
"The K»t*enjammers" Neil Hamilton
»nd Donald Stewart (Digby and Buddy)
—earned their title thus :
The fust night in camp, Ronald Colman
and William Powell were called outside
their tent by an ingenuous Neil Hamilton,
who detained them for some five minutes
sting starlight walks, a raid on the
mess tent (in charge, incidentally, of Holly-
"< smartest cafe — Brandstatter's Mont-
martrc). and a visit to the commissary.
When the two pals, having refused all
lures, re-entered their tent, Ronald's bed
:uissing (via Donald Stewart) — not to
be recovered until the dunes about the
camp had been secretly searched and the
east was beginning to brighten.
They are all boys in camp, planning
snipe hunts for the uninitiated, seasoning
>ne another's coffee with olives, toothpicks
or cheese, constantly joking. "Childish idea
of humor." they scoff, but they all indulge
in it, from the enigmatic Ronald Colman
leil Hamilton of the "spiritual" face.
Until the bugle blows "assembly." . . .
The "Beau Geste" cast hits the trail
over the sand-dunes eagerly.
The picture is something more than a
picture to them and to Herbert Brenon,
an indefatigable figure in white under a
great shade hat, who waits their coming
in the shadow of the fort.
The song of the legion of Arizona comes
ringing back to camp :
"Altons, Brenon, void la legion!"
The dream is coming true.
Hollywood Impressions
(Continued from page 39)
Kathleen recently married a banker and
all of their friends brought presents. There
were about sixty present. Mrs. Mix makes
a charming hostess and Handsome Tom
an interesting host. He was dressed in
a double-breasted black-velvet suit, and he
took delight it showing me and others the
numerous relics, trophies and curios in his
gun-room, which is about 20 x 30, with an
arched ceiling about twenty-five feet high,
filled with guns, pistols, saddles, lariats,
steer horns, and so on. There was no
entertainment except conversation and oc-
casionally a little dancing. The ladies ar-
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at nine-thirty. At twelve I left and was
nearly the last to go. Another one of
those famous wild Hollywood parties !
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How the Keystone Kops Happened
(Continued from page 35)
Mack Sennett as the police sergeant and the late
Fred Mace as the copper in an early Sennett comedy
helmets, caps, clubs and sockets and belts.
Gentlemen's warbrobe. — Odd coats, pants,
vests, shirts, shoes, bell-boys' suits, trage-
dian's clothes, porters' uniforms, Mexican
costumes, tennis blazers, hunting suits, rube
clothes, railroad jumpers, eccentric frock
coats.
Ladies' wardrobe. — Dancing girls' cos-
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shoes.
Incidentally, Mack Sennett was not above
appearing in Keystone comedies himself
in those days, and it is undoubtedly in the
reader's memory that Mr. Sennett was a
laugh producer par excellence, working
with Ford Sterling and the late Fred Mace,
and in these pictures he wore one of the
police uniforms whic^h has played so promi-
nent a part in this little story. (As a cap-
tain, always, of course, in charge of the
Keystone police.)
A battered police club, which the writer
has hanging beside his bed (in the interests
of self-defense only, of course) and given
to him by Harry Guttenberg the day he
purchased the Keystone wardrobe, is a
mute and constant reminder of those dear
old days — the cheery era of the Keystone
cops.
Reviewing Pictures on Broadway
(Continued from page 22)
letters, which, of course, are uninteresting.
The Big Films
Dictures like "The Black Pirate," "The
Big Parade," "La Boheme," "Stella
Dallas," "The Gold Rush" are not only
an entertainment to the writer, but also an
inspiration in writing of them. There are,
it is true, numerous other bright spots m
a critic's life that come on at the regular
change cinemas. Poor ones come along
like poor plays, but there are more of them
than the stage efforts. And even if a pic-
ture be wearying, so long as it contains
a glimpse of originality here and there, the
review of it can be approached in a humble
and hopeful mood. You dont have to
wiggle on your seat and look at your type-
writer and wonder, after all, if you could
not do better with a pencil or a pen and
ink or mayhap an old-fashioned quill.
No matter whether it is a delightful
spring day, or a blizzard is blowing, or
it is as hot as Yuma in the summer, you
always find plenty of persons in the mo-
tion picture theaters. Sometimes you
wonder why the people dont go out oi
town and on other occasions you wonder
why they dont stay home. When I take
my seat (to work) in a picture theater,
I have a hope for comparative quiet, and,
as a rule, I get it. But now and again
one is bothered by prattling patrons or
sighing fat men and women who seem to
be more stirred by pathos than by the com-
edy. One afternoon I found the theater
pretty crowded and during the screening
of the feature one small boy became so
excited that he jumped up once in a while
and came down on my foot. Above me
was another of his ilk who sat with the
toes of his shoes quite near my neck. But
taking it all in all, I have enjoyed the
youngsters in a theater because of their
buoyant spirits. There was nothing more
inspiring than the children's laughter at
"Peter Pan" and "A Kiss for Cinderella,"
which were presented during the Christ-
mas holidays.
(Continued on page 77)
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Kick off!
With the snap of a well coached team
This greatest of football pictures
Rushes into action!
Thrill follows thrill as quickly
As a quarterback barks his signals
And such a team of talent!
Jack Pickford as the heroic roommate —
Mary Brian (she's beautiful!)
And
William Haines as Tom Brown
Who played a great game of football — and love
To win out in the end!
Take "time out" to see this College Classic!
Directed by Jack Connvay, adapted by Donald
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"More Stars Than There Are In Heaven"
Tom {William Haines) is good
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The girl {Mary Brian)
Starring Lady Luck
Onl> •' few bars ol the musit hid been
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(l, ,: t fallen, but when •.lie «.h
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Jane waited, .mil discovered that she had
(Mi.' cried I okine, "have 1 seen such
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Hired by Ziegfeld
I luck who led her to the building
wherein Ziegfeld has Ins offices, on a
oa) when that connoisseur of beauty was
ting girls foi his "Follies" shows. Girls
|| sizes, nationalities and complexions
filled the theater, the lobby, and spilled out
into the hallways of the office building.
Line Mood among an anxious throng
on the eleventh floor, punching the elevatoi
bell and hoping nobod) would think she
was m and of the mob. The elevator
didn't come, bul ' did merel) pass
ing from one office to another, lie looked
mi'. Jane jabbed the bell. He dis
appeared into an office and returned with
mpanion just as the elevator door rolled
to admit the girl.
The door closed after her. and its closing
was followed by an imperious knock.
The) want me!" thought Jane, hut she
was too sh) to say so. and the elevator
hov. with the arrogance of his kind, paid
the knock no attention.
The main floor readied. Jane lingered
in the lobby, a moment, then took her
wa> leisurely to the door. A boy ran after
her.
"Hey— Ziegfeld wants you!"
"I low do you know ?"
"Well, he phoned down to stop the girl
with the red roses and you're her!" said
the boy, more emphatically than gram-
matically.
Even so.
Jane signed with the "Follies" and played
with them nine months.
Zukor Sees Her
It was a bitter winter and scanty attire
n drat'ty stages went hard with the
latest "Follies" beauty. Cold after cold kept
her weak and ill.
"1 wasn't getting anywhere," she ex
plains. "1 didn't feel that 1 would ever
make a great singer, and 1 knew I had
started too late to be a first-rank dancer.
1 should have begun when I was five ! I
wanted to act. I have such terrific ambi-
tion."
An aunt. Jane's sole living relative, hear-
ing that the girl had decided not to go on
with the "hollies." expressed regret at never
Vork
having seen hei niece on the
prompt 1) invited I
foi the i i
Sin li a night ! I In -. tin ii
songs, null d and blew ■ the \ 1 1
She had a lii.u VeloUS lime \ll
and i wondei lid tO hi i
and slu- pressed Jam I" take hei to |
where the eel een,
"We'll go to the Rita '"ill foi lunch
Monday," promised Jane.
I ittle god I ink was '.•Hiding them. 'I hev
had to wait foi a table and while the)
waited, in came \do|ph Zukor and JeS I I
Lask) tO w all fl 'I one. too.
Mi Zukot spoke tO Jane. "Still with
the 'hollies.' eh . "
"I've just left them," murmured Jane.
All thru luncheon, she i fl t thi
the two men upon her, and as she If It the
room Mr. ZukoT came to her again.
"M i . I a ik | would like to meet ) on."
he said. "Ever thoughl of going into pic-
tures?" Resulting in a year's contract with
Paramount !
Then — "Don Juan"
L-Ioi.i.Ywoop brought back jeopardized
health, but at firsl it seemed to
no opportunity. Month alter month went
by. Fitzmaurice borrowed Jane for "Mis
Supreme Moment" and she was condemned
tn "other woman" l
Later, Barrymore's "Don Juan" was in
production. Alan Crosland, the direi
sent for Jane. " \11 you'll have to do is
to look gorgeous," be was explaining, "mag-
nificent clothes, you know, that will show
off your figure "
"Oh, no!" cried Jane. "1 hate that!
Anybody can look gorgeous. Isn't there
something with acting in it?"
"There's lira I rice in the prolog — but
you've had so little experience, and that's
a heavy part "
"Let me try !"
Larry more, consulted, gave her an ap-
praising look. "Surely," he said, "she's
Beatrice!"
A screen test confirmed his judgment,
and her work in the part won her a new
and remunerative contract with Warner
Brothers !
"I'm to play leads," she confided, eagerly.
"I'm so happy ! I hate being an imitation
Nita Xaldi — first because there's only one
Nita, and second because 1 dont fit the
part.
"There's no good reason why being tall
should make one a vamp, is there? Vamps
usually are no more than clothes-horses.
I want to do emotional seems. I'll be get-
ting somewhere if I can do real acting.
I'll be building toward a future, dont you
know?"
She has ambition, as has been said be-
fore!
FR EE 10-Daj i
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Reviewing Pictures on Broadway
(Continued from />((<• 74)
About a year ago I went to the Colony
Theater to review Norma Talmadge's film
version of the play, "The Lady." I had
been sitting watching the newsreel when
two grey-haired ladies passed by me and
took seats near me. Their conversation,
as the feature was unwound, was soft and
interesting. They were evidently harking
back to the period of the picture, some
thirty-five years ago. They found Miss
Talmadge reminded them of a relative, and
they referred gently to other incidents in
the picture. In my review I mentioned
these two grey-haired ladies several times,
and when I came to the end of my article
I wrote: "Take it from the two grey-
haired ladies, this is an admirable pro-
duction."
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letter, in which the person, who signed
it "Two Grey-haired Ladies." told of the
(Continued on page 79)
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"Then— It Happened"
"YY/k had just been playmates before,
laughing and joking together, but
suddenly we became serious. He told me
all about himself and I told him all about
myself. We talked for three hours, mostly
about ourselves and our ideas on life — and
oh, all the things people do say in such
a case."
The sun did not come out at all that
day, but a certain small god who wears
little or nothing and carries a bow and
arrow did. Two arrows reached their
marks.
"After that, we went everywhere to-
gether," beamed the happy bride, "and two
months and four days after the first time
we met, we were married. It was this
way: We'd talked about it, of course, off
and on, but when it came it was as sud-
den as our falling in love.
"The picture was finished and we were
driving thru the little town of Santa Ana
one day. We passed a sign reading:
'Justice of the Peace.'
"'How about it?' said Bill. 'Shall we
get it over?'
" 'Surely,' I replied.
" 'Mean it? Right here — right now?'
" 'O. K.,' I said, and right there and
then we did it !"
Married in Santa Ana
The lovely Elinor admits that before the
fatal day when she set her hand and
seal to the contract to play the princess,
she had belonged to the Hollywood fac-
tion which asserts : "No, I would not marry
an actor !"
"I thought that two actors married to
each other had less than half a chance at
happiness," confessed Elinor. "I used to
say that the jealousy of a husband who
was in the same business would work
against us, that he would probably criti-
cise my love scenes with other men, and
resent it if, for some reason, I secured
better parts or better pictures than fell to
his lot.
"But I dont have to worry about Bill.
There's not an ounce of jealousy in him,
and as I have none and we trust each
other Oh, well, Bill is such a dear !"
Elinor and Bill have just taken a new
house and the things uppermost in her
mind are draperies, lamps and matching
the bedroom curtains.
"The living-room is thirty-four by
twenty," she was confiding, eagerly. "We
are so anxious to get it fixed up before
Bill has to go away on location. He may
be gone a month. Isn't that terrible?"
It was all she could do to bring her
mind back from the fascinations of the
new house to a consideration of advice
to girl fans who would like to get into a
studio and appear before the camera.
But when she had left the dear "honey-
moon house," Elinor had sound advice to
offer.
Simplicity and Dignity
"Cimplicity is the one vital thing," she
said. "A little while ago it was the
girl who jazzed in and tried to get over
a piquant personality who got the chance
to try out. Anything striking enough to
attract attention helped, whether it was
make-up, dress or a certain 'line.'
"But not today. Producers are looking
for girls who can look and behave like
real ladies. Anyone can take on the man-
ners of a tough, but no one not a gentle-
woman can show breeding.
"Be as simple as you can in clothes,
colors and actions. Select plain little
dresses that become you, in colors that set
off your particular personality. Carry your-
self well and speak in a low, clear voice.
"Simplicity goes in acting, too. It is far
more effective than chewing the scenery.
For example, in the 'Volga Boatman,' Vic-
tor Varconi has to strike Bill with a whip,
after showing an ungovernable temper.
Bill does no more than narrow his eyes
while a ghost of a smile plays around his
mouth. But there is more menace in his
single glance than in all the raging of
Varconi."
That Elinor Fair follows her own good
advice was shown by the dress of fine
Alice-blue flannel she was wearing — a dress
simply trimmed in the daintiest of narrow
braid, and matched by the plain felt hat.
And talking of careers, when Elinor
was a tiny baby in Richmond, Virginia,
her mother dedicated her to fame. The
baby learned to dance almost as soon as
she began to walk. When she was eight,
her mother took her to Leipsic, Germany,
to study the violin. From Leipsic they
found their way to Paris, France, where
the little girl was given masters to teach
her voice culture. She can remember walk-
ing with her nurse in the Luxembourg
springtime doing breathing exercises as
they went.
Studied Abroad
Then came Brighton, England, and a
course at a girls' school.
But always she danced, and at length
at the ripe age of fourteen Elinor ap-
peared on the stage of the Alcazar Theater
in San Francisco doing two solo dances
in a musical comedy.
Moving pictures seemed to offer greater
opportunity than anything else, so presently
the mother and daughter journeyed to Hol-
lywood. Fewer girls were storming cast-
ing directors' offices then, and presently,
on Elinor's fifteenth birthday, she received
the plum of the part of the little cripple
girl in "The Miracle Man."
"Lon Chaney used to make me up," re-
membered Elinor, "and I learned so much
from him. That picture made him famous.
Then I had a part with Adolphe Menjou
in Mary Pickford's 'Through the Back
Door' — and right after that Menjou be-
came famous. I was a mascot, they said.
"And so it went — I worked nearly al-
ways, but rarely had good parts in g
pictures. I was beginning to be terribly
discouraged when I was cast to play the
girl with Buck Jones. . . . And see what
happened !"
There we were back again at the new
house, discussing the right place to find
those clear red bowls that add a touch of
color to one's living-room, measuring the
width of a window-seat, and arguing about
the best shade for the summer slip-over
covers — if one should decide to use such
things.
"Marriage and careers mix very well,"
observed Elinor. "We've been married
two months and I still think of Bill as
my 'boy friend.' Isn't that wonderful?"
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re finally at the superb achievement of
Kmg Vidor in "The Big Parade."
[Mr. Josephson will contribute a second
article on this subject in the July Classic]
Reviewing Pictures on
Broadway
(Continued from page 77)
enjoyment of reading about themselves,
adding 'now gratified they were to observe
that they had "modulated, cultured voices."
The writing-paper showed that they were
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They Told Buster to Stick to It
(Continued from page 32)
play in Los Angeles, Buster is still "a
kid."
Buster's Autograph Album
f* ETTING Keaton to talk about himself or
his early career is as difficult as getting
him to smile. It cant be done. He shuns
the limelight, a trait which becomes more
pronounced each year. Perhaps the most
prized memento of his early days is a
travel-worn diary and autograph album.
It contains signatures, verses and tributes
of Elsie Janis, Mclntyre and Heath,
Louise Dresser, John L. Sullivan, James J.
Corbett, Will Cressy, Fred Niblo, J. K.
Etnmett, Jack Norworth, Flo Irwin, Tom
Sharkey, Lew Qockstader, Tony Pastor,
(liarles K. Harris, Robert Milliard, George
Monroe, Cheridah Simpson, Banks Winter
and hundreds of others, many of them long
since dead and others who have risen to
still greater fame on the stage and screen
and various walks of life.
The late Lew Dockstader made one of
the first entries in Buster's book, naming
the place of the future screen star's debut
in the following rhyme :
"Buster, you're a dandy; Buster, you're a brick;
Buster, you can make all juveniles look sick;
Some day you'll be a great one, the captain of
the crew,
But dont forget old Wilmington, the place of
your debut."
Fred Niblo first met young Keaton on
Christmas Day, 1904. By this time nine-
year-old Buster, as a member of the Three
Keatons, was famous thruout the vaude-
ville circuits. The director of "Ben-Hur"
then was with the variety team of Newell
and Niblo.
Niblo recorded in the youthful fun-
maker's album :
"Some day, Buster, you will be one of
our greatest comedians. I predict a great
future for you."
During 1904 Elsie Janis made this entry :
"There's a dear little man we know quite well,
Who around our hearts has cast a spell:
If he made a mistake you never could tell,
For he's a mimic, comedian and acrobat as
well."
Another generation will recall "Bill
Bailey"' as one of the song hits of 1903.
The vaudeville team of Girard and
Gardner wrote the following in Buster's
book on February 27 of that year, while
the Three Keatons were playing in De-
troit :
"The audience was cold
And we worked twice daily,
I > i c 1 all we knew, including 'Bill Bailey';
But it was easy for Buster,
And the house laughed gaily
At the smart little man
With the strut of Dan Daly."
Old John L. Predicts
(~)li> John L. Sullivan wrote in gigantic
letters in Buster's album :
"Little Buster, you may be a big Buster some
day. May 21, 1903."
Jim Corbett predicted, in the parlance
of the ring :
"Buster, you're a knock-out."
Tom Sharkey waxed philosophical and
made this entry :
"To my little? friend. Buster, from bis old friend,
Tom Sharkey. And after all, life is but one
sweet dream. Let us be blithe and gay, for
tomorrow is another' day. Yours truly, Thomas
J. Good boy!"
Bert Howard didn't know anything about
motion pictures when he wrote, back in
1903, at Indianapolis:
"Buster, you will be America's foremost come-
dian. Bead this book forty years from now
and see if I am not right."
Mclntyre and Heath were responsible
for the following r
"Buster, you are the biggest of them all, tho
not in size. But for wit you get the prize."
And Digby Bell wrote:
"Be good, Buster, and you'll be eccentric."
At that, Buster ought to be good, in
more than one sense. He was born in a
church, on November 4, 1895.
The town in which he made his worldly
debut isn't even on the map today. A
cyclone put it in the missing column, and
they've never taken the trouble to rebuild it.
Born in a Cyclone
HThf. Pickway, Kansas, "that was," was
forty miles north of the Oklahoma line,
west of Coffeyville, and not far from
Cherryvale. Father and Mother Keaton,
Joe and Myra, and Harry Houdini, now
the famous magician and escape artist,
were touring the country with a tent show.
On the Saturday night before Buster was
born, a wind-storm blew down the tent.
While Keaton, Houdini and a few towns-
people were trying to get the show house
up again, a cyclone hit the community.
That was the last anyone ever saw of the
tent.
The only clergyman in the village, a
Catholic priest, heard of the visitors' plight
and of the expected visit of the stork. He
volunteered to go for a doctor, and sug-
gested that Joe Keaton bring his wife to
the little home next door to the tiny church.
Keaton and Houdini started for the
priest's house with Mrs. Keaton at one
o'clock Sunday morning. In the darkness
they mistook the church for the house, and
Mrs. Keaton was taken into the sacristy.
There the priest and the doctor found the
troupers, and there Buster Keaton was
brought into the world.
Buster — altho his name was then Joseph
Francis — became a trouper that day and
remained one until he went into pictures
twenty-one years later. One day when he
was about six months old, the lusty young-
ster demonstrated his tumbling proclivities
by falling all the way down-stairs. The
mishap failed to injure him, and Houdini
exclaimed : "What a Buster !" And that's
why the bill-boards today do not read
"Joseph Francis Keaton."
How Buster ever arrived at man's estate
without crippling himself for life, or
worse, has always been a mystery to his
family. The boy was continually getting
into trouble. He had an advantage over
most youngsters in this respect, for the
family was forever on the move, and each
town presented new adventures — new
places to get lost, new ways to get hurt,
and new boys to fight.
The Three Keatons
A ff.w years later, after the elder Keaton
^^ and Houdini had dissolved their tent-
show partnership, Buster and his father
and mother toured the country as the
Three Keatons.
One of the inducements which prompted
Buster to try his luck in motion pictures
late in 1916, at a salary of forty dollars a
week, instead of accepting an offer to head-
line Shuhcrt's Winter Garden show in
New York at several hundred dollars a
week, was the prospect of settling in one
place for more than two weeks.
Fate again intervened, and Buster wasn't
yet ready to settle down. A few months
(Continued on page 89)
The Off-stage Laugh
( i 55)
•'I | ■ . w u i ili.it, Mam He
,il rr.ilK i urn i i in il .ill. 'in i!.
"Pi il, Kayiuund, but timed .1
. IM say. Speed it up i little
Raj turned to me.
••| )ni you ti i .i laugh, neighbor?"
"Su Imitted. "'I thought it was
I funny."
. w.i- .ill between-scenes conversation,
entirely out "t earshot to the rest of tin-
troupe luldie Sutberland, who was ih
ig the picture, was discussing a mat
litiun with bis cameraman. He
Called for .1 retake.
mother one foi Mr. Zukor," he said,
"That \\.i> fine, folks, but let's speed the
tempo m> a little tln> time." And so and
.1 Ml
Frances nudged me.
"Papa will give me a bouquet for that
one," she laughed.
"How long has this thing been going
I asked her.
M0h, years ami years," she said.
d she told me the story. How in the
old trouping days her off-stage laugh de
nstructive criticism that has
carried on with the years, which have
brought lame to her husband.
"At first there was no motivation behind
my off stage applause beyond the natural
admiration of a girl for her sweetheart,"
said. "His antics were always tunny
tO me and I'd laugh whether anyone else
laughed or not.
iradually as we traveled over the coun-
try, hungry half the time and wearing
diamonds and eating filet mignon the other
half, the realization came to me that Ray-
mond was depending on my moral support
from off stage. If 1 was depressed, as I
often was in those hectic days, and failed
to respond to his act, his humor seemed
leaden and his audience would freeze right
up on him.
"Then I got it. He was playing to me,
off stage, instead of to the crowd out in
front. In other words, he was trying to
make me laugh and was cheating the
people who were paying to see the show.
1 resolved to hold out my support until he
actually made me laugh, as he had when
we had tirst started trouping together.
This attitude toward his work I still hold.
Now when 1 laugh, he doesn't feel flattered
at all. Hut my laughter gives him confi-
dence in himself, for he knows that I'm not
laughing just to cheer him. hut because I
am convulsed with the humor of the thing."
Ray once wanted to quit the .Uage and
go to work on a farm.
"You're a good actor, Ray, but you'd
terrible farmer." Frances told him.
"From now on you do the family acting
and 1*11 do the off-stage shouting. And if
you dont learn your lines I'll quit you cold.
Then you'll starve. What do you think of
that?"
"I knew she was right, so 1 learned my
lines and she stuck with me," said Ray.
"I could never have made the grade with-
out her."
She has never taken any active part in
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often told me. "But her sense of humor
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Tents in Canaan
(Continued from page 63)
lute and wreath design on rug and chair.
Pale pastels on the sage-green walls.
Leases His Own Place
Tt is a queer line of speculation — to think
how, like a partridge, this pure Nordic
who originated, I believe, somewhere in
Iowa, has found his exact coloration in
environment. Perhaps his wife has helped
— I dont know.
But Charley loves his English cottage
home. Smilingly, but with a certain tight-
ness at the lips, he speaks about his strait-
ened finances, and the joke which was
played on him.
Charley had attained great popularity as
a star. He had built and furnished this
cherished home of his. Then he tried to
make his own pictures — artistic pictures —
independent pictures. The trust squeezed
him — crushed him — flattened him out a
helpless midge on the ground. Creditors
took his home — like a flash. But they were
not quite so cruel as creditors are in mov-
ing pictures. They allowed Charley to
lease the place — his place — from them,
while he began, slowly, painfully, to mend
his shattered fortune.
He is working now in a picture called
"Paris" for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. But
it will be a long time before Charley can
buy his cottage back.
("""harley is exactly like the china shep-
herd lad that stands by the door. To
have ousted him from his home would
have been as cruel a procedure as to dash
down the pretty boy from his pedestal.
The shepherd lad has a cocked hat, blue
hair, white ruffled collar, a long^tailed coat
of mulberry, and tight green knicker-
bockers with large gold roses all over
them. His dainty feet in black pumps are
crossed at the ankles and at his feet
crouches a long-eared dog.
Morning. The birds singing shrilly in
the garden. The hedges smelling like an
English lane. The fountains with their
chubby cupids that match the chubby
cupids on the andirons in the fireplace.
Costly, dainty, spicky beauty. Arrogantly
cheerful. Maddening really, unless you
are a Nordic yourself.
A Borgia Bungalow
""Fhe Countess Domski, being of Polish
extraction, selected the American Colo-
nial for her Beverly home. Pola Negri's
house is white, high-pillared, and marked
by two austere sentinel palms.
The interior frankly discards the Colo-
nial. It is Italian Renaissance. Paintings
and hangings in tints of dull wine and dark
smoke, dark brocades, tables and chairs
carved in the severe rectangular style be-
queathed by the papal aristocracy ; coffin-
like chests that rest on claw feet and orna-
ments of beaten bronze and brass.
Before the stone fireplace, giving tea to
Chaliapin, the mistress might be a Borgia in
her dark, sensual beauty. Pola is as de-
cisive a type as the Italian interior of her
Colonial house.
Above her fireplace Pola has her own
portrait by an expensive portrait painter.
But May McAvoy, one of the few who
still cling to a home in Hollywood, has
hung above hers some Rembrandts per-
chased in Paris while she was making "Ben
Hur." So why should the spirit of Pola
be proud?
Moreover, I remember seeing, in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schenck
(Norma Talmadge) a most interesting
example of a batik, which seemed unusually
rinlii in t lit -> conglomerate hou e \"
ii .1 blind canyon,
>n animal i<
I I . wliu ll WUM l> HHIIV lloWII
1:1 I lie wall; il'olll l>i lllllil a
llklll^ nil!
hit unprotct leil real
\ | ;rcal spii it. It hang on tin-
hall was up. win
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d niatei lal woven with I pure
• Joe Selienek SIO.IKHI and
in he ilone without i ecoiu »c
:titT.
The Schenck Residence
Tin Schenck residence i> indeed the only
'house I know in Beverlj which does
cling desperate!} to it-. |K'riod. \t best
it shows a -dn;lit Italian inllueiice on the
Within, it is what a business man
lis wile would make it.
The ground mfortabh modern.
A winding cement walk leads t>> a 1
,\ house. Hack of it the dog kennels.
I a latticed place full of all kinds
The} hang from the roof and
the sides, u. entwined with the
e walls, weaving a solid pattern in
. i >
the right the inevitable swimming-
puol. Bright awnings canvas chairs. And
-court enclosed in poultry netting.
with electric lights so you can play at
night.
A practical, comfortable home that in
no wise dissembles the tastes of it-- owners.
The radio is not camouflaged as a plumed
lit, nor the telephone as a Dresden doll.
ichenck's desk is brazenh a desk.
Kn't it possible that after sufficient years
have passed some iiouveau richc of the day
ma} cop} this home as a line example of
twentieth-century American ?
The Celluloid Critic
ntinued from page 51 )
The scoundrel collapses eventually and
the dancer relents. She dons a couple of
golden saucers and several beads and does
> modi tied Oriental dance before the
dying man's e}
Of course, all this is just garish drivel
in the lx.'St style of the overpraised Arlen.
who. according to the caustic George Jean
Nathan, writes like an overeducated coon.
Here you will find a bit of Paris revelry
in which the statues come to life. The
whole thing is cheap and tawdry.
Dorothy Mackaill is rather better than
usual as the girl Coiisuelo. Personally. I
am beginning to revolt at Conway Tearle,
who plays a wooden gentleman who loves
u'/ti from afar. That forehead with
its quizzical uptilt of the eyebrow- is
palling on me. Tearle hasn't acted in two
or three years.
"Devil's Circus" Overpraised
CniE of the metropolitan critics were im-
pressed with Benjamin Christianson's
first American film, "The Devil's Circus."
To me it was just early Griffith plus a
dash of Seastrom pseudo-symbolism.
Christianson is responsible for both the
story and the direction. The thing is awk-
wardly, even crudely, told. The' locale is
th Europe, probably Germany. A little
girl. Mary, comes to the city and is per-
suaded to go to a disreputable hotel. The
persuader is a gangster whose intentions
aren't all the censors of Pennsylvania or
Kansas might desire. The girl's innocence,
however, makes a man of the weakling.
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those occasions that cling to one's mem-
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sions of the picture.
A New York theater was so crowded
mi the afternoon Valentino's "The Eagle"
was first presented that the newspaper
writers had to be escorted to their seats
via the stage door. Another unforgetable
opening was that of "The Thief of Bag-
dad," because everybody had to battle their
way to the theater lobby, and even Douglas
Fairbanks had a hard time in carrying
Mary Pickford thru the curious and press-
ing throng. Morris Gest had gone one
better than the usual presentation, for in
addition to the great arc lights and periodi-
cal flashlights, there was the Arabian,
dirge-like music in the lobby and wafted
to the sidewalk there came the perfume
of incense.
The Rush of Reviewing
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of a picture, for after the evening per-
formance, which finishes, as a rule, well
after eleven-thirty, the reviewers have to
hurry back to their offices and turn out a
carefully written impression of the film.
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great newspaper office just before midnight.
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Letters to King Dodo
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"Old Ironsides Sails the
Seven Seas Again
\t\nued ft
\nil t.i think the authors had never h
ni applii 'I i1 ycholi • ■.■ ) in th \p
plied masculine psycholi
Because, v"U see, in that hectic daj ,;
bold, I'.ul 1 1 1 1 M '1> pirates had be< om
•K- and powerful that thej were chal
ng the ii. t\ ies of the world and corn
pelling tribute from them. Oh, but it was
,i matter of international ridicule when
the new struggling independent colony
- the \tlantic thought to build .1 navy
.mil defy them.
Came "Old Ironsides"
Di r that new ship was built of exti
dinarily hard wood wood thai later
proved impervious to gunshot and earned
her the title of "Old Ironsides" wood so
wonderful that the old boat exists today,
villi capable of restoration to life and ro-
mance.
And she had been built <>n the "expense
be damned" theorj which the United States
\.i\y has followed ever since, inspiring
that famous cry, "Nothing for tribute but
minimis for defense."
However, for the purposes of the pic-
ture she was not yet restored to
worthy endurance, so the Lasky studio lias
liuilt a faithful replica of "Old Ironsides."
They had the navy's old original plans to
work from, lent by the government, and
tier mainmast stands 217 feet high from the
water-line, higher than a twenty-story
building !
And she recks of rope — oh, hut there is
something so intensely masculine about
rope. Even today note the scorn of the
reef knot sailor for the landlubber's
"granny." And such mighty ropes were
needed for this old sailing frigate that none
are made of such dimensions today. Spe-
cial ropes, nigh thirty inches in circumfer-
ence, have been specially woven for the
purpose, 100,000 pounds of it.
But there was still another difficulty.
The race of men who sailed these mighty
sailing ships, who "know the ropes," have
become extremely rare. So they have been
culled one by one from Canada, San Fran-
cisco, Baltimore, to man the mimic "Old
Ironsides." Of course, there must be two
crews — the professional sailors and the
actors. Hut lots of the real sailors will
take part as well. Fortunately, several of
the actors, like \\ ally Beery, who owns
his own yacht, and George Bancroft, who
served six years in the United States
Navy, are good seamen, too.
The Baltimore sailors are bringing round
the dozen or more old sailing boats that
have been searched for and discovered in
[•".astern ports — ships heavy with mighty
. huge masts, calling for prodigious
skill of seamanship that engine-driven ves-
sels dont demand, all of which will take-
part in this oh. so masculine, glorious sea-
fight in the Mediterranean (off Catalina
Island in the Pacific).
Catalina as Salem
James Crize himself visited Tripoli to
note the landscape, the type of architec-
ture, that its replica on Catalina Island,
California, might be faithfully exact.
Every tiny detail is compared with geog-
raphy and history. The old wharf at
Salem erected on the Isthmus Bay on
Catalina Island is a faithful reproduction
of an old print. And here it is interesting
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{Continued from page 70)
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Began as a Vamp
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"The rope broke when we had almost
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In all the hullabaloo over the shark, I
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half an hour. Then the boys realized I
was terrified and took me to shore on a
surf-boat.
" 'He wont touch us — he wants white
meat !' they kept saying, but that didn't
help me a bit. / was white meat!"
Tolerant Husbands
It was just after the making of "Black
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name in private life to Mrs. Walter
Morosco, hut there has never been any
question of giving up her career.
"With some husbands, pursuing an ab-
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A truly royal way to look at it !
Royal, too, is Miss Griffith in her choice
of favored colors. She loves purples in
all their shades, because "they make me
feel so regal.
"Colors affect most of us, I think. I
remember in one picture I made the di-
rector had all the sets in gray. At first
I thought it rather restful, but before the
picture was finished we were all dragging
our feet and feeling depressed and dis-
spirited.
"Tatiana is to 'blossom in purple and
red.' In spite of hating to leave my house,
I'm going to love doing her. I've always
had a little secret hope that after all they'd
find out she wasn't murdered. I wouldn't
be surprised even now. ..."
That Personal Appearance
""The girl who is going to create Tatiana
made her first personal appearance in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, when she was very
new to the screen. She had bought a new
dress for the affair, her very first smart
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before tlie glass assuring herself that she
knew exactly how to wear it.
The great moment came. The manager
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told the audience about the young actress
who had come there to meet them, etc., at
rather greater length than seemed neces-
sary to the girl who waited in the wings.
Then he came off, handed her on, went
to the switchboard with the intention of
increasing the footlight power, and turned
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Corinne Griffith made her little speech to
what seemed like ten thousand faces — the
very smart gown and the beautiful girl
inside it nothing but a blur and a voice
in the dark.
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Hollywood's real princess.
The Answer Man
(Continued from page 71)
October 26, 1914. His right name is
Edward Gibson and not Hoot. Baby
Peggy was born October 26, 1918. Yes,
it would be fine to have her play opposite
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A. M. K. — Well, I guess someone evi-
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Dorothy M. — No, I wont desert you —
I'm always on the ship. Adelina Patti was
born in Madrid, Spain, in 1843, but was of
Italian extraction. Her debut took place
in London in 1861 and she lived at Craig
Nos Castle, Wales. She never appeared in
pictures. Alice Joyce is playing in "Beau
Geste." She is one of the old-timers and
is holding on very well indeed.
Leom B. — I have the list of stars you
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them along to our editor.
Youngs-Honolulu. — Your letter was
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wise claim to be wise. The wise are con-
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\. in- went i" France and
,i private iniiil the Armistice, after which
he was detailed to help entertain the
troops, remaining abroad foi five months
follow ing the end of hi istilities.
Finally returning from France, Bu
spent tome time in a New York hospital.
Ills hearing had been affected, and when
Joseph M. Schenck, producei of the pic
lures in which lltistei had appeared,
ited the hospital to tell the young come
dian that .1 job awaited him in Hollywood,
the conversation had to be carried on in
writing.
Physicians soon restored Bustei to noi
mal ; he went hack to the Pacific Coast,
played in a couple of two-reel comedies,
and then was .starred in feature-length pit
tures
The rest is recent history. Even his
severest critic will admit he ".stuck to it
and became a great comedian."
Flash Backs
(Continued from page 45)
idiot when his daughter went away in the
wicked city, and it might have had poign-
ancy if Seastrom hadn't cluttered it up
:cilh bunk sytnbolisnt and turgid direction.
These two faults paralyzed the acting.
The result was cardboard pathos.
The Answer Man
(Continued from page 88)
Dixie. — Last I heard of Ivor Novello he
was playing in England. Richard Dix is
at the Famous Players Studio, Astoria,
Long Island. No, he is not married. Do-
lores Costello is very popular. 1 remem-
ber her, too, when she was a little girl.
Elsii I ., London. — So you are a ste-
nographer and want to come to New York.
I'm afraid I cant help you. Jackie Coogan
is coming hack in the role of a jockey in
an exciting and thrilling racc-liorse drama.
He is to have his own "grown-up" leading
lady and has had his hair cut like a real
hoy's.
Maky C. K, — You ask, why arc ships
called she? Well, because they always
keep a man on the lookout. William Boyd
is at the Cecil de Mille Studios, Culver
c'itv. California. Lloyd Hughes was born
October 21, 18W. lie is six feet, 155
pounds and has brown hair and gray eyes.
KaTIE C. — So you are a baseball fan.
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did to the Giants in the opening game?
William Collier, Jr., is with Famous
Players-I.asky, 1520 Vine Street. Los An-
geles, California. Pola Xegri's picture,
"Naughty Cinderella." will be released as
"Good But Naughty."
John 1!.. New Haven. — Sorry, but I
haven't any information about Mickey
Mclnin. You might consult Movie, Jr., in
Motion Picture Magazine.
Blue Jay. — Ruth Roland is not playing
in pictures right now. Thackeray is the
well-known English novelist who signed
himself Michael Angelo Titmarsh. I
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What can we do to preserve the hi^h
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talent of directors, producers and
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It all lies in that nutshell and it is
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The Celluloid Critic
(Continued from page 83)
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Mary falls from the top of the circus arena
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fall cripples her.
The war conies. The boy. Carl, is in
the German army. With the return of
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her. Then he starts out to wreak ven-
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ver, has been blinded in the war and
w a penniless peddler. So Carl gives
«P his ideas of vengeance. He returns to
Mary on Christmas Eve and — lo — she can
walk. A miracle has occurred.
This is obviously a story belonging to the
generation of pictures. If an unknown
it to a producer, he would yet it back
' ter. But because the story comes
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lism. the critics look upon it as some-
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There are moments of effectiveness, par-
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ns years of the war. This is because
of the admirable acting of Norma Shearer
and Charles Knimctt Mack. Both these
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FAME CAME TO CHAPLIN WITH BORROWED CLOTHES Bert Ennis
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ill in "The Sorrows ol Satan
The Story of Rex Hal K. Wells 28
The Killer
The Love Scene Everett Shinn 30
ol drawings by the famous artist
A Blonde from Pittsburgh David Balch 31
Alyce \l ills « ins hex way to the top
She Reached for the Moon and Got It ! Alice L. Tildesley 32
Florence Vidor's promotion to stardom
Grand Old Men of the Films 34
They played with Booth and Barrett -Portraits of Frank Currier, Theodore Roberts, Alec Francis and Edward Connelly
She's from Alabam' Norma Johnstone 35
How Dorothy Sebastian's Southern drawl opened her way to fame
Publicity Problems Worry Cella Lloyd John Held, Jr. 38
The further adventures ol Mi. field's bathing-girl heroine
Results of Contest and Complete List of Winners 40
Cloudy- With Continued Showers ! 42
The Deluge
Carol Dempster (Portrait) 43
It's the Old Army Game This Soda Business 44
YV. C. Fields' latest film
The Costellos Ask You Over 45
Dolores ami Helene at home
Big Pictures and Little Ones Robert E. Sherwood 49
The ]>asi season's c.xtra-special-super features
Prop Boy to Star ... Alice L. Tildesley 54
Griffith made Charles Emmett Mack into an actor
Greta Garbo (Portrait) '. 56
The Kid from Cape Cod Mary B. Chapman 57
Charles Farrell's rise from an extra
"Up in Mabel's Room ! " 62
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The incidents of the rilm world told in pictures
The Celluloid Critic Laurence Reid 50
Tin plays in review
Letters to King Dodo Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith 58
An amusing series of letters upon i I celluloidia
The Answer Man 63
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COSMOPOLITAN will film a motion picture
based upon Beatrice Fairfax's "Advice to
the Lovelorn."
Cecil B. De Mille liked H. B. Warner's acting
in "Silence" so much that he signed him for three
years.
Mary Philbin engaged to play the feminine
lead in "The Man Who Laughs," based upon
Victor Hugo's story, "L'Homme Qui Rit."
Gaston Glass arrived in New York to play
opposite Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall in
First National's "Subway Sadie."
Lillian Gish's mother has so improved in health
that the star will return from England to begin
work on "Annie Laurie," which will be made in
Hollywood. John Robertson will direct. It is
possible that Owen Moore will be Lillian's lead-
ing man.
May McAvoy has been signed to play the fem-
inine lead in "The First Brigade," opposite
Charles Ray. The film will be a Metro-Goldwyn
special and will be built around the life of a
fireman. H. B. Warner is also in the cast.
Norma Shearer's next starring picture is "Up-
stage," a story of the footlights. Monta Bell will
handle the megaphone.
Marion Davies has decided to star in a screen
version of "The Miracle." playing the role that
Lady Diana Manners created on the stage. Due
to her present production schedule, Miss Davies
will not start work
on "The Miracle"
for quite a while.
Premier Musso-
lini received Doug-
las Fairbanks and
Mary Pick ford in
a half-hour audi-
ence at the Chigi
Palace in Rome —
and expressed his
admiration for the
stars and the
movies.
William Haines
signed for the ro-
mantic lead in
"Tell It to the Ma-
rines," the George
Hill production
which will star
Lon Chaney in the
role of a leather-
neck sergeant.
"The Show-Off,"
from the George
Kelly play of the
same name, has
been started at the
Paramount Eastern
studio under the
direction of Mai
St. Clair. Ford
Sterling will be
featured and
Gregory Kelly who
has played leading
roles in many stage
LAST MINUTE REVIEW
"Aloma of the South Seas"
ASIDE from the personality and talent of Gilda Gray so
- capitally expressed in her film debut, this picture hardly
comes up to the mark. As a play it didn't create any emphatic
impression — and transferred to the screen it doesn't manage to
be very sustaining because of the absence of dramatic move-
ment and suspense.
As a result, its appeal rests entirely with the characterization
and the settings. The director, Maurice Tourneur, took the
company to Porto Rico, and having a good photographic eye he
succeeded in capturing some beautiful exteriors. The breakers
rolling in on the shores, the expanse of foliage and the atmos-
phere of Nature in her most generous mood — all of these lend a
pictorial quality which compensates somewhat for the short-
comings of the plot.
The idea is simply a romance of a native South Sea maiden
who grows to love a broken-hearted American — the latter exil-
ing himself in order to find solace for his unhappiness. There
is a native youth who has figured as Aloma's lover up to the
arrival of the American. When other white trespassers interfere,
the brown-skin boy suffers them to be captured by sharks —
who prefer white meat in place of dark. And thus William
Powell, who had caused the other American's tragic romance, is
exterminated. The girl who had innocently responded to the
villain visits the isle and becomes reconciled to the unhappy
youth — while Aloma turns again to the brown man.
The story is feeble, is always obvious and is minus any
dramatic punch. And aside from Miss Gray, Warner Baxter as
the native youth, and Harry Morey as a rough Yankee, the cast
has not been well selected. Percy Marmont, usually restrained
in his acting, is allowed to overemphasize his role. The picture
is wholly Gilda Gray's and she makes the heroine a whimsical,
wistful character. Her South Sea dance electrifies the audience
and her romantic moments are touched with sympathy and
understanding. Inasmuch as her acting registers a success, she
needs a story with a bigger "kick" in it than this conventional
yarn. L. R.
successes has been added to the cast. There is
a rumor that if his work registers O. K. in this
film he will probably be given the role of
Clyde Griffiths in Dreiser's "An American Trag-
edy," assuming that the novel will be produced.
Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Frank Bacon of
"Lightnin' " fame, has been signed as a director
by Warner Brothers. His first production will be
"Broken Hearts of Hollywood," which will fea-
ture Louise Dresser, whose Goose Woman has
made her one of the most-sought-after character
women in recent years.
Eric Pomrner, European director, is on his way
to Hollywood to take charge of Pola Negri pic-
tures. Pommer is the producer of "The Last
Laugh," "Siegfried," "The Cabinet of Dr. Cali-
gari," and several other pictures which have
never been shown in America.
Louise Brooks selected to play title role in the
Ziegfeld production, "Glorifying the American
Girl." Edward Sutherland, who will direct, is
busy assembling a cast which will include
William Collier, Jr.
Eddie Cantor, the comedian, will put "Kid
Boots" on the screen. Lawrence Gray will have
the juvenile role in the film while the leading
feminine roles will be enacted by Clara Bow and
Esther Ralston.
Having recovered from her illness, Gloria Swan-
son has returned to work on "Fine Manners."
Glenn Hunter to
return to screen in
"The Romance of
a Million Dollars."
Jacqueline Logan
will play the hero-
ine. Tom Terriss
will direct.
Harrison Ford is
now a featured
player for Metro-
politan produc-
tions. His first role
will be that of
"T he Nervous
Wreck," an adap-
tation of the suc-
cessful play of last
season.
"For Alimony
Only" is the title
of a new Leatrice
Joy film which
William de Mille
will direct as his
first effort on join-
ing brother Cecil
in the independent
field. Clive Brook
will appear oppo-
site the star.
Evelyn Brent,
who has been wait-
ing for a suitable
story, has been re-
warded with "The
Flame of the Ar-
gentine."
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THEY SAY
A Practical Woman's Practical Hus-
band Enjoys the Romantic Actors
Editor, Classic :
In Edwin Meyer's letter appearing in
the May Classic, he revealed the re-
action of "every-day" men to specific men
players of our films today and to women
players en masse. I cannot help but be-
lieve that Mr. Meyers is too sweeping in
his statements. I shall use my husband
as one example. He is the most practical
of men without pretense or affectations
whatsoever. His friends include business
men, lawyers, doctors — yes, and news-
paper men! (He has no friends of the
Latin type who are spoken of as "sheiks"
by Mr. Meyers.) He is completely ab-
sorbed in the unromantic and very un-
idealistic business of buying and selling
cement. Pages and pages of his kodak
books are filled with pictures of cement
roads and bridges. I am positive that he
would immediately be included in the
category of every-day men. He even re-
sembles Conway Tearle to a remarkable
degree in features, coloring and physique,
while his mannerisms are much like those
of Milton Sills'. These are actual facts
and are not manufactured to make them
fit in with Mr. Meyers' words as to
"doubles."
Strange to relate, Tearle's presence in a
picture interests my husband not at all,
in fact, he is thoroly bored sitting thru the
type of pictures that Tearle, Sills or
Meighan is seen in. His greatest pleas-
ure is in costume pictures of olden times
and in foreign countries. He was de-
lighted with "Monsieur Beaucaire" with
Valentino, and "Scaramouche" with No-
varro. In fact, he spoke of the natural grace
and ease of these two so-called "sheiks."
It really would seem more logical that the
"every-day" type of man could forget his
humdrum business cares by seeing on the
screen types of men who did not remind
him of his business associates.
The case of my husband is not as upper-
most in my mind tho as is the simple fact
that America is and has been a great Melt-
ing Pot. There is a large group of
American men — yes, "every-
day" men — whose ancestors
were of the warm-blooded
races. Ah, so we need Melt-
ing Pot screen heroes, the
Valentinos and Novarros, as
well as the Meighans and
Tearles.
Mr. Meyers confesses that
the men want the women
players of the screen to be
"exotic, different, strange and
mysterious." And he pokes
fun at the feminine movie
goers for enjoying the "sheik"
type of hero. Well, you know
we women — including "every-
day" women — want the men
players of the screen to be
"exotic, different, strange and
mysterious ! !"
However, I fully agree
with Mr. Meyers regarding
Mae Murray's pout.
Mrs. A. Stiles,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Needed — Less Bunk and More
Realities
Editor, Classic :
Being a firm believer in the efficacy of
criticism in obtaining results in any field
of endeavor (including filmdom), I take
this opportunity of telling you that you
have adopted the right method in making
your criticisms in an outspoken manner ;
there are times when gentleness availeth
not.
My abode is in a town of 2,000 inhabi-
tants, more than one hundred miles from
our railway point. The sole source of
amusement for one who attends neither
dances nor parties, and I am in that class,
is the local movie house which gives two
shows on six nights every week. I have
been a patron of the movies for the past
twenty years, yet I do not attend six
nights a week here. The reason of this
is that each week we have what is locally
known as "howler nights" — nights on
which the audience consists mainly of
children and two-thirds grown hoodlums
who howl their heads off at the unspeak-
able silly heroics and antics of dude-glove,
Main-Street cowboys and gunmen who lay
out their enemies in lots of dozens and
pile 'em up in tiers. I and many others
go to the movies for entertainment and
relaxation, and not to be annoyed by
howling dervishes.
Of course, there are Western pictures
which are masterpieces of the films, and
there are screen players who are master
artists in the portrayal of Western char-
acters of both old and modern days. One
need think only of "The Covered Wagon,"
"North of 36," "The Pony Express," and
of Jack Holt, Bill Hart, Noah and Wal-
lace Beery, Ernest Torrence, Lois Wilson,
Betty Compson, Billie Dove, to be con-
vinced that the story of the West can be,
has been, presented in an intelligent man-
ner on the screen.
Recently a Western, a very good one,
was presented here two nights. The
manager of the local movie house told me
that this picture, "Wild Horse Mesa,"
took in barely enough to pay expenses.
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its readers. The prize-winning letters for the
July number are reproduced on this page.
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five dollars for the third. If two or more let-
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Yet it was a splendid film, with three of
the major stars — Jack Holt, Noah Beery,
Billie Dove — in the leading roles. Never
have 1 seen Billie Dove play with greater
loveliness and sincerity (and I have often
seen her on the screen, sometimes in plays
worthy her great talent and sometimes in
plays unworthy) ; Jack Holt was at his
best, and Noah Beery played the villain
so realistically that an old lady sitting
beside me remarked, as the Indian was
aiming his rifle at the fleeing Noah : "Oh,
dear, he'll miss that devil." I saw the
play both nights, and enjoyed it as much
the second night as I did the first. Yet
the play lacked deserved patronage here;
you see, it was above the heads of the
hokum-loving beholders of the cheap bunk
termed "Westerns."
I am strong in the faith that the movies
will attain a higher level of uniform ex-
cellence. The consummation of that wish
may be slow in arriving, but it will come.
And when it does arrive I hope that the
villain - devastating, dude - glove, chasm-
leaping, smirking abominations masquer-
ading as portrayers of the Western char-
acter will be scarcer than feathers on the
back of a newly hatched rainbow trout.
Improvement in the movies necessitates
elimination of bunk, and the abominations
mentioned are just that — bunk.
There are other features now prevail-
ing in filmdom which will not be missed
when they disappear. One of these is the
carrying and caressing of pet dogs, mon-
keys, cats, and other four-footed, pam-
pered, flea-harboring pests. Audiences
are not interested in pooches and simians.
If it is proper to carry them about in
ordinary plays, then it would have been
proper for Estelle Taylor to have car-
ried a pup or a monkey around while
playing in the "Ten Commandments," and
hand him over to Theodore Roberts now
and then to hold, while he was portraying
Moses. At that it would have been an
event of note to have seen the grim face
of Theodore Roberts if this had happened.
It is a certainty not many of the com-
mandments would have remained intact.
Often have I thought of some portray-
als on the screen I would like
to see. Would like to see
Noah and Wallace Beery' in a
play surrounded by children
and flowers, peace, not a gun
or a cartridge-belt in sight ;
would like to see Betty Comp-
son, Lois Wilson and Billie
Dove in more of the "home-
spun" characters they know
so blessedly well to depict ;
would like to see Jack Holt,
Ernest Torrence. Bill Hart,
in more of their characteristic
stuff ; would like to see the
inane so-called comedies used
as openers displaced by two-
reel short stories of the
screen ; would like to see a
real screen play based on the
Spanish- American War (that
war which is lost in the mem-
ory of most people) ; would
like to see more of real life
realistically depicted on the
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In many ways
Richard Dix's life
story parallels that of
Harold Lloyd. Like
Lloyd, his rise in pop-
ularity has been
*""" steady, slow and sane.
He made no sudden
success in a big, spectacular picture.
Like Lloyd,"his work has been con-
sistently good and consistently satis-
fying also. His career has been a
steady record of improvement. Also,
like Lloyd, he has no enemies — only
friends. Stars may be unmade by
their enemies within the business.
Neither Dix nor Lloyd has anyone
to fear.
THE readers of the Brewster Publications have voted
him their favorite actor.
For months, more letters
about him have reached the editors
of the Brewster Publications than
about any other player on the
screen.
And, for months, not a single
adverse criticism from a "fan" has
been registered against him.
No wonder, then, tha
Richard Dix gets a place on
Classic's cover.
There are all kinds of
screen popularity. There
are stars who put on a pin-
wheel display for a year or
so and then burn out.
There are stars who "get
by" because they happen
to be in the business and
because the public doesn't
care violently enough about
them, one way or another,
to ask them to leave.
Stars Who Mean Something
A nd then there are the stars
who mean something to the
public — Fairbanks, Mary Pickford,
Harold Lloyd, Norma Talmadge
and so few others that you can
almost count them on your fin-
gers. It is into this select circle
that Richard Dix has stepped.
And he landed painlessly and quietly, without agitation
or propaganda.
In a great many ways, Dix's story parallels that of
Harold Lloyd. Like Lloyd, his rise in popularity has
been steady, slow and sane. He made no sudden success
in a big, spectacular picture. Like Lloyd, his work has
been consistently good and consistently satisfying. Also
his career has been a steady record of improvement.
Again like Lloyd, he has no enemies — only friends. Stars
Richard Dix has scored
the Indian hero of "The
He's
Elected/
By
Carol White
may be unmade by their enemies within the business.
Neither Dix nor Lloyd has anyone to fear.
The story of Richard Dix's rise is an undramatic,
unspectacular, but pleasant record of achievement. He
was born in St. Paul of well-to-do parents. He grad-
uated from the St. Paul Central High School and then
attended the University of Minnesota for one year.
Almost a Surgeon
ryx's father wanted him to be a surgeon, but the boy
was mostly interested in sports and dramatics. He
was a good football player, a member of the baseball
team and a fine amateur boxer. And he also played the
leading roles in the school and college dramatic produc-
tions. But the thought of going on the stage didn't enter
his mind, until a few unhappy circumstances forced him
to decide upon a career for himself.
Just as he was preparing to study medi-
cine, he visited a clinic with his elder
brother, who was a surgeon. And
he watched three operations. The
sight of blood sickened him and
he felt that he never could be-
come a doctor.
And then his father suf-
fered financial reverses. Dix
realized that, if he wished
to continue at college, he
would have to work his
way thru. He got a job,
at a small salary, with a
summer stock company
playing in St. Paul.
His success was greater
than he had expected. It
was, indeed, greater than the
manager of the company had
expected. Altho he only played
small parts, he drew large audi-
ences. All his classmates at high
school and college watched his career
Ba" with breathless interest.
his biggest success as Started in Stock
Vanishing American
Cor the newspapers of his town,
* he was a good story. It was
another case of a "local boy making good.'" True, he
knew little about acting and, true, his parts were only
minor ones. Nevertheless, he was a home-town boy with
plenty of friends and his presence in the company added
new interest to the performances of the stock company.
The small, local success looked very big to Richard.
He was terribly and almost pathetically serious about his
work. Every performance was an event; every new role
— no matter how small — was a momentous undertaking.
16
Richard Dix Wins
Brewster Popularity
Contest
The managei and his fellow players gave
him some encouragement. He had his salarj
raised once during the season and several of
tin- actors urged him to ^o to New York, it
he wished to keep on with his own career.
I>:\'-. arrivaJ on Broadwaj was the old
v of small-time talent in a hi},' town. He
had very little money and quite a tew notions
about breaking into a New Vork production.
All in all. he was one of the greenest be-
ginners ever to land on Broadway.
Reaches Broadway
j \ the tir.st place, he was hacked by no family
tradition. None of his relatives ever had
been on the stage. He had little experience
and no slant on the theatrical situation. He
was just a nice home hoy from the Middle
West and he knew less about the world than
the average ten year-old East Side kid.
It didn't take Richard long to find out that
he hadn't a Chinaman's chance of breaking
into a New York production. Considerably downcast, he
decided to look for work in a stock company. None of
the directors of the stock companies seemed particularly
eager to engage a beginner.
Finally, after months of waiting, he was overjoyed to
get an engagement in Pittsburgh at thirty-five dollars a
week.
In spite of a small salary and repeated assurances that
he was the rottenest actor in the world,. Dix stuck to it.
It was, after all. a happy, care-free life, except on the
days that the rent came due.
Then Came Tragedy
Dut then two tragedies came to him that forced him to
settle down to business in grim earnest whether he
liked it or not. His father and his brother died and
Richard found himself the head of his family, with a
mother and a sister to support.
It was his first experience at accepting real responsi-
More letters come to the Brewster Publications about Richard
Dix than about any other player. Left, Dix in his first prominent
role — John Storm in "The Christian"
bility and he went at the task manfully. In those few.
bitter years of poverty in New York his character was
formed. He learned the lesson of self-sacrifice.
The struggle was hard while it lasted but Richard
emerged from it with some valuable assets. He had
acquired self-control, a sense of responsibility, and a
capacity for hard work.
The turning point of his career came when Oliver
Morosco gave him a job in his Los Angeles stock com-
pany. After a short time with Morosco, Hollywood dis-
covered a new leading man. Richard began to make pic-
tures and he began to make friends. Stardom sneaked
up on him — altho his great work in "The Christian" gave
him the final push.
Just Regular !
The insidious blight of success never has touched Rich-
ard in any way. He owns no polo ponies, neither has
he a fur-lined bathtub. He has no social ambitions to pal
around with the Prince of Wales. His salary ic not
enormous ; in fact, he might make four times as much and
still be worth it to any company. He lives well, but not
extravagantly. A new suit is still something of an event
to him. He doesn't care much for show or swank.
Dix isn't married but he has no prejudices against the
institution. He's afraid of making any mistakes and he
doesn't believe in divorce. He is burdened by an old-
fashioned devil, called Conscience, and works hard on his
pictures. And, last but not least, he is one of the few
actors on the screen who think in the terms of achieve-
ment, not money.
17
What My Experiences
By
Two glimpses of Miss Swanson in pictures which
revealed a distinct progress. Top, "The Humming
Bird," and, below, "Beyond the Rocks" with
Rudolph Valentino
*f-8-
I DO NT know whether my father guessed that I
would become an actress. Certainly he couldn't
have given me better training for my profession if
he had. He told me often : "No person can be a
greater artist than he is a human being, because all art
is based on an understanding of humanity."
He impressed upon me the need for experience if I
was to understand people, tho he didn't tell it to me
exactly that way. I cant remember how he taught me
these things, except that he made me feel them. I
learned somehow that it was wrong to whimper when
I hurt myself and the hurt had been brought about by
my own will. I learned that that will was something
that belonged to me and must be cared for so that it
shouldn't grow into spinelessness on the one hand, or
obstinacy on the other. I learned that when I had
little problems, I must figure out for myself which
way to act, not ask my parents to decide them for me.
tho they would be always ready and glad to talk them
over with me.
Her Father's Influence
[ had no brothers or sisters, and father lavished upon
me all the companionship he would have given a son.
There were long walks with him, and long talks. Even
when I was very young, he would talk with me not as
tho I were a child, but a thinking individual ; neither
he nor my mother encouraged me to talk- baby talk
nor answered my questions with the air of bantering
fantasy that many parents adopt toward their children.
But the most important part of my early training
and the one for which I am most grateful was my
father's insistence that I take all things that come my
way.
"There isn't an experience in the world that, cant
do you some good. You can learn something from
everything you do and even the most foolish experi-
ence can teach you not to repeat it," he said. Could
there be any better training for an actress or a writer
or any person whose profession is the portrayal of
human emotions ?
He gave me such a respect for experience that I
prayed I would have all sorts of adventures — ship-
wrecks, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, almost fatal ill-
nesses— so that when I died, I would at least have
tasted life. Tho many of those childish wishes have
come true, I still pray that I may taste much more of
life than I have already known — that new friends, new
work, new places will open themselves to me.
Painful Experiences
'There have been many times when I felt like run-
ning away from some of the experiences I have had,
but I realized that that wouldn't help matters much.
Besides, I was always curious to see what the lesson
would be, what nugget of wisdom I could rescue from
the debris. Lots of times, I must confess, I learned
nothing and lots of other times I discovered truths
18
Have TAUGHT ME
The Star. Talks Frankly of Her
Marriages, Her Career and the
Criticism of Newspapers
that will he of service fur the resl of rm days. For this reason, 1 hate
to Speak of having made mistakes: I think of them as unfortunate or
unhappy experiences, and let it go at that
( >iu- of the first lessons I learned was to be extremely circumspect and
:\ or do anything that might reflect against me. Actresses are so
Rnich in the public eve, especially movie actresses, whose features are
known in every town of the country, that what they do is naturally of
greater interest than
the actions of Miss
Jones or Mrs. Smith.
Newspapers realize
that actresses make
good "copy" and
they will give more
space to our doings
than to the average
woman's.
( ) f the newspapers
there is a small but
important minority
that prints "yellow"
news, facts slightly
off color, or perhaps
I ought to say facts
slightly too colorful.
You see, there is a tra-
dition about actresses
— that they're wild
and exotic, that they
should be ridiculed
or admonished when-
ever the occasion pre-
sents itself. I dont
suppose there's a hu-
man being in the
world, actresses in-
cluded, whose actions
could absolutely escape criticism, and the yellow journals are quick to
snap at little, unimportant fragments and develop them into national
scandals, if an actress or any other public character is involved. I dont
want to give the impression that newspapers as a class treat actresses
unfairly. Just a few do. but they can make themselves very unpleasant.
Most papers have been exceedingly generous and friendly toward me and
my work, and it is their kind, sincere criticism that has showed me how
my work could be improved. The reviews of my pictures in the news-
papers are mirrors where I can get a sane, unbiased conception of my
characterizations.
Newspaper Exaggerations
Actresses are said to do all sorts of impossible things and earn salaries
large enough to support a dozen presidents at the White House.
There have been so many exaggerations
about money in the motion picture industry
that another million or two wont matter
anyway. The same is true of the money
we are supposed to spend. That's only one
example of exaggeration. I could think of
dozens of others.
(Continued on page 85)
Says Gloria Swanson:
"One bitter but valuable lesson I
learned some time ago : The wisest
course is to keep my private self within
the four walls of my home . . . and
above all to be very careful not to say
anything that can be misconstrued.
"There is a tradition about actresses
— that they're wild and exotic, that
they should be ridiculed or admon-
ished whenever the occasion presents
itself. . . . The yellow journals are
quick to snap at little, unimportant
fragments and develop them into na-
tional scandals.
"I cant call my matrimonial experi-
ences mistakes. Nothing can be a
mistake that gives one a finer appre-
ciation of genteel qualities."
Progressive studies of
Miss Swanson. Top to
bottom: The star when
she left Cecil De Mille, in
"The Humming Bird," in
"Mme. Sans-Gene" and,
below, in her newest
photoplay, "Fine Manners"
19
Have THEY Got IT?
By
Agnes Smith
/N every good httle hoy
there is just a bit of Flo-
renz Ziegfeld. That is to
say, there isn t a man in the
world who doesn't think that
he couldn't Pick an A-No.-l
Beauty Chorus, if he were
given a good chance.
And in every little girl — good
or otherwise — there is just a
bit of the old Elinor Glyn.
There isn't a girl this side of
the Old Ladies' Home who
isn't sure that she can tell at a
glance whether or not a man
has IT.
Everybody s Talking About
IT
CINCE four out of five are
*"^ discussing IT, there isn t
any reason why we shouldn t
enter into a discussion of the
faults or virtues of those
charming gentlemen of the
screen, known as America' s
Dream Princes. We might as
well be frank about it at the
start; there will be no idle and
irrelevant talk of the artistic
abilities — ;/ any — of any of
these gentlemen. They will be
considered simply as movie
stars.
In the first place, there is
Richard Dix. The readers of
the Brewster Publications have
chosen Mr. Dix as their most
popular form of entertainment.
Dix is also called the "typical
American man."
The Typical American
JDUT that is the most arrant
sort of flattery — to the
typical American man. If Dix
were the typical American
20
William Potter
Richard Dix is the sort of man
every girl hopes to marry until
she's twenty-five, then she gives
up
Henry Waxman
Every girl knows there really is
no such person as Ramon No-
varro, the mythical and remote
Alelbourne Spurr
John Gilbert is hot stutt and
can look at a girl in a way that
is far from spiritual
man, there would be no de-
mand for thirteen and a half
collars, fat reducers, horn-
rimmed glasses or arch sup-
Porters. Every girl in the coun-
try knows that Dix is not the
typical American man — but
she wishes he were.
The secret of the Dix poPu-
lanty is really very simple. He
is the sort of man that every
girl hopes to marry until she
reaches the age of twenty-five,
after which she gets discour-
aged and takes the first willing
fellow that comes along. And
he is what every mother hojSes
her son will be, if he doesn't
take to smoking too soon.
Dix has the sunny nature of
the late W all ace Reid plus a
certain kindliness and a cer-
tain strength of character. And
he doesn't look too tempera-
mental or too exotic for every-
day friendship.
J\.ovarro at Other Extreme
A T the other extreme is
-£*■ Ramon Novarro. While
Dix is a believable person and
a not too faint hope, every girl
knows that there really is no
such person as Ramon No-
varro. Of all the figures on
the screen, he is the most shad-
owy, the most remote. Never-
theless, even those women who
go to see 'Ben-Hur" because
it is a religious story, cannot
fail to notice that Mr. Novarro
has very handsome legs.
Novarro came on the screen
shortly after the Valentino
craze. He was falsely called a
'Latin Lover." More truly is
he the Greek tyf>e — a mythical
and, indeed, an improbable
person. But, oh, what a per-
fect example of a Suppressed
Desire.
Our Expert Answers the Question
A Bad Case of IT
/OHN GILBERT i$ sup-
posed to have a very had
case of IT. John >s, indeed,
hot stuff and can look at a girl
in a way that ts far from spiri-
tual. His chief charm ts that
he looks a little unwholesome
— for all the world like the fas-
cinating suitor who is not en-
couraged by the family because
he is known to have wild ways.
A dangerous boy — a radical —
a fellow who never has at-
tended Sunday School — a Bo-
hemian — not a man to be
trusted or relied upon. Thank
goodness!
John appeals to nice, con-
ventional girls. He looks like
a great field for missionary
work — a grand Heathen to be
reformed. But try and do it!
The Blond Bill Boyd
A NEWCOMER in the field
•**■ is William Boyd. He s
beautiful and dumb — just like
Siegfried. And yet not too
dumb to steal a picture, right
away from some mean troup-
ers. Cecil De Mille discovered
Boyd. He has blue eyes and
no mustache to deceive. He
isn't sophisticated or subtle
and his acting ts innocent of
guile. Mr. Boyd is easy to look
at and he will never trouble his
public by any unruly ambitions
to jSlay Hamlet.
/ hope Noah gives Mr. Boyd
a nice ride in the Ark when
Mr. De Mille films "The Del-
uge.' He would be a pleasant
and steady fellow to have
around in a Flood.
Adolphe Menjou is another
Suppressed Desire. But the
girls like him in a nice way.
He looks like the sort of fellow
who knows how to order a good
dinner, who gets along with
William D»vil IVarsall
With blue eyes and no mustache
to deceive, Bill Boyd is beautiful
and dumb — like Siegfried
M. .1. Boris
Adolphe Menjou is another
Suppressed Desire who isn't em-
barrassed in the presence of an
artichoke
:her
em-
it an
Russell Hall
Ronald Colman gives you the
impression he would be the
meanest of the lot, if he weren't
a gentleman I
hi- a J watt ere, who is not
barrossed >n the />' of
an arttchohe. Met the tort
of man who doeSH t hare tu
he browbeaten into wearing
striped trousers and an after-
noon coat to a wedding. If. I
the boy who wouldn t Put sugar
on lettuce, drink champaun,
out of a tumbler or serve beer
with the sou}} course.
Another Sufifiressed Desire
TN fact, little Adolphe is just
the walking book of eti-
quette. He s the boy who
could be trusted not to go na-
tive in an Art Museum, not to
go insane at a morning musi-
cale, not to applaud after the
first act of "Parsifal. ' He's the
man who can wear a high hat
without looking as tho he were
going to a Lodge funeral. To
sum up, Menjou is the fellow
who is adored by Wives Who
Have Suffered.
Ronald Colman s British Re-
serve has almost thrown him
into the class of dependable
leading men. But Ronald gives
you the impression that he
could be the meanest of the
lot, if he weren t a gentleman.
But Britannia rules the waves
and he should make a fool of
himself! The sun never sets
on English soil, so why be a
matinee idol! Ronald kills em
by his indifference. But they
always come back to see him.
After being a good actor for
many years, John Barrymore
has suddenly emerged as a fel-
low who has IT. That is to
say, he is being Paid a salary
that only goes to young men
who have IT. Altho this Poor
wretch saw Mr. Barrymore in
"The Jest, she cannot see his
fatal fascination. Nevertheless,
it must be there. Will some
one in the audience please nse
and explain?
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The CENTAUR
Tom Mix personifies the American cowboy — brother of the riders of the race: the
Amazons, the Valkyries, the Tartars, the Indians on pinto ponies, sweeping in dim
procession down from the past
EARL JELLICOE was scarcely recognized at Till-
bury docks," ran the indignant leading article of
The London Times.
In fancy I can see the writer of the leader — a worn,
bald, graying man, wearing a morning coat with tails
which conceal the delinquencies of his trousers in the
By
Don Ryan
lumbar-region ; and
spats that hold a pair
of broken shoes tri-
umphantly together.
"The commander of
His Majesty's naval
forces was scarcely
recognized, the crowd
all running off. to see
an American cowboy
disembark from the
Aquitania."
I can see the shabby
old journalist — so he
would be called — ad-
justing his pincenez
and bristling at the
occiput, where the thin,
gray-yellow hair is
parted down the back
and brushed upward.
Writing his leading
article with a pen and
pushing in his indigna-
tion so hard against the
paper that the stub
buries itself with a
sputter of ink and
breaks under his hand.
"Edward! Oh,
Edward!" And to the
deferential youth who
promptly presents him-
self : "Ascertain for me
the name of that Amer-
ican cowboy-1 "
"Mix, sir! Thomas
Mix, sir !"
"My word ! You
know it at once, it
seems."
"Oh, yes, sir. I've
seen him riding in the
films, sir. Many's the
time I've "
"That will do, Ed-
ward. Gad! You too."
And when Edward has
retired : "Extraordinary
this infection by Amer-
ican films. I" — help-
lessly to himself — "I
just cawnt understand
it. . . . And the Earl
at Til'bry docks. . . ."
. . . scarcely recognized .
Mix and Europe
The leading article from The Times is displayed in a
scrapbook in the outer office which is part of the Mix
suite at the Fox Studio. You go into the outer office of
22
of the CINEMA
Drawings by K. R. Chamberlain
the bungalow and there arc three large scrapbooka
labeled "European Trip," 1. 1 and 3, in the custody
i secretary.
The book> are lull of clippings from the press of
London, Paris, Berlin ami tin- lesser capitals of Kurope.
The tone of the clippings i> that of amused- -sometimes
Indignant— surprise. You gather from a perusal of them
that an American cowboy named Tom Mix, mounted on a
trained horse and wearing an extraordinary native Amer-
ican costume, had ridden down the main thorofares of
Europe, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, drawing the
cheering populace in his train. You gather
that, while the ruling classes for the most
part looked on with amusement, there were
- of alarm in some quarters at the ease
with which the proletariat surrendered its
heart to this barbarian invader.
"That Yankee !" — "Cet Aniericain !" —
"1 >as Amerikaner !"
There is photographic proof of the fact
that Europe's proletariat did surrender itself
to an orgy of hero-worship when Tom Mix
role by. There is a picture of Mix trotting
along Rotten Row with a regiment of bob-
bies trying to keep the crowd back. There
is a dim picture of Mix riding in a foggy
drizzle along the historic London road fre-
quented in time past by Dick Turpin and
still haunted by a shadowy ghost mounted
on a great black horse. That morning the
road was lined for seven miles with a crowd
of 250,000 rain-soaked proletarians. And
there is a picture of Mix seated in a visitor's
chair, talking to the Lord Mayor of London,
who is seated in a great, carved throne-
chair ; a tete-a-tete for which the Lord
Mayor was severely criticized in some
quarters. .
"I Like the English"
"Dut he didn't give-a-damn," confided the
American cowboy. "The Lord Mayor
was a good scout.
"I got so I liked the English all right," he
went on. "They are something like us, only
harder to get acquainted with. They're for
you when they find out you're on the level.
They're like me in that respect — you've got
to show 'em — and they hate a faker. Some
of them can ride a little, too.
"Oh, yes," he continued, grinning. "I
met enough of these lords and dooks and
duchesses to make me dizzy. One recep-
tion they kept callin' 'em off there till I
thought everybody in London was a dook.
"Yes," reminiscently, "I liked the English.
The French didn't impress me so much —
they're kinda hysteri-
cal, you know. They
dont exactly know Tom Mix is one of
what it's all about. *he ^w stars who
ti„ » .•,, •, does his own
They re still arguyin stunts He never
(C ont d on page 64 ) uses a double
Tom Mix is the
Last of the
Vanishing
Americans
23
Three More AUTHORS:
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
W. B. Maxwell
By Henry Albert Phillips
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
~X7ICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ is a notable
example — in many ways an equally notable
exception — of my remarks in another column.
'The Four Horsemen of the ApocalyPse," four
years ago, elevated motion pictures to an in-
disputable position as a distinctive and dis-
tinguished art. But who performed this miracle?
Blasco Ibanez or Rex Ingram? Could not a bad
director with no vision have blighted this story?
And again, what touches of visibility and vision
did Ingram add to the printed Pages?
All of which is theoretical. The facts stand in
all their glory in a fairyland villa — the Villa
■Fontana Rosa — just outside the quaint and
ancient town of Mentone in France, not far from
the Italian border and overlooking the Medi-
terranean Sea. Within the spacious grounds of
the villa are no less than seven sizable buildings
and a score of workmen are daily laboring and
adding other luxuries that only a lavish fortune
could buy. It would be unfair to say that. Here
are the mansions that the movies have built, but
without question, their contribution to it all must
have been enormous.
(Continued
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W. B. Maxwell
\Y7 B. MAXWELL wrote at least two books
* that have always stood out among the
many modern books I have read. The first was
entitled, "The Devils Garden" ; the other, sev-
eral years later, was "Spinster of This Parish.'
I had always had a strong desire to meet the man
who had given me so many pleasant hours by
writing these absorbing stories. And now- 1 have
just read his current novel, Fernande, and de-
rived an equal amount of pleasure from that.
If you have not read these particular novels
from among the twenty or so that he has written,
it is more than likely you have seen some of
them on the screen, particularly 'A Madonna of
the Streets," with Nazimova in the title-role.
This story was taken from his novel. The
Ragged Messenger.
Mr. Maxwell is at the moment the chairman
of the British Society of Authors and is taking a
serious interest in trying to adjust the relation-
ship between authors and film producers, homing
to iron out many of the disturbing wrinkles that
appear in these articles.
"Let us begin here in England," he told me as
on Page 66)
j
DISCUSS the FILMS
VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ:
"The future of the cinema is limitless.
Now it is not going ahead very fast. There
is no standard in the cinema. Why do
the artists not get together and set up
standards?"
WILLIAM J. LOCKE:
"One cant be too hard on the films — no
more than one can unjustly scold a child."
W. B. MAXWELL:
"The film as a vehicle for the transmis-
sion of letters to the multitude has really
never begun to be tested."
•A
William J. Locke
Hnm i
The Third of a Series of Talks About Motion Pictures
With Famous English and Continental Writers
TN my humble opinion, the great writers with
whom I have had the honor of talking quite
miss the point when they come either to bless or
curse the motion picture and what it gives to
them and takes away from them.
They fail to realize that the motion Picture
Producers, and the public in its turn too, are
really buying their name, not their story. The
story must, of course, have motion picture Pos-
sibilities, but if that were all it had to recom-
mend it, its chance for sale at any price would be
very — infinite ssimally — small. In other words,
the great writers — in nine cases out of ten, at
least — are being Paid large sums for an in-
tangible, unviewable reputation.
To Put it in terms of slang, what the great
writer makes from the motion picture is "velvet"
— it is unearned increment. If he gets the divi-
dends multiplied, he should not be too inclined
to cry 'wolf," or watered stock! For instance, I
have a novelist friend whose novel in book form
netted him something more than ten thousand
dollars. The motion Picture People gave him
twenty-five thousand dollars for "film rights" —
which compared somewhat to slaughter-house
(Continued
William J. Locke
'VVJlLLIAM }. LOCKE is another great
writer who lives in a Palace by the sea —
also the Mediterranean Sea, on the Riviera,
where summer prevails all year round and win-
ter is lugged in only by the visitors who retail
over the tea-table in the sunshine on the open
terraces weird tales of actual snow and ice and
cold they have experienced not long since in
Pans, London or New York.
I found Mr. Locke out on his terrace in white
flannels, blue coat, hatless, and with an alarming
sunburn on his face and a slightly bald head.
We stood and smoked a cigaret before we went
into his study.
"After all, there is beauty in the world! he
said, looking over the palms and rows of euca-
lyptus growing among the villas below us; then
on toward the sea, over Cannes and then beyond
toward the Esterelles, one of the most noble
groups of mountains in the world. "And just as
there is beauty here in Nature, so it may be
found in humanity.
If you will recall any of the Picture plays taken
from Locke s books, or the books themselves,
on Page 66)
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Menjou will make Satan a pol-
ished, cynical man of the world,
known as Prince Lucio Rimanez.
Above, Ricardo Cortez as Geoffrey-
Tempest, who falls victim to Satan,
and Carol Dempster as Mavis
Claire, his sweetheart
SATAN
Himself
In D. W. Griffith's production of Marie Corelli's
romance, "The Sorrows of Satan," our own
Adolphe Menjou will be seen as the Evil One,
flung to earth from the ramparts of Heaven by
Michael and his angel host. Satan comes to earth
and forthwith starts his machinations with man-
kind. Above, Satan installed in a steam-heated
apartment surrounded by his aids. Right, Lya
de Puti as Lady Sibyl, one of the Evil One's
chief temptations
26
The PACE
That KILLS
By Faith Service
WE are going the pace that kills.
Ml of US . . . you and I ami the movie stars.
It is killing the stars, some of them. It has
killed quite a tew in the past year, if you will study your
obituaries thoughtfully.
The Killing Speed
Wl who live in or abovit New York, or any other city,
we who profess or hope to be of the "Intelligentsia,"
are all going the pace that kills.
And it we abandon the pace that kills, the kindly
public erects over us a neat, white prominent
tombstone labeled "Dead from the Neck Up"
— and the world passes us by. ^ ,
There is scarcely a person of our
acquaintance who is not crying
"Take me away from New
York ! Take me back to • ""'
the Land ! I wanter
farm! I wanter
live the Simple
Drawing
by
LOREN
Stout
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Take me
back to a
Farm !"
/7"1 . I J]) ^ is becom-
t l . ing a metr°-
^ r 0 '^ ' '; } ■ \^^ politan prayer.
f f ft s*yr} C^ynfy If you think it over,
i v f'^jn. .' it becomes worse. You
c^rt ''•'"' 4l " begin to realize how bad
rT't C f 'ry^/ jt is- The thing to do, then,
f'v VVS^ is NOT to think it over. But
^ ■"' if you will, vou will . . . read
*Ur on. . . .
As you think it over, it becomes
maddening. You feel that you are
going insane, or have already gone in-
sane. Maybe you have. Anyway,
when you read about it, you will feel
like holding your throbbing head and
giving vent to screams that would
doubtless land you in a passing patrol
wagon if overheard because, after all,
persons are not supposed to hold their
throbbing heads and scream, even in
the so-called privacy of their own bed-
chambers.
So-called because there isn't, really,
There is NO place where the telephone,
radio, newspaper, victrola, postman, wireless or what-not cannot
reach.
(If you're getting impatient about the stars and what this has
to do with them, wait a moment . . . I'm getting to them.)
Think it over, then . . . think of the daily mail you have to
read — and write. Think, we particularly beseech you, think of
the SUNDAY PAPERS. The monumental Sunday papers that
every well-informed individual should peruse; the Sunday, papers
with their massed detailia of new books, new magazines, new
(Continued on page 70)
27
"The Killer" is the villain in
Rex's pictures. In real life he
is a harmless pinto, but his
enmity to Rex is deep-rooted
and genuine
LEVEN hundred pounds of magnifi-
cent horse-flesh thundered around
the sawdust-covered floor of the
enclosed barn areaway, head tossing and eyes
flashing in the exuberance of release from the
confines of his stall
Rex, "King of the Wild Horses," was being given
his daily dozen over at the Hal Roach ranch on
Pruess Boulevard.
The big stallion's seal-brown coat — that appears
nearly jet-black on the screen — shone with that satiny
sheen that only perfect physical condition and expert
grooming can give. Beneath that velvet coat lithe muscles
rippled and played in stark beauty.
It is a safe bet that more than one of the small audi-
ence huddled against an end wall of the locked enclosure
would have willingly traded his post at the moment for
several more desirable spots in Southern California. A
volcano eruption is interesting to watch, but it loses some
of its charm if the spectator happens to be sitting with his
feet dangling over the edge of the crater at the time.
The Volcanic Rex
D ex is reminiscent of a volcano in more ways than one.
^ Whatever else he may be, he is distinctly not a par'or
pet. He is a figure that comes only once in several equine
generations, an aristocratic barbarian, a gloriously un-
trammeled and utterly unconquerable king of the open
range.
Elinor Glyn says that Rex has "It." If the Madame
means what I think she does, I agree with her. In fact,
Rex has more "It" to the square inch
than a dill pickle has freckles.
Sheer power, vivid appeal to the
primitive, the surging vitality of physi-
cal perfection, flaming life, imperious
with the blue blood of thorobred an-
cestors, as wild and unbroken a child
of Nature as the four winds of Heaven
— those are qualities which the cryptic
The
Story
of
REX
By Hal K. Wells
word "It" probably covers as well as any other available
section of the English language.
Rex is wild. He has less use for civilization than a her-
mit has for a silk hat. The big Morgan stallion is a
genuine wild horse, always has been, and always, will be.
No one has ever successfully trained a cyclone to' do par-
lor tricks without utterly wrecking the parlor during the
process, and no one will ever tame Rex into mediocrity,
unless they kill him first.
Trained in Tiger Fashion
J n many ways the routine followed by Rex's trainer in
his short daily work-out was suggestive of that used by
a lion-trainer in handling a particularly temperamental
jungle cat. Careful never to make a sudden movement
Fred Jackman is Rex's
trainer and his screen
discoverer. "About all
we actually do," he
says, "is to let Rex do
the things he really
wants to do and then
fit the resulting scenes
into our story"
28
A
Rex is a genuine wild horse, always has been, and always will be.
hermit has for a silk hat
He has less use for civilization than a
Rex is a real killer
or sound that might >tartle his restive pupil, and never
giving an inch even when the big stallion threatened to
charge him, the trainer kept the tufted lash of a long
buggy-whip flicking almost constantly between himself
and the horse.
The whip was never actually used. It was merely a
symbol of authority. One light
cut from it on those glossy
flanks would have been equiva-
lent to suicide. Rex has al-
ready killed one man in his
ipectacular career, and seriously
injured several others.
The training routine was
short. The big str.llion was
drilled in "Let's go!" "Stop!"
and "Hold it !" He muzzled a
dummy figure of a man along a
wire. He closed an open door.
Finally he was made to clamber
on a small upturned tub and
pose there after the fashion of
the picture, "The End of the
Trail." Rex is not a "trained"
horse in any sense of the word,
and never will be. His training
stunts are largely disciplinary,
given to make him realize some
slight authority.
The session over, the stallion
was returned to his home in
Stall No. 13, and we adjourned
to the open air. Fred Jackman and I parked ourselves on
the top rail of the corral fence and rolled brown-paper
cigarets while Jackman told me of Rex's rather lurid life
history, and some of the unique methods used in making
the "wild horse" pictures.
Jackman is the director who has handled Rex in every
picture made so far with the big stallion. He is a quiet,
whimsical Westerner, with an understanding of animals
that is at times uncanny.
Jackman has a genuine love for animals and his attach-
ment for the wild Rex is a deep one.
He was born on a large ranch in
eastern Colorado, being registered un-
der the name of "Casey Jones."
He took to the wilds and became a
genuine monarch of the open range.
At the age of five he was captured,
after a costly battle. One man was
killed and another badly hurt.
Ordered shot, he was reprieved and
given to the Colorado State Reforma-
tory for breeding purposes.
His fame as a killer spread — and the
great wild stallion was brought to
Hollywood.
Rex's early life is more or less of a mystery. He was
born on a large ranch in Eastern Colorado, of pure
Morgan stock. The colt was registered under the name
of "Casey Jones," which is the official title on his pedigree
today. He took to the wilds early, and eluded every
searching party that sought to capture him. Roaming
the farthermost recesses of
the big ranch, during the
next five years he became a
genuine monarch of the open
range, with a herd of sub-
jects, and a contemptuous dis-
dain for the luckless horsemen
who occasionally tried to cap-
ture him.
The Story of Rex
T1
hen when the stallion was
five years old, he was finally
taken. It was a costly battle.
One man was killed outright,
and another so badly injured
that he went to the hospital for
months. Believing the stallion
to be incurably vicious, the
ranch superintendent ordered
him shot.
A reprieve came from an un-
expected quarter. Xearbv was
the ranch establishment of the
Colorado State Reformatory
for Children. Breeding of fine horses was a specialty of
this ranch, and Rex was an unusually fine specimen of the
Morgan breed, a strain that was being rapidly depleted.
The big stallion was accordingly transferred to the
Reformatory stables.
His life there did very little to improve a temper that
was already far from sweet. Mischievous urchins tor-
mented him by making faces at him until even today to
grimace at Rex is to start something exceedingly hard to
stop. His fame spread and tourists often went out of their
(Continued on page 65)
29
Just above, you see the fervid love scene as the
movie audience sees it — later.
Below, you may note the Great Lover taking a
lesson or two in the Romeo stuff from the director.
By
Everett
Shinn
30
A
BLONDE
From
Pittsburgh
By David Balch
ALYCE MILLS has risen from an
obscurity only slightly less dense and
L harrowing than thai which is popularly
supposed to attend the struggles of the rising
young author or artist (and probably does)
and she has retained all of the gentle gravity
that early distinguished her in our memory as a
very sweet girl, indeed.
That was three years ago. Now she is leading
woman to that most popular of popular gentle-
men stars, Richard Dix, and is sharing with him
i. jriey
William Potter
Alyce Mills won a Dcauty contest in Pittsburgh. She had
a hard struggle to get a film hearing, Elmer Clifton finally
giving her a screen opportunity
in part the responsibility for making "Say It Again."
Dix's latest picture, easy for folks to look at. And we
have an idea that she is going to succeed.
But three years ago, when we first knew her, Miss
Mills was just trying to get somewhere, by all the
devious means of endeavor open to personable young
women, which included posing for photographic illus-
trations and for the various advertising mediums which
think that "the pretty girl's head, gentlemen, will sell
the article." The movies, then, were a long way off,
long, that is, in one sense, that the only screen work-
worth while was the "big time" variety that seemed al-
ways to be just a little way the other side of sundown.
Beauty Contest Winner
A beauty contest started it all, she told us. It was in
Pittsburgh, her home town, and a certain newspaper
had canvassed the city for the prettiest girl, a sort of
Miss Pittsburgh. It so happened (quite logically, we
think) that Miss Mills was the choice. For a fort-
night she dwelt in fairy-land, even as any other girl
would have done. Then, the contest, or the local ad-
vertising stunt, or whatever else it was, over, Mi»>
Mills descended to earth again and began to live with
her memories.
(Continued on page 77)
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She Reached for
the MOON
"People are always wishing
for the moon," says Florence
Vidor.
"When I was a little girl
growing up in Texas, I used to
be laughed at by the family
when I mentioned being an
actress.
"In spite of the family laugh-
ter, here I am. By luck, I some-
times think.
"I haven't had time to find out
yet how it feels to be a star. It's
a little like what I imagine a
general feels when he's given
charge of an army.
"Rather frightening, isn't it?"
Florence Vidor has just been pro-
moted to stardom by Famous
Players' — a long step from her first
hit, Mimi, in "The Tale of Two
Cities." Left, Miss Vidor at the
entrance of her Beverly Hills home
THE scene was a Texas movie
house — characters, Florence
Vidor, of schoolgirl age, and a
boy a little older.
They had been watching the pic-
ture heroine go thru thrilling ad-
ventures, advance from a little no-
body on a bleak farm to a dazzling
and irresistible queen in a palace.
Gowns, too. Jewels. And an alto-
gether satisfactory hero !
The lights flared up and the girl
sighed.
"Oh!" she breathed. "I wish I
could be in pictures !"
The boy was horrified. She
mustn't say such a thing ! Suppose
somebody heard her !
"There's no chance in the world
of my ever getting in, considering
how many miles I live from Cali-
fornia and how little I know about
32
Jlf
and Got It/
By
Alice L. Tildesley
acting," she defended herself, "but I can wish it. cant I I
People are always wishing for the moon!"
Now She's a Star
Today, Florence Vidot has the moon. She ha^ just
* been elevated to stardom and her hrst starring picture
is under wa)
The story for this picture was written by the Hungarian
playwright, Ernest Vadja, and the production promises to
be one of the most interesting of the year.
On one of the great stages at the Paramount studio in
Hollvwood, an entire theater searing twelve hundred, with
balconies, boxes and full stage has been erected. A dozen
the highest-paid acts on the vaudeville circuit have
been engaged ; special scenery has been designed and
gorgeous costumes created ; for the play deals with a com-
. modeled after' the Chauve-Souris of the Moscow
\rt Theater.
"All this for our new star !" commented one of the
players, above the music of
the Russian balalaika or-
chestra playing native in-
struments in the orchestra
pit. His gesture went from
the Arabian tumblers pyra-
mided against the backdrop,
to the Russian dancers
executing intricate figures
on the apron of the stage —
from the acrobats, clowns
and comedians doing their
stuff in appointed spaces to
Clive Brook, in his mid-
night-black velvet throwing
knives at the gilded screen
against which the new star
posed.
"So few people ever get
their hands on their coveted
moon. How do you sup-
pose it feels when you do?''
Florence Yidor smiled
when I asked her.
"I u.is so much inn when I was iiki- tured
player, for then 1 was cast for a part for the limple
son that I teemed t<> fit it. and I wa concerned with no
more than my own performance Now that I am a It
special itor) is written around me by a famous man, tin-
cast is selected in reference to me, and if for any reason
the picture IS unsuccessful, the failure will reflect 00 DM
"Rather frightening, isn't it?"
She sat in the bungalow dressing room, a ga) figure in
pink silhouetted against the leaf-green of its walls, the
velvet of her "back stage" dressing-room gown decorated
with symbols of the "magic" in which she indulges in her
starring role.
"I'm hoping a lot for this picture, of course, hut I won-
der sometimes if I shall ever find a part that I'll love as I
did my first 'bit.' It was Mimi in 'Tale of Two Cities.'
Not much of a part. I worked two days only, hut it's tin
one thing I've done that I haven't said: '< Mi. why didn't I
( Continued on page 68 i
I
How It Feels to Star
haven't really had
time to find out," she
confessed in that deep low
voice of hers, "At first it's
a little like what I imagine
a general feels when he's
given charge of an army.
Tremendous responsibility,
you know. Only the
general gives orders that
other people carry out, and
a star can do just her part
of the picture and yet feel
responsible for everything
in the production.
Florence Vidor's first real
role was opposite Sessue
Hayakawa. Luck played its
part — and luck has played an
important part in Miss
Vidor's career ever since
Kenneth Alexander
33
Grand Old Men of the Films
They Played with Booth and Barrett
34
She's
From
Alabam'
By
Norma
Johnstone
Dorothy Sebas-
tian made her
film debut in
"Sackcloth and
Scarlet," directed
by Henry King
Dorothy Sebastian's Southern drawl won her a place in George
White's "Scandals." Dolores and Helene Costello were in the chorus,
too. Then Miss Sebastian's drawl got her a place in pictures
THERE is sure magic in a Southern drawl.
"Are you from Dixie?" is more than a song; the
line, "Yes, I'm from Dixie !" is the open sesame to
the hearts of the world.
So Dorothy Sebastian found it. . . . Dorothy, with her youth and
grace and loveliness, supplementing that distracting Alabama speech.
Nobody ever wanted her to use her enticing drawl ; the positions it
helped her into were those of show girl, dancer and screen actress, but
it was the way she spoke that gained them for her. . . .
When Dorothy was a curly-headed mite in ruffled dresses and pin
socks, the proud family used to take her out in Birmingham's tree-lined
avenues, no doubt enjoying the sensation she must have made.
"And what are you going to be when- you grow up?" people who
stopped to greet her elders would ask the child.
"An actress!" crowed Dorothy, before her scandalized guardian of
the moment had time to reply for her : "Dot's going to be a missionary."
(There was a missionary in the family.)
A bit later, Dorothy used to draw flamboyant figures of dancing girls
on sheets of wrapping-paper, pin them up on the barn as posters, and
give "one-man shows" inside.
Wanted to Be an Artist
Dut when she had finished high school, another branch of art claimed
her. Her mother was an artist and Dorothy was clever with crayons
and colors. The girl opened her own studio in an apartment in town,
(Continued on page 78)
35
How Charlie Chaplin caught the eye of the old Keystone
Company while appearing in "A Night in an English Music-
Hall" is a matter of history. Here is the untold success of the
queer way he made a hit in films
THERE have been stories without number in present-
day magazines which devote their pages to "success"
stories and, according to these engaging biographies
of our big men, they were the first ones at their desks in
the morning, the last ones to put out the light (and also
the cat) at night, spent their evenings acquiring twenty
years' knowledge from the perusal of a correspondence
course in twelve lessons, eschewed drink, tobacco and
night clubs, and did all the other amazing things which
successful men usually do, according to the chroniclers
of this pleasing type of fiction.
Always, despite these beloved bromidic high lights which
feature the stories of the rise of our leading citizens, those
who buy their theater seats from speculators and have
their garters made to order, no writer of "success" essays
considers he has done a professional job unless he dilates
on the fact that "John H. Muchmoney got his real start in
life thru the borrowing of a dollar from a friend," with
which sturdy capital he proceeded to obtain an interest in
the business of making dog-collars, with the result that
twenty years later we find our friend, Mr. Muchmoney,
36
FAME Came
to CHAPLIN
with
Borrowed
CLOTHES
By Bert Ennis'
in sole control of the industry which has a monopoly
on the manufacture of ornaments for canine necks.
Charlie's Success Story
That's the way the stories of success usually run.
At least, it seems that way to this writer. Never
has he seen recorded anywhere a story setting forth
that the successful one borrowed an old derby hat,
a pair of shoes, a cane and a garment sometimes
politely referred to as trousers, and thus equipped
with an odd sort of capital, started blithely down
the road to fortune and fan mail with an asset which
only dealers in old clothes hold in esteem.
No, the stories of achievement must always be
written according to Hoyle, and therefore they
always borrow money. Disturbing as it may be to
those fellow scribblers who insist that the conven-
tions be observed when it comes to the rules govern-
ing success and how to achieve it, this story deals
with one who made the grade to fame and fortune
thru the temporary acquisition of the ordinary arti-
cles of dress just mentioned — Charlie Chaplin. The
little man. who from the time he stuck to the hat.
shoes, cane, et al., which he borrowed at the outset
of his dash after success, was the screen idol of the
entire world, and the funniest man in pictures. This state-
ment can be made without detracting in any way from the
consummate artistry and remarkable talents which he has
displayed in recent films of a totally un-Keystone-like
nature. The fact remains that the Chaplin of the ludicrous
dignity and jauntily disreputable attire rocked the box-
office records and risibilities of a nation at one and the
same time.
In Old Keystone Days
Tn 1913, the Keystone Company, then dominant in the
field of movie comedy, acquired the services of an
obscure vaudeville player, who was being paid an. insig-
nificant sum weekly for tumbling in and out of a stage
box while watching the rollicking performance which
formed the basis of the skit of which he was a part —
Karno's "Night in an English Music-Hall." The
obscure actor, who answered to the name of Charles
Chaplin, was in America only thru an accident. His
brother, Syd Chaplin, had been scheduled to play the part
of the boy in the box in the Karno vaudeville act, but at
„
The Inside
Story of How
the Comedian
Borrowed Ar-
buckle's Pants
and Ford Ster-
ling's Shoes,
Thereby
Achieving
Success
the last minute had decided
to give his brother, Charlie.
.1 chance to see America first.
So Chaplin hied himself to
new employer at the
small studio of the Key-tone
Company in Hollywood
where a certain gentleman
named Mack Sennett pro-
reded to put him thru his comedy paces via those comedy
sics of the old days. The English importation was
>een in a few pictures filled with custard pies, runaway
A scene from an early
and Mack Sennett him
Keystone comedy with Mabel Normand as the heroine
self as the yokel. The comedy was called "The Rube
and the Baron"
automobiles and pretty girls, causing no undue commotion
with his antics on the part of producer or public. In
these pictures he appeared before the camera in rather
conventional make-up, approximating somewhat his
attire when amusing patrons of the two-a-day by his
putty-blowing abilities and tumbling proclivities.
It so happened that at the time Chaplin made his
screen debut in Hollywood there prevailed in that city
of tourists and tinsel a custom of holding annually
an event known as the Baby Parade, a display in
which fond mothers trundled thru the streets in per-
ambulators of all shapes and sizes their beloved off-
spring, seeking the prize which was awarded to the
most beautiful infant. Since the advent of the movies,
undoubtedly, many of these prize-seeking infants are
the same girls who enter every beauty contest staged
in the town where the bathing girls never see the
ocean and traffic signals are not
There also prevailed a custom on the part of Mack
Sennett and other makers of comedy films, which
helped in "-keeping the negative cost down," of seiz-
ing the opportunity to film the Baby Parade and other
current events thru the simple process of sending a
cameraman and a few actors to the scene, with in-
structions to "grab off some shots of this thing and
we'll work it up into a comedy release." Among the
events used in this manner by the astute Sennett may
be mentioned the Pasadena Floral -Parade, the Old-
field auto races, the visit of Sir Thomas Lipton to
Hollywood, and other affairs of the kind.
Another pioneer Keystone
comedy with Fatty
Arbuckle as the country
bumpkin. The comedy
was "Help, Help, Hydro-
phobia," but, alas, the
name of the heroine is
forgotten
The Baby Parade
'Therefore, when the
event featuring the
ipfant population of
Southern California
was brought to the
attention of the Key-
stone producer, it was
not strange that he
( Cont'd on page 76 >
37
PUBLICITY PROBLEMS
By
JOHN HELD, Jr.
WHAT'S GONE ON
BEFORE:
Cella Lloyd, winner of a
bathing-girl contest, has
successfully invaded Holly-
wood. She took along Pa
and Ma Lloyd — but Pa was
shipped home. He couldn't
acclimate himself to the cel-
luloid world. Cella hasn't
actually appeared in a super-
special yet, but she is the
talk of Hollywood. How to
continue to be — ah, that's
the problem. Now read on!
Scene I
In quest of publicity, Cella gets herself ar-
rested for speeding by a snappy Pasadena
traffic cop. The judge, however, has seen
Cella's bathing pictures and she gets a sus-
pended sentence
Scene II
Cella feels that adopting a
baby may help. Besides,
it will lend color to her
interviews about longing
for a little home in the
country far from the
tinsel of screen stardom
38
WORRY CELLA LLOYD
Scene III
Cella contemplates getting herself en-
gaged to Charlie Chaplin, but that's out,
now that the comedian is the much
publicized father of two sons. Cella
calls up Valentino, but Rudy refuses to
come to the 'phone
Cn#i
— <=. :^eg
. Scene IV
There's nothing left for Cella to do. So she sues her
mother — and breaks on the front pages. Ma Lloyd doesn't
quite understand. Who does? The ways of publicity are
indeed strange
39
Karlene A. Armstrong
First Prize Winner, of Philadelphia, Pa.
THE MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC is glad to
present the full results of the now famous Your
Opinion Contest, conducted by the Brewster Publi-
cations. The results are announced by Eugene V.
Brewster, editor-in-chief and publisher of the Brewster
Publications. .
. Interest was almost equally divided between writing
motion picture reviews for the various prizes and in voting
for favorite players and screen plays. It is interesting to
note that Richard Dix received the most votes among the
actors, with Rudolph Valentino, Richard Barthelmess,
Eugene O'Brien and Ramon Novarro following in the
order named.
Pola Negri received the most votes among the actresses
— and, incidentally, the heaviest vote poled by any player.
Mary Pickford was second, with Gloria Swanson, Norma
Talmadge, Lillian Gish and Colleen Moore following.
Full Awards
in YOUR
OPINION
CONTEST
"Passion" was voted the most popular picture ever pro-
duced. It should be noted here that Miss Negri's fol-
lowers voted heavily for "Passion" and for "Forbidden
Paradise," which received the second heaviest vote among
all pictures. "Monsieur Beaucaire," "The Birth of a
Nation" and "The Covered Wagon" were next, in the
order named.
First prize, for the best motion picture review, goes to
Mrs. Karlene A. Armstrong, of Oak Lane Park,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Armstrong's review
covered "The Big Parade." Mrs. Armstrong writes
The Classic : "I feel that a prize was scarcely ever
offered which will be more appreciated or more oppor-
tune than this one. You see, shortly after my mar-
riage last summer, I was taken ill and spent a dreary
winter recuperating from the subsequent operations, alto-
gether incapacitated for work. It was during these long
and disheartening weeks that I amused myself- writing
letters and articles to various magazines, for, being unable
to participate in active pleasures, I sought the picture
world as a means of diversion. The Your Opinion
Contest appealed to me as unique and I entered it in a
spirit of pure enjoyment."
Mrs. Armstrong is twenty-two years of age and, at
various times, has been interested in kindergarten and
settlement work. She writes that she was one of the first
readers of The Motion Picture Magazine, starting to read
40
Richard Dix and
Pola Negri Win
Heaviest Vote in
Popularity Contest
it when she was going to grammai school.
The second prize winner, M. Sekle-
mian, of Los \ngeles, California, is ;i
-. e Californian, twent) six years of
His father was a newspaper nun
and at one time a college instructor. Mr.
Seklemian himself is a commercial artist
engaged in the advertising business in
Angeles. Yes, he has ambition
a motion picture director. Hire's
hoping he has as much luck as he had in
Your Opinion Contest.
Theodore A. Baxt, of 1121 Morris
Avenue, New York City, third prize win-
ner, likes contests. He has won several
contests. Mr. Baxt is but twenty and he
tployed in a clerical capacity on a big
New York newspaper. Incidentally, he
has found time to play minor bits before
the motion picture camera as well as on
the stage. Like Mr. Seklemian, he wants
to be a director.
The fourth prize winner, A. L. Shands,
of % Ward Street, Orange, New Jersey,
was born in Russia. His parents brought
him to America at the age of three. He
went to school in New York City. Then
he struck out for himself, being at vari-
ous times a telegraph operator, teacher,
hobo, and writer. Finally, be entered the
employ of Thomas A. Edison, contributing his winning
review while stationed at New London, Wisconsin.
Marcia Sanguin, of 1120 North Stevens Street, El
Paso. Texas, re-
ceives fifth prize.
Miss Sanguin is
twenty - one years
of age and at pres-
ent is the cub re-
porter on The El
Paso Post.
The complete
list of winners is
as follows :
First Price —
$1,000.00— Karlene
A. A rmstrong,
Oak Lane Park,
Philadelph i a,
Pennsylvania.
Second Price —
$100.00 and Gold
Medal— M. Sekle-
mian, P. O. Box
22, Los Angeles,
California. Third
Prize— $75.00 and
Silver Medal —
Theodore A. Baxt,
1121 Morris Ave-
nue, New York
B. rij
Final Standing of Your Opinion Contest
ACTORS
Richard Dix
Rudolph Valentino. .
Richard Barthelmess
Eugene O'Brien
Ramon Novarro
Lloyd Hughes
Ben Lyon
Douglas Fairbanks. .
John Gilbert
Thomas Meighan. . . .
Rod La Rocque
Harold Lloyd
Milton Sills
Lon Chaney
Ronald Colman
Tom Mix
Lionel Barrymore. . .
Adolphe Menjou
Ricardo Cortez
Lewis Stone
Richard Dix
Who received the heaviest vote among all screen actors in
Your Opinion Contest
City. Fourth Price— $50.00 and Bronze Medal— A. L.
Shands, 96 Ward Street, Orange, New Jersev. Fifth
Price— $25.00— Marcia Sanguin, 1120 North Stevens
Street, El Paso,
Texas.
Fifty $10.00
Prices — PhilHppa
Bruce, Box 228,
University, Vir-
ginia ; Louise Det-
lefs. 1609Onondaga
Avenue, I.akewood,
Ohio; Janice M.
S wa r ner , 5641
Garfield Avenue,
Kansas City. Mis-
souri ; Glen Corn-
well, Ponca City
Xews. Ponca City.
Oklahoma ; Isolde
Groom, 3 Bed-
ford Road. Cheam,
England ; Marie C.
Elliot, 4 Suffolk-
Square, Chelten-
ham, England ;
Paul S. Lippold,
3332 Gwynne Falls
Parkway, Balti-
more, Maryland ;
(Com. on page 80)
11,561
10,956
9,328
8,697
6,215
5,379
5,291
4,521
2,827
2,288
1,144
1,096
1,034
1,023
858
792
759
693
605
594
ACTRESSES
Pola Negri
Mary Pickford
Gloria Swanson
Norma Talmadge . . .
Lillian Gish
Colleen Moore
Mary Carr
Lois Wilson
Leatrice Joy
Marion Davies
Constance Talmadge
Norma Shearer
Corinne Griffith
Mae Murray
Bebe Daniels
Betty Bronson
Alice Terry
Betty Compson
Anna Q. Nilsson. . . .
Blanche Sweet
27,599
18,766
11,462
10,296
4,422
3,652
2,464
2,310
1,309
1,287
1,177
1,144
1,076
1,002
989
979
946
627
594
385
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Cloudy— With Continued
SHOWERS/
Cecil De Mille has announced
his next Biblical invasion. It
will be "the Deluge," and
naturally it will center around
that pioneer house-boat cap-
tain, Noah. The betting is fifty
to one that the flood will come
just as a super-orgy is at its
height. Thus "the mightiest
cataclysm in all the world's
known history," as Mr. De
Mille expresses it, will collide
with the greatest orgy this
director has yet attempted
Cecil De Mille wants it un-
derstood that his plans to pro-
duce "The Deluge" have no
reflection upon the California
rainy season. Mr. De Mille
has not announced his cast yet,
but it is anticipated that there
will be a lot of competition in
Hollywood over the role of
Noah. Already the blonde
extras of Hollywood are get-
ting out their bead costumes
for the super-orgy. It's going
to be a great year for extras,
mates!
Carsey
Two glimpses of the Deluge as visualized by Gustav Dore
Paniiemaker, Sf
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M I
CAROL DEMPSTER
During the past year Miss Dempster has established herself as one of the most
promising of the screen's younger actresses
43
It's
the OLD
ARMY
Game
this
SODA
BUSINESS
Bl
No comedian since
Chaplin has ap-
peared above the
screen horizon
with so much
original humor as
W. C. Fields. Re-
cruited from the.
stage by D. W.
Griffith for "Sally
of the Sawdust," he
has brought to the
films a distinct per-
sonality and a
talent for creating
spontaneous laugh-
ter. He is en-
thusiastic about
the screen, and this
enthusiasm will
carry him in pop-
ular favor in "It's
the Old Army
Game"
44
Li
You couldn't possibly
stay away when the
Costello sisters, Do-
lores and Helene, ask
you over. They have
one of those snug little
bungalows which radi-
ate charm and con-
tentment. The tree--
and shrubs lend a
homey hospitality and
the girls are asking you
to share it
The
COSTELLOS
Ask You
OVER
If the stranger passing by could see Dolores
and Helene draped in the window seat or
against the archway of their home and smil-
ing a happy welcome, no one would deny
him the privilege of doffing his hat and
saying "Howdy do"
45
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NEWS
CAMERA
International Ncwsreel photos
Between scenes of Ramon Novarro's new
picture, "Bellamy the Magnificent," now
renamed "The Man from London." Here
you see Mr. Novarro, Sally O'Neil and
Director Hobart Henley
Gene Tunney, contender
for the heavyweight pugi-
listic championship, ar-
rives in Hollywood to
start his film work and
takes a lesson in make-up
from Rudolph Valentino
Joan Crawford is here again! She just
won a life membership to The Gables,
a Santa Monica, California, beach club
with her dancing of the Charleston
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The young lady with
the — er — pedal extrem-
ities is Georgia Hale,
who plays one of those
dance-hall gals in
Famous' production
of "The Rainmaker.''
Ernest Torrence plays
an old-fashioned bar-
keep in the picture.
The other gentleman
on view is Director
Clarence Badger
You'll soon see W. C. Fields' first starring comedy, "It's the
Old Army Game." Here you have Mr. Fields conferring on
location at Palm Beach with his director, Eddie Sutherland
Batter up!
Curves are un-
necessary here.
La-a-dies and
gentlemen, the
pinch-hitter is
Doris Hill, who
also is leading
woman for Syd
Chaplin
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A flock of would-be
Rooscvelts apply to Di-
rector Victor Fleming at
the Lasky Hollywood
studios. They all want
to play the famous Teddy,
in Famous' forthcoming
production of "The Rough
Riders." The man with
the book in his hand is
Herman Hagedorn, offi-
cial biographer of Theo-
dore Roosevelt
The Charleston has now captured
the great open places. Here is
Virginia Bradford, cowgirl de luxe,
demonstrating some new steps to
George Lewis
Claire Windsor, left,
demonstrates how
Ginger, the screen
dog, retrieves tennis
balls that go over
the wire
International Ne\v?reel
48
Big Pictures and Little Ones
By Robert E. Sherwood
Till'', season which has just pasted has produced a
veritable tidal wave of BIG pictures extra-
special super features, of ten <>r more reels, that are
sold to the public at advance prices.
irting with " The Merry widow," "The Wanderer,"
"The Phantom of the Opera," and "Don O." there nave
appeared, subsequently, such extensive offerings as "The
Big Parade." "Stella Dallas." "The Vanishing American,"
"Hcn-Hur," "The Sea Beast," "1 a Boheme, "The Flam-
ing Frontier," "Mare Nostrum," "The Black Pirate,"
"The Midnight Sun," "The Volga Boatman," "Sparrows"
and "Aloraa of the South Seas.'
The money invested in this group of offerings would
be sufficient to launch a medium-sized war. The revenue
that will eventually he derived from them would put
Germany on its feet again, with enough left over to re-
habilitate Russia.
Tidal Wave of Specials
Cor the season ahead, the tidal wave of super-specials
threatens to assume the proportions of a deluge. There
will t>e "Old Ironsides," "What Price Glory," "Tell It
to the Marines," "The Scarlet Letter," "Uncle Tom's
Cabin," "The Garden of Allah," "The Greatest Show on
Earth," "Don Juan" and some dozens of others.
In fact, the old six- or seven-reel picture seems to be
going out of style. Today, any director who manages
to gather unto himself a
reputation demands twelve
crowded reels or he wont
play.
This brings us up to a con-
sideration of the problem :
what makes a big picture big?
Is it the footage of celluloid
that is consumed, or the size
of the sets, or the number of
extras employed in the mob
scenes, or the amount of
money expended by a gen-
erous producer?
To answer this question,
we must delve into the ma-
chinery of the movie industry
itself (and if you aren't inter-
ested in machinery, you can
drop off at this point and take
a run thru the rotogravure
section).
The Program Picture
What makes a big picture big?
Is it the footage of celluloid that
is consumed, or the size of the sets,
or the number of extras employed
in the mob scenes, or the amount
of money expended by a generous
producer?
Two such hits as "The Covered
Wagon" and "The Big Parade"
started as program pictures. Both
unexpectedly grew out of bounds.
Just what makes a big picture
big?
w
hen the movies first
started to gain their uni-
versal popularity and to earn their fabulous dividends, a
few astute magnates decided that it would be easier to
sell films in groups rather than as individual offerings.
Thus, the "program picture" was born — and the pro-
gram picture, as subsequent events have proved, is the
curse of the silent drama.
To explain what a program picture is, I may take the
case of Famous Players-Lasky, which was the pioneer in
this particular field of endeavor. Famous Players decides
to produce forty pictures in six months, which will be
divided up among its various stars and directors ; there
ma\ he two Thomas Meighan productions
Swanson productions, three Raymond Griffith produc
tiotlS, two James ( 'ru/e productions, and so forth.
The stars, stories, directors and casts for these forty
pictures will Ik- lined up in advance, and then the high-
powered salesmen will start out to sell the entire program
to exhibitors sight unseen. The exhibitor will be sold
on the strength of the titles of the pictttn
office reputations of the stars, directors and authors, and
the salesman's own personal ability to hoist the (
husband. Thus, an exhibitor who wants to book a Strong
feature, like a Harold Lloyd comedy, will have to a<
a number of weaker sisters, on the same program, along
with it.
Since most of the selling is done before the pictures are
even made, the actual work of production becomes of
minor importance. Program pictures must be ground
out on schedule time, of scheduled length and at a sched-
uled cost.
Factory Products
\X/ith the result that program pictures are apt to be
' slipshod in form, hazy in story and played in a list-
less, pepless manner. They are factory products, and
they look it.
A special production — one which is made on the side,
regardless of the prearranged program — is much more
likely to represent careful,
sustained, intelligent effort.
Its producers spend more
time and money on it, and
they dont have to be re-
stricted by an early release
date.
All the independent come-
dians— Chaplin, Lloyd and
Keaton, in particular — make
their pictures in this way.
They work over each produc-
tion until they are convinced
that it is right, or as close to
right as they and their collab-
orators can possibly make it.
Douglas Fairbanks works
in the same way. So does
Mary Pickford. So do Ernst
Lubitsch, Erich von Stro-
heim, John Barrymore.
Norma Talmadge, Lillian
Gish and a few others. So
will Gloria Swanson. when-
ever and if ever she is given
the chance to do so.
It is obvious that pictures made in this way will be
superior to pictures that' are ejected, at tediously regular
intervals, from a sausage machine.
There are two productions which illustrate this point
effectivelv : one is "The Covered Wagon," the other, "The
Big Parade."
Unexpected Specials
Doth of these pictures were intended, originally, to
conform to the requirements of the program. Both.
{Continued on page 7~~
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William Boyd and Elinor Fair in "The Volga Boatman"
THE real romance of Russia has yet to be written.
The country of the communists surges too strongly
with emotions to be understood completely by those
who would translate its life into terms of screen drama.
The song of Russia is pitched in a tragic key and some
fine day a director may be given carte blanche to give an
authentic version of it.
Cecil B. De Mille romanticizes Russia in his "Volga
Boatman," which is nothing but a love triangle that sel-
dom approaches moving drama. It is flavored with the
military touch and there is a first-rate element of contrast
present which depicts the lowly peasant as the conquering
hero in affairs of the heart. But in showing his conflict
of the Reds against the Whites, De Mille makes opulent
excursions into sentimental and erotic pastures. In other
words, he introduces his own personality to create pictorial
effects and so his story gets away from him. He is all
for the color of the thing.
The trouble with "The Volga Boatman" as I see it is
its lack of a gripping climax which should have shown the
inexorable march of pathos and tragedy. Still in giving
De Mille credit, it is best to call this an experiment. He
has played with Russian conflict as it concerns peasant and
aristocrat — artistically, there is nothing to criticize here.
It is only in his subject matter that he falters. Russia
may sing joyously, but there is a tear behind the song —
a tear symbolic of a people who look with tremendous
seriousness upon life.
There are Hollywoodian touches in the picture, too,
which, while gratifying in a pictorial way, are, neverthe-
less, out of harmony with the theme. The points which
will be remembered here are the highly creditable atmos-
phere, the detail — and the sincere performances contribu-
ted by William Boyd as the Red, Victor Varconi as the
Prince and Julia Faye as a Tartar maid. Elinor Fair
does not realize the full possibilities of the character of
the princess. It is a part which fairly cried for the
release of pent-up emotions.
Marion's "Princely Role
Cver since Marion Davies discovered that her forte is
light comedy, she has given her public some highly
mirthful character studies. There's no room for argu-
50
The
Celluloid
critic
ment that she cannot masquerade as a youth —
and get away with it. There is spirit in her
acting — and conviction too.
So what does it matter if they have changed
"Beverly of Graustark" to fit her talent and
personality? What matters if the girl dons
princely attire, if the creaking plot can be
spiced up a little? The good, old Graustark pattern has
gone to the movie well many many times since the birth
of the five reeler. If it can be changed in its stock situ-
ations— well, so much the better for those patrons who
are shouting for originality or novelty.
Broad liberties are taken here with McCutcheon's yarn.
Which gives Miss Davies her chance to masquerade.
Accordingly, the scenarist, the
Marion, herself, have adopted
magician — Presto, Chango — and
resplendent in princely attire. Her mannerisms, her play-
fulness— these are the factors toward this picture's popu-
larity— for it is destined to be popular.
It contains oodles of sentiment and romance — and quite
a spark of adventure. The Davies personality is stamped
all over it. She wears her clothes quite as well as David,
Prince of Wales. Roy D'Arcy is present, but not so
versatile as I anticipated. His performance differs in no
respect from his work in "The Merry Widow." Antonio
Moreno plays the hero in the approved story-book and
stage manner. Altogether, the picture has plenty of appeal.
director and possibly
the by-words of the
the star comes forth
Mostly a Fashion Show
Cometimes musical comedy adaptations turn out very
well on the screen, but at best it is a gamble whether
they will succeed or not. "Sally" and "Irene" turned out
fair enough, principally because they contained some
sprightly fun. To get right down to brass tacks, it all
depends upon whether there is enough plot and gags after
the music is eliminated.
In remembering the twosome above — and their enter-
taining qualities brings to mind the shortcomings of "Mile
Modiste." True, the decorative Corinne Griffith enhances
the piece with her presence. She is resplendent in some
striking sartorial effects. Otherwise, it is a long and
tedious fashion show — one bolstered up with wise-crack-
ing subtitles which lose their power to provoke laughter
thru their constant repetition and lack of spontaneity.
I cannot see any reason for adapting it in the first place.
It wasn't so much a plotty comic affair as it was a me-
dium to express Victor Herbert's melodious score. The
original offered a perfect synchronization of plot, char-
acterization and music. Thus, with the operatic matter
Laurence
Reid
Reviews the New
Photoplays
removed, Miss Griffith wasdeprived
oi a chance to do anything else than
display a complete wardrobe of glad
There is hut an inkling of the
plot. It shows itself when the star,
Impersonating a Paris mannequin,
ii set up in business by a butter-
ind-egg man from America. Natur-
ally, this piques the French count
who loves her and who believes the
worst. There's your story — and
your picture, too.
What remains is a fashion parade
— with Corinne Griffith wearing her
u">\vn> exceedingly well. The only
hit of characterization is offered by
Willard Louis as the afore-mentioned b. and e. man. He
looks the part, but the gags supplied him are weak. Xor-
man Kerry looks spick and span in some gay uniforms.
In other words, it is a talky picture in which the
players walk on and off the sets.
This MacLean Fellow
In watching a Douglas MacLean comedy I
always recall his memorable effort, "Twenty-
three and a Half Hours' Leave." That's the
penalty he pays for ringing the bell a few
seasons ago. With each succeeding pic-
ture I've anticipated something as de-
lightfully human and amusing, but none
has quite reached the mark. The new-
contribution, "That's My Baby." comes as
close as any — without trespassing on its
plot. This is another way of saying that
it has its rollicking moments.
The piece runs dry at the start — but
the minute the Baby is introduced it picks
up momentum and finishes in a volley of
laughter. This baby, incidenta'ly, is
played by Harry Earles. who you will
remember as the midget in "The Unholy
Three." He is the chap who, really more
than MacLean. changes the complexion of the
story. And why not, since the plot motivates
around him?
There is no great shakes about the story —
which concerns a couple of bachelors. One
of them, Mr. Hero, falls in love so badly that
his partner becomes disgusted with him. But
the bride elopes, thus giving the disappointed
swain the opportunity to re-
nounce the opposite sex.
This chap, however, is made
of sentiment and. sympathy.
So when a damsel sprains
her ankle, he promptly renders first aid.
There is slap-stick here — quite a lot of it,
but it doesn't spoil the idea. The piece is
Corinne Griffith
in "Mile Modiste"
Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno have a romantic moment in'
"Beverly of Graustark"
consistently funny. MacLean, acting in his customary
bewildered manner, extracts an adequate amount of
humor, while Claude Gillingwater, wearing his ex-
aggerated scowls, makes a praiseworthy foil.
The War Comes to Vienna
lot of money has been spent on "The Greater
Glory," but the result is negligible. Whatever
those in charge were driving at is difficult to
discern as it is impossible to make anything
out of it. There is a little bit of every-
thing in the story and the effort to
make it clear has brought forth
nothing but confusion.
The original tale, "The
Viennese Medley," was
scheduled for the big thea-
ters. But it became swal-
lowed up in a mass of de-
tail during production and
emerging as "The Greater
Glory" it has just been al-
lowed to swim or sink by
itself.
The four horsemen are
resurrected again. They
gallop across the sky, while on terra firma the
spectator sees a lot of movement in Vienna
before, during and after the war.
It is all very much to the hodge-podge. One
reason for the rambling, shambling plot may-
be found in the wealth of characters, there
being no less than two dozen relatives who are
difficult to identify because of their Teutonic
names — and the fact that they appear, disappear
and re-appear without rhyme or reason.
I get the general impression that the author
tried to duplicate "The Four Horsemen" from the
Germanic side of the argument — and that the di-
rector attempted to reproduce that memorable
effort.
(Continued on page 70)
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MORE IMPRESSIONS
POLA NEGRI was one of the surprises of my life.
When invited recently to a little dinner-party at her
home, I hesitated about accepting because I dislike to
waste an evening and hate to be bored. I had never met
Pola Negri but I had heard and read a lot about her, and
was not anxious to meet her. This only shows how we get
wrong impressions, and how Dame Rumor and General
Publicity often blunder and do grave injustice. And so I
accepted the invitation with some reluctance, for I fully
believed that I would be required to sit for an hour in the
drawing-room while the guests were assembling and until
the stately Pola should slowly descend the grand stairway
with queenly dignity while we guests should rise and bow
and scrape and do her homage.
I had pictured her there in all her glory, the observed of
all observers, and as she finally seated herself on her
throne I saw myself among her satellites sitting around
her highness as she haughtily told us what a great artiste
she was. I could hear them all saying "yes, yes" to the
self-centered tragedy queen, and I saw myself at the
dinnef-table listening to her subjects' praise and adula-
tion. I felt sure she was temperamental, Ritzy, up-stage,
and all that sort of thing, and I had been told that she
never suffered from inferiority complex. And there are
other things I thought and believed about Pola Negri off
the screen which made me anything but an admirer.
But how different it all was. The stage was not set for
a grand-stand entrance, there was no throne, no idol-
worshiping, no attempt to be the center of attraction.
Pola Negri was seated among some guests when I entered.
She rose, came forward and greeted me cordially. She
was dressed simply but elegantly, with no signs of gaudi-
ness. Her manner was natural and without affectation.
She has a pleasant voice, and rather a strong one, and
speaks with a slight foreign accent. If she had any make-
up on, it was not
obvious. At no time
during the whole
evening did I see any
attempt on her part
to monopolize atten-
tion or conversation,
and she succeeded in
making everybody
feel perfectly at ease
without any appar-
ent effort. I feel
sure that the Pola
Negri I saw was the
real Pola and not an
artificial one. Bluff,
hypocrisy, posing,
coquetry and artifice
are evidently not on
her program nor in
her nature.
She presided over
the dinner table
gracefully, naturally
and unaffectedly,
and nobody felt that
it was necessary to
include her in the
conversation altho
she often joined in.
I asked her opinion
The Fourth of July is coming! A little preparation is under way with
Syd Chaplin and Doris Hill — but Chuck Reisner seems bent upon
upsetting things
of Americans in general and of many plays and players
in particular, and she seemed always to have a good word
rather than a bad one. If she hates anybody, she keeps
it a secret; if she admires anybody, she does not hesitate
to say so. And yet she is far from being a "yes man."
She has decided opinions on everything and expresses
them with candor, but somehow she gives the impression
that she finds something in everything and in everybody
to admire and nothing to condemn. In other words, she
is not at all "catty" nor envious, nor jealous, and I want
to remark right here that these are rare virtues out here
in Hollywood.
But the one thing that surprised me most was the men-
tality of Pola Negri. I soon felt myself in the presence
of a great woman. She has a very wise head on her fair
shoulders and her process of deduction and induction are
nothing short of masculine, because one rarely sees such
a logical and profound insight into things in a feminine
brain. I'll wager that she is seldom wrong in her estimate
and analysis of the affairs of life. Women usually depend
on their intuition, in which faculty they always excel the
male, but Pola Negri seems to be guided more by logic
and reason than by guesswork. And she is a student —
she goes into the whys and wherefores of things. And
her library is the finest I have yet seen out here. She
reads much, but she thinks more. She is sociable but I
imagine she is somewhat bored by the general run of light
conversation that is so common among players. To make
oneself agreeable to Pola Negri one must talk about some-
thing deeper than clothes and the weather, and yet she
is graciously tolerant. Just to show how generous and
whole-hearted she is, one of the first remarks she made
to Corliss Palmer in the presence of several people was :
"I have several times been told that you were the most
beautiful girl in Hollywood, and I was prepared to doubt
it, but now I am
free to admit that
the report was not
exaggerated."
I believe that Pola
Negri is one of the
most admired of all
women of the screen,
but I am now in-
clined to think that
she will never be so
popular in real life
as are many others,
because the average
man does not usually
fall in love with
intellectual women,
and • women dont
often take kindly to
those of their sex
who are smarter
than they are. While
Pola is not a mascu-
line woman, she is
the exact opposite of
the Lillian Gishtype.
One would never
liken Pola to the
fragile lily nor to
the delicate violet.
She is more than a
52
of HOLLYWOOD
By Eugene
V. Bkhwster
Bower she is a sturdy oak. full of life, strength and
It' one had never seen her on the stage or screen,
would feel safe to bet that she was a great artiste
And that she will In- just that, long after many Others now
in her general class air dead ami buried.
II roa V'arconi, known as the Hungarian Romeo,
his charming wife, who was recently a celebrated re
One'l Car, and another half-hour to gel a pair
prooi I'll \ \ii\ii\" i certainly a different young man
from what he was a t< w ;<> Perhaps you no-
ticed when you WW him last that he looked worried and
careworn. Well, now he is full of confidence and he
looks younger than ever, lie is a type that became ■•<
standard and his name a household word a few years ago,
and as such he has never had a competitor. I figure that
from now on Rudy will go up and stay up at the top.
There can he Gilberts and Colmans and so on, hut then
can he only one Valentino.
and
g wite. who was recently a cci.cnraieu musi-
cal comedj star in Europe, entertained me at a sort of
-five-o'clock tea the other day. hut it turned out to he an
informal musicale. Corliss Palmer and Dorothy lhvan
went with me, and we had to enter thru the kitchen
door because the heavy rains had washed away some of
the hills up above their dwelling and washed tlum down
on their lawns and gardens. I told him that "The Volga
Boatman" should have established a ferry across the lawns
and that I was thinking of building an ark for myself.
It doesn't rain very often here hut when it does, it cer-
tainly does. And the hill-dwellers get the worst of it.
But the rainy season is over now and we shall have sun-
shine for about nine months. But it seldom rains all day. 'There is a conspiracy on foot to do some very big things
s tired, and stops for a few in the picture world, and the conspirators are Clarence
am dining with Lloyd Hughes next week, also with
Robert Frazer, and I am impatient to meet and know
them well. I shall take pleasure in telling you all about
it in my next.
* * *
It rains so hard that it get
hours, and the sun comes out. Victor is a handsome
young Hungarian about six feet, thirty years old. He is
full of humor and good nature. When he laughs, his eyes
almost close, like slits. He is very frank, wholesome,
polite and likable. He speaks "broken English" very well
indeed and it is a delight to listen to him. A Hungarian
musician was there, and how he could play the piano ! I
think the hills round about are still echoing. And then
they all sang some rollicking Hungarian folk-songs, and
they put a lot of feeling and emotion in them. These
foreigners certainly have us poor Americans beaten a mile
and a half when it comes to
music and expression of the
emotions. And I think we are
going to hear from this Vic-
tor Varconi. Cecil De Mille
has signed him to do leads,
and he has a fine personality.
I think you are going to like
him immensely. More later.
It's a funny thing, but Holly-
wood is about the worst
place I know of to see pic-
tures. One would think that
right where they are made one
could see anything almost any-
time. But theaters are scarce
and far between and they run
old pictures and poor ones
most of the time. Several
new and big theaters are
planned, however. Grauman's
Egyptian is here, of course, but
they have been running "The
Big Parade" ever since I have
been here. Of course, there
are many big theaters down-
town in Los Angeles, but it
takes half an hour to motor
there and half an hour more
to find a parking place for
Rudolph Valentino demonstrates his three prize
dogs. Left to right, Mirtza, an Arabian greyhound;
Centaur Pendragon, Irish wolfhound; and Shartan,
Great Dane pup
Brown and Irving Thalberg (a Metro chief). I spent an
evening with the congenial Clarence and he confidentially
unfolded some of their plans. Since directing "The Goose
Woman," "The Eagle" and "Kiki," he is taking plenty
of time to decide on his next, because it must be his best
yet. And I'm betting it will.
had luncheon with dear old Uncle Carl Laemmle at
Universal the other day and I am afraid he wont invite
me again. Unfortunately I am not a "yes man," of which
characters Hollywood is full —
I mean those who say only
nice things and who never
dare to offer a friendly criti-
cism. Poor Uncle Carl is and
always has been surrounded
with "yes men" and I doubt
if he really knows what is go-
ing on and just where his
company stands. He knows
he's making money and that's
about all. I want to see Uni-
versal "come back" and get in
with the big ones and do
things, but I fear thev never
will.
Defore any picture goes out
of Hollywood it is given a
try-out at one of the smaller
theaters, and sometimes at
two or three. They plant scouts
around and a few dozen "yes
men," and try to find out how
the picture "goes," then they
take it back to the studio and
correct it accordingly. They
try to keep me and other
critics away from these pre-
liminary previews, because
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.
Muray
Charles Emmett Mack was raised among the Pennsylvania
miners. He was a member of the Griffith studio crew when the
dean of directors selected him for a role in "Dream Street"
SOUNDS like the title of an old-fashioned dime novel,
doesn't it? But it is the true story of Charles Emmett
Mack. . . .
The young actor has just finished making "The Unknown
Soldier," a role for which leading men fought and bled even
as feminine stars once struggled over Peter Pan, yet it is
not so long ago that directors were calling :
"Oh, Charlie, get me a kitten that will look like this one
did before she grew up !" Or
"Say, I've gotta have a knife that'll look dangerous, but
the baby has to pick it up, so it mustn't be dangerous — and a
couple calves marked alike — yes, and a lamp from a forty-
niner stage coach, by one o'clock, Charlie !"
Before that, tho, Charles Emmett Mack was a studio guide
in the Griffith Mamaroneck Studios. He used to take parties
of visitors over the sets.
Prop Boy
to
STAR
By
Alice L. Tildesley
because that was the real thrill. He'd look at
me when we'd come in, but he'd never speak.
I always thought that he'd manage to worry
along if I never came back.
"Then I got into the property room.
Naturally, I saw more of Mr. Griffith. He
wasn't like the others — he always made it
easy to get things from him. You know the
definition of a prop man : 'A fellow who
wants to borrow something.' And you know
how popular that makes one.
"One day, I'd gone down to his set for
some reason, and was sitting on the curb
waiting for a bus to go back, when Mr. Grif-
fith came out after me.
" 'Come and rehearse this scene,' " he in-
vited me.
"I was just a kid and I thought he was
making fun of me. 'No thanks,' I said, 'I
came to this studio to learn to be a director.
I
Griffith's Prop Boy
was allowed five minutes on each
set," he explained, "and I used to
think up rtew jokes every night to spring
on them next day. We went on Mr.
Griffith's set whenever he was working,
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Charles Emmett Mack's
first appearance as an
actor, opposite Carol
Dempster in "Dream
Street"
Abbe
Griffith Made
Charles
Emmett
Mack
Into an Actor
I couldn't consider being an
>r.'
"He looked at me then —
I -and smiled.
" 'So you're going to be a
director! Well, you come
and rehearse this scene for
me, Charlie,' he said. That
was the first time he had
called me 'Charlie,' so I
went.
Then — "Dream Street"
"Mr. Griffith al ways re-
hearsed for weeks be-
fore he turned one crank of
the camera. I rehearsed the
part in 'Dream Street' with
everyone on the set kidding
me. I didn't know whether
or not it was all a joke,
sometimes. But I'd been
around a studio two years
and I'd picked up a little. I
liked the part and Mr.
Griffith was wonderful.
"One day, after we'd re-
hearsed the last scene, Carol
Dempster, Ralph" Graves
and I were sitting in a row
on a bench when Mr. Grif-
fith came up.
" 'Got your clothes for
the picture?' he asked.
Carol and Ralph both said
■Yes.' and Mr. Griffith
turned to me and said :
•That suit'll do, Charlie.'
'"Oh, no! This isn't the
kind of suit I want,' I re-
turned. You see, I was
born and brought up in the
anthracite region where im-
migrants come in just 'as
and I knew exactly
what the boy as I saw him
should wear. Mr. Griffith let me have my way. I think
he was pleased that I had ideas. At any rate, that was the
first time I was absolutely sure there was no mistake about
my playing the part.
"The first time I saw myself on the screen I thought
I couldn't stand it. We were all in the projection room
looking at the rushes of my first day's work. I couldn't
think of the shadow on the screen as myself — I thought
of it as 'It.' I saw this thing sneak in. It had such big
ears and such a strange nose. Its mouth seemed to be all
over its face. And then suddenly it turned around on me
and I bolted out of the room.
"Mr. Griffith sent for me and had me sit by him while
he showed me what was wrong and why. I thought it all
Not so many years ago
Brothers circus. Now
Kuth Harriet I.ouisr
Charles Emmett Mack was a peanut vender with Ringling
he's looked upon as one of the screen's most promising
young actors
terrible, but he seemed to think it good, and so I kept on
acting instead of going back to the property room."
Raised Among the Miners
"The Macks were Irish, which was possibly the reason
Charles could wheedle anything from crested card trays
to the gardener's baby out of reluctant "prospects" when
he was a prop boy. The Irish tongue was also no doubt
the cause of his forgivable alibis when black swans or
thirteenth century swords failed to measure up to direc-
torial desires.
But when Charles was little, his playmates were as likely
to be Czechs or Poles or Russians as native Pennsylvanians.
(Continued on page 88)
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Ruth Harriet Louise
GRETA GARBO
The Scandinavian meteor is to play opposite Jack Gilbert in "The Undying Past." The mercury ought to touch
its highest point of the summer in their love scenes
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The KID From
CAPE COD
By Mary B. Chapman
DAREOS, Hollywood's favorite crystal-gazer, left
the table of well-known rtars at Marion Davits'
party and walked across the room to one at which
an obscure young player named Charles Farrell.
■'You should be happy," Dareos observed, in that far-
voice of his. "Your future holds the biggest prom-
! any man's on the screen."
Charles Farrell beamed at the seer, as he would, 1
believe, beam at an enemy if it were possible to con-
ceive of Charles as having an enemy. But he didn't
pay much attention to the prophecy. He thought it
was just part of the party. . . .
Opportunity in "Old Ironsides"
A\n now Charles Farrell is playing the most coveted
juvenile lead of the year, the part of the Com-
modore in "Old Ironsides." after nearly three years
in extra roles
He sat on the rocky beach at Catalina, stripped to
the waist and barefoot,
chained with an iron
chain to George Ban-
croft, who was similarly
bound to Wallace Beery,
in turn manacled to
George Godfrey, negro
champion of the ring.
The rocks were sharp,
the sun was blistering,
and leg-irons chafed
and cut in the rougher
action of their scenes.
First aid was continu-
ally being called on be-
tween clicks of the
cameras as the four
escaping captives fought
and struggled, slipped
and scrambled among
the jagged boulders at
the edge of the blue sea.
"Isn't it great?" cried
Charles, in an interval
between shots. "We've
been inseparable for
two weeks — we four —
and soon we have to
swim out to the Esther.
chains and all !"
He seemed pleased at the prospect.
"We've done about everything else — been lost at sea,
almost wrecked on Dead Man's Island, dropped over
walls, been in every kind of fight — oh. yes, we still have
the big battle scenes and the explosions! After I had
worked in the picture for three days, I went out and got
my life insured for twenty-five thousand dollars, took
accident insurance and everything, so it doesn't matter.
Charles Farrell
played extras for
Fox and small
roles with
Warner. Now
James Cruze has
given him the
leading role in
"Old Ironsides."
Farrell's oppor-
tunity is here.
Left, as he ap-
pears in "Old
Ironsides"
«^T jF .^F I'm bavin-
jr^r \\\e linn
Xmv life!"
^^^Ile looked it.
^^wilh bis laughing
brown eyes, his hair
wind-blown and bis di--
irming smile. His is truly
"the face pf one who's steppin'
to a fair." as the Irish say.
Distinct Irish Type
Deople are always picking out a
successor to the beloved Wallace
Rcid — so why shouldn't I ?
Part of Wallie's hold on fan-
was his hold on those immediately
around him. Charles has that
fascination off the screen — now if
he can get it over on the screen !
When he played his scenes in the
rigging of the Esther, a sailor
by. Not that he could do anything
if Charles fell but just for "moral
support." An ex-prize-fighter
waited with a warm robe during
Charles' scenes in the storm and
had a berth and hot coffee ready
for the almost frozen young actor.
They used to do things like that
for Wallie.
And Wallie used to do the sort
of things Charles does.
The Esther went out looking for a storm, for far be it
from Jim Cruze to use wind-machines! They looked for
ten days and returned disappointed. Xo sooner bad
supplies been removed from the ship and everyone landed
than clouds appeared on the horizon and the Pacific began
to belie its name.
"Everybody with me"" asked Mr. Cruze.
"Aye, aye. sir!" chorused the cast, in proper seagoing
style.
(Continued on page 74 i
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Ramon Novarro, of "The Man from London," John Gilbert, of
"Bardelys the Magnificent," and Roy D'Arcy, of "The Temptress,"
compare mustaches and use a rule to do it
Marceline Day, appearing in "Toto,"
does an imitation of Charlie Chaplin
in "The Gold Rush"
Letters to King Dodo
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
I HAVE just returned to the twentieth century after
living for a few days in the early part of the nine-
teenth. Your Majesty is familiar with the theory
advanced by Bergson, Ousprensky and other mystic
philosophers — the theory that time and space do not really
exist, and everything that ever was or ever will be is
accessible, if we have the key.
My experience in the last few days leads me almost to
accept this theory. For I was as completely isolated in
the period of 1812 as if I had never lived at any other
time.
I was aboard the good ship Esther, which sailed from
Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1812 and was
captured by Barbary pirates and rescued by the frigate
Constitution. The Esther lay at dock on the Isthmus at
Catalina Island. This side of the island was deserted
except for the Paramount players who represented the
village life of that earlier day and the crews of the
thirty-odd ships which are being used in the filming of
"Old Ironsides."
The Cabrillo, one of the largest of the ships in this
fleet, on which the cast of "Old Ironsides" is quartered,
was afloat for two weeks without landing. During this
time she was caught in one of the violent storms that
have scourged the peaceful waters of the Pacific this last
spring, and for hours she ran before the wind, a toy in
the hands of Providence.
The village at the Isthmus is a picturesque collection
of wharves, warehouses, and roistering taverns. Sailors
of a hundred and fifty years ago swagger thru its streets
in ballooning trousers and straw hats from which long
ribbons float. In a sunny nook on the docks an old salt —
Wallace Beery or George Bancroft — will be lounging.
At the entrance of the Pilgrim's Inn a noisy group will
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stand, persuading a recruit, well plied with grog, to ship
for foreign ports.
Altogether, it was an amazing experience for 1926.
And when I returned to my native habitat of Hollywood,
the sight of speeding automobiles and the flappers in their
abbreviated skirts struck me with dumb wonder.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Ceom the maritime scene of the early nineteenth century,
which I endeavored to picture for Your Majesty in my
last letter, I took a radical departure and went with an-
other Paramount company into the midst of the Arizona
desert.
Here, on a waste of sand, stretching as far as we
could see, under a sun which caused the thermometer to
register as high as 115 degrees in the shade, a square
mud fortress had been erected for the battle scenes of
"Beau Geste." There was a grimness about this desert
which impressed us immediately upon arrival. And
before we left, the desert had taken its toll. Diph-
theria and dysentery — dread monsters that had lurked
•concealed among our company, came out now and
boldly attacked us. One extra player died ; many were
ill for days. The disabled were removed to hospitals in
the nearest towns and everything was done to alleviate
their suffering.
The picture went on — for pictures must go on, just as
a circus performance must continue, altho the lions have
eaten their trainer. At night, after work, some of us
would gather in Ronald Colman's tent and try to drive
away the evil genius of the desert by making disagreeable
sounds on musical instruments. Ron torments the har-
monica, Ralph Forbes can blow an eery blast on the
bugle, and Neil Hamilton is able to torture a saxophone
until it groans in agony.
The Duke of Connaught visits Rex
Ingram at Nice during filming of
"The Magician"
Here's a surprise! The one whiskerless gent of this trio is
Albert Smith, of the famous cough-drop company. The others?
George Bancroft and Wallace Beery of "Old Ironsides"
By Don Ryan and Frederick James Smith
"Beau Geste," as Your Majesty may know, is a story
of the French Foreign Legion. Much of the action takes
place in the Egyptian desert. There is a Bedouin attack
on the fort, a spectacle rendered more grisly by the
silent, beating sun and the vast expanse of deathly
wasteland.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
I/'nowim; well the interest Your Majesty has expressed
at various times in the social life of Hollywood — so
different from the quiet evenings on Your Majesty's
beautiful Island of Oz — I shall endeavor to remember
something of what occurred on the fete of St. Patrick's
Day, as it was celebrated at the Beverly Hills domicile of
Lew Cody.
Lew is one of those rare bohemians who appreciate
comforts. His place is called the Old Boot and Goat.
This name conveys the atmosphere of the house. It is
like an English inn of a past generation. Stairs lead
downward to a rathskeller, half under ground, the walls
are hung with rare old theater programs and photographs
of famous players long since dead.
The elite of the film world — as the society editor would
say — were present that evening. Around the oaken table
in the center of the room were gathered Renee Adoree,
Renee's sister comique, Priscilla Dean, Gaston Glass,
Hoot Gibson, and Charley Ray. wearing a dinner suit
with a green necktie. In an ingle-nook sat John Gilbert
and Jack Pickford, exchanging confidences. John Steel
came over from the Oq)heum and sang for us. The fare
provided by the hospitable Lew was none of the cream-
puff-and-tea variety such as Pola Negri might dispense,
but rather good baked beans and onions, roast fowls, a
shoulder of ham and scuttles heaped with corned-beef
hash.
Lew had to excuse himself at midnight and retire to
his chamber. He had just received a call to "be on the set
at nine o'clock." Lew was engaged at that time on
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's picturization of "Toto," the
stage-play immortalized by Leo Dietrichstein. Lew in
the beard and earrings of Othello should be a new thrill
for his many girl admirers. There is plenty of subtle,
sophisticated acting in the story, the >ort of acting in
which Lew Cody excels, but M-G-M has been careful t"
give it a nice sweet ending, which successfully demoli-lie-
the spirit of the original.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
|r I may be pardoned the pun in Your Majesty's pres-
ence, I should say that John Gilbert promises to be truly
magnificent in "Bardelys the Magnificent," the story
from Rafael Sabatini's novel which is being directed by
King Yidor for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
I saw Jack working in one of the scenes as Bardelys
and was impressed by the perfection of his art. The hero
of "The Big Parade" was in quite different dress and
mood. His dress was a leather jerkin trimmed with
silver braid and a sword at his side. He was stained with
mud and gore, having just come thru one of the numer-
ous encounters in which this story of adventure in the
picturesque years of the seventeenth century abounds.
As I sidled up to the scene, the fugitive Bardelys, hid-
ing in the house of his prospective father-in-law. came
to the grilled door separating his lady's bedchamber from
the balcony on which he stood, and peered thru.
The eyes of the wounded lover, hungry with desire.
searched the room. His eyes sent their appeal thru the
grilled aperture so potently that his glance seemed fairly
to crackle in the charged air. The door opened slowly as
his hand moved the latch and the splendid, bedraggled
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Jack Holt and his family, including Betty and Jack, Jr., who
used to be called Tim. The children returned to Hollywood
recently from a trip East
Lois Wilson returns to Los Angeles and
is welcomed by her younger sister,
Constance
figure crossed the threshold — moving into the camera for
a close-up — large, passionate, yearning. Not acting —
living. From the hardened juicer at a stand of lights a
sigh and "Gee !" Highest tribute to acting that takes its
place with the best on the screen today.
Under Vidor's direction "Bardelys the Magnificent"
is taking form as a dashing, romantic piece — no effort
to psycho-analyze* anybody — merely a rattling good ad-
venture story, but done with artistry and authenticity
that should attract the discriminating as well as the in-
discriminate of movie-goers.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
W/£ weary writers of the screen have our moments- of
. relaxation. I have already told Your Majesty some-
what flippantly how we enjoy these precious moments at
the Writers' Club.
But joking aside, the Writers have been producing a
string of excellent one-act plays. Indeed, these theatrical
inventions of the Writers are about the only amusement
for sophisticated amusement-seekers in a desert of plays
and pictures designed to capture the interest of the eight-
year-old mind. Harry Singer, head of the Orpheum
circuit, went so far as to remark to me recently that the
Writers' plays present the best acting in America at the
present time.
There was an amusing evening at the Club on April 1.
The announcement said that Washington's Birthday and
the return of Major Hughes (who is being groomed for
a colonel of reserves) from the War College would be
celebrated simultaneously on this evening. Indignant
protests were received from Sons and Daughters
of the Revolution, but the celebration went on just the
same.
After dinner the curtain went up and on the stage at
the end of the assembly room was presented the Wash-
ington's Birthday Exercises of the Rupert Hughes
Grammar School. Donald Ogden Stewart, that uncanny
Scot, was the principal. Our President — the Major —
responded by telling us the low-down on his widely
quoted Washington's Birthday speech in Washington.
Major Hughes said that his speech, describing the Father
of Our Country as a Good Scout, was well received by
all the Sons of the Revolution present except one Son
who was slightly stewed. And it was this old boy who
made the holler because Major Hughes described George
Washington as a gentleman who would take a drink
occasionally !
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Vour Majesty has often graciously expressed his curi-
osity at the amazing methods of motion picture manu-
facture. Here is another example of the mysterious
workings of studio minds.
William Fox is making "What Price Glory." Xow
when M-G-M filmed "The Big Parade," by Laurence
Stallings, joint-author of "What Price Glory," they had
the good taste to shoot the works. Titles and action gave
a realistic picture of the war. True, those movie-goers
unfortunate enough to live under censorship lost much
of the picture, but those fortunate enough to live where
there is still liberty of thought, enjoyed a cinematic
masterpiece.
It is Fox policy to make nothing that can be censored.
Now "What Price Glory" is all highly censorable —
from the distorted view-point of the average movie
censor. You would naturally suppose that Fox would
select an uncensorable piece to begin with, but that
is not the way things are done in the movies. In-
stead, we shall see an expurgated version of "What
Price Glory" with -most of the kick taken out. Fox
is filming a series of stage successes and it is not
beyond the range of probability that he may get around
to some of the masterpieces of Shakespeare and other
Elizabethan dramatists. If so — God help the Elizabethan
dramatists !
On the other hand, Fox can take a stage-play such as
"Pigs," have it adapted by a clever fellow such as Al
Cohen, and produce a passable picture: In "Pigs" the
leading man is Richard Walling. He was shooting still-
camera on the Fox lot when somebody grabbed him off
for the type-hero of this piece. Every film juvenile in
Hollywood had been tested and found wanting when this
youth, who never acted before, stepped into the part.
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Between scenes of "Lovey Mary" Bessie Love
and Director King Baggott discuss the
weather
Remember the "baby" of "The Unholy Three"? Here he is
again visiting Douglas MacLean. Name? Harry Earles. Re-
member when he shook the toy elephant with the jewels inside?
iod.
Dear Majesty :
Ft looks as tho Warner Brothers are over the hill — for
the time being. The creators of Classics of the Screen
were very (.lose to the rocks during recent months. They
have just been subsidized by Los Angeles bankers to the
extent of two millions — not a large sum as money goes
in the movies, but enough, perhaps, to enable them to
break the strangle-hold which the Lasky-Zukor-Loew
combine had on their throats.
The Warner boys did a shrewd piece of business in
Raymond L. Shrock as associate executive to
function with Jack Warner in charge of production.
rock, formerly head of Universal, is that rare com-
bination in pictures, a business man who knows literature
and dramatic art. I am expecting a consequent improve-
ment in the quality of Warner Brothers Classics.
The Warners will lose John Barrymore after the pic-
ture on which he is now engaged. They have a flashing
new star in Dolores Costello. whom they wisely sewed up
with a long-term contract when the other studios would
have none of her.
Strange to relate, Helene Costello is a much prettier
girl ami possesses about the same talent as her favored
r, Dolores. But Dolores got the breaks in pictures.
Helene has the best part she ever was given with Ray-
mond Griffith in "Wet Paint" for Paramount. Both the
sister> were working as extras with Paramount at the
Eastern studio when the Warners picked them up and
put them under contract. Xow the Warners have the
pleasure of lending Helene at a goodly sum to her former
employers.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
The first pieces to come out of the Universal-Ufa mill
are being awaited with curiosity by the celluloid critics
hereabout. One of the first of the new series to be made
under the hands-across-the-sea arrangement for exchang-
ing directors with Germanv is to be called "Love Me and
the World is Mine."
The title is indicative of a result that will be a strange
conglomeration. The title is American — the director is
the celebrated Continental. A. E, Dupont — and the origi-
nal story was "The Affairs of Hannerl," by Rudolph
Hans Bartsch, an Austrian novelist.
Mary Philbin and Betty Compson have leading roles.
The picture will be in the nature of a sequel to "The
Merry-Go- Round."
The German cinema has shown promise of a high
artistry. Is it going to be Americanized thru the efforts
of Carl Laemmle, or will it maintain its own integrity
while elevating the tone of Uncle Carl's American
product ?
Your Majesty can well understand why we await the
first of the cross-bred pictures with curiosity and some
little alarm.
Hollywood.
Dear Majesty :
Mot to be outdone by Metro-Goldwyn, Paramount and
First National, who have established their own houses
or made arrangements with chain theaters to display their
pictures, Producers Distributing Corporation have been
studying this merger business ever since they embarked
upon the idea of making Bigger and Better Films.
Your Majesty has seen the way the wind was blow
from the time Cecil B. De Mille became Producers' guid-
ing spirit. The Ince studios were acquired — and then the
Metropolitan. And just to keep the pot a-boiling, the
Christies hopped on the P. D. C. band wagon.
What was the result, Your Majesty? Why the realiza-
tion of one of the biggest producing plants in Hollywood.
But that is not all. The B. F. Keith vaudeville inter
have wanted to get into the picture field for many years.
For forty years the Keith organization has been engaged
in vaudeville, which under F. F. Albee's regime has
established itself solidly in all the cities of the country
What did this man Albee do? Why. he took his time
and realized that his opportunity arrived with Producer^.
So the powers higher up signed on the dotted line and
the film company as a result of signing their "John Han-
cocks" will have approximately four hundred theaters in
a chain extending from coast to coast.
With such an extensive chain Producers are assured of
exhibiting their product in first-run theaters everywhere.
61
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1
"Up in
Mabel's
ROOM!"
Al Christie, master of the film farce, has just transferred
"Up in Mabel's Room" to the screen. This comedy was
looked upon as a bit rakish and peppy when it was
presented behind the footlights by Al H. Woods, famed
for his near-naughty bedroom farces
Piquant Marie Prevost plays Mabel whose lost — er — under-
garment causes a hundred complications at a house-party.
Harrison Ford is Garry, the other chief victim of the
complications
62
The Answer
[nan 1 lei i- we arc and an-
other month gone. Richard Uix is
playing in "Say It Again," which
formerly "Take a Chance."
U "Adam's apple is something
landed him that he couldn't
>wallo\v." Yes. and that's no apple
THE ANSWER MAN is at your tervice. If you
want an answer by mail, enclose a stamped addressed
envelope. If you wish the answer to appear in THE
CLASSIC, write at the top of your letter the name
you want printed, and at the bottom your full name
and address. Address: The Answer Man, Motion
Picture Classic, 176 DuPReld Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
sauce.
Another Dixie Fan.— Your the-
ater is the only one that gave out
Harold Lloyd buttons. "For Heaven's Sake" has been
playing at the Rialto Theater on Broadway for the last six weeks
and is there at this writing. He surely has no equal. His next
will be "The Mountain Lad. ' with Jobyna Ralston.
Madeline 1'. D. — So you think it is warm enough for me to
have my beard removed. I wouldn't be able to answer these
questions if I did that. William Boyd is playing in "Her Man O'
War" with Jetta Goudal.
Edn \ D. T. — Your letter reminded me of the old joke — "Are
you the mate of this ship?" said a passenger to the cook." "No,
sir, 1 am the man that cooks the mate," said the Irishman. That
dates back to when I was a child. James Kirkwood is playing
with Laura Ijl Plante in "Butterflies in the Rain."
Kanga.— No, I never counted my vocabulary, but the average
man speaks about twelve thousand words a day. George B. Seitz
directed "The Vanishing American." See you later.
Blanche A. L. — Yes, Mabel Xormand is going to play for Hal
Roach, and she signed a three-year contract with him. She just
finished her first picture, "Raggedy Rose." What's this, another
club, "The Better Picture Club, 29 Fernwood Avenue, Rochester,'
New York," and you want me as an honorary member. Thanks.
Rollen. — Batter up! I should say I do go to see the Brooklyn
Dodgers. We head the list at this writing. Huntly Gordon is
playing with Lillian Rich in "The Golden Web" for Warner.
Yes, it is difficult to rise to the heights, but it is more difficult
to stay there.
Dorothy. — He must be a sad fellow that nobody can please.
Monte Blue has the lead in "The Brute," from the novel by
VY. Douglas Newton. So you liked Elinor Fair in "The Volga
Boatman." You write a very clever letter. Let me hear from
you again.
Anthony O. B. — Yes, I often think back to when I was a little
boy in short trousers. No, I never ran to school, I ran away
from it. Y'ou know, he that has led a wicked life is afraid of
his own memory. Mae Busch's last picture was "The Perch of the
Devil." Belle Bennett and Ian Keith have the leads in the stage
success, "The Lily,"' for Fox.
Edmund Lowe Fan. — Yes, I have my buttermilk every day.
I couldn't live without it. Barbara La Marr was born July 28, 1896.
H. B. Warner has signed a contract with Cecil De Mille for
one year. Dolores Costello will be starred with John Barrymore
in "The Tavern Knight."
Danseuse. — Your motto is very good, but here is mine Do
not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear,
and tell not all you know Well, I used to do the old-fashioned
waltz and the two-step. I wouldn't venture the Charleston in
public for anything.
Blanche B. — Eleanor Boardman's birthday is August 19, and
Philadelphia was her birthplace. She was a chorus girl before
she made her first screen appearance for the Goldwyn company.
Ramon Novarro was born September 20, 1899, and he played in
"Where the Pavement Ends."
Peggy. — You will see John Bowers in "Laddie" with Bess
Flowers. Until recently Miss Flowers' hands were photographed
in close-ups to be used as those of the stars. Betty Compson
and Mary I'hilbin in "Love Me and
the World Is Mine," with Norman
Kerry.
Lokktta P.— Here we are. I tried
not to disappoint you. Walter Miller
is Allene Ray's leading man. Ronald
Colman and Neil Hamilton in "Beau
Geste." Conway Tearle is playing
with Mae Murray in "Altar-, ol
Desire."
PaNSY. — Well, I guess I had a raise since that time. Anyway,
I am getting $15 per now. You want to see more of Rockcliffc
Fellowes, Louise Fazcnda has brown hair. But wait until you
sec John Gilbert and Greta Garbo playing together in "The Flesh
and the Devil."
S. O. S. Lassie. — Well, I've come to the rescue. Richard
Barthelmess is playing in "The Amateur Gentleman." That re-
minds me. A man is known not so much by the company he
keeps as the company he keeps out of. You want a picture of
Jack Mulhall.
Louise. — No, I wont tell you whether Betty Bronson is Catholic.
I dont know, and what's the difference, anyway. Next !
Baby B. — Yres, Anita Stewart is playing in "Rustling for Cupid"
for Fox. Standing still may be easy, but it means stagnation.
There is a lot I have to learn before I die. Antonio Moreno in
"Love's Blindness" with Pauline Starke.
Helen K. — My dear girl, remember that there is a warm, life-
giving sun behind that dark cloud, and that it must soon break
thru. That was Ronald Colman in "The White Sister." Mary-
Brian and Buddy Rogers are playing the leads in the Peter B.
Kyne story, "More Pay, Less Work." Run in again some time.
Sheikess. — You want a picture of Dorothy Seastrom. She
has been in the mountains for several months due to illness, but
is back playing in "Delicatessen." Isn't such a nice title for a
sick girl.
Mk. and Mrs. — Well, speaking of love, there is no house so
small that it hath not room for love ; there is no castle so wide
that it cannot be filled with it. Love can glorify mean things
and make lowly things lovely. Thomas Meighan is happily
married to Frances Ring. His next picture will be "Tin Gods"
and Metro-Goldwyn have loaned Renee Adoree to play opposite
him. Aileen Pringle and Norman Trevor also in the cast.
Polly Lee. — Well, the first picture in the world refers to "The
Transfiguration," by Raphael. Virginia Valli is playing in "The
Family Upstairs." Lois Wilson is to play with Ford Sterling
in "The Show-Off. " No, "Rose-Marie" has not been produced
yet, but Arthur Hammerstein intends to do it next year himself
with Renee Adoree as the lead.
Florence L. — Just write to Richard Dix at the Famous Players
Studio, Astoria, Long Island. I understand that Ernst Lubitsch
is to produce three pictures a year, for a period of five years,
and he is to receive a minimum of $150,000 per picture. Never
mind figuring how wealthy he will be at the end of the five years.
Cl'Tie. — George Lewis is playing in "His People." Blanche
Sweet is being directed by her husband, Marshall Neilan, in
"Diplomacy." I wonder if that is diplomacy.
Zoe C. — So this is your first offense. Welcome to the throne.
You say among those who bring undesirables into America are
smugglers and the stork. Yes, I guess it is often true.
Minnie. — We might as well get acquainted right now. Rudolph
Schildkraut is playing the lead in "The Music Master." What
shape is a kiss? Elliptical. (A-lip-tickle.)
Lily W. — Y'es, I certainly do like perfume. It takes about
50,000 roses to produce one ounce of attar of roses. "Morals for
{Continued on page 711
63
The Centaur of the Cinema
about who won the war. They say the
taxicab drivers won it, and after ridin' in
one of their taxis — say, did you ever ride
in one of these Paris taxis?"
We both paid a tribute to the dare-
devils who propel trusting Americans
about the streets of Paris at maniac speed.
Mix went on :
"I was in a taxi there and was ready
to go back to the ho-tel. Didn't speak
a worda French, but I waved my arm in
what I thought was the right direction.
There was a square thare with
a monument in it. I thought
I kept passin' that monument
too much and come to find
out, that taxi driver had been
drivin' me around that square
P
.(Continued from page 23)
even get themselves a monocle. But I
noticed the foreigners didn't seem to cater
much to these people.
"When I went over there, I didn't have
any intention of changin' my ways. I
wanted to see what that country was like.
I didn't see why I should try and be like
those people any more than they should
try to be like me if they come over here
for a visit."
An Aboriginal American
W:
hat I am try in to say is that Tom
Mix is an American — an aboriginal
American — undiluted by foreign influence.
As such he deserves a great deal more
respect and attention than the rest of us
Americans who, in spite of our native
language and habits, are pale copies, all,
of European models.
When I looked at Mix talking to me
in his dressing-room and
noted the big white som-
brero, edged in black —
which he was still wear-
ing— the vivid vest, white
riding breeches and the
polished boots, and then
examined my own reflec-
tion in the mirror I won-
dered which of us would
look the funnier to a vis-
itor from some other
planet. I was wearing a
suit that was a Holly-
wood tailor's endeavor to
imitate a New York tai-
^/(^v-AVo-^
Even Tom Mix was appalled by the Paris taxis
tor twenty minutes — faster 'n a locoed
bronc and pumpin' his horn all the time.
I had a hell of a time makin' him
understand I wanted to go back to the
ho-tel."
No Cosmopolite is Mix
IT here was amused disdain in his voice
when Mix related the ineffectual efforts
of his entourage to be cosmopolites in
strange metropolises. Mix is scornful of
any efforts by fellow countrymen who in
Rome try to do as the Romans.
"My wife and two of the gang bought
French dictionaries and tried to learn
French. I got along better by talkin'
English. I didn't even change any Ameri-
can money into their money. I always had
a waiter in the restaurants or the clerk
in the ho-tel who spoke English. And I'd
ask 'em to -turn the check into Ameri-
can money. When I accumulated a lot
of small change in French, I'd give it to
the kids.
"One day in a restaurant I said to the
gang, 'Now, you've been studyin0 French
so hard, let's see you order something in
French.' The three of them set there and
tried to order port wine and damned if
they didn't get asparagus !"
"It's funny — a lot of Americans go over
there — try to talk with an English accent
or act Frenchy. Carry a cane and maybe
The Honesty of Mix
■"The downright honesty of Mix struck
home forcibly as he talked in this
fashion. His honesty and a touch of the
pride of a man who is sufficient unto him-
self. A quality that aroused a tardy ad-
miration. A trait that explained a lot.
For instance, the outlandish garb affected
by Tom Mix. Come to think of it, his
garb is not outlandish — it is his native cos-
tume. Buckskins trimmed in beadwork,
showing the influence of the plains Indians.
Cowboys always wore such fancy garb
when they dressed up — overalls for work,
usually — but always the great sombrero of
finest felt and the boots as costly as the
purse could buy.
Mix was and still is a cowboy. The
fact that he has made a fortune doing
daredevil stunts before a movie camera
has not changed him one whit. If he has
spent some of this money in childish van-
ities— in putting his name in colored elec-
trics six feet high on the roof of his
cottage at Catalina Island ; in doeskin
riding breeches and a snowy white som-
brero to be worn with evening clothes ; in
purchasing the automobile horn of the un-
fortunate ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II as a play-
thing for his small son — if he has com-
mitted these and a dozen other barbarities,
that, too, is in character.
lor's idea of how an English tailor makes
clothes. And I had to admit that the vis-
itor from Mars, if he had good taste,
would decide that Mix was dressed more
practically and more naturally and much
more becomingly than I. His costume
fitted the figure. The coloration was bold
and symphonic. It was what should have
been our native American costume — what
the ignorant proletariat of Europe, addicted
as it is to the cinema, still believes to be
the American national dress.
To the eyes of those worshipful peas-
ants abroad, Tom Mix is the typical
American. They do not see the bespec-
tacled, slack-trousered, round-shouldered,
paunchy horde who, alas, compose the bulk
of our population.. Mix is the more mod-
ern equivalent of such a figure as Leather-
stocking. He is what we might have
been in America — except for our accursed
progress.
A Born Plainsman
Comebody told me once that Tom Mix is
of Italian parentage. His keen, swart,
hawk-like profile would bear out such a
conclusion. But his speech and manner
are those of the born plainsman and he
has a cowboy's provincial, half-humorous
contempt for the Latin races which "are
kinda hysterical and dont exactly know
what it is all about."
(Continued on page 82)
64
The Story of REX
onthwtd from m?-
ee ih<- great
wild Jtallion, the known
killrr " lie seldom dis
linted them, V
times hi- exhibition
wild fun seemed those
end incarnate
Famed as a "Killer"
Tiu\ word of tin- stal
1 m was brought to
lywood b> the Moi
brothei s, specialists
iding Western
sphere for motion-
ire companies. The
word came at an auspi-
- time on the Hal
h lot For months
.man had been
ching for a fit sub-
for a brand-new
wild animal
something that
would bo entirel) out of
the beaten path Rex
rounded like a good bet.
Jackman went to Colo-
redo to see for himself.
and was more than sat-
isfied.
The horse seemed too vicious to be
sported to California at that time, so
his first picture. "Rex, King of the Wild
Horses," was made there in the picturesque
terrane of Colorado.
It was originally planned to make only
the one picture, but Rex proved such a
n sensation that others soon followed.
"Black Cyclone" was filmed in Nevada and,
la-t summer, "The Devil Horse," the most
pretentious of the series so far, was filmed
in Wyoming. Now preparations are under "CuCH things as galloping madly across
r a fourth feature. country, rounding up a herd of mares,
"Making a picture with an animal that and fighting other stallions, are easy.
The Rex company on location for "The Devil Horse," with Gladys
McConnell and Fred Jackman in the foreground
me over this phone. This does away with
shouting that would only result in making
Rex too nervous to handle.
"Often, when you see Rex posed on the
crest of a hill far away, looking intently
into a hidden valley, there will be a small
herd of mares in that valley out of camera
range, carefully planted there to attract
and hold his attention.
Once Started, Hard to Stop
.ally trained," Jackman explained, "is
mparatively easy matter. But with a
brute as incurably wild as Rex, it's an en-
tirely different proposition. About all that
we can actually do is to let him do the
things that he really wants to do, that
come natural to him, and then fit the re-
sulting scenes into our story.
"After a long effort, his trainer has
finally taught him a few rudimentary com-
mands so that we can
at least slightly con-
trol his actions before
the camera. He knows
that 'Get going !' means
to start running ; that
'Stop' means just that;
and that 'Hold it' means
to hold his pose of the
moment. He chewed
four dummies into tat-
ters before he was
finally taught to push
a man with his nose
without taking a sample
bite of him.
"In fairly close shots,
Rex's trainer directs
him from just outside
the camera lines. In
long shots, which are
usually taken in very
hilly country, the trainer
is usually near the stal-
lion, but out of sight
behind the brow of a
hill. We carry a port-
able field telephone out-
fit on location, and on
long shots the trainer
gets his directions from
Those are in line with Rex's natural in-
stincts, and he does them readily. The
only difficult/ usually is to get him to stop
when we are thru. In fight scenes with
another stallion, both Rex and his opponent
are shod with rubber shoes and a protec-
tive leather band fastened across their teeth.
This does away with possible injury from
biting or kicking. Otherwise, they might kill
each other before we could separate them.
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4»Bi AT ALL DRUG AND DEPARTMENT STORES iSJBj
plays, new movies, new concerts, new in-
ventions, new political situations, new mur-
ders, new discoveries, new strides in medi-
cine, surgery, psychology, philosophy ; new
propaganda for or against Prohibition . . .
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
thick columns that you HAVE to keep up
with if you are to be a Modern in any
sense of the word. If you are to have
any glimmering notion of what the man
next to you in the subway is talking about
when he addresses a chummy, unwelcome
remark to you some evening.
Keeping Up with Things
It would take, for we have estimated it,
the entire time and attention of any nor-
mal person to keep up with the new maga-
zines. What they are using. What they
are aiming at. The fiction and facts set
forth in staggering array.
Unless you are to sit like a mouth-open
moron when some little creature says to
you, "What DID you think of the next-to-
the-last article in the next-to-the-last issue
of Harpers?" You will have to read
Harpers. And ditto, ditto, ditto for all of
the magazines treating of general fiction,
movies, gland discoveries, ct cetera.
It would take the entire time and atten-
tion of any normal person to keep up with
the unstemmed flood of new books . . .
to be able intelligently to discuss Michael
Aden versus Theodore Dreiser or Ethel
M. Dell versus Edith Wharton. Not to
mention the fact that this same normal
person is supposed to dip now and again
into the poets ancient and modern.
Try and do it !
It would take any normal person's entire
time and attention to see all of the new
plays — no, only the "worth while" new
plays, operas, concerts, lectures and magic-
lantern slides on Palestine.
No human being has three entire times
and attentions. No human has more than
one.
And assuming that some thrice-gifted
individual does keep up with drama, litera-
ture, politics and Prohibition, there still
remain such items as family obligations. . . .
Sister Susie having a new baby, which
means the gift of a pacifier and a family
call . . . shopping, for we must remain
covered, if not gowned . . . social pleas-
ures or penalties, as one chooses to regard
them . . . the gift of leisure. . . .
How is it to be done?
And— the Stars!
NJow we come to the stars.
We talked with Douglas Fairbanks
the other day and he said, truly, that in
and about New York one cannot even
have a thrill of one's own making.
"Thrills in New York," he said, "are
forced upon you at the rate of one pe
second."
All of which, as we have remarked, lead
us to the long-suffering and too-often
maligned screen stars.
Screen stars are expected to know every
thing. If they do not know everything
they are labeled "Morons" without benefi
of a trial by their peers.
They are expected to be immediatel;
able to discuss anything, everything, sacrei
and profane, at the turning of the inter
rogative tap.
Interviewers and the Fan Public tur
up noses and right about face if the hard
working children of the cinema fail t<
know and orate eloquently about the funda
mentals of Theosophy, Freudianism, tb
precepts of Havelock Ellis, the bases o
Capital Punishment, the fifth chapter o
Genesis interpreted figuratively and lit
erally.
If John Gilbert cannot discuss the origit
of Love, the Lives of Plutarch, "Why W
Behave Like Human Beings" (if we do'
and the latest best seller by an authoress
he is branded as a dumb-bell. "Just an
other movie actor ... no brains, no brains
at all. . . ."
If Bebe Daniels cannot hold forth ir
flowing rhetoric about the Montessor
Method, the feudal system. Higher Edu-
cation for Women, Economics, the hidalgos
of Spain and the function of the thyroid
gland, the dear Public will say, "Oh, well.
those movie stars have sawdust brains . . .
we always knew that! ..."
And ... if these same stars are not
smartly clad, peppy in their various roles,
convivial, friendly, prompt to answer Tottie
Toddle about the Best Way to Enter Mo-
tion Pictures . . . again they are branded.
This time as "high hat," "ritzy," "up-
stage," or some such opprobrious term.
The Deadly Pace
Tt is the pace that kills.
We ask you, how can you expect it?
How can you expect it of anyone? How,
especially, can you expect it of the stars?
We marvel that they know anything save
Kleig lights, tissue-paper scripts, location
trips, personal appearances, fan mail, the
shopping they have to do for every sep-
arate production and the way their family
might look if they ever had time to look
at 'em.
Think it over. It cant be done.
Mary Pickford went to bed when she
last reached New York. Barbara La Marr
is dead. And in the past six weeks we
have personally heard D. W. Griffith, Carol
Dempster, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pick-
ford, John Gilbert, Adolphe Menjou and
Dorothy Gish all cry, "Take me back to
the Farm !"
The Celluloid Critic
(Continued from page SI)
The big family reunion breaks up into
little family reunions, and accompanying
their bickerings and sentimentalities the
spectator sees the action developing ro-
mantic episodes, a triangle or two, a lot
of war talk, a party or three given by
war profiteers — and plenty of symbolic
touches pertaining to the galloping steeds
—and what not.
The most tangible scenes are those
which involve the handling of the mobs.
Naturally, the players are submerged.
They become so lost in the shuffle that
not one (not even Jean Hersholt as a pig-
gish and priggish profiteer) is able to
appear real and convincing.
No Bull's-Eye Here
: Jxiversal didn't strike the bull's-eye
with "The Midnight Sun," which was
heavily exploited as a true picture of
Russian intrigue — Russ — passion and what-
not. To come right down to brass tacks,
(Continued on page 76)
70
The Answer Man
from page 63)
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kinK "lit bin pictures Hi-*
|| In- " I he Deluge," which will U-
N'oah's \ik
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Brutus \ou waul to know whj .1
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makes laces and bust-.! til In.
John dilhert was horn Jul> 10,
Richard Dix's real name is Ernest
iter
Clair' Enjoyed your letter on the blue
\\ rite me again.
1 Well, 1 should say next to
n pa thy is the divinest passion oi
he human heart Read the interview with
Rogers in the May , lu2o, ' '
NlvKiiKKirv: B— That was Mary ^stoi
Betty Bronson is playing
Milton Sill- in "Paradise." Yes,
gri and Erich von Strohcim are
barred some time during the Sum-
ner in "Hotel Imperial," which von Stro-
,mi in to direct himself. Some com-
•ination.
HXLEN D. T. — Thanks again for the
vooderful book you sent me. So you liked
\anion Novarro in "Ben-Hur." It was a
;reat picture.
Mkku.iia. — Sorry I cannot help you.
Norma. — You want to know which
layer drinks the most. I have no way
if gaging the intake of players' beverages,
mt it you are referring to pre-Yolsteadian
.pirits, that's out !
Alice in Wonderland. — You say you
ire just a plain, common girl, dont dance,
■moke, pet or anything like that. You
iurely selected an appropriate name for
• ourself. You think Lois Wilson is a
■aving beauty. Wallace Beery is playing
n "The Greatest Show on Earth." Sounds
ike a circus.
Mary C— That was Carl Miller in "We
Moderns."
A. B., Chicago. — Your letter was quite
philosophical. He who imagines he can
Jo without the world deceives himself
nuch ; but he who fancies the world cannot
Jo without him is still more mistaken.
Greta Garbo and Conrad Xagel are play-
ing for Metro-Goldwyn, Culver City,
California.
A. B. — So "The Gold Rush" was shown
in your leading picture house 252 times
straight. That's some record. Chaplin
ought to buy that house.
Adelina. — Oh, Adelina ! You say why-
is the fourth of July like oysters? Because
we cant enjoy them without crackers.
Bang ! No, Valentino didn't use a double
in "Blood and Sand." Lois Wilson is to
he featured in "New York," by Sinclair
Lewis, a romance built around New York's
night clubs, cabarets, etc.
Apron- Strings. — That was Blanche
Sweet in "The Sporting Venus."
Robert F. — Bull Montana did play the
part of the ape in "The Lost World."
Ford Sterling is to be featured in "Louie
the 14th," which will be personally super-
vised by Florenz Ziegfeld and which will
have in the cast the chorus of Ziegfeld
beauties. "Kid Boots" is also being filmed
with the Ziegfeld girls prominent.
Dave H. — Yes, of course, I'm all for
Dolores Costello. She's a Brooklynite,
you know.
Millicent P. — Thanks for yours.
Barcelona. — Yes, Theda Bara has been
in a comedy for Hal Roach. She first
became famous in "A Fool There Was"
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they dont want us to see the pictures until
they are fixed up the best they know how.
And even so, they often overlook the very
things that have spoiled so many pictures
that might otherwise have been excellent.
There are two kinds of eyes : the studio
eyes and the outside public eyes, and they
are just as different as a Ford and a
Lincoln. But you cant get any studio man
to admit this. They think they know it all.
T told Louis B. Mayer, the Metro chief,
that I thought his company's supremacy
was to be challenged not by Famous
Players-Lasky or First National, but by
Joseph Schenck's United Artists. He said
that he thought I was right and also that
he hoped so. With Norma Talmadge,
Constance Talmadge, Buster Keaton, Ru-
dolph Valentino, John Barrymore, Gloria
Swanson'and so on he has a pretty good
start, says I, Louis Mayer is a very wise
and far-seeing man, and so is Joe Schenck,
and I am telling Jesse Lasky and Adolph
Zukor to watch out.
I/'athlf.en Clifford combines business
^ with her picture art, and, since she also
married a banker, she manages to eat three
meals a day. She has several very smart
florist shops, one at the Ambassador Hotel,
and since she is one of the most popular
ladies in Hollywood she does a flourishing
business.
A way back in the dark ages, say about
1913, we used to run pictures of Ollie
Kirby and George Larkin in our gallery
of famous players. They took me out the
other night to a preview of "The Wise
Guy" at Glendale, and after that a few
of us went to their home in the mountains
near-by. The picture was very bad and it
will need a lot of doctoring before it will
be fit for release, but the home of Ollie
and George Larkin was one of the cutest
affairs I ever saw and very artistic. And
neither of them has aged a bit. They have
been working in State Rights pictures
latelv.
* * *
\7ilma Banky lives all alone on a quiet
street in a beautiful home which she rents
furnished. She does not go out much and
has but few intimate friends and callers.
She was present at two large parties given
by Samuel Goldwyn but otherwise she has
not been seen out much. On those occa-
sions she did not seem to mix, but kept
aloof. She thinks that her foreign accent
and difficulty of expressing herself make
her society undesirable and she keeps aloof.
Yes, she is lonesome at times, and then
she reads. Corliss Palmer and I dined
with her the other night and we three spent
the evening together. She was dressed
very simply, almost plainly, and her man-
ner and appearance were that of a lady
high-born — a typical princess. She has a
soft, sweet voice, a pleasant smile and a
winsome personality. She is distinctly fem-
inine, rather quiet than vivacious, and sub-
dued rather than demonstrative. Her for-
eign accent is captivating, and her gocd-
natured distress at being unable to say
what she wants to say is quite enchanting.
If she has any deep emotions, any hatred,
contempt, hauteur, or anger, it is not
obvious. She is nothing like Lillian
Gish, yet she is the exact opposite of Pola
Negri. Lillian is frail and defenseless and
was made to suffer and be batted about;
Pola was made to rule a nation, lead an
army and put up a fiery fight for her
country or for the one she loves : but Yilma
was made for a gentle princess, to love
and be loved amid sunshine and flowers.
California is the land of sports, amuse-
ments, sunshine, motoring and gaiety
and out-of-doors. Prize-fights, yachting,
baseball, racing, tennis, dancing, bathing
and everything lively and athletic. As for
literature, art, sculpture, painting, opera,
drama, symphony, lectures, etc. — not so
much.
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Cm mo m Chase, who is so funni in those
Hal Roach comedies, and who will
da) l><- making five reel features, iv
gulai fellow ufl screen. 1 lunched
«nh him recently and iuiUkIj would ■
lake hnn foi an aetoi He isn't even so
funny as 1 am ami that'* nut much Hi
ng the same path that Douglas
UllKIld (illlVltll .1 1 111 11.11 I \
traveled and within .1 yeai
' probabl) arrive .it the same dea
feature stardom
Cu\r. Hkih'k w.i^ m the same luncheon
, with Chase and myself and he
is an interesting conversation (not ".il" )
He, tiK>, looks nothing like an actoi
he ilu^ or talk like one. The)
are hoth natural, genteel, dignified and
« • •
"Dl'N -'l vv w'tn Jonn Barrymore and
^ Estelle Taylor, \\a> finished and pre
viewed some months - 1 write this)
and yel the) are taking .1 few more scenes
Sunday. Warner Brothers have al-
spent .1 small fortune on thi> pic-
ture, and let us all hope that they are not
"throwing ^»u i! money after had."
* * *
(~)\e of the best jokes I have heard is on
^ Corliss Palmer. Some time ago while
at a Marion Davies party she chanced to
fall in with a tunny little foreigner who
i n with a black ribbon and spoke
poor English. "'Are you in pictures:" he
asked, and Corliss said that she was just
beginning but had played a few parts. "Oh,
wont you help me to get in. too?" the
foreigner begged. "Please let me go around
with you to the different studios, and I
know you can help me. I long to Ik an
actor I must be a great actor."
I wishing to offend him. altho she
saw that he was well-looking and rather
pleasing and attractive, Corliss replied :
"I suppose you want to play such parts as
a musician, or a poet or a professor?"
Oh, no!" he replied in broken English,
"I want to play the great lover like Valen-
tino and Gilbert — I want to make violent
love to beautiful women — full of fire and
passion."
And thus thruout the evening the villain
still pursued her and repeatedly begged
Corliss to help him get into the movies.
Corliss did not want to hurt the poor
man's feelings and she felt sorry for him,
but somehow she got out of it, and did
not even remember his name, nor he hers,
and she did not see him again. The cur-
tain now rises on the last act. The other
day Corliss was in my office looking over
the latest Motion Picture Classic when
I heard her "exclaim, "Great Scott I" and
then laugh repeatedly. I looked over her
shoulder to see what she was reading and
it was a long, illustrated article about
Ernest Yadja, the famous Hungarian
dramatist, who has been writing screen
stories for Famous Players at about a
million dollars apiece. "Well, what do
you think of that !" laughed Corliss, "the
mean man ! But he certainly did fool me,
all right "
* * *
ropping in at the Mack Sennett studio
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who had just finished for the day. She is
just as cute and pretty off the screen as
on, and I am convinced from what I saw
and since heard that she is not only a good
girl but one of excellent morals, principles
and habits. There is nothing wild or loose
about her. She lives with her mother and
sister. Marceline, about three miles from
the studio, and she is very popular with
the younger set of high-class girls of
which Mary Philbin is one and who lives
only a few blocks awav.
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" 'What have you done in pictures ?' Mr.
Cruze asked me.
" 'Nothing.'
"He talked to me a minute or two. Then
he asked: 'How's your physique?'
" 'So-so,' I said. I felt contrary, because
I thought it was all a form and they didn't
mean anything.
"He made me take my things off. 'How
about your back?' he asked.
" 'Not so good,' I said, but he seemed
satisfied with it.
" 'Would you be afraid to play scenes in
the rigging of an old sailing vessel?' he
asked.
" 'No. I was born near Cape Cod, and I
used to dive off the riggings of ships in the
harbor when I was a kid.'
"I noticed they gasped when I spoke of
Cape Cod. The chap in the story is from
Cape Cod. I didn't know that then. Fi-
nally, they decided I was the man they
wanted, and after a while Fox let them
have me, and here I am.
"And what I'll do when it's all over and
I have to go home, I dont know!"
He looked up at the Tripolitan fort,
rising in gray-green tiers above us. in the
peace of its palms and the menace of its
cannon. Pirates in striped turbans and
baggy red trousers dangled pointed shoes
over the walls, and here and there a ragged
slave slept in the shadow of an embrasure.
Adventure. Excitement. Romance. . . .
"Come on, Kid!"
Tim Cruze came back from shooting at an
J elusive wild duck lurking about the
Esther at anchor in the cove. Wallace
Beery appeared from beneath the coat
where he was sheltering his shaven head
from the sun, and George Bancroft tossed
his long bob out of his eyes.
"Come on, kid!" bellowed the last
named. "Come back to your Uncle George
and your L^ncle Wrallie!"
Charles Farrell. as he was buckled back
into his iron belt that bound him to his
"Uncle George," smiled his happy smile.
"We've got to stick together, boys !" said
the youth, who is said to have the most
promising future in Hollywood, as they
manacled Champion Godfrey to the other
end of the chain.
And the four started gaily into the
j
Big Pictures and Little
Ones
({ ■ h om h'-i'
tlu-\ had been started, grew out oi
bounds, and were th< o( extra
il , .in- Until proved tu he ti mm
phant successes, artistically and com
merciallj as well.
Here were two ..w^, then, wherein qua!
it\ u.is alio wcil u> predominate. Ii "The
red Wagon" and "The Big Parade"
had been produced in the usual manner, in
foui or m\ weeks' time, and delivered to
the exhibitors on a scheduled date, two
memorable pictures would have been lost
\s it happened, James Cruze in the one
and King Vidor in the other, weir
free reign and allowed to run. The
theii spiints have been enoi
mously profitable, to producers and public
alike.
Ii you look back thru the list of movies
that, for one reason or another, have
ed a position in the Hall of Film
Fame, you will find almost no program
pictures They are essentially creatures
of the moment, sold across the counter for
what they would bring — a..d speedily for-
gotten
It is not the money, or the size of the
sets, or the number of extras that makes
a big picture big. It is the amount of
intelligent effort that goes into its pro-
duction. Artists who are compelled to
punch a time-clock cease to be artists.
they are converted into machines, and their
products become as mechanical and as
thoroly lacking in originality as so many
Ford .
The great triumphs of the movies are
achieved by the craftsmen who take a
ire pride in their work. They are
the men and women who produce the big
pictures.
They Say—
(Continued from page 8)
screen, and less oi hokum and hunk: would
like more of real womanhood, and les
flapperdoni — (every community of the
United States, including those located in
the "sticks," has plenty of flappers of the
home-made variety— in fact, is fed up on
the nuisances ) ; would like to see more
of "home-folk" and less of the "upper
ten" stuff.
Editors alone can not bring this about,
nor can patrons alone do so ; nor yet pro-
ducers alone. But I believe that if editors,
patrons and producers get together, they
can bring about a vast improvement in the
movie industry, and do it in a compara-
tively brief span of time.
John- Bristol,
P. O. Drawer 142.
Vernal, Utah.
Huzzahs for the Handsome Heroes
Editor. Classic:
I think that Mr. Edwin Meyers started
something in the May number of Class u
when he put up a plea for Milton Sills,
Conway Tearle. Thomas Meighan, et al.,
as against the young and handsome lovers
of the screen.
Men just cant understand why- women
admire young and handsome and romantic
men. They do not know that the hero
of every woman's dream is young, and
handsome, and romantic. And yet, on the
other hand, men themselves admire young
and lovely girls ; and the girl of their
dreams, for whom some of them are even
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Fame Came to Chaplin With
Borrowed Clothes
(Continued from page 37)
should arrive at a decision to make it
part of a forthcoming comedy. It so hap-
pened that Charlie Chaplin was one of the
players picked out to "do his stuff" in the
shots which Sennett intended grabbing.
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for the Baby Parade film. In his haste
he found no time to put on the clothes he
had used in his first Keystone pictures.
Hurriedly he annexed a derby hat and a
flexible cane. Then came the need of
trousers and shoes. There was no time to
be lost. Looking around, he spied a pair
of pants which belonged to a generously
proportioned gentleman known as Fatty
Arbuckle. He proceeded to don the trou-
sers, wrapping them ineffectually about his
waist in order to reduce the balloonlike
effect which they achieved on his slender
legs. So much for the trousers. He still
required a pair of shoes. At that time a
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scene of the baby-parade activities, where,
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always making sure that there were plenty
of mothers and babies to serve as a back-
ground for his comic capers.
Came Fame
Co the shots were secured and, in due
course of time, found their way into a
single-reel release of the Keystone brand
and distributed by the then all-powerful
Mutual, a forerunner of the giant dis-
tributing companies of today. The picture
scored immediately with the exhibitors of
the country. Everywhere showmen and
exchange managers asked the same ques-
tion : "Who is the little guy with the
funny walk ?"
In shoes several sizes too large for him,
Chaplin shuffled thru the various scenes
in the picture, acquiring a walk which
was to become the most imitated of all
things of the screen. Children and grown-
ups alike sought to ape the Chaplin walk
of the actor in the borrowed shoes, which
flapped and spread in ridiculous fashion
as the comedian shuffled about, cane in
hand and shabby derby jauntily perched
on his head.
^ Picture after picture came from the
Keystone studio in which the "funny little
guy" continued to wear the make-up of
the Baby Parade offering. After each pic-
ture would come the flood of inquiries from
exhibitor, patron and exchange man, de-
manding the name of the player who wore
the flappy pants and the big shoes.
Those were the days when personal pub-
licit}' was frowned upon by the makers of
the various brands of pictures. Very few
were the names of the players known to
the fans. But the storm of popular ap-
proval which greeted each effort of Chaplin
finally forced the sponsors of Keystone
comedies to accede to public demand, with
the result that the comedian received his
first public mention in the press and also
on the screen.
The Borrowed Costume
I7ilm history does not reveal whether or
not Charlie Chaplin proceeded to secure
for himself a replica of the borrowed cos-
tume which he wore in the Baby Parade
epic. Undoubtedly, Messrs. Sterling and
Arbuckle, needing the shoes and pants in
their business, reclaimed their borrowed
comic paraphernalia. While the clothes
used by Chaplin gave him the first emphatic
push along the road of success, it is un-
necessary to stress the fact that his artistic
talents were and still are superior to the
mere detail of comedy wardrobe. The
flood of Chaplin imitators who assaulted
the screen following his first success dem-
onstrated this clearly. Affecting the derby,
cane, baggy pants and large shoes, they
sadly lacked the pantomimic abilities which
mark Chaplin as the greatest of all laugh
producers in films, whether wearing the
costume he made famous or arrayed in
conventional attire.
At some future time, should the great-
ness of the business of making motion
pictures demand a permanent monument
for its exposition and propagation as one
of modern civilization's most distinguished
arts, I believe that alongside of Billy
Bitzer's epic camera and Harold Lloyd's
historic glassless spectacles should be
placed the dilapidated derby and its com-
panion outfit of the original Chaplin
make-up.
So, despite the enticing tales of success
with which the Pollyanna scribblers regale
an aspiring public, I must stick to my
story that here is one man who achieved
limousines and a million-dollar income on
a totally different kind of borrowed capital
— old clothes.
The Celluloid Critic
(Continued from page 70)
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ondary.''
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decorated and furnished it herself and
began painting parchment lamp-shades.
"It was the best-looking place," smiled
Dorothy, from the depths of the over-
stuffed chair in her newly acquired Holly-
wood home, "I got old rugs — on the order
of this one — and had them dyed black. Then
I did the place in robins' egg blue with
touches of orange. ... I bought this
house furnished and I think it's terrible.
But come back again in three weeks and
you'll be surprised ! . . . .
"I couldn't take care of all the orders
I had at the studio, but all the time in the
back of my mind was the idea of being
an actress. I used to spend my lunch
money on pictures — it was always pictures
more than the stage that interested me."
In that strange way most of us have of
reaching for the thing we want by pre-
tending to be reaching for something else,
Dorothy got to New York. Ostensibly
she went to take an art course, but when
she arrived, she hurried at once to an
agent's office to try for the stage.
Studied Acrobatic Dancing
"You'd better learn acrobatic dancing.
You must have some qualification
nowadays," one kindly soul told her.
Dorothy counted over her dwindling
funds. A course in acrobatic dancing
lasted a year at the least. Well, there was
enough to try a month at it !
"It was excruciating !" said Dorothy.
"They'd put me against a well and force
one leg up over my shoulder until the
tears rolled down my cheeks. Then they
stretched me and pulled me about while
I suffered agonies. I thought : 'It's
frightful — but if this is what you have to
do to get on the stage, I'll bear it.' And
then one morning I woke up and found
I couldn't get out of bed !"
While she was struggling with rebel-
lious muscles, a notice to the effect that
Ned Wayburn was selecting girls for a
fashion show came to her attention, and
as soon as she could force herself to dress
she made her way to his office, under the
mistaken impression that he was seeing
them there.
It was drawl that did it, for Dorothy
was so weary and discouraged, so sick
with the dancing outrage that she didn't
look particularly well.
"What's your name?" asked Ned Way-
burn, and when she had told him he di-
rected her to the hall.
Arrived there, she stood among all the
hundreds of gathered beauties and de-
spaired. Not for long, however. Ned
Wayburn appeared, silence descended and
his first words were :
"Will Dorothy Sebastian come to the
desk?"
"It seemed miles across the long room,"
confessed Dorothy. "I thought he was
probably going to tell me to go home and
I was scared. But he told the clerk to O.-K.
my name and I walked on air."
The fashion show lasted a week. In
the dressing-rooms Dorothy listened avidly
to the talk of the proposed George White's
"Scandals," the big event of 1924. Erte
had designed sets and costumes. It was
to overshadow everything that had ever
happened. Etc.
The girls were all selected — that was the
trouble. But Dorothy marched over to the
theater where rehearsals were to begin and
entered the stage door with the rest.
Landed in the "Scandals"
A slim man in spats, straw hat over one
■^ ear and cane over one arm, strolled
across the broad expanse of stage on which
groups were rehearsing and stopped before
Dorothy.
"What are you doing here?" he inquired.
"I want to see Mr. White."
"I'm Mr. White."
"Oh, dont kid me ! I want to see George
White."
"What do you want to say to him? Had
any experience?"
"No, I haven't, but I'm going to tell
him I have. I'm going to tell him I'm a
dancer and a singer and I can do any-
thing " (That intriguing "inny thing" !)
"But suppose he asks you to prove it ?"
inquired the man in spats.
"I can dance anything anybody teaches
me — and I can sing in a chorus. I know
I can do whatever he wants me to do "
"Where are you from?"
"Alabam'."
"Well, Alabam', I am George White
and I'm from Dixie, too! Go over there
and start rehearsing with the girls !"
Dolores and Helene Costello were in the
"Scandals," too.
"That's just the sort of girls we had,"
exclaimed Dorothy, her hazel eyes shin-
ing, "sweet and genuine and talented."
Costellos Also in "Scandals"
Tt was because Dorothy herself was seri-
ous about her future that she came to
Hollywood. Pictures seemed to her the
only thing that really mattered and she
set her brains to work to find the way in.
On the train coming out she heard that
Robert Kane was to produce independently
and that Henry King was to direct the
first picture, "Sackcloth and Scarlet."
"I'll be in 'Sackcloth and Scarlet'," de-
cided Dorothy ; and upon her arrival in the
city of stars, she donned her prettiest
frock, wrapped herself in the painfully
saved- for fur coat and strolled over to
United Studios.
It may have been the fur coat, but I am
inclined to think it was the Alabama drawl
that got her past the gateman and into the
office where the director was engaged in
casting.
The two gentlemen whose names begin
with K were likewise hypnotized into giving
the Southern beauty a screen test.
"They had me do everything Polly
Freeman does in the story," said Dorothy,
"only I had to imagine the top of the
mountain and the handsome stranger.
"Next day they telephoned me to come
over at once and broke the news to me that
I was to be Polly.
"'Oh, I couldn't!' I cried. 'Of course
I'd do my very best and ev'thing but I
dont know anything about pictures and
I might spoil it.'
"But they persuaded me to try and I
did.
"One day they put me up against a wall
with a light on one side and dark on the
other and told me to suffer. I had nothing
to tear, nothing to catch hold of, only
the light and the dark. After that scene,
Mr. Kane signed me for five years.
"And now — bless them ! — they've released
me to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and I'm
praying for a chance at sympathetic parts.
You see, on the screen I go sort of sleepy-
looking and blah, and they call that 'sex
appeal' and give me these terrible heavies
to do. A heavy may be all very well once
in a while, but forever !"
And I cant help thinking that when
Dorothy takes her Alabam' accent and asks
the officials out at M-G-M for a sym-
pathetic part — she'll get it !
78
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IU.nkn I Why, Gertrude Olmstead is
lUty -contest winner, ami -die won rieht
aine from high school in La Salle,
She ha> chestnut -brown hair and
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I wish you luck, but
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J. Warren Kerri-
gan and Give Brook are your favorites.
Who else but Tennyson could have said.
" Tis better to have loved and lost, than
Dtver to have loved at all"? Thomas
han surely is playing— his next pic-
ture will be "Prosperity.'' a dramatic story
of a man who tried to high-hat New York.
James E. — Your letter was a gem. Glad
to hear that you are improving. Esther
Kalston was born in 1902 and Mary Astor
in 1906. Esther Ralston and Clara Bow.
Louise Brooks and Fay Lanphier and
the Ziegfeld chorus are playing in the cast
of "Glorifying the American Girl."
-sie. — Crcighton Hale was born in
Cork. Ireland. < Hven Moore was born in
the land of Shamrocks, too. and lacks
two inches "i~ being a six- footer
hope I get a raise. Well. I'm getting $15.00
per week ; that keeps me going pretty
good. It takes all my money for butter-
milk.
Gerry. — Well, the best part of beauty is
that which no picture can express. Ronald
Colman was burn in 1SV1. Norma Tal-
madge was born in 1895 and Mary Pick-
ford in 1893.
Richie. — I >hould say I was glad to hear
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Semon joined Yitagraph in 1913. and be-
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Francis. — Lawrence Gray, Richard Dix
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Angeles.
Tessie B. — Tom Mix has two children.
Ruth, by a former marriage, is sixteen and
is in western pictures. Helen Holmes is
Mrs. J. P. MeC.owan.
Marion E. D. — Lloyd Hughes was born
in 1899 and is married to Gloria Hope.
Richard Dix and Richard Barthelmess not
married, at least the latter was once. That
Walter Pidgeon in "Mannequin." See
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Mrs. Natalie Wisbeck, 95 Stuyvesant
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Washington, D. C. ; Carolyn Barr, 5484
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Street, Erie, Pennsylvania ; Douglas F.
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nati, Ohio ; Madeline Glass, 2975 Leeward
Avenue, Los Angeles, California; Robert
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Street, Sandusky, Ohio ; Ernest R. Wild,
1211 J/2 S. Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles,
California; Miss D. H. Chapman, 1582
Sanchez Street, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia; Betty E. Janover, 55 E. 100th
Street; New York City; Miss Florence
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York ; Elaine Dennis Young, 55 West
Main Street, Norwalk, Ohio; C. M.
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California; F. Jurden Doxtater, 737 South
Burlington Avenue, Los Angeles, Cali-
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David M. Evans, 1528 Morningside Court,
Hollywood, California; Mrs. J. Lawrence
Widmer, 9 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis,
Maryland; Mrs. Sara Worcester, 1411
Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut ;
Evelyn Fritinger, 11 Race Street, Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania; A. G. Wilt, 162 W.
Hortter Street, Germantown, Pennsyl-
vania; Henry L. Belmont, 1323 S. 48th
Street, Cicero, Illinois ; Helen Miller,
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D. C. ; Miss Grace Greenwood, 535 Hotel
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Mrs. Helen M. Thorpe, 14-5 S. Carolina
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Ottilie Jerchower, 1486 Fifth Avenue,
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Paul, Minnesota ; Gerd Aage Gillhoff, 37
W 88th Street, New York City; Mr.
Abelle Reyes, 219 Grant Building, Atlanta,
Georgia; Leontine Brennan, 2731 N.
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delphia, Pennsylvania ; Lucy Sanborn Ly-
man, 705 N. 1st Street, W., Salt Lake
City, Utah; J. N. Fujishima, c/o Yonei
Shoten, Nichome Ginza, Tokio, Japan;
Mae H. Ashworth, 118 West Ninth Street,
Mount Vernon, Indiana ; Miss Veronica
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Oregon ; Miss Peggie Ferguson, 9 Upper
Avenue, Eastbourne, Sussex, England ;
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; E. Van Tyne,
Covington, Virginia; Mrs. E. P. Daven-
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Texas; Mrs. L. P. Martin, 5281 Fourth
Avenue, Rosemount, Montreal, P. Q.,
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Final Standing of Your Opinion Contest
PICTURES
Passion 16,819
Forbidden Paradise 7,139
Monsieur Beaucaire 4,576
The Birth of a Nation 3,190
The Covered Wagon 3,168
Robin Hood 2,640
The Ten Commandments 2,200
Scaramouche 2,167
So Big 1,133
The Thief of Bagdad 979
Manhandled 903
The White Sister 825
Peter Pan 792
The Sea Hawk 748
Broken Blossoms 740
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 725
He Who Gets Slapped 517
The Red Lily 506
The Merry Widow 462
The Four Horsemen 374
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Aileen Pringle Fan.— It was Oscar
Wilde who said, "I believe that at thi
ginning God made a world for each sepa-
rate man. and in that world which is
within us we should seek to live." Thanks-
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Gilbert and Ronald Colman are five feet
U\! in Bebe's Mann Admirers. That
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where the dividing line is.
Accused of Being "Up-stage"
I have been accused of being "up-stage"
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the third quarter. Already a group of
twenty or thirty was at the portal thru
which we had to pass. When we reached
there, the guard was telling the crowd to
disperse and we went with the rest of
them. Imagine how chagrined I was to
read in the paper the next day that I had
left earlier to attract attention, . that I
posed at the portal with my husband,
ostensibly to get a last look at the game
but actually (so the report said) to let
the game get a last look at me, that the
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he had asked me again to move on !
The only contact I can have with my
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I get every day from people all over the
world, I le irn the sort of pictures they
want to see me in. It is a sort of conver-
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The Influence of Others
I began my career nine years ago, in the
popular Mack Sennett comedies, and
later I became a featured player in the
old Triangle pictures, where Cecil B. De
Mille noticed my work and offered me a
position as leading woman. For two years
I appeared in his pictures as a cross be-
tween a vampire and a leading lady, a new
breed for those days, when a vamp was
all bad and a leading lady was as vir-
tuous as a new-born babe. Tho I had all
the trappings of a vamp, mysterious coif-
feurs, loads of jewelry and long, slinky
gowns as exotic as any the screen had
seen, my parts were essentially sympath-
etic. I gave myself the appellation that
has somehow clung to me all these years,
"Clotheshorse." The clothes I designed
myself to suit the needs of the pictures,
and I want to correct the impression that
Elinor Glyn had anything to do with the
way I dressed. I know that Mrs. Glyn
is said to have taught me how to dress
correctly, but the truth of the matter is
that Miss Jeanie Macpherson, the scenar-
ist, collaborated with me in designing my
screen wardrobe for the De Mille pictures.
Those picturesque, trailing gowns were
worn only in the studio ; they were not
part of my private life.
People have asked me whether I re-
gretted playing leads for Mr. De Mille,
for the stigma of being a vamp has per-
sisted even down to the present, altho the
parts I play now — hoydenish schoolgirls,
gauche waitresses, Zazas and Sans-Gencs —
are as different from my earlier roles as
characterizations can be. No. I am as
glad today of my experience with him as
I was the first time he offered me a con-
tract to appear in his pictures — and that
was one of the real thrills of my life. I
consider Cecil De Mille one of the master
minds of the screen. He has probably
developed more talent than any man in
pictures. He is among the foremost tech-
nicians in the entire picture industry and
he knows the screen value of every look
and gesture, the effectiveness of every
color and angle. I learned more about the
technique of acting from him than from
any other individual. Only recently has it
been discovered that I could "act as well
as wear clothes." But Mr. De Mille
found that out several years ago, and told
me about it. While others were accepting
me as a Clotheshorse, he complimented
me on my emotional work, not on the way
I could swish a train or carry a tiara.
Elinor Glyn, as I said, had nothing to
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I nevei conscionsl) tried to shirk
lihilities, or avoid uli.it I knew 1 had
il ever) once in a while, the
it ,.t them was a little more than I
i etnotionalK stand \n\ mother
ii- task it is to rais,- children
with attention to then psyeho
well -is their physical wants
n, too, I have m\ iatliil) to take
that must l>e looked alter,
utrse, m) screen work. Yet the)
the ver\ i ■■ toi s that have guided me
The) have given me the
ipetus to go ahead.
Miss Swanson's Marriages
It was the weight of all these responsibil-
ties that prompted mj eai '■■
s, I think Un fortunate!) I was mis-
in my choice. Still, I cant call m>
imoniai experiences mistakes Noth-
x a mistake that givi
preciation of genteel qualities.
years ago I wouldn't have been able
i/e. much less appreciate, such
• as kindness and sincerity and loyalty
and truthfulness and dependability as I
have found in Henry, my husband, but the
background of my earlier experience has
thrown his qualities into sharp relief, like
light against shadow. It is a sourci
• mt wonder and delight to me to see
these characteristics, never changing, solid
and inborn, not assumed like a pretty mask
to he cist aside later.
Henrj and 1 have a mutual love of
children, and Baby Gloria and Joseph, nn
two youngsters, adore him. It takes a
certain simplicity of soul and goodness of
heart to win the devotion of children :
their instinct for judging character is un-
canny in its correctness. And it is that
combination of goodness and simplicity
and genuineness that I prize most highly
in the world. That appreciation is the
real essence of what I have derived from
my experience.
They Say—
■'.tinned from page 84)
as Mr. Meyers suggests we should. Far
from it ! We go to the movies to get
awav from our humdrum surroundings,
and see something that takes us a million
miles away from ourselves, and gives us
something pleasant to think about next
morning when we are washing those left-
over dinner dishes. We love to spend an
hour or two with the handsome hero with
the marcelled hair and the burning eyes,
in the Never-Never-Land of which all
women dream, but which, alas, they never
find! Of course, we know it's too good
to be true, and when the show is over
we put on our hats and go resignedly
back to our every-day lives and our every-
day husbands. But we should worry !
There'll be another show next week!
Milton Sills, Conway Tearle, Thomas
Meighan, ct a/., are no doubt very nice
men. I have nothing personally against
them. I think they would be admirable
in their own place, playing nice, plain,
pleasant, middle-aged roles. But I do
not think they should be cast as heroes
and lovers, playing opposite and making
(Continued on page 89)
The Girl They Call
Tia Juana Red
Probablj no one knows hci real name. The) call hei ria Juana
And onlj one or two knovt Ihi storj . I In ' rowda applaud and « hen i
nigl i when she sings gay songs in thai little Mexican dance hall. And ii is
likely that t hi- proprietor him self knows nothing of the traged) thai co urred
when I i.i Juana Red took a few months off and wenl up to Hollywood.
Bert Ennis
knew her when she was in Hollywood. Ami the storj In till of her i- the
stuff of whit Ii teai - are made.
It Is More Than the Funny Walk, Derby and Cane
. . . that make Charlie Chaplin great, ft is more than the romantic profile
that makes John Gilbert the lover. And more than green eyes and a pen-
chant for wearing gowns thai brings Gloria Swanson her high place.
Elizabeth Petersen
goes back into the lives of these and other personalities and brings forth
what we believe explains the indefinable something that sets these few apart
as great.
A Hollywood Idyl
If Mary's and Doug's life together could be written, it would make the
most beautiful love stor} . . . the most perfect romance . . . ever told.
Here are Two with fame and wealth at their command. Yet it is to each
other that they look for their contentment and happiness. They have
caught something that words cannot sel down . . . something that no
amount of philosophizing or theorizing can ever explain.
Adele Whitely Fletcher
writes of their life together. She tells how, hand in hand, they face the bitter
in life with the sweet and find something in both which makes them better
able to cope with their tomorrows. Wither of them is afraid of life.
We especially recommend this story to those who have grown cynical
about perfect love . . . and marriage . . . and human beings. If you
have such a friend, place this story in his hands.
Would You Like to Live in Hollywood and Move
in Motion Picture Circles ....
Foolish question 9,999,999? Perhaps . . . But you can read Eugene
V. Brewster's pages every month. And that is the next best thing. Mr.
Brewster's bungalow in Hollywood has become a salon where the movie
people gather.
He goes to all the parties, too. He week-ends with the Talmadges at
Coronado. He lunches in the dressing-room with Valentino. He goes to
the tennis matches with John Gilbert or Colleen Moore . . . And he writes
of these good times in a casual, gossipy way which is delightful and enter-
taining.
There are other features, different and equally attractive, which space
forbids enumerating.
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Every- day magic
Chairs that flop into beds . . . bags that suck
up dirt . . . tiny ticking things that count all
day long for you. Daylight any night just by
pushing a button. A stream that never stops
till you turn off a faucet. Any voice you want,
talking to you from a cage on your desk or
wall. Actions of yesterday, of people miles
away, going on on a curtain before you.
Stilled throats singing to you from discs;
distant throats singing to you from nothing!
Uncanny, daily magic — this, due to
national advertising. Advertisements have
given you flashlights, telephones, typewriters,
automobiles, cold creams, motion pictures.
They have given you new eyes, new ears, new
hands, new feet, new faces, new emotions.
They have urged such wide use, so lowered
prices, that almost wishes are autos, almost
beggars can ride. Thru advertisements
you've laid down the shovel and the hoe.
You can buy a whole harvest ready-to-eat in
cans. You've hung up the fiddle and the bow,
for a radio. There's little old-time work left
in this age of amazing short-cuts.
H
Read the advertisements in MOTION PICTURE
CLASSIC — they keep you to the fore of
modern life
Prop Boy to Star
{Continued from page 55)
In the little coal-mining village, he learned
to speak three or four languages. He at-
tended the immigrants' holiday feasts,
helped celebrate their weddings, was in and
out of their homes, as they were in and out
of his. The world beyond the foothills
from whence they came intrigued him. and
when he was barely high-school age he set
forth to see it.
Silhouetted against a great studio win-
dow in the Cafe Lafayette, the subdued
music of the orchestra playing for the
Fashion Show mannequins drifting across
the room, he recalled the days when he
was a peanut vender with Ringling Broth-
ers' circus.
Sold Circus Peanuts
"The clowns that were with us in those
days worked in 'The Devil's Circus'
last winter. I didn't recognize them at
first — it's so hard to tell one clown in
make-up from another — and I had no idea
they would remember a kid who yelled
'Peanuts, popcorn 'n chewjn'-gum ! Here
y'are for yer peanuts — frish roasted pea-
nuts !' But one day they came on the set
in white duck coats with 'Ringling Broth-
ers' written on white rolled hats — exactly
the way I used to dress — and walked up
and down, pretending to sell peanuts. It
certainly handed me a big laugh.
"I couldn't help thinking of the circus
when we made that picture, on account of
the cats — circus name for lions. The boys
around the circus were scared of the cats.
You'd never know what they'd do. Couldn't
trust 'em. And at night, their eyes shining
in the dark and their roars !
"After the circus, I did buck-and-wing
dancing in vaudeville.
"When Mr. Griffith was making 'Amer-
ica,' a soldier had his arm blown off. Neil
Hamilton and I went to neighboring towns
and raised a fund for him — I doing a song
and dance and Neil collecting the coin. . . .
Parts of my past are always coming up.
On Location in Virginia
"Qne of the nicest things that ever hap-
pened to me in pictures was the four
weeks we spent on location in Richmond,
Virginia, while we were making 'America.'
If ever I retire, I'm going to buy a small
plantation on the banks of the James River
and spend my declining days in the leisurely
city where money doesn't matter but good
manners do, where darky mammies tyran-
nize over the best families, and 'Marse
Robert' is as real today as he was in the
Civil War.
"When we were in Richmond, the play,
'Robert E. Lee,' opened. I'll never forget
it. The man who played Lee held the
stage for five whole minutes while the
people cheered and wept and clapped. Neil
and I — Northerners — sat with our hearts
almost hopping out of our throats — yes,
throats; I felt mine fluttering around right
here in my neck ! — not daring to look at
each other for fear we'd see tears. I
swear I never saw anything so moving as
that living love those people have for Lee.
"At dawn one morning Neil and I came
upon his statue, looking out over the city
from his green hill. Both horse and man
seemed alive as the sun touched them, and
I saluted. Any man who could leave a
memory like his !"
A particularly lovely mannequin was dis-
playing a gorgeous gown, or so the ap-
plause in the dining-room suggested, but
the Irishman's tribute to "the knightliest
of a knightly race" made seeing difficult.
88
His Off Screen Romance
Thadow romances on tin screen
(ulli'l i" I hai les compared to hi
U>rx I he l.idx hi the
,,,,1, in Italx She had heen in South
America foi loin years an.! had i "'in to
ironeck on a ximc
-\\ In dont wo no ovei to I
jrini'l suggested to i harles one evening,
\ gnl a strangei was on rom's porch
at tn st sight claimed anothei victim,
harles knew rikjht axxax that here \\ i
. -<\ tor whom he had lu-cn looking
en old enough to coax the first
,1 invisible hair on his upper lip. I ivi
delay due to her brother's
• ion to hasty marriages the txxo said
I "1 xxill" in the proper places.
It wjs S'eil Hamilton who insisted that
les come to I lollx xxood, and that he
welcomed is attested l>\ the (act that
the Macks have bought a home somewhere
between the mountains and tin- sea, and are
ilx inquiring about schools lot the
ninths old son ot the house !
irles doesn't go about telling how he
from prop box to leading man. but I
it the reason people gave him
their pet poodles or let him use the familj
heirloom- when he was the first, is the
son directors now give him a
of this season's best parts :
tuse they know he will take .are of
them !
They Say—
ntinued from page
love to pretty young girls. For no woi
frorr ■ - sixty could even for oni
moment imagine any one of them in the
if an actual lover.
And sec how inconsistent Mr. Meyers
lie says he wants the screen women
to be "exotic, different, strange, and tins
terious." lie thinks it is all right and
natural for him to admire lovely heroines,
hut cannot see that it is also right and nat-
ural for his wife or sweetheart to admire
handsome heroes. It is a poor rule that
work both ways, Mr. Meyers.
How would you enjoy seeing the plain
middle-aged character women taking the
place of the young and lovely heroines?
I think the truth of the matter really
is that it is neither plausible nor true to
life to think that the lovely young heroines
could actually fall in love with men like
Milton Sills, Conway Tearle, Thomas
Meighan, .•/ /. In real life a love affair
or a marriage where there is a great dis-
parity oi ages is generally looked upon as
something unpleasant, if not actually re-
pulsive, and we arc always sorry for the
girl. 1 think that is why wc instinctively
dislike to see it on the screen. It is con-
trary to nature. Youth calls to youth,
not only in real life, but on the screen as
well. We have nothing against Milton
Sills, Conway Tearle, Thomas Meighan,
el al.. when appropriately cast. But we do
not want to sec them cast as the heroes
of the play, nor as lovers of young girls.
For they certainly are not herolike, and
young girls simply cant endure them.
I think men should never set themselves
up as judges of what women should or
should not admire in other men. because
they cannot do so fairly, any more than
a woman can do so in the opposite case.
Men cannot see other men thru a woman's
exes, and no man who ever lived knew
anything about a woman's heart. And
then, too. the personal (lenient is bound
to creep in, more or less.
Cecelia Galloway,
Portland, Oregon.
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She Said She Was a Princess
The True Story of the Little Stenographer Who Posed as
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THE HAUNTED HOME OF MOVIE GHOSTS Robert Donaldson 32
ii the players past and present who worked on the Laaky !>'i. Drawings by Eldon Kelley
IT IS TO LAUGH Fred Gilbert Blakeslee 40
In which the author points out production errors ili.tt have been made Drawings by C. J. MulhoUand
The Classic Gallery 11-15
ly O'Neil, Huiitly Gordon, \lm.i Rubens, Vnn i Q. line Day
I Wonder What Became of Him Bert Ennis 26
Extras who have made good -and some others who haven't
Things That Will Never Happen K R Chamberlain 28
Only tour miracles can bring these things ab
The Disillusioned Director Madeline Matzen 30
The artistic and Idealistic Hugo H.illin has become discouraged in his effort to make beautiful pictures
Rod La Rocque (Portrait 31
"Bring Yer Ice Aroun' to the Back Door" . 34
New studi n Monro iii "Ella Cinders"
Pauline Frederick (Portrait) .... 35
Cella Lloyd Makes a Personal Appearance John Held, Jr. 36
The further adventures of Mr. Held's bathing-girl heroine
The Man Who Envies Bill Hart ... Hal K. Wells 38
Huntly Cordon tells how he lias always cherished .1 secret longing to rough it in the open like the cowl'
Edna Marian (Portrait) . 42
What It Costs to Be a Well-Dressed Auto . Warren Dow 43
The equipment of Reginald Denny's white sport roadster
Impressions of Hollywood . Eugene V. Brewster 44
The editor-in-chief tells his further experiences in the capital of filmdom
Gardner James (Portrait) 49
Ready On Your Mark Set! Go!!. 52
The Hollywood girls' track team
The O'Brien Boy Gets a Kick Out of Life Scott Pierce 56
An interview wit I Hrien
The Roost Where Roy Rests 57
Roy D'Arcy at home
H. R. H. the Grand Duchess . 62
New pictures of Corinne Griffith as she will be seen in her next picture. "Into Her Kingdom"
The Celluloid Cruise of the Continents 64
Players featured in Universal's 'round-the-world pictures
The CLASSIC'S Famous Departments
Our Own News Camera
The incidents of the film world told in pictures
The Celluloid Critic
The new screen plays in review
Flash Backs
Comments upon screen people and events
The Screen Observer Has His Say
Amusing gossip of celluloidia
The Answer Man 63
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. Laurence Reid 50
L. R. 54
Don Ryan 58
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CLASSIC'S Late News PAGE
\TLTESLEY BARRY, having reached eighteen
YY years of age, has gone in for matrimony.
The youth who won his right to stardom a
few years ago because of his funny face adorned
with countless freckles, married Julia Wood of
Montclair recently. The bride is five years older
than her husband. The young couple will spend
their honeymoon in Hollywood.
Constance Talmadge has arrived in New York
with her husband, Captain Alastair Mcintosh.
They will sail to England to spend a belated
honeymoon.
George Jessel, Broadway actor, has arrived in
Hollywood to begin work in the Warner picture,
"Private Izzy Murphy." Vera Gordon will be
cast in a character role in the same film.
Rumors are busy that perhaps D. W. Griffith
will go back to United Artists. He has one more
picture to make for Famous Players. D. W. was
one of the founders of United Artists along with
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie
Chaplin.
Norma Talmadge has returned to Hollywood
from New York whither she had gone to hunt
for new screen material. The star is about to
make her last film for release thru First National,
"The Sun of Montmartre." After this is com-
pleted Miss Talmadge will join United Artists,
making as her first offering, "The Dove," from
the stage-play of the same name.
Florence Vidor
has been engaged
to co - star with
Adolphe Menjou
in the Paramount
picture called
"The Ace of
Cads," written by
that fellow who
was a nine days'
wonder for a while
— Michael Arlen.
Metro - Goldwyn
has started Rim-
ing "Tell It to the
Marines," with
Lon Chaney as the
star and George
Hill as the direc-
tor.
Matt Moore has
been signed by
Marshall Neilan
for an important
part in "Diplo-
macy."
The only "Red"
Grange is busy in
Hollywood in
making his first
motion picture,
"The Half Back,"
written by Byron
Morgan — the au-
thor of Wally
Reid's auto stories.
"Red" will play a
football hero —
LAST MINUTE REVIEW
"Good and Naughty"
THEY'RE still experimenting with Pola Negri. The latest
to try his hand in directing her is Mai St. Clair. From the
results obtained here, he, at least, seems to be the first of the
Americans to understand her moods. Anyway she succeeds in
investing her role with sympathy and understanding. Perhaps
it is because St. Clair directs in the Lubitsch manner. He has
something of the German's Continental manner. He approaches
his players as if they are sophisticated and able to understand
his demands.
To get back to Pola — well, she hasn't been blessed with the
best stories in the world. Having tackled emotional roles and
not done so well by them, she takes a fling at comedy. I'll say
she emerges as a first-rate comedienne.
Her new entry, "Good and Naughty," is an adaptation of the
French farce comedy, "Naughty Cinderella." It is not so sense-
less as the original and not so funny — but all things considered
it manages to be bright and amusing.
You needn't expect to find any new idea back of it. The
central figure is one of those dowdy individuals suffering from
suppressed desires. She is eager to spare the most likely mem-
ber of the firm from any scandal. Which means that she is
secretly in love with him. So she undergoes a transformation
in dress and character. Some may wonder where she got her
Paris finery — and who tipped her off to improve her appearance.
Aside from these errors the piece contains its share of spice
and speed — with St. Clair at his best in projecting some truly
marvelous close-ups. He employs his players for pantomime.
The idea develops into a marital mix-up — with everyone
having a gay time in a prankish, sophisticated way. There
seems to be some nonsense in the situations, but at that they
are recognizably real.
The acting honors do not go to Pola — they go to Ford
Sterling. He is a constant delight in his efforts to get in and
out of trouble. He has his facial expressions under complete
control — a lesson he learned in the Sennett college. The titles
are pointed and provocative of laughter. L. R.
and the plot will be similar to Grange's own spec-
tacular career. Mary McAllister will be the
leading woman.
Walter Pidgeon has been engaged to play op-
posite Norma Talmadge in her next picture.
Helene Chadwick has completed her starring
role for Hal Roach. This picture was accepted
by the star after a perusal of the story convinced
her that it would return her to the light comedy
at which she proved herself adept in "Dangerous
Curves Ahead."
Renee Adoree has announced her engagement
to Rudolf Friml, well-known composer of oper-
ettas. This will be Renee's third matrimonial
adventure and Rudolf will make his fourth
march to the altar.
Leatrice Joy has just received her final decree
of divorce from Jack Gilbert.
Allan Dwan, the director, has signed with Fox
— and will make "Summer Bachelors" as his
first production. The story is written by Warner
Fabian, the author who gave "Flaming Youth"
to the world.
Irene Bordoni, the stage star, had decided to
enter pictures, She is in Hollywood at present
undergoing tests for some future production.
Lois Wilson has sacrificed her long chestnut
hair so that she can play the bobbed heroine in
"The Great Gatsby," which is scheduled to go
into production shortly. Lois was one of the few
in pictures who
obeyed the old-
fashioned conven-
tions.
F. W. Murnau,
the director of
"The Last Laugh"
has arrived in
America. He will
proceed to Holly-
wood to direct
George O'Brien
and Margaret Liv-
ingston in "Trip to
Tilsit."
Phyllis Haver,
former Sennett
beauty, is cast in a
featured role in
"What Price
Glory." And Les-
lie Fenton will also
have a part in the
same picture. He
will fight the
world war for a
second time — his
previous experi-
ence having been
in "Havoc."
Lowell Sherman,
and his wife,
Pauline Garon —
both prominent in
pictures, have
sailed for Europe.
They expect to be
away two months.
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"More Stars than there' are in Heaven"
THEY SAY
FIRST PRIZE
A Plea for "Prunella"
Editor, Classic:
Will you pardon a little reminiscence in
order that a tribute may be paid?
Long ago, as screen years are counted,
it was apparent to those with seeing eyes
that the screen offers a field for fantasy
such as fantr.sy had not known. Absurd
sequences, savage satire and grotesque ex-
aggeration are recorded by the camera
with equal serenity and the imagination is
given a freer rein than was possible before.
In "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "The
Thief of Bagdad," "Peter Pan," "A Kiss
for Cinderella" and "Beggar on Horse-
back" are seen something of a fulfilment
of the promise of the wider fields for
Pegasus that the screen offers — but I won-
der how many film lovers remember a
"screen fantasy that stands out in my mind
as being a pioneer.
I have in mind "Prunella." When has
such gossamer fancy been transferred to
the screen? — the key which was neither
"a door-key, nor a watch-key, but the
key to the garden gate" — Pierrot, dead-
white, before a dead-white table on which
lay a rose — the quay, in the manner of
Maxfield Parrish, with its single, floating
pennon of chiffon all down across its
horizon — the arched bridge over which the
players passed, flung high against the sky
and resting on the mists which arose from
the river — the "grotesquerie" of the stroll-
ing players — and Marguerite Clark — not
playing Prunella — but Prunella brought
down to earth from the poet's imagina-
tion, bewitching the camera with un-
dreamed-of loveliness !
Memory is faulty, but I believe that
Tourneur directed "Prunella" — and then,
in answer to an unmistakable box-office,
turned quickly to making Drury Lane
melodramas ! I suppose Tourneur was
French, both from his name and because
it would seem that only a Gaul could
handle wit and fancy with such unerring
delicacy.
That fantasy is a subtle and difficult art
is obvious. There are those
who say that Christopher
Morley, master of fancy that
he is, waded out beyond his
depth in his latest excursion.
Last season Basil Dean, sea-
soned with many theatrical
years, found, when he at-
tempted to stage Flecker's
gorgeous Oriental dream,
"Hassan," that it simply would
not behave and was continu-
ally getting out of his grasp.
I am one of those who found
the latter part of "The Thief
of Bagdad" tedious, lacking
that airy lightness which fan-
tasy must have if it is to en-
chant; and yet I know that
Mr. Fairbanks exercised the
greatest care to preserve its
glamour. Ofttimes, fantasy
lies just this side absurdity,
and if the maker of the fan-
tasy would create wistful love-
liness, he dare not step over
the dividing line, which is but dimly limned
and apparent only to those of rare aware-
ness. The maker of "Prunella" knew the
danger and was not guilty of trespassing.
Considering this, is not "Prunella" the
greater, both because of the subtlety and
complexity of the art of fantasy and be-
cause of the difficulties that must have
lain in the way in those pioneering days?
Merely to recall its beauty and delicacy is
to realize the possibilities of the screen in
the field of poetic fantasy.
S. Van Cree,
1009 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Tyrone, Pennsylvania.
SECOND PRIZE
A Voice for Sheer Romance
Editor, Classic:
Even way out here in the untamed West
(which in reality is very, very tame in the
small towns) we have ideas concerning
motion pictures and the actors and ac-
tresses thereof. I should like to voice
mine in your columns.
A queer little town, this is. I have not
lived here always. Perhaps that is the
reason I can see the queerness of it. It
is built in the forest — shut in from the
rest of the world by the mountains on
three sides and by the great Pacific on the
other. Nearly all the inhabitants are Swiss
dairymen, who gather in little groups on
the street corners and converse in loud
tones in their foreign lingos.
When we speak of the towns and cities
beyond our mountains, we use the expres-
sion "Outside." We say we are going out-
side to spend the week-end. It seemed
queer to me at first, but now I say it just
as the "Switzers" do.
We have one motion picture house in
our town. It is by far the best-looking
building here. The inside is really quite
artistic, and it is considered one of the
finest theaters in the state. It is under
splendid management, and we are usually
able to see the newer pictures as soon as
they are seen in Portland.
Here is my opinion — which is not in
The MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC is devot-
ing a page each month to the best letters from
its readers. The prize-winning letters for the
August number are reproduced on this page.
Fifteen dollars will be paid each month for
the best letter, ten dollars for the second and
five dollars for the third. If two or more let-
ters are found of equal merit, the full prize
will go to each writer.
Letters must be constructive and interest-
ing. They must deal with pictures or screen
personalities. And — please note — they should
be typewritten.
common with Mary Smith's opinion, as
stated in the June Classic — that when the
average person goes to the movies he likes
to see life depicted in a natural human
existence. That is not the case here. We
can look out of our windows and see the
forests ; we can go a few miles out of
town and watch a logging camp in opera-
tion ; we can see the ocean, ships and the
lighthouse; we can see cows — hundreds of
them ; and, we can see common every-day
courtships (if you will pardon that homely
expression) carried on between the Swiss
dairymaids and their unromantic barn-
yardish lovers ; we see people grow up to
become professional cheesemakers or real-
estate agents.
But, we do not get to see any Peter
Pans nor any lovers who act like Rudolph
Valentino, John Gilbert or Ronald Colman.
We want more of those pictures.
When "Peter Pan" was shown here, the
children had a half-holiday from school
and were permitted to see the show free,
thru the graciousness of the theater man-
agers. My little sister can still tell me
every detail of that show, whereas she
probably couldn't tell me anything about
the Thomas Meighan show which she saw
only last week.
Then, too, all the inhabitants of our
town always go to a Doug Fairbanks play.
Perhaps they lack the what-ever-itis that
makes people appreciate a work of art,
but they like those unreal plays for the
very reason that they are different from
the sordidness of real life. And I believe
there are many duplicates of our little
town.
Marge Baertlein,
Tillamook, Oregon.
THIRD PRIZE
More Relief from Reality
Editor, Classic :
I cannot resist taking issue with a con-
tributor to your "They Say — " page in
the June Classic, to wit, one Mary Smith.
She undertakes ^ to explain why different
film actors and actresses are box-office suc-
cesses, and in addition tells us
what the trouble is with some
of the stars.
The first statement of hers
I wish to take up is the fol-
lowing, "When the average
person goes to the movies, he
likes to see life depicted in a
natural, human existence."
Whatever that might mean.
If she intends to say that the
average person likes to see a
true representation of what
life actually is in the living
thereof, I disagree with her
most decidedly. What the
average theatergoer wants is
not reality, but a relief from
reality. They have too much
of it in their daily lives, and
find a deal of it that is not to
their liking.
People receive vicarious
gratification of their desires,
repressed and otherwise, thru
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Here's cream taken from a bottle, and breakfast
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but I'm not afraid to ask you to eat. And in the
bathroom is new tooth-paste to use on your teeth.
Here's medicine to take before you start off to
school. . . . Don't forget to wash your hands —
that's a fresh bar of soap — and maybe dust your
face with powder. No, it won't hurt the skin. This
list of things I've seen advertised — stop and give
it to your father. He'll bring them home tonight.
Some of them old, some of them new . . . but what
a civilized thing! To buy on faith and use on
faith and never be betrayed!
Read the advertisements. Their honesty is as
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SALLY O'NEIL
Marshall Neilan discovered her when searching for
a vender of vim and vitality to play the Irish
Cinderella role of Mike. She has fulfilled all ex-
pectations since her debut — and now that she is
"over" — there is no question but what the O'Neil
person will continue to assert her gypsy moods in
terms of vivid appeal. Mickey's meteor has more
than just the luck of the Irish. She also has a
way with her
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MOTION PICTURE.
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AUGUST, 1926
Melbourne Spurr
HUNTLY GORDON
He's never had the opportunity to tear loose in an outdoor picture for his assignments have invariably been
society roles. However, there is nothing to keep Huntly from wearing a bandanna handkerchief instead of
a bat-wing collar, a two-gallon hat instead of a silk topper, and fanning a six-shooter thru the air when he
wants to look like a true son of the wide open spaces
ALMA RUBENS
This actress is being presented with some fair-sized acting plums. Alma has gathered several choice morsels
while roaming over the Fox garden. First came "She Wolves" and then "East Lynne." Later she shook the
tree, and down tumbled the biggest plum of all. In "The Pelican," an adaptation of the play of last season,
the star has one of the biggest acting roles of her career
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ANNA Q. NILSSON
Hartsi'^h'
No matter what kind of a picture she has, this star always contributes a performance marked for its
sincerity and understanding. Her plastic temperament gives her the authority to adapt her moods for
any role or situation which confronts her. In "Miss Nobody" the blonde Anna has a picture which, in
the words of the poet, is right up her street
Clarence S. Pull
MARCELINE DAY
When a girl makes herself comfortable in a window-seat, there is nothing one could add to the decoration
to make the picture more attractive — especially when she adopts a pensive expression or that "come
hither" look. Marceline is not only sitting pretty in the window — she is also sitting pretty at the top
of the celluloid ladder, a fact you can discover for yourself when you see her in "The Boy Friend"
The Changeable CHAPLIN
There is no one like Chaplin. His
personality, talent and moods stand
him apart from his fellow beings — a
man with the soul of an artist
THE first time I saw Charlie Chaplin in the flesh was
about five years ago in the Ritz Hotel, in London.
Incidentally, to give an idea of what might happen,
the day before, Tom Geraghty, the well-known
scenarist, had called upon the screen comedian _
and was much amused when he found
Charlie in his bathtub absorbed in read-
ing a chapter from the Bible. When I
called upon him, he was fully clad, his
interest being centered on the crowds 1
outside the hotel who were waiting I
10 get a fleeting glimpse of their film [M
favorite as he slipped thru the re-
volving doors and into his Rolls-
Royce. His reception in the Eng- ■
lish metropolis caused _ me to reflect 1
that with the exception of kings and
potentates or home-coming victorious
generals and admirals, no man, cer-
tainly no actor, had ever received a wel-
come comparable to that extended to
Chaplin by the people of his native
country.
Here was a man, still young, who
not so many years before considered
himself very lucky in being a more
or less obscure music-hall performer.
Now he was wealthy and at the top of the tree. Sir Philip
Sassoon, private secretary to the Prime Minister, invited
Chaplin to spend a few days
at his country home, and
scores of other notables were
eager to have the fun-maker,
who was born in squalid
Kennington, come to their
West End houses.
When Chaplin visited Sir
Philip Sassoon, he was asked
what color scheme he pre-
ferred in furnishings, and
the comedian waved his hand
and mentioned an effect
which he was surprised to
discover was to be found in
the wealthy Britisher's dwell-
ing. They wheeled his break-
fast into the apartment in
the morning and he daw- /
died over his dressing,
marveling in his healthy
enthusiasm over the
change just a few
years had made in his sur-
roundings.
Finds His Inspiration
\A7hen Chaplin lived in
v Kennington, he used to
walk all the way to Leicester
Square, and in his home dis-
trict there was a public house
(a saloon) outside which he
often observed an aged, rotund, bent creature, with large
spavined feet, whose sphere in life was as humble as any-
thing one could well imagine, for he earned his board and
lodging (such as it was) by attaching the feed-bags to the
cabbies' horses, while the Jehus were enjoying their 'arf- walked thru Lambeth and Kennington and later he had
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and-'arf in the "pub." The flabby old man walked with a
waddle, and as young Chaplin passed on his way to look for
work, he noticed the funny walk of this bibulous object. On
turning the corner, Charlie was wont to imitate the
weird walk of the gentleman-in-waiting to the
cab horses. It was this derelict who inspired
Chaplin's now world-famous waddle.
Fancy, if the old man should still be
living and Charlie should go to him
with the information that he had com-
puted that he owed the bowed speci-
men of bone and flesh about a quar-
ter of a million dollars ! The old
man would probably die from shock,
or think the well-dressed, lithe young
fellow was mad.
There is a great deal of sentiment
about Chaplin, and his properties
prove this. He chose the attire of a
down-and-out toff — a tail coat that had
seen better days, a derby that looked
too small, a mustache that accentu-
ated his pathetic expression, huge,
haggy trousers, with a waist-line
much too large, and a natty little
stick. Chaplin's waddle and his
ridiculous -clothes are now known in
the isles of the Spanish Main, in far-off Java, from Tahiti
to Zanzibar, from imperial India to the storm-ridden
Hebrides.
The grimy old man's wad-
dle has been exploited to the
youth of Japan; it has been
in turn copied by the dirty-
faced children in Leith, and
the dusky kids of Singapore.
Everywhere you go, Chaplin
is known, and at one time,
while he was dallying around
the corner imitating the walk
of the feed-bag expert, he
longed to become a legitimate
stage actor. The nearest he
ever got to this aspiration was
when he officiated as a page
boy in a footlights produc-
tion of "Sherlock Holmes."
The next time I had the
pleasure of gazing at Chaplin
was when he was leaving
Waterloo station en route
for Southampton, to sail
back to America. The de-
pot was thronged with people
from all walks of life, and
special police were there to
keep back the pressing crowd
of eager men, women and
children. It amused Chaplin
again, and he frequently
smiled as he walked up and
down the platform, eyed by
all those who were leaving on the same train. The king
of all comedians was bound for his adopted home. He
had looked upon the grim section of London in which he
was born, and alone with Thomas Burke one night he had
Chaplin came out of the
slums of London to earn
world-wide fame.
He is a keen student of
the Bible.
His comic screen char-
acter is modeled after a
humble old Cockney.
He suffered bitterly and
cruelly in his youth.
He lives by his moods
and the world can take
care of itself.
The comedian believes
firmly in tenderness in
stories — it helps to make
the pictures sincere.
His temperamental qual-
ities often cause him to
forget appointments, but
those who understand him
become his stanch friends.
Charlie Chaplin Is a Man of
Moods — An Impulsive Person
Who Changes His Mind Every
Hour. He Is Temperamental
and Has No Use for the Stand-
ardized Rules of Convention.
Here You Will Gather Some-
thing of His Character — That
Changeable Nature Which
Has Made Him the Enigmatic
Genius of the Screen
By
Mordaunt Hall
visited the curving streets of Limehouse.
Burke, who is the author of "Limehouse
Nights," detests most motion pictures, but
spects and admires Chaplin. They are
two of a kind, both having
suffered bitterly and cruelly
at the outset of their careers.
Chaplin's picture, "The Cold
Rush." has much in it
synonymous with Burke's
last book, "The Wind and
the Rain," which was about the writer's early life.
A Man of Moods
^haplix is a man of moods, an impulsive person, who
changes his mind every hour. Work is not always
agreeable to him, and they never know in his studio when
he is going to call off activities for the day to go and
enjoy fishing at Catalina Island. He is averse to publicity,
or. at least, to meeting magazine writers and newspaper
correspondents. There is no other screen luminary like
him. Some time ago a writer of repute went to Holly-
wood with the main idea of interviewing Chaplin for a
magazine with a huge circulation. He waited. He kicked
his heels. He went to Chaplin's studio, but never was
able to see Chaplin. The comedian was not in the mood
to be asked questions and eventually the writer had to re-
turn East without the article he was bent on putting into
print. He did not know- that the coat tails he once saw
Chaplin impresses one as if he rather enjoyed his moods.
He wants to be different, and when it strikes him suddenly
that he cant stand going to a certain function, nobody could
make him change his mind
leaving a door were those of the comedian, but he did
know that scores of other newspaper men had experi-
enced the same disappointment.
It was the afternoon before the presentation in New
York of "A Woman of Paris," that I talked with Chap-
lin again. The picture was being screened and Chaplin,
in the gloom of the theater, told me that he did not like
the music. He is very partial to a suitable orchestral
score for a picture. He made an appointment to see me
again one morning in the Ritz Hotel, an appointment
which I kept despite the fact that I had had an operation
on my foot, which was covered with bandages. Suffice
it to say that he did not keep the appointment and nobod\
could have passed by the inscrutable Japanese, who has
to lie for Chaplin in such circumstances. Hence I did
not see the comedian again until I went to Hollywood
last summer.
No Use for Conventions
Tt was July 4th, when I disembarked from the train at
Los Angeles, and some friends took me for a long
automobile ride. At dinner that evening somebody
dropped the remark that Chaplin was going to leave on
his way to England the next day. Imagine my anxiety
at that moment, seeing that I considered my long journey
{Continued on page 67)
17
It's the Personality
That COUNTS
Dolores Costello
I
DO NT know
who the
first "ex-
pert" was that started to lay down rules
in regard to the qualifications necessary
for success upon the screen, but who-
ever he was, he should have been taken
out and shot on the spot.
Nothing has held the motion picture
back more, or kept the silent drama so
much in a rut, than the absurd practice of
setting up rules and standards for this, that,
and almost everything pertaining to the
screen, when the application of a few grains
of intelligence would reveal that there really
are no infallible standards in
regard to the silent drama or
its players. Oddly enough,
those in control of the mo-
tion picture business are the
worst offenders in this re-
spect.
Nevertheless, from the
earliest conception of the
motion picture there has
been a preponderance of
knowing individuals who
seek, after a very brief an-
alysis of certain phenomena,
to classify and category
everything in regard to what
can be successful or unsuc-
cessful on the screen. They
then later attempt to judge dogmatically all things by
these same standards.
Yet, when we closely analyze the success of prac-
tically every great player, director, individual
or company — I mean the ones who have
stood out more prominently than their
rivals — we find that their success has not
been due to the fact that they followed
all the iron-clad rules laid down by the
"experts"
Adolphe Menjou
Renee Adorce
Noah Beery
Spurr
Douglas Fairbanks
18
or that
they came
within all
the long-
established
"standards,"
but because
they have suc-
cessfully departed
from these time-
worn formulas. And, by so
doing, they have stood out
with greater personality.
They did not subscribe to
the so-called regulations to
make themselves successful.
Not Machines but Humans
Cad to say, the tribe of "experts" has in-
creased greatly in the past few years
and now
Hollywood
studios
are filled
with these
professors
who are still
laying do»wn
rules in spite of
the fact that
their regula-
tions are repeatedly being
broken by nearly every new
player who wins his or her
way into wide popularity
with the motion picture
public.
I can remember even as far back as 1910, when movies
were just in the one- and two-reel state, the self-appointed
authorities were already beginning to establish all sorts of
regulations, altho nobody had asked for them and the
public itself did not know anything about them.
Before I begin to enumerate some of the "flaws" and
"weaknesses" of various successful celebrities, it should
be stated that this is a rather
delicate task, and there cer-
tainly is no intention on the
part of the writer to be un-
gallant in regard to some of
our screen favorites.
My only motive for call-
ing attention to certain
so-called defects
is not for the
purpose of
criticizing
these vari-
ous play-
e r s, but
merely to
show that
it is non
sense to assert that it is necessary for
screen players to fulfill certain require-
ments of perfection, if they have other im-
portant attributes which can offset their
other deficiencies.
One of the first screen laws to be estab-
lished, for no reason whatsoever, was to the
effect that all film leading men had to be tall. This idea
probably originated from the fact that most of the early
favorites were men of above the average stature.
Then along came Henry B. Walthall and knocked this
false impression into a cocked hat. In spite of beiii£
several inches under the standard set for movie heroes-
Buster Keaton
Henry B. Walthall
The Greatest and Most Popular Players Upon the Screen Are
All Breaking One or More of the Laws Which Certain Studio
Professors Seek to Use in Judging Talent. Every Star Who
Has Got Along in the Celluloid World Has Succeeded by
Sheer Force of Personality Plus an Aptitude for Acting —
and Not by Means of Physical Qualifications
By Tamar Lane
Lew Cody
in fact, what one might term "short"
Walthall succeeded in quickly establishing
himself as one oi the popular leading men
- day.
When 1
- a v t h a t
Walthall
disproved
the theory
that screen
leading men.
to be popular,
must he aroum
the six-foot mark,
I mean that he dis-
proved it to the satisfaction
of those who used their
heads. Unfortunately, there
are not a great number of
such individuals in the mo-
tion picture industry, for in
every studio and casting de-
partment in the land one still hears them rejecting young
players because they are "too sh >rt."
Yet today we have Richard Barthelmess, Ramon Xo-
varro, Douglas Fairbanks. Jack Pickford, and others.
easily among the most popular players of the screen, and
all in the "short" class according to film experts. Even
John Gilbert and Ronald
^_^_^_________ Colman, the two most popu-
I^^a^^a*, lar matinee idols at the pres-
,a« ^. ent time, are far below the
six-foot standard.
Of course, some of the
above players build them-
selves up for their ap-
pearances on the
screen to look
several inches
taller than
they really
are.
To Wil-
1 i a m S.
Hart goes
the honor of breaking another early
established tradition — the one to the effect
that all silversheet heroes must have the
beauty of Adonis. It must be admitted that
Hart, back in those old Ince days, had a rather
tough time of it in convincing the film industry
and the movie public that there was a prominent
place for him in the screen heavens, but by superior act-
ing and a powerful personality, he finally won out.
Hart was also largely responsible for exploding the
theory that it was necessary for screen heroes to be prac-
tically of the juvenile type. Today, we have Lewis Stone.
James Kirkwood, Conway Tearle, Thomas Meighan,
Milton Sills and others, who have all passed out of the
Gloria Swanson
Apeda
Marion Davies
D w
^•the
Waxman
Rudolph Valentino
Colleen Moore
adolescent
and Mill bl
millions of ardent admin
As for the qualification of beauty, who
would dare to accuse I on I
Wallace Beery or Ernest Torrence of
pulchritude? Hut who would trade one
of them for a standard perfection brand
of movie h<
Classical features are all right in their
place, hut they are not absolutely necessary
on the screen. Look at Hull Montana and
Joe Martin !
D. W. Showed Them How
Griffith is one of
few men who have
consistently di srega rded
every rule and regulation of
the picture game. Yet he
has to his credit the greatest
number of successful play-
ers in the business.
Griffith developed Lillian
and Dorothy Gish, two
charming and talented ac-
tresses, who would have
found it very difficult to
secure even extra work in
almost any other studio.
Roth Dorothy and Lillian
lack the facial features that
are deemed necessary for
the .silent drama. In fact, Griffith and the two Gish girls
met with much opposition when he first presented these
two young players in his productions. Nevertheless,
in spite of "expert" opinions. Lillian and
Dorothy have firmly established themselves
upon the silversheet, and Lillian is now con-
sidered by many as one of the most beau-
tiful actresses in pictures.
Mae Marsh was another Griffith dis-
covery who rose to great popularity,
despite the
fact that she
failed by a
wide margin
to measure up
to the usual
screen face stand-
ards.
Believe it or not.
it has long been one of the
most positive assertions in
film circles that light eyes
are a serious handicap to
any screen player. This
"rule," more than any other,
(Continued on page 65)
Bill Hart
Carsey
Lewis Stone
Doolittlr
19
Three Women Writers
Courtesy George H. Doran Company
Rebecca West
Thomas F.i'i
Sheila Kaye-Smith
By Henry Albert Phillips
13EBECCA WEST is one of the most energetic
journalists in Great Britain, among the
women, and her pet theme is attacking the male
of the species with her pen. She was charm-
ingly feminine where I had expected again to
find another mannish woman,
I like the German films best, ' she told me
with immediate frankness. "I recall one in par-
ticular I saw recently. Shadows,' I think was
the title. The American films are so rubber-
stamped. If I see one of them, I can approxi-
mate what the next dozen will be like. The
same actors and actresses are always the same
in every picture. They seem to take pride in
forcing their own personalities thru the part
always — really smashing it, by the way. That
is not the fine art of acting, which consists in
effacing yourself in emphasizing the character
m the role you are essaying. You see, I was
on the stage for a while myself and had a grand-
father who was director of a theater in Edin-
burgh, so I am interested in and have some
knowledge of what the actor's art should be
like.
{Both contmu
20
QHEILA KAYE-SMITH is recognized as one
*^ of the most graceful novelists of England.
The day that I called on her happened to be
just about the time that a play was being pro-
duced, drawn from her book, "Joanna Godden.
She was in a mild state of excitement over this.
"You know, this novel lends itself much more
to the films than to being dramatized," she ex-
plained to me. "As a matter of fact, I should
say that it was a perfect film. You can follow
the story from beginning to end with the same
ease and interest that you can a film.
"I like going to the films and there is nothing
that entertains me more than a good film. The
film conventions often make me very angry, tho.
There seems to be no half-way ground in the
sort of picture drawn from life itself, presum-
ably. While it is true that romance may take
us out of the broad road of every-day life into
delightful side-paths occasionally, life still re-
mains in the middle ground. In the films, every-
one who is well-off lives in marble halls ; the
majority of those who have no money to speak
of are shown in penury and rags. We call that
ed on j>age 80)
Consider1 the Films
"I like the German films best. The Amer-
ican films are so rubber-stamped — but we
look to America for better things than she
has been doing." — Rebecca West.
"In the films, everyone who is well-off
lives in marble halls; the majority of those
who have no money to speak of are shown
in penury and rags. Why dont the film
people take up the middle-class life more?"
— Sheila Kaye-Smith.
"When my novel, 'The Immortal Mo-
ment,' was done in the films, they took great
pains to get the scenes in Italy. But beyond
that, the performance positively made me
ill." — May Sinclair.
Courtesy The MacMillan Company
May Sinclair
The Fourth of a Series of Talks About Motion Pictures
With Famous English and Continental Writers
T T was only a few years ago that we used to
regard the British woman novelist as a bold,
swaggering, advanced-woman sort of creature
who could outplay mere man at most any sort
of game. I may say that that, at least, was my
conception of her. To say that she was "man-
nish would be putting it very mildly indeed.
But I have been disillusioned in respect to
these women writers. They are simply women
after all, just as strong and just as weak as their
sex. I have yet to meet one who is as bold as
my conception of her.
What I cannot always understand about so
many writers is, how they can possibly write in
such an up-to-date manner in their books when
they are so hopelessly behind the time in their
lives ! It seems a shame to show the feet of
clay of public idols this way. But I am not doing
it in a spirit of iconoclasm but in a desire to
reveal the real flesh-and-blood persons behind
their printed-word mask. I think they benefit
rather than surfer from it.
In one particular I think every reader will
agree with me. That person who makes little
(Both continu
'\/TAY SINCLAIR has written three novels
which have stood out prominently as
among the most fascinating of modern fiction.
These are "Mary Oliver," "The Rector of
Wyck" and "Anne Severn and the Field ngs.
I had always thought oi May Sinclair as a
tall, spare, bobbed intellectual, wearing a W. G.
Locke-ish pair of eye-glasses. I would probably
find her sitting in her short skirts, cross-legged
on the table, smoking a cigaret and possibly
nicking the ashes on the floor (absently, of
course).
Who told me all this?
Why she herself did. In "The Divine Fire,
for instance.
It was a very foggy, typically London, day
when I went out to see the novelist who is
winning such literary laurels. I had great dif-
ficulty in finding Abbey Road. London is so
enormous, so complicated and so unreasonable.
There are no long straight streets, running ac-
commodatingly East and West, or North and
South, with regular blocks and odd and even
numbers to match and bearing numbers for
ed on j>age 80)
21
It is customary with the moguls of the
picture industry whenever they promote
ideas to take time out for lunch.
Mr. Hanemann was sauntering up
Fifth Avenue one noon when he suddenly
found himself cornered by the producer
of Controversial Pictures. One word led
to another until he was encouraged to
create "something" like a scenario.
Accordingly the next day at lunch he
outlined his story — which was accepted
with reservations. But the braised beef
tongue was good. The humorist expects
to write the perfect picture plot the next
time he faces the menu with the movie
magnates.
IT all started on Fifth Avenue, a thorofare which al-
ready has enough to account for. But if this is to be
a veracious account, I must insist on the actual locale.
Besides, you will agree that anything can happen on Fifth
Avenue, and does, from eight to six, daily.
It started from a casual remark dropped by a gentle-
man to whom I had just been introduced. Our common
friend left us to continue our way together. Heretofore
conversation between the gentleman and myself had been
in the nature of cushion shots, bounding off the friend, as
the cushion, to one or to the other of us. From now on,
it was apparent that any further conver-
sation would necessarily be right clown
the table. Which may, or may not have
prompted the remark.
"I suppose," said the gentleman, a Mr.
Teall, "that you will soon be trekking
West, like the rest?"
"I beg your pardon?" I replied,
ing barely made Mr. Teall's ac-
quaintance, I had not the remotest
idea of his connections, commer-
cial or otherwise. Judging by that
Came One
By H. W. Hanemann
crack, it sounded as if he might be a professional song
writer, in which case, I am firmly convinced that "I beg
your pardon" was a darn good answer.
"Movies," explained Mr. Teall — "if you dont mind my
talking about my business."
The Flattering Offer
"r^n!" I said, and having that kind of a mind. I was
immediately miles ahead of him. For several beau-
tiful, fleeting moments, I had an idea that he was going to
suggest my becoming a motion picture actor, and back up
his suggestion with a contract. Trust me to pick out a
good job for myself, and anyhow, if I flout pick out a
good job myself, who, I ask you, is going to: Unfortu-
nately it developed soon enough that Mr. Teall';, connec-
tion with the motion
picture industry was
in the scenario
d epartment,
and it was
along that
line that I
was being
22
Spring Day; and Then —
Drawings by Eldon Kelly
sidered. li was very flattering, but I still think I
would prefer acting, as writing scenarios sounds too much
like work. We wont, editors being what they are, go into
discussion of my talent for acting in thexinema. To
me who is interested and means business, 1 am more
than rrady to give adequate proof.
However, Mr. Teall dressed up the more somber side
of my abilities my absolute fitness to write slap-stick
comedies — in such glowing colors that 1 found myself
rlv accepting his invitation to drop into his office there
and then, and meet the boys. The boys were clamorous
in their assurance that I had been sent from above to put
the infant industry into its first suit of long trousers and
one of them even dispatched a stenographer for some
frankincense and myrrh. After a while 1 soil of got to
believe it m y self.
When five or six
people are stead-
ily insisting
that you are
a genius,
you cant
B
really hold out against them for very long. I he upsho
it was that I finally consented to dash off a synopsis foi
their star comedian and Mr. Whoosis, the owmr oi <
troversial Pictures, and their hurra boss, could k° home
and k'ct the tirst good night's sleep he had had in two
weeks. Having won their point, they extended a cordial
invitation to lunch (on the hurra boss) the very next day,
feeling sure that I would have certainly created "SOWH
tiling" in the fifteen or sixteen hours to have elapsed.
Well, of course, if the) wen- going to start taking nrv
lunch. . . .
Backslapped by the Boys
BPORE I i^o any further, I want to impress upon you
that up to now I had never written a movie scenario
or a synopsis nor had 1 ever considered doing so. Nor
had I any idea of how to go about it. The closest I had
ever come to writing a scenario was having various friends
tell me that I ought to write one. Hut then they tell me
that I ought to go on the stage, and that 1 ought to shave
off my mustache and that 1 ought to but you have
friends, yourself. So far I had been able to laugh it all
off and put it down as the price you pay
for friendship, and if you're not stuck
that way, you are another, so what dif-
ference does it make ?
This time. to be sure, it looked as if
I bad committed myself. And look at
the interest they were taking in me. In
the face of all tradition that selling a
scenario was in the "not that ! not that"
(Continued on page 77)
The young man scorned
his sister's garden-party.
He turned a cold English
shoulder on the group
while he gazed longingly
( a the photograph of a
beautiful girl. Instantly
his mind snapped back
into place. He would have
her — come what may
23
Ernst Lubitsch is one of the foremost
directorial artists of the screen. He has
imagination and feeling and knows all the
cinema tricks
Mr. Josephson is a well-known young radical writer,
who has been taking a profound interest in motion pic-
tures. He has written interestingly and authoritatively on
the screen's greatest achievements. This is the second of
the series of Masters of the Motion Picture, in which he
gives a critical discussion of the screen's advance.
IN the modern period of the movies, the films of Messrs.
Lubitsch, Chaplin, Stroheim, Vidor, Cruze, have de-
veloped a complete character of their own as an art,
instead of being a mawkish rendering of cheap theatrical
successes in photos.
The eye is struck first by* the immense improvement in
the quality of the camera work, the cleanness of line, the
absence of waste detail. All of them manipulate their
groups, their sets, as well as the light they spill over the
scene, to get a balance, a form that keeps your eye un-
swervingly on the things that count most.
Not only have they learned to paint with the camera,
but also to suggest, by the interplay of sequences, by the
terrific power of concentration in a close-up, by the
shrewd angles they catch, almost a new understanding
of life. The modern film,
in short, becomes an in-
strument fit for artists to
express the highest flights
of their imaginations, their
most delicate and subtle
fancies.
That Masterpiece Again
T'he one film out of this
rich period which you
have doubtless heard
critics refer to more than
any other is "The Last
Laugh." It is a German
picture, directed by F. W.
Murnau, with the great
Jannings in the central
role.
There is virtually no
plot at all, no love inter-
est, no sensationalism of
any kind. What is the
merit of this picture,
which failing, as it did, to
24
MASTERS
of the MOTION
PICTURE
become a popular success, appealed to insiders, critics,
artists, column conductors, everywhere as most nearly
approaching the ideal of perfection?
"The Last Laugh" gave us the unique feeling of look-
ing into the interior of a man's life thru some wholly
unaccountable peer-hole. We not only watched this man's
expressions and movements, we watched the states of his
soul. Jannings, who is possessed with some divine under-
standing of his business, seemed to know more about how
to make his zvhole body expressive than most of the other
film folks put together.
The picture forms simply the inside history of a crisis
in the life of an old hotel porter who is demoted because
of senility to a still more servile occupation, that of lava-
tory-attendant ! And because of the simplicity of his
material, because he didn't have to bother with the details
of some silly plot, the director was able to bear down upon
the pure creation of his character and his awful fix thru
cinema technique alone. It is one thing to interest you
with pictures of pirate ships, knights-at-arms, society gals.
It is another to make you feel with the pride, the hope,
the passions of an old derelict like this. Within the hour
you have a sustained motion picture which thru its over-
tone hands over to you his whole code of living. This
idiotic old creature is interpreted with as much eclat, sym-
pathy, intimacy, and frankness, as, let us say, Chaplin in-
terprets Chaplin.
"The Last Laugh" is considered
Emil Jannings in the role of
gave us the unique feeling of
a triumph of camera art, and
the pitiable old doorkeeper
looking into his very soul
Perfect Technique
"The background, the
group of characters, the
labor which fills this life
are all drawn with a
tremendous effort at reali-
ty. There are no sub-
titles at all to interrupt the
mood of understanding
into which you are thrown.
The pictures as Murnau
composes them put the
stuffy and artificial-look-
ing studio sets of his ex-
pressionistic colleagues to
shame. He uses every
trick of the modern cine-
ma that will help him trap
an idea, an effect, and
hurls it at you.
For instance, there is a
daring full-length flash of
a revolving hotel-door,
which with its glassy glit-
ter and whirl recurs in the
sequence of the film like a
J
There Is a Handful of Directors
Who Have Developed a Complete
Character of Their Own as an Art.
The Discerning Eye Has Caught
the Quality of Their Work. They
Have Created for Us the Illusion
of Absolute Understanding and
Sympathy with the Moods Ex-
pressed Thru Their Celluloid
Figures
By Matthew Josephson
Eric von Stroheim is a master of lights and
shadows — as well as atmosphere. He de-
lights in painting realities — to focus his
camera on life as it stalks by
retrain, a dominant motive in music, setting off the whole
idea of this proud and cruel hotel. Or, there is a wedding
feast in which the camera, itself, seems to go drunk with
wine and contentment and, wandering about the meager
North Berlin interiors, drops into a brass instrument and
brazens out to you the very music of the occasion in a few
inspiring mechanical close-ups.
All the "stunts" and tricks of the director followed his
material with absolute faithfulness. They did not stick
out like useless fandangles, as in "Caligari." All the
■hades of joy. grief, desperation, came to you thru the in-
sidious overtones that caught you in their spell.
After all. the secret of any great art is to create in us the
illusion of absolute understanding and sympathy with the
experiences the artist expresses; thus, to make us forget
ourselves, and think only that we are living thru these
experience^ and that they are just as momentous or tragic
as they seem to be to the artist.
Otherwise, the moving picture camera arena seems to be
divided for the moment into two camps. One is trying
to bring the beauties of painting, the thought fulness of
good literature and drama and music into the cinema. The
other camp, develops out
of the movies themselves,
and especially the slap-
stick movies. They want
to get over the effect of
motion, its humor, its ver-
tigo, its hypnotic thrill and
drive. We shall come
back to these later.
In the Lubitsch Manner
The films of Ernst Lu-
bitsch place him practi-
cally as a leader of the
first group. Again, they
do not always pay, but
they make him the envy
of fellow directors. Their
recent successful revival
in Xew York before a
serious film following by
the International Film
Guild shows how much
good there is in l.u-
bitsch's Collected Works.
Deeply moving experiences were recorded in "Greed" — a
work unusually grim and realistic. Stroheim touched the
very dregs of life with this ponderous and tragic picture
Anyone with half an eye can see that he excels in imagi-
nation, delicacy, wit. taste. He has the spirit of the artist,
and he brings this to his work in the movies. He has been"
a profound student of this new art, and like certain other
of our late enemies, he has, we gallantly admit, all the
cinema tricks at his finger tips.
From his early successes in Germany with historical
films such as "Passion," which gave us a plausible and be-
witching Duborry in Pola Negri, Herr Lubitsch was
driven to light social comedy by the severe strictures of
the box-office.
So far as I know, we had never seen historical char-
acters so appropriately and delightfully gotten up, nor
scenes of regal splendor and licentiousness a la Louis
Quince so accurately and tastefully pictured. The action
moves deliberately thru the sequences, which show us all
the agreeable wickedness of Louis's court at Versailles,
then rushes to the miserable death of Mmc. Dubarry's
great patron and the gathering storm of the French Revo-
lution. This last affair turns out to be a melodramatic
hurly-burly, and for convenience's sake is pushed back —
some twenty years in history.
Amid this historical
business Lubitsch found
the most adaptable ma-
terial for his imagination.
He worked for grandiose
pictorial composition, and
for human types that fitted
as plausibly into his set-
ting as the period furni-
ture. Against this, he
wou'd throw sudden, hide-
ous contrasts of misery
and poverty.
In short, we have some-
thing here that we can
honestly feast our eyes
upon. Glittering chande-
liers, mirrors, decorated
wall-spaces, savagely-
drawn faces i that s^m
to come out of the paint-
ings of Daubignyl. whose
interesting wrinkles and
crow's-feet give us much
[Continued on page <><•
25
No one seems to know what became of the chap
who played the soldier in the hospital scene for
"The Birth of a Nation." His moon-calf expression
of a love-stricken youth won him many praises
during his brief moment with Lillian Gish
YOU'VE often said it and so have I. Your eye and
attention have been captured by a particularly effec-
tive "bit" on the part of some unknown — an extra.
The picture you have seen often lingers in your memory,
not by reason of the story or the artistry of the star, but
because some five-dollar-a-day extra has dominated the
scene in which he or she appeared. In glancing at a still
from the never-to-be-forgotten "Birth of a Nation," I
couldn't help but wonder what became of the boy who
played that bit with Lillian
Gish.
I remembered the -player
and the scene. Which
naturally led me to the
speculation of "how many
extras make good." How
many of those who furnish
the "atmosphere" in pic-
tures, and, thru the inspira-
tion of the director, are
sometimes singled out to
put over an especially effec-
tive piece of acting in a few
feet of film, pull themselves
up from the mob on the
strength of this brief flash
of ability. The answer is a
hard one to arrive at. Con-
cerning the player in I).
YV. Griffith's masterpiece,
he apparently sank back
Did you know that Barbara La Marr started
her career as an extra?
Can you remember when Constance Tal-
madge decorated the ranks of the extras?
When you watched Roy D'Arcy in "The
Merry Widow," did you know that he once
appeared in the chorus of a musical comedy?
Would you ever think that Florence Vidor
played atmosphere in "A Tale of Two Cities?"
Do you happen to know that D. W. Griffith
discovered more talent among the extras than
any other director?
Have you considered that Adolphe Menjou
reached his present popularity by rising from
the background of extras?
I Wonder
What
BECAME
of HIM
into the ranks of obscurity after his few brilliant
moments with Miss Gish.
The curse of "type" has denied many a player of
ability his chance to leave the extra fold. He may
stand out for a few scenes as a gangster, a detective, a
dope fiend, a half breed, an Apache or what not.
Simply because he looks the part, his real worth as an
actor is overlooked. He is a type who is expected to
play nothing else but the fill-in character with which the
director associated him in his mind. This, then is one
reason why the extra who has impressed you with his
work remains an extra.
Some Make the Grade
A gainst the case of Griffith's soldier and those who are
retarded in their upward climb due to their faithful-
ness to "type" we have many startling examples of
present-day stars who made their way rapidly from the
background atmosphere to foreground close-ups due to
the scintillating flash of merit displayed by them when
drawn out of the background by the "bit" intrusted to
them by the director.
Barbara La Marr, in many respects one of the most
distinctive artists of the present generation of screen stars,
started her career as an extra. She was given her chance
by Louis B. Mayer in a picture call "Harriet and the
Piper," which starred Anita Stewart. At the time the
girl who later developed
into the films' most noted
siren was a gangly, thin
youngster whose wistful-
ness and amazingly beauti-
ful eyes attracted the
attention of the present
production head of Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer. A bit of
business was built up for
the late actress. She per-
formed it so creditably that
a small part was soon forth-
coming and fandom the
world over knows the rest.
Another stellar light of
the screen who focused at-
tention upon herself while
providing atmosphere in a
\ itagraph comedy was
Constance Talmadge. Her
personality stood out,
26
There Are Many Extras
Who Have Made Good, But
Most of Them Continue to
Furnish Atmosphere. Some
Stay in the Five-Dollar-a-
Day World Because They
Are Types, Yet There Is a
Large Number Who Have
Climbed the Heights to Star-
dom Thru Exercising Their
Talent and Personality
By Bert Ennis
The plaintive-looking extra with the long braids in the
second row is none other than Constance Talmadge. She
played one of the sweet-girl graduates in "The Chicken
Inspector," an old two-reel Vitagraph comedy, starring
Wally Van
hemmed in as it was by the "sweet-girl graduates" who,
wiih Norma's talented sister formed the necessary back
ground for the antics of the diminutive Wally Van, and
again we find an extra who quickly eliminated herself
from the class covered by the query "I wonder what
became of her."
You Never Can Tell
COMETIMES, tho. the extra player whom we size up as
^ of promising caliber answers our question in a start-
ling manner. For example there is Roy D'Arcy, the
youthful player who scored so decisively in Strohcim's
"Mem Widow." After hatting indifferently in the five-
dollar-per-day league for some time he found himself
refused even as an extra player by the Metro-* loldwyn
forces. He turned to the stage for a livelihood, securing
a job with "The Clinging Vine/' a legitimate attraction
holding forth in Los Angeles. Von Stroheim viewed the
show and with unerring judgment selected the unknown
actor for a prominent rule in "The Merry Widow'* and
D'Arcy found himself playing a leading part in a studio
which had refused him extra work.
We also might he wondering about the little girl rapidly
rising to tame under the name of Sally ( )'.\cil were it not
for the fact that Mary Pickford, exercising the preroga-
tive of a star land a woman) decided to change her mind.
Her change of mind concerned the role she was to play
in Micky Neilan's "Mike." Sally, whose background
personality probably intrigued us more than once, was
selected by Neilan to bat for the famous Mary. And she
knocked a home run. No speculation concerning what
fate holds in store for the extra would he complete without
mention of Florence Vidor. The present much-admired
and extremely capable Florence, who is, at last, to enter
upon a starring contract, caught the fancy of movie
patrons as an extra in the picturization of "A Tale of
Two Cities." And she lias held it ever since.
(Continued on page 84 )
The dapper-looking gentleman at the extreme right is the popular Adolphe Menjou. He had gifted eyebrows
even in those days — a talent recognized by Wally Van, who gave him a small part in a Vitagraph serial,
"The Scarlet Runner"
27
Mack Sennett deplores the lack of Art in his
comedies and so features Nazimova in a series
of comedies
W
m
A
/ in Midnight Re-
^* view, like the return before the eves of the exiled
Napoleon at Elba, of his famous marshals, parading'' in
array victorious before him — for the glory ot Napoleon,
and of France.
Ghosts . . . gliONts of film fame, return to this
battle-field once illumined with the flare of sun-arcs
and Kleigs, once raging with the fierce competition of
celluloid rivalries. Ghosts that muse on the fickleness of
{Continued on page 68)
33
The w. k. comic
strip, "Ella Cind-
ers," has reached
the screen with
Colleen Moore in
the title-role and
Lloyd Hughes as
Waite Lifter, the
boy friend. You
will see Ella
breaking into the
movies by the in-
teresting expedi-
ent of "crashing
the gate"
34
"Bring Yer Ice
AROUN' to the
BACK DOOR"
Ella hasn't gotten along
very well with her rela-
tives. Armed with her
trusty mop and broom,
Mr. Lifter and the count-
less newspaper friends
expect her to make a
clean, sweeping hit
Freulich
Rirhtcr
PAULINE FREDERICK
She's the most misunderstood woman on the screen — is Pauline Frederick. One story after another has been
given her to interpret, but the characterizations have not measured up to her stature as an actress. Thoroly
gifted in her art, she is able to bring forth all of her rich emotional gifts. If you saw "Smouldering Fires."
you saw Miss Frederick act with fine shading and conviction
35
WHAT'S GONE ON
BEFORE :
Cella Lloyd, winner of a
bathing-girl contest, has taken
Hollywood by storm. Being
an observing young minx, she
thinks the time is ripe to imi-
tate her jealous rivals and get
in touch with her public. So
she makes a Personal Appear-
ance—Cella herself, in the
flesh, not a Motion Picture.
Now read on!
j*^~. «uu j,
Scene I
Nick E. Lodion, the impresario of
the Amusement Palace, introduces
Cella to the audience. With a con-
fidence born of rubbing elbows
with the passing throng in hotel
lobbies and railroad stations, and
assuming a haughty demeanor for
the occasion, Cella goes thru the
pantomime of shaking hands with
her public
Scene II
As a star's popularity is measured
by the flowery tokens she receives,
and to make certain of impressing
her thousands of friends, Cella
sends some floral offerings to her-
self. Posies come high, but Cella
scorns the expense. As she gazes
rapturously at the display, she be-
lieves she has made Mile. Hebe
Jebie, her bitter rival, intensely
jealous
36
CELLA LLOYD
Makes a Personal
APPEARANCE
'
By
John Held, Jr.
Scene III
However, Cella's personal appear-
ance was not what she exactly an-
ticipated. Expecting it to be her
Night of Nights, she is surprised
and rendered speechless upon dis-
covering herself sharing honors
with Rin-Tin-Tin
Scene IV
However, Cella has her wits with her as well
as her figure. Sizing up the situation as one
that calls for immediate action, she dons
the sure-fire one-piece bathing suit to keep
faith with her public. She will stand or
fall on her justly famous legs, if it takes
all summer. As for the dog, he can run
around on his leash
37
Spurr
I ENVY Bill Hart! There's nothing in this world
I'd like better to do than to trade places with Bill for
a picture or two, wear a Stetson instead of a silk
topper, wave a six-gun in place of a Malacca cane, and in
general be a he-man of the
well-known open spaces in-
stead of a parlor ornament."
The c7WAN
Who ENVIES
BILL HART
Huntly Gordon made the announcement with the utter
unexpectedness of the traditional bolt from the blue.
We were parked at a corner table in the dining-room of
the Hollywood Athletic Club, trying to order luncheon
dishes cool enough to offset the ninety-in-the-shade tem-
perature that was frying the asphalt surface of Sunset
Boulevard just outside the window. Up until the time
that Huntly dropped the Bill Hart confession into our
midst like a verbal bombshell, our conversation had been
a reasonably sane one.
Gordon smiled quizzically at the look of blank surprise
that I couldn't quite conceal.
The Secret Longing
Spurr
mean it," he insisted. "Ever since I've been in
pictures I've longed to be allowed to do real out-
door stuff, with flaming six-shooters, hard-riding
cowboys, and all the violent and picturesque action
that such pictures demand. That is why I say that
I envy Bill Hart, Tom Mix, Fred Thomson, and all
the rest of the boys who are doing real Westerns.
They are doing just what I have always wanted to do — and
what I am going to do some day if I am ever given a chance."
Coming from any one of a half dozen other prominent masculine
players of the screen, this Bill Hart ambition might not have seemed
so startling. But from Huntly Gordon !
To the great majority of screen fans who are familiar with Gor-
don's personality only as it is shown in his work before the
camera, the announcement will probably create as much amaze-
ment as tho the Sphinx were suddenly to state to the world a
secret ambition to shake the dust of the centuries from her
recumbent form and do an abandoned Charleston over the
desert's burning sands.
Because Huntly Gordon's
screen roles have always been
so exactly the utter opposite of
outdoor stuff. He has always
appeared as the very epitome
of well-groomed dignity, im-
peccably attired in the gar-
Gordon's roles have always been the
opposite of outdoor stuff. He has al-
ways appeared as the very epitome of
well-groomed dignity, impeccably at-
tired in the garments of society. He
thinks it's time to make a change.
On the left he reckons as how
he feels like a human being
when he puts on his
hunting clothes and
accompanies Anna
Q. Nilsson in the
pursuit of par-
tridges
38
There Is a Perversity of Human
Nature Which Causes Everyone
to Long to Be Something Else
Than What He Is Represented.
No Matter How Successful a Man
May Be, He Suffers from Sup-
pressed Desires. Huntly Gordon
Has Always Cherished a Secret
Longing — a Romantic Urge to
Rough It in the Open Like the
Cowboys
By Hal K. Wells
mints of society, with a capital "S." superbly
poised, calmly aloof, and as solidly substantia]
as the Rock of Gibraltar.
When the average man climbs reluctantly
into a full-dress suit, the finished product
usually looks about as much at ease as a Polar
hear in a cauldron of hot soup. Huntly Gor-
don, however, has the rare faculty of being
ahle to don the most formal of togs
and then look as faultlessly
comfortable as tho he had
Been literally poured into
them.
This natural ability
to wear formal
clothes superbly well,
together with per-
fect poise and an
innate dignity of
manner, has re-
sulted in Gordon's
being invariably cast
in roles such as suc-
cessful brokers, promi-
nent professional men.
or staid judges of the
higher courts. The drawing-
room has been his usual screen
setting, and members of the Four Hundred
his inevitable associates.
Consequently, when the immaculate Huntly announces
I secret ambition to be a wild, rip-snortin', he-terror of
the open range, at first thought it seems almost as in-
congruous as the Statue of Liberty doing three rapid back
flips on her lofty pedestal and then yodeling "Here Conies
Charlie" in a clear soprano for the edification of an in-
coming boat-load of immigrants.
On second thought, however, there isn't really anything
so very incongruous in Huntly Gordon's desire to play
outdoor roles on the screen. For. oflf the screen, Huntly
is one of the most outstanding outdoor men in Holly-
wood. He is an ardent golfer, an expert tennis and
squash player, an enthusiastic fisherman, and an invet-
erate hunter.
In real life, the breath of the outdoors is the breath
of life to Gordon. He would rather be tramping joy-
ously over some mountain trail, a hundred miles from
Nowhere, than loll luxuriously in any drawing-room
ever built.
The breath of the outdoors is the breath of life to
Gordon. He would rather be tramping joyously over
some mountain trail, a hundred miles from Nowhere,
than loll luxuriously in any drawing-room ever built
Wants to Wear a Bandanna
'"That's the reason I envy Bill Hart and the rest of the
Western players," Gordon explained to me. "They
play day'after day, picture after picture, in the outdoor
type of stories that appeal to every natural inclinati >n I
have. Xot that I want to desert the society roles entirely.
But I do want to get just one fling at a real he-role once,
with all outdoors for my arena of action.
"I want t;> wear a bandanna handkerchief around my
neck instead of a bat-wing collar; riding boots instead of
patent-leather pumps; and get in action in an atmosphere
that is blue with powder smoke instead of the vapor from
perfumed cigarets. In other words, 1 want to trade the
aristocratic tea-cart for the pioneer covered wagon, the
parlor for the prairie, and polite acting for real action.
"Then, too, I've got the natural yearning for applause
that any normal person has. whether he be actor, doctor,
or plumber. Did you ever go to a matinee showing of a
Western picture and hear the kids — and some of their
elders, for that matter — go half crazy when the hard-
riding hero rescued the heroine amid a rain of lead that
would have made the Battle of Manila look like an April
shower? Well, I'm human enough that I would like to
hear those kids applaud me that way just once.
"In society pictures the hero usually gets about as much
(Continued on page SI |
39
it is To LAUGH
By
Fred Gilbert Blakeslee
IN ancient days in China,
when an artist had pro-
duced something which he
deemed of exceptional merit,
he took it to a Board of Ex-
aminers appointed by the emperor to pass judgment upon
works of art. If they thought favorably of his creation,
it was placed upon public exhibition for three days. If,
at the end of that time, no fault could be found with it.
it was purchased by the board and sent to the Imperial
palace.
Now, once upon a time, there was an artist of that
land, who carved in ivory a bird sitting upon a stalk of
grain and sent it to the board for examination. Being
favorably considered by them, it was placed upon public
exhibition and was highly approved by those who saw it.
On the third day, a farmer strayed into the hall where
the exhibition was being held and was heard to comment
unfavorably upon the carving. Upon being questioned
by a member of the board as to his reason for his dis-
approval, he replied, "The bird is perfect, and the stalk
is perfect, but whoever saw a bird sit upon a stalk of that
size without bending it." The carving did not go to the
palace.
Not According to Hoyle
Motion pictures are like that old piece of carving: ex-
cellent in many ways, poor in others. The fault
seems to lie between the author and the director in some
cases, and between the Research Department, the cos-
tumier and the directors in others. The author will write
an impossible scene, or else the director will add one for
40
It's all in the scheme of the movies. While the
sponsors "think out" the situations, the heroes
perform their miraculous stunts — all for the sake
of the punch
the sake of the "punch." and
thus we see such things in the
movies as a man on horseback
chasing and overtaking an au-
tomobile, a Western hero
roping a gun out of the hands of a man aiming it at
him, a knight in supposedly full armor swimming a river,
and an unarmed swashbuckler leaping upon a swordsman
whose point is threatening his breast, and overpowering
him.
Some years ago, I saw in a serial picture an incident
which affords an excellent example of an impossible
scene. The lovely heroine is crouched behind a rock,
while towards her creeps the masked man whose identity
has kept the audience guessing for many weeks. All is
over again ! But stay, her lover knows the Morse code
and is at this moment in the library of a house which is
supposedly visible from her hiding-place. Seizing a small
mirror from her bag, she flashes out a dot-and-dash mes-
sage for help, which her lover reads at a glance. Jump-
ing into his ever-ready car, he dashes madly to the rescue
and once more the fair heroine is saved.
Now in my younger days, I served years in the Signal
Corps of the Connecticut National Guard, and I know
that it is absolutely impossible to send a dot-and-dash
message by means of a hand mirror. Just to show the
impossibility of it, I will describe how an army helio-
graph, or sun mirror, is worked. The apparatus consists
of two tripods, a mirror with a little hole in the center,
a metal bar, a sighting rod, and a shutter. The mirror,
mounted at the rear end of the bar, is set up on the tripod
and carefully sighted, by means of the hole in the back.
.
The Author of This Article Has
a Bone to Pick With the Boys
Who Permit All Kinds of Errors
to Enter Into the Production of
Pictures. They Do Such Things
and They Wear Such Things
in the Movies
Drawings by
C. J. MULHOLLAND
at the Other station. The hole causes a sun-spot or
shadow to appear and when this rests on the point of the
ring rod at the front of the bar, the flash will be
visible at the other station. So delicate is the adjustment,
that the mirror has to t>e moved slightly from time to time
by means of thumb-screws so as to follow the movement
of the sun. Once adjustment has been secured, the
shutter, mounted upon the other tripod, is set up in front
of the mirror and then opened and shut so as to show
short or long flashes.
Even bad the fair one had all this apparatus with her.
she would have been in the grasp of the dreaded mask be-
fore she could have secured her adjustment, and as for
the marvelous speed with which the hero reads the sup-
posed message as it flashed upon the sword-decked walls
of his library. I can only hope that the Signal Corps had
the benefit of his services during the recent war.
The producers forget that there was such a
thing as a distinct style in the early seventies
and eighties. The women wore bustles and
pleated skirts, and the men who strolled down
the avenue with them were dressed up like a
Christmas tree
Should Be Shot at Sunrise
A no speaking of war, reminds me that some motion pic-
ture directors do many things in battle scenes for which
they would be court-mar-
tialed if they were in the
army. They love to plant
"Old Glory'* on the breast-
works so as to help the
enemy get the exact range,
and they have a penchant
for placing their artillery in
nice open lots where in ac-
tual warfare they would be
put out of action in ten min-
utes. I have seen in a pic-
ture a company of infantry
marching to war all armed
with rifles and not one of
them had a cartridge-belt or
even a bayonet. Thank the
Lord ! all directors are not
like this, and a few of them
have put on most realistic
battle scenes, but the aver-
age "battle" in the movies is
a confused jumble of which
neither the civilian nor the
soldier can make head or
tail.
So. much for the author
and the director Let us see
what the Research Depart-
ment and the costumer have
to offer.
Says Mr. Blakeslee:
"Some motion picture directors do many
things in battle scenes for which they would
be court-martialed if they were in the
army."
"It can be safely said that very few mo-
tion pictures of the costume type are cos-
tumed correctly in every respect."
"Most American producers fail to consult
technical experts along specialized lines as
is often done abroad."
"The costumers and the research depart-
ment need a wide range of knowledge, but
are prone to fake rather than admit their
ignorance."
"Sword play and knife fighting as seen in
motion pictures is not usually of a very high
order."
"The best knife fight which I ever saw
on the screen was in 'Orphans of the Storm'
— it was most realistic."
"The further back the supposed period of
the picture, the greater seems to be the per-
centage of error."
Wrong From the Start
It can be safely said that very few motion pictures of
the costume type are costumed correctly in every re-
spect. This is not altogether the fault of either the
research people or the costumer, but is due largely to the
failure of most American
producers to consult tech-
nical experts along special-
ized lines, as is often done
abroad.
From the very nature of
their work, both member> of
a Research Department and
costumers need a wide
range of knowledge and
cannot be expected to have
as exact available data as a
person who has made an ex-
tensive study of a specific
subject. When called upon
for information which they
do not possess, both are.
however, prone to fake,
rather than admit their
ignorance. The sj>eaking
statue is no better off in this
respect than the motion pic-
tures.
In Channing Pollock's
play, "The Fnemy." recently
on Broadway, one promi-
nent character in it, who
was supposed to be an
Austrian officer, appeared in
a German uniform until 1
{Continued on page 70)
41
EDNA MARIAN
This petite personality, finding herself at the top of the comedy heap in a reasonably short space of time,
has proved herself to be unique by buying her contract and calmly seeking new and larger worlds to conquer.
Edna made her screen debut in New York when but thirteen years of age. Then she went to Hollywood and
"crashed the gate." Her initiative led her straight to a neat little part in a Buster Keaton film. She did so
well that the gentlemen preferred the blonde as a comedy star
42
What It Costs to Be a Weil-
Dressed Auto
A special combination rear
courtesy, stop, and tail light, $16
A pair of heavily nickeled,
double-bar, spring bumpers, $60
A motor-driven wind-shield wiper, $8
An eight-day clock on the dash,
with radium dial for night
visibility, $30
German silver cigar-lighter on
the dash, $15
"Baby" spotlights beneath the
big front lamps, $20
A pair of special lenses in the main
headlights, $15
Extra tire and tube, $45
Special motometer, German
silver, monogrammed and
locked in place, $22
V
A pair of aluminum step-
plates on the running-boards, Total cost, approximately,
$5. $5,000
By Warren Dow
PHERE was a time when Hollywood
*- Boulevard swarmed with "jazz" auto-
mobiles which, in their weird trappings
and elaborate superstructures, looked like
a combination of a Welsh rarebit night-
mare and an Osage Indian's idea of
splendor.
That time has gone, apparently forever.
Today the cars of the Film Colony are
marked by an almost austere simplicity.
The "well-dressed" car of today is like the
well-dressed clubman, neat but not gaudy.
However, it fs possible to spend a very fair
bit of money in merely giving a car the
most orthodox of equipment.
For example, the white sport roadster
of Reginald Denny, pictured herewith,
cost, with all accessories and insurance,
just a few dollars short of an even $5,000.
The various items are listed abmc.
i
Impressions of Hollywood
AS I was leaving the Hal Roach lot the other day, I
discovered the "Our Gang" children grouped to-
L gether on a grass plot near the road where several
visitors stood with small Kodaks trying to get a picture
of the gang to take home to St. Louis to show to their
neighbors. The visitors apparently had some pull, be-
cause the studio manager and the matron were there, giv-
ing orders to the children and trying to keep them in
order. It was obvious that the gang were taking the
matter seriously, because they were playfully crowding
one another for the best positions in the line-up, and they
apparently esteemed it a great honor to be photographed.
Little black Farina was the most obvious. He (you
know it is a he — not a she) kept well in the center fore-
ground and, looking from one camera to the other, said :
"Say, which of them cameras is goin' ter do the shootin' ?"
Then he threw off his sweater and laid it aside, remarking
that he would look much better without it.
I suppose that Our Gang look upon the regular movie
photography as real work, but this was play — something
to be proud of — their photos were in demand by visitors
— were they not now in the same class with President
Coolidge, Jack Dempsey and Valentino ?
Foul Work at the Crossroads
Tust as I was leaving the Hal Roach lot, I saw a large
bewhiskered man carrying an apparently dead woman
across the road. Her head, arms and feet were dragging
limply in the dust, and it looked like foul murder. I
hastened to the spot ready to do a man's duty, but only to
find that it was a dummy. The poor thing had just been
beaten up by her husband and thrown from the tower of
the castle.
What Price Publicity?
Dola Negri was looking at
some of the stills showing
Valentino making violent love
to Vilma Banky in "The Son
of the Sheik."
"Ah !" exclaimed Pola, "He
make love to Vilma, but all
the time he think of me !"
In spite of reports to the
contrary, I think I can safely
say that there is not and never
has been any romance between
Vilma Banky and Rudolph
Valentino. I have been to the
Pickf ord-Fairbanks studio
dozens of times, when they
were making "The Son of the
Sheik" and talked with both of
them many times, and visited
their homes and I ought to
know. At the studio Rudy
dines in a studio cottage, and
there are usually two or three
men dining with him, includ-
ing his brother and his man-
ager who have the cottage all
to themselves. Vilma dines
all alone in her dressing-room.
Connie Talmadge has Mary
Pickford's cottage, which is
just across the lawn from
Valentino's, and she came
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Freulich
Nothing could be more natural than the selection of
Mary Philbin to play Juliet in Shakespeare's im-
mortal tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet," which Universal
will humanize for the screen. The youthful Romeo
standing beneath Juliet's balcony is Andre Mattoni,
the Continental actor who is commonly called the
blond Valentino
across the other day and sat down at Rudy's table with us
for a while, but Vilma never does so. Whether she doesn't
want to, or wont because she fears to create a wrong im-
pression, I dont know, but I do know that Rudy has in-
vited her and that she never goes.
The Battle Continues
"There are about 20,000 theaters in the U. S. and ninety-
seven per cent, of them show motion pictures all or part
of the time. Only three per cent, of all the theaters do not
show any pictures at all. Twenty-five years ago none of
the theaters showed movies. A new movie theater is built
somewhere every working hour, while only one a week
is the average for the other kind. And thus the battle of
Movies vs. Speakies goes on, but it is a very one-sided
affair.
Let us hope for the day when there will be more the-
aters devoted entirely to movies with no vaudeville. And
let us hope they make the movies so good that they wont
even need a prolog or prelude. All those in favor of
more theaters for movies only, please say "I."
Fox Registering Pride
YXTatch out for "What Price Glory." The Fox people
"" seem to feel that it is going to beat "The Big Parade."
While this is doubtful, you may surely look forward to
this picture as one of the big events of the early fall.
Victor McLaglen will probably make a big hit in this
picture — even bigger than that of Karl Dane's. Dolores Del
Rio is also going strong, and so is Edmund Lowe and all
of them. And dont forget that Raoul Walsh is directing,
and that this same chap directed "The Thief of Bagdad"
and "The Wanderer."
I understand that "The
Wanderer" is not a big-money
maker, but that is not sur-
prising— it is too great and too
good for most people, just as
"The Last Laugh" was.
A Good Time Was Had
by All
The Fox Film Corporation
gave a dinner and dance re-
cently at the Ambassador Ho-
tel at which I and about 499
others were present. Between
courses everybody danced — or
tried to, but it was really im-
possible to do much dancing —
one might just as well expect
sardines in a box to dance.
All the Fox stars were
there, and most conspicuous
of all were the midget come-
dian, George Harris, and his
partner, Barbara Luddy, who
is equally diminutive, altho
there were all sizes and styles
present, including Jack Demp-
sey and Tom Mix who sat at
the same table and who danced
just like anybody else. Jack
dances quite well and he is not
at all awkward or clumsy.
Tom Mix is almost graceful
and he has a fine physique.
The Whole World Is Interested
in What's Going on in the Studio
City — the Capital of the Movies.
The Activities of the Stars and
the Progress of Productions —
These OfferTremendous Appeal
to the Picture Public. The Edi-
tor-in-Chief of the B re wster Pub-
lications Gives You First-Hand
Information of Hollywood and
Its Personalities
By Eugene V. Brewster
Of course, William Fox was very much there, includ-
ing his black mustache, and when he entered, everybody
arose and cheered. Little Georgie Harris was quite popu-
lar and ladies twice his height seemed to enjoy dancing
with him.
Greetings from Greta
r^RETA Xissen has at last consented to join Universal
and play the lead in a big picture that Jack McDermott
wrote and will direct. He has been wiring Greta daily
for weeks and finally got her consent. He says she is one
of the screen's most promising
artistes, if not the . . . And
he's going to have an all-star
cast, including Marc McDer-
mott, Trixi Friganza, Norman
Kerry, and so on.
Jack has the funniest house
I ever saw. It is way up on
top of a mountain, and he
made it all himself out of mo-
vie scenery and odds and ends
from different studios. It is
certainly a freak place, but
extremely interesting. Corliss
Palmer and I had bacon and
eggs with him there the other
day and he is a charming fel-
low. But he certainly gave us
some thrills going down that
steep, muddy, crooked, rocky
road in his Ford.
A Bad Break
Virginia Brown Faire is
another one of those who
have had "a bad break." She
got off to a good start in 1919
when at the age of fifteen she
won a Beauty Contest given
by Brewster Publications, and
I remember well her first ap-
pearance before me as direc-
tor. She was a beautiful little
brunette and photographed
llently, I atei on the got a i ontrai i and
\ C! \ Well
Then came ■ big pail In "Without Benertl of
i lergy," which ^l i<- quite ran away with, and it
looked u ii Virginia would be i top notchcr in
another year. But from then on she had ill luck.
Poor parts in poor picturei and the was almoet
lost ughl of. The latest is that ll >ren
signed by Sam Sax to play OppoaitC William
Fairbanks in "The-Mile-a-Minute Man " This
may be all ri^ht, but Virginia is entitled to tOTiM
thing better.
Among Those Present
Mokma Talmadgb gave a little dinner-party at
* ' her palatial home the other night and here's
a complete list of "among those present" : herself,
her husband, Joe Schenck, her mother, "Peg,"
her sister, Constance, her former leading man,
Eugene O'Brien, Buster Collier, the managing
editor of the Los Angeles Examiner ( Hearst
paper), Florence Lawrence, dramatic editor of
same, and poor little me. We had arrived at
seven but it was about eight before the butler
entered the drawing-room with "Dinner's
served." It was a fine dinner, excellently served
and everybody was jolly, and had a lovely time.
After coffee we all went into a large and ele-
gantly furnished lounging-room where they show picture-.
Buster, attired in a huge apron, ran the projection machine
and did a good job. But the picture was Corinne Griffith's
"Infatuation," and it did not make much of a hit with us.
During this, Dick Barthelmess came in and spent the rest
of the evening. At twelve-thirty I left for home and I
was nearly the last of the guests. And we were all per-
fectly sober, and there wasn't even any dancing. We
simply talked, in small groups, and occasionally listened to
the phonograph. Another one of those famous wild
Hollywood parties that you hear so much about.
Joseph Schenck is a very
rich man. but he did not make
it all in pictures. His interests
are varied, and he is an ex-
ceedingly we'1-informed man,
and a very likable man. He
converses freely on every con-
ceivable subject, and his ideas
and opinions seem to be care-
fully thought out.
The Correct Way to Say It
Cince "Beau Geste" will be
^ talked about a great deal
after the picture is released,
you may as well learn how it
is pronounced. I have heard
so many heated arguments on
whether it should be jest or
guest, that I looked it up.
On page 98 of the novel it
says : " 'Are you the jester ?'
'Xo. Aunt.' I replied with
feeble wit, 'only the Geste.' "
Which quite disposes of the
matter. It is Bo Jest.
A Talented Newcomer
International Newsreel
No matter how busy a producer may be on the
Coast, he firmly believes in relaxation. Here is Hal
Roach, who has taken time off from making comedies
to exercise his polo pony. That he is a proficient
polo player is proved by his membership with the
fast Midwick, Jr., team — the Pacific Coast champions
("^ardner James,
rived with a
who ar-
bang in
Blackton's •,Hell-Bent fer
Heaven," had me up to dinner
the other night. lie lives in a
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Owr
OWN
NEWS
CAMERA
Gilliams
The rarin' Red Grange, ace of football
players, has arrived in Hollywood to make
a picture of his favorite sport. The other
day he visited Marion Davies, who auto-
graphed the famous half-back's helmet
'"•-*
Do you remember
Pepper, the comedy
cat that used to cut up
didoes in Mack Sennett
comedies? Well, to
show you how genius
is passed along, the
kitten on the right is
the old cat's grand-
daughter. She has been
named Pepper II —
and gives promise of
knowing a thing or
two about slap-stick
Geo. F. Cannons
We dont know
just how far Jane
Winton can put
the shot,
stripped to
B. V. D.'s
posing in
correct manner,
she should heave
it a goodly dis-
tance
But
her
and
the
Lya de Putti has a
unique way of telling
how the weather is
working when she feels
like taking a nap. If
the wind starts them
rocking, the strings tug
at her wrist and
awaken her. And so
she closes the window
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.
A birthday cake was made and shared
in by the executives and stars of Famous
Players last May, in commemoration of
the laying of the corner-stone of the new
Paramount Building. Here are Adolphe
Menjou and Lois Wilson eagerly admu
ing the frosted sky-scraper — an exact
duplicate of the imposing edifice which
is being" erected in the Times Square
section of New York
\Vm A Rees
Below, you will discover Babe
Ruth up to one of his favorite
pastimes — which is autograph-
ing baseballs. When the big
bambino is not busy batting
balls out of the park, he delights
in signing his monicker to
them — and giving them away.
Madge Kennedy has just step-
ped up to take one from the
home-run king
L'mlcrwood & L'ndi
On the left is Helene
Chadwick about to start
for a big blowout. This
fan, which generates wind
for motion picture storm
scenes, will create enough
atmospheric furore to
blow down a well-built
house. On the right, Karl
Dane gives Joan Craw-
ford a shoulder ride
around the lot. As Karl
belongs in the tall, rangy
class, Joan feels way up
in the air when she
perches herself upon his
back
r «
International Newsreel
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I
Twenty ounces
of clothes!
Yes- sir-ree,
boys, that's all
the weight
the modern
young woman
will carry
around this
sum m e r .
Dorothy Se-
bastian is the
young woman
who has gone
in for such
light luggage.
She got the
tip from Lon-
don. Notice
that the scales
even include
the shoes
Above, we have three of the world's most photographed men. Paul
Wrinkle, thirteen years old, is the champion autograph hunter. He
has been photographed with presidents and kings. Was he frightened
of Rudy Valentino and George Fitzmaurice? Not so you could notice
it. He hung around the stage door of the studio and secured the
autographs of the star and the director
"Throw away the vanity-box
and carry your make-up in your
hem!" That is Patricia Avery's
motto. She is wearing one of
the new dresses, boasting a cuff
around the bottom in which she
carries lip-stick, rouge and
powder. These necessary knick-
knacks are concealed by the cuff
when not in use
If you know what it means
to your dear old back when
you do the daily dozen, you
will understand that May
McAvoy's stunt of touching
the floor with the hands from
a standing position is not
mere child's play. This ex-
ercise enables May to keep
in trim for strenuous work
in pictures
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GARDNER JAMES
Hcnr> Waxman
Isn't it about time to give this young fellow a hand? Not in seventeen blue moons has anyone flashed across
the silversheet with more natural ability than Gardner James. He has youth, personality and a rich play of
plastic expressions. We dont know who discovered him, but there's no doubt about his lifting several photoplays
and making them better for his presence. He did such finished acting in "Hell-Bent fer Heaven" that Richard
Barthelmess borrowed him for "The Amateur Gentleman
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Owen Moore, masquerading as a woman, and Claire
Windsor in a scene from "Money Talks"
HARRY LANGDON has finally
won his spurs or laurels or col-
ors or what you care to call the
honors of stardom. Having been
bound to the two-reel comedy, he
has come along so fast that he is
entitled to a seat among the
comedians who have graduated
into the feature class. Which
means that he deserves to be
ranked along with Lloyd,
Keaton, ct al.
Surely no one is equipped
with a sounder knowledge
of what makes and sus-
tains the Big Laugh than
this same Langdon. He
has a ft r m
7
acquaintance
with panto-
mime and ex-
presses
comedy and its
allied ingredient, pathos,
with fine appreciation of
their values. But he waited
to make his feature debut
until he found something
good. And it arrived in
"Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp."
No comedian
could be more
adaptable to the y*4.'.-^
part of the con-
testant in a hiking
50
THE
CELLULOID
CRITIC
tour than Langdon. I found him very amusing. He doesn't
trespass on the 4ines marked out by other ranking fun-makers.
He has an individuality all his own. His best asset is his wistful
expression. On most of his journey he sees to it that he
suffers like Chaplin, tho he is no imitator.
The Funny Langdon
LJe experiences several difficulties which have been well timed
to provoke laughter. Still there are moments when the piece
pauses occasionally — as if it was out of breath and wanted to
catch up with itself. So that is why it loses some of its
spontaneity.
I shall dismiss these few errors and pin upon it the blue badge
of excellence. For indeed, Langdon releases oodles of fun in
his cross-country tramp. There is a
worthy thrill in the scene wherein
mm the comedian scales a fence to avoid
a flock of sheep. While perched on
top, he lets himself down slowly, try-
ing to find a landing place for his
feet. But he looks around
and discovers himself on
the edge of a cliff which
has a sheer drop of a few
hundred yards. His coat
catches on a nail of the
fence and soon the struc-
ture gives way — with
Langdon descending as
fast as Mother Earth and
gravity can attract him.
This is but one of many
ludicrous and original epi-
sodes in the picture. The
piece is more quiet than
"The Gold Rush," and not
so effervescent as "The
Freshman." But, never-
theless, it has its comicali-
ties. There is a final mo-
ment which contains a
rollicking bit. It shows
by trick photography the
gag of Langdon placing
himself . in a crib — and
Richard Barthel-
mess as a lieuten-
ant in the army has
a melodramatic
moment in his
latest picture,
"Ranson's Folly"
Laurence
Reid
Reviews the New
Photoplays
made to represent his own offspring.
The comedian's cherubic expression
comes ui hand) for this hilarious finish.
Not Up to Expectations
| dont find many pic-
torial values in
"Ranson's Folly,
Richard Barthel-
ni ess' n e w
canvas. Vs
fiction it had
its appeal
when Rich-
ard Hard-
ing Davis
wrote it
in a n y
y ears
ago, But
shaping
itself on
the screen
it doesn't re-
semble any-
thing but an
old-fashioned ro-
mantic melodrama
— with the obvious al-
ways in the offing, so that
any quality of suspense is, destroyed.
The piece carries Barthelmess and the spectators back
to the last century at the time the slippery Sioux had
been driven across the border. It gives the star an oppor-
tunity to portray one of those dashing lieutenants who,
to overcome the boredom of the post, stages a hold-up
out of pure mischief.
The plot revolves around the circumstantial evidence
piled up against him. And he, in a spirit of self-sacrifice,
admits the guilt to spare the father of the girl who cap-
tured his heart. This parent, in the meanwhile, has also
acted in the same spirit. But it is easy to anticipate that
neither will be held accountable for the crime.
That's .how hackneyed this picture is — what with a plot
that never develops any stirring action. There are some
first-rate atmospheric details — the old army uniforms and
the flouncing dresses worn by the officers' wives lending
a picturesque note. And the backgrounds are praise-
worthy, too.
The trouble is the weakness of the picture — for it is
not up to the Barthelmess mark. He conducts himself
heroically enough, but there are no occasions for
him to display any emotional fire. As for Dorothy
Mackaill, she wears her hair down her back and affects
an innocent appeal. It is just a part — and nothing
else. So I catalog this as just an ordinary melo-
drama. Barthelmess doesn't need these old-fashioned
stories with their old-fashioned heroics. He shines
best in the unusual characterizations.
Above, Harry Langdon joins the pick-and-shovel
gang in his first feature-length comedy, "Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp." At the left, Johnny Hines, in
"The Brown Derby," gets the surprise of his life
when he inherits the colorful head-piece from his
eccentric uncle
Taking Off the Mythical Kingdom
A BURLESQUE of the Graustark pattern is on view-
in "Sav It Ajrain" and it shapes up as first-rate
up
Dix-^
Say It Again" and it shap
entertainment, thanks to Richard Dix's S--'
P^x\4
Hf \
mjrn
IM
*m
K*-°* *•
TOM MIX
An Impression by Curzon
ties, his plot would have got away from him.
ft would have become detached and the sure-fire
dramatic strokes would have failed. ' Instead, he
employed the simplest measures of dramatic
construction. He chose his backgrounds and
shot his action against them, using the necessary
characters to build a moving story.
Hoffman's War Picture
TjERHAPS you remember that tender little
film, "Which Shall It Be?" If you do, you will
recall that it was made by one of the younger
directors — a young man with imagination and
feeling by the name of Renaud Hoffman. Kind
words were written and uttered in his favor and
the prediction was made that he would go far
with the megaphone.
So we anticipated something out of the ordi-
nary in "The Unknown Soldier.'' Well, he kept
faith with his ideals in giving what is called in
polite circles — an unhappy ending to the picture.
But the New York premiere was too premature.
Instead of showing the spiritual ending (that of
the marriage of the heroine with the spirit of
her departed soldier), the
obvious finish was tacked
on to it. And so New York-
ers condemned it as just an-
other picture.
Hoffman was consistent
all the way. He couldn't be
otherwise and keep to his
title and his text. Naturally
he insisted on the spiritual
ending, tho the happy touch
was also made for box-office
reasons. Thru some un-
accountable error the con-
ventional finish was shipped
to New York — this, on top of
the fine reception accorded
the spiritual ending in Los
Angeles.
The error has been recti-
fied so that other communi-
ties are receiving the picture
thoroly in character. Which
proves that audiences aren t
so unintelligent after all —
even if producers are not in
the habit of encouragingthem.
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BACKS
About Pictures and People
De Mi lie's Ambitions
r^EClL B. DE MILLE is going to see if he
■-.an put over a companion picture to "The
should leave no stone unturned ton
mohng it V''"1""'' and moving in oil that
r/iiw.- WOftie iniply.
Cheers for Alec Francis
pOX has displayed good wisdom m
selecting Alec B. Francis to play
David Warheld s role in rlic screen ver-
sion of "The Return of Peter Grimm.
This very able character actor has some-
thing in common with Warfield s expressions.
His name is generally found in the vicinity of
the adjective "kindly. " And anyone who re-
members Peter Grimm will recall that the
Ten Commandments. having turned to the cnaracter was very kindly disposed toward the
Bible for inspiration in conceiving that eloquent i j
for inspiration in conceiving tnat eloq
opus, he will open the Good Book again and re-
cord the life of Christ.
The Biblical subjects (what few have been
visualized on the screen) have received a
world.
On the other hand, Fox is still hunting around
for Warfield's successors in "The Music Mas-
ter" and "The Auctioneer." Whoever is se-
lected will have to know the art of pantomime
healthy response from the public. Which tndi- to tne tips 0{ nis fingers and his eye-lashes — to
cates something of a spiritual hunger. And the
ever-active De Mille, whose effort to create
something lasting from the very moving and
dramatic pages of the Bible inspired other Pro-
ducers to dip into its pages, will make (what he
hopes it to be) the triumph of his career.
say nothing of the quivering lower lip.
Gilda s New York Public
rilLDA GRAY broke all the records for the
^"^ Rialto Theater during the run of her pic-
ture, "Aloma of the South Seas." This is not
De Mille had first intended calling it ' The surprising in view of her Popularity around
Deluge," the idea to be fashioned around Noah Times Square. Long recognized as one of the
and the Ark. But Warner Brothers have a most vivid Personalities of the "Follies" and the
Prior claim on the old man of the sea. Cecil was night clubs, the movie Patrons of the metropolis
not to be caught napping, however. He shifted were all curious to see how she fared in her
his idea from the Old Testament to the Hew — screen debut. It must also be mentioned that
and the Chnst will be humanized under the title Gilda made Personal appearances with the pic-
of The King of Kings.
De Mille will go further
than any other director has
ever gone with the Great
Teacher. He will actually
show Him in the flesh — and
not by means of symbols or
shadows. And His life will
be drawn in a human man-
ner. In other words, the di-
rector will Paint the Chnst
as a human being.
This all raises the very in-
teresting question — who will
play the Prince of Men? To
get the complete humanities
of the man, the actor se-
lected must needs carry out
some of His teachings. We
suggest that De Mille go to
the little village of Ober-
Ammergau in Bavaria —
made famous for the Pas-
sion Play, and enlist one of
its highly religious actors.
The subject should create a
sensation — and De Mille
CHESTER CONKLIN
An Impression by Taskey
tur e — a nd executed her
shimmering South Sea
dance — a dance in which
she outclasses the field.
If Gilda accompanies the
picture to other cities, doubt-
less other records will be
broken. Her Presence is
needed, for the film is no
"great shakes" as entertain-
ment. Indeed, she is the
sole reason for its produc-
tion— and for a debut she
gives decided promise of ac-
c o m pl i s hi ng something
worth while one of these
days.
A Real Surprise
r I 'HE surprising thing
about the record smash
at the Rialto is the way
"Aloma of the South Seas
topped the latest Harold
Lloyd picture, "For Heav-
en s Sake. ' The comedy
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65
The
O'BRIEN BOY
gets a Kick
OUT of LIFE
By Scott Pierce
GEORGE O'BRIEN
himself is today
about the only per-
son in Hollywood who is
not yet aware of the fact
that George O'Brien has
"arrived."
Every one else in the
Film Capital knew that in
"The Iron Horse"
George scaled the cine-
matic ladder of fame in one
mighty bound and landed very
solidly at the top of the heap al-
most overnight.
The fact that about every-
one in Hollywood knew and
liked the big, genial young
Irishman made them just a bit
apprehensive over the spectacu-
lar suddenness of his rise to the
heights.
Because such "sky rocket"
leaps to glory have been known
in the past to have rather weird
effects in some few cases. Young
men who were quite normal and
likable before the event have
immediately afterwards gone in
George O'Brien is an all-
Irish-American who gets
variety and thrill out of
picture work. He comes
honestly by his love for ad-
venture and action, as his
father is the Chief of Police
in San Francisco. Natu-
rally, he throws himself
into every part with a
whole-hearted Celtic flavor
56
for expensive foreign cars, hats a full size larger, Eng-
lish accents, and an astounding loss of memory in recall-
ing former acquaintances.
Hollywood might have saved itself all worry, so far
as George was concerned. Because George doesn't
happen to be that kind of fellow. Swank-
is a quality that ranks just a little below
yellow fever in the O'Brien scheme of
things. George's grin is today just as
genial, his greeting to friends just as warm,
and his head just as level, as in the days of
not-so-long-ago when he was merely an as-
sistant cameraman with the Tom Mix unit.
Finds Thrills in Pictures
Came doesn't mean a great deal in
George's young life, anyway. He is very
frankly in pictures for the fun he is getting
out of the work.
The movies
offer variety,
thrills, and ac-
tion in large
quantities, and
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The
Roost
Where
ROY
Rests
Roy D'Arcy, the screen's most dashing dis-
penser of dark deeds, has a picturesque home
high up in Beverly Hills. He told the design-
ers and decorators to go the limit in making
it cozy, comfortable — and compelling to the
eye. By placing it up toward heaven, Roy
wanted the chance to find recreation and re-
demption and forget the ways of the flesh and
devil — which haunt him when he stalks the
sets.
At the top and bottom are the respective rear
and front views of the D'Arcy domain, while
in the center the head of the house has stepped
into the kitchen to show the Missus how to
season the sauce with spice.
V — f
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Strauss Peyton
Jackie Coogan is fast growing up, and the
infantile locks will soon be shorn so that
he can play in "Johnny Get Your Hair Cut"
It is always the privilege of a dentist to give a patient an
unpleasant hour in the chair — which accounts for Charlie Chase's
painful expression
The Screen Observer
The Warfield Dramas
WILLIAM FOX has purchased all of the War-
field plays and now he is confronted by the sad
fact that there are no Warfields to play in them.
Every character man in Hollywood has been considered
for one or more of the familiar stage parts, but in every
case the studio officials perceived that comparison with
the original would provoke only laughter from the audi-
ence. There is one exception to this situation. George
Sydney is perfectly cast as the Hebrew comedy character
of the title-role in "The Auctioneer."
And Jean Hersholt will play Peter in "The Return of
Peter Grimm," if Universal will lend him. Universal,
however, shows no great readiness to accommodate rival
studios with the services of choice players. Right now
there is some difficulty over getting the loan of Hersholt
for Erich von Stroheim's "The Wedding March."
Just Heinie
My sympathy goes out to Heinie, the extra.. I think he
should have been a star long ago. Heinie — he has
no other name, so far as I know — is a dwarfed figure
with a head as smooth and hairless as an egg and a
mouth into which he can insert three billiard balls at one
time without inconvenience. His services are in de-
mand to lend grotesquerie to the scenes of nearly every
picture. I never sit in a movie show but I see Heinie
performing some tantalizing bit. For Heinie is an actor
of no mean ability.
Now Constance Talmadge gave a party for her new
husband, Captain Alistair Mackintosh. Heinie was em-
ployed to give a fillip to the blase assembly. Equipped
with a pair of wings and a harp, Heinie was suspended
from the ceiling and when all the guests were assembled,
a curtain was drawn, revealing the most amazing angel
that ever trod the golden stair.
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After his stunt Heinie descended from his perch and
attempted to mingle with the guests. He was repulsed
with laughter and informed by the servants that he had
been invited to the party solely in a professional capacity.
"What the hell?" said Heinie. "I'm as much an actor
as they are."
So saying, he took the fifteen bucks — -his dole for the
evening's antic — and departed in high dudgeon.
For my part, I think Heinie was right. He is as much
of an actor as many of those present. And as for social
standing — My Word !
Leave It to Lon
In this wonderful atmosphere of make-believe, as the
lady fan writers love to say, it is gratifying once in a
while to find an artist who is sincere enough about his
work to put himself to some inconvenience in its prose-
cution.
Such an artist is Lon Chaney. Otherwise he would
never have submitted to the going-over which I watched
him taking from Sergeant Hoffman of the U. S. Marine
Base at San Diego.
Chaney is making a war picture — war pictures are
the vogue again, you know — a war picture entitled "Tell
It to the Marines." Sergeant Hoffman was employed
by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio with the consent of
the Marine Base commandant, to teach the actor the
things he ought to know about soldiering. Sergeant
Hoffman is six feet tall and he has a jaw of iron. When
informed of his new duties, he remarked fervently :
"All my life I've wanted to drill a movie actor."
I watched the sarge putting Chaney and William
Haines thru the rudiments of file drill. He had to begin
at the beginning by teaching them to stand at attention.
Sergeant Hoffman kept up the grilling for better than an
hour. Chaney seemed to be standing it all right, but
poor Bill Haines, softened by many a studio tea scene,
I—
Here is a scene from "The Marriage Clause," which brings Lois Weber,
the only woman director, to the screen. It is a sort of SvtngalLTrilby
affair with Billie Dove and Francis X. Bushman in the leading roles
The young man gazing so intently at you,
is Douglas Gilmore — who is getting his
share of good assignments
Has His Say— By don ryan
was perspiring profusely and the expression on his face'
was one of real distress.
But he didn't complain. And I predict that Sergeant
Hoffman will make leathernecks out of his raw recruits
before the picture is over.
Royalty Receives
r\0UGL.\s Fairbanks and Mary Pickford are making
the rounds of royalty, as usual. All of the temporal
monarchs are honored to receive them, hut so far His
Holiness, the Pope, has not been at home in the Vatican
when they called.
1 am informed by Mark Larkin, the Pickford-Fairbanks
publicity seneschal, that Doug is looking over the Ufa
studio in Germany with an eye to its availability for his
use. If he finds it sufficiently equipped for his purpose,
Doug expects to make his next picture there. He is
keen to try his luck among the cinematic artists of the
World, who would be his advisers.
But it seems that Doug will have to hurry or Uncle
Carl Laemmle will have all the Old World artists cor-
ralled in Universal City.
The Busy Von
I've been trying to find out when Erich von Stroheim
will actually begin shooting "The Wedding March."
As he is considered among the greatest of directors, I
have put forth a special effort to discover his activities.
The voice of Von came to me over the telephone the
other day for the first time in months. He told me he
had been away in the mountains rewriting the script for
his story. The wary Paramount officials are making him
do all the cutting of scenes in the script instead of in the
film. Paper is cheaper than celluloid. It is rumored
around that he had written an ending for the picture
which didn't suit the powers — no pun upon the name of
the redoubtable Pat — that be. When he called me, he
had just completed the new ending, which being more
cheerful, he hoped would please them.
As the story now stands, the hero, played by von
Stroheim himself, will ride away to war. leaving the
heroine praying in a nunnery. Whether he comes back
to her or not is left to the imagination of the audience.
Von has assembled everything necessary to make this
picture one of the masterpieces of realism for which he
is famous. Authentic uniforms, which formerly adorned
the officers of the Austrian army, were purchased and
imported and now lie folded in a mighty heap in the
wardrobe room of the Associated Studio, where the pic-
ture will be shot. Decorations of every kind, purchased
from pawn-brokers and collectors, have been assembled
to deck the bosoms of the gentlemen who will compose
the von Stroheim army corps.
Among the medals pointed out to me by a former
Austrian cavalry officer are the Jubilee medals, the (
of Merit, the Grand Cross, the War Medal of 1866, Iron
Crowns of the first, second and third classes. Medals of
the Order of Leopold, the Order of the Golden Fleece,
and many others.
Von told me he expected to be under way within four
weeks. So by the time this tip reaches the public the
picture, no doubt, will have begun.
Loses the Locks
f saw Jackie Coogan the other day for the first time
without the Dutch bob that for >ix years has car
fat matrons to exclaim. "Ain't he cute!"
Jackie, in fact, has suddenly grown up. When a star
of his magnitude is shorn of his infantile locks, it is an
event of such importance that it has to be immortalized
in a movie. So the next vehicle for Jackie — the one on
which he is now engaged — will be entitled "Johnny Get
Your Hair Cut."
The Coogan kid plays the role of a youthful hobo who
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Spurr
Here are Constance Talmadge and her new
leading man, Tullio Carminati, who for-
merly played opposite Duse
The far-famed "What Price Glory?" has reached the celluloid
state and Edmund Lowe has been engaged to play the hard-
boiled sergeant of the "leathernecks '
Autrey
I
beats his way to Latonia, Kentucky, scene of many rac-
ing classics, and becomes a jockey, naturally riding the
winning horse in the Kentucky derby. The Jack Coogans,
father and son, have already departed for Latonia,
where most of the scenes will be made.
The race-horse story was written for Jackie by Gerald
Beaumont. The picture will be released thru Metro-
Gold wyn-Mayer.
Not Always Fair Weather
n spite of propaganda sent out by the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce calling attention to the mean
average temperature of the Glorious Southland, we do
have a few uncomfortably hot days in this latitude.
These days are the ones invariably selected by motion
picture directors for the filming of Alaskan or Siberian
scenes in which the poor actors are swathed in furs.
On one such day I wandered across the Pick ford-
Fairbanks lot, now leased to Joe Schenck. The sound of
sleigh-bells attracted me to a set where tons of salt cov-
ered everything, presenting the illusion of snow.
Two cutters emerged from the courtyard of a castle
and stopped in front of the cameras. Swathed in furs,
a blonde lady hastily descended from one of the sleighs,
shook the prop snow from her shoulders and vanished
in the castle. A director shouted, "Cut !" The actress
shed her sables, kicked off a pair of galoshes, and began
ardently to fan herself. I recognized her then as Con-
stance Talmadge.
Miss Talmadge is making "The Duchess of Buffalo."
It may be her last picture. She told me that she may
quit the game and be plain Mrs. Mackintosh for the rest
of her life.
She is fortunate in having for her leading man in the
wintry picture the talented Italian, Tullio Carminati,
formerly leading man and managing director for Eleonora
Duse. When I saw this young man making love on the
stage of a Los Angeles theater, I wondered why in the
world some producer didn't nab him. But nobody took
the hint until Schenck brought him back to America last
fall and placed him under a two-year contract.
A Comeback
[ fancy it will be pleasant to the believers in women's
rights to hear that Lois Weber, who, for a long time
has been the lone woman director in motion pictures, has
staged a comeback.
Miss Weber was out of the running for about five
years until she got a job at Universal to make a picture
from Dana Burnett's "Technic." The result is called
"The Marriage Clause." It is a highly creditable picture,
taking into account the limitations to which the feminine
director was subjected.
Billie Dove and Francis X. Bushman have the leading
parts. It is in the nature of a comeback for Bushman
as well as the directress. The story is a Svengali-Trilby
affair, in which a young girl, aspiring to stage success, is
taken in hand by a director who puts her over. But as
she rises he descends. There is a thrilling finish in which
the Svengali impresario pulls himself together and by
force of his will compels the girl to give a triumphant
performance altho she is seriously ill.
Glory for Two
More eyebrows have been arched in surprise in Holly-
wood over the casting of "What Price Glory?" than
have been raised since Jackie Coogan proposed playing
"Hamlet."
The two principal characters, the rivals of the stage-
play, are a most ill-assorted pair. Captain Flagg is
played by Victor McLaglen, the giant of "The Unholy
Three." Edmund Lowe, esteemed for his suave society
types, is cast as the hard-boiled Sergeant Quirk. The
girl, Charmaine, is played by Dolores del Rio, the new
Mexican beauty, who is of the most decided Spanish type
and resembles a village maid of France about as much as
she resembles Mrs. Cal Coolidge. The comparison of
Senorita del Rio with Renee Adoree of "The Big Parade"
will be inevitable, and no matter how well the charming
senorita performs, the fact remains that she does not look
the part.
Fox has expanded the war play by writing in a
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n ASSIC
Smith
He is known by no other name than Heinl.-. Whenever a picture
needs a dash of slap-stick or comedy relief, this very busy extra
is engaged to do his stuff
Sirami Peyt
Cecil B. De Mille has a way of discovering
new talent. The young man above is
Kenneth Thompson — C. B.'s newest "find"
sequence that takes place in China and the Philippines in
the years 1911-14.
The Light Fantastic
Summer in Hollywood is not without entertainment for
^ our lighter moments. "Chariot's Revue" is running
at the new El Capitan Theater, the first legitimate theater
to be erected in our celluloid metropolis.
At the Orange Grove Theater in Los Angeles— a sub-
urb of Hollywood — the inimitable "Music Hall Revue,"
staged by Will Morrissey, is attracting crowds of the
cognoscenti, as well as those whose occupation is the
merchandising of dairy products.
The revue is such a success that Ralph Spence, Will
Morrissey and Arthur Freed have incorporated for
$100,000 and will put on a series of shows at the Orange
Grove. The next will be called "Polly of Hollywood."
Spence is the author of "The Gorilla." Freed is a
well-known song writer. Morrissey, himself, is one of
the keenest satirists of the American stage. Midgie
Miller is to be starred in all the shows of the Orange
Grove
Pola's Directors
It's just one director after another with Pola Negri. In
her effort to find someone who understands her she has
employed most of the directors on the Lasky lot. Ever
since she stepped on American soil she has not had re-
vealed the talent which marked her work in the German
production, "Passion." And the blame has rested
equally on the mediocre stories given her and on the
directors. The latter have failed to understand her.
About the most successful of the directors who have
handled her is Mai St. Clair, who was in charge of
Pola's latest picture, "Good and Naughty." At least, he
has made her bring out a sympathetic characterization —
as well as establishing the fact that she knows a comedy
scene when she sees it.
But St. Clair wont linger with her. He has other work
cut out for him. So Pola, according to my spies on the
Coast, will give Mauritz Stiller a chance to understand
her moods and make the best of them. The tempera-
mental Swedish director, who has but recently come to
America, has been given a verbal barrage of bouquets by
the other foreigners who handle the megaphone. Prac-
tically all of them proclaim him the master of them all.
The story goes that when he was assigned by Metro-
Goldwyn to direct "The Temptress" he became so vio-
lently temperamental that no one could get along with
him — and in the middle of the picture he was discharged,
Fred Niblo taking his place. Now that he has found
another job the public is engaged in watchful waiting to
see how Pola fares under his guidance.
Stiller may be the man to lead her out of the Egypt
of mediocre pictures. The cry was raised from the start
that the Polish star, being a foreigner, needed a foreign
director to handle her. Yet Buchowetzki failed to accom-
plish anything out of the ordinary when he directed her.
Maybe it needs temperament to combat temperament.
With Stiller having his share of it — as well as Pola.
probably they'll get along very well together.
Natural Colors
umors fly thick and fast on the Coast and it's difficult
tackling them and bringing them to earth. One of
the latest to warrant the chasing o; it around the lots
concerns Cecil B. De Mille. Ever up on his toes with
bright ideas — ever alert as to what constitutes a "scoop"
on his neighbors, C. B. is going in for natural colors —
and they dont pertain to any technical process, either.
The story goes that having seen how Belasco has
profited by introducing colored types in his stage produc-
tion, "Lulu Belle," he will do a story based on Negro
life — carrying the tentative title of "Porgy."
C. B. is ever after novelties. He knows as well as the
next man who walks with his eyes open that the dark-
skinned South Sea Islander is not so much in popular
favor these days — that the public is fed up with the brown
Peter Pan of the Pacific. And so, if the story contains an
ounce of truth, he will concentrate one of these days on
a deep-hued brunette.
But he will have to work fast. Reports have it that
Monta Bell has ambitions to make a picture with Negro
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H. R. H.
DUCHESS
A duchess can even be unhappy. When she
tries to occupy a throne which is ten sizes
too large for her, you wish she could kick
over the traces and enjoy herself
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The Answer
Replies to CLASSIC Readers
. v t In i a were
■ in the midst of the strike in
Ion. Guess n was pretty ex-
ihn Barrymore and Do
jtello arc to be co-starred
ni "Manon Lescaut."
Mary A. Fire away ! This is
the month for it You say : "Your
. methinks, is like an hour-
ins imaginations run
sands, filling up time." Ricardo Cortez's real name is Jacob
Kr.mtz. And now you want the life story of Ramon Novarro.
I'll see what 1 can do. At this writing he is in New York.
\ P. Well, what class of women are most apt to give
tone to society? The Hello? You want a picture of Buck
That ought to be easy. And you like Irene Rich in sad
stor> scenes She is good at that, isn't she? There's been
lange. Eric von Stroheim is not to direct Pola Negri in
"Hotel Imperial" after all.
LYNN.- Yes, it is $15.00 per. And you dont believe it. At
twenty he thinks he can save the world: at thirty he begin- to
wish he could save part of his salary. William Boyd is playing
in "Man o' War" with Jetta Goudal.
Peggy F.— Listen here, Peggy. I only answer questions for
this magazine and the Motion Picture Magazine, the latter being
the first motion picture magazine in existence, and that's not
maybe. So you think Mae Murray is really beautiful. I guess
you are not alone. Norma Shearer in "Up Stage."
KlTTY. — Say, I'm not a weather bureau, how do I know whether
Elinor Faire and William Boyd are always going to be happy.
You never know when there's going to be a storm. Yes. Norma
Talmadge is married to Joseph Schenck. Betty Blythe is expected
back in New York in August to fulfill a vaudeville engagement.
Bin C. — I dont know about the greatest battle of screen giants,
altho I never will forget the fight between Tom Santschi and
Bill Farnum in "The Spoilers" at the opening of the Strand, in
New York City, in 1914. I think the greatest would be between
Tom and Hobart Bosworth. You know Mary Pick ford is in
Europe at this writing. Address Buck Jones at Fox Studios,
14(12 North Western Avenue, Hollywood, California.
Irene H.— Well, you know. Irene, the more idle a woman's
hand, the more occupied her heart. You remind me of this little
verse :
I wish I was a little rock
Away up on a hill ;
A doin' nothing all day long
But just a sittin' still.
I wouldn't work, I wouldn't sleep
I wouldn't even wash ;
I'd just sit still a thousand years
And rest myself, by gosh!
>ur favorites are Douglas Fairbanks and Mae Murray
you wouldn't want to see them play together, would you ?
Murray is playing in "Altars of Desire."
Big Boy. — The "grand dame" you refer to who is so aristo-
cratic as mother, dowager, and royal personages of advanced
age is Kate Lester, but she is of the old Suydams of New York
and that is her name. She has a firm background, having plaved
with Richard Mansfield, John Drew, Mrs. Fiske, Julia Marlowe.
William H. Crane, Henrietta Crossman, Robert Mantel! and all
the rest of them. Norman Kerry is playing in "Love Me and
the World Is Mine."
Monsieur G. — Wee, wee, but men love at first and most
warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough;
THE ANSWER MAN is at your service. If you
want an answer by mail, enclose a stamped addressed
envelope. If you wish the answer to appear in THE
CLASSIC, write at the top of your letter the name
you want printed, and at the bottom youi full name
and address. Address: The Answer Man. Motion
Picture Classic, 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
But
Mae
for nature make- women to be won
and men to win. You can reach
William Haines at Metro-Goldwyn,
Culver City, California. Thank-
for the invitation, I would like very
much to run out to Illinois just to
give the "girls a treat "
Bettie K.— I should -ay these
whiskers of mine are warm. You
can reach Greta Garbo at Metro
Goldwyn Studios, Culver City. California. Alice Joyce is to
be featured in the next W. C Field i i< tun 7<>ur Old
Man." Adolphe Menjou in "The Ace of Cads." Vilma Hanky
and Agnes Ayres in "The Son of the Sheik." Why Dolores
Costello weighs about 120 pounds.
Helen S. — Yes, Monte Blue has a little daughter. Barbara
Ann, born on April 5th. Fox are producing "Is Zat So," with
Virginia Valli. Wanda Hawley and Gareth Hughes in "The
Totem Pole Beggar." Syd Chaplin's next is "The Cue'..
Nest" from an old English play. See you later. Helen.
Con me P. — Just address Corinne Griffith at the United Studios
II. B. W'arner has been signed for a lead in Metro-Goldwyn's
"The Temptress." Yes, Francis X. Bushman in "Butterflies in
the Rain." with Laura LaPlante. Run in again some time, when
you can stay longer.
1 koi.vn O. — That's all right, there are nearly 1,400 de\
patented by women in this country. Peggy Joyce did play in
a picture some time ago. "The Skyrocket," and she is to make
some more for Associated Exhibitors.
FELIX. — I'm right on hand, always at the question post You're
right, love is the beginning, the middle and the end of everything.
Greta Nissen weighs about 110 pounds. You say you know
for a positive fact Harold Lloyd likes radishes. Maybe he-
likes red. John Barrymore in "The Sea Beast," "Don Juan"
and "Manon Lescaut."
J. U. C. Manila. — I dont think Alma Rubens and her husband,
Ricardo Cortez, went to Manila on their honeymoon as antici-
pated. William Cody's initial starring picture for Associated
Exhibitors will be "The Galloping Cowboy" with Florence
L'lrich, sister to Lenore.
Wild Kin, Singapore. — So, F. A. S.. 90-B Bukit, Temah Road,
Singapore, S. S., would like to join one of the correspondence
clubs. Take it easy, girls. I'm sorry, old man. but 1 dont happen
to know the price of Buck Jones' hat. You mean the broad
brimmed cowboy hats. Better send for a Sears-Roebuck catalog.
Chicago, Illinois. Ruth Clifford is married to James A. Corneliu.-.
MORRIS K. — Well, to educate a man is to form an individual
who leaves nothing behind ; to educate a woman is to form future
generations. Jackie Coogan was born Octol r 26, 1914. and he
is playing in "Johnny-Get-Your-Hair-Cut."
[SABELLE J. — Yes, Leatrice Joy and her brother, Billy, came
over to Brooklyn to see us. She was very popular around the
magazine offices, Leatrice was quite at home, and we were sorry
not to have her with us longer. So you want Ronald Colman to
read "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Do you think he should ?
Blanche K. — Well. Natacha Rambova doesn't tell her
and neither does Jean Acker. Valentino has been married only
twice.
Mus. H. M. — You're quite right, the more women have risked
the more they are willing to sacrifice. Yes, Valentino lives at
Beverly Hills. California. George O'Brien is playing in "The
Story of Mother Machree."
Evelyn G. — Well, you know that Richard Barthelmess was
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THE f
Celluloid|
CRUISE
of the 1
Continents
Marietta Millner, the Austrian star, has been engaged
for Universal's 'round-the-world pictures
Wide World Photos
On any cruise of the continents you would naturally
expect the Germans to be represented. Which ac-
counts for Elga Brink, one of Berlin's leading picture
stars
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Among those who will be featured on this globe-encircling
tour with Kleigs and camera is Jack Trevor, an English actor
FOR the first time in motion picture history Universal
will produce three encircling-the-globe pictures.
The idea is a result of conferences arranged by Carl
Laemmle, the chief mogul of Universal, while abroad
last year. The company was gathered together in Ger-
many and production has already been started on the first
of the films, "The Woman Without a Name."
When the troupers reached New York, they immedi-
ately set sail for Havana and environs to take exteriors.
Eventually the two-part feature will be finished in San
Francisco and Universal City.
The title of the other picture is "Forbidden Kisses" and
the itinerary calls for visits to Honolulu, Shanghai, Tokyo
and other Oriental cities. The return to Germany, where
the interiors will be filmed — will be over the trans-
Siberian railroad.
The celluloid tourists will be under the leadership of
George Jacoby, the European director. He is known in
this country for his production of "Quo Vadis."
_,
WMW/ ;.
THOMAS MEIGH/L
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— A Home Portrait.
wno&i'G
i\C ConrfencQ
\ 'Tklmadgp
Vizewinners in our One
Week Competition
It's the Personality That Counts
( c ontinmd t ' '»i Pao* l() >
proves conclusive!) tint as appraisers ol
prospective screen talent out producers and
experts would make good piano turn-!'.
Bring on the Defecta
VJ/itv ileal in a lot ol moss covered theo
W rieS, when there .ire |>lent\ ol ie.il I.nl-
staring them right in the face? To punc
Hull
Jack Pickford
ture the light-eye theory, it is only neces-
to refer to a list of our screen fa-
vorites, and we find: Mae Murray, Gloria
Swanson, Marion Davies, Douglas Fair-
banks, Fred Thomson, Eugene O'Brien,
Reginald Denny. Thomas Meighan, Lillian
Gish. Vilma Banky, Renee Adoree, May
IfcAvoy, Blanche Sweet, Corinne Griffith.
Dolores Costello, Anna Q. Nilsson, and
others with decidedly light-colored eyes
Vet only the other day I heard a well-
known producer reject a young actor who
appears to be one of the most likely pros-
pects that has arrived in the film colony
for many years, because "his eyes are too
light." And this producer thinks he knows
a great deal about the picture business.
I have seen producers turn down young
screen prospects for almost every sort of
reason imaginable, because of fat ankles,
because of promineni noses, because their
gums showed when they smiled broadly,
because their eyes were too close together,
because of high cheek-bones, because their
ears were too large, and because their fea-
tures were too small. Ye,t by a moment's
reflection, the producer could have discov-
ered that there are many favorites upon
the screen who have one or more or all of
these defects.
In fact, there seems to be no defect that
completely bars a player from popularity if
he or she has other pleasing qualities.
There are even three popular young ac-
tresses on the screen at the present time —
chivalry forbids mentioning their names —
whose eyes refuse to look at the same place
simultaneously.
Moss-Covered Regulations
As for the old chestnut which says that
screen actresses — conversely to screen
actors — should be short, there are Con-
Krnnrth Alexander
Mae Murray
stance Talmadge, Eleanor Boardman, Es-
ther Ralston, Colleen Moore, Vilma Banky,
Leatrice Joy. Lois Wilson, Claire Windsor,
Irene Rich. N'ita N'aldi, Greta Garbo and
Anna Q. Nilsson to relegate this rule into
the discard.
By all means, let us not forget regulation
NO. 316, which states that screen leading
men should be smooth-shaven, while screen
villains should boast some hirsute adorn-
ment. In the past year or so, however,
this canon has been smashed to smithereens,
thanks to Ronald Colman, John Gilbert,
Adolphe Menjou, Lew Cody, Lewis Stone,
and even Douglas Fairbanks.
If this sort of thing keeps up, we may
even live to see the day when the fashion
for heroes will be a complete set of chin-
whiskers.
Rules, regulations, laws and dogmas — the
film industry is full of them, but they dont
mean anything.
They said that comedians couldn't be
serious, and Chaplin proved that he could
be tragic and make the public like it.
They said that comedians had to wear
trick clothes and a funny mustache, and
Harold Lloyd became the biggest money-
maker in film history without either.
They said that comedians had to have a
droll appearance and along comes the good-
looking Raymond Griffith.
Why, Buster Keaton proved that a come-
dian doesn't even have to be funny.
They're Out of the Rut
Dudolph Valentino's rise to popularity
was another setback for the rule-
makers. Rudy had been knocking about
Hollywood for several years trying to
break into the movies. The best he ever
got was a few unimportant roles. The pro-
ducers and casting agents declared that he
violated rule No. 226-A — he was too
foreign-looking.
The experts knew — so they said — the
American public did not care for foreign
players on the screen. Then came the
"Four Horsemen."
Rule No, 226 x »j' smothered undei ■><>
avalanche "i foreign players who Ik-kjh to
' the Amrrn.ni nrrni, jnd the |
IS villi nil
Valentino, who i ouldn l
he was • .mi iixikiiig. became the
idol "i the American public ami the r«
homed away I p some new rule*
Bull Montana
It might also be mentioned that Valen-
tino broke other rules in his ascent to film
fame, his eyes being smaller and more
closely together than movie dogma allowed.
Norma Shearer might be mentioned as
another player who had a long struggle in
breaking into the films, because she did
not answer the accepted screen require-
ments. It was only after learning many
make-up tricks and much experience before
the camera that Norma discovered how to
fool the experts and make them think she
had a screen face.
When Douglas Fairbanks first tried his
hand at the silent drama, it was predicted
by many that he would be a big failure.
In those days, it was a custom for all
screen players to act very slowly. In fact,
they moved and walked about before the
camera in a very self-conscious and cum-
bersome manner. The idea was to register
everything deliberately and with great im-
portance to the spectator.
Fairbanks didn't know anything about
this and he nearly broke the hearts of a
number of experts by ignoring one of their
most iron-clad rules. Doug moved and
jumped about before the camera with an
alacrity that made the experts shake their
heads and turn thumbs down.
When Doug began to appear on the
screens thruout the country, however, the
public at once seized upon him as a per-
sonality refreshing and different. Instead
of slowing down in his movements, Doug
put on a little extra steam and soon became
the biggest favorite of the day.
Symmetry Does Not Shine
It is not necessary to go into embarrassing
details, but anyone who will impartially
analyze the feaures of Norma Talmadge,
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Thomas Meighan
Strauss Peyton
Ramon Novarro
Moray
Milton Sills
Masters of the Motion Picture
(Continued from page 25)
food for thought. Fur-
thermore, he never in-
sults the understanding.
Here, since we are all
grown-ups, a courtesan
is a courtesan ; a pan-
der is a pander. We
are made to feel the
reality of these genre
portraits despite their
romantic background.
The Art of Satire
Iubitsch's social sa-
tires, such as "The
Marriage Circle" and
"Kiss Me Again," force
themselves even more
easily into the category
of masterpieces.
There is less glitter
to dazzle your eyes.
The nature of these
films is simpler, as the
highest art is nearly al-
ways the simplest.
While dealing with
more trivial moods,
"Kiss Me Again," for
instance, is created out
of much characteristic
movie "business." There
is a sequence running several thousand
feet in which the husband and wife, Monte
Blue and Marie Prevost, discuss with
their lawyer the most sensible method of
getting their divorce. The pantomime here
is tremendously funny without having any
of the dynamic farce of the Harold Lloyd
buffoonery. The face, hands, body of
Monte Blue suddenly become an instru-
ment that flickers before the camera lens
with infinite fantasy. The film offers a
brilliant psychological portrait of these
frivolous but extremely human charac-
ters.
Instead of being panoramic like Griffith,
who gives you a great sweep of thousands
of men and horses over a span of years,
Lubitsch is analytical, and prefers to film
a few highly concentrated moments which
have the imaginative fillup of any highly
distilled beverage. It all has the effect
sometimes of certain dreams in which
events unfold themselves with an unearthly
clarity, so that every detail of a room, of
a person's speech, is imprinted on your
mind.
"To see eternity in a grain of sand . . ."
said the poet, Blake. And Lubitsch can
see and show us eternal truths in a casual
gesture, or the oscillations of Mr. Menjou's
eyebrows.
Lubitsch's great stunt is that he gets all
these effects with such simple means, with
such reasonable material ; like the frame-
work of the old domestic triangle. He is
so intelligent and competent as he moves
from one bit of business to another that
he makes pantomime, which is too often
mere dumb show, have a much greater
range of meaning.
There is one side of these films that
I object to, however; the overtone of
cynicism. Granting that sometimes the
fate of an empire rests upon the propor-
tions of a naughty woman's nose or hips,
I still feel that that is not the whole story.
Nine times out of ten the greatest vic-
tories are simply won by sweat, gameness,
suffering. Technically, Lubitsch touches
the deepest tones of his instrument ; emo-
tionally he scratches only the surface of
life.
James Cruze is a master of motion. His masterpiece, "The Covered
Wagon," presented the unique sight of a huge train of prairie-schooners
becoming the heroes of a motion picture while the characters emerged
only for moments from their roles of cogs in a great machine
Stroheim's Grim Shadows
""Those deeply moving experiences which
I demand of a great art that almost
leaves wounds and scars in the memory,
come in fragments of "Greed," Erich von
Stroheim's great picture. To see this is
like living thru the night of one of those
big storms on the Atlantic.
There were striking differences in
method from Lubitsch. First, there is
nearly as much shadow in Stroheim's work
as there is light in Lubitsch's. Instead
of trying for an effect of lightness, he
wants to be ponderous and tragic.
McTeague is an uncouth and simple
being of the lower classes with a tragic
life-story which Stroheim sought to rep-
resent, episode after episode. It was not
a picture for tenderfeet, for the film in
its unflinching realism goes down to the
very dregs of life.
In my memory the picture divides itself
into two parts : the action in the city up
to the murder and the flight of McTeague
to the desert. The early scenes were in-
fused with an atmosphere of drab horror
and piled up incitements to crime. Stro-
heim used "camera angles" and light to
get the most impressive lines and shadows
he could. Above all, he wanted to make
each set fairly drip with feeling. A master
of atmosphere, he composes each scene
with the idea of driving home an emo-
tional effect rather than a picture qf action.
He focuses his camera from many different
angles ; he creeps upon things and sur-
prises them; now he lingers over them
and seems to wonder about them.
Camera Angles
I dont know who first invented these
"camera angles." At any rate, Stroheim
uses them with telling effect. Finding that
you can get startling results by suddenly
devoting the whole spread of the screen
to a few small things, or even part of one
thing, they let it sweep about their material
like a huge, superhuman eye, now looking
at something from close by, now from
below, now from twenty stories above.
And these queer "angles," w:hen used with
artistry, helped to em-
phasize some things
above others, to fix, in
short, certain impres-
sions in your head. It
gives the camera an
amazing grip on you.
In the early scenes of
"Greed" there is a shot
of the wedding group
advancing up the nar-
row stairway of Mc-
Teague's house, seen
from the top of the
hallway. From the
point at which you see
them, they all look pe-
culiarly distorted, flat-
tened. There is some-
thing uncanny about this
effect, and it gives you
a nameless fear, which
is just one of the meods
Stroheim wants to
evoke.
It was these new
and terrible sensations
of deep shadows and
masses, of heavy tragic
movements that I got
from "Greed."
For cinema composi-
tions that aim at atmosphere, the early
scenes of "Greed" have not yet been ex-
celled by American work.
There is a group of films which seem
to represent a completely different tech-
nique and mood from the Lubitsch-Stroheim
variety. I mean the advocates of motion.
An Advocate of Motion
Qne of the classic examples of this type
was James Cruze's "The Covered
Wagon." It was a unique thing to see
a huge train of prairie-schooners become
the hero of a motion picture, while the
characters emerged only for moments from
their minor roles of cogs in a great ma-
chine. The drama of the covered wagons
from the formation of the train, thru its
trials and quarrels, to its final haven at
the sea coast was an amazing spectacle, as
miraculous as anything we may read in
Marco Polo.
It is pure movie stuff again at its best.
In no other form could you have had
such a sensation of space, of the infinite
sweep of desolation, which these winding
trains traversed. It was only because
Cruze really cared for those things that
he got so much of the magnificent surging
movements of this nomadic horde of cattle
and men. The journey of the covered
wagons is really the whole storv 01 this
film. To us it had also the added sig-
nificance of picturing the barbarous, pio-
neer side of America, which, recent as
it 'is, is already forgotten.
It is well that Cruze commemorated
brilliantly another colorful phase of Amer-
ican life: the rise of the movie industry
itself. "Hollywood" was really a much
better film than most people imagined. It
was a satire upon the life of the prepos-
terous world of Holywood that made us
realize just how topsyturvy and crazy
things were over there. The farcical in-
cidents ii. which the group of innocents
who set out to conquer the movie capital
are immersed increase in speed and ab-
surdity until it is all perfectly mad.
One of the best sequences was the dream
scene, in which the hero rows thru the
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66
The Changeable Chaplin
only partly worth while if I ilid not see
iplin. I went to a telephone and called
up Samuel Goldwyn, and he endeavored
touch with the comedian He
called me hack and said that while he had
not been able to communicate with Chap-
lin he had ascertained that the screen
celebrity would not leave tor >e\cral days.
The following afternoon I received a
message from Mr.
saying that
he had made an ap-
pointment for me
with Chaplin in hi->
studio. I was elated,
and punctually I went
he fun - maker's
workshop, where 1
met Chaplin's man-
ager, Alfred Reeves
has been with
the comedian since
the niRhts Chaplin
played in "A Night in
an English Music
Hall " I made known
to Mr. Reeves the
reason for my pres-
ence, hut he api>eared
to be blissfully igno-
rant of the comedi-
an's whereabouts. He
did not say that
Charlie would not
come, but neither did
he appear to think-
that he would. He
was non - committal
and evidently he de-
cided to make my
• as interesting as
he could. He went
over the same de-
scription he had ob-
viously done for hosts of others in simi-
lar circumstances.
Mr. Reeves and I entered Chaplin's
combination office and dressing-room and
in a somewhat distracted way the manager
pointed to two pairs of very' large shoes.
"There are his boots, the ones he wears
for the screen," observed Mr. Reeves.
Hanging above the absurd shoes was
the little tail coat, the shapeless trousers,
and above them, the little derby. It was
all very interesting to look at these props,
but where was Chaplin ? He was almost
an hour late. Mr. Reeves still appeared
to be wondering why I should think that
he would come, and he turned the con-
versation to stage settings, as his eyes
wandered to several telegrams arranged
neatly en the comedian's desk.
I was leaning back in Chaplin's favorite
chair and Reeves was ascertaining the
business done by "The Gold Rush," at
Grauman's Egyptian Palace, when a pre-
possessing, active man. his hair well-
touched with grey, sprang up a few steps
and threw open the screen door. It was
Charlie. He had kept the appointment
after all. Telegrams did not interest him,
but he was pleased to hear that his latest
picture had sold out at the matinee. He
was dressed in a well-cut grey, -striped
suit and wore spotless white shoes, and
only when he smiled did he remind one
of the sympathetic character one has seen
so much on the screen.
He remained only three minutes in his
office, and then we left the building, in
front oi which was waiting his Rolls-Royce
runabout and his Japanese chauffeur. The
chauffeur jumped up in the back seat and
:c Peered the machine to the V
martre. which, when we entered,
almost empty Only the head waiter
(nixed the comedian. W
a table near a window, and MOO we were
talking of Thomas Hurke, of I'hil M.i>,
the black-and-white art London,
of the Karno comedians and of Charlie's
1 1 r > t with an astrakhan collar.
musical i>< ! Ins mini
laugh
Tfal man oi ux -
of much disappotntmei
■ r a l)s giving a
nice to l>e ■bit that Mr Chaplin
will he present, but when you know that
the |*-ople have com-
Chaplin and he does not put in an ap-
i ranee, it mat ■
«|uite trying (off those
who are entertaining,
vcially when, at
times, they are well
aware that som.
the guests have
•Ken previous en-
gagements hoping to
meet and talk to the
comedian. And it not
infrequently hai
that Mr. Chap!
faithful Japanese
calls up and -
"Mister Chaplin
very' sorry' but so ill
cannot come to dinner
— he very' sorry.-'
i this results
in the host or the
hostess not feeling
the least comp;>
regarding Charlie's
indisposition.
Enjoys His Moods
Here is Chaplin with Jo Davidson, the famous sculptor, who has just
completed a clay portrait of the comedian's head
His Picture Ideas
"Vol' know I believe in tenderness in
stories," Chaplin said in the course of
the conversation. "It is a great help in pic-
tures, provided you can express it with
sincerity-. In 'The Gold Rush,' when I
am a millionaire, you will see that I cant
resist picking up a cigar butt. This re-
flects the mood of many persons who have
experienced a bitter struggle in early life.
"To this day I fight against extrava-
gance in make-up, as I constantly think
what it would have cost me in the old
music-hall days, when a shilling was a
shilling. Even now I economize on the
crepe hair I use for my mustaches, and
when I throw away some of this stuff I
recall that I would not have done so in
the early London days. This crepe hair
costs about a nickel a yard, but there you
are. On the other hand, I sometimes call
off work for the day and pay a hundred
men who haven't done a stroke, just be-
cause I am not in the mood to act or
direct."
It was nearly five o'clock when Chaplin
drove me to the Ambassador Hotel, and
he promised that I would soon see him
again.
My next sight of Chaplin was at a
dinner where the host served cocktails,
and. what is not unusual, Charlie was
late. All the other guests had arrived
long before he appeared with his wife.
He was cheerful, when he appeared, and
he looked very fit. He was offered a
cocktail, but refused it. asking the servant
whether he could have a glass of water.
That evening he imitated some of the
C^haplin impre
one as if he rather
enjoyed his moods.
He wants to be dif-
ferent and when it
strikes him suddenly
that he cant stand
going to a certain function nobody could
make him change his mind.
I had an engagement with him for
dinner on another occasion. The Japanese
servant called up and announced that Mr.
Chaplin was going to have Sir Henry
and Lady Wood with him and that we
were all going to see "The Gold Rush"
after dinner.
"I will be ready at seven o'clock." I
said.
"Very well," said the Japanese, timidly.
Ten minutes passed and the telephone
rang again.
"Mr. Chaplin say Sir Henry' — Lady
Wood not coming, but Mr. Chaplin meet you
at seven-thirty." breathed the Japaiu-
Five more minutes passed. The yellow
man was again on the telephone :
"Mr. Chaplin call for you at your hotel
at seven-thirty — but you know — Mister
Chaplin not always there on time — some-
times he little late."
To my surprise, instead of having.
wait that evening for Chaplin, he turned
up five minutes early. We went to dinner
at a restaurant opened by one of his
players, and there I had the experience of
listening to Raymond Griffith, who speaks
only in a husky whisper, and Charlie talk-
ing over picture plays and people. Later
we drove to the theater, and hardly a
soul (and that was in Hollywood ) knew
that the good-looking man next to me was
the chief player in the feature being
screened. He was the only man who did
not laugh that evening, his whole mind
being wrapt up in the music, which he
wanted to change.
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67
The Haunted Home of Movie Ghosts
popular acclaim, ghosts that bow in defeat
before the remorselessness of Age — ghosts
here and there that bow before the folly of
extravagance and riotous living.
As the shadows of the pepper - trees
flicker across the fence, it almost seems
that the notes from Wally Reid's saxo-
phone can be heard from one of the stages
. . . gay, happy, tragic Wally, grinding out
eight and nine pictures a year, continuing
work when he had to be carried on the
set, forcing a smile, making the executives
think it was only another irrepressible
gag.
In the distance seems to move the enig-
matic, courtly figure of William Desmond
Taylor, whose murder created one of the
unsolved mysteries in recent years . . . and
just beyond is a girl in golden curls that
he is directing; Mary Miles Minter, an-
other ghost, at the age of twenty-two. her
film career ended —
because of the
tragedy.
Just Memories
James Neill, the
character actor,
passes in the flesh.
As he looks on the
ruins, he murmurs
the verse quoted at
the beginning of
this story — "I feel
like one who walks
alone, some banquet
hall deserted "
Neill played in the
very first picture
made on this lot.
"What memories !
What memories I"
he said to me. "I
remember the early
days, when that old
barn at the corner
was the whole stu-
dio. I owned the
only automobile —
an old Buick. It
was the sole car
parked under the
pepper-trees of
Vine Street, where
now there are hun-
dreds. Jesse Lasky
walked to work,
and so did Cecil De
Mille, and Samuel
Goldwyn. Dust in
Farnum, the star,
owned a car in New York, but he hadn't
brought it out with him. The studio, for
its location trips, had three old Pope-
Hart fords. Later Mr. Lasky purchased a
small foreign car."
Dustin Farnum 1 Why, isn't that his
name on the Orpheum 24-sheet across the
street, advertising him in "The Littlest
Rebel" ? One rubs one's eyes.
Dustin Farnum, the man who missed an
opportunity to make a million on this very
spot ! He and Lasky and De Mille and
Goldwyn were the original four partners in
the concern. The other three put in $5,000
apiece. Farnum was to get his quarter in-
terest in stock in return for acting in the
first picture, "The Squaw Man." At the
last minute he decided he wanted the $5,000
in cash, and gave back the stock, and the
other three took it reluctantly because they
had a hard time finding the $5,000. Today,
if Farnum had retained the stock, it would
be worth more than $1,000,000, not to speak
of the many dividends. But he took the
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$5,000 . . . and is still playing on the
Orpheum, so the billboard says.
Onward Stalk the Shadows
In the tide of traffic that swirls by, one
sees another ghost, a chastened, some-
what shrunken ghost with a serious face,
who passes in an unobtrusive, inexpensive
car. He casts a pondering glance at the
partially demolished studio. Whatever may
be his thoughts, they are well hidden be-
hind the. immobile mask of his counte-
nance. It is Fatty Arbuckle, and the door
which he is now hurrying past is the same
to which he used to drive with a grand
flourish in a red-and-gold custom-built auto-
mobile. Today he is on his -way to the Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer lot, where he is directing
under the name of William Goodrich.
Ghosts of dead heroes and heroines, of
men and women who laughed and loved in
Here is a bird's-eye view of the Lasky Studio in Hollywood which is being
dismantled. Famous Players are erecting a new studio, the plans calling for
enough floor space to take care of eleven enormous stages
the celluloid world of make-believe, haunt
the spot. Most of them worked there, all
of them knew it as a landmark : Edward S.
Abeles, Hjfrry Woodruff, Bobby Harron,
Alan Holubar, the director, all dead.
Glorious Barbara La Marr, who died at
the pinnacle of fame ; Harold Lockwood,
victim of the "flu" epidemic, and brave
Larry Paton, who paid the price in France.
Arthur Johnson and John Bunny passed
away before this studio was well known,
but Bunny's leading lady, Flora Finch,
recently . appeared in a small role in
Gloria Swanson's latest Paramount picture.
Charles Ogle, the charactci actor, is re-
tired and living at Long Beach, California.
He has no telephone — because the casting
directors insist on trying to lure him back
to the screen.
Fill the Cup and Toast Them
Oow the ghost names haunt this famous
world of filmdom ! Like Napoleon's
conquering army, the ranks are always full,
for as soon as one hero falls, another steps
in to fill the gap!
Florence Turner stopped a moment on
the avenue to look at the scene of destruc-
tion. Once a shining light of movie star-
dom, she recently returned to the screen
in mother roles. Moths in the flame. . . .
Ruth Roland, the heroine of thrillers,
dressed in a chic business suit, slows down
in her car to pay passing tribute. She is
on her way to close a big business deal,
for Ruth is now a real-estate operator of
note in Los Angeles. Her name is posted
on countless lots in the city.
Bryant Washburn enters the gates — on
his way to hold a short conference with
Raymond Griffith. Five years ago he was
a big star on the lot. Raymond Griffith
was then an unknown. Today Griffith is
a big star — and Washburn recently re-
turned to the screen, playing a second lead
in support of Grif-
fith.
"Life's all right
— as long as you
have a sense of hu-
mor," he smiled in
passing.
Time Was
When
HThe faint ghostly
trilling of so-
prano notes recalls
Geraldine Farrar,
as famous in pic-
tures as she was on
the operatic stage.
She is now in re-
tirement so far as
both arts go, and
is living at Ridge-
field, New Jersey.
A shadow from
the land of the
Rising Sun is Ses-
sue Hayakawa, who
recently returned to
this country from
France, where he
has been making
pictures. Once he
was famous in
Hollywood. Today
there is a younger
generation that
scarcely knows
him. He is now
trying his luck on
the stage.
Dapper Charlie
Chaplin rides by on his -way to his own
lot. He casts a passing glance at Pola
Negri's bungalow. . . .
A doorway of the star dressing-room
building that is being torn down reveals
the name of Kathlyn Williams . . . she has
retired from the screen, and is living
abroad with her husband, Charles Eyton.
Another doorway reveals the name of
Betty Compson, now Mrs. James Cruze.
She is now featured in all-star casts . . .
but her friends are predicting she will come
back — to stardom.
In the Days of the Nickelodeon
|wj emories . . . memories . . . Carlyle
Blackwell is in vaudeville in England.
Fanny Ward is retired and living in Paris,
and so is Pearl White. Maurice Costello
is on the stage in this country, but his two
beautiful daughters, Dolores and Helcne,
are "carrying on" the Costello name in the
films with tremendous success. James
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It Is To Laugh
called Mr. Pollock's attention to it and he
had the uniform changed. This mistake,
I am informed, was entirely due to the
costumer. In that delightful musical com-
edy of German life, "The Student Prince,"
the military uniforms and court costumes
in it are purely fanciful ana not in the
least accurate. They would have been just
as brilliant and much more effective had
they been correct.
The most common error seen on both the
stage and the screen in connection with
military uniforms, is
that of side arms
worn with foreign
military dress. It
rarely seems to oc-
cur to a producer
that each army has
regulations of its
own regarding the
form of the sword
and the manner in
which it should be
worn, so they pro-
vide U. S. sabres
for all types of for-
eign officers, and the
actors wear them
hooked up in the
manner prescribed
for our officers, re-
gardless of the reg-
ulations of the army
of which they are
supposed to be mem-
bers. Once in a while
a striking exception
to this rule is seen.
The thing which I
enjoyed most in "The
Phantom of the
Opera" was watch-
ing the unconscious
ease and correct man-
ner in which the actor who played the part
of the lover wore his sword. I wish that
I could remember his name so that I could
mention it here. In one of the "Zenda"
pictures there was also a group of officers
who wore their swords in the Continental
manner, hanging from a single sling, as if
they had so worn them all their lives.
Military Mistakes
Just because our army officers wear their
sword belt outside the coat is no reason
why producers should consider that officers
in all armies do so. As a matter of fact,
with many types of uniform, the belt is
almost always worn under the coat, and
our officers are about the only ones who
hook up the sabre when dismounted. With
all service uniforms, the belt is, of course,
worn over the coat, but the sword in many
armies, when worn with it, is passed
thru a frog.
Foreign military equipment, other than
side arms, is another thing which is often
incorrectly worn. Of course, no actor
should be expected to know how to wear
such articles as arynillettes, sabre-taschcs,
despatch pauches and sashes, but someone
connected with the production should
know and see that they are worn
properly.
Foreign uniforms, other than those worn
in the World War, are rarely correct as
shown on the stage or the screen. I have
seen "Carmen" several times, both on the
stage and in pictures, and I have never yet
seen it presented with real Spanish uniforms
showing the proper insignia of rank. The
usual method of marking the rank of the
corporal who is later reduced to a private,
is to have him wear a pair of two-bar
{Continued -from page 41)
chevrons in the first act and leave them off
in the second. Now in the Spanish army,
rank for both officers and non-commis.sioned
officers is indicated by means of bands of
gold or silver braid, or scarlet cloth, en-
circling the cuff, a corporal having three
stripes of scarlet cloth.
From about 1750 until 1812, it was the
custom in most armies, including our own,
for officers to wear one or two epaulets
according to rank ; general and field officers
wearing one on each shoulder ; captains, one
These two officers of the guard imagine
they are settling their feud with rolling-
pins instead of swords. Such combat is
not of a very high order in the films
on the right shoulder ; and lieutenants, one
on the left shoulder. In all of the Colonial
and Revolutionary period plays and pic-
tures which I have seen, I can only re-
call one instance in which all officers,
regardless of their rank, did not wear two
epaulets.
The further back the supposed period of
the picture, the greater seems to be the
percentage of error. "When Knighthood
Was in Flower," the scenes of which were
laid in the time of Henry VIII, was well
costumed, while "Robin Hood," a picture
of the time of Richard the Lionhearted,
Mr. Blakeslee, the author of "It
Is To Laugh," is a Consulting Cos-
tume Expert. He is an authority
on detail and nothing escapes his
vision. Where the rest of us may
discover a few irrelevant points, he
discovers many. There is scarcely
a picture or play which does not
need "doctoring" to carry out a
similitude with realities. But the
producers continue to err — and this
calls for him and the rest of us to
ask — "What's wrong with this pic-
ture?"
Mr. Blakeslee is one of many
brilliant writers who have been en-
gaged to write feature articles for
the Classic. He knows his sub-
ject thoroly — and our readers may
look forward to future numbers
which will carry his entertaining
ideas.
was full of technical errors. One of the
most noticeable of these was the wearing
of quivers for arrows suspended from the
shoulder, instead of from the hip. Imagine
the difficulty of trying to draw quickly a
cloth yard shaft from a case hanging down
the back !
Sword play and knife fighting as seen
in motion pictures is not usually of a very
high order, but sometimes really remark-
able work is done along these lines. The
duel in "Scaramouche" was an excellent
example of small
sword play, while the
fight on horseback in
"Under the Red
Robe" was certainly
a thriller. The best
knife fight which I
ever saw on the
screen was in "Or-
phans of the Storm."
No real knife fighter
ever places his thumb
on the pommel and
strikes downward
from the shoulder;
he puts it along the
flat of the blade and
thrusts straight out
from the hip. The
fight in "Orphans of
the Storm" was done
by the latter method
and was most real-
istic.
Oh, For the Styles
of Yesterday
Pominc down to
modern days and
civil dress, I wonder
why it is that in
most pictures all
clothing since the
Civil War is the same as that of today.
When I was a boy, the hoopskirt had
gone out, but the ladies wore in its place
the bustle, and their dresses had long trail-
ing pleated skirts. Men of standing in the
community wore high hats, frock coats and
striped trousers, and often carried gold-
headed canes. As a young man, I remem-
ber wearing a short tan overcoat reaching
scarcely below the hips, a stiff-bosomed
white shirt, and a straight and very high
collar. Trousers at that time were rather
large and without a crease and the soft
hat of today was practically unknown in
the East, the derby being the almost uni-
versal head covering for the male sex,
except in formal dress when the silk hat.
or opera hat, was worn. The ladies at that
time favored gowns with large puff sleeves,
and wore wide-brimmed hats.
In the 90's, when the bicycle rage hit
the country, the men took to knickers and
the ladies to ankle-length skirts, shirt-
waists and straw sailor hats. When the
bicycle craze had run its course, the men
resumed their long trousers and knickers
were not seen again until the popularity of
golf brought them once more into use.
About 1890, the soft shirt with turn-back
cuffs replaced the one with the stiff bosom
and cuffs, as an article of wearing apparel
for the male sex ; and early in the twen-
tieth century the ladies began to tighten
and shorten their skirts and reduce the
size of their hats until eventually the ab-
breviated skirt and small head covering of
the present time was evolved.
Very few of these changes in dress,
which have all occurred within the past
fifty years, are shown in motion pic-
tures.
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Impressions of Hollywood
(Continued from page 45)
sort of church
which was former-
ly occupied by the
Theosophists, and
it is very pictur-
esque and quaint.
Gardner is quite
youthful and pre-
possessing— partic-
ularly in the cos-
tume and make-up
in which he en-
tered, just having
come from a re-
hearsal of a scene
in "The Amateur
Gentleman," in
which he is giving
Dick Barthelmess
a battle for the
honors. He proud-
ly showed me some
of his old books
and rare prints,
which I enjoyed
quite as much as
viands and cigars.
Drinking Tea
With Jack
Dempsey
Pstelle Taylor
^* invited me over
recently to meet her
husband and you
can bet I went, be-
cause I had not yet
met Jack Dempsey,
who is perhaps the
most popular man
on this little ant-
hill of ours that we call the world. They
sent their Rolls-Royce to take me there,
and when we drew up in front of a pretty
bungalow in a fine neighborhood I did not
realize that this was the house that Jack
built. It looked nothing like Jack, outside
or in, but it did look like Estelle Taylor.
Everything looked nice and neat and tidy,
and there were no signs of boxing-gloves
or sports. Estelle and a few other ladies
were there, but no Jack — he was expected
to return from his training camp at any
minute.
While we were talking, a green parrot
walked in and joined in the conversation.
He belonged to Estelle and soon proved
that he did. Then a maid wheeled in a
tea-wagon full of sandwiches, cakes, tea
and other delicacies, and I was informed
by one of the ladies that the tea-set (a
very choice one) was a Christmas present
from Jack to Estelle. And I thought to
myself, Jack has mighty good taste. I
partook of the delicacies slowly, because
I was impatient to prolong things and see
Jack.
A Genial Host
T could not imagine Jack sitting in that
dainty drawing-room drinking tea 1 I
simply couldn't get myself to believe that
he was coming. But shortly we heard a
car outside, then a key turning in the front
door, and then a voice saying to the maid,
"It's only me, the iceman." It was not
a heavy, bass voice, as I had expected, but
quite a boyish one. And then the young
giant walked in. He was dressed quite
like any other ordinary business man, not
loudly, nor coarsely, but neatly. He kissed
Estelle affectionately, smilingly shook hands
with the other ladies and then grasped my
hand. He did not look so big as I ex-
72
The latest craze to hit the feminine portion of the country is the pastime of
making hooked rugs. Here are Marian Nixon and her sister, Linda, at the
new art — making rugs for Marian's new home
pected. He seemed only three or four
inches taller than myself and not quite so
plump. His figure looked well formed and
not overmuscular nor ungainly. He is not
handsome but decidedly likable. He has
personality and charm, and he talks quite
like anybody else, using good language.
Then he sat down by my side, took up a
dainty teacup and saucer in his big hand
and drank. Then he took an olive and two
or three immature sandwiches, a couple of
candies and a fancy cake or two, and be-
haved himself like a Beau Brutnmel. Not
a word about sports and fighting. We
talked about pictures some and he said that
he liked to see them but believed he wasn't
much of an actor. "I was in a picture at
Universal and I was supposed to feel very
badly about something — in fact, I had to
cry, but they couldn't get me to do it, try
as I would. They made me look at bright
lights, put onions in my eyes, vaseline, and
everything else, but I couldn't make myself
cry."
Touring the Dempsey Manse
"VY/ell, I can make you cry, Jack," said I.
" "You go down and see 'Stella Dallas.'
and I'll bet $100 your eyes will moisten."
Estelle doubted it, and so she took the bet,
and we put up the money. We're all going
together, and I'm hoping to get that $200
pot!
After "tea" I was shown thru the house
at my request. You just ought to see
Jack's bedroom ! It is chuck-full of pink
silk pillows, fancy dolls, perfumes, dainty
laces, and so on, and the bed is ivory-
colored with fluffy lace coverings. Of
course, this is really Estelle's room, but I
know that he bought a lot of the stuff him-
self, and that he likes it, and that he is
just as fond of perfumes as she is.
But in another
room there is an
athletic device that
looks quite mascu-
line, and a big
clothes closet con-
taining at least
twenty suits of
men's clothes hang-
ing on a pole.
Then they showed
me a lot of small
pet dogs — some
beauties, too — and I
wondered if these
were Jack's. No,
they weren't — they
were Estelle's.
Jack's are huge
ones and he has
them out in the
country.
Jack is running
a hotel to keep him
busy, and he likes
it. He is very
much like any
other man — except
he is the greatest
fighter on earth.
That Semon Chap
I ran across my
old friend, Larry
Semon, the other
day, and he took
me over to the
F. B. O. studio,
where he is doing
a five-reel comedy
called "Spuds."
Years ago I thought that Larry would by
now be giving Lloyd, Chaplin and Keaton
a hard run for first place, but he seemed to
have gotten a bad break in the last few
years and did not progress as he should.
I am, however, still betting on him and
hope yet to see him quite at the top among
the first comedians of the screen. He
showed me the first reel of "Spuds," and it
is as good as anything I have seen by any
of the comedians. If the other four reels
are as good as the first, he has a sure win-
ner, but — alas ! — he says that they wont
give him enough money to finish the pic-
ture properly. And that is the way things
go. His backers must be blind 1
In one of the scenes in "Spuds" is a se-
quence where Larry is hiding behind a
couch near a steam-pipe, when a little
monkey comes in and turns on the steam.
This little monkey is very clever and gets
twenty-five dollars a day — at least, his fat
Italian master gets it. I watched them
for two hours training this monkey to
sneak in and unscrew the handle of the
radiator, but of course they did not use the
steam during these rehearsals because it
would frighten the monkey. His master
would make the motions of turning the
handle, the monkey would look at him and
imitate the movement, all the time cheeping
his willingness to do the best he could. He
was fastened to the end of a long, thin
piece of black silken cord to prevent his
getting away, because, I am told, in a pre-
vious scene he escaped and for hours had
a jolly time aloft among the rafters, finally
getting out of the building and quite losing
himself several blocks away, much to the
distress of his master — but Larry himself
rescued him in the back yard of a bunga-
low.
(Continued on page 85)
John (filbert
as "Rodolphe"
j <>n-x GILBERT
LA BOHEME.
in
Brilliant Supporting Cast Includes
Renec Adorec and Karl Dane of "The
Big Parade", Roy D'Arcy of "The Merry
Widow", Frank Currier of "Ben Hur",
as well as George Hassell and Edward
Everett Horton.
Screen story by Fred De Gresac based
on Henri Murger's "Life in the Latin
Quarter."
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The Disillusioned Director
{Continued from page 30)
Seely
Mabel Ballin is one of the real artistes of
the screen. She is a mistress of make-up as
well as characterization — and never fails to
reveal sympathy and sincerity in her per-
formances
I asked him
why he gave up
the most lucra-
tive business of
directing pic-
tures.
"I haven't
really given up
my film work,"
he said. "To
tell the truth, I
have been ex-
perimenting
with a fairy
story at the
Paramount Stu-
dio. Douglas
Fairbanks want-
ed me to make
'The Black Pi-
rate' with him,
but I was tied
up with the
Paramount peo-
ple and couldn't.
I'm sorry, for
the setting of
that story had
tremendous
color possibili-
ties.
"However, I
intend to make
one color picture
before I give up
my screen work
entirely. My
hobby is color. I have devoted my life to
the study of color and I have a thousand
theories about color values on the screen
and of course I want to try out some of
these theories."
But the note of enthusiasm that was
present when he mentioned his books and
his murals was absent when he discussed
his work for the screen.
A Thankless Task
"1V/TAKING pictures, especially if you are
trying to make beautiful pictures, is
a thankless task," he volunteered.
"You see before you a very disillusioned
person ! I love Hollywood and have made
firm friendships among the picture people —
but as a whole, and this is especially true of
the producers, I find the people of the film
world to be a fickle lot.
"Who was it that said there was no such
thing as true friendship in Hollywood ?
The newest big name arrives here with a
fanfare of trumpets, there is feasting, the
Yes-Yes Chorus does its darnedest, and
the film colony literally hangs on the words
of the new arrival. But after the novelty
and excitement has died down — the biy
name becomes a worn toy, one whose secret
mechanism has been discovered — then it is
time for another big name.
"Such a state of affairs is very discour-
aging to the real artist, for art thrives best
in an atmosphere of appreciation.
"Art and talent are not novelties — they
are things which grow richer and more
prolific with time. There is little leisure
in Hollywood—
that may be
the answer to
it all ! But look
what they have
done to Pola
Negri — to Lu
bitsch — let us
hope that Jan
nings does not
come to Ameri-
ca to make pic-
tures !"
We gossiped
about the Ger-
man pictures
and agreed that
American film
production will
have to change
radically unless
we want to be
beaten in the
end by the very
excellence of
the German out
put.
Yes, There Is
Subtle Drama
V4r. Ballin is
discouraged
when he thinks
of the future of
the American
films. I have
been discour-
aged for a long, long while, especially after
viewing 'The Last Laugh' and seeing the
lack of appreciation accorded the Hugo
Ballins and the Maurice Tourneurs of the
industry.
"They tell me," Mr. Ballin went on. with
a sudden sly humor in his smile, "that I
have no feeling for drama — that I 'try' to
be artistic. I was a recognized artist be-
fore I attempted directing pictures — as for
drama — I confess the thriller bores me!
But there is such a thing as subtle drama,
the kind we find in, say, the Lubitsch
pictures."
I asked him for a photograph to go with
this article.
"Why do you want to print the picture
of a fat, middle-aged gentleman in spec-
tacles ?" he protested, and gave me two of
Mabel Ballin instead.
And when I remarked upon the charm
of his home and his happy domestic life —
he explained very simply, "Mrs. Ballin and
I are not anxious to be famous — we wan:
always to do the things we enjoy doing.
Of course, we like appreciation — who
doesn't? But we love most of all to work
together — she paints, you know, and paints
well."
Mutual interests, no wild bid for fame —
that is the secret of one of the most con-
tented menages in the film colony.
But just the same, Hugo Ballin is a dis-
illusioned gentleman — disillusioned when it
comes to things cinematic — but otherwise a
happy and contented gentleman.
He believes in himsef and his art.
The Most Quoted Man (Favorably and Unfavorably)
in America— HENRY L. MENCKEN— Talks for the
First Time on the Movies.
This Is But One of the Many Brilliant Articles You
Will Want to Read in the September Classic.
74
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"Came One Spring Day; and Then — '
ued f
hadn't tl
bottle o i ' .hi. uli. m ale in a taxi* ah
gone "in of tl ■' welcome me and
i h mi- .mil wire even nl> inn "" that
.mi it ni axiom, "the vvaj to heai t
is thin Ins stomach." The) w<
linn h. I onse(|iientl) . I evoh
which started m
ment to see if I rcall) could, and ended
b) being clasped to m) bosom with .1 shrill
wakening mothci love. In other
words, I h rote .1 movie, and what
ible, I liked it aftei I had w 1 ittcn it.
Ami this, as brief!) as possible, is the
psis that I read to Mi 1 call and to
Mi Turner, the head of the scenario de
partmenl ol Controversial Pictures, (who
had sent out fot the Spikenard and
Kirst we had lunch, and then we
I Mi r timer's private office, 1
full) stuffing all the cracks with cotton
and chloroforming the subordinates
in the outside office. Here goes the synop-
nitl be it understood that all motion
picture rights to it are held by me ami
me alone whatever that means I
The Plot Thickens
A handsome youth, bored with his sis-
** iti's garden party, finds the photograph
of a beautiful girl in the living-room of
his sister's house. He falls in love with
the photograph. His sister dismisses his
inquiries as to who the original may be by
md that she left a
few days ago for a five-year visit to the
Philippines. That being that, the youth is
petrified a few days later, while taking a
short cut thru the Grand Central Station,
. the object of his adoration abou
set forth on her long voyage. Dates have
meant much to his sister, anyway.
Lured b) the girl's beauty, he follows her
down to her train and when it starts off
for the Coast, he is on board. He buys a
tieket as far as a lone twenty-dollar bill
will take him, and establishes himself in
the smoking compartment to plan a means
of meeting her. Unfortunately, before he
can meet her. she meets an old college
deadly rival of his and meeting her be-
comes even more impossible. Desperation
over his lack of funds causes the youth
to throw the porter off the car as the
train reaches the end of his twenty dollars'
worth, whereupon, with the aid of a can of
friendl) shoeblacking and the porter's hat
and coat, he becomes the porter. Numer-
ous highly risible scenes ensue which end
by the youth's disguise being discovered
and his being promptly thrown off the
train. Fortunately he stumbles onto a
truck that is being hijacked and drives off
- '■'•'• ', heating the train to its destination.
His rival again frustrates him antl takes
the girl to her ship followed by the youth
in hot pursuit. Many more extremely
risible scenes ensue on board the departing
ship which end with the youth throwing the
rival into the bay b) the slack of bis trou-
sers and the boat sailing for the Philip-
pines without the girl, who at last is safe
on the pier, clasped in the youth's arms.
It's a pretty thing, isn't it ?
Came the Conference
Prktty or not, such it was that I read to
Mr. Turner and Mr. Teal while the
cuckoos sang to the chloroformed sub-
ordinates and the cigaret smoke swirled
about the cotton-wool padding. Mr. Tur-
ner was the first to break the silence that
greeted the ending of my effort.
"Very good," said Mr. Turner, "very
good indeed."
tout
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ill, "tho ■
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the idea is splendid. I mean, I 1
lik.
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Ami the)
all get the same tram Ami then, b) some
means or other, you show tin- fellow do-
ing something or other which makes all
them decide they wont get a divorce
■ all. That," he explained kindh to
me, "is what we call human inn ■
"Wouldn't it be funnier, Phil," said Mr.
Turner to Mr. 1 \ all. "if somehow this
chap got to throwing all the officials off
the train, first the other porters and then
the conductor ami finally the engineer until
he was practical!) running the train bv him-
self, first being all tie porters, and then
the conductor collecting tickets and then
iigineer "
laimed Mr. Teall. "Now
you certainly have it." he said, waving a
hand to me. "And you want to get in
some more for the girl and for the other
fellow to do. They're sort of in the back-
ground. You have a great opportunity for
chromatic nuance.''
"Oh, yes," I replied dully, wondering if
there was any chloroform left.
Just a Figurehead
"Tr's a fine idea," Mr. Turner insisted,
with no jot of his enthusiasm gone.
"It's the best we've had in months. But
you haven't quite got the angle. All you
need to do is fix it up along the lines we
suggested and you'll have something. You
go back and work on it and put in some
new ideas — by the way you might make
the fellow the president of the railroad,
or perhaps it would be better to make the
girl's father the president of the railroad
— and put in a scene somewhere where he
saves somebody's life, or stops the train
from getting wrecked — they like that, and
then bring it back to us."
"And then what?" I said. At least it
sounded vaguely like my voice.
"Why then," said Turner triumphantly,
"I'll bet you it gets over !"
"Of course it will." crowed Teall. "it's
a great idea. All it needs is a little fixing
up — nothing at all. Good-bye," he said,
opening the door for me. "don't forget
your pathos and your unity and your
coherence ami your characterization and
your sex appeal. . . ."
"Good-bye," said Turner, "be sure to re-
member your chronological march of
events and play up your climacteric values
to the full. . . ."
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(Continued from page 68)
Cruze, once famous as a leading man, and
especially famous in "The Million-Dollar
Mystery," in which his ex-wife, Marguerite
Simw, played opposite him, is now one of
the big directors, and is filming "Old Iron-
sides." Miss Snow is in vaudeville. Francis
X. Bushman is still in pictures, having last
appeared in "Ben-Hur." J. Warren Ker-
rigan occasionally returns to the screen,
as in "The Covered Wagon." He is living
in semi-retirement in Hollywood.
King Baggott, Francis Ford, Robert Z.
Leonard and Alan Hale are all directors,
and Marshall Neilan, once tremendously
popular as an actor, is now one of the
biggest of directors.
Juanita Hansen, once a Sennett bathing
beauty and later a dramatic player, is in
retirement.
Betty Blythe is making pictures abroad,
tho she is scarcely heard of any more.
Mae Murray, another old-timer, is still
going strong. Beverly Bayne is only seen
at intervals on the screen.
Once Upon a Time
lois Weber, once a star, and former wife
of Phillips Smalley, who played op-
posite her in most pictures, is the only
woman director in the business, . and is
making a picture for Universal. Smalley
is on the stage.
Irving Cummings, an old-time hero, is
directing. Mabel Normand, after a time
out of pictures during which she was on
the stage, has just returned and signed
a half-million-dollar contract with Hal
Roach. Another old-time actor is now the
king of comedy producers — Mack Sennett.
Theda Bara, once the vamp of vamps, is
now trying to come back as a comedienne.
Mabel Van Buren, the first leading lady
at the studio, has retired altogether from
the screen. So have Edith Storey, Pauline
Bush, Patty Darwell, Grace Cunard, Bessie
Barriscale, Anita King, Marie Doro and
Edna Goodrich. Marguerite Clark is mar-
ried to a very wealthy New Orleans busi-
ness man, and is no longer in pictures.
Mae Marsh recently made a picture in
England, but is now practically retired
and living at Flintridge, California. She
is the wife of Louis Lee Arms, well-known
newspaper man, and has two charming
children.
The Fast Thinning Line
A lice Joyce, once known as the "Kalem
^^ Girl," continues her old-time popu-
larity, and recently appeared in "Manne-
quin" and "Beau Geste." Blanche Sweet,
Marshall Neilan's wife, is as popular as
ever, and is now appearing in "Diplomacy,"
which her husband is directing.
Valeska Surratt has retired and is living
in New York.
Constance Binney left the atmosphere
of the Kleigs some time ago in order to
marry a Boston banker.
Henry B. Walthall, famed as the "little
colonel" in "The Birth of a Nation," after
being out of pictures for some time, re-
cently staged a comeback, as did Katherine
McDonald. Marguerita Fisher is married
and is playing mother roles and second
leads.
But the passing flicker of film fame,
like the verdict between the gladiators and
the lions in the old Roman arena, is not
always unkind.
Mary Pickford is still at the top of
picturedom, and so are Doug Fairbanks
and Charlie Chaplin. Owen Moore, Matt
Moore and Tom Moore are still high in
popularity. Thomas Meighan, another old-
timer, so far as picture history goes, is
still at the top of the heap, and Gloria
Swanson is a star of stars.
Robert Edeson, Hobart Bosworth, James
Neill, William S. Hart, Shirley Mason,
Viola Dana, Noah Beery, Wallace Beery,
Dorothy and Lillian Gish, are all still re-
ceiving the rewards of popular favor. Wal-
lace Beery, after many ups and downs,
is firmly established as one of the greatest
of them all, vying for honors as a char-
acter actor only with a comparative new-
comer in pictures — Ernest Torrence.
Raymond Hatton is still keeping the
even tenor of his way before the cameras.
Marjorie Daw is still prospering before
the Kleigs.
Some of them have passed clear out of
the picture — into new realms. For instance,
"Broncho Billy" Anderson is now running
a string of race-horses at Tia Juana. And
"Texas" Guinan, once famed as a picture
star, is a witty ad lib. hostess at a New
York night club. Elliott Dexter is on the
stage, and so is Robert Warwick. Vivian
Martin is in musical comedy.
Dear old Theodore Roberts, the "grand
old man" of pictures, is gradually regaining
his health after a long siege of illness, and
has just appeared in his first picture in
two years — "The Cat's Pajamas." He is
now making a vaudeville tour. His big
house on the hill, at the head of Vine
Street, looks sadly down on the wrecked
studio, where he came as one of the first
actors, and where his portable garage,
which he used as a dressing-room, was
moved all over the lot as expansion began
to take place.
Like Ships That Pass in the Night
("■ hosts . . . ghosts that seem to tread
softly in the gathering darkness, ghosts
that will soon be homeless, wandering sadly
thru a new maze of buildings that will
spring up on this site, store buildings, cold,
prosy, unromantic ; buildings that will not
bask gently under the pepper-trees, build-
ings that will not hide the glitter and
pageantry of filmdom ; ghosts that will turn
over a dead leaf and poke into an odd
corner in hope of finding a faded remnant
of the studio glory that was. Ghosts that
would not feel easy, ghosts who might
even be unknown, should they haunt the
bright modern buildings of the new studio
where the army of film great, ever re-
cruited anew, marches on and on, down the
pathways of celluloid fame.
The Celluloid Critic
(Continued from page 51)
film outweighs the serious. There is where
you must look to be entertained. And
there are enough mirthful scenes to keep
you laughing most of the way. One of
them shows Chester Conklin, who is lugged
out of a Detroit sausage factory to become
the Prince of Spezonia. And Chester
doesn't forget a single trick from his as-
sortment. He is particularly amusing dur-
ing the royal parade, when he runs to
cover as the bombs begin to fly. Dix is
the customary dashing American who
palms himself off on the high dignitaries
(Continued on page 82)
It's the Personality i'h.n
Counts
A. Ill
son, Richard Dis, Kenee Vdoree, Colleen
re, lithe I '.i' ral othei
promiiu nl sci eeu cclcbi ities will immc
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in one featui i •■■ anotli fi om the usual
standards i'i perfection .is set l>> the studio
\\ lull- each and evei ) one o( them has
ahIi outstanding success on the silvei
sheet, am young playet having the
, .| di i » 1 1 ive, would
have .t difficult time lauding .1 contract in
I Hollywood studio il the decision « K
pended upon one of these gentlemen who
like to rely upon rules and regulations.
Summing up, what i!«> we find
the greatest and most popular players upon
the screen, from (iloria Swanson,
t iilbei t. Douglas ' lirh inks, Ronald
njan, Lillian (iish, \'orma Shearer, Ru
dolph Valentino, Norma Talmadgc, 1
Rich and Thomas Meighan down t.
al run of film stars, arc .ill bn il
r more of the laws which certain stu-
seek to use in judging new
n talent.
The reason foi this phenomenon is ap
parent to all except the "experts."
The player who appears to have a 1
Feet screen face and other qualifications
that approach perfection, according to the
"experts," very often makes rapid progress
upon the screen, but as a rule their prog-
ress is of short duration. This is due to
the fact that because of their asserted pei
fection as screen material, they are given
every opportunity for advancement at the
In the long run they usually fail.
because while they may appear technically
ect, they lack that something which
might be called "screen personality," which,
all, is the only thing that really
counts.
Personality Counts
(~}s the other hand, players who have the
potentialities for .ureat favorites and
I artists are usually very slow in yet
ting to the top. Once again the blami
he laid at the door of our motion-picture
wiseacres who fail to note the possibilities
of such players because they are looking
only for exterior physical qualifications in-
stead of the divine spark which makes the
outstanding and lasting screen favorite.
Such players usually meet with great
opposition and suffer man}- discoui
ments in their climb upward in the silent
drama. They are rebuffed and rejected at
almost every turn by men who are merely
iting a lot of chatter they have heard,
after the fashion of parrots.
\fter watching tin- successful stats and
Struggling young players and making pre
for over ten 3
— predictions which have been fulfilled al-
most without a solitary exception — I defy
any "expert" to forecast with a degree of
certainty the future of any young player
by means of physical qualifications or
standards of any kind.
Judging from my own experiences, which
have netted the writer a batting averagi
almost one thousand per cent, in discover-
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one method to use.
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or what might he termed "screen pel
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or no contact with the motion picture
today is not keeping abreast of the times.
Can a writer afford to ignore the motion
picture? One thing is certain, which is,
that any writer who keeps his work and
product in step with the movies can afford
most anything.
Yet, here is a representative group of
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whose opinions on the motion picture
should be intelligent, valuable and con-
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book, which it should be their business at
least to become well acquainted with.
Yet here we have the concrete feeling
and expression of three great constructive
minds upon the art of the motion picture,
with particular reference to our method
of preserving that art. It is a bitter pill
for the British to swallow, this Yankee-
izing of the films that once promised so
much for the English producer. They
make wry faces at the facts. And the
facts remain, that America is in control
of the world market, and when I compare
American pictures with those of any Other
country — by and large — I find ours do
excel.
REBECCA WEST
(Continued from page 20)
"All English films are bad. We have
no money, cannot pay, like Hollywood, to
keep up a reserve of actors for the films.
We must depend rather on a group of
players that must be doing other things as
well. We cant have West End actors at the
price we are obliged to offer them, but
must take the provincial actor. The pro-
vincial actor requires a long training and
by the time we had given it to him, the
film field was lost to us.
'America does not seem to take seriously
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in this matter of a world-leader in a field
of incalculable influence. We look to
America for better things than she has
been doing."
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH
(Continued from page 20)
sort of literature in England, the 'penny
shocker.'
"So, if I were to criticize the films in
one particular more than another, I would
point to this tendency of taking the life
out of their stories and stuffing them with
sawdust or candy or bank-notes.
"Life is so interesting, so thrilling ! And I
mean the ordinary every-day life of every-
day people. Why dont the film people
take up the middle-class life more? Of
course, the middle-class life will need ex-
pert handling by accomplished story-tellers.
It is so easy for anyone to weave a fanci-
ful tale, an extravagant story, around some
happening that seems to demand it. But
the curious part of it is, that common,
ordinary things are intrinsically interesting
— if handled in an artistic manner. And
by 'artistic,' I do not mean in some high-
falutin way, but inspirationally treated in
an honest fashion by some good literary
craftsman.
"Oh, I think the films have really their
biggest field still before them in this every-
day life of every-day people. There will
be a great impetus, a sort of renaissance,
when they discover real life. Of course,
they are bound to do it sooner or later."
MAY SINCLAIR
(Continued from page 21)
names. There are Queen's Gates, Queen's
Gate Roads and Queen's Courts in every
section of London, where some queen or
other during the past thousand years has
honored the locality by stepping her foot,
or possibly sending her Equerry. It is all
cut off the same piece of cloth of public
sentiment with our "Washington's Head-
quarters." No locality is going to give
up its Washington's Headquarters, even
tho some stupidly honest college professor
should discover that it was Booker T.
Washington.
London is the same. It has its Abbey,
or Queen's or King's this or that every-
where, and stubbornly holds on to them.
The only way to be sure to locate the
one you want is to fix firmly in your mind
which section of the great city in which
it may lie — W., W. C, E. C, and so on.
Having lost my bearings, it was with
great difficulty, then, that I found Abbey
Road.
May Sinclair lives in a little house on
the corner with a bay window, just like a
thousand other houses in long dismal rows.
It is not a pretty part of London. There
is a latched gate and a small yard in front,
a brass door-knob and bell-pull, a cold
entrance hall and a hesitating slavey that
goes with it — just as there is with all the
rest of the little houses in the neighbor-
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too, with a handful of fire in the grate.
And before this little fire I found May
Sinclair — the real May Sinclair, not the
one I had imagined.
She seemed very small as she sat perched
in a large chair like Alice in "The Looking-
Glass," her legs so short that her feet
scarcely touched the floor. But that might
have been partially an illusion. She wore
a shiny black silk dress and held an enor-
mous black silk cat — named Jerry, I learned
later — on her lap. She looked just like
one of those little side-street persons of
whom Sheila Kaye-Smith had suggested
that the movies ought to depict their lives.
So this was May Sinclair !
"I would like to tell you only about my
experience in relation to my novel, 'The
Immortal Moment,' that was done in the
films. I may say that they took great pains
to get the scenes in Italy. But beyond that,
the performance positively made me ill!
"They turned the quiet hotel I had pic-
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story, the chief woman character commits
suicide. There seemed no other way out.
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when they naturally fail to grasp Conklin
as the possible heir to the throne. Then,
too, the young man's English is difficult to
understand.
Well Burlesqued
I— If. had met the heroine (the princess)
while invalided on Spezonian soil dur-
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him, since she had only seen his eyes, the
rest of his face being swathed in bandages.
But he remembers her — and he is thrust
into matrimony with her — tho he doesn't
know what it's all about.
. There is a lot of good-natured burlesque
of court pomp and ceremony — with the
funniest sequence revealing the quick-
stepping bodyguard going thru their in-
tricate evolutions. The bridal night also
has its mirthful moments — while the fight
at the finish, in which Dix and "Gunboat"
Smith whip all the able-bodied men of
Spezonia, is fast and exciting.
In all, "Say It Again" is a rollicking
number which only pauses in its journey
across the screen to permit a few romantic
interludes. The subtitles are rather amus-
ing, tho the constant repetition of spelling
them backward to indicate the language
of Spezonia becomes somewhat tiresome
after a while.
If I were to pick out any particular high-
light, I would select Conklin's expression
of fright as he turns the pages of the his-
tory of Spezonia and discovers how de-
parted kings suffered violent deaths. It is
a hilarious scene.
The acting is creditable all the way —
with Dix playing his role easily and surely.
Alyce Mills, his new leading woman, suc-
ceeds in being charming — while the "Gun-
boat" and Conklin take care of the laughs.
Another Farce Comedy
Cpoxtaneity should be the cry-word with
makers of farce comedies. It hasn't al-
ways been remembered in "Money Talks,"
for the piece slips and slides in its pace
quite frequently. Naturally, this tends to
make it lose some of its sparkle.
The farcical twists evaporate rather
quickly — and what develops is a series of
slap-stick gags when Owen Moore, after
the style of Syd Chaplin, dons dresses and
a wig and proceeds to cut up a few high
jinks. Owen appears as a flashy youth
engaged in the advertising business. Like
a good bluffer, he succeeds in putting up a
good front.
The idea— true to most farcical ideas —
centers around the youth having tiffs with
his wife. She tires of his unfulfilled prom-
ises and goes back to mother. However,
the author doesn't neglect the happy end-
ing. He sees to it that the youth stumbles
upon prosperity. So it all ends merrily
and peacefully.
The piece has its high spots. You cant
take anything away from Owen Moore.
His interpretation is breezy and to the
point, while Bert Roach and Claire Wind-
sor handle their roles to extract all the
humor and charm from them.
Hines Helps Himself to a Good One
\Jo moviegoer who treasures his laughs
can go wrong with "The Brown
Derby," Johnny Hines' newest essay.
Truly, it's a lively, rollicking number —
and one that should sky-rocket the comedian
right up there on the highroad to popu-
larity. He can look the world in the face
and say, "Folks, I've put it over."
The piece is bright with an assortment
of brand-new gags — which burst forth and
spread the silversheet with liveliness.
Spontaneous laughter is developed at the
start — and this response continues to the
end. There may be some old high jinks
here, but if there are they are not recog-
nizable. That's how this comedy has been
treated to look novel and neat.
"The Lirown Derby" has a "snap and go"
about it which keeps it moving with fine
speed. Xot a scene is shown which loses
its pace and gingery quality. We see Hines
suffering from an inferiority complex in
his "underdog" study of a plumber. He
inherits a brown derby from an eccentric
uncle — a derby which carried the old fel-
low to a financial triumph — and it brings
him all sorts of good luck as well as en-
abling him to conquer his inferior fancies.
The head-piece almost has a mind of its
own in the manner which it places Hines
in one tight jam after another. It skips
about of its own accord — and the comedian
skips about some himself. The w. k.
chase figures for a finish to the merry
mix-up — which involves the characters in
a marital scene of mistaken identities. I
recommend this comedy. It is a sure-fire
laugh-getter.
Marie as Mabel
And still they come — these film farces.
The month seems to be devoted to
showing them to the exclusion of the
straight romantic stuff. One of the new-
est entries is "Up in Mabel's Room," with
Marie Prevost cast as the irrepressible
Mabel.
As the title indicates, this farce comedy
has to do with a marital mix-up — with the
figures making frenzied dashes in and out
of Mabel's room. The crisp dialog of
the spoken version has been silenced, but,
nevertheless, the director knew what he
was about. He has timed it well so that
the action is projected in gingery fashion.
The piece calls for much activity — and,
like all farces, a word of explanation from
one of the dozen characters would give it
away long before it had run its course.
But true to the unwritten law of the thea-
ter— these characters keep silent. And so
the fun is on as they try to capture the
filmy piece of lingerie which is up in
Mabel's room.
Now Mabel, mind you, has made up her
mind to win her. divorced husband over
again. She mistrusts the lingerie was in-
tended for another girl. And so it becomes
a battle of wits between the quarrelsome
love birds — which culminates in a happy
reconciliation. The players keep on the
move all the time — hence there are no dull
pauses.
Marie Prevost demonstrates very capably
that she is a clever comedienne — and Har-
rison Ford plays with that mock serious-
ness which is necessary to interpret farce
correctly. Harry Myers is also in the
picture.
Colleen's Comic Strip
A satisfactory job has been done by the
■^ comic strip, "Ella Cinders," in con-
verting it into celluloid. While the title
spells Cinderella backwards, you can judge
for yourself what the theme indicates.
Just the same, it is a refreshing little ver-
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carries its measure of hokum, but which,
nevertheless, is not spoiled by it.
Colleen Moore's personality is easily
adaptable for the role of the drudge who
becomes movie-mad — and wins a beauty
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the requisite amount of wistful appeal, plus
(Continued on page 84)
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(Continued from page 66)
congested streets of Los Angeles in a
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cartoons.
Dynamics
T have rated Yidor's "The Big Parade"
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The Classic. I must add here that it is
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step taken to the beat of big drums, quick-
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I Wonder What Became of Him
(Continued from page 27)
One of the most remarkable jumps from
the background to the "five-foot line,"
as the privileged space before the lens on
which the stars tread is known n studio
parlance, has been accomplished right
under our respective noses by one Ray-
mond Keane — an extra. Raymond de-
scended upon Hollywood a few months
ago from Denver, confident of success
only as those who admit to being seven-
teen or a little over can be confident. He
was one of the many extra boys who clut-
tered up the massive sets on which Norma
Tahnadge acted in the film "Graustark."
But Raymond refused to be mothered.
His personality caught and held the at-'
tention of Buchowetzki, one of the contin-
gent of imported directors of which we
have quite a few now in Hollywood. The
director's interest brought Raymond a part
with Laura La Plante in a Universal film,
with the result that the young extra is now
firmly clutching a contract which calls for
his services for the next five years in Uni-
versal productions.
But all extras who achieve a rise from
the background players are not so fortu-
nate as young Keane. There come to
mind instances of several players who
forced their way thru the mob to camera
recognition, held the spotlight momentarily
and then dropped back to the extra class
again. Many of you, who sometimes
wonder what has become of the player you
were beginning to like, can satisfy that
curiosity by scanning carefully the crowd
scenes and ballroom gatherings as they
flash across the screen — they're there,
sunk again in obscurity and their big
chance gone, probably forever.
Griffith Discovered a Few
Tt is more cheerful, tho to contemplate
some more present screen favorites who,
not so long ago, bore the tag of extra.
Norma Shearer, for instance. The delight-
ful artist who registered so strongly in
"His Secretary" recently, cashed many a
five-dollar check as one of those "on the
set" with Corinne Griffith, Colleen Moore
and other stars with whom she now holds
equal rank. Can you wonder, tho, that
Norma succeeded in saving you the trou-
ble of asking "I wonder what became of
her."
The director to whom belongs the most
credit for sensing the possibilities of talent
among extras is D. W. Griffith. His
selection of Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae
Marsh, Carol Dempster, Bobby Vernon,
Charles Emmett Mack and others too
numerous to mention who evolved from
the supernumerary contingent is proof
conclusive of this. It is strange indeed
that the soldier who held the screen with
Lillian Gish in those scenes in "The Birth
of a Nation" did not find a place with the
other extras who have risen to stardom.
A glance at some of the old stills which
present various scenes from the first pro-
ductions of the late Thomas H. Ince re-
veals the fact that many of the background
characters of those early days may be num-
bered among "extras who have made
good." Two who come to mind are Leo
Maloney, possessor of a starring contract
with Pathe, and Charles Ray. Awhile
back we spoke of Wally Van. This same
Wally has to his credit the foresight of
seeing in a dapper young man fighting for
recognition in the old Vitagraph days the
makings of a good screen actor. The dap-
per youth was known as Adolphe Menjou
and he was given the chance to display his
ability in "The Scarlet Runner." a Vita-
graph serial starring Earle Williams, and
which Wally directed.
There is one man we know of who broke
into the movie studios via the extra route
who is now a millionaire. Jack Coogan,
Sr. The daddy of the screen's most be-
loved juvenile star formed part of the line
which filed regularly to the paymaster's
window at the old Metro studios in Hol-
lywood. In the picture which brought
Coogan, Sr., and Jackie from the extra
class, "The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin,
the father of Jackie may be discovered as
one of "those present," providing atmos-
phere for Chaplin and his talented off-
spring.
And so we could go on indefinitely nam-
ing players from the extra fold who have
made good, but arrayed against those we
have mentioned are the hundreds who still
remain — extras. We have seen them do an
excellent "bit" of acting more than once
and in rare instances we have seen them
"steal" the scene from the featured player
with whom they may be working. And
as we file out of our favorite theater we
bury them under the blanket of obscurity
with the casual "I wonder what became
of him."
The Celluloid Critic
(Continued from page 82)
a roguish sense of humor. And Ella, as
a result, stands out conspicuously, thus
winning your sympathy.
There is a scene at the railroad station
which contains a bit of pathos. The folks
are certain the girl will make good, par-
ticularly the young iceman, who believes in
her. But the best episodes are found in the
journey in the train and later at the studio.
The car scene brings a laugh when a small
tribe of Indians in full regalia occupy all
the seats. One brave commands the girl
to smoke a cigar just like the squaws op-
posite her. And Miss Moore gives play
to her plastic expressions in her effort to
please the Indian and make her stomach
behave. The studio bits reveal some inside
stuff regarding productions — and the hu-
morous side of trying to crash the gate
makes a bid for a laugh — and gets it.
In all, a pleasing number — one that is
capably titled, allowing for a few wise-
cracks here and there — and acted and
staged up to the best requirements.
Hero-Worship
Warner Brothers have a picture in
"Why Girls Go Back Home" that
carries all the earmarks in its title of
being a preachment. One might imagine
it to be one of those home-and-fireside
melodramas in which Pop and Mom wait
patiently for their erring daughter to re-
turn by the light of the parlor lamp. This
is true in some respects. Yet the director
has refrained from resorting to the obvi-
ous. He embroiders it with enough deft
touches of humor and humanities to make
it bright and interesting most of the way.
The picture — or rather the action —
doesn't take itself too seriously even if its
plot does get out of hand here and there.
Where the director has erred is in pound-
(Continued on page 87)
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Impressions of Hollywood
mlinued from pagt 72)
When the monk had been sufficiently r«
hearsed, the lights were turned on and the
camera i-runkcd while the monkej turned
the radiator handle. ( louds ol something
th.it looked likt- steam came from the
rsdiatoi . I h ned the monk and
he ran i » t V the set, but fortunateh the scene
was not spoiled. I hey wanted a retake,
but for the life of them the) could not get
that monk t.> k>> "ear the radiatoi again
hissing steam spelled dangei to him but
next daj the) were trying it again and
from last reports they finall) gol the monk
to do the stunt successfully.
Another peculiar thing about monkeys is
that the) are afraid of revolvers. * me da)
thi> very monk was very much agitated for
no known cause and the) could not get him
to do anything whatever, ^t last the master
said, "There must be a revolver some
where," and sure enough, on looking
rid, they found a revolver almost hid
tUu among papers and things <>n a desk in
a distant corner. Monk had spied it and
refused to work until it was removed.
Another Fashion Show
Fashion pictures appear to be all the
ge just now. The huge set that ( ol
leen Moore had in "Irene" was so mi. -
nil that they arc all doing it now. The
last I saw was one at the Fox studio in
"lit; Leaves," in which Olive Borden is
starring. It is a gorgeous set with mar
velous gowns and girls and it is being made
in technicolor. I am told they will use
It eighl hundred t'eet of this fashion
Stuff, which means that one-tenth of the
picture will he that and nothing else and it
sting a mere trifle of $40,000.00 for
this scene.
Doug's Wit
LIarold Lloyd is not funny at all in real
life, and does not try to he witty.
Doug likes to make merriment. He was
riding on a trolley out on location recently,
and the conductor, not recognizing him,
said: "I got your fare, didn't [?" "No,
I think not," Doug replied. "1 believe 1
saw you ring it up."
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those three things happen to be George's
favorite dishes.
If he hadn't made good in pictures, there
would very probably be a big, muscular,
laughing young Irishman writing history
in some far corner of the earth right now
— driving a sullen crew of Kanakas at the
pumps of a pearler in some crystal lagoon,
panning raw gold from the virgin gravels
of Papua, or else taking joyous chances in
one of those South Sea isles where some
luckless member of a rival tribe often
finds himself included in the salad course
at the festive board.
For George O'Brien has the joyous in-
stincts of the born wanderer, the ceaseless
thirst for new places and new thrills, that
only a certain kind of Irishman can have
to the fullest measure. Picture work is
giving him that variety and thrill. Con-
sequently, he is happy — for the time being,
at least. If pictures ever bore him, how-
ever, I have a strong hunch there will be
a vacant chair in Hollywood some bright
morning.
Has the Gypsy Urge
f~* eorge told me of his inborn gypsy urge
the other afternoon as we sat chatting
on a log at the edge of one of the weirdest
sets in Hollywood. It wasn't an interview.
Mere personalities were completely forgot-
ten. We compared notes on those parts
of the world we had both seen, and then
argued the respective merits of those parts
we wanted to see. My pet ambition has
always been to invade the upper Amazon
and collect spider-monkeys and anacondas.
George claimed that the unexplored inner
part of Borneo promised twice the thrills
of the Amazon. And so we argued the
matter amicably, there on a property log
at the edge of the Garden of Eden.
The Garden set was for a sequence in
"Fig Leaves," in which George and Olive
Borden are playing. It was far from the
conventional idea of Eden. The forest was
virgin enough, but the trimmings were
weird. The tree bungalow of Adam and
Eve had a sign in front, "No. 780 — No
Peddlers Allowed." A crude street-car
track ran nearby, a sort of Stone Age
edition of the "Toonerville Trolley."
The single car was drawn by a lumbering
brontosaurus. Or it may have been a
diplodocus. I never could tell the boys
apart. Whatever it was, it weighed about
a ton, had spines down its back, three horns
on its nose, and looked like a mixture of
a Chinaman's idea of a dragon, a Medieval
concept of Beelzebub, and a gin addict's
vision of a lavender-eyed grakkiwampus.
Seven men concealed in its interior manipu-
lated its movements with startling realism.
George, as Adam, was clad in a suit
of bear-skin lingerie, and had a flowing
wig that would have shamed Samson him-
self before he got his fatal "Delilah bob."
Olive Borden, as Eve, wore a gorgeous
fur that had cost some luckless leopard
all nine of its lives. After gazing at Olive,
I realized for the first time why Adam
fell for the apple. He was lucky it wasn't
a pumpkin.
"There's what I mean when I say that
picture work gives me a real kick," George
indicated the exotic set before us. "Where
else would you find a scene like that? And
where else in the civilized world would
I get a chance to dress like this and play
Adam, without landing in some nice quiet
booby-hatch?
"In pictures I never know what I'll be
doing next. Today I'm Adam. Next
month I may be playing a lumberjack up
in Oregon. The month after that I may
be a prospector over in Arizona. In this
game you never know what's around the
next corner. That suits me in every way.
I dont even want to know when I get
up in the morning what I'm going to do
that day. I hate routine. And I never
make plans. They take all the kick out
of life.
"I'm glad I've managed to get across
in pictures, of course. I worked mighty
hard in doing it, and success has brought
the same feeling of satisfaction to me that
it brings to any normal man who has
finally won it after a hard pull up-stream.
I like the acting and the other things about
the game. If I didn't, I wouldn't be in it.
"But the real appeal of picture work to
me is the constant variety and ever-
changing life it offers. No two days are
ever the same. It's hard work, sure. But
what does that matter? It offers travel,
thrills, the unexpected, and it's work that
I really like. What more could any sane
person ask?"
The Son of a Cop
(^eorge O'Brien came honestly by his
love for adventure and action. .His
father is Chief of Police in San Francisco,
and that is a job not noted for humdrum
daily routine. The O'Brien family never
knew whether a bulky package in the
morning mail was a box of candy or a
bomb sent by some affectionate little
Nihilist as a holiday token. Death threats
were common events.
His parents decided that it was time that
the family had at least one quiet member,
so they planned for George to be a physi-
cian. They might almost as well have tried
to grow a morning-glory vine from an
acorn. The World War came along very
conveniently, and George immediately en-
listed in the Navy.
Hostilities over, he returned to college
at Santa Clara, and became famous as an
all-round athlete. Then he decided that he
wanted to be an actor, and the medical
profession promptly and permanently lost
a promising candidate.
He succeeded in getting occasional work
with picture companies on location in San
Francisco, and finally entrained for Holly-
wood with one of them. Actors seemed
to be a drug on the local market when
he got here, so George became an assistant
cameraman with the Tom Mix troupe. He
attracted the favorable notice of the cow-
boy star, and a warm personal friendship
began between the two, a friendship that
has endured unbroken ever since.
George jumped at the first opportunity
to forsake his camera crank for the grease
paint, and he was soon back in the dramatic
ranks again. He traveled to Panama with
the Thomas Meighan company when "The
Ne'er-do-well" was filmed, and other fairly
substantial parts followed in various stu-
dios. Then the one big chance that comes
at least once to every player came when
Director John Ford started casting for "The
Iron Horse."
George won the coveted role of the ex-
press rider in the Fox epic after camera
tests had been taken of half the male popu-
lation of Hollywood. W'hen the picture
was finished, George had "arrived." His
work since has held to the same high
standard, and the O'Brien star is now very
near the top of the movie firmament.
George is a born actor, and a good one.
He throws himself into every part with a
whole-hearted Celtic fervor that carries
everything before it. He is good-looking
in a virile, he-man. fashion that appeals to
men and women alike.
86
The Celluloid Critic
ing home his message It is as il he didn't
credit his audience with sufficient intelli
to grasp it
.ill things considered, the film
shapes up a- moderate!} good entertain
unlit. Win Because its high lights fai
outweigh its Haws.
A Fine Theater Story
I recall evei having seen a more
sorbing and moving storj ol the thea
tir than what is revealed in "The Mai
Clause," which brings E.ois Weber,
the only woman director, back to the
Kleigs and the cameras. In the first place
it has .1 real dramatic plot one charged
with deep pathos and tenderness. And
carrying such qualities, Miss Weber has
ted a woman's privilege in emphasiz
ing them with fine humanities.
Everyone who is the least bit familiar
with the theater knows that certain man
exercise a dominating influence over
their star-. If the latter prove t<> be un-
usually successful, they are compelled to
sign contracts carrying the marriage
clause which stipulates they must not
marry during tluir contractual obligations.
Billie Dove Soars High
ETsOM this wry logical idea this story is
established— and it moves along with a
well-defined ring of truth. The central
figure, played with fine emotion by Billie
Dove (it is her greatest role and she en-
dows it with great feeling), is signed up
by the manager. She is placed under the
guidance of the stage director who e\
irts a sort of Svengali hypnosis over her.
When he is near her, she feels Confident
and secure- and manage- to get the utmost
expression. Naturally they fall in love.
You ask where is the conflict? It en-
ters in the element of jealousy manifested
by the manager. In other words, he trie-
to make things unpleasant tor his direc-
tor—and succeeds. The latter, being highly
sensitive, broods over his humiliation —
and, thinking the girl's ardor for him is
beginning to cool, he descends the prim-
rose path. He places wrong conclusions
on subsequent events in the girl's life —
and yet he loves her well enough to re-
turn for her premiere under the guidance
of another director.
The girl, meanwhile, has become de-
spondent— and fails. With her life de-
spaired of. the Svengalian director hastens
to be with her. In her delirium he coaches
her with the same words he used when he
made her a star in the first place. The
crisis passes and all ends happily.
Very Real and Human
Tx the mere outline of this picture I can-
not do credit to the many little touches
of humanity which saturate it. The story-
is poignant and it is treated with a fine
appreciation of its heart throbs. The the-
ater side of the plot is ever present — and
because the idea is so genuine it will catch
everyone's attention and hold it. There i-
no hokum here. What is revealed could
reasonably happen in any large city which
caters to stage activities.
Be it said that the manager becomes
more pliable to his conscience and the mar-
riage clause is stricken out.
The acting is of a high quality thruout
— especially in the performance by Miss
Dove — and the excellent support contrib-
uted by Francis X. Bushman and Warner
Gland as the director and manager, re-
spectively.
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star has invariably had his own way when
it came to setting up new records. But
his audience was drawn thru the appeal of
his characterization plus the all-round ex-
cellence of his pictures. Which makes us
think that Gilda's personal magnetism is
what drew the crowds. They came to see
her dance in the flesh and as her celluloid
self in the same terpsichorean number.
The Cinema Chair
LJ/7LL there be a cinema chair at Yale?
That is the question which is agitating
the learned professors and the student
body. For the first time in the history
of motion pictures, a large seat of higher
learning gave the honor of its approval to
the movies thru the presentation of "The
Big Parade" at one of New Haven's thea-
ters recently — under the auspices of the
Yale University Dramatic Association.
The picture was so honored because of
its freedom from artistic defects and its
combination of all the qualities deemed
great.
The premiere was recognized as a step
forzvard in the recognition of the movie
makers by the colleges and may lead to the
establishment of a chair of cinematics at
Yale.
The Autumn Shower
"The producers are all busy watching one
another! Each is awaiting the oppor-
tune time to pounce upon the picture public
and beat his neighbor in showing the prize
production. Having taken a leaf from the
legitimate theater magnates, these movie
men dont risk their aces during the hot dog-
days. As a result, the public is given what
the producers please to give them. The big
specials are held back for the fall opening.
And then they drop into the theaters like so
many snowflakes.
If one producer comes along with a big,
smashing hit, he is quickly followed by his
contemporaries. By Christmas all of the
New York residents are out of the apart-
ment-house trenches and trekking toward
the big lights — and big pictures.
Among these attractions of large dimen-
sions to be shown soon are "Old Ironsides,"
"Beau Geste," "Tell It to the Marines,"
"Don Juan," "Variety" and a host of
others.
That Tragedy
THEODORE DREISER'S "An Ameri-
can Tragedy" is still being discussed in
its pictorial shadozvs. The rumor will not
down that Monta Bell will be the final
choice to direct it, tho D. IV. Griffith has
first claim. If the master of the close-up
cares to take it — well, it is his to do with
as he desires. But he is not pressing mat-
ters to any extent. First of all, he zvants
to give all of his time to "The Sorrows of
Satan." Mai St. Clair and one or two
others have sort of faded into the back-
ground as the directors who will film the
tragedy.
Personally, zvc would like Bell to have it
— as he's shown what he can do with life-
like material that sings all the chords in the
human scale of realities. It ought to be
a monumental picture — one that soars with
heart-beats. And if the director treats it as
Dreiser wrote it — there will be no doubt
of its appeal. But on the other hand, if it
is handled as written, it might possibly take
tivo consecutive evenings to show it in its
entirety. On that supposition it is easy to
make von Stroheim an entrant among the
possible directors. Von Stroheim can
surely make them long — but, incidentally,
he can also make them gripping.
Dreiser is a realist — and lie stalks trag-
edy as a cat stalks a mouse. He may not
be a stylist, but he writes with conviction
and honesty — and he always has something
to say in his vivid colorings of life. Let's
hope that the film version of "An Ameri-
can Tragedy" carries out the soul-search-
ing theme of the novel. Let's hope there
are no sentimentalities wasted over the
tragic life of Clyde Griffiths.
This brings up another argument — and
everyone is arguing over the possible
choice for the character. There seems to
be a sweepstake on as to who will come
under the wire a winner. Glenn Hunter
has been chosen to portray Griffiths in
the stage version, which will be produced
next season. He is also favorably men-
tioned for the screen portrayal.
In so far as physical characteristics go, he
docs not approach the youth at all. But he
is endowed with the necessary emotional
faucets which he can turn on at will. Yet
Griffiths is not painted as a dynamic boy.
Rather is he painted as one suffering from
inhibitions — one who holds himself in re-
straint, but who temporarily conquers thru
his physical attributes.
Gregory Kelly has also been mentioned
in a favorable light. And so has Charles
Emmett Mack. The latter is our choice of
the three mentioned. The latest to be con-
sidered seriously is Charles (Buddy) Rog-
ers, a recent graduate of the Paramount
school — and one of the few receiving Mr.
Lasky's diplomas — who seems destined to
go the furthest. He has been given some
fair sized roles — and his acting has
earned him steady work in the studios.
He, more than any of the other "dark
horses," approaches the Clyde Griffiths
of the novel. Dreiser's character is some-
thing of a young sheik — and surely fasci-
nated the girls. Buddy Rogers has good
looks and personality. The question is, can
he get the drama out of the role? It is a
large order, but with the proper coaching
he can give a good account of himself.
Greta in the Flesh
C^reta Nissen has gone back to the stage.
When the new Ziegf eld "Follies" opens,
the theatergoers will have the opportunity
of seeing her do a pantomimic dancing
number modeled on the pattern of that
which she executed in the stage version of
"Beggar on Horseback.'
There is a story back of this girl.
Somehow she hasn't quite made the grade
as a picture actress. Rumors are ever
current of how she permits whims and
fancies of temperament to guide her
thoughts and actions. And there is no
doubt that she has caused a director or
three a sleepless night or two.
Miss Nissen has not been favored with
the most suitable stories for her person-
ality— and her talent doesn't react to vamp-
ish roles at all. It's just another case of
a foreign girl who has not been under-
stood. She came to the screen with a dis-
tinct style of beauty and expression — and
neither the screen nor Miss Nissen has
profited.
We think there is a definite place for
her — if given stories and parts adaptable
to her personality. Then some director
should be found who would take into con-
sideration her temperamental flights and
handle her sympathetically.
88
The Screen Observer Has
His Say
leqw ■ tit.tt [osel von Stei i
who is always original, contemplate
ducing i picture based on Negro lite
written by Laurence Stallings, entitled
I limself."
It these ideas ai haps
ne ( ("Neil's play •> oi tin N
"Emperor Jones," and " \ll God's ChiTlun
Wings" will bear celluloid fruit.
Some time ago D, \V Griffith tried to
put out .1 comedy with \1 Jolson in .1
blackface roll \l. .^ you may. remem
walked out on the director and Lloyd
Hamilton was engaged to t.ikc the burnt-
comedian's place.
The piece didn't make much oi a stir
in the picture world.
According to the best authorities these
stories will nol carry anj thing offensive
to the whites. .1^ the} will be produced as
comedy dramas. It 1 >> Mille is realb
ius about making a picture of N<
life, 1 recommend that he engage Paul
Robeson, the Negro actor and singer.
It these pictures arc really made and
become popular it might be possible that
the most prominent black man in the pub-
lic eye will try and talk "turkey" to the
producers. I'm paging Harry Wills. If
he ever tights Dempsey or Tunnej and
wins the decision the Senegambian maj
take up his abode in Hollywood and dare
the producers to keep him out of the cam
era lines.
Peter Fades Out
Ctron'CIIE.srt and Rin Tin-Tin have lost
their greatest rival, Peter the Great.
The big police dog checked off this mortal
coil at the Hollywood Dog and Cat Hos-
pital the other day, following an unsuc
cessful operation for a gunshot wound.
Peter was shot during a dispute between
his trainer, Edward Faust, and Fred
Cyriacks, dog fancier, at the latter's home.
While the dog was valued at $75,000 by
his owner, Charles B. Dreyer, he never
became so successful on the screen as
Strongheart and Rin-Tin-Tin.
An Ardent Lover
(""LARA Bow found herself in the head-
lines the other day when an ardent
admirer, Robert S. Savage, former Yale
football star, attempted suicide when she
refused to marry him.
Clara very firmly stated, according to
the press despatches, that he-men didn't
attack themselves with razors — they used
guns. She also declared that she is en-
gaged to Gilbert Roland, a young film
actor.
As for Savage he was taken to a hos-
pital and later forced to face insanity pro-
ceedings as the laws of California requires
the sanity of any person who attempts
suicide to be investigated. The Lunacy-
Commission examined the youth and pro-
nounced him sane.
The Spanish Songbird
Ail of Hollywood is talking about the
^^ reputed offer of seventy-five thousand
dollars for the services of Raquel Meller,
the Spanish songbird — with an executive
of Famous Players as the party holding
the contract. This did not sound like a
lot of money out Hollywood way until it
was learned that the offer was made for
Meller's appearance in one picture.
Just what Meller will play is not an-
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married to Mary Hay, and that Richard
Dix has never been married at all.
Edith A. — So, you dont believe that I
am eighty some odd years old. Honest
Injun, Edith. Yes, I liked Jack Gilbert
in "The Merry Widow." Anna Q.
Nilsson is playing in ''The Masked
Woman." Tom Mix in "Western So-
ciety."
Mary S. — Why Marion Davies had a
birthday January 1, and she was born in
1898. You can reach her at Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer, Culver City, California. Yes,
Norma Talmadge may play in a story
based on the life of Gaby Deslys, the
French music hall actress, who died a few
years ago.
Tootsie from Indiana. — Oh, you al-
ways want to send twenty-five cents in
stamps when asking for a picture.
Peaches. — What word by changing one
letter becomes its opposite? United-Un-
tied. Greta Nissen is not married, and
she is to play on the stage in "The Palm
Beach Follies" for Ziegfeld. Larry Gray,
Clara Bow and Esther Ralston are play-
ing in "Kid Boots." Yes, Marion Davies
is to create on the screen the role that
Lady Diana Manners played on the stage
in "The Miracle." See you later.
Jean. — Thanks for the picture of your-
self. Very pretty.
Ivan H. — Xo, it's not fair. He that
cheateth in small things is a fool, but in
great things is a rogue. Ramon Novarro
is playing in "Bellamy the Magnificent."
Yes, Hope Hampton is in Paris where
she is starring in a colored film, "A
Marriage Under Louis the Fifteenth"
which is from the Dumas novel, but which
will be released under another title.
Berneici. — No, Cecil De Mille isn't
going to produce "The Deluge" after all
because it would conflict with Warner
Brothers' picture "Noah's Ark." Cullin
Landis is playing in "Then Came the
Woman."
Macduff. — Well, it's hard enough to
learn how to read, but harder still to
learn what to read. Corinne Griffith is
playing in "Ashes." She is five feet four
inches tall. So you think Valentino is
the only one who can play as Mrs. Hull's
sheiks.
Ann S. — Here you are. More than
4,000,000 people in Japan are listed as
wage earners, and Constantinople has
20,000 women industrial workers. So you
saw Mary Anderson in Cleveland. She
is not playing in pictures right now.
Kathrvn. — Yes, Georgia Hale in "The
Great Gatsby." Mary Astor has been
chosen as Milton Sills's leading lady in
"Men of the Night." Of course, I'm every
bit of eighty years old. You bet, I con-
sume bottles of buttermilk these warm
days.
Betty H. — Virginia Browne Faire was
TinkcrbcU in "Peter Pan."
Gertrude B. — Yes, indeed, there are
many large ranches in the Western United
States. Harry Carey has a ranch at
Saugus, California. Alyce Mills is play-
ing with Richard Dix in "The Quarter-
back." Mr. Dix chose her as his leading
woman because of her excellent work in
his previous picture "Say it again."
Claire G. — You are right, Claire.
Zak, Paris. — No, I have never been to
Paris, but wait, some day I'll be there. I
have seen one or two french films, where
the women all shrug their shoulders. You
can reach Pola Negri at the Famous
Players Studios, 1520 Vine Street, Los
Angeles, California. Write me again,
your letters are always so interesting.
Evelyn F. — Welcome to the throne.
The more the merrier. I like to hear
from my readers. Ben Lyon at First
National, 807 E. 175th Street, New York
City. Agnes Ayres is back in pictures
with Valentino in "The Son of the Sheik,"
a sequel to "The Sheik." Madge Bellamy
and Lou Tellcgen in "The Way Things
Happen."
R. B. — Clara Bow was born in 1905,
and she is playing in "Mantrap" and "Kid
Boots." Cecil De Mille is producing
"Young April," which includes Joseph
Schildkraut and Bessie Love.
Eva R. B. — You know, to err is human ;
to forgive unusual. Richard Dix at the
Famous Players Studios, Astoria, Long
Island. Where is the stamp you said you
were enclosing ?
Eva C. A.— See all the Little Evas.
You want to know if Jack Mulhall would
bother with a girl like you. Well now,
Eva, why dont you write to him at First
National Studio, 807 E. 175th Street, New
York City. Jack Alulhall played opposite
Blanche Sweet in "The Far Cry." Yes,
Famous Players-Lasky paid $40,000 for
the screen rights to "Naughty Cinderella"
for Pola Negri. It's to be released as
"Good and Naughty."
Yes, Mary and Doug are really going to
make a picture and I understand it will
be in eight reels. Each player is to have
a complete story for four reels and they
will then meet and the remaining part
of the film will be with the famous couple
co-starring. Yours until next month !
A Mule. — Take care, what a man desires,
he usually believes. Yes, H. B. Warner is
going to play the role of the Saviour in
Cecil De Mille's "Thirty Pieces of Silver."
Richard Dix was born July 18, 1894, and
he is not married. His last picture is
"The Quarterback." You refer to Joe
Cobb, the little fat boy in the "Our Gang
Comedies," and he is about eight. Tell
your Uncle he had better stay in Richirn .nJ.
Jos H. H. — That's what I say, a ripple
of laughter is worth a flood of tears.
Carlyle Blackwell is playing in Europe
righ now. I dont know what has happened
to June Elvidge. Hoot Gibson is playing
in "The Texas Streak."
Pal. — So you like William Boyd. He is
very popular right now. He is playing in
"Man of War." Richard Barthelmess is
playing in "The Amateur Gentleman" with
Dorothy Dunbar opposite.
Grace J. — You refer to Arthur Rankin
as J'asila in "The Volga Boatman." You
want Theodore Kosloff to have larger
parts. You will have to write to Cecil De
Mille. Belle Bennett is playing in "The
Fifth Commandment." Yes, Gertrude Olm-
stead and Robert Leonard were married,
also Elaine Hammerstein and Walter Hays.
Josephine D. P. — Lionel Barrymore and
Marceline Day will play in "The Mys-
terious Island," by Jules Verne. It will
be done entirely in technicolor, the action
to take place on earth, under sea, inside
the earth, and up in the air. Well, I can
see where they are not going to miss a
thing. Lars Hansen in "The Scarlet
Letter." Lillian Gish was born in 1896.
Renee Adoree is playing in "The Flaming
Forest."
John Cail. — You certainly ask about
some old timers. Kate Lester died October
12, 1924, and she was about seventy. Anna
Q. Nilsson and Lewis Stone are playing in
"Midnight Lovers" with John Roche and
Chester Conklin. Herbert Rawlinson in
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witnessing certain hapj
pl.iv i I he |s».i revel in ihe siglil of the
little |s.ni girl coming into
nighl tin 11 some i.niiiii 'it ..I tin
tinniest clerk who president ol
the company which emploj a him I he
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.mil the K-iukv maiden has hopes ..i
il.n becoming an equal ol the beautiful
heroine I hej all lee them
llli'lllelll .it le.ist, .is | inui who
i iscs from the mil i ind bettei
place m the world. I In rise ol the down
trodden and the happj ending still remain
the ke) to populai sue i esses.
She mentions Th ighan, Milton
Sills and Berl 1 > tell .is playei > who
the public what thej want. Thai is prob
abl) Hue in .in appreciable degree, bul
can I be expected to believe thai the
of Tli. mi. is Meighan are tru
Mosl ,ii them thai I can remei
ami t lu s are few, altho I have seen dozens
of them, seem iii smack ol Hoi ttio Alger
and his philosophy. I d" not deny the
success ni" these players from a box office
standpoint, bul I do deny their alleged
reputations as realists.
Miss Smith pictures Meighan as a gentle
caveman who fights and makes love in a
forceful and natural manner, as compared
in Valentino, whom she brands as wishy-
washy and describes him as a handsome
lover too perfect for this mundane life,
or rather that his strivings toward pi I
fection m love-making make for exaggera-
tion that is incompatible with everyday
life. To me the comparison is odious. It
is like comparing mules with race-horses.
Valentino has more natural gentleness
in his foot than Meighan has in his whole
makeup. lie epitomizes the instincts ..i a
gentleman. As for red-bloodedness, I think
that he possesses as much in quantity and
quality as Meighan, but simply does not
make public exhibition of it on every
slight pretext. Valentino can accomplish
more in the way of art with one gesture
than Meighan can by manipulating his
corporal body thru eight reels of film, to
my notion. I wonder if Miss Smith could
witness a performance of Valentino's
"Beaucaire" without saying, "Here is a man
who is an artist ; who can portray a red-
blooded fighting man who, at times, is
infinitely gentle."
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Di Message
From E. W.Ham mons
75 the readers of
Motion Picture Classic
IF you were connected with the great motion
picture industry — if you were a star or a
director or a business executive — what
would be your greatest ambition? Would your
fondest dream be that some day you would be
responsible for the "biggest and grandest"
spectacle the screen had ever produced?
Perhaps on first thought you will quickly
answer "yes, of course." But that isn't my
chief ambition — and it never
has been. I'd like to tell
you why.
* * *
The motion picture industry,
in my opinion, has one function
to perform that is more impor-
tant than any other consideration
— to provide you and the rest of
the great picture -loving public
with consistently fine, wholesome
entertainment and amusement.
Of course, you want to see the
fine big feature spectacles. But
you also want to be sure that
whenever you care to spend an
evening at the "movies," you can
count on having a fine evening's
entertainment all through the
whole show.
And that's why it always has
been my chief ambition to have
Educa tional provide for you the
finest possible entertainment in
the comedies, novelties and other
ROMANCE PRODUCTIONS
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played a part in the motion picture industry, it has
never handled a long feature picture, and I'm mighty
proud of the fact that it has grown to its present
position among the leaders of the industry through
specializing in the briefer pictures that go to balance
the ideal picture program and that provide such a
large part of your film entertainment.
You have shown that you want — that you demand —
the finest entertainment all through the show ; and
that's why most of the country's
better theatres are showing
Educational Pictures today.
That's also the reason why the
Greater Movie Season that ii
just beginning will bring to the
screen for your entertainment a
still bigger and finer group cf
Educational Pictures.
THE SPICE OFTHE PROGRAM"
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that you get more consistent en-
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beauty and story value of the
Romance Productions in natural
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always get a hearty laugh out of
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THEY SAY
FIRST PRIZE
Fair Play for "The Big Parade"
EDITOR, CLASSIC:
I am English. I love my country.
But, above all, I love truth and fair
play.
I went to the premiere of "The Big
Parade" in London on May 21st, and never
have I heard anything to equal the spon-
taneous and enthusiastic applause which
greeted this superb masterpiece. The next
day a large section of the most widely
read newspapers had headlines to this
effect :
"America wins the war — on the films."
"Not a British soldier seen in America's
version of the war," etc., etc.
These criticisms were most unfair and
prejudiced, and gave a totally false idea of
the picture, and have prevented many
people going to see it and judging for
themselves.
There arc no British soldiers in the pic-
ture. Why should there be? It is an
American film ; war episodes as seen thru
the eyes of an American doughboy. It
distinctly states in the foreword that his
experiences might have been those of a
soldier of any other nationality. One Eng-
lish newspaper. The Daily Sketch, wrote
of it : "It is an international picture, no
more American than any other great work
of art."
The following is an extract from a
letter I wrote to The Sunday Herald, which,
amongst other things, had criticised the
behavior of the men in billets :
"United States and War Films
"With reference to your film critic's
comments on 'The Big Parade,' I should
like to state that during the last eight
years I have seen a large number of Brit-
ish war films and do not recollect in one
of them that American troops were even
remotely referred to.
"In two plays the French were men-
tioned. Had America seen the British
film, 'The Better 'Ole,' they would have
concluded that our 'Tommies' were a set
of low comedians, whose time
was entirely taken up by drink-
ing and kissing French girls,
for they did practically nothing
else. This film was not re-
deemed by either fine direction
or acting.
"D. G. Shore."
because the producer was jealous of his
own country's exploits."
The English are not what a certain sec-
tion of the press would have the world
believe. We are a generous people, and I
know many who have seen "The Big Pa-
rade" and have come away with the ten-
derest feelings of gratitude and affection
for the happy-go-lucky doughboys who
came over to join in the "great adventure."
A British Army officer, who had a great
deal to do with the Americans in France
during the war, said their fearlessness
was wonderful.
I am sure that the abolition of war and
the world's peace lie in the hands of
America and Great Britain, and I, for one,
earnestly desire a better understanding be-
tween the two countries. There must be
mutual generosity, a truce to petty spite
and jealousy. I have lived in America and
love it and the Americans, and I found
that so much of the foolish prejudices that
people of one nationality have towards
another simply arise from a want of
proper understanding.
Owing to the almost moribund condition
of the film industry over here, it has not
been possible for Americans to see pictures
representing real English life and charac-
teristics (which may have something to
do with the constant re-appearance on the
American screen, of that curious creature
— the monocled, mincing Englishman — in
spite of Ronald Colman!).
A big movement has now started in
order to better conditions and revive the
industry, and huge studios are being built.
I hope America will give our pictures
of English life a fair showing.
All art, all beauty should be interna-
tional— universal. Each country should
give of her best. The great new art of
living pictures ought to be the means of
uniting, not of disuniting nations. The
movies should be the "entente cordiale" of
the world.
Dorothy Grace Shore,
11, Drayton Gardens,
So. Kensington,
London, S. W., England.
"The Big Parade" is a su-
preme work of art, in spite of
the extremely simple and con-
ventional story and certain "he-
roics" which, perhaps, slightly
mar the latter half of the pic-
ture.
I have seen hundreds of
moz'ing pictures, but this is the
first living picture. The acting-
reaches such heights that it
ceases to be acting ; it becomes
life, real, surging, pulsating.
The film critic in The Morn-
ing Post wrote, with justice :
"We should not condemn a
wonderful piece of stagecraft
The MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC is devot-
ing a page each month to the best letters from
its readers. The prize-winning letters for the
August number are reproduced on this page.
Fifteen dollars will be paid each month for
the best letter, ten dollars for the second and
five dollars for the third. If two or more let-
ters are found of equal merit, the full prize
will go to each writer.
Letters must be constructive and interest-
ing. They must deal with pictures or screen
personalities. And — please note — they should
be typewritten.
SECOND PRIZE
For the Foreign Girls and the Native
Sons
Editor, Classic :
Since this department is for the benefit
of Classic readers in which to expnss
their opinions, I cant refrain from having
my little "say so."
Being first and foremost for all things
American, it is hard for me to feel com-
pelled to say that the foreign actresses
have it all over our own players. Unde-
niably our leading ladies are the more
beautiful, but who among them can com-
pare with the Pola Xegri of "Passion" and
"Gypsy Blood." Mme. Xegri has never
been given an opportunity by American
directors, or by Famous Players. She
was interesting in "Good and Xaughty,"
but Pola Xegri is in no wise the come-
dienne. I should like to see her, not
Raquel Meller, as the Empress Josephine
to Charles Chaplin's Xapoleon.
Then there is Greta Garbo, who, because
of her interesting and colorful portrayal
in "The Torrent," should be among the
most popular players. Xot one of our
American leading ladies could so subtly
express the various emotions as Greta
does. And it is gratifying to know that
she has so able a director as Xiblo for
her second American picture and so charm-
ing and romantic a leading man as Antonio
Moreno.
I must not forget to mention Greta Xis-
sen here. She has had but one real op-
portunity, in "The Wanderer," a part so
unsympathetic as to cause her to lose,
rather than gain, admirers, so set are we
on having all our heroines of the saccha-
rine variety, in sugar-coated roles. It is
no wonder that Greta Xissen has deserted
us for Ziegfeld and the stage.
Perhaps I've seemed too partial to the
European players, but the readers of this
letter who do not agree with me will
forgive me when I say that my vote goes
to the American leading men, unanimously,
as against the Xovarros, Valentinos and
De Roches. They are not to be compared
with Gilbert. Dix, Haines,
Lloyd and the incomparable
Wally Reid.
Who on the screen today is
there to take Wally's place, and
who ever will? His death left
a void in all our hearts, one that
will never be filled.
John Gilbert deserves a place
in the Hall of Fame for his
James Appcrson in "The Big
Parade" and his Danilo in
"The Merry Widow." Who
can deny Gilbert's ability after
seeing him so ably portray two
so diversified roles? I was
very happy when I learned that
Jack and Greta Garbo will play-
together — that should be a pic-
ture, and Von Stroheim should
direct it.
Richard Dix's Indian of "The
Vanishing American" was fine.
but I like him best in his lighter
type of picture — "Take a
{Continued on page 90)
8
On the screen or off, there's a healthy, robust
charm about Leatrice Joy. Hers is a frank,
friendly nature which makes her personality
glow. With quick, flashing eyes and warm,
readv smile she fans the embers of romance
in us all
MOTION PICTURE
(^LASSIC
SEPTEMBER. 1926
- v I* ' ' 1 ■ '
HARRY LANGDON
He's traveled many roads — has Harry Langdon, roads that led from Nowhere into
Nowhere. But while he traveled he observed and jotted down the impressions in his
mental note-book. That's why he has arrived with a thoro knowledge of pantomime —
and that's why he is easily one of the finished artists of the screen
MARION DAVIES
It took a gay masquerade — a bit of blarney as a broth of a boy to bring out the best
in Marion Davies. She conquered so easily and surely with her hoydenish whims that
all the wiseacres and makers of stars proclaimed "it's a gift"
. Ml ,-^- -. ■ ■■ ■MHRBM ■ I
BILLIE DOVE
The mistress of the close-up — that's Billie Dove. Some cameras come too close to
several stars, but Billie's beauty is the photographer's delight. When you see "The
Marriage Clause," you will appreciate not only the close-ups, but also the emotional
triumph of her career
Mull
PAULINE STARKE
The perils of Pauline are over. Time was a few seasons ago when the assurance that
comes with experience and success was missing. Now she has blqssomed into one of
the most beautiful buds of the Hollywood garden — and she has' perfect poise and
eloquent emotions, to boot
H. L. MENCKEN
The Most Quoted Man in America
LARGE, bitter and
copious were the
tears shed by the
writer during the en-
tire time spent in
listening to Mr.
Mencken the other
afternoon. This is not
a sob story, but we
fairly groaned for a
dictophone to record
what he said ver-
batim, for only in this
manner could full
justice be given to the
interview.
No other man of
our acquaintance or
hearsay can even ap-
proach him in bril-
liancy of conversa-
tion. The picturesque
phraseology, the
glancing, gleaming
flashes of wit, the
originality of thought
and word, and the
deep, underlying cur-
rent of humor fas-
cinate the listener to
the point of hypnosis.
The customary grave
expression of his face,
belied by the twinkle
of the bright blue eye,
completely puzzles you
as to whether, or
when, he is speaking
seriously. When he
finally gets launched
on a subject, he
handles it in the same
fashion a fox-terrier
plays with a bone : he
harries, he worries it ;
tosses it up in the air,
and catches it deftly
on the rebound ;
gnaws it, and tears it
at the end into such minute pieces that not the faintest
suspicion of the original idea remains.
Breaks the Long Silence
hen he got thru talking about the movies, we felt
as tho no one had ever even thought of the subject
before. Not that it was easy to make him discuss the
motion picture question. Far from it ! For some reason
or other he has always carefully avoided giving voice to
his opinions on the subject. We have had Mencken on
Music ; Mencken on Art ; Mencken on Prohibition ; on
Politics ; on Women, Wine and Song ; Mencken on Evo-
lution (will you ever forget it?) ; Mencken on War. and
16
By B. F. Wilson
Caricature of Mencken by Leo Kober
w
on Peace ; Mencken
on Freedom of
Speech and Deed —
and of course
Mencken on Litera-
ture, but never, des-
pite golden offers
from eager editors,
has he uttered or ex-
pressed a word about
the movies.
When I mentioned
the subject :
"Flapdoodlery," he
replied.
I had to use tactics
which would have
made Ambassador
Hughes bow his head
in homage, or Peggy
Hopkins squirm with
envy, before he would
pay attention to the
sincerity of my re-
quest.
"Have you ever
been to a movie?" I
demanded.
"How's the weather
in Atlantic City?" he
replied.
"Will you please
answer my question?"
I was stern.
"Did you know that
Cleopatra was knock-
kneed ; that Homer
was cock-eyed, and
that Caesar suffered
from stomach
trouble?" he queried
with great interest.
I grew subtle.
"Nize Baby," I
purred. "Tell momma
about de movies, and
momma will give you
some nize beer mit
pretzels."
I had him. I could tell by the rapt look on his face.
"Whatthehell do you want to know ?" he inquired gently.
"Have you ever been to a movie?" I repeated, and he
could tell from my expression that the "No Fooling" sign
was out.
Recalls Two Masterpieces
"T have been to a few," he replied. "Perhaps half a
dozen in all. I can recall from them only two — 'The
Last Laugh' and 'The Big Parade.' I thought them both
very entertaining. I know nothing of the ordinary run of
romantic movies, made for the rabble."
He sank back into his chair with the well-known "clos-
Breaks the Long Silence
Talks for the First Time on the Movies
ing the interview" look on his face. He was polite, l>ut I
had known him long enough to ^r«'t over that, bo 1 hinted
that he had merely started to talk, nol finished.
"What do you think of the movies as an uplifting in-
fluence oh the rabble, as you bo sweetly put it'" I
demanded.
"Win should they be uplifted?" he asked with the
slightest elevation OX his left eyebrow. You know, the
"What are Yonkers?" expression.
"If the rabble likes them as they are. why change
them?" He questioned, and I could see that his point
w a> a good one.
"I believe that people have a right to ainuse themselves
as they please," he added.
"How do you like my suit? Pretty good, eh, for
seventeen-fifty ? I buy all my clothes ready-made; order
as many as three suits at a time thru the Sears and Roe-
buck catalog: you know, one for each season so when I
get them all at once, I dont have to worry about them
when the time comes to change."
"Wait a minute," I interrupted. "Please now! Stop
your nonsense. This is serious. I want you to talk and
say something when you talk, that I can write up as com-
ing from you on a subject of vast importance. Please be
serious for a few moments. After that, we'll talk on
anything you like."
"All right." he said contritely. "I know what this
means to you. what else do you want to know?"
Why Look for Literature?
"Pvo you see the importance of literature in the movies?'
"No. I dont see any necessary conne
the movies and literature,
movie may have some liter-
ary quality, but it is surely
not likely. But why should
it have?" He was quite in
earnest now. and as I knew
from past experience, the
symptoms of his being
fairly launched. I carefully
restrained the sigh of relief
which begged for utterance.
"Some of the most amus-
ing plays that are acted on
the stage have no literary
quality whatsoever." he
continued. "I am strongly
against the doctrine that
anything that is not literary
should be put down by the
police. Let the police at-
tend to their proper busi-
ness of protecting saloon-
keepers against prohibition
agents."
Most of my readers will
recall the recent run-in Mr.
Mencken . had with the
police on this very subject
up in Boston. The press
made a six-foot head-liner
connection between
It is conceivable that a given
Says Mr. Mencken:
"As most of us know, the ordi-
nary run of romantic movies are
made for the rabble.
"If the rabble likes them as
they are, why change them? I
believe that people have a right
to amuse themselves as they
please.
"I don't see any connection
between the movies and literature. It is
conceivable that a given movie may have
some literary quality, but it is surely not
likely.
"Most of the complaints about the morals
of the movies come from professional smut-
snufflers — who are looking for jobs."
"Some of the movie people get too much
money and carry on like American business
men at a trade convention, but the majority
of them are hard-working people, and take
their work very seriously.
"An actor, like any other man, is worth
whatever he can earn for his employer."
of the story for days. As 1 1 it- editor of I he American
MtTCUry, the sale of which had In en prohibited, he went
Up to Boston and personally sold a Cbpy. I I -mie
up in COUrt, and 01 COUrse, was dismissed : the jud^'e find
ing no reason for the suppression of tin- magazine. It was
afterwards disclosed that because Mr. Mem. ken had pub-
lished an article on the self-appointed vice-crusader*.
seeking notoriety by supposedly Cleaning up American
literature, and in the article naming the chief n
that it was this self same reformer who had ordered the
sale of the magazine stopped.
But to get hack to our subject.
"What do you think of the morals of the movies?" I
asked, knowing how he felt on all bigotry and ignorant
reformation.
"I dont know, anything about them." he answered. "Put
I do know many intelligent and decent people who go to
see them often, and from these people I have never heard
any complaint about their immorality."
He chewed the end of his cigar reflectively.
Loose Leeches of Lewdness
"Vou know, dont you, that such complaints come only
from professional Suiut-snnfflers, most of them look
ing for jobs. The fact makes me suspicious. I find it
hard to take such Snuit-snuffiers seriously. They are the
ones that are always raising a hullabaloo about nothing.
These doodlesockers are constantly making it known thru
the yellow sheets that seeing a young fellow kiss his gal
tills them with an uncontrollable sexual libido. I can only
say that the spec-
tacle has no such
effect upon me,
nor upon anyone
I know.
"All the people
that read these
yellow sheets get
het up over the
fact that they are
being tempted,
altho they would
never have known
it unless it had
been pointed out
to them. The poor dam-
fools haven't got sense
enough to give these rotters
a good swift kick in their
little August. But anybody
with any intelligence what-
soever, would laugh him-
self sick at the idea of five
feet or twenty-five feet, or
whatever it is, of celluloid
film showing a gal and a
man in a clinch, affecting
him to the point of indecent
desire."
"What do you think of
all this Hollywood business ?
( Continued on page 81 )
17
Hollywood's Pet
The So- Called Human Race Has Its Little
Weaknesses. All of Us Are Faithful to
Our Foibles — and Among the Most Faith-
ful Is the Celluloid Circle On the Coast.
So It's Everyone to His Taste In Riding
a Favorite Hobby
By Richard Coyle
EVERY human being who is old
enough to have learned that the
thumb is not really to be taken
seriously as an article of food has
a pet foible, an amiable little weak-
ness, a bizarre little trait in an
otherwise perfectly safe-and-sane
character — or, in short, a pet
extravagance.
Elmer Fryer
On th% left is Syd Chaplin
who has a weakness for avia-
tion. Having been a veteran
pilot, he is deeply interested
in intricate little model planes
and their big brothers. Below
is Ruth Clifford keeping
company with three of her
forty-seven dolls. It's her
pet extravagance
?.,hn Ellis
This pet extravagance is not neces
sarily a hobby or a recreation, tho it
may be closely allied with either
or both. Nor does it neces-
sarily demand extravagance
in a financial way. It
is a foible that even
the Scotch may
have, and usu-
ally do.
John Ellis
John Barrymore has an expensive
craving for books. In his library is
a really fine collection of rare old
first editions — and he burns much
midnight oil in reading them. One
of the pet "hobbyists ' is Priscilla
Dean, on the left — who goes in for
all types of dolls
For its extravagance may consist
merely in its lavish demands
upon the time and attention of
its owner.
It manifests itself in as many
different ways as there are dif-
ferent quirks of personality in
mankind. With one individual
it may consist of a passionate
fondness for highly expensive
silk neckties of a general color
scheme that would drive a
Siwash Indian into a delirious
ecstacy of envy. With another,
it may be a fatal weakness for
the ghastly hodge-podge of an auction
sale.
Its manifestations may be as weirdly
incongruous as an Eskimo in a straw hat.
A meekly inoffensive little mouse
of a man may go without his lunch
in order to satisfy his yearning for
lurid volumes of piratical lore,
while, on the other hand, Horrible
Harvey of the Gashouse Gang may
18
EXTRAVAGANCES
have an insatiable secret craving foi
chocolat< covered peanut bai i
Being Human, They Have Hobbies
i_i "M \ w ood, being full of reason
n ably normal human beings, in spite
ot occasional propaganda oi the yel-
low press to the contrary, it naturally
follows that Hollywood is full of pet
extravagances. And, players usually
being rather colorful folk, it is only
natural that their |x.-t foibles should
be colorful above the average.
Not that these foibles are quite SO
bizarre as they have sometimes been
painted by over-zealous press-agents.
If half the publicity yarns along this
line were true, Hollywood would of
necessity he peopled with equal parts
of lunatics, kleptomaniacs, and zoo
keepers. I have heard it
claimed that various pla)
ers had weaknesses for
everything from
original Rem-
brandts to blue-
nosed baboons.
( me hard-work-
ing press-agent
even spent half
an afternoon
once trying to
convince me
that the favorite
recreation of one
of his clients was
putting a small herd
of trained eels thru
their tricks.
All of which is not only
a finely assorted lot of
bunk, but rather foolish as
well. Because the real pet
foibles of some of our lead-
ing players are interesting
enough in actuality without
adding any imaginative gar-
nishes. Giving as they do,
such unique and intimate side-
lights upon the real tastes and
characters of screen favorites,
to me these little pet extrava-
gances have always been one
of the most interesting minor
phases of life in the Film
Colony.
They range literally from
patent cigaret-lighters to fleets
of high-powered and equally
high-priced automobiles.
Another Hollywood doll devo-
tee is Claire Windsor — who has
a really exquisite collection
from all nations. She dresses
them up in bizarre costumes
and whiles away rainy days in
showing them a good time
111 !MH
ir ii "
At the top is a corner of Louise Fazenda's library. She
is a genuine book-collector, and is an inveterate follower
of all the auctions in the book-shops. In the circles from
left to right are Lilyan Tashman and Helene Chadwick.
Lilyan admits a weakness for French perfumes — and
Helene's hobby is fur coats. She boasts an expensive
collection
Among the Collections
\x/ii li am Boyd i- the of
*" the cigaret-lighter complex At
a consei vative estimate, Bill has
bought at least forty of the p
things so far this year
si/e. ever) material, and • ape,
the) have had just one tiling in com
niou, an utter failure to continue
functioning after the second day.
Bill is --till hoping, however, and still
searching for his goal, a cigaret-
lighter that will really light, and keep
on lighting.
Automobiles are Tom Mix's pet
extravagance. Ami Tom's present
fleet of aristocratic cars is one to
stitute a real extravagance, even to a
gentleman whose monthly pay check
reads like the national debt
of Nicaragua.
Here is the list,
as nearly as I
can remember it
offhand : — one
Dusenberg road-
ster, one Rolls-
Royce touring
car, one Loco-
mobile limou-
sine, one Buick
sedan, and two
Packard limou-
sines. Consider-
ing that the com-
bined list price- of
these cars approximate
the fort v-thousand-dollar
mark, it will readily be
granted that Tom's pet ex-
travagance is one worthy
the name. At
that, I may
(Continued on
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Three More Writers
Brown Bros.
E. V. Lucas
Baroness Orczy
Courtesy of Ceo. H. Doran
By Henry Albert Phillips
C7 V. LUCAS, one of the editors of Punch, the
humorous weekly, is an author easy to
know. And you can see the man just as he is if
you will read any one of the many books he has
written — some of his "Wanderer" books, for
instance : "A Wanderer in Paris," "A Wan-
derer in Rome," and so on.
If you dont know Punch, then you should
meet him, too, at any cosmopolitan news-stand
and take him home, for a quarter, I think it is in
America. His pages reflect Mr. Lucas perfectly.
Finally, Mr. Lucas is managing director of
one of London's biggest and oldest publishing
houses, Methuen & Co., and there I met him.
"I write because I like writing and I never
write about anything I am not enthusiastic
about," said Mr. Lucas somewhere along in the
conversation.
I think those few words express more nearly
what should be a writers creed than any others
I have ever read or heard.
"I never pretend to be exhaustive, but I make
it a point never to become exhausting."
But you get the idea from those two expres-
sions of the sort of man Lucas is and the kind
of thing he writes.
(Continued
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T>ARONESS ORCZY (pronounced Ortsee)
-L^ is the author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" —
considered one of the best sellers in the world,
a book that has sold five million copies in about
twenty years — at the rate of two hundred and
fifty thousand copies a year !
Here is an ideal story for the motion pictures
and yet it has never been presented in the films.
And the reason, in part, for its non-production
and thus denying to the cinema world one of
the most intriguing, thrilling and picturesque
stories, is to be found in my preamble. Among
other things, the Baroness feels a lack of confi-
dence in the ability of scenarist and director
to render with perfect fidelity the story that is so
near her heart. She acknowledges her own in-
ability to aid them further than submitting the
story *as is.
"We have been offered all sorts of money for
The Scarlet Pimpernel,' " she told me. "Peri-
odically, someone from the films comes along
with a new offer. I have my ideas why I would
not yet perhaps sell it, but I am not the sole
owner of the rights, outside book rights. Fred
Terry, the actor, is my partner in dramatic and
other rights and has the idea that a film presen-
on j>age 11}
Indict the Films
r-
"The films are not good enough. With
all the money and other kind of wealth
expended on them they should be in-
finitely better. The best thing they do is
the supernatural — they are the link be-
tween poor inadequate human nature and
magic." — E. V. Lucas.
"I have my own ideas why I would
not sell 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' to the
movies. My partner has the idea that
film presentation would smash the play.
The plot is so complicated and the at-
mosphere so essential." — Baroness
Orczy.
"I just haven't any ideas on the films.
I find most of them extraordinarily non-
sensical— and still go to see them some-
times."— Ford Madox Ford.
Courtesy of Albert and Charln Bom
Ford Madox Ford
The Fifth of a Series of Talks About Motion Pictures
With Famous English and Continental Writers
TT is a wise fiction father who knows his own
•*" movie child.
And the more I see of Great Writers and hear
them talk about the terrible things that happen
to their brain children, in the cruel screen world,
the more I wonder why they trust their sacred
things to the care' of roving bands of gypsies —
as they seem. to consider the cinema in general.
They are like those mothers who desert their
babies in dark hallways and then turn up to
claim them and wail over them when they have
been adopted by wealthy persons who shower a
fortune on them.
One of the bitterest defamers of the movies
that I know, and their ill-treatment of the novel-
ist is one whose book did not go at all well, net-
ting him not more than $4,000. A motion pic;
ture company paid' him $20,000 for the picture
rights. A clever scenarist made a silk purse
out of a sow s ear, literally, for the story on the
screen was infinitely better than that in the
book from which it had been taken — and was
different, of course. Hence the wail of the
novelist.
In the great majority of cases, the novelist
makes more from his picture rights than he does
(Continued
TJORD MADOX FORD is the author of that
remarkable book, "No More Parades, which
was adjudged the finest novel of the year by
several of the leading book reviews.
He lives in Paris in a quaint studio on Rue
Notre Dame des Champs, just behind the house
in which Balzac once lived and wrote. By good
fortune, my pension happened to be almost
opposite his studio, so it was an easy matter to
drop in. He took me up a rickety stair to a
cubby-hole where he said he did most of his
writing.
"No," he smiled, when I asked him, I just
haven't any ideas on the films. I find most of
them extraordinarily nonsensical.
"But you do go to see them?' I persisted on
top of his condemnation.
"Yes. I suppose everyone must go to see
them sometimes. Oh, yes, I did go to three
bull-fights and two films in one week down in the
south of France last summer.
Bull-fights and films! There s a new one.
Ford Madox Ford puts them on a par, only he
places bull-fights first.
We talked all around the films after that, for
he did not want to be caught associating with
on fiage 77)
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PICTURE, PICTURE
By
Robert
Donaldson
Jean Hersholt and Ernest
Torrence walked away with
the acting honors in "Greed"
and "The Covered Wagon"
THE question is — how do they steal it ?
Picture-stealing is rapidly becoming an eighth art,
and one which adds spice to the business of going to
the movies. Frequently it is the method by which a new
star is whirled into the firmament of filmdom.
Picture-stealing is always eagerly watched both by
critics and theatergoers because it partakes of the element
of chance, of the unexpected.
One reads the advance notices and advertisements of
a movie. Various well-known players are featured, and
everything seems according to Hoyle thruout. Yet when
one attends the picture, it is obvious — obvious to the veriest
dub in the audience — that some unknown, or some minor
player, whose name is frequently not even mentioned in
the billing — has walked away with the show, has made
the impression which is the most lasting on the minds of
the audience. Not always is it a newcomer who steals a
picture. Often it is a character actor with a relatively
small part compared to that of tbe hero and the heroine.
Such a player very frequently (in the parlance of the
film business) just "rolls up the picture and puts it in his
vest pocket."
How do they do it ? How is a picture stolen ?
The writer decided that the best way to discover the
technique was to go to some of the notorious picture-
stealers in the business.
Not infrequently producers put a confirmed picture-
stealer in a cast just to pep things up and spur the other
members of the cast to greater effort.
His Back to the Camera !
One of the classics of Hollywood is the tale of how
Andre de Beranger, with his back to the camera, stole
trie final scene of "Grounds for Divorce" from Owen
Moore and Harry Myers, to whom (the latter two) the
scene was supposed to go, and who dont love a camera
lens any more than they love their own mothers.
The final scene of the picture featured Beranger, Myers
and Moore. Each of the three was trying to take this
scene by sheer force of acting, and the battle was one of
wit, cleverness, and quick-thinking.
When the fade-out scene came, the honors were about
even. Paul Bern, the director, arranged the grouping for
the fade-out. And he placed Beranger with his back to
the camera !
Moore and Myers chuckled. Beranger, they figured,
was out of it. But they reckoned without the swift-
thinking cleverness of a real trouper.
Andre de Beranger stole
"Grounds for Divorce"
Roy D'Arcy stole "The
Merry Widow"
Adolphe Menjou stole "A
Woman of Paris"
22
Who Stole the Picture?
The Pastime of Stealing the
Picture Is Indulged In On
Many Occasions. While the
Star Has the Principal Role,
It Is Often a Minor Player or
Some Gifted Character Actor
Who Makes the Most Last-
ing Impression and Walks
Away With the Show
Drawings by
George Annand
W.ilUi.e Beery almost stole
"Robin Hood" away from
Douglas Fairbanks
Vs the cameras started to grind, Moore tugged at his
coat lapel and Myers tugged at his mustache. And
Beranger was left the opportunity to "emote" with the
broad of his hack !
But Beranger had a pair of white gloves. He clasped
these hehind his back, and as the scene began to fade out
he waved them up and down.
And because they were the whitest thing in the scene,
they remained visible longer than anything else — after
Myers1 mustache and Moore's lapel had been obliterated
by the encircling darkness !
An Old Timer At It
Qne of the most brilliant attempts at picture-stealing in
^ recent years occurred in "Robin Hood.'- This was a
Douglas Fairbanks production from start to finish. All
the other characters were supposed to he incidental.
And yet — who doesn't remember Wallace Beery as
King Richard I? — Richard the Lion-Hearted, seated in
his immense palace gnawing lustily on a leg of mutton,
and hurling the bone to his henchmen?
It was a great performance, one that will be long re-
membered. And yet Beery 's footage in "Robin Hood"
was very small compared to Doug's Beer) worked
and cleverly, hut he didn't quite make the grade, largely
for the reason that Doug held the final scissors on the
negative when it went to the cutting-room.
"The part of King Richard was the easiest one I have
ever played." Wallace told me. "It was a cinch. It sim-
ply couldn't fail. 1 have played much harder parts, put a
good deal more into them, and made a great deal smaller
impression when it was all over with." And yet one can-
not imagine anyone but Beery in the part !
There Are Women in the Game
A mo.nc. the women, picture-stealing seems to be less fre-
quent. Yet it does occur.
For instance, Louise Dresser very nearly walk- off with
every picture in which she appears. Very little grass has
grown under her feet of late in the picture world. < )ne
recalls "The Goose Woman" especially. And her work
in Victor Fleming's "The Blind Goddess" and Allan
Dwan's "Padlocked" is superb. In both pictures she very
nearly "wraps up the show and puts it in her pocket" —
presuming that women at least have pockets for this
purpose. {Continued on page 65 i
\
Paul Kelly stole "The New
Klondyke"
Louise Dresser stole "The
Blind Goddess"
George Bancroft stole "The
Pony Express"
23
A Yankee Lass
on a Lark in
LONDON
The younger Gish, whom
we all know as Dorothy,
is back in London hav-
ing the time of her
young life. The English
countryside can be en-
joyed even in the big,
bustling city — which ac-
counts for Dorothy reg-
istering 'igh 'appiness
while punting on the
Thames
Dorothy went over to London town to make
"Nell Gwyn" — and she sold her personality so
well to the Britishers that they asked her to
visit them again. Hence her return to the
snug little isle. When Dorothy is not in the
studio where she is busy making "London" —
a story of Limehouse by Thomas Burke — in
which Adelqui Miller, a Chilean actor, is her
leading man, she is usually boating or strolling
around a bit with her wire-haired terriers
Photos Abbe, London
24
Jonquil had among her hazier memories of her mother, visions of her tulle and butterfly wings, a golden Columbine, or
again as a languid Juliet — or as the dismal Camille dismally expiring in her best nightgown
PAINTED PEOPLE
- By Faith Service
Illustrated by Douglas Ryan
SHE hated it ! She
loathed and de-
tested it ! She
shrank -from it as tho
it were some actual,
tangible thing afflicting
her very flesh.
She felt that it had
ruined her mother's
With this issue, Classic introduces its new serial in six
parts. Faith Service, the author, has written a fascinating
romance of the stage and screen — the make-believe world
that conquers its people with hopes and illusions. With
a keen knowledge of the background of theatrical life,
the author places her young heroine against it — and makes
her shift for herself.
life, sullied her father-
life, crushed and de-
prived her own life.
Grease paint and all
that it stood for . . .
tawdry painted scenes
and tawdry, painted
people . . . sick am-
bitions and fainting
25
A Story of the Footlights and Kleigs
hopes . . . dreary little towns and being "stranded" . . .
Grease paint!
The smell of it . . . the stench . . . the cheap people
. . . the silly simulations . . . the gritty hotels . . . the
unrinsed bed linen . . . the rough-dried wash . . . the
homelcssness. . . .
Oh, how could anyone say they "loved" it? How could
old actresses, cracked and bent-looking, come back-stage
to revisit scenes that now seemed to them scenes of van-
ished triumphs? How could they stand in the dusty
malodorous wings and seem to grow young again before
your very eyes. You could actually see them do it. You
could see their shriveled shoulders, their lean breasts
swell into fluence, their lack-lustre eyes sparkle and shine
. . . before your watching, fascinated eyes they were
Camille again . . . they were Rosalind . . . Trina . . .
Fragoletta . . . women ravishing and real ... They
breathed in the grease paint and lo, from their shriveled
bodies there stepped a galaxy of
fair forgotten women. . . .
She would never be like that
. . . never be one of them .
she hated it . . . all of it . .
had poisoned her. . . .
Old men, too . . . she
had seen and heard old
men . . . watched them
straighten their autumn-
leaf shoulders, tell hoarse
bravado stories about
"the days when I was
young" . . . they, too,
were Ronieos, Orlandos,
Don Juans. ...
It was funny . . . Jon-
quil didn't understand.
She felt that she never
would.
So far back as she
could' drive her mind.
Jonquil had been unhappy.
And she felt that she
could remember very far
back indeed. There were
things to make her re-
member. Terrible things.
Scourges. Signposts of
sadness.
There was, for instance,
her mother. Of course,
most girls remember their
mothers, but not in just
the way nor for just the
reasons that Jonquil did.
Most children are made
comfortable by their
mothers. Soothingly,
drowsingly comfortable.
And in the blanketing lap
of such warm comfort
things become blurred
into a pleasant whole.
Things melt in a comfort-
able reminiscence of sweet
sachets and cuddly arms
and fragrant kitchens and
a lullabying sort of
26
voice. All these things compound and become one's mother.
Not so with Jonquil. She associated no comfort with
her mother, no fragrant baking days when she had been
allowed to make gingerbread men with raisin eyes, no
lullabying voice.
Jonquil had been uncomfortable. She had been uncom-
fortable twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four. Even
when she had slept- she had beeji aware of discomfort, of
the fact that the bed was gritty and lumpy, that her
mother was sighing and making moany little noises in her
sleep, that her father was snorting and sniffling, and that
they would have to be up in the pallid dawn hustling thru
dim chill streets to another train bound for another dreary
town.
Jonquil had had long, head-drooping hours behind the
scenes waiting for her mother to make her final dying
appearance as Camille or whatever highly flavored role
she happened to be enacting on that particular night.
The character woman had come into their room
and shrieked dreadful things at her father and
ather. She had seemed to put herself in the
place with them and called them "poor
dupes" and other hideous names
■^<1
And a Girl's Escape From Herself
|iiil had had scene shifters 01 juveniles 01 charactei
men .is tem|>oran and evei shifting nursemaids. Ton
.jtiil hail subsisted upon fried food, skim milk and folli
- m order to attain to that creature comfort known as
"l full stomach."
It was in the role of Camille that Jonquil best 01
-t remembered her mother. It had been hei mother's
rite part "1 understand, Catnillc," her mother had
I "I become one with her it i ^ my hope thai I
•.hall some da) be recognized as having given one <>t the
world's greatest Cainilles to the theater."
Jonquil remembered sitting one night in the scant audi
. yawning awa\ the time until her mother should have
■1 Comities highly emotional departure from the flesh.
\ man next to her smiled at her unabashed yawns and
said, "Dont blame you . . . that woman is the world's
worst Camille ... 1 congratulate her. I thought I had
the gamut."
Jonquil had felt like crying. Her mother would have
l>een so hurt. Still, he had said that he congratulated her,
too. Grown-ups said such mixy things. Congratulate
meant something nice. A more prominent part, a raise
in salary, a week's stand. Something like that.
Lillian and I'ercival f)e
\ ere were the owners and
proprietors of a second-rate
stock compan) playing two-night stands in thud 1
towns, Now and then the) had a lummei engi
but it Was Onl) now and then
Thej played a catholii and comprehensive repertoire
I heir repertoire was a great point of pride with them
Jonquil had, among her hazier memories of her mother,
visions ot her m tulle and butterfly wings, a golden
( olumbint; or again as a languid Juliet lying in a stiffly
composed nightdress upon a nightmarish catafalque made
of papier mache. ( >r, again, as the dismal ( amilh dis
mails expiring in her best nightgown which had been dul)
washed and hjMg to * 1 1 > in their hedroom each night be
tore the performance of Camille,
Perhaps, after all. Jonquil's most potent memory of
mother was the last one. She never seemed able '"in
pletly to efface it. Years later, in the shadow w >rld, this
memory would recur to her. the realest thing in the unreal
world. And yet she was never quite able to distinguish
as to whether it had actually happened in one of their
hotel rooms or whether it had been a singularly poignant
performance on the stage. Possibly it had been another
one of those times in the best nightgown or on the papier
mache catafalque.
She felt sure of the best nightgown, at any rate
And it must have been in the hotel room because her
memory did not conjure up any footlights, but merely the
dirty gray wash of early mouning. Anyway, her mother
had been lying on something or other clad in the best
nightgown and breathing more and more heavily with
every difficult breath. Jonquil had called her and she
hadn't answered— only breathed harder than ever — and
then, all at once, she hadn't breathed at all. She had been
terribly still. The lace on her breast hadn't stirred even
when a puff of icy wind came from nowhere at all and
played about the bed.
Jonquil had supposed her sleeping and had slipped out
of the room and had gone downstairs to breakfast. She
remembered thinking that she would bring her mother
something on a tray. Her mother loved to have
breakfast brought to her on a tray. She had said
that it made her feel "refined." And then they
could 'still catch the train. . . .
Papa had not been in their room all night but he
came in to breakfast while Jonquil was having
hers. Jonquil had known that he would he
"mad" because mama wasn't up and had has-
tily told him that mama would surely make the
train but that she was so tired she hadn't even
breathed and that she was going to take her
some breakfast on a tray. . . .
Papa had glared at her and she had noticed
that his eyes were redder than usual and had
thought how horridly his lower lip hung down,
almost as tho it were going to drop sloppily off.
But it had never hung so low as when she had
said that mama wasn't breathing. Papa had
turned and left the room when she said that,
which was strange, because he never did any-
thing, certainly nothing for mama, until he had
eaten himself. She supposed that mama was
going to "get it" harder than ever and
the thought took away whatever flavor there
might have been to the cold bacon ami storage eg
Jonquil never saw her mother again. They had wanted
her to look at her when she was lying in her coffin but she
had cried and begged them not to make her. She had felt
(Continued on page 68)
27
CELLA LLOYD BECOMES
By
John Held, Jr.
28
PLEASINGLY PLUMP
WHAT'S GONE ON
BEFORE
With Cella Lloyd safe-
ly over with her public,
even tho her personal ap-
pearance wasn't very suc-
cessful, she, nevertheless,
feels so secure at the top
that she has forgotten
her slender waist-line.
Knowing that her days
are numbered unless she
keeps in trim, Cella starts
reducing thru a course of
physical and Brussels
sprouts. Now read on!
Scene III
No matter how strenuous the stunt, Cella thoroly believes in
trying it out. She claims to have invented this" exercise, but
her bitter rival, Hebe Jebie, knows better. Hebe saw her at
a vaudeville show intently watching the Japanese acrobats
juggle the barrel. As for Cella, she has juggled the barrel
right out of the picture
Scene IV
To continue the painful pastime of reducing
Cella knows she must diet as well as exercise.
Accordingly she gives up spinach and pine-
apple and orders a light luncheon of fried
chicken and a tureen of clam chowder. Enters
the mysterious stranger. Can he be the
producer?
29
Facing Death
By Scott Pierce
As a result of this insatiable demant
for thrills, nerves of chilled steel art^
as indispensable an adjunct to a
modern film comedian as freckles are!
to a dill pickle. Disregarding the
ever-imminent rustle of the (mm
■■■ &
HOLLYWOOD has a num-
ber of workers who
would never be rated as
good risks by any insurance
company that was in its right
mind, but, taken as a class,
there is no single group in the
Film Colony that flirts more
consistently with death, havoc,
and destruction in the course
of its daily labors before the
camera than do the movie comedians
In fact, in order for a film come-
dian to get his name in electric lights
over a theater, it is apparently first
necessary for him to run imminent
chances of getting that same name
on a marble slab over a neat,
grassy mound.
For reasons known entirely to
itself, an American picture audi-
ence wishes its hair to stand on
end at the same time its funny-
bone is being tickled. The nearer
a comedian can come to a violent
and spectacular exit from this vale
of tears, the funnier that comedian
apparently is.
If it is funny to see a comedian
nearly fall ten feet, it seems to follow
necessarily that if the comedian
nearly falls a hundred feet it is ten
times as funny. A situation that is
only mildly mirthful when a comic
is being chased by a hungry bulldog
becomes really sidesplitting when the
pursuer is a. man-eating lion,
Chills are an essential running
mate to chuckles. Custard pies nave
given way to boiler explosions, street
scenes to skyscraper roof-tops, trick
flivvers to racing airplanes, and
banana skins to landslides.
Jimrrue Adams made them
shudder in the above
scene when he reposed
flat on his back on a
slanting board that pro-
jected from the top of an
oil derrick. Harold Lloyd
surely risked his life in
the scene on the right —
taken from "Safety Last."
The spectators gasped for
breath when he did his
stuff on the skyscraper
Reaper's black robes in the near
distance, the successful come-
dian must not only laugh at
Death, but must win still greater
laughs in SO doing.
It is doubtful if anv comedian
Above is Buster Keaton
being propelled by the busi-
ness end of a boot from the
train. He doesn't allow ac-
cidents to shatter his non-
chalance or nerve. It takes
a deal of pluck to face a lion
— even one of the Hollywood
brand. The girl who is be-
ing used for a cushion hopes
the big brute is on a diet
.^•••
30
For a LAUGH
The American Picture Au-
dience Wishes Its Hair to
Stand on End at the Same
Time Its Funny-Bone is be-
ing Tickled. That's Why
the Comedians Must Risk
Their Lives in Gathering
Thrills and Laughs
00 the screen has equalled
Harold Lloyd in number of
thrills per foot of celluloid
during the last few years.
And the thrills have all been
legitimate ones. In common
with Keaton, Denny, and other
big-time laughmakers, Lloyd
absolutely refuses to use a
double, and relies almost solely
upon his own physical ability,
and careful planning and tim-
ing of the various stunts
beforehand.
Lloyd's Thrills
A typical Llovd thrill was
n filmed in '"Girl Shy."
Standing on the top of a
runaway street-car which was
speeding downhill at the rate
of nearly thirty miles an hour.
Harold grasped the tip of the
trolley-pole and was swung
clear, dangling over the edge
of the car for an instant, then
dropping like a plummet into
of sheer luck, the feat went off like clock-
work, and the comedian did not even
receive a scratch.
In "Safety Last," Lloyd piled thrill
upon thrill until the spectator was fairly
left gasping for breath. ( )nly an absolute
fearlessness of height upon Lloyd's part
made the various stunts even possible.
Incidentally, it was in this picture that
{Continued on page
Earle Foxe, on the left, has had all kinds
of luck in avoiding the hospital or the
cemetery while making the "Van Bibber"
stories. Here he is telephoning for help
while dancing on the air a few hundred
feet from the baking asphalt
The HOLLYWOOD
of France
I HAVE met — worked with, alas! — many, many mo-
tion picture directors, but not one of them bears the
slightest resemblance to Rex Ingram, his manner and
his methods. Rex Ingram is unique. Where I have seen
directors — not all
of the m — w ear
their caps with the
visors down the
back of their
necks, array them-
selves in riding
breeches and put-
tees, bellow thru
megaphones, and
go striding and
swearing all over
the lot — Rex
doesn't.
Rex Ingram is
the quietes t —
silentest might be
the better word —
man I met on the
whole Riviera.
His quiet and
silence, however,
are impressive.
You feel that
there is so much
he might say, if
he chose ; so many
interesting things
he is constantly
holding in reserve.
32
At the top of the page is a bird's-eye view of Rex Ingram's studios at
Nice. The imposing edifice at the right is the Administration Building —
which houses the offices of the director and the various heads of depart-
ments. The interior. above represents the modeling room where sets and
details are designed
As he sits opposite you, you become conscious of vast
potential activities constantly going on in his mind. I
have never yet seen him when he was not looking with
a far-away gaze at something beyond the problem that was
directly in front of
him. He has de-
veloped a deep
crease running
down almost into
his left eyebrow
from peering into
space this way.
Rex has a fac-
ulty of bringing
silence with him
wherever he goes.
No matter how
noisy the studio
may be, you can
always tell when
Rex has entered,
for a hush falls, on
his presence. If
the whole place is
not quiet, you will
always find a little
spot surrounding
him that is. I re-
mark this in way
of contrast to
most directors I
have worked with
who were the Big
Noise itself.
.
Rex Ingram Has Found a Paradise —
a Perfect Arcadia by the Sea. The
Riviera Beckoned Him with Its Ro-
mance— and at Nice with Its Beautiful
Environs the Idealist Among Directors
Is Living in a Motion Picture King-
dom of His Own
By Henry Albert Phillips
Rex the Idealist
| rave heard it
* s;iul that Ingram
is a poseur, but I
do not believe he
is. We must all
bear in mind that
Fame puts one on
a pedestal and,
once famous, we
have to pose a bit
to keep the gaping
world satisfied.
On the contrary,
Rex Ingram cre-
ates the impres-
s i o n that he
doesn't give a
whoop about any-
body or anything.
Vet, on second
thought, that sur-
mise does not hold
water for a mo-
Lachruan, Paris
Laihman, Pari*
Above is a "dis-
covery" of Ingram's.
He is a Russian who
answers to the name
of John Petrovitch —
and he plays one of
the principal roles
in the director's new
picture, "The Magi-
cian." On the left
are the three large
studios at St.
Augustin — which is
three miles from
Nice
ment. There prob-
ably is not a man
in the business of
directing and pro-
ducing motion
pictures who cares
more for every-
body and everything than this same Ingram. I offer as proof of
this conclusion everything that he does — and I may say that he
does everything. A Rex Ingram picture is Rex Ingram. No,
there is no one who thinks more of and works more for the public
picture-goer than Rex Ingram. So, this not seeming to care a
whoop may be a pose. If it is, it is like everything else he does,
artistic !
There are other ways in which Rex Ingram reminds me ot
Xapoleon. One is the manner in which he always dresses in a
subdued, quiet costume, while his generals are usually arrayed in
gaudy uniforms. Again, he becomes conspicuous because of hi>
marked inconspicuousness. There are only two things that are
unusual. One is a little French tight student tam-o'-shanter that
he wears. The other is a gold-chain bracelet affected by the
young Frenchman of today. Neither seems so extraordinary
viewed in France when one has been there for a long while.
If you should ask me what I
think is the most remarkable
If you saw the German picture, thing about Rex Ingram, I
"The Golem," which was pre- should sav it is the fact that he
sented here j few years ago, has not become insufferable,
you remember Paul Wegener. -,, . » .. . r ...
The Teuton actor has the lead- ^ hat ,s the miracle for which
ing part in "The Magician" (Continued on page 66)
33
Like the Little Theater Movement — the
Little Cinema Idea is Spreading Rapidly.
Film Guilds Are Sprouting Every-
where and Picture Patrons Are Taking
Up the New Art of the Future
By Matthew Josephson
The Rise
LITTLE
UNDER the surface, one of the
most exciting events of the
year in motion pictures has been
the spread of the "little cinema" idea.
We have had our art theaters and
theater guilds ; now we are to have
Film Guilds and "salons of the
cinema."
"A little theater for the films in
every community, reviving and intro-
ducing only the best American and
foreign pictures. Minority of true
screen devotees to be organized. Skep-
tics to be converted." So run the
manifestoes of these new film-phobes
and pioneers.
The intelligentsia is taking up the
films. Society is taking them up too —
Decla Bioscop
Here is a scene from the German production of "Cinderella," made
by Ufa. The actress playing the title-role is Helga Thomas. The
picture was first shown in America by Film Associates
34
not as a secret sin, but frankly
avowedly, as the New Art of tht
Future !
Invited to one of these "film
art evenings," I elbowed my waj
into a pretentious theater lobby
thru a cultured mob in evening
dress and eight-cylinder cars, b
was more like Carnegie Hall or
Russian Ballet night at the
Metropolitan Opera: artists, pro-
fessors, all the younger genera-
tion and the smart "New
Yorkers" were there talking at
the top of their voices. As the
great foreign film with its fa-
mous stars went on the screen,
there was wild applause ; or,
hisses, laughter, organized cheer-
ing as some new wrinkle or fan-
dangle appeared on this ultra-
modern screen. Verily, like a
first night at the Opera!
And here were — well
several hundred people
who had paid some ten
dollars in advance to see
a few films that were
heralded as examples of
the modern art of the
cinema, not because
there were specimens of
feminine or masculine
pulchritude displayed therein.
They've Come to Stay
Observing this new movement toward "little
cinemas" for artistic and seriously wrought
pictures, I have been struck not so much by the
strangeness of the idea as by its vitality, its
staying power. This season we are to have
four "little cinemas" in New York instead of
two ; and a chain of them in other large cities
such as Boston, .Washington, Chicago, Los
Angeles.
The idea of little theaters for exhibiting new,
experimental, and unpopular films offers so
many possibilities for the future, (if it persist*
and grows as it seems to be doing), that it is
time to look over the field and meet some of the
leading figures of this movement which has
started from the outside.
Symon Gould, the mainspring of the Inter-
national Film Arts Guild, has. for instance, never
been connected with any of the big producing
companies. His group has been the most suc-
cessful, the most aggressive. It has gained a
foothold on Broadway and is at the very mo-
ment regaling chosen audiences of New York
Dudley Murphy is
one of the figures in
the art-film move-
ment. He is home
talent which has ab-
sorbed the ideas
about modern art
that are current in
Europe
.
of the
CINEMA
A Wave of Revivals is on-Revivals
of Worth-While Pictures, Which Are
Being Shown With New Impression-
istic Ideas. The Public Taste is Chang-
ing— It Demands Intelligence and
Quality in Its Films
Symon Gould is the main
spring of the International
Film Arts Guild — which
caters to the best in the
picture field. It is his pur-
pose to establish the little
cinema movement in a
score of cities
with him masterpieces of
ihe past, or box-office
flop-, or foreign films of
ijreat beauty which might
never otherwise see the
for really tine pictures which arc not box office attractions on a large
scald and that there is a special public for such things. It i- slow work
because we lia\e to educate more of the general Olovie-going public into
going out of their way to view these tine things.
"However, results in the first year have been surprisingly good. Beyond
our hopes. We have arrived, and now we are going to expand. Promi-
nent Writers, painters, musicians, hlm-executivcs came to our programs.
Society people came Son I
our subscription evenings had to
be repeated because of the over-
How."
"How are you going to expand
unless you have a distributing
system," I asked. I was think-
ing of how many well-inten-
tioned ventures of this kind drop
into the red-ink side of the
edger. Motion pictures COSt SO
(Continued on fa.
light here- were it not for the Film Arts Guild.
Gould is a little man with horn-rimmed spectacles,
but big with ideas for livening up the motion pictures.
His Film Guild has the charming little Cameo Theater
which seats only five hundred. Here among the
screaming electric signs of Broadway by night the
Msserby, drawn by the magic name of Lubitsch or
Stroheim or Griffith, may turn in for a quiet hour with
some enduringly beautiful work of the screen. "The
Last Laugh," "The Marriage Circle," "The Miracle
Man" and many other immortal works which I have
tried to call back to the mind of readers of Classic
is outstanding achievements of this new art live again.
How absurd that such things should lie rolled up on
shelves in dusty storehouses !
The Public Must Be Educated
f have realized from the beginning," Gould said to
me. "that our growth would have to be slow and
gradual. I have felt all along that there was a place
The scene in the center of the page is taken from "The
Waxworks," the highly impressionistic German film
which has created a sensation wherever shown. On the
right is another study of Helga Thomas, the German
star, enacting the title-role of "Cinderella" in the
Ufa production of that name
35
Emotions You Have
By Taskey
Lon Chaney has a habit of
putting a scare into the
hearts of his audience.
If you must know how
he does it — well, the
director frightens
him with a jack-
in-the-box
36
Missed
fo make a child cry good and hard it it
iccessary for some stem taskmaster (or
nistress) to administer a sound thrashing
vith the business end of a boot. That's
how Baby Peggy does her stuff
37
W. C. Fields has a
sound philosophy of
the art of making
them laugh. As a
clowning juggler, he
is in a class by him-
self— and he knows
all the tricks of the
trade
The UP-TO-DATE
Old 1
timer!
HIS ideas be-
come mem-
ories, and no
new ones grow : this
is my plaint against
that ubiquitous bore
who cannot see him-
self as anything but
the fount from
which all wisdom
flows — for, to him,
wisdom is no more
than a knowledge of
what happened in his
intimate circle dur-
ing the period that
started twenty-five
years ago, and prog-
ressed backwards. I
am speaking of that
perpetual drag on
progress, the (ill-)
famed "old-timer."
Fields is what you might call an im-
promptu comedian. He "ad libs" as he
goes along. Below is one of the scenes
from "The Old Army Game"— with the
mirth-maker having fun with his trick
flivver
Says W. C. Fields:
"I'm egotistical enough to give the producers a battle
when they want to make a character do a thing I dont
think he would do naturally.
"A comedian should be given a well-worked out skele-
ton framework — and then told to add the bricks and orna-
ment as he goes along.
"The basic human types never become old and stale —
no more than landscapes do.
"I intend making the character I'm playing more im
portant than the registering of my own personality.
"You cant do anything new. Air-planes, cops, boats
elephants, cows, even cripples — all have been used."
This burst of petu
lance is not the resuli
of having met one 0'
these ancients ; it's be
cause I've met one whc
isn't ! — and theref on
know them to be un-
necessary. For no one:
would have the slight-
est thought of denying
W. C. Fields the right
to this title in the rank'
of those who amuse —
yet he doesn't claim it !
Or, rather, he claims i:
only as a well of ex-
perience on which to
draw for help in the
present and future. His;
life is of the present
and future, with the
past as a helpful back-
ground ; rather than of
the past, with the pres-
ent as an unwelcome
intruder. "I wish I
knew" rather than
"Them were the days"]
is his attitude to life.
Mind you, I have
38
W. C. Fields Is an Old Hand at the
Comedy Game — Which Accounts
for His Perfect Pantomime. He
Believes in Keeping Pace With
the Public by Presenting Some
New Ideas
By Dunham Thorp
nothing against the past; I am not advocating a con
sthutional amendment to prohibit it by law. It's
all right in it> place. If one makes of it a place
I'hctf II1UM |
new treatmr: •
old i. Iras if a
comedian would
make a tiuccets of
himself If th<- I
the slightest
similarity, the
crowd always
mutters — "I've
seen that before"
Here are Chester Conklin and W. C.
Fields arguing the respective merits of
:heir methods of fastening movie
mustaches. Conklin attaches his
walrus appendage with glue while
Fields recommends hanging it on his
lose with a hook-and-eye arrangement.
\t the right the comedian demonstrates
now a domesticated family man handles
a large cake of ice
where one has been — a place of other man-
lers and customs, like a foreign country —
and not a citadel in which to fight to the
ast gasp the savage horde of new ideas, it
nay oven come in handy.
And so it does with Mr. Fields. As a
wise-cracker and clowning juggler, there
ire very few places where wise-crackers
md clowning jugglers cause amusement
that lie has not been. England, France,
Germany, Russia — but no editor would
iccept an article that is merely a list of
manes.
Pantomime for All Languages
A no no hidebound and unchanging act
could withstand the differing demands
if these different countries. A*, for in-
stance, in countries where his audience
could not understand a word of English
\
"I )f course, where I couldn't
speak the language, I had to do
im act in silence."
And so, the great silent Stretches of the
films did not awe him — he had air end ,
plored the solitudes, and found them m
d( solate.
And, also, because he has written most of
the sketches he has used in musical comedy,
he hasn't that self-conscious feeling
of the newcomer in pictures when it
comes to the talking over and work-
ing out of scripts.
"I'm egotistical enough to give
them a battle when they want to
make a character do a thing I dont
think he would do naturally.
"And besides that, if you do
something you dont think you —
as a certain character should,
you cannot chase it from your
mind. Days and days later,
your mind will still return to
that action — it become* a per-
petual mental irritant for the
life of the picture.
"Even if the actor is wr
it's almost worth while letting
him have his way so that he'll keep his
peace of mind.
'"The happy medium we should try
for is a well-worked out story without
too many restrictions on character de-
velopment."
"But wasn't 'It's The Old Army
( iame' made without a detailed script ?"
"Yes — and there I see one of the
defects of the industry: not enough
time is spent in preparation — especially
in the working out of stories.
"For instance: in a picture where
you just 'ad lib' you may have to
bring in an extra character towards
the end. And then you look back and
see a' least a dozen other places ■■
»t pna,
39
U
GREAT ATHLETES
George O'Brien is a super-athlete in his
own right. He has the physical build of
a Greek Hercules, the lithe grace of a
dancing-master, and the hitting powers
of a Missouri mule
Fred Thomson, on the right, is a natural
athlete who excels in everything. At the
Inter-Allied Games in Paris, a few years
ago he won the decathlon in competition
with most of the world's best
Hal K. Wells
MOVING picture audiences of the Twentieth Century
have one big thing in common with their prehistoric
brethren of the Stone Age, and that is an innate and
undying admiration for sheer physical prowess.
It is a trait as old as the race itself. It was first born back
in the dim days when the world was young and such things
as second-hand flivvers and radio sopranos were undreamed-
of nightmares of a far distant and de-
cadent future.
The several thou-
sand years that have
elapsed since then have
only slightly changed
our inbred admiration
for physical prowess. Today,
instead of the hairy Neanderthal
man who could give a gorilla the
first hug and then crack three of
the brute's ribs without half try-
ing, our homage is paid to the
athlete, the man who combines
skill with his sheer brawn, and
adds the quality of a fighting
heart to the glory of both. But,
fundamentally, our admiration
for physical prowess is as strong and sin-
cere as it ever was.
This admiration is the factor that
throngs boxing arenas, football stadiums,
baseball parks, causes the meeting of two
girl tennis players to get first-page head-
lines in the newspapers of the world — and
fills moving picture theaters to the last seat
when such suoer-athletes as Douglas
Tom Tyler shows the mar-
velous chest and arm de-
velopment that enabled him
to acquire several weight-
lifting records
George Lewis is
one of the best
all-round ath-
letes ever de-
veloped by a
California high
school. He stars
at basketball
40
Df the SCREEN
At the right is Malco
Gregor who formerly held
Metropolitan diving ch
ship — and was on the
swimming team for two
rhe American Public Raises a Furore Now and Then Ov
he Sheik and Other Bizarre Types — But in the Long Ru
t Wants Its Heroes to Be Decidedly
)f the He-Man Variety. There Are
Several Athletic Stars on the Silversheet
Who Are Breaking Records in Sports
as Well as at the Box-Office
Fairbanks, Fred Thomson, or "Lefty" Flynn arc appearing
m the silversheet.
The result of this natural hero-worship of the athlete has
>een' the appearance of a number of really splendid speci-
lens of physical manhood upon the American screen.
It {joes almost without saying that these athletes are the
eal thing. They could not very well be anything else.
Athletic build and prowess are things that can not be
aked. A sofa cushion and a set
f false whiskers can make a one-
undred -and-ten-pound property
un look like Santa Claus him-
elf, but all the trickery in the
(Continued on page 70)
Edmund Lowe won his
letter playing football and
baseball. Today he keeps
in trim by playing a hard
game of squash at the
Hollywood Athletic Club
William Russell was a
helpless cripple as a boy
of sixteen, but thru per-
severance with exercise
he has become a power-
ful athlete. He shines
best with the boxing-
gloves
Bob Custer, on the left, possesses a
fine physique which comes in handy in
his cowboy pictures. He keeps in
trim by taking a medicine-ball and
working out on the beach. On the
right is the only "Doug" Fairbanks,
who has developed himself into one
of the screen's greatest athletes. All
of his pictures register his muscular
prowess
41
LYA DE PUTTI
All the moods of a madcap — the seductive charms of the serpent of the Nile — these are
generously, strikingly illustrated by Lya, the languorous, in "Variety." Never has
woman displayed such sweeping power over man since Eve gathered skookums for Adam
42
What It Costs to Be a Well
Dressed Sheik
By John Abbott
A LOT of money goes into circulation when an actor equips
-**- himself with the clothes and accoutrements of a sheik.
Take Rudolph Valentino, for instance. He has spent several
thousand dollars to dress himself appropriately and colorfully
for his new picture, "Son of the Sheik."
The investment called for a complete wardrobe of hoods,
cloaks, vests, turbans, sashes and other apparel — to say nothing
of such trimmings as swords, knives, revolvers and jewelry.
With all of this outlay of wealth to effect a fitting characteriza-
tion, there is no doubt about the sheik's being well-dressed.
J
Sapphire ring set in platinum, $3,000
Antique silver bracelet (imported), $150
Wrist watch, $150
Cigaret case (jeweled), $300
Patent Lighter (jeweled), $150
Revolver, $35
Belt and Knife (antique), $550
Sword, $4,000
Spurs (silver), $50
Turban, $25
Two Arabian burnooses, $450
Two Silk Headdresses, $70
Two lamb's wool shirts, $100
Two embroidered vests, $300
Embroidered outer garment, $350
Sash, $20
Gold-embroidered cloak, $500
Two jewel-studded belts, $600
Embroidered revolver holster, $25
Arabian trousers, $175
Breeches with braided trimming, $75
Two pair imported boots, $155
Slippers, $30
The total cost of being outfitted in the Valentino manner is
approximately $11,260
43
Here Are Some Further
Comments on the Busy
Activities of the Stars on
the Coast— By the Editor-
in-Chief of the Brewster
Publications
Impressions of
HOLLYWOOD
By Eugene V. Brewster
WHEN Irene Bordoni was playing here recently
she was much entertained, and among her hostesses
was Mrs. Antonio Moreno, who is a princess
among entertainers. There were fourteen at table at the
six o'clock dinner — the early hour being due to the fact
that the guest of honer had to leave early for her
theater.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn, Fred Niblo, Enid Ben-
nett, Florence Vidor, Corliss Palmer and Ramon Novarro
were among the guests, and I had a good chance to com-
pare Moreno and Novarro. They are both dark, and of
the same height, but Tony is the stouter and older, and,
in real life, the handsomer. He also looks more virile.
Ramon seems more ethereal and romantic, and certainly
less rugged. Of the two, Tony is the more picturesque.
Those Eating Places
'Time was when Armstrong's was the popular place for
movie people, and then the scene shifted down and
across the boulevard to a place called Montmartre, which
is much more elaborate and showy. But now the latter
has got so noisy, and busy and common that the better
class of movie people are not seen there so much. It has
a large and noisy orchestra with a dance floor in the center
and contests are quite the vogue.
When one desires a lively time with plenty of excite-
Montmartre; when one wants to
one goes to the
a good, quiet
ment,
enjoy
meal and to talk
and be heard, one
goes to Paulais's,
Armstrong's,
Frank's, Henry's
Ship Ahoy, or one
of a dozen others
within walking dis-
tance. Ship Ahoy,
by the way, is fitted
up like the saloon of
a ship with the
waiters in marine
uniforms.
There's another
called "The Jail,"
which looks just like
one, and the waiters
are dressed as con-
victs. Then there's
the "Zulu Hut,"
where one sits on
the floor and is
waited on by fake
Zulus, the "Planta-
tion," a big "South-
ern style" resort,
and so on and so
forth.
Here is the very latest photograph of Mr. Brewster at his desk in the
Hollywood office of the Brewster magazines. Altho the editor is ever
busy with his editorial duties, he finds time to attend the various social
functions of the stars as well as pay respect to their productions and
performances
Rudy Has a Winner
\A^hile at another dinner party I learned from Florence
"" Vidor that Director Fitzmaurice was secretly showing
"Son of the Sheik" at a small theater in Glendale— "try-
ing it out on the dog," as it were. I was mildly provoked,
because I wanted to help them preview it, and they left
me out. I had half a mind to leave the table and run over
to Glendale and hunt it up, but I didn't.
Next day I was over on the Schenck lot and I repri-
manded Joe for not telling me about it. He said that he
knew nothing about it and that he was surprised. I then
ran across Rudy himself later and I also called him down
for not inviting me to the try-out. He glared at me with
fire in his eye and said that he knew nothing about the
showing of his picture, that he should have been informed,
that he ought to have been consulted, and so on. With
that he excused himself and darted off.
Later, Fitz came up to me and said that I had gotten
him into a lot of trouble. The fact was. that he wanted
nobody to see the picture in its present state, that he
wanted to cut it and fix it up the best he knew how before
the boss and star and critics saw it. "Serves you right,"
said I, "for not letting me in on it. I know all about
unfinished pictures in their raw state, and I want to help
you. I have staked my reputation on Rudy's comeback,
and I'm just as anxious as you are to make this picture a
knockout."
He promised me I
should see it in a day
or two, and he prom-
ised the others ditto,
and so now every-
thing is quiet along
the Potomac and
everybody is happy.
And, by the way, it's
going to be a great
picture!
Gilbert Hair
[ack Gilbert was
among the 'guests
up at the Hearst
"ranch" recently,
and he kept me
amused at all times.
He is full of life,
full of ideas, full of
conversation, full of
fun and full of hair.
His hair is now
eight inches long,
black and wavy, and
he looks strikingly
picturesque. He has
(Cont'd on page 86)
The
J'
44
Owr
OWN
NEWS
CAMERA
i
I 'ruin ■
When two great artists get
together, they usually ex-
change compliments. Above
are Charlie Chaplin and
Raquel Meller, the Spanish
songbird, who visited the
comedian while on her trans-
continental tour in the in-
terest of art and finance
On the right is Madge
Bellamy, who returned
recently from a vaca-
tion in Europe. She
posed very prettily for
the photographers on
the deck of the Reren-
garia while the customs
officials swooped down
on her trunks
Above are Gertrude Lawrence and Beatrice Lillie
(Lady Peel), stars of "Chariot's Revue," having a
pal-ly time with Dick Barthelmess — who is at-
tired in the manner of the Amateur Gentleman.
The Lillie person is about to make her screen
debut in a comedy
On the right are Mr. and Mrs. Alastair Mackintosh,
who have sailed on a belated honeymoon for Europe.
The Missus, you know, is Constance Talmadge and
hubby is an officer of the British army. Here we
have the lovebirds watching the traffic of the
boulevards from the balcony of the hotel suite in
Paris
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With the modern girl "crashing" into
all kinds of men's sports, it isn't such a
surprise to see Phyllis Haver "tuning
up" for the six-day bicycle race. She
is on one of those practise "bikes"
while Marie Prevost times her speed
Eddie Cantor has kissed the stage
good-by. The Broadway musical
comedy star has arrived in Hollywood
with the Missus and the four little
Cantors. According to Eddie, he will
do his stuff on the screen — his first task
being a screen version of the popular
"Kid Boots"
Above is Marion Mack, who has been
picked by Buster Keaton as his lead-
ing woman. Buster can pick 'em about
as well as Mack Sennett. In fact, the
frozen-faced comedian took her away
from Mack's gallery of bathing
beauties
Underwood &
Underwood
GilHams
In the oval is Dolores Costello
displaying the latest thing in
a sports costume. She has
prepared herself for Holly-
wood's rainy season by equip-
ping herself with a pair of
storm boots. A star cannot
risk getting the "newmony,"
you know
Just the thing for any
town's summer season is
sported by Carmel
Myers on the right.
Since the summers are
long out Hollywood way,
Carmel intends to make
good use of the cool-
looking frock with the
white triangles
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.
In this apache costume
Blanche Mehaffey has
added a daring touch to
her wardrobe. The crea-
tion features a combina-
tion of black velvet and
black and gold brocade —
to say nothing of a leather
belt which carries a
naughty little dagger — and
black fishnet hose to
make the boys look
around
Above is the sheik, flanked on each side by the
beauties of two hemispheres. The lady on the left
is Vilma Banky, from Budapest — Rudy's leading
woman — and the little lady on the right is Yacko
Mizatani, the "Mary Pickford of Japan"
Gwen Lee, on the right,
created a mild sensa-
tion when she appeared
with this giant som-
brero, a gift from some
Mexican admirer. It's
one of the biggest hats
in captivity, but Gwen
uses it for a parasol,
umbrella, bath-house,
dog-kennel, or what
have you
Just to show how the
girls obey that impulse to
dab their faces with rouge
and powder, here are Betty
Byrd and Thelma Daniels,
from the Christie play-
ground, wading knee-deep,
and forgetting the fishes
in order to put over a
snappy appearance
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REG the REGULAR
OF all the host of young men who have
passed in review across the
screen this past dozen year
two stand out as symbols of high-
spirited American youth.
The first was Wallace Reid,
whom a pitiful death immortal-
ized.
The second is Reginald Den-
ny, whose star is still in its
ascendancy.
There are those in Holly-
wood and elsewhere who be-
lieve that Denny's popularity
in five years will be even
greater than was ever Wally
Reid's. There are still others
who believe that Denny would
already be a greater figure
I
than was Reid at his prime, had Denny been
given Wally's opportunities of story, direc
tion and exhibition.
These however, must always remain
matters of conjecture. They are in-
teresting to the men who make pic-
tures and display them. They are
questions for the fans to debate.
But they have no bearing on the
personality of Reginald Denny
himself.
Judged by His Nickname
think the best barometer
of Denny's personal popu-
larity is his nickname. In the
opinion of low-brow America,
of which this writer claims to
be the greatest living example,
Reginald is not much of a name.
It smacks of cutaway coats and
pink teas. It borders on the ef-
feminate. It is very easy for a
man named Reginald to be called
"Reggy," in which case he is invari-
ably pictured as wearing a silk hat
and nursing a lap-dog.
So far as I know, nobody ever thought
of calling Denny, "Reggy." His nickname
is Reg, the last letter slurred as in "George."
It is an honest name, a blunt, straightforward
sort of name ; a man's name. It is typical of
Denny.
It must have been five years since I first met
Reg Denny. Engineered by that splendid actor
and intrepid sportsman, Ben Hendricks, a
group of us had planned a trip to lonely Santa
Cruz Islands off the California Coast, where
there were rumored to be mountain sheep and
wild boars.
We gathered before dawn of a cold, foggy,
miserable morning, on a long pier that stretches
into the sea from the town of Santa Monica.
A few early-rising gulls screamed overhead, un-
seen, wraiths in the mist. The heavy rollers of the
changing tide thundered against the pilings and
cascaded on the beach. Eventually we tired of
waiting and dropped gingerly from a rickety ladder
to the deck of a fishing-boat that rode the swells
like a water-logged cork, one hawser carelessly
looped about a barnacled piling.
A Good Sport
\X7hen Denny appeared with his duffel; dropping to
the deck as the little boat lifted on the crest of a
twelve-foot ground-swell, there was a little altercation.
Plainly, a storm was making." Some of the more
timid souls argued for postponement. Not so Denny.
His spirit rode down all objections. We went.
An hour at sea and the gale struck. Thereafter
Reginald Denny is one of the most popular actors in
pictures. He believes in doing favors for everyone
who comes in contact with him — that is, if they play
the game on the square. His home life is particularly
happy. On the left he appears with his wife and
daughter Barbara
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It Speaks Volumes for a Man's Character
When He Is Known by His Nickname.
Reginald Denny Is One of Those Rare True
Sports Who Believes in Walking on Your
Side of the Street and Shaking Hands With
the Whole Wide World
By Don Eddy
uniil late in t he afternoon we rode thru mountainous seas, the
■nscuppered decks constantly awash, the duffel and rifles soaked,
tin- food ;i soggy mess. It there was talk of running hack to
port, who talked it down? Reg Denny 1
It spirits were low, who was always ^^^^^^^^
on hand with the cheery wise
crack, the booming laugh? .^^^
Denny !
I wish I could pic-
ture him as he was
then, standing strad-
dle-legged on the
plunging deck of the
little craft, his cloth-
ing plastered to his
body, his hair soaked
and rumpled; roaring
high-spirited sea songs,
shouting badinage, man-
ufacturing puns, holding up
the morale of a pleasure crew
that wasn't so pleasant.
Well, we sighted the islands in the
late afternoon, and still later located a de-
ceptive cove on the lee side. The cove looked quiet from
the sea. We transferred the sodden duffel, dropped into
the dingey and started ashore. The cove, as I say, was
deceptive. On the beach the rollers were running ten feet
high, w
oarsman let the
those enormous
troughs. The follow-
ing sea dumped us onto
the beach like drowned
rats, the dingey upside
down.
And who, for-
getting his own dis-
comfort, was the
first to rustle fire-
wood and build a
roaring fire before
which we danced
like naked Indian^
(Continued
on page 78)
The Reg Denny that all ot us
know on the screen is a
vibrant personality — a man
with the spirit and enthusiasm
of a boy. The two gentlemen
grouped with him are the two
mighty moguls of the screen
and the baseball world, Will
Hays and Judge Landis
hite-capped, murderous. ( )ur
dingey slip broadside into one of
Being English, it is natural that Denny would go in
for sports. One of hi6 favorite pastimes is golf. Oi
the right the Missus and Barbara are smiling theii
prettiest for the head of the family and you
Bebe Daniels
has many roll-
icking moments
in "The Palm
Beach Girl."
She plays an
Ioway girl in
Florida
THE
CELLULOID
CRITIC
A FITTING companion picture to "The Last Laugh"
in point of masterly direction, masterly acting and
the compelling power of its story, is "Variety." As
with the other, it comes straight from the UFA workshop — a
finished piece of cinematic art. It tells a sordid triangle that
shatters the lives of its tragic figures. These three — a domi-
nating, brutish showman, his mistress and the philanderer, who
is taken into the confidence of the others — touch the dregs of lif
Yet so completely fascinating,, so absorbing and embracing
its eventful situations that the characters seem to step right out
frame and confront you
with their personalities.
Truly Lifelike
I have never seen a
picture which carried
a more lifelike touch. I
have never seen a pic-
ture which brought forth
so much titanic force in
the logical sequence of
its scenes. There have
been triangle dramas be-
fore, but somehow they
have an artificial ring
compared with "Vari-
ety."
The rough-and-ready
showman is content in
his wagon home — con-
tent with his dowdy wife
and their sprawling babe
until a sensuous woman
enters and seeks shelter.
With soft, limpid eyes
and rounded curves of
figure she conquers him.
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Milton Sills has an interesting picture in "Puppets." Here we
find him treating one of his dolls to a flow of melody
Emil Jannings and Lya
de Putti have many
dramatic and emotional
moments in that superb
picture, "Variety
He would become the
aerialist again — the
strong anchor man who
catches the lighter acro-
bat in his flights from
the trapeze. And so he
runs away with the girl.
He is happy, but he is
ignorant of the girl's
passion for men. And
she invites the more at-
tractive member of the
troupe with the sex light
of her eyes.
Power and Suspense
I give this brief out-
line of the plot to in-
dicate the motivation.
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Laurence Reid
Reviews the New
Photoplays
Mind you. it is a triangle and tremend-
ously simple of design. Yet it grips you
completely, rhe suspense Is terrific as
\ >u wondei what will happen. You
know that the Germans are as thoro in
their plays as they are in war. There is
no sugar-coating here. Dot's the big play-
boy run afoul of some gossiping friend
who would in form him of the undue pas-
sion that his partners have for each
other? No indeed, it isn't done so ob-
viously. Instead, the most , malicious
method is used — a method which strike^
deep. A caricaturist sketches the tri-
angle in vivid terms. The hatred is en-
gendered in the outraged heart of the
anchor man. And he makes his
rival pay the supreme penalty.
That's all there is to "Variety."
But how graphically it is depicted.
The story, told in narrative style,
with the protagonist con-
fessing the crime to the
magistrate after his long
sojourn in prison, builds
evenly and logically to its
destined climax.
Cinematic Quality
[ must pay the highest tribute to
1 the superb direction. It is mani-
fested in the lighting, the staging,
the grouping and the handling of
the various characters and situa-
tions. The Wintergarten in
Berlin is shown in a kaleidosco-
pic display — with the several
acts dissolving into one an-
other. There is keen suspense
as the aerialists go thru their
routine high up over the
heads of the audience. And
the pulse quickens indeed,
as you wonder if the
anchor man will permit
his rival to fall.
The outraged playboy,
forgetful of the fact that he
is suffering as he permitted
his wife to suffer, hesitates
whether he should catch his
false friend. But he is the
showman, after all. And he
dearly loves applause.
Jack Holt decorates the back-
grounds of the vast open
country in "Born to the
West," an up - and - at - 'em
Western
Lon Chaney scores another point for realism by his uncanny disguise and
performance in "The Road to Mandalay." The gentleman in the garb of
the cleric is none other than Henry B. Walthall
Which is a tribute to the lifelike touch of the picture. So
he goes on with the act and metes out sterner justice.
Splendid Acting
A s in "The Last Laugh" I find Emil Jannings again
living his character to the life. He is brutal,
playful, boastful, cunning, in turn — and he pretends
to be nothing else than what he represents. It is a mag-
nificent performance — a performance which adds new-
laurels. Lya de Putti is also quite perfect in her rendi-
tion of the sex-crazed woman — shading her
role with true femirine moods and impulses.
Chaney in a New Disguise
here is a sordid drama of the East — of
primitive passions of Singapore on view-
in "The Road to Mandalay." As it>
story unfolds, it presents nothing that
can be called enlightened or original.
And it took no inspiration to con-
ceive it. What merit it has r<
solely with its characterization. In
order to effect this Lon Chaney re-
sorts to another of his uncanny dis-
guises. He appears a one-eyed bad
man — whose only redeeming virtue
is his love for his daughter reared
in ignorance of her paternal relative.
Chaney must have suffered to
bring about this one-eye effect. It is rumored that
he employed some chemical which could only be used
two hours at a time — so painful was the task. But
that accounts for Chaney, the realist. Anyway, he
holds the attention — and gives a vivid performance.
Mostly Atmosphere
therwise there is no tug at the emotions.
spiritual or what you will. Lois Moran doesn't
look like the type of girl that would be mixed up in
such a plot — a plot that doesn't approximate anything
(Continued on page 90)
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MM
BETTY BRONSON
The clock has struck three in the morning for Cinderella. The little girl grows older —
which means that she is privileged to wear her dresses higher. The ballet costume well
becomes Betty and all the boys are hoping she loses her slipper at the ball
Nace
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—
Adolphe the Elegant
An Impressionistic Pen Picture
of Menjou, the Master of the
Sophisticated Shrug and ^
the Emotional Eyebrow
Caricature by
John Decker
By Gladys Hall
FIRST stage
Adolphe on the Screen.
The suave Sophisticate . . .
the risque dilettante . . . the Man
At>out Town with whom Lit-
tle Mabel would be sate only
as tar as the corner and under
guard of the Mounted Police
. . . dangerous . . . debonair
. . tonsorially perfect ... an
Klegant ... a sipper of
wine, women and song,
when and where wine,
women and song are most
consummate, most costly
... a dropper-in at night clubs
where night clubs are most ex-
clusive, most inaccessible ... a
white gardenia in a buttonhole . . .
■a butterfly alighting for the mo-
ment ... a Last Word . . . the
sort of perfection that hides a worm
at its heart . . . the Exquisite who
bends over a fair and tapering hand
just long enough . . . never too long
... a Philosopher of Passion ... a
Psychologist of Love . . . doubting all
things . . . believing nothing . . . the
Eternal Lotlwrio . . . the cosmopolite
Don Juan . . . An incapable of the
profondities ... a scoffer at sanctities
envy of all average men . . . the despair of all
average women . . . the despiser of gaucheries
. . . the casual Wooer . . . the disdainful Winner. . . .
He Is So in Celluloid
Cor Adolphe a woman must be a strain of music filtered
thru mid-night jade ... a woman must have
mother-of-pearl finger-tips and a manicured soul . . .
She must be clad in satin and sables and evil lace . . .
She must speak with accents of liquid and license. . . .
In his eyes all the weariness of satiety and dead hope
. . . hope forever unfulfilled ... in his eyes graves of
dead dreams . . . dreams relinquished with a perfect
shrug . . . tired eyes . . . cynical . . . disillusioned . . .
mocking . . . mocking ... a fur-lined coat and a silk
hat ... a gesture that says . . . Ooo. la, la, what does
it not say . . . ? Thus the Menjou.
Second Stage
A dolphe Himself ...
A tired looking man of medium height .
bow tie .
A careless
a slight tendency to unshavedness ... a pair
of horn-rimmed glasses that
keep slipping to the bridge of
his nose, thus giving him an
incongruously kindly, even
paternal expression. . . An
Egotist, but an egotist about his work, not
about his wiles . . An eager, nervous
didactic way of talking about "My work"
... a simple, kindly soul : ingenuous,
frank, outpouring ... a good man who is
devoted to his mother . . . who is lonely
in Xew York . . . who stood too long in
awe of his wife . . . who never during
his marital career went out of an evening
. . . who never looked at another woman
of himself "I am really harmless, perfectly hannle-s .
(Continued on page 87)
who says
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NO further proof is needed that the
Germans produce pictures to make
people think than their supreme
effort, "Variety." Like "The Last Laugh,"
it asks you to pay strict attention, which
you unconsciously do while you find real
stimulation from its drama.
With no attempt at belittling the Ameri-
can product, the truth must prevail. It
prevails in the painstaking effort to get away
from the banalities, the artificialities which too
often saturate our pictures. The serious
minded Teuton is out to record life stripped of
all its gloss. And "Variety" is typical of the
FLASH
race.
Belongs Among the Best
^OME critics have declared it the best film
**^ ever made. W ell, if it isn't, it cant be dis-
puted that it belongs among the screen s few
masterpieces. Certainly there is no room for
argument that it marks the furthest advance
in picture technique. Why, even a spectator who
never saw over a dozen films in his life can
aftfireciate the difference in the manner of its
conception and execution from the standards
which have been placed before him. He would
aftftreciate true motion photography — the tyf>e
of photography that becomes a living force. Con-
sequently he is able to feel that the picture is
sneaking right out to him in its own incompar-
able language. Incidentally, it is a language
which can be understood in any country, since
it establishes perfect pantomime brought forth
from a perfect motivation of f>lot.
Cinematic Art At Its Highest Peak
OO "Variety" expresses
*^ cinematic art at its high-
est development. The film
audience outside of the
circle of "fans" will be able
to understand its top stand-
ard of technique. The intel-
ligentsia may come to scoff
but they will depart highly
respectful over the depth of
understanding it conveys.
The picture hasn't a weak-
ness. It is especially well
handled in regard to its
camera angles. It, more-
over, contains an interest
and appeal for every type of
patron everywhere. Its dif-
ference from our mass of
pictures lies in its superb
construction, plus its pains-
takingly clever presentation,
told in terms of life-like
pantomime.
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Impression of James Kirkwood by Curzon
By L. R.
Jannings is Present
"\/TOST everyone is familiar with the name
** ■*" of Emtl Jannings. But he isn't "bally-
hoo-ed'' in Germany as he is here. The ad-
vertising medium which is the backbone of sell-
ing the picture to the public, has made our star
system what it is. The Germans have placed
him in their picture because they knew he rep-
resented the best man for the fiart. And the
Americans have capitalized his talent. So here
he is giving another memorable study which
contains all the emotions that a human being
could possibly express and still belong on our
planet. Lya de Putti ts another who con-
tributes a most intelligent performance — a per-
formance of a dozen moods and shadings. She
is now in this country and Jannings is on his
way. Truly, America may welcome them.
It Was Coming to Him
A TESTIMONY of the high esteem that F.
"^ ^" W. Murnau is held in America was proved
recently when Fox Films tendered a dinner for
the director of "The Last Laugh." Highly paid
editorial writers, justices, admirals, generals,
professors, bankers — all fared forth to pay
homage to the genius who produced one of the
greatest (if not the greatest)
pictures of the screen. It
was a tribute to an artist and
his art — that representative
men from various walks of
life responded with such
deep regard and enthusiasm.
Herr Murnau registered
a humility befitting of all
men who have accomplished
something worth while. He
paid modest tribute to the
culture of Europe, but ad-
mitted that the energy, the
youth and the vital freshness
of America had awakened in
him a keen desire to catch
its indomitable spirit.
The German has qualified
as a thinker with real ideas.
Let us hope that he con-
tinues to give them the
highest expression. Unfet-
tered, he should do it.
BACKS
About Pictures and People
The James Boy
^\JOT strict' the days of the memorable Jesse
has a James earned on with such high
pressure as Gardner. J esse s exploits made
history — and many of them have been recorded
on the screen. Gardner James — no relation —
is forging ahead in quite a different way. Pos-
sessing a plastic expression of countenance and
endowed with a full share of emotional talent, he
seized his opportunity to demonstrate some
high-class Pantomime in "Hell Bent fer
Heaven.'
The Picture could not be called anything ex-
traordinary in plot or treatment, but among
those who contributed its points of appeal was
Gardner James, playing the role of a cracked-
brained youth. It was a sympathetic role — and
this young actor extracted every ounce of sym-
pathy from it. As a result of his work, it was
Perfectly natural that he should begin to scale
the ladder. Barthelmess engaged him for an
ir.\portant Part in "The Amateur Gentleman,
and thru continuing his histrionic gifts Inspira-
tion has signed him to a five-year contract.
This is one instance where true merit has
been appreciated. He had to work hard — did
Gardner, but when his chance arrived he seized
it and Put himself over. To
prove that romance isn't en-
tirely dead, the young Irish-
man reached Hollywood just
a year ago after a most ad-
venturous life at sea. At
one time in his eventful
career he was a juvenile
actor, but the gods of
ThesPia didn't smile kindly
on him. So he sailed the
seven seas — and while he
sailed he absorbed life. He
left the rolling decks with
the necessary Poise and con-
fidence to take him along
anywhere . In our opinion he
is the most Promising cellu-
loid "find" that has stalked
across the silversheet in a
couple of seasons. He should
be allowed to develop grad-
ually and not thrust into
stardom too quickly.
T
Impression of Lon Chaney by Taskey
Types Have Changed
1 PES li.ivc truly changed in the m<>.
Not so very long ago — well not any
farther than the last mauve decade — it was
the logical plan among producers to select
an Adonis to play some character role.
Tradition had it that the audience would
never countenance a player whose face
might violate the best standards of the sculptor.
It might pass muster if the owner was slated for
some comic relief.
Then look what happened? Along came some
realistic dramas calling for realistic types. And
Wallace Beery, "Bull Montana, Jack Curtis,
Kalla Pasha, Lon Chaney — to say nothing of a
host of others — popped up to show Mr. Adonis
that they "belonged.
Which is by way of introducing the latest
entry, Edward I. "Gunboat' Smith, the former
pugilist. Famous Players have given him a con-
tract in view of his colorful performance in ' Say
It Again," the Richard Dix picture in which the
"Gunboat" demonstrated his talented "dukes.
Smith's income is said now to compare favorably
with his prize-fight earnings.
According to all reports, the contract carries
the unusual clause whereby the document is
void if "Gunboat ' improves his looks in any
way.
This extract reads : "It is mutually under-
stood and agreed that the artist s engagement
hereunder is based upon his unique and indi-
vidual features and the appearance and condi-
tion upon a continuance thereof and the artist
hereby agrees that he will not cause or permit
any of his features to be altered by plastic
surgery or otherwise.
The "unique and indi-
vidual features and appear-
ance ' which the company s
production officials prize so
highly that they wish them
kept intact are the Gunner s
broken and flattened nose,
beetling brows that over-
hang deepset eyes, a wide
mouth and jaws that have
been walloped out of the
alignment intended by na-
ture in some of the most
memorable encounters with
Jess Willard, Frank Moran,
Tommy Burns and Battling
Levinsky.
Anita's Royalties
PICTUREGOERS are all
acquainted with the
name of Anita Loos. For
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HORSES, HORSES,
The Latest Song- Which Inspired This Title and
Prince of Wales in Mind. But He Is Not
Nags. There Is a Group Among
Who Delight in Flirting
Take the
Of course, everyone-
looks up to the
Prince when the
horse is brought out
of the stable. That's
just what Irene Rich
is doing in her effort
to see how he stays
in the saddle
International Newsreel
The Prince is unquestionably the most famous
horseman in the world. And everyone knows he is
simply crazy over horses — even when he pitches over
their heads. To give him credit, however, he takes
his falls for a reason. He is usually in the van and
galloping at top speed — and the horse may stumble,
y' know. On the right, Trixie Friganza shows the
Prince how to fall off a horse. She declares
the next horse she rides on she's going to be tied on
Fred R Morgan
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_
Crazy Over HORSES
Display — Was Apparently Written With the
the Only One Who Is Nutty Over the
the "Horsy" Set of the Screen
With a Fall As They
Bridie-Path
At the upper right is Pauline
Starke, mounted on Billy — a
prize piece of horse-flesh
out Hollywood way. When
not galloping over the open
road, Pauline loves to gallop
into a close-up
In the circle is Bebe Daniels, who
can sit a mount with all the grace
and abandon of a cowboy. She
enjoys cantering in a well-shaded
bridle-path. The fair-haired rider,
below, is Allene Ray, who also ex-
ercises in the saddle. She gathered
plenty of experience in taking the
barriers thru her work in serials
The director sometimes fails to find
Seena Owen, below, when he cries
"Camera!" She is usually out try-
ing the Hollywood bridle-paths
Lilyan Tashman,
right, boasts
some smart rid-
ing-habits. She's
as crazy over
them as she is
over her horse
May McAvoy, below, isn't any
bigger than a jockey, but place her
in the saddle and she can do a
jockey's work
> Mack Sennett
BUT I cant take fifteen hundred words to write: "She
has nothing she considers sufficiently important to
say."
What's the matter when a lady wont talk? — and for
publicity, at that ! Is it because she's simply, dumb, and
really has nothing to say? Perhaps — but I am
one of those peculiar people who thought
"The Salvation Hunters" a fine picture,
and Georgia Hale's acting excellent.
And, again, one who sneered in a
sophisticated — or disillusioned
— way when the critics
failed to appreciate her
work in "The Gold Rush."
No, she cant be dumb, for
then my judgment would
be wrong — better the world
should end than that !
Maybe. . . .
Dig a little deeper, Dun-
ham.
For, when polite maneu-
vering fails to maneuver,
and leading questions fail
to lead beyond a "yes" or
"no," one must try another
tack — must, if he is of that
tribe for whom eating is a
better builder-up than fasting.
If, when one asks, "What part
are you going to play in 'The
Great Gatsby'?" the lady an-
swers : "I dont know yet," and
intimates that, furthermore, it
doesn't worry her much; what is
one to do ? Dig ! — perhaps even
deep enough to find out why
If one can !
Yes one can if one will be patient and try to coax her
into relating her experiences and philosophy of life.
58
HALE-
FELLOW-
WELL-
MET
Emotions Run Deep
T n "The Salvation Hunters" Miss Hale's emotions were
not a pretty, prim, and precious flower — as are those
of the elder Gish — rather, she grasped the roots and, con-
trolling them, let grow whatever would — straight and tall
or stunted and gnarled, as was decided by the sun and
wind of its environment. And she has continued in this
way.
From earliest childhood, she has been as she is now.
In the years of her schooling, for instance, she got along
very well — tho she never did her homework.
She never did her homework for the
thoroly sufficient reason that, at the
moment, she had other interests,
and would not waste her time
on any single thing that did
not fit in with them.
But, in case the same
thing held in the oppo-
site direction ! Here, the
main interest wrought by
her environment was to
learn. And she threw
herself into the work of
the moment with suffi-
cient vigor more than to
make up for the lack of
interest when other influ-
ences were working on her.
She Lives the Moment
and here we have it! "Live
the moment" is the key to
which all her life is pitched. When
the moment arrives, act as you see
fit ; not as you planned at some other
time, when you could not be aware of
just what this moment would contain.
doesn't worry
Georgia thoroly lives the moment.
It is the key to which all her life
is pitched. She has prepared her-
self to be natural. As a result,
everyone hails her as a regular
fellow
Georgia Hale Lives
the Moment by Being
Natural and Accept-
ing Gracefully What
Life Has to Offer
By Dunham Thorp
"If you plan beforehand, you see what
you thought, and then decided, you would
-.(■c, rather than what actually exists."
Nor does she think it much more profit-
able to look hack, and try to tit in your
present actions with your past — to try to be
consistent to an idea at the expense of that
truer consistency -the fact that nothing an
individual docs can possibly he inconsistent
with him who does it. even tho at times it
may seem inconsistent with the general
trend of his actions.
"1 always act as the actions of the other
actors, and the environment in general, make
me think natural.
'"What 1 mean is this: I never stop in
the midst of a scene to think that I am not
using the same twist of the hand that I used
two weeks ago. That wouldn't be life; the
actions of any moment are made by the
feelings of that moment.
No Mannerisms
"Mo villain always scowls and heroines
1 sometimes do."
"Then you dont believe in mannerisms?"
"No, no! — not at all! Certainly people
have them, but no actor should ever put his
own into the character of another person."
That's a fine observation, and one made
by very few of those who tread the boards
and screen — in fact, most of them act as
tho this were an edict of the devil. But it
should be modified enough to allow for cer-
tain quirks and traits in the character pre-
sented, so that the character will have in-
dividuality, and as a sort of cord to bind its
other, and more diverse, manifestations.
I know she does this, but how does it fit
in with her theory?
"But you gave a solid and consistent per-
formance in 'The Salvation Hunters' —
you always smoked a cigaret in the same
way. and your sneer was never different."
"Certainly ! I study my character suffi-
ciently to be at home in it — so as not to have to think
what she should do.
"But I didn't always sneer in that picture. I laughed
often enough, and in many ways — not only in derision.
"If you study your character well enough to understand
it, rather than study the actions of the different scenes she
is to appear in, you stand a much better chance of really
living her life.
"For, after all, if you are living the moment — and that
moment is one in the life of another person — you are
acting as that person would, rather than working out a
preconceived and rigid plan."
Kichct
Georgia Hale came into recognition thru her performance in "The Salva-
tion Hunters," and she lived her character so realistically that Chaplin
engaged her for "The Gold Rush." Her next appearance will be in "The
Great Gatsby"
The Business of Being Natural
"T'hen you never plan your scenes ahead of time?''
*■ "Never! I simply study my character until I feel
I have mastered it, and then act as circumstances move
me."
And as it is in one facet of her life, so it must be — and
is — in all. When she was a ballad-singer in Chicago,
Chicago was the world, and ballad-singing the world's
only occupation. And when she moved to Hollywood, it
seemed Chicago had never existed — the world now
{Continued on page 82)
59
Just to prove that Antonio Moreno is no slouch as a knife-
thrower he has coaxed Virginia Brown Faire to make herself
useful as a target while he executes his deadly shots
The latest vaudeville clowns to be recruited
for the movies are Al Brendel and his
feathery friend, "Bozo," the goose
The Screen Observer
A Director's Whims
MAL ST. CLAIR has become so capricious that
Famous Players can hardly keep up with his
whims and heart changes. He is admittedly their
most promising director, and yet as this is written he is
not scheduled for any picture. For months Mai had
expected to do "The Ace of Cads" with Adolphe Menjou,
but when the moment arrived he was so immersed in other
things that the picture was given to Luther Reed. Mai at
once decided to direct Thomas Meighan in "The Cana-
dian." He waited until the press-agents had blared forth
the news, and then coyly changed his mind, necessitating
a flood of denials. Now I hear that Gloria Swanson is
contemplating making one more picture for Famous Play-
ers, and if she does this, Mai St. Clair will direct her. It
is all very uncertain — but, of course, a man as brilliant as
St. Clair is privileged to act like a prima donna for
awhile, while his success is still new.
A Real Uncle Tom
The era of the negro in motion pictures has been in-
augurated by Carl Laemmle. He has signed Charles
Gilpin to play Uncle Tom in the new version of "Uncle
Tom's Cabin." Gilpin is famous on the New York stage,
especially as The Emperor Jones, and Universal has
been angling for him for several months — ever since
Harry Pollard started production on "Uncle Tom's
Cabin."
The picture has been greatly delayed by Pollard's ill-
ness, and in the meantime the effort to sign Gilpin has
brought results, and he will leave for the Coast at once to
begin work under Lois Weber. Miss Weber took time
out from her work for a wedding and a brief honeymoon
with Captain Harry Gantz, and is all ready now to com-
plete "Uncle Tom's Cabin," as Harry Pollard's substitute.
60
To my knowledge, Charles Gilpin is the first of his
race to be given an important role in pictures. But he will
not be the last, for both Cecil De Mille and Monta Bell
seem bent on making pictures of negro life, and Josef von
Sternberg also yearns to direct a drama of the colored race.
Mrs. Cheyney in Celluloid
Jesse Lasky bought the screen rights to that clever come-
J dy, "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," and then couldn't
make up his mind whether to use it as a starring vehicle
for one of the gentlemen or one of the ladies of his com-
pany— as it was equally appropriate for either. So he
solved, the difficulty by doing both. Florence Vidor and
Adolphe Menjou are happily cast in the leading roles, but
production will not start until the stage version has fin-
ished its runs in New York, Chicago, and points west.
Meanwhile, both these stars have plenty to occupy
them. Florence Vidor is starting work on "Captain
Sazarac," and Adolphe Menjou tells me "The Ace of
Cads" is about ready to go into production. He recently
spent ten days, with his director and scenario writer, at
Hot Springs, whence he returned with the script and a
very becoming tan.- Unless Mr. Menjou's famous en-
thusiasm has utterly carried him away, this is going to be
a very good picture, and the memory of the departed
Michael Arlen will be revived more honorably than it
recently was by "The Dancer of Paris."
Take That and That and That
"\X7illiam Boyd has been slashed with a razor blade —
^ not in an attempt to commit suicide for love of Clara
Bow, or anything like that. William eloped with Elinor
Fajr several months ago, and they might have lived hap-
pily ever after that if it hadn't been for Joseph, the Phili-
pino boy who did the chores around their house. He
disappeared about a month ago, and then William dis-
Here is how Norma Shearer will look when
she appears as a woman lawyer in "The
Waning Sex." She got her pointers from
visiting a feminine judge's court
To play Buffalo Bill you've got to look and ride like him.
That's why Jack Hoxie will play the part in "The Last
Frontier." His horse, "Scout," is almost an exact counterpart
of the one ridden by the noted Westerner
Has Her
covered that lie had forged about five-hundred-and-
seventy-five dollars' worth of checks.
Naturally, when the Boyds and a friend of theirs saw
Joseph on Wilshire Boulevard one day, they stopped to
inquire politely what he had done with the' money. Joseph
resented it. He whipped out a knife and a razor and
attacked the two men, inflicting a few minor cuts. Of
course, after all William's fighting experience in the mo-
\ ies, he got the better of him in the end, and Joseph is now
awaiting trial for forgery.
Two Bright Scholars
Two of Metro-Goldwyn's recent releases have brought
good fortune to their players. Francis X. Bushman, Jr.,
that fine upstanding whole-wheat boy who played 'William
Haines' rival in "Brown of Harvard," has been given a
five-year contract by Metro as a result of his work in that
picture, which will make him a most excellent provider
tor his wife and child.
Then Bessie Love, who has wandered a little aimlessly
among the studios in the past few years, has been recog-
nized for her fine work in "Lovey Mary," in which she
out-Pickforded America's Sweetheart. Bessie is now
considering long-term contracts with both Cecil De Mi'.le
and First National, I hear.
Flaming Youth Conquers
A nother bit of news is that Clara Bow is to be starred
by Paramount. Ever since Clara bobbed impertinently
out of the stowaway's barrel in "Down to the Sea in
Ships." she has never ceased to make an impression on
the industry and on the public — even tho sometimes it
has been a most disagreeable one. She has probably suf-
fered more than any other girl on the screen from bad
taste in clothes and in make-up, bad roles, and lack of
restraint. Yet her flaming personality has triumphed
By
Elizabeth Greer
over all these drawbacks, and she has emerged as a really
fine actress. Clara has an earthy quality that is rare
among our screen luminaries. She has what in a man
would be termed virility — and lately she has displayed
another talent — a great comedy sense — which, Paramount
realizes, makes her star material. Her latest performance
is in "Mantrap."
Marital Murmurings
Oints drift in from the Coast that Bebe Daniels may
succeed Marilyn Miller as Mrs. Jack Pickford.
Everyone has known for a long time that Marilyn and
Jack could hardly call their marriage one of those ideal
ones that the film colony loves to boast of. And before
Bebe went away to college to make "The Campus Flirt."'
she and Jack were together enough to cause comment.
But that doesn't really prove a thing, for Bebe has been
commented on so many times, and Jack is quite a beau in
his way.
Other reports from the marriage marts this month re-
veal the approaching marriage of William De Mille to his
scenarist, Clara Beranger. The wedding will be delayed
for a time to allow both the bride and groom to take the
necessary precaution of divorcing their current mate>.
They have been contemplating this move for some time,
and I do hope they'll find it was worth all that trouble.
They're Calling It Barbara Worth
I maginf. a piece of land about eighty miles long and
twenty miles wide, almost as level as a billiard table,
covered with light gray dirt with scarcely a blade of
grass or other foliage except on the distant mountain-
that border this immense plain and you have the desert
on which Samuel Goldwyn is filming "The Winning of
Barbara Worth." There is not a drop of water anywhere
{Continued on page 91)
61
Goethe's immortal tragedy,
"Faust," has finally been
visualized on the screen and
its American premiere, which
takes place in October, will
be anxiously awaited by
picturegoers who worship
art in the movies. The
Germans have approached
the work with deep rever-
ence as well as with char-
acteristic fidelity to detail.
The film achieves another
fine honor for Ufa in its de-
termination to create some-
thing distinctive and note-
worthy in celluloid
With such dramatic opportuni-
ties available in "Faust, ' it was
necessary to secure the finest
talent. Naturally, Emil Jan-
nings was selected to play
Mephisto, a role which should
win him further laurels. The
eminent actor appears in char-
acteristic poses at the top and
at the left, while at the upper
right he enacts a scene with
Yvette Guilbert, long recog-
nized as one of the most
talented actresses in the world.
Mme. Guilbert appears as Martha.
At the lower right are Gosta
Ekman and Camilla Horn as
Dieterle and Marguerite
Jannings
and I
FAUST
Vis
X \
■HHM
Ufa
62
FLIV and Let FLIV
There were no traffic regulations in the
early days of the flivver and the bike.
When the boys trotted out their horse-
less carriages or their wheels and gave
the girls a spin up and down the road
you could depend on the idlers step-
ping out of the pool parlor to give them
the once over. Transportation has
surely progressed in the last twenty
years, but the comedy gagmen must
rely upon these goofy autos and bikes
to bring the laughs
There are no laughs in the modern snappy
car, so you must hand it to the gagmen for
lugging out these weird contraptions. At the
top Jimmie Adams takes Vera Steadman for
a spin in his one-cylinder horseless carriage
At the left center Jimmie is trying his
"darnedest" to stop the fliv' to avoid crashing
into the gasoline buggy occupied by a
petting party. On the bicycle built for five
are Molly Malone, Kathleen Myers, Billy
Bletcher, Jimmie Adams and Roy Weston
63
The Answer
Replies to CLASSIC Readers
Jeanne M. — Here we are, right
in the midst of the hot summer, and
it sure is warm in New York. So
you like Ramon Novarro best of all.
Just be patient and you will see
"Ben Hur." We had to wait a long
time to . : it in New York.
Florence H. — So it's Francis
Bushman, Jr., that you like. He is
married to Beatrice Dante — they
were married July 10, 1924, and have one daughter, Betty. Ad-
dress him at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Culver City, California.
Palm a B. — Just you wait until you see Rudolph Valentino in
"The Firebrand," from the story of the life of Benvenuto Cellini.
He was born m 1895. You want to know if Tom Mix and Ramon
Novarro are Italian. I doubt it. I'll see what I can do about
getting more on Ricardo Cortez in the Classic for you.
Verne H. — You refer to Clive Brook in "Three Faces East "
Yes, Raquel Meller has been signed up by Chaplin to play the
Empress Josephine to his Napoleon in a picture to be produced
some time in 1927. And this is serious, too.
Lily N. P. — Well, I'm glad you did write to me. That's what
I'm here for, and if you didn't write I wouldn't earn my $15.00
per. Yes, I still live in the little old hall-room. Norma Talmadge
was born in Niagara Falls, New York, May 2, 1895. She is
5 feet 2, has dark hair and eyes. That was Jack Mulhall in
"Within the Law."
Mary L. — You want to know who the banker's son was in
"Headin' Home." Sorry, but I cannot help you this time.
Royal 17. — Well, it is easy to find fault if one is on the lookout ;
•but some people would discover a far greater number if they were
on the look-in. George Hackathorne was the son in "The Lady."
Madge Bellamy and Edmund Lowe have the leads in "The Monkey
Talks."
A. Elizabeth S. — Well, I'm glad you like me. I like you, too.
And now Cecil De Mille is trying to get Gloria Swanson to play
the Magdalen in his film version of the story of the Christus.
Mr. Shean's Partner. — Absolutely, Mr. Gallagher. I'll have
to go down to your house and rent that room, mine is pretty warm
these days, even if I have so many fans. Well, to settle that argu-
ment, it was Constance Talmadge in "East Is West."
Gloria, Australia. — How are things down your way — pretty
cold? No, Bebe Daniels is not married. Richard Dix in "The
Quarterback."
Jerry A. — Various myself, I like all varieties, and therefore I
like you. John Barrymore's first for United Artists will probably
be "The Vagabond Lover," which is based on the life of Francois
Villon, who is the subject of the play "If I Were King," from
which the picture is derived. Write me again any time.
Juana. — Well if you are 5 feet 8, and only 14, I wonder what
you will be when you are 20. I'd give up the idea of pictures for
some time yet. So you think William Boyd is adorable. He is
28 and married to Elinor Faire.
Ima Frade.— So you have finally picked up courage to write me.
You say your father is Heeza Frade, the big needle and thread
man from so and so. And you dont care to ask about the num-
ber of teeth Lew Cody has filled, neither do you want to know
whether Lloyd Hamilton wears double grip garters, but you do
wahtto know if I am married. Well now, that's not such a very
hard question to answer — I'm not. Milton Sills is playing in "The
Legionnaire."
Ole. — It was Agnes Ayres who was once known as "The
O. Henry Girl" because she played in 25 O. Henry stories for
Vitagraph, and her first starring picture was "The Defeat of the
City" in 1917. She is 5 feet Ay2 inches, blonde hair and blue eyes.
THE ANSWER MAN is at your service. If you
want an answer by mail, enclose a stamped addressed
envelope. If you wish the answer to appear in THE
CLASSIC, write at the top of your letter the name
you want printed, and at the bottom your full name
and address. Address : The Answer Man, Motion
Picture Classic, 176 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bob Custer Fan. — Wallace Beery
was born in Kansas City and stayed
there eighteen years, so perhaps you
used to play marbles with him. He
first played for Essanay, next Uni-
versal and then Keystone. He is 72
inches high and weighs about a tenth
of a ton. Bob Custer has brown
hair and hazel eyes, he is 6 feet and
weighs 170 pounds.
Eveline. — Well the highest praise for a man is to give him
responsibility. Norma Talmadge was born in America as I have
said up above. Edmund Lowe is married to Lilyan Tashman. Yes,
Esther Ralston is married to George Frey. That was Walter
Pigeon in "Mannequin." _ Dolores Costello was born in 1906. No,
Dolores is not married. Betty Bronson in "The Wearing of the
Green." She's a little early, or should I say late.
Bebe. — Opinions are largely formed from observation, but all
observers stand upon different peaks. Your peak may be higher
than mine, but I may see down into the valleys which your eyes
have never scanned. Neil Hamilton is with Famous Players,
Dolores Costello with Warner, and John Barrymore with United
Artists. So long, Bebe.
Ima Flirt. — You better not be. Your flatterer may love you
some, but he probably loves himself more. So you like William
Boyd. Conway Tearle is playing with Irene Rich in "My Official
Wife."
Babe. — Greta Nissen, besides playing on the stage in "The Palm
Beach Girl" for Zeigfeld, is to make three pictures for First
National next fall. Not so bad. So you like Constance Bennett.
So do I.
Pat. — Sure enough, Buster Keaton never smiles. He told
us all about it in the June, 1926, issue. Claire Windsor in "Tin
Hats."
Bobby B. Columbus. — Famous Players purchased the former
United Studios at 5341 Melrose Avenue. Hollywood, and are pro-
ducing there. First National has moved out and have their studio
at Burbank, California. You can reach William Boyd at the Cecil
De Mille Studio, Culver City, California.
Ena A. Birmingham. — Yes, Ronald Colman is married and
his wife is in England and John Gilbert was married to Leatrice
Joy, but they aren't now. Norma Talmadge was married
in 1917.
Eleanor. — Could I make you become an actress? Certainly not,
Eleanor. In other words, you want me to help you become an
actress. Forget it, and stick to your studies this fall.
Eda R. — Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky have finally started
work on "The Winning of Barbara Worth" to be released in the
fall. Claire Windsor is 5 feet 6,,and Dorothy Mackaill is 5 feet
4 and Mary Astor is- 5 feet 5. Doris Kenyon's next will be "A
Desperate Woman."
Bee from Schurz. — Ben Lyon was born February 6, 1900. He
has dark brown hair and blue eyes. George Walsh's second picture
for Excellent Pictures will be "His Rise to Fame."
Marie M. — Twenty-eight years ago, on September 12, Alice
Lake was born in this here little village of Brooklyn. Jane Novak
is playing in "Lost at Sea" for Tiffany.
Bootsy. — So this is your first offense at writing to an Answer
Man. Why Tim McCoy is a new Westerner who is playing for
Metro-Goldwyn.
Lucretia. — You say you are not going to give up wanting
Richard Dix. I dont blame you. Yes, I am sure he will write to
you. His mother has been very ill in California. Theodore Von
Eltz has been added to the cast of "The Temptress" in which Greta
Garbo stars.
64
Picture, Picture — Who Stole the Picture?
inlintti
Despite the wonderful work "t Belle
Bennett and (fanald Col man in "Stella
Dallas," seventeen-year-old Loil Moran,
,m uttei newcomer to the American
icreen, ven nearl) stole the show Vnd
Jean Hersholi took .1 verj small part,
that ■'! Ed Mutm, and made it something
which will long be remembered.
Some Who Worry the Stars
1- \ S.m.iI Celebrity," .1 Mai St Claii
' picture starring Adolphe Menjou, that
famous old comedian, Chestei Conklin,
comes close to stealing the picture in
a part that is more pathetic than it ii
funny. And speaking of Menjou, who
doesn't recall the manner in which he
sprang from obscurit) to stardom by
ng "A Woman of Paris," Charlie
Chaplm's directorial masterpiece right
from under Edna Purviance's nose?
I. Warren Kerrigan and Lois W ilson
Were lulled as the stellar lights of "The
Covered Wagon." but an "actor who was
comparatively unknown at the time,
simply "wrapped up the picture and
walked away with it." He was Ernest
Torrence, and the role was that of Hill
Jackson, the trapper. It won Torrence
fame and fortune. He is one of the
most beloved actors on the screen today
and one of the beat paid.
Another recent sensational case of pic-
ture-stealing was that of George Bancroft
in "The Pony Express." Despite com-
petition from such veterans as Wallace
Beery, Betty Compson. Ernest Torrence,
and Ricardo Cortez, Bancroft, playing the
character role of Jack Slade, the had man
of Julesburg, made the outstanding im-
l ression in the picture. From obscurity
it raised him to the role of a big fea-
tured player, and won him a contract with
Paramount which means many thousands
of dollars a year to him. And it might
be remarked that there aren't two tougher
hombres to buck up against in this pic-
ture-stealing business than Wallace Beery
and Ernest Torrence !
Xoah Beery is no slouch, either. He
walked away with honors in Pola Negri's
starring vehicle. "The Crown of Lies,"
which also included Robert Ames in its
cast, and reports are that he has simply-
wrapped up "Beau Geste." Paramount 's
stupendous story of the Foreign Legion
in Algeria, and taken it home with him
His competition included Ronald
Colman. Neil Hamilton. Ralph
Forbes. Norman Trevor, George
Rigas, and others.
Determined to find out the
exact manner in which
pictures are stolen, I
went to one of the
i/eteranest of veterans,
Wallace Beery- & ^F=°" ^7
How Wally Does It
'""The secret lies in
making your per-
formance outstanding,"
said Wally with a rem-
iniscent chuckle. "You
have to be a character,
and you have to ring
true. Your audience must feel that it
knows you. intimately. You must pro-
duce a positive reaction. If you are a
skunk, you must be a thorogoing one, with
a stripe down your back — the kind of per-
son one hates whole-heartedly. Yet they
must understand why they hate you. Such
a villain for example, was Roy D'Arcy in
Chester Conklin almost stole "A Social
Celebrity," and did steal "A Woman
of the World" away from Pola Negri
'The Merry Widow.' If you are a bum.
a happy-go-lucky character like Rhode
Island Red in 'The Pony Express,' you
must be a bum in every movement — not a
gentleman masquerading in dilapidated
clothes.
"As to the tricks of the trade, there are
many of them. One couldn't begin to
enumerate them. One of the easiest is
the old-fashioned upstage trick. The
natural impulse of the inexperienced
actor, whether on the stage or screen, is
to get as far forward toward the audience
as possible. The veteran will simply 'up-
stage' such a person.
"That is, if the two are in conversation,
the veteran will stop a couple of steps
behind the eager newcomer. Then when
the newcomer has to talk to the old-timer,
he will have to turn around to do it — and
his back will be to the audience or the
camera. You cant do very much acting
with your back.
"The way to take a scene is to do
moving about, 01
naturally watch him Ii
-■ on in tl
an .11 tnr in the ba< kgTOUl hil
hand up and down, yan <->r will
be attracted t" the motion In
manner when he ii allowed to .
with it an 00* 111
attention t"r himself when othi
wouldn't be noticed any more thai
i'ii the wall
" l he principal thing ii a bit of I
nets, In other words, motion combii
with humamtess. If you can be human,
if you can do some chari l
of acting which your audience in-'
ly n imething he ha
at home, at the club or at the sewing
circle, he will be attracted to it and
remember it, no matter what el*
going on in the scene.
The Champion Picture Thieves
''(")"• ,ncre are a thousand tricks .>f the
trade. My buddy, Raymond Hatton,
who, I might say, is one of the smartest
picture-stealers in the business, has a
bright trick of his own in all still pi
graphs. He always places himself at the
extreme right of the group that is about
to be photographed. When the picture
is taken, the position is reversed, that is,
in the printed photograph he is at the
extreme left.
"The names in the caption under a
printed photograph always read 'from
left to right.' and hence the first name is
always 'RAYMOND HATTON' That's
not very dumb, of the little shrimp — not
much!" And Wally gave a great chuckle.
Beery and Hatton are known as the
greatest catch-as-catch-can picture-steal-
ing team in the business. They are per-
fectly willing to take their chance with
all comers — or with each other.
In "Behind the Front," the rivalry', if
genial, was very keen, and these two
veterans employed every gag in the busi-
ness to take the various scenes away from
each other. They even tried upstaging
each other. For instance, just as the
cameras would start grinding, Hatton
would step back a step, to try to force
Beery to turn around. Not to be outdone.
Beery would link his arm thru Hatton's,
and pull him forward. To put a stop
to these antics, Charles Boyle, first
cameraman on the picture, resorted to the
practice of having a T-
square nailed to the floor
— where it didn't show —
for the closeups. Then he
made both Beery and Hat-
ton toe the mark, one on
each side of the T-square
o
Raymond Hatton is one of the cham-
pion picture thieves. With Wallace
Beery he stole "Behind the Front"
something that will attract the eye. Mo-
tion of any sort is the thing that attracts
the eye the quickest. If six people are
standing up in a room and one person is
Razzing Ricardo
\E of their stunts,
which they laugh
hardest about, occurred
when they were playing in "In the
Name of Love." Ricardo Cortez
was the hero of the story, and
naturally was the one most fea-
tured in the foreground. Beery and Hat-
ton determined to get his goat. During a
number of scenes they were supposed to
be talking in the background. Hence as
soon as the cameras started grinding.
Beery would lean over to Hatton and say
in a loud whisper :
"Now this guy Cortez, buzz . . . buzz
. . . buzz " and his voice would trail
(Continued on page 85)
65
The HOLLYWOOD of FRANCE
his character must be responsible For
here you have a mere boy — thirty, or
thereabouts — who has done picture after
picture on a staggering scale and with
superb mastery that has made motion
picture history. Such contributions to
the screen as "The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse," "Turn to the Right," "The
Prisoner of Zenda," "Scaramouche," "The
Arab," "Mare Nostrum" !
Such achievements have brought fame
and wealth at an early age. Let me add
that he is something of an Adonis. Now
a fellow like that should be spoiled by
this time. But he isn't — and that is an-
other big thing about him.
Ingram's Paradise
Prom my point of view, there are several
more paradisiacal points about the Ri-
viera than there are about Southern Cali-
fornia, and that is
saying a great deal.
The Riviera has the
climate, the flowers,
the sea, the hills.
The people there
live a natural arti-
ficial life instead of
Oe artificially nat-
ural life that one is
compelled to live in
California. By that,
I mean that one has
neither to break a
law nor a pocket-
book if one thinks
one would like to
serve one or more
bottles of genuine
spirit If one wants
to gamble — go to it,
the Casino is just
across the Prome-
nade or in the Place
Massena. The hotels
are filled with real
countesses, Russian
princes, terrible
Turks, British
lords with a strong
representation from
Ioway and Walla
Walla always on
hand. There's the
boardwalk just like
Santa Monica,
Venice and Long
Beach, only on the
Promenade des Anglais in Nice you will
find the whole world that the motion pic-
ture world attempts to represent on the
screen come to life! But in. Nice it is all
the rtal thing! You might think you
could walk up to that gink with the
Lawrence Dorsay mustache and yank it
off, but you cant. Both he and the
mustache are real. He's an actual Earl
of Pawtucket, or something. That fel-
low with the long black whiskers who is
a dead ringer for Charlie Chaplin's foil
on the screen, is really some famous
French savant and is dead in earnest about
it too.
An Arcadia for Artists
Mice, the Capital of the Riviera, is the Los
Angeles of St. Augustin, the French
Hollywood. The Riviera is the Mecca
of the European world. Nice is like a
miniature Paris with its multitude of bril-
liant shops, boulevards with the cafes
spread all over the broad sidewalks with
monocled men and chic foreign-looking
{Continued from page 33)
women seated before the painted tables all
day long sipping — do I disappoint you
when I say, cafe au lait, mainly. And if
one is really too bored, one may motor
or bus, tram or train it over to Monte
Carlo, only about fifteen miles away along
one of the most glorious stretches of
coast in the world ! At Monte Carlo, as
you know from the films, all sorts of
things are done — including yourself. That
is why people go there.
Finally, all that has been mentioned is
either free or shockingly cheap. It costs
five francs to enter the fashionable Casino.
Five francs are about sixteen cents. This
includes a free seat to a stunning musical
show, or when the show entr-actes, to
dancing. If you choose to drink — which
one cant very well avoid, since the only
seats you can find are before little, round
tables — you can get away with coffee, or
This is not a set, but the kitchen of Rex Ingram's studios over on the Kiviera.
The director has a chef who knows how to appeal to the inner man. He
doesn't take orders from the cameraman but from the steward
tea, and a brioche and a liberal French tip
and get back the change from a quarter.
If you are going in for anything spiritu-
ous under champagne, by the glass, you
can still use your quarter. If you want to
visit the Gambling Hell on the right, as
they always do in the stories sent in to
picturize, it will cost you an additional
seven cents to get in, but considerably
more to get out, however.
I have mentioned these few facts in
case you wondered why Rex Ingram and
his faithful band seemed to be staying in
such a God-forsaken place as Nice !
They Shall Not Pass
""There is a great deal of ceremony at-
tendant on a visit to the Rex Ingram
Studios. This is due to two causes : first,
nearly every American and a large per
cent, of foreign visitors in Nice consider
Rex Ingram and his studios a legitimate
Baedeker attraction. Something had to
be done about it. And second, Harry
Lachmann, Rex Ingram's dynamic per-
sonal and Production Manager, who is
perhaps one of the greatest red-tape
artists in the world. It is easier for John
D. Rockefeller to pass thru the eye of a
needle than it is for anyone to enter the
Rex Ingram domain.
The first time I went to the studios a
limousine and chauffeur were sent to my
hotel to take me. St. Augustin lies three
miles north of Nice. Half the distance
is along the Promenade des Anglais, the
fashionable shore front where are all the
big hotels and the villas of foreign nobil-
ity. The chauffeur they sent for me must
have been a taxi driver in Paris at some
time during his career, for he proceeded
to drive madly and homicidally along the
Promenade and head on at the traffic. His
chief delight seemed to be in trying to
maim pedestrians. Finally, when we did
get out of town, he contented himself with
trying to force the
speedometer to ex-
ceed its limit. I sat
watching it, fatally
fascinated, as it
mounted from 40 to
50, 50 to 60, 60 to
70, 70 to— I laid my
hand on the ma-
niac's arm and
pleaded,
"Qu'cst-ce que vous
desirez, monsieur?"
He laughed with
childish delight and
told me that it only
registered kilo-
meters, not miles. I
had forgotten that.
Still, we were doing
nearly 60 miles an
hour at the moment,
and I was in no
hurry.
Fortunately, we
left the main road
and were going
round sharp curves
up into the hills.
We passed the Gau-
mont Studio,
crossed over the
railroad tracks and
the fast Paris-Rome
Express going by at
the time, and made
a turn on two
wheels and were
brought before the gates of the studio.
Instantly the French guards — three of
them — sprang out of the little guard-
house and stood stolidly at the ends of
the enormous chain that barred the way.
A long and unduly excited conversation
followed wherein I was being explained,
almost unsuccessfully. It seemed I had
no pass ! However, I was admitted grudg-
ingly. We drove up to the Administra-
tion Building.
In Splendid Isolation
There were swarms of people all rush-
ing about on obviously important mis-
sions. Those who took notice of me glow-
ered at me. I felt d e trop. Finally, I asked
someone where I could find Mr. Ingram.
"Ingram ? You mean Lachmann !"
Still protesting that I did not want to
see Lachmann, but Ingram, I was shown
toward Lachmann's office. I was bent to
it by this time and I said I would like to
see Mr. Lachmann.
{Continued on page 87)
66
FACING DEATH For a LAUGH
( ( (mtmutd t'<>m pagt .ti i
Harold had the- nai
rawest escape from .> crawl along a
narrow ledge .it the
edge of the roof, where
Ins feet were t>> become
entangled in the ro[K- of
a flag-pole. Tripped bj
the rope, he was to
fall over the edge and
sw ink; feet down Need
less tn Saj . there was .1
small protecting net
under him. Even as
ess ,i stunt come-
dian as Lloyd h.is no
passion for deliberate
suicide. The rope about
his feet not only looked
loosely knotted, but
really was.
Lloyd miscalculated
the strength of his
swing, and was Swept
into space a full five
feet beyond his protect-
ing net. He felt the
rope about his ankles
begin to slip, and for
one frightful moment
he dangled there head
downward, helpless to
avert the disaster.
Then, pendulum like.
his body swung back
over the net just as the
ropes finally worked
loose — and he drooped
to safety, with less than
a yard to spare.
The Sky Is His Limit
r\oUGLAS Mac! bah
has gone even sky-
scrapers one better in
two of his pictures —
"Going L'p" and "That's
My Baby" — and has
literally made the sky
the limit in his laugh-
making efforts by-
using air-planes for the
thrill sequences.
A carefully staged
crash furnished one of
the best "gags" for
"Going LTp," a crash
that was supposed to
occur just as the plane
was taking off. A large
hole was dug across the
runway and filled with
soft mud. With Mac-
Lean in the back seat
and a pilot in the front
seat, both firmly strapped in, the plane
taxied at full speed down the runway,
struck the mud-filled hole, careened craz-
ily for a moment like a rampant cyclone,
then crashed with a thoroness even greater
than had been anticipated. Thanks largely
to Lady Luck's good offices, neither Mac-
Lean nor the pilot was seriously injured,
but the way the camera caught them rue-
fully rubbing bruises as they crawled from
the wreckage was not acting— it was the
real thing.
Harold Lloyd, at the top, supplied a typical thrill in "Girl Shy." He
grasped the tip of a trolley pole and was carried down hill at thirty
miles an hour. The stunt was successful with luck and perfect
timing. Below is Douglas MacLean who spent an entire afternoon
crawling perilously around the wing surfaces of a plane — while he
prevented Harry Earles, the midget who played the baby, from
jumping overboard
supposedly in an effort to retrieve an over-
venturesome baby whose wandering com-
plex had caused it to crawl from the
cockpit. The fact that Harry Earles — the
midget in "The Unholy Three" — played
the role of the baby man: it possible to
have trlost of the scenes photographed in
the air, some being made by a motor-
driven camera attached to the wing, and
others by a cameraman in the plane itself.
tins |ik tin*- i ailed
.t big. uiiAi.l.l, I'ull
man like auto trail*
its
''I at
In r.ikm ■ U | -• i| down
.1 tteep lull At the
tune 'ight, the
tiailir contained I »•
.Hid ball a have
theaters and fallowings We are intei
esting them in the bettei films with the
plan .it building them up mti) a distribul
iuK system on a small scale Program!
shown in our New Vork rheatei
will be shipped around tins cir-
cuit. To pay the expenses there
will be subscription showings.
In tins way, instead of being
seen by a few hundreds, our
programs will be seen by thou-
sand-
Symon Gould believes that the
work of the Film Guild will
eventually be of great value to
motion pictures as a whole. Re
rivals interfere in no way with
"the work of the big producers
and exhibitors. In fact, a new
market is created for films
which have been rolled up and
forgotten. In a way he is simply
taking advantage of an awaken-
ing interest in movies on the
part of another section of the
public. Small exhibitors with
their tiny financial risks can try
new ideas and experiments that
big organizations dare not at-
tempt. The very bigness of the
film companies has been against
their making rapid progress with
new ideas. Once there is a small
public of say ten thousand with
a developed appetite for new
ideas in pictures, or for tragic
or "serious" film works, it is
possible that new talent may be
encouraged along more adven-
turous lines. Men like young
von Sternberg, who turned out
the "Salvation Hunters" for a
few thousand dollars, might get
their chance for a public show-
ing much more readily.
Would the "little films" and
the "little cinemas" compete in
any way with the field of the
big companies?
New Ideas for the Big
Producers
itfi'mwd from ptgt 35)
i toe oi the moat enjo) able i
uas a showing oi old pictures "t ■ dosen
in fifteen yean bach antique*" the) had
become bj now Nothing could have bet
tei illuminated the big strides which
in. ivies have taken
urn the improvement in the taste oi the
general publii iUeli I he directors were
It is .mis thru looking at these old
pictures and comparing them with what
we have done since thai we will know Um
ti ue nature "i the moi nig i"1 ture
we know this, there will he lilnis that will
nevei grow old
Rhythmic Motion Esaential
Bright young men then, but their little PjUDLlY Miki-hv thinks that the
..:.i ._ -i„.„„... I Tl.... ...... I—' _u... l.i. _ .1
tucks were ic elementary I l here were
no "fadeOUtS." There were all sorts of
funny skipv and jumps Titlei took the
place "i action oi scenerj , everything
Mo, it was pointed out. N'o
more than the Neighborhood
Playhouse in New York com-
petes with the Shubert Theaters.
The one is interested in the art of the
drama ; the others in entertaining the
public. The latter have a public ten-
thousand times greater. But when the
little theater has an actor or an idea that
the public take up, the Shuberts will buy
them.
So with the Little Cinemas. Their risks
will cost little, and their discoveries of new
ideas (which anyone who has the interest
of the films at heart prays fervently for)
will be common property for the motion
picture industry and serve to liven up
things.
In the meantime the taste oi their high-
brow public, if it may be called such, is
very curious. Chaplin and Harold Lloyd
slapsticks are mingled with German ex-
pressionist films, and are equally liked.
Here is an impressionistic setting in the French
film, "The New Enchantment," with Jacques Catelain
standing on the steps. The picture was directed by
Marcel L'Herbier and is sponsored by Film
Associates
charactei oi the film is motion, or the
ili\tlini ..I things in motion. I r
ami tell something about Dudln Murphy.
Me is one ,,) the figUTCI m tin ait tilm
movement I lis revolutii
"Ballet "f the Machine"
! and hissed and laugh)
A lanky young man, s,,it silken
and risiOfUU") He is lii .me ta
whii h has absorbed the ■ ■
about modern art that are cur-
rent in Europe. But some
he may come back from his wild
exploit! and experiment^ to give
a vision of the great American
scene.
"New York, in fact, the whole
sweep of the American scene,
fascinates me," he said. "No-
body realizes how strange the
life that is going on right under
our noses is. I am trying to get
the fantastic speed and rythm oi
this jazz age into a film."
He is working now on a fea-
ture film of New York life. It
has never been done yet, as
Flaherty has done the Eskimos
or the South Sea Islanders.
Dudley Murphy, if he can work
out his ideas, may be heard from
in a big way.
His opinions are worth noting :
"One of the greatest films
made here was James Cruze's
'Hollywood,' Cruze came closer
to the very feeling of American
life today than anybody I know.
King Vidor is probably our
greatest director right now. The
first half of 'The Big Parade'
had some of the -finest motion
picture technique ever done. The
'business' between Gilbert and
Renee Adoree was marvelously
carried out and conceived. Vidor
has a miraculous sense of tim-
ing."
Worthy Revivals and New
Ideas
done in haste. A dummy instead of a man,
is thrown from the train in "The Great
Train Robbery" of fifteen years ago, and
he is very much a dummy, altho the train
is going at five miles an hour.
It was delicious to see Mary Pickford
and King Baggot, for instance, in "Going
Straight" (1913). The pantomime was
primitive. Mary Pickford very pretty, in
one of those wide-sweeping skirts, or
whenever you could see her face under a
huge bonnet. King Baggot most touching
as he claps his hand to his head or waves
temptation away with his other hand in
brisk gestures. That which was sad and
tragic is all fun now !
If only some of these old thrillers could
be revived with their titles touched up. They
would be the most side-splitting farces.
"The other "Little Cinema
group," the Film Associates.
is headed by a Mr. Montgomery
Evans, 2nd. Also an outsider.
A young man who likes to dab-
ble with the arts, and finds more art in the
films now than in anything else. The Film
Associates do more in the way of intro-
ducing new pictures than revivals. On
their programs have been some very curi-
ous French films, in fact, more French
than German. The French have lots of
ideas, and some great painters. Among the
pictures shown here, "The New Enchant-
ment." directed by l'Herbier, was a fake on
a detective thriller and built along the
crazy lines of "Dr. Caligari." It had the
aid of one of France's greatest modern
painters, Fernand Leger. in the making of
the sets, which were often very jolly. It
was received, however, with mixed feelings
and its authors showed on the whole less
natural genius for the film than the Ger-
(Continued on page 82)
69
GREAT ATHLETES of the SCREEN
Witzel
Richard Talmadge is one of the best
go-getters after stunts in pictures. He
is able to do his stuff because he's
equipped with the necessary muscles
world can not make a plausi-
ble Sandow of a flabby-
muscled parlor lizard. Rip-
pling biceps and flashing
athletic skill are things to
be bought only by honest
sweat, and plenty of it.
The leading athletic stars
of the American screen in-
clude some of the greatest
all-round athletes the world
of sport has known in recent
years.
An All-'round Champ
Take the case of Fred
Thomson, for example.
Thomson is one of those rare
athletic marvels that appear
only once in a generation, a
natural athlete who excels in
literally everything. Over-
flowing with vitality, and
blessed with a perfect phy-
sique and almost uncanny
powers of muscular co-or-
dination, Thomson first at-
tracted notice in the athletic
world while he was a student
at Princeton University.
The next ten years brought
him the highest honors that
any amateur athlete can at-
tain. He won the national ten
events championship of the United States
in 1910, and came back to win it again in
1911 and in 1913. Later, at the Inter-
Allied Games in Paris, he attained the very
peak when he again won the decathlon in
competition with most of the world's best.
It is to this amazing all-round athletic
ability that Thomson to a great extent
owes the startling film success that, in a
few short years, has advanced him from
a comparative unknown to an action star
rated in the five-thousand-dollars-a-week
class, and well worth it. Only an expert
with years of track and field work and
gymnasium training could possibly attempt
some of Thomson's film exploits, and live
to tell about it. Feats that to the average
athlete would be little short of impossible
are mere routine incidents in the day's
work to Fred Thomson.
"Lefty" from Yale
A nother action star who won national
fame before he ever thought of en-
tering pictures is Maurice "Lefty" Flynn.
(Continued from page 41)
once All-American fullback with Yale.
Tall, rangy, hard, and fast, Flynn was
one of the best Yale backs that ever
flipped a forward pass or crashed off
tackle thru a stubbornly fighting Har-
vard line when precious yards were
needed.
Today Flynn still keeps in the pink of
physical condition, not from a sense of
duty, but for the sheer love of it. Slam-
ming a medicine-ball around on the beach
and swimming in the surf are daily fea-
tures of his routine. He is also rated as
one of the best hand-ball players in
Southern California.
"Lefty" stands six feet two in his silk
hosiery and weighs one hundred and
ninety-five pounds, nearly every ounce of
which is solid bone and muscle. Not con-
tent with merely doing the physical feats
called for by the scenario, one of "Lefty's"
favorite recreations on location is to cause
incipient heart failure to bystanders by
adding little extemporaneous stunts of his
own.
Lumicre
George Walsh has long been recognized as one of the screen's
best athletes. While at Fordhajn College he indulged in all
kinds of sport activities, shining particularly well at baseball
and football
A typical incident of this kind occurred
recently while scenes were being filmed
on a cable carrier suspended at a dizzy
height over the rocky gorges of a mining
camp in the high Sierras. "Lefty" and the
villain engaged in a wrestling match in
the frail little carriage a hundred and
eighty feet above terra firma with a real-
ism that would have raised gooseflesh on
a cigar-store Indian. The director heaved
a sigh of relief when the shot was over
and the signal given for the carriage to
be drawn in.
But the worst was yet to come. The
wires jammed and the carriage stuck. Im-
pelled with a sudden daredevil urge, "Lefty"
decided not to wait till the tangle was
cleared. Leaving the carriage, he calmly
started hand-over-hand along the steel
cable toward the platform fifty feet away.
It was a feat more suited to a Japanese
gymnast than to a two-hundred-pound
American, but 'Lefty" made it.
Grinning at the anguished warnings of
the director, who saw visions of several
thousand dollars' worth of high-priced
picture star sailing thru space to immi-
nent and permanent ruin, Flynn took his
own sweet time on the journey and
seemed almost sorry it was over when his
dangling feet finally touched the platform
and safety.
George Wins His Medals
(^eorge O'Brien is another prominent
screen player who is a super-athlete
in his own right. George has the physical
build of a Greek Hercules, the lithe grace
of a dancing master, and the hitting
powers of a Missouri mule.
O'Brien is believed to be the only mo-
tion picture actor in this country now
holding a membership card in the Ameri-
can Athletic Union. George's record, both
he fore he came on the screen and after, is
a genuinely impressive one. He starred
as a halfback at Santa Clara University.
He holds enough medals won in amateur
basketball, track, field, and swimming con-
tests to fill a sizable cabinet.
While in the Navy during
the war, he won the middle- .
weight boxing championship
of the Pacific Fleet. Today,
swimming and other aquatic
sports are his favorites. He
is rated as one of the best
natators on the Pacific Coast,
having beaten many of the
fastest amateur swimmers in
local meets, and having
finished a close second to the
celebrated Duke Kohana-
moku on two occasions.
O'Brien trains as rigor-
ously as any professional
athlete. He is awake virtu-
ally every morning at five,
and is on the road at six. He
does three miles of road-
work with his trainer, and
then boxes from four to six
rounds. Other items in his
training include rope-jump-
ing, short-distance running,
shadow boxing, wrestling,
and hand-ball.
For his weight, George
has as magnificent a phy-
sique as any man in pictures.
His muscles are flexible and
(Continued on page 84)
Norman Kerry is a six-footer with the
powerful physique of the trained
gymnast. He is rated as an expert on
the parallel bars and flying rings
70
71
Hollywood's Pet Extravagances
(Continued from page 19)
have overlooked one or
two lesser cars parked
somewhere in odd
corners of the Mix
pstablishment.
Milady's Hats and
Shoes
Norma and Constance
Talmadge have pet
foibles that are about as
widely separated as the
human anatomy will per-
mit. Norma's pet weak-
ness is hats, and that of
Constance is shoes.
Norma can no more
resist the lure of a love-
ly hat than a kitten can
a sprig of catnip. She
may start out on a shop-
ping trip with the
avowed intention of buy-
ing anything from a
spool of thread to a town car, but it is a
moral certainty that somewhere along the
line she will acquire at least one new hat
before the afternoon is over.
Constance has a weakness fully as fatal
for shoes. She has footwear for every
conceivable occasion, and some for which
she has never been able to find an occa-
sion. Like Norma and her hats, Con-
stance has yet to make a shopping tour
without returning with at least one new
pair of shoes. Her trips to Europe usu-
ally end in a veritable orgy of shoe buying
John Ellis
Willard Louis, at the top, owns up
to a weakness for plants and
flowers. He buys rare bulbs and
shrubs from all over the world —
and frequently wins prizes at the
floral shows. John Bowers' ex-
travagance is an ambitious one.
In the center he is building a
$300,000 home on a Hollywood hill,
which will be occupied by him and
his bride, Marguerite de la Motte,
when it is completed. At the left
is Seena Owen who goes in for
pajamas. Her many acquisitions
are extremely exotic — and repre-
sent handwork from all parts of
the world — including the Scandi-
navian
from the bootmakers of England
and the Continent.
Shoes constitute a pet extrava-
gance rather often found among
theatrical and screen players. Two
other passionate devotees of foot-
wear in Hollywood are Olive
Borden and Laura La Plante. In
Olive's case, practically every shoe
must be made to order, which adds
appreciably to the expense involved.
It is inevitable that the various
items of milady's wardrobe and
jewel -box should rank as pet ex-
travagances with many
feminine players in filmdom.
The Fan and Fur Complex
Norma Shearer's pet
foible is fans, and «he na«
literally dozens of them. Shawls of
elaborate hand-worked designs are things
that Gertrude Olmstead can never pass
by without making a purchase. Her fa-
vorites are two beautifully brocaded silk
pieces which she had made in China to
her special order. Kathleen Key became
an addict to ear-rings while in Italy with
the "Ben Hur" company, and is still add-
ing to her extensive collection.
Helene Chadwick and Vera Reynolds
have really expensive weaknesses along
the wardrobe line, both being addicted to
furs. Helene goes in rather heavily for
fur coats, her present list including a
beautiful Russian sable, an exquisite
ermine, and a number of less expensive
wraps. Vera finds fur pieces of every
kind irresistible — neck pieces, jacquettes,
coats — and plays no fa-
vorites in variety.
Pearls, necklaces and
rings made of them,
are Aileen Pringle's
big weakness. Per-
fumes are the pet ex-
travagance of Jetta
Goudal, Alma Rubens,
and Lillian Tashman,
while Esther Ralston
is an insatiable flower
lover.
Faithful to their
Foibles
It is claimed that
Lew Cody never wears
the same neck-tie twice,
and this pet foible con-
tributes largely to the
support of a certain
worthy little tie shop
in Los Angeles. Rorl
La Rocque is a "nut '
on amateur photog-
raphy, and spends prodigious sums on
cameras, lenses, and high-priced printing
paper.
Pajamas are the rather unique pet ex-
travagance of Seena Owen. Many of
Seena's acquisitions along this line are
extremely exotic, and represent hand-
work from nearly all parts of the world.
There is a practical side to this foible, as
well. Miss Owen has several pajama out-
fits which are particularly adaptable to
studio use, and it is not unusual to see
her wearing one of them on the set or
round her dressing-room while waiting for
the director's call.
Dolls are Ruth Clifford's pet extrava-
gance. I made a little census of the
Clifford home not long ago; and counted
exactly forty - seven dolls. Ruth has
bought many times that number, but
whenever they become too numerous she
pays a visit to an orphans' home and
makes several children happier. Other
Hollywood doll devotees are Priscilla
Dean and Claire Windsor. Miss Windsor
has a really exquisite collection from all
nations.
John Bowers has just one extravagance,
but it is an ambitious one — a $300,000
home now being built on one of the hills
overlooking Hollywood. Marguerite De
La Motte is the prospective Mrs. Bowers
who will share the home when it is com-
pleted.
Rudolph Valentino specializes in dogs
and horses. He has five riding mounts.
and eleven dogs, the latest addition to his
kennel= being an Irish wolfhound pup
( ( ontinued on page ?°")
72
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Give Their Ideas on Dress
Madame Frances — Harry Collins -Maybelle Manning —
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costs hundreds of dollars. They dress prominent women in stage, screen and society
circles.
Whom do they name as the best dressed women on the screen?
Whom do they criticise?
What do they say about autumn styles?
And what do they advise?
Do not miss this remarkable and frank feature next month.
We Interview Gloria Swanson
By
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The double-interviewers, famous for their delightful one-act playlets in which they
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An amusing and at the same time interesting story on the way in which the wives
of movie stars manage their finances.
Does your husband turn over his entire salary to you?
Do you pay the bills and keep the remainder of the weekly income for yourself?
Or does your husband pay the bills and give you an allowance?
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VVVVSA in\ firm conviction, thai il is
possible i" translate anj given stc
ever] mood and nuance, ever) essential
emotion fell bj the creatoi ol il from
the printed page into pictured portrayal
on the screen. That il is seldom done, is
quiti- true It i^ the superfine art in the
whole range of motion picture production,
that surpasses the art i>i the directoi 1>\
Km the art of the director would
become simplified if there were great
interpreters in the scenario departments.
\s it is so far, the directors are them
selves the greatest interpreters with a
few exeptions that the screen has. This
: .is it should be, because the average
director combines in himself the mechani-
cal marshaling genius and aspires to ai
heights and usually ends in .1 muddle.
The director's presenl autocratic powers
have been come bj honesth. on his part.
From the earliest days he has been called
uiHm to build a StOUt cable of entertain-
ment from a thin worn thread ot 1>1» >t or
. and in the majority of cases he has
proved himself a wizard for results. He
has learned literally to make something
out of nothing, so he and his collea
have learned to depend on nothing— revel
in their wizardry until they have come
almost to resent it when they are given
"too much" to build on. They feel that it
reflects on their prowess. They prefer to
• alone — to be handed a silk bat b\ the
author, as it were, into which they 1
two of their own eggs and produce an
omelette! However, too often, the poor
author gets his hat handed back to him
with the remains of a bad egg inside. The
audience does not know this, but audiences
are so gullible that the magician would
get the credit while failure is blamed on
the author and his hat.
And so I think that is where the diffi-
culty lies in the main between author and
director today. The director goes entirely
too far in depending on both his powers cf
creation and interpretation. Nor does the
aver. me novel go far enough. A Middle
Art is requisite in the writing of the
Continuity. We need rare interpreters —
such as June Mathis. let us say, and her
exquisite interpretation of "The 1
Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Here is
an instance in which everyone concerned
gained thru mastery of the art of inter-
pretation— author, director and producer.
I have come to the conclusion that there
ought to be a school for the education of
famous writers in the movies. Most of
them have not the least conception of
what they are driving at, what it is all
about. They fail to get the big idea be-
hind the motion picture, or to realize that
the motion picture has gone ahead of all
other forms of expression in reaching the
hearts and the mind of all the peoples of
the world, simultaneously. It sometimes
makes me feel glad that I am not a Great
Author after all.
1 v 11 CA8
\t length I -u it) In. I bun inn to tin
. t ..1 the iiidtiiin pit lure "I >h, tin
films are nol rock! enough, With all tin
moncj .mil othei kinds of wealth
pended on them, the) should lie infinitely
bettei So, believing that, l i li I
idle 1 1 ( 1c.1t ami t" laugh.
"I .1111 ut the opinion th.it the only lilin
st.H \ that should be i" < ented
tempted. Is the mie invented I'M the film
and never an adaptation and nevi
" I be best thing tin \ do is the .iipi I
natural. I nee, I larold Lloyd di i\
ing a trolte) car thin a crowded cit) gives
me mud] pleasure t'> see. The tilin
the link between poor inadequate human
nature and magic 'Theatre of the Deaf,'
I have called it somewhere. And that is
really its greatest boon one Can see with-
out havjng to hear what might be awful
sometimes."
BARONESS ORCZY
tation would smash the play - and that
really cam be thought of.
"Manx of my Dutch war stories were
done in the films; some very well, and
others- well, 1 have reasons for feeling
very much afraid of what might be done
story like 'The Scarlet Pimpernel.'
The plot is so complicated and the atmos-
phere so essential."
The Baroness told me this while sitting
at tea in her splendid villa, located in the
select section of Monte Carlo far up tin-
heights above the madding crowd, the
brilliant white bonis and the gambling
Casino. I'll" it was February, we were
ing out the window of her study on
her formal garden with all its wealth of
tropical foliage reflected in the pool or seen
thru the shimmering fountain playing in its
center.
" 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' was my sec-
ond bonk," she went on. "It was re-
fused by twelve, a round dozen, of
publishers. When it was first published it
sold exactly ninety copies. I was dis-
couraged and decided to make a play of it.
Julia Neilsen and Fred Terry liked it and
bought it. And that is how Fred Terry
came to have an interest in 'The Scarlet
Pimpernel.' "
All of which should be potently inter-
esting to the discouraged writer.
FORD MADOX FORD
them after what he had said about them.
We continued our talk that night when
he gave a party — one of the sort of par-
ties that are given only in the Latin
Quartier of Paris, where a score or more
of people drift in dressed as tho they were
going to a nonchalant fancy-dress ball —
only they mean it and dont mean to be
grotesque about it at all. Paris is so
amusing when it tries not to be.
Well, James Joyce was expected and
didn't come. But Gertrude Stein, author
of "Tender Buttons." did. And Gelette
Burgess, who gave us "The Purple Cow,"
and Louis Bromfield, author of that
cracking book of the year, "Possession."
was there. And a great many artists and
regular people and a good time was had
by all, I can assure you.
ARE you keeping up with all the goings-on of the stars in Holly-
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Publications, contributes every month in the Classic, his impres-
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Reg the Regular
{Continued from page 49)
while our clothing dried? Denny, of
course!
It was three days before we were able
to run the dingey thru the surf and re-
turn to the fishing-boat. Three days
during which we slept on the ground, sub-
sisted on fresh lamb stew seasoned with
lobsters and clams we dug at low tide, and
a can of hardtack Denny had thoughtfully
brought along.
All for the Fun of It
A nd who invented games to keep our
■^ minds off our troubles, who led us on
impossible treks over long-dead volcanoes
in search of the elusive wild boar, who
took his rifle and left his warm blankets
in the biting chill before dawn to hunt
the meat for our inevitable lamb stew?
Nobody but Denny !
Ah, there's a man for you !
I think to Reg Denny, motion pictures
must be just another thing to interfere
with his fishing and shooting.
And it's hard for me, knowing the other
side of the man, to reconcile myself to
seeing him as I saw him on the set at
Universal the other day, shooting his new
picture, "Take It From Me." He wore a
cutaway coat and striped trousers, a wing
collar and an impeccable boiled shirt and
patent-leather shoes.
He was the center of a massive set rep-
resenting a fashion show. Beautiful
women in all stages of dress and undress
surrounded him. He was affable, cour-
teous, polished, suave — yet bewildered in
that amusing fashion that is particularly
his own brand of comedy.
He watched while lovely models in gor-
geous gowns paraded to the edge of a large
tiled swimming pool, gave one vigorous
wriggle and dropped their gowns to reveal
themselves in bathing attire.
He obligingly registered astonishment
when he perceived a skull and crossbones
painted on the knee of petite Frances Dale,
who is one of the most promising of the
screen's new crop of actresses and has a
leading role in the new picture.
Yes, he was quite the man-about-town
on the set before the camera, was Reg
Denny.
But who, I ask you, was the first to rip
off the wing collar, tear off the boiled shirt
and kick off the patent-leather shoes when
the final scene was taken and he had
reached the shelter of his bungalow dress-
ing-room? You're right; it was nobody
but Reg Denny !
Just Like a Pal
T think it also speaks volumes for Reg's
character to relate that I found him
sharing his own dressing-room with Ben
Hendricks and Lee Moran. Not that there
is any shortage of dressing-rooms at Uni-
versal City ; there must be thousands. I
have known quite a few stars in my day
in Hollywood, but I never before saw one
who would share his dressing-room with
another player of less established standing.
He may be a product of merry old Eng-
land, but I cast my vote for Reg Denny as
the most democratic of the stars.
What we talked about while he was
getting out of his furbelows and into
good old rough tweeds doesn't matter
very much. It wasn't a lot of bunk about
his desire to make bigger and better pic-
tures, nor about his sacrifices for his art,
nor about his wife (Renee, a most charm-
ing and vivacious lady) being not only his
pal but his severest critic, nor about the
gorgeous set he had just quitted, nor about
the pleasure he finds in his work, nor
about any of the things that interviews
are supposed to be about.
If you want to know the honest truth,
we talked about the relative values of a
Dowaigac minnow and a Shannon lure in
snaring the wily bass, and whether a Blue
Dragon or a good old Coachman was the
best for salmon trout under given condi-
tions, and if a Hispano-Suiza motor was
really practical for a thirty-eight-foot
cabin cruiser, and all such rot as that. Not
interesting in the least, when you sit right
down and analyze them.
But all the time I was thinking about
other things.
Enjoys the Briny Deep
T>
'here was that other trip which ended
disastrously. A couple of years ago,
now; maybe three. Reg and Ben had been
out on the sea a night and a day and a
night, fishing. They were coming home in
the dawn with three hundred pounds of fish
in the tonneau of the car. A little girl ran
into the street on the outskirts of Hollywood.
To avoid hitting her, Reg threw the car
headlong into a tree. There wasn't enough
of the car left to warrant repairs, and
not much more of Reg. It was ten days
before they would let me see him, and
then I found him smoking a cigaret and
planning the sort of fishing-boat he would
build when he got well.
Then there was that other trip, just last
fall. Reg had, by that time, acquired his
boat. It was a cabin cruiser with a fuel
radius of three hundred miles. He notified
me when he was leaving, but I couldn't go.
Their objective, I knew, was a group of
islands off the coast of Mexico, approxi-
mately three hundred miles south of Los
Angeles harbor. They scheduled a stop at
Ensenada, en route, for additional fuel.
The morning after their departure, the
wind was blowing a gale. My home is
twenty miles from the sea, yet the storm
even there was terrific. It uprooted a
great tree in my yard. We all worried
about Reg, of course, but it is impossible
to worry very long about him. You al-
ways have the feeling that he will bob up
after a time, smiling.
A week went by, eight days, nine days —
and no word from them. They were long
overdue in port. Jim Mitchell, who writes
pieces for the paper, was in my office one
afternoon. He, too, was worried. "They're
gone," he said. "Our wireless reports
from the southern shipping sayr no small
boat could live in that storm." An air-
plane was chartered by the Universal
people and flew over the sea for miles with
no result. At the end of ten days even the
optimists conceded Reg and Ben and Hub
Lloyd, their companion, were down with
Davy Jones.
Then a couple of days later, or maybe
three, the Mexican telegraph brought a
laconic message. "Okay," it said simply,
and was signed "Reg." They were back
in port at Ensenada, and the storm had
blown itself out.
Later Reg told the story in a couple of
sentences :
"The storm held us back, and we ran
out of gas. We made a little cove and
anchored. A fisherman came by one day
promised to bring us gasoline when he re-
turned. He did, and that's all there was
to it."
The Boy in the Man
Qo that's Reg Denny as nearly as I can
picture him to you. It's the Reg Denny
that I know, and that you know on the
(Continued on page 83)
78
Facing Death for a Laugh
"7 )
Imt I didn't I didn'l know a- much about
its ihcn ai I do now
"When we lurched toward the buoj the
th time, I found "in what thai gi ind
was and I got it with a b tup, \\ i
prung t!i. and the i
end "i the craft dropped out from undci
i>t as we shot fifteen feet in the wake
of the buoy, I was abrupt I) parked there
in the water square!) in front of t In-
speed bo it. which was hammei
toward me at thirt) miles an hour. I had
no time to get even parti) out of the way.
The) tried their best to stop, and did sue
ceed in slowing down, but the boat
slammed me against that buo) so hard that
when tin' rescue squad finall) fished me
out they found thai I'd acquired a dislo-
cated shoulder and two broken ribs."
Making You Shudder
Deposing tl.it <>n his back on a steepl)
slanting board th.it projected several
feet from the top of a towering oil dei
and trying to appear nonchalantly indi
cut to tin- yawning void just under his re
cumbent form, gave Jimmie ^dams all the
thrills any sane man could possibly desire,
in the filming of a recent Christie comedy
with an oil-field locale.
It is obviouslv impossible to rig a safety
not on so skeleton a structure as an oil
derrick, and the shots were taken at a
near enough range to preclude the use of
concealed wire- or other similar appliance-.
Consequently, Jimmie hail to spend the
greater part of a memorable afternoon
clowning on his precarious perch and
hoping fervently that the property-man had.
been conscientious in nailing the hoard
securely to the derrick scaffolding.
Eight \ear- on the Mack Sennett lot
have naturally given Billy Bevan enough
thrills to fill a five-foot book-shelf.
"The nearest 1 ever came to death, tho,"
Billy told me one day, "was via the pneu-
monia route. When we were making
'Honeymoon Madness,' there were a lot of
rain scenes to be shot. No fooling, 1 was
dripping wet for three solid weeks ! I
couldn't even change to dry clothes during
the lunch hour. Before the three weeks
were over I felt like a cross between a
water-lily and a drowned cat.
"Only last week I had to walk along a
ledge on the sixth floor of a Hollyw 1
bank building, with my eyes shut, and clad
principally in a night-gown. I was sup-
1 to be a somnambulist, who walked
in his sleep, and tried to play golf on the
ledge. I didn't mind the height, but I
hated to wander around up there with my
eyes shut.
Buster's Nerve
Di stir Keaton has been called "the
little iron man" because of the chances
he invariably takes in his comedies. Height
stuff is a "little out of Buster's line, but
when it comes to knockabout thrills, he
will try practically everything.
Slugging toe to toe with an ex-pugilist
in a ring, getting kicked from speeding
trains, trying to ride a wild steer — they
are all the same to the indomitable Buster
so long as there is a possible laugh in-
volved with the thrill. Keaton has been
injured half a dozen times in the last few-
years, but the mishaps have shaken neither
his nonchalance nor his nerve.
Incidentally. Buster gives the danger
element as one of the possible reasons
his famous habit of never smiling on the
ii. "How is a fellow going to smile."
Keaton queries plaintively, "when he never
knows whether he'll spend that night safe
at home or in the casualty ward of the
nearest hospital?"
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. . . you'll try to know me, and I — / wont
let you — there now !"
She heard a thin trickle of laughter fol-
lowing her . . . refined laughter.
After her mother's death things were
much worse. She no longer suffered
slights and insults at the hands of "nice"
little girls and their starched mothers, be-
cause she no longer permitted such op-
portunities. She had learned to be
ashamed of herself and of what she was,
and her instinct was to seek cover.
But there were other things. She trav-
eled alone with her father now. The one
advantage being that she was given a
room apart from his. She usually shared
it with the character woman ; occasionally
she had a cubby-hole alone.
Just at first she had slept in the room
with her father and then there were always
silly, giggly girls coming home and having
supper with her father in their room, and
if she didn't turn her face to the wall and
pretend to be asleep he threatened to box
her ears "then and there."
Of course, it didn't take much sense to
pretend to be asleep once she understood
what was expected of her. But it was
always just pretend, and she couldn't help
but hear him and his silly talk and silly
stories and the little rushing noises and
the high giggling of the girls in the room.
There was always a great to-do about
orange juice and cracked ice and a great
deal of talk about "This is the stuff" and
"Dont be a cold potato." At this stage of
the game, Jonquil decided that, silly as
papa was as Romeo, he was infinitely sillier
as himself.
She hated it more and more all the time.
She hated it so that she ached inside. She
hated her father with his red face and
white teeth. The one gold one. She hated
the new character woman with her mas-
caroed eyes and thickly reddened lips.
She hated the new leading lady, the one
who had taken her mother's place, who
was named Rosie and smelled of cheap
rose perfume.
She hated, with a vast and ever-swelling
hatred, the gritty little rooms in the gritty
little hotels. She hated getting up early in
the mornings and traveling late at night.
She hated china toilet sets and soggy
mashed potatoes and brown fried eggs
and everything she had ever known in her
whole life.
She was desperately unhappy. She
prayed that she could die. She even hated
her own face, pale, with little circles of
sleeplessness under her eyes. She hated
her frizzy hair and her silk dresses and
her long, embarrassed legs.
When she was nearly thirteen, her father
suddenly informed her that he was going
to take her to Three Trees, Massachusetts,
and "give" her to her grandmother. Her
mother's mother. Grandmother Rogers.
Jonquil was conscious of a wild pang,
first hot, then cold. First delight, then
despair, then a commingling of the two.
She said :
"Maybe she wont want me."
"Then you'll have to go to a Home," the
man said. "I'm going to get married
again, and Rosie wont want a kid tagging
after her. I dont blame her. Why should
she? Besides, you're getting too long and
lanky to do kid parts and, if you can do
anything, why should you stick around?
If you turn out to look like anything in
three or four years, you can join up with
us again and earn your own bread and
butter. Anyway, it wont hurt the old
dame to do something for you. Aint you
her own flesh and blood?"
Oh, she hoped so ! She hoped so. . . .
Jonquil, that night, lay awake until
dawn. And when the dawn came, it seemed
faintly tinted with rose, for the first time
in her memory.
She didn't honestly see why the "old
dame" should do anything for her and she
suspected that she wouldn't, but she agreed
with her father that it wouldn't hurt to
try. After all, even if it failed, there
would be the Home and nothing could be
worse than the life she was leading.
Really, a "home" had a sweet-smelling
sound. And it might have a front porch !
Papa "laid off" for three days between
towns, at great loss to himself, so he said,
and they journeyed to Three Trees.
At once Jonquil loved the look of Three
Trees. She felt passionately that she
never wanted to step foot out of it again,
not even to see the Leaning Tower of
something or other or the Obelisks, about
which the male "heavy" had tried to en-
lighten her when he had undertaken her
education a year or so before.
She felt that she would die if Grand-
mother wouldn't let her stay. The streets
were wide and shady. The houses were
white and green and spandy clean. They
were set far back on velvet lawns and
there were old trees over them, faintly
murmurous. There was no hotel, only an
"Inn," a larger, whiter, shadier-looking
place, and a little tablet tacked to a tree
informed those who paused that General
Washington had once laid his much-
pillowed head in the best bedroom of the
George Inn.
Papa inquired his way, and they walked
along the peaceful New England streets,
rather badly incongruous. Jonquil felt
that they were, and the ache of fear and
misery returned. Papa in his "shepherd's
plaid," his Elk's tooth, his gold tooth glint-
ing thru his moist red lips, his way of
walking, so actory. . . . She. Jonquil, in
the inevitable silk dress with lace ruffles,
a "picture" hat, silk socks, silly slippers.
Three Trees seemed to stand away from
them ... to draw back ... to be pre-
paring to eject them. . . .
The "old dame" lived in a white house
with green shutters, also set far back from
the street. It seemed heaven to Jonquil.
Flowers in neat flower-beds. White swiss
curtains swish-swishing in a lilac-burdened
breeze against scrupulous window panes.
A front porch. Geraniums along the rails
in shiny green boxes. All orderly. A
place to stay. A place to take root in, to
call home. She thought desperately that
this place would have none of papa and
her. They didn't belong.
The old dame herself came to the door.
Grandmother Rogers ! Spare and trim
and dressed in decent black. White hair
folded like quiet wings on either side of
her head. False teeth, of course, but a
rosy skin and faded grey eyes.
Grandmother Rogers (how dared he call
her "the old dame"?) looked at them,
accusingly. Jonquil thought. It was as if
she suspected who they were and was
asking them with her steely eyes how they
had dared. . . . Papa spoke first. In his
best manner. Loudly, with gestures. Jon-
quil hung her head for shame of him.
Grandmother Rogers asked him to step
inside. She asked it grudgingly, against
her will. Jonquil found herself alone — on
a front porch. She tip-toed over to a chair
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mans do. I have no doubt, tho, that
American directors viewing this and other
films of its like can derive some new ideas
for their own work. That is, perhaps, one
of the most valuable things about a group
like the Film Associates. They too are
counting on a bigger and more ambitious
season, and will show "Rose Bernd," an
Ufa picture, featuring Emil Jannings,
Werner Kraus and Henny Porten, as their
first offering.
Another group headed by Joseph
Lawren and Robert A. Sanborn, have se-
cured the tiny Fifth Avenue Playhouse at
66 Fifth Avenue. Lawren is a publisher,
and Sanborn an old film hound, once as-
sociated with the scenario department of
Universal. They have taken over a
theater in Greenwich Village which was
started with the idea of giving modern
drama and will present in it only modern
films. Exhibiting rights to the "Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari" have been secured, and
they are counting on a long run.
It will be amazing if "Caligari" does
draw the public. Three or four years ago
it was a flop ; but taste has changed and
things that were impossible then are being
tried now. "Caligari" has been referred
to so many times by screen critics that it
has become a by-word and the public
knows much more about it than when it
was first shown. Its revival in a theater
of its own may have quite an effect.
Uplifting the Public Taste
'"The Little Cinemas are doing a great
deal of educational work among the
public and I know that their efforts are
being keenly watched by the big producers
and distributors. The "top-price" features
which Famous Players, Metro-Goldwyn
and the others have developed have done
much to raise the public taste. Their
greatest worry has been the changing
taste of the public ; it has been a night-
mare for them to spend millions catering
to some new fad or craze which will be
forgotten next season. Now it looks as
if the really great films of the past few
seasons have a permanent quality about
them that will not be put out of date by
some new fad. It is comforting to think
that pictures like "The Big Parade," "The
Merry Widow," "The Grand Duchess and
the Waiter," can be revived and exhibited
successfully many years from now. The
in page 69)
time is coming when certain feature films
will so have mastered their art that they
have the eternal value of, let us say, a play
by Shakespeare. They will not have to be
acted over again ; merely taken off the
shelves and revived.
The director of the International Film
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measure-stick you may decide infallibly
whether the movie you have just seen is a
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Suggested Code for Critics
and Public
1. Faithfulness to the individuality
of the cinema art. To what de-
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the particular intrinsic character
of this new art?
2. Story. Is it a mere transposition
of a novel or a play, or does it
attempt to create its tale in terms
of true cinema!'
3. Cast. Are they merely trans-
posed from the stage with all the
routine tricks of the stage, or
have they developed the art of
pantomime with a true and in-
spired talent'
4. Photography. Has the camera-
man made full use of his instru-
ment, extracting from situations
and groupings of characters cer-
tain "angles" and "shots" which
set off the scene and action most
vividly?
5. Composition. Have the group-
ings, backgrounds, arrangement
of objects, etc., been carefully
composed to support the full
significance of a situation? Do
the scenes etch themselves in the
memory, or are they merely
stereotyped?
6. Direction. To what extent has
the director utilized these sugges-
tions in his work? To what ex-
tent docs the picture hear the
imprint of his individuality? To
what degree docs it differ from
the work of any other directors?
Hale - Fellow -Well - Met
(Continued fi
revolved around the studio — or the very
scene — in which she was working at the
moment. And now that she has moved
from West to East. . . .
"I feel as tho I had lived here all my
life, and hadn't the slightest expectation of
ever leaving."
If it is so with places, how about people.
Does she strike up an acquaintanceship, be-
come enthusiastic, and, riding it to death,
drop all others — to drop it in turn when
another comes along?
"No. If I once like a person, I like
him always. I know when I first meet a
person whether I will like him or not }-ears
from now."
"Then you believe in first impressions?"
"Absolutely !"
But 1 started out to learn why she seems
never to worry about the parts that may
be assigned to her, nor even as to what pic-
tures they may be in.
"I have never been able to control events
om page 59)
— simply able to make the best of them
when they came along."
"But dont you become interested in some
part, and hope you'll get it?"
"Not particularly. I've always been
lucky when I've let things take their course
without trying to meddle.
"The only time things ever went seri-
ously wrong was the only time I ever tried
to make events take the course I, rather
than they, wanted."
"When was that?"
"When I tried to break into pictures. I
u ent out and attempted to be a regular
go-getter. I hung around, and pestered
people, and pulled strings — and never got
anything but the smallest 'bits' — and eight
weeks on crutches !
"And that made me realize that I had
been trying to work directly opposite to
the way my whole life had been molding
itself. So I brought up sharply, and
ceased to worry."
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Reg the Regular
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icreen 10 nearly u the celluloid can j
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will make him always ju t .1 boj grown up,
1 think he knows how to play, now that
come, because he knew how
to suffer in the <>lil days. Hun- i-. one
storj l feel it necessai > t>> tell
Reg, of course, was bom in I ngland
and «'t theatrical stock. He toured the
world as leading baritone with the Ban
daman Opera Company, and was married,
by the way, in Calcutta, India. Later he
came to America and was to be starred
for the first tunc in musical corned] in
New \ . n k when tin- war broke out.
Naturally, he abandoned all Iti-. plans
and went to England to enlist But before
he went his friend, the producer to whom
he \\.i> under contract and who still func-
tions in New York, patted him on the
shoulder and cheered him on. ,r\ our show
will !«.• waiting whin you come back," said
he with throat> heartiness.
So Reg went to war, enlisting in the
Arti>ts' Rifles, and later joined the Royal
Air Force, from which he retired at the
end of hostilities with an enviable record.
He returned at once to New York to find
disaster awaiting him.
A Tragedy and a Happy Ending
I— lis wife had carried on with her stage
career until illness came. She became
desperately ill and. with her funds run-
ning low and no money except the meager
..How .nice from Reg's army pay, was in
desperate condition. When Ren reached
New York, her life was in the balance and
physicians conceded that only the greatest
New York surgeon could save her.
Reg was penniless.
He went first, of course, to the manager
who had cheered him on to war. He found
the office boy hostile and the manager's
door closed to him. He needed $1,000 for
the surgeon's fee. For days he went up
and down Broadway, to all those pals who
had stayed at home and prospered, and met
much sympathy but never a shekel.
He was desperate, mad. He forgot his
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As a last resort he stumbled one day up
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Morris Gest's office boy glanced at him
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came back in a moment with a frown and
a piece of paper. "Mr. Gest says he is
sorry he is too busy to see you just now,"
he reported, "but he said to give you this."
He handed Reg the piece of paper. It
was an envelope. Expecting some scribbled
refusal, Reg tore it open. A check for
$1,000 fluttered to the floor.
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committee of one to welcome Morris '
when he came to California for a little
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rippling — never buncliy. He weighs a hun-
dred and seventy-five pounds stripped, and
fills a sixteen and a half collar very snugly.
His chest measurement is forty-four
inches, and his waist thirty. He lives at the
Hollywood Athletic Club, where he does
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CTew people know that Bill Russell, today
one of the most powerfully built men
on the screen, was given up as a hopeless
cripple when he was a boy of sixteen, with
one leg withered and useless and eight
inches shorter than the other as the re-
sult of a bad fall. The story of his phy-
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Discharged as incurable after four years
in the hospital, young Russell refused to
accept the doctors' verdict. Rigging up
an improvised exercising machine from an
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rebuilding his maimed leg. Fighting thru
weary hours, days and months with
almost superhuman fortitude, he won his
battle. \
He succeeded so well in making his body
whole again that seven years later he be-
came amateur middleweight boxing cham-
pion of New York State. Some time after
that, at a big sportsman's show in Madison
Square Garden, New York City, he was
voted second prize in a contest to deter-
mine the best-built man in America.
Today Bill's weight is around the two-
hundred mark, and there is not an ounce
of superfluous flesh on his magnificent
body. He is a veritable "nut" on physical
training, and works out for at least an
hour daily in his own private gymnasium.
Two or three times a week of late he has
been sparring six fast rounds of an eve-
ning at the Hollywood Athletic Club with
Gene Tunney, leading contender for Jack
Dempsey's crown, and is usually able to
give about as much as he receives.
Bill has proved himself a real-life hero
on more than one occasion. His most fa-
mous act of heroism occurred at the Gen-
eral Slocum boat disaster in New York,
in which twelve hundred lost their lives.
Russell saved twelve people singlehanded
by swimming to shore with them, one
after the other, and then secured a row-
boat and rescued a score of others. Even
Bill's native modesty could not dodge the
public attention that this thrilling exploit
attracted, and he was shortly afterward
awarded the coveted Carnegie Medal.
And Tyler, Too
■"Tom Tyler, Western star on the F. B. O.
lot, is another screen athlete whose
physical prowess is very distinctly not of
the artificial variety. Tyler had a good
build and very fair muscular co-ordination
when he took out a membership in the
Los Angeles Athletic Club, but no one
expected that he would develop into a na-
tional champion in less than a year's time.
That, however, is just what young Tyler
did. He was introduced to the weight-
lifting game and he took to the sport like
a sea-going codfish to salt water. He
arrived at the top of the local heap in a
few months, and then went after greater/
honors. He got them, and he has beefi
adding steadily to his trophy collection
ever since. So far this year, he has won
four major weight-lifting medals, includ-
ing the gold emblem of the grand national
championship.
His best records include lifts of two
hundred and two and a half pounds in
the "one hand clean and jerk" method, and
two hundred and seventy-three pounds in
the "two hands clean and jerk." Both
these lifts include raising the weight
cleanly to the height of the shoulders, then
jerking it to arm's length overhead and
holding it in that position for two full
seconds before returning it to the floor.
Tom is now going after several new
world's records, and will probably attain
them before many more months have
passed.
On the Athletic Roster
It was his splendid physical build and box-
ing ability that brought Reginald Denny
his first important picture role, that of
the hero in H. C. Witwer's "Leather
Pushers" series. Denny was well known
as an all-round amateur athlete before his
screen debut. He was one of the crack
fliers of the Royal Flying Corps during
the war, and soon became boxing cham-
pion of the Corps.
Norman Kerry is another six-footer
with the trim, powerful build of the
trained gymnast. In his school and college
days, Kerry starred in both football and
basketball, and was rated as an expert on
the parallel bars and flying rings.
Edmund Lowe also gained more than
average fame as an athlete when a student
at Santa Clara University. He was a
member of one of the first varsity teams
to play Rugby football in the West, and
also played on one of the fastest collegiate
baseball nines ever developed in this part
of the country. Today he keeps in trim by
playing a hard game of squash at the
Hollywood Athletic Club regularly.
Raymond Keane, Universal's new juve-
nile "find," was a high-school track star
in Denver, with a state-wide reputation.
He has a record of ten seconds flat in the
hundred-yard dash, and 24.4 seconds in the
two-twenty.
George Lewis, another new juvenile, was
regarded as one of the best all-round ath-
letes ever developed by a California high
school. While at Coronado High he was
a three-letter man, captain of the football
team, and high scorer of the Southern
California basketball conference in 1923.
This list of real athletes of the screen
might be continued almost indefinitely. It
is obvious that physical prowess, while far
from being the sole prerequisite to success
in pictures, is a highly important asset.
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occasionally raise a temporary furore over
the sheik and other bizarre types, in the
long run wants its heroes to be decidedly
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muscles and the erect carriage of an ath-
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those muscles really effective.
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noticed it yet, to why tell him that . . .
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grinding cameras, and turned his head
nl to try to hear what they
saying. Just .is soon as he i business" which attracted atten
tiiiti to themselves Con didn't tumble
For several scenes, to the fact that this
was an obvious game, Needless to say,
he wont be the victim of this old troupers'
trick again.
The Stars are Often Eclipsed
STAR h;is less chance of having a pit
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tar predominates his or her production,
and generally has much to say during the
editing. Bui occasionally it does happen.
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nt the most recent cases is that of a young
man named Paul Kelly, who appears in
Thomas Meighan's picture, "'The New
Klondyke." Critics thruout the country
immediately hailed this newcomer as
having come close to Stealing man> scenes
from Meighan. That is, he is the one
that leaves the most lasting impression.
Of course, the various bits of motion.
and human-interest gags, vary greatly.
Ernest Torrence often pulls his nose,
'scratches his chin, or purses Up his mouth.
Lewis Stone pats his lapel. Lew Cody
pulls a white handkerchief out of his
pocket. Adolphe Menjou has a little
yawn of boredom, or a fascinating wink.
Dear old Theodore Roberts, who has
just returned to the screen after a long
illness, for years held the position of
"daddy of 'em all" in the picture stealing
business. His famous cigar was one of
his greatest assets.
He toyed with the cigar, rolled it from
one side of his mouth to the other, or
otherwise manipulated it.
A
Painted People
(Continued from page 80)
and sat in it, rocking. Once or twice a
neighbor strolled by, and Jonquil peeped
at them, almost daring to nod pleasantly
and casually — not quite daring. Not yet.
Not until she knew. Her heart was thudding
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when she sat in the ante-room of the den-
tist. Soon she would know. Soon. . . .
She could hear papa talking inside, very
wordy, very bombastic, in his best stage
voice. She could hear Grandmother
Rogers, very quiet, saying very little.
Papa would spoil it all . . . ruin it . . .
he was saying something about "the loss
of my child ... all I have left now ..."
He was saying it in his sob-voice. Jonquil
felt like screaming out, "He's a liar . . .
he has Rosie!" but she didn't.
She sat quiet, tensed, a rigid strip of a
girl. Now they were coming. They were
coming out to tell her . . . by the time
they reached her she would be dead if her
heart did not stop its mad pounding . . .
papa was speaking to her. . . .
(To be continued)
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just about finished "Bardelys the Magni-
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Girls, what would you not give for a
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he ate several portions and not much else.
Not knowing that Jack was a real
athlete in training, I foolishly challenged
him to a jumping contest. Of course, he
beat me, but only by an inch or two.
Later he and I played together at tennis
doubles, and we won easily. Jack can
do anything well — even act.
Warner's Philosophy
W'
rE have outgrown God," said H. B.
Warner to me at the lunch table the
other day. No, he is not blasphemous, and he
explained the remark quite philosophically.
H. B. is a thinker and a man of ideas. I
asked him what was man's greatest asset
that makes for happiness, and promptly
came the answer — - "Health." "And
what next?" I asked and just as quickly
came the answer — "A normal brain." Think
it over — there's a lot of food for thought
in that answer. I dont know what his
normal complexion is, but on this occa-
sion it was red. He had been out fishing,
of which sport he is passionately fond,
and the sun had certainly been making
love to his nose and cheeks.
Everybody seems to like "Silence" ex-
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plained to me bitterly about the "happy
ending" which, he says, does not belong.
The Busy Harry Carr
I— Iarry Carr, who for the last four
months has been the Chief Ambassa-
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daylight, like other civilized people, I
haven't yet learned, but I do know that
they are working hard and expect to have
something worth while to show for it.
And when it's all over, Harry is again
going to make his typewriter talk for
Brewster Publications.
The Versatile Victor
Wictor McLaglen's meteoric career re-
minds one of that of Carl Dane. He
hits the bull's eye in "What Price Glory"
and now he has written his autobiography.
Very colorful, too — soldier, professional
boxer, wrestler, prospector, Chief of
Police of old Bagdad, circus performer,
vaudeville artist, screen star and now an
author.
Beatrice Signs
Deatrice Lillie made a big hit in
"Chariot's Revue" which was recently
playing here and on the strength of her
personality she has been signed up by
M. G. M. to do comedy features. Bea-
trice is far from beautiful, but she has
personality and charm and a good figure
— I saw it in Marion Davies' bathing pool.
A Real Western Star
("'oloxel Tim McCoy, famous as "The
friend of the Indian" and one of the
most colorful figures of the modem West,
has left his Wyoming ranch and signed up
with M. G. M. to play the lead in a
series of Western pictures. From all ac-
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the way of Westerns — not the old-fash-
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high-class as well as stirring.
Items of Interest
Ctrictly confidential — dont breathe a
word, but by the time you read this
there will probably be a Lloyd Hughes,
Jr., or a Gloria Hope, Jr., as the case
may be.
Don Ryan, who is well known to our
readers (particularly to Classic readers),
is writing the titles for "Manon Lescaut,"
in which John Barrymore is starring for
Warner Brothers.
Irene Rich certainly struck twelve in
"Lady Windermere's Fan" and now (about
July 1-20) she is playing a somewhat
similar part in "My Official Wife," which
Clara Kimball Young did a dozen years
ago. She is fortunate in her leading man
— Conway Tearle.
Anxious to repeat his great success in
"The Ten Commandments," which he
made for Paramount, and being deprived
of the right to produce "The Deluge"
because Warner Brothers had a prior
claim, Cecil B. De Mille has selected
"The King of Kings," which will center
around the life of Christ. In spite of a
remark I made in a previous paragraph I
think H. B. Warner will be the Christus.
Warner Brothers think they have a real
"find" in Myrna Loy. She is one of the
most unusual types in pictures. You will
soon see her as the half-caste girl in
"Across the Pacific," in which Monte
Blue is to star.
Jack Hoxie feels quite at home these
days because he is playing the part of
Buffalo BUI in "The Last Frontier" for
De Mille. Here we have a real Westerner
in a real Western, for Jack was once a
snow - shoed mailman operating from
Thunder Mountain to Pael Lake, Idaho.
Walter Long, they say, introduces a
new style of villainy in "West of Broad-
way," in which Priscilla Dean is starring.
Walter works his eyes instead of his
muscles, recalling the most villainous eyes
that ever were screened — those of Ernest
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Pigs run wild in Florida. W. C. Fields discovered the peregrinations
of the porkies when he tried to stage an outdoor dinner at Ocala.
They came right up to him and ate out of his hand
The Up -to -Date Old -Timer
(Continued from page 39)
he would have come in handy ; and besides,
you would have been building him up all
the time.
Comedies Should be Built Like a House
"A comedian should be given a well-
•^ worked-out skeleton framework — and
then told to add the bricks and ornaments
as he goes along."
And "bricks and ornament" are of the
greatest interest to Mr. Fields. Wild gags
born in the midst of action ; little traits and
quirks of character, trivial in themselves,
but whose sum is a definite and well-drawn
character.
His next picture, "So's Your Old Man,"
is to be one such as this. A good skeleton
— Julian Street's "Mr. Bisbee's Princess,"
the story that won the O. Henry prize —
passed thru the hands of Tom Geraghty,
whose wild Irish imagination should add
something, and then to himself for more
"bricks and ornament" — to emerge a tale
of the tribulations of a well-defined char-
acter, a small-town Babbit jeweler.
But all these plans dont seem, to me,
quite to fit in with the character of the
typical screen comedian.
"Then you dont intend to do as Chaplin,
Lloyd and Keaton — develop a certain char-
acter, with set make-up, and carry him
thru different adventures?"
N
Will Submerge His Personality
o — not at all. I intend to make the
development of the character I'm
playing more important than the register-
ing of my own personality. But all the
characters will probably be more or less
related types.
"I might make an instant success if I
were to continue making pictures in the
make-up of Eustace McGarglc, for in-
stance— yet I might be just a fad, and die
quickly as they always do. But the basic
human types never become old and stale —
no more than landscapes do.
"But then again, Chaplin and Lloyd are
no fads — they'll never die. I wonder
which the public prefers — I wish I knew."
Here we have the key to this man. All
that has gone before is merely the effect
of a cause. The alert old-timer ; the user
of past experiences ; the reasoner — all
these are merely the effect of a cause.
And, of course, a cause is always of
greater importance than its effects. So,
the fact that he is one who wonders and
puzzles things out is more important than
that it has kept him progressing and look-
ing forward beyond the point where others
stop and look behind.
A Sound Philosophy
T am not drawing the long-bow of exag-
geration— / mean it. If a small boy had
not wondered why steam made the lid of
a tea-kettle dance, we would not have the
locomotive ; without the locomotive, we
would still have had the boy. And he
might have turned out other things.
Therefore :
"Why is it that small towns are always
harder to please than the larger cities?"
"I didn't know they were."
"They are — very much so. And it isn't
only myself — it's true of many other acts
and pictures besides my own. Maybe it's
because they're not so appreciative ; they
dont appreciate the differences between
two similar things.. And you cant do any-
thing new — perhaps a difference in treat-
ment but they dont notice that difference.
I f there's the slightest similarity, it's al-
ways : 'I've seen that before.'
"But, of course, some things are uni-
versal. I was in Southampton (perhaps
the most 'ultra' of the Long Island re-
sorts) last summer, and who do you think
was the reigning screen idol? Tom Mix!
All classes — he's universal."
There's no doubt of it !
His grey eyes twinkled.
In Search of New Ideas
" A ND where under the sun am I to find
■^ a new idea for a chase?"
I murmured a few inarticulate "ers"
and "ahs" — but no new idea was born.
"Everything's been done. Of course,
.>nc who u.n • omcthing new
>.i\ ■ thai , but •
"I w ish I tiirtt
It u ■ job, when one thinks ol it Vii
planes, cops, boat . elephants, cows, even
11 ipples .ill have been used.
I could think ui nothing and became
uncomfortable. I murmured again and
prayed to -ill the goda to exert then in
Huence to have him change the subject. I
prayed >nd waited.
\n,l he did!
"Win is it th.it in two theaters in tin-
Mine town one can be .1 dismal Hop and
a howling
"I once played in the Olympic
Olympia, I forget now in Liverpool and
1 think I came nearer to being an absolute
flop than at an> Other tunc in m\ In.
While 1 was there, .1 benefit perform
ancc was staged in another theater, and I
was invited to participate. I did .mil was
a howling success, tho 1 didn't do a quar-
ter of my stuff !
"I wonder why I wish I knew."
\nil, on this note, we end.
Hollywood s' Pet
Extravagances
ntinued from page ~- >
that he purchased in London. If the
pup continues Ins present remarkable
growth, live years from now he will re-
quire very little disguise to pass for an
elephant.
Pat O'Malley's pet foible is pipes, and
his collection ranges from the native
dhudetn of Ireland to Turkish and
Persian narghiles and hookahs. Tat cele-
brated St. Patrick's day last March, by
presenting a number of his friends with
very doggy little brier pipes made espe-
cially to bis order by a famous firm in
Dublin.
Everyone to His Taste
Golf forms a real extravagance for
Huntly Gordon, who spends enough on
clothing and clubs to ransom a fairly
valuable king. Horses and their trap;
are now helping keep Edmund Lowe
broke. Willard Louis has a home in Glen-
dale that has all the horticultural attri-
butes of an ancient Roman estate. Louis
buys rare shrubs and plants from all over
the world, and is a frequent winner in
local horticultural and floral shows, as
well as having a home that is a miniature
Garden of Eden — without the snake.
Syd Chaplin goes in for aviation, being
interested both in intricate little model
planes and their big brothers. Syd is a
veteran pilot, having headed one of the
first commercial plane ventures in the
West. Louise Fazenda is a genuine book-
collector, and is an inveterate follower
of all local auctions in which books are
liable to be included. John Barrymore
has an expensive craving for rare old
first editions, and has a really fine collec-
tion. Hoot Gibson has a weakness for
weapons of warfare, from the armor of
the Middle Aces down to the six-gun of
today. Jean Herscholt is an enthusiastic
stamp-collector.
William Collier, Jr., has for his pet
extravagance a valet.
"Sure, I know it's an extravagance,"
Collier grins when his friesds kid him
about his man servant.
"Sometimes I get the idea that my valet
is the real boss of my household. Then
he is a liability.
"Other times, when I have an early
morning call for a location trip he be-
comes a real asset.
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but theatrical melodrama. It contains a
kick, nevertheless, since the action must
paint the event in crude colors. The
father refuses to allow his daughter to
marry his erstwhile partner — a man who
has found redemption thru love. In the
end the girl plunges a knife into her
parent's back, discovering too late that
she is his daughter.
Italian Sentiment
A tolerably neat little number is ex-
posed in "Puppets," which tells a
tale of Italian love, vengeance and senti-
ment. For half its length it never wavers
in its story, but as it progresses it carries
too great a burden — and fails to contain
the appeal and charm of its early scenes.
There are some good situations in it,
however. The central figure, an Italian
from New York's East Side, runs a
puppet show — and on the eve of his de-
parture for France to fight in the Great
War he gives due warning that his sweet-
heart belongs to him. When he returns
he is afflicted with deafness — a touch
which will remind you of a much better
one in "The Dark Angel," wherein the
hero came back, minus his eyesight.
A Wild Western
""There have been Westerns and West-
erns,- but I truly believe that "Born to
the West" bests them all for the assort-
ment of crowded heroics, gunplay — and
what not. This Zane Grey story simply
defies all the realities in its approach to
theatric melodrama. It spans several
years in its plot, starting off with a boyish
feud in the crinoline days and continuing
the feud after its characters have reached
maturity.
The hero is a mauve decade edition of
Frank Merriwell. He bobs up every-
where to rescue the distressed heroine or
to save his comic pal, played with breezy
abandon and picturesque color by Ray-
mond Hatton. Once he locates his erst-
while enemy — who is still pursuing the
girl that innocently established the feud —
no quarter is given. He escapes from his
hand-cuffs by a ruse — and, almost single-
handed, routs the conspirators who con-
trol and inhabit the honky-tonk. These
venders of vice are hopping mad over the
strike of gold up there in Nevada's hills.
So the climax represents a gun battle
between the lucky miners and the idlers
who remained behind.
Bebe Daniels Has Adventure
A pretty large order was given Bebe
Daniels when she was cast for "The
Palm Beach Girl," a picture which pre-
sents a series of adventurous episodes
spiced with hokum humor. Coming from
the corn belt to Florida, she starts off on
one of Mack Sennett's earliest tricks.
Her face is blackened thru looking out of
the car window and catching the soot
from some smoke-stack. Which isn't a
very neat way of introducing oneself to
Palm Beach.
The film is pleasant enough and is shot
with enough humor to while away any-
body's time. Bebe gets into one tight
jam after another — and while she is
deserving of something more substantial,
this particular number should make her
feel fairly contented with her lot.
Not So Bright
\W . C. Fields has reached stardom and
"It's the Old Army Game" which
starts him off on the high road, cannot
be called a masterpiece of comedy. In
fact, it is quite inconsequential — and is
forced to rely upon a series of gags and
slapstick — ideas which formerly deco-
rated the Follies when Fields was the
star comedian.
Transplanted to the screen, the episodes
are not so productive of laughs. And it
may be that the director didn't time them
correctly. Fields is one of the best of
pantomimists — and he needs the camera
all to himself to put him over. More-
over, he needs the camera up close enough
so one can appreciate his tomfoolery.
They Say —
(Continued from page 8)
Chance" and "Womanhandled," and he
will become even more popular in "The
Quarterback."
]■'. R., Roosevelt, L. I.
THIRD PRIZE
Votes from Illinois
Editor, Classic :
I have recently read that Warner Baxter
is to play the leading role in Paramount's
filming of Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant "The
Creat Gatsby," which should indeed, in the
right hands, make a splendid picture. But
Mr. Baxter as Gatsby is absolutely awful.
Why buy the rights to the novel at all if
lie is the only actor they can think of to
play Gatsby? I believe Ronald Colman
would be the most satisfactory, and I
would very much like to see Greta Nissen
as Daisy.
Anyway, if Mr. Baxter plays Gatsby, I
shall expect to see Warner Brothers pre-
sent "The Green Hat" with the matronly
Irene Rich as Iris March.
And this is the time to repeat what wise
persons have, already suggested: that
Blanche Sweet is the one actress on the
screen who could play the role of Iris as
it should be played. Miss Sweet has the
subtlety, the grace, the "tiger tawny" hair,
and the mannerisms of Michael Aden's
famous lady. And what a picture it would
be if some producer should make "The
Green Hat" with Blanche Sweet, directed
by George Fitzmaurice, and with Ronald
Colman in the part of X a pier! If Blanche
and Ronald could lift a foolish story like
"His Supreme Moment" to the distinction
that they did, what couldn't they do to
"The Green Hat"?
I think that Gloria Swanson has a legiti-
mate grudge against the critics because of
their comments. I'll admit that her per-
formance as the mother in "The Coast
of Folly" was bad; she made her much
too aged, she exaggerated, she was un-
convincing. Why not also admit that she
had sincerity* and force, and that her act-
ing as the daughter was all that anyone
has a right to expect ? All that she re-
ceived from the critics was verbal brick-
bats.
Ward D. Seidler,
207 State Street,
Calumet City, 111.
90
The Screen Observer Has Her Say
ami the nearest railroad station town ii
i twenty miles awaj . containing about
foui hundred inhabitants; but right here
mi tins God forsaken, desolate plain the)
tre building ■ i it) foi the wle purpo
making .1 mo>
in Denver, Reno, Sacramento and
everywhere the) brought nun, women .uul
children and in a night th< Bar
bara Worth sprang up, and in ten days
they had hank-, saloons, ehurcl
and dance halls with six 01 seven hundred
people to patronize them. Carload
ice, huge tanks of water, five thousand
tons "I food daily, and hundreds of horses,
mules, oxen and cattle wen- brought
hither, and all the wink- the can*
grinding, and the actors were performing,
Samuel Goldwyn was drawing huge
checks— just to give you people a great
picture. Henr) King, who became im-
mortal for having directed "Stella Dallas,"
the beautiful and charming Vilma Bahky
who has just finished a wonderfull) color-
ful part in "Sen of the Sheik." Ronald
Colman, who has gradually gone to the
top of the ladder of screen popularity, and
a do.-en more artists of equal merit in their
particular lines are all doing their utmost
to make "The Winning of Barbara
Worth" an epoch- making picture.
All for the Sake of Realism
Tut thermometer registered around 115
degrees in the shade, the sunlight is al-
most blinding, and the driving clouds of
dust are often excruciatingly painful and
dangerous to the eyes and ruinous to the
complexion, and yet all these people en-
dure it with a smile and without complaint.
Yes. the wind Mows occasionally, hut it
is a hot wind and with it comes clouds of
dust and sand. The tents in which most
of the inhabitants of this mushroom city
live are large and comfortable, but in the
daytime they are like ovens. During one
of these sand storms it is like being in a
square-rigger in a squall, so loud is the
boom of the flapping canvas, and after it
is over, everything, everywhere is covered
with tine white sand. But after the sun
goes down it is simply glorious, cool, re-
freshing, invigorating, and you never saw-
so much sky in your lite, or so main- stars,
unless you have been on the desert. Every-
body knows everybody, like one large
family, and everybody is happy. And talk
about types ! When I sat in the one big
common dining - room and watched the
populace come in. till up. and go out, I
thought to myself that nowhere on earth
could one find such a variety of human
creatures — every nation, color, size, type
and character were represented with no
duplication. The exquisite Vilma and the
hideous Indian squaw, the aristocratic
Ronald and the uncouth mountaineer,
negroes and Mexicans, grotesque cow-
■ and long bearded trappers, all mingle
together and partake of the same rat
which, by the way, are far better than
most of them ever had before or will
ever have again.
Should Be Another Epic
A xd in another ten days or so it will all
be over. Half a million dollars will
have changed hands, the city will have dis-
appeared like Atlantis, or Pompeii, or a
mushroom, but the world will have another
epoch picture — something on the order of
"The Covered Wagon," only covering a
later period of our country's growth and
development. Wh) Bancroft and Ridpath,
when nun like laiin imuel
Goldwyh, Henr) Ring and William
can write histor) in pictun
bod) <■ an undo stand ami enjoj and i
forget, anil that will make the kiddie-,
scoot to s, hool rathei ill. in pla\ hi
l!ut dont think Sam Goldwyn is so philan
thropic as all that he will get his millions
hack again and more loo. and he kl
1 nd \ et he ij one of the world'-. 1
factors Besides that, he is an awful good
fellow and generous to a fault.
Arbuckle Out of Oblivion
lr will he very interesting to see what
RoSCOe Arbuckle has done with " I In
Red Mill," in which he has just finished
directing Marion Davies. The expenses
on this special piled up so that Metro
Goldwyn called iii King Vidor and Ulrich
Bush to help finish some of the minor
scenes of the picture. Hut Fatty handled
all those in which Marion Davies appears.
The saving of money cm have been the
only object in rushing this picture to i
pletion, because Marion's next production
is not scheduled to start until September.
Sin- has caught the comic-strip fever, and
will immortalize "Tillie the Toiler."
Frances Marion is scenarioizing Russ
W estover's epic of the beautiful dumbbell.
Wanted— A Job
1V/T atritz Stiller is out of a job again.
When he became too temperamental
to linger within the broad walls of Metro-
Goldwyn, Paramount welcomed him as the
one man who could direct Pola Negri
superbly. The idea was to match temper-
ament with temperament, and everyone
was sure Pola and Mr. Stiller would
understand each other beautifully. It is
not told which of them first found it im-
possible to understand the other — but Pola
has a new- director, and Mr. Stiller is
without a picture. Altho he has been
hailed by all the great foreign directors
as the real genius among them, he has
failed to give evidence of it since coming
to America. The inference is that, like
D. W. Griffith, he was a great genius.
And his preoccupation with Greta Garbo,
whom he considers the one superb actress,
limits him still further.
Rudy Will Play Italy's Bad Boy
Wai.kxtixo's next picture seems to have
a good chance of being another "Mon-
sieur Beaucaire," which fans have been
clamoring for. It will be a drama based
on the life of Benvenuto Cellini, and the
scenario will be written by Edwin Justus
Mayer, author of "The Firebrand." Altho
Joseph Schenck purchased the screen
rights to "The Firebrand," that highly
ssful stage play was found to be
quite censorable and unfit for the screen,
so Mr. Mayer has been called upon to
produce other incidents from the very
full life of Benvenuto.
It is a spirited role Rudy will play, said
to he ideally suited to his screen per
ality, altho it has never seemed to me that
s pirit was the dominant quality in Rudy's
acting. The picture will he directed by
Fred Niblo, who managed to make Valen-
tino do some real acting in "Blood and
Sand" — and what with the lavish produc-
tion promised by Mr. Schenck. and the
flock of beautiful women who must be in
any faithful story of Signor Cellini, it bids
fair to be at least an entertaining picture.
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HOLLYWOOD'S UNION JACK CLUB Cedric Belfrage 38
When It's tea lime lot the English players In Beverly Hills
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i Shearer, Helen* Coatello, AUeen Pringle, Loii Moran and Nell Hamilton
A Better Man Than Gunga Din 24
Portraits ol Ben Lyon
The Charge of the Alien Army on Fort Hollywood . Ellison Hoover 25
Three More Authors Consider the Films Henry Albert Phillips 26
The last ol the series ol t.ilks with famous writers — Jobn Galsworthy, Margaret Kennedy! Lord Dunsany
"We Respectfully Suggest" . Ken Chamberlain 28
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Painted People Faith Service 30
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The Keystone Kop Who Became a Director Peter Milne 34
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Further adventures of Cella Lloyd
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Holland in Hollywood . 52
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CLASSIC'S Late News PAGE
CLIVE BROOK has been signed to a long-term
contract by Famous Players. His first role
will be under the direction of Mai St. Clair
in "The Popular Sin."
Incidentally, Famous Players have taken Ernst
Lubitsch under their wing. His contract with
Warner Brothers has been settled by mutual
arrangement and hereafter with the single ex-
ception of one production he will handle the
megaphone for the Paramount stars.
According to the Associated Press, the movie
cowboys resent the use of Government troops in
the films and have filed formal protest against it.
They declare the troopers to be unfair competi-
tion.
Lou Tellegen, who has confined his screen
work to acting before the camera, will now con-
centrate as a director. He will produce "His
Wife's Honor" for Fox — with Dolores de Rio in
the leading role.
Altho, Gloria Swanson has purchased "Eyes
of Youth," an entirely new story is being written
for her first United Artists production. The
story once served Clara Kimball Young — and it
is understood it was bought for its central theme.
George Jessel, the stage star, who makes his
screen debut in "Private Izzy Murphy," will ap-
pear in a screen version of his stage hit, "The
Jazz Singer," which is soon to strike out on a
tour of the principal cities.
Good old "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl,"
is to take up her work in the movies. The Fox
forces have bought the rights to the celebrated
melodrama — and
will present Madge
Bellamy in the
title role.
Which reminds
us that another
old - timer of the
days of the high
"bike" will soon
reach the celluloid
state. We intro-
duce "McFadden's
Row of Flats,*'
which will fly the
First National ban-
ner. Charlie Mur-
ray, who figured
prominently in the
stage - play, will
have the same role
on the screen.
"Hurry - Up"
Yost, the famous
football coach of
the University of
Michigan, has ar-
rived in New York
to handle some of
the football se-
quences in Richard
Dix's new picture,
"The Quarter-
back."
The role of
Jesus of Nazareth
LAST MINUTE REVIEW
n
THERE is an irresistible glamour about any costume picture
which revolves around court intrigue, provided it concerns
the adventurous amours of a great lover bent upon defying the
powers behind the throne. Such a picture is "Don Juan" — which
visualizes with great beauty and compelling sweep and power
the sway of the Borgias — with the conflict and drama centering
around the Spanish lover and his amours.
It is a far jump from "The Sea Beast" — but John Barrymore
has negotiated it with plenty to spare. The film presents him
in the type of role which is most adaptable to his talent and
personality.
The profiled John "goes Valentino and Fairbanks" in the
way he conquers the hearts of the ladies and rescues the dis-
tressed heroine. If he could restrain himself during a death
scene, he would pass the examination without an error. As it
is, we give him a mark of 98. From the moment that he, as the
elder Don, surprises his faithless wife and commits himself to
the pastime of "loving 'em and leaving 'em," the film carries the
interest at a high pitch. He dresses the part and his sumptuous
quarters are just made for romance.
And so it builds from one intrigue to another — saturated as it
is with plot and counterplot. There is no let-down in interest.
Barrymore makes the most of his amorous adventures — and the
suspense becomes overwhelming as one wonders how he'll fare
with Lucretia — who has set her cap for him. To defy a Borgia
spells death — and death lurks constantly for the dashing Don.
But he makes miraculous escapes and routs his playful enemies.
The duel scene is an exciting moment — and Barrymore and
Montague Love are immense in their sword play. Estelle
Taylor makes a fascinating Borgia, while the others are perfectly
cast.
The film is handsomely mounted — the atmosphere suggesting
perfectly the period of its settings.
in the Cecil B. De Mille production — to be known
as "The King of Kings," has been assigned to
H. B. Warner.
Lois Weber, the only woman director in the
movies, who divorced Phillips Smalley, has cast
her former husband for an appearance in "The
Sensation Seekers."
Raymond Hitchcock, the famous "Hitchy" of
the stage, has returned to the silversheet after
many years' absence. He will play one of the
leading roles in Marshall Neilan's new produc-
tion, "Everybody's Acting."
The first Milton Sills picture, "Men of the
Dawn," to be made on the Coast in over a year,
is now in production.
Kathryn Menjou was awarded the largest
amount of alimony ever given in Los Angeles
courts when Judge Hollzer ordered Adolphe
Menjou to pay $500 a week for his wife's sup-
port, pending trial of the husband's suit for di-
vorce, set for October.
Famous aces of the A. E. F. will take part in
"Wings," the film of the world-war air conflicts
which is being produced by Famous on the Coast.
Many Americans who flew over the German lines
as well as French, British and other flyers will
appear in the picture. Charles Farrell and Clara
Bow have the leading roles.
Greta Nissen has been signed to play in "The
Popular Sin." She is now appearing in Ziegf eld's
Revue.
Lupino Lane has returned from London to re-
sume his comedy career in Hollywood — for Edu-
cational.
Production has
started on "The
Charleston Kid,"
which is the name
for the screen ver-
sio n of "E v en
Stephen." In the
cast are Dorothy
Mackaill, Jack
Mulhall, Louise
Brooks and Wil-
liam Collier, Jr.
The w. k. song
hit, "Valencia," is
destined for the
movies. It will be
turned into a
screen play for
Mae Murra y —
carrying some-
thing of the same
flavor as "The
Merry Widow."
Spain will be the
locale.
"The Black
White Sheep" is
the title of Richard
Barthelmess' next
Don Juan"
picture.
After "The Red
Mill," Marion Da-
vies will appear in
"Tillie the Toiler."
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HELENE COSTELLO
They had always played together — these Costello girls. They took Dolores away to
illuminate the canopy of stars while Helene was left in the background. Youth and
winsomeness have won and the younger sister is now coming along to decorate the
starry kingdom.
Apeda
AILEEN PRINGLE
Ever since Elinor Glyn coined the two-letter word, "IT" — all of the celluloidians have
been wondering where they stand on the personality question. The Pringle person was
the first to be awarded with Personality's short synonym. Madame didn't guess wrong
Kenneth Alexander
LOIS MORAN
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NEIL HAMILTON
A Griffith discovery is Neil Hamilton — which means that he was as good as over the
minute D. W. shouted "Camera!" He has advanced steadily without any fanfare of
trumpets — his personality and talent carrying him into the close-up of roles worth while
F. W. MURNAU
The German Genius of the Films
SIMPLICITY!
Greater and
greater simplicity
— that will be the key-
note of the new fijms."
Murnau was speaking
with ardor, gesticulating
with his long limbs,
whenever his English,
altho correct and with-
out foreign accent,
failed him.
"Our whole effort,"
he went on, "must be
bent toward ridding mo-
tion pictures of all that
docs not belong to them,
of all that is unneces-
sary and trivial and
drawn from other*
sources — all the tricks,
gags, 'business' not of
the cinema, but of the
stage and the written
book. That is what has
been accomplished when
certain films reached the
level of great art. That
is what I tried to do in
The Last Laugh.' We
must try for more and
more simplicity and de-
votion to pure motion
picture - technique and
material."
Exactly what I had
longed to hear someone
say here. Exactly what
I hoped this giant of
the moving pictures
would say. But then
Murnau went on to say
something which gives
his own spirit and per-
sonal style completely.
Listen :
"In the film you give a picture, for instance, of an
object, a thing, and it has drama for the eye; because of
the way it has been placed, or photographed, because of
its relation to the other people or things in this film, it
carries on the melody of the film."
This is Murnau, the man who created the most vivid
drama we have ever seen out of the simplest and lowliest
things in "The Last Laugh" ; who made brass instru-
ments ring with music on the screen, or lit up faces so
that they were loud with speech ; probably the finest
director who has come to us from Germany.
His Influence Is Felt
\17hat will his influence be here, I wondered? It has
* * been very great already. It is not as if we have been
backward, for in the last year or two a number of film
16
By
Matthew Josephson
Caricature of Murnau by Leo Kobcr
masterpieces made by
American or American-
trained directors follow
the same tendencies as
those of Murnau. They
are simple to the utmost
and built solidly on the
resources of the cinema
— pictures like Vidor's
"Big Parade," Craze's
"Covered Wagon,"
Henry King's "Stella
Dallas." And yet there
are people who grumble
at the inroads of foreign
film stars and directors.
How silly ! If they
could only see the
mountains of inferior
American celluloid that
are shipped to foreign
countries and blissfully
consumed by the popu-
lace.
F. W. Murnau ar-
rives at exactly the psy-
chological moment, as
we are on the verge of
an era of truly great
motion pictures. In his
valise he brought with
him a new epoch-mak-
ing film, "Faust," which
is to have its first show-
ing in America. At the
very moment, "Variety,"
a seriously inspired
German picture, was
playing to filled houses
with the temperature at
ninety. He is deeply in-
terested in America ; he
has few false ideas
about it, least of all that
it is impossible to do
anything fine over here.
And he is here at the behest of the Fox Film Company,
seldom noted hitherto for artistic films, but now going in
for bigger things.
He is not merely a giant of the films as I have de-
scribed him, but in stature towers some six feet and
several inches. He is red haired ; he has keen, steady-
eyes and quiet hands. He is a calm man, not easily
ruffled or thrown into despair. His manner is uncon-
ventional, not at all formal or formidable as that of many
Europeans. He is young, not much over thirty-five ; his
understanding and his knowledge are broad. I think that
his abilities will make him respected, and his quiet, per-
sonal charm (so happily lacking in useless "tempera-
ment") will make him liked.
Murnau was born of good family in a small town of
Westphalia. He was well educated. He became inter-
Comes to America
Talks of Movies and Men
ested in the theater a few years before the war, al a time
when great thin^ were being done in the theater by men
like Gordon Craig, Max Reinhardt and Granville Barker.
He worked under the Wring of M;i\ Reinhardt U an actor
and stage director in the world-famous Grossts Schau-
spielhaus of Berlin. He was doing small things, but
learning much under the brilliant Reinhardt, whose pro-
duction, "The Miracle," has thrilled so many thousands of
Americans. Another young German was working quietly
with Murnau under Reinhardt. They became friends,
and were destined to become masters of a new art. The
other young fellow's name was Ernst Lubitsch.
When the Great War came, young Murnau found him-
self in the first line of infantry, in the Royal Guards.
Then for a year he was an officer in the aviation corps.
Like many of us, he was glad when it was all over, and
he turned from the art of the theater to the budding
motion picture industry.
Some of the most famous German actors, Emil Tannings,
Werner Krauss, Paul Wegener, went into motion pictures.
Few Good Ones in Germany
U/e talked about the German situation. What Murnau
*v said will surprise many people.
"Contrary to the impression prevailing here, very few
good pictures are being made in Germany. There are few
good directors or actors ; there are few people who know
anything about the cinema.
The big companies are
loaded with deadwood,
sheep. They follow the
tide, just as it is followed
here. When an interesting
experiment turns out to be
a hit, as 'Caligari' did
over there, they all imitate
it. Or 'Variety.' They
are all doing circus pic-
tures now. Those who
have really been doing
things, the talented, far-
sighted men, have simply
been feeling their way
along. The artists who
made 'Caligari' had no idea
when they started out
what their results would
be. And yet they discovered
some wonderful things,
they were pioneers."
"Too much influence of
the modern stage," I sug-
gested.
"Exactly. I have had to
forget everything I learned
about the stage. We have
had to throw overboard
everything that suggests
the theater."
"Simplicity will be the
keynote of the new films.
"Pictures must be rid
of stage tricks and gags.
"Very few good pictures are
being made in Germany. There
are few good directors or actors.
"What we need is a Max
Reinhardt of the cinema.
"We dont need trained stage actors for
the movies. There is splendid material
everywhere which directors must take
over and mold for the films.
"Few people really know how to play
before the camera. Jannings is superb be-
fore it. The secret of his power is that he
uses his whole body for suggestion.
. "In 'The Last Laugh' I wanted a story
that could be told in a sentence. The
highest point of the drama was reached
when Jannings removed his hotel uniform.
"Chaplin is the genius of the screen. He
is always doing something absolutely
fresh and unconscious."
more about the theater than anybody living. I can w
tell in words bow much association with him meant to me
He seems to know everything, follow everything, He
was the most inspiring Of men t I work under. He ;
old man now ami \ci\ tired: but he is deepl) interested
in what we are doing in the screen. What w<- need
Max Reinhardt of the cinema."
"Most of the film stars in Europe, like Jannings, come
from the stage?" I asked.
"Yes, but that isn't - necessary," said Murnau. "We
dont need trained stage actors for the movies. There
is splendid material everywhere which directors must
take over and mold for the purposes of the film."
Like most of the fine German directors. Murnau has a
passion for perfecting each detail of his picture. That
is one of the distinguishing features of the better impor-
tations. In a pinch. Murnau told me, he would rather
have a raze, untrained person, who had never played be-
fore, than a seasoned star.
Working over his last picture, "Faust," he searched
for many months before he found a young female appa-
rition who suited the part of Grctchen ; she is the
beautiful Camilla Horn, a discovery he is particularly
proud of. Her face
had just the degree of
innocence and child-
like beauty he
wanted. What
a search it must
have been in
these times !
"In that
w a y," said
Murnau, "I get
exactly the effect,
the feeling I want
into the picture.
"For the character
of Faust I" found a
truly old man, a Swede.
Gosta Ekman, who had sel-
dom played before on the
screen."
Here, Murnau spoke with utmost feeling and rev-
erence for Max Reinhardt.
"I feel unbounded admiration for him. He knows
High Praise for Jannings
" Rut Jannings is an amaz-
ing screen actor," I
said.
"Yes, one of the finest
in the world, and a dear
friend of mine. Do not
misunderstand me. Few
people really know how to
play before the camera.
Jannings is superb before
it. The secret of his power
is that he uses his whole
body for suggestion. He
is like this — (Murnau was
puffing out his chest and throwing up his sboulders) big
as a mountain when he is playing a king. And when he
(Continued on page 84)
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THEM WERE the
The Vitagraph Years
By
Bert Ennis
John Bunny was im-
mensely popular, the
Chaplin of his time
Norma Talmadge did her
first screen work foi
Vitagraph
LEST the impression
be created thru the
title of these
stories, together with the
atmosphere of the dim
movie past which flavors
them, that the chronicler
is a patriarch with flow-
ing white beard and
joints of Ford-like
propensities for creak-
ing, may he say now that he, thirty-five, is still recognized
as an able-bodied press-agent and manages to cover the
distance between his home and the offices of the Brewster
magazines without the aid of a wheel-chair. So kaleido-
scopic, so fast moving, so ever-changing, is this business
of the movies and its personalities that sixteen years in
the studios may encompass experiences and mark transi-
tions which a normal industry could bring about only in
a stretch of time twice the period set forth.
Looking back thru the years from 1910, the days
of the Bunnys, the Costellos, the
Turners, the Lawrences, the
Johnsons, the Fullers, the Bag-
gotts, the Blacktons, the Inces, the
Sennetts, the Broncho Billys and
Alkali Ikes, the single stage studio
and the double lens camera, the
split reel and the custard-pie com-
ics, the cold finger of fact may
point and point to the Moores, the
Lloyds, the Langdons, the Negris,
the Swansons, the Fairbanks, the
Stroheims, the Coogans, the mag-
nificent ten-stage studios, the
great salaries, the stereoscopic
cameras, the huge spectacles —
point to it all in its immensity and
its improvement. But to those
who made the movies in 1910 —
"Them were the happy days."
Those Early Vitagraph Days
T was fortunate enough in that
Wally "Curie" Van, the
juvenile comedian, dis-
covered the Sidney Drews
year to join the ranks of those
pioneers, Blackton, Rock and
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Wally. Reid got his start with Vitagraph,
playing atmosphere
Mary Maurice was the
first to play mother roles
Smith, in the capacity of
publicity man for the
aggregation of movie
players known as the
Vitagraph stock com-
pany. The word pub-
licity then in connection
with motion pictures
meant simply the bare
announcement of the
title of the film, a brief
synopsis of its story and at rare intervals the names of
the players who appeared in it. To Sam Spedon, now
dead, must go the credit for being one of the first men
of the movies quick to recognize the tremendous public
interest evinced in players of the screen and to gratify
that interest by acquainting the early fans with the names
of their favorite troupers and with information concern-
ing their personalities. As Spedon's assistant, I had a
hand in the work of "telling the world" about the early
Vitagraph performers, a work which today involves the
use of departments of specialized
writers, artists and advertising
men. Two of us did it then.
The Vitagraph company in
1910 was located in what was
then an obscure part of Flatbush,
a suburb which existed only so
that vaudeville monologists could
pull wheezes about it. The studio-
was a one-stage affair, glassed in.
Its entire lighting equipment
would be hardly sufficient for the
illumination of a single set in one
of the average program films of
today. Despite this fact I ran
thru my fingers recently a strip of
old Vitagraph negatives — one of
the first pictures in which John
Bunny appeared. The images
were perfect, the photography
clear and sharp, the film itself in
excellent condition. The cameras
were cumbersome affairs, made
more so by the use of double
lenses, which meant that two
HAPPY DAYS
The First of a Series of
Articles About the Pioneer
Days of the Motion Picture
— Before It Became a Highly
Specialized Industry
Above, Kenneth Casey,
the first child actor to ap-
pear on the screen. At
the right is Clara Kim-
ball Young, who rose to
fame as an emotional
actress
negatives were made at
the same time — one for
release in this country
and one for foreign
consumption.
To the Yitagraph of the old days
belongs the greatest credit for
making American manufactured
movies the most popular in the
world. To strengthen the hold
which their films were acquiring on
the early fans of Great Britain and
the Continent. Messrs. Blackton,
Rock and Smith on various occa-
sions sent John Bunny and
Maurice Costello abroad. The per-
sonalities of the rollicking fat
comic and the dashing leading man
on these tours increased by many
thousands the followers of Vita-
graph movies in foreign lands.
Many Stars Discovered
And what a parade of
present-day celebrities
passed before the lens of
those old-fashioned
double-action cameras, in
many instances making
up the meagre handful of
extras who supplied the
necessary background at-
mosphere for the work of
Florence Turner. Cos-
tello, Bunny, Flora
Finch, Lillian Walker,
Earle Williams, Wally
Van, Edith Storey and
other former idols of
screendom.
I have stood on the side
lines of a set in the old
days watching the late
In the center is Flora Finch, who played opposite Bunny.
Above is a scene from a Vitagraph comedy with Wally Van,
Lillian Walker and Kate Price in the foreground
Above, Maurice Costello,
who did more to establish
the star system than any
other player on the screen.
At the left is Florence
Turner, one of the bul-
warks of Vitagraph
and much loved Wally
Reid playing atmos-
phere, the present-day
widely known Harry
Morey appearing in
three small, but distinct characters
in the one film (because of his
constant portrayal of a policeman
Harry was familiarly known
around the studio as "the Yita-
graph cop"). I have seen Con-
stance Talmadge third in a row of
sweet young extras supporting
Wally Van in one of his comedies
while the then unknown Norma,
her sister, was just beginning to
attract the watchful eye of J.
Stuart Blarkton with her promise
of dramatic ability in minor roles.
I have seen Ralph I nee, later to
be one of the screen's greatest de-
lineators of Abraham Lincoln and
among the present day's
most competent directors,
nonchalantly assisting in
the erection of a set,
hammer in belt, and af-
terwards playing a small
role in support of Ken-
neth Casey, the fir.-t child
artist, on the same set.
The bright-eyed, trim
little girl who filed her
name ' for work with
Harry Mayo, the first
casting director of the
production field, used a
name which goes up regu-
larly today in electric
lights on the marquees of
the world's biggest movie
houses — Norma Shearer.
(Continued on page 65)
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International
Newsreel
An airplane view of the stream of white
hot lava, from the side of Manna Loa,
pursuing the course of destruction
Willard Vanderveer and Robert Donahue of
Pathe News. Vanderveer is holding the only
picture camera that actually went to the North
Pole. It was operated by Byrd, himself
Pathe
-«Sm
The newsreel boys were on the job when
General Villa was cutting up didoes.
They "shot" the Mexican bandit when
he crossed the American border
Pathe
Remember the battles in Ireland? Here
are the Irish Free State troops in a
street fight with the rebels during the
crisis of Erin's civil war struggle
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CHARMED I
Lives and
RECKLESS
THE newsreel cameraman. Let's give this little boy a hand,
folks ; Heaven knows he hardly ever gets it. Tho he travels in
jungles with snakes trying to pierce his boots, tho he makes his
tortuous way on chilblained feet in the north country, tho he climbs
mountains, and penetrates fire and water for an unusual picture,
nobody ever hears about him, and tho movie audiences sometimes
wondex how a certain effect could be achieved in the face of evident
danger, they seldom take their curiosity out of the theater with them.
A few months ago, film patrons were thrilled to behold the vast
whiteness of the North Pole spread out before them upon the screen ;
lazy icebergs floating imperceptibly, masses of snow and ice with
scarcely a break between, and, like a bee, a swift airplane that darted
thru the frozen solitude to write a brilliant page in aerial history.
And a few weeks before that, on the same motion picture screens,
a cataract of steaming lava was shown plunging its way down a
Hawaiian countryside, sweeping before the terrible majesty of its
power native huts and giant palm trees as if they were cardboard
toys. Audiences were properly awed to see before them these
distant phenomena while they themselves sat safely and comfortably
in the upholstered chairs of their favorite theaters.
Always On the Job
U/hy is a news cameraman? He, least of anyone, can tell you the
" * reason. I asked half a dozen of the veterans and the only answer
I got was, "I dont know. It sort of gets you and first thing you
know, you cant get along without it." Anyone who has known the
smell of newsprint, or that indefinable odor that exists only back-
stage, or the acrid aroma of tanbark in the circus, or the particular
poignancy of any job that one loves, knows just how the camera-
man feels.
Money ? The news picture man is well paid, but not exorbitantly.
Comfort? Dont make him laugh by mentioning it. Stability? Ex-
cept to the topnotchers, work is an intermittent affair. Meeting
Pathe
On the left the news-reelers succeeded in capturing the high spots of the
famous evolution trial at Dayton, Tennessee. On the right is a close-up
of the surrender of Abd-el-Krim
On Life's Big Sets the Ncwsreel Photog-
raphers Set Up Their Cameras. With Un-
daunted Courage They Scoop the Facts That
Make the World a Stage of Unceasing Drama
By Selma Robinson
celebrities? Being a [>art of a mad, mad chSM for adventure?
Variety? Romance? Wanderlust ? Not any of these tilings and
\ct I mixture of all of tliem keeps the news photographer on his
job in winter or summer, day or night, sun or storm, in all the ex-
tremities you can name.
A cat may look at a king, hut a cameraman may give him orders.
When titled personages visit our shores, they are told how to stand,
how to sit, how to smile, to talk and to walk for the benefit of the
movie camera. What is more, most of them obey. The cameraman
must know not only how to work his machine ; he must be able to
sell an idea to the person he wants to photograph, for some people
are notoriously camera shy.
"Smile, your Majesty," a cameraman told the King of Belgium
when he visited Manhattan, and the King smiled. Another directed
the Prince of Wales to look up at the Woolworth Building in amaze-
ment. You probably remember the shot of his royal shyness doing
exactly that. He takes personalities like Gloria Swanson and
Suzanne Lenglen, known for their temperament, and makes them do
what he wishes by suavely whispered words of advice.
Goes Everywhere, Sees Everything
attempt to count all the newsreel men in this country would be
a pretty hopeless job. The corps of photographers needed by a
news film agency spreads like a network over the face of the whole
nation, the whole world. A gO(5d picture may happen anywhere. A
fire, a parade of negro children, a Chinese wedding festival, the birth
of quadruplets — if you go to the movies at all, you know that the
news camera goes everywhere and sees everything.
Since it would be beyond the power of even million-dollar con-
cerns to employ regularly this immense army of photographers, the
newsreel works in much the same way that a newspaper does. A
metropolitan newspaper has a staff of reporters who are given assign-
ments in their own city and occasionally sent out of town to "cover"
a story. In addition to the regular staff there are district men whose
duty it is to keep watch over their particular fields, the police courts,
the suburbs and so on. But besides all these men, there are the
space writers who are scattered all over the country to report any
(Continued on page 70)
T.
The polar ship, l.haniitr, and the Byrd
polar plane are shown here just before
the start of the Byrd expedition over
the North Pole
Nr t
Pathe
The news cameramen caught the Russian
Revolution in 1917. The view shows Trotzky
addressing thousands of persons at the national
capital
International Ntwsrcti
A photo taken by a daring cameraman who felt
the heat of the lava as he clicked his shutter.
The eruption wiped out the village of Hoopuloa
eathe
George A. Allison, left, International Newsreel's European manager, flew
from Stockholm to Southampton with the polar films. On the right is a^
seme that's always good "copy." It shows the coronation ceremonies
for King George and Queen Mary at Bombay, India
The big airship, Norge, which carried
Amundsen to the North Pole, is "shot"
by the cameraman as she arrives at
Spitzbergen
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More INSIDE FACTS
By Percy Knighton
Drawings by Seymour Ball
THE Classic of the April issue contained an article,
"Inside Facts About the Extra." That story cov-
ered a portion of the problems of the extra, not all
the troubles and trials were mentioned. This is a sequel
story.
Since the publication of the article already mentioned,
a new method of getting work has been established, it is
more difficult now to break down the barriers which lead
to even an ordinary day's work. Here goes the blow !
For the first time in the last century I managed to
corner a very well-known and attractive young lady who
does the greater part of the casting for a large produc-
tion unit. She was chosen because she handles a great
army, an army that outnumbers the World War forces
in action and desire, and, after telling her of my purpose,
she sighed and said, "Oh, I would like to write a book
about the movies and Hollywood !" She sighed again
and added, "There is so much, so much, I wonder why
people kid themselves, I wonder?"
In case you are in doubt about her deep sigh and her
intense desire to write volumes about Hollywood, then,
take a few moments and read on, read this artless tale
which is written for your guidance, providing of course,
you are planning a picture career. And if you are not
bent upon the movie profession, if you do not intend to
board the movie train, then, read it to see "why people
kid themselves !"
The Day of Reckoning
Evidently, Mr. Will Hays had the same thought, and,
the same question to solve. For not very long ago an
organization was born overnight. It was The Central
Casting Bureau. It is now The Central Casting Bureau.
This baby of the movies is owned and operated by the
world's largest producers. And it had to be done ! Why ?
So far, many hundreds of good, intelligent people who
hitherto had worked in pictures for a long time, and,
those who were fairly successful, now find it al-
most impossible to get work anywhere. A pass-
port to Heaven would be an easy task in com-
parison to getting a job, direct or indirect, or
thru the Central Office. Herein lies a story —
one, which may add insult to indigestion. But I
shall- tell the truth and go on playing faithfully
my role — the jackass.
During the "old days" when most of us were
doing fairly well, averaging a meal every other
day or so, there was in full force and existence a
firm known as Screen Service of Los Angeles.
This body of classic gentlemen handled an
enormous business which seemed legitimate,
popular and efficient. Ah ! 'twas many a slice
of bread Dear Old Screen Service passed the
professional extra who knew his or her business.
(They couldn't be registrants of "Screen" un-
less they knew their stuff.)
And Screen Service took seven per cent. (7%) of your
salary for getting the job for you. Merely a crumb from
the whole loaf. And so far as the eagle eye could see,
everybody seemed happy, prosperous and pure. With the
exception of a few "favorites" whom screen service offi-
cers boosted and kept busy most of the time, there was
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little reason for kick or complaint from any person.
Everything, as the song writer said, is hotsy totsy now
— only it was then. You could get work at the studio
casting offices then. In exceptional cases some get work
that way now. But most every person is gotten from
The Great Central Office.
Now there crept thruout the United States a monster
serpent of desire among other jackasses who well deserve
their title because they wanted "to go to Hollywood and
become famous overnight and send Ma and Pa a thou-
sand silver seed the next morning after arrival."
From Every Walk of Life
The hour of reckoning came when Old Screen Service's
files bulged from a burden of thousands of names ;
names of people who made a list ranging from a Podunk
graduate of some dramatic school to a model for neck-
ties and hats. Yes, names ! names ! names making a cross-
word puzzle look flimsy. There was the beautiful,
golden-curled, perfect stage child, the- fancy-vested swain
who could tell you the price of butter and eggs.
Indeed, there were the big chicken dealers, hobos, farm-
hands, cowboys, swindlers, consumptives, tired business
men seeking adventure, cripples, safe crackers, weak-
minded and brilliant, the society damsel and the dollar
clivers, the wets and drys, Republicans and Democrats,
radicals, black and white, pale and pink, short and long,
blondes and brunettes, soldiers, sailors and slackers, prize-
fighters, wrestlers, barbers and boiler-makers, and, assur-
edly, ladies and gentlemen ! Ah ! ladies and gentlemen.
It is true that each of us will believe ourselves the latter.
But it will be best for you to take the pair of shoes that
fits and take a walk — a walk back home
to old trails and past efforts. And
you'll succeed, get along in the
world.
The tidal-wave brought the
thousands from all parts de-
manding their share of
movie fame and fortune.
,
4
ABOUT the EXTRA
A Remarkable Real Life Document of the Many Who Call
and the Few Who Are Chosen
\inl some of those thousands descended upon OKI Screen
Service like- a cloudburst "Why do the) Will themselves,
I wonder?"
And along <. aim- Mr. Will Haw to make the thousandth
and ontl He left behind a wonderful job (can you bea1
it5) in Washington, D. C . to join the rest of us. Mm he
came to be the Great Leader That's different And
he has done well. Not long was it until the people — all
those mentioned, made a plea to Mr. Hays to help them.
Ik' did, too. He sent a mob "back home and broke"
But those who refused lingered On -till hoping, still de-
manding, something which never existed for them. And
they had to pick on Screen Service as their objective of
Trouble and Turmoil. Why should there be an organiza-
tion to take from us a percentage "i our salaries? (Most
of them never drew a dollar from motion pictures.)
Trouble brewed and stewed worse than your home-
made beer. Finally, such pressure was brought to sur-
face that only one outlet seemed available ; only one ave-
nue of escape or relief seemed near or possible. Yes!
kill Screen , Service ! Ah ! there is the Shiver in
Screenland ; the Shake in the Service ; the "nigger" in
the wildwood ; the odor in Smellville. Or the decomposed
nicotine in Copenhagen ! — Hollywood. Do away with
such graft! We appeal to you, Mr. Hays, to help us.
Great problems came to Mr. Hays, greater than some of
those in his past affiliations with the Government. Be-
fore and After.
Still Kidding Themselves
Dvt he did the trick, he gave the poor fools what they
^ wanted — and they're still kicking, crying and belly-
aching, and, flocking to Hollywood. Nay, I say unto you.
fair little casting director or "directress," "Why do they
kid themselves, I wonder?"
( )n several occasions I have given little talks to people
in the movies. In one instance it was a group of aspir-
ants who had never worked a
day in pictures. In the other
instance it was a group of "old
timers" with whom I have
worked at different times. And
be it known that I really thought
these people wanted the truth.
Did they? NO!
M\ popularit) probably fell below sea level when I
told them that then own predicament was due tO tlun
own shortsightedness and stupidity ; that their food sup
I)ly I they do not need COal in California) was diminished
tecause, as that song writer said, the) f wget to remem
her. And those who, apparently, have beer left in the
rain without umbrellas forgOl to take a peep at the black
sky made that way by means and manners already stated,
plus that same complex which daily finances Hollywood
bound trains. They forgol to remember I
When the big day dawned, came reveille tragically
Spreading its weird note of defeat for those now in hope-
less combat with their enemy. And if this is mutely
demonstrated, then, it is certainly obvi-
ous to those who could help in a
way, that to shun an act of "get-
ting them in" is only indica-
tive of a decision in the
negative because of the
silly, foolish methods of
past activities. And
on the parts of those
mentioned.
It is true that
many clubs have
been orga-nized,
studio-actors-
u p 1 i f t-c i v i c
clubs they are
(Cont'd on
page 67)
M
They come from every walk of life — these extras, and their
names would make a cross-word puzzle look flimsy. A
passport to Heaven would be an easy task in comparison
to getting a job in the movies
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^k ff*$
A
BETTER
MAN
than
GUNGA
DIN
Ball
Ben Lyon has advanced and given the
countersign. It is Bigger and Better Pic-
tures. Safely in the First National en-
campment, he will execute some military
maneuvers in "The Great Deception." This
is a picture in which the blithesome Ben
clicks his heels as a student of Heidelberg
and takes the air as an aviator in the Royal
Flying Corps of England. The top photo-
graph shows Ben in the gay uniform of
student days — and the bottom photo shows
him in the uniform of an English lieutenant
of aviation. As the dual role is the most
substantial he has ever had, there is no
question but his public will Lyonize him
24
Ohio California-
fca^ cJbvc !
Wanna,
wffeiba.
By
ELLISON HOOVER
THE CHARGE OF THE
ALIEN ARMY
ON FORT HOLLYWOOD
25
Three More Authors
Keystone View Co.
John Galsworthy
Courtesy of Doubleday, Page Co.
Margaret Kennedy
By Henry Albert Phillips
/OHN GALSWORTHY is considered one of
England's greatest novelists and playwrights.
Without thinking at all, one would think that
the whole ''rotten" condition of the Movies
could be rectified in a twinkling by this biggest-
cahbred English dramatist of the day. Here
was the Hercules who takes the whole movie
earth on his shoulders and walks off with it.
For the man who had written novelsjike "The
Forsyte Saga" and "The Patrician," and plays
like "Loyalties" and "Justice," surely the writ-
ing of a little photoplay would be less than
child s play. I determined to run up and have
a little chat with Galsworthy about it, since I
happened to be in London at the time.
John Galsworthy lives in one of the most
charming as well as select suburbs of London,
Hampstead. It is a zig-zag journey out there,
altho Hampstead is actually in London. ' You
take the Underground at Piccadilly, change at
Oxford Circus for the Central London where
you ride to Tottenham Court Road and change
again for the City and South London Line that
takes you straight to Hampstead. But when
(Continued
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JyTARGARET KENNEDY is one of the
•^ newcomers among the novelists. By the
single stroke of writing "The Constant Nymph"
she has sprung into enviable fame. To reach
her I climbed five nights of stairs to the top floor
of one of those grim-looking houses that front on
Cornwall Gardens in Kensington.
I found Miss Kennedy just as retiring and re-
served as her book had been forward and
loquacious. She confessed almost in the first
words that she liked the films.
Weren't they going to film the "Nymph," I
asked.
"It cant be filmed — in America, where I be-
lieve that practically all of the filming is being
done, I understand. You see the book has been
censored and therefore cant be done. I cant see
what they object to. The children in the story
were too young, or something of that sort.
Fancy! When I look about and see what they
are doing !"
"What? Who?" I asked. "The children or
the films?"
"Both," she smiled. "The Film Company has
on j>age 77)
Consider* the Films
"What I resent in the films is that you
get thoroly emotionalized sitting there for
two or three hours waiting for something
worthwhile to happen — and then you find
that you have been scuffered. It isn't that
they dont try to give you something. They
do, and fail!" — John Galsworthy.
"The movies are always making a mis-
take by writing down, and I dont think
anything is ever accomplished by writing
down, to the public. It is a backward step
to be always underestimating the calibre of
the public mind." — Margaret Kennedy.
"Motion pictures are intricacies — and in-
tricacies are concerned with the mind and
not the emotions. It is my theory that a
good player or story is bound to hold a
house full of human people — and human
people are bound to be held thruout the
portrayal of any great emotion." — Lord
Dunsany.
Lord Dunsany
Keystone View Co.
The Sixth and Concluding Talk About Motion Pictures
With Famous English and Continental Writers
j\ LL said and* done, the successful produc-
*^^ tion of a gratifying photodrama is a work
of Art. In this Anno Domini, this film Art
reaches, entertains and moves more people than
all the other Arts put together. Finally, the
Movies is the simplest of the Arts by far.
Neither a special nor even a general education
is necessary in order either to understand or be
entertained by it. The only equipment requisite
for an audience seems to be a normal heart, a
set of healthy emotions, a smattering of human
interest and a wee bit of imagination. Being
gifted with too many brains will often spoil the
show.
The above does not sound like a definition of
an Art at all. It might be a calisthenic exercise,
or an international kindergarten formula. It all
seems too low-brow and too easy for an Art
thesis. Wherein lies any glory for "artistic"
people who are always seeing things in Art
works that the common herd never can see — or
never want to? Art has always been "difficult,
both to make and to understand. Therefore,
calling this new upstart of an entertainment an
(Continued
JORD DUNSANY'S plays lend themselves
J~^' admirably to film translation. "The Gods
of the Mountains," "The Golden Doom," and
'The Glittering Gate," are gossamer sort of
works to which only a "drama of silence and
shadows" can do full justice. We have not be-
gun to see and feel the wonders that the screen
conceals in its power to portray mysterious,
ghostly, far-off things such as Lord Dunsany
writes.
I asked Lord Dunsany to explain to me why
he always sought out ancient and mysterious
problems.
I portray them because the oldest emotions
are the deepest. Things that concern New
York and London are no older than New York
and London. The whole world is filled with in-
tricacies and intricacies are concerned with the
mind and not the emotions."
Among the intricacies I knew that he num-
bered the motion picture, for he is not sold on
the motion picture idea, altho he goes to see
them.
It is my theory that a good play or stoiy is
on page 77)
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((
We Respectfully
By Ken Chamberlain
To First National. Anthony lightly tossed away
an empire and Cleopatra must have had plenty of
"IT" to win the toss, hence we suggest Harry
Langdon and Colleen Moore for the roles, just to
be different J-
To William Fox. Tom Mix falling off his horse
would be a novelty. Why not have him do "The
Life of the Prince of Wales"?
To Warner Brothers.
Wont you loan Dolores
Costello to United
Artists and let them
use her with Buster
Keaton in that w. k.
tragedy of love, "Romeo
and Juliet"? Buster has
the most tragic face in
the films, and we
haven't seen Miss Cos-
smile much either
To United Artists. We hope that you will en-
courage John Barrymore to continue in juvenile
roles such as Little Lord Fcuintleroy, for instance
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..
Suggest
yy
If the Producers Are Really Serious in Giv-
ing the Public Something New, Classic Is
Willing to Aid Them With These Suggestions
To Cecil De Mille.
While on Biblical sub-
jects, why not start at
the beginning? The
Creation of the World
might be a bit beyond
you, but you could give
a real Garden of Eden
at last — with Wally
Beery as Adam, some
gal from Mack Sen-
nett's as Eve, and Lon
Chaney as the snake
To Universal. Now that the North Pole
has become a tourist resort and there is a
screen star from practically every other
country, why not let Laura La Plante and
Reginald Denny double for the Eskimos
until they have a beauty contest and
produce a star
To Metro-Goldwyn. "Hamlet" has been staged in modern dress and settings. Why
didn't you do the same with "Ben-Hur"? Novarro in a tin chariot and plus fours might
have been even more interesting than in a tin helmet and minus most everything else
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Jonquil loved the Bible readings on Sunday evenings. She and Grandmother Rogers would sit under the
lamp in the parlor and Grandmother would read brimstony passages in her ice-cold trickle of a voice
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters
JONQUIL is a child of the theater. With parents
associated with a traveling repertoire company, the
little girl is throzvn constantly into a shabby make-
believe world that jars her sensibilities. She
loathes everything connected with the lives of show
people — the ill-smelling dressing-rooms, the grease-
paint, the shoddy hotel rooms, the badly cooked meals
— and, above all, she cannot take her parents seri-
ously, especially when they play tragic roles.
Jonquil longs for the things of life associated with
velvet lawns and shady trees. She wants to be like
other little girls — play with dolls and wear becoming
dresses. She has no place she can call home. Her life
is spent between watching her parents or playing child
roles — or crying herself to sleep in an unkempt room.
After her mother's death. Jonquil grew out of child
roles and her father, frankly disappointed with her,
takes her to her grandmother's country home. He
is determined to be rid of her and advises her that
if her grandmother doesn't want her, she will have
to be sent to an orphanage.
Jonquil's joy at leaving the stage is. mixed with
sadness. She anticipates an aloofness on the part of
the grandmother, whose idea of stage people is some-
thing not to be encouraged. Tremblingly she pro-
ceeds to make herself at home and wanders over her
reception.
Now you can begin with the current instalment.
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PAINTED PEOPLE
By Faith Service
Illustrated by Douglas Ryan
P\P\ was speaking
in his most sonorous,
most po r t enl 0 U S
voice. He was clearing
his throat a great deal
ami breaking out into
lit tK- husky silences. It
ust as if he were de-
livering an oration or one
of those curtain speeches
he made whenever there
was, or was not. the
faintest opportunity. It
did seem as it" papa might
know that this was the
supremely one time NOT
to talk like this. It did
seem that he might sense
that this was not the way
to talk in Three Trees, on Grandmother Roger's cleanly-
swept front porch, in front of Grandmother Rogers her-
self. It came to Jonquil as a faint far instinct that this
was the reason papa had not got very far in his profes-
sion. He didn't ever sense anything.
Funny that he didn't see the look of contempt on
Grandmother Roger's face — when it was so painfully
evident.
Grandmother Roger's face was thinner than the face
Jonquil had dreamed of. It had sharp little angles, like
pin-pricky places. She had dreamed of a rosier face,
more comfy. . . . Oh; well, you cant have everything
and after all, it was a great deal to have a Grandmother
Rogers with a white and green house in a white and green
New England town . . . with nice people . . . particu-
larly a great deal when you happened to be the child of
Percival de Vere. . . .
. Grandmother Rogers might have called out to you and
told you to "run along" when she saw you advancing so
fantastically up her garden path. That garden path . . .
those glimpses of wallflowers and zinnias and petunias
and quaint stiff sweet-william and droopy asters, rosy
and violet and white . . . perhaps they would let her
help take care of the flowers . . . oh, but what was she
thinking? Why did she run on the way she did? When
Grandmother might not even be going to let her stay?
Her face did look forbidding. Cold. Edged. Her lips
a little blue and drawn like a taut thread across the
tombiness of her teeth.
Papa was saying, "Well, daughter . . ." (he had
never called her daughter before in his life) "Well,
daughter . . . ahem . . . your grandmother has very
• kindly consented to . . . ahem . . . take charge of you
for the . . . ahem . . . trial period of one year. Very-
kindly. Very. She makes the stipulation that you . . .
ahem . . . behave yourself like the . . . ahem . . .
little lady your poor dear mother and . . . ahem . . .
and I have always trained you to be to the best of our
. . . ahem . . . poor powers ... I have told your
grandmother that this is the . . . ahem . . . final sacri-
fice for me . . . the final . . . well, shall we say giving
Stories of the theater are ever fascinating.
They become particularly fascinating when they
depict a highly sensitized character determined
to escape the tinsel of the show world. Such a
character is the heroine of Faith Service's story,
"Painted People." The author has written an
absorbing tale of a girl reared in the atmosphere
of the theater — who tries to find expression in
the things that count in life. Readers of the
CLASSIC will find in Faith Service's serial
story all the elements that enliven the
• imagination.
lip? But a father's dutj
. . . paternal protective
ncss . . all those cotuid
(■rations enter in . . .
the separation will cut mj
. . . ahem . . . heart
strings . . . will leave
me vet v much alone . . .
sadly desolate . . . hut I
feel it to he the . . .
ahem . . . best thing for
you . . . I . . ."
It was Grandmother
Rogers who finally cut
the declamation short.
Just in time, too, Jonquil
felt. Her father seemed
to be working himself up
to a bigger "scene" than
she had ever seen him portray upon the stage. He
seemed to be throwing himself into this suddenly con-
ceived and fantastically executed part with a gusto that
was really alarming. The veins on his forehead stood
out alarmingly. The pulses in his thick throat seemed to
be tiny hammers of horrid force. Again Jonquil had the
uncanny intuition that he was doing all this so dramatic-
ally because he so much didn't want her, not because he
so much did.
She felt an almost unbearable scorn of him. Did he
feel that he was deceiving anyone? Did he think that
they believed him ?
Grandmother Roger's voice when it broke in was like
the tinkle of thin. ice . . . those long blue slivers of ice
that can cut your hands so abominably.
"It isn't necessary, Mr. de Vere," she said, "to draw
this preposterous scene out any longer. T have told you
that I will take the child. If she is quiet and well behaved
she may remain with me — because she is a child, not
because she belonged to — your wife. It seems to be my
duty. The ways of Almighty God are inscrutable and
no one knows this so well as myself. The child may re-
main— my one stipulation is that you do not put in an-
other appearance unless sent for."
Percival made a gesture intended to be a compound of
finally bitter resignation, despair and martyrdom. It was
a masterly effort. It occurred to Jonquil that he was
playing all this much more professionally than many
scenes she had watched him blunder thru behind the
footlights. It was because it meant so much to him — to
get rid of her. It was so that he could be alone with
Rosie, with the girls who smelled of rank perfume and
giggled and sent for orange juice. . . .
His footsteps resounded as they departed down the
trim garden path. Jonquil supposed that the old-fash-
ioned flowers, the murmurous trees had never seen such
another spectacle.
She and Grandmother Rogers were left alone. She
felt a sort of yearning well up in her thinly rounding
breasts. It wasn't homesickness for her father. Not
that. She hoped passionately that she need never see him
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A Story of the Footlights and Kleigs
again. It wasn't anything to do with the old life. . . .
It was, rather, the simple craving for human contact. If
Grandmother Rogers would open her arms to her . . .
fold her against her breast . . . comfort all the little
wounds . . . the little insulting wounds that were not
little to her . . . the terrible little wounds of child-
hood. . . .
She felt heavy tears pressing against her throat and
at the backs of her eyes. She knew that they mustn't
come thru. That same fine sensitiveness to what was
expected of her that was to make her shadow perform-
ances such delicate etchings in the years to come re-
strained her, made her know that Grandmother Rogers
would not be tender to heavy, thuddy tears . . . the
bursty kind. ...
She wanted to sob out, "I'm going to stay . . . I'm
going to stay. ..." She wanted to run down and
kiss the trim door-step, the tiny bluets, the comforting
small faces of the pansies . . . but she felt, surely,
that Grandmother Rogers would despise such
theatricalism.
You would have to hold yourself in with Grand-
mother Rogers. You would have to cut a little
pattern for yourself. You would have to fit into
it and stay fitted into it. Neatly. Nicely.
She looked at her Grandmother with eyes that
were clouded densely with the held-back tears.
She went over to her and slipped her hand thru
her arm. She couldn't help that one little gesture.
She had to allow herself that. She needed human
contact so.
"You needn't worry, Grandma," she said, "he
wont ever come back."
He never did.
"There were whole days and weeks and months
when Jonquil loved it.
She loved it so that she wanted to take the whole
neat green and white town, including the George
Inn where General Washington had slept, to her
eager little breast.
She loved her Grandmother's house especially.
She felt, at first, that it would be enough for her,
always, that it would satisfy her, that she would be
able to live and dream in it, alone.
The parlor with the dully shining floor and the
oval braided rugs and the lovely pieces of old
mahogany, dulled, too, to an everlasting polish.
Beautiful sheen to them, beautiful to pass your
fingers over them, softly. Beautiful dignity, be-
cause they had stood just there for so many years,
had been so carefully tended.
She loved the white winding stairway and the
flowered wall-papers and the tall four-poster beds
with their gay patchwork quilts. She could amuse
herself for hours figuring over one of the patch-
work quilts. That bit of gay damask, that bit of
cherry taffeta, that incongruous triangle of per-
cale. . . .
Clean . . . clean . . . the fresh smell of mat-
ting and soap-suds and beeswax . . . the fresh
swish of laundered curtains in the breeze. . . .
The old attic. Old trunks and chests and corded
boxes and piles of magazines. Hoarded things.
Things that people had lived with and loved and
kept.
She loved the food. The fresh eggs, the home-
made bread and pickle and preserve, the smell of
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cake and pie on baking days. Even the boiled New
England dinners.
She took a personal pride in the vegetables, because
she often picked them herself from the kitchen garden;
because she had helped old Elijah, the hired man, hoe
them and weed them. Old Elijah told her stories about
her mother when she was a little girl . . . her mother
had helped in the garden, too, had planted flower seeds
and tended bulbs . . . how could she ever have gone
away with Percival de Vere, red-faced, bulbous?
She loved helping Grandmother Rogers in the sunny
kitchen in the mornings, wiping the old willow dishes to
a shining freshness, laying them away in piles in the
white-papered cabinets. Oh, everything was so clean
... so shiny and sudsy and fresh . . . how could, how
could her mother have left such a heaven-life for Per-
cival de Vere with his cheap, silly suits, his loud, put-
on voice?
Jonquil never quite knew how it all happened, but she got the
stench of dark unhappy things in the gossip that went on
among the old ladies. It was cruel gossip that flayed pretty
young things and hurt and stung like whip lashes
.
And How a Girl Solves Her Destiny
She even loved the Bible readings Sunday evenings
when she .md Grandmother Rogen would sit under the
lamp in tin- parlor and Grandmother would read brim
•tony passages in her ice-cold trickle oi ■ voice.
Now and again when Grandmother was reading the
Bible aloud to her, there came the thin little thread of
the thought that Grandmother hated her. Hut that, oi
course, was absurd. Grandmothers never hate their
grandchildren. It was just Grandmother Roger's wa)
It was because she was neat and precise and cool and
had always looked on peaceful, shiny things. It was be-
cause she. Jonquil, had been used to hoi greaaj kisses,
fierce sudden embraces, the smotheration of pel names,
and lollipops and gewgawy presents.
Grandmother Rogers took her to church every Sunday.
too. It was a long service, but Jonquil didn't mind. She
was doing now, what all nice little girls with nice houses
and front porches and decent gingham dresses did. Even
the sermons didn't seem too dull to her. She could sit
verv erect in the pew, feel elegant and nice. Some of
the other little girls stared at her. but they couldn't stare
at her as little girls in other towns had done, because now
she was Crandmother Roger's child and had nothing to
do with the stock company or Percival de Vere. She
wished that her Grandmother would introduce her to
some of the little girls. It would be fun to have little
girl friends, to go off mi bcrrvinj lie had
some ui the town children doin^. ,,n picnics in tin- *■
and to the lakes where tlieic was wading and swimming.
But, of course, you cam have everything . . . no doubt
Grandmother was waiting to see that she behaved hei
self like a little lady and then all the rest would follow
. . . Betides, in the fall, she would go to school and
then she would gel to know the girls . . . there would
be little clubs and things. . . .
She didn't like to sa> anything to Grandmother about
little girls, for fear Grandmother would think she was
lonely, complaining . . . when she wasn't very.
Was there
LJow she came to hate it I
Was she always to hate everything'
nothing for her to love? No one?
But this hate was worse, if possible, than the hate of
the grease-paint and the leading women and her father
and the smell of back-stage. This hate was cold and thin
like knives running into you. It was frightful because
it was love turned to hate and there is no hate quite so
frightful as that.
The very things she had loved so . . . the flowers
. . . petunias and gladioli and stock and marigold . . .
lovely fragrant names turned to gall on her lips . . .
smug things that she could not touch, that she was not
allowed to touch. . . . "What do you know about
flowers, Miss?"
How she hated the house, too. The furniture with its
smug self-assurance, its air of being invincibly right,
beyond reproach. The priggy clean sheets smelling, self-
consciously, of lavender. The smugger little bedroom
which was hers, the smell of the matting on the floor, the
fresh wall-paper on the wall, the beeswax on the floor.
The dampish odor that exuded from it all when it rained
out of doors. The plain, wholesome, now-savourless food
eaten with that holy air of beneficence and a
false air of humility and gratitude. The front
porch where you sat and rocked and rocked
and then rocked some more and watched the
other girls in the town go by, arms locked, in
twos and threes and fours, pretending not to
see you there when you knew so painfully well
that they did see you, that they were talking
about you. . . .
The "nice" girls of the town. Too nice for
Percival de Vere's daughter. Their sideway
glances, their giggles, their titterings.
Their little mean, scimped ways. The ways
they were nice to you in school when the
teacher was around, when she was looking,
the ways they waited to show you that you
were an outsider and always would be when
they were unobserved.
The insulting way you got invited to some
of the bigger parties in town, the school and
community parties to which everyone was in-
vited, even the factory girls in the class. The
way you were omitted from the small informal
gatherings where all the
good times were held.
That bold brassy girl,
Hilda Helm, who had said
to you one day, "Well, you
needn't look at us as tho
we are crucifiers . . . your
own grandmother told our
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The Keystone Kop
Who Became
a DIRECTOR
Chester Conklin
By Peter Milne
fa.*
Pola Negri
IT appears to be a
popular illusion
among magazine edi-
tors that motion picture
directors are not inter-
esting enough to be
brought before the pub-
lic in a close-up.
As Jesse Lasky would
say, let us proceed to debunk
this theory.
I hold that Erich von Stro-
heim is as interesting as
Rudolph Valentino ; that D.
W. Griffith is as interesting as
Charles Ray and that Charles
Chaplin, the director, is every
whit as interesting as Charles
Chaplin, the comedian.
In rare instances only do players have the ascendency
of interest over directors. To your own favorite stars
add Ben Turpin and you have a complete list.
At present the most interesting director on this side
of the horizon is Malcolm St. Clair, the stormy petrel of
the Famous Players-Lasky studios.
As one who knew him when he recurrently fell into
Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles, dressed up as a Key-
stone Kop, it's rather hard to call him anything else but
Mai. But in the light of "The Show Off," "The Grand
Duchess and the Waiter," "A Woman of the World," and
"Are Parents People?" I suppose the "I knew him when"
stuff should be put aside and the formal Malcolm adopted.
Having decided this, I shall continue to call him Mai.
The Keystone Kop Is Hired
A scant two years ago Mai was pleading, almost tear-
fully, for Jesse Lasky to give him a chance directing
a Paramount picture. Today only Lubitsch and von Stro-
heim are ranked above him by photoplay critics voting
in a national poll of newspapers and magazines.
A big accomplishment for a man on whom his thirtieth
year has not yet set.
And today also he chooses what stories he will direct
and what stars. This is because he is pleasantly tyran-
nical in his directorial method. He will not adapt his
style to that of some set star. He has made his high
mark by breaking thru old barriers. For a time he fol-
lowed the revolutionary Lubitsch. Now he follows no
one and has his own disciples.
Ten years ago Mai St. Clair was a member of the art
department of the old Los Angeles Express. He perpe-
trated a sport cartoon now and then. But he was a movie
34
fan and, being at the seat of production, naturally
yearned to become associated with pictures.
He knew Lige Conley, a present-day comedy star, who
was at the time one of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops.
"Lige told me to come out to the Keystone studio,"
Mai says. "I went out but Lige couldn't get me beyond
the studio gate. He appealed to Owen Moore who was
then playing opposite Mabel Normand. Owen got me
in and got me in to Sennett. Lige must have sold me
good and proper, for Owen said to Sennett : 'Here's a
second Rube Goldberg.'
The First "Gag Man"
"Tn the words of the ads, I got the job. Sennett was
making 'My Valet' then in which Raymond Hitch-
cock starred and in which Sennett
himself played an important part.
Sennett took me out to the location
in his automobile. I was then what
today is known as 'gag man.' I
guess I was the first. I was sup-
posed to suggest funny business to
Sennett. Because I rode out to lo-
cation in his car everybody else in
the company thought I was made.
They went to location by trolley.
"I was a kid then and didn't
know much. All day long, when-
ever Sennett worked before the
camera I burst my sides laughing.
When Hitchcock or somebody
else did their stuff, I was silent.
I wanted to get in right with
Sennett.
"When the
day's work
was done,
Sennett rode home without me.
He didn't speak to me for six
months. He hates 'yes men.' He
had me figured out as one. And
that's how I learned not to be
one. Instead of a glorified gag
man, riding in the boss' car, I was
a member of the Keystone Kops and
fell into the lake at the end of every
picture.
"Still, I was in good company.
The other Kops, at that time, were
Chaplin, Eddie Cline, Al St. John
and Conley. We were permanent.
Others came and went." Ford Sterling
b°OtS(T £RCoK3
Louise Brooks
>^rj
•
Mai St. Clair Has Made Big
Strides Since His Keystone and
Cartoon Days. Here Is a Cameo
of His Film Career and Some
Impressions of the Players Who
Have Worked for Him
Drawings by Mai St. Clair
He Elevated Chester and Ford
\< a Kop, Mai St. Clair supported all the comedy
stars of the day, DOtably Chester Conklin and
Ford Sterling, And now that he is a feature director
he has taken Conklin and Sterling out of the two-reel
comedy class and made featured players and stars of
them.
Conklin was sick of pictures and about to retire from
them to devote all his time to his bean ranch in California
when Mai put him in "The Woman of the World" with
Pola Negri. Conklin's stock went skyrocketing. Today
he is "under a feature contract with Paramount and prob-
ably will star soon.
Mai insisted that Sterling play the title-role in "The
Show Off." He is starred in it. He has ar abiding faith
in the old Keystone players. Incidentally, he told me' that
Chester Conklin's father looks just like him, only his
mustache is real.
Mai is a native Calif ornian but
he has so much Irish in him that
there's almost a brogue. He
very tall. I dont think anyone
has ever measured his full
height. He must have snow
on his head the year round.
He used to come stooping
into my apartment out in Hol-
lywood after the day's work in direct-
ing George O'Hara in the "Fighting
Blood" series, for after becoming a
Sennett director, he branched out.
That was only three years ago and
he'd never been to Xew York. He
liked to hear about it. Today Mai is
known on
Park Avenue
and Broadway. He draws an
enormous salary and gets full
.value out of it. Yet some of his
fondest memories are of the
times that Mabel Xormand used
to buy the entire Keystone com-
pany lunch because the rest
didn't have the price and because
she was — and is — the most gen-
erous girl in the world.
Tried His Talents on the Dog
AXfHEN Mai started directing
features, he was given Rin-
Tin-Tin as a star. He made two
pictures with the dog and then
thought it would be nice to have
a two-legged star. He got one
TO /vi
Tom Moore
Adolphe Menjou
and made a picture but the company thought it was ' so
bad that he was fired. Later the film was picked as one
of the six best of the month in which it was released.
It was after this that Mai started his campaign on
Jesse Lasky. To get this extremely high person out of
his way at the studio Lasky finally gave him "Are
Parents People?" to direct. The understanding was that
if it was good he was to receive a year's contract.
Following the picture's completion, Mai was at liberty.
Naturally, no one knew until the picture was released
whether or not it was a success. Fans and critics
hailed it when it glittered on the silver screens of
the nation's theaters.
And then, helter-skelter, came the rush for the
director's services. Lasky reached him first, waving
his year's contract, but close behind him were the
production heads of other companies.
Today Mai St. Clair can write his own ticket with
Lasky or with anyone else.
In his directing Mai always takes the unusual
angle. Not the unreal. But the refreshing and
original way to tell the real. And he sees the unusual
angle, the unusual side of people.
What Mai Says About Them
[ asked him to name the outstanding characteristics of
the various stars and players he has directed.
"What about Adolphe Menjou?" I asked.
"Menjou? His enthusiasm and his naivete are out-
standing," Mai said.
The suave and sophisticated Menjou naive ! I almost
collapsed.
"Then who is the most sophisticated star you've di-
rected?" I asked, "Pola Negri?"
"Never!" he said, "Pola Negri is the supreme optimist.
Every part that Pola gets it's a case of 'Ach, this is the
greatest performance of my life!' No, not Pola, the
most sophisticated is Betty Bronson."
Menjou naive! Bronson sophisticated!
Add two more wonders of the world !
(Continued on page 81)
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CELLA LLOYD VAMPS
,/v
»^>.
WHAT'S GONE ON
BEFORE
Cella Lloyd has always
blamed her lack of good
pictures on bad direction.
She feels that Claude de
Focus, the Big Director,
could bring out all her
hidden charms and talent.
But how to attract his
attention? Ah, she will
vamp him in her one-
piece bathing suit. Now
read on!
Claude de Focus, the master of the mega-
phone, has met Cella Lloyd and is im-
mediately vamped. He tells the waiting
world that he has "discovered" a girl with
tremendous screen possibilities who is
destined to become the only real artiste of
the movies
Like any good butter-and-egg man, de Focus promises Cella
all kinds of luxuries — even a Pullman car named for her. He
will give her the big part in his big picture, tho there's a "joker"
in his promise
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THE BIG DIRECTOR
By
John Held, Jr.
The big director, on
bended knee, solemnly
vows that he can make
Cella his biggest star
if she will consent to
become his best pal and
severest critic at the
altar
But zounds and odsbodkins! No sooner
does de Focus declare his ardent love for
Cella than his wife turns up — the one he
married when she was a strong young thing
in vaudeville
37
HOLLYWOOD'S
WHEN IT'S AFTERNOON TEA
Cedric Belfrage
By
Kate Price
H. B. Warner
WHAT
ho!" chant
the despised and
rejected of the British stage,
as from the windows of the
Golden State Limited their eyes
fasten greedily on the rustic hamlet of
Hollywood.
"Desist !" bellow the wrathful gods of Ellis
Island, as ship after ship disgorges a fresh horde
of deep-chested, fair-haired, clean-limbed, blue-
eyed, freckle-faced, broad-thewed, well-knit,
the. outposts of her empire ? What will those
impressionable people, the movie fans, have
to say about it, anyway?
All the King's Horses
HThe list of British leading men in
Hollywood has grown to
alarming proportions, and
it's still growing. Of
Londoners alone
Gibson Gowland
Dorothy Mackaill
Pauline Garon
Oxford-bagged he-men to swell the ranks of Hol-
lywood's Union Jack Club.
And while, armed with long-term contracts
and disarming smiles, the invaders sit calmly
around imbibing tea and munching muffins
in the secluded loggias of Beverly
Hills, the immigration officers
champ the bit in their island
kingdom. Dare they stem
this ever-growing tide
of male pulchritude
from the bleak
shores of 'fj^f "^s^ «^>
Britain and
L L
Percy Marmont
Herbert
Rawlinson
Holmes Herbert
Marc MacDermott
there are
five among
the most promi-
nent in screendom —
Ronald Colman, Reginald
Denny, Clive Brook, Percy
Marmont, and H. B. Warner.
The English provinces swell the list
with Conway Tearle, Victor McLaglen,
T. Roy Barnes, House Peters and Herbert
Rawlinson.
Nor is that all. The Dominions which bow
the hypothetical knee to His Majesty, the
Fifth of the Georges, add their quota with
Jack Pickford (Canada), Marc McDermott
(Australia) and Montagu Love (India).
Then, on top of that, there's Ireland.
Whatever the peppery Irish may have thought
38
.
UNION JACK CLUB
TIME IN BEVERLY HILLS
Drawings by George Annand
about it. their green and pleasant land used to
be part of Great Britain So we have to
ailil to our list the distinguished names of
Tommy Meighan, Holmes Herbert, Creigh
ton Hale, the three Moore boys and
Pat O'Malley.
Altho they arc inanv. and their _^^
passports are in anything but
proper order, there's no
denying that they form
Charlie Chaplin
Emily Fitzroy
Ernest Torrence
Mary Pickford
Sheik on an Arabian
type. This, however, I
am glad to see, is now being
dispelled. Miss Hull, who for all
her literary faults was careful to see
her own country first, last, and all the
time, met Ronald Colman at Richmond. Sur-
rey, and from that day she never looked back.
The only reason why she didn't call her magnus opus
"The Sheik of Richmond Hill" is that Araby sounds
so much more romantic. In point of fact, the Arab
an 1 m-
posing and
pulchritudinous
array. If it's true
that the law contem-
plates a drive, then the law
wont have everything its own
way. Some of us may adore
Valentino with an adoration that is
akin to worship, but if all the Britishers
in Hollywood were placed end to end — I cant
say where they would reach to, but you
wouldn't be able to see the female adorers for
dust. Adoration is one thing, and dust in the
eyes is another.
True Origin of the Sheik .
A x entirely erroneous impression used to be
current that Miss Hull based her famous
Norma Shearer
has the whiskers but the Englishman has the
technique.
While doing such a remarkably heavy export
trade in masculine sex-appeal, England has
provided curiously few of Hollywood's
female players. What the British femi-
nine export lacked in . quantity it
made up in quality, altho indeed
neither Emily Fitzroy (from
London) nor Kate Price
(from Cork) can be
accused of being
(Continued
on page
68)
Ralph Forbes
Creighton Hale
Wyndham Standing
39
The Forward Fall
The left leg leaves the ground
The right shoulder takes the shock
of the fall
40
The FINE ART
By Hal K. Wells
The left leg
used as a
pendulum
The body lurches
forward
EVER since the well-known serpent in
the equally well-known Garden
served that famous and disastrous
dish of applesauce, the Fall of Man has
been the one great predominating theme
of all broad comedy.
Falls have come to
be regarded as the
funniest sights life can
offer — so long as it is
the other fellow who
does the falling, of
course.
The grotesquely
falling comedian has
been the mainstay
alike of old-time min-
strels and modern cir-
Midway in the swing
cus and vaudeville acts. The advent of
slapstick moving pic-tures raised the trick
fall to almost the dignity of an institu-
tion.-
Custard-pies that crash with charming
messiness into the heavy's scowling fea-
tures, bulldogs which, with pertinacity
worthy of a better cause, cling to the seat
of the hero's pants, grisly skeletons
which cause colored servants to tremble
and bleach like a coal-pile in a snow-
storm— all these time-honored comedy
props have an unfailing appeal to the risibilities but, in the last analysis, it
is the trick fall that is the real king of the comedy realm.
A film comedian unable to do funny falls would be almost as much of an
anachronism as a tongue-tied auctioneer.
Simple If You Know the Trick
Calling looks like a superbly easy stunt to do. Yet in reality, when done
rightly, it is one of the hardest feats in the repertoire of a professional
tumbler.
The mere falling is a simple enough matter. One has merely to remove
both feet from the ground at the same time and, with an immediate and
whole-hearted co-operation, the law of gravity will step in and very promptly
take care of the rest of it. But to fall and survive the feat in reasonably good
health is another, and more difficult, matter.
It is in seeming to fall hard, yet at the last moment cunningly taking most
of the shock of actual contact with the shoulders or hands, that the real art
of the "fall comic" lies.
High falls are frowned upon by most successful comedians, and with ex-
cellent reason. Too much indulgence in high falls brings a condition much
like taking too many wallops in the face during a prize-ring career. A
"punch drunk" fighter has his brains so thoroly shaken up that they
eventually become about as efficient intellectually as an overdone omelette.
In a similar fashion, the shock of too many high falls usually results in
making a permanent "goof" of the luckless victim.
How Bevan Does It
That was one of the warnings that Billy Bevan stressed to me the other
day over on the Mack Sennett lot, while we were discussing some of the
sidelights on the fine art of falling. Billy gave me a number of really
of FALLING
The Trick Fall Has Replaced the Custard Pie as the
King of the Comedy Realm. In Order to Execute It
the Comedian Must Remove Both Feet from the
Ground and Come Down With a Painful Expression
interesting pointers. Eight years in slapstick comedy have not only made
Bevan a past master in the actual art, hut have given him a firm grasp of the
fundamental theories involved as well.
" \ fall must not look acrobatic in any way," Billy explained, "or its laugh-
getting value is lost. When a comedian takes a graceful run, leaps nimbly
into the air and spins thru two perfect flips before coming down, he may
get a gasp of admiration from his audience, but he'll get very few laughs
In order to be funny, a fall must look natural.
"And, in order to look natural, a fall must be sprawling and awkward.
loss of dignity must go hand in hand with loss of balance. The comedian
must kiss the dirt with a thoroness that leaves little to the imagination. Yet
the fall must not be too violent, or it becomes brutal and excites sympathy
instead of mirth."
Then, as it happened to be only two o'clock in the afternoon and Director
Del Lord had just shot the last scene in the current Bevan comedy, Billy
offered to pose for some special shots m order to illustrate the exact tech-
nique of some of the better known falls. Accordingly, we borrowed a speed
camera, a cameraman, and two assistants, and selected the
grassy lawn in front of a bungalow set for our scene of
operations.
According to Slow Motion
The hands take
the impact
The feet fly over
The fall illustrated in se-
quence across the pages
is known among acrobats
and tumblers as the
"Hundred - and - Eight."
The comedian depicted
taking this fall, together
with the Forward and
Backward flips, is Billy
Bevan. These poses are
exclusive and were illus-
trated before a slow
motion picture camera.
A speed camera, better known outside of studio
circles as a "slow motion picture camera," shoots
a subject something like eight times faster than
normal, with the result that catching accurate shots
of a man in mid-air is a comparatively simple feat
for it. After the film was developed we would have
merely to select the
exact "frames" we
wanted, and enlarge
them to illustrate
the various steps in
each fall.
While the cam-
era crew was setting
up, Billy
continued his
brief exposi-
tion on the
technique of
falls in
general.
"If y o U
ever played
football," he
explain ed,
(Continued
on page 82)
The end of the fall is
eased by the left foot
and hip
The Backward Fall
The hands spread for balance
The hands ready to take impact
The feet leave the ground
The shoulders take the impact from
the hands
41
Ball
RICHARD DIX
There's the signal — 16-7-49-25 — and there goes Dix, the pigskin under his arm, for a
run around the end. The dashing Dick has been scoring box-office touchdowns for
some time. His new film, "The Quarterback," should find him still at the top of his
game — which is one good picture after another
42
What It Costs to Be a Well-
Dressed Clubman
(Evening Edition)
By Warren Dow
THE male of the species is prone to tear
his hair, moan in a loud tone of voice aiul
otherwise register Krru-t m l;irK(- quantities
when his wife's bills for millinery and eve-
ning gowns come rolling in about the first
of the month.
Yet, when the masculine fashion plate
Steps forth correctly attired for an evening
at the opera or other formal functions, the
combined cost of the various parts of his
COStume will easily equal the price tag on a
new flivver COUp<
High silk hat, familiarly known
as a "topper," $10
Custom-tailored suit of black
broadcloth, including trousers and
swallow-tailed coat, $175
Vest, or waistcoat, of white silk
material, $25
Gloves, also of white
silk, $5
Patent leather pumps,
$15
Opera top coat, of
black broadcloth, $75
pAMON NOVARRO is noted in Holly-
wood for being correctly garbed on
ever) conceivable occasion, It costs the --tar
about $430 to be outfitted as he is here —
and the end is far from reached. Studs and
links remain to be SCCUred to complete the
costume. The exad COSt of these is a mat-
ter of individual preference ranging from a
possible minimum of $25 or $50 to well into
the thousands.
White silk tie and bat-wing
collar, $2.50
Stiff-bosom shirt, of linen, $5
White silk handker-
chief, $3
Socks, plain black and
of heavy silk, $2.50
Walking stick, $12
Total cost of outfit,
minus studs and links
is $430
C S. Bull
43
The Editor-in-Chief of
the Brewster Publications
Gathers More Notes on
the Busy Activities of the
Stars on the Coast
Impressions of
HOLLYWOOD
By Eugene V. Brewster
I DROVE over to Westwood the other day and watched
the Fox people filming "What Price Glory." West-
wood is about ten miles from Hollywood, and it should
be called Foxwood, because it is all Fox and their Holly-
wood studio will eventually move there. Westwood con-
sists of several hundred acres of fields and hills, all of
which is owned by Fox, but most of it has been converted
into foreign villages. The first I came to was a Spanish
city and it was hard to believe that I was not actually in
Spain, altho it was devoid of people because nothing
was being filmed there just then. The next place was a
complete French village with hundreds of dwellings, hotels,
churches, saloons, etc., and thousands of French peasants,
shop-keepers, children, and soldiers in uniform.
Hurly-Burly Excitement
Daoul Walsh was directing a scene in "What Price
Glory," which, from all accounts, is to excel even "The
Big Parade," and those who have seen the gorgeous
picture, "The Wanderer," will be inclined to believe that
Walsh has the ability to do anything he sets out to do.
The soldiers were real veterans of the World War and
hence required very little drilling, but not so with the
women, children, horses and ducks — the ducks, in par-
ticular. A large flock of geese persisted in getting in the
way of the marching troops, and some of the girls often
failed to wave to the soldiers at just the right moment and
to embrace their sweethearts with sufficient ardor.
Just imagine a director standing near the cameras on a
platform shouting orders to a thousand people who were
scattered about in
every nook and
corner of a scene that
extended nearly half
a mile distant ! There
was the keeper of the
geese, the men in
charge of the horses
and mules, the girls
in the windows, the
captains and corpo-
rals, the men who
were letting water
from tanks into the
stream, the women
who were doing their
laundry on the banks
of the river, the prin-
cipal players in the
cast, and I dont know
how many others who
had to know just
what to do and when
to do it.
Yet, in a short
while this vast human
machine moved like
clockwork, the
"The Amateur Gentleman" will not lack for fine acting — not with
Richard Barthelmess as the star and Gardner James, the "find" of the
year, supporting him
cameras clicked, the regiment marched down the hill
thru the village, the populace waved, the geese quacked
and scampered to cover, Dolores Del Rio ran along the
street in search of her sweetheart soldier, and before I
realized it the cameras stopped grinding and the scene was
finished.
I had been standing alongside Walsh the while, and I
had seen villages in France so near like this one that for
the life of me I could not make myself realize that I was
not actually in France. It was indeed a masterpiece of
composition, assembling and mob-handling, and my hat is
off to Director Walsh.
That "It"
Hne of the principal topics for humorous conversation
around Hollywood is IT. Elinor Glyn invented
this word, and in time it will find a place in the dic-
tionaries with a brand-new meaning. What is It? I
really dont know. But if you ask Madame Glyn if you
have It, she will tell you frankly whether you have or not.
Some think it means what is commonly called sex-appeal,
and others think it means something like charm, wiri-
someness, personality, etc.
At a Marion Davies dinner party the other night
Samuel Goldwyn stuck a large gladiolus in his buttonhole,
strutted humorously over to Madame Glyn and said :
"Have I got It, Madame?" To which the madame
gravely replied : "I am sorry, Mr. Goldwyn, you are a
very charming man but you haven't — It."
I asked W. R. Hearst what it was and if he thought
he had it. He laughed
and said he didn't
know, and would like
to know, but did not
dare ask Madame
Glyn, for fear she
would tell him he did
not have it. I felt
the same way about
it, so I did not ask
her, either.
A Tender Hostess
'There were only two
candles in the cake
at Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Lloyd's last
Friday afternoon, for
it was the second
birthday of their
kiddie. About two
dozen other young-
sters and their
mothers and nurses
joined in the celebra-
tion out in the Lloyd
backyard — or should
{Cont'd on page 79)
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Owr
OWN
NEWS
CAMERA
International Newsreel
When one is in Pago-Pago, one has to dress like
the natives. That is why Myrna Loy is wearing
a sarong so she may become a Pago-Pago flapper.
The dress isn't calculated to keep the mosquitos
away, but then Myrna is not the kind of girl who
encourages mosquitos
Lon Chaney has played every im-
aginable role in his active screen
life, but that of a hard-boiled
marine. Here he is, the first
civilian in history to feed a big
gun on a battleship so as to bring
realism to "Tell It to the Marines"
Charlie Paddock is just as rapid
in courtship as he is on the
cinder path. With a running
start, he captured Bebe Daniels'
heart in five weeks. In company
with his ardent attentions, he is
showing Bebe how to make a
fast getaway
45
Nothing so simple as a rowboat
or canoe for Frances Lee — no-
sirree! Frances is one of those
girls who wants to get the full
splash of the waves as she sails
the deep on a Christie cruiser
Douglas MacLean, right, is
looking over the latest inven-
tion in golf clubs — an iron
which can be adjusted for all
shots from putting to lofting.
The club is invented by Joe
Novak, w. k. San Francisco
pro
Eddie Cantor, left, is up
to his comedy tricks. He
has buried all feelings of
jealousy while he pro-
nounces the benediction
over the heads of Billie
Dove and Lawrence Gray
— who appear with him in
"Kid Boots"
The close embrace and
the lingering kiss—
that's how Gloria
Swanson and her hus-
band, the Marquis de
la Falaise de la Cou-
draye, put it over when
they bade farewell.
The location? The deck
of the S. S. Paris which
carried Henry back to
his dear France
Underwood & Underwood
Alice Terry is back from a
long stay on the Riviera,
whither she went with her
husband, Rex Ingram, to
appear in "The Magician."
The photo shows her on the
deck of the Homeric
46
Intrf;
Betty Blythe is back after
nearly two years in Germany
and adjacent nations — during
which she completed three
pictures. She is sporting the
latest thing in Parisian
models
"Good-by Girls, I'm Thru!" That's
what "Red" Grange shouted to the
gjrls when the choo-choo cars carried
him away from Hollywood. "Red"
has completed his first and only pic-
ture and is now back on his beloved
ice-wagon in Wheaton, Illinois
Harold Lloyd is certainly in
fast company when he takes
George von Elm on for a game
of golf. George tied with
Walter Hagen for third place in
the British open. He is show-
ing Harold how to sink the putt
Ben Turpin, the cross-eyed
comedian of the movies, has
taken a new bride, the former
Babeite Elizabeth Dietz. Ben
has been a widower less
than a year
When it comes to making sour
faces, Ned Sparks and Raymond
Hitchcock are in a class by
themselves. Ned is casting as-
persions on "Hitchy's" gray
derby while "Hitchy" is telling
Ned that his Western panama
doesn't belong
Internationa] Newsrcel
47
McLaglen saw ac-
tive fighting on
many fronts during
the late war — his
principal exploits
occurring in Meso-
potamia and India
Big VIC
a Soldier of
FORTUNE
ONE thing about the kleigs : they tell the story of a personality as no
other medium can.
In the feature films of recent vintage "characters" have been
holding a side-show of their own ; scowling "heavies," homely purveyors of
atmosphere, have virtually been outbidding their sweeter-looking colleagues
in public interest.
Remember Ernest Torrence in "The Covered Wagon," Karl Dane in "The
Big Parade," Jean Hersholt in "Stella Dallas" — all "characters," playing
minor parts ; deeply lined, ugly, warted faces, gum-chewing, tobacco-spitting,
hard-swearing, sweaty males. They are no longer held down to minor roles,
so great has been their appeal.
What is it?
My guess is that these expressive and scarred countenances tell the story
of a life at a glance. They are not adolescents trembling at the threshold
of experience. These ruggedly hewn and chiseled physiognomies are so
revealing that we can read the record of their sufferings, joys, misadventures
and transgressions only too plainly and draw up the balance. When their
faces in a close-up are spread over some 320 square feet of screen, an entirely
new kind of game is provided for devotees of the cinema.
A Man of Many Parts
Mow there is another face whose deep shadows will loom big in the
close-ups of a film — that of Victor McLaglen, playing Captain
Flagg in Laurence Stallings' war play, "What Price Glory."
It is not an awfully pleasant face ; confined hitherto in "heavy"
roles, of old-fashioned Fox pictures, it has often given us the thrill
of veritable wickedness. By the most rigorous possible screen tests
it has finally been pronounced to be charged with "character" and
^ so McLaglen has been handed over the most colorful role of Stallings'
picturesque play. The difficult Stallings declared himself highly
pleased with the choice.
Captain McLaglen brought down
big game as well as the enemy
during his sojourn in India
No country was forgotten by
McLaglen. Here he is on an
East African estate
48
Victor McLaglen Has Led the Most
Colorful Existence of Any Man in
Pictures. His Crazy-Quilt Career
Has Carried Him as Miner, Adven-
turer, Fighter, Soldier and Actor Into
All the Far-Off Places of the Globe
By Joseph Mattern .
Small wonder! Foi Victor McLaglen is a char-
acter. He is one of the strangest birds thai has
come into tlu' movies in mam a season. Mis screen
face does not lie, for his lite has been a veritable
Odyssey Of adventure, ranging far wider than that
of old Ulysses of the Aegean Sea. since it has traversed
the seven seas and girded the globe several times.
McLaglen has been a plain British Tommy, a gold-
miner, a circus performer, a prize-tighter, an army
officer, a ruler over Oriental cities — in short, a real
soldier of fortune for a quarter of a century. Now
his adventuresome instincts are constricted to
the range of the kleigs and the borders of movie
lots. At the urgence of friends interested in
his colorful career he has finished writing an
autobiography of some six hundred pages which
the world will some day read with astonishment.
Adventures Everywhere
\X7hat is the adventure of stardom
* in Hollywood, if not an anti-
climax, after you have starved in the
hinterlands of Australia and Africa,
fought the heathens and Germans with
guns. Jack Johnson in the squared
ring with your fists, been a tyrant
over the cities of the Arabian Nights,
a companion of princes and waifs,
after you have been to Hell and back?
It is one more case of fitting the
man to the role snugly. Only this one
is somewhat exceptional. Captah,
Flagg in the war play is a hard-boiled
McLaglen has done considerable prize-fighting. His
experience with the gloves enabled him to mix it up
with George O'Brien in "The Fighting Heart"
weathered veteran; many-sided, because
he is a leader of men, his experiences have
made him bitter and philosophical ; his
views on women, for instance, are, to say
the least — interesting. But in a pinch dur-
ing the great crisis, when the moment no
longer calls for the iron front, Flagg turns
out human, human to the core! That, of
course, is McLaglen.
It is not easy to get the man to talk.
The scope of his life story is beyond
the fancy of the most artistic press-
agent. He has felt much, learned much,
thought much. He doesn't wear his
heart on his shirt cuff. There are things
that can never be told. But for the
rest, his autobiography, boiled down, run~
like this :
{Continued on page 72)
One of McLaglen's best friends is the
Rajah of Alcacot at Poona, India. He
spent many weeks with him before
going to the front
Vic served on all the Far
Eastern fronts during the
war and was Chief of
Police of Bagdad
Being an officer, Victor found occasion to
wear "civies." Here he is enjoying a quiet
spin in Zanzibar
49
THE
CELLULOID
CRITIC
Clara Bow and
Ernest Torrence
make "Mantrap"
a picture of en-
joyable moments
Richee
Florence Vidor has been elevated to stardom. In
her first stellar role she appears as a Russian dancer
in "You Never Know Women"
"Padlocked" is one of the most forceful and honest pictures
that has graced the screen this season. These players,
Charles Lane and Louise Dresser, are members of a strong
and well-balanced cast
50
THAT the Germans can dance as well to the tune of
light opera as they can weep over tragedy is
proved with "The Waltz Dream." If memory
serves correctly, this is the first time that something
light and amusing has emerged from the UFA studios.
Heretofore, heavy drama has stalked across their sets.
This new opus is an adaptation of an operatic piece that
was presented on the American stage several years ago.
As plots go, it doesn't get away from a familiar
pattern — in that it is nothing more or less than the
ugly duckling theme. The mythical kingdom back-
ground is employed — and against it a Graustarkian type
of princess indulges in romantic flights and is made
over into a queen of beauty. This occurs after she has
tasted a bit of Viennese life.
Sophisticated Touches
HThe piece has a sophisticated flavor — noticeable in the
scenes prior to and immediately following the mar-
riage ceremony. The princess (played with creditable
spirit by Mady Christians) has her heart set on the
Archduke. But this discriminating son of royalty
catalogs her as impossible. As a result, he wishes her
off on his friend, a gay young count.
The latter, however, unconsciously brings out the best
in the girl. Under the influence of wine the princess
displays some personality. But she reverts to her im-
possible ways when she marries the youth. He is
forced into the ceremony because his kisses are as
sacred as an engagement ring.
Laurence Reid
Reviews the New
Photoplays
The marital episodes are richly amusing and contain
a deal of subtle touches Rejected bj the bride, the bus
band starts cutting up didoes with a fair Viennese who
plays the violin. Which, of course, piques the In hie In
order to win him l>.u-k she ferrets cut the blond fiddler
ami takes lessons in deportment. In the end the princess
stlOWS her Consort that she can stand out in any crowd.
Well Staged and Acted
The Germans have Wept the spirit of Vienna
intact- the atmosphere and incident being
thoroly tn character. A.S for the acting weH
there are other troupers in the Rhine country
besides Emil Tannings. Will) Fritsch, as the
Viennese, gives a performance that fairly
rkles. It is one of the most
adaptable and easy character
studies that has ever graced the
screen.
Something tells me that Fritsch
will soon display his talents out
Hollywood l/ay. He is sorely
needed in this country. I can
think of no one who could have
handled the sequence of the wine
festival and the suhsequent mari-
tal episodes with more grace,
abandon and polish.
All in all. "The Waltz Dream"
spells a most pleasant hour in
anyone's nickelodion.
\\ omen I i whk h
shows something nevn in phot
phj l ike "\ ai let) ' il tells a
of the theatei . tho the plot d
i .u i \ tin ame direct tn
ment, nor i iund in
its construction. Whi
"Variety" prog
lightforwara to it- in«
A drama of one of
America's greatest indus-
tries presents Milton Sills
as a steel worker. "Men
of Steel" was photo-
graphed at the Ensley
Mills in Birmingham,
Alabama
The German Influence
The German influence in so far as
camera technique is concerned
is reflected in "You Never Know-
Rudolph Valentino returns to his favorite
role in "Son of the Sheik" — and reaps new
laurels. The woman responding to his ardent
advances is Vilma Banky
Ufa
A pleasant and amusing romance is "The Waltz Dream" —
from the UFA workshop. Here are Willy Fritsch and Mady
Christians showing how they make love at a wine garden
in Vienna
evitable climax, "You
Never Know Women"
loses its strength before it
is half over and the finish
is saturated with hokum.
What merits it has rests
with its camera work and
the acting by Florence
Vidor (her first starring
film), Lowell Sherman. El
Brendel (who contributes an excellent sample of panto-
mime) and Clive Brook.
It has been said that Director Wellman had not seen
"Variety." If not, he has seen other German pictures
His camera never misses a thing and catches the story
from all kinds of angles.
A Weak Plot
[NFORTUNATELY the film is burdened with a plot which
has gone to the movie mill many, many times. It
presents the theme of unrequited love — with the central
characters the principal performers in a Russian ballet —
a ballet modeled after the lines of the Cluntvc Souris
which created a sensation when touring America. The
heroine is swept off her feet by the ardent attentions of
a monocled American (played by Lowell Sherman in
his best monocled fashion). The Russian lover with a
movieish impulse of self-sacrifice is willing to step out
of her life via the suicide route.
This is a weak gesture which is anything but con-
vincing. But the most unconvincing touch enters when
he returns from his watery grave to chase the American
bounder all over a theater and torture him with knives
which he hurls with deadly accuracy.
The spectator must find the appeal of the picture in
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Holland in Hollywood
The dikes, canals,
windmills and
cheese barges of
Holland have
been reproduced
out Hollywood
way
Marion Davies
offers a Dutch
treat of Volen-
dam in her next
picture, "The
Red Mill"
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THE GENTLE GYPSY
Carol Dempster Has the Soul
of a Vagabond — and Like a
Vagabond, She Would
Live a Hardy Life, Ad-
venturesome and Free
By Gladys Hall
Caricature by
Armando
THE Perfect Life ..." we
said to Carol, "what is your
idea of it? The life above all
other lives you would like to live it
you could wave a magic wand
Abracadabra and presto, have
u so?"
"If I had been a boy." said Carol,
"and 1 wish 1 had been a boy . . .
I should like to have been a vaga-
bond. A gypsy. A sailor sailing
the Seven Seas. I should like
to have tramped the earth, to
have slept under sun and stars.
I should like to have touched at
strange ports ... to have
stayed in them just so long as 1
found color there, Romance, Ad-
venture . . . then sailed on again
. . . questing . . . seeking . .
working my way. if necessary . .
with just enough money to get from
place to place. ... It seems to me that
that would be living at the quick of life.
Really living, you know.
few people really live. So very few
really live their own lives. They live the lives
oi dozens of other people. They are circum
scribed by this and that, caged, hemmed in, forced
to do the thing they really dont want to do, doing
it gracefully or ungracefully as they happen to be.
Poor things, most of them do it all gracefully. After
awhile they dont care. After awhile they become super-
ficially content. That is the saddest time of all.
'For me, the Perfect Life would be the life of a
. roving .
vagabond
roaming
Would Live a Man's Life
The place was Sherry's. The hour was the tea-hour.
The atmosphere was one of head-waitered and hushed
conventionality. Well-groomed women sat to left and
to right of us. imbibing lemon-tinted tea and nibbling at
pastried flakes with well-bred indifference. Carol herself,
in dove gray, her gentle face musing, her clear eyes fired
with dreams of the venturesome Might-Have-Been . . .
if she had been a boy, with the heart of a vagabond. . . .
We feel, now, that we did Carol some sort of in-
justice. We dont know what kind of injustice, but
some kind, we are sure. For we thought that she would
say, demurely, "I should like a little rose-vined cottage in
the country, with baby faces at the windows and a cow
browsing in an adjacent meadow. . . . "' Or that she
would say, intelligently, as her contemporaries have im-
pressively said before her, "I should like best of all a
life of study and meditation ... a life among my hooks."'
( >r, possibly, "I live hut for my Art ... I wish to give
to the world a Masterpiece. ..."
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Harold Dean Carsey
WALTER PIDGEON
Just a young fellow who will bear watching — that's Walter Pidgeon, who has come
along fast since the boys demanded a new deal in leading men. Norma Talmadge has
confidence that he can deliver the goods. He has signed to play opposite her in
"Son of the Montmartre"
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Pity the Assistant Director!
By Irene Burns
The Assistant Directors
Are the Stepchildren of
the Screen. They Are
he Most Abused Men
of the Studios
Their Day Begins With
the Rising Sun and Usu-
ally Ends at Midnight.
They Receive Poor Pay
and Little Credit
At the top is Daniel
Keefe, who has been in
the business a good
many years. He is as-
sistant to Raoul Walsh,
the director of "What
Price Glory." At the
left is Charles Dorian,
who has been associated
as assistant to Clarence
Brown for several sea-
sons. He hopes to be-
come a full-fledged di-
rector in the near future.
On the right is Victor
Schertzinger's assistant,
Billie .Tummel, who is
considered invaluable by
his boss
WHO is the most abused man in the studio?
The assistant director! He admits it himself —
but, what is more important, his director agrees
with him.
The assistant director bears most of the responsibility
in making a picture — yet he receives poor pay and no
credit. His job consists of handling most of the details of
the company — he helps choose the cast, arranges for cos-
tumes, orders the sets, studies the script, handles mob
scenes, takes care of the extras' troubles and that's only
the half of it. He has a hundred and one other things
to attend to and often saves the producer thousands of
dollars by hurrying up the picture.
Assistant directing is a field of its own. There are
good and bad assistants just as there are excellent and
poor directors. The assistants draw from $50 to $250
a week while most of the directors' salaries run into four
figures.
We interviewed a number of the more prominent as-
sistants, chatted with their directors, and watched them
work. After that we agreed that the assistant is really
to be pitied. He arrives at the studio at 7:30 A.M.,
sometimes earlier, to begin rounding up his work for the
day. Perhaps two members of the cast have sent word
they are ill — if they are extras, the assistant gets in touch
with the casting director and suggests two suitable ones
to take their place.
It is necessary that he be familiar with the extras and
also with their wardrobes. If the missing ones happen to
be important members of the cast, the assistant plans to
shoot scenes in which they are not needed. Then he makes
out his reports — in most cases he keeps typewritten records
of everyone employed on the set and every scene taken.
He puts in a busy day and about 6 P. M. returns home,
where he is usually deluged with phone calls pertaining
to his job. He spends many of the evenings when he is
not working at the studio in conference with the director.
We know of one assistant who lost his job because he
refused to live at the home of a prominent director where
they could confer constantly.
Stepchildren of the Screen
Many of the assistants came to Hollywood with the idea
of being a movie actor. After a long struggle as
extras they realized they could never succeed and secured
odd jobs about the studios. Then eventually directors
noticed them and made them assistants
The work is most difficult, but they realize that some day
if they make good they may become directors. Several
of the studios have recently made directors of a few
assistants and it is believed that the assistants of today are
the big directors of tomorrow.
Clarence Brown, who recently finished directing Xorma
Talmadge in "Kiki," has had his assistant, Charles Dorian,
with him a number of years. Mr. Brown says. "I just
could not get along without Charlie — he is as much re-
sponsible for the success of my pictures as I am."
jfncidentally, Mr. Dorian is known as the best assistant in
the business and it is thought the time is not far distant
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These two
photographs
show Noah
Beery as he is
and when he
plays one of
those villain-
ous heavies.
He is one of
many who are
glad they are
making the
villain human
THE past year in Hollywood has produced a film
phenomenon so startling and unorthodox that liter-
ally reams have been written in efforts to explain the
whyfore and the wherefore of it all.
I refer, of c'ourse, to the "Renaissance of Villainy" —
the startling movement that has. apparently almost
overnight, so imbued our leading screen villains with
worthy and even likable traits that they seem almost like
normal human beings.
As a matter of fact, the causes underlying this "hu-
manizing" of villainy are both simple and inevitable.
The whole
thing means
merely that the
public has be-
come tired of
seeing lunatics,
and accordingly,
for the first
time in screen
history, has en-
dowed the vil-
lain with a
brain.
VILLAINY
The Leering Heavy Who Crashed Into a
Scene Like a Rampant Cyclone Has Faded
Out of the Picture
By Scott Pierce
The change is a welcome one. Lunatics, while admittedly spec-
tacular, have certain deficiencies as a steady, dramatic diet.
\nd, by no stretch of the imagination, could the old-time screen
or stage villain be regarded as anything else than a stark.
raving lunatic. In sheer reasoning power, he would have
run a poor second to a three-weeks-old calf.
The stage edition of the "menace" was bad enough —
the suave, bemustached cur who, in the second act,
snarled, "Give meh the papers-s-s-s, or I'll tear up
the chee-ild !" or words to that general effect ; and
who sneered heartlessly in the third act as the
heartbroken old father quavered pathetically,
"Stranger — yuh ain't done right by our little Nell !"
Desperate Desmonds
Then the movies came along and proceeded to re-
move what few faint glimmerings of common
sense the villain still possessed.
For years there were only two standard types of
screen "heavies," and both were lunatics.
The first was the parlor snake, the effeminate degenerate
who smoked perfumed cigarets, affected spats and a tiny
waxed mustache, and whose sole aim in life was appar-
ently to lead astray as many innocent young women as
could be conveniently crowded into a normal working day.
The second was the hairy ape, the hulking moron with
the muscular development of a gorilla, who drank nitric
acid for a tonic and used kerosene for a chaser, and who
beat his brawny chest and furiously engaged in mortal
combat anything that came his way, whether it happened
to be a stray kitten or a troop of U. S. Cavalry.
The last reel usually found the first type of "heavy" in
the penitentiary, and the second type in the cemetery.
Both should have been placed in padded cells before the
picture even started, and turned over to psychiatrists for
a much-needed
mental
over-
hauling.
Becoming Hu-
man Beings
Dut now the
Era of Lu-
nacy has passed.
The screen
"menace" has
become a ra-
tional, thinking,
George Siegmann, left, is one of the
veteran heavies of the screen. He is
also glad to see the villain emerge as
a man of brains. Lou Tellegen, right,
a polished "menace," declares audi-
ences will soon be rooting for the
villain
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versus LUNACY
No Longer Is He the Menace of Melodrama.
He Has Been Polished Up to Think and Act
Like a Human Being
human being, and the result is thai he is at lasl coming into hit own
in popular favor
rhe change is proving as welcome a one to the villains themselves
as to thin screen audiences.
"No self-respecting actor wants to spend his professional life
portraying prospective candidates for an insane asylum," Noah
Beer) explained succinctly "And that is just
what mosl of us had to do for yen- When
I was called on to plaj one ox the old-time
'menace' roles, 1 realized thai the pan
that of a lunatic, and that was exactl) the wa>
I played it portraying i brainless, vindictive
soil of idiot whose heinous activities were
devoid alike of intelligence, motives, human
traits.
"Today everyone realizes that that sort ot
thing is all wrong, In order to have interest
and drama, your audience must have sympathy
for the characters. The old-time villain de-
stroyed that quality for both himself and the
hero. There's no particular credit due any
hero for outwitting a lunatic. The thinking
villain is the dangerous villain. His actions
can not he foreseen with the mechanical cer-
tainty of a phonograph record, and he is thus
made a really worthy antagonist for the hero.
And the fact that he is allowed to be a
thinking human being, with motives for his
deeds, gives the audience a new insight into his
character. They can understand him, even
feel a bit of sympathy for him, and the play is
lifted from the realm of mere puppets to a flesh-and-
blood creation of life itself."
Walter Long is one
of the pioneers among
the heavies. He
always exaggerates
the villain to bring a
laugh. These photos
show him as he is and
as Chang Fang in
"Eve's Leaves"
mere fact, for example,
that he was hated by dogs
and disliked by children
made him automatically a
scoundrel of the deepest
A New Era Has Dawned
A hearty second to these sentiments is voiced by
George Bancroft, whose Smiling Slade in "The
Pony Express" was one of the outstanding pioneer roles
in the new era of villainv.
"Not only
was the o 1 d-
time heavy a
lunatic," Ban-
croft told me
one day, "but
he was a strictly
type variety of
lunatic as well.
He was about
as original as a
derbv hat. The
dye. All of which is the hunk and truly false.
"In 'Devil Horses' my role of the hard-drinking, un-
couth bucko mate would have shattered every tradition
of the old-time heavy, because it happened to be both
human and true to life. The mate terrified the tiny girl
on shipboard in every one of his clumsy efforts to amiin
her, and she screamed in terror at his very approach
Yet it was that same mate who died laughing as he held
the natives at
hay for the few
precious sec-
onds needed to
save the life of
the rest of the
partv.
"t he old
screen tradition
of the "killer'
i Continued
page 90)
Walter Long has played all types of
heavies — and he makes them just a bit
too bad to be true. On the right is
George Bancroft, another character
actor who has humanized the scoun-
drel. He should perform wonders for
"Old Ironsides" as he did for "The
Pony Express"
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Standing
PAT
PAT O'MALLEY gives
new proof of the inter-
esting fact that one of
the best indications of
man's real character is
found in the way he
wears a straw hat.
As a real indicator
of masculine charac-
ter, the humble hay
derby has the Herr
Freud and his little play-
mates looking like a bunch
of bungling amateurs. The
Panama hat serves as a suave
mask for its wearer, but the
stiff straw hat, with its rigid, un-
yielding lines and unbending de-
meanor, is a veritable sign-board of
character.
If worn wjth geometrical exactness on a
line paralleling the ground, and without so
much as tilting a millimeter either way, it is a reasonably
safe bet that its wearer also affects tortoise-shell glasses,
votes a straight party ticket, and regards three games of
chess as a really exciting evening.
If worn belligerently tilted forward over a brow, that
brow is very apt to be somewhat beetling, and its owner
is somewhat inclined to go into fistic action on rather
slight provocation.
But it is when the straw
hat is tilted to the side that it
really becomes most reveal-
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with
O'MALLEY
ing. If it is slanted askew with a sort of half-ashamed
bravado, its owner is a four-flusher — he is trying to
assume a jauntiness that is really as far from his
nature as feathers from an eel.
But if the hat rests rakishly on one ear
and its jowner is sublimely unconscious of
the fact, then that gentleman is very apt to be
not only interesting and colorful, but mighty
good company, and the kind of citizen
upon whom you can safely rely in a pinch.
Irish Thru "and Thru
And that is the way that Pat O'Malley
wears his hat, starting just over his left
ear and proceeding on a steep slant
in a direction about north by north-
east ; and that is the kind of citizen
that Pat O'Malley is — blithe, care-
free, natural, generous to a fault,
friendly, and independent.
With a name like O'Malley, it
k should hardly be necessary to
'a add that Pat's eyes are Irish
Pk blue, that there is a tinge of
red in his hair and a hint
of freckles on his face and
hands, that his chin has
a solid and determined
look, and that Pat usually
gets just about what he
goes after.
An incident that occurred last
March 17 is typical of Pat
O'Malley. On that particular
morning a number of Pat's mas-
culine friends in Hollywood were
pleasantly surprised when the post-
man delivered to them small oblong
packages adorned with a weird stamp
which closer inspection revealed to be
the official postage emblem of Ireland.
Inside was a little card : "St. Pat-
rick's Day is Christmas for all good Irishmen. Hope you
like the pipe.— Pat."
The pipe in question was a small, exquisitely made brier
creation, especially manufactured for Pat by a famous
old pipe firm in Dublin, a chummy little pipe of the
kind that delights the soul of any normal man, whether
or not he happens to read the advertisements regarding
the unholy joy that great
„ ^ , , , , ., .... , actresses take in seeing men
Pat has played plumbers, pikers and politicians — and ... , , . ;* ,„.
all types of roles. At the top he is all set to get his w,th such adornments parked
man— in the role of a Northwest Mounted Policeman amid their classic features.
Freulich
o
They Called Him a Type
Actor, But Being Irish, He's
Showing 'Em How
By Ralph Sutter
Much has been written in recent years of
Pat ( I'Malley, the man, yet, strangely
enough, little has evet been said of Pat
< I'Malley, the artist This oversight seems
all the stranger when it is realized that
O'Malley is one of the foremost creative
workers in pictures
He's a "Rough Diamond"
i'MaLLBV first made a hit on the
screen in types Of the "diamond in
the rough" variety, playing the roles of
plumbers, Fast Side toughs, drummers,
and Tammany Hall henchmen, In the
language of the picture world, he was a
"natural" in such parts. He could have
continued them almost indefinitely, and
have built up an enormous fan following in
so doing.
But O'Malley had other ideas in mind.
He has an overwhelming dread of getting
in a rut. of establishing a type of screen
character as standardized as one of De-
troit's more famous products. Accordingly,
he proceeded to prove to the world in gen-
eral, and Hollywood in particular, that he
was capable of somewhat more ambitious
thing
In "My Old Dutch," he essayed one of
the most difficult character roles of recent
years, one that took a character almost
literally from young manhood to old age
and the grave, and did it superbly. Then,
to prove that this success was no fluke, he
took the part of the Grand Duke in Dimitri
Kreulich
Back in the good old days Pat was a
slack-wire performer. Here we find
him demonstrating his talent for the
benefit of Marion Mixon
Buchowetski's "The Midnight Sun "
This opened a gold-mine of material
for the Film Colony's wise-crackers,
the fact that a player with so Irish a
face as Pat O'Malley \s dared to essay
a heavy Russian role. One wit sug-
gested that Nazimova might next stage
a return to the screen in the title-role
of "Mother Machree." Pat let them
laugh. Dyeing his hair black and don-
ning a dark mustache, he proceeded to
play the exacting role of the Duke
Boris in a manner that won him the
plaudits of nearly every big film critic
in the country, even tho the picture it-
self was rated as far from a master-
piece.
While we were lunching together in
the big restaurant on the Universal lot
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The O'Malley man leads a very happy home life. He
has three kids and they all have sandy hair like Pop
Pat. also finds time to pal around with his pups. Be-
tween the kids and the dogs he has no chance to
register loneliness
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International Newsreel
When it comes to making up like Old Bill, Mabel Normand is
there forty ways. Back with Sennett, she will soon appear in a
war comedy, "One Hour Married"
Harrison Ford is making quite a reputation
as a light comedian. Here he is as the
hypochondriac in "The Nervous Wreck"
The Screen Observer
That Song Hit
ADAPTING that seductive song, "Valencia," to the
screen is a task that requires almost too much crea-
L tive effort in this hot weather. But Alice Duer
Miller is bravely undertaking it, for the sake of Mae
Murray. "Valencia" was so popular that Mae decided
she just" must have it for her next picture. Of course,
it will be a very Spanish story in which Mae can wear a
shawl and a rose in her teeth. Dimitri Buchowetski, the
Russian director, who has just returned from a trip to
Europe, will begin his Metro-Goldwyn contract with this
picture.
Wales Meets Connie
The film colony is proud that one of its members has
broken into the honest-to-goodness society columns.
There are reports from London that Constance Talmadge,
as the wife of Captain Alastair Mackintosh, has become
one of the most important of the younger hostesses there.
She has been there only a few weeks, but has already
lured the Prince of Wales to one of her interesting dinner
parties. In the fall, after she has completely dazzled
London society, she will return to make another picture
in Hollywood. "The Duchess of Buffalo," her latest
effort, has been lately released.
An Uplift Movement
■\X7hen the young people start reforming, it looks pretty
" * bad for vice and sin. Wickedness is not going to have
a chance to rear its head in Hollywood, now that the
Thalians have organized, fifty strong. The Thalians are
a club, composed of our youngest and purest film stars,
who want to keep clean and think they can fight temptation
better in groups than singly. All members must be un-
married, about twenty-one years old, identified with the
picture industry, and the possessors of spotless reputations.
Raymond Keane was elected president, of course—
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being very young and very spotless and utterly devoted
to noble thoughts and good books and flowers. Jobyna
Ralston is vice-president, which probably makes the meet-
ings quite thrilling for Raymond. And the other officers
are Virginia Brown Faire, treasurer ; Joan Meredith,
secretary ; and Joan Crawford, corresponding secretary.
Charles Farrell, George Lewis, Cleve Moore (brother of
Colleen), and Lincoln Stedman are some of the other
members.
It is to be hoped that the Thalians will not only clean up
the younger generation of screen stars, but will also set a
good example to the youth of the nation. Try this in your
home town.
T.
A Sister Act
he Duncan Sisters, who became famous from coast to
coast in "Topsy and Eva," have been negotiating with
First National for weeks to appear in a screen version
of their show. And just when everyone thought the
contract was going to be signed. Hime and Jake got
capricious and decided to go to United Artists instead.
No contract has been signed yet, but they have agreed to
join United Artists thru Feature Productions, which
produces the Barrymore and Valentino pictures. John
Considine, Jr., who is president of Feature Productions,
will supervise "Topsy and Eva," scheduled to begin in
about eight weeks.
A Secret Marriage
Mo one suspected that Louise Fazenda was married until
they found out that she was going to be married again.
Louise is as clever off the screen as she is on, and cagey
as well, and even to her close friends her life is more or
less of a mystery. So it was quite a surprise to Hollywood
when she filed suit for divorce under the name of Louise
Smith, with the intention of marrying Hal Wallis as soon
as she was free. Hal Wallis is the head of Warner
Brothers' publicity department, and almost as nice as
John Barrymore is a skipper as well as an
actor. He recently competed in a Los Angeles
to Honolulu yacht race
Has Her
Louise, and his devotion to her wasn't much of a secret.
But nobody knew that Noel Smith, a director working
right under her nose on the Warner lot, was even casually
connected with Louise's past. Even he and Louise seemed
to forget that he was her husband.
While all this divorcing and remarrying is going on,
Louise wends her hilarious way thru picture after pic-
ture. Her latest role is a puritanical spinster in the First
National picture, "Ladies at Play.''
Ziegfeld Loses Another
Cvkrv week there has been a new candidate for the
^ ingenue role in Adolphe Menjou's picture, "The Ace
of Cads." Even after production had got under way.
no one was quite sure whether Lois Moran. or perhaps
Clara Bow. would get the part. Well, it's settled at last.
Susan Fleming, a graduate of the Ziegfeld chorus, is the
lucky lady. She has plenty of pulchritude but no acting
experience, but Mr. Menjou seems to have great con-
fidence in her. He personally picked her from a group of
Ziegfeld beauties who visited the studio, and he confided
to me that she is refined as well as beautiful. And as that
is an even rarer quality than acting ability, she was signed
up at once.
Is Jackie Becoming Temperamental?
Tackie Coogan is having almost as much trouble with
^ his directors as Gloria Swanson had on "Fine
Manners." Three men have taken turns wielding Jackie's
megaphone, and several thousand feet of film have been
shot and thrown away as a result of the changes. King
Baggot started out to make "Johnny Get Your Hair Cut,"
but was scheduled for another picture and had to retire
in favor of Millard Webb.
Mr. Webb is one of the youngest directors in the busi-
ness, and made a great success of "The Sea Beast" for
John Barrymore. Just what happened on the Coogan set
is not quite clear, but Jack Coogan, Sr., won the battle,
Lewis Stone doesn't take a back seat as a romancer. He
is the great lover to Shirley Mason and others in "Don
Juan's Three Nights"
By
Elizabeth Greer
whatever it was. Mr. Webb is out, and production is begin-
ning all over again under the direction of Archie Mayo
Back With Uncle Tom
LJarry Pollard has at last recovered from the illness
which held up the production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
for many months. Universal had despaired of his re-
covery and had assigned Lois Weber to finish the picture,
when Pollard unexpectedly got better, and he is now back
on the job. That leaves Miss Weber free to start work
on "Egypt," an adaptation of Ernest Pascal's novel, which
will be retitled "The Sensation Seekers."
The Final Fade-Out
The career of Willard Louis was ended, late in July,
when he died of typhoid-pneumonia after a long illness.
Mr. Louis had been in pictures for twelve years, and was
forty years old, but he was just at the height of his
popularity as a comedian. Since his performance as The
I'ri>ice of Wales in John Barrymore's production. "Beau
Brummel," brought him into prominence several years ago.
he has been playing steadily and jovially in a great variety
of pictures for Warner Brothers, to whom he was under
contract, and various other companies. His last picture.
"The Door Mat," has not yet been released.
And So It Goes
The final decree divorcing King and Florence Yidor has
been granted, giving them a chance to marry, respec-
tively, Eleanor Boardman and George Fitzmaurice. if they
so desire. We will soon know the truth of all the lively
rumors that have been going on ever since Florence took
the plunge and sued King on the grounds of desertion.
Mary Astor has disqualified herself for membership in
1 * the Thalians Club. Be it known that Mary easily
meets all the requirements except one. for she has long
{Continued on page -87)
61
PAGING
MR.
RinglinG
Hold your horses,
park your autos. and
dont crowd. Here comes
"The Circus" and Charlie
Chaplin, the world's
greatest clown
Circuses come and go. The
soul of America is the soul
of the sawdust and the big
top. When the big show
goes into winter quarters
the summer season is over,
but it's always balmy
weather when Charlie
Chaplin comes to town.
"The Circus," his newest
achievement, should turn
'em away. "Allez Oop" —
and keep in line
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.
Ruth Harriet Louise
CHARLES RAY
Up there on that bright-colored fire cart where men wear helmets and red suspenders
Charlie Ray will do his stuff in "The Fire Brigade." We bet a fireman's badge against
a hook and ladder truck that he saves the GIRL from perishing in the flames
63
The Answer
Man
Betsy. — School clays are on again.
Why, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is
about nineteen years old and Sally
O'Neill about eighteen. Thomas
Meighan was born April 9, 1884.
Justine M. S. — Well, now, I
know a few things, but I dont hap-
pen to know just when Richard Dix
will be in Little Rock, Arkansas.
He was born July 18, 1894. You
want to know if I think a girl thirteen would have a chance to
get into the movies. A very slim one.
Max E. — Kenneth Harlan is playing opposite Colleen Moore
in "Twinkletoes." When is money damp? When it is due in the
morning and missed at night. It's not only damp, but always
scarce with me.
Ruth de O. — Oh, you always want to enclose twenty-five cents
in two-cent stamps when asking for a photograph. Bessie Love is
playing in "Going Crooked" for Fox, and Edmund Burns and
Anita Stewart in "Whispering Wires" for Fox.
Sacks. — Thank you, but a man who makes no mistakes does not
usually make anything. William Russell. Virginia B. Faire and
Reed Howes in "Wings of the Storm" for Fox.
Marion A. — No, I have never been in an aeroplane. I guess
my species likes to have all fours on the ground. You say, "An
authority on words holds that an airplane should always be re-
ferred to -as she." Does this also apply to mail planes ? Richard
Dix's real name is Ernest Brimmer. Thanks for the picture you
drew of me.
Martha U. K. — Speaking of women generally, they are gen-
erally speaking. Why, William Boyd was born in 1898. Agnes
Ay res was born in Carbondale, Illinois, April 4, 1901.
Classic Crazy. — William Boyd is playing in "Her Man o'
War," with Jetta Goudal. Florence Vidor is playing in "Wings,"
with Clara Bow and Charles Emmett Mack. Yes, just write to me
any time you feel like it.
Mary C. — You refer to Tullio Carminati.
Mollyka. — No, I haven't read "The Man Nobody Knows," but
you think H. B. Warner would be splendid in it. Warner Baxter
in "The Runway," with Clara Bow.
Bobby. — You say you have red hair and brown eyes — seventeen.
I have no hair, blue eyes, and am past eighty. Are we sufficiently
acquainted? Yes, Clive Brook is married and has a daughter,
Faith.
A George O'Brien Admirer. — Well, you are going to see an-
other von Stroheim picture, "The Wedding March," and Fay
Wray is to play the lead. Von Stroheim will also play in it, as
well as Zasu Pitts, George Fawcett and Maude George. George
O'Brien attended Santa Clara College in California, and he has
blue eyes. "The Iron Horse" was released September, 1924.
Millie U. — Yes, go ahead, write to me any time you feel like it.
Yes, of course I'm eighty years old. Conway Tearle is married to
Adele Rowland.
Bobbie. — Well, that's hard telling whether you will see Roscoe
Arbuckle in pictures again. He's directing now. Greta Nissen
and Clive Brook are playing in Malcolm St. Clair's "The Popular
Sin."
Willie. — I should say I do drink plenty of buttermilk in this
warm weather. That's a wonderful trip you have planned. You
know, in India, 3,263 people were killed by wild animals last year.
Snake bites were responsible for the deaths of 20,000. Well, they
do say that Jobyna Ralston is to marry Richard Arlen, and that
Ena Gregory is to marry Al Rogers, a director.
Beverly J.— Where did you get the green paper? No. Clara
Bow is not married. She was born August 8, 1905. Donald
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THE ANSWER MAN is at your service. If you
want an answer by mail, enclose a stamped addressed
envelope. If you wish the answer to appear in THE
CLASSIC, write at the top of your letter the name
you want printed, and at the bottom your full name
and address. Address : The Answer Man, Motion
Picture Classic, 175 Dufneld Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Keith is twenty -three years old.
• Red Grange's "The Half Back" is
to be released as "One Minute to
Play."
Bertha P. — Well, you ask a
question, then answer it yourself.
There are two things that indicate
a weak mind — to be silent when it
is proper to speak, and to speak
when it is proper to be silent. Mil-
dred Harris is to play opposite Rod La Rocque in "Cruise of the
Jasper B."
Irene R. — You sure are a film fan. Well, you know Mabel Nor-
mand was known as Mabel Fortesque when she was with Biograph
in 1911. She is playing in Hal Roach comedies right now. Your
letter was most interesting, and I hope you write me soon again.
Betty B. — Dont be so impatient. Hasty climbers usually have
sudden falls. So you are fond of Ramon Novarro. He was born
September 20, 1899, at Durango, Mexico. No, Mr. Novarro does
not go to all the parties, dances and affairs in Hollywood. He
rather likes his home.
Evelyn M. — Why, Ben Lyon was born in Atlanta. Georgia.
That is his real name. Alberta Vaughn is playing in "The
Adorable Deceiver." Billy Sullivan in "Speed Crazed."
Bonya. — You're right ; clothes dont make the man, but they
make the impression. Colleen Moore is five feet four inches and is
married to John McCormick. No, they have no children, and she
was born August 9, 1902. Why, James Hall is a newcomer to the
screen, and he has an important part in Bebe Daniels' "The
Campus Flirt," also the male lead in Pola's "Hotel Imperial."
Eleanor F. — So you think I am a good listener. You'd be
surprised. A bird is known by its notes, and a man by his talk.
William Boyd has blue eyes and light hair. He certainly is get-
ting enough mention in this department.
Stanley H. — Well, it's too late to have my beard shaved now —
next December I will have good use for it. You say, after seeing
"The Plastic Age" and "Brown of Harvard," you would like to
go to college. Why dont you?
Elizabeth M. — Well, do all you can to be good, and you'll be
so. Rudolph Valentino was born May 6, 1895. Hobart Bosworth
is about sixty years young, and his birthday was August 11. He
is a descendant of Miles Standish.
Grace K. — You only want the home addresses of about fifteen
players. That's out !
Mitzi. — What is the most dangerous time of the year to visit
the country? When the bull-rushes out, and the cow-slips about,
and the little sprigs are shooting all around. Irene Rich did not
have her hair bobbed — she wore a wig in "Lady Windermere's
Fan." You thuik Corinne Griffith is the most beautiful actress
on the screen. She is very popular. You think I could get a
large salary if I came to Kentucky. All right, that's a go.
Elsie McN. — Hoot Gibson is with Universal, Universal City,
California, and Harrison Ford is at the Metropolitan Studio, 1040
Las Palmas Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
O. G. — Well, if a dime with a hole in it is worth five cents, a
dime with two holes in it ought to be worth ten. cents. Right?
Lewis Stone is playing in "Midnight Lovers." Virginia Valli was
married to George Lamson.
Palma M. — You want to know if I thought it would be a good
thing for you to become an actress. Well, now, that is a broad
question, in view of the fact that I have never met you. My
advice would be for you to stay in school a little longer. Adolphe
Menjou in "The Angel Passes." Estelle Taylor is to play opposite
Valentino in the life of Cellini. John Gilbert was born July 10, 1895,
(Continued on page 81)
Them Were the Happy Days
Norma and her lister were both trying lot
icreen honor! in those bapp) days
Watching John Bunnj nightlj on the
screens of rlatbush, .1 Brooklyn undci
taker ol Munl.it huge proportions, (eh the
ur^r to ad before the camera He wai
the Vhagraph extra whose sue dominated
ever] acene in which he appeared His
name wai Hughie Mack, It -till it, ex
cepi that todaj be
boras the foreground
when he "does his
stuff "
I remember also
watching with inter-
est the work of a
trimly clothed, dap-
per young man se-
lected by Wall) Van
to a dance bit in a
Vhagraph film, "The
Man Behind the
Door." His poise
was perfect and his
work won for him
a small part in "The
Scarlet Runner," a
serial which Van
later made. The
dapper young man's
name was Adolphe
Menjou.
The Favorites of
Yesteryear
I have stood in the
huge courtyard
which served for the
location of many-
kinds of exterior
scenes for Vitagraph
productions, listen-
ing patiently while
actor poured forth
talent on the screen wlmli p|o\cd I .u nnic
lucrative to those who followed him
than it dul to "the first DOJ ol the Idms."
Little Money, But Lots of Fun
TPhi old saying "we dont make much
money but we have a lot of tun" .i|>
plied to the actori and directors of 1910
1 1 memorj serves, the celebrated John
This building at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, Holly
over from the Salvation Army by David Horsley, who used
make his fir»t motion picture
wood, was taken
it as a studio to
a well-known stage
his lament. "Why
wouldn't they give him a chance? Why
didn't they let him act or direct? Hadn't
he appeared in leading roles of Broad-
way successes ? Wasn't he a recognized
exponent of the Shakespearian drama?
His wife was a member of the Vitagraph
stock company — what was wrong with
him? The complainer was James Young,
the same James Young who afterwards
scored as an actor and director for Vita-
graph and other leading companies. His
wife was Clara Kimball Young. Yes, them
were the happy days. In this same court-
yard I have watched Florence Turner,
greatest star of her day, paying off extra
players.
To the Vitagraph of the misty past be-
longs the distinction of having introduced
the first "vamp" of the screen. Long be-
fore Theda Bara essayed her "bad, bad
woman" parts, Helen Gardner had estab-
lished a new type of screen role thru her
sirenic efforts as Cleopatra and other
characters with a vampish tinge. To the
credit of this company also must be
chalked up the first presentation of the
appealing "mother" character, a character
which has played an important part in the
success of many later day important pro-
ductions and the introduction of a child
player as the leading figure of a picture
play.
Them were the happy days indeed when
the benevolent white-haired person of
sweet-faced Mary Maurice, the Vitagraph
mother, held the screen in stories of
honest, homely sentiment — when the pre-
cursor of Jackie Coogan, little Kenneth
Casey, one of the best known and widely
admired figures of the silversheet, opened
up a field for the exploitation of juvenile
Bunny began his movie career at $40 per
week and at the height of his career, when
death cut short his brilliant comedy
achievements, he was receiving $500 per
week. Nowadays, this salary is regarded
as a nominal one in the movies and is
received by countless of the lesser lights
whose names mean little or nothing at the
box-office.
Those bulwarks of the Vitagraoh pro-
gram, Maurice Costello and Florence
Turner, who with Bunny helped to estab-
lish the fortune which Vitagraph produc-
tions earned for Blackton, Rock and
Smith thru their countless performances,
received correspondingly slim pay envel-
opes for their efforts. This same trio
today would be in the earning class of a
Chaplin, a Meighan and a Pickford.
Supplying the "side line" music for
these stars of other days was a slight,
blond-haired boy who, in between turns
at playing his fiddle, did small acting bits
in innumerable pictures. His brother was
one of the first if not the first "stunt men"
in studio work, doubling for the players
who appeared in the various epics of the
West which Vitagraph turned out in
"Arizona," a peaceful Flatbush location.
The musician-extra was Dick Rosson.
who recently completed the direction of
Gloria Swanson's latest picture. The
stunt man, his brother Arthur, has to his
credit the direction of Douglas Fairbanks
and several other top-notchers in the
stars' league.
They All Made Good
"Them were the happy days indeed when
Ralph Ince, elevated to the post of
director, decided that a young player
known as Rex Hitchkock was not compe-
tent enough to interpret the insignificant
..ink 1 I- 1 k in ( IN ol I
i s I be pulled him
i-li togethei lumcentl) later ■'! to turn
out such m.i terpii "The ;
Horsemen" and Mart istrum" under
the name ol Rex Ingrai
No chrome It dealing
with Vitagraph would be complete with
out reference to Fred "Bing" Thoraj
the first director to
introduce the pre
well-known element
• mperament" in
the work of movie
production. Thomp-
son, who has since
passed on. and inci-
dentalK . wai the
first man to use
wild animals in pho-
toplays, was quickly
irritated when things
did not run smoothly
under the lights. He
had a penchant for
breaking derby hats,
one of which was
always perched on
his head. The num-
ber of broken der-
bies at the end of a
two-reeler under
'3 direction was
indicative of the
Sti Tin or calm which
accompanied its
making.
In these days of
sumptuously fur-
nished players'
dressing-rooms and
specially built bun-
galows for the use of high-salaried stars
in preparing for their studio appearances,
it is amusing to learn that three such big-
timers of the old days as John Bunny,
Sidney Drew and Wally Van, comedy aces
of the pre-Chaplin era, all shared the same
small room together.
In any story of the old days the name
of Van looms large. A well-known civil
engineer of New York, he was induced
to take a fling at film work by J. Stuart
Blackton, with whom he was socially in-
timate. The horrible appellation of "Cutie"
wished on Van at the height of his comedy
career had its full share in spoiling a
promising future. It was this same Van
who was responsible for the introduction
of Mrs. Sidney Drew to the films. Under
the name of Jane Morrow she received
considerable extra work thru Van's good
offices until Vitagraph officials saw the
possibilities of the Drews as the most
delightful pair of comedians that ever
shook an audience into whole-souled
laughter.
Stories Were Cheap
\Y/hen we read today of the trifling
sums paid for the rights to various
plays and novels, ranging from $5,000 to
$100,000, according to the gullibility of
the producer-purchaser, and the insis-
tence of the star that the particular play
or novel be secured for the exploitation of
his or her screen talents, it is illuminating
to consider the manner in which scenario
requirements were handled in the old days.
Under the direction of one of the in-
dustry's first scenario editors. Beta Brueil.
assisted by Rollin Sturgeon and Hal Reid.
father of Wally, story' after storv was
purchased for sums ranging from $5.00 to
(Continued on page 86)
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PAINTED PEOPLE
mothers that it would be just as well to
keep us away from you."
Her grandmother had done that ! Her
Grandmother Rogers with her little blue,
drawn thread of a mouth !
The little scimped ways of them all.
Scimped and mean like her grandmother's
mouth, always shut so tightly as tho she
were biting back acid words she wanted
to say, wanted to say to Jonquil.
The gossip that went on among
the old ladies ; cruel gossip that
flayed soft pretty young things
and hurt and stung like whip
lashes. That young minister who
had taken over the Congregational
Church. Earnest eyes he had had
and a flame in his voice ... he
had taken tea with young and
pretty Mrs. Fielder in her rose
garden one afternoon too many
. . . Jonquil never quite knew how
it all happened, but she got the
stench of dark unhappy things in
an undercurrent and then the
young flame-like man was gone
and pretty little Mrs. Fielder went
about with a bewildered expres-
sion on her child-like face and a
streak of gray across her hair
and people said that her husband
had used to be kind and tender to
her but that now he misused her
and made her unhappy. . . .
The unkindnesses ... the thin,
lash-like unkindnesses. . . .
Once, once only she had dared
to ask her grandmother why the
girls in town treated her as they
did . . . what was the matter with
her . . . what it was all about. . . .
Jonquil never ceased to think
that what her grandmother said
was horrible. It wasn't so much
that she condemned her, that she
told her her life had ruined her
for "nice" people, that she was a
stage child and had lived "Dear
knew" what kind of a life and
that decent folk have to be par-
ticular about the kind of girls
their girls go with . . . she could
have forgiven her all that. It was
the way she talked about Jonquil's mother.
About her own daughter. About the girl
who had been her little girl, bone of her
bone, flesh of her flesh, suckled at her
breast. It was the cruel bitter things she
said about her. It was the way she took
that dead memory and stained it and
maimed it.
Sad years.
Solitary. After a time Jonquil ceased
to think much about it, came to accept it.
She reached the point when, on rare oc-
casions, some girl, some compassionate
warm woman, did make some friendly
overture to her, she drew away, resented
it. She was afraid of it. She was afraid
of hurt.
She just knew that she was- solitary.
That she was a misfit. She went solitary
to school and she came solitary home.
She helped with the spring cleaning, the
mending, the canning and pickling, the
general sewing, whatever happened to be
in process of work. And there was al-
ways something. There was never leisure,
never dalliance.
After awhile they didn't hurt any more,
the pin-pricks. After a time they lost
their power.
(Continued from page 33)
She noticed that her Grandmother's
nose and mouth seemed to be bending over
to meet one another ; she thought,
amusedjy, that she looked rather like the
pictures of the Witch of Endor . . . maybe
she was. . . .
She thought, now and again, of the
things she had planned to do when she
had first come to Three Trees. The
Jonquil never ceased to think that what her grand-
mother said was horrible. She talked so bitterly
about her own daughter
splendid games she would teach to some
of the girls she would particularly like
. . . most little girls, she found, didn't
imagine many things . . . they played
such gummy little games . . . but she
would teach them to imagine and they
would see that she was really a very
splendid sort of person . . . they would
see what she really was and would tell
their mothers and their mothers would
say to Grandmother Rogers, "What an
unusual child ... a darling ... I love
to have my little girl play with her, she
thinks such beautiful thoughts. . . ."
Once, passionately, Jonquil had told her
Grandmother that she knew she would
never "get away from it" and her Grand-
mother had got out the Bible and had
read her about "the sins of the fathers"
until Jonquil had cringed in reluctant
terror.
After all, Lillian de Vere had loved her
little girl . . . she had seized her and
held her against her cheaply perfumed
breast and there had been the warm blood
feel of a heart throbbing there . . . she
had wanted her to be happy, forlornly, but
really and passionately . . . and they
hadn't had threads for mouths, those
grease-painty people back-stage . . . they
had wept generously over their erring
dead and they had forgiven their erring
living with shrugs of the shoulders and
an "Oh, well . . . poor chap . . ."
But of course she hated them. They
had marked her so that "nice" girls and
their mothers drew aside their skirts and
wouldn't speak to her unless it might be
to say "Gooday, Jonquil, how is your poor
Gran'ma?" It was always as if they
pitied Grandmother because of her.
It was as if they hated her.
Funny.
On the stage they hadn't hated
her. That much was certain.
That had seemed, then, to be the
trouble. They had loved her in
their slobbery fashions. Ugh.
Like that character woman who
was forever kissing her hotly all
over her face as if she had never
kissed a little girl before and was
trying to get all the times she had
missed into that one time.
Of course, now, the nice girls
would never know how she had
wanted a front porch and a nice,
thin-lipped Grandma — and them.
No, when she cared so dread-
fully, during the time she cared so
much, when the pin pricks drew
little drops of blood, she wouldn't
have told them.
And then, later on, she didn't
care, any more. It was all too
much trouble. It was easier to
go home, slip into her own room
on the pretext of home-work, slip
off her stiff prissy clothes, slip
into a wrapper, stretch across the
bed reading the fiction stories in
the old magazines Elijah's wife
gave her from time to time.
Love stories. There was a door
... a channel . . . love might come
some day . . . slip in one of the
narrow crevices of her life . . .
set her free . . . ring out her
laughter ... fill her with roses
and sunshine. In lots of the
stories love came in the most im-
probable places, to the most im-
probable people. There was even
a saying . . . something about love
laughing at bolts and bars. ... If love
came, how supreme it would make her,
how triumphant she could be. . . .
But she was growing prettier. She
knew that. Even she could see the gentle
rhythm, the soft poetry of her own round-
ing breasts and lilting thighs. Her hair
was amber colored, too, with the hue of
dark honey . . . her skin was soft and in
the twilight her face drifted like a flower's
face . : . her mouth was clean-cut by day
but in the evening it became a soft blur
... a promise. . . .
When Jonquil was seventeen, all • of
Three Trees had narrowed and com-
pressed to her vision. It was as if it had
shrivelled and shrunk. Funny, but when
she walked down the shaded streets she
seemed to be walking down prickly,
sharp-pronged aisles that closed in upon
her at either side, hideously.
Oh, how could love find an entering
wedge here . . . here where no sap flowed
. . . where no blood ran . . . where people
were pale and chalky and streets were
narrow and hurt you. . . .
But love did get a foothold ... in the
spring. . . .
(End of Part Tzvo)
66
More Inside Facts About the Extra
MUIwd These frail, pitiful last dying in
ItitUtlOIM probably t urm-h keen amuse
incut fa the Great Po«
jungle Rea rn.i\ tano) •"> elephant I
time! But the aim oi these little clubi
ood, The policj ia pureh clvi< and
so-called communirj welfare wort
among motion picture people. But then
onh aim in the end li to lecure work foi
then members, regardless of what ii nid
to the contrary. Bui It ia thought that the
ta of such dubs, in tome
Instances, is so much apple
dumpling to the producera whose
troubles exceed in a minute ten .
times that of an actor in a week.
As ■ matter of fact, the pro V - '..
ducer is the maker, the creator X-,
of The Central Casting Bureau,
and. no doubt these same pro-
ducers grew damn sick and tired
of the rumpus constantly being excavated
by groups of radical extras. 1 know, I am
one of them.
But Few Are Chosen
Mow comes the great joke!
iy When Old Screen Service was laid
away in rosemary and The Central Cast-
ing Bureau made its first move in its
cradle, what had happened? The same
man and officers of the former Screen
Service are now the Big Guns of The
Central. Laugh that down. And the
names ! names ! and files went along
with the rest of the outfit. When you
go to a studio for work, you are
generally but firmly referred to The
Central; when you go to The Central,
you are assuredly and roughly and
crudely told to go to the studio and
get your papers — a letter stating that
that certain studio wishes you to work
for it. Try and get it! Do they
kid themselves?
There are exceptions to the rule, many-
get work as of old, but they are well
known and have been "regulars" for a
long time. And of course, when a great
boiling mob is used, there are generally
the same number who form another line
which is called "Spec I" Meaning those
who go on speculation, hoping that most
all the people who are on regular call
will not be there to get their tickets or
checks. It is funny, too, most every
"spec" believes that he will get a job, get
another's ticket, he likes to kid himself.
The system for getting work now is
all done by the telephone. You call into
the offirce and give your name ! name ! and
the operator repeats it to the long line of
casting directors. If you are properly
registered and have good standing in all
ways, then, you may get a job. But most
of the time it is, "Nothing in yet !" Some-
times it is "Line's busy !" It is stated
that an average of over six thousand
(6,000) calls go into The Central Office
daily. Can you imagine the magnitude,
the problems and difficulties arising under
and over such sad conditions ?
To the person planning a picture
career via the extra train, I would say
that it is almost impossible to become
registered at The Central Office, where the
greater part of work is obtained. In fact,
a registration may be had, but that does
not give you work — you can be killed in
the files ! '
This is not because officials want it that
way. or because it is their choice. But
it is purely a matter of statistical, busi-
ness necessity. It is said that if every
person worked in pictures who is regis-
fOQ4 23 )
tcred. or who desires t,, WOrlt, then, therr
WOUld he less tli.in tttlv QOllari ($ I
made annually pet i.ipita. And ti
is that the desirable list o( people, those
who are le.illv depending on picturei l"'
a living, must Ik- assorted and fiver the
to
those who
constituted and
equipped to till
most any demand
made in picture
uork.
A
D
This young girl
is disillusioned.
She forgot to
remember
And Still They Come
espite all this, the fifty thousand folk
still march on to nowhere, over this
road or under that bridge — bridge of
sighs ! And each trial, each effort to
break thru, only inspires those behind the ■
scenes (the powers that are) to fasten
more securely the doors that lead to fame
and future and fortune ; to shut more
coldly the gates wherein the world seems
bent upon seeking — the studio. No doubt
if studio gates were thrown open to the
public, it would take o»e half the world to
escort the other half "around the lots and
sets, the studio ground with its quaint-
looking, half-shelled outbuildings and
ruins. I believe all progress would cease.
Not long ago, near Washington Boule-
vard, just inside a certain studio fence,
there were some scenes to be made —
"shot." This set could be seen clearly
from the boulevard. Would you believe
that in less than an hour about one thou-
sand automobiles had stopped, and. people
were going mob-mad to get a peep? The
police were called to clear the traffic
which was piling up like a foreign debt.
Just one thimbleful of human ants!
But back to the other truths again.
Perhaps much could be said about the
present system of casting people for pic-
tures, extra talent, I mean. Some people
would never be pleased with anything, any
n "i device Hut I must u
in pfa tures . tlir n
all the help it needs and that mil' h
And it V'ii . are • that
.kIvkc, do not t"tget that • told
not to t' ■ member.
They Forget to Remember
I to await
the new angle oi I he itral
Bureau. It is only a be
\\ ith proper nursing and kidding it may
grow Up and prove a wonderful thing.
So far, the organization has d<
good. The officials arc trying hard to do
their best. And if it is a bad thing, an
improper way to handle the future situa-
tion, only strict and rigid enforcement of
that present method will either elim-
inate it or keep it in force. But it
might be said that if The Great
Central Office is ever discontinued,
then, many, many agents will enter
the business of getting jobs for
extra talent. Yes, they'll probably
hang a sign on their doors reading
something like this : "We guarantee
you a job when you register with
us! If we fail to get a job for you
— we'll pay one thousand dollars!"
It sounds good, but sound is all. In
the old days, however, Screen Ser-
vice was the ruling monarch in get-
ting work for extra talent. It was
a power. It will never be that
power again.
Indeed, it is highly improbable
that The Central Office will be dis-
continued. And if it were, there
would be castes, clubs and "so-
cieties" which would turn the extra
talent forces into a red revolution,
ves, even more so than they are now.
And this is the TRUTH.
Nothing But the Truth
""The Brewster Publications are, of
course, world-renowned for their
policy of strictly and rigidly following
the roads of Truth. And there is a cer-
tain trade journal published in the vicinity
of Hollywood which also has the same
policy. And not very long ago this trade
journal published an editorial which
struck the "extra" squarely in the guts.
It is so truthful, so good, therefore it ia
necessary to quote it. As follows :
"THE QUITTER"
"A piece of news has just reached us
to the effect that an 'extra' is quitting the
movies. This fact in itself is insignifi-
cant, since many extras starve out daily
and sink back into that oblivion from
which they sprung. But behind this sur-
render lurks a story, a story which em-
bodies a moral for every' boy and girl
entering the game.
"The extra mentioned typifies the high-
est standard of American manhood. He
is an upstanding, two-fisted chap in the
prime of youth ; one who followed his
own barrage into the jaw of hell upon
the firing line ; he is a graduate of our
best universities, a student of law, a legit-
imate actor and a journalist of merit. A
year ago he joined the ranks of extras,
being told that picture producers were
ever on the lookout for talent and ability
— that the man on the bridge could de-
tect a mile away the periscope of genius.
'Well ! He joined the movie ranks,
has spent a year weltering and poking up
his periscope. Now, he is quitting. Not
(Continued on page 73)
67
HOLLYWOOD'S UNION JACK CLUB
George K. Arthur
a lightweight. At the same time it can
be said of Pauline Garon and Marie Pre-
vost (Canada), Eileen Percy (Ireland)
and Flora le Breton (England), that they
rarely fail to come up to the scratch.
Scions of the Empire
In addition to Mary Pickford, most fa-
mous daughter of the historic family of
Smiths, Canada sponsored the birth of
Norma Shearer and Claire Adams ; while
Australia, not content with its mustach-
ioed masterpiece, Marc McDermott, free-
handedly threw in Louise Lovely and
Enid Bennett. England's quota, in addi-
tion to those whose names have been men-
tioned, includes players of every con-
ceivable type, notably Charlie Chaplin,
George K Arthur. Henrv Vibart. Flora
Finch, Gibson Gowland, the late David
Powell, the brothers Torrence, and Doro-
thy_ Mackaill.
Charlie, ot course, received the best
education in the world — in the tough
school of life — but most of the British-
born stars prefer to keep the secret of
where they picked up the ABC and any
other smatterings of knowledge they may
have acquired. Only four confess to an
education at the great English Public
Schools, which as everybody knows are
so-called owing to the exclusive and
aristocratic nature of their clientele. The
four are Alec Francis (Uppingham
School), Cyril Chadwick (Brighton Col-
(Continued from page 39)
lege), Wyndham Standing (St. Paul's,
London) and Ralph Forbes (Denstone).
And with these carefully nurtured beings
we can write "finis" to the long tale of
Hollywood's Union Jack Club.
Their Early Vicissitudes
IWJost of the British picture players in
1 Hollywood are now generally re-
garded as thoroly successful people, but
some interesting stories could be told of
the years many of them spent in their
native land, struggling for the recogni-
tion that would not come, England, which
has provided far more stars and featured
players of Hollywood than any other
country except America, easily takes bot-
torn, place among all the nations for abil-
ity to pick the winners. For years the
British film industry, which has nev#r
Victor McLaglen
Ronald Colman
flourished since the war, has been trying
to lay the blame for its failure on the
lack of stars. In actual fact the number
of Britishers who have succeeded in
America points to there being more star
material in proportion to the population
of England than to that of any other
country.
Thomas Meighan, who for years has
ranked among the highest-paid stars in
the world, spent his early days walking
on and playing bits in the west end of
London. But no manager ever took any
notice of him, so he gave up trying to es-
tablish himself in England and came to
New York, where he made good. Ronald
Colman is another who strove in vain for
a chance in London, until Henry King
chose him to play in "The White Sister"
in Italy, when he immediately scored a
hit with the American public.
Another similar case is Percy Marmont,
who, with a style all his own, has found
his services in constant demand since he
became known in Hollywood. Altho he
did much valuable work in connection
with repertory theaters in England, he
never met with any degree of financial
success. Finally, in desperation to earn
some money, he came to New York to try
his luck.
There, however, he still found fortune
unfavorable for some months. He could
get no work, but succeeded in arousing
the interest of Small, the casting agent,
whose faith in him was so great that he
paid his fare to Hollywood. Marmont
was chosen to play Mark Sabre in "If
Winter Comes," and he returned to Eng-
David Torrence
land to make some scenes for this pic-
ture, having developed in a few month.*-
from an unknown repertory actor to a
miniature star.
Stars of Two Countries
TThe story of these men is the story of
many another Englishman who has
found success here after years of vain
attempts in his own country. Tho it is a
highly difficult task to obtain recognition
in this country on stage or screen, it is a
hundred times as difficult in London,
where impresarios are, as a rule, constitu-
tionally opposed to taking a gamble on a
new discovery.
On the other hand, in a few cases Eng-
lish players, who have migrated to Holly-
wood, were already well known and suc-
cessful in England. Clive Brook, for
instance, was probably the most popular
male star in England two or three years
ago. Originally intended for the army,
he succumbed to the lure of movie acting
and has never met with any serious re-
verses in his chosen career. He played
leading roles in England for years, but
never faltered in his determination to
come to America as soon as an opportu-
nity presented itself. In his unhindered
progress he bears comparison with his
namesake of the famous Tennysonian
poem.
Fortune was on his side, for he was
chosen to play opposite Betty Compson
in the big British picture, "Woman to
Woman," and on the strength of his per-
( Continued on fane 85)
Clive Brook
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unusual happening in their locality. They
do not receive a regular salary, but in-
stead they are paid space rates — so much
per word or per column of space they fill.
Newsreels are similarly organized.
They have their regulars, their district
men, and their "correspondents," the latter
paid by the foot only for pictures which
are used. Main offices are in New York,
but there are branch offices, with regular
local staffs in Chicago, Philadelphia, San
Francisco, St. Louis and other large cities.
In the important centers of Europe, offices
are also maintained.
In the foreign offices, natives are em-
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charge to receive
directions from the
central office. Thus
in China, Chinese
cameramen are em-
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Romans are used,
because a native,
knowing his own
country best, is al-
ways awake to any
novelty that might
appeal to the dis-
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of film goers.
(Continued from page 21)
The precious film, after it was sent
by plane from Kona to Honolulu, was
placed aboard the steamer Matsonia
for San Francisco. The prints were
made there from one of the negatives
for distribution on the Pacific Coast while
the other was placed aboard an airplane
and flown to the International studio in
New York.
Early in his career a newsreel photog-
rapher is impressed with two important
facts, one, that he must get his picture,
and secondly, that he must rush the nega-
tive back with all possible speed. I com-
pared the organization of the newsreel
with that of the newspaper, but there the
Speed and Ac-
curacy Are the
Watchwords
"The pictures of
the eruption of
Mauna Loa, the
Hawaiian volcano,
are a striking ex-
ample of what this
remarkable organi-
z a t i o n accom-
plishes. When
Mauna Loa first
began to rumble,
the International
Newsreel cabled its
co rrespondents,
Walter J. Tomi-
naga and John F. v
Stone in Honolulu,
and Frank K. Cody in Hilo, to proceed to
the island, more than three hundred miles
away, where the volcano is located. But
it was several days before the eruption
took place. Meanwhile, the New York
office had arranged for a seaplane to go
from Honolulu to Hilo on the Island of
Hawaii whence it afterward flew over-
land to Kona, across 'the Island.
There Jiave been few sights more im-
pressive in pictures than the view of
Mauna Loa in action, a mountain more
than thirteen thousand feet high, its top
torn away and clouds of dense smoke and
flame rising from its peak. As the great
flaming river of lava, some three miles
wide and one hundred feet high, rolled over
the mountain side, inhabitants fled before
it, and whole towns were wiped out.
But the news cameramen pushed closer
up the mountainside down which the lava
poured. At Hoopuloa they stopped to
photograph the mighty spectacle. At one
point the lava stream, more than forty
feet high, advanced with such rapidity
that the men were forced to flee for their
lives and tho they all escaped death, one
man was severely burned. A convincing
proof of the grimness of the scene was
the picture that one of the photographers
caught showing his colleagues running
from the flames, each weighed down by a
sixty-pound camera.
The newsreel cameraman was "Johnny-on-the-spot" during
flood in 1913. More than seven hundred lives were lost
dollars in property destroyed
comparison ends. Tho the reporter can
get his information from people who have
been on the scene of an accident, the
photographer must actually be there when
it occurs. He cant tell about it ; he must
have it on the film. If there is gun firing
in military operations, he must be close
enough to get a picture of it. And after
the picture is taken, he cannot, as the re-
porter can, telephone or wire the news.
He must send the film itself.
Spare No Expense
"I-1 he cameramen are instructed that no
expense must be spared in rushing pic-
tures. When they leave for an important
assignment they are given enough money
to cover all expenses. When Robert
Donahue, a Pathe photographer, was sent
to northern Ontario to get pictures of
newly discovered gold mines, he engaged
an airplane for $400 to shoot scenes from
the air. "If there is an obstacle that
money can overcome, pay for it," seems
to be a slogan.
It is obvious, from all this, that news-
reels must cost a great deal of money.
And they do, tho the scenery is free, and
no actors are required. Emanuel Cohen,
editor of the Pathe Newsreel, explained
why.
"A modern feature picture shows its
cost, but the cost of production of a news-
reel is not always apparent from the re-
sults," Mr. Cohen said. "We use only
about ten per cent, of the material we go
after. Ninety per cent, represents stories
covered in all parts of the world that seem
big when they happen, tho they dwindle
immediately and are not worthy of re-
lease, or they are less important than
other events that may happen in the mean-
time. When you see the newsreel in your
theater, it is not the production of that
reel you have to consider, but the material
that has not even been included in it. A
newsreel that is an accurate record of
world events costs big sums of money to
produce."
Three Types of
Pictures
Mews pictures are
of three types
— the accidental,
the anticipated and
the scheduled, Mr.
Cohen pointed out.
In the first class
belongs sudden
news like the Santa
Barbara earth-
quake, or the
Shenandoah dis-
aster. In the second
are those events
which occur as a
natural result of
preceding events.
Mr. Cohen sug-
gested that the
Smyrna fire in 1922
was such an event,
for tho no one
could have pre-
dicted the fire, any-
one who had kept
track of the war
between the Turks
and the Greeks
knew that some
tragic occurrence
would be the out-
come.
In the class of
scheduled events are the inauguration of a
president, the opening of a World's Series,
the Yale-Harvard football game, the
Scopes trial, the arrival of a steamer^
beauty parades and the like. Since these
events occur in all parts of the world, it is
imperative that the news film have repre-
sentatives stationed everywhere.
No matter where an event occurs, be
sure there is some news photographer
within reach of that place. Film editors
have in their offices extensive maps, show-
ing in detail the tiniest town in the most
remote corner of the earth and the pho-
tographer stationed near there. No one
knows where the next picture will break.
Besides the maps, the editor's offices are
equipped with charts showing the trans-
portation resources ; the railroads, the air-
planes available, power boats, automobiles,
steamers and their sailing dates. That is
how it is possible to show within twenty-
four or forty-eight hours after they occur
events of national and international im-
portance. Sometimes the film travels in
laboratory trains or ships where it can be
developed while it is being shipped.
When Robert E. Peary discovered the
North Pole in 1909, it took five months
for the news of his achievement to reach
this country. But when Byrd hopped off
on May 9, 1926, the world knew about it
(Continued on page 74)
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BIG VIC a Soldier of Fortune
(Continued from page 49)
A scene from "The
Fighting Heart" in
which McLaglen
played the role of
a prize-fighter
A Crazy-Quilt Career
"T was born in England, the son of an
* Anglican Bishop, whose see was in
South Africa. I was one of five brothers,
all close to me in age, nearly as big as
myself. When I was fourteen, the Boer
War broke out in Africa. I was nearly
six feet tall then. I was crazy to go in,
and I ran away and enlisted in the Queen's
Guards at Windsor. I suppose you might
say I have been an adventurer ever since.
That was my first xbig thrill. My last,
nearly a quarter of a century later, oc-
curred when I met Commodore J. Stuart
Blackton in a London club after the Great
War, and he started me in the motion
pictures. There were many great adven-
tures during that long interval. Many
far stranger than any I have gone thru
for the camera. Too many almost to
tell. . . ."
With the Royal Guards in
Africa, the boy McLaglen
served thru several stubbornly
fought campaigns. He
got the hard school-
ing of the British
Tommy. He had
no real direction
except the desire
of his whole
powerful body
for danger and
chance. It is a
life described
best in the
verses o f
Kipling or
A. E. Hous-
man :
/ will go where
I am want-
ed, for the
sergeant does
not mind;
He may be
sick to see
me, but he
treats me
very kind
/ will go where
I am wanted,
where there's
room for one or
two,
And the men are
none too many for the
work there is to do,
Where the standing line wears
thinner and the dropping
dead lie thick,
And the enemies of England,
they shall see me and be
sick.
When he had served out
his enlistment, Victor set
out for Canada and during
his knockabout life in the
Dominion joined the wild
rush to the Cobalt silver
mines. Wandering, the
lure of precious metal, the
changing fortunes of each
new day, the life in the
frontier lands — this was
all the strapping youth
cared for in a prosaic age.
In the rough company of
the mining camps, he, with
his herculean size and
strength, could always
care for himself in a fair
fight and hew his own way
toward a quick fortune.
But with neither gold nor
other man down. Well, his jobs with the
circus consisted of rising each night from
the audience and challenging the profes-
sional boxer and wrestler, one "Monsieur
Duval," and giving him the scrap of his
life. The sight of the hulking beetle-
browed young stranger rising from the
crowd to dare on the professional always
provided excitement, if not always decep-
tion. McLaglen developed as a profes-
sional athlete and, taking an engagement
with his partner, toured Canada in those
rough and tumble days from coast to coast.
One day in Tacoma, Washington, a
group of sporting people became interested
in him and urged him to be the White
Hope against Jack Johnson. He trained
and took on the Black soon after for a
six - round, no - decision affair. Victor
stayed, but he did not stay as a prize-
fighter. He took a fling at professional
wrestling and managed to pin the cele-
brated Dr. Roller of Seattle for a fall.
Victor felt the call of the road again
and soon he was en tour, this time with
his brother Arthur, across the Pacific,
stopping for professional performances in
Hawaii, the South Sea Islands, finally in
Australia.
Adventures In and Out of War
""There he ran full tilt into another young
gold-rush. He threw over his vaude-
ville engagement and joined the race for
Captain McLaglen presents himself and his favorite
mount on duty in Mesopotamia during the great war
Another scene from "The Fighting Heart."
how big Vic towers over the others
Note
silver was he rewarded.
Starving, the youth wan-
dered back to the fringes
of civilization, and with
his wanderlust still un-
abated, he hooked up
with a traveling circus
troupe known as the J.
W. Parker Carnival
Company.
Fights Jack Johnson
I— I ere began one of the
most colorful epi-
sodes of McLaglen's
crazy-quilted career.
You must remember that
he weighed over two-
hundred pounds and in
his soldiering and min-
ing life he had learned
much about how to han-
dle his fists and put the
the interior to Kalgoorlie, in the general
excitement. Another chance to hew out
a quick fortune ! He came out of this
wiser and poorer, after months of har-
rowing experiences, in rags, his tongue
hanging out. He had nearly died of star-
vation in the desert ; he had nearly been
murdered by the savage Bushmen.
Back to the vaudeville tour and the
nightly strong-man act ! His route took
him round the world thru the East Indies,
Ceylon, India and then to South Africa.
"The wanderlust was still strong in me,"
said McLaglen. "Some men never get
over it. I had nearly had my fill of hard-
ships and adventures, when another break
came. It was August, 1914, when we
landed in Capetown. We learned that a
great war had broken out in Europe."
McLaglen took to sea at once for Eng-
land. There was one of those solemn
family reunions of the five McLaglen
(Continued on page 78)
72
More Inside Facts About
the Extra
(ContinuiJ from pagt 67)
because' he >* beaten' Ui, no I rh« men
who bland our trails tcrou t>»- Missis
lippi, broke the backbone ol ■> continenl
.nul carved an empire from th<- wilder-
nets; lhe men whose ions cleared the
■me and ->t.mii>otl success upon the
flag of failure, could iu>t. and can'l be
beaten This bo* is not whipped, i>ut he
ii taming Ms back upon a profession
which is racking the heart's blood from
the beat boys and «irls In America He
has watched them come, buoyed up with
hope, .nul -t.n to drink the dregs oi black
despair tie has seen them -te|> down
from their high estate and. hollow-eyed
and hungry hearted, choose the path which
promised easy conquest.
Now. he is quitting— while he still has
it in him to quit. He is returning to the
old home town, to the toil-scarred loom
of life upon which so many great Amer-
icans have woven their Master's plan of
destiny. It may not sound heroic, but it
takes a strong man to turn his back while
the siren beckons forward. This boy is
going back, only one of the thirty thou-
sand extras who are searing their wings
in the golden dawn of a screen career.
And it's a pity to- see him cross the moun-
tains alone. Twenty -five thousand other
extras might follow him, back to the
farm and the old home comforts, and the
industry would be better for it."
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day, somewhere, somehow, I will quit this
extra game — to play a better one.
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"Then, it reverts back again to our
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on the following day, and twenty days
later, motion pictures of his feat were
being shown on Broadway. In these days
of speedy accomplishment, twenty days
may sound like a long time, but not when
one considers the distance covered and the
difficulties overcome. And this is how the
pictures were rushed to New York : rep-
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ports and the film was relayed by char-
tered boats and planes from man to man
until they were safely conveyed to South-
ampton in time to reach a steamer sailing
for New York, and at noon, Friday, May
27, the pictures arrived at quarantine 1
Endured Hardships
TT hat's the story, told in as few words
as possible. But if you wanted to
know as I did, the more personal side of
it, this is what you would be told : our
American photographers were exposed to
the same biting frosts, the identical condi-
tions that Commander Byrd endured — but
they weren't made national heroes. Tho
the crew of the Chantier, the official boat
of the North Pole expedition, was permitted
to land at Spitzbergen, the cameramen
were not allowed to photograph the land-
ing of Byrd from the shore. But that
was what they had come all the way from
New York to get. Something had to be
done and done quickly. So Robert Dona-
hue, Leslie Wyand and Willard Vander-
veer, Pathe cameramen, lashed an ice-
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point ! These men lived for twenty-one
days in the perpetual daylight of the
Arctic summer. They were not only
photographers, they became members of
the crew. They helped assemble the
Fokker and shifted coal like anyone else.
At any hour they had to be ready to
work, tho their fingers were numb and
their cameras frozen. In their little plane
nicknamed Yellow Peril they took shots
of Byrd's plane from the air. (The actual
pictures of the Pole were taken for Pathe
only by Commander Byrd, of course.)
Once Donahue barely escaped death when
the radiator of the Yellow Peril broke
and froze in mid-air.
Donahue deserves a story all to himself.
A little, wiry Irishman, he is given the
toughest news assignments in the Pathe
organization. Even a wife and children
cant keep him from skimming all over the
world in search of pictures. He has been
to Iceland, Greenland, Labrador and all
points north, east, south and west. Dona-
hue had just returned from the gold dis-
covery at Ontario when he was told to
get himself some heavy clothing for the
North Pole trip. Within two days he
was ready to sail. He tells this story
about himself with great relish. He
breezed into town one day, having been
away on a five months' assignment, and
telephoned his wife that he would be home
shortly. His family was overjoyed to
hear from him. Two hours later he tele-
phoned 'again.
"I'm sorry I won't be able to come," he
said, "but I have 1 :> leave right away for
Scotland."
Last year Donahue had a vacation, the
first in two years. Anyone would expect
him to spend it lolling around and doing
nothing. No. He packed Mrs. Donahue
and the children into an automobile, and
they rode into Canada and back, a trip of
fourteen hundred miles.
Insured by Lloyd's
YY/hen the American news cameramen
left for the North Pole, they were
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an understanding when it comes to caring
for their photographers. One official ad-
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preferred not to insure the lives of cam-
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wish to discuss the subject.
"It is clear," he said, "that the camera-
man must take great risks to obtain a pic-
ture. Occasionally one is killed or severely
injured, but most of the men seem
to have charmed lives. They expose
themselves to all sorts of dangers and get
away with it. I dont believe the death
rate is any higher than among men of any
other profession. And no matter what
the attitude the insurance companies take
toward them, the film companies feel a
personal responsibility for the men in
their employ."
Dangers Everywhere
"Pharmed lives." Most assuredly, else
how could they take the chances they
do? There was the photographer, who
just for an exclusive stunt, flew an air-
plane thru the Grand Canyon a few years
ago, in the face of a certain and terrible
death, thousands of feet below, should any
part of his machine so much as brush up
against the walls of stone that closed in
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And there was the cameraman who flew
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of the smoking Mount Etna for pictures
of its seething interior. And the man who
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And the fellow who caught some magnifi-
cent shots of a tornado in action.
There is also John A. Bockhorst, whose
own bravery as a cameraman was as dis-
tinguished as that of the man he photo-
graphed. When Sergeant Randall Bose,
in order to make a scientific experiment,
dropped eighteen hundred feet before open-
ing his parachute, Bockhorst, seated on a
wooden bar with nothing but space before
him leaned forward to catch the spectacular
fall, as oblivious of his own precarious
position as if he sat in an armchair by a
fireside.
This same Bockhorst was once covering
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Force sixty miles off Nicaragua when
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brothers, Victor, Arthur, both back from
their world tour, Fred from Winnipeg,
Leo from China, and Clifford from
Africa. All but Fred, who was killed in
East Africa, survived to hold another re-
union.
Victor was given a commission as first
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went training again for the new type of
trench warfare. The regiment was not
up to full war strength and there were
weeks of waiting. Then McLaglen was
sent down to London to act as recruiting
officer. In one week he enlisted six-
hundred men.
A
Excitement in India
nother turn of the wheel found him
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crossed the seas again for Bombay on
the way to the Near-Eastern front, where
he was assigned to the Royal Irish Fusi-
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his time between hunting and preparing
to go to the front. At Poona he made the
acquaintance of a great prince, the Rajah
of Alcacot. They became fast friends,
the Indian potentate admiring the gigantic
Englishman. McLaglen remained as a
guest at the palace of the young prince.
There were strange days and nights in
the land of the Brahmans. Some terrible,
some funny.
"I was the only white man in a radius
of six hundred square miles, and some
inhabitants had never seen a white man
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to take a walk, after returning from an
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" 'What are you doing ?' I had for-
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It wasn't my last, but it was by far the
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success, and before long the erstwhile
globetrotter and soldier of fortune found
gold in a new kind of adventure. His
rise to leading roles since coming to
America has been unusually rapid.
You have come to know his scowling
face and violent frame in "The Hunted
Woman," "The Fighting Heart," and lat-
terly in "Men of Steel," with Milton
Sills.
It is a placid and world-weary adven-
turer that you see now around the hills of
Hollywood in his big car. Recently there
was a call from the old days. In his
claim-staking period he had clung to a
piece of ground in the Mojave Desert.
Word was flashed to him that gold had
been struck there. But Victor is world-
wise now, and stuck right to Fox Hills
while he had his partner work the claim.
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But not tl opportunity. And
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person telling another to -t.»> awaj from
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other person intends to open a ba
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Impressions of Hollywood
ntinutd from page 44)
I say garden?— and the long dining-table
about eighteen inches from the grass
t. unly was cleverlj arranged and deco-
rated. As 1 stood .mil watched the hungry
little chaps ami girlies sail into the dain-
I felt like Gulliver among the Lilli-
putians. Mildred Davis was, ol course,
the hostess, and a very charming one.
She Likes Him
There seems to be no doubt of the fact
that the heart of Pola Negri is very
warm for Valentino, and that he is her
first choice of all men, hut there is con-
siderable doubt about the reciprocal rela-
tions. Rudy had many admirers among
those he admires, but he is apparently
heart- tree, which does not at all please
Pola, who proves it by slapping his face
occasionally.
Long Live the King
LIknrv Kim, is long, lean and lanky, and
* * with his present bronze complexion
and seated on his horse he looks like a
farmer, in spite of his horn-rimmed
glasses and immaculate Panama. And he
talks something like one. being a Virginian.
But he certainly can direct ! "The White
Sister," "Tol'able David" and "Stella
Dallas" are the Derbies he has won, and
now it looks as it "Barbara Worth" will
be another. And yet, this same man did
"Komola." which apparently lowers the
average considerably in spite of the won-
derful atmosphere and art in that picture.
I asked Henry about that and he proved
a perfect alibi. It seems there was a law-
suit on at the finish and poor Henry was
not let in on the final editing, titling and
cutting, which, a;- we all know, practically
ruined the picture.
Prize Love Scenes
AlfONG the be-t love scenes we have seen
^^ during the pa>t year might be men-
tioned those between Colman and Banky
in "The Dark Angel," Valentino and Banky
in "The Eagle," and Valentino and Banky
in "The Son of the Sheik." which indi-
cates that Yilma is holding her own among
the American sweethearts, altho we must
not forget Gilbert and Murray in "The
Merry Widow." Gilbert and Adoree in
"The Big Parade." Lyon and Sweet in
"The Xew Commandment," Xagel and
Boardman in "The Only Thing," and Gil-
bert and Gish in "La Boherae." Gilbert
seems to have the best batting average
among the great lovers.
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its early theater scenes — with the various
acts dissolving into one another. I an-
ticipated a healthy plot, but it is soon
dissipated. It degenerates into a large
slice of hokum — when the girl appreciates
that her Tartar lover is a diamond out of
the rough.
Valentino Comes Back
All doubt about Rudolph Valentino fail-
■^ ing to get back upon his erstwhile
pedestal evaporates when under the spell
of his personality in "Son of the Sheik."
This is a true chip of the old block — and
the Italian star knew what he was about
when he decided to return to his favorite
and most adaptable role.
It is a vivid performance he gives — a
spirited, carefully wrought performance.
Once more he rides recklessly over the
landscapes — once more he makes passion-
ate love, balanced with passionate hate
toward the object of his devotion. And, to
add spice to the seasoning, he even doubles
as the original sheik who has become full
of years.
Plenty of Action and Color
Mo one can deny that the picture has
animation and color. There is a "snap
and go" about it the minute the sheik gets
into the clutches of the desert pirates.
He believes his beloved has betrayed him
to the enemy. Consequently, he metes out
revenge upon her. After kidnaping her
he discovers that she has played on the
level with him. So his anger gives way
to avowals of undying love.
Valentino "goes Fairbanks and Mix" in
the manner which he conducts himself.
Any editor who imagines he is of the
powder-puff species need look no further
than this film to realize that the star
carries on like a he-man. He mixes up
in fights — and is agile and athletic enough
to pass muster with an audience of lum-
berjacks.
The plot is not so much, but it never
fails to keep one interested. It is well
timed, the scenes racing along with the
« necessary punch. As for the atmosphere
— well, it comes up to requirements, the
desert backgrounds and detail suggesting
the real thing.
A First-Rate Take-Off
There's a first-rate take-off on the ro-
mance of primitive love in the open
spaces in "Mantrap," adapted from Sin-
clair Lewis' novel of the same name. It
shows right smart imagination on the
part of the director in getting away from
the stereotyped conventions. There is no
lurking villain, nor any vengeful husband.
Indeed, the big backwoodsman accepts his
wife's flirtations as something a part of
her nature — something which cannot be
remedied.
This is an "about face" for such a type
of story. It could have reeked with melo-
drama— with the hokum generating a deal
of hectic action. Instead, it is treated with
humanities — and more than a sparkle of
humor.
It serves in bringing Clara Bow right
up into the spotlight. She has never been
so happily cast. She flavors her role with
all the whims and fancies of the irre-
pressible flapper. Not far behind her in
the realism of his acting is Ernest Tor-
rence as the backwoods husband. He once
again relies upon his inimitable gestures
and expressions to humanize the character.
The Drama of Molten Metal
Qikce his "Sea Hawk" days, Milton Sills
has been developing in histrionic stat-
ure. In "Men of Steel" he has a rugged
drama — which sings an elemental song of
capital and labor, of strife and love, of
raw ore — and men in the raw. It is a
rambling plot — one quite involved, yet the
spectator must look beyond its ramifica-
tions and search for the theme — which
concerns the making of a man.
There's a fine background of steel mills,
the picture having been "shot" around
Birmingham, Alabama, in order to capture
a realistic atmosphere. As the Southern
city is another Pittsburgh, one must pay
credit to the authenticity of its scenes.
A Character Study
IWIolten metal is the moving spirit, tho
the onlooker will doubtless discover
the broad symbol behind it — which pre-
sents the inarticulate but forceful steel
work going thru the crucible of a refin-
ing process as it concerns his soul.
The melodramatic leanings of the plot
emphasize the atmospheric backgrounds.
These include vivid close-ups of giant
cranes, furnaces, flaming ore and mighty
shovels. One could not help but appre-
ciate that this is something of a titanic
drama — which offers life in the raw — life
which gives much and takes little.
If it is artificial, it is in those scenes of
the steel worker's abrupt change when he
becomes affluent. It hardly seems likely
that he would become so immaculate with-
out some experience in deportment. Yet
this is an insignificant trifle in the virile
acting by Sills.
"The Sea Hawk" gave him the neces-
sary confidence in himself to strike out
for big things. He is now making good in
a type of role that is right up his street.
Other good performances are rendered by
Doris Kenyon, Victor McLaglen and
George Fawcett.
Intelligent Treatment
(~)nce in a while a picture bobs up which
is seemingly treated as if its audience
is intelligent. Such a picture is "Pad-
locked," a rugged, honest piece of cellu-
loid drama. The theme of parental mis-
understanding of a child is worked out
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conveniences, this stressing does not hin-
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One will see the daughter of a stern
and hypocritical bigot — a man whose heart
is padlocked against her tender sentiment
and emotions as the central figure. Her
mother understands her, but upon the
latter's death her new stepmother helps
her father in making her cross an ex-
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It is not a tale of sweetness and light
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The film surely serves in establishing
Lois Moran as an actress who must be
reckoned with in the future. She con-
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bitter girl fighting to win a freedom of
expression. And sympathy is engendered
from the start for her.
A well-balanced cast aids in no small
way in whipping this plot into something
approaching a slice of life.
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The Fine Art of Falling
{Continued from page 41)
"you learned to let your body go limp
the minute you were tackled. It's the
same in taking a fall. Never have your
muscles taut. That means almost certain
injury. Relax as you fall, and you're in
little danger.
"Break the shock of the fall with either
your hands, your shoulders, or your hips.
Be careful not to let your elbows or knees
slam against the ground or you'll get
some mighty painful bruises. And, above
all things, guard your spine ! That is the
one big danger spot, and failure to guard
it thoroly can easily result in very serious
injury."
Standard Falls
"Then, the preparations completed, Billy
went thru three standard falls while the
speed camera clattered away at a break-
neck pace, and vibrated so strongly that it
took both assistants to hold it firmly in
place on its tripod. The three falls were
the "Forward," the "Backward," and the
"Hundred -and -Eight." The illustrations
show each of the three in detail.
THE BACKWARD. This is one of
the most used falls in comedy work, serv-
ing as the aftermath of a wallop on the
jaw, a brick on the skull, and other simi-
lar impulses. (1) The hands are spread
for balance, and the left foot is thrown
back to start a swift pendulum swing
forward. (2) As the body falls back-
ward, the hands prepare to take the im-
pact. (3) The hands and wrists strike
the ground as the feet leave it ; the left
foot has nearly completed its forward
swing. (4) At the end of the fall, the
shoulders take the impact from the hands,
and the feet fly high in the air, prepara-
tory to the final sprawl.
THE FORWARD. Again the left leg
is used as a pendulum, starting from well
in front of the body this time. (1) As the
left leg swings back, the body is thrown
forward. (2) For an instant, as the left
leg completes its swing, the right foot
leaves the ground and the entire body is
in the air. (3) The hands take the im-
pact. (4) The body goes limp and the
right shoulder takes the shock of the re-
mainder of the fall, while the face meets
the sod harmlessly.
THE "HUNDRED -AND -EIGHT."
This is the most spectacular and famous
of all comedy falls. It is so old and tradi-
tional a stunt that no one even remembers
where it got its unique name, tho one
Hollywood wag claims that it was named
in honor of the first hundred and eight
comedians who broke their necks trying
to do jt.
The left leg is again used as a pendu-
lum, being swung far back first, then (1)
far forward. (2) As the leg swings back
a second time, the body lurches forward.
(3) Midway in its swing, the body is
almost exactly parallel to the ground.
(4) The hands take the impact for a
second. (5) The head is tucked under,
the feet fly over, and the full shock is
taken on the shoulders. (6) The end of
the fall is eased by the left foot and hip.
Al and Lupino
J"1 wo other master craftsmen among
Hollywood's "fall comics" are found
over on the Educational Studio lot in the
persons of Al St. John and Lupino Lane.
St. John is a capable exponent of the
American style, Lane of. the English.
Lane comes from a long line of circus
and theatrical performers and his art has
literally been handed down to him from
his ancestors. Lane's act on the English
music hall and American vaudeville
stages consisted of an amazing number
of "traps," as they are called in England —
falls, dives thru "breakaways," etc.- — and
he had acquired a wonderful proficiency
in his work. Al St. John is a natural
born tumbler. Much of his prowess is
due to the amazing strength in his
arms, shoulders, and legs, and his great
agility.
"The secret of the successful fall, suc-
cessful in the sense that the comedian
escapes without broken bones or serious
bruises," St. John explains, "is the same
as that of the successful magician — the
hand is quicker than the eye. It is the
hands and arms of a tumbler which take
the jolt, in the same way that springs and
shock-absorbers function on an automo-
bile.
"The fall is broken by the hands and
the strain comes upon the arms and shoul-
der muscles while they are checking the
descent of the body. In reality, the body
does not hit the floor as hard as it appears
to, but it hits plenty hard, at that! The
arms and shoulders in a successful fall
have checked the force enough that there
are no casualties among the bones. But
muscles must be hard and in excellent
condition, or bruises and stiffness are the
lot of the 'bumper.'
Watch Your Neck
"Defeated falls, checked by the hands,
soon make the wrists very sore. I
have worked when my wrists were so ten-
der that it was less painful to take the
bump full force than to try to check it
with my sore wrists and hands. Then it
was just a case of gritting my teeth and
taking it, depending on well-conditioned
muscles and well-cushioned bones to es-
cape injury."
Lane's instructions to the would-be
"bumper" contain the same general tech-
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hands, arms, or shoulders. Lane is also
an advocate of the "rolling fall," well
known to acrobats, for falling when run-
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The "rolling fall" is merely tucking the
head down, rounding the shoulders and
back, and keeping the knees, elbows, and
feet well out of the way while rolling and
tumbling. Lane is so expert at this type
of fall that he can dive thru a hoop held
at the level of his chin, land on his neck
or shoulders, roll like a hoop and come up
standing, all without disturbing an item
of his immaculate clothing, or even losing
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"'Victory,' which 1 saw recently, is one
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I like Jack Holt. He i> rather
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William Boyd was born in 1898; he is six
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{Continued from page 17)
is a clown or beggar, he is able to shrink
and quiver like the lowest toad. He is
absolutely unique. But generally we can
train players ourselves."
Murnau is convinced that there is great
material for the screen here to work with
in his own way. To find new "types" fills
him with pleasure. What a chance for
some of our film-struck children! Per-
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even, under the whip of a brilliant direc-
torial genius, as Irene Rich, for instance,
was glorified again under Lubitsch in
"Lady Windermere."
The first picture he will work on will
be based on "A Trip to Tilsit," a novel
by the daring Herman Sudermann, with
many interesting situations. This will be
done for Fox. Murnau should distinguish
himself ; everything he does will have his
own stamp, his own touch.
Screen authorities, who seldom come
near being in agreement, were almost unani-
mous in pronouncing "The Last Laugh" the
"greatest film ever made." Credit for this
and for Jannings' superb acting belong
almost wholly to Murnau. He spoke of it
with unconscious pride :
Talks of "The Last Laugh"
T wanted to try a story that you could
really tell in five words, an exceedingly
simple idea or situation ; but the range, the
feeling of the film which gave this story
was to be limitless in its power of under-
standing and dramatizing ideas. You can
tell the story of 'The Last Laugh' in a
sentence, but I wanted the emotions of its
central character to become something be-
yond the power of words to express. I
wanted the camera to picture shades of
feeling that were totally new and unex-
pected ; in all of us there is a subconscious
self which in a crisis may break out in the
strangest ways, and this picture at times
reached the subconscious man under his
hotel livery.
"The whole action of the thing pointed,
for instance, to the moment where Jannings
takes off his hotel uniform, so that as he
removed his coat with its brass buttons the
highest point of the drama was reached, a
drama that was purely visual. The type
of lighting and architecture we used helped
a great deal toward this effect ; everything
superfluous that did not help to carry on
the main idea was suppressed and thrown
out of the picture."
For his work here Murnau has brought
over his own architect, a young man
named Rochus Gliese, who has collabo-
rated with him in several pictures toward
getting the tripled intensity and directness
that he goes for.
"Faust," the large feature film over
which Murnau has been working for sev-
eral years, is to be distributed by Metro-
Goldwyn soon. It differs widely from
"The Last Laugh." It may be another
milestone in the progress of the cinema.
For one thing, it is drenched with atmos-
phere and color. It has been justly
heralded as having the most beautiful
photography. Murnau has handled his
camera as if it were a great Renaissance
painter, a Leonardo or an El Greco. For
another thing, it is a great story, a uni-
versal theme, handled with great origi-
nality.
Every red-blooded German has had a
yearning to do "Faust." It is part of the
native atmosphere ; it is somewhere in the
flavor of the good beer every German
drinks. It is the rollicking legend of a
bright, bold, bad man carrying out all his
wicked dreams, that has gripped the im-
agination for centuries. Those who know
their Goethe, or the opera of "Faust," will
find that Murnau has gone back to the
original sources of the legend to create
something particularly for the cinema.
"In this film," he said, "what interested
me most was the relation between each
scene or sequence. Every single shot has
an inevitable part in the movement of the
whole picture."
We were driving down-town now, to-
ward lunches, banquets, greetings of the
Mayor.
Issuing from the quiet, middle-class
halls of the great hostelry on Fifth Avenue
where Murnau seemed such an odd if
good-humored-looking giant, he had shown
only a single flash of temperament. This
was his demand for a certain luxurious
make of American car such as he owned
in Berlin. We suggested that it must only
be made in Germany.
We still talked movies. His views were
of unfailing interest.
Of Pictures and People
VY7hat did he think of "Variety" — the
hit of the moment, to the happy sur-
prise of all?
"Beautifully done. Photography, play-
ing, direction. The vaudeville stuff is de-
lightful. It was really planned with the
hope of an American success, and I am
very happy that it is going so well. Not
because it is a German film. I dont really
think that it marked a step forward for
the cinema. But it will improve the taste
of the. public, arouse them and interest
them in this type of work."
"Caligari"? "It was frankly an ex-
periment. It was aufregend (stimulating),
aroused wider interest in motion pictures,
showed what might be done."
Lubitsch? "A brilliant man. A most
interesting director. But I dont think he
has entirely cast off the influence of the
stage that we both got under Alax Rein-
hardt. Many of his films give you the
feeling of watching action on a stage."
Chaplin? "The genius of the screen.
His comedies have the most profound
appeal. He is always doing something ab-
solutely fresh and unconscious. There
were things in 'The Gold Rush' that were
revelations ; he is a fountain of cinematic
ideas. 'A Woman of Paris' was extreme-
ly interesting; but, of course, it was in
the European tradition."
This reminded me of something I had
almost passed up.
"And what do you think of — of — Amer-
ica? I really had to squeeze that in, you
know."
"Thoroly exciting," he laughed. "My
second visit, you know, but I am like a
child about it. There are wonderful types
here, wonderful faces. Tremendous en-
ergy. The whole tradition here suggests
speed, lightness, wild rhythms. Everything
is novel. Sensational. I was in Childs'
Restaurant last night. It was an amazing
place to me. Tonight I am going to Coney
Island. It must be barbarous there. I
would like to do a wild picture about
Alaska. What was that book they were
considering? Something like 'Frozen
Nights' or 'Frozen Lights.' It has won-
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{Continued from page 55)
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"The Flame of the Yukon." Not so long
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but still retains all screen rights, turned
clown an ofTer from Katterjohn of $65,000
to resell him this story.
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the great American writing public, every
member of which cherishes the idea that
the story of the average film play can be
dashed off casually between meals. A
brief synopsis was purchased from the
amateur writer for five or ten dollars. A
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Costello. The public was encouraged to
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well as other leading film companies of
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it is interesting to note the many-sided
aspects which the duties of a publicity
man took on in the days when illustrated
songs were the spice of the movie pro-
gram and producing companies had a
habit of firmly affixing to the walls of a
set in a most prominent position the
trade-mark of the organization. In the
ordinary routine of a day's work, the late
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special song in honor of the Vitagraph
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movie houses.
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able pictures produced in which gentlemen,
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stars. In 1910 the publicity department of
the Vitagraph Company issued its pub-
licity material, such as it was, to exactly
six papers. Not magazines or newspapers,
but those papers confined strictly to the
use of the exhibitor.
Remember When ?
Ami yet — those were the happy days.
•^ Days when audiences received the
polite information via a slide that "no
pipe smoking, stamping of feet or
whistling was allowed," when the film
would break just as the villain was about
to "get his," when each shot in the sce-
nario was measured before the scene was
filmed, in order not to waste footage,
when the effect of rain was achieved
thru the simple expedient of pin scratches
on the surface of the film, when Francis
Ford and Grace Cunard were king and
queen of the serial field, when Alice Joyce
and Guy Coombs were the "perfect lovers"
of the screen, when Lillian Walker wrs
known as "Dimples," when Mabel Nor-
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dramatic films were taken seriously, when
the brands familiar to screen devotees
were Kalem, Selig, Lubin, Essanay, when
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was
made in six hundred feet by Vitagraph,
when "Treasure Island" was filmed and
advertised as "a feature nearly in three
reels," when Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling,
Charley Murray, Mabel Normand and
Charley Chaplin appeared on the same
screen.
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William S. Hart, Dorothy Dalton, Mil-
dred Harris, Harold Lockwood, — when
Mack Sennett established a school for
custard-pie graduates and the inimitable
personality of Charley Chaplin made a
fortune for those pioneer producers,
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The Gentle Gypsy
{Continued from page 53)
But she didn't. The gentle gypsy, toy-
ing with lobster salad, and fresh from
"The Sorrows of Satan," bespoke a life
of vagabondage, a gypsy life, a man's
life . . . hardy and adventuresome and
free. . . .
"But, as you were not born a boy," we
persisted, never knowing when to let well
enough alone, "as you have got to be a
girl, in this incarnation at any rate, what
then?"
"I'd still like best of all to be a vaga-
bond," smiled Carol. "I suppose I'm not
inherently domestic. Not yet, at any rate.
I wouldn't want to do anything uncon-
ventional, however, being a girl. I'm not
an admirer of unconventionality. It's
usually a pose — or worse. But if I could,
even being a girl, I'd love to be a vaga-
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Just a Care-Free Girl
"I seem to have no possessive instinct. I
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life to have this ... or that. . . .' I
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1 haven't the slightest desire to own cars
or houses or anything concrete. That
may be a part of my vagabonding instinct.
Perhaps it is. The thought of owning
things, possessing things, tires me. Bores
me. The fewer possessions I have to
{Continued on page 88)
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The Gentle Gypsy
(Continued from page 86)
think about, the more care-free I feel. I
never want to have anything really des-
perately. The instinct of possession is
simply left out of me. . . .
Romantic Musings
"I think 'The Sorrows of Satan' will be
a great picture. I've seen some of
the rushes and it looks wonderful. I'm
extremely grateful that 1 had the oppor-
tunity to play in it. Ricardo Cortez does
the most splendid work ... I dont think
he's ever touched this standard before . . .
and Air. Menjou is marvelous, of course.
He is, too, very lovely to work with."
"What do you think about Platonic
friendship?" we asked. "We talked to
John Gilbert on the subject quite awhile
ago, and he said that such a state is not
possible between an attractive, unattached
man and an equally attractive, unattached
woman."
"I'm not qualified to speak in the way
Mr. Gilbert is." Carol said. "I never like
to make a definite answer to any broad
question, because I feel that / dont know.
"Life changes so. People change so.
What is true for you today is not true for
you tomorrow.
"Besides, I've had so very little ex-
perience in the — well, the romantic way. I
really feel unable to speak on that sub-
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be Platonic friendships between men and
women. I cant imagine any good reason
why not. After all, every man doesn't
fall in love with every woman, nor every
woman with every man. That element
doesn't always enter in, I'm sure. I know
quite a few men I enjoy talking with, but
wouldn't even think of falling in love
with. I'll have to wait, tho, to deliver
my final pronunciamento on that score.
Her Secret of Happiness
"I've bought a little farm up in the coun-
try . . . outside of Brewster, New-
York. It's an old house with old things
in it . . . big trees ... a swimming
hole . . . I'm going up to it when I'm not
working. When I am working I'll live in
hotels. . . . Perhaps when I retire from
the screen I'll live there permanently . . .
unless I go a-vagabonding. ... I'd
rather like to retire in about two years.
I know that no one ever has retired when
they have said they would — but I hope I
do. I think it's such a sad mistake to
linger on after your pinnacle is reached.
It's a form of death and I am too keen
about living. . . .
"Then, perhaps, I might marry . . .
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youth is gone. It's a matter of making
choices, always, isn't it ? We usually want
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both. Alternatives. I think I'm a bit of
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it comes along . . . doing the best you
can . . . waiting for the next day to
turn up. It seems to me that that is about
all a person can do, really. If we plan —
well, most of us know what becomes of
plans.
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I". A. — So this is your firsl letter. The
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The Missing Link. — Well, if it wasn't
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1 Dempster was horn January 16,
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Shortie. — Well, I'll do all I can to
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Burki.i rnett Girlie. — Wherever that
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Marion. — Well, if you are so much in
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TThe "humanizing" of villainy has
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ment to the silverscreen — the appearance
of the "comedy villain." This humorous
individual is nothing more than the ortho-
dox "menace" of several seasons ago, but
with just the slightest bit of burlesque
added to make him ridiculous.
Walter Long was one of the pioneers in
this type of heavy and, strangely enough,
he first got the idea in a visit to San
Quentin penitentiary, probably the most
humorless spot in all California.
"The occasion was an amateur the-
atrical entertainment given by the prison-
ers," Long related. "As I sat there
watching the performance, the thought
suddenly struck me that I had been all
wrong in my conceptions of what a vil-
lain ought to be.
"Then and there I decided to stage a
reform. Since then I've played the heavy
for laughs, and got them because of the
fact that I'm burlesquing the role. Over-
accentuated make-up, a hard-boiled attitude
just a little too adamant to be quite true —
these mark the border line between the
triteness of the old-time heavy and the
humorous freshness of the new."
One of the most interesting phases in
the "comedy villain" line has been the
transition of Wallace Beery, once one of
the most reliable of all screen "menaces."
Wears a Think Tank Now
(^eorge Seigman, veteran heavy of
both stage and screen, believes that
the introduction of finesse into the arts
of the villain has been one of the most
marked phases since that sinister individ-
ual has been given both a brain and the
privilege of using it.
"No longer does the heavy come crash-
ing into the scene like a rampant cyclone,"
Seigman explained, "slap the heroine
down, and bind her husband in the path of
the buzz-saw. Those lunatic methods
have been abandoned in favor of more
sane and diplomatic means."
Lou Tellegen, polished and efficient
"menace" of several years' standing,
whimsically forecasts the day when the
audience may be rooting for the villain
and giving the hero the Bronx cheer.
"His villainous role has been so adroitly
changed and humanized that it is some-
times hard to tell where the hero leaves
off and the heavy begins.
"And this may possibly bring about a
strange state of affairs. If the hero con-
tinues to be the impossibly good, dummy
sort of lay figure that he has so often
been in the past, the future may find the
audience not only sympathizing with the
infinitely more human and understandable
villain, but actually rooting for him."
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Why Dont Society Girls Make
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