Screenland, April 1923

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RAVAGES OF THE LOVE DRUG

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THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED G lor i a i! a n £ t tl to the lugubrious chant ."The — panic — has — come — over us, So ha-a-as — the — moral de- cline!" from Warner Bros* Production, The Beautiful and Damned HAVE you read The Beautiful and Damned, by that brilliant young writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald? Perhaps you have seen the motion picture version, just filmed by Warner Bros., with Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan. If you have read the book, you will want to see the pictu-e. And certainly, if you have seen the picture, you will want to read the book. You will enjoy the crisp epigrams, the smoothly- turned sentences, the brilliant word-pictures of modern city life. You cannot discuss up-to-date Circulation Manager, SCREENLAND, Hollywood, Calif. Please send me, FREE, one copy of The Beautiful and Damned, with one year's subscription to SCREEN- LAND, for which I enclose $2.50. Name Address City State literature intelligently if you have not read The Beautiful and Damned, termed by the New York World as "bewilderingly interesting." SCREENLAND wishes to make you a present of a handsome copy of the novel, absolutely FREE! With a year's subscription to SCREENLAND, the only Made- \YlKTC-The- -Movies-Are-Made screen maga- zine, a FREE copy of The Beautiful and Damned will be given you. It will make a splendid Easter or birthday gift for some friend, or will be a real addition to your own library. Kvery day in every way, as Professor Qoue* would put it, SCREENLAND is getting better and better, snappier and more full of things-you-want-to-know about Hollywood and the film stars. Mail the coupon, with only $2.">0 for a year's sub- scription to SCREENLAND, and the FREE copy of The Beautiful and Damned will be mailed to you immediately. Don't wait. The edition will be exhausted soon. Write now!

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e Greatest oP AH Romantic "Melodramas HOBART BOSWORTH "°the Little Church Around the Corner* Fwm the play by Charla E. Blancy and book by Marion Rutsell Story and Scenario by Olga Pnnt;tau Directed by Wm. A. Setter A big vital drama of conflicts and contrasts, a love imperishable, a beautiful romance and thrilling, pulse-quickening adventure, enacted by a large and noteworthy cast. FIFTH OF WARNER BROS. "Classics oP the Screen* Walter long ALEX FRANCIS $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most— and Why"— See Page 89. 3

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Thf nnr xtrVicktr* Thmtrc, Chicago, irht rr. Pnrnutniint Pie- turf* prriinminatf. Chirnao ha* many thratrr* irftiWi /)!*«*<■ put rutin th'r Purmnauttt \ruy. Better theatres follow better pictures The finest pictures deserve the finest setting. It was no good building better theatres until there were better pictures to show in them, and to support them. Paramount leads with a dependable nation-wide continuous supply of better pictures. A great ideal, great resources to carry it out, and a great national endorsement of the wonderful shows that have resulted — there is Paramount's history, there is Paramount's future. Go by the brand name, Paramount, this year, and you'll find everything else follows. "1/ it's a Paramount Picture it's the best show in town." ffiSSr FAMOUS PLAYERS LASKY CORPORATION B of ^Paramount s Super 39 POLA NEGRI in \ George Fitzmaurice Production "BELLA DONNA" Supported by Conway Tearlc, Conrad Xagel and Lois Wilson By Robert (lichens Scenario by Ouida Bergere Presented by Hamilton Theatrical Corporation A William dcMille Production "GRUMPY" With Theodore Roberts, May McAvoy and Conrad Xagel By Horace Hodges and T. Wigney Percyval Screen play by Clara Beranger "THE GO-GETTER" By Peter B. Kync With Seena Owen, T. Roy Barnes Directed by E. H. Griffith Scenario by John Lynch A Cosmopolitan Production GLORIA SWANSON in "Prodigal Daughters" Adapted by Monte M. Katterjohn From the story by Joseph Hocking A Sam Wood Production DOROTHY DALTON in "The Law of the Lawless" With Theodore Kosloff and Charles de Roche From a Pictorial Review story by Konrad Bercovici Directed by Victor Fleming Scenario by E. Lloyd Sheldon THOMAS MEIGHAN in "The Ne'er-do-Well" By Rex Beach Directed by Alfred Green Scenario by Tom Geraghty MARY MILES MINTER in "TheTrailof the Lonesome Pine" With Antonio Moreno From the Novel bv John Fox. Jr., and the play by Eugene Walter Directed by Charles Maignc A George Melford Production "YOU CAN'T FOOL YOUR WIFE" With I.eatrice Joy, Nita N'aldi. Lewis Stone and Pauline Gavon By Waldemar Young Suggested by Hector Turnbull's story ■ ■ ■ (paramount pictures 4 $W for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most— and Why"— See Page 89.

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m APRIL 1923 Vol. VI No. 7 SCREE NLA ND Eunice Marshall, Asso. Editor Myron Zabrl, Editor THE CONTENTS n JACKIE Coocan, (Cover Design) - - Floltri IN MKMORIAM A Farew r.i. i. to Wallace Reid - - -27 I'ICTORIAL FEATURES Art Study - — - - - - 1 1 Hollywood Follies - - - - 12-14,31-34 Rotogravure Gallery of Stars: XlTA N.U.DI HELEN ChADWICK Alice Terry Derelys Perdue Malcolm McGregor Little Billy Lord Antonio Moreno The Easter Rride - - 68 Sulfations for the trousseau by Hebe Daniels, Agnes Ayres, Priscilta Dean and Ruth Roland. Why Fdx> Leaves Home - - -86 Animals who are Earning Man-Sized Salaries in the Movies, FEATURE ARTICLES Can Arisk kli. Come Back? ' - - 15-17 A Frank Discussion of the Comedian's Return to Pictures. Col. Selig's Stories of the Movies Col. Selig - - . -. - - 20-24 Reminiscences of a Pioneer in Pictures. How to Win a Max's Love Frances Baird 38-30 Pointers on the Gentle Art of Vamping. What Every Husband Knows Kid McCoy S4 What Every Wife Knows Clara K. Young 85 Wild Interviewers I Have Met Mac Busch ------- - 58-59 They Stepped on the G as T11rbf.se Fiskc 57 "On Location" in the Speeders' Court. Hocus Movies - L. B. Fouler 35— "37 A Continuation of Screenland' s Expose of " II' armed-Over" Movies. Revelations or a Press Acent - - 40-43 A Delightfully Frank Confession on the Making of Stars. Blondes or Brunettes? Athene FarnswoHh(ti-7\ Which are the Most Popular in Pictures? Four on the Mountain Anne Austin 50-53 The Most Popular Screen Quartette Reach the Parting of the ll'ays. Real Heroes of the Screen - 82-83 Ravages of the Love Drug - S\l MacDowell --- ---- - 18-19 And its Ejfcct on Hollywood. By Their "Prop'' Smiles Ye Shall Know Them - - - II". Film Reamy 28-30 The Fattest Girl in the Movies - Myrtle Gcbhart ------ 46-48 Making Hollywood Safe for Matrimony ----- Annie Wilde 44-45 THE Sex Best Sellers Truman B. Handy 24-26 Is Sex Appeal the Reason for the Stars' Popularity? Do Vol- Believe in Hunches? Cenevra Howes - - - - - 54-56 Pet Superstitions of the Players. DEPARTMENTS Hot From Hollywood - - - - 73-76 Newsy Notes from the Film Capital. Caught in the Act - - 63-67 Of -Stage Photographs of the Stars. High Life in Hollywood The Taller 60-62 The Playhour of the Playfalks. The Picture of the Month (Charles Ray, Producer) - - - - '- 77 The Girl 1 Loved Little Hints for Play-Goers - - - 78-81 The Ncv Photoplays Reviewed. Editor's Page ----- 72 Editorial — Encourage the Extra 40 lllifllllif^Fl Published Monthly by the Screenland Publishing Company at 45 1 W. 22nd land Publishing Co., Trade-Mark registered. Single copies 25 cents; Subsc Foreign #3.50. When changing an address, give the old address as well as you. Entry of second-class matter applied for at the Post-Officc at Chicago. 27. 1920, at the Post-Office at Los Angeles, Cat., under the act of March 3, 1 Francisco, Cal. Permission to reprint material must be secured from the Editorial and Executive Offices at 5540 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood St., Chicago, 111., U. S. A. Copyright, 1023, by Screen- ription price, United States and Canada #2.50 a year; the new and allow five weeks for the first copy to reach 111. Formerly entered as second-class matter, August S79; entered on April 15, 1922, at the Post-Office at San Screenland Feature Syndicate, Hollywood, California. Cal. Address all communications to Hollywood, Cal.

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MVhat too many brides learn too late EVERY woman looks forward to the time when she shall be- come a happy brl<le — the greatest adventure of her life. And when her dreams Rime true she is radiant with life and lore, glowing with health and energy, vi- brant with hope for the future. In a few years, however, great changes take place: none are the illusions; the rocks of stern reality take the place of castles-in-the- air. Tired lines are etched in her face; perhaps her health is Impaired; she "doesn't have time" for this or that — the things she planned to do "after she was married" She is burdened with responsibilities which never should have been placed upon her frail shoulders. Physically and mentally she is growing old. Why? Because more children have come that were fair — to her — to her husband — and. most important, to the children themselves. Is the Husband or Wife to Blame? Is the husband or wife to blame for the tragedy of too many children? Margaret Sanger, the great birth con- trol advocate, conies with a message vital to every married man and woman. Marriage — the holy thing -the holy thine- 4« Why do women allow marriace work this wicked transformation? Why should a woman sacrifice her love-life — a possession she otherwise uses every resource to keep': Why does she give birth to a rapid succession of children, if she has neither the means to provide for them nor the physical strength properly to care for them? Margaret Sanger. Un- acknowledged world leader of the Birth Control movement and President of the Amer- ican Birth Control League, has the answer for this most momen- tous problem of woman- kind. In her daring and startling hook Margaret .Sanger gives to the women of the world the knowledge she dared to print — the knowledge for which she faced jail and fought through every court to establish as wo man's inalienable right to know. Partial List of Contents 'Woman's Error and Her Debt. Two Classes of Women. Cries «f Despair. •When Should a Woman Avoid Having Children ? Birth Control — A Par- ent's Problem or Woman's. "Continence — Is It Practicable or De- sirable ? *A re Preventive Means Certain? 'Contraceptives © r Abortion ? Women and the New Morality. Legislating Woman'* Morals. Why Not Birth Control Clinics In America? Progress We Have Made. "Any one of these chap- ters alone is worth many times the price of the book. For every mar- ried couple In "Woman and the New Race" Mrs. San- ger shows how woman can and will rise above the forces that, in too many cases. have ruined her beauty through the ages — that still drag her down today — that wreck her men- tal and physics] strength — that disqualify her for society. for self- improve- ment— that finally shut her out from the thing she therlSbM most: her hus- band's love. 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Arbuckle stands before his judges. The jury of San Francisco acquitted him of any wrong-doing. What will the verdict of the public be? Keystone i-iioto D ID Will Hays throw a monkey wrench into the custard pie when he gave Roscoe Arbuckle a Christ- mas pardon? Scarcely had the headlines ap- peared announcing the reinstate- ment of the once-adored "Fatty," than a verbal bedlam broke loose which shook the rafters of our social structure from Alaska to the last barnacle clinging to Key West. Europe, too, felt the upheaval, and once again the famous fat man felt the white heat of publicity. In California, where the man of girth has many friends, arguments are raging with particular intensity, owing to the fact that details of his life are better known here than elsewhere. It is easy for anyone to understand Roscoe's desire to return to stardom, for his fall from enor- mous popularity and great wealth to poverty and personal oblivion was swift and sure. It is a very sober and unsmiling Roscoe who stands before his judges. But. considering the avalanche of The True Story Arbuckle \ SINCE the writing of this article Roscoe Arbuckle has announced his intention of for- saking his original hopes for a return to the screen. His latest feature half com- pleted— has been abandoned and his future activities will be turned to directing motion pic- tures and not to acting in them. Will the animosity of :he pic- ture public which banished Ar- buckle from the screen after he had been acquitted of crime by a jury of his peers pursue him now and hound him further from his directorial aspirations? Arbuckle's physical appear- ance has been his greatest liabil- ity since his trial, just as it was his greatest asset before. If Roscoe Arbuckle had been born a slender and well-formed man he might have escaped the obloquy of public condemnation. disapproval which followed the plea of Hays to give the fallen idol another chance, one cannot help but admire his optimism and per- sistence. Will TIays, "czar of the films," had hitherto enjoyed the full con- fidence of the public. His somer- sault from an absolute ban of Ar- buckle films to the new theme of "another chance" has brought a protest that must have "well nigh mint" the rural quietude of Sul- livan. Indiana. do the stars say about Arbuckle? What is the opinion of the film colony itself? This is the consensus of Holly- wood opinion from the angle of the star or producer: "We can't approve of Arbuckle, because it would hurt us with the public. We can't condemn him, because we have accepted his hospitality dur- ing the time of his prosperity, and to turn against him now, publicly, would be to mark us as poor sports. We can only sit tight and say noth- ing." That is Arbuckle's policy, too. To sit tight and say nothing must be a herculean task for the big comedian, but he is under orders to 15

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keep his tongue strictly between his teeth. At such critical periods, the beans are too easily spilled; one rash interview would ruin all chance of the millions of dollars tied up in his pictures to be ever recovered, to say nothing of the success of the new test-picture that Arbuckle is now making. For "Fatty" has opened up a new tin of grease paint and has donned the old, familiar garb of brown derby, checkered shirt, cut- away coat and loose trousers. Handy Andy is the title of the pic- ture; a two-reeler, its fate will determine the fate of Arbuckle himself. The probability is that the first Arbuckle picture released will draw a good house. People will .no out of curiosity: they have half-way for- gotten what "Fat- ty's" comedies are like. They will laugh over the hire, a wave of distaste may sweep over the audience. The picture of Mollie Malone in Arbnckle's em- brace will dissolve into a vision of little Virginia Rappe, who is dead, and whose last embrace in this world was given to Arbuckle, per- haps. Tf Arbuckle can win his way back into favor, it will probably have to be through pure, unadulterated humor with a male cast. ,i^.KBUCKLE is thirty-five years old. For ten years, 1 lis screen antics have brought him fame, and in later years, wealth. He began his film career as an "extra" man on the Keystone comedy lot. delighted to be able to earn his three dollars a day — some days. Little by little his Why did Mrs. R o s c o e Ar- buckle make her spectacu- lar trip to her husband's res- cue, during his trial, and then retire to New York again? WlDI \Vuki.d Photo grotesque figure and cherubic smile began to "get over. '" He began to receive "fan mail," the first visible proof of film success. Oh yes. some people do love a fat man, but Fatty's mail came mostly from benign old ladies and adoring youngsters. Not many from pretty girls. As he slowly but surely gained a '"following," his finances picked up. He no longer lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth existence, eating where and when he could. From an extra man, he began to play "bits." then "parts" and finally leads. Then success came indeed. He went over to Paramount, directing and -lairing. For years he earned an enormous salary. How much has he saved during the days of his prosperity? Very little, it is said. Easy come, easy go. Fatty spent his money like water. Parties, fine automobiles, luxurious apartments and a beautiful home in the Wilshire district in Los Angeles, the latter now occupied by Joseph Schenck, Arbuckle'sstauncii defender. Most of his wealth is gone, if rumor be true. The ears, the apartments, all have been sold. It took money, a great deal of money, to finance his expensive trial at San Francisco. Since the trial he has been living with Schenck and "Buster" Keaton. practically living on their bounty, ii is said. T, -he clergy of Los Angeles have been emphatic in their denunciation of both Hays and Arbuckle. In- dignation meetings in church, club and school circles still obscure the well-advertised sun. Women's organizations have is- sued yards of resolutions to the press, in opposition to any resur- rection of the famous fun-maker. City after city have announced decisions for or against the show- ing of Arbuckle films. Dr. Gustav Briegleb, of the West- lake Presbyterian Church, declared to his congregation in Los Angeles' smart residence section that "if it were not for the two million dollars tied up in the films, the producer would tell Arbuckle to jump off the dock." (In this connection, it is interesting to note that producers who are not financially interested in the Arbuckle films have had nothing to say.) 16

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A PARABLE A FAMOUS COMEDIAN, beloved by children the world over, is involved in a par- ticularly revolting murder case, growing out of a liquor party at a San Francisco hotel. A jury of his peers, after long and earnest contemplation, decrees him innocent of the charge of murder. The stain upon his character remains, however. He has brought the films into bad re- pute. Therefore a Great Man in the industry, to whom a trusting public looks to redeem the good name of the films, bans the Comedian from the screen. A year passes. The case has been almost forgotton. The pub- lic looks approvingly upon such characters as Harold Lloyd, Conrad Nagel, Richard Barthel- mess and Thomas Meighan and decides that perhaps the movies are not so black as they have been painted. And then the million dollars tied up in the Comedian's films begins to worry the Producers. Under the Great Man's edict, the films cannot be released. A million dollars is a great deal of money .... And it has been over a year .... And after all . . . . victim of circum- stances .... might have hap- pened to anybody . . . . mustn't be vindictive .... And so the Producers spoke to the Great Man. They spoke with the authority of employers, the authority due men who were paying a salary of $150,000 a year to a man who can enlist the confidence of the public. And the Great Man listened and revoked the edict that barred the Comedian from the screen. And Lo, the Great Man was great no longer. Mora!: A hired man cannot reasonably be expected to be a Miracle Man. "If any school-teacher did any- thing like what Arbuckle has done in the past',' said the Rev. Robert Shuler, President of the Ministerial Union of Los Angeles, "we would do all we could to help him come back, but we would not put him in a place of confidence by giving him guidance over our children. It is a fight of coin against character." Tn other word?, the Reverend Bob means that he would not protest Arbuckle's making a living, though he doesn't consider it strictly necessary, if he did it by such laudable means as digging ditches or making little ones out of big ones. Billy Sunday, that great master of picturesque language, is decided- ly in favor of Arbuckle's return. In a recent interview he declared: "I am a minister of the gospel and the gospel gives every man a chance. From my standpoint. I say give Arbuckle a chance. The Bible says, 'With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to ye again'. And it says 'If a brother was over- taken in a fault' — and Fatty is the brother overtaken in a fault. He was in fault when he went up there to the St. Francis, drinking with that crowd and carousing around. But the jury did not convict him of manslaughter. Everybody has been a fool sometime, but nobody is a fool all the time. The only dif- ference between Fatty and the others is that Fatty got caught." So much for the preachers who cannot agree. Now comes "Fattv" nounced Christ and stoned him for what he said?" Arbuckle stated that his pictures have always been clean. Which is true. He declared that reports of his wild parties were "just talk" and that he has no intention of giv- ing wild parties in future. People on the inside say that Ar- buckle's greatest opposition will (ome from women. In California, the Federated Clubs are against him in every particular. The Hollywood Women's Club was so disgusted with the action of Mr. Hays that they called off a luncheon which was to be given in honor of the Hays representative, Mr. (Jeorge Patten. I x tiif: meantime, the verbal high- ways echo with queries. Has Hays itKNKKNIIT-I.KVY, INC. Arbuckle in the days of his prosper- ity, in his $20,000 special-built motor. himself) with a carefully edited plea for mercy. lie points out that he was acquitted by the jury that tried him for the death of Virginia Rappe, but exonerated in a state- ment that the eight men and four women issued. "Unlike the jury" runs his state- ment, "those denouncing me heard no part of the evidence, and are without knowledge of the facts." ( Evidently the transcripts of the court reporters mean nothing to Roscoe.) "Judge not, that ye be not judged," quotes Fatty. "How would my accusers like to be judged the way they are judging me? What might have happened if some of those who heartlessly denounced me had been present when the Savior forgave the peni- tent thief on the cross, in words that have had more influence on the human race than any other words ever uttered. Would not some of those persons have de- betrayed the public which trusted him? What caused his sudden flip* tlop? Why did Mrs. Roscoe Ar- buckle make her spectacular trip to Roscoe's rescue and then retire to New York again? If Miss Rappe was merely ill and accepted kindly assistance, why did witnesses scamper for points outside the jurisdiction of the court? Has Roscoe really reformed? Does he still drink or does he not? Has he manicured his language? What of the lonely grave in Hollywood? It isn't up to Will Hays to say that Roscoe Arbuckle may or may not come back to the screen. It. isn't up to the producers who have a million dollars tied up in the Arbuckle films. It isn't even up to the clergy who are fighting so fiercely for morality that they arc forgetting something of Christianity and its though-your- sihs-are-as-scarlet promise. It's up to the public, you who pay your fifty-five cent-. 17

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IOYE is a drug thai deadens reason. By this compas- ^ sionate provision of Nature man is blinded to the faults if his choosing mate and is led a stupefied captive to the scaffold of matrimony. After the anesthesia of emotion wears away, the male awakens. He fingers the noose and with clouded reason restored, speculates npon his predicament. Woman in the throes of romantic fervor is only slightly more rational than the male. At hest she is abnormal, like a setting hen. Groping in the dark for the jewel chest of des- tiny— that's what it is. this, marriage game. So is it any wonder that some of us lay hand on a trap door spider instead of a pearl? Woman is the prime mover in the emotional complex. She baits the trap. In the courtship dream, she retains a faint ulcam of waketimc intelli- gence. The love drug pro- duces total unconsciousness in the male, but not so with her. The proof is money marriages. A man is Loath- some who promises to love, honor and obey a check- hook. But all predatory beauties forage for wealth. Yet we don't despise them. Miss Stonehatchet would be held foolish to shiver under a bough with Rollo Rabbitskin if Phil- a ndo r Flintface offered 18 LOVE is a DRUG In Hollywood Its Ravages Are More Severe Than Morphine. Ravages of the Love Drug By syl McDowell her a swell, big batcave to live in. So love is a drug. And its addicts are everywhere. But Hollywood is full of them. And here in Holly- wood its ravages are more severe than morphine. Love's ravages are devastating Hollywood. Why? Because stars, with their ' PhiitO h]t IlQOVKK Two individuals of separate sta- tions can not hope for a tranquil home. Rex Ingram is not a film actor, but he is a director, so he and his lovely wife, Alice Terry, find parallel interests. highly developed emotions, are ready victims to the love habit. De- prived, love addicts are as desperate as a hophead, maddened by starved and jangling nerves. Murder, love. (heft, divorce epidemics — all the concomitants of jaz- zed lives follow in the wake of love like a plague. Thousands of men - — screen heroes as well as plumbers and bookkeepers and afflicted pastors — would pledge fortunes for a love antitoxin. That, or else a reliable recipe to guide aright (heir surges of devo- tion. P.. Here is a couple who grasped the recipe for happiness. Blanche Sweet and Marshall Neilan waited for years, until Neilan emerged from comparative obscurity to become one of film- dom's most conspicuous figures. Blanche Sweet was wise to the screen after the wedding. m >i;. befuddled, pathetic man wants to know how to pick a woman to marry. A few wise ones have learned to regard circumstances without as well as within. Character and taste are the circumstances within. En- vironment, social and econ- omic status are circum- stances without. A har- monious blend of tempera- ments is essential to success- ful marriage of course. But having such — the circum- stances within — two indi- viduals of separate stations cannot hope for a tranquil home. A girl star may wed her

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chauffeur. Hut .-ho must become, in mode of living, piano of thought and class register a chauffeur's wife. Or else the chauffeur must by some legerdemain elevate himself to be- come a seeming mate. On a desert island they might live in uninter- rupted bliss. But surrounded by rigid social custom and the intrica- cies of civilization they would soon be thrust apart by the inexorable code. Of course the star could endow the chauffeur with high position. But then she would hate him. Gladys Walton divorced a husband because she found it humiliating, she said, to support him. So, in marriage, more than the two culprits are to be considered. There are You and I — and the World. A male star might wed a scrub- maid. She will wring out her mop and store it away with other girlish memories. She will learn to wear a ballgown hut as she crosses the polished floor her husband will think of her on bend- ed knees ob- literating the footmarks. Doug and Alary are a perfect exam- ple of profes- sional matri- mony because they met and dwell on the same plane. If Jean Acker had achieved stardom a t the s a m o time as did Rodolphthey might be happy to- gether today. Rex Ingrain is not an actor but he is a movie director, so he and his lovely wife, Alice Terry, find parallel interests, are congenial among the same asso- ciates. Marriage from unlike stations is liking mixing races. Constance Talmadge married a Greek tobacco king. As a tobacco king, he was the real leaf and as a star Constance is outshone by few. There was some- thing else the matter. For conjugal serenity it is not necessary for stars to wed stars. Not in the least. Fellow quaffers at the love vial may possess kindred char- acteristics in some other phase of life that makes a balanced union. Bert Lytcll and Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt are home lovers. So they have found marital bliss outside their profession. Gloria Swanson as a bathing girl might have gone on content as the spouse of Wallace Berry. But Holly- wood custom would not tolerate a screen villain's proprietorship of a. public idol. A RE movie folk wdio succumb to the love potion in perpetual danger of separation ? Is success a nemesis that threatens their homes? Yes, if professional sympathy is all that anchors the marital frigate. Marshall Neilan and Blanche Sweet waited for years until Neilan emerged from comparative obscurity to become one of movidom's most conspicuous figures. Blanche Sweet. Their emotional lives make actors and actresses particular prey of the love drag. That is why conjugal affrays and divorces are so common in Hollywood. There is an analysis of the trouble — a diagnosis of the love- 1 -drugged condition. A If Jean Acker had achieved stardom at the same time as did Rodolph Valentino, they might be living together happily today. a leading screen favorite, to the screen after their long ago returned wedding. Here is a Hollywood couple who solved the problem. They saw love's shoals. Few other screen people show such wisdom. They grasped the recipe for happiness. Blanche Sweet was wise to return to the screen. Discord would soon threaten if Neilan would come home to tell her of his work and say: "Things are different nowadavs, dear." woman's first line of defense is her lips. All actresses are cast in "kissing parte" — that is, all except . Mary Pickford, who commonly re- fuses, or Gale Henry or Sylvia Ash- ton — a few who are cast as unmiss- able types. When a woman yields her first line of defense, it is like taking the first hypodermic. The next is easier. And so on until the last bulwark of convention crumbles. To a man, the fervid kiss of an enticing woman is a powerful stimulant. Have you wondered to know the emotional thrill that screen lover's feel in the fadeout closeup embrace? The unsparing eye of the camera. de- mands real kisses, real sighs, real heart throbs. Long a g o the danger of a kiss was recognized on the spoken stage. H was unprofession- al for a man and a girl, cast together in a love part, to kiss one another's lips night after night. So ar- t i f i c e was used. The stage depth and distance from the audience pro- vided a merciful camouflage. They touched checks. That's all. Love and morphine have useful places in the scheme of things if properly prescribed and taken ac- cording to directions. But if morphine addicts lost their craving,' sanitariums soon would be idle. While without love madness, jails would empty and divorce lawyers would starve to death. And Hollywood wouldn't be half so famous. 19

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Col. Selics Stories of Movie Life Reminiscence , Grave and Gay, of Twenty -five Years on a Studio Lot By COL. WILLIAM SELIG .EMINISCENCES of any kind are not unlike boarding house hash. You remember, of course, the literary hoarder who fixed his eyes upon the hash and asked his neighbor to please pass the Review of Reviews. But even hash, well spiced, is palatable. And my quarter of a century in the fascinating game of motion pictures has been highly seasoned with ludicrous — and tragic — experience. I am going to tell you most about the humorous incidents, however, for time has dulled a bit the poign- ancy of my little tragedies, and I find the laughable experiences stand out most in my memory. S, Made His Own Camera had. back in 'ucji a time as we '95, when we were struggling with our camera and projec- tion machines ! The camera that I first made . . . the fore- runner of the ma- chine now in use al our Los Angeles studio, by the way .... was worked out under the stair- way of my home in Chicago. It was in- spired by Edison's little kinetoscope, of course. We had dreadful limes with our film. too. The film had to be perforated by hand in those days, and it had a hideous habit of shrinking, so that the per- forations would not fit the projec- tion machine. We tried all sorts of experiments, including treating it before it was used in the camera or perforated, on the same principle that cloth is sometimes shrunk before being made up. However, all that is technical and not highly interesting to the lay- man. The first real picture T ever made was taken out in front of my house. The next one was "shot" over in the Chi- cago stock-yards, f sold both of them and actually made money on them, so I joyously gave lip my previous occupation, which was. among other Kathlyn Williams and the lamented Harold Lockwood, who fell a victim to the influenza epidemic in 1918. Lockwood and Miss Williams were featured together in many of the early Selig releases. things, managing a minstrel show, and went into the business of mak- ing pictures in earnest. Famous Names in Early Casts , x a run. 1, 1896, we opened up tho Selig studio in Chicago at 43 Peck Court. In that studio some of the most important pioneering- work in motion pictures was done, and some of the famous actors and actresses today got their start on my lot. Kathlyn Williams. Harold Lock- wood, Eugenie Besserer, Fred Hunt- ley and a score or more of others, destined to become famous, appeared in our early pic- tures. We had the original a 1 1-s t a r casts, too. For instance, in The Coming of Columbus one of our most ambitious c a r 1 y e ft* o r t s, Myrtle Stedman. Kathlyn Williams and Harold Lock- wood had impor- t a n t parts. For making this pic- ture* I received a silver medal from the Pope, an honor which T cherish as one" of my pleas- antest memories. 20

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You cant make motion pictures for a quarter of a century without accumu- lating a store of human interest experi- ences that make a reporter or a hy-the- day seamstress look like an Alice-Sit- By-the-Fire. Colonel Selig has been turning out photoplays since the early feudal period of 1896, and his anec- dotes are as good as his pictures. Bill Farnum was a great Tom Mix was another star of today who started his screen career with us. Selig pictures first made liis rough-riding, wild-west films popular. The first horse Tom ever rode in pictures is still at our studio zoo, pensioned after faithful serv- ice, living out his last days peace- fully in pleasant pastures. Tom loved that horse. Bill Farnum in The Spoilers B„ favorite around the studio in the old days. Of course you remem- ber The Spoiler*. It was the first really big motion picture, and Bill scored an enormous hit in it. Prom then on. for a good many years, Bill enjoyed an enormous vogue. His beautiful physique and great bulk fascinated the flappers some- what as Valentino's polished man- ners do today. And jnst as the pro- ducers play up Valentino's beauti- ful manners, so did we play up Farnum's strength, giving him strong-man. red-blooded roles, until a newspaper bard, J. P. McEvoy, Bill Farnum's beautiful physique intrigued the flappers of a decade ago as Valentino's polished man- ners do now. Colonel Selig played up Farnum's great build by giving him red-blooded, he-man roles, like his greatest part in "The Spoilers." Herber t Rawlinson's dimples were first displayed to screen ad- vantage i n the early Selig pic- tures. COfETESV FAMOUS PLATgU.S-LASKY A dear old familiar scene from a photoplay of an ancient vintage. The hard-hearted landlord is fore- closing the mortgage on the old homestead, and Edythe Chapman and Charles Ogle are about to be turned out on the street leading over the hills to the poorhouse, doubtless. immortalized Bill's prowess in verse, a bit of which I will give here: "Oh have you seen our Farnum slap an engine off the track. And chase a mob to helangon and sometimes half-way back? And have you seen him stand a king upon his royal ear, And heat a. faithful army to a palpitating smear? How gracefully he hits a big gazabo on the nose. And presto! undertakers and some flowers and repose! So do not fear the English or the German or the Jap. Just notify Bill Farnum and he'll chase 'em off the map." Camera Was Cruel to Kathlyn -rry Williams 1l\.athlyx Williams was one of o u i" m o s t c h a r m i n g leading ladies. The photographs repro- duced here do not do her beauty justice. The art of make-up in those days was distinctly not so good, and she seems older then than she does now. She came to us from a successful stage career. Miss Wil- liams was featured in the first serial, The Adventures of Kathlyn, which made an enormous success, and pre- cipitated a deluge of serial pictures. Bessie Eyton, now leading lady with the Morosco stock company in Los Angeles, had important roles in many of our early pictures. Bessie was at one time the wife of Charles Eyton. now general manager of Famous Players — Lasky corpora- 21

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tion. and William.-. husband of Kathlvn I always think of Wallace Rcid as the nice kid who used to play around our lot. His father. Hal Reid, used to write scenarios for us (we'd call them continuities now), and Wally, fascinated as all young- sters are by a studio, was always under foot. Wo used t«» give him small bits and atmosphere to do. He did them well. too. He was such a handsome youngster. We were a training school for di- rectors as well as stars', in the old days. Al Green, now a well-known wielder of a directorial megaphone, played extra parts with us. Remember Tom Santschi. he of the lovely curling pompadour? He was one of our stand-bys when we needed a sterling actor, a handsome face as well. Back in 1907. Mabel Talliaferro was one of our players, too. No Huge Salaries Tnen 3 am OFTEN asked if we bad as much temperament in our actors in the old days as we do now. Well, an actor is an actor always, and something has to be conceded to genius, but it is my personal opinion that the morale of pictures was better in the old days. There wasn't so much money lying around loose, for one thing. A salary of $100 a week was a mighty large and handsome wage, and only a few featured players got it. William Far- nuni got more than that for The Spoilers; we paid him not by the week, however, but with a lump sum for the whole picture. Dobbin's Scaffolding There have been a good many chuckles during my years of picture-making. T remember one picture for which we needed a horse, a very emaciated, bony horse. We found one, the daddy of all bony equines. A visitor to the studio took one look at old Dobbin and asked his handler. "Gettiiv in a new horse?" "Aw. wottcher givin' us?" asked the stable-boy sensitively. "I see you've got the frame-work up already." said the visitor. This tale has gone the rounds so often that its origin in our studio has probably been forgotten. <Jf CJS1 Why Directors Go Wrong iT to show the unexpected prob- lems that pop up in a studio, I want to tell about an itnpaxxc that occurred some time ago in another studio, not mine. The casting direc- tor was told to secure five priests and forty choir-boys for an elaborate cathedral scene. I believe a royal wedding was to be filmed. For the sake of realism he was told he must get the real thing; no "hams" dressed up in vestments at $7.50 a day would do. Well, the priests and choir-boys of them had been secured from an Episcopal church and twenty from a Roman Catholic church. The Episcopal songsters refused to sing I lie Catholic chants and the Cath- olic boys refused to sing the Episco- pal chants. I believe the director flipped a coin and the Episcopal boys lost, so they were marched off the set with a phantly chants. O, and the scene was "shot" half-portion choir, trinm- warbling their own beloved NE ok the most difficult things we pioneers in pictures had to do was to educate the1 public into tak- ing their films in other than tabloid doses. The first pictures were only about 25 feet long. AVhen we length- ened them to 50 and finally to 100 the exhibitors protested. People get tired of looking at them, they said. Finally, we made a picture that was of tremendous length, 1000 feet ! We sent a print to London and our sales- man wrote back that he could sell twice as many 500-foot films as he could 1 OOO-fooh i- • Sell the 1000-footers." T wrote back. "We get paid by the foot anyway." Little by' little the public got used to the longer films, until an audience ceased to be outraged when the theater manager put off on them a five-reel picture and a two- reel comedy, instead of the regular diet of six one-reel pictures. to get The art of make-up in the old days was very different from what it is today, so that an actress looked much older than she really was. Kathlyn Williams is in the act of handing back Harold Lockwood's ring. were persuaded to assist. * The set, a beautiful thing, was ready, the actors were on the set and every- thing was ready to shoot, when it was discovered that the choir-boys weren't all the same brand. Twenty How Mob Scenes Were I Faked t was pretty hard good actors to work in pic- tures in those days. The actors from the "legitimate" looked down on the films, and we didn't have the money to offer them the fabulous sala- ries that might have per- suaded them to "prostitute their art." We got a good many vaudeville stars, how- ever. For mob scenes in the old days, when a big crowd was needed, it was a common practice to march the same men back and forth before the camera. Fifty men could thus impersonate a huge army, and the 22

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custodian of the studio bank-roll was saved much mental anguish. The famous zoo that we maintain at our Lincoln Park establishment came about partly by accident. We needed a lot of animals for a pic- ture, The Adventures of Kathh/n, which, yo\i remember, had its set- ting in the jungles of India. We had so much difficulty in renting animals that we finally purchased what we needed for the picture, and kept them right on the lot in case of future use. We made a good many animal pictures after that, and lit- tle by little we added new animals until now our zoo is quite a show- place in Southern California. The G ame Was Simpler Then M akixo pictures was a much simpler business back in the early days. The sets were very simple and inexpensive, and the audience was willing to use a bit of imagi- nation. In those days when it was so thrilling just to see a picture move, there were no blase and keen- eyed critics waiting to howl a protest when a young lady in a tai- lored suit passed through a doorway and appeared on the other side in negligee. Cutting a picture was simple, too. Film was too expensive to be used lavishly, and we "shot" no more than we expected to use. Nowadays, in a big film thousands of feet of costly film are thrown out, in the cutting room, often a hundred times as much film as was used in a whole motion pic- ture in 1907 or 1908. Being Funny Under Difficulties w V V E M A D e a gond many come- dies, short-reclers, when pictures were just striking their stride. Just plain slap-stick, w i t h some funny cos- tumes, some good "g a g s" and of course, some kind of a chase. They sold well. too. for we never had the difficulty in mak- ing our audience- giggle that Edwin Stevens that splen- did actor, encoun- tered in the person of a grouchy Ger- m a n vaudeville manager, when he made up his mind to go into vaudeville. The manager was very busy and was low in his mind. "Veil," he growled, "vat you vant. hay?" "I would like to go into vaude- ville," said Stevens meekly. An early photograph of Mary Pickford. Vat "Vat do you do? line?" "I am a comedian, sir. I — ' is vour The man- 'Vel. make "A komiker, wa»f ager scowled blackly, me laugh!" Editor's Note: The second installment of Colonel Seliff's fascinating reminiscence will he published in the May SCREKXl,ANI>, out April 1. Watch for it. No New Movie Papa Richard Barthelmess is the latest Papa on record in movie-land. His wife, known professionally as Mary Hay became a mother in New York just a few days ago. The little one has a rocky road ahead in order to attain the heights of its parents, but then again look at the start it has on other kids. Time will tell. "Riches to Rags Marlon Davis goes from riches to rags when she jumps from When Knighthood Was in Firmer to Adam and Era, her new picture. In the former, as Mary Tudor, her gowns were a gorgeous combination te s of the Play of gold and brocade while in Adam and Era as "Eva," her wardrobe consists almost entirely of ginghams. All of which proves she can look nice in either. Wanda Hawley Asks Divorce Wanda Hawley has filed appli- cation for a divorce from M. Haw- ley. charging that he consumed so much of his time entertaining at the Hawley bungalow, that he could find no time to follow his chosen profession as automobile mechanic. This came as somewhat of a surprise as the Ilawley's have been married for some time and were supposed, from all indications to be very happy. Also, with their occupa- e r s tions being so different, it was im- possible for mucfa friction there but things must of clashed elsewhere as the divorce has been filed and after all it is results that count. Pickford-Miller to Co-Star Jack Pickford is so tired of being 2.000 miles away from his wife, who is Marilyn Miller, star of Sally now running on the legit in Chicago, that he has asked the managerial boss of the Pickford family, his mother, to get a story co-starring him and wifie on the screen. "Ma" Pickford has prom- ised to do ber best and judging from past performances it ought to be a — well let's wait and see the picture. 23

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The Sex Is Sex Appeal a Box-Office Asset to the Motion Picture Star? Just How Much an Actor Owes to His Personality, Which Is Just An- other Name for Sex Appeal, Is Re- lated in this Fascinating Analysis. Charles Ray has only a modicum of sex appeal. He is not the lover. He is the sweetheart, your first sweetheart of the lace valentine period. PHOTO UY HOOVKH 'EX APPEAL condemned in the pulpit and condoned in the pews. To what extent do the reign- ing favorites of the screen owe their popularity to this appeal of the senses? A luscious, lovely blonde walked not long ago into the offices of a film company's general manager. "You should be a very big star with the advertising and prestige I can give you," was the manager's edict. "You were made to love. Such eyes and lips! You have every element of sex appeal. . . ." The sex element must enter more or less liberally into any story, be- fore the latter can attain screen pro- portions. Different directors handle sex in different ways, but it is al- ways the underlying motif of any great picture. Tt was Griffith who established the formula that the lesser lights since then have been copying. A demure maid. Her rightful lover. A schem- ing villian intent upon devastating the damsel's virtue. This was the basic triangle of a Griffithian story. Not new, of course; it was hoary when Boccaccio translated neigh- borhood scandals into the snappy stories of the day. The "heavy" must always place the heroine in bodily harm. And it must appear to the audience that he intends forcing her to yield to his desires . . . but she must, with- out fail, be rescued by the hero after the last ounce of suspense has been squeezed out. Barbara La Marr fairly breathes the vital lure of sex. She is essentially the woman of the world. Miscast as an ingenue, she is gauche, un- appealing. But as the mistress of men, how alluring!

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Best Sellers By TRUMAN B. HANDY c li;t n. II. DkMille handles Sex in a. different fashion. He presents it with every decor and ornamenta- tion conceivable, making it appear delicately tinseled, inviting, but elemental as the Pyramus and Thispe romance. It is a peculiar fact that Griffith, who stresses sex so heavily in his pictures, invariably chooses for his heroines actresses who are almost entirely lacking in sex appeal. Lil- lian Gish, .Mao Marsh. Carol Demp- ster— all the fragile, spirituelle type, seldom the kind that inflames Man's interest in Woman. DeMille, on the other hand, will have none of the ethereal maidens. His silken women are Sex personi- fied. Gloria Swanson ; Leatrice Joy : Agnes Ayres; Bebe Daniels; mys- tery; lure; Sex! It wasn't his dramatic ability that made Rodolph Valentino the idol of American womanhood, prac- tically overnight. And Valentino is a superb actor, at that. It was his sex appeal, whether you will ad- mit it or not, you women who go to see his pictures five and six times over! It is the look in his dark eyes as he crushes the heroine (the hero- ine who might be you!) to his breast, the fact that he makes you sigh blissfully at his romantic ardor. For this very reason, many men do not like Valentino. Men never like to see a man more skilled in the art of love-making than they, themselves. I.on Chancy is a wonderful actor. His interpretations are as fine Or better than Valentino's. So is Noah Beery a fine actor. But do women fall madly in love with them, del- uging them with fan letters? They do not. Chaney and Beery have not Valentino's sex appeal. Bessie Love is as sweet and pretty — as her name, but she is practi- c a 1 1 y lacking in sex appeal. Mother used to blush when father mentioned his woolen underwear. Now she gets a kick out of the kinetamized B. V. D's. of Valentino, as in the dressing-room scene of "Blood and Sand." I'AltAMOlWT rHOTO Gloria Swanson, like all of C. B. DeMille's leading women, typifies mystery — lure — sex !

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I'HOTO BY EVANS Conrad Nagel has charm. His manners are faultless and women like him. But he doesn't capture their emotions. Wherefore Con- rad is not starred, though he is a finer actor than many whose names are emblazoned in electric lights. I t is not a matter of looks, of beauty. [Catherine Mac- Donald is wonderfully beau- tiful, but she baa about as much sex appeal as an icicle. Bessie hove is as sweet and pretty as ber name, but sbe is practically lacking in thai lure of sex. Thomas Meig- ban can by no standards of beauty be called bandsome, but bis personal appeal is so great that women go mad about him. ■ Nita Naldi's sex -appeal is her rakon d'etre in pictures. What other quality could possibly account for the great vogue of Mack Sen- nett's bathing beauties, a year or two ago? Why docs Mae Murray appear in a pearl breast-band and a tin- seled loin-cloth and nothing else in at least one sequence of every pic- ture? Because the men who for years- have paid money to sit in the bald- headed row within squinting dis- tance of the beautiful chorus girls nowr get a mental thrill out of a pair of alabaster shoulders in what are deftly termed "society dramas" on the screen. And the producers, discovering that what's sauce for the gander is chili sauce for the goose, have taken to giving the fair sex glimpses of the Valentino torso, in such in- 26 stances as the dressing-room scene in Blood and Sand. Mother used to blush when father mentioned his woolen underwear. Now she gets a kick out of the kine- matized B. V. D.'s. For, as the wit said in Life: Shotr your shape, my little lad. You're a matinee idol now, l/gad. Tiikkk is a perfectly good eco- nomic reason for the beach scenes where the strapping hero poses in a one-piece suit ; for bedroom scenes, for the costume pictures, where skin-tight trousers display a shapely thigh and slender waist. Valentino, you remember, has of late appeared in snug, toreador cos- tumes in Blood and Sand, in tight knee breeches, in The Shirk, and in that peculiar appeal of sex. He is the boy- next-door; he typifies a fine comradeship rather than passion. Charles Ray has a modicum of sex appeal. lie is the sweetheart — your first sweetheart — not the lover. There is a fine distinction. Barbara ha Marr fairly breathes the vital lure of sex. She is essen- tially the woman of the world type. In the first part of Trifling Women, Miss LaMarr is east an ingenue, a flapper. Ye Gods, how incongruous! •She was gauche, unappealing. But in the later scenes, as the fair mis- tress of men, how alluring she was ! She has poise, dignity, sex appeal 1 T, 0 have sex appeal is to have personality. Sex is life. It is not something to be spoken of in hushed whispers. It is a gift of the Gods, an inheritance from our fair mother Eve and our father Adam. •hist how far the expres- sion of sex can go on the screen is a question. It is all in the way it is handled. Sex handled crudely betokens vulgarity and is offensive. Sex handled delicately, subtly, is artistic and wholly desirable. And the more sex appeal an actor has. the more fan mail he gets. And. inci- dentally, the more salary. Bebe Daniels is the personification of sex lure, a true daughter of our fair mother Eve. Lillian Gish is the spirituelle type invariably chosen by Griffith for his heroines. It is seldom that this fragile type of maiden in- flames man's interest in woman. a few strings of pearls in The Young Rajah. Conrad Nagel has charm : his manners are faultless and women like him. But he doesn't intrigue their imaginations so that they place fresh flowers before bis picture even' day. Wherefore he is not starred, though he is a finer actor than many whose names are em- blazoned in electric lights. He lacks sex appeal. /, Harold Lloyd is one star who at- tained world-wide fame without A* 1 PARAMOUNT PHOTO BY KEYES

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By T hei Y THEIR smiles shall you know them — ingenues, villains, tragedy queens, vampires, society butterflies, Cody-vamps, mothers, the children that are responsible for the loving close-up in the last foot of film; the children who are fore- doomed to play "wait's and strays": men who are Apostles-of-God's- Great-Outdoors (that phrase is pat- ented but still useable) ; rip-snortin' cowboys ; martyred fathers who only pay the bills and have no fun: grand dames who give the poor clerk the razz with a perfectly lady- like but chilly smile; the breezy out-door girl who is "just a good pal" — and winds up in the heroes arms while the poor vamp smokes her cigarettes in lonely splendor. All — all — all have their smiles, and by their smiles shall you know them. A smile is as much the pri- vate and indisputable property of a particular star or class of stars as her lipstick. When a new player is assigned her place in the screen world as ingenue or vamp, she is awarded a smile by the property man, along with her wardrobe. She may get a new frock for every change of scene, but she cannot change her smile. And no one can 28 r Prop By ANNE AUSTIN use her smile. It is her one in- alienable right. And this is just. Think what terrible confusion the movie audiences would suffer if the vamp should forget herself, leave at home her one-sided, intriguing, secretive Oh-the-things-I-could-teU- on-the-married-men-if-I-would kind of smile, and by mistake smile a natural, whole-souled young girl smile, such as she invariably used before the casting director discov- ered her as a vamp! Quick, Wat- son, the needle! The whole world of make-believe would totter. If we couldn't depend upon knowing just how mean the mys- terious dark lady was by the kind of smile she served out in her first close-up: if the villain forgot him- self and his mustache and put on the hero's "God's-in-his-heaven-all- right-with-the-world" smile; if the sweet old mother let her lips rest once in a while and looked as cross as she feels, with her corns hurting her 'n everything — then, oh then, there would be the devil to pay in screenland. The mouth is the truest indicator of character. No wonder the novel- ist goes into rhapsodies about the Smiles heroines mouth — curling lovely words about it — "intriguing." "ten- der." "drooping," "pouting," "in- viting." "provocative," "prehen- sile." Think of your favorite movie star and you will find that your at- tention is riveted on two items al- ways— the eyes and the mouth. The eves are used almost as much in smiling as the mouth, but the mouth has the double-barreled advantage of being the most poignant point of contact. When the hero kisses the girl in the final emotional spasm, when he just can't keep his hands off her any longer, the whole audience kisses along with him. The emotion surges up from the toes in great nice waves to the mouth, and we all have a glorious time. Since the hero's mouth and the heroine's mouth are responsible for this superlative pleasure, let's consider the kind of mouths that our stars and starlets have, and the kind of smiles with which their producers and their press agents have endowed them. Take Theda Bara, for instance, if you can find her. But if you can't, you won't have any trouble remembering her. Theda did darn little smiling. A. smiling Theda

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Tom Mix's smile stamps him as an Apostle - o f - God's - Great- Outdoors. T h e d a Bara made you look for her smile — and look in vain. The mouth of the woman- of-mystery drooped intriguingly or trembled with passion. And oh, how fascinating the married men found it! Dorothy Dalton's smile says as plainly as words: "I must show my dimples, no matter how I distort my mouth doing it." Ye Shall Know Them would have made about as much ripple in "A Fool There Was" as Marie Prevost in an Eskimo role. Theda went heavy on the soulful tragedy, woman-of-mystery stuff. Her mouth drooped intriguingly. or trembled with passion ; if she smiled, there was only a slight twitch at the mobile corners, which made you hope that next time there would be more; she made you look for her smile — and look in vain. Her little half-smile concealed, rather than revealed ; was appar- ently for her own private enjoy- ment. And oh, how fascinating the philandering married men found it ! The Smile is the Star's Identification Tag. He May Change His Costume o N the other hand, Pola Negri, But the prize fascinator of the day, smiles broadly and muchly — but not J\e D€ V so fascinatingly, unless you like your fascination dished up in gen- HlS erous portions. Pola smiles like a hoyden, largely because she enjoys Smile smiling. When she remembers her role, she narrows that generous mouth and holds in the exuberance when she is in one of her big re- smile. Imagine Nazimova grinning! of personality. But in her tragedy nunoiation scenes would make even Not a single reviewer would ever scenes, that flexible mouth becomes Dr. Crane forget that he has a mes- again refer to her as "exotic." What a poem of passion and sorrow. It sage for the world. a time she must have curbing her writhes in pain. A kiss from Pola And then there's Nazimova's smiles, narrowing them down to a 29

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Russian expression of frustrated passion and world-weariness. Even in "The Brat" Nazimova's smile was calculated to break the heart, rather than to bring answering smiles. Possibly the largest single ingredient in Nazimova's copy- righted smile is disdain — disdain for the world in general, her leading man in particular, the electricians who sometimes make her nose look big with faulty lighting; the direc- tor who forgets himself and bellows nt Alia, the all highest, and for the audience who will gape and "mis- understand." Audiences are such funny creatures that they even like to be disdained. Then there is the conscious "I am so beautiful — touch-me-not'' smile of some of our leading beau- ties— Katherine MacDonald, and Anna Nilsson. The smile means nothing in the world but a turning in of the eyes of self upon self, for a rapt contemplation of the beauties thereof. No wonder the audience gets mighty little kick out of their smiles. And conjure up the smile of Dorothy Dal ton, which says as plainly as words — "I positively must show all my dimples every time I smile — no matter how badly I distort my mouth to do it." No director in the world could get much acting out of a chronically dimpling mouth. The womanly smile, which says, "It's not quite ladylike to smile too broadly," is the smile which hovers persistently about the lovely lips of Claire Windsor, our chief exponent of woman- liness. Now Dorothy Gish's smile is something else yet. It tells the world that Dorothy is having an awfully good time in this incarna- tion, that people are kind to her, that her sense of humor is as lively as a kitten and as penetrating as a knitting needle ; that she loves the world and the world loves her. A thoroughly nice smile is Dorothy's. The most luscious smiling lips in the world belong to one Bebe Dan- iels, and if the male half of the world could have its say, those lips would be community property. Con- sidered solely from the kissing standpoint, Bebe's lips are perfect, Second place in the kisSable lips' list should go unanimously to Mae Murray — ob, those bee-stung lips! Mae's smile is a constant invitation to a kiss. Devilish, mocking, pro- vocative— all such adjectives bubble of Paw's and Maw's hearts, and makes would-be protectors out of prosaic business men. Take Shirley Mason's and Mary Miles Minter's sweet, little-girlie smiles as a shin- ing example of this kind of smiling — patented especially for this class of stars. Because millions of fans know Shirley as the cute little girl by her smile, she will never be able to get away with any other kind of smile — hence will never be able to play any other role. She will never be permitted to grow up. She is condemned to eternal youth — that is, as eternal as the fans will per- mit. Ultimately Shirley Mason, Viola Dana, Constance Binney, May Mc.Vvoy, Marie Prevost, Edith Rob- erts— all the dear little girls, some of them actresses, most of them not — will be buried in the same grave with our old delight — .Marguerite Clarke. \ I, you want to take something infinitely precious and cuddle it to your heart a while, to dream over at night and to sigh for during a bad day, take the •mile of Lillian Gish — tender, whimsical, infinitely wistful, as if Lillian were sighing for the moon, dreaming dreams of fairy-tale romance. Lillian's eyes don't smile : they seem to fill with teal's as her Hps curve upward. The womanly smile which says: "It's not quite ladylike to smile too broadly" hovers persistently on the lips of Claire Windsor. up irrepressibly when one attempts to describe the smiles of Bebe Dan- iels and Mae Murray. The "Aren'tTl-a-nice-little-girl- don't-you-think-I'm-cute?" is the kind of smile that warms the cockles he hero is allowed a little range in his smiling, but he must never encroach the slightest on the vil- lain's territory. He must never be really cynical; must never smile luring smiles at women other than the heroine. He may express a little eavemanish anger, for the au- dience is comfortably sure that he will bring the naughty vixen to time and then spend the rest of his life adoring her and following her slightest wishes; he may show amusement, some sophistication, but not so much that a single dumbbell in the audience will mis- take him for Lord Algy. the polished society villain : he may open up his mouth and roar out his delight, but he mustn't do it often, for that sort of role belongs to the fat young character actor, or the clever kid brother of the heroine. You see what a task it must be for the direc- tor to keep these smiles all sorted out, and to keep his actors and actorines from poaching on each other's preserves. The goof that printed the word "SMILE" on a red cardboard for business men to hang over their (Continued on page 101) 30

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Bogus Movies When You Go to the Movies, You Don't JVant to Waste Money on " Warmed - Over'" Films By L. B. FOWLER TOP! LOOK! LISTEN I" — was the advice given me by a con- scientious exhibitor of photoplays, who caters to the average class of theater-goers, and T am going to pass it on to you, in the hope that it will save actual cash. STOP in the lobby of the theater of your choice. Do not purchase your tickets hurriedly. LOOK over the lobby displays carefully. Do not miss reading ALL the printed matter on the posters. LISTEN to what others have to say about the entertainment offered. Many times you can tell from the conversation of those coming out of the theater, or those who stand around in the lobby, whether or not the photoplay being shown is old. good, bad or indifferent. I have followed the above advice and I know from experience that T have saved many dollars and moments of madness by .-topping in WATCH OUT FOR THESE FILMS! THEY are old pictures, re- issued under new titles to fool you into parting with your good money, or doctored up with new sub-titles: An Indian's Loyalty Gold and Glitter The Spirit Awakened Fate Heredity Two Men of the Desert The Isle of Love The Bootlegger's Daughter A Rogue's Romance Uncharted Seas All Night The Fatal Marriage. the lobby, looking over tlie display carefully and listening to what others had to say of the perform- ance I was about to witness. Undoubtedly you will admit that you have a number of times rushed up to the ticket window of a motion picture theater and laid down your money with only a glance at the lobby display. In that glance you ( aught the name of the picture, the star appearing and maybe that of the producer. Words printed in .-mall letters seemed unimportant to you. After witnessing a poor perform- ance, however, you emerge from the showhouse much put out at the management, and at your own carc> lessness, for you probably found the second time you looked at the photo- graphic display and posters, that in very small type you had been • warned'' that the picture was a revision. I have purposely quoted the word "warned." The management of that house understands the weak- ness of human nature. lie knows 35

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SB LILLIAN GISH - HARRY CAR^Y - BLANCH SWEET HENRY WALTHALL - MAE MARSH -LIONEL BARRYMORE Pmana.Hu Directed bu DAVID W.GRIFFITH AND W. CHRISTIE CABANNE The first six arc now raad^ - The second six will be readij November 15^ TO BE RELEASED THROUGH STATES RIGHT EXCHANGES i / l.tl*N (ItSM m AN 1NOIANS LOVAUTV " THESE BOX OFFICE WINNERS were selected from MORE TH6NFIFTY SUBJECTS n WHICH IHtSE. STARS APPtARCD AND AHt ISSUCO UMDCtt lit C"K,1rtAI. TttltS |L bUT HE-tOtTEO AND t E- SUBTITLED f BLANCH 5WCEt.«a r*,AE MARSH - THE SPIRIT AWAKENED" Oirtxtiedbu Griff iff MAE KARSH-- .UOKEL BAORyTWRC ••. * FAT E s Diluted by Griffith BLANCH SWEET *».oHE.NOY WALTHALL i'TwO MEN or the. DESERT 5 Oirrrred oy Griffith. MARRY CAREV ....(> JACK pltKFORD .•.'HEREDITY * Oirrtted M ityGnttith INDEPENDENT PICTURES CORP., 729 SEVENTH AVE NEW YORK CITY J his selfish desires and eases his conscience by put- ting that information in such small type that you can hardly read it at any distance. He knows good and well that yon will overlook it when yon go to purchase your seats. There are too many photoplay exhibitors who deliberately advertise a rehashed picture with- out as much as a word of "warning." The pecu- liar part of it is they seem to get away with it and go unpunished for their unscrupulous methods. Recently, T showed a theater manager one of a collection of photographs 1 am collecting for ScREENXAND. "I guess that is bunking them," this exhibitor commented. "That's downright bunk and mis- representation if there ever was such a thing. Tt comes pretty durn close to obtaining money under false pretense and it ought to be stopped. That fellow has no license to advertise thai picture like that. I'm acquainted with that photoplay and if T ever run it, I may advertise Valentino's name, but I won't feature him and furthermore I'll tell the folks that patronize my place of business that it is a reissued film." There is no real harm in showing old pictures if the audience is warned beforehand that they are old pictures. The exhibitor who books these films has no excuse for not warning his patrons. This page advertisement from an ex- hibitor's magazine specifi- cally states that the films are old films, "re-edited and re-subtitled." that the average American its care- less and shortsighted in respect to entertainment. Most playgoers read the matter printed in big type and let it go at that. Not only does this apply to lobby displays but to theatrical advertising as well. Most Americans dislike detail. That is why the circus owners, the legitimate theater managers, and the exhibitors sell you your enter- tainment in large lettering that is easy to read. They have made a close study of your faults and weak- nesses. They know just how to "get" you. Every motion picture exhibitor is required by law to inform you if the photoplay he is exhibiting is a reissued one. Thus he satisfies 36 Moran of the Lady Letty, with Rodolph Valentino. — A splendid story of jthe sea. Hieh entertaining value. A 100% picture. — Walter Coddinpton, Home theatre, Rantoul, 111. — Neighborhood patronage. 7 An interesting advertisement showing the naive manner in which an exhibitor uses one photoplay to advertise another. Evi- dently he cleaned up on the Paramount picture The Sheik; note the number of references to Val- entino and The Sheik in his ad. Note also the next little "steal" from both book and photoplay of The Sheik: "When the Arab Sees a Woman He Wants — He Takes Her." RIALTO WILLIAM PO> »RESCriT3 THREE BIG DAYS TUE. WED. THUR. Don't Miss This Sheik Play— When An Arab Sees A Woman He Wants^-ME TAKES HER~ DON'T MISS-THE ARAB KISS READ WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THIS GREAT PLAY "Arabian Love,"* with John Gilbert— This picture is ever; bit at good .■. S' .-|M-j in fact my patroot told me tha.t theylTcd it, belter. If I bed known bow' good il was I would have advertised it is much ea I did Thejhtikand and cleaned upL— Wm, E. Tragsdorf, Neillsville, Wis.— Small town "Arabian Love." If Fox Will teed you a good print on this, you can step on this one harder than you did on . My patrons told me they liked this ooe better thin "The Jjkcijc/' although Gilbert doesn't wear any patchy Ic.it her hair. Advertising, did pot ad- vertise this halt enough. Patronage, small town. Attendance, very good. 17m. E. Trigs* (forf, Trags Theatre, NeillsvUle, Wisconsin. "Arabian Love" — Another Valentino. A good Patronage: young. Attendance, fair; UTR. Barlydt, Quiney Theatre, Quiney/ Massa- chusetts. "Arabian. Love," with John Gilbert— A very good picture at a reasonable rental.— C. Ma|- phuri Dreamland theatre, High Springs, Fit. —Small town patronage. "Arabian Love," with John Gilbert — As a desert. picture this ranks second only to ThjL jj. Only got a handful of people outoe? ^cause .Tohn Gilbert is unknown here.— C. B. Scott, Foz theatre, New Xiabia, Wis.— Neigh- borhood patronage. WHN Cf IBERT ARABIAN UWE a vmp. romance of pcsear ure There la a positive fascination for most people in etoriee and motion pictures dealing with the wild charm of life in the «reat waate space* of the, Ones: -tin magnetism of the desert, with its caravans, it* ahaiks, its hordes of fast-riding Arab briganda. Its perlla and adventures. At the Rialto theatre next Tuee- day will be presented one of the area teat desert pictures ever made '— " Arabian Lovo, ' ' produced by William Fox arl atarrlnf that splendid voung --cter John Gilbert. It « * rare bi* of romance and ad- vtntnre sto**d la "the land of the taafk '* Co tall much mora would spoil •* j treat we promise; you Il .towing pictures like "ARABIAN LOVE" for an admission prtco of 36 Cent* the people of Hmailtoa and vicinity most admit that we are not profiteers. This picture la worth a great deal mora than we are charging yon, but we made a good '■> ;y" on it. and vf are lotting the people in on our good fortune, and we think that our pol icy In trying to hold down admission prices within the rea/B 0 j th, aairewi deserve* the support of the people of Hamilton, and we trust thit yon will materially ahow your approval by giving ^ . w,M than of your petronaie. WE AEE TRYING TO HELP YOU. YOU SHOULD IN TURN HELP US. "Arabian Love." with John Gilbert — Good picture. , Will please most everyone.— Harry Van Noy, Starland theatre, 'Anderson,' Ind.— Neighborhood patronage. Now Comes More Good News — The Admission Will Be Only , 25c

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If you will notice the reproduced photograph of the theater you will see in the electrics over the front en- trance— Valentino in "All Night." Now if you look closely you will find on the placards posted in the display cases to the right and left of the entrance that Valentino's name is exploited here in large painted letters over and beside the "action" stills of the photoplay. That isn't all. On page 3b' you will find reproduced an ad which was clipped from the •city news- paper along with a criticism which reads in part: " he was then as now a good- looking young man with poise, gracious manners, and lent to the picture in which he was appearing an unmistakably foreign atmos- phere. "Since 'All Night' was intended to exploit the charms of Miss Myers rather than those of Mr. Valentino, there is little opportunity for him to distinguish himself in an histri- onic way in the current picture at the the- ater. "Tt was a wise gov) hie on the part of the man- agement to se- cure a reissue of this attraction, etc. " another the ad theater Do you selling argument of every showman. If the criticism or "notice" which appeared with ad doesn't convince you that the management of this particular theater misrepresented the production he was offering, then carefully read the reproduction of the ad of the producer on page 36 over the caption of "The Right Way to Advertise." Here, again, you will discover thai "All Night" is a revi- val ; that new prints have been made of it ; the new accessories for exploit- ing purposes accompany the film, and that a brand new campaign book has been gotten out by the producer to help the exhibitor. Down at the very bottom of the ad which appeared in a daily trade paper for exhibitors, you will see that the producer tells (lie prospec- tive showman-buyer to "See it at your Universal Exchange.'" That is the proper and the only way to advertise reissued photo- plays. Thai is real truthful adver- tising. Every exhibftor is warned upon the good nature of the theater- going public is in the reissuance of a picture which is now called "The Bootlegger's Daughter'' but which was made four and half years ago before bootleg-gel's had any standing in the commercial world; at a time when nearly every corner was decorated with a saloon. "The Bootlegger's Daughter-', as il is now exploited) was Fred Niblo's first screen effort. He went to this certain studio to learn production methods. The producer asked him as a favor to play the part of a preacher in this particular film and he con- sented. The picture on a whole is not worth the film it is printed on. Mr. Niblo, it is said, vouches for that. Anyway it is an old film and one that should have been thrown in the ashcan long ago. Carefully read the ad of the dis- tributor which is reproduced on this page. Nothing about an old film in that is there. No doubt if you have seen the billboard adver- tisements v o u Take look at of this again. find any mention of a "reissued film" in it? No, of course you don't. What you do find is Valen- tino's name printed so large that you could read it at some lit- tle distance. What is the idea? To attract the atten- tion of the people who hurriedly glance at the theater ads and get them to this particular theater. The management doesn't care much after the money is paid in at the boxoffice window, just what the patrons say. That kind of ad- vertising is bad business and will eventually hurt the busi- ness of every palace of amusement. People will lose confidence in the You will Another ancient atrocity re-issued. This was made four or five years ago when there was a saloon on every corner and the word "boot legger" had no particular standing in the commercial world note no hint that this is an old film, re-titled. what he is getting and he "buys" the subject witli big eyes wide open. The conscientious theater manager will take that warning seriously if he has the interest of bis patrons at heart. Tie will use discretion in exploiting the names of the cast and be sure to place in all bis adver- tising the word "revised" or "reis- sued" in good sized, readable letters. Another example of how some distributors and exhibitors play wondered when Fred Niblo start- ed acting again or when he join- ed that particular company. I do not mean to say a!! exhib- itors are selfish grafters, u s i n g their intimate knowledge of the film business to flim-flam the per- sons who patron- ize their theater-. I have met many theater - owners and managers on my trips of inves- t i g a t i o n for SCREEXL.YXD who are just as anx- ious as anyone to put a stop to the "misrepresentation evil." I have also found many producers who are honestly trying to get to the public better and greater entertainment — trying to establish confidence — who are giving all their old films "the ax." New York houses another outfit which has purchased 12 old Charlie Chaplin subjects, 81 "Mary Pickfonl photoplays, and over 160 other old (Contimied on page SS) 27

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r* How to Win a Man's Love Pointers on the Gentle Art of Vamping From Those Who Love Their Art. life, even in cmr drama. The white- muslined ingenue, waiting for the hero at the vine-wreathed gate, get- the chaste kiss in the final fade-out. But the vampire La the lady who has the "fat part." the big moments in the play. Witness Dona Sol in Blood and Sand. N i t a N a 1 d i warns the in- genue against smoking with a man whom she. would charm. But the woman of the world may toy with a ciga- r e 1 1 e. ow do they do it, these charm- Gaby Des- lys, the pe- tite French actress whose twink ling toes kicked King Man- uel off the throne o f Port u g a 1, said that clothes was the secret o f charm. Gaby af- fected ex- o t i c cos- tumes and dresses such as this one, TO CHARM MEN is Woman's first duty. The thrill, the in- toxicating sense of power that comas at the .sight of the quickening interest in a man's eyes! Ah, what mere knowledge of virtue can hope to equal the throb of triumph that comes to her who knows the power of the light that lies in woman's eyes. The charmer (the ugly phrase of the day is \ the vampire) queens it over the world. In history, has it been the virtuous wife, the demure girl- who - would-make-a- good wife - for - some man, whose names are blazoned on the scroll of fame? Ah no! It is Sappho the nger, Helen with the face that nnnched a thousand ships, Cleopa- ra the Cruel Du Barry, Lucrczia of the deadly Borgias . . . all charm- ers of men. Their white hands have swayed the fates of nations. It is the same today in every-day H ers? There is a technique in "vamp- ing." It is interesting — and edu- cational— to study the methods by which the famous charmers of the period bring their adorers to their knees. Gaby Deslys, the petite French actress whose twinkling toes kicked King Manuel off the throne of Portugal, declared the answer was . . . atmosphere! Clothes! Gaby never permitted herself to be seen in other than the most strik- ing garments. She would not be or- dinary. She must never be classed as just a pretty woman ! She was Gaby Deslys, always the actress, always the charmer! Perhaps you remember the exotic head-dresses affected by Gaby, the bird-of-Paradise sprays, the jeweled turbans. And the fantastic gowns which displayed to perfection the curves of her beautiful body. Curves were desirable in those days! Gaby had a lisp, too — so charm- ing— and a complexion like an apple-blossom. But trades-people used to tell the curious that she had the heart of a miser. (Cecii.e Sorel. the reigning enchantress of the French stage today, says she fascinates men by a studied program of all the arts 38

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attributed to the most fundus oharmers of by-gone days. Tt takes study as well as innate talent, you see, to be a vampire ! When .-he wishes to be particu- larly potent, La Sorel dons bine. Blue sets her magnetic vibrations going she asserts. She showers her victim with attentions at dinner — oh. how true it is that the road to a man's heart lies through his stomach! — and favors him with an intriguing smile at rare intervals. While the Parisian Cecile makes a man comfortable in order to charm him, Geraldine Farrar makes him uncomfortable to achieve the same result. She keeps him guessing. She is audacious in a way that com- pels admiration. But she will not give out the recipe for bringing her victims to the last final abnegation ! Mary Harden doesn't give a whoop for the popularly supposed aids to charm. She draws them with her forceful, challenging person- ality, so she says. (Continued on page 104) A slinky black gown with jet earrings do not make a vampire, but they often make her ridiculous, says beautiful Barbara LaMarr. When she wishes to feel dignified she wears white. Black drapes her ego in subtlety, while red makes her vivacious. Ramon Sa- mani egos and Bar- bara La Mart as Ruper t o f H e n t z a u and Antoi- nette d e Mauban in Rex In- ram's "The Pri- soner of Zenda." KlZ/M

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Revelations f ■ ; of a ||||| Press Agent A confession which tears at the flimsy fabric of motion picture stars' personalities and shows the skeletons beneath. Do you know these stars? They are real, stripped naked for the first time of their camouflage of pretty words. By ONE WHO is sorry and ashamed, but not quite reformed. WAS young and callous but not so clever as V. Scott Fitzgerald, I had one absorbing ambition. I wanted to write. Like Merton of the Movies, T knelt at my bedside every night to pray, "Oh, God, make me a good writer, and let me get a job as a writer in Hol- lywood. Amen." I grew a mustache, graduated from college with passionate admi- ration for English literature and a really remarkable record as a theme- writer, inherited five hundred dol- lars from my grandmother who had no one else to leave the money to — though the fact that it would be spent in Hollywood doubtless hastened her demise — and finally arrived in Hollywood. I have been here seven years. I 'onger kneel at my bedside to pray any sort of prayer, and I know that 1 shall never be a good writer, no matter who may intercede in Heaven for me, for I have sold my soul to the great God of Hollywood — Publicity. I have never been married, for no woman would trust me, the champion liar of Hollywood, but sometimes in my nightmares I am surrounded by my children — strangely all full-grown. They cluster around me, these children of my diseased brain, creatures created to intrigue the interest of an insat- iable public. Shadowy shapes of vampires, ingenues, "silver-haired mothers," angelic children inhabit my aura night and day. And troup- ing along with these shadowy peo- ple whom I have created out of nothing are the ghosts of the real personalities I murdered, to make way for mv brain creatures. One or two real tragedies roost like Poe's raven over my "pallid bust of Psyche," but I am so blamed busy making a living by creating new personalities and killing real people that I haven't time to go crazy. When the last green drop of imagination has been squeezed out of my withered brains by the last studio that will give me a job, T shall have my choice of going crazy and being supported by the state in a beautifully sanitary psychopathic ward; of writing my memoirs to sell to the Sunday Sup- plements, or of living luxuriously by blackmail. The things I know- about the stars, the directors and the producers, who have paid me to keep an innocent public misin- formed, should net me a new Rolls- Royce every year, along with a ease of real gin— opulence beyond the dreams of avarice. Because I knew a chap who knew a chap in one of the biggest studios on the coast, I landed in a publicity job within a few weeks. I was hired 40

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For publication, my siren indulged only in exotic dishes with French and Italian names. In reality she adored apfel-kuchen dipped in black coffee, and the pot roast with noodles that her fat mama cooked. 41

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The prize press agent tale of all times unblushingly informed a credulous public that Theda Bara was born within the shadow of the Sphinx. As a matter of cold fact, Theda's stage name is a combination of the two words, Arab and Death and she was born in the shadow of the Cincinnati Pyramids. at twenty-five dollars a week — good money in those days — to write fic- tion under the label of truth for the Great American Press. It was my job, along with other imaginative young men, to fool all the people all of the time. I was given a few rules as to what is good publicity and what is not good publicity. It is never good publicity for a female star to be married; a million adorers would he shocked and kept from propos- ing in the ten thousand letters which every screen player receives a day — according to her fcTess agent. T was also told that while unfortu- -*\ nately some of the stars h ad children Mfrfe as well as dogs, fr-wm .inly (lie dogs * T made good pub- licity. Mothers watching over daughters were to be played up. even in instances where mothers had to be hired for the role, but fathers living off daughters' fat salary were to be suppressed. All ingenues were to be pure and precious and sweet; not a breath of scandal was to blow across their fair young lives — in print. Vampires- — and those were the days of the first vampires — were to be cruel, wicked, seductive, mysterious. Their homes were to be kept sacred, except for rare glimpses into black velvet salons. They were not to eat the same things as others eat. I have spent weary hours inventing exotic, colorful names of dishes, searching French and Italian dictionaries for my inspiration, while the vamp herself sat in her golden-oak dining room, dipping German apfel- kuchen into black coffee and read- ing "The Ladies Homo Journal,'' interrupted at times by her fat mama who wanted to know if "daughter" would like pot roast with noodles or wienerwursts with sauerkraut for her dinner. After memorizing a few rules, I was given an assignment to create a printable personality for a newly signed ingenue, whom I might as well call Betty Beautiful, since her real name was something like (ioldie Johnson. Betty Beautiful, whom I helped name as well as create, has since sunk into oblivion. She is now living on memories of the time when her name stood for everything sweet and pure in pic- tures, as well as on her fourth hus- band's princely income as one of Hollywood's most sought - after bootleggers. Her daughter is now in pictures as an extra and her son is in college. ND a short seven weeks ago I was commissioned to make a Betty Beautiful for the public! She was virgin material, for she had never been in pictures 'before, coming to the screen from a stock company that had played only in Texas. She was then past thirty, a peroxide blond with deep dimples and china- blue eyes. Although she had two children, she kept her figure as slight and childish as Shirley Mason's. Only her hands were hard to disguise. We always had to use an extra girl for close-ups of Betty Beautiful's hands in the strong, virile clasp of the hero, for Betty's hands showed every year relentlessly. Betty with her make-up on photographed like a •million dollars, of course, or she would never have won her big contract with "World- Wide," and after seeing her first picture in a preview and being told that I was the one to act as her "personal publicity agent," I was as thrilled as any fan that ever pleaded for a pass at a studio door. Betty was resting between her first and second picture, and I was sent out to her house to interview her and to get my publicity campaign lined up. I found her living in a small fur- nished bungalow, with her second husband and two children by the first. It was a shock from which 1 have never recovered. Naturally, with one of the "family," she made no pretenses, well knowing that not one line of bad publicity, about which she talked constantly, would get out. "Now, young fellow," she set me down on a davenport in a nest of base ball bats, balls and masks, screen magazines and hats her daughter was making over, and be- gan to lay the law down to me. "I am thirty-two years old. and I've been married twice, and I've got twro children. I'm new to pictures, but I've been playing 'Little Eva' 42

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since you were in long dresses." She reached down to hitch up a silk stocking whose garter was loose with old age, and thoughtfully regarded a jagged rent in her bun- galow apron. "Now that you've got the low-down on me, forget it, and let's see what we can do. To begin with, I suppose I am not yet eight- een?" There was nothing coy about this — merely a business ques- tion. There was no use wasting coyness on a publicity writer, hired to work for her. 1 stammered, looking at the discolored hair, the two false front teeth, the slightly yellowed parchment of her round, babyish face. "Yes, you don't look a day over seventeen — in that first pic- ture." "Well, then, I am going to cele- brate my eighteenth birthday with the preview of my first picture," she decided. "That's a good story for you. We'll play that up strong. 1 know a woman I can get to pose for my mother — one of the fat. smiling women, you know. She's a perfect old hellion, but she'll screen like a million dollars." How familiar I was to get with that phrase — photograph like a million dollar.-! "I think we'd better have some- thing in the first stories about my coming to Hollywood all the way from Australia, because I saw in a magazine that pretty girls were wanted in the movies. Play up my innocence, you know. Then maybe have my mother dying of a broken heart, when I cable her a thousand dollars to come to me on, when I get my contract." She sat back, her hard blue eyes watching every expression on my callow young face. Suddenly there was an uproar outside and two young hyenas burst into the room — a half grown boy and girl - — soiled, tousled, rough, ugly young brutes. They were lighting in a horribly business-like manner, as if they kept constantly at it. The mother jumped up. infuriated by the interruption, tore those two young brutes apart, and before my pained eyes gave them a first class heating — each of them. They went off blubbering, and the little crea- ture sat down to her interview again as if nothing unusual had happened. It hadn't. get me, don't you? You see my first crime in the making? I went back to the studio, mooned around a bit and then went out and got most thoroughly drunk. If 1 had stayed sober, I should probably have taken the night train out of Hollywood and into the pure and simple Middle West. But I did get drunk and T wrote a masterpiece of fiction, creating and naming Hetty Beautiful. 1 gave birth that night to the loveliest ingenue of the screen — limpid-eyed, purer than a lily, for even a lily has a little yel- low at its heart ; an ingenue who. Do you recognize these hands? Probably not, because they were the only feature of the star whom we will call Betty Beautiful that betrayed her real age. We always secured an extra with pretty hands to double for Betty in hand-clasp scenes. on the strength of the inspired pub- licity which came out of the holo- caust of my illusions, became one of the most beloved and idealized "little girls" of the screen. During her reign as one of America's sweethearts, she very quietly got a divorce from her husband, who became slightly peeved when his wife went away for a two weeks' holiday with her leading man, and married the same leading man, who took her on condition that she put the children in board- ing schools. When her popularity began to wane, her leading man, who had been living fatly on the ingenue's earnings, divorced her, still without the public getting an inkling because their real names- were used, and Betty Beautiful married the business man who is, now such a successful bootlegger. The life of the press agent is a hectic one at best. He is kept only so long as his imagination hold- out. Dozens of publicity men earned their bock beer and sandwiches for writing sweet little human interest yarns about Betty Beautiful and for arranging interviews with blase young women writers from maga- zines and newspapers. But I passed on, after a few months, when my stock of adjectives and my fund of ingenue anecdotes began to run dry. ecavse of good work with Betty Beautiful, T stepped into a much softer job with "World-Wide's" most important competitor. The Acme Company was just then begin- ning to exploit vamps, to compete with Fox's Theda Bara. I was given a nice young school teacher to make into a wicked vampire with an unmentionable — and hence fre- quently mentioned — past. T was given carte blanche. Any- thing went, except respectability. She was to be heartless, cruel, cyni- cal, mysterious, subtle. Any "past" which embodied these traits would do nicely. My imagination in tho-e days was in perfect working order. Besides. I happened to fall slightly in love with my subject, who at that time was one of the nicest, mpst demure girls I have ever known. We got along famously, Polly and T. A general conference at the studio had resulted in her name being changed, of course, and the name then selected became one of the most famous that has ever glowed in electric lights over the rococo entrance to a movie palace. Polly — for she remained Polly to me — had been born in Boone. Iowa, of very ordinary parents, with a dash of Indian in their ancestry, which probably accounted for the color and fire and mystery which the camera and artful make-up were able to bring out in her face. I changed her birth-place to the Afri- can veldt, making her the illegiti- mate daughter of a French count and a Spanish dancer. That story- was really the forerunner of all such bits of fiction, including the choice one which unblushingly told (Continued on page 95) 43

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Making Hollywood Safe for Matrimony 51 By ANNE WILLE 66 1 I ) J I T l< U IN. you promised before we wore married thai I wouldn't have to ask for money, that you would give me an allow- ance!" I don't care what I promised. I don't believe in a woman having money of her own. A woman doesn'1 know how to take care of money."' Does that sound familial-, ye married women? 'i don't care what I prom- ised!" So many pre-nuptial promises, made in the first rap- turous ecstacy of the hetrotlial, have died under that edict. But the doom of the fragile, meant-to-he-hroken promise be- tween husband and wife has sounded, and Hollywood film stars with matrimonial troubles of their own are helping to sound it. They are backing with prayers ! and plaudits the bill introduced by the National Woman's party, which will make ante-nuptial con- tracts legal and enforceable by law. And provisos agreed upon during the romantic epoch would be as 44 How the Marriage Con- tract Will Insure Domestic Harmony in Filmdom binding as contracts between busi- ness partners. The possibilities opened up by Screen love scenes mean nothing, they tell us. Probably when Rodolph Valentino takes his lady love into his strong arms in the fade-out clinch, he is thinking of his police dogs . . . and she is counting them. this proposed hill are obvious and delectable. One of the terms of the ante-marriage contract tnight limit the numlicr of location trips the film spouse may take a year. It might determine the exact length of the fade-out kisses to be indulged in. It might even determine the number of nights each week friend husband should remain at home to mind the future son and heir. Domestic harmony in the film colony should surely be insured by some such arrangement. Though' why a movie star should ever feel the need of any domes-% tic life or love interest t? one of the most incomprehensible of all the known examples of graft. They are SO deluged with it on the screen. One would suppose that love would be the last diver- sion selected for their leisure. Fancy Rodolph Valentino desir- ing any more domestic perquisites than accorded him on the screen by Lila Lee in Blood and Sand,

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with the Nita Naldi affair on the side. Yet at the very moment the lurid Spanish complication was being recorded by the camera, Rodolph was starring in an undi- rected triangle that convulsed the nation. 'hat more could Thomas Meig- han and Leatricc Joy desire of life than has come to them on the screen? Yet off it, they are practic- ing matrimony . . . respectively. That Leatrico's private practice is with handsome John Gilbert is evi- dence of love profiteering. After Conway Tearle had loved Norma Talmadge into a convent and out again, and had rescued Elaine Hammerstein from wrecked airships and prowling panthers, one would have supposed he would take a vacation from romance. Did he take it? Not at all. He went home to his wife. That he has been doing this for years and years and always has a wife available for the purpose is apparent from the fact that he has been married three times. "Dontcha dare kiss me!" admon- ishes Will Rogers to all his lead- ing ladies, "My contract with the Missus forbids it." Pola Negri has had a matrimo- nial experience off the screen and has been considerably kissed on it. Far from being sated, she is said to be developing a taste for Charlie Chaplin. Rex Ingram earns a jjond living showing others how to make love and then spends the rest of his time in demonstrating his theories with his wife and star. Alice Terry. 8. o it is obvious that however edi- fying the love action on the screen is to the observers, there is some- thing lacking to the performers. They do not seem to satisfy. And since the stars insist on the real, old-fashioned brand of home-made romance, the protective device of the iron-bound matrimonial con- tract is really desirable. Of course, there are those who say that no contract is needed; that the love scenes on the screen are so purely impersonal that no safe- guards are called for. These per- son.- may say that when Pola Negri catapults herself against the chest of the person playing opposite, she has no other thought than the scenic effect, and that the chest is concerned only with bracing itself for the conflict. Or that when Walter Long chases a lady around (Continued on pcf/c 102) The wise wife knows how to make her screen star husband distinguish between love on the set and in the home. Mrs. Buster Keaton sees to it that Buster goes fasting to his love scenes; hunger has been known to chasten a man under temptation when a sense of duty failed. 45

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HOW WOULD wra like to He Kate Price, "the fat- test girl in the movies?" The title certainly has its advantages. Kate Price can walk rigb.1 into the casting director's pri- vate office — if the doorway is wide enough — and sign her name on the • lotted line of a fat contract, while the pulchritudinous quintessence of Keokuk. Twin Falls and the rest of the world waits wearily outside. Hollywood, studded like the skies with stars in embryo, is sated with beauty. Kate, unblessed with pul- 46 chritude. hut a perfect 56, shines the brighter by contrast. Smiling casting directors and ample salaries are goodly things. Put there are other sides to this busi- ness of being the fattest girl in the movies that are not so rosy-hued. Put let Kate herself tell it, in her straight-from-theould-sod brogue that is nearlv as broad as Kate her- self: "Oi'm the fall guy, or rather the fall goil." says she with her blue eyes a-twinkling. "Tis me that falls outa windows and olf ladders and chairs for your amusement. Oi'm always good for a laugh when the hero beans me. Sometimes, though, it's divil a bit of a laugh he gets out of it, whin I come back at him with me good and ready right. Then 'tis me that gets the laugh, whilst they car-r-rt him off to the undertakers." It's a monotonous day when no chairs collapse under Kate's bulk. She has learned to carry her own especially constructed and re-in-

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The Fattest Girl in the Movies The Joys and Sorrows of a Perfect 56 as told to MYRTLE GEBHART forced chair around with her to the studios. The other day at Metro"-, where she is playing with Viola Dana in Her Fnlal Millions, her chair turned up missing. (Tt later developed that .some kids were using it, turned upside down, for a tent.) Viola hastened to offer her her own pet camp-chair. /i'K looked eommiscratingly at the chair, which is about as big as its owner, who i.« acknowledged to be about the size of a pint of cider: small but potent. She shook her head. But Allan Forrest came to the rescue, drew Jm chair close be- .-ide Yi's and said, with a flourish, •'Take our chairs. Katie, take our chairs." Katie did. after removing the arms. Result: more kindling wood for the studio salvagers to haul home. Kate says her with smashed friends love her invite her to career is dotted furniture. Her but they won't leir homes: thev bunch of studio carpenters and a block an' tackle to hoist me to me feet again." "Do you ever try to reduce?" Katie was asked. "Diet?" she eyed me amazedlv. Kate Price is about the only screen actress who can eat what she chooses. Every added pound means a raise in salary. Film stars on diet turn green with envy when they see Katie order a light lunch of cream puffs, hot chocolate with whipped cream and a chocolate soda. entertain her out in the parks, where she can sit on park benches, or safer yet. on the grass. Once, a floor fell beneath her — set, furni- ture and all crumpling to debris when she essayed a gingerly step upon it. "Sure, and I'm all the time black and blue from the falls I'm takin'." Katie wailed. "There's three times as much of me to get bruised as there is on the regular gurl. And whin I fall, I fall hard, with all me weight to push me down. And thin thev have to call in the whole "Eat, you should be saying. Should Oi take the money from me very pocket-book by trying to get thin?" Katie is about the only girl on the screen who eats what she chooses. Actresses who find life a Photo hv MKLiiontxE spritn 47

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constant struggle to keep from get- ting "plump," eye Katie with bitter envy when she absorbs cream puffs, ice cream .sodas, hot chocolate with liig dahs of whipped cream . . . . anything that she fancies she eats. Every added pound means a raise in salary for Katie. Remembering the old say- ing that "nobody loves a fat man,*' 1 asked Katie whether it held good for the opposite sex. "Oi should say not," said Katie. "Oi've lots of friend-. Everybody's so nice to me; they wait on me and bring iue things . . ■" "Sure," interrupted her brother, who is a slim chap whom Kate can tuck under her arm, "they have to. 1 f they didn't Kale might crown 'em. We obey bet slightest wish around her." •■Wurrah, and you're the divil's hind hoof}" chided Katie. "Go way and let me talk to the lady about mr clothes. I make 'em all my self, and say. does it cost? For you. now. two yards for a dress maybe. For me seven vards." but he was a sturdy mustang and saints in Heaven, but I didn't know- shot off at a brave gallop, with you were personally acquainted Katie clinging lovingly around his with all of them!' " neck. The company drove alone,- That one try at equestrianism side in automobiles and tried to was plenty for Katie. She even stop the horse. But the horse re- broke a fire-cseape once. Now she trusts only the ground, or a concrete floor. & omk of the studios furnish costumes for their actresses, but never for Katie. They never have anything that will go round her. As for buy- ing anything ready-made in the shops, not even the "styl- ish stout" gowns will even approach her size. Kate Price weighs two hundred and fifty pounds. Her waist is 48 and her bust a. delicate 56. Her arm. at the elbow, is a mere FVj inches in circumference, and her wrist measure-; 7 inches. Her hips I did not measure, for the simple reason that the tape-line had its limit and there wasn't another procur- able to hitch on to it. Be- sides, I couldn't reach that far. Once Katie went horse-back rid- ing. Just once*. It was while she was doing Arizona, with Douglas Fairbanks. The horse didn't seem overly- pleased when Katie was lifted on, 48 K. I'hotn hy Mki.imh'iene SpuBI Katie says she was a scrawny young un' back in County Cork. But now she tips the scales at 250 and it takes seven yards of cloth to make her a tailored suit. fused to stop to argue the matter. "So Oi motioned them back," re- counted Katie, "howled to the saints to protect me, and dived off. When Oi came to, Doug said, 'Well Katie, T knew there was lots of vnic was not always fat. Indeed, she says she was a scrawny young 'un back in County Cork. She was mar- ried at eighteen, three years after she began her theatrical career, and she immediately began to take on weight. They had been phmningto make Katie a star, but when she began to "flesh tip," they put her into character parts, and she has been doing character partis ever since.. One reason for Kate's great popularity at the studios is thai nobody needs to envy her. Because they are not consumed with the ever- present fear that site may take their places in the ever- changing star roster, they can safely like and trust her. Then, too, she's a fine per- son to have around on loca- tion. Out on tin1 desert, if a sand storm happens along, the sand billows just look at Katie and change their itinerary. In the studio, she often comes to the aid of the per- spiring "prop" men, and shifts grand pianos with a mere twist of the wrist. This "Powerful Katrinka" of the films hoists guy ropes and moves furniture that others can't budge. She seldom takes sides in an argument . . . hut when she docs the argu- ment fades gently away. Being fat earns you a lot of money, but not so terribly much fun. says Katie. She can't ride, because the average horse just naturally collapses under her and she is prejudiced a g a i list horses, anyway. She can't play tennis, for perfectly obvious reasons. Walk- ing is more pain than pleasure, be- cause carrying around 250 pounds of weight on two number sevens is (Continued on page 92)

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Posed by Jobyna Ralston, Harold Lloyd's new leading lady. I'HOTU BY CHESTEH GHAVKS Encouraging the Extra AX EXTRA MAN from a Hollywood studio waved aloft a check for $7.50, the price of a day's work. "A hargain!" he cried. "Who wants this $7.50 check for only $6.90?" Nobody bid. It sounded like a clear profit of sixty cents for some- one. Why. then, the raucous laugh- ter of the other extras? An extra gets $7.50 a day at the he.-t studios. Usually he gets his job through the Service Bureau and one or two other film employment agencies. He has to pay a fee of fifty cents for every day's work. The check given him at most studios is redeemable only at the employment agency. Twenty cents carfare must be spent to cash the check, for the agency is located not in Hollywood, but in Los Angeles, eleven miles away. Chocks are never cashed before three in the afternoon, thus wasting a whole day for the extra. Figure it up for yourself. Fifty cents plus twenty cents phis a wasted working day, subtracted from $7.50. The extra who would have sold his $7.50 check for $6.90 would have made money on the sale. Which naturally raises the ques- tion : Why is a Service Bureau? Why do the studios discriminate in favor of one or two employment agencies? Why do they pay extras in checks redeemable onlv at these agencies. whether the extra obtained the job through them or not? T n e Hal Roach studio is one of the few organizations which realizes the injustice of the system. They use the same extras over and over again. Except where mob scenes require a great number of extras they are hired direct and are paid direct. The result is that members of this studio are like one big family; they work together with a harmonv and lovaltv that is delight- ful. If the studios cannot take the time to hire and pay their extra people, why do they not solve the problem (Continued on page 00) 49

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PHOTO BY EVANS Mary Pickford is standing at the crossroads, hesitating over the step which will lead to the heights of dra- matic achievement or to the level plains of mediocrity- 50

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Four on the Mountain F By ANNE AUSTIN OUR GREAT ARTISTS stand in the peculiar position of having more greatness thrust upon them — or of losing out altogether. These four stand alone in the cold, unfriendly wind that sweeps about the mountain called Fame. The searchlights of public opinion are forever turned upon them, watching with unrelenting, all-see- ing eyes the paths they take. These four — three men and a woman — were pioneers in pictures. They are all actor-producers now. Their future is entirely in their own hands. They are Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chap- lin and Charles Ray. If you are not willing to let Charles Ray's name go into the list, wait until you see "The Girl I Love." You will gladly give him recognition then. The first to arrive on the moun- tain was Mary Pickford. She has valiantly held her place. Will she continue to hold it? She is now standing at the crossroads. One road leads down a winding, decep- tive path that seems to lead up- ward— at least not abruptly down- hill— 'but in reality will take her to the foot of the mountain and either into the Dead Sea of Oblivion or into the flat, green meadows of mediocrity. The other road leads upward. .Mary has stood by these crossroads for at least two years, considering, taking a hesitant step forward and then one backward. en Mary Pickford an- nounced that she was to do Faust, taking the role of Margue- rite, the entire motion picture world gasped and conjectured — and shook its head. Yet Faust may be a big stride up the mountain for Mary. If it isn't, it may tumble her head- long into the Dead Sea. To do Faust well, the male role must be the preeminent one. Mephis- FOUR great stars have fought their way to fame. After years of success and plaudits they have come sud- denly face to face with the fact that the public is tiring. They can no longer go on as they have been going, in the same old roles. They must strike out into new fields — or give way to new faces, new types. Are they doing it? lopheles is the big part. If Main- over emphasizes the Marguerite role and under-casts M ephistophel** she may have a Mary Pickford vehicle, but she will not have Fau*t. There is an important part of the public which will quarrel with any drastic liberties that Mary may take with Faust. Again, if she makes it a Mary Pickford vehicle, regardless of proportion and tradition, she will not have a Mary Pickford play which will appeal to the rest of the public — the public which does not know anything about Gounod's Faust or anyone's Faust, for that matter, but does know a great deal and cares a great deal about Mary Pickford. Mary herself says she doesn't know whether this is a "turning point in her career" or not. She believes, in spite of the great brain which is hidden away under the golden curls, that she can hesitate indefinitely at the crossroads on the mountain. "This does not mean that I am going to give up little girl roles," Mary said to the writer, when asked her plans for the future, in the light of her Faust announce- ment. "I shall do my pictures one at a time, choosing the story I believe will be a success, regardless of whether the lead is a little girl or a grown-up young lady." "Will you go in for emotional acting?" Mary was asked. "I haven't the physique or the temperament to play big tragedies," Mary answered. And yet she is going to do Faust! M ary acknowledges that since she became a producer and actress combined she has made some mis- takes. "In the past I have listened to the advice of others and have been misled. I made my biggest mis- take when I did The Love Light. The public did not like to think of me as the deceived wife of a Ger- man soldier, the mother of a baby." "What about 'Little Lord Faun- tleroy?' " "That was a mistake, too. Yet doing the picture at all, I had to be the child. The public would not have stood for my being the mother and a real child — not even Jackie Coogan — for my son. I had to be Oedric or not do t lie picture." In admitting that Suds is her greatest piece of acting, after Stella Maris, Mary says: "I had a great picture there, but I compromised. Against my better judgment T allowed too much slapstick to be dragged in." So, admitting that she has been led into making mistakes in the past, standing as she does at the crossroads, Mary still does not see her future clearly. She must solve the problem for herself. Her friends are willing to give her advice. This is what Charles Ray, one of her devoted friends and admirers, says of her: "The public has been ready for Mary to make the leap a long time. They don't like her curls as well as she thinks they do. They would like to see her curls on top of her head, and her genius turned to bigger roles." Mary is twenty-eight years old now. She says she will play little Si

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girl parts as long as she can. How long will that be? And when she changes over, will she have the genius in the big- ger roles that she has shown in the plays that have made her famous? We believe she will I Conic on up, Mary, with Doug and the two Charlies. D. 'ouglas Fairbanks stood at the foot of the mountain three years ago. He looked up, liked the scenery, and de- cided to climb. It took great courage for him to make The Mark of Zorro — a costume pic- ture, when exhibitors would have told you that nobody wanted costume pictures, even if the admission were free! It took a great deal of money to make that picture: Doug producing independently, and leasing through United Artists, organization to which he still longs, along with Mary. Chaplin and Charles Ray. The Mark of Zorro is still con- sidered by many to be Fairbanks' greatest achievement. Rut he is still climbing- The Three Muske- teers was a marvelous achievement, a great leap up the sheer height of the mountain. With Robin Hood it seems that he has sprung to the crest. But of course there arc always new heights for a Fairbanks to scale. His pirate picture may take him up another ascent, or it may be the stone on which he will slip down a little distance — lost ground that will be infinitely hard to regain. But he must go forward or backward; the public will not permit him to stay on the same spot very long. If he does another pic- ture just as good as Robin Hood. the public will believe it is not quite so good; hence it must be a little better than Robin Hood to rank with it ; it must be a great deal bet- ter in order to appear at all better. It seems monstrously unfair, but that appears to be the destiny of these mountain-climbers. Charles Chaplin doesn't seem to be bothered by the fact that he is slipping down the mountain- side, or that Harold Lloyd, an entirely different sort of comedian, is scaling the mountain from the other side and will soon be equi- THE MARK OF ZORRO marks Douglas Fairbanks' transition from program pictures to features requiring superb characterization. distant from the top. When Harold Lloyd attains his own company, his own financial backing, can secure his own director and choose his own stories, Lloyd will bound up that mountain-side like a gay young gazelle. He has practically all these advantages now, with a few strings tied to them, but when he becomes an independent producer he will rise like a released balloon, to mix metaphors hopelessly. G (HAPLIN skyrocketed to within a few feet of the mountain top with his wonderful stroke of genius, The Kid. Then he was tired and rested a long time. He had a contract to make eight pictures. He has taken about four years to finish that con- tract. The eight pictures are made now, and not a one of them meas- ures up to Shoulder Arms or The Kid. Is Chaplin permanently weary of the heights? Is lie willing for Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton to be the most talked of comedians in America, where once comedy and Charles Chaplin were synonymous? If so, he is getting his wish — and his rest. It is said that Chaplin will produce on his own now, with- out contract, selling his com- pleted pictures as he wants to make them. He may stage a glorious comeback. There is yet time, but not too much time. And after all, Chaplin is our supreme pantomimist. It would be a great pity for Chaplin to choose the plunge into oblivion, through sheer inanition. T, he story of Charles Ray would make a wonderful sub- ject for a Horatio Alger of the motion pictures — a regular "rags to riches" story. Charles Ray entered pictures ten years ago, after a short and hectic career of barnstorming. His fairly recent picture. "The Barnstormer," was largely autobio- graphic. As a boy in school Ray was a poor student, he says, for he was always dreaming of the stage. He saw himself as Romeo. Macbeth and Othello. lie refused college and went away with a theatrical troupe, as a prop boy. He got a bit here and a small part there, when no one else was available, until he had grabbed off a good deal of experi- ence. He is grateful for that train- ing in stock and barnstorming. Then he went with luce. Every- one knows the rest. He was the great discovery, the "most promis- ing young actor on the screen" — he "stole" the picture and established himself as a personality. Chosen to support Frank Kecnan in The Coward. — Then when his contract with Tnce, at a ridiculously low salary, was concluded, he went into independent production. Everyone predicted failure for the brash young fellow, who cer- tainly had developed the swell head with a little success. If he knew which side his bread was buttered on. he'd stay with Ince, who had made him, etc., etc. At first it seemed as if they were all good if not pleasant prophets. He went eighty thousand dollars into debt. He became so worried that he didn't care much what hap- pened. During this period he got the reputation which still clings of being "up-stage," because he did not beam with pleasure when visi- tors interrupted him on the set and demanded his presence in the 52

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reception room. Every min- ute— at about eight dollars of expense a minute — counted, for Ray was spending more and more of borrowed capital, and couldn't be sure be / wouldn't wake up a bankrupt Ik any morning. ITc admits that / he may have shown some / slight impatience with curious / visitors, who had no more :- serious business with him than to gaze upon his feature- and ask him if he really felt like a country boy. Then success began to come. \ slowly. The Ole Swimmin' \ Hole marked the turning \ point in his career — not hi- \ career on the mountain, but ' it told him that he would be permitted to try to make the ascent. Tie would not be a failure. The 01 r. Swimmin' Hole was perfect of its kind. Then came, after an unimportant picture or two. The Tailor-Mode Man. Tn many ways. The, Tailor-Madi Mmi is a success. Tt is proving it- self a money-maker, which from a struggling young actor-producer's standpoint is very important. Tt i> pretentions. and as such paves the way for big pictures, expensive pic- tures. Tt cost about $300,000; The story, bought from Mary Pickford, cost' $7.".000. Ray says of tin- story : "I bought The TaiUr-Made Man because it had been widely adver- tised and played on every stage. T knew it was a good stage play. But when I got home with it and sat down to read it T give you my word T turned sick. If T could have re- neged on my bargain. T would have done so. I couldn't see myself in the role at all. But T went through with it, making, a pretentious pro- duction of it. and while it is not fi great picture, it is enjoying a real and substantial popularity. I had to make some money, and I did." When The Tmlor-MMe Man was safely launched. Ray set about making The Girl I Love It was a work of love, a consummation of ten years of work and ambition, according to Ray. By the time this appears The Girl I Love will be motion picture history. It will undoubtedly be a great success, for it is a great pic- ture. It is not the greatest picture ever produced, but it is Ray's best picture, and that is saying a good deal. Among the great pictures of all times, it will stand almost on a level with Broken Blossoms for poign- v ancy of appeal and simplicity \ of conception. But whether the public likes \ The Girl I Love or not. Charles \ Ray likes it and is happy that ■\ be has done it. "It is the perfect example of my 'country boy' character- izations, the product of ten - / years of portraying that sort ' / of role. But it is the lout >7 country hoy picture." I That is Charles Ray's decla- f/ ration of war with the public. The public believes that Charles Ray can do nothing bul country boys well. 'Tie believes he can. To prove it. be is working on a great, spectacular costume drama, The Courtship of Miles Standish. Tt will cost a great deal of money, more than The Taildr-Made Man, and will be Ray's (Continued on page 92) PHOTO BY UOOVKR Charles Chaplin doesn't seem to be bothered by the fact that he is slipping down the mountainside of fame, while Harold Lloyd is scaling the heights from the other side. It would be a pity for the great comedian to slip into oblivion, through sheer inanition. "The Girl I Love" has won for Charles Ray his position upon the mountain peaks, and marks the end of his country boy roles. 53

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Do You Believe In Hunches? The Screen Stars Play Hunches the Same as the Rest of Us. They Cross Their Fingers When They Ridicule Hunches in This Article F By GENERVRA HOWES , RIZE-FIGHTERS are super- stitious, Heaven knows ; and South- ern darkies could scarcely be called fatalists, by any stretch of the im- agination. But when it comes to pure unalloyed faith in "hunches," the motion picture actor has any other credulous class or cult simply backed off the boards. A hunch is as sacred as pay-day, and no more to be ignored. Play- ing a hunch saved ZaSu Pitts a painful accident and perhaps her life. "I was riding on the L train in Chicago with a girl friend," ex- plained ZaSu. "When we were half-way down I suddenly had a hunch to leave that train. I can't explain it, but I suddenly knew that I should not stay where I was. Without a by-your-leave I jumped off at the next station. My girl friend stayed. Fifty minutes after I got off, the train was wrecked, and my poor friend was carted off to the hospital." Talking about ZaSu naturally and logicallv leads to Tom Gallery (ZaSu's husband). Tom had a strong hunch that his little baby was going to be a boy and prevailed upon ZaSu to prepare pink clothes for the new arrival. His hunch failed for once, though, for the new baby turned out to be a fat little girl. IEieic Vox Stroheim also claims that he owes the fact that he is alive today to a hunch, a hunch that he stuck to though it caused him to be called "yellow" by some of his associates. It was during the filming of The Hearts of Humanity, a few- year's ago. In one of the scenes a shell was to strike a building and completely wreck it. Von Stroheim 54 in the role of a German officer, was supposed to be hit by a falling beam. The director and staff ar- ranged in minutest detail just where and how Von Stroheim was to stand so that the beam would appear to knock him down. Von Stroheim protested. He had a premonition, in Americanese, a hunch, that if he played it that way, he would be killed. The company argued and ex- postulated; they even intimated broadly that he had a large streak of ochre in him. Von Stroheim played his hunch and insisted that they use a dummy. At last, un- willingly, a dummy was used, the scene arranged, the shell exploded . . . . and presto! the beam fell and completely demolished the dummy. The measurements and plans and calculations were wrong. Had Von Stroheim ignored his hunch, he would have departed this life with undue eeleritv. ull Montana invokes a hunch with all the fire of his Italian blood. When he gets one, he takes it right dowm to Tiajuana and shoots his wad on the ponies. Getting a hunch puts money in Bull's pockets some- times .... and then again it takes it out. But let the Bool tell his latest hunch : "At Tanksgeeving Day I had what you call a "hunch," oh such a grand beeg hunch that the black horse would ween. The oder horses .... bah ! all dogs ! So I put my monee on the black horse, twentee to one, and the black horse, he come down the stretch and ween by half a length !" What we slangily call a hunch is often born of a deep desire and is developed by applied thinking. Someti hunch is merclv intuition, that strange sixth sense that women have. Gloria Swanson uses hunches or intuition, call it what you will, to interpret dramatic situations, even against the advice of her director, Sam Wood. "I'd bank on a woman's intui- tion every time," says Sam Wood. "When Gloria intuitively interprets a scene for me, even though it may bo directly opposed to my concep- tion of what the logical action should be in that scene, I urge her to act on her. hunch. "For instance, in shooting The Impossible Mrs. Bellow, Gloria poses as a partially draped statue in order to turn her lover against her. Gloria and Monte Katterjohn, the scenario writer, and I had dis- cussed this scene and mapped out the action. Without any warning, Gloria introduced several comedy stunts when she posed as the statue. 'I had a hunch', she said. 'If I had just posed as the partially draped statue, it would not have appealed to the more refined sensibilities of my audience. By introducing the little comedy touches, it broke the tenseness of the scene'." V, iola Dana believes in hunches .... ever since she got the repair bill from the garage that fixed her new Cadillac speedster. A big bunch of important visitors from the East were visiting the Metro studio. Viola came breezing out in her usual vivacious manner and, as she stepped into her gorgeous new car, remarked, "You know, I have a hunch something is going to happen to my car." Was it the hunch or merely the exuberance generated by the admir- ing gaze of her important admirers that made her forget to release her

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brakes? Result : a burned-out brake band and lining and locked wheels. After her grand entrance, poor Vi had to see her beautiful new toy towed away to the garage, be- cause she had a hunch and didn't beed itl H unohes do not keep union hours, according to June Matin's, probably tbe best known woman scenarist in pictures. Miss Matins acts on hunches, even in the wee, small hours of the morning. But when a gorgeous idea conies, Miss Matins doesn't jump out into the cold to jot it down, like many writers. .She snuggles deeper under the covers and ponders the idea, letting it grow and develop. Later in the day she puts the idea on paper, for you and me to enjoy in the darkened theatre later. One specific hunch is related by Miss Mathis: "When I was in New York on my last trip, I had a most difficult time trying to find books contain- ing information about the costumes of the times as for Ben Hur. Tom Gallery believes hunches I had searched and researched without success and was at my wits' ends. I was walking down the street, and suddenly, apparently without any control over my mind or body, I turned into Brentano's a large book company on Fifth Avenue. As though led by an un- seen force, I walked to a certain counter and &*ked to examine some old Bibles on the shelf. They were Bibles printed on Dutch cop- per plate in 1771. I told the clerk that those books were il- lustrated ; how I knew, I can- not say. The clerk said they were not illustrated, but on opening them I found they were, containing illustrations of the very costumes I was searching for." Marie Prevost waxed facetious when asked about her belief in hunches, and the answer she gave was no doubt true: "When I was doing bathing-girl stuff in the Mack Sen- nett comedies, every time I was called for a bathing scene, I had a hunch that I was going to get my feet wet. And every time I did!" REID MEMORIAL w •ALLACE REID'S mon- ument will be a sana- torium for the cure of the drug evil, it has been announced by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Davenport Reid, after com- pletion of plans of a propaganda film, to be made at the luce studios, in which Mi's. Reid will play. The proceeds will be devoted to the sanatorium. "I have been receiving telegrams urging me to do this from club women and women's organizations," said Mrs. Reid. "We will start work on the film immediately." The sanatorium will be located near Los Angeles. C. Gardner Sulli- van will write the scenario for the picture. "Please make it plain there is no commercial interest involved in this picture," said Mrs. Reid. "The entire funds will go to the Wallace Reid Memorial sanatorium. No 56 individual will profit from the film in any way." Club women in Los Angeles have promised their cooperation. "We have talked things over with the biggest men in the film indus- try," said Mrs. Reid, "and we are assured of their cooperation also. The picture will be intended to teach a great moral lesson." WallaceReid died after months of fighting to regain bis health, shat- tered by the drug and liquor habits. Mr. Ince, who is to produce Mrs. Wallace Reid's "dope" picture, an- nounces through his press agent that the production will have its premiere in Chicago. Universal, with its huge picture- making facilities in California, has purchased a picture for release. In six vears this has never happened before. So "Driven," by Charles Brabin, must be a remarkably good production. Harold Lloyd announces that Mil- dredDaviswill retire from the screen after she has become Mrs. Lloyd. It is estimated that 15,000,000 persons visit, the motion-picture theaters daily in the LTnited States — more than in all the other coun- tries of the world combined. After eight weeks of unusually hard work on her new picture, "Slander the Woman," Dorothy Phillips is now resting at her home in Hollywood. It is said she spent long hours in snowdrifts waist high and tramped miles through ice covered underbrush, while out on location. Now she believes she has earned a short rest. Mr. Lasky has announced that Rob Wagner, humorist, author of numerous stories based on studio life, artist, and for the past year a member of the titling department at the Lasky Studios in Hollywood, is *a become a Paramount director.

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They Stepped on the Gas If here fore Certain Popular Men- Ab out-Town of Holly- wood Say "Good-Morning Judge" in Speeders Court. 66 /f~*% OOI) morning, Judge!" [I Thus ar3 some.bf our most popular young men- ahou i - 1 [ollywood greeting, more or loss cordially, one Police Judge Joseph F. Chambers, sultan of (he bos Angeles speeders' court The responses made by Judge Chambers are equally terse and even lass cordial. In fact, his remarks are confined to sentences. . . . sentences like "Thirty days!" Wherefore, if perchance you wend your way to any one of sev- eral Hollywood studio-; and ask for a certain film star, the answer is very likely to be "On location." True. But wait till you hear which location. It -eenis rather crude to call it a jail. Let ns rather say that our friends are taking a course — an in- tensive course — in the new school of Histrionic Repression, the faculty of which is distinguished from the stall's of less arresting institutions by khalti-hued uniforms and high- powered motorcycles. A s TEACHERS of acting, Judge Chambers and his aides are mas- terly. They believe that restraint is the first essential of genius; and they are going to teach their pro- teges restraint if it takes every sen- tence in stock to d! the place. Meals, too, are laudably simple. Beans, coffee and a thick hunk of bread form a favorite menu for breakfast, while for lunch and eve- ning dinner the bill-of-fare is at- tractively alternated by bread, cof- fee and beans. E . HYSICAL exercise folio w s £he early rising practiced by the stu- dents. Many an embryo Fairbanks is developing his muscles under an expert system of callousthenics (okeh), with a mop, pail and broom as the principal instruments. And no invidious discriminations are made. A beautiful actress who scorched the asphalt on her way to the studio has just as fine a chance of expanding her personality with a scrub brush on the seminary floor as has the tawdriest shoplifter. To attack the garden weed, to slink intrepidly along the trail of the .slug and to stop at nothing, not even the fearsomo and odorous barns and stables, is the daily ex- perience of these dramatic students. They have become crack knife-men in the commissary department, peeling a potating unerringly at three paces. Edythe Sterling, of the Califor- nia film colony, was one of those to receive the benefits of this extraor- dinary institution. Edythe be- came eligible by running her ( Con tin tied on page !).', ) 57

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Wild Interviewers / Have Met By MAE BUSCH Who wields a mean pen as well as a lip-stick. 3EN Screenland inaug- urated its series of Confessions of Star Interviewers, every gal inter- viewer in Hollywood sharpened up her pencil to a cutting point, the while chortling with ghoulish glee. Here was where she could get even for the time Gloria Swanson failed to recognize her in the Oocoanut Grove! And that time, at Viola Dana's party, Bert Lytell didn't ask her to dance once! Heh! Hch! Ree-e-venge ! To let the gal interviewer tell if, gray matter is what an actress has everything else but. And the way we ''stage" interviews .... and rave about the contracts we're "con- sidering" .... and quote Freud .... and put on dog generally ! You know! The gal interviewer told you all about it. Some of it was even true. Now I'm going to go the gal interviewer one better and tell what T honestly think about the inter- viewers. And I'm going to sign my name to it, let the chips fall where thev may. The second brand of interviewer comes to you with her story already prepared, and proceeds to insert the desired words into your mouth. If you happen to hold just the oppo- site views, and state said views freely and definitely, why, she simply writes the story as she had it laid out in the first place, anyway. The third kind of interviewer is the nicest kind, in my opinion. She (or he) just comes calling and talks about things of real and vital import, such as who was that tall, handsome chap you were dancing with at the Plantation last night, and is Charlie Chaplin really going to marry Pola, and that's a dream of a hat, my dear, where did you get it, and wasn't So-an-So a fright in that jade tulle, the woman certainly gets away with murder. A, T, .HERE ARE three kinds of inter- viewers. The first kind sits down in front of you, fixes you with a chilling eye and says, in effect, "Now talk, darn you talk!" Result, naturally, is mental paralysis on the part of the star. You rack your brain franti- cally and can't think of a single thing to talk about except the weather. .del A Rogers St. Johns is a shining example of the last kind. She is what T call a painless inter- viewer. The patient never knows she is under the scalpel at all. And she has such a happy knack of get- ting below the surface, has Adela. I'm exceedingly proud of my friendship with her, by the way. She is one of about six persons whom I can truly call my friends. Edwin Schallcrt is a good guy. but he kept me waiting a whole hour one night. The next time he asks to interview me, I shall make hi in wait two hours. Only I'm afraid he wouldn't wait, darn it. Coming late to interview appoint- ments is a trick of the seasoned reporter, anyway. The novice usually comes fifteen minutes early .... and is just as liable as not to find her gorgeous being still in curl-papers. T,, must satirical interviewer 1 know is Herbert Howe. But he wrote the best interview I ever had .... and I didn't even know I was being interviewed. As a matter of fact, neither did he. I wras getting a bite to eat down at Franks, and Herb saw me. He came in to say howdy, and then he walked back to the apartment house with me, and came up to smoke a cigarette. When he went on home, some of the things we had been discussing came back to him and he wrote them up in a perfectly peachy interview. The next best interview I ever had carried the caption, "She's a Nut, But I Like Her." Adela St. John wrote it. The very worst interview of my career was one that never took place. I didn't even recognize the name of the man who wrote it. He de- scribed me as "perching, like a sprightly angel about to flit away into space, on the arm of a great, friendly arm-chair." He kept me perching there all through the in- terview. Made me sick. 58

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It always tickles me to read about how the interviewers put clever remarks into the mouths of the poor dumb-bell stars who think Camembert is a Caruso record. But I notice that when it comes to re- cording sprightly repartee, the interviewers never give themselves any the worst of it. There are certain stereotyped questions that come up in almo«t every interview. T believe every star or near-star has been asked at some time "if marriage and a ca- reer will mix." Of course, the an- swer to that depends entirely on whether or not the star is living with his or her mate at that time. If the interviewee's husband had grouched about the toast being too hard for breakfast that morning, probably a waiting world quivered to hear that matrimonial bonds were fatal to one's Art. .notiier dear old favorite always asked by interviewers is this: which role portrayed by you during your screen career do you consider most worth while? Well, there are two regulation answers to that. If you happen to have made a big splash in a picture and have never quite re- peated since, naturally that role was most "worth while." Betty Compson, for instance, always says Rose in The Miracle Man was her favorite role. Why shouldn't she? She was wonderful in it and it made her famous. The second regulation answer is to name the role you are portraying in your present picture. This with a canny eye to a little helpful pub- licity. A bit of boosting never yet hurt a picture's prospects, you know. Another time-worn question is always put, after considerable hem- ming and hawing and preceded by "Now, this isn't for publication, you know, just between you and me . . . .er. . . .just how much is there in this idea that the woman pays for advancement in her career?" I always say, sure, the woman pays. In the hard-earned coin of long hours and hard work and sacrifice of such desirable things as choco- lates and cream puffs and things that tend to go to waist. . . .I'll say the woman pays and pays and pays ! To let the gal reporter tell it, gray matter is what a star has everything else but. Mae Busch, however, not only meets the interviewers on their own ground but goes them one better by writing some remarkably interesting and virile free verses. I xter viewers are fun, though, mostly. It is supremely flattering to think that half a million people will spend good money to read what you have to say. Only it sometimes gives you that cold feeling in the pit of your stomach, like you used to get when you stood up to speak your piece at the Sunday School Christ- mas entertainment and couldn't re- member the first line. You sud- denly realize that your opinions on things aren't so weighty as they had seemed before; that you are only a human person very much like those fans who look upon you as a person from a higher (well, anyway, a different) sphere; and that your line that gets over so well at Armstrong's and on the lot isn't going to look so good in print. lint it always does, somehow. Probably because these same inter- viewers are tactful enough to play up the nice thing's the star has let slip absent-mindedly and draw a kindly veil over the indiscreet re- marks that, God knows, arc true enough but that you'd hate to let get back to your leading man, camera hog though he may be. I like interviewers: Adela Rogers St. John, Myrtle Gebhart, Alma Whitaker, Grace Kingsley, Herb Howe .... even Ed. Schallert, who's a good guy though tardy in his habits. I like interviewers and I like interviews. They're such darn good pub- licity ! 59

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i High Life IN Hollywood By the TATTLER CUPID has hii<l a bad year in Hollywood. Six supremely eligible film bachelors still flaunt (heir freedom in the lovely faces of Hollywood misses and mammas. Will the begin nine of 1924 see ihem still unattached? There is Harold Lloyd, for in- •tance. Five feet nine inches of nanhood going to sheer waste; a perfect husband in embryo, if there ever was one. And though the rumors of engage- ment to Mildred Davis ?till go merrily on, with occasional variation by substituting the name of the dusky-haired Bebe Daniels for little blonde Mildred, 1923 still finds Harold a bachelor — and obviously enjoying his sad state. Then there is Rich- ard Dix, the strapping Goldwyn star. Twenty- eight years old, and still defying Cupid's darts. Yet Richard openly avers that he wants to be married, that he is only waiting to find the right girl. Not that he is living the life of a 60 hermit. Far from it. Dickie Dix'- heart is extremely susceptible, hies* him, and he is usually in the throes of some sentimental affair. But none of them seems to take: But perhaps not present any insuperable objec- tions to becoming Mrs. Richard Dix. Charlie Chaplin is another Ajax who is constantly defying the now that he has a nice contract with matrimonial ligbtning. Perpetually Goldwyn, to say nothing of his beautiful new ' $17,000 Pieree- Arrow car. Richard will stabilize the marriage market of our fair village by taking to himself a wife, thereby ending the suspense for the score or so of maidens who would Charles Ray entertained some distinguished visitors on the occasion of the "launching" of the "May- flower," in the Ray studios. Reading from left to right are Admiral E. W. Eberle of the Pacific Coast Fleet, Mrs. Charles Ray, Mrs. Eberle and Charles Ray, standing on the deck of the "Mayflower," an exact replica of the Pilgrim vessel. flirting with the marriage knot, the wary Charlie yet retains his title of Bachelors, once removed. For all the world knows that Charlie has tasted the bitterness and sweet of marriage, once. His brief and unhappy wedded life with the beautiful and canny Mildred Harris has evi- dently left him the de- termination not to be caught again. Yet ru- mors of engagements with any one of half a dozen film beauties con- tinue to occupy front page space in the morn- ing papers; Pola Negri especially engages Char- lie's leisure hours. Who knows? By the time you read this, Charles Chaplin may be no more a bachelor. But knowing Charlie, we have our doots! The Lasky lot fairly swarms with eligible bachelors. J. Warren Kerrigan, heart smasher

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aw " ^4^T -1 Harold Lloyd enjoyed the wonderful mu- sic of Nyiregi- hazi, the pian- ist prodigy, so much that he invited him out to the Hal Roach studio, where Lloyd is making a screaming Spanish comedy. <le luxe for lo, these many years, tiocs his way, obstinately unmarried. What ] trice that gorgeous aquiline nose, those piercing eyes, that brawny figure, as our English cousin would query? Is there any truth in the report that the demure and altogether charming Lois Wilson, •lack's leading lady in his new pic- ture, The Covered Wagon, has at last won his laggard affections? We hope so. "The good son makes a good husband." Jack's devotion to his mother, recently passed away, is traditional in Hollywood, and the man who wins Lois Wilson for his bride is a lucky man, indeed. 'Twould be a good match. Then there is Charles de Roche, the French actor brought over to till the void in the hearts of flappers left by the desertion of Rodolph the Beloved. Charles is gloriously un- hampered, matrimonially. True, he is said to be bestowing his at- tentions on Pola Negri, which is reprehensible and much to be deprecated. Tis no treat to a European demoiselle, the foreign courtesies, the continental genuflec- tions that so delight our susceptible American maids and matrons. Foreign Actors for American girls is our slogan. Antonio Moreno is another romantic actor who has escaped the wiles of feminine minds for many and many a moon. Dark-eyed, dark-haired, with all the romantic appeal of his beloved Spain, Tony may be at last trembling on the brink of conquest. Dame Gossip has it that Tony is only awaiting the necessary passing of a year to claim a lovelv society matron as Senora Carrida Monteagudo, or Mrs. Moreno, as the courts have lately decreed. Ramon Navarro, too, is altogether too handsome to be permitted to remain a bachelor longer. Why is it that the foreigners seem to repeal Cupid's entanglements longer than the domestic brand of suitors? Something should really be done about Ramon. Now that he has a nice new contract with Metro and a name that somebody can pro- nounce— and spell — there is no further excuse for Ramon remain- ing in single un-blessedness. Holly- wood should look to it. Perhaps the clergy and the Hollywood Woman's Club can do something about it in their occasional spare moments. The Launching of the "Mayflower"' c, Ielebrating the successful be- ginning of his new picture, The Courtship of Miles Stan dish , Charles Ray threw open his studios for an interesting event, recently, the launching of the good ship "May- flower." The vessel, an exact replica of the Pilgrim ship, was set up on the Ray lot. A direct descendant of Pris- cilla Alden dashed against the bow a flask of water brought from Ply- mouth harbor. Mrs. Charles Ray and Miss Enid Bennett, who is playing the part of Priscilla in the picture, were host- esses at the charmingly-appointed luncheon that preceded the ceremony. Mrs. Ray wore a gown of buttercup-yellOw velvet with yellow slippers, and a coatee and hat of ermine. Miss Bennett was charming in a long-waisted gown of brown velvet with a small toque of the same shade. Small china plates bearing the coats-of-arms of prominent "May- flower" families, and boxes of candy, were given as souvenirs. The guests signed their names in the "May- flower" "log," a most fascinating volume that looked as if the weight of centuries had marred its leathern, brass-bound covers. Fitzmaunces Are Hosts M e. and Mrs. George Fitz- maurice (Ouida Bcrgere) were hosts at a delightful dinner party at their Hollywood home, recently. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. 8am Wood, Miss Gloria Swan- son, Miss Pola Negri and Mr. Charles de Roche. Stars Judge Dancers R DTH Roland, Charlie Chaplin and Jesse Lasky were judges at a dancing contest held at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angles. The first prize was awarded to Miss Marjory Daw and her partner, Mr. Dana Todd. Over one hundred couples participated. Mack Se nnett Entertains D r. and Mrs. Giannini were the guests of honor at a dinner given at his home by Mack Sen- nett. About thirty guests were present, including Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schenck (Norma Tal- madge). Miss Constance Talmadge, Mr. and Mrs. Buster Keaton (Natalie Talmadge) and Samuel Goldwyn. Hollywood Bride Is Sensation M*. and Mrs. John Howard (Ora Carewe) are said to have created a sensation in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where they visited on their honeymoon. Mrs. Howard's "straight-from-Hollywood" gowns were declared no end stunning at the smart Pentucket Club and other social resorts. Stars Attend Concert T he elite of Hollywood flocked to hear the youthful pianist marvel, Mrs. Frank Mayo 6i Nyiregihazi

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(Dagniar Godowski), herself the daughter of a famous pianist, enter- tained a party of friends at the concert in Los Angeles. Others who had boxes were Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sills, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kay and Mr. Antonio Moreno, and Harold Llovd. Stars Shine At Cocoanut Grove I Strohc Is He N honor of Eric \*oii Stroheim. who has signed a Long-term eon- tract with Goldwyn, Edward Howes recently gave a notable dinner partv at the Ambassador Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Marshal] Neilan (Blanche Sweet), Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leonard (Mae Murray) . Mr. and Mrs. lingo Ballin. Miss June Mathis, Mr. Richard Dix, Mi>s Claire Windsor and Miss Patsy Ruth Miller were among the guests. Miss Sweet was lovely in ivory velvet. Miss Windsor wore a gown of lace and seed pearls over a .-lip of silver cloth. Miss Miller was gowned in tea-rose chiffon over charmeuse, with little French flowers. Kitchen Sh owers Tor For Natalie Keaton N, A: xioxfi the interesting screen folk wlio had parties at the Cocoa- nut (irove at the Ambassador the other evening were Harold Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. "Buster' Keaton (Natalie Talmadge), Antonio Moreno, Kenneth Harlan, Samuel (Joldwyn and James Young. Kenneth Harlan was with Mis> Marie Prevost, as usual, his dainty fiancee. Harold Lloyd included in liis party lovely little Mildred Davis, also as usual. nmst interesting were Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Nagel, Mr. and Mrs. John Emerson (the diminutive and adorable Anita Loos), Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gallery (ZaSu Pitts). Mrs. Sessue Hayakawa, Miss Carmelita Garrity, MlSS Sylvia Breamer and Mr. and Mrs. George Melford. Charles Ray Gives Preview A, D.r For de Roche A: N event that caused the gos- sips to nod a nd whisper significantly was a smart dinner given recently, in honor of Count Charles de Roche. The bonny Charles is a really-and-truly count, it is said, but he democratically dispenses with his title for professional purposes. Which is wise . . . and econom- ical. _N exceedingly smart audience was present at the invitation preview of Charles Ray's new picture, The (rid I Love, given at the exclusive Beverly Hills Hotel. The guests of the hotel and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ray, including members of the press, viewed the picture with much pleasure, and many a stately society matron wept the mascaro off her eyelashes, .just as the film folk did. Niblos Return Home ata i.ik Talmadge Keaton was the guest of honor at a kitchen shower, given by Mr. and Mrs. Jose] ih Schenek (Norma Tal- madge), recently. The Keatons are soon to go into their new home, after residing with the Seheneks since their marriage. Dorothy Phillips Entertains it comes to novel and smart entertainment. Mrs. Allan Holubar, known on the screen as Dorothy Phillips, is always in the front rank. The elite of Hollywood were recently invited to get down their ice-skates from the attic and come to a snow-party at the studio. The ice-skating rink used in the latest Phillips picture, The 117,//, Frontier swarmed with screen celebrities, some of whom could skate well and some of whom could not. But all were ornamental. It was the most fun lots of film folk had had since the Christian Ende- ator sleigh rides back in Punx- sutawney. Pa., and many an ermine coatee bit the dust (snow-dust), to ribald applause from the sidelines. 62 T. Hollywood Hotel hlrsday night at the Holly- wood hotel is always a gala occasion. The other evening saw a brilliant crowd gathered to dance and dine in the famous bostelry. Among the 1 HE Fred Xiblos are back from Mexico City, regaling all their friends with tale.s of the color and romance of Old Spain that has been retained in the capital city of our turbulent neighbor across the border. Mrs. Niblo (Enid Bennett ) is starting work with Charles Ray in The Courtship of Miles Sfawlish. in which she is portraying the co- quettish Priscilla. I'hntn >,v SVK An "-:cl.:sive "at home" affair at the charming residence of the William Desmonds. Cunning little Mary Joanna considers Daddy Bill just the best sort of a pal, so does Mama Mary Mclvor Desmond.

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Caught in the Act Unusual Photographs That Show Movie Scenes Not Seen in the Theatres "WELCOME TO OUR CITY" says Mary Pickford to Na- tional Commander Owsler, American Legion head, on the Robin Hood set at the Pickford-Fairbanks studios. Mr. Owsler doesn't need any- one to tell him to smile pretty at the lady. Doug says the bandage on his hand stamps him as a disabled veteran of the (matrimonial) war. Kevstonb Photo WATCHING FOR THE BIRDIE This is one close-up that won't be ruined by an officious director call- ing "Cut" too soon. Richard Dix said he had to snap this one when Helen Chad- wick wasn't around, or she'd have in- sisted on shar- ing it. s Goi.i>wvn Photo

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DID YOU HEAR THIS ONE? Bert Lytell has just told Betty Compson what Pola Negri said when asked if she were going to marry Charlie Chaplin. "Now you stop!" says Betty. "Cut it short and shave my neck," says Mae Busch to the Goldwyn barber, as she snatches a moment between scenes. Mae is trying to look as if she didn't hear her director bellowing at her to get back on the set. Gocdwtii Phot'1 ALL ON A SUN- DAY MORNING Mrs. Douglas Mc- Lean has just told her husband that he ought to be in church this min- ute. The thought seems to make Douglas enjoy the Sunday "funnies" all the more. Can you make out what Mrs. Mc- Lean is chochet- ing?

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"YOU FIRST, MY DEAR GASTON" Pola Negri and Direc- tor George Fitzmaurice are certainly polite, and seem to enjoy working together. Fitzmaurice directed Pola in BELLA DONNA, herfirstmade- in-America picture. Faramoi-nt Photo HAVE YOU MADE YOUR BEAD BAG YET? Lois Wilson and May McAvoy are hard at work on theirs. Lois is crocheting hers with navy silk and iridescent beads, while May is making a gay little bag of scarlet silk with cut steel beads. Paramount Photo

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GIDDAP" SAYS DICKIE Richard Headrick takes an early morning can- ter. The name of his spirited mount is Anna May, oneof the Featured Actresses in HEARTS AFLAME. Lot'IH II. Mi.', i; : 1'lIOTO BRITAIN'S HAND- SOMEST ACTOR Ivor Novello, whom English matinee girls concede to be restful and soothing to the eye, has left England flat to come to this country. Ivor expects to put the shapely noses of our most beautiful male stars quite out of joint. How nice it seems not to have man under foot, remarks Pauline Frederick to her mother. Mother evidently agrees. Polly has just found the matrimonial sea too stormy, for the fourth time. Keystone Photo

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"C'MON IN, THE WATER'S FINE" coaxes little Jackie Ott, swimming champion of Miami, Florida. But Nita Naldi and Rubye de Remer prefer to bask in the sun- shine on the beach. Beach costumes like theirs aren't meant to get wet. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH Once upon a time Dorothy Gish, a star in her own right, gave a good-looking young chap a chance to make good as her leading man. The good-looking young chap was Richard Barthelmess. Here we have Dorothy as she appears in FURY, in which she supports her former leading man. Chief of Police Dan O'Brien takes the first steps toward cleaning up the movies by swear- ing in Mae Busch as a member of his Purity Squad. Wtni* Wort.i> Piro 67

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Consulting the Stars Trousseau Suggestions For The Easter Bride PARAMOUNT PHOTO The bride who possesses a smart dinner frock of Roman crepe trimmed with irides- cent beads, such as Agnes Ayres wears so effectively, is assured o f making a good ap- pearance at any evening function. PHOTO Bl FRKULICIT. A cape suit of rough Poiret and a simple hat of Milan straw makes a fetching and practical street costume for morning and informal wear. S p e cially posed by Pr i s c i 1 1 a Dean, Uni- versal Star. PARAMOUNT Plli For the bride who is to have a formal church wedding, ivory velvet cut on long, classic lines makes an ideal bridal gown. The beautiful gown shown above, worn by Miss Bebe Daniels, is heavily ornamented with pearls, as if also the tulle veil with its coronet oi rose-point lace. For the golf links and for country wear, a knicker suit should be in- cluded in every up-to-the - minute bride's trousseau. Ruth Roland is very smart in her outfit. Here is a negligee such as every bride dreams of. Pale green satin brocade, with rich trimming of white fox fur, is the ma- terial of which Bebe Dan- iel's negligee is fashioned, but an equally lovely one can be made at less ex- pense, when heavy crepe de Chine and white swans- down is used. PARAMOUNT PHOTO 68

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Blondes or Brunettes by ATHENE FARNSWORTH js THE POPULARITY of the brunette a matter of personality, history, economic necessity or the henna brush? Which is the more popular, any- way, the blonde or the brunette? The controversy is old; it raged when Sapho banned her brunette rivals to outer darkness by her fiery wit. And with the different ages, different standards prevail. The blonde beauty of one period is fol- lowed by a brunette charmer acclaimed as the perfect Venus. Odd how the color of the vampire changes from age to age. Fair Helen of Troy, the original home- disrupter, was russet-haired. Her close second for historical prestige in affaires du coeur, the fascinating Cleopatra, possessed bronze tresses. The goddess of love herself. Aphro- dite, was a true blonde. Today the vampire is dark of hair and eye. Theda Bara, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, all are brunettes. Where is our blonde "vamp" of the screen ? THE OLD question still rages; who are most pop- ular, our golden-haired ingenues or dusky-haired vam- pires? Are blue eyes or brown the more potent in luring Mr. and Mrs. Fan from their fire- side arm chairs? This article gives you the last word in the controversy. T. he simplest, albeit most umo- mantic way to determine once and for all the triumph of blonde or brunette, in so far as the motion pic- ture is concerned, is to judge the stars by their money-making power. The stars that draw the greatest crowds, that make the most money for exhibitor or producer — are they dark or light? Probably Rodolph Valentino has been the greatest short time money- maker that Famous Players-Lasky ever had. He is dark as his Roman forebears, a true brunette. Wallace Reid, on the other hand, has brought in millions of dollars over the period of years of his con- tract with Paramount. And Wal- lace was blond, with light hair and gray-blue eyes. Priscilla Dean is Universale bread-and-butter, it is said. She is a fiery brunette. She has no rival in studio, either blonde or brunette. At Metro studio, Viola Dana is undoubtedly the best drawing card of any single player. She is a bru- nette. Alice Terry, who is dark by nature but has won her fame on the screen as a golden blonde, is very popular, but her drawing power is linked with her director-husband. Rex Ingram, who again is dark. For Vitagraph, Corinne Griffith, another brunette, is most popular by box-office records, T understand. Two other brunettes, Richard Dix and Helene Chadwick. bear the brunt of screen popularity at Gold- wyns. Norma Talmadge, an enormous money-maker, is a beautiful bru- nette of the true type. Her lovely, melting eyes and dusky hair, in addition to her unquestioned dra- matic ability, have brought her great popularity. On the other hand, Katherine MacDonald, a regal blonde, is a good box-office attraction. At Selznick studio, Elaine Ham- merstein, another striking brunette, is probably the best drawing-card. Lillian Gish is Griffith's greatest star. She is more blonde than 69

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Rodolph Valentino Norma Talmadge Pola Negri brunette, but her eyes are hazel and her hair is not golden. Mary Pi ok ford is a real blonde, but she photographs as almost a brunette. Her curls used to photo- graph even darker, owing to the poor lighting system that used to prevail. Marion Davies is a lovely blonde. But how much of her popularity is due to good advertising rather than to real appeal? T,„.: brunettes, you see, seem to have it. Valentino, Priscilla Dean, Viola Dana, Corinne (iriflith. Richard Dix, Helene Ohadwick, Norma Talmadge, Elaine Ham- nierstein, stand against the few blondes represented by our Mary. [Catherine MacDonald, Lillian Gish, Wallace Reid, and Mae Murray. But you'll have to admit that the blondes, though few in number, are good in quality. In disposition, also. When extreme virtue is to be represented, youthful innocence and virginal charm, the blonde is unanimously chosen to portray the role. Mildred Davis is the perfect ingenue. Has the present craze for blonde wigs any significance? A few years ago, all that was required for the screen celebrity in embryo was a head of infantilo curls, yellow and clinging. A veri- table craze for ingenue types was going full blast. Then the pendu- lum began to swing back and bru- nettes looked as if they were to have a chance at cinema fame and fortune. They got the desired foot- hold with real life drama calling for other types than the clinging vine. Now again, however, the golden gleams are getting in some telling strokes. With the advent of the romantic costume plays, bobbed brown heads are donning long flaxen braid* and ringlet.* in order to portray the melting heroines of past decades. This fascination of wearing blonde wigs has gone even further. Every star on the screen seems to be 'bent on trying her charms under the illusion of yellow tresses. Betty Compson, Agnes Ayres, May MeAvoy, Dorothy Dalton and Viola Dana numerous others have all registered as blondes in at least one production. There may be some slight excuse for such peculiarities. The adop- tion of fair-haired wigs may not be only a temperamental whim on the part of the star when one consider- the wisdom of the law of opposites — practically all the prominent male stars on the screen are dark. Contrasts always show up to better advantage in a comparison. But, going back to the original point at issue — Are blondes greater drawing cards than brunettes? When we study history, it would seem that popular favor, though at times wavering in its allegiance, harks back to the fair hair every time. The number of decades over which the rage for the powdered wig extended seems proof positive of this fact. Y, ET THEY say that blondes can't stand an emotional strain put on them in screen drama. They are the ideal flapper type. Do you believe it? Maybe so, but the fact remains that the fascinating Alice Terry of "Four Horsemen" fame did not succeed as a brunette — her natural state — her personality sim- ply did not register. Someone suggested that she try a blonde wig. She did and we all know the result. She became a distinctive personage! Her beauty acquired a delightfully patrician quality. The screen does si range things to actualities. Practically everyone agrees that it's personality that makes for popu- laritv rather than color. Neverthe-

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Mary Pickford less, we all have very definite ideas as to what we expect of each type of complexion. The general con- sensus of opinion seems to be that blondes must play the roles of the gay little musical comedy heroines or else the unsophisticated Huffy little ingenue, On the other hand, hrunettes are more versatile. They are called upon to pose as the dreamy-eyed siren or portray the vivacious, vivid young thing that rushes in in the nick of time and saves the hero from the villain or whatnot. "Heavy roles" are also usually the lot of the brunette. Leon Bary, a fine actor from the French school, is a true brunette who does even "villains'" with a most intrigu- ing air. He is a real "comer." Noting the fair damsels of the screen — Mae Murray is a real hon- est to goodness true type of blonde, lias she ever played a great dra- matic role? Blanche Sweet is another fair-haired star. Isn't she more convincing and true to type as the clinging vine? Mary Miles Minter. Pauline (biron. Wanda Hawley — aren't they the ''sweet young' things?" Ethel Clayton is true blonde. Probably the majority of the stars would come under the classifi- cation of "medium" — blue eyes and dark hair or vice versa. Gloria Swanson, Elsie Ferguson, Betty Compson, Viola Dana, Betty Blythe. Marie Provost, May McAvoy— all have blue or gray eyes and dark- hair. Their talents and capabili- ties seem to bo divided between the lot of the blonde and the brunette. Some of them have been known to carry off both varieties of roles with eclat — lucky mortals ! Dorothy Dalton borrows a blonde wig for "The Woman Who Walked Alone'' Dorothy Gish never got very far until she enacted her roles in a dark wig. -Some people say that a blonde lacks depth, yet practically all the famous ladies in history seem to have been blondes or "red heads." Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth, Mary. Queen of Scots; Sapho. are just a few of the notable examples. Yet. on the other hand, there has only been one blonde or near-blonde in all the history of the modern stage that has registered as a gen- uine artist and she — is the "Divine Sarah." Who cares though, when it's a blonde who carries off the ulti- mate laurels! A s to our heroes — Ah, "Rudie," you're our best bet. The incom- parable "Julio" did that for you if your dark head is never "shot" again. Even the lovable, debonair YVally Reid with bis sleek blond hair and laughing blue eyes could not sway the multitudes as thou. (No, I'm not particularly a Valen- tino fan, but the public is.) Conrad Nagel's popularity is assured, but then, so is Tommy Meighan's. Kenneth Harlan has an intriguing way about him — yes. indeed — but just watch the flutter of the flappers when John Bowers sets that determined chin. Doug and Charlie and Harold Lloyd and Dick Barthelmess are all very dark. Where are the blonds to compete with them? Well, who won? Think it over. Check on the pros and cons. I have summed up the available data but I'd never dare risk my own locks by committing myself.

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w D I 11 Y IS a prologue? Do you really like them, you fans? Do you go to the movies to sit through a news weakly, a vocal imposition, the Seven Sutherland Sisters' danc- ing act, Rufus at the Goofus and Funny Sayings from the Stone- hatchet Gazette? Or do you, by any quaint chance, go to the movies to look at the movies? When we have an hour to spare between interviews and drop into a theatre to develop a little heart interest over the screen amours of our favorite actor, only to have to leave before the feature has even begun, the thoughts that arise in us are too utterly utter. No lady should have such thoughts. How do you feel about it? If we could only get the idea across to the exhibitors that prologues are not absolutely essential to our life and happiness, perhaps they could be induced to lower admis- sion prices, along with their over- head. Then you could treat friend wife to a loge seat on Saturday night without mortgag- ing the old homestead to do it. — Eleanor Norman, Trenton, N. J. Such loyalty ought to soothe the wounded feelings of the stars, if there were any such. But don't you feel badly about it, Eleanor. The stars who were really hurt were the ones who weren't mentioned. It is a com- pliment, you know, to be con- sidered so beautiful that a criti- cism is news. R There mav be flies on some o' you guys, But there aint no Hies on me! Which for some unfathomed reason reminds us that Antonio Moreno refused to play the gor- geous part of the fascinating Rupert in Rupert of Hentzau, because "Rupert was a villain and it would hurt me with my public". I .ooR Stars! How mean Pen- rhyn Stanlaws was to criticize them so bitterly in the January Screenlaxd ! Mr.Stanlaws ought to know there is no one perfect in this world. His favorite expres- sion seemed to be that a certain actress had too large a head for her body. Never mind, they are all right, and right here in Tren- ton everyone he mentioned fill a house three times a day. We love them and think them okeh, even if some of the stories they appear in are not so good." t is pleasant to record that the box-office viewpoint does not always blind producers to worth- while artistic productions. Take the case of Jesse Lasky, for in- stance, when he insisted on film- ing The Covered Wagon, from Emerson Hough's story. Mr. Lasky put the story over against the opposition of the whole Paramount organization. It is a western story; the public, said the staff, was tired of westerns. It has for a star War- ren Kerrigan, who has been out of pictures for years. For lead- ing lady, Mr. Lasky insisted on choosing Lois Wilson, a charm- ing girl and a splendid actress, but one who has not much box- office appeal as yet. Why? Because in Mr. Lasky's eyes, Ker- rigan and Miss Wilson were the only players who fit the roles. We haven't previewed the picture yet; it may turn out a flop, even as prophesied. But we're hoping that The Covered Wagon will be as good a picture as the faith that inspired it. Jackie Coogan has a neat taste in music. For the past fortnight Jackie has crooned constantly this chaste ditty: There aint no flie« on me! There aint no flies on me I P, lease, can't you do some- thing about the censors?" writes in a reader from Philadelphia. "I am so tired of seeing the best parts of pictures hacked out, leaving us just the shell. All the real facts of life are taboo in this state, on the screen. I have just been seeing Blood and Sand, and from what friends in other states tell me, I know that we didn't see the whole picture. Can't some- thing be done to keep prudish old maids of both sexes from ruining our entertainment?" Don't tell us they tampered with Dona Sol! We can repeat editorially — and we do — that cen- sors give us an extreme pain in the vicinity of the neck, and pray for a more enlightened age. Rex Ingram contributes an example of censorial logic, in connection with his Four Horsemen master- piece : "The Penny censors refused to allow Madame Laurier (Alice Tern7) to be married to her husband. She must be his finance, because they would not permit her to kiss another man, Julio (Valentino) while manned to her husband. They lost sight of the fact that this planted her as the mistress of Laurier, as they left in shots showing her living in the same house with him." 73

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Take one last look at Lew Cody's cunning little mustache. He had to shave it off to get his part in "Within the Law." Anyway, Lew's reformed now and doesn't need it; only villains wear mustaches. Gl oria vs. Pola WHEN Pola Gloria Swa Hollywood Hot From Hollywood Unexpurgated Paragraphs About and By the Stars Again Negri and anson meet, is always sure of at least one iii.ii.tilt'. The other evening, George Fitznianrice and his clever wife. Ouida Bergere, gave a party. Both Gloria and Pola were invited; hotli accepted. The guests, knowing the rivalry between the two and the fact that they had not yet been formally presented to each other, were antici- patory. Pola arrived, radiant in the new shade of scarlet, with her favorite hand of silver cloth about her head. Her black eyes sparkled ; she was stunning. Then Gloria was an- nounced. She swept in — and the guests shrieked. Gloria, too, was gowned in scarlet, the very same shade that Pola wore so well, and ahont her auburn hair a silver bandeau glistened! Pola came to the party with Charlie Chaplin, as usual, but she spent most of her evening dancing the tango, a la Valentino, with Charles de Roche, the strapping new six-footer imported by Para- mount from France. And Charlie glowered. "I hate his size!" he is said to have hissed to his friends. For Charlie, though clever and tres distingue, is of somewhat less than medium height. Valentino to Produce Independently Guessing what Valentino will do next has become the nation's fa- vorite indoor sports. The latest rumor hints thai our Rudie will produce independently, releasing through the J. D. Williams Distrib- uting Corporations, and hacked fi- nancially by Dr. Gianninr, a New York hanker. Joseph Schenck is said to he acting as the little dove of peace between Valentino and Lasky. Even if his release from Paramount is not secured, Valen- tino can produce independently, it is said, though his pictures will un- doubtedly be black-listed by the 141/-; per cent of American exhibi- tors who show Paramount pictures. Why Girls U He Mary Miles Minter has an- nounced that she is now old enough to live her own life and express herself. She has left her mother's home and has taken a house of her own in Hollywood. The reason, says Dame Gossip, is tiie manage- ment of the million dollars that Mary Miles has made since she first secured her position in pictures. Dicky Dix Blows Himself Day by day in every way, Rich- ard Dix is getting popularer and popularer, around the Goldwyn studios. Richard has just bought himself a new $17,000 Pierce- Arrow ear. and everyone, from the Big Boss to the prop boy, wants to ride in it. Mary Pickford in Faust Mary Pickford is hard at work, creating the role of Mary unite in Faust, for the screen. Ernst Lubitsch, the German director of Passion and other Pola Negri suc- cesses, is directing. At the same time, Ferdinand Pinney Earle is "shooting" Faust also, and a Ca- nadian producing company is do- ing the same thing. A Serial Story Here's the way Finis Fox. (he director, explains how he got hi> unusual name: "My mother and dad had three children, all girls. They were very anxious for a son, however, and when I finally came along, dad said, 'Hooray, a boy! We'll call him Finis and count the family completed/ "Only he spoke too soon. Three more children were born after me; sequels, so to speak." Th ree Kinds of Husbands Says Marie Marie Prevost, who recently an- nounced her engagement to Ken- neth Harlan, says there are three kinds of hushands. "The first kind of husband is the one who comes straight home at night, has no vices and works for a salary," says Marie. "The second kind is the domestic sheik, whose wife's main duty is to salaam anil worship her lord. The third kind worships his wife to the exclusion of everything else. This last type demands an emotional actress for a wife." The cjuestion is. which class does Harlan helong in? A Premature Announcement Hollywood was mildly surprised recently to read in the morning paper the announcement of the engagement of Dorothy Dalton to Frank J. Godsol, president of the Goldwyn Film Corporation. The wedding, the paper said, would take place in the spring. The guileless reporter's scoop was somewhat marred, however, by the embarrass- ing fact that Mr. Godsol has a per- fectly good wife already.

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■I Phott, by BOUM STmio Marie Mosquini is to be Will Roger's kissless leading lady in the new short-reel comedies that the Follies king is to make for Hal Roach. Whadya Mean "Near Actress" The following headline tops a lurid tale from Universal Citv: SHOT AIMED AT CHINESE HITS NEAR ACTRESS. The "near actress" referred to was Pris- eilla Dean. It is asserted on reli- able authority that Malcolm Stuart Boylan, head publicity writer at Universal, retired to his room for three days after the publication of the above item, and refused to be lured out. Interesting If True The following crop of betrothals, divorces and marriages and denials of marriages is offered for your kind consideration : Yiora Daniel, leading woman in Christy comedies, admits that she was secretly married to one Wayne Cassidy, son of a Los Angeles bank president. As soon as the scion of wealth plucked up sufficient cour- age to announce his marriage to a comedy queen, the stern parent magnificently "forgave" them all and peace reigns supreme. Margaret Loomis, picture actress and dancer (you remember her as the dancer in The Shiek) announces her engagement to a local business man, E. I. Crook. Pearl White was proposed to recently. It wasn't unprec- edented; she had been pro- posed to before. But this one so impressed her that our lovely Pearl retired to a con- vent in Spain, devoting her- self to meditation before tak- ing the fatal step. Constance Talmadge denies that she is engaged to Wil- liam Rhinelander Stewart, Jr., wealthy New York banker. "We are just friends, that's all." Connie remarks in her well-known original manner. Helene Chadwicl has sepa- rated "for good" from her husband, Billy Well- man, Fox director, t h e r e b y startling many of her admir- ers, who didn't even know she was married. Vera Stedman, leading lady for Charles Ray in Scrap Iron, has sued her husband, Jackie Taylor, charging extreme cruelty. Speaking of New Leading Ladies — which we did some paragraphs back, Harold Lloyd has one. She is Johyna Ralston. Never heard of her? We never did either, but we have it on Harold's own word that Jobyna is a peach and a pippin. And we take Harold's word for any- thing. You see Jobvna's picture on the editorial page, if the make- up man hasn't played us false and taken it out. Rudie, Take Your Bowl Some time ago the court took its pen in hand and granted a sweep- ing injunction forbidding one Ro- dolph Valentino to work at any- thing for anybody but Famous Players-Lasky Corp. The other day the court experienced a little change of heart and so far amended the injunction that now Rudie may work at anything except acting. We suggest from a perfectly unbi- ased standpoint that Rudie and Na- tacha Rambova, his wife, take his Argentine tango dance over the Orpheum circuit. Dancing isn't acting, is it? Both Rudie and the theatres would clean up on such a stunt. Only, we do want Valentino to play Ben Ilur! Please, Mr. Lasky, have a heart I Stars Choose New Leading Ladies There are more new leading ladies in Hollywood now than you can shake a stick at. Margaret Leahy, the beautiful English girl brought home from the right little tight little island by the Talmadge*, is playing the lead in Buster Keaton's new picture. Larry Se- nion, finding himself bereft of Lu- cille Carlisle, is sending out frantic S. 0. S. calls for a new leading lady. Probably the prettiest of all the new crop is Evelyn Brent, who is sup- porting Douglas Fairbanks in his pirate picture, as yet unchristened. Evelyn was so decorative in Spanish .hide that Doug put in a bid for her immediately. Will He or Won't He? Will Charlie Chaplin marry Pola Negri? Or is this latest and most persistent rumor merely another of the conventional press-agent af- ffairs? "I say nossing," Pola reit- erates when questioned, batting a wicked eyelash at the reporter, who promptly goes A. W. 0. L. "I can't say yes," says Charlie, "and I can't say no. Miss Negri is the one to give out any announcement." Ami there the matter stands. Only . . . Charlie and Pola, chaper- oned by Pola's secretary, took a little Friday-to-Monday jaunt down to Santa Barbara recently. Come Home, All Will Be Forgotten Just as Hollywood is all pepped up by the news that Griffith, long a wanderer from the California colony, is to open up his Iloiiywood studios again, the nasty old spoil- sport, newspapers in New York, backed by the denial of Griffith himself, assert that 'the master' will remain in the East. However, the inside information seems to be that Griffith will really move his com- pany to the coast. If he docs, will Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish, Carol Dempster and Charles Mack come, too? It is the freely expressed Hollywood opinion that Griffith has pulled a large and reprehensible boner by letting Lillian Gish go off on her own. It is said that Lillian was getting an insignificant salary; that Griffith refused to give her more monev or to star her because "she 74

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couldn't act with anybody but Griffith Carol Dempster hasn't Lillian', appeal. Lillian has con- tributed as much to Griffith's suc- cess as Griffith has contributed to Lillian's. That Wicked Hollywood The "dope" scare has become so acute that an actor in Hollywood is afraid to step up to a drug store fountain and ask for a "cherry coke," lest he be reported as a "hop- head." But light breaks through the leaden clouds. Colonel Nutt (officer, put that man out) na- tional narcotic chief, says Holly- wood is not so bad as Kansas City, for instance. He insists that not one-third of the alleged forty per cent of Hollywood's picture colony uses narcotics. Big Doin s in Hollywood Selznick Picture Corporation is being moved to Hollywood. Soon we shall have Theda Bara in our midst again, thus making Holly- wood unsafe from such husbands as have escaped the fascination of Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Barbara La Marr and Nita Naldi. Theda is all revamped, ready for vamping, Selz- nick says. Wkat Shall Fatty Do? Fatty Arbuckle has been ren- dered positively incoherent by the suggestions which kindly clergy- men haw been offering, regarding the Arbuckle future. One good Samaritan suggests that the come- dian go back to the kind of work by which he made a living before he wa* dethroned. But since Fatty was «a porter in a saloon, the sug- gestion is a total loss. Another reverend helper suggests he try plumbing, as being remunerative in the extreme, with no particular moral scruples necessary. A Sacrifice to His Art Lew Cody was given a role in Within the Loir, providing he would shave off his mustache. Lew- had cherished his mustache for six years, but in the interest of his art. he sacrificed. Now that Lew has re- formed and is playing heroic roles, he doesn't need a mustache, any- way. Only villains wear those cun- ning little lip-brows, so you can tell them from the heroes. How to Be Friends Though Divorced The problem has been settled amicably by Ruth Roland and L. E. Kent, formerly husband and wife, or vice versa. They are now business partners. Ruth owns a lot of Hollywood real estate and Kent manages it for her. And Now It's A Brother Tito Valentino, heralded as Ru- die's little brother and singularly like Rodolph, makes his film debut in a Leslie Peacock production, The Midnight Flower. Only Rodolph (it does seem that somebody is al- ways picking on Rodolph and his money-making name) protests that he hasn't any brother by that name or any other on this side of the At- lantic. So that's that. Moreno Retires From Bull-Ring Antonio Moreno was a bull- fighter once, he says. Just for the sport of it. But that was back in Spain. The climate in California must have an unpleasant effect on bulls, because — "Watch me bull-dog this bull." said Tony the other day on location. The bull was in a pasture. Tony jumped the fence. The bull was low in his mind. Probably his breakfast wasn't setting right. He looked at Tony. Tony looked at the bull. The bull took a step for- ward. Tony took a step backward. The bull started to run. Tony beat him to the move by one leap. Tony jumped the fence. The bull went right through it. Tony jumped into his car. a nice bright red one. The bull tried to get in with him. but Tony was already on his way. Tony is now reconciled to the fact that he didn't get the role of GaJlardo in Blood and Sand. Tn 1919 about $700,000,000 was taken in by motion-picture theaters in the United States and Canada. Lueretia Lombard, by Kathlyn Morris, has been purchased by War- ner Brothers forscreen presentation. Johnny Hines has completed Luck, his latest picture. Here's hoping it's as good as Sure Fire Flint'. One of the successes of the New York theatrical is Merton of the Movies, a burlesque of the films starring that excellent youngster (ileini Hunter. It is a notorious fact that movie heroes pride themselves on their handsome features. Richard Dix in The Christian hides his good looking countenance behind a growth of formidable beard. The first man to project motion pictures on a screen was an English- man living in California, named Edward Muybridge. This great event took place in the summer of 1877 ; and the subject of the picture was a race-horse in action. The Miracle Man made in the neighborhood of a million and a half dollars: and up to June first of last year it had been shown 7..S00 tinW. Evelyn Brent is Douglas Fairbanks' new leading lady in his pirate pic- tures, now in the making. 75

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Hays To Retain Position Reports that the movie dynasty established by Will H. Hays is in fur a fall and that his power has been curtailed by the allied pro- ducers and distributors were scouted as absurd by Cortland Smith, secre- tary of the board of directors of the American Producers and Distribu- tors' Association. Humors which have been current in the screen world for some months that a crisis loomed in the reign of the film emperor gained new im- petus with the "rebellion" of Doug- las Fairbanks, sev- eral days ago, and .vere seemingly f u r- her verified when it vas reported that the Pamous-Lasky C o r- poration, former pro- ducers of "Fatty" Axbuckle pictures, had refused to lift their ban against the comedian despite the fact that "the Czar'" had announced h i s intention of giving Arbuckle "a chance." Smith d <■ c I a r ed rumors that "Hays might be asked to re- sign of that he was being used as a cat's- paw by the great mo- lion picture corpora- tions were entirely false, lie scoffed at statements that ac- tion taken by Fair- banks and his combi- nation of stars had caused trouble. "Mr. Hays* signed a contract with the Producers and Distributors on January 17, 1921 the contract to start on March 5, 1 02-2. and con- tinue until March 5, 1925," he de- clared. "Any talk of Mr. Hays leaving his position until that time is untrue. During the past two years our organization has practi- cally doubled in membership, and 1 know of no time that there was ever any questioning of a decision made by Mr. Hays. "As to the Axbuckle matter: There i- no room for conflict over that. The Famous-Lasky Corpora- tion wrote the Arbuckle pictures off their hooks in November, a month before Mr. Hays issued the "6 statement saying he had decided to permit tile COmedian to seek a liveli- hood in his profession. "In taking this step Mr. Hays simply took a stand thai lie has taken all along — that he is in no sense a dictator. He did not wish to bar Arbuckle and did not wish to give order- to Famous-Lasky. '"Mr. Hays seeks only to improve and safeguard the standards of the films and to aid the industry." Smith laughed at stories that there was ill feeling between Fair- banks and Hays and showed a copy of a telegram from the star to the Harold Lloyd in one of the nervous crises in "Safety Last." Harold assures us that there's a giggle for every gasp in this thriller. movie arbiter which gave the text of Fairbanks' statement issued de- claring "reports that I have an unfriendly feeling toward you are untrue." "If Fairbanks and other stars wisli to organize independently T am sure that neither Mr. Hays nor the members of this association have any objection." S m i t h declared. work in the direction of color har- monics. By placing a mask in the movie camera a blank border around the film would be obtained, and in the laboratory various colors can be stenciled into this border. Then on the screen there would be the actors as usual, only about them on the four side- of the silver- sheet would be a thin border of color. Human emotions react to colors the same as to music. Throughout the photoplay their would lie a color symphony in keep- ing with the action of the silent drama, in addition to the usual mu- sical accompani- ment. Tiny Auto Used The smallest automobile in the world was used in making A Spooky Romance. Century comedy, directed by Al Herman. The car used in the pic- ture is the property of Arthur Ander- son, and operates under its own pow- er. It is six feet long and goes under the name of a baby Packard, because it lias the body of a Packard. The mo- tor, however, is composed of parts from practically ev- ery ear on the mar- ket. The miniature carries extra tires, bumpers, in fact ev- erything that a regular oar would have, and while any normal person can sit in it, use the shift gear and self-starter, yet the entire car weighs five pounds and is two and a half feet high. Color M usic Color music for motion pictures may be the next development in the cinema art. Watterson R. Rothacker. film laboratory chain owner, has commis- sioned a scientist to do research Motion-picture distributors in America, for one vear from June 1920 to June 1921, paid $119,023,- 754.60 in rentals on films. New York has the largest number of motion-picture theaters of any state in the tinion — namely: 1,695. Pennsylvania comes next with 1,533; Ohio third with 1.095: and Illinois fourth, with 1.027

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f The Picture of the Month This is dedicated to the fastidi- ous mi?iority which appreciates delicate characterization rather than broad farce; emotional restraint rather thaji dramatic aba?idon. The Girl I Love A UNITED ARTIST PRODUCTION STORY of a great love. In this poignant picture of a tor- tured heart, Charles Ray reaches dramatic heights which he has never before attained. All the pathos of the James Whitcomb Riley poem has been transferred to the silver screen, intensified by the superb artistry of Ray and a splendid sup- porting cast. As the tow-headed country kid who is suddenly endowed with a wholly unwanted adopted sister, only to discover, little by little, that per- haps girls aren't so unnecessary as he had thought, Charles Ray is delightful. His bashful manner- isms and all-boy deviltries give way in time to a more mature charm, as tho responsibility of caring for his mother and foster-sister weigh upon his young shoulders. And with the years, his devotion for the little sister ripens into another sort of affection. He discovers that "a brother's love wuz one thing; a lover's wuz another." But with the discovery conies another: the little sister, too, has fallen in love — with another. And to the boy comes the sorrow of see- ing his little sweetheart given to another, never guessing how hor sisterly kisses torture the heart of her "big brother John." The adapter of the picture has wisely ended the story here, not weakening its force by the anti- climatic ending given the poem by Riley. As John, Charles Ray proves himself without a peer in the art of emotional restraint and facial con- trol. His characterization of the half-crazed boy is one of the finest pieces of dramatic interpretation in the history of motion pictures. Patsy Ruth Miller, as Mary, the dainty little sister, is altogether splendid. Edythe Chapman, as the mother, and Ramsay AVallaee, Mary's lover, are equally satisfying. The Girl I Love comes as a joyous surprise to those friends of Charle* Ray who had lamented the lack of distinction in his later pictures. It augurs well for his next production, The Courtship of Miles Standish. 77

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Little Hints ^ PLAYGOERS A real thriller. The story in- volves the love of a Prince and a thief for a beautiful girl of the Paris underworld, whose virtue, of course, re- mained unstained by her Apache environment. Lew Cody, Gladys Hulette, Wil- liam Collier, Jr., Montagu Love and Dolores Cassinelli form a splendid cast, whose excellent work triumphs over a rather disjointed continuity. Not for children. "RACING HEARTS" Paramount A crack-a-jack rac- ing picture, with Agnes Ayres and Richard Dix envel- oped in a cloud of dust from start to finish. The up-to- date daughter of a conservative auto- mobile manufacturer sets out to prove to her sire that it pays to advertise. She wins her point, the Vanderbilt Cup race and a brand new, grade-A husband. Agnes is pretty and more capable than usual, while Richard Dix fits into the semi-comedy role very pleasingly in- deed. Theodore Rob- erts and cigar are very much present and Robert Cain makes a nice hiss- able villain. It's a good picture. 78

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GARRISON'S FINISH— Allied Producers After a longdrawn beginning and a touch or two that stretches the credulity, Jack Pickford and his horse are off in a cloud of dust, flicked with drama, to a smashing climax. Of course you know all along how it's going to end — that the young jockey will redeem himself and win the race — who wouldn't with Madge Bellamy holding a kiss as reward? — and that his poor old Mother just scrubs the floor because the director told her to. A composite of all the old horse- racing pictures of the cinematic past; the surprising thing about the picture is that you find your- self liking it. For it is unquestionably well done, this surefire hokum of the track, and Jack displays his pantomimic gifts to better advantage than at any time in his career. If he keeps up this tempo, they're liable to quit calling him "Mary's Little Brother." Furthermore, the racing scenes are authentic — which is more than we can say for most pictu of the track. JACK AND THE BEAN- STALK— Century Another little gem for juvenilia is Baby Peggy's second fairy-tale comedy. The beloved tale of Jack and the Beanstalk steps from the thumbed pages of the old book and lives again to delight the young in the persons of quaint little Peggy-Jack and the perfectly ferocious giant. With each new picture the diminutive Peggy shows an amazing progression and is fast acquiring the hauteur of a Naldi. Papa Century deserves a whole sack full of gold medals for this series. THE CHRISTIAN— Goldwyn Pictorial beauty alone would make this picture one well worth standing in line to see. Maurice Tourneur has given scene after beautiful scene, so poignantly beautiful in setting as to hurt. The scene in the monastery chapel, where JOHN STORM takes the solemn vows of a monk, is a delight to the artistic soul. Richard Dix gives a fine portrayal of John Storm, the Christian, for which give him credit. It must have been a severe test of dramatic ability for such a full-blooded, young chap as Dix to achieve a convincing characterization of the ascetic. Mae Busch is interesting, though a bit hart, for whom Storm broke his vows. 79

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"TANSY" Burr Nickle rod. As a motion picture drama, "Tansy" is an excellent scenic. For sheer beauty, some of the long shots, showing a great flock of snowy sheep moving over a typical English land- scape, have not been excelled in any picture. But as a story it fails to stimulate the imagination. It is a perfect specimen of the Mary J. Holmes English romance, in which the poor girl marries the rich lord, after many trials. The atmosphere is certainly English. The best actor is the shepherd dog, Arabella, who rather takes honors away from Alma Taylor. GIMME— GOLDWYN A sermon in five reels. Like most such, the collection would be larger if the sermon were shorter. The text sets out to prove that Satan finds some evil yet for busted wives to do. Helene Chadwick is pleasing as the young wife who discovers that "a woman who lives with a man earns every cent she can get from him." PEG O' MY HEART— Metro Laurette Taylor makes her screen debut in her own famous stage play, "Peg O' My Heart," romping through it as a rather intriguing combi- nation of Dorothy Gish, Constance Talmadge and Laurette herself. She is not quite camera-wise yet, and the picture had its stagey moments, but Laurette Taylor, if she chooses to follow a screen career will undoubtedly win a secure place for herself. The play interests in spite of its famili- arity and its obviousness. 80 ONE WEEK OF LOVE — Selznick. Contrary to the title, love does not provide the thrills in this tale, but rather a series of mar- vellous stunts. The w. k. shiek story gets a new angle in this picture; an American kins- man to the desert despot gives a rich flapper a week of the strong- armed Arab's treatment. Con- way Tearle's characteriza- tion is as vivid as Elaine Ham- merstein's isn't.

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BACK HOME AND BROK E— Paramount If you've ever had wild dreams of making a few mil- lions, buying up the town and fading out with the best girl, you'll spot yourself as the hero in this sprightly tale. It is told with all the humor of the author, George Ade. Some of the situations creak with old age but Thomas Meighan smooths them over until the fun be- gins. A fine film for the whole family. AS A MAN LIVES — American Releasing Corp. A production that strengthens the conviction that the mov- ies are still in their infancy. The plot is based on the old saying that a man's face re- flects his mode of living. The development of the story is stupid and unconvincing. The only thing that makes you sit through the picture is Robert Frazer's resemblance to Valentino. THE HERO — B. P. Schulberg Find the hero. This pic- ture gives you food for thought, a couple of heroes of en- tirely different ilk — take your choice — and two lovely ladies for heroines. Barbara La Mar, in spite of about fifteen pounds of excess weight, is as lovely a creature as the movie suns shine on. She doesn't have a chance to dress up, for it is a small town play, but — watch that woman. Dori-, Pawn does some pretty good emoting as the betrayed Belgian girl, by whom the pseudo-hero, Gaston Glass, "Does right" in the end. Frankie Lee is in it, too, as Barbara's son, but John Sainpolis, that splendid character actor of "Four Horsemen" fame, walks away with the acting honors, in his marvel- ously real characterization of the insur- ance agent, loving, but commonplace husband and father — an every day life's real hero. Gaston Glass will bear watch- ing, too, for that twinkle in his eye will always offset any devilishness he may be guilty of, and flappers and grand- mothers alike will adore him. Eve Unsell made a splendid adaptation of Gilbert Emery's successful stage play. 81

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PAIiAMorNT PnoTO ItY DONALD DIDDLE KEY E8 Leo Nomis putting the punch in Manslaughter by driving his motorcycle smash into a racing motor car. Real HEROES of the Screen All Honor to the Stunt Man; He Risks His Life and Never Gets a Close- Up A GREAT crowd had assem- bled when the word went 'round that a stunt-man. doubling for Rill Desmond, was to perform a danger- ous feat. Skimming gracefully against a cloudless blue sky. soared an aeroplane, a rope ladder dang- ling. Along the track rushed 8 railroad train, its hungry wheels eat- ing up the miles. A figure was dimly discernible atop a string of flat-cars, poised for a spring. The plane dipped, the man reached, missed, caught the ladder and swung, like a pendulum, hack and forth, etched against the placid sky. A great, unanimous breath of relief. He had made it! But something went wrong. The 82 plane swerved, spun crazily and crashed to earth, the man crumpling beneath its weight like black paper crushed in a ruthless hand. The cry hushed, as the awed crowd sur- rounded the pitiful heap, dragged from the wreckage. The man had hut a few hours to live — that was certain. What would he do. what epochal thing would he say? The scene had a certain psychological interest. Rut Jean Perkins, the dare-devil stunt man. didn't say anything of interest to future generations. He merely — asked for a cigaret! And when, next day, his death was announced, nobody wrote any memorable eulogies of him; only bis intimate friends sent Bowers to his bier. He wasn't a star. Just a life crushed out in its prime — he was hut thirty-five — -just another "double" who had given his all that the audience might enjoy a thrill second-hand. Y„ ou WHO was elated over the dashing heroes of the screen, pause for a moment in your rhapsodies and contemplate the heroic deed* of the one man to whom is given no credit : the stunt-man. Few stars actually perform the hazardous feats that the scripts call for. When you sec your favorite screen idol leap blithely from a

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PHOTO BY KICIiEE Leo Nomis is one of the most daring of the stunt men. Swinging from an airplane onto a racing express train merely gives Leo a good appetite for his wife's steak dinners. lofty cliff into a swift stream below, the chances are ten to one that a humble stunt man is really per- forming the dangerous leap. Stars with large "followings" are much ton valuable property to be permitted to risk their lives and looks unnecessarily. Hence, when the script calls for a horse and rider to roll precipi- tately down a cliff, an auto to jump a wide chasm, or for some thrilling aeroplane stuff, the handsome star stays at home and manicures his nails while a double performs the deed. The long-shots show the double, dressed in the hero's clothes, while the star steps prettily forward to receive the fainting heroine in his arms for the close-up. The stars are not to blame for wearing the mantle of glory won by another man : often they are brave and willing enough but their producers won't let them risk spoil- ing the afore-mentioned eyebrows and cupid's-bow lips. Tom Mix. for instance, performs all the hazardous stunts that you see in his pictures. But another star in Westerns — a man famed for the dar- ing of his exploits who i< now in temporary ret i rem en t — a e t u a 1 1 y d o es none of these things himself, owing to the fact, not generally known, that his age is over the sixty mark. What of these modest fellows who get the game without the name? At least, they must he in it for the game, as they certainly get little else out of it except the fun of risking their necks, (heir exploits to go down in anonymity. Their salary is by no means commensurate with the chance- that they lake with their lives — Such stunt men usually received around $15Q .1 week. And remember, their employment is not continuous. Some, however, are more astute in striking bargains. Leo Nomis, inject* thrills into many Paramount pic- tures; demands $500 a, stunt, even though it take bjut a few minutes to perform. "Bui I spend hours and sometimes day- beforehand getting all set." Leo told me. lie's a likeable young fellow of thirty, is Leo, and the proud father of a tcn-month's- old wonder named Stratton — who. according to papa Leo. is most emphatically not going to be raised to be a stunt man. "Some fellows trust to luck — and they're-the ones that usually 'go West'. T go over the ground thoroughly, plan every bit of the stunt. And I'm boss." Tie is. I've seen the highest-paid screen director, a man who just thrives on puttees and megaphones and importance, before whom evei v body quakes in fear — standing at the side and ordering things fixed the Avay Leo says. Because he real- izes that should something go wrong and the man be killed — well, it not only would be hard on the chap's wife and kiddies, but it would be poor publicity. To be sure, though, some of the directors are actuated by humane kindness in the con- sideration that they give these skilled performers. When Leo did his memorable stunt of riding his motorcycle smash into a car for "Manslaughter", he had Cecil De- Mille's word of honor that, should he be killed, his wife and baby would be cared for. "Aw. that wasn't much," said Leo modestly. "But I had to cal- culate my distance and speed accur- ately. Had I gone too slow, I'd have just been mangled up with the wreckage. I had to make a speed of forty-five at the moment of colliding with the car so as to be hurtled over it by the force of the impact. They had re-inforced the car with steel beams so's it wouldn't skid and I'd hurl over. All I got was a wrench of the knee, a twist of the collar-bone and some lacerations. Pretty tame, that." One evening I watched Leo turn a plane over and land it upside- down for a Gloria Swanson picture. Before he went up T cautioned him to remember his sensations so that I might transcribe faithfully them. When he crawled out from under the wreckage. 1 hastened up, note- book in hand. "What'd T feel as T came down, with my eyes lookiiv up at the clouds?" he grinned. "Somethin' important, lady. I kept wonderin' if my wife would have lemon-pie for supper." And what of these wives who sit at home, patiently waiting for news? These men an1 refused by the insur- ance companies, owing to their dan- gerous habits of life. They are able to carry no protection for their loved ones. So at home their wives wait, listening for the telephone, yet dreading its summons with its pos- sible message of death. When it comes — the loved voice saying. "Everything's all right and gosh, (font hi vol on pf'f/c SO) Ray Thompson, better known as "Red," who weekly risks his life in dare-devil stunts in the films. 83

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What Every Husband Knows Helpful Hints for Kid McCoy, former middle-weight cham- pion and now a Fox featured player, speaks with author- ity on matrimonial matters. The kid has been eight times married .... andhe is only fifty, with the world full of beauti- ful women Wives By NORMAN SELBY (Kid McCoy) .TIE WISE husband will choose a wife ten years younger than he. But if it's a toss-up be- tween an old one and a young one, I'll take the chicken. Happiness in married life? Who looks for continual happiness? W hen the charm, the novelty, has worn off there's always another candidate waiting somewhere. Men don't marry for life companions, any more — they marry for sweet- hearts, to he amused. When a wife ceases to be interesting, why pro- long the agony? You ask should a wife he a sweet- heart or a pal? A wife must !«• everything to her man — -sweetheart, pal, mother, vampire — if she ex- pects to retain his love. She has to he versatile. No single-purposed woman could ever hold my love. Man has many moods, many demands, and all have to he satisfied. If one woman can't qualify in general utility, there are always others. The wise husband will choose a wife ten years younger than he. But if it's a toss-up be- tween an old one and a young one, I'll take the chicken. A wife must be everything to her man — pal, sweetheart, mother and vampire. Harping jealousy will kill love quicker than anything else. Take wives as they come. You train a perfect blossom — and some other guy comes along and picks it. Men don't marry for life any more. When a wife ceases to be interesting, why prolong the agony? the party with her own jealousy. That's why I say a wife should follow her husband's profession, if she must have a profession. If she has no career of her own, she should interest herself in- her husband's career and in his friends. And good God ! they mustn't Dag. Harping jealousy will kill love quicker than anything. I I like brilliant women who can talk intelligently about the world's events, and not just ape their hus- band's opinions or else nag him to death. A fellow doesn't want to be ashamed of his wife, but likes other men to admire her too. He wants' to be envied the possession of so much beauty and wit. Rut when a wife has a career, it should lie in S4 the same profession a< her husband follows, or should be closely allied to it. For instance, lots of times when I have taken my homcwomen wives (one at a time, of course) out to dinner. I'd meet women of my acquaintance whom my wives had never met. Often I'd even forgotten their names — a fellow meets so many women — but would remember their faces. Well, they'd probably say, "Hello, Kid, how's the dear boy?" using those little pet phrases flung over the shoulder which mean nothing. But could I convince my wives they meant nothing? Not by a long shot ! When T'd disclaim any memory of the woman, the wife woidd say, "Now, don't hand me any of that stuff!" and wreck suppose the ideal age for matri- mony is from eighteen to twenty- eight. But I'm fifty and have lots of good years ahead of* me. And the world is full of beautiful women. Once I started out to raise a girl to be the perfect wife. She was the sweetest little kid, about twelve. But her mother made her marry a banker — after I'd spent lots of money training her so she'd be just the kind of a wife I wanted. After that, I decided I'd take 'cm as they come, even though they lack per- fection. You train a perfect blossom — and some other guy comes along and picks it. My first wife was Lottie Piehler. She was eighteen and a home- woman. T was only twenty-one then. My second wife was also my third and fourth mate. She was Julia Woodruff, a stage-star, and a mighty nice little girl. Wifey No. 5 was Indianola (Continued on page 00)

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What Every Wife Knows Some Sidelights On Matrimony By CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG T JLLhE IDEAL age for a hus- band is two years old. The ideal age for any male is two or three years. I love boy-babies. But they grow up and become men. And then. . . . People say I am a cynic, where marriage is concerned. I admit it I am a cynic, not alone because I have failed to find complete happi- ness in marriage, but because I have seen so many marital ships go on the rocks. But if one must marry, I believe the best age is between thirty and thirty-five. That applies for both 1 1 10 husband and wife. No girl under thirty knows her own mind. And very young men are too occupied with having a good time, or too selfishly interested in their business careers to take matri- mony seriously. And Heaven knows, marriage is a serious business. We change so as we grow older. The boys and girls we admire in- tensely in High School we would never look at twice in later life. Youth is covered with a sheer mantle of romance, which Experi- ence rends to tatters. When that romantic veil is lowered and we look life in the face, we learn values ; we learn the art of judgment. We realize that the kind of love we feel in youth is not dependable. Marriage resulting from a mo- The ideal age for any male is two years old. I love boy- babies, but they grow up and become men. And then. . . . I am a cynic about marriage. But if one must marry, the best age for both husband and wife is between thirty and thirty-five. Nagging is the curse of mat- rimony. Love is undependable. It is a flame; it flares high; pouf, it is gone! mentary flash of desire, lacking the true spirit of camaraderie, cannot last. The early passion is beautiful but transient; it passes, burning it- self out like the adios of a cigaret. The successful marriage must come to fruit gradually as the bloom of a long understanding. T UK woman who relies upon her physical attractions solely to retain her husband's love, is foredoomed to a bitter awakening. Once he has attained his desire he loses interest in her. But if she builds upon the firm ground of respect and under- standing, waiting until she is of a mature age before taking the fatal step, there is more chance for happiness. There should be no great differ- ence in the ages of the husband and wife. When T married James Young, I was but 19 and my husband was many years my senior. A marriage between a man and a girl separated by a wide gulf of years can have no happy fulfillment. As a man grows older, he seeks the homes] am paths. He has seen the world, has tasted of its joys. And now be prefers to sit by the fire in his slippers, his evening paper gradually falling at his side as he snores. A young wife does not get many thrills out of the evening paper and hubby's snores. The man is not to blame. Neither is the girl, frivolous, eager for life's pleasures as youth must be always. It is just that they are mismated. For that reason, I believe that more mature couples have a greater chance for happiness, and that there should be but little difference in their ages. One of the greatest causes of marital unhappincss is the young wife's eagerness to submerge her own personality in her husband's. Woman is no longer a chattel. She is an individual. By that I do not mean that I approve of the woman who re- nounces her femininity for a man- nish pose. Such women are detest- able. But the American woman of today may be individually herself, with a soul and a brain of her own, (Covtinvrd on pngr 08) 85

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t^J/ from ji;L/i^I2f^3(Q)(Q© Fido Leaves Home? He Makes Good Money the Movies tn Camisole, nicknamed Ca- meo for short, is of the famous "lingerie" family. He is a son of Teddy, the famous Sennett dog. One of his brothers is named Knickerbocker, Cameo is a $200.00 a week doggie. Cheeko has one of the nicest dispositions around Hollywood. He could win a popularity contest any day. Cheeko earns ten dol- lars every day he works in pictures. Scotty is providing the proper salt- sea atmosphere for Maurice Tour- neur's picture, "The Isle of Dead Ships," but he has done extra work lots and lots of times before. He has a "line" that would do credit to a long- shore- man. He gets $10 a day If you're tired of working for a living, train up a dog like Teddy, the Mack Sennett Canine wonder. Teddy draws a salary , of $275.00 each and every week for his master. Every six months Teddy goes to the dentist and every two months to the chiropodist, to have his paws attended to and his nails manicured! Josephine reg- istering ennui. Josephine earns $25 for every day and is carried around in velvet - lined basket. But after all, life was more ex- citing when she ac- compan- i e d an organ grinder a r ound t h e streets, Bruno is not an extra. He plays 'bits', if you please, and is a high- salaried actor. $50.00 a day is his salary. Bruno is chummy as can be with his fellow-stars, especially if an occasional lump of sugar is forthcoming. Lancaster Mike and Lan- caster Spike — or maybe it's the other way round — are two of the fastest racing English gray- hounds in the west. They are very exclu- s i v e and associate only with stars and directors, on the set. Anna Q. Nilsson i n - duced them to pose for this picture.

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Real Heroes of the Screen (Con H mini from pay S3) but I'm hungry," the suspense is over — until next day. "Aw, my wife's a good sport — she doesn't worry," these chaps all say. But they can't tell nie those women don't have their hours of agony when they pray for the safety of the father of their chil- dren— who is out risking his liiV that a pinkchecked hero may win applause. Leo Nbmis specializes in auto stuff, racing, skidding cars, colli- sions, driving machines over 100- foot cliffs, and in aeroplane thrills and parachute jumps. Only once has he failed to make a plane be- liave, upon which occasion, con- trary to all Leo's expectations, the darn thing got apoplexy or some- thing, fell four thousand feet and settled, upside down, with Leo bliss- fully unconscious beneath it. But be suffered only a broken nose — and when they pulled him out and brought him back to consciousness with a sip of the good and reliable, be wanted to do the stunt over again before he lost his temper! J, ban Perkins, the man who gave his life that you might enjoy a mo- mentary thrill, also specialized in aeroplane feats, while Ray "Red" Thompson does hair-raising stunts on horses. His most notable achievement was riding his horse at breakneck speed over a bridge two feet wide. 130 feet long, sus- pended over a chasm ninety feet deep. The bridge swayed so peril- ously and was so insecure that no one would attempt it on foot, but "Red" and his trusty mount danced nimbly over it to safety. In Thr Toll Gate, he allowed himself to be tied securely and thrown from a train going at sixty miles an hour, and in Quincy Adams Savyer he did a roll on horseback down a steep cliff, diving into the water. Most of these dare-devils have had adventurous careers, "Red" Thompson was a jockey and circus- performer. Leo Nomis for several veal's did high-diving water stunt and parachute-drops at festivals. And they are not a superstitious bunch, none of them carrying any luck charms. "Red's'- philosophy sums up their attitude: "If you make it, your wife cooks you an extra-thick steak for dinner. And Let me tell you about the remarkable discovery which removed my super- fluous hair at once — then forever To look at my face today— to see my skin as free from hair as a baby's and as clear and rosy look- ing as that of a young girl— you would not believe that I was once literally a "bearded woman" with hair on cheeks, chin and lips, and with a skin coarse and blemished. A Woman's Experience The transformation has been marvelous— all through atruly won- derful discovery of Science which immediately banished every vestige of the hair and gave me this per- fect complexion. This, after I had suffered from embarrassing hair growths for years, and tried numerous ways to relieve the condition— even the painful electric needle. Now I want every woman who suffers from unsightly, embarrass- ing hair growths, to know about this discovery which removes the hair at once, and with a few applications removes it perma- nently. I want to tell women how they can use this method themselves, in the privacy of their homes, and prove, without risking a penny, that it is all I claim for it. I say that this discovery will remove superfluous hair perma- nently, and that it is the only method that I know of which will do this. The discovery which Science brought to me is unlike anything else you have ever tried. It is not a powder, not a paste, not a wax, not a liquid, not a razor, not electrolysis. It causes no pain — no burning, no itching, no scarring. It not only removes the hair — it gives the skin a new beauty- makes it soft, clear, rosy, free from pimples, roughness and other blemishes. It does not have to be applied by a beauty specialist. You use it yourself. It's the sim- plest, easiest way you can imagine. My Free Book Tells the Secret— Send for It I have written a book which tells how I came to discover this amaz- ing method and how any woman can get rid of superfluous hair, and know that it is permanently gone. Don't send a penny — don't make any promise. Just write to me. The book is free. A post card brings it. Address Annette Lanzette, cave Hygienic Laboratories, Dept. r>4, 204 S. Peoria Street, Chicago, 111. TEN DOLLARS for the best answer to "Which Advertise- ment in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most and Why." Send your answer to the Advertising Mgr. Screenland, Hollywood, Calif. In case of a tie all tying contestants will receive full price. Contests closes May 15th. Winners announced in July issue of Screenland. $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most — and Why" — See Page 89. 89

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uimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiimiiiii s Hi a Biggest f = and His Best* lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli: Nine Reels oft E Thrilling Drama* E Inspiration Pictures, Inc., Charles H. Duell, President, Presents RICHARD BARTHELMESS EE Miss Dorothy Gish ll "F U R Y" By Edmund Goulding Directed by Henry King A sea tale with the tang of the fresh, salt breeze. Scenes of rare and wondrous beauty in a romance that will make you thrill and cheer. Watch for this picture and watch ^flM^k for the First National trademark on the ^ ■ screen at your theatre. It is the sign of the ultimate in pictures, both in artistry and entertainment. I Want 100 Men— Women To Work For Us At Home If you arc worried, discontented and skimping along from day to day, simply because you are not earning enough to cover your immediate needs and lay some away for a rainy day, then 1 will, providing you mean business, and arc energetic, teach you our Art Tainting work of Land- 'scapes and Portraits, in ten lessons by mail and start you in the Studio Painting business right at home. No experience necessary, outfit furnished, anyone can learn. $3000 to $6000 yearly. Only table room required. No muss or dirt. Clean, pleasant work. Free literature. 191 Main TANGLEY STUDIOS Muscatine, Iowa 00 $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals Real Heroes of the Screen (Continued from page 89) if you don't, they say. 'Don't lie look natural?' and stick a 'Rest in Peace' wreath on your chest. It - all a gamble — but say, how'd us fellers look sittin' at home rcadin' poetry?" Of' them nil, "Red" alone has never been injured. Though he has spent seven years doing perilous stunts for the camera and served in the worst fighting of the World War, his natty little red mustache has never been misplaced nor has the laughter in his blue eyes ever been dimmed by pain. Ren Xomis rode his motorcycle smash-into a racing car for the "punch" in Manslaughter. Tn Intolerance and other .spectacles he did difficult "back falls" off of high walls and buildings. He has turned innumerable planes over, swung from trains to rope ladders sus- pended from aeroplanes, and made parachute drops. While riding his motorcycle in The Cowboy and th< Lady, he roped a steer ; but the rope broke, dragging him about the field, tangled up in his motorcycle, and severely lacerating his legs. "Red" Thompson has done many falls, rolling his horse over and over down hills — being the first man to prove to producers that a horse could be "fallen" without shooting the poor beast, for which the League of Equines should give him a fancy embroidered glass sad- dle. Once he jumped from a high trestle into a machine going at the gentle dip of sixty miles an hour, landing nonchalantly on the back- seat and lighting a cigaret. In .4// the Brothers Were Valiant, for Metro, he jumped from a boat to the back of a whale that didn't seem eager to be killed, speared it with a lance and, when it went un- der, spouting geysers of blood, dived into the water infested with sharks, swimming among them for two hundred yards before being ] licked up. Who, I ask you, are the real heroes of the films? The stars? Or these brave lads, unsung, ungrieved, woefully underpaid, who risk their lives — and give them — that you may have a thrill? Valiant to the last, asking only for a cigaret when the breath is ebbing from their crushed bodies — the real heroes who never achieve a close-up. to You Most— and Why"— See Pace 89.

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Large Roomy Divan Only $1.00 with the coupon below brings this sensa- tional furniture bargain to your home on 30 days trial. Straus & Schram's newest offer — a complete 6 piece set of fumed solid oak living room fur- niture including a wonderfully comfort- able and roomy divan — and at a positively sensational price reduc- tion. Only $29.85 for the complete set on this offer — on easy payments of only $2.70 a month; $40 was the former price for a set like this; a special factory sacrifice makes this slash in price pos- sible now. Seize this opportunity on our special approval offer — we take the risk. 30 Days Trial When you get this magnificent 6-piece library set, put it in your living room or library and use it freely for 30 days. Before you pay another penny examine it thoroughly. Note the massive, solid con- struction—the beautiful finish— the fine upholstery and graceful lines. Compare it with any- thing you can buy locally at anywhere near the same price— even for spot cash. Then if not satisfied for any reason, return the set at our expense and we will refund your $1.00 at once, plus any freight charges vou paid. /Valaf OTA _. ^LM m mm a mm until you nave paid $29.85- payments so low and so convenient that you will scarcely feel them. A full year to pay— at the rate of only a few cents a day, less than one fritters away every day for trifles. This wonderful value is not listed in our regular catalog. We have only a limited number of sets. We trust honest people anywhere in U. S. One price, cash or credit. No ducannt for cub , nothing extra for credit. No C. O. O. Price Slashed!— Send Now Don't delay. Just send $1.00 along with the coupon as a deposit to show you are really interested. If you wish to return the set - after 30 days, your dollar will be refunded, plus all freight charges which you paid. Remember, this is a special, limited, reduced price offer. First come, first served. Get your set while this offer lasts. 30 days trial— we take all the risk— costs you nothing if not satisfied— no obligation. Send coupon today — NOW! New 6-Piece^ Set— Fumed SoUdOak This Buperb 6 piece set is made of selected solid oak throughout, finished in rich, dull waxed, brown fumed oak. All the four chairs are padded; seats upholstered with brown Delavan Spanish leather, the best imitation of genuine Spanish leather known. The upholstering is of a rich brown color, and will give you the best pos- sible service. Large Diyait will give extra seating capacity to your library. Iivintrroom or parlor. It is an unusually mass- ive comfortable piece with beautifully designed back. Arms are broad and comfortable. Measures 4tj inches wide outside and 36 inches long inside. Thickly padded seat is 19 inches deep. Height of back 22 inches. Posts are extra massive. Arm Chair is a roomy, dignified pirrc of furniture. comfortable and big enough for a very large person while not seeming too large for the ordinary occupant. Seat. 19xl7H in., height 36 in. Arm Rocker is a massive, Btately, comfortable piece, with beautifully designed back, wi-le. shapely arms, and smooth operating runners. Seat,19xl73y in., height 36 in. Sewing Rocker is unusually attractive and useful. Seat, 17x17 in., height 35 in. Library Table— a beautiful piece of library furni- ture. Has beautifully designed ends to match the chairs with roomy magazine shelf below. Legs cut of 2 id. stock: massive, dignified. Top measures 23^x34 in. Jardiniere Stand matches other pieces. A decora- tion to your living room or library Carefully built throughout. Measures 17M in. high; the top is 12x12 in. Entire set is shipped knocked down construction. Very easy to set up. Saves in freight charges. Weight about 175 pounds. Order by No. S6944A. $1.00 with . coupon, $2.70 a month, price $29.85. Free Bargain Catalog Shows thousands of bargains in furni- ture, jewelry, carpets, rugs, curtains, silverware, phonographs, stoves, porch and lawn furniture, women's, men's and children's wearing apparel. Sent upon request, with or without order. Straus & Schram, Department 9144 Chicago, 111. >■■■■«■ 1 1 1 " 1 " " 1 1 11 "'»■' IIIIMI Jl 1IIIM 1111 I I 'till I t Mill t II1M1M WIM Straus & Schram, Department 9144 Chicago, III. Enclosed, find SI. 00. Ship special advertised 6- Piece Fumed Oak Library Set. I am to have SO days free trial. If I keep tiie set. I will pa^ you $2.70 monthly. If not satisfied. I am to return the- eet within 30 days and you are to ruiunu my money and any Ireistit charges I paid. □ 6- Place Library Set, Ho. B6944A. $29.85. Name . „ _^ Street. R.F.D. or Box No m Sk ipping Point m Post Office. State If youonlywant catalog put X in box below: □ Furniture. Stoves, Jewelry □ Hen's, Women's. Children's Gotten* $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most— and Why"— See Page 89. <)I

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She is No Longer Fat Slie found a way to reduce her fat. It was a way far more pleas- ant than dieting or exercising would have heen. This new way allowed her to eat foods without danger of becoming fat again. .She found yiurmnla Prescrip- tion Tabids. They aid the diges- tive system to ohtain the full nutriment of food. They help Nature to turn food into muscle, hone and sinew instead of fat. Marmola Prescription Tablet' arc made from the famous Marmola prescrip- tion. Thousands have found that these handy tahlets give complete relief from ohesity. And when the .'■ccumulation of fat is cheeked, reduc- tion to normal, he-itlhv weight soon follows. All cood drug stores the world over sell Marmola Prr■«..■ want— u<w or men's rinc or stick pin and settins wanted. Send ntrip of paper for rin* sire. On arrival, df posit with poMinnii $S tor each rinc. $2 for ou.-Ti pin. Deposit refunded within 5 days if not entirely pleased. R. WALTER, 299-C Montjomtry Street. JERSEY CITY, N. J. PIANO JAZZ By Note or Ear. With or without music. Short course. Adult beginners taught by mall. Noteacher required. Self-Instruc- tion Course for Advanced Pianists. Learn li7 styles of Bass, 18P Syncopated Effects, Blue Harmony, Oriental, Chiim\ Movie and Cafe Jazz. Trick Endings, Clever Breaks. Space mien, Sax Slurs. Triple Bass. Wicked Harmony, Blue Obligato, and 247 Other Subjects. Including Eur Playing. 110 pages of REAL Jazz, '25,000 words. A postal brings our FUKE Special Offer,. WATERMAN* PIANO SCHOOL, 254 Supcrba Theatre Bldg^ Los Angeles, California. DC AI ITVPCri creates "THAT NATURAL COMI'l.KXl DLAU I IrCLL ION" by peeling ojffrerkles, tan. pimples. 1 !a< kin d liver-spots, wrinkles, pox-pits and muddy, oily akins. NON-ACID (patented^ lotion. Painless i"- 1 ■ ■■ Effarts astounding. Guaranteed. Proofs and V-)"*jt J eopyrigbtad book: "Art of Face Peelinit". KREK. Writ* ID Dept. L Four on the Mountain (Continual from page 53) first real chance to show his ability as an actor outside of his "type." With The Girl I Love Ray leaps far np the mountainside. He joins the lonely, illustrious company of Douglas and Mary and the other Charlie. If The Courtship of Mile* Standish is what he hopes and be- lieves it will be, Charles Ray will be as great as the greatest of the three others on the mountain. Of •Charles Ray in The Girl I Lovt, Mary Pickford said to the writer: "I know many who believe Charles Ray is the greatest actor on the screen. T am beginning to believe them. I have never seen a greater piece of acting than his in the buggy scene, where he is about to propose and learns that Mary is to marry Willie Brown." The "buggy scene" will make motion picture history. The camera is on Ray's face steadily during the entire transition from shy, expect- ant happiness in his proposal to Mary, his adopted sister, to abject despair. There are no cut-backs, to give him a chance to pass from one degree of emotion to another, from stunned incredulity to disbelief, from disbelief to realization, then to despair, then to the determina- tion that Mary must not know, then finally to heartbreaking pretense of joy in her news. All this time Mary with bent head is telling the story of her proposal from Willie Brown and fails to see the pitiful effect. A, nd so we find the four on the mountainside, only one of them hesitant, only one afraid to take the big leap, out of "type" into "art," One is apparently lazy, tired after his big successes, rather indifferent; one is abundantly energetic, bent on making every picture "the greatest picture ever produced": the fourth is brave and almost humble in his sudden accession to the proud emi- nence, prayerful that he will not stumble back down the mountain- side, or that, if he does, he can climb up again. And the searchlights of public interest play about them relentlessly. And there is so little time to dawdle. The Fattest Girl in the Movies (Continued from page 4$) BEAUTYPEEL COSMETIC CO. El p«*o, T«x.» "IMPORTED ART STUDIES Beautiful Girls. Genuine Novelties. Sent sealed, twenty for $1, money order or cur- rency. Ask for "Verdun" Collection. No samples. Louvrette Co., hard labor. S li e can dance, however: fat people are proverbially light on their feet. But it is so difficult for an ordinary-sized male partner to get a leverage on her. And as he cannot see around her, dancing is just one crash after another unless Katie picks her partner up under her arm and leads herself. One of the pioneers to the silver- screen, she appeared in many of Mary Pickford's early pictures, also with Clara Kimball Young. Maurice Costello and in those inimitable John Bunny-Flora Finch comedies. Throughout the years her avoirdu- pois has been her call of "Open Sesame" and the doors of the studios have swung wide at her entrance — when they could. And when even so the gap remained inadequate, the doors were removed from their hinges that Kate Price might walk in and sign on the dotted line while beautiful, slim young things gnashed their teeth in the outer offices. "I should worry," Katie sums up the tribulations of the fattest girl in pictures, "'tis lots of fun, an' what's a bruise or two, a busted chair or head, whin you make folks laugh an' forget their troubles?" For Katie, you see, is a philo- sophical soul and multiplies her chuckles along with her avoirdupois. MAKE U A II D LUCKY THIS I U U If YEAR S280O IN TWO HOURS! "is what your Oenulne Chi- nese Good Luck ring brought rne." says Fannie Prict\ Hundreds t ell us our ring brought success in love, business and fi- nancially. Oms Is the genuine and original rin«. stamped Inside with the W. believed by Ancients to Bring Good Luck. Health, Happiness, Prosperity. Solid* Sterling Silver. Price, Postpaid, Cash with order. $1.50. or C O. IX $1.4)0. ZANZIBAR CO., New York Cty, Dept. 504 rnrr read what lucky wearers say rlVtU SEND FOR EREE CIRCULAR PINCHED When you're shopping: in Los Angeles you need not fear a five-dollar fine if you park in the AUTO PARK 811 South Olive St. LOS ANGELES CALIF. P. O. Box 926. Cincinnati, Ohio. 92 $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most— and Why' -See Page 89.

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"How My Wife Learned to Play the Piano in gO Days A husband's story of the fulfillment of a life-long wish — by a new, easy, spare-time method which has brought the joy of music into thousands of silent homes. FROM boyhood, I vowed that if ever I had a home of my own there would be music in it. No wife for me unless she could play some instrument, and play it well. My new home must have no dull, bored evenings, no monotonous Sunday afternoons. I wanted the gaiety, the men- tal and physical stimulus, the whole- hearted, genuine joy of music. No girl could capture me without the lure of musical skill. But one day Beth came along, knowing not one note from another, yet with a merry humming tune forever on her lips, and a song in her heart for me. And Beth is Mrs. Taylor today. A piano graced our new home, but somehow the old vow was forgotten, and stayed forgotten until Jimmy Jr., and Beth No. 2 were quite some youngsters. Then along about the time the novelty of parenthood began to wear off a bit, the old vow came back. And one evening I spoke out with a suddenness that surprised me, "Beth, I'd give a hundred dollars if you could play something — a piano, violin, banjo, ukulele-something, anything." Beth looked so hurt I was immediately ashamed of myself, so I said no more, and the matter dropped, as I thought regretfully, forever. About three month later I got home early one night, and I heard the old dead piano come to life — sounded good, too, first a little jazzy piece, then a sweet plantation melody. "Company to supper; I wonder who?" I thought; and I crept to the parlor door to see. There at the piano was Beth playing, and the two kid- dies beating time. She saw me, and stopped, "Oh," she cried, "I'm so sorry !" "Believe me, I'm not," I shouted, and I grabbed the whole family up in my arms. "But, Jim, I wanted to wait and sur- prise you when I could really play. I'm learning fast, but it's only three months since I found out" — "Found out what " I said. Beth began to cry. "I know I" Jimmy, Jr. piped up, "Mother, found out the way to learn music just like I am learning to read in school — only lots easier." Well, that little musical party lasted all the evening. It was a howling success. When the kiddies had gone singing to bed, my wife showed me the marvelous new method by which she had learned to play in three months' spare time. Jimmy Jr. had told the truth; the method was so simple and easy that any- one at all from 8 years up could learn by it By this method the U. S. School of Music, the largest in the world, has already trained over three hun- dred thousand peo- ple, teaching the playing of any musical instrument almost in the same way a school-child learns to read. But very much faster because older children and grown people have better trained minds, and know how to study and think. When first learning to read you look at every letter separately, and spell out every word, c-a-t, m-a-n. Later you do not see the letters ; you see the words as units, "cat," "man." By and by longer words become units to you, and you find that whole expressions, like "up the steps," "on the train." no longer are seen as separate words, but immediately, at one instant, without spelling, without thinking .words, you see each expression in the unit form. This skill in seeing units develops until you see and know as units hundreds of long familiar phrases; and it is even en- tirely possible, if you wish, to easily in- crease your reading speed four or five times the average, grasping paragraph thoughts complete, sensing a whole page instantly, recognizing every part, register- ing and remembering all, with your pleasure exactly the same as the slower reader. The same easy understanding and com- plete enjoyment is similarly a part of the new way. The alphabet of music follows the alphabet of language. Each note is a letter, and playing is practically spelling the notes together correctly. The first note on the staff above is F. Whether you sing or play, it is always F. The four notes shown above are F-A-C-K, easy to remember because they spell "face." Cer- tain strings on mandolin, certain keys on piano, certain parts of all instruments, are these same notes. Once you learn them, playing melodies is a matter of acting what you see. And here is where "familiar phrases" come in — the "big secret." It is so simple you probably have already guessed it. The "familiar phrases" of music are its har- monies. Just as you instantly recognize the countless phrases of speech, so the relatively few of music are quickly a habit with you. You play almost before you realize it — and every step is real fun, fascinating, simple, interesting, almost too good to be true. "Since I've been taking your lessons I've made over $200 with my vio- lin. Your lessons surely are fine." — Mclvin Free- land. Macopln. N. J. "When I started with you 1 knew nothing about the Cornet or music, but now I can play almost any piece of music." — Kasson Swan, Denmark, Col. Co., Nova Scotia. "I want to extend the heartiest approval of your Piano Course. It hat done more for me than yean of other lessons." — Moiie N. I/ewi«. 319 Jefferson, Neosho, Mo. WHICH INSTRUMENT do yo a w« n t to leam how to play the new, quick way? Court** for beginner* or advanced pupils. Mandolin Drums and Traps Harmony and Composition Sight Singing Ukulele Piccolo Trombone Saxophone Hawaiian Steel Guitar Voice and Speech Cul- ture Automatic Finger Control Pian Organ Violin Banjo Clarinet Flute Harp Comet Cello Guitar Remember, neither my wife nor most of the 300,000 other musi- cians trained by this mi- 1 hod knew anything about music. Beth mas- tered the piano; she could just as easily have mas- tered anything* else. 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Revelations of a Press Agent (Continued from page £3) a credulous public that Th'eda Barn was horn in the shadow of the Sphinx on the Sahara desert, of Arabian and Spanish parentage. As a matter of fact, Theda Bara, whose name was Esther Goodman, was born in the shadows of the Cincin- nati Pyramids and her name is a combination of the words Arab and Death. Polly, who was clever, used to help me manufacture yarns about , herself. She read the newspapers and magazines for the names of bizarre places and romantic people-', so that they might serve as pegs to bang our pleasant fancies upon. When an obscure Austrian was shot by a playful duelist, we immediately got into the papers with a gory story of how Polly had been en- gaged to him once, and that the duel was in reality about her. We got by with murder in those days, and strangely enough never had a libel suit. Polly had in her manu- factured past an affair with the Rus- sian Czar, hinted at so broadly that Main Street's crassest dumb-bell couldn't miss the identity of the supposed victim of her charms: the ruler of Luxemburg had given her a ten-carat diamond ; had been the mistress of a French count, who had murdered his wife when she objected to the intrigue; a matador in Madrid served to keep her in practise until a peevish senorita tried to vivisect her with a stiletto. The thing T hate to remember about my playing God with Polly's past is that it over-stimulated her imagination, and she developed a craving for the very life she was supposed to have led. She early became anathema to all the women, of course, even in Hollywood, for there is no more credulous colony in the world than our own little sophisticated movie center. We believe in nothing — and give ear to every rumor. There was nothing for Polly to do but to play around with men, men who more than half licity — and eventually became so depraved that it showed up in her work and she lost out completely. Tnnocent, she looked the perfect vamp; immoral, she looked the hag. I am sorry about Polly. Thus began my life of crime. I have since press-agented every sort of player from Norma Talmadge down to the dog with the human brain. I have worked in the pub- licity department of almost every studio in Hollywood and the east, and have at times broken away from studios to represent a star on tour or merely as her personal pub- licity representative. 1 envy the dog with the human brain, about which \ have written so convincingly. The dog hasn't a conscience, nor has he prostituted his art. I might have been a writer of fiction, so labeled; instead, I have woven lies — of later years mixed judiciously with facts, because the public is growing more and more hard to fool — around people for whom I care little or nothing and for which I get no credit. No press agent ever gets a by-line. It is his imagination, his resourcefulness which keeps such people as {Catherine McDonald, Marion Davies, Hope Hampton daily before the public; it is the star who reaps all the benefit. But since I have chosen to sell myself in this way, I suppose I can't blame anyone for the fact that I am a tired, disillusioned, oldish young man, who wouldn't believe a word he saw in print if it was signed with his own mother's name. Among my least pleasant press agent stunts I rank my experiences with a certain child star, now at the "awkward age," thank heaven, and temporarily or permanently out of pictures. 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When the Kansas City Post came out with a humor- ous, but faithful account of the interview, the baby's father fired i ne. for he believed I had something to do with it ; anyway, I made a convenient scapegoat. On- of my saddest and most hec- tic jobs was that of persona] public- ity agent for a famous male screen star, who gradually slipped into the morphine habit. Keeping the secret from the public, working strong on the note that he was still as boyish and charming as he had been in earlier years, and keeping him from showing himself in too drunken a state in public, were among my duties. I was a terrible killjoy, for I was always snatching the needle from his hand or hiding the whis- key bottle, even on the studio lot. He hated me, but he couldn't do without me or someone as clever and low as T was. Tn his best moments he was charmingly reminiscent and melancholy, swearing to be good, and in his worst, he was a mad beast struggling 'to get the forbid- den drug or the disastrous bottle. Morphine -and whiskey got him, of course, and the truth finally got into print. A great pity. A won- derful chap. Since it was my duty to arrange interviews and to be present when- ever the reporter would stand for a third party, coaching the star for his or her tilt with the press was also among the thousand and one little things I learned to do so well. If we had decided that a star was to be intellectual, which has been going awfully well lately, I gave my star a ten-minute resume of the latest books of the more highbrow variety. In the most "beautiful and dumb" cases, I typed the reviews and the stars memorized them. She was safe unless the interviewer went too eagerly into details. But the star was also coached on how to switch the conversation to other well-oiled tracks. Rodin's latest achievement in sculpture, the jazz crime, an appreciation of the Rus- sian influence in music, Freud's theory of the mother-complex, were always safe. I crammed my star with my own hastily formed opin- ions, and turned her loose with prayer and trepidation, to be made the most of by the more or less sympathetic interviewer. It was usually easy enough to hoax the reporter, for reporters like to be hoaxed and to hoax the public, just as well as a publicity man does. Occasionally, however, an astute leporter has stuck his tongue in his cheek and written a satire on my laboriously built star of the moment. Needless to say, in the resulting pyrotechnics, I always lost my job and walked the weary until the incident was forgotten by other stars. Those of the public who may bo inclined to censure me as stiffly as I censure myself should remember that the life of the star really offers little to write about. A woman in the pictures works hard, has the ordinary reactions to life; likes hot dogs and a party at the beach; enjoys conviviality when the rest of the folks are hitting it up; reads current magazines and an occasional book when it becomes so popular that it sticks out of the book-shelves like a sore thumb; falls in love, gets married and falls out of love and gets a divorce, much as other people do. That sort of stuff natur- ally doe«n't make good publicity. The public would be grieved to hear the real truth, even if its worst fault is that it is boresome, about their favorites'. It is only kind, in many cases, to manufacture news about them, to clothe them with romance and mystery and intelligence. Personally, I believe the day of the old-time press agent is over — and well over. I am beginning to seem old-fashioned, even to myself. The new press agent strives for what the profession calls "legitimate copy." which means that a large per cent of it is true or near-true. 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¥-1 Beyond the Rocks JF you like Romance, served up hot and spicy, you are missing much if you have not read Elinor Glyn's sensa- tional novel, Beyond the Rocks. You saw the Paramount picture, of course. You must have thrilled over Rodolph Valentino's interpretation of the role of the passionate Hector, the English nobleman. And Gloria Swanson, how beautiful she was as Theodora, who fought so bravely against her love for Hector; fought, because she was true to her marriage 'Cruel one" he pleaded. "Just one little flatter, and let that flower be your heart." —Paramount Photoplay CIRCULATION MANAGER SCREEN LAND, Hollywood, CaL Please tend me the FREE copy of ' eyond the Rocks; together with a year's subscription to the best screen magazine, SCR1CENLANO, for which I enclose S2.50. Name Address City State.. vows to the old, rich husband whom she had married to give her family the luxuries they craved. The novel is as grip- ping as the picture. You will want all the details of their romance that could not be given on the screen for lack of space; the meeting; the liking ripening into love; the confession; the renunciation; and the final crowning of their sacrifice with happiness, "in those smooth waters, beyond the rocks." FREE COPY. The edition may be exhausted. Mail in the attached coupon with $2.50 for a year's sub- scription to SCREENLAND, and receive absolutely FREE, the handsome copy of Be- yond the Rocks, with four beautiful illustrations of Rodolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson! Mail the coupon TODAY! $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most— and Why"— See Page 89. 97

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What Every Husband Knows (Continued from page 84) Arnold, star in The Wizard of Oz. We were married in 1904. I think it was in 1905, though I'rfl not exactly sure about the date, that I married Mrs. Edward J. Ellis, a young and charming widow, My next wife was Edna Valen- tine. She was a widow and her non-professional name was Heinz. This marriage took place about 1910 or maybe it was 1912, I can't say off-hand. My last (or should I say latest) spouse was Dagmar Dalgren, whose real name was Carmen Browder. She was only nineteen and charm- ing. I helieve the character qualities of Julia Woodruff promise the most happiness for me; we were very happy when we were married, at times. Julia has recently lost her second husband, George Wheelock. by death. And who knows? Per- haps Wife No. 9 will be. . . .? Encouraging the Extra (Continued from page 49) by establishing in Hollywood an agency of their own. co-operatively. The expense, shared by all the studios, would be nominal and would be more than repaid by the improvement in the morale of their actors. It is clearly to the benefit of the studios that they get the right type of extras, and that they be con- tented and encouraged in their dra- matic training. The extras are the back-bone of the industry ; from among them the stars of tomorrow will be recruited. Valentino, Betty Compson, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and a host of box-office attractions of today rase from the ranks of the extras. It is good business to encourage the extra, Mr. Producer. Clara Kimball Young's next pic- ture is to be "Cordelia the Magnifi- cent," adapted to the screen by Frank Beresford. Claude Gillingwater. who played the bachelor role in "The Three Wise Fools" on the stage, is to have the same part in the picture. Your Figure Has Charm Only as You Are Fully Developed BEAUTY OF FORM can be cultivated just the same as flow- ers are made to blossom with proper care. Woman, by nature refined and delicate, craves the natural beauty of her sex. How wonderful to be a per- fect woman ! Bust Pads and Ruffles never look natural or feel right. They are really harm- ful and retard development. You should add to your physical beauty by enlarging your bust-form to its natural size. This is easy to accom- plish with the NATIONAL, a new scientific appliance that brings delightful results. FREE BEAUTY BOOK If you wish a beautiful, womanly figure, write for a copy of the treatise by Dr. C. S. Carr, formerly published in the Physical Culture Magazine, entitled: "The Bust — How It May Be Developed." Of this method Dr. Carr states: "Indeed, it will bring about a development of the busts quite astonishing." This valuable information, explaining the causes of non-development, together with photographic proof showing as much as five inches enlargement by this method, will be sent FREE to every woman who writes quickly. Those desiring book sent sealed, enclose 4c postage. THE OLIVE COMPANY Dept. 305 CLARINDA, IOWA SIXTH ntHILL TBLEPHONB - 6 1 JOOft SEE LENZA* LENS ^ Protect your eyes from the bright glare and harmful rays by using Crookes lens. Oculists' prescriptions accurately filled An all star cast is promised for the film production of "Climbing." which Louis B. Mayer has pur- chased. •lean Ilersholt is to have a part in Kric Von Stroheitn's first. Gold- \\yn picture. "Men of the Desert." will be Harry Carey's next picture for F. B. 0. Marguerite Clayton will appear with him. .Jacqueline Logan, who did such splendid work in "Java Head." appears with Charles Ray in his latest production. "A Tailor Made Man." This Genuine Diamond Solitaire Ring, hand engravedand pierced , is the favorite among film — —"^STE V*-*7"~'sL£i*' s'ars and society people the t^** Zt>"*2*Mi^^m world over. Becauseofour * low price— $32.50. and li- beral credit terms, you, too, can now wear and own it, or give it as a gift. Write tor yours today. How it will be admired 1 Send usyourname, address and $1. After examination, pay loth (20 per cent) — balance, SI a week. If you do not agree that it is a beauti- ful gem and an amazing bargain, return ring to us without paying a cent and get your $1 back, pfjpp SBfc™ diamonds, w.-itches, and jewelry popular with the so-called "Four Hundred." All at prices within your reach on long credit terms. No risk— no red tape — Address Dept. 43s ftaer Co. 6 MAIDEN LANE - NEW YORK $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most — and Why" — See Page 89. 99

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"Well, by and by the contractor calls Sid up and tells him the theatre is all finished. 'How much?' asks Sid. 'Two million dollars,' says the contractor. 'Awright,' says Sid, 'I'll open her up with a premiere tonight and pay you in the morning.' " Gloria Swanson was the honor guest at this latest premiere, for her new Paramount picture, My American Wife, was selected for the feature. And Gloria was radiant! All in white, wrapped in a regal ermine wrap, with diamonds sparkling in her lovely auburn hair and around her white neck, she proved her right to her title of the best dressed woman in pictures. There were so many beautiful women in the audience that packed the huge house to the very windows that it is hard to select any particular star to describe. Hut Barbara La Marr stood out from among the beauties. Her gorgeously colorful figure attracted attention on all sides. 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By Their Prop Smiles Ye Shall Know Them (Continued from page 30) desks, should never hang one over Rodolph Valentino's dressing table — unless the psychology of the thing is that when you are told to smile you never do it ! For chronic smiling would be the ruination of our Sheik. He has a smile all his own, a smile that woidd make any re- spectable married woman got at least as far as the garden gate on a pilgrimage to his shrine. That smile is a subtle, poised thing that is sud- denly shot with the very essence of the Valentino personality. You are perfectly content to wait through a whole picture for that one smile. Imagine Rodolph grinning boyishly every few feet, as Charlie Ray does. Maybe he used to, and that is why no One noticed him particularly un- til Rex Ingram saw him looking sad over a poorly digested hot dog. or something like that, and saw his possibilities. When Rodolph grins out of character, just a nice sort of grin, he loses all that mysterious charm, becomes just a dark-eyed boy who likes spaghetti and runs around with the gang at night. But reticent, secretive, mysterious — smil- ing only once in every picture and then right into the heroine's eves —ah ! Tom Mix, Bill Russell. Buck Jones, are examples of the out-in- God's-country smilers. Bill TIart is the somber leader of the Sons and Daughters of I Will Not Smile, for in Hart's unsmiling countenance is the irresistible charm of sternness and misunderstood tender impulses. Buster Keaton. on the other hand, has the unsmiling map of a wooden Indian. If he should forget himself and smile, his vogue would be col- lapsed; one more idol would he shattered. So — for the movie audience, the optimist's Pollvanna plea for SMILES, SMILES, SMILES is all right. But for actors and actorinos smiles are something else again — a stock in trade, an identification tag. TRY THE SCREENLAND PUZZLE CONTEST Shown on page 10 of this issue. A Magazine With a New Idea For the first time in the history of magazine publish- ing in America a publication is now available which is able to present dramatic screen stories in fiction form being filmed. This publication is designed to serve the needs of creative writers. It contains 100 pages of inspiration monthly and lists among its contributors some of the world's most noted writers. For four years it has successfully served the writers for the screen under the name of Photodramatist. Tt now appears under a name to indicate its broadened scope. STORY WORLD and Photodramatist Skilled screen authors discuss the problems of scenario writ- ing in its columns. Changing needs of the producers are set forth. Craftmanship of the studios is explained, as it affects the writer. A Free Service Bureau answers writers' technical questions. All phases of creative fiction writing are dwelt upon. This is a publication for the expert as well as the man just entering the field. If STORY WORLD is not now a regular visitor to your home, take advantage of this 30 day special offer. Clip and mail the coupon. PHOTODRAMATIST PUB; CO. Inc. 6411 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood Cal. Among the noted contributors are Einerson Hough Eugene Manlwt Rhodes Kathleen Norris Frank L. Packard William J. ttOtit Carl Clausen Wm. R. Lighton H. Bedford- Jones Rupert Hughes Hapsburg Lieor Wilbur Hal! .Mary Austin Gentlemen: — I want to try" STORY WORLD for six months, order or draft) and send your magazine to Enclosed find £1.00 (check money .Vote:- S23 -Canadian postage 25 cents extra, foreign postage 50 cents. $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most— and Why"— See Paffe 89.

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Making Hollywood Safe for Matrimony (Continued from page 4S) a ship to scorch her youth and inno- cence with his hot kisses, he has no interest in overtaking her but merely keeps up the pursuit until the direct calls time. Or that when Rodolph Valentino takes his screen lady-love slowly in his arms, looking deep into her eyes and presses his lips lingeringly on hers, he is thinking about bis police dogs and she is counting ten. But are they? Life is so fleeting; its highways so rough; the rent man so inevitable ; the bluelaw cru- saders always with us. So fill the cup — Tf the matrimonial troubles of the screen folk do center about the difficulty a few performers feel in distinguishing between love on the set and in the home, the marriage contract bill is a sure panacea. The young wife of the handsome screen hero merely contracts to send her husband fasting to the fadeovit clinch ; hunger has been known to chasten a man when a sense of duty failed. Movie husbands could put in a clause specifying that their wives shall never submit to another man's embrace unless restrained by a tight slipper. A shoe that pinches can keep a woman pure under almost any circumstances. l>ut when the arms are Valentino's, she had better be required, as a special pre- caution, to repeat the Lord's Prayer. Y 7Vi//s>v '«r Kenerous trial bottle write i oaay 0i d. E d. ami tret quick relief from your hkln trouble*. Send 10c to cover posUso and packing. WRITE TODAY: D.D.D. Laboratories, Dept. 2 144 3845 £. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago -D. D. D. 9he Lotion for Skin Diseases ou can see that the possibili- ties of a marriage contracture infin- ite. Besides lessening the dangers that encounter the fragile matrimo- nial bark, the marriage contract would lessen also the arduous labors of the clergy who are striving so nobly and so audibly to "clean up" Hollywood. Of course, just how the ministers of the gospel acquire their fund of information about indiscretions said to be practiced in our fair vil- lage, Hollywood, is one of those mysteries that will not be revealed until the last great day, when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known. On which occasion, it is probable that the revelations regarding the movie stars in Hollywood will be equalled in interest only by the reve- lations regarding the ministers. Lovely Eyes for All Write for Sample Today Dclica-Brow Liquid Dressing for the eye lashes and brows makes deep, expressive eyes instantly, with long, dark, sweeping lashes that will make everyone say "What wonder- ful eyes." W aterproof - unaffected by rain, tears, etc. Stays on all day — harmless. Each package (even sample ) contains a camel's hair and a 25c bone handled brush for applying. 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"YOU'LL NEVER SUCCEED with a WRINKLED FACE" The original M. ELLA 1 HARRIS can do this for you The famous beauty specialist now located in Hollywood will remove twenty years from your life. (Read this letter) 1531 N. Bronson Ave., Hollywood, California. February, 1922. Dear Madame : I am answering your letter to Mrs. Harris and am pleased to tell you about her most wonderful treatment. I had her treatment seventeen years ago in San Francisco. I was on the speaking stage at that time and I assure you this treatment restored my youthful appearance and for twelve years 1 played young society parts that I could not have played had I not been treated by Mrs. Harris. I have seen at least two hundred people that Mrs. Harris has treated, in fact, ten years ago. I got up a club of fifty women (actresses in Xew York) and Mrs. Harris came there especially to treat them. Her wonderful work made such an impression that she was completely snowed under and couldn't get away for two years ; finally she was called by wire to the death bed of a member of her family and now, one by one, these ladies fol- lowed her and now are being treated in California. In all my travels abroad and in America, for twenty-five years I have seen nothing to compare with her work. In Paris. London. New York. Chicago and San Francisco I have seen nothing that can lie mentioned in the same breath and cannot give her too much praise. I sincerely believe she is the most wonderful facial artist in the world today: the only one who can take an old, withered, wrinkled eye and re- store it to a child's contour, leaving no trace oi a line or wrinkle, saying nothing of the saggy- cheeks and scrawny necks. She uses no filling, nor does she do any cut- ting : it's simply a treatment combined with nature. I really think that Mrs- Harris should be as widely known from this art as Fdison or Burbank and were she a man. she would be. To prove my honest belief and knowledge of this art I am giving up both the stage and motion picture work to give my time in full to this treat- ment: to help Mrs. Harris demonstrate to the public that this is the only facial art, restoring youth which remains always, stands all kinds of wear and tear, illness, grief or anything. Very respectfully yours, IRENE HOBSON. P. S. — I neglected to mention that I have just had another facial treatment, and it looks like A MILLION DOLLARS. February 17. 1922. Ahmit w years auo (at my Institute on GEARY Street, in Sari Francisco — before the earthquake and flic) l first treated Miss Irene Hobson, «* xtntni in her letter above. She told me at that time Hint she was U near* aid. Her face today has the ItouthtuI contour and smoothness of a oirt'x—a convincing demonstration of the per manenee oj mi/ work-. Eighteen iicar* without n terinklf! And onto two to dan courses, and one tO-day COUrge during the whole Hint '. .liixt there short courses ill s years to keep the face perfect! TOO can afford that maun days to conquer Father Time: • M. ELLA HARRIS Also manufactures a home treatment combination consisting of "Marvel Skin Tightener," "Special Double Astringent" and "Bleach Cream" which separately sells for 37.00 but which will be mailed upon receipt of $5.00. with full directions complete. "They Whiten and Tighten the Skin" Send $5.00 for this home treatment M. ELLA HARRIS 1531 NORTH BRONSON AVE. HOLLYWOOD, CAL. PHONE HOLLY 2170 ■ M. ELLA HARRIS. ■ 1531 N. Bronson Ave.. Dept. S, ■ Hollywood, California. I Enclosed please find $5.00 for which please lend I me your special home treatment. Name ... Address City $10 for the Best Answer to "Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals to You Most— and Why"— See Page *9. 103

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Conn is the only manufacturer of the complete instru- mentation of a band. (lop) and Max Fisher of Los Angeles, (bot- tom) are among the popular orchestra directors who endorse. Conn instruments. How to Win a Man's Love (Continued from page 39) But it has remained for Barbara Marr, one of the most potent of vampires, to give of fasci- ears to charm Highest Honors at World Ex- positions. All Exclusive Conn Features at No Greater Cost. Dealers and agents throughout the country. Factory branches in many large cities. C. G. CONN, Ltd. 484 Conn BIdg. Elkhart, In J. La the new screen a new slant on the art nating. She uses her men ! The really successful charmer is the one who listens, completely absorbed in what her male adorer has to say, says Barbara. She makes jo attempt to hypnotize with studied wiles. She appears so transparent that the man feels perfectly safe He revels in his natural vanity, believ- ing himself the one and only male who understands her. ITer best line is "How strong you arc" and "I think you big men are won- derful !;' Woman must be content to charm one man only, says Barbara. At a time. Every man wants to marry a charming woman, but he want? her charm for himself alone. Other men may look at his fascinat- ing wife, may even envy him his possession, but they must not touch ! Clothes are an invaluable aid in being fascinating, the beautiful Bar- bara maintains, bnt. they must always be in harmony with the wearer's personality. A slinky black dress with dangling jet earrings does not make a vampire, but it often makes her ridiculous! 66 w uks a wc WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE BAND AND ORCHESTRA INSTRUMENTS From Sunny California Nature's own food. A delicious can of unfired foods containing- nuts, sunkissed raisins, California honey, and olives. Sent Postpaid for $1.00. MORE LIFE FOOD MFG. COMPANY, 823-24 Loew's State Building, Los Angeles, Calif. belonging to them. Stripped of his artificial aids, he realized they had not supplied the charm that he had hoped." When Barbara La Marr wishes to feel dignified, she wears white. Black drapes here go in subtlety, she says, while red makes her vivacious, full of fun. When she combines these colors, which she claims are her psychic colors, she is at her scintillating best. T, CULTIVATE YOUR. MUSICAL BUMP 104 $10 for the Best Answer to oman dons clothes that were never intended for her type, she reminds one of the vain young crow who lived in a wood inhabited by many other birds of gay plumage", relates Miss La Marr. "lie believed his somber black coat prevented him from charming the lady birds he admired. So, at moult- ing time when the other birds were dropping old feathers for new. the silly young crow went through the wood, picking up the gayest feathers and sticking them on his own coat. Soon be rivalled the peacock in splendor! LTe became obnoxious in his boastfulness, until the other birds grew tired of humoring the young coxcomb in his self-decep- tion, and one by one they walked up and picked off the feathers Which Advertisement in This Issue of Screenland Appeals hroughout the ages, perfume has been supposed to inspire love. The ancient's scented their couches with rare perfumed oils, with musk and amber. Barbara has not the per- fect confidence in its potency that many of our famous charmers have. Perfume offends the fastidious man as often as it excites him. If used at all, it should be faint, elusive, tantalizing. A drop behind the ears, on the finger tips, on the lips — never on the hair. Perfume tends to make hair gray. As for cigarettes. You can always tell the vampire on the screen by her cigarette. You remember the exquisite grace with which Nita Naldi as the ever-to-be- remembered Dona Sol handled her cigarettes in Blood and Sand f How beautiful her hands were! No wonder Gallardo was fasci- nated! (Cigarettes have there proper place in the lives of many charming women, Nita Naldi holds. But only for a certain type of woman. The ingenue, the unsophisticated girl should never smoke with a man. It offends his sense of propriety. But th# stately woman of the world, the grande dame, may with safety light a cigarette after dinner or tea, when the male companion is at peace with the world. And1 when he stoops over you to light your cigarette and your eyes meet, the faint scent of jasmine drifts up into his nostrils — ah, there arc possi- bilities there, mes amis! to You Most— and Why"— See Page 89.

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What Would You Give To Become A Really Good Dancer? How much would it be worth to you to make yourself so popular through your ability to dance all of the very latest steps, that everyone would be anxious to have you attend their social affairs? GOOD dancers always have the best time. The best dancers and the prettiest girls always want a good partner. From the business as well as the social standpoint, it is really time and money profitably spent to add dancing to your other accomplishments. Especially so, since it now costs so little — and a fine dancing ability can be mas- tered in only a few hours. Arthur Murray has per- fected a method by which you can learn in the privacy Arthur Hun of your own home, to dance Dancing instrur- any of the latest dances in a ,or SrSSy^ ^w minutes — and all of them in a short time. In- structions are so simple that even a child can quickly learn. In one evening you can master the steps of any single dance. Partner or music are not necessary. After learning you can dance with the best dancer in your town and not make a sin- gle misstep. Learn Without Partner or Music Arthur Murray's remarkable method is so clearly explained and lucidly written 'hat you don't need anyone to explain the instructions. The diagrams show every movement — just how to make each step of every dance, and the written instructions are concise and easily remembered. After you have quickly learned the steps by yourself in your own room, you can dance perfectly with anyone. It will also be Here's What a Few Say Let me say that your chart system ex- plains many things to me which other teachers could not make clear. \VM. S. MEYERFELD, Ann Arbor, Mich. I practiced yesterday and learned the Fox Trot through the night. Tonight I danced a number of times with a good dancer to the music of a phonograph and had no trouble in leading or balance. J. M. MEALY, Flatwood, VV. Va. I am getting along very nicely with the instructions. I have so many pupils 1 have to have a larger place. ALBERT J. DELANEY, Bay City, Mich. Before I got your lessons I couldn't dance a step, but now I go to dances and have a good time, like the rest of them. I'll always be thankful that I have taken your course. BEGGI THORGERISON. Ethridge, Mont. Many other enthusiastic letters have been received. If interested send for special leaflet reprinting them. quite easy for you to dance in correct time on any floor to any orchestra or phono- graph music. Arthur Murray is recognized as Amer- ica's foremost authority on social dancing. Such people as the Vanderbilts, Ex-Gov- ernor Locke Craig of North Carolina and scores of other socially prominent people chose Mr. Murray as their dancing in- structor. Danc- ing teachers the world over take lessons from him — and it is a fact that more than 90.000 people have learned to become popular dancers through his L e a r n - a t- home methods. Do You Know The Correct Dancing Posi- tion How to Gain Confidence How to Follow Successfully How to Avoid Embarrassing Mistakes The Art of Making Your Feet Look Attractive The Correct Walk In the Fox Trot The Basic Waltzing How to Waltz Backward The Secret of Leading The Chasse in the Fox Trot The Forward Waltz Step How to Leave One Partner to Dance With Another Principles in Learn and Alto Your Child to How to Tearh Dance What the Advanced Dancer Should Know How to Develop Your Sense of Rhythm Ktiquettc of the Ballroom Free Proof You Can Learn the Latest Steps in an Evening Private in- struction in Mr. Murray's studio would cost you $10 per lesson. But through his new method of teaching dancing at home, you get the same high class instruction at a ridiculously low price. And if you aren't delighted, the instruction doesn't cost you one cent. To prove that he can teach you, Mr. Murray will send you his full sixteen-les- son course for five days' free trial. Through these sixteen lessons you will learn. The Correct Dancing Position — How to Gain Confidence — How to Follow Successfully — The Art of Making your Feet Look At- tractive— The Correct Walk in the Fox Trot — The Basic Principles in Waltzing- How to Waltz Backward — The Secret of Leading — The Chasse in the Fox Trot — • The Forward Waltz Step — How to Leave One Partner to Dance with Another — How to Learn and Also Teach Your Child to Dance — What the Advanced Dancer Should Know — How to Develop Your Sense of Rhythm — Etiquette of the Ball- Special Proof Offer Satisfy yourself that the new course can quickly teach you all of the new dances and latest steps. See for yourself how easily you can master all of the new- est dances and be able to enjoy yourself at the very next affair to which you are invited. Just fill in and mail the coupon — or a postcard or letter will do — enclosing $1.00 in full payment and the special course will be promptly sent to you. Keep the course for five full days. Prac- tice all the steps — learn everything the lessons teach, because that is the only- way you can prove to your full satisfac- tion that Arthur Murray's method is the quickest, easiest, and most delightful way to learn how to dance correctly and ex- pertly. Then, within five days, if you desire to do so, you may return the course and your deposit will be promptly re- funded without any question. But should you decide to keep the course, as you surely will, it becomes your property with- out further payments of any kind. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed Several times Arthur Murray has been asked how one can learn by mail tn dance? The answer and the proof that you can learn is found in these special lessons. After reading them over and practicing the steps as shown in the dia- grams, no one can help but feel fully convinced that Arthur Murray's course does teach everything promised. And so positive is Mr. Murray that he can teach you that he absolutely guarantees your complete satisfaction or your money will be fully refunded. You have always wanted to learn to dance — you have always promised your- self that some day you would learn. Here is your best opportunity. And remember, von now receive the 16 lessons for only $1.00. ARTHUR MURRAY Studio 677, 801 Madison Ave. New York Arthur Murray, Studio 677, 801 Madison Avenue. New York. To prove that you can teach me to dance in one evening at home you may send the sixteen -lesson course in plain cover. I am enclosing $1.00 in full payment, but it is understood that this is not to be considered a purchase unless the course in every way comes up to my expectations. If, within five days, I decide to return the course I may do so and you will refund my money promptly and without question. Name Address City State (Price outside U. S. $1.10.) 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