Photoplay Magazine of August, 1917

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Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section Look to Nela Park for Better Pictures As you leave the house for the theater you switch off your NATIONAL MAZDA lamps. The stores you pass and the. store windows are brilliantly lighted with NATIONAL MAZDAS. Even the street lights are NATIONAL MAZDAS. _ The street cars and automobiles are NATIONAL MAZDA lighted. The theater itself, both lobby and auditorium, uses NATIONAL MAZDAS abundance. You cannot fail to be impressed in - by the scores of widely differing uses to which this ‘modern lamp has been put. It would seem that Lighting Headquarters has been | busy finding ways to serve you. And now a new way has been found! You'll see it soon in better pictures on the screen—dclearer, sharper, steadier pictures! For the solution of any lighting problem. con- nected with the motion picture theater, address Nela Specialties Division National Lamp Works of General Electric Co. 132 Nela Park CLEVELAND, OHIO -~ When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.

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SS Triangle Players Live Their Parts Acting is but artificial expression. It is one thing to mimic character—and quite another to create it. Triangle Players are chosen because they have the living spark _ of productive ability. They are the poets of the screen, who carry imagination to the point of vivid reality and live the life, the individuality, the joy and pathos in TRIANGLE PLAYS THE FOREMOST PRODUCTIONS IN MOTION PICTURES And Triangle Players are chosen for the parts they play. They have an understanding of human nature. They are born with the white flame of genius burning in their breasts, that © lifts them out of the commonplace —and gives them the ability to take their audience with them. Triangle Plays are apart from the usual too. They are portrayals of passion and tenderness, poverty and riches, love and hate — all used as tools by the picture- drama craftsman to teach a wholesome offense, and with cleanliness uppermost. Look for Triangle Plays in your neighbor- hood theatres. TRIANGLE DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION 1457 Broadway New York Every advertisement in PHOTOELAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed. lesson. Triangle Plays do this without - y=

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GO TTT a bo MMMM LARA MT re re eee REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE PUBLICATION Photoplay Magazine “The National Movie Publication” Copyright, 1917, by the PHOTOPLAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, Chicago OUTUAUCAUUUCUUUUENUU EGU ETAU EAA DEAE VOL. XII | | | No. 3 CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1917 Cover Design — Jackie Saunders Popular Photoplayers Corinne Griffith, George Webb, Sylvia Bremer, Harry Hilliard, Mrs. Vernon Castle, Mary Pickford, Julia Sanderson, William Davidson. TUNEUUUEEUUAATEN EAU UAL OEE ~ Colonel Kathleen, Some Boy K. Owen 19 A Story about Kathleen Clifford. . The Golden Triplets (Photograph ) 21 Fairbanks—Pickford—Chaplin. When Star Meets Star in Los Angeles (Photograph ) 22 Mr. Tellegen Greets Mrs. Farrar-Tellegen at the Station. | On the Job with Bryant Washburn F: 5. Jacobs. 23 Following Mr. Skinner, of Dress-Suit Fame. She Quit at the Altar | 26 _ Louise Fazenda Got No Nearer Marriage. Six Years Old, and in the ’Phone Book Ze Such is the Distinction of Wee Kittens Reichert. She Was the Girl Outside; Now She’s Inside. —- 28 Florence Vidor, Who Reached Fame Unnamed. Galloping Thirty- Seven Miles to See Mary. 30 And the Audiences Exceed the Town’s Population. = The Brilliant Mrs. Fiske’s Brilliant Niece. — 31 An Account of Emily Stevens, Star of Screen and Stage. “Grease-Paint Row” (Photograph) 32 Ham, Bud and Ethel Teare Don Their War-Ochre. In a World Gone Mad : Randolph Bartlett 32 A Little Verbal Symphony of the Movies. “Eye-Dropping,” the New Pastime 33 -But Lip-Reading Has Its Embarrassments, as You’ll See Would You Call This a Sheepish Look? (Photograph) 34 Alma Reuben and Some Genuine Kids. : - The Mysterious Miss Terry (Fiction ) Jameson Fife 35 A Girl’s Adventure in Commonplace Surroundings. ) The O’Brien of Movieland | 45 Eugene, the Leading Man. ; Castile, Leon and Tony Julian Johnson 46 _ And A. Moreno Is Not the Least of These Three. Wally’s Exercises (Photograph) _ 51 But Mr. Reid’s Pair of Belles Are Not Dumb, by Any Means. Contents continued on next page PTTTTVUOTTTUUUTIIUUCHT CGT UTI UUUHTUULH LUELLA LOUGH UULIUOGIUUAH UGH UUUHALUCAALUCLIRUCGT CGT UCUUI CGT CCT LEGCO TICE LOUOT TOOT UOT TIMI ILUUTT OUTIL LOOULCLIUOILOGI ILOILO LOLIMOT TMG PU OCHO TLL LLOL Lec LLUL LLG LULeoeLee Doo PCoo boo Published monthly by the PHOTOPLAY PUBLISHING Co., 350 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. EDWIN M. COLVIN, Pres. ROBERT M, EASTMAN, Sec.-Treas. JAMES, R. QUIRK, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr. JULIAN JOHNSON, Editor. YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 in United States, its dependencies, Mexico and Cuba; $1.85 to Canada; $2.50 to foreign countries. Remittances should be made by check, or postal or express money order. Caution—Do not subscribe through persons unknown to you. Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class mail matter Oi iii iii 0iiiiittttTitTitTTTT TTT MMT

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What sees s Asking, and What Eaeebtonies Wants to Know. nM Coe es cr = CONTENTS.FOR AUGUST, 1PAd—-~Gentinued |e EVLNANUUUSAFAMONOLLALASUOUUSOBASOOGYOPOLOOOA OOOO UATE TTT MMIL LULL) a TUL en) ; ; : = | 2 : The Gas Girl (Fiction) _ Francis William Sullivan. 52 2 = _ A Brilliant Short Story by the Author of “Glory Road.” 2 = Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell. Z 2 Close-Ups By the Editor 61 2 = Timely Comment and Editorial Observation. . 3 ; B Snow Stuff (Photograph ) | 64 : = A Nice Thing to Look at in July or August. | = = Why Do They Do It? ; 65 : z Pertinent Observations by Our Readers. : = The Chap the Camera Chased Johnstone Craig 67 = = Tom Meighan, Whom Destiny.Had to Kick into Pictures. = 2 Who’s. Married to. Who 70 : = A Photographic Matrimonial Record. : Z S The Man Who Put Fame in Famous Julian Johnson . 73 = = The Simple Account of Adolph Zukor’s Rise to Rule. = 2 Some Palaces the Fans Built (Photographs) 75 . = __. More of the Magnificent Actors’ Homes in California. : = Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky Ellen Woods 81 : = A Pair of Interesting Planetary Readings. | 2 = Desmond of Dublin Kenneth O’Hara 82 : = Now, Desmond of Culver City. ; = = The Shadow Stage ‘Julian Johnson 83 : 4 2 A Department of Photoplay Review. : : = : The Girl on the Cover Allen Corliss 92 . 2 Jackie Saunders, at Home. : 5 | 3 They Can’t be Kept Apart (Photograph) 94 5s 4 = Who? Robert Harron and Mae Marsh—Behold This Evidence! : 2 It Should Have Been Different Kenneth MacGaffey 95 : 4 = A Story about Vivian Martin’s Middle Initial. = = Heavy Artillery of Church and Stage (Photograph) 98 , = = An Interesting Exposition of Lighting Big Scenes. | = | = A Man.of Many Mothers 99 ' = = Billie Jacobs, and His Multiple Parentage—in Pictures. . : | 5 Aladdin’s Other Lamp (Fiction ) Janet Priest 100 = = The Magic Wrought in a Lovable Girl’s Imagination. 5 | 2 The Ince of Ethiopia (Photograph) 3 107 : = = Dark Clouds in Shadowgraphy. : | 2 Plays and Players Cal York 108 : = = Coast-to-Coast News of Actors and Productions. i : Z Paul Is Quite Some Actor 113. : 4 3 Meaning Paul Willis, a Boy Hero of the Screen. 2 , 2 Pearls of Desire Henry C. Rowland. 115. . 3 = ' » A Great-New Novel Reaches a Thrilling Climax. preareed by Henry Raleigh. . ~ How to Sell a Scenario Leslie T. Peacocke 127 : = ~ ° Another Valuable Chapter in an Expert’s Advice-Series. 3 Z The Long-Lost Lionel 2 131 : = The Finding of Lionel Srcuce a Strayed Star. 2 = The Triangles Doing Their Bit | 132 : = A Red Cross Nurses’ Class Is Established at Camp Ince. ~ : . | = 3 She’s a Rough Gal! £59493 : = Bnt Alice Howell’s Is a Nice Sort of Roughness, after all. | | E : Agate Bessie, the Marble Gambolier John Ten Eyck 134. s 2 Shocking Revelations Concerning Bessie Love. a H Making War Forever (Photographs) 136 : 5 The Great War Recorded in Vivid Films. 3 : = Photoplay Actors’ Name-Puzzle : 138 : Try It, Whether You are a Puzzle Practicioner or Not. | : : Questions and Answers | 145 ieee a 6

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Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section PERSONALITY STORIES Which Have Appeared in PH OTOPLA Y During the Past Twelve Months | HE list given below includes only qticics about the ERS AE of screen celeb- T rities, and not the hundreds of photographs which have appeared in the magazine. Some issues of Photoplay for 1916 are out of print. Articles inthose issues are not listed. Copies of back numbers of Photoplay will be sent upon receipt of 15c per copy in the U. S., its dependencies, Mexico and Cuba; 20c to Canada; 25c to foreign countries. Send remittances—United States stamps, checks, money orders or international coupons—to Photoplay Magazine, Dept. C, 350 North Clark Street, Chicago. Ai SGN, MARY 2... May, 1917 KELLY, ANTHONY ........... April, 1917 ANDERSON, MARY ........... June, 1917 KELLY, DOROTHY ....... November, 1916 BAMA FEO. on oe hae es: May, 1917. LA BADIE, FLORENCE....December, 1916 BAYNE, BEVERLY ........... March, 1917 LAWRENCE, PAUL ....... November, 1916 BENNETT, RICHARD ......... April, 1917. LEE, JEN i: SS Ca eee April, 1917 BROCKWELL, GLADYS .........-... LEGUERE, GEORGE ........... May, 1917 Se eee “= 1917, and June, 1917. LINDER, MAX ............February, 1917 BRUNETTE, FRITZ! ........... May, 1917. LITTLE, ANN ................. May, 1917 BURTON, CHARLOTTE . December, 1916 pi Ree fie duee weceees rd pi? HMAN, FRANCIS X. ...... il, 1917 1G, Me eee ee uly, “ 5 LOOS, ANITA ..2..0itii. uly, 1917 CAPELLANI, ALBERT ...... January, 1917 OSEE, FRANK ............--. May, 1917 CARMEN, JEWEL ............... July, 1917. LOVE, MONTAGU ............. July, 1917 CHAPLIN, CHARLES .......... june 1917 LOVELY, EQUISE "3. -. ieee July, 1917 CHILDERS, NAOMI ........ January, 1917. LYTTON, ROGER ............. April, 1917 Cee ae eeemeet to17 MARSH, MAE. .March, 1917, and June, 1917 COBURN, GLADYS ............ May, 1917 MASON. SHIRLEY | esses: backed 4 HAN, GEORGE M.......::- Wath. TS? - Sate a y, CO 1, MURRAY; MASE... ccs: «ws. March, 1917 CONNELLY, SOME tLe tei, Mee WAN, DOROTHY June, 1917 Sees ebruary, 1° é a ae ! COOPER, MIRIAM ......--..... July, 1917 MacLAREN, MARY ........February, 1917 COSTELLO, MAURICE ..... January, 1917 NELSON, FRANCES ........... May, 1917 CRISP, DONALD .......e0. January, 1917 | = - 7 REIL Naseer April, 1917 Toa VICAR 8... cou see February, 1917 OSBORNE, HELEN ........... April, 1917 -DORO, MARI Cw ..ss ...-December, 1916 PALEY. “DAPI V0 oo ee, Se M 1917 DREW, S. RANKIN ....,.....-. April, 1917 PETERS, HOUSE .............- si 1917 ““DWAN, ALLAN ............5..- May, 1917 =PETROVA, OLGA. 03s .<.0-.s: June, 1917 . : PHILLIP, DOROTHY .......... May, 1917 EMERSON, JOHN ........ November, 1916 PICKFORD, MARY ..........1 March, 1917 ig bn BS RR a 3 oo Se eee June, 1917 FAIRBANKS, Spe a a PRETTY: ARLINE =... oes. ve. June, 1917 <é-0 gee pee ay, an une, : FARRAR, GERALDINE..... January, 1917 MiLAS), 2.11 LEAN = 53-«as.<4% November, 1916 FAWCETT, GEORGES a April, 1917 Rite, FLORENCE oii. ccanasees July, 1917 FISCHER, MARGARITA ...February, 1917 SEED, VIVEAN FPS February, 1917 POSE, FART E oy ee December; 1916 REUBEN, ALMA .............. April, 1917 FREDERICK, PAULINE ....... June, 1917. RHODES, ic: BB ee er July, 1917 FULLER, MARY .Nov., 1916,and May, 1917 ene VAY TAR oe aces vee December, 1916 ROBERTS, THEODORE ........ July, 1917 GISH, DOROTHY and LILLIAN. May, 1917 SAIS, MARIN ................ March, 1917 GRANDIN, ETHEL ......... January, 1917 SEBASTIAN, CHARLES ........ July, 1917 GREY, OLGA 6.5 22 February, 1917 SMITH, C. AUBREY........ February, 1917 GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK......... Sieitee.- MATT .......... December, 1916 August, 1916, to November, 1916, inclusive STANDING, HERBERT ...November, 1916 - SPRIT SBLANCHE-. 3 sess. July, 1917 HALE, CREIGHTON ...... November, 1916 TALMADGE, CONSTANCE ...-May, 1917 HAMILTON, MAHLON......... May, 1917 : HARLAN MACEY ......s...-..1 May, 1917. TALMADGE, NORMA ..... February, 1917 HART, WILLIAM...... May and July, 1917 eet aint co OE Sap EDD te a _ HATTON, RAYMOND ....November, 1916 THEBY ROSEMARY ad <4 2 Decei uy, MAYES. PRAMAS 6 os ode os January, 1917 ; eee ee? S88 ecember, 1916 HOLMES, GERDA ........-.-- March, 1917. TURNBULL, HECTOR ....December, 1916 HOLMES, HELEN......d..... March, 1917 WALCAMP, MARIE ......November, 1916 MOLMres, SIUARL oe December, 1916 WARDE, FREDERICK .......January, 1917 HULETTE, GLADYS ...... November, 1916 WARWICK, ROBERT ........March, 1917 WHITNEY, CLAIRE ....... December, 1916 KEENAN, FRANK ........-cee. 1917 WORTMANN, FRANK HUCK...... + KELLERMANN, ANNETTE ... ord, 1917 ee ee ..+.-February, 1917 When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.

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10 Photoplay Magazine —Advertising Section

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CORINNE GRIFFITH decided early in life to be a Southern girl, and as much Southern as she could; so she chose New Orleans as her birthplace. Her first photoplay acting was done for Vitagraph, Western, and from the Los Angeles organ- ization she came East to play leads for Earle Williams,

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HARRY HILLIARD emerges serene and undismayed from monthly encounters with the world’s head vampire, and in several instances has made her almost human. Though best known as Theda Bara’s leading man, he has had quite a career on the stage. He was born in Cincinnati thirty years ago and is unmarried,

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Photu by Campbell Studio JULIA SANDERSON is one of the most distinguished and graceful melody-comediennes of the vocal stage, and her loveliness is being recorded right now by Mutual cam- eras. “The ‘Sunshine Girl,” “The Siren,” and “The Arcadians” are three of her best-known stage vehicles.

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Photo by Hartsook GEORGE WEBB ought to have been an author instead of a matinee idol, for he was born in Indianapolis. Ancestrally he must be all at war, for his forebears were both English and German. He made his camera debut at the American studios in 1915, then went to Lasky, and is now with Universal,

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Photo by Campbell Studio MRS. VERNON CASTLE is a dancing institution, primarily; and after that a photoplayer, a person- ality, and the wife of a celebrated aviator who resigned the dancing crown of the world to go to war. She is an American girl, and so far is chiefly known in screenland by her work in the serial, “Patria,”

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Photo by Naticnal Studio WILLIAM DAVIDSON was blown into Metro pictures by the war. He was an importer, in down- town New York, and when the submarines came out, his business went down. So he took a flyer at pictures, making his debut with the little Minter, in “Emmy of Stork’s Nest.” He is a New Yorker, twenty-eight years old.

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: + THE WORLD'S’ LEADING MOVING PICTURE PUBLICATION PHOTOPLAY | ~ aS MAGAZINE Chea

el Kathleen; Some Boy 4 . Saget ge ‘.} 4 « THEY: USED:TO CALL HER THE _ >. : a - : 4 é HE’S a tiny: little thing, an inch or so less than’ five feet perpendicularly and if she ever got -to:-weigh a, hundred pounds, she’d.* start ' reducing, -But-«for all _ this, rather, despite: this apparent déficiency, Kath-. leen’ Clifford is regarded’ as one of the clev- erest :personalitiéson- the stage. And now

she’s «"made. it unanimous — by “going.?2. Into . fer sh pictures Stagg photo 19 Colonel Clifford in

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iis. Photoplay Magazine ee it is, confide in me.” “Absolutely nothing,’ Kathleen. “Well then,’’. -re- marked Mr. Froh- man, “‘you surely - - ought to try for : the_ stage; you have nothing to unlearn.” Being pretty, petite. and __ piquant, Miss Clifford was. engaged then and -there to make her first appearance in “Top-O’ the World,” a Frohman musical production then in. prepara- Allies. ~She. brought tion. When the “‘part*? was back many trophies but | “ii | sent to -her, Miss’ Clifford she regards with greatest ™ Fe ; AMS » thought it a~ catalogue value! along scar on the / a _and destroyed -it. forefinger of her left hand. Another “was. sup- It came from a.gash made Wg plied and she -learned by a piece of shrapnel (% the lines, them. in ing with her digit, in answer to the ‘‘cues.” the wounded shoulder So it was ‘decided. to of a Canadian fighter. let -her romp - through Yes, Kathleen: is quite the show. at: her own some nervy little sweet will and. when body. the: opening came, hers Miss. Clifford, was .the biggest name whose. vaudeville at the top of, the list. fame nearly equals And ever since that her prominence cn the time, Miss Clifford’s legitimate stage, 1s.a na- career has been ‘one tive of Virginia; Char- triumph after another. lottesville, to be explicit She was starred in and she got her start.on “Little Dorrit? with the stage as. the result Digby Bell, when the of a conversation with newspapers of New York the late Charles hailed her as an actress Frohman. She was with a future. Then she went fifteen then and had into vaudeville. In this con- the good fortune to nection, «she first put on be at a dinner given Mr. trousers. Frohman. To him she con- Miss Clifford writes all her fided her ambition to go on own stuff, composes the stage. her songs and does “What can you do?” the words as well. asked Mr. Frohman. Her film debut was “Nothing” was the very recently made in a nonchalant reply. Stagg photo serial ‘‘T he ‘Twisted ~ “But surely you can do Kathleen may be the last wordin Thread” which comes out something—sing, dance or 07rect male attire, but we believe . regularly under Pathe . ; ; she wears the frills and furbelows © - ; play the piano—whatever of femininity with equal grace. sponsorship. And she really is en- titled to that ‘Colonel” title because she is the honorary colonel of the 180th Royal Canadian which has been shooting up things and getting shot up over in Flanders. -Miss Clif- ford is perhaps the only person not of the nobility who has ever been so honored. The little actress spent ten weeks as close. to the front in Belgium as Red Cross nurses are allowed to remain, during which period she gave aid to the wounded of the

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The Golden : $y 000,000 Triplets ’ Ginn. . 000.0090 |: | Ie eee: You could not assemble anywhere else.in the world three such youthful persons who are themselves earning these enormous incomes. No art, no trade, no invention has produced their financial like. 21

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WHEN STAR. MEETS STAR IN LOS ANGELES a2 eee Stagg ‘photo Mi: n, al { g, is an enthusiastic reception committee when his wife, Geraldine Farrar, arrives to begin her summer work at the Lasky studios.

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ee See eee eee On the Job With Bryant Washburn By FE. S. Jacobs UST. how far into his private life Mr. Bryant Washburn may carry his habits of punctuality, I do not know, but during those hours of the day when he is working at the business of being a moving picture star, he arrives and departs—appears or disap- pears—makes love or throttles villains with all the promptness and regularity of a R. R. time card—in fact the ‘“I'wentieth Century Limited” runs Bryant a pcor second. -L-know this because I followed him through a morn- ing at. the Essanay studios which began by my camping in front of a dressing room door ‘from which Mr. W ashburn was due to emerge at 9.59 to appear in a scene which was to be ‘“‘shot” at 10 o’clock. Promptly on the second Mr. Washburn emerged 2nd rushed toward the “set” which awaited him. When I arrived on the floor in the wake of my quarry, Director Harry Beaumont was diagraming the first shot to Cameraman Smith. It was to be: a full scene of a beautiful Louis XIV room, the 4pgye, anew por- camera shooting from a point perhaps. fif- trait of Mr. teen feet back. Little Hazel Daly, Mr. Washburn and, Washburn’s leading woman, attired girl- below, a snapshot : : C of the Washburn ishly in a dove-colored house gown, was —fqmily outside the hurrying across the huge studio to the § Essanay studio. scene, tucking in a last stray lock of her abundant raven-black hair. Photo by Lewis-Smith Bryant IV _ getting his first training as a “‘stunt’’ actor. oh eed Ae

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24 Photoplay Magazine With his camera stationed just so, his principals at hand and the myriad of mer- cury and arc lights showering their daz- zling brilliance upon the Set, Director Beaumont lost no time in “‘shocting” the scene. Perched on.top of a short step-lad- der beside the camera, he directed Miss Bryant Washburn in action in ‘‘Filling His Own Shoes.’’ Daly to the,center, upstage. Mr. Wash- burn, attired in cutaway, pearl gray striped trousers and silk hat, was to enter from the left. He had just inherited $2,000,000 and a Turkish harem you see, according to the scenario, and brought his treas- ures back to Paris from Constantinople. Director Beaumont, assistant director

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On the Job With Bryant Washburn 25 ? “Tt is your greeting with Ruth,” the director shouted to the star, ‘upon your return. Ready: shoot!’ and Mr. Washburn, his famous smile lighting up his classic features, flung open the door and rushed into the scene. “Ruth,” he cried—sure, they talk in the ; : Mr. Washburn “movies” just as they do on the stage—and in the title role of *‘Skinner’s Dress Suit.’’ Bainbridge and cameraman Smith can be seen at the right.

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ie | 3 Photoplay Magazine clutched the girl in his arms. I envied him, for little Miss Daly is one of the most “clutchable” girls I have ever seen. It lasted but a second or two—six feet, as they time such scenes in studio parlance. With a wave of his megaphone before the camera’s lens, the director halted the action. “A close-up now of Mr. Washburn,” he said, and placed his foot on the position for the camera, directly in front of his star. Both Mr. Washburn and Miss Daly held their positions, and in the single shot of the face of the star, his leading woman enacted her part with as much realism as though she, too, was before the camera. Then came a close-up of Ruth, who registered a return of the affection, and back to the full scene again. Rapidly the picture progressed. ‘There were but few rehearsals of scenes, as each. was “shot” in turn, and never a “retake,” or second trial. During the brief time I watched the work, more than 200 feet of film was ground out of its dusty yellow hue into negative of beauty and action. _the stage, I suppose. “It is the result of study," Mr. Wash- burn explained, as he gathered up his coat- tails and seated himself on an upturned nail keg beside me. No over-zealous stu- dent, cramming for a quiz, does-more real study than do I. : “T was informed by’a director from one. of the Coast studios with whom I formerly was associated for a brief time that | studied my ’scripts more closely than any actor he knew. z “Not only does it give me better oppor- tunity to comprehend my role and prepare myself for its correct dramatization, but also it saves time in production. It makes rehearsals and retakes unnecessary... lime means money in the pictures more, perhaps, than in any other industry.” = “Ever since I have been in motion. pic- tures,” he told me later, “I> have main-. - tained a record for never having “Kept a studio set waiting on my appearance. ‘ received my training in punctuality. from You know the conse- quences when an actor’s belated appearance (Continued on page I41) She Quit at the Altar ECENTLY Louise fF azen- da, Keystone come- dienne, eloped and 1} was nearly married. | Following is the way the incident was related by E. V. Durling in the New York Tele- graph: Louise Fazenda is a Keystone come- dienne, therefore it is needless to say , that she is brave. She has been married 84 times, that is, before the camera. . But these 84 marriages have not been the usual beautiful cinema affairs. No, they have been Keystone weddings. Instead of old shoes, they have assaulted the bride and groom with custard pies, the wedding march has been played by the Keystone band, the honeymoon machine has dashed into a muddy creek, the floor above the honeymoon flat has weakened and a woman weighing 400 pounds has Witzel Photo Louise Fazenda. alighted on the honeymoon breakfast table, the bridegroom has been a man eight feet in. height and six inches wide, or a man six inches in height and eight-feet wide. At the last moment his wife has come and _ torn the golden locks of the bride asunder. Such have been the 84 weddings of Louise Fazenda. Therefore is it any wonder that when she finally stepped before the altar for. her regular, honest-to-goodness wedding with Noel Mason Smith, director, that she weakened at the last moment and left the groom “waiting at the church?” There were no pies, there was no hose, there were no Keystone cops. Louise be- came panicky, she didn’t know what to do. She was afraid any moment she would do a Keystone fall, she was afraid Charlie Murray, the best man, would suddenly hit the minister over the head with a gavel, she kept turning expectantly to see the Keystone cops enter the place and drag her husband-to-be away. So without fur- ther ado Louise started for the door and never stopped until she reached home and mother. — |

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SixicY-ears > Ot@ eho 45 4RE ‘Phone Book In the circle: - —. me Below: Kittens |. Miss Kittens — % and a member | Reichert — the of her vast fam- dignified star. aly of dolls. her own name 1n the tele- phone directory. Kittens says - She likes the movies pretty well, although there are ‘sev- eral things she rates higher. Among these are comic sup- plements, paper dolls, rag dolls, sawdust dolls, indeed, "most any kind of doll,—and gum drops. Kittens herself rather thinks the gum drops should go first. Little Miss Reichert made her film debut with Wiliam Far- num, the Fox star, when Bill was with another company. She 3 ITTENS Reichert, the juvenile star of the William Fox forces, was born in Yonkers. ~Not so long ago an English- man, on hearing of the place, innocently asked, “What are Yonkers?” But that insinuation worries Kittens not in the least. To get back to facts. Kittens is -little Miss Reichert’s really truly, honest-to- goodness, name and Kittens revels in it. She was born on. March 3, 1911, and right now is the only. six- or so of the most successful Fox year-old in the United States who has photodramas. 27 -has been prominent in a dozen | ~

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“Girl Outside” — 4 now — | She’s: “Inside” — One “Bit’’ in one picture won her a place in the sun. Stagg Photo By E. V. During J GENTLEMAN of'phil- . FA osophic tendencies. and poetical inclinations “has said - something ‘about - the flowers that waste their sweet- ness on the desert “air, : and the gems of purest ~ ray serene the: dark unfath- omed caves of ocean bear: But’ that was written in a graveyard over a hun- dred years ago. In-these “* days, when a dive one and a motion picture Her name wasn’t flashed on the screen. Soa million people wanted to know it. Hence this article about Miss Florence Vidor.

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No director discover- ed her. General ~ Public saw her jist. “WON’T YOU HOLD MY HAND?” The scene in “‘A Tale of Two Cities’’ that made Miss Vidor famous. are born every minute, it is mighty hard for a flower-or gem to remain undiscovered. | D. W. Griffith discovered--Mary. Pick- ford, Mae Marsh, Blanche-Sweet, Henry Walthall and innumerable other screen celebrities; Mack Sennett first saw possi- bilities in Charles Chaplin, and’ Thos. H. Ince was more or less responsible for bring- ing W. S. Hart to the front. But if the little girl who walked to a cinema death with William Farnum in “A Tale of Two Cities,” with the touchingly simple appeal on her lips ‘“‘Won’t You Hold My Hand,” becomes -in the future a famous star the credit of discovery must go to our old friend General Public. So unimportant did the producer think Did you read Elizabeth Peltret’s re- markable article, “ The Girl Outside,” in the July PHOTOPLAY? Tf not, get it now. Miss Vidor is a splendid example of the writer’s theories on the chances of breaking into pictures. -

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30 | Photoplay Magazine the scene and its feminine portrayer that he neglected to have the girl’s name flashed on the screen. Yet so effective was her work, and her personality so magnetic, that following the initial presentation of “A Tale of Iwo Cities,” everyone was asking “Who was the girl in the guillotine cart with Farnum ?” Her name is Ilorence Vidor, and she is a Texas girl born in Houston in 1895. She has been playing in pictures in a spasmodic way for nearly two years but never has taken the work seriously. It seems she didn’t have the pet ambition of so many girls—that is to become a motion picture star. Her first experience was the result of a little lark. Several girl friends shared ‘with her the common and natural desire to see how they appeared to other people, and in order to find this out they offered their services as “atmosphere” in a _ ball- room scene which Rolin Sturgeon was doing at the Vitagraph Western Studios. Miss Vidor evidently attracted some at- tention at this time, for following this first experience she was selected for several parts in Vitagraph plays. She later went to the Morosco studio and it was at this latter place she first came under the notice of ‘ Cities,” Frank Lloyd, who subsequently directed “A Tale of ‘Two Cities.” From the Morosco studio she went to the Fox Company where she was in stock when selected by William -Farnum and Mr. Lloyd for the part in which she scored her, first success. “No one,’ says Miss Vidor, “seemed to see the possibilities in this little part except Mr. Farnum, and even he did not imagine it would stand out as it did in a picture of such length and magnitude. I suppose I might say I realized its value and saw in it my great and longed for opportunity, but I didn’t. I merely went through this scene as I have many others and I can assure you I was greatly surprised the day after the first showing when I received so many congratulations.” Following her. success in tA Tale of ‘T'wo Miss Vidor’ was given a much longer part in the next William Farnum picture ‘““American Methods,” and she more than justified this selection. This girls’ career will undoubtedly be followed . by her discoverer General Public with much interest, and she starts out with those most necessary assets, a face which photographs in a remarkable manner and an appealing screen personality. Galloping 37 Miles to See Mary FES you hurry around the corner of an evening to visit the neighborhood movie house, you think you’re an enthusiastic film fan. But what about the Nebraska folk who saddle a horse—or a trusty Ford—and gallop twenty-five miles or more to ‘see Charlie Chaplin? tants in a sparsely settled district but it draws an average attendance of 120, patrons coming Manager John J. Motl, village druggist and theater man- ager, boasts that. Mullen is “the smallest town in the United States to show Mary Pickford produc- tions.” Mullen, Neb., is a place of 105 inhabi- as far as 37 miles. Indeed, Mr. Motl’s most valued keepsake is a little letter from Mary her- self. How many miles do you go to see pictures? This interesting photo- graph was a voluntary contribu- tion; let’s have yours. 3

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The Brilliant Mrs. Fiske’s Brilliant Niece Emily Stevens: a portrait by White; in the circle, Miss Stevens in ‘‘The Wheel of the Law.’”’ "FEW. sh:ort years ago Emily Stevens was known as a niece of Mrs. Minnie Mad- dern Fiske. She was looked upon as promis- ing—and so on. She had the Fiske mannerisms, they said, the brittle staccato enunciation, the nervous movements, the sensitive eyes, the twitchings of the Fiske mouth. If she could forget her relationship, they said, well, perhaps— Miss Stevens reached genuine star- dom two years ago in “The Un- chastened Woman.”’ In the past year Miss Stevens did a number of Metro photoplays, among them “Destiny,” “Cora” and 2 ke Be Wager.”

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“Grease Paint ROW’ (Apologies to Charles E. Van Loan— Check Follows) ““Ham.’’ LL. ready,” shouts the director, hie in thunder are- Ham and Bud?” But Ham is donning his fierce mustache, Bud is trying to make a.bruise over one eye look as though it isn’t, and pretty Ethel Teare is donning a tomato-proof gown. Ham is a movie alias for Lloyd Vernon Hamilton who, before acquiring a subtle comedy In a World Gone Mad By Randolph Bartlett | SAW a new magazine on the news-stand. I was weary of stories of war, blood and revolution. The magazine had a cheerful, yellow cover and I _ bought it, even though it cost thirty-five cents, because its cover looked like a spring flower. But opening it at random the first sentence I saw was, “There was a salty pester of fever in the air.” And I threw the magazine into the next rubbish can. I was looking for a little joy. A man took the seat next to me on the top of the bus. The May sun was shining, and the man was round, and well-fed, and comfortable looking. I drew his attention to a wonderful bed of crimson tulips in the front yard of a beautiful home. He said the whole yard ought to be ploughed up and planted in potatoes, because we were going to have a famine pretty soon. I moved to another seat. I was looking for a little joy. A friend invited me to dine with him at his club. The last time I went with him we had a pheasant and vintage wine. When we sat down at the table he told me that the members had decided it was wrong to spend money on expensive foods at such a time, and so they had simplified the bill of: fare. I asked him if the members gave,.all they saved in this way to the Belgian Babies. He said he hadn’t asked, and ordered a pot roast. I said I guessed I wasn’t hungry, and left him to eat his pot roast. I was looking for a little joy. I wandered out and half aimlessly strolled into a movie show. It wasn’t a very good show, and the story of the picture was as old as the hills. But there was nothing in it about war, or famine, or revolution, and when it was ended everyone lived happily ever after. Even if it was as old as the hills, it was also as old as the laughter of children and lovers.’ At last I had found a little joy. —— 32

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““Bud.’’ mallet and his rare custard pie windup, used to play in “Monsieur Beaucaire,’ “The Pris- soner of Zenda” and kindred of the rougher dramas. went to Berkeley Military School in New York in order to be a soldier. And Albert Edward Duncan (Bud) But just at that time he reached four feet eleven and stopped growing. “Eye-Dropping”—The New Pastime _ “(\H, mamma, that man with the red hair has just asked that girl with the freckles to marry him!” The attention of everyone was divided between a little boy and a startled young couple at the other end of the car. “Hush, Algernon!’’ remonstrated child’s mother. “T seen her say she’d do it when he gets raised to twenty-five per,” continued the precocious Algernon, a student of the movies and lip reading. “Eye dropping” has become a popular pastime. It started when movie fans began to get a thrill at observing their idols mouth the words, ‘‘Stop,” ‘‘Don’t,” “Help,” In the old days the players faked any sort of repartee. | Those good old days have passed. Real lines are spoken in most of the studios these days. Indeed, scenarios now provide the necessary lines for the actors. Nothing is left to chance. At the same time, continual attendance at the movies has given the the fans a remarkable skill at lip reading. They can decipher almost anything a player re- marks within range of the camera. “eye dropper” has come to utilize his skill in public, particularly in the subway, elevated and street cars, where the speakers, in pitching their voices to be heard above the noise, mouth their words carefully. Ask anyone. Shopgirls say it’s a first giddy young The. rounder tries to attract the attention of two pretty girls. He flashes his near diamond ring, adjusts his necktie and_ smiles pleasantly. About this time Mazie turns to Tessie and says:. “Dearie, where did you get that blue silk? It’s a wonderful match. Who is that poor prune over there trying to S. O. S. uS? See him? As I was saying, that’s a wonderful match.” And ‘Tessie replies, ‘‘Isn’t it, dearie. I get him. If he doesn’t beat a retreat, I'll have the cop on the next corner interne him. Oh, I was to a grand dance with Tim last night—” _ The G.-Y. R., being an “eye dropper,” blushes and gets off the street car at the. next corner. The attention to realism in_ studio dialogue these days is, in many instances, amazing. ‘Bad Man” William S. Hart says that every bit of dialogue in his plays is carefully rehearsed before the camera begins grinding. “I insist that the spoken lines are the real thing, indeed, that they are as real as every detail of the setting. “Personally, I couldn’t get any feeling into. my work otherwise. I could never work up to a dramatic climax if I talked to my leading woman about the weather. I don’t see how an actor can ad lib anything at all in a scene and get away with it. The voice is a vital part of human expression— even in the movies.” 33

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WOULD -¥OU:-CALL~.THES: Az SHEEPLSH LOOK But perhaps Alma Rueben isn’t cuddling sheep. Perhaps she has been out getting goats. so, whose goats are they? 2

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Here’s a fascinating story about a theft that was, and a theft that might have been; of burg- ‘oo “It was done so easily,’’ said Miss Terry, noncha- lantly starting her break- Sast. ling for plunder, and burgling for a purpose. The Mysterious Miss » lerry By Jameson Fife FFICER TIMOTHY O’REGAN, on post at 7—d Street and River- side Drive; gazed dreamily at the night haze of lights along the Hudson. Spring was in the air and even a policeman feels its effects. | Perhaps that is why he failed to note the passing of a dilapidated cab. As the battered vehicle, 1895 model, passed a street lamp, its single occupant started and drew back into its shadows. But the flash of light caught the profile of a young woman. A piquant profile it was, one that Officer O’Regan would have deeply regretted missing—had he known. But who would look for romance in a broken down cab in 1917 A. D.? Charm- ing femininity travels in a Rolls-Royce these days. Within the cab, the young woman intently watched the oblivious police officer. She hurriedly pulled a veil down over her face as the cab drew up to the curb and stepped out. ‘‘Wait here,’’ she instructed the cabby, and walked rapidly through the sate of the high fence surrounding a fash- ionable residence. From the house came the sound of voices. 35

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36 ai ; 'Photoplay Magazine The young woman stepped back into the shadow of the hedge and half-crouched to avoid’ being seen. A basement door opened, the light from within almost reaching along the path to the feet of the mysterious visitor. ‘Two maids emerged, laughing and talking. A young man, who had _ been standing smoking a cigarette close beside the entrance, joined them. ‘They started down.the walk, as the butler opened the front door above. He came part way down the steps and called to the giggling maids. ‘““Remember, girls,” he admonished. ‘‘No more staying out till morning, even though the folks are away.” The girls laughingly promised and passed the figure lurking in the shadows case. She stepped to a wall safe, skillfully opened it and took out a jewel case and a roll of money. As she stood counting, a door slammed heavily downstairs. The girl started and hastily pulled down her veil. She slammed the suit case shut, hesi- tated for the fraction of a second and then ran into an adjoining bathroom. She closed the door quickly, crossed the floor and, opening a door on the opposite side, ‘ disappeared into another room. Up the stairs hurried the breathless but- ler. ‘Turning into the street a moment before, he had noticed the flash of light in the upstairs bedroom. - Astonished, he had hurried back. Now upon reaching the upper hall, he paused and braced himself. of the hedge. The butler looked at his watch, slow- ly climbed the steps and entered the house. ‘The mysterious young woman stepped from the shadows. But only for a second. The upper door opened a second time and the in- truder had just time to dodge back into the shad- ows as the butler, now “THE MYSTERIOUS MISS hen he entered with as- TERRY” sumed boldness. ARRATED by permission, The room, still lighted, from The Famous Piayers’ Was empty, of course. photodrama of the same name, ‘The butler’s horrified eye Has rep ses produced with the poted the gowns tossed Miss Mavis Terry. Billie Burke about, the rifled dressing Gordon True...Thomas Meighan table and the wall safe Freddie Bollen..... Walter Hiers still open. ‘‘Bli’ me! Thieves,” exclaimed the John Quig......Gerald O. Smith Mr. Pennyquick et on: ew aie whe Ses butler, looking considera- bly shaken. eet. canes George A. Wright Clara Pennyquick..Bessie Learn ‘wearing his hat, descend- ed the steps. The girl leaned breathlessly against the hedge as he passed by. Finally she gave a little sigh of relief, stepped once more from her hiding place and ran up the steps. Producing a latchkey, she quickly opened the door and entered the hall. She gazed about the entrance for a moment, listened intently and then as- cended the steps. | Reaching the second floor, the young woman felt her way along the wall and entered a bedroom. ‘There was no hesita- tion in her movements. She flashed on an electric light, gazed about the room for a second and, turning to a wardrobe, secured a suit case. She tossed this on the bed, selected three gowns from hangers, and then picked out a number of things from the dressing table. The young woman pushed back her veil as she worked. Her face was quite un- burglar-esque. A retrousse nose, charming lips, willful strands of reddish golden hair —these were not the indications of the usual crook. A smile flashed across her lips as she tossed a monogrammed mirror into the suit He started a cautious search of the room. But he searched too slowly. A trim figure, carrying a suit case, glided rapidly along the hall, down the stairs and out the front door, taking good care to close it softly. A moment later she reached the cab and dropped the suit case inside. She climbed in and the ramshackle vehicle passed Officer O’Regan for the second: time. And for a second time he allowed romance— and possibly promotion for astuteness in criminal @etection—to pass him by. Back in the silent residence, the agitated butler was trying to get police headquar- ters. ‘‘Let me ’ave the police, miss,” he was shouting, his usual poise melted into thin air. We've been robbed—”’ x ~ “The police! Another street corner. Once again the cab. Once again the occupant alighted. She paid the cabman and started along the sidewalk with her suit case. | As the cabby disappeared, the girl re- traced her steps and turned a corner. A> few steps brought her to a brownstone front, one house of a long row boasting a

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' Miss Terry’s refractory golden hair. The Mysterious Miss Terry : 37 highly ornamental sign bearing this magic word, “Boarding.” The girl ran up the steps and entered. Just inside the door she met Mrs. Han- nah Jenkins, the worthy landlady of the establishment, who had been glancing over the mail on a small vestibule table. The young woman spoke to her pleasantly and started upstairs. “I hate to mention this to you,” said Mrs. Jenkins, ‘but you know your board is a day overdue, Miss Terry.” “Oh, yes,” smiled the mysterious Miss Terry. - “I received my remittance today, so I'll settle this evening.” The landlady’s frigidness melted. Miss Terry turned and ascended the steps with her suit case. As she turned on the upper landing, she caught a glimpse of Mrs. Jenkins gazing after her, puzzled and not a little doubtful. Miss Terry smiled as she entered her small bedroom. The dining room of the Maison Jenkins was considerably agitated next morning in discussing the daring and spectacular rob- bery of the fashionable Wentworth resi- dence, just off Riverside Drive. ‘Some robbery,” the hefty Freddie Bollen, salesman at the Pennyquick Hard- ware Store, was remarking. “You said it,” replied Jack Quig, des- tined to preside half an hour later at the silk counter of the Wanacooper depart- ment store. But the thoughts of Messrs. Bollen and Quig were not centered in the theft. They revolved about a vacant place at the foot of the table. Nor were these two gentle- men the only persons absorbed in the empty chair. Gordon True, a handsome young writer interested in socialism, started expectantly every time a person entered the room. At last his vigil -was rewarded. Miss Terry appeared. She was a _ charming figure in smart shirt waist and a piquantly short skirt. Quig and True jumped = to their feet to welcome the truant, but the fat Bollen caught her attention first. © Bollen leaned over impressively close to “T’ve got that position for you as cashier at the store,’ he whispered, ‘‘and you’re to start this morning.” The young woman thanked him grate- fully and then slipped into her place at _ the table. Bollen dropped into his chair, disdaining the glares of True and Quig. Further down the Henry Smith turned to his wife and re- marked, “A right smart young girl that Miss Terry.” ‘Then he ventured the query, ‘Did you notice her trim little boots, my dear ?”’ Mr. Smith’s better half looked at Miss Terry. with a frigid expression. | ‘‘Don’t let me hear you making any such fool re- marks again, Henry, unless you want us to move away from here after eight years of quietness.” “Yes, my dear,’ hurriedly vouchsafed Mr. Smith. But a few seconds later, when Mrs. Smith was talking to the waitress, he ventured a smile to Miss Terry. ‘Another house on the Drive robbed last night,” said True to the young woman. Miss Terry looked interested at once and True showed her his newspaper. Miss Terry glanced over the article and smiled. “What do you see humorous in a rob- bery?” asked ‘True in surprise. “It was done so easily,’”’ said the young woman, nonchalantly starting her breakfast. After breakfast, Bollen waited to escort Miss Terry to his place of employment, much to the discomfiture of Quig and True. Once at the store it required but a moment or two of introduction and ques- tioning before the young woman was in- ) ~stalled within the cashier’s wire enclosure. Once there she glanced about the store. Then she noticed, for the ‘first time, a young woman clerk. Her womanly intui- tion told her in a second that this girl was in love with the fat young Bollen. But Bollen, it was clear, was not responding to her love. ‘“Thanks, Clara,” was the reward he gave the girl when she put a little pansy in his buttonhole. ‘‘Poor Clara,” sighed Miss Terry, opening her cash entry books. The mysterious Miss Terry would have added ‘‘Poor Gordon True” had she been able to see the young writer’s bedroom back at Mrs. Jenkins’ boarding house. True was sitting at a table littered sea papers and socialistic books. The young chap seemed preoccupied. He gazed into space and at intervals unconsciously scrib- bled on a pad, ‘‘Mavis Terry.” The sum- mer breeze from an open window blew a sheet or two of his novel, “The Idle Rich.” from the table now and then, but he hardly noticed it. Suddenly, however, he started to his feet and gathered up the bits of table the elderly ¢

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Mavis Terry seemed to find it difficult, to sup- press a smile, but she wrapped a small iron into an amazingly awk- ward bundle and handed it to True. © manuscript as if a happy thought had occurred to him. “What do they have at a hardware store that could be used as a paperweight?” he asked himself. A moment later he had seized his hat and was leaping down the Jenkins stairway, three steps at a time. Reaching the Pennyquick Hardware Store, Mr. True entered boldly, although he made a mental note that his heart was beating with considerably expectancy. Once within he came face to face with Bollen. Nodding coldly, he passed by and hurried to the cashier’s desk. ‘ Photoplay Magazine Mavis Terry looked a bit surprised but she spoke pleasantly. ‘‘Have you—a—any —a flat iron?’ asked True. The pretty cashier slipped from her stool and stepped to another counter. “May I ask for what kind of iron- ing it is to be used?” she inquired. ‘“For—a—er—paper weight. [I—ah— always use one for a paper weight.” Mavis Terry gave him a quick glance and seemed to find it just a little difficult

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The Mysterious Miss Terry 39 to suppress a smile. But she wrapped up a small iron into an amazingly awkward bundle and handed it to True. young writer was drawing his wallet from a pocket, he started at seeing Quig enter the store.: The department store clerk, it may be told, had obtained special permis- sion to go out for a few moments to buy anew pair of scissors. His own had mys- _teriously disappeared. Quig breezed up to True, nodded and turned pleasantly to Mavis. “I’d like a pair of scissors—lost mine this morning,” he said. True walked coldly away. From a nearby counter, Bollen glared witheringly -at the would-be-purchaser of a pair of SCiSSOrs. Mavis smiled. She reached across the counter and removed a pair of scissors at that moment protruding just a bit from Quig’s vest pocket—the alleged missing pair. She. quickly wrapped up Quig’s own As the~ -_ scissors and handed them back. this pair is just the one you want, laughed. : Quig looked sheepish. As he was trying to think of something to say, Bollen walked up to the counter. “If you are ready to go, Miss Terry, I'll show you where that little lunchroom is,’ he said with an = in- timacy assumed for the moment to dazzle the discomfited Quig. “In a moment, Mr. Bollen,” said Mavis. “Goodbye, Mr. Quig.” And she hurried into the back of the store to get her hat. “Can I do anything for you, Quig,’’ said Bollen unpleasantly. Quig hastily replied in the negative and disappeared. On leaving the store, Mavis and Bollen passed Clara. Mavis noticed the look of silent pain in the young clerk’s eyes. “I'll have to be first aid to Cupid,” she remarked to herself. . Weeks passed. ‘True, Bollen, Quig and the charming Mavis became good pals. They occasionally celebrated on a summer night with an ice cream party. ‘The re- freshments were always smuggled into the boarding house to avoid the watchful Jenkins eye. Mrs. Jenkins did not permit such ‘‘goings on.”’ One particularly warm June night was selected for an ice cream soiree. The four revelers gathered in True’s room. As usual, the only difficulties of the evening arose over who would venture into Mrs. Jenkins pantry to appropriate the dishes. Not that the revelers wholly feared the landlady’s anger. No one wanted to leave a rival with the fascinating Mavis. This time, however, it fell to Quig and Bollen to forin the dish expedition, which, of course, left True to aid Mavis. They cleared the table silently. Mavis picked up True’s little flatiron paper weight with a smile. Then their eyes met. Had Quig and Bollen caught that glance their feelings would have dropped to zero. It was quite plain that love was entering the heart of the mysterious Miss Terry True seized Mavis’s hand. “You have helped me so much with my book,” he said fervently. I can never thank you enough.” Suddenly a terrific crash came from down stairs. I1] had befallen the Quig- Bollen expedition. Then the shrill voice of Mrs. Jenkins was heard. Quig burst breathessly upon the startled True and Mavis. ‘‘T’m sure ”” she )

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40 ~ Photoplay Magazine “She’s laying out poor Bollen for fair,” he whispered. A door slammed below and Bollen, car- rying the remains of a teacup, appeared, pallid and shaky. ‘They cheered up the unhappy Bollen, made the best of the single cup and talked of many things. True read from his manuscript. “Do you know,” said Mavis, ‘no one thing, such as wealth, any certain occupation, or ~ achievement, can make anyone happy.” “Yes, you’ve got me right, I guess,”’ she replied, holding out her wrists for the handcuffs. “Oh, I don’t know,” interrupted Quig. “I'd be perfectly happy if I could go into swell society just to see the people.” The fat Bollen spoke up. “If I could be a cowboy,” he sighed, “I’d never care what else happened.” : True looked into Mavis’s blue eyes. “If my book was published perhaps I'd never ask for another thing. But Mavis shook her head at them all. 2?

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The Mysterious Miss Terry 41 A few days later, on a Sunday afternoon, Quig and Bollen took Mavis for a bus ride. True was absent, but Mavis was happier than if he had gone. Snuggled within the pink ribbons of her waist was a note which read: “My Dear Mavis: “Have decided to stay in and write this afternoon.. You know how Id love to spend the time with you, but I have such a great motive urging me on. I just must succeed. Will see you at dinner. Tyagi ae _ “Ever yours, “GorDON TRUE.” Up on the Fifth Avenue bus, Bollen oc- cupied: a. seat all by himself. Mavis and Quig sat directly behind. Needless to say, Bollen observed little of the passing avenue. “Anyone that writes like ‘True is all the- ory,’ he was-confiding to Mavis. “No good in.an emergency. ‘True wouldn't do a thing ina scrap.” But Mavis quickly came to the writer’s defense.. ‘You misjudge Mr. ‘l'rue,” she replied. . ‘‘Let’s put it to the test. Vil have him -over-to the store with me Thursday night—and..you. two break in and try to rob the safe. I'll fix it so that you can get in.’ Both Quig and Bollen fell in enthusi- astically with the hoax. They longed to play the hero for Mavis and possibly knock True from. his pedestal. As they talked and laughed they did not notice the occu- pant of the seat just behind. Seemingly this gentleman, who wore his derby at a rakish tilt,.overheard nothing. But “Bat” O’Brien, for that was his name in polite police circles, was listening care- fully and thinking rapidly. “Bat” usually traveled by bus.- It saved him from the annoyance of being questioned by inquisi- tive coppers and plain clothes men. ‘The guardians of the law confined their atten- tions almost entirely to. subway, elevated and surface cars. When Mavis and her admirers descended from the bus, ‘Bat’ dropped off behind them. Later on he entered Flannagan’s Third Avenue Cafe. He-singled out a pal among the loungers who hailed him. The two lolled nonchalantly against the. T hursday ~ bar. ‘Got anything on for night ?2’.questioned ‘‘Bat” genially. The other shook his bullet shaped head. ‘Meet me here at 8 o'clock; we’re going to- clean up good,” confided the crook. “It’s a shame to take the money.” Thursday evening camé quickly. Mavis ‘had asked ‘True to accompany her to the hardware stcre while she worked on her accounts. In the deserted store the young woman took her place at the cashier’s desk, not, however, until she had, unknown to True, unlocked a rear window to facilitate the make-believe holdup. ‘True stood be- side Mavis, quite satisfied with the pleasant task of watching her even if he must remain silent. “Remember that I must work on the books,” she had admcnished when he tried to take her hand. Back at the Jenkins baseline: house Quig and Bollen were making ready for their part in the hoax. Now and then the fat Bollen rehearsed ‘‘Hands up!” in his ° fiercest manner, while Quig would almost collapse with laughter. Finally they pre- pared their old clothes and masks satis- factorily, wrapped the crook attire in a package and started out. But already two gentlemen, attired in far more realistic old clothing and masks, were standing in the dark alley just back of the hardware establishment. No ama- teur crooks, indeed, for one of them ex- amined his revolver with a calculating eye. Then they slipped the window open noise- lessly and “‘Bat’’ O’Brien stepped inside. Engrossed in watching the movements of Mavis’s lips as she counted column after column of figures, True did not at. first hear the movements in the back of. the store. But suddenly he motioned Mavis to keep still and tiptoed toward the rear of the place. Mavis laughed quietly and called to True that she had heard no noise. ‘True returned to her side half doubtfully just as a masked man burst into the room. The burglar attempted to seize the surprised writer, but quickly found he had his hands full. Mavis leaned against the cashier’s pee laughing heartily in the belief that Quig and Bollen were destined to get the worst of their hoax. True fought strenuously and managed to get a strong nee upon the intruder. The other burglar pointed his revolver and fired. True staggered and fell. Mavis for the first time realized that some-

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ey ee ete : Photoplay Magazine thing was wrong. She leaped towards the gunman and tore the mask from his face. The man, no other than ‘Bat’ O’Brien, cursed and tried to hit her with his gun. Mavis screamed. “Bat” paused for a second and, fearing the noise had attracted the attention of the police, ran towards the back of the store, followed by his pal. The two crooks leaped through the window and disappeared in the darkness of the alley. Back in the store Mavis felt. that she must faint. Only the sight of True, lying upon the floor, a spot of crimson upon his shirt, kept her from falling. She dropped to her knees by his side and lifted his head. ‘Then with her little lace handkerchief she tried to stop the flow of blood. Crashes reverberated through the de- ‘serted store. The street lights revealed two patrolmen with drawn revolvers ham- mering at the front door. Mavis ran to the door and opened it. Incoherently and almost hysterically she tried to. tell the officers of the hoax and its results. At that moment a crash came from the back of the store. Quig and _ Bollen, muffled, masked and brandishing revolvers, burst into the room and paused -in amaze- nent. Within a second, the patrolmen had made them prisoners. One of the officers jerked the masks from their faces. ‘Here are the two birds, miss,” said the patrolman. ‘“They’re new at the game all right.” : ‘Miss Terry,” begged the fat Bollen, “tell them all about it.” Then seeing the half-unconscious ‘rue for the first time he exclaimed, “Great Scott! What’s hap- pened ?” “Poor stuff—poor stuff, * comatehted the policeman, giving Bollen an emphatic . shake. | “Have a heart,” pleaded Quig. ‘Give me a chance to-tell you, if I get thrown in jail I’ll lose my job at Wanacooper’s.” “These boys didn’t do it,” explained Mavis. “Honestly, two real burglars came from somewhere, I don’t know how.” It took some time to explain things to the officers. Later a search of the alley revealed the mask Mavi is had torn from ‘“Bat’s” face. True was removed in a taxi Jenkins boarding house after a doctor had examined him. The wound was painful but not serious. In her own room once more, Mavis opened the jewel case she had taken private office of D. F. to the. from the Wadsworth residence. She held — up the diamonds and pearls and considered the play of the electric light upon the’ — stones. Then she exclaimed, “I'll do it!” Next morning she crept down into the — lower hall-and telephoned, rapidly and im-_ periously. Then she hurried upstairs to True’s bedroom, quietly secured the manu- script of his novel and hurriedly left the — boarding house. Two blocks away she ap- proached an expensive limousine which was drawn up to the curb. A liveried footman hastily stepped to the walk at her approach and held the door open w hile she stepped inside. “Drive to 16 Wall Street,’ were her instructions. Reaching the downtown destination, Mavis emerged from the car. She was wearing a different hat and expensive furs. The footman touched his hat but looked puzzled. As she disappeared in the office building, he glanced up to the driver. ‘Damned queer, that,” he said under his breath. Mavis was - quickly ushered into the Howland, president of a big corporation and a financial mag- nate of importance on the street. Mr. How- land had started with surprise on receiving her card and the. look of amazement was still on his face when-she entered. Springing to his. feet,. he exclaimed, “Well, Miss Wentworth, this is a surprise. I understood you were cruising in the Gulf of Mexico with the MacFarlands.” Mavis smiled and° shook her head. “No,” she answered, ‘I’ve been -robbing safes, having men shot, and the New York police’ are now hunting me for robbing my own house.” “What!” exclaunele Mr. Howland, as he dropped into a chair dumfounded. In a few words Mavis Wentworth—alias Terry—outlined her adventures. ‘You see, society bored me to death, so I decided to see the other side of life. But auntie mustn’t know yet. At the boarding house I am: known as Miss Terry.” “You have a most interesting way of spending your millions,’ chuckled . Mr. Howland, “board and room at seven dol- lars a week and working in a hardware store.” “That’s just what I wanted to talk to you about,” laughed Mavis. “To prove to ~ these three boys that- money does not make »

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happiness, 1 wish you to be a dead friend of Mr. Quig’s father, who has left him a thousand dollars; a publisher’ who is wild over Mr. True’s unfinished book; and a business man whose wife has lost her jewels, for which you will give Mr. Bollen eight hundred dollars on his finding them.” Mr. Howland finally consented to be the fairy godfather of the Jenkins boarding house. “Outside of being dead, losing jewels I never had, and buying books that aren't written, I’m a very happy man.” “By. the © way,’’ continued Mavis, 2 “When you go to _— your private estate you will need Mr. True for your sec- eS retary at a large » salary.” Mr. Howland looked at the young woman with a considering eye. = Oh, | will? This ' fellow ‘True seems quite a fortunate—”’ “He’s woncler- Saul,’ broke in: = Mavis. ‘He has - brown hair and © eyes that thrill you.” = “Essential _ qualifications for- a private secretary,” ‘laughed Howland. ‘However I’ll carry - out your instructions to the letter.” Mavis returned in the limousine to a “@street near the boarding house. When _ she emerged from the car she was dressed ' as when she first entered it. The footman ' touched his hat and the car was driven - away. _ Mavis hastened to True’s room. ‘Look, “behold! A thousand dollar advance on “your book—the publisher thinks it is won- derful,” she exclaimed, waving a check. xg The Mysterious Miss Terry 43 Later the same day Bollen,, while clear- ing off his counter at the Pennyquick hard:* ware store, discovered a jewel case, care- fully slipped under a pile of goods by Mavis. Next day he found an advertise- ment in a newspaper offering $800.00, no questions asked, for the return of the lost jewels. At the address, 16 Wall street, one Howland gladly paid eight crisp hundre dollar bills for the return of his wife’s lost jewels. At practically the same moment Quig opened a letter and was dumfounded to. “It was brave of you, dear,’’ she whis- pered, ‘‘and—TI love you for it.’’ find an imposing looking legal paper and a check within. Leaping up the stairs, two: at a time, Quig broke in upon True and Mavis. 7 “T’ve got it,” he exclaimed breathlessly. “A dead friend of father’s has left me a thousand dollars.” “Now, Mr. Quig,” said Mavis, ‘you can buy fine clothes and go into society.” “T’d be the happiest man in the world ‘f I could only meet a real society lady like —like—Mavis Wentworth, the rage of last season.”’ 3 |

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44 Photoplay Pinger: Lee ee “Maybe you have met her and didn’t know,” laughed Mavis. “Oh, no,” replied Quig. ‘You always know real society folk when you meet them —they’re so different from us.” “I’m glad you're not a society girl,” said True to Mavis, “just one of the real women of the earth.” Quig had hardly departed when Bollen burst into the room. “The strangest thing has happened,” he exclaimed. ‘‘She—she said yes—I’m going to be married.” “You're not going to be a cowboy?” asked Mavis. “No, why do you know Clara loved me all the time. I’m not going West,” said Bollen. “My happiness was right there in that store all the time and I didn’t know it. And, say, do you know that I got eight hun- dred dollars reward for finding a woman’s jewels. Some day! Some day! Im going to find out how to buy a house with those eight hundred bones.” And away dashed Bollen. | True moved restlessly in his chair. He tossed the thousand dollar check over upon his writing table. “I’m going to start right in upon my story now,” he told Mavis. The young woman paused in the door- way. ‘Money isn’t everything after all,” she said, half to herself. Several weeks later Mavis went to visit True, now a secretary at Howland’s country house. He took her through the estate. “It must be wonderful to be idle and rich,” sighed Mavis, feigning’ wonder at the things she saw. es “Tdle—rich— Mr. Howland does: more work in twenty-four hours tham a day laborer does in 124.” At which Mavis laughed strangely. “Tf we work hard and save,” she whis- pered, ‘Some day we might have a little home in the country.” ‘True smiled and tenderly kissed her hand. Mavis returned to the city. A business errand brought True on a Tater train. Meanwhile the police, still working on the robbery of the Wentworth home, had traced No Added Film Tax Congress failed to pass the proposed clause taxing’ motion picture films that was a part of the war revenue bill. Producers declared that passage of the tax would have meant the. closing of hundreds of motion picture theaters. I guess,”’ . pered, their clue to the ‘Tenbias boating arias A search of Mavis’ room had revealed the sue posedly stolen things. ‘Mavis was arrested as she “entbfed' the boarding house. Realizing that the mas- — querade had reached an end, she assumed an air of guilt. “Yes, -you’ve’ got me right, © she replied, holding out nee hands _ for the detectives’ handcuffs. “We'll take her over to the Wentwortha house and have these things she’s wearing — identified before locking her up,” said one of the sleuths. — a So Mavis was forcibly taken bonis “We've got the burglar,” the chief de- tective told Mrs. ey, Miss Wentworth’s aunt. “I'd like to see this terrible creature,” : she remarked. The detectives led Mavis | before her. See / Mrs. Avery started. ‘‘Why,. she’s my : niece, Mavis Wentworth!” she exclaimed. “Remove those handcuffs at once.’ True meanwhile had stopped at thea boarding house. . ‘Phe place was in a whirl of excitement over the arrest: Mrs. Jen- — kins told the young writer that Mavis had been taken to the .Wentworth home in order that the stolen property might be identified ‘Tt isn’t trie; they. hain ‘'t take -her,” True fairly shouted. Jumping into a taxi, he raced to the Wentworth residence: There he dashed past | ‘the startled butler and burst into the room. | The astonished detectives were. at. ‘the: moment listening to Mavis Wentworth’s story of her escapade. True. pushed the detectives aside. “She didn’t steal them,’’ he announced. “T’m—I’m the thief ! Don't believe her, she’s trying to shield me.” ‘Everyone turned in amazement and then a shout of laughter rang out. ‘True fell into a chair; his face in his hands. But Mavis dropped upon her knees beside him and put her arms about his shoulders. . “Tt was brave of you, dear,’ she whis- ‘“‘and—and—lI love you for it.” The Prize Sniall Tootsies The smallest feet in the films: are said: to belong to two of the » ‘David Horsley: stars. Cinite: Alexander, the” comedienne: seen with George Ovey, wears a No. 13 child’s size shoe, and Jean Crosby, Crane Wilbur’s leading lady, wears a No. 1.

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The O’Brien of ~~ Movieland —. OULD you rather be a doctor in a Rocky Mountain mining town or an actor playing opposite Norma Talmadge? Don’t all answer at once. What? We rather thought you'd say that. Eugene O’Brien was born in Colorado and studied medicine. But Gene soon decided to throw his prescription pad away and seek the white way. His stage debut was made in a vaudeville sketch and later he appeared with | ; Por e.n°¢ Bentley. Then Elsie Janis, still in her early ’teens, discovered him and offered a role in “The Little Duchess.” And following this his rise on the legitimate stage was rapid. He first appeared in pictures with the World Film in “The- Moonstone.”” Engagements with Clara Kimball Young, Olga Petrova and Edna Mayo followed, and then a brief return to the stage. Recently Mr. O’Brien came back to screenland to play opposite Norma Talmadge in “Poppy.” If you ask Eugene what he thinks of pictures, he responds, ‘“The mistake I made was in not entering years ago.” Sai eat anal pal 15 Cd Ae with Norma Talmadge in scenes Eugene O’Brien from ‘‘Poppy.”’ 45 Shee

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~ Castile, ‘Leon and -} Tony DESTINY, ENTRUSTED WITH THE IMMORTAL TRADITION OF SPAIN, FOUND THE FIRST TWO NAMES OLD STUFF—AND CRE- ATED A NEW AND LIVELIER IN- TEREST IN ANTONIO MORENO By Julian Johnson

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HERE are three historic tradi- tions that can’t be killed: The glory of Greece ; The grandeur of Rome; ‘The glitter of Spain. True, Castile and Leon are mighty names in history,. but what care the debutantes for history? And it is the debutante who, inher supreme imsouciance, rules what part of the world isn’t fighting today ’e make magazines for Photo by Hartsook és Above: a recent portrait of Mr. Moreno—at the left in the character which he por- trayed in “Dust of Egypt’’ and in the center he is shown in his racing car. 47

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48 her, and shoot advertise- ments at her, and love her, and hate her, and build homes for. her, and wreck homes over her, and can’t | forget her whichever way we go or whatever we do. So Destiny—-which, as we have indicated, is the providence caring for children, fools, drunken men and the traditions of Greece, Rome and Spain —saw that Castile and Leon, glorious as_ they were, were not enough and added ‘Tony. . If you must have the complete name: Senor Antonio Garrido Monte- guado Moreno. Having done this, Destiny knew full well that no damsel need know any more of history than a chorus girl knows of Herbert Spencer to. form a perfectly overwhelming attachment for Spain. I’ve seen a good many ‘As a dare-devil hero Tony Photoplay Magazine ? Spaniards in my time— brought up with ’em, in fact—but I beheld no cavaliers until I met Tony. The Spaniards I’ve seen: Sallow, fat or cadaverous, listless or ugly, were more like livery stable nobil- ity than worthy descen- dants of PhNip and Isabella. Some one once wrote of Caruso that his voice was a magic looking- glass: that through it were marching the legions of Caesar and the volup- tuous glories of Antony; the defeat of Hannibal and the grandeur of the Augustan age. Emma Calve said of herself: “I am the bloom of the century-plant. A hundred years my peasant forefathers have struggled and sacrificed and died in obscurity that I might be wonderful.” After. which crashing not only acts but looks the part.

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OL —— Sie _ overture I find it difficult to say just what _ I want to say about Tony Moreno. You _ probably think I’m speaking a piece or _ presiding as a toastmaster at Tony’s seventy-sixth birthday or something. Asa matter of simple, comparative state- - ment, Antonio Moreno is a perfect embodi- ment of every external attribute that was _ S§pain’s in its most effulgent day. - Born of _ gentle parents he reflects gentility un-. * consciously. Lithe, active, of medium height, statuesque in figure, of that perfect olive complexion which is a Spanish tradi- - tion and is so seldom seen on the faces of _ Spaniards, crisp and clean of speech, finely _ educated, he is a more traditional Spanish _ nobleman than any Hapsburg that lives. In fact, he would be very nifty in a king’s job _ of opening things, and making dedications, and pinning little ribbons on the soldiers, _ but nature cut him out for a bigger task: he _ has the inconceivably onerous duty of keep- _ ing the American debutante interested in _ Spain—she who thinks that Castile is a _ soap, and Leon a dog! _ A. G. M. Moreno was born in Madrid, _ twenty- nine years ago come next fall. © “And of Madrid,” he says, “I don’t live near Gibraltar. ‘The English soldiers were there, and although I was only a little nglish language, and tried to learn it, hough I didn’t make very much progress. t there I begait to love the sea. We had ry little rain, and, all day the sun shone wn. dazzingly on the blue water of the diterranean, while beyond the straits lay aysterious yellow continent ; Africa. “*“My principal interest in. coming to merica was a,study of the English “lan- guage. I landed in New York in the latter “part of 1902.. First I attended a school nt a year inv the New York public ™~ Biaxpion, Mass. “He didn’t know what was going to be.. His mother devoutly N ee ampton, and owing to a piece calling "remember very much, because we went to- 4 boy, I became intensely interested in the - ( nducted by Catholic Sisters, and then I ee prise to bea pres aia fi thong a hoe came a summer stock company to Castile; Leon and Tony : for an overwhelming cast, the limited roster of organization was exhausted, and still the leading man’s role was waited. Moreno, who had acted in some college productions, got the chance to fill it, just as a lark. But in the audience which saw him play was an official of the Shubert’ theatrical company of New York, on vacation. This man carried the news of a find back to the metropolis, and presently Moreno was in Mrs. Leslie Carter’s company, playing a part in “Du Barry.” He then played in ‘Thais,” with Constance Collier and Tyrone Power. Wilton Lackaye’s production, ‘The. Right to Happiness,” gave him further opportunity. ; | He played in vaudeville with Beatrice Ingraham. Two productions by that sterling actor, William Hawtrey, gave him poise, experi- ence, invaluable training. He hung the scalp of one musical comedy upon his belt: ‘The Man- From Cook’s.” - He himself was a stock star, with “The Manhattan Players.” He created a role in the New York pro- duction of Chapin’s farce, ‘“‘C. O. D.,” in the late autumn of 1912. Another role in that play was brought into being by Charlie eres $6 It is generally suipposed that his picture service has been confined to Vitagraph. As a matter of fact, Vitagraph made him a picture “celebrity ; so much: so that almost everyone has forgotten that he was a star of the old Rex company. In_his first photoplay he supported Marion Leonard, and the title of the piece was: “The Voice - of Millions,” He went to the Vitagraph stock company in 1914, and played conspicuous leading roles in pieces like “The Island of Regen- eration,” “Dust of Egypt,” ‘A Price for Folly,” “Kennedy Square,” and “Aladdin From Broadway.’ . Now, he has signed with Pathe, and will be Mrs. Castles’ leading man in her new plays. We were sitting at a heavy brown. table in the merry though monastic grill of The Lambs, the New York club of: actors and writers which is probably the most ibys trious association of its kind in ies world. “Ever been in love?” I asked. Tony’s smile faded a bit, and - nodded, gravely.

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- 50 Photoplay Magazine “Ever been married 2?” “Not on your life!” “Were you hard hit?” “No!” And he laughed in a way that told me the waters of forgetfulness had washed any burning memory away. ‘Well, are you going to be married?” “T don’t want to say ‘yes,’ and I don’t want to say ‘no.’ Probably I shall be. I think I ought to marry. I think anyone ought to marry, eventually. ‘To me there is only one thing more wretched then an old maid: an old man who has done nothing for the world’s future and nothing for its present, except to pamper himself and look after his own comfort. An old person wno has lived always for himself or herself must have a lot of very cold memories, seems to me. I haven’t married, because I want to bring a wife into an established career. I think a wife should be the crown of a career, and not put precariously on a career’s beginning. I know many a man says he ‘owes all his success to his wife,’ and all that. But not me. I’m going to make my place, and then—well, I haven't picked her out yet, so if you’ve any can- cidates:. 7. 2 1" A Cynic’s Star: A Ones body. Producer: Any man who can ‘be induced to produce money. Extra People: Any crowd, the individual members of which are nothing extra. Film: A transparent material ; in view of the fact that it may be burned readily, and in so many cases should be, it is surprising: how seldom it is. Plot: More transparent material. Character Actor: A man who can make himself look unlike a human being but is not ashamed of it. Comedy: A picture in which all the actors ~ laugh. Tragedy: A picture in which the audience '- wishes all the actors had died before they “began. Scenario: A story told ,in sentences so short that they can be understood by a director. ‘How about you and Edith Storey?” “Wasn’t that singular!’ Moreno’s inter- est was racing at fever heat... .‘‘By jingo, I think I would have married her-if we had stayed together any longer! ~ Everybody dinned this thing into our ears, week in and _ week out, after hours and in hours. We got hypnotised by it. It had no foundation other than we were a pair of real pals, and that she was the best fellow to work with I ever saw among women. God, how I — liked that girl! And she liked me, I think! — At least I hope she did... You know the — rarest thing in the world is a real friendship ~ between a-man and woman;:and that was ~ the situation of Edith Storey and me. You — couldn’t call it love at any-stage. She was — my pal—and at that, I. think the associa- — tion would have made - ‘us man and wife! © Now, she’s going her way, and I’m going mine. <= 10.’ : Antonio Garrido Mieisic anid Moreno — was very definite on that point. : He has a splendid new Stutz. It’s summer-time. And there are wonderful roads throngs Long Island.

Glossary Director: A man with two remarks: “It was a bum story, but look what I did with it,’ and “Well, what could you expect with a bum story like that?” See also Czar. Camera: [Final proof that machinery will never rebel under abuse. : Organ: Recently a practically obsolete musical instrument; revived for use in movie theatres because it is capable of producing the greatest volume of sound with the least pain to the audience and the least cost to the proprietor. Orchestra: A body of men working on the theory that if the violin is off key the audience may not notice how bad the picture is. Censors: Old women of both sexes who are convinced that anything they cannot understand must be immoral. Hence the great number of eliminations they order.

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Photo by Stagg Of course they’re not the ‘“‘dumb’’ kind, but all hands will concede that they are some belles. On the right of the smiling Mr. Reid is Eileen Percy, D. Fairbanks’ leading lady; and on his left arm, Miss Anita Loos, Mr. Fairbanks’ high-salaried authoress. 51

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a HE morning the old bean sprouted a q the idea, I recognized my meal ticket. At first the hunch looked like inspiration, but I soon found that it ' was perspiration ; and there are two people 3 who will bear me out in this, Daphne Gail, - the director’s delight, and little Rollo, the B press agent’s pest. I am the press agent. Well, about this idea. Mandel was : really at the bottom of it. Mandel is the : Big Chief of the National Films, the lad _ who has a stateroom on the De Luxe con- p stancly running empty between Los Angeles _ and Chicago for fear he may want to use it. 2 - Well, Mandel said to me: 4 “Lew, you signed up here as a press _ agent with ideas. When do you begin to deliver?” Just like that. You see, this "was the point. Here we were with a per- § fectly good film plant near Los Angeles, -and a half dozen female stars whose daily mail was breaking down the carrier before his time. And yet, as far as enjoying any wide or arresting publicity was concerned, they were cold in death—all of them. And I was expected to make them household 3 words. Well, the morning after Mandel’s deli- ate work, when I braked my tin lizzie at = ie studio, who should come driving up but Daphne Gail bringing our principal s female attraction to work. Right there something happened—the rt dea sprouted. A couple of hours later I sent for her to ‘come to my office, a palatial six by eight apartment in dressing-room row, one of those rooms where if you get swell- headed you wreck the building. “Well, how’s the old health?” I asked her. a “Grand, Lew! How soon do you begin working for a living?” - The Gas Girl Although desert sand and Missouri aed to say nothing of a jealous suitor, all did their best to wreck her trip to fame, Daphne Gail proved that when a pretty woman makes up her mind to do something— Fate and mankind might just as well step aside and let her do it. By Francis William Sullivan Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell She looked all she said she felt. not a howling beauty, Daft isn’t, but she’s good neck exercise. Her eyes are gray: and level, and her face is fresh and smooth enough to take a close-up if these vest makers would ever give her one. The top of her brown head comes about to my shoul- der—and I’m no Prussian guard—and she runs to slim curves. “Feel like a little bus ride?” I asked her. ‘Where to and why?” she’ asked cau- tiously. “To New York and. alone—the whole She’s ‘route. ‘For the everlasting glory of them that hire you, your own and mine.” She didn’t sag or buckle, but stood right up to it. “It’s the chance of your lifetime, oppor- tunity knocking at your door. With this whole studio to choose from I’ve picked on you—” “You sure hate, Lew” “And if you go through with it, it means a big name and a raise. If not interested kindly close the door gently as you go out.” Well, in the end she fell for it, and I wandered up to tell Mandel all that I was going to do for his company. “Boob,” he said when I had finished. ‘“We’re not interested in comedies.” “Well cut this one then,” I told him and began again at the beginning. : The anteroom was full of movie mag- nates, two cloak-makers, an old clo’ man, and the Junk King but they had to wait. Finally, to get a chance at the day’s work, the Chief yelled: “All right, then, de your stunt! But I’m not for it. You can have a hundred and fifty dollars toward expenses and no more. Now get out!” A: hundred and fifty dollars for that trip 53

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54 Photoplay Magazine and we hadn’t even got the car! I told Daft to forget the whole idea. ‘“‘Not on your static!” she said, and regis- tered undying determination. ‘Lew, you committed this thing, and the boss has o. k.’d it, so now it’s root hog or die. You get out and rustle.” His master’s voice! But then, just as I was getting some action blah! in comes little Rollo and pokes his walking stick right among the delicate working parts. Roland Howe, I’ll give him his name for once, was one of the reasons why anarchists make bombs in their spare time. He had nothing in particular to do, he was so rich it bothered him like flannels in May, and he was nuts over Daft. And when he heard about this little jaunt of hers he came into my office like the January rains. “Look here,” he said, “are you trying to commit murder? You're crazy to send Daff on a trip like that. I won’t permit it.” ‘‘Where do you get that stuff?’ I asked him. — “T put it up to Daff, and she said go, so we’re going. The National Nectarine leaves here to girdle the continent two weeks from next Friday.” _ Rollo has shiney blond hair cut so he could comb it from his alleged brow right down his neck in one lick. He had pink cheeks and blue eyes, and if it hadn’t been him, he might have been good looking, because he had a square and jutting chin. Now he risked his life by sticking this at me over my typewriter. “All right,” he said, kind of gritty. “We'll see about this. If I can’t make you listen to reason, I’ll. make Miss Gail.” “Tf you were what I don’t think you are,” I told him, kind of gritty myself, ‘‘you’d get behind this thing instead of sagging on it. It ll make Daft.” ' nent, “T don’t want to make her, I want to” marry her,” he said. q “Well, you go sleep that off,” I told him. — The poor nut! Daff looked pretty blue the next two or — three days, and I knew he was putting on _ the screws, but I didn’t say anything. I~ was too busy, hypnotizing the California automobile industry. In eight days I had ~ everything donated from the car to the ~ Daff unlimbered her gat and pointed it straight chain of service stations across the conti- And then introduced Daff to her benzine bronc where it stood all bright and shining in the salesroom. “Oh, Lew!” she cried, all excited, and her eyes were shining. “I'll go. I will! I don’t care what anybody says.” “Ts that the real lay?’ I asked her, “‘or can Rollo wreck it?” ‘Till death do us part,” she said, placing

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————— - -—_ ee ee eee ar ae her hand on the right front tire of the shiney bus, and I felt as if I’d married her to trouble and ought to turn my collar ' around till it buttoned-in the back. 3 Well after that things went along fine till the day before the start. Maybe you don’t know it, but Los Angeles will cele- brate anything. Sport Shirt week or Loquat day, or anything—So I didn’t have much trouble fixing things for a parade and a g place where Rollo was hungriest. band and a general municipal uproar. And _ that morning I called Daff into my office and put the fear of God in her. q “You go through with this thing or never - come back,” I said. “If you succeed we're both made ; if you don’t we might as well aoemp into the first large body of water we come to. No excuses, no wails, no welch- ing. Drive your teakettle into the Atlantic or disappear.” a ae eS ea Se + Tae —— a CRARELE ER D MTT Tee Ra at a The Gas Girl _ a “All right. . If I flivver you will know where to look ‘for me.” ‘That remark had two edges, for I knew darn well she would marry Rollo any minute, and that he always offered a way out. I let well enough alone. At eight o’clock next morning, with me in the seat beside her, Daf€ backed her rear tires into the ocean at Long Beach and started. ' You’d hardly have known her today. She was radiant and cool and nifty-looking as a peach-on a tree. She was dressed in khaki; Norfolk jacket and knickers, puttees, and boots but no skirt, but young Howe wasn’t there to see her off, and I could tell she felt it. “Did Rollo tell you good- bye?” I asked her. “No, I haven’t seen him since the day I said I was going.” “Tm glad he knew enough to stay away and not gum up an otherwise festive occasion.”’ “Yes, but I don’t under- stand it. There must be some- thing behind his acting this way.” And then quickly, “Good-bye, Lew, they’re ready.” They were ; there was a pis- tol shot, the snarl of her motor, and she was diminish- ing down the perspective amid what the papers termed hearty cheers. She was gone, and for a minute I felt pretty raw. Suppose something did happen to her! Then I made myself think of something pleasant, such as, for instance, Rollo’s grouch. If I’d only known then what he was up to! That waka a telegram came from Daft. “Arrived Needles, Cal. Everything O. K. 302 Miles.” { was proud of her. She was driving the-southern route and had gone through San Bernardino, the Cajon Pass, Barstow and to the Rio Grande. And she had sampled the desert already. Of course, all our service stations were looking for her, and stood ready to do anything, but just

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56 Photoplay. Magazine ‘the same, was that travelling for a celluloid sister, or wasn’t it? : ~The next night came a wire from Wins- low: “Cracked both front rims. Mended by blacksmith. Going on. Have new ones waiting for me at Albuquerque.” I wired the necessary instructions and then waited. Meanwhile, we were beginning to net a little newspaper footage due to columns of harrowing adventures I wrote based on Daft’s ten word wires. It went big, awful big, especially when the Associated Press began to pick up the stuff and syndicate it. And of course every mention of her neces- sarily dragged in the name of the National Films, which annoyed me very, very much. “Is this the fruit of the hop, or is it real?’ I asked Mandel,: flapping down a bale of clippings on his desk. “Well,” he had to admit it a minute. “You're there or thereabouts, Lew. But have a. good time while you can, she'll never go through with it!” The poor-carp! — And then I lost Daff. She should have been in Albuquerque to get her new rims the fourth day, but noth- ing came from her. I paged her by wire.all over central New Mexico but I couldn't raise a-whisper. And I told myself that the ' desert had got her. -I knew something about that country. The road isa track through sand and dobe clay and sage brush, and while you’re fighting .a duel with a cactus on one side, a large juicy ‘yucca comes up and stabs you in the back. On all sides are flat-topped mesas, or jagged mountain ranges in a couple of dozen col- ors, and it’s just loose with sunlight .and heat and dust. Oh, I know the layout; I chased galloping rib roasts there for eight months once on the Bar Jf. Well, that’s where Daff was, and sending no word for two days; while I entertained the newspaper death-watch in my office. Then the morning of the third day came a night letter dated from Gallup. “Lost road and into quicksand. Tried thirty-six hours to dig out. Fainted. Res- cued by prospector going on from here to Albuquerque. Make Mandel let you go ahead of me. I need you. Darr.” I’ve been glad in my time, but never as at that moment. I.bowed in the death- ‘watch, handed out photographs and cigars, and then showed them the saioiiales Daft’s desert adventure crowded the Kaiser’s lick- — ing off the first page for twenty-four hours. | Then I went to see Mandel, and that even- ing I turned my work over to my assistant, a disillusioned scenario writer with a self-— starting imagination, and after wiring Daft to expect me at Albuquerque, hopped on the train. ‘The next evening I blew in there — and on the way to the hotel desk passed the - dining room door. There sat Daft and — Rollo at dinner together! You see there was a piece of the chapter missing that I — didn’t get hep to till later. But I’ll tell you now what had happened. | When Daff got into Gallup after her desert adventure she, went straight to the — telegraph office and wired me. Then she — headed for the hotel, and in the door-way | ran straight into-Rollo who looked as if he — had lost about fifteen pounds and most of — his tail feathers. - “Well, Daft!” he gasped, and stared like — a noodle. 4 “What on enters you doing here?” she — asked him, and I guess she didn’t sound all — flattered and honored and glad ‘like he — thought she would. “Well I heard the company -wouldn’t — give you an advance agent so I decided I’d — be your advance agent myself. I’ve been — following you in my roadster since you © started but lost you, so I came ‘here on ~ the hope of shearing something. “Now — haven’t:you had:enough:of this? The:whole — thing is insane, the:work of a publicity-mad lunatic who’s hypnotized you. I did:every- — thing I could to:make you give up this trip, but»you wouldn’t listen, and now look at you—half dead. Well, you’re going to listen now. You know I love you Daff, and — you don’t have to do this. Give it up!” After all she’d been through Daff was feeling kind of weak and sorry for herself, I guess, and this big bum certainly did look good to lean on. But give it up! Even I didn’t know what fighting words those were to her. “You’re my advance agent?” she said. “Yes if you insist on this idiocy, but | Daff—”’ ‘Then where are my new rims?” “What new rims?” “The ones I wired for.’”’ She omitted to mention that they were probably waiting at Albuquerque. “TI start at dawn tomorrow and I want ’em on the car then.”

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“But I don’t know about any rims.” — “Then get some. That’s why you're here, ' isn’t it?—not as a social treat. And lay - off Lew Brent; he didn’t make me do this, I did it myself.’ x Daff says Rollo’s jaw stuck out like the - front of a ferry boat. _ “All right,” he growled, “but you’ll get - enough of this nonsense after awhile, and ~ when you do, you’ll always find me waiting for you.’ “Not if my rims and things aren’t ready,” ~ she told him. “I'll send you home and get - another advance man.” And then she - walked up to the desk and got a room. - He trailed her to Albuquerque, and that’s _ how I found them there when I blew in. - You’d better believe Daff looked good to - me, but Rollo was about as welcome as _ snake-bite, and I guess I showed it. _ “After wiring you I met Mr. Howe,” _ Daft told me politely, and gave me a synop- sis of events. The real happenings I got later. “Roland has offered to be my ad- vance agent,’ she wound up, smiling on both of us. He was all lit up in a tux, be- cause his man followed him around on trains with baggage, while I looked like - something the cat had dragged in. _ “That’s very nice,” I said, ‘but I don’t think you will need two advance agents, 3 peat ” For a minute he sat motionless with half closed eyes, kind of stupid-looking like 2 bull dozing under a tree. Then he said: _ “I’m glad Brant’s come Daff, I didn’t ~ come out here to be your advance agent in the first place. I came to make you quit this nonsense, and if you wouldn’t do that, - to look after you, and I’m going to do it.” _ Daff beamed on us both like a little round sun. _ “With you two to take care of me, noth- pe can happen now,” she said. It was the most neutral piece of work since the Presi- “dent? s Proclamation. But it didn’t sell me ene. Where Rollo is concerned I’m about as neutral as the English. _ “Tf you bother us or monkey with this trip,” I told him outside, ‘‘I’ll just natur- ah bust you open and then print you in he papers, so you watch your step.” _ All the same when Daft started from : Albuquerque his baggage was all strapped and four men were putting the final touches ae large, red, road pimple of his. And e hadn’t been in Trinidad, Colorado, one h our when up he rolled. From then on he The Gas Girl ~ == a made it his life-work to look after Daff and protect her from my cruelties and out- rages. I began to feel kind of brotherly towards Simon Legree, and Catherine the Great, and the Kaiser, and ordered all my meat red. - II That was the lay from Trinidad on—the infernal triangle. But little Rollo didn’t cost me much sleep; I had too much else to think about. If the class will open their large geographies they will find that we are going north and east. Our route now lay through Kansas by way of Dodge City and Emporia to Kansas City, and it was far from easy sailing for Daft. Time and again she was lost. Once she spent the night in a hay stack, and once in a farmhouse. She didn’t get regular sleep or meals, and sometimes she had to work for hours over that ready rattler of hers. And all this showed.- Her gray eyes be- ~ gan to get bigger and bigger, and she shucked around in her clothes. But did she wail? Not once. But Rollo did. He. keened steadily from Trinidad on. He bought her things she didn’t need, and had doctors see her, and begged her to marry him and annoyed her generally. And when she refused he began to get sulky. You see he’d always had everything his own way, and he couldn’t stand not get- ting it now. But after Daft. left Kansas City and headed for St. Louis, conditions got even worse. If Missouri hasn’t done anything else for the nation, it has succeeded in making walking a pleasure, and it was here, under such conditions, and with me on ahead, that things played into Rollo’s hands. Daft had left Sedalia about noon and was trying to make her next service station that night. It was boiling hot after two or three davs of rain, so crops was good, by heck. Well, Daff’s old teakettle had its tongue out about sundown and was all gone in the lungs. It coughed along till she was about thirty-eight miles from anywhere, and then called it a day. It was a glorious sunset on the plains. The mellow golden light rested gently on the fields of standing grain that extended in every direction to the horizon, and all the rest of that junk. And Daff rested gently in the middle of all that loose beauty and couldn’t budge.

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58 Photoplay Magazine She was hungry and stiff and banged all over, and there was nothing in sight but evening. Well, she got out her kit and be- gan to tinker. She had been there about I grabbed her up out of her seat and carried her two hours enjoying the sunset, when she heard a long toot and along came Rollo bounding from furrow to furrow down the road. This was his idea of taking care of

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ashore high and dry amid a murderous fire. Daff while she traveled—chasing her. He for you! Forget it now, tonight. Hop in pulled up along side and she told him what with me and I'll take you to the next town had happened. where we can send back for the skiff.” “Poor kid,’ he said. ‘‘This is a fine life Well it looked awful good to her, I guess.

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60. a _.. Photoplay Magazine. It was the worst place she’d been in since that desert stuff, and she could hardly lift a finger. But Daff could see farther ahead than her radiator cap—much. “No,” she said, “I can’t do that.” “Well, then lét me tow you ih.” “TI can’t do that either.” “In heaven’s name, why not? If some hick came along here with a team you'd let him tow you in, wouldn’t you?” “No. I’ve got to drive every inch of the way, and I’m going to do it. But I wouldn’t let you help me anyhow, because you're following me just for that purpose.” Rollo bit his cigar in.two and looked over the engine. “Scrap!” he said. this isn’t being game, foolish.” “All right,” she said ‘‘then I'll be foolish. And now please go away and leave me: I[’ll go to some farm house to sleep.” “T wont leave you.” “You've got to. This trip alone is bad enough for a girl without you hanging around after sundown.” “Then you've got to come to the next town with me. I mean this!” he said. “You don’t know what you may get into if you go to some strange farm out here. Once of that was enough. And besides, it’s so dark you couldn’t find a house now without a dividing rod.” “ “T won’t go!” she cried, flaring up at last. “And if you say anything more or stay here any longer, I'll never speak to you again. I hate you!” For a minute Rollo didn’t say anything. Then came close to her. “All right, we’ll see about this,” he growled. ‘I’ve stood all this idiotic non- sense I’m going to, and I'll end it right here. Now, young lady, I’m going back to the next town and get a constable and have you arrested on any charge I can think up. Will you come with me or wont you: ae “NO. ” “Very well.’ He got into his turned it around, and began chamoising back to the next village. Daft sat-down on the beautiful prairie and howled. Then after a little she remem- ‘bered what was going to happen. The vil- lage was only about five miles back and she knew it wouldn’t take Rollo long. She “Now look here, Daff, it’s just being - looked at her old chariot and all her anger came up in one rush. Car,- “Damn you!” she yelled, and heaved the wrench she had in her hand square in the ~ middle of the works. a Then in hopeless despair she got in and ~ stepped on the starter. Rattle-ty-bang! Over she went, and in a minute Daff was — off. You see, chosen words at the right — time will do anything. E I often’ like to think of the hours Rollo — spent explaining to the constable. = {il Well, when I heard how Daff had stood — by me that time, I figured that Rollo’s — goose was grilled to a glossy black cinder. — But no. He joined on again, and we made ~ the safari like before; tail. But I tried to express my apprecia- — tion to Daff, and bought her the biggest brooch I could safely crowd into the ex- pense account. After St. Louis the roads were a little better to Indianapolis, and Daft was able to keep pretty well to the schedule I had arranged. 4 But, as you can imagine, all this didn’t — make any hit with Rollo. fact, the farther Daff went, the madder he got. this racket of his wasn’t just concern for Daft’s welfare any more; self into a test between him and me. Any- how, that’s the way I felt after fighting along that route for about six weeks. If I pulled Daff through to New York he was done for. If-she failed Rollo won. And without saying anything to each other Rollo and I grew to have a kind of tacit agree- ment to that effect. Then one evening when things were nip and tuck every way from the ace, circum- stances gave Rollo another great big chance. We had been working along at a pretty good pace through Ohio, heading towards Pittsburg through Columbus and Wheeling. And all the way in a riot of press stuff be- cause there was hardly a day when some- thing didn’t happen to Daff. Once her car caught on fire and she put it out with dirt, and another time she missed wrecking the Pennsylvania Limited by four inches. Oh, | — her life was just one debauch of sinful idle- ness and ennui. Well, this evening I speak of, Daff had crossed into Pennsylvania and was trying to reach Washington to lay over. (Continued on page 164) myself advance — guard, Daff main body, and Rollo shirt — As a matter of — It was plain as a pikestaff now, that — it had settled it- 4

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9.9.9.9. 9.9. F.C.OFLF. G18 C1. S1G18..91. F199 1919.91.91 9.9. S19, 9.919.919. 619.E. 9.9.9.9) @.9. 6.8.6. 8.8. 9.8.9.8. 9. G.891 9.6181 GS. G1G 1G 8 18.6 10.818.8 16.9.8. 9.819. 8. F.0.0101F. 9.81018 .01F1916.619. F.C1C16 S18 ee See ee ee Fe ae EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND TIMELY COMMENT SOF" An” i a EN AN A a A NN A” AN A nN” A," I” IP” GN PAN A eS” AN” AS NN EP A A AN A a Rs” ER “A AN” a ED” MB” a” ME "DS AY AN” MN a” A SS” EB” en? "i i” A As A A” AR” MN” A AR” "cn A” A, WEES n° A” A AD PRS” A A” ES A A A" se A" i BL A” A” "A IN the Denver Times of May 11, J. Warren Kerrigan is The quoted as follows: “I am not going to war until I have Beautiful — to. Iwill go, of course, if my country needs me, but I Slackers. think: that first they should. take the great mass of men who aren’t good for anything else, or are good only for the lower grades of work. Actors, musicians, great writers, artists of every kind— isn’t it a pity when people are sacrificed who are capable of such things— of adding to the beauty:of the world?” We hope that Mr. Kerrigan has been ‘misquoted. The war in Europe has been made-glorious by the exploits of such men as Lord Dunsany, Maurice Renaud, Alan Seeger, Guy Standing, Vernon Castle, and our less-known: tango: nied: “Wally” McCutcheon, who went to war from Chicago; a professional ideiciae enlisting -as: a’private, today a Major in the British Army, wearing decorations pinned on him by the heads of ‘two ‘nations. The villains and the character men are in the officers’ training camps right now, and we fear that our slackly ‘beautiful heroes are to be quite lonely. 7 DEVELOPMENTS of the:winter.and spring haveproved distinctly that the star’s the thing in comedy, as in - feature drama. Star .comics. like Roscoe Arbuckle—excluding the world-beating Chaplin from this list as a matter of fairness— have taken practically all the comedy receipts. It is perhaps not justice.to put Arbuckle.in.a class head, either, for he too stands alone. It is predicted that this. tendency will give stellar.comedians an. Sasolieee monopoly of shadow laughter in six months’ time. e MOTION picture photography has resolved. itself into two great schools of lighting. One school believes that sunlight is supreme, and that the rays of the king of the heavens surpass every contrivance for lighting effect, either of interior or exte- rior nature, that can be devised. The other school insists that electricity is eohehines in a handy package, and charms its sensi- tive plates with lamps instead of morning. The electric folk call the day- light devotees archaic, while the sun-worshippers dub the lamp workers artificial. ‘Stars Wanted | in Comedy. Sunshine and Lamp.

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62 Photoplay Magazine While perhaps neither has thought himself the captain of any particular | _ vogue of illumination, D. W. Griffith may be called lord of the sun cult, while Cecil DeMille is the grand master of Klieges and mercury vapor. Both these men have developed their systems to points of technical perfection almost unbelievable. Griffith never wrote a truer word than that terming “Intolerance’’ a “sun-play,” since to make it he harnessed Los Angeles sunshine as the dynamo engineers harnessed Niagara Falls. On the other hand, DeMille is said to have developed at the Lasky studio units of artificial illumination of a potency and pliability undreamed of elsewhere— and accordingly policed away from all prying eyes. +7 IF you are not ashamed to applaud the shadows of the Applauding paid actors to whom you give sustenance, do not be Our afraid to applaud the shadows of the heroes who are Battlers. dying for your liberty and mine every day in North France. We cheer the flag lustily and continually; we hop to our feet whatever and however at the opening bars of “The Star Spangled Banner;” we make approving noises at any big stunt that flashes past. The bodies of the men in France are obstacles under the wheels of autocracy; they may lie in nameless graves; your applause may be their only recogni- tion. If you do applaud, give them a hand. e A FEW years ago a number of pioneer picture players * Actor’s thought they had a glimpse into the future. They had ~ Autocracy” the vision all right but they saw it with astigmatic sight. Is Passing. They thought the director was to be the big man of “the game” as they love to call it. Instead this has been the day, or period of the player. With a few exceptions the director has been submerged over his prophetic periscope. In more than one instance he has resumed acting in the hope of catching up with the golden procession. So many players have been signing vouchers attached to $1,000 checks each week that anything less seemed like small time salaries, yet when a director has been signed at $1,000 a week, it has been the occasion for a column article in the trade papers. There has been more than a single instance of a director of brains, vision and creative ability “putting over” a star drawing into the thousands each week, while his own pay check was down in the early hundreds. As for the writer, he has been almost a negligible quantity. More and more the producer is besasine to appreciate the value of the director. of ability and the writer of meritorious photoplays. The magnates are beginning to feel the pinch of story famine and the box office is begin- ning to reflect the real value of overpaid stars and bad direction. Photo- play enthusiasts are tiring of the deadly sameness of their favorite recreation. | They want a change of diet. So the producer is peering into a future which seems to hold much promise for the brainy director and the clever writer. “A } R v x cee i Bs a g a J B By a is P pv “ A ie » | 7 i z 2 ba yy 3 c - be » by it z = te - aie a & ~ F e P %; t ig . 2 e ea ic if | FE ce E : e % ea re + an ; E &

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‘Close-Ups AL LICHTENSTEIN, perhaps the veteran salesman of Some the films, indulges a whimsical reminiscence of the days Selling when exhibitors were not recognized by the dramatic Experiences. managers, and knew an automobile only as tangible evidence of unlawful wealth. Lichtenstein’s first cross-country tour was taken to dispose of rights to the Bernhardt photoplay, “Queen Elizabeth.” In Columbus, Ohio, he found general skepticism until he visited the last man in town. This individual listened with an inviting smile that warmed the salesman’s cold heart, and he enlarged upon his subject: “Think of it—the greatest actress in the world, and the greatest queen of history. Isn’t it a wonderful combination? “Tt sure is,” echoed the exhibitor. “Is it a Western picture?” Again Lichtenstein tried his luck on the road, now selling James K. Hackett, in “The Prisoner of Zenda.” “T have to offer,” he began, in a town nearer the Mississippi, “America’s foremost leading man of the stage — the screen’s greatest conquest — only fifty dollars a day.” “Fifty dollars a day!” howled the exhibitor. “Last week for five dollars I had here the greatest actor you ever saw—‘The Life of Petrosino.’” e THAT the author,—even in this day considered the Comparative neglected one in the eternal triangle of writer, director Scenario and actor—that the author is really coming into his Prices. own. is indisputably proved by his comparative prices. Not so very many months ago “Madame Butterfly,” unquestionably Puccini’s most popular opera among American audiences, was sold, as libretto and play, to the screen for $1,000. Last month, rights to “La Tosca” were purchased by an advance payment of $15,000, regular royalties to follow. As a matter of contemporary popu- larity, ‘ 7 is not in the “Butterfly” class. Mary Pickford’s most celebrated success, “Tess of the Storm Country,” brought the author $250. For production rights to “The Poor Little Rich Girl” Miss Pickford’s managers paid $10,000, with the customary royalties to follow. C. Gardner Sullivan, whose income as a photo-dramatist now exceeds that of most Wall Street brokers, has never written a more remarkable play than his “Cup of Life.’ For this, two years ago, he received $75. e ENGLAND’S gratitude for our entrance into the war on the side of the Allies has not had any appreciable effect on the fight against American films in that country, although the Cinema, a paper devoted to the interests of the screen advocates a cessation of hostilities. That publication points out that were it not for the Made-in-America film, nine-tenths of the picture theaters in Great Britain would have been closed long since. Business Not Gratitude. “63

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HELPFUL HINTS: HOW TO SPEND JULY FOURTH | Keep cool. Climb that little hill back of the barn until you come to a scene like this. You have no hill? Get into a poker game and plead a sudden engagement when the chips begin to come; you will achieve the atmospheric-effect without the elevation. 4

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~ “Ti ~ cM HIS is YOUR Department. Jump right in with your contribution. What have you seen, in the past month, which was stupid, unlifelike, ridiculous or merely incongruous? Do not generalize; confine your remarks to specific instances of im- possibility in pictures you have seen. Your observation will be listed among the indictments of: carelessness on the part of the actor, author or director. Four Film Faux Pas. XAW7HY ‘do they always indicate death by ‘VV~ dragging a sheet over ‘the face of ‘the expiring one, immediately the last gasp is given? It would seem that they are both eager and ‘anxious to cover it up and forget it. In “A Child of the Wild,” featuring June Caprice, this happened twice. In “Sowers and_ Reapers,’ with Emmy - Wehlen, the hero is kidnapped and. dragged, dripping wet, aboard a yacht, with nothing — to wear but the clothes on his back. Next day, however, although the yacht has not made any port, he appears in creased trousers, a manicure and other fastidious accessories. Why don’t the people who write sub-titles learn to spell? In “The Millionaire’s Double,” featuring Lionel Barrymore, part of a sub- title read, “We have called you here to inden- tify the prisoner.” Seems to me that a dic- tionary, or even a copy of Swinton’s Word Book, would be a helpful thing to have around the studio. Why do politicians always roll a large cigar from one side of the mouth to the other, and why are they never without it? Why don’t they learn to smoke gracefully? GrorGeE D. ANDERSON, Chicago. Stung! W7HY on earth did they give the name “Infidelity” to that recent Erbograph _ picture, misusing Anna Nilsson as the star? _ If there was anything in that picture to justify A the title, it must have been cut out by the censors. | | I think that the company ought to be ar- rested for obtaining money under false pre- tenses. “I paid ten cents to see some infidelity and all. I saw was a third-rate picture. - ' © Metvitte Hart, Chicago. The Movie Newspaper. - T is one of the curiosities of the film indus- try, to which are now devoted thousands of intelligent minds, that sub-captions are usually bad, and excerpts from the public prints invariably so. In the past week, the writer has seen four plays of extremely high order, and in each there was a necessity for flashing a printed excerpt upon the screen. In the first, the New York Times gave front-page, top-column space to a wedding announcement, couched in terms of coarse ribaldry; in the second, the New York Journal carried a “banner head” which would call for the editor’s arrest on a charge of criminal libel; in a third, an un- named New York daily couched a news story in the editorial plural said to have been in vogue in the ’50’s, but doubtful at any time; in the fourth, New York’s Town Topics, which possesses the most viciously pungent style of any weekly in America, rolled a morsel of scandal under its linotype tongue in a sugared, wandering way altogether too saccharine for a household fashion paper. Bees What are the hundreds of newspaper men, editorially enrolled .in pictures, doing. that they do not correct these absurdities? J.L.N. 65

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x os oe Photoplay Magazine a Who Had the Gillette? AROLD LOCKWOOD, as a lumberjack, in “The Promise,” is seriously injured during a wild ride down a stream on logs. He is rescued by an Indian girl and nursed back to health in her wigwam, without grow- ing a beard during his time of confinement. In “The Primrose Ring,” Mae Murray plays the part of a trained nurse who has had charge of a hospital ward; yet, when she hunts for work, she gives her age as seven- teen. Benton C. Resster, Brooklyn, N. Y. “And Sheridan Forty Miles Away.” WISH the villain would get the heroine. I shouldn’t, much care what happened to her, just so the hero was prevented from pull- ing the timely rescue stuff. : The sight of the Vigilance Committee or the:Royal Hussars or the U. S. Cavalry racing ‘in the wake of the swashbuckling young hero, while a flash-back shows the heroine in a state of collapse as the villain folds her in an ante-diluvian embrace, no longer causes my temperature ‘to ascend. Instead, my jaded sensibilities give me a hunch that the hand-to- hand scrap without which no orthodox movie is complete will “follow immediately.” And there’s no use in hoping that said scrap will end in any but the usual way, either. No matter whether it’s a story of Daniel Boone, Queen Guinevere, Reginald Astorbilt, Prince Charming, Mrs. Pankhurst, the Sultan of Sulu or just plain Mary Brown and John Smith, film precedent seems to demand this trite situation. H. M. Theda’s Endearing Young Charms. UST survived a performance of “Her Great- est. Love.” That director must have had a grudge against Theda Bara. A few more pictures like that one and Miss Bara (who is really a great artist) will be a has-been. For two interminable reels, she was obliged to cavort before the camera as a cute twelve- year-old. The illusion was far from complete. EMERALD J. Hauser, Anaconda, Mont. Southern Stuff. Me pa you so kindly invite your subscribers to mention any inconsistencies, etc., which they have- noticed in recent screen plays, I beg leave to utter a protest against the way in which the South is so often and so unjustly laid open to ridicule. : I saw Dorothy Gish in “The Little School- ma’am” and was amazed at the author’s evi- dent misinformation concerning the diction used by educated Virginians. His hero, a novelist, asks the heroine, “Are you-all in trouble, ma’am?” And,- after assuring the startled girl that he is a gentleman from Nor- folk, he proceeds to comfort her and_ she exclaims, “Are you-all from Vahginia? Well, Ah’m from Vahginia, too.” He shakes hands with, her, exclaiming, “I sho’ am glad to see somebody. from God’s country.” * These ex- pressions belong to the negro and to those whom the negro designates as “po’ white scandal. The scrap occurred during the -film- ‘such sacrifices of artists. Not that the souls ginia. : : The author’s plot was fine—a splendid story — —but surely he must be ignorant of conditions — among cultivated people of the South. I often — wonder why Yankees and Westerners imagine — the South. to be so back-woodsy when many of our most brilliant men of art and letters — hail from there. : a Mrs. L. M. Savino, Portsmouth, Va. trash,” not to the “first families” of old Vir-_ Hard Times Note. ae a "THERE is a scene in “The Crisis” in which _ . Tom Santschi, as Stephen Brice, promises — Virginia Carvel (Bessie Eyton) to attend the — Carvel masque ball attired in his grandfather’s — Revolutionary uniform. He does. ‘He arrives at the Carvel home astride a splendid charger — —but what’s wrong? With Tom, not the — charger. It’s the powdered wig. - That wig — was about four sizes too small for Tom’s — massive head, and, in view of the ponderous _ dignity with which he portrayed his character, — it was awfully funny to see Tom’s curly brown locks protruding from under that under- sized peruke. sane Lester C. WILLARD, Yonkers, N. Y. Unprofessional Mr. Connelly. 4 SAW Mr. Connelly, as a noted surgeon in “The Great Secret,’ don his operating cap, gloves and coat—all of which are supposed — to be sterilized for hours before being used— and proceed to rest his hands on the. wash- stand while he peered in the glass to admire himself, and then open two doors to reach the operating room. The habits of. years — cannot be so carelessly forgotten, even’ when ~ one is contemplating murder. s = - FF. M. Woopyer. . Scandal ' “ANNY WARD has just resumed work at the Lasky studio after a three weeks’ suspension of operations due to injuries re- ceived during a domestic imbroglio with her husband, Jack Dean. No, this is not a bit of ing of -a scene in Miss Ward’s newest. photo- play. It was said to be some battle, and the actress emerged with a sprained back and dis- located shoulder. We must have reelism!’”— News item in PHOTOPLAY. oe ae But it is scandal. It is we, the fans; who are scandalous. We have no right’ to ask of artists are any more immortal than the souls of artisans. No doubt Miss Ward, like — all other athletes, is proud. of her strength ~ and takes pride is displaying it; and insofar as she sets us all an example of clean living— which all artists of the screen have to do in order to stay in the game—she is doing a noble work. But we are going beyond ath- letics and are throwing poets to the lions: to make a Roman holiday. We ought to -be ashamed. It takes a mighty uplifting story to redeem such useless carnage. Horace BLaxE NewrTon, Santa Rosa, Cal.

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The Chap the Camera Chased BUT TOM MEIGHAN WAS SO PICTORIALLY COY THAT HE HAD TO BE KNOCKED DOWN AND TIED BEFORE HE GAVE IN By Johnstone Craig HEN Fate comes to total the columns at the foot of her ledger it is probable that her most conspicuous item will be the account of Thomas Meighan, for she worked. harder to make Meighan a_photoplayer than she.did to shunt Napoleon to St: Helena, keep Emma Goldman out of jail or land Mr. Stone of Missouri in the Senate. | From his paleozoic age “fom has been pursued by a camera. ’. He made fun of it;-he threw recks at it, - he struck it-when,it approached him, he © derided it in print and defied its masters— me yet it got him. , . : Now, he’s sorry he didn’t bow the neck sooner. ee Meighan is married and unashamed.- What ° is even more wonderful, he is happy. | His first motion picture opportunity crawled / quiveringly toward him years ago. He was ina ‘ Apeda Photo Mr. Meighan, and below, reading from left to right, Mr. Meighan, his wife Frances Ring, and haughty theatrical company in California; his his sister Margaret wife was in the same company, and some low Meighan.

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68 Photoplay Magazine contract that looked like a bag of © pirate’s gold, and put a pen in the | actor’s yielding hand. “What time do I have to get up in the morning?” asked Meighan, suspiciously. “Why no later than anyone else in the business,” purred Mr. Goldfish. ‘6 :30 aid ton 20 A Kc ne 7250." “Tf I’m _ lpckys howled Meighan, “IT don’t have to get up till 7:30! And I went on the stage because it was the only job in the world that would let me sleep through the forenoons! Until you change your hours I don’t change my business !”’ So that was cold. Yet in reality, Thomas Meighan, arch-hater of the camera, was getting very warm. For it was from Chi- cago that he went to pictures. And he _ went into. pictures, at _Goldfish’s behest, via the Lasky corporation. ‘And why I didn’t do it before I don’t know,” Meighan ruminates, now. “I had been to California repeatedly ; I had been in contact with picture men in England and _ picture men in New York, and, like long-eared Maud, I had been obstinately re- fusing to begin until Mrs. Silas started for the wheelbarrow. I might have been a photo- play pioneer ; as it was, I didn’t get into the procession until it was going fellows (since canonized by Brad- street’s) made them a joint proposi- tion to jump down into the movies. One of the unique things about Meighan is that he can some- times use money, so he accepted, tentatively. But it was well that his accept- ance had a piece of twine on it. The very next day he saw some of these lens vermin performing their dreary rites in the street: shamelessly, before the eyes of the world and eleven little kids. “Say!” he demanded, white (or whatever tint they usually wear) with anger; ‘Has my wife got to act out on the sidewalk—like this?” “Sure,” responded the barbarians. “Then to the devil with your. contract! My ‘wife is not going to make her- self ridculous for any- body or any money.” + Thus Meighan passed the open. door of the magic lantern for - the first time. The next time it came to him in London; and again in London; and in New York the door began to slam back and forth so clam- orcusly that he couldn’t sleep for its racket. Samuel Goldfish was at that time an executive in the Lasky corporation, and was» so much of a Meighan enthu- siast that in fishing for him he used everything except a bent pin and a worm. One day Meighan entered an office in the Longacre theatre building, New York City, to see about an engagement = in Chicago, and_Gold- fish lured him into past the Postoffice his cell and almost hey nae Aviad on Main street.” overcame his scruples. ‘Mee-gun,’ nor I don’t believe Seductive Samuel threw down a ‘My-gan.’ It’s ‘Mee-an.” much in pastry

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word pictures, but let me tell you a little something about the personality of one of the most regular guys that ever honored the movies. Although Tom Meighan himself was born in Pittsburgh, a town made famous for the ancients by a Minnesinger named Al Jolson, his ancestors came from across the sea. From a part of the United King- — dom whose name I’ve forgotten, though it’s the island that furnishes the world seventy- five per cent of its policemen and ninety per cent of its politicians, if that will help you any. He is a whale of a man, physically, standing more than six feet in height, muscled as Jim Corbett was in the golden 90s, and possessing a face of great mobility and adaptability to varying expression. _ __- Simple and direct in his friendships as a - school-boy; soft-spoken; the best of com- _ panions, and full of the health of out-doors, _ Meighan off stage and away from the lights is as completely unactorish as he is — wholly in the character and impersonation _ before the camera. — Back to Pittsburgh: Meighan’s parents he could enthuse about, at the start, was football. And he became a football star. _ Afterwards he kicked a few goals in anatomy and materia medica, but as soon as he had grabbed his diploma the theatre - grabbed the diploma-holder. © Henrietta Crossman, playing ‘Mistress _ Nell,” was in Pittsburgh at this time, and young Meighan secured an engagement with her company. A season with Grace _ George and two years in stock in Pittsburgh Guns: for table drawers. The ocean: for the Keystone girls. Bayne: for Bushman’s love-making. Snow: for snow-stuff. Paris: for Bluebird plots. Mothers: for ingenues. Hugs: for the fifth reels. Country estates: for actors. Homes: for mere millionaires. Long ears: for censors. Montana and Wyoming: for Bill Hart. Shots that rang out: for the midnight air. The Great War: for the news-pictorials. Crepe hair: for screen doctors. q thought he should be a doctor, but all that. terious The Chap the Camera Chased | 69 established him as one of the country’s leading juveniles. . Following engagements were with Elsie DeWolfe, John Mason, and finally with Willie Collier, in ‘“The Dictator.”’ Meighan was selected as leading man in the London engagement of “The College Widow,” and it was here that he played for a long time opposite his wife, Miss Frances Ring, the sister of Blanche. He returned to America to play for sev- eral seasons with David Warfield in ‘The Return of Peter Grimm.” He went back to London to triumphantly present George Cohan’s play, “Broadway Jones.” Again in America, he was the lawyer for the de- fense in “On Trial,” and from this engage- ment he went to the Lasky studio. His first photoplay was “The Fighting Hope,” supporting Laura Hope Crews. His second was “Kindling,” in which he - was leading man for Charlotte Walker. After that, he supported Blanche Sweet and Marie Doro. More recently he has been seen exclu- sively with Pauline Frederick, but Billie Burke’s re-entry to the screen, “The Mys- Miss roe finds him her champion. When he is in New York—and he is in New York most of the time—he lives at the Hotel Algonquin. He loves sailing and motoring and fighting (not domestic) and he has just one request: “Tell them that my name is pronounced as if it were spelled ‘J/7ee-an,’ with the accent on the first syllable. To those who don’t call me ‘Mee-gun’ I’m usually ‘My- gan.’ They get it every way but right.” What They Were Made For Railroads: for Helen Holmes. Monsters: for Pathe serials. Puttees: for DeMille. Sunshine: for Griffith. Money: for Mary, Charlie and Doug. The mails: for mash notes. f Adjectives: for press agents. Pie: one guess. Wine: for plying. Derbies: for Charlie. Fourteen years: for M. M. Minter. Old men: for juries. Picture dogs: to make somebody a living. Sissies: for movie ministers. Nihilists: for World pictures.

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\Y, Bro on on XSi | to Who” * Copytightéd by Hartsook Beneath this coy sunshade you see grouped the Elliott Dexters. Mr. Dexter performs in- the trans- parencies under his own name, and save where the Hottentot dispenses with his fig-leaf, or the Esquimaux plugs the polar bear with a whalebone arrow, Mrs, Dexter is known as Marie Doro. 70

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_ “Who's Married to Who” 71 Apeda photo Sheldon Lewis and a beautiful home on the banks of the Hudson make Virginia Pear- son-Lewis laugh at herself when she begins to take her vampiring seriously. Witzel photo Witzcl photo Behold the fledglings, the debutantes, the novitiates of matrimony: Grace Cunard and her merry young spouse, Joe Moore!

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~I bo Photoplay Magazine Photo by Stagg Another renowned domestic duet; Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenport Reid. Mrs. Reid is a right lively performer.on the ivories, but it is a safe bet that her husband doesn’t draw quite as well on the strings as he does in the box-office. Nevertheless, he is an ardent bowman.

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The Man Who Put Fame in Famous THE VISION OF ADOLF ZUKOR, WHO WENT FROM FURS TO A PENNY ARCADE, AND BECAME A MANUFACTURER TO REALIZE HIS OWN DREAMS By Julian Johnson ECAUSE of the whim of Isabella America got itself discovered; be- cause of the kick of Mother O’Leary’s cow Chicago got itself burned ; and because of a young Jewish boy’s ambi- tion to run a peep-show, the unborn motion picture business gave a ghostly call to one of its present world-rulers. This happened somewhere back of 1904. The young business man borrowed some “> 43

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74 | | Photoplay Magazine money from his young cousin, who was in the fur business, and established some pen- ny-arcades in down- town New York. You remember the dynasty of those twirl-boxes, don’t. you? ‘‘Mutescopes,’ they called them. You put in a penny, glued your eyes to the steroscopic lenses, and got some jerky flashes of a prize-fighter, or a railroad train, or an exciting dancer, as a series of wired-up photographs snapped by you. Presently the young impresario got all tangled up in his affairs, and had to ask his quieter, gentler, soft-spoken cousin to come away from the seal and the mink long enough to pull him out. ‘The cousin saw possibilities in these arcades, and soon had a chain of them extending profitably up Broadway to Forty- -Second : street. In 1904 a new thing became the rage in New York. It was called ‘Hale’s Touring Car.” It had the similitude of a train’s observation platform, and, on a screen, a brief piece of scenery flashed by in crude motion pictures. The cousin and the ex- furrier established a lot of these ‘“Touring Cars.” And they failed. Because they could not get pictorial material to keep the public interest up. So, on his own, the little furrier con- verted his penny arcades, and threw out his “touring cars,’’ and made motion picture theatres from both sets of places. Thus was born what came to be humorously known as “‘the store show,” for these arcades and “touring cars’ had filled storerooms. This was the real beginning of the big- gest material enterprise in point of size in _all motion picturedom today, for the little furrier was Adolf Zukor, president of the Famous-Players-Lasky corporation, and controller of Artcraft and Paramount. Few theatrical managers had ever heard his name, and certainly he was on the call- ing-list of no actor. Now, his annual expenditure on behalf of motion pictures is $16,000,000. Only one of those salaries which have dazzled the world and enraged the theatre is not being paid by him, (Chaplin’s). And to a galaxy of planets headed by Mary Pick- ford and Douglas Fairbanks he has just added the name*of D. W. Griffith. The rise of Mr. Zukor, and a large part of the advance of the photoplay itself, is due to Mr Zukor’s earnest faith in the screen as an art-medium, and his pugnacious the only subjects. . been thrown away a second time x determination to raise the standard of ye tures every year, if he had to fight and | break with every man in the business” 4 Which is just what happened, 3 be. Remember, Mr. Zukor was only an exhibitor. ; The quality of pictures, issued sometimes | in an extreme length of a thousand feet, 3 grew no better. The chase, the silly com- — edy, the cowboy and the railroad train were, There were no Griffiths — : in those days—or rather, Griffith, begins a ning, had not yet appeared on the surface — of picture affairs. a ‘The Famous Players was organized in. the spring of 1912 as a direct and desperate answer to the hidebound manufacturers. — “But,” interposes Mr. Zukor, ‘they w ere right from their standpoint, for they be- 4 ~ lieved pictures a novelty like stamp photo- 4 graphs or buttons with mottoes, I believed © active photography a possible art—and they | laughed at me.’ 3 Comic misfortune attended The 3 amous 4 Players at the start. +s After Herculean labor and the Riivaleows + assistance of Daniel Frohman, James 14 O’Neill was persuaded to act > “Monte a Cristo” as an initial offering—and> Selig, a the sly dog, beat them to it, with his ex- perience and superior facilities, and got a ta “Monte Cristo” on the market before they - were through “shooting.” 4a Production, shelved. And Zakor wast stumped—until he heard that in France Sarah Bernhardt was making a version of — “Queen Elizabeth.”’ Could it be secured? © It could! ‘They sent their money, and as Mr. Zukor says, they walked up and down before the box containing the negative and one print, trembling. It was a case of pur- chase sight unseen. If their money had curtains for The Famous Players. But it was not thrown away, for the pic- ture was a success, although not as big a success as Famous’ first American-made photoplay, which followed immediately thereafter: ‘“The Prisoner of Zenda,” with James K. Hackett. The rest of the history of Famous Play- ers has been a matter of multiplication within and addition from without. ’ Here are two of Mr. Zukor’s working mottoes, which I think are so pertinent and vital that they apply universally: (Continued on page I40)

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We don’t mean that the fans personally carpentered these lux- urious dwellings. Day by day, the millions of photoplay devotees have poured before their idols a golden tribute such asno other artists ever won. Barvidt Some Palaces the Fans a Such are the exigen- cies of sunshine and -location that most of these homes havebeen reared in California — though the “‘net pro- ceeds -of homage” have built not a few fine places along Long Island Sound, and in Connecticut. HIS spacious mansion in - Southern style is the Hollywood home of the Dex- ters: Elliot and Marie Doro. You can see Mrs. Doro-Dex- ter at the fountain in her front yard. The house, which con- tains as many rooms as the famous Arlington mansion of General Lee, is situated at a convenient distance from the Lasky studio, and has, in the past year, been the scene of many a bmilliant artistic-social assemblage. At the left, behold Ruth Stonehouse domestically em- loyed at her fireless fireside. Though one of the most recent additions to the Los Angeles motion picture colony, Miss Stonehouse is already as comfortably established as any Native Daughter from lowa the Golden State ever saw. 75

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16 Photoplay Magazine After two uninterrupted years in California, William Farnum has just returned to his home in Sag Harbor, L. I. As you see, he has a lawn so extensive that it has to be cut with a horse mowing-machine. which he chauffs himself. SOs % Ss The Hollywood domicile of Gladys Brockwell and her almost equally youthful mother.

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EE —— a — a —_ se rT ——— a a —————_ on ~ — — ——— ,. ie my Some’ Palaces the Fans Built | 77 eb GS stipe g, SSH Pe seaneeencenteet ote In front of the fair white Holly- _ wood chateau at the top of this '. page is its owner, astride his newest runabout. You probably. won't need a magnifying glass to identify Douglas Fairbanks. Below, right, stands the head vamp of the Pa- cific, Louise Glaum. Her domestic spider web, very strangely re- sembles ‘an innocent little bungalow grown over with dainty and un- wicked vines. Such are the lairs of the terrible! At the left, on the other page, Kathlyn Williams dis- mounts from her Winton in front of the home in western Los Angeles which she herself designed. ©.

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78 | Photoplay Magazine Left, the Los Angeles home of Margaret Thompson and her husband, E. H. Allen, who is Mr. Ince’s gen- eral manager.. Above, the house in Hollywood which Farrar leased during her first season, but which has passed to Mary Pickford, and is the Pickford home today. Ad Francis X. Bushman’s home, ‘‘Bushmanor,”’ Rider- wood, Maryland, is a genuine country estate, with forest, field and stream and the ample mansion of a country gentleman. Att the right you see one of Mr. Bushman’s riding parties, gathered before the house for the start. Att the extreme right, Mr. Bushman, and just in front of him, on a black horse, Mrs. Bushman. On the lower step are four of Mr. Bushman’s chil- dren, while on the white horse is another— five in all.

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= — rr rrr rrr arr a ene ce | ~r Ko) Some Palaces the Fans Built The Los Ange- les home of Howard and Bessie Barris- cale’ Hickman. Center,the Tom Ince casa—a luxurious Hollywood bungalow of anish atmo-

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80 : Photoplay Magazine At the yght, Tsuru Aoki bids az revoir to her husband, Sessue Hayakawa, as he starts from his Los Angeles home for his day's make-believe at the Lasky studio. In the center the Hollywood resi- dence of Jack Dean and his wife, Fannie Ward, needs no_ other. ress-agent than a_ photographer. This home was purchased by the Deans last year. Among the substantial old set- 3 tlers of Hollywood is Wallace q Reid. This is the venerable fellow’s home, and the fact that he earned enough to buy two or three like it by being a celluloid lover to Geraldine : Farrar, and other bits of loveli- ness, is enough to cause a strike 3 among the dock hands — if the 4 dock hands ever stop to think it over.

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a a. a “ » death penalty, being rescued just at the last Witzel photo Copyright photo by Underwood & Underwood Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky : By Ellen Woods | ROM the earliest times, “the heavens have told.” Babylon. The astral influence was believed in before The astrologers of Persia, the oracles of Greece and the soothsayers of Rome took great stock in planetary augury, and star-readings have persisted in every century of the _ Christian era. Whether. you -believe in starry signs or not, the careers of successful men and women ° today follow their.,set and unchangeable indications with the most amazing accuracy. more than interesting; it’s positively fascinating. Nativity of Robert Harron, Born April 12th. | T THE hour of his birth, the twenty- eighth degree of the Zodiacal sign Scor- pio was on the Eastern horizon with the benevolent sign Sagittarius intercepted, which all means that our -beloved “Bobbie” is ruled by both Jupiter, the priest, and Mars, the war god. We find at his birth Mars placed in the intellectual sign Gemini, in conjunction with the psychic planet Neptune, both receiving good rays from the cold, shy Saturn, exalted in Libra. Mr: Harron was born very fortunate in many ways. One of these indications is, that he will never want. No matter how dark his prospects may appear at times, some good turn will come at the right moment. ’ dis fame will be tremendously increased ‘in the future, because the configuration of his progressed planets continue to improve in har- mony. Another strong indication of his good luck is that he is a born actor. Almost always we find him taking parts in plays where he is unjustly imprisoned, or in great danger ‘of the moment. Now, if he had not been an actor, © the malign influence of Uranus in his twelfth " house, the house of bondage,. might have in- * ’ fluenced his actual life, which would have | been disastrous. The study is Nativity of Geraldine Farrar, Born Feb. 28th. HIS lady has a most wonderful nativity. The position of the planets and their con- figuration at the hour of her birth give her a stronger personality than the majority of women. She is tender hearted, loves peace, is generous to a fault, and is endowed with the power of magnetic attraction. She is de- | termined to be foremost in everything, and - can, if she wishes, command the friendship of those of the highest degree. In ~-fact, she excites the admiration of all with whom she comes in contact. This lady will always be successful in mak- ing money, but not so much so in saving it. Someone skilled in finance should attend to her investments. She has indications of chil- dren with wonderful intellects, but inclined to disobedience. There is strong probability of losing the eldest in some strange manner. Miss Farra~ has a liking for odd and daring pleasures or places of amusement. Her great- est attainments will culminate in the year 1920 (if the hour of birth was given correctly) and will continue for many years. A curious example of her character, as shown in her horoscope, is found in her choice of such a part as Joan, the Woman, in which her great reverence for divine power is dis- played. 81

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~ Desmond~of Dublin By Kenneth O’Hara Dublin — “meenistered” his way through ‘‘Peggy,” with Billie Burke, another pedestal in the corridor for cellu- loid idols has been occupied. Desmond first became attached to the theatre in New York, when, as a young- ster, he used to sit up among the peanut- eaters and whistle shrilly every time one of Carter’s heroes bumped the villain off. Later, in life, he took part in an amateur performance held under the auspices of the Ladies’ Auxiliary, or something, and im- mediately’ became obsessed with a desire te draw a salary out of the footlights. So he joined. a ‘Quo Vadis” road company and made good. Years of stock.experience qualified him to handle the role of leading man with the old Grand Opera House stock*company in Los Angeles, which association was fol- lowed by six years under the Burbank ban- ner. Oliver Morosco sent him east as star in ‘The Judge and the Jury,” and at the termination of this run, he placed himself under the management of Morosco, FE VER since Bill Desmond—born in 82 Belasco, Frohman and the Shuberts, in succession. Next, he spent two years in Australia, and returning to America, went on tour in ‘he Bird of Paradise.” He never flirted with the camera until Thomas H. Ince approached him, in 1915, and tossed a fat contract into his lap. Bill signed it and then put on the cloth and the inverted collar to shy at Billie Burke. Desmond; Desmond and dogs; Desmond and Clara -Williams an a recent Ince play.

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Mabel Julienne Scott, Mitchell Lewis, (stand- ing) and Edward Rose- man, in a scene from “The Barrier.’’ . HE month of w hich I write, resound- ing with the alarms and filled with the enthusiasms of our young war, has “seen no: radical departures, has been “marked’ by no especial strides in photoplay ‘presentation. Many screen dramas have ‘been offered, and perhaps thev have re- ‘ceived an ‘even more generous share of patronage than usual ; but the country is ‘in a mood for eniertainment and removal ‘from its heavy momentary cares; not for ‘artistic experiments or for high-calibred ‘shocks to its emotions, which are coming ‘naturally enough in the course of every-day events. . The best photoplay I have seen this lonth is ‘“The Barrier.” Here is a splendid example of author plus director. Mr. Beach, the literary caveman of the North, needs no introduc- tion ; Edgar Lewis, a camera padrone who arries a Bessemer fist in a plush mitten, il need none when “The Barrier” has been generally circulated. The narrative substance of Mr. Beach’s story may or may not be familiar to you. It is enough, here, fo say that the story is laid in its teller’s preferential haunt, Alaska; that its pri- mary concern is the love of a high-bred soldier for a girl he thinks a half-breed— Shadow Stage A Department of Photoplay Review By Julian Johnson therefore the barrier; while its secondary. motif is the darker and more sinister tale. of a love outraged, of murder, of unjust _ accusation and outlawry. Not since Mr.- Griffith exploded a whole rocket of unsus-_ pected stars in the Dixon cinema has a cast so completely unknown scored such signal triumph. The days of easy star- -making are past, and I do not believe that director Lewis’s prodigies will planetize them- selves—yet Mitchell Lewis, who comes out | of obscurity to play ’Poleon JDoret, the lovable ’breed, gives one of the most mag- | nificent performances the silversheet has — ever reflected. It is possibly the high mark in individual interpretations this year, although I would not care to make that statement without careful reflection. And another favorite leading woman assuredly springs full-armed in Mabel Julienne Scott, whose performances of Merridy and Necia are passionate, sincere, vital, flawless. Equal honors, too, are Russell Simpson’s, for his alternately ten- der and ferocious delineation of Gaylord | and Gale, the two personalities of the hunted man. In fact, a list of excellencies would include the cast entire, for such great small parts as the Bennett of Howard Hall, the Runnion of Edward Roseman 83

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84 | Photoplay Magazine and W. J. Gross’s de- lectable portrait of ““No-Creek”’ Lee do not ~ deservé oblivion in any account. Director Lewis wins the thanks of every being with an artistic soul for refusing to fade out on a hug. Instead, it is upon the final departure of ’Poleon, fantastic and _ blithely tragic, that the light expires. OPP". = 35" tae best vehicle Norma —Talmadge’s talents have ridden in since ‘‘Panthea;”’ and in many ways it is a marker screen play, — for, like the Cynthia Stokely novel from which it was adapted, it has an unwonted freedom from the conventional manner of narration, and a remarkably effortless play upon and de- velopment of human character, both in its men and its women, rather than the fruit- less stalking of the usual bad puppets and good puppets and mediocre puppets who are at once the furniture and cogs of con- temporary. screen drama. Jhis author starts with the assumption that all her mimic people are more or less wicked, and that it’s up to the years, experience, chas- tening sorrows and perhaps some love to make them a bit better, if not really good. Which is about like real life—isn’t it? The action passes mainly in South Africa. Poppy Destin, bound out to a Scotchwoman who is a sort of super-Boer, vamps away to the swamps and freedom. Luce Abinger, a. gentleman of slightly predatory instinct, finds her at the gate of his compound; takes her in, educates-her, and, upon ‘the verge of a departure for England, marries her with a French ceremony which she believes is legal adoption. The author now steps heavily upon the accelerator of proba- bility when she asks us to believe that a young man wandering in the delirium of fever can be a genuine Don Juan; but after this shoal the tale flows in smooth lifelike- ! "i i ite ys Sessue Hayakawa, i = Claws.’ 6 4 ~~ n “The sail ness to its conclusion, — Poppy sails to London, 4 struggles for literary. success, and_ beholds— cher beloved little name-_ less boy die in a fall” from a window on the ; very day that triumph — came. Eventually, back © to Africa, where she” divorces Abinger, and, after enduring a bares rage of moral stone- throwing by a lady who ™ lives in a large glass © house, she weds Sir Evelyn Carson, her rare knight who | — could unite a tem- = perature with tem-— ; perament. 3 The. easy, hue * man _— performances ~ of most of the@ people in this play ~ assure us. that screen ~ naturalness not only = endures, but denrishes. Miss ‘Talmadge — passes perfectly from short-frocked, bar- | barous childhood to slightly satiric, elegant © maturity. There is not another camera ~ woman who could so contrive this char- ~ acter’s long range and unexpurgated cata- ~ logue of every female emotion. Eugene ~ O’Brien is so fine as Carson that we wonder — why we don’t see more of his work before © the camera. Frederick Perry brings all the - assets of his acting maturity to “Abinger, and there is a wonderful colored woman. ~ the cast doesn’t name. Edward Jose is © stamped by this picture a genuinely big-, time director. ROMANCE of the Redwoods” is — not much on originality, but it is an-— innovation in lighting, and in the finish of its small details is perfection itself. In it~ — Mary Pickford represents a New England, virgin of the past mid-century, come the — long, long way to California, and to a ~ scalawag who. keeps his head out of a-hal-. — ter by falsely impersonating her uncle, — deceased via.some arrows. ‘The best part — of the story is the first half, in which you~ ~ wonder whether Jenny (Mary) will be: ~ sacked like Alexandria, or will make a real - ~ hero out of Black Brown, the hold-up

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The Shadow Stage , 85 gentleman. Jenny’s journey to her uncle, and the bandit’s donning of her uncle’s per- sonality, as the wolf donned the comfort- ables of Little Red Riding Hood’s grand- ma, make a real situation. ‘The last half of the play is a combination of ‘“Salomy Jane” and ‘“The Girl of the Golden West,” without apologies. I wonder if Mary with- out her curls felt as Lady Godiva did charging down that ancient Fifth avenue minus her frock and all the and-so-forths? At any rate, she, Raymond Hatton, Elliott Dexter, Tully Marshall and Walter Long do some genuine acting. In illuminative novelty this piece is remarkable, and as an entertainment it is much more than pass- ably good. HE Lasky ministry puts forth a unique but excellent combination of players in “The Jaguar’s Claws,” a Mexican story of the usual sort. Sessue Hayakawa plays FE] Jaguar, a sort of sub-Villa, while Fritzi Brunette, formerly a Selig player, Tom ' Moore, Marjorie Daw, Tom Forman and © Mabel Van Buren complete the cast. ' Direction by Marshall Neilan, and it is di- F rection of the sort by which Neilan is ' making himself more notable each month. - If Olga Petrova had put her corsets back ' in the trunk, and had, for a few minutes, ' stood close enough to a stove to thaw out, “The Undying Flame” would have been a very artistic, intelligent photodrama. | It might not have been a world-beater in popularity, as its story is a bit archeolog- ical, but it had a thought, at any rate. The story is not one story, but two; the parallel between happenings in Egypt under the dynasty of the Shepherd kings, and under the British vice-regency. Mme. Petrova plays a Princess of the Aida period, and Grace Leslie, of the modern day. Her stays, under an Egyptian robe, are as apro- pos as ankle-length bloomers in the Follies. And she is eternal ice. Mahlon Hamilton is especially successful in his realization of an Egyptian shepherd. Once more, Marshall Neilan: this time, thanks are due him for his delightfully human touches in screening ’Gene Stratton Porter’s novel, ‘Freckles.’ Jack Pickford, Louise Huff and Hobart Bosworth are the principals of this pleasing play. “Heart’s Desire,” featuring Marie Doro, is a story of the unworldly life on the island of St. Anne’s, off the French coast. In it Miss Doro has the support of Mario ’ | A scene from “A Romance of the Red- woods,’’ with Mary Pickford.

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86 Majeroni and complete ineffective- hess as in ‘“‘Sacri- fice,” her first-re- leased Lasky play. A story of war and personal evils, it needed no great im- petus of originality to place it in Rus- sia. Miss Illington has a pair of parts: a young woman of considerable sophis- tication, and a young girl of con- siderable innocence. As the girl she has moments’ of great charm in ap- pearanc e—mo- ments; but as the woman of the world it is hard to under- .stand how any civi- lized camera could have been so cruel. “Unconquered’’: is a better sett: implement than Fannie Ward has had thrust into her small hands _ in months: It is a story of modern so- ciety; of an impos- sible husband, and of course the third angle—the other man. Yet, withal, it is rather a human story; believable; well acted; intelli- gently directed ; lavish in equipment, a nd _ ornamented with a number of extremely —_ logical episodes. Miss Ward, Jack. Dean and Hobart Bosworth have the triangular Tully Marshall has good bit as Jake, a voodoo Ethiop. This photoplay had good direction and scenery. other Unfortunately, Margaret Illington can- not do any really sieities work in the films as long as she photographs with such Photoplay Magazine capable _ players. A lofty moment in ‘‘Periwinkle,’? a new Minterplay. assignments, while interested an extraordinarily ‘ sini is no excuse for a play as silly s “Her Better Self,” the preposterous spebaion put forth as a stellar carriag, for Pauline Frederick. beholders seem no more than casually in the misadventures of this olive-skinned brother to the horses. have seen it all before. an old story, for his writers have given him : s “Society” and the “underworld,” monkeyish “count and a natural American nobleman flicker against each other in sweet old- stuff relief. This is a real moving pic ture, of the flubdub type believed popu- lar in ‘‘the slums”—" if there are any such places. It makes its author ridiculous, it cheapens actors of © the standing of Pauline Frederick and Thomas Meig- han, and it is an ab-— solute arraignment of the production ~ department of Fam- ~ ous Players. Vig-— nola, the director, did not better thea contemptible sc e-~ nario that came to — his hands. 5 a EORGE_ BE-*} BAN is badly © in need of good © scenarios. He is-™ limited in his inter- — pretative gifts, but — it is hatter to be — narrow and perfect than scatteringly mediocre. In ‘‘The Marcellini M il- lions” he limns an Italian truck-driver who comes into sud- den wealth. To put poor Guido Bartelli across, Beban works with absolute feroc- ity, but at best, his aa They Beban’s Italian is

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nothing new. picture. “The World Apart” is the meaningless title of a pretty good Western play featuring Wallace Reid and Myrtle Stedman, and_en- hanced, as well, by the unfeatured work of John W. Burton and Eugene Pal- lette. House Peters and. Kathlyn Williams have proven an ex- cellent combination. “The Highway of Hope” has a real story: the account of an unvarnished chivalry and_ the grimly humorous desolation that comes to a man of refinement who, in a moment of alco- holic — heroics, has married a slatternly ignoramus. When ' the man skids the » woman begins to go “up, and the poor thing he saved proves his own eventual salvation. Both Miss Williams maa: Mr. ...Peters bring all. of their varied abilities to these roles. PINE ARTS had a sunny finish. The good-bye work mee ©O.. Henry’s ' *Madame_ Bo-Peep of the Ranches,” sawed off in title to ~Madame_ Bo- Peep.” Scenes that Sparkle with humanity race after each ' other in rapid succession, and the cast in- cludes Seena Owen, A. D. Sears, Sam De- Grasse, Pauline Starke, Kate Bruce and Director, q Jennie Lee. Helen Jerome Eddy, as Antonietta, is really the high spot of the The Shadow Stage “Bo-Peep” — will sessors ! Emmy Wehlen, in ‘“‘The Duchess of Doubt.’’ “Chet” Withey. 87 Action, speed, punch and humor—alas, have too few — suc- “Souls ‘Triumphant’? sounds more like a hymn by the late Fanny Crosby than the title of a Fine Arts photo- play. And it should have been. Nothing but one good fire scene to excuse its existence, and for the rest, a queer waste of such. tal- ents. as Lillian Gish, Wilfred Lu- cas and _ Spottis- woode Aitken. [NCE plays are a bit lightweight this month. In fact, for several months Tom Ince’s output has lacked that pe- culiarly individual force, that rugged human, power which made this paper once call him “the Rodin of shadows.” Apparently this is due to nothing more than. Mr. « Ince’s artistic absence and overwhelming busi- ness presence; Tri- angle seems con- tinually reorganiz- ing itself; and T. H.-1., little as he may like it, is the leading chip in that managerial swirl. I regret these things Because: the . Ince niche is a distinctly individual one that no one else can fill. His once-unswerv- ing output of big- gauge stories has become a flood of froth and futility, and they will continue to .be froth and futility until Mr. Ince is less at the board meetings and more on the lot. ‘“‘Bawbs o’ the Blue Ridge”’ is a trifling

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88 Photoplay Magazine An early episode of ‘‘Poppy;’’ Norma Talmadge and Eugene O’Brien. and very mussy story of the Eastern moun- tains, deploying Bessie Barriscale in a sooty and bare-legged role. : “Wild Winship’s Widow” is a_ better play than Dorothy Dalton has had in some time, although it leans a bit heavily on mo- tion picture society and its ball-and-chain ‘traditions. In it Miss Dalton portrays a comely relict determined to remain true to the memory of one whom it takes five reels to discover wasn’t true to her. The trouble with ‘“The Millionaire Vag- rant,” Charlie Ray’s latest contribution, is that it hovers uncertainly between placard- ing itself as comedy or drama, and the conclusion is apparent early in the second reel. Without suspense one merely endures. Enid Bennett is, pictorially, perfect. And dramatically, meaningless. If there is anyone in pictures who can photograph A piece literature. very good plays, a repertoire of acceptable more divinely and really do less we should like to” see the party. Miss Ben-™ nett is fast, graceful, ath-~ letic, smileful or tearful, q not unamusing, and dra- ~ matically as shallow as a_ piece of tissue paper, © Possibly the plays in” which she has been cast — account for this. Her™ recent play, cailed “‘Hap- ~ piness” is, on the face of —~ it, ridiculous. ‘The Girl, © Glory,” is not so bad, save that ‘it treats the © “licker evil” not as ‘aa physiologic misdemeanor — and economic folly, but ~ in the manner of a no- — rum agitation up Maine ~ way sixty years ago. ND _ right here, a word for Mr. Ince’s greatest star, William §S. Hart. There’s nothing new by © Hart — since “Wolf Lowry,’ but his prestige grows. apace throughout the. country, and deservedly. Hart is furnishing something more than Western mo- tion pictures, Along with the best and most conscientious writers of our time he is making a transcript of the West that was. _ His plays have not only external reality, but humanity. They reflect not only time and place, but the men and women of those times and places. like “Wolf Lowry” is optic [OLA DANA is today the orchid on Metro’s breast. She has had a. few ones, and one or two which were awful— but she has gone on steadily, under the direction of her husband, John Collins, and now she can boast one of the biggest fol- lowings on the screens of this or any country. Of late she has been an Oriental. Her newest plays are “God’s Law and Man’s,” adapted from Paul Trent’s novel, “A Wife By Purchase;” and “Lady Bar-

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The Shadow Stage 89 nacle,”’ taken from a short story by Edgar Franklin. In the first, behold her as the quaint and determined Eurasian girl, Amela; in the second, as Lakshima, daugh- ter of a Maharajah. -I am sorry that space forbids a more detailed description of these incensy tales, which in the main are worth while, are well acted, well staged, and exploit the talents of a genuine young artist. Another Metro climber is Emmy Wehlen, the Austro-English light opera comedienne who has been a very serious picture worker for more than a year. Miss Webhlen’s re- cent vehicles, ‘Sowers’ and Reapers,” and “The Duchess of Doubt,” show a remark- able increase in talents which have_ been carefully maturing. Of the two plays “The Duchess of Doubt” is by far the more logical and believable. “Sowers ancl Reapers” is, in its main plot, pretty much the movie of other days. Francis P. Elliott’s fantastic story of a garment bewitched by an ancient Chinese empress, “The Haunted Pajamas,” does good service applied to the two valiant legs of Harold Lockwood. ‘These magic bifur- cations fly about from person to person, and the string of complications moves faster and faster until, at the finale, the haunted pajamas are destroyed. Here is enter- tainment not only for the Lockwood lovers, but as well for that great portion of the public which never tires of legends -of enchantment. “The Gall -of Her -Peaple* adapted from Edward Sheldon’s “Eeoypt,” finds Ethel Barry- more in much the sort of role that Mabel Julienne Scott plays in “The Barrier,” but compared to Miss Scott Miss Barrymore is heavy and slow. Nevertheless, “The Call of Her People” is a well-staged _ and_care- fully-made photoplay. “The. Millionaire’s Double” is a swift, sus- tained .yarn: of adventure featuring that corking charac- ter-maker, Lionel Barrymore. Here is a piece with a punch, Gail Kane, distinctly worth while. Let’s PE hope that ‘Peter Ibbetson”’ Crust.” will not chain the Barrymore brothers to the speaking stage. M/ORLD should do well, in a programme way, with its French importations. The difterence between pictures made in France and. pictures made in America by French directors of the average sort is that the first are directed normally, for their foreign atmosphere and surroundings, while the second have Gallic gestures, Gallic traditions and Gallic beliefs grafted onto distinctly American situations. - Result, a whole as harmonious as a Gothic jail in Iowa. | _ “Atonement,” the first of the new Brady French pictures to be released, features Regina Badet, a sensuously beautiful act- ress, in a melodrama of that school whose primitive power and direct human passions produced “I Pagliacci” and ‘Cavalleria Rusticana.” But the best thing about “Atonement” is the acting presence of that truly great screen player, Albert Signer, whom you may remember as the school- master, in “‘Mothers of France.’ If this undemonstrative, forceful man comes to America, as has been promised, he will, under proper direction, give every American character actor the fastest workout he ever had. “The Crimson Dove,” despite its sissy name, is a rattling good play of the modern frontier—this time a lumber camp— ’

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90 3 Photoplay Magazine featuring Carlyle Black- well and June Elvidge. “A Naked Soul” is the second of the World French photoplays. While a tragedy perhaps too somber for the majority of audiences in the present anxious times, it is never- theless finely done, and will commend ‘itself to the dis- cerning. You will like Susan Grandaise, who is beautiful, simple and girlish. “Yankee Pluck,” a trite, cheap story by Willard Mack, has been well produced, and especially well acted by a cast including Ethel Clayton, Montagu Love, Charles Bowser and Johnny Hines. Magazine editors have one supreme contempt: it is reserved for the man who has to “pull a fire” to end his story. Shannon Fife starts not badly, in his_play of serious pur- pose, “Maternity,” but he gets so tangled up in fire and disaster that the finish is not worth staying for. Alice Brady, a young wife who fears motherhood, is the central figure of this sociologic photoplay. “Moral Courage,” or the flip girl’s cheat- ing. revenge on father-in-law, vouchsafes Muriel Ostriche in very pleasing person- ality, if in a scarcely possible play. It is interesting to note that Romaine Fielding directed—and a pretty good job he made of it, too. RIDER HAGGARD’S “Jess” has been worked over into a_ scenario called ‘“‘Heart and Soul,” for Theda Bara. One of Miss Bara’s peculiarities seems to. be that goodness kills her. She thrives in the. vitriol of villainy, but when frozen in virtue—as Cigarette, or Jess, or any of the well-meaning girls in whose personalities che has expired——you may be sure that she has but five scant reels to live. Harry Hilliard is here, pleasantly enough; Claire Whitney is chemically pure, and Walter An episode from ‘‘The Squaw Man’s Son.’’ In the foreground: Anita King and Wallace Reid. at Law is the most perfectly — awful man. There is a lot © this | excitement in cinema. : George Walsh is evi- ~ dently pursuing Doug ~ Fairbanks’ hurdle records ~ with “The Book Agent,” ~ a rushing comedy drama ~ of unusually lively sort, directed by Otis Turner. Stewart Holmes is in line for con- graulations, for he is not content “to rest upon the laurels of a peculiarly original kind of _ villainy. 3 Instead, he is going — after character stuff, and going after it hard. Witness, his newest vehicle, “A Broadway Sport.” ORIS KENYON, Thomas Holding and Paul Gordon are the . luminaries. of “The: oGreat «White Trail, ” an Alaskan melo- drama made by the Whartons and put forth by Pathe. ‘The piece is not a‘novelty, nor is it especially keen in its character. descrip> tions, but it is swift, direct melodrama; for ~ the regular picture-patron it will prove: “reall entertainment. Despite a shockingly trite and common- place story, the acting of Edwin Arden, Gertrude Berkely, Forrest Winant, Helene Chadwick and Leonore Harris make “The Iron Heart’ worth while. | George Fitzmaurice directed ‘The . Iron Heart,” and he also directed, and probably saved, ‘‘Blind Man’s Luck,” which deploys the talents of Mollie King. What couldn’t © Mollie King do in a real story! 3 ROM time to time Lois Weber has - essayed plays with purposes, but in “The Hand .that Rocks the Cradle” she strikes pure propaganda. And the propa- ganda, which is birth control, will probably hit various snags in its course through the country, although it voids more smoke than - fire, and no declarations more revolutionary

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; | The Shadow Stage | 91 than the. reiterated argument that large families are often a curse to poor people. The best performance in the piece is given by Evelyn Selby, as the wife of a laboring _ man, most adequately represented by Harry e de More. We follow Sarah from _ her awkwardly coy wedding day to _ those drearier days when her offspring have as- - sumed the proportions of a herd, and she ' has grown old and frantic with care. Miss Selby’s is really a remarkable performance. Miss Weber herself plays a good part, Phillips Smalley is at his very best as a physician, and the production as a whole is marked by that air of finished realism _ which is the Weber trademark. I wouldn't ' call this an attempt to _ Margaret Sanger notoriety, for I think Lois | Weber is a bit bigger*than that—neverthe- "less, a photoplay of this sort is a waste of time. _ Among other Universal offerings— | “Bringing Home Father.”. A _ town ' politics satire, in which Franklyn Farnum “smiles so persistently and irritatingly that

Bn capitalize the just one little tear would be as welcome relief as a rain in Death Valley. “Southern Justice.’ A genuine story of the Cumberlands, featuring Myrtle Gon- zalez and George Hernandez. <A_ good scenario, good acting, good photography. “The Dolls’ House.” Ibsen is going around the camera field as he swept the women’s clubs, twenty years ago. This production, a very careful, thoughtful one, was made by Joseph DeGrasse, and it is evident that Mr. DeGrasse approached his task not only with enthusiasm, but with reverence. Dorothy Phillips, as Nora, and Lon Chaney, as Nils Krogstad, are the most successful members of the cast. “Treason.” A poor story, uncertainly directed by Allen Holubar, who also per- forms one of the principal persons. “Like Wildfire.” Here Herbert Rawlin- son and Neva Gerber act out a tableaux based upon the romance of a five-and-ten- cent store. Obvious, but where I saw it they liked it. (Continued on page 143) g Bessie Barriscale as a teller of tales in ‘‘ Bawbs o’ Blue Ridge.’’

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Jacqueline’s home, and Jackie’s car. The Girl on the Cover By Allen Corliss HE was christened “Jacque- ~ line’ some 24 years ago in 4 the City of Brotherly Love, but no one but her Sunday School teacher ever called her that. ~ To every one else she has been © Jackie and not even a secure place in the film firmament together with a big house overlooking the broad and gentle Pacific Ocean have brought about any desire for a more sonorous or dignified front name. Jackie is an ardent Golfer in her spare moments.

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You think this is a snap? You’re right — it’s a ginger-snap! Miss Saunders began her career as an art model and is now regarded as one of the best culinary experts in the actorial profession. She can cook or bake anything that was ever thought of by the most deft of cuisine dabblers and this constitutes her favorite sport. What has art modelling got to do with cooking? Nothing at all. | It just goes to show that there is art in anything that is well done. Getting back to those early days however, Jackie posed Jackie boasts an aviary full of for such noted masters of the brush as Howard C. brilliant-feathered pets. Christy, Harrison Fisher and Clarence Underwood.

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94 Photoplay Magazine Before that time however, Miss Saunders had been a child dancer before the foot- lights. She made her debut in Atlantic City with a troupe of “dancing dolls” and was such a success that she turned to the stage for her life work. ‘“T made up my mind that I wouldn't start at the bottom,” said Miss Saunders in recounting her early adventures, “so when I applied for an engagement and was asked if I had had camera experience, I said ‘yes.’ I was cast for a leading part and my first scene was in front of Grace Church in New York. I had to rush up and kill, with a dagger, a girl going in to be married. We did the thing without rehearsing. I was so frightened that I didn’t know what I was about. A big crowd was looking on. But the picture came out fine, so I made good from the start.” Then, as all stars of the motion pictures began to trek westward, Miss Saunders fol- lowed suit. After working in various studios, she joined the Balboa forces at Long Beach, and has been there three years. leat ey ee ek 1 Be. The first big picture that brought this young star to the favorable notice of screen followers was ‘The Will O’ the Wisp.” It gave her ebullient personality free rein. to disport itself. Then came ~ “The Rose of the Alley,” which was Miss ~ Saunders’ own story. She developed it into a four-reel scenario herself. Other striking pieces in which she has been featured are “Reaping the Whirlwind,” “Ill Starred Babbie,” “A. Bolt from the Sky,” ‘The Shrine of Happiness,” ‘The Grip of Evil,” a Balboa serial, ‘“Sunny Jane,” “The Wild- cat,” and others, these latter being on the Mutual program. “Do I like pictures?” echoed Miss Saun- ders in reply to a question. “Why shouldn't [? All the prominence I have ever achieved has been before the camera. It has been a glorious adventure. I like the life and the activity of the cinema world. But some day I hope to have a chance before the public. I think there will be opportunities for players to alternate between the stage and the screen, in the future. But right now, I am satisfied where I am.” Ke Ae AE Mae Marsh and Robert Harron, re-united.at the Goldwyn studio. They are the central figures. At the left, director Jack Noble; at the right, cameraman George Hill.

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eae vers : Sparta, Mich. lt Should Have Been Different THAT IS, VIVIAN MARTIN’S MIDDLE INITIAL SHOULD. HAVE BEEN AN: ti" INSTEAD: OF AN —“L® By Kenneth MacGaffey HEN Vivian Martin’s little pink eyelids fluttered for the first time she gazed cut upon the great city of nected with her future convenience, and to save friends from embarrass- ment. You know there is nothing more annoying than a popular society girl who “has no name, whatever or however. So our baby heroine, again With that magnificent decision which has characterized every mo- mentous epoch of her _ illustrious career, she decided that Sparta was no place to begin a stage career—and she moved. : Before her departure, however, at the age of two months, she attended to a small detail con- Her breakfast: coffee and *‘Photoplay.’’

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96 Photoplay Magazine “Vim” is the slang for “pep,” and it is the only word in the frequently broken English language which really describes Miss Martin. Alas! How little names and initials usually mean, considering our haphazard system of nomenclature. Many a Percy is driving a truck, and in the past of many an aesthetic dancer lurks a Mike. One of the sweetest chorus boys I ever knew gave himself a fancy monaker that sounded like a _ Belgian church, whereas the parish priest had christened him Luke O’Brien. And “Julian Eltinge’’ votes as plain Bill Dalton. Be these things as they may and must— Our grammar - grade histories tell us that at four years, after review- ing all trades, professions, arts and jobs, little Vivian selected the stage as the fortunate medium for the To her fast little car she is not only racing driver, but mechanic. Below, you see her in a sccne from ‘The Wishing Ring.”’ evidencing that decision and forethought, had her- self christened. After a considerable discussion the conference committee having this in charge decided that little 7¢ should be called Vivian Louse Martin. Napoleon, it is said, lost Waterloo and the world because it rained on the June night béfore the great battle. Vivian wouise Martin probably didn’t lose any- thing, present or future, because her middle name commenced with an “L,” but a great opportunity passed by without even putting on the brakes. If Vivian’s parents had gazed into the future they would have made that ‘“L” an “TI,” at any cost, so that now, on the Morosco star’s gray roadster the initials reading “V L M,” which mean nothing, would instead read ‘“V I M.”

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expression of her ' abundant talents, and ' permitted the late - Richard Mansfield to give her a part in “Cyrano de Ber- gerac.”’ Then society de- manded its toll, and the youthful artist was taken from the stage and sent to school. When = she decided that the teachers had nothing on her, as far as general knowledge was concerned, the footlights began wink- ing at her again. “About this time the late Charles Froh- man, deciding that Maude Adams was making so tremendous a success in ‘Peter Pan” that the country could stand a duplicate, sat at his desk one gay morning, going over the list of eligibles, much in manner and quantity as your Uncle Sam _ reviews the draft registration. And in - walked, practically unannounced, an elfish, _ piquant little body who wanted to know ~ what Mr. Frohman had for her. | While Mr. Frohman was peeking under ' the table, trying to find the breath that _ this audacity had knocked out of him, the _ visitor spoke: “T’m just the Peter Pan you're looking ANSWERS TO THE EYE PUZZLE 3 [AST month the answers to the Eye , Puzzle in the May issue were acci- ' dentally omitted. Here they are: 12 Crane Wilbur 13 Norma Talmadge 14 Douglas Fairbanks 15 Theda Bara 16 House Peters 17 Mary Miles Minter 18 William Farnum 19 Mae Marsh 20 Mabel Normand 21-Charles Ray 22 Ethel Clayton - I Blanche Sweet q 2 Henry Walthall 3 Mary Pickford 4 Francis’ Bushman 5 Bessie Barriscale a: Anita Stewart _ 7 Charles Chaplin 68 Clara Kimball” 9 William Hart 10 Geraldine Farrar. - 11 Marguerite Clark Holbrook Blinn and Miss Martin, in one of the wee star’s first photoplays. -9 Clara K. Young 10 Harold Lockwood It Should Have Been Biffcrent 97 9 for,” she announced with such sweet as- surance that she got the job. And_ she Petered for more than two years without _being panned once. Then Mr. Frohman put her in “Father and the Boys,” with William H. Crane, and later she scored in .. “Officer . -666,”’ “Stop Thief,” and “The Only Son.” Then came the in- evitable camera call. Three photoplays in the East, and Oliver Morosco grabbed her with a contract, and sent her to California. Miss Martin has -been tie with Louise Huff and Jack Pickford at the Morosco studios, lately. Louise is her particular chum and ac- complice in- crimes, the most glaring of which were the hiding of Hobart Bos- worth’s moustache, and the kidnaping and concealment of. ‘Lottie Pickford’s _ tiny daughter, for more than an hour. She has even been known to pick on poor, defense- less little Wallie Reid, just because Wallie is learning to play the saxophone. For recreation Miss Martin drives her car into inaccessible spots, or worries a tennis ball. For the Puzzle Fans: ANSWERS TO THE LIP PUZZLE HERE are the answers to the Lip Puzzle, which appeared in the June issue of this magazine. 1 Anita Stewart 2 Wallace Reid 3 Mabel Normand 4 Charles Chaplin 5 Blanche Sweet 6 Francis Bushman 7 Helen Holmes 8 Roscoe Arbuckle 11 Douglas Fairbanks 12 Grace Cunard 13 Charles Ray 14 Mary Pickford 15 William Hart 16 Kathlyn Williams 17 Earle Williams 18 Pearl White 19 William Desmond 20 Ethel Clayton *

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98 HEAVY How often you see the interior of a church, or the interior of an old-fashioned theatre---so simple in its appointments, and so naturally lighted that Kliege lamps and Cooper-Hewitts seem a thousand miles removed. Yet here’s the reality: a veritable furnace of light above, behind and at each side. Back of it all the director, like a general in a battle, and his howitzer of a camera. ' Photoplay Magazine 1 ARTILLERY OF CHURCH AND STAGE | ‘‘A Lotta Bunk, Mary ” ARY THURMAN, the beautiful titian of Keystonia, whose athletic prowess has not been hidden under a bushel by the Sennett intelligence bureau, was the heroine of a recent tale regarding some of the athletic records she made while a student at Vassar. Most beautiful actresses of screenland are graduates of that feminine institu- tion of learning, if all press agents are to be believed. But that’s another story. A Keystone director was reading one of these stories recently and upon completing it, cast it aside with a disgusted grimace. “A lotta bunk, Mary,” he declaimed with the air of one who could not be fooled. “I'll bet that not even any of the fellows at Vassar could make such records.”

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A Man of Many Mothers Fannie Ward takes Billy to lunch — and Billy takes the lunch to him- self. OW, would you like to be mothered by Fannie Ward, Marie Doro and Blanche Sweet or big sistered by Mae Murray ? Little Billy Jacobs, the five-year- -old Lasky player, says it’s all very well in its way but he’d much rather _ be a chauffeur. Billy had been planning to bea police- -man when he grew up. But he now owns 'an automobile, purchased by his parents ‘from his savings, and he has decided to be a chauffeur. with goggles and every- ' thing when his legs get Tong enough to q reach the accelerator. Blonde maternal caresses and the attentions of petite silk- stockinged nurse maids now pall upon him. But we wonder if Bill is ever going to remember those scorned attentions with regret. Billy, by the way, can point to a greater collection of celebrated parents than any “other child in the universe. Every. week finds him enjoying the motherly caresses of 'a celebrated film star—and being paid for ‘it. Billy is equally cluttered up in the “matter of fathers. A score or more of big ‘names have paid him paternal attention. ° - But little Billy is patiently waiting the ‘day when he can stand beside a fashion- ‘able limousine and say, Bi ai to, sir?” _ just like that. les 99

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So the grizzled one-legged “‘salt’’ retold in glowing U6 LITTLE girl with shining eyes sat hud- dled in a corner of the fire-place at ‘The Fisherman’s Rest.” “Tell me that story, all over again, Cap- tain Barnaby. It was beautiful.” So the grizzled one- legged salt retold in glowing words the old, old story of Aladdin and his won- derful lamp, and Patsy Smith, the lit- tle household drudge at Mrs. Duff’s sailors’ boarding house, drank it in and_ believed every word of it. “What became of the lamp, Captain Barnaby ?” But the retired sea- captain was getting sieepy. | “Oh, the lamp’s knocking around town. some- where,” he said care- lessly. “You don’t mean to say in this vyil- lage?” “Yes, some sailor brought it home with him. from a long cruise.’ The cap- tain’s head was nod- ding. ‘What did he look like?” But Captain Bar- naby was fast asleep in his chair. Out of the house ran Patsy, first chang- ing her night-garb for her gingham frock, just in time to escape the watchful Mrs. Duff, who could always find something else to be done after everything was as spick and span as soap and water could make it. : “Patsy, come back here,’ cried the dragon. ; | But already Patsy was half-way to the brow of the cliff, to meet Harry Hardy, 100 oe -_ addin’s When the genie of material ever, came the greatest mir- By Janet.

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2 he old, old story of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp. ther Lamp fitacles had disappeared for- tle of all: a mother’s love. 'Tiest the grocer’s boy. For Harry was not an ordinary grocer’s boy: No, indeed! He was a fine, high-minded youth, and he was studying to be a lawyer. Ever before his eyes was the image of Abraham Lincoln, the ideal after whom he was moulding his life. Patsy had in- tended to tell him at once all about Alad- din and the lamp, but Harry was scowling at a paper he held in his hand, and the cur- rent of her thoughts was changed. “Look at this,’ he commanded. Patsy obligingly read it. “ ‘Vote for Stephen Burley for Mayor.’ Why, you can’t, Harry, you’re not old enough.” “IT don’t want to ¥ ote te Dim, I wouldn't vote for him if I could. But that’s fame, Patsy! Some day my name is go- ing to be on the hand- bills; running for Mayor.” - Patsy’s blue eyes opened wide. “You don’t say!” “T do say! And that’s only the begin- ning! Then I’m go- ing to be Congress- man, and then I’m going to be Governor, and then,—maybe President. Abraham Lincoln “And you'll be there too, Patsy. You'll have servants, and beautiful dresses, and do your hair up high on your head—even if you are only a drudge now in Mrs. Duff's boarding house.” ee flashed: fire. ‘Well, I haven’t always been Mrs. Duff’s drudge.. 101

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102 I can just remember, we used to have servy- ants too. Only father was always scold- ing mother, and then she took me to live at my uncle’s, and then father came one day and took me away ona boat. ‘hen father died, and Captain Barnaby brought me to Mrs. Duff’s. But l’m sure my dear beau- tiful mother is living, and I’m sure she’s a wonderful lady—wonderful enough to belong to any President's family, so there!” 3 . She gasped for breath. She had never talked so much at once in all her life, for Patsy was one.of those rare and lovable Photoplay Magazine bring much.” And it didn’t, for Mr. Stim n- son, the junk-dealer, was a shrewd busines man. _ Next morning Patsy - hanes Sie ia work as never before, anxious to start ou it on her quest. She tried the crockery -store t first. “Do you happen to hive Aladdin's lamp?” she asked Mr. Brown, the pro- prietor. Mr. Brown was a kindly man. He did not know what the little girl was up to, but thought he would humor her. — “Oh, you’ve made a mistake, Patsy. You'd never find a valuable lamp like that persons, a dreamer of dreams. haste to comfort his little sweetheart. sure she’s wonderful, Patsy. her in the White House with.us. But now you must go home. You mustn’t catch | cold and get sick again.” Alone once more, and in her quaint bed attire, back looking at the dying embers in the fire-place at And we'll have | Harry made “Tm “ALADDIN’S OTHER LAMP” ARRATED, by _ permission from Willard Mack’s photo- play of the same name, which has ’ been produced by Metro Pictures Corporation. with the following cast: Patricia Smith, known as Patsy Harry Hardy..... Robert Walker Gente Jehaunarara ............ 5G ES ER See e Augustus Phillips in a crockery and glassware store. break, you know. It would It ought to be made of metal. ‘Try Mr. Stimson’s, — He has a lot of things © that are all out of ae I have to keep up-to- date, ” you know.” As she didn’t find shea lamp anywhere else, and the people she asked only” laughed at her, she went” to Mr. Stimson’s. ‘Why, yes, I have sucha ‘The Fisherman’s Rest,” Patsy’s thoughts returned to that surprising person, Aladdin, and his wonder- ful lamp, which was now -in this very village. If she could only find it she could rub it and wish for her beautiful mother to appear. Where could it be? She stared into the Mrs. Du ff Judge Lawrence.. glowing coals until sour-faced Mrs. .Duff came and sent her upstairs to bed. ‘Be off with you, now. We’ve got to get up early in the morning to clean out all that old rubbish in the attic to sell to the junk- peddler. It’s been cluttering up the place long enough.” “Oh, Mrs. Duff, not my trunk too. never even seen the inside of it.” “Of course. How else am I going to get paid for your care and the doctor’s I’ve bill when you were sick? Here, come back! said your You’ can’t prayers.” Strange things were in the old trunk, curios brought from the far corners of the earth,—an old stone tablet with a strange inscription, a mummy, and an old lamp, of peculiar Oriental design, dull and battered. “A mess of rubbish,” said Mrs. Duff to herself as she closed the trunk. ‘That won’t go until you've .Henry Hallam eee Ricca Allen ..Edward Elkus Mrs. Helen Smithfield. 375 500%. ....Nellie Grant .Louis B. Foley Captain Barnaby. a lamp,” he admitted. Her heart beat hight with hope. “Oh, did a_ sailor bring it to you?” “T think he did,” lied — Mr. Stimson cheerfully. — “What did he look like?” “Why, I think he was a one- eyed man;— yes, and he limped, too.’ “It sounds likely,” said Patsy. —how much is the lamp?” ‘‘Five dollars.” 4 “Keep it for me. Please keep it for me, q Mr. Stimson,” implored Patsy, and she was — off like the wind to open her bank and give up all her worldly wealth in exchange . for a battered old metal lamp. Her hoard — amounted to $4.90—and a beer-check that — some sailor had given her in fun. Mr. ~ Stimson balked at the $4.90—but relented — when he saw the beer-check. The wonder- ful lamp was Patsy’s. 4 The rest of the day she could think of 4 nothing but her treasure. She did not dare to touch it until she. was alone for the night in her own little room under the eaves, where the rain sometimes made such a lovely soft patter that she couldn’t help going to sleep. It was raining now. Patsy . said goodnight to the cross Mrs. Duff, SS "=

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Aladdin’s Other Lamp Sour-faced Mrs. Duff came and sent her to bed. put on her little: nightclothes, and when she was all ready for bed, with the rain making its soothing patter,—rubbed the lamp. There was a flash, and then utter dark- ness. Was it lightning? But no! there before her appeared out of the very atmos- _ phere a wonderful figure, fierce and mag- ' nificent, his robes somewhat tattered after his two thousand years’ imprisonment—the genie of Aladdin’s lamp! Patsy could scarcely believe her eyes. _ ‘“Who—who are you?” she gasped. ' The vision bowed low. :‘*The Genie _ Jehaunarara, at your service.” 103 “Be off with you, now. We’ve got to get up early in the morning.”’ “T can’t say it,” said Patsy. “Until I get a better education, Ill just have to call you Jennie.” A’ shudder passed through the regal figure at having to answer to a name so undignified and fem- inine, but he was the slave of the lamp. He must obey. “Two claps of the hands make me ap- pear,” said the Genie. “Three claps of the hands make me disappear. But beware how you clap four times,—for then I should disappear forever. What are your commands, fair lady?” There were so many things Patsy wanted that she scarcely knew what to command first. The bare walls and ugly furniture met her view. “Jennie, | command you, change this room,” she said haughtily, with her first use of her new-found authority. Slowly, magically, the ugly room was transformed. The hideous, broken-down furniture gradually lost its outlines, and seemed to melt into more graceful lines. Magically it covered itself with rich and glowing tapestries, all in rose-color,—Patsy loved rose-color. In pure happiness she clapped her hands three times. The Genie disappeared. In a hurry, remembering the Genie’s instructions, she clapped her hands twice, and he reappeared gasping for breath. “Be careful, Patsy,” he admonished.. “Don’t do that again.” “Oh, I’m sorry,” said Patsy. more careful.” “T will be

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104 “What is your next command?” asked “Jennie,” bowing low. - -A flood of memories poured itself into the girl’s mind—years filled with Mrs. Duff's scoldings, coldness, and _ petty cruelties, years in which no love or kind- ness from her had warmed Patsy’s mis- understood little heart. “Change Mrs. Duff into a rag doll! ” she commanded. “Tt is done!” said the Genie. ‘‘Let’s go and see. I’m from Missouri,” said Patsy. So grabbing the dignified Genie by the hand she ran with him downstairs to Mrs. Duff’s room, forgetting that if she had wished it they might have simply melted through the ceiling. Sure enough, there was Mrs. Duff, lying- on the bed, shrunk to the size of a. rag doll. “She doesn’t fit in the bed, does she?” said Patsy. So she took her up and pinned her to the window curtain. “There! nice: ornament, which she never cic m life.” Captain Barnaby, hearing unusual noises of mirth, had come to find out the mean- ing of it 2 Oh Jennie, -make the Cap- tain’s’ other leg grow. good again.” In- stantly it was done, and Captain Barnaby joined. Patsy in a glorious. game of tossing the rag doll, Mrs. Duff, around the room. ~Then Patsy, discovering that her other wishes had been granted, dared to ask the. Genie Jehaunarara for her heart’s desire... “take me to my. “Jennie,” mother.” He shook his head sadly. she pleaded, “Love, the greatest thing in the world,” he said,. “‘is the one thing I cannot give you: All other things are only substitutes for it. I can--give you in abundance, but that is not within my magic power.” - Patsy just had to cry—she couldn’t help -it.. But a new hope dawned. MHarry was so clever.. He would be able to help the Genie find her mother. In a moment they had wished themselves into Harry’s room, the Genie, the Captain and Patsy. But Harry was not there. _ ‘Harry has-gone to a masquerade ball ti said the -Genie.- -“Let’s 80, ” said Patsy. automobile.” -“What-kind ?” asked the Genie. ‘“Let’s go in an - Patsy asked for the only kind she knew. ° “A Ford! a Ford limousine!” So in a specially constructed machine . 'Photoplay Magazine she makes a -her arms to her—and woke up! Those . they went to the ball, which was at Norma Dallas’ house. Norma Dallas was the richest girl in the village, and Patsy was dreadfully jealous of her. “Give me ] beautiful costume,” Patsy comma Jennie,—“much prettier than Norma’s.” Then she smiled at Harry, and he couldn't help admiring her more than he did N orma, — and she danced nearly every dance with | him. . a After the grand march prizes -were awarded. for the best costumes, and the Genie got first prize. His disgust “ was | complete when they fastened on him a wrist-watch. ‘‘What is time to a man whom has to spend thousands of years cooped up in a lamp?” he grumbled under his breath. But aloud he said, ‘hank ‘you,’ very graciously. ‘hen ‘everybody applauded, — and Patsy applauded with them.- 3 She had clapped four times before she _ knew what she was doing, and the Genie, — with one last reproachful look ‘at Patsy, — disappeared in a cloud of smoke—gone ~ forever. ‘There was Patsy, standing in — the midst of the gorgeously appareled com- pany in the little night-drawers in which — she had gone to bed! Everybody laughed, and Patsy, covered with shame and morti- — fication, rushed from the house into the — garden and cried as if her: heart would : break. A beautiful woman, the only one — who had not laughed, came out’to comfort her! It was her mother! Patsy held out Mother, Genie, and rag doll—all were dreams and dream-fancies ! _ Patsy took that old lamp she had bought from Mr. Stimson and threw it just as hard as she could, right out of the open window. It came near hitting Harry — Hardy, the grocer’s boy, who was passing _ in the early morning on his way to work. — Instead, it glanced past him, hitting the pavement, the top coming off ‘as Vit re- bounded, spilling papers and trinkets all around. © Looking up to find out where it come from, Harry saw Patsy’s frightened face at the window. He picked up‘ the scattered. bits,;and she ran downstairs to join him.» Together the two sat on: the door step in the early ‘dawn and read the letters that had: been hidden*so long ‘in the old trunk in the attic. One was from Patsy’s mother, pleading with her-husband to bring back her little girl. It was signed “Helen Smithfield.”

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Aladdin’s Other Lamp “Then Smithfield must be my real name,”’ said Patsy. ‘Mrs. Duff has always called me just Patsy Smith. Do you suppose my mother could be still living at the address given here?” “Let’s write and. find out,” Harry. “Oh, no, a letter isn’t quick suggested ( C enough. ~ 105 Let’s send a telegram.” But Patsy had ‘spent every cent she had in the world for the lamp, so Harry went downtown ‘and sent the telegram for her. Miracles do happen sometimes in this wonderful old world. Mrs. Smithfield did live at the same address, in the old family _ home with Patsy’s uncle, Judge Lawrence. A wire saying simply, ‘Coming. Mother,” was sent to Miss Patricia Smithfield, and then bags were hastily packed for the jour- ney. Never did a train move so_ slowly. ‘Wasn't it possible to get a faster train?” Mrs. Smithfield asked her brother.. ‘‘This The rest of the day she could think of nothing but her treasure.

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* 106 is an express, Helen,” he answered, with a smile ot sympathy for her anxious mother heart, “we couldn’t go any faster mee by aeroplane.” *« *K K K In the dingy parlor of “The Fisher- man’s Rest’ Patsy, Captain Barnaby and Harry awaited their arrival. ‘They came in a wonderful motor car—not a dream one. Ihe meeting between the mother and her poor little neglected girl was too sacred, too touching for other eyes to wit- ness. The men cleared their throats, and went outside on the doorstep to get acquainted. ‘Then, throwing herself on her - mother’s bosom, Patsy sobbed out the lone- liness and acccumu- lated heartaches of her years under Mrs. Duff's roof. But happiness gleamed like a rainbow through her tears. Never again would sorrow come near her. Here was a ‘mother more beauti- ful than any she. had imagined. The realization was bet- ter than any dream, and the old lamp, so long lost sight of in the attic, had brought her more joy than Aladdin’s lamp had ever known. The men came in from the ricketty old porch of “The Fisherman’s Rest.” ‘This young man wants to be a lawyer,’ said the Judge, placing his hand on Harry’s shoulder, ‘‘so he’s coming along with me. I’ve persuaded him to give up the grocery business for a while, and read law in my office.” Into this earthly heaven intruded Mrs. Duff, who wanted to know the meaning of the scene. “It means I am leaving your services,” said Patsy with quaint dignity. “You will have to get another girl.” Do it now. Mrs. Duff raised a corner of her apron and wiped her eyés. Could it be that she was really fond of Patsy after all? Or were they only crocodile tears? Who but Mrs. Duff could say? Anyway, Patsy de- cided to be magnanimous, and bestowed a forgiving smile on Mrs. Duff as she left her house forever. Photoplay Magazine If You Have Any Friends who are so unfortunate as not to be acquainted with PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE, don’t allow them to live in the darkness any longer. ray of sunshine into their drab lives. How? Just send their names and addresses into PHOTOPLAY MAG- AZINE and we’ll turn on the sunshine. . How’ll -we do it? them a sample copy. That’s all. What happiness there was in that new home! What amazing things to see, and — what difficult things to learn! With all — the seriousness and sincerity of ~her lov- ing little heart Patsy set about this new task of learning to be a lady, to mnakem herself worthy of this beautiful mother, — The madcap Patsy had vanished. In her ~ place was a demure, dainty maiden named — Patricia. But Patricia, like Patsy, was — true-hearted. Her thoughts were still of — Harry, the grocer’s boy, although now he ~ was young Mr. Hardy, Judge Lewin 4 assistant. 4 Patsy saw very little of Harry now. She a knew he devoted most of his time to study, — for she had heard — her Uncle remark, — “Mr. .Hardy is making great prog- — ress; a most ambi- — tious young man,” _ and Patsy wondered if ambition had crowded love out of his heart. q > He called to see ‘ , her one afternoon, _ his arms full of aw 3 books he intended — ‘ to study that eve- — ning. The image of Abraham Lin- coln still loomed - large in his mind, and Patsy was a living incentive, always. urging him on to greater effort. Patsy very’ charming in a little white frock ran_ to greet him. And what a happy little visit. they had! They talked of Patsy’s good fortune and Harry’s future, which most. certainly included Patsy. And the battered old lamp that had brought about so much happiness and made possible the realization of their dreams, now occupied the place of honor in a very handsome cabinet. Harry gazed at the — lamp and smiled, “It has brought us a lot already, Patsy—I mean Patricia,” he said apologetically. “If it isn’t Aladdin’s origi- nal lamp at least it’s his other lamp. And I believe it is going to bring us the rest.” “The rest?’ asked Patricia, with smiling eyes. ‘Vou know!” he said, bashfully taking her hand ‘‘'You—-and I—and your beautiful mother—in the White House.” Throw a We'll just send

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The Ince of Ethiopia 107 Palestine Among the Peons When a little old town down in the land _ of cactus, sand and sagebrush, where the - inhabitants are supposed to strut about with flaming bandannas draped around their - necks and a bevy of bullet propellers dec- - orating their waist lines, comes at you with _ the serious assertion that they are going - to produce Bible motion pictures in those ' parts, it kind o’ makes you take quick _ breaths and forthwith begin» to visualize a certain member of the Old ‘Timers’ Club named Annanias, doesn’t it? And yet that is exactly what the New Mexico city of Las Vegas has up. and announced. ‘They have discovered, after a thorough investigation in other localities, that their topography is as near Palestine as any other spot in North America. <A Bibleland expert shcwed them in their gis Pee BeHE 1

This is a very remarkable camera. OF hills exact reproductions of. the Horn of Hatton where occurred the Sermon on the Mount, Mount Hermon—the scene of the Transfiguration, the Garden of Gethsemane and many other holy land-like places. As a result the Bible Film Company will be- gin immediately the production of Bible motion pictures. Every foot of. film will be censored by a board of inter-denomina- tional nationally known clergymen. ‘This procedure will not only insure the proper sacred treatment, historical and chronolog- ical correctness of the new company’s out- put but will also practically guarantee its entree into churches, Y. M. C. A.’s. and similar institutions. : The. Bible Film Company’s studio and plant is located at the famous Montezuma Hot Springs, six miles north of Las Vegas. Epi Be ae ae eee Photo by Stagy Its brunette operator assures us that he shoois in any light, and hat a picture taken with it in the dead of night would be just as good as one exposed in California's a | dazzling moon.

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Hays and £ Layers FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND By Cal York HO will they take? has been the big question of the month with reference to the conscription law and the male stars of the shadow stage. A majority of them are within the limits prescribed as to age and it is more than likely that the film world will be robbed, temporarily at least, of many of its luminaries when the draft is made. Those who have passed the age maximum of the initial draft are not without their worries however, especially those who are in the big money class. The increased income tax has made some of them wish they had muzzled the press agent concerning their new contracts. A ee picture people have done their part in stimulating recruiting and the purchase of war bonds. The screen has been a big factor in the happenings of the last few months and those associated with the film industry have not been back- ward in showing their patriotism in a ma- terial way. In all of the big studios every effort was made to co- operate with the government in doing their “bit.” And sometimes it was a pretty good sized se oy | Shad UTH ROLAND quit California a — few months ago for the so-called effete East. Except for a few letters telling of her extreme lone- someness, her Los Angeles friends heard little of her. Then one day came word that Ruth had weck It was a big sensation in. Los’ Angeles, Hollywood and Long Beach to say nothing of Gasoline Row; the latter because the formed at Patchogue, N. Y. For the benefit of those who are interested in the identity of — the husbands of the stars, it may be added that — the name of the husband is Lionel E. Kent. — LARA KIMBALL YOUNG and Louis J. — Selznick have come to the parting of the ~ ways, as they say. At least this is inferred because of the suit recently brought by Miss Young for an accounting of the fiscal affairs of the Clara Kimball Young Corporation. The — complaint of the actress alleges that the profits ~ on her pictures amounted to something like $600,000 while all she received was a_ beg- garly thousand plunks a week. ‘The reply of her manager is that the break came because he refused to pay a “personal manager” of her own selection an absurd salary. Coupled with reports that the Mabel Normand Fea- ture Film Corporation had _ likewise cumbed after the completion of “Mickey,” the solitary photoplay of that con- cern the Young inci- dent caused quite a flurry in the “stars in their own corpora- tions” movement. ER BE Roe STANDING, the veteran player, has broken into the court records with a lawsuit against the William Fox Com- pany. He alleges that he was engaged to play in a _ photoplay and that the contract was broken before its filming was begun. He asks $900 dam- ages. ARY M A C- LAREN has taken the offensive in her war with Uni- versal. At the suc- newest addition to the “Only Their Hus- bands Club” is a well known auto salesman of Los Angeles. The ceremony was per- 108 This cuddling departure was Bill Hart’s. moment the photographer stepped on his bulb a dozen or more young women, gathered at La Grande Station, Los Angeles, on the eve of Mr. Hart’s recent tour to New York and other provinces, were wondering if the Caruso of horse opera would kiss them good-bye. (Editor’s Note: We think he did.) Following her legal victory in the Los Angeles courts over the right to break her _ contract and to use her stage name elsewhere, Miss

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a Plays and Players MacLaren’s attorneys filed an injunction suit asking that the film company be restrained from interfering in any manner with the ex- - hibition of Miss MacLaren’s films made by her own company which recently began work. The new pictures are being made at the Horsley - studio in Los Angeles. ~~ tion in the film market. ALEM seems to be another of the pioneer film companies to feel the keen competi- Soon after the closing - of the Jacksonville studio, business was almost - _ present. 4 address and Spike Robinson poured. » a very ' tana said in his remarks. away. - ZINE “more an actor. He “will be seen next with Jackie Saun- ders in “Betty Be Good.” Various ‘Teasons were as- F er for the cap- ains lapse, the most credible one - completely suspended at the Glendale, Cal., _ studio of the company. ' cessor to Helen Helen Gibson, suc- Holmes in the “Hazards” series, went to Universal, the company headed = by Marin Sais was turned out to pasture and : the Ham and Bud partnership alone remained to keep the plant sha OUGLAS FAIRBANKS had a birthday | party at his Hollywood home in May. All the members of his company from Author _ Anita Loos down to the press agent were Bull Montana made the felicitation It was “suspicious occasion,” as Signor Mon- HE same week also saw a birthday party at Dustin Farnum’s domicile a few blocks It was a surprise .affair and was at- tended by the elite of the film colony, includ- ing the colleagues of Mr. Farnum at the Fox. - studio. Incidentally it marked: the expiration Bo! that player’s contract with Fox. APTAIN LESLIE ‘E PEACOCKE, well known scenario writer and filmplay expert Behose articles in eenOFLAY MaGa- have been widely read, is once being that he had amassed a total of ‘42 fancy waistcoats of which he was eager to give the public the benefit. MAN’S Man,” the Peter B. Kyne serial vill be the celluloid vehicle for J. War- rer Kerrigan’s re- urn to the screen 4 ler a year’s see- _ America first. t is being filmed at Paralta studio Yes, a duck and a chicken will sometimes fraternize. Behold Gloria Joy, Balboa’s tiny leading lady, and what tags after her. 109 in Los’ Angeles under the direction of Oscar Apfel. ESSIE BAR- RISCALE, an- other widely known star taken over by Paralta is making ‘her debut with that company under the supervision of James Young. The photoplay is an adaptation of “The ~ Rose of Paradise.” Robert Brunton, formerly art direc- tor of the Ince studios, is director general of Paralta. Charlie Ray was once a German comedian, so ar- dently demanded by the populace that he couldn’t afford a store wig. This picture was taken in those awful times. ENRY WAL- THALL is no longer an Essanayist. His contract expired early in May and he quit Chicago for New York to look over a few volumes of proposed contracts. At this writing he had neither signed with another company nor started one of his own. RANK ELLIOTT has returned to the speaking stage and is now in Australia. Cyril Maude, playing “Grumpy,” visited Los Angeles and ran across Elliott who had been on the screen so long that he had almost for- gotten how to say “Curses.” Elliott listened to the tempter and sailed for the Antipodes. HILE impersonating a Red Cross nurse on-a Belgian battlefield near Fort Lee, New Jersey, Miss Kitty Gordon, World star, narrowly escaped serious injury by the ex- plosion of a bomb. Quick action by a camera- man saved Miss Gordon but Miss Pinna Nes- bitt, a member. of her company, was pain- fully burned. AYLOR HOLMES who created the title role in the dramatization of Harry Leon W ilson’s great.story “Bunker Bean,” has gone into ’em. He. is:now a member of the Es- sanay staff of stars and will perform in come- dies upon which that company is now con- centrating. VEN people in the filr “game” gave pause, so to say, when they read a little news item recently to the effect _ that Col. William Selig had ’ observed the twenty-first anni- versary of his association with motion pictures. In an in- dustry which counts five years a generation, 21 years is a cen- tury. It was Colonel Selig who discovered California in 1909 when he sent the first motion picture company to Los Angeles.

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110 HEX KING, who acquired directorial _i fame for his photoplays with Baby Marie Osborne, the Little Mary Sunshine of the films, has forsaken kids for grownups. He is now in Santa Barbara, Cal., looking after the cinemic welfare of Gail Kane. EORGE LARKIN, one of the pioneer stunt daredevils of the screen, is to be seen next in a drama with Marguerite Courtot done by the France Film Company. Larkin was last with Kalem in serials. AULINE FREDERICK gave a display of her patriotism recently by paying $500 for a silken American flag at the Actors’ Fund Fair and dedicating it to the first regiment going abroad. It was consecrated at the Fair with the singing of the National anthem by Mme. Louise Homer, the operatic star. | AE MURRAY is no }j longer a Famous Player-Lasky star. Just what happened has not been divulged but soon after the diminutive ex-Follies star had signed a new two year contract, something oc- curred to sever her relations with her film sponsors. Robert Leonard, Miss Mur- ray’s director, also resigned. HERE are all sorts of rumors going the rounds about Charley Chap- lin’s plans for the coming year. It is a well authenti- cated fact that the comedian has rejected several offers of what is commonly re- ferred to as a cool million for a series of twelve two- reel comedies. He asked that meager gering amount, and there were no takers. This, however, did not worry Charles, it is said, as he prefers to make pictures on his own hook and sell them him- self. In these days of aviating grub, one must do the best one can for one self. The avowed ambition of Chaplin is to do at least one big dramatic feature, in order to show the world that he is something more than a clown. To this end he has purchased the rights to Hall Caine’s “The Prodigal Son” and will film it with himself in the title role. His brother Syd Chaplin is also to have a part in it. Of course if Charley is drafted it will have some effect on his future plans. | AUL POWELL is the latest directorial ac- quisition at the Fox Hollywood studio. He has forsaken Bessie Love at Culver City to become the mentor of George Walsh, re- ferred to by Fox scriveners as “gingery,” “full of pep,” etc. Powell was formerly a news- paper reporter and is a graduate of the Griffith school of direction. Photoplay Magazine stipend for ‘1 New York early in May and attached eight of them, a rather stag- 40 the passport | obey a) her to go to Mary Pickford embarked ngland. pina” is officiating in like manner in the newest |B aie iapates FAIRBANKS, JR., will prob- ably grow up to be a humorist unless his father takes steps to curb his funniness. The other day young Douglas who is just half-past- seven, was swapping stories with some of the neighborhood kids. “Say” said one of them, “why -does everybody call your father ‘Doug.’” “Oh,” responded the son of the screen star, “I guess it’s because his name is Herman.” d RANKIN DREW is the first of the well — known film stars to enter actual service — abroad. He joined the American Ambulance — Corps as a driver after completing his con-_ tract with Metro. Mr. Drew is a son of Sidney Drew. and was with Vitagraph for a — number of years. His biggest job with that — company was “The Girl Philippa” which he — directed as well as playing the male lead oppo- — = site Anita Stewart. His ~ last Metro was “The Belle of the Season” with Emmy — Wehlen. 4 ERGER note: William — Russell, star of Amer- — ican-Mutuals and leading ~ citizen of Santa Barbara, — Cal., and Charlotte Burton, — equally well known screener, — were married in Los An- geles several weeks | ago. They had a motor honey- moon and then took up their housekeeping duties at the Russell ranch on the out- skirts of Santa Barbara. Miss Burton was with American for several years, both as ingenue, heavy and vamp. ! OLLOWING the com- pletion of her war play “The Little American,” on her picturization of “Re- becca of Sunnybrook Farm.” Marshall Neilan is directing it and Eugene O’Brien, who played opposite Miss Pickford in “Poor Little Pep- Artcraft picture. NNA LITTLE has forsaken the bright lights of New York for her own beloved West, as it were. She will be seen next in her old familiar cowgirl role opposite Harold Lockwood in a “Western.”. All of the ex- teriors were made on the Hooker ranch, 40 miles from Prescott, Arizona. ye] Films have passed out of vogue, so to. speak. Ben Turpin, the eccentric portrayer of slapstick, hit the Keystone trail and Paddy McGuire went to the comedy de- partment at the Fox studio. ULIETTE DAY and Julia Sanderson have listened to “the old, old story” and signed contracts with Mutual. Miss Day is getting

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her film education under the direction of Rol- lin Sturgeon at the American Santa Barbara studio and the star of “Sibyl” is getting wise to the camera in New York. RT item: Everett Shinn, the famous illustrator, has taken up motion picture directing. He is doing it for Goldwyn pic- tures. A LTHOUGH mystery enshrouds the Fair- banks cantonment with respect to the successor to “Wild and Woolly,” information has seeped out that the new vehicle of the irre- . pressible Douglas will be a sort of back-to- nature affair with the head of the Fairbanks family installed as the kaiser of a desert island. EN WILSON, Universalite, has joined the touring stars. That is, he is traveling about the country and showing up at theaters which are running his “Voice on the Wire” serials and giving the fans a treat. Bill Hart, the presidente of Inceville, spent a month trouping, and has just returned to the quiet life of the film plains after Pullmaning ‘over the continent. 7 ' [EC UGENE MOORE who directed many of 3 -the Gladys Hulette photoplays for Than- _houser is now installed as a director at Uni- - versal City. He went west to look after the _ filming of Baby Marie Osborne and made sev- eral pictures in which the baby star shone. ILLY BITZER, chief cameraman for D. W. Griffith, has followed his boss to the _ This “compound hound”’ is one of the interesting _ freak dogs of the Lasky studio. He has a head like - a wire terrier and the body of a Newfoundland. _ Mary Fairbanks and Doug Pickford seem to be 3 friends of his. Plays and Players 111 Alma Reuben, an Ince acquirement from Fine Arts and soon to be starred in an im- portant new series oj Ince plays. western front. When Griffith first wanted Bitzer to ac- company him _ to Europe, the camera- man objected _be- cause of his Teu- tonic name _= and physiognomy, so it is presumed that Grifith squared things for his lieu- tenant after reach- ing the center of European _ gravity. In addition to films taken for the Allied governments. Grif- fith also secured thousands of feet of actual battle scenes which are to be shown in this coun- try. es was an exodus from the Lasky studio in Hollywood late in May. Those departing from DeMilleville were Jack Pick- ford, Louise Huff and. Vivian Martin and the place to which they moved was the Morosco studio, three miles away. Of course it’s all Paramount; merely a change of sectors on the film front and being bossed by General Eyton instead of General DeMille. ARRY FISHER, well known for his work as a juvenile at the Fine Arts studio, was killed in an automobile accident in Los Angeles several weeks ago. He was 26 years old. He was a son of the Harry Fisher so long the team-mate of George Monroe, in musical comedy. ACK GARDNER, recruited from the musi- cal comedy stage, is upholding the tradi- tions of Essanay on the West Coast. He is being starred in a series of western staries at the Culver City studio of the Chicago concern. Opposite him is Ruth King, wife of Tom For- man, the Laskyite. OS ANGELES recently had a stage re- vival. Tyrone Power, Monroe Salisbury, David Hartford, Winifred Greenwood and other film folk participated in a production of “Shenandoah” under the auspices of Wil- — liam Clune, the film producer and exhibitor. Then along came Kolb and Dill, the German comedians, with a new musical comedy en- titled “The High Cost of Loving.” RNOLD NOBELLO is a new acquisition of the Rolin Film Company in Los An- geles. For the benefit of those who never

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112 heard of Arnold, it may be stated that he is Toto, the famous Hippodrome clown. He is to be featured in comedies. ARMEL MYERS is: now a_ Universal star. The former Fine Arts actress was induced by President Carl Laemmle to sign a two year contract and she will be starred in Bluebird productions. Miss Myers is only 18 years old and is a discovery of D. W. Griffith who made her acquaintance while seeking in- formation from her father, a Jewish rabbi and authority on Chaldean affairs, during the filming of “Intolerance.” ARY GARDEN has arrived in New York from Paris to begin the filming of “Thais” for the Goldwyn company. During her stay abroad Miss Garden pur- chased a cinema theater in Paris. ; RANCIS - FORD | is back at Universal City after.a year’s absence. He is merely directing at pres- ent, his star being Mae Gaston, formerly opposite to Crane Wilbur. ID you ever-hear that Charlie Ray. and Chester Conklin once did a “Weber & Fields” act in | small time vaudevilie? It was before they became - motion picture actors.. When their respective shows closed for the sum- mer they formed the part- nership to get enough money to tide them over the lean summer months. Charlie says he . had spent all his money on his wardrobe for the regular show, and could not afford to buy a good wig for the act. So he sat up for two nights and made one out of a skull cap and some crepe hair. And now he gets three suits a month from the most expensive tailor in Los Angeles. S D. W. Griffith making a photoplay in Europe? This is what his acquaintances furtively asked themselves the first of June, when some of his reliables began to slip to England, one after the other, with the secrecy of a French war mission dodging a fleet of waiting submarines. Mr. Griffith keeps his plans pretty much of a solo, consequently when he did not appear in May, as per schedule, the usual speculations were trotted out and put in motion. While he hovered between London and the Somme Mrs. Gish and her daughter Dorothy took passage for England. This young woman, Susan Grandaise, was only a few years ago the foremost’ French screen comedienne, making many of her best appearances in parts that were a bit risque. She has not only turned to-serious acting, but has become a tragedienne of great power and appeal, and is a stellar luminary in the new series of French screen plays being pre- sented by World. on his pictures. Photoplay Magazine On another line Lillian Gish had already — sailed. Then a passport was issued for camera- — man Bitzer, and he too went warward. Finally, — Bobbie Harron turned his back on America. — What’s doing, anyway? ; LL publicity is not golden, as William — S. Hart, who has just returned to Cali- — fornia from a soul-trying mess of “public — appearances” across thirty states, can tell you. — Especially aggravating was his experience at — an Indianapolis theatre on the 12th day of — May. At this house, one of the leading photo- play theatres in the Indiana metropolis, the — proprietor insisted upon two appearances by — the time-pressed Hart. When it was explained © that this was impossible he churlishly an- — nounced that he would keep a reel of film belonging to Hart per- sonally, and which he had at that moment in his pos- session. This bluff being called he rushed into the street, threw open his doors, and announced to the crowds attracted by his clamor that “William S. Hart” is here to shake hands with my .cus- tomers!” Poor Hart’s na- tion-wide popularity did the rest; the place was mobbed, and it was an hour and twenty minutes before he reached his ma-: chine. On the following day this exhibitor at- tempted to cancel his Tri- angle contract “because of Hart’s ungentlemanly and unbusinesslike actions.” When exhibitors like this, puppy can be kicked out of the trade, photoplay-show- ing will be a great busi- ness. a EP NEO MORENO has just signed a Pathe contract, and will be leading man for Mrs. Ver- non Castle, in her new series of five-reelers. . LBERT SIGNER, the great French photo- play actor who played the schoolmaster in “Mothers of France,” will come to this country. to follow his profession. ERE’S an interesting sidelight on all this gossip of Chaplin changes. It seems that in every new contract proposed by Chaplin there is one clause which is managerially dreadful: he wants no dates of release fixed Chaplin is now working for Mutual under a release-date clause: which is usually not lived up to by a matter of weeks; but at least the clause is there, and he does get his new productions out in some sort of sequence.

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Paul Is Quite Some Actor BUT IT TOOK A NATION'S FALL TO MAKE HIM FAMOUS Here’s Paul’s last picture before donning long trousers. to the notice of the picture going public. Since then he has been gradually acquiring for himself a place in the sun of film fame. Paul hails from Chicago. He had poor health there so his folks took him out to sunny California, where he got well in a hurry so he could get into the movies. Vitagraph, then operating at Santa Monica, first gave Paul a chance to see himself in the celluloid. He was featured. in: short photo- plays, two notable appearances having been “Little Kentuck” and ‘The Poor Folks’ Boy.” Majestic then gave him a lift in “The Little Lumberjack.” Fhomas E. Dixon, the author, engaged Paul for his big spectacle “The Fall of a Nation” and he worked in the making of that film as little Bi//y Holland for nearly a year. Then Paul graduated out of the infant class, assumed long trousers and started to work with Harold Lockwood’ at the Yorke- Metro studio in Los Angeles. He has appeared in “The Promise” and ‘“The Haunted Pajamas” with Lockwood. Paul has just celebrated his seventeenth birth- day and if he keeps going along, he has a good chance of be- ing a reg’ lar Star. | took ‘The Fall of a Nation” to bring Paul Willis Below: A _ scene from “The Fail of a Nation.’

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TUT rT] T JHILE Jack Kavanaugh, gentleman adventurer, con- firmed misogynist and recognized overlord of certain enchanted islands in the South Pacific, with his superin- tendent, young Harris, was occupying himself with a pearl concession on Kailu, and altogether regarding life in much the same fashion as Adam must have done before the advent of the millinery-and-lingerie division of, the human race, society back in the States seemed stifling and unreal. And then one day this careless idling was interrupted by ~ the arrival of Captain Billy Connor’s Favorite, which dropped anchor in the lagoon - and discharged three passengers— a Massachusetts bishop, his sister, Mrs. Alice Stormsby; and their pretty niece, Enid Weare, the product of generations of strait- laced old New England culture. The visitors accepted Kavan- augh’s hospitality and after a few days the bishop surprised him with a request that he and the two women be allowed to accompany him on his expedition down to Trocadero Island to look over a new pearl concession—and Kavan- augh gave permission. Almost anyone would, with Mrs. Stormsby’s warm eyes upon him and the lovely propor- tions of Enid constantly before his eyes. The expedition set out in Kavanaugh’s ancient schooner Circe, which he intended replacing with a new one purchased in Samoa, as soon as he could reach the latter group. On board, besides the visitors, were Charley Dollar, a Kanake overseer, and the pearling crew. After ten years of the free and easy life of the Pacific, it is rather vexing to be continually on one’s guard for fear of offending the silly sensibility of a prudish schoolgirl, who flew into a sudden anger if the spill of the mainsail or any wanton eddy raised the hem of her skirt to reveal an inch or two of ankle. The second day out, Enid had mistaken the time and come on deck half on hour too early, to find Kavanaugh in pajamas, brushing his teeth, and from her behavior for several hours, one might have thought that she had burst inadvertently upon a satur- nalia. He felt like boxing her small, pink ears, with a good shake to follow, and had much ado to be polite. Twenty-five miles from Trocadero,a howling South Sea squall drove the Circe on a reef. In the chaos that followed, Kavanaugh and Enid necessarily were thrown closer together than before—and she became more of an enigma. ‘ All hands turned to load the boats with equipment and stores and set out for Trocadero, where they ar- rived safely. Here was a desert isle, here was the primi- tive, and here two men and two women must live until the boat crew, .which had been dispatched for help, PRECEDING CHAPTERS OF Pearls of Desire could return with another vessel— possibly ten days. In the midst of this predicament, pirate hordes from a neighboring group at i the sta one morning before — dawn, making away with every piece of moveable pro- perty save the silk! pajamas and “nighties” in which the — victims happened to be garbed. Alice Stormsby accepted — this delicate situation sensibly, but Enid hysterically shut herself up in the bungalow. Obviously, some drastic — action must be taken to bring her to reason, and when her frightened relatives declined to interfere, Jack: Kavanaugh rashly entered and attempted to convince her that, as they were all in the same boat, she must turn toandlendahand. No pro- faned modesty was now evident — in Enid. She was in a white rage which took no heed of any- thing save the shame of his pre- sence there, and she whipped suddenly around and gripped a stool by one leg. A struggle ensued. Dicky, the dimin- utive bantam cock, championed Enid and planted his wicked spurs in es eyes. Enid wrenched her- self loose and ran swiftly toward the rocky promontory some distance down the beach, with Jack in pursuit. It seems incredible that a healthy girl of sound mind should prefer to drown herself than to live and move ‘and have her being in a pink crepe de chine nightgown before the eyes of a recent male acquaintance, who was yet a man of honor, withal, and she was duly chaperoned by a fat bishop and a widowed aunt. Though scarcely able to see for the blood and pain in| his eyes, Kavanaugh flung himself after her into the deep, green, sharky-looking water and somehow managed to bring her ashore. hen he recovered con- sciousness, Alice was sup- porting his head and Enid, gone suddenly sane, was leaning over him and staring at his face with an expres- sion of terrified dismay. She had shed all her silly scruples and seemed utterly indifferent to the scantiness of her attire, even after the removal of the salt-water compresses which had been put over Kavanaugh’s eyes, and she became a much more companionable _per- son. The women and the bishop collected dried sea- weed for beds and, with the aid of a club and a lantern, killed some of the wild fowl of the island and made tunics from their plumage. The castaways became accustomed to primitive conditions and moved about with the calm dignity of Olympians, and felt an Olympian life and vigor and the rush of clean, strong blood in their veins. Weeks passed and then —a sail on the horizon! Propinquity had done its work and, prompted by a feeling of regret that their cameraderie was so soon to be a thing of the past, Kavanaugh asked Alice to become his wife. Hille 114

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CHAPTER VII _ The next morning at daybreak I slipped _ out to discover what vessel it might be _ which had come to our relief. As soon as - there was light enough I sighted her in the _ offing nearly becalmed but working in for _ the entrance with a faint head wind. ‘The first glimpse of her tall spars and low _ freeboard revealed her as the schooner of _ one Channing Drake, a well born ruffian ' whom I particularly detested and held ‘to _ be about that time the very worst black- _ guard in the whole Pacific. _ There was no question about the schoon- _ er’s being Drake’s Madcap and identifying _her as such my first decision was to tell _ Drake to up-stick and get on about his business. It seemed to me preferable to - wait indefinitely on Trocadero rather than sible become the guests aboard that vessel of ill-fame. To complicate the situation further Drake and I were personal enemies _as I had recently done my best to have the Madcap libelled for her misdeeds and to land Drake and his filthy crew behind the ‘bars. This sincere effort on my part had fallen through because two of my most important witnesses had lost their nerve ‘at the last moment and had their testimony ivown out of court. Through the bluft of his threats backed by a certain force of personality Drake had got our part of the Pacific rather cowed. i ing fondness for the old regime of lawless- mess and secretly applauded it. Also, D rake when on his good behavior was such a plausible scoundrel. well connected and able to create the impression of a man 1 unduly blamed and the victim of conspir- acies to make of him a scapegoat for the wrongs of others. He was of English b h, a university man with no lack of polish and despite his brutal -individuality _ have the persons for whom I was respon-- Besides, there _ were still a good many who had a sneak-. -P Garis oF Desire A Twentieth- Celie Romance of the South Seas-—the most remarkable story of the year. By Henry C. Rowland : Illustrations by Henry Raleigh not without a very considerable amount of personal magnetism. However, under. the existing circum- stances there seemed no help for it. Our supplies were almost exhausted and the fact of the Madcap having been sent to take us off (which I thought must be her errand there) would have delayed our res- cue indefinitely. So I went back and roused the = and told the state of affairs. “This is a tough crowd that has been sent to our relief, sir,” I said, not seeing the good of mincing matters. ‘This schooner belongs to one Channing Drake who sails her all around the globe on any sort of dirty business that promises to prove profitable. His crew is a filthy mob of pirates and beachcombers and no self respecting Kanaka would be shipmates aboard her at any price. How he has man- aged to keep running so long I’m sure [ don’t know or rather I do know, and it speaks mighty poor for the policing of Polynesia.” | : The bishop did not seem particularly disturbed. “Indeed?” he answered cheer- fully. ‘That is most unfortunate. But surely no man however unscrupulous or depraved would exercise “any personal animasity in the case of folk situated as we are. Besides, he might welcome the op- portunity to gain the credit of rendering such aservice. You say he is well born?” ‘“‘So I have been told,”’ I answered, “and no doubt it is the truth. These well-born beggars are always the worst because of superior intelligence. This particular blackguard once stole the young wife of a native missionary in the Marquesas and by the time they’d laid him by the heels he had got her under his inflvence so that she testi- fied to having gone with him of her own accord. A fortnight later he left her on the beach from which he had abducted her.”’ 145

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116 The bishop looked a little startled but merely observed that perhaps there might have been mitigating circumstances. Then he got up, made a brief toilet and we walked down to the beach to watch the Madcap come in. She was making slow work of it against the tide and while we were loitering there Alice and Enid joined us. Observing them in their freshness and beauty I liked the situation even less. Of course Drake would not have dared become offensive or offer them any indignity, and no doubt he was only too pleased, as the bishop said, to have an opportunity to re- deem himself in some way, especially as he was in very wrong with the Governor, to whom my guests had letters and by whom they had been already entertained at Gov- Photoplay Magazine Alice had waded out to lend me a hand and we soon fish was stil ernment House. But all the same I felt very uneasy. Nobody could ever tell which way Drake might happen to jump as he was not only a person of criminal tendencies but a violent alcoholic and when under the in- fluence of drink entirely irresponsible. So, when finally the schooner had got up into the lagoon I suggested to Alice that she and Enid retire to the bungalow leaving the bishop and myself to receive Drake. I did not like the idea of the brute’s seeing them in their plumes, and said as much. “Quite so,” Alice agreed. “I am sure we have no desire to appear in public look- ing like new-fledged chicks or pantomine

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Pearls of Desire discovered from the tugging vibrations that our big _ in the net, fowls. Perhaps your friend may be able to supply us with some cloth. It would be teally exciting to wear real clothes again, though I wouldn’t take a thousand dollars for the ones I’ve got on.” I told her that no doubt Drake would be _ able to supply them with calico gowns ' of the Empire (or Mother Hubbard) | period, with some high-heeled squeaky M. I. G. shoes from his trade-room; really stylish shoes with genuine cardboard Mo- rocco tops and soles that would announce triumphantly to the praving congregation of a church that you were coming in and wearing new shoes. society. 117 ‘Don’t mention shoes, my dear Jack,” protested the bishop. ‘I wish that I never had to wear. them again . . . nor real clothes, as Alice says. It will be with an emotion of profound regret that I trammel my free members with the garbage of polite I used to suffer at times from shoes too full of feet and uric acid rashes and prickly heat and fish ptomaines. I now consider anything in the way of fish pto- maine as a delicacy and as for uric acid and prickly heat I find that these distressing complaints are soon eliminated from the system under a regime of sea food and spring water with a costume consisting of a birdskin apron anda cartridge belt. I say, Jack, I wonder if this dear friend of yours might not have a camera aboard?

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118 Those black devils made off with mine and I would like a picture of the bungalow and the rest of you plaiting grass hats.” Alice cut in to tell him that he was the main guy for a snapshot and that he ought to relish such a record of physical fitness as the camera might prove. She told him that once back to his prime ribs of beef with Yorkshire pudding and a great deal of gravy he would be getting fat again. It was interesting to witness the conflict of his desires; whether to fatten on these succu- lent foods or to keep in strict training and preserve his naturally tremendous physique. But he shook his head at the idea of posing for his photograph. “Inconceivable preposterous for one of. his cloth even though this latter might consist for the moment of ragged pajamas and a kilt of bird leather. What if ‘The Country Gen- tleman” or some other publication were to get hold of it? The Right Reverend Geoffrey Stormsby, Bishop Emiritus of Maryland taking his morning constitutional accompanied by his sister-in-law, his niece and a young friend who was not the Hia- watha that he looked but of entirely white blood and _ conduct ho-ho-ho .’ laughed the bishop and the sound of his mirth must have reached the Madcap and make Drake wonder if. we had gone crazy from the heat. The Madcap edged up into the lagoon and let go her anchor not more than a couple of hundred yards from where we stood. Drake in the sternsheets took off his helmet with a bit of a flourish and almost immediately a boat splashed over and came foaming in. Alice and Enid had gone up to the bungalow not caring to display their bare ivory tanned extremities to strangers. Knowing Drake’s reputation and the fact that we were acknowledged enemies made me dislike the situation, though not on my own account. But I hated the thought of the great burly brute with his soft voice and tragic black eyes fawning around my pretty protegees like a tame gorilla. I was afraid that it might lead to ructions. The bishop on the contrary was in a gay and facetious mood, despite what I had told him about our rescuer. Throughout his pleasant and peaceful life it is probable that the good bishop had always cherished a secret desire for real adventure, and now he rightly felt that this had been fulfilled and would furnish him with lively retro- Photoplay Magazine spect for the rest of his days. Without question he had profited tremendously by the physical hygiene imposed of our condi- tions and perhaps also (though far be it from me to suggest the necessity) in a moral way as well, for the black fellows had lugged off all of our alcoholic sto: : with the others, fortunately having post- poned regaling themselves until under way. This deprivation had been an excellent thing for his Reverence, who was in danger of becoming in the lack of more pres business, too fond of the combination o high shade and a high glass. 4 The boat came gliding in to the beach — and I stared at her crew with some astonish- — ment for they were rigged out as if for an ~ amateur presentation of ‘Pinafore’ ; muster uniforms, old fashioned but fetching ; spot- — less white ducks with a small square collar faced with blue between the shoulders, blue trimmed cuffs, round be-ribboned straw — hats with curly brims and black necker- — chiefs with the reef knot held in the “V” — of the knife-lanyard which was a pretty sennit with a carved ivory nut to replace — the turk’s head. : One’s eyes passed from these pretty cos- — tumes, perfectly amazing in those waters, — to the faces of their wearers with a certain — sense of shock; especially if one had made — a study of sematic types, which I had, and the erudite bishop had not. Ratty, bestial, — brutal faces such as one might gather in — Hogarth’s sketches of stew and kennel ~ were hung over sloping shoulders to exam- — ine us as the boat grounded and Drake ~ clambered out, a little awkwardly and not bothering himself about whether he stepped on one of his dolled-up convicts or not. . It was entirely evident that he was the big boss brute of the boiling and circulated at his own convenience with no reference to the rest of the pack. They approved his manoeuvres and eased him along, and on glancing into his prominent eyes I could see that he moved in a certain need of these tender attentions for the central sys- tem of the man was quite intoxicated. The reason for it all became immediately apparent to me. Drake knew that he was swinging on a short scope and that here was a Heaven sent opportunity to render a graceful service which might prove his good intentions, while at the same time spiking my guns and putting me under an obligation. He was well advised as to the

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personages with whom —he _ (friends and guests of the governor who _ had been already entertained at Govern- - ment House) and who required their due _ salvo of cannon. So that Drake had seized _ the opportunity to accomplish our rescue - in style and had no doubt welcomed the _ opportunity brought him by my serious - minded mate, Samuel Smith, of whom I _ have already spoken. _ But there was no help for it and here _ was Drake and his miscreants tricked out _ like the captain and crew of a stylish yacht - instead of the gang of sea thieves and _ Dblackbirders I knew them for and who _ would not hesitate anything for profit if assured they could get away with it. Yet - nothing would have convinced the bishop _ that they were not fine hearty fellows, clean and sober and Godfecaring. Drake, in the _ sternsheets was resplendent in white serge, a pongee silk shirt with a flowing scarf and a panama hat with a puggaree of soie-de- ' Chine. He was a heavily built man, very _ square and muscular with a huge chest _ and shoulders, rather dark of complexion _ and with thick, black hair which curled over _ his ears. He was staring at us in goggle-eyed as- - tonishment as the boat grounded but could _ scarcely be blamed for this. He had been _ informed that our camping party lacked for - none of the necessities of life, so to be con- _ fronted by a pair. of troglodytes brawny - and bearded and breeched in bird-skins _ must have been something of a shock. The _ epidermis with thick bushy eyebrows and _ having been deprived of our razors with _ the rest of our household goods his grizzled _ beard stuck out straight as a scrubbing _ brush and gave him a peculiarly wild and _ disconcerting aspect. One rather expected _him to brandish a bludgeon and _ howl. However Drake appeared reassured at his _ beaming expression of benevolence. “Hullo, Kavanagh,” said he in his rich, _ well modulated voice which was soft and _ deep with a sort of purr and a rather ex- “aggerated Picadilly accent. ‘What the deuce has happened you?” | _ “A gang of about twenty black thieves ' put in here and looted us of all we had barring some few stores hid in a cave,” I answered, and introduced him to the bishop, then suggesting that the first service he =a Pearls of Desire had affair _ bishop particularly was rather hirsute of | "might be good enough to render us would 119 be in the matter of clothes. To this he answered that he could rig out the bishop and myself readily enough but that he had aboard no ready made ladies’ garments. There was however in the trade room a supply of calico prints and flannels and also a hand sewing-machine, and he offered to go out and get these articles immediately and invited us to go with him. The bishop was pleased to accept but I declined, not wishing for any more of Drake’s society than could be helped and also because I wanted to haul and dry my net, a very good one for which I had paid a round sum. Passing by the bungalow I told the ladies that Drake had gone off aboard to fetch them some materials. | ‘He appears to be something of a swell,” said Alice. ‘From your description I had expected to see a gory pirate with a half- naked earringed crew. His men look like man-of-warsmen.” ‘““He’s out to make character,” I answered. “Got everything nicely staged for effect. The chances are he’s heard that you are friends of the Governor and he probably figures of this service being of benefit to him ; sort of a recommendation of his outfit. Drake is a plausible swine enough and no fool, but I know all about the brute and can’t stand the sight of him. Now I’m off to get in the net. The bishop can do the honors.” “T’ll lend you a hand,” said Alice, and we strolled off together, Enid being occu- pied in getting luncheon. The tide was at the last of the ebb and under ordinary conditions I could have waded out to the end of the sandspit and secured the drawline of the purse. But to my disgust I discovered that this had parted, no doubt as the result of some shark or other big fish getting fouled in the net so I was obliged to swim out a little dis- tance to secure the free end. There was no danger of sharks at that tide as they sculled out with the ebb. Alice had waded out to lend me a hand and we soon discovered from the tugging vibrations that our big fish was still in the net but he presently escaped for the struggling ceased and splashing back to the beach we proceeded to haul in. Such fish as had been pocketed had also decamped when the purse string fetched away and I was about to remark that for the first time we were to draw a blank when I discovered several oysters

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Suddenly there came a crunching in the sand behind us, and spinning quickly about I discovered the beam- ing bishop and that avatar of pirates, Captain Channing Drake.

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122 which had been dragged into the lower bight apparently as the big fish worked along bottom and were held there by their incrustations. I carried the bivalves up to where Alice was standing in her shim- mering costume. . “Pearl oysters,” I said, and big ones. “I have always had an idea there might be shell here but would never have looked for it so close under the bar. Nice shell, and there must be quite a lot of it down there.” This seemed a reasonable premise because unless the bed was pretty rich a big fish trying to nose its way out from under the net could not have scooped up oysters so easily, even though they happened to be loosely attached to rotten sprigs of lava- coral formation. So I took my knife and started to open the oysters while Alice looked on curiously but without much inter- est in the operations until I came to open _ the last mollusk, a big black one. “This looks like a layer,” I said. ola S the bidding for its contents?” e ' good slap,” Alice answered. “Against what?’ I asked. ‘‘The same thing ?” She nodded. | “That goes,” I agreed. ‘Now watch. I flicked off the lips with the back of the knife and slipped the edge through the big contractor muscles. ‘That black oyster was bloated ; dropsical and diseased. and the result of my rough autopsy was to reveal the cause of his complaint. This was in the shape of a great black pearl se a record -Liack pearl I thought as it rolled out into my hand, for it was - ripe to the point of falling from the nacre. It was a wonder; a beauty, the biggest _ black pearl which I had ever seen and I - gauged its carats as it rolled into my palm. Being fresh taken from its host it held an- exquisite translucency and glowed through the dark pigmentation as though from deep sea fires in its heart. It was flawless, per- fect in form and texture and I assayed it as" valuing a prince’s ransom then and there. Intrinsically it was impossible to place a money value on. Alice, leaning over my shoulder with her hair against my cheek and the salt crystals glistening on her arm examined it curiously. I dropped it into her hand. She stared at it for an instant, then asked:—“Is it a -real one, Jack?” Photoplay Magazine ‘Better ask the oyster,” I answered, ‘ ‘only y he is unfortunately dead. It may have been made in Germany and shipped out here. You never can tell, these days. All th same I’d take a chance on it for being the real thing.” She then desired to know what I thought its money value might be, to which I answered that such a question was in bad form as I purposed to give it her as aq souvenir of her sojourn on Trocadero. I added that she might accept it in the form of an engagement present or, on my failing - to collect more from the same source as a wedding present when she married the piggy-man. “If this pearl is the only one there,” I said, “then you win the bet and I — get my slap. But as the case now standem you owe me a slap, to pay for your pearl. 14 “I would rather give you a kiss,” she answered, still studying the pearl. ‘Do you really think there are a lot more of them — down there, Jack?” “That is my opinion,” I answered, “anda I am going to do a little prospecting righ now.’ “But how can you?” she asked. ‘You’ ve got no diving apparatus or anything.” ‘ I told her that I had my arms and legs — and a pretty good reservoir of compressed — air between my ribs and my shoulder blades, and that I would manage to have a look at that bottom in four fathoms water or burst. It might have been a little less, but I was — quite sure of my ability to fetch it being a — good enough diver and at that moment in © the very pink of physical condition. So I — waded out to the edge of the bar and went — down just as I was, to come up a minute — later with a big oyster in either hand. The ~ bottom was fairly strewn with them. I flung the pair up onto the beach and swam back to the edge of the bar for another try. In three more dives I collected another couple and then feeling a bit breathless I sat down to open them, Alice by this time really excited. There were no more pearls in these oysters but the matrix of two of them showed sincere effort in this direction and from the abundance of shell I judged we had fallen onto a perfect sanitarium for dis- eased oysters. All such beds contain cer- tain of the bivalves which produce pearls of greater or less size and quality, but it sometimes happens that owing to the local condition and surroundings of the mollusks

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124 poor old Charlie Oyster finds it impossible to keep his house swept and garnished and particles of grit Sift in to make him build a pearl in his own self defense. Myowntheory was that this is most apt to happen where a ground current carries a particular sort of silex sand and that these tiny grains work their way into CharHe’s shell matrix and defy his broom. Unable to expell them he is obliged to do the next best thing and encyst them. ‘This forms the pearl; layer after layer of nacre like the skins of an onion until the mass becomes pedunculated, when_the stem of the apple, so to speak, grows thinner and thinner, finally to break. By that time the pearls have been milled until quite round and then fetch away and are spewed out. Such beds probably have strewn the bottom with such pearls. It is only when you have the luck to catch an oyster with a formed pearl which it has not yet been able to expel that you reap your reward. I considered this little patch to be full of such, and told Alice so. She grew very thoughtful as I advanced my theories and declared that in my opinion it was the spill of the tide over the bar and the quality of the sand which made the bot- tom there so rich in pearls. “Once I turn to on the job, my dear lady,” I said, ‘you will soon have to haul down your colors and treat for terms of sur- render. Unless I am all off my reckonings there is a greater treasure on the bottom of this little patch out here in front of us than even you would need for your innocent pas- times. So all we’ve got to do it to get back to Kialu, take my new schooner and the two smaller boats, load ’em up with gear and divers and come here and clean up the place. My concession which is for the ex- clusive pearling rights has another two years to run and by that time we shall have stripped the bottom clean. But once we’re sure of what we’ve got I think we might discount the future and turn on the wedding bells a bit, don’t you?” Alice’s reply to this suggestion was all that I had any right to wish and made me rather sorry for the piggy-man. Then she fell to examining the big pearl in various lights while I, stretched out on the sand at her side proceeded to give her a brief biog- raphy of the intimate life and habits of the pearl oyster, his joys and sorrows. The beautiful lady; her snowy plumage drying in the sun, appeared to take an absorbing > Photoplay Magazine interest in this discourse, especially as re- — garded in relation to its commercial possi- — bilities. I could not impeach her with ~ avarice for this. She had been born to a ~ most exclusive social set and until she mar- — ried John Stormsby her life had been a con- ~ stant struggle to live according to her — station and connections, for there was a — great deal of pride and no money to speak a of in her immediate family. Stormsby had been a big Wall Street operator and in the four years of their niarried life had made ~ a large fortune only to lose it all ina finan- cial crash and died a few months later of — pneumonia leaving his widow practically penniless. She had been given a taste for wealth and power only to be suddenly de- prived of it and for the past five years had been dependent on the generosity of rela- tives. One of her position, temperament and personal charms might easily have married another fortune had she set herself deliberately about it, but Alice Stormsby was very far from being cold-blooded, and money alone would not have been enough. With it she desired a mate who would not be repugnant to her; more than that one. who would give her the fulness of life. 3 Possibly the piggy-man had other and more attractive qualities than she had seen fit to describe. | I -did not flatter myself that Alice was any more madly in love with me than I with her, but we seemed thoroughly well fitted to each other while propinquity and the peculiarity of our positions for the last few weeks had produced a most natural © — result. No doubt I appealed to her a good deal as she did to me and now that vast wealth seemed to have been strewn at our feet she was quite ready to give her emotions full scope. One can scarcely blame a woman for a passion inspired of riches. In this day and age money stands for power, just as did physical prowess and valor and domination in the middle ages. A certain type of woman requires this sense of power in her mate, especially when she has already tasted it. So I proceeded to satisfy this demand in prospect and her tawny eyes were begin- ning to glow and her breath come more quickly when suddenly there came a crunch- ing in the sahd behind us and spinning quickly about I discovered at our shoulders the beaming bishop and that avatar of pirates, Captain Channing Drake.

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Pearls of Desire CHAPTER VIIE The first glance at Drake’s eager face showed me that he had sized up the situa- tion and I cursed myself inwardly for a fatuous fool in having lain there maunder- ing about pearls in their relation to connu- bial bliss when my first act should have been to throw the she!l back into the lagoon and put the big pearl safely out of sight. Drake had unquesticnably seen it for his bulging eyes were fastened on Alice’s hand which she had instinctively closed upon the jewel, at the same time springing to her feet and smoothing down her feathered tunic. The bishop, handsomely arrayed in bor- rowed plumes, introduced Drake and I ob- served that the pair of them had been in- dulging in a friendly glass or two. Drake was I knew a hard steady drinker, but so tremendous was his vitality that he had not come to show it yet, while few people spoke of him as an alcoholic. Personally I. believed that many of his ill deeds were a fairly direct result of his ruthless intem- perance for I held him at heart to be some- thing of a bluff and a bully and far from the type of reckless, fearless adventurer which the brazen boldness of some of his behavior seemed to indicate. As I have said he possessed no lack of intelligence when occasion demanded and more than his share of greed, and now observing that he took slight heed of the striking and beauti- ful figure of Alice Stormsby but was avidly scrutinizing the net and scattered shell I had a very disagreeable premonition of trouble ahead. -+ The fool of a bishop observing the hot glow in the face of his sister-in-law began to mumble some sort of vapid apology for ‘the intrusion. “Didn’t think you’d mind, Alice,” said he, rubbing his hands. ‘‘Cap- tain Drake wants to be off as soon as pos- sible and suggests that you and Enid under- take your dressmaking aboard the schooner eh what?” She answered rather shortly that if Cap- tain Drake would consent to spare them a few hours she would rather stitch something together before appearing in public. To this Drake answered in his purring voice but rather absently that a few hours were _ really of no importance. He then picked _ up one of the shells and turned it critically in his powerful hands, examining the matrix 125 for nascent pearls. He looked at the riffle across the bar, then at the still water of the little bight and raised his black eyebrows. “Shouldn’t wonder but what you've pitched onto something pretty good, Kava- nagh,” said he. “Perhaps,” I answered. ‘‘You never can tell. I put in here to take water about eighteen months ago and it struck me that there might be possibilities in the place so I took a chance and leased the pearl fishing concession for three years. Nobody would ever look for anything so close under the bar but some fish got into the net and scooped up this stuff. Good looking shell, isn’t it?” “Jolly good,” he answered, “but as you say you never can tell. Might have got washed in by the tide, or something. Don’t happen to feel like letting me in, do you? I’ve got a full set of diving gear out aboard.” “We might talk about that later,” said I. “Meantime I think that Mrs. Stormsby would like to go back to camp. It’s getting hot.” Shes There seeming to be nothing much to be said to this suggestion we started back, the bishop and Drake in the lead. As soon as they were out of earshot, Alice asked :— “What are you going to do about it, Jack ?” “Send you three back to Kialu with Drake,” I answered. “He can’t very well refuse since he came here for that purpose. I intend to stick on to protect my interests.” “But you don’t mean to say that you are going to stay here alone!” she cried. “Tt can’t be helped,” I said. ‘‘Drake knows perfectly well what we have stumbled on. He saw the shell and the chances are that he saw that black pearl in your hand. If I were to go back with the rest of you it might cost us the whole busi- ness. Before I could get a new set of gear Drake would have hustled back here and skimmed the cream off the whole jug. In my opinion that bed is very rich but very small; just a little patch full of pearls.” “But he would never dare,”’ she protested. “He knows that you own the concession and it would be poaching thieving : 9 “That’s his long suit,” I answered. ‘“Be- sides, how could I prove my legal rights? My papers were in my luggage and there is no gamekeeper here to swear out a case

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126 against Drake. He could skin the place and get away before I showed up. But as long as I am here I can put up some sort of a bluff. I’d no sooner think of leaving Trocadero at this moment than I would of leaving a fat pullet in the care of a coyote.” . Alice turned this in her head and having a practical mind asked me what I| could do to protect my property if Drake were to return to Trocadero a fortnight or so before my own outfit. It was a sensbile question and one which I had already con- sidered. ‘The answer was simply that I would be there on the spot to take such measures as seemed necessary. ‘This did not reassure her greatly, for she had pretty well taken Drake’s measure and was more ‘inclined to accept my statements in regard to his possibilities of mischief where great gain was immediately concerned. ‘We had no time to discuss the situation to greater length before arriving at the camp. Drake, seeing that the ladies were not yet prepared to entertain or be enter- tained had gone out -aboard and sent in some fresh supplies with a few bolts of cloth and the sewing machine. No doubt but that he felt himself to have the game all in his own hands, not only as regarded his quality of rescuer but in the driving of a hard bargain with me about the pearling possibilities of the island. He must have felt that the big boss Tiapolo who took such good care of him had delivered his enemy into his hand, not only to be de- spoiled but humiliated into the forming of a partnership. It would never have occurred to Drake that I might possibly see fit to remain sit- ting on Trocadero to protect my rights by force of arms until one of my late guests could send a schooner there. That one man should attempt to stand off himself and his band of larrikins would have been food for mirth, also satisfaction. Self pro- tection and the settling of an old score, to say nothing of a free hand with the pearls. Nevertheless this course was precisely the one on which I had decided, and although such a measure had its discomforts and its risks it did not seem to me impossible. I have already described the cavern where we had stored supplies and weapons against the possible attack of natives. The mouth of this, invisible from below because of a little ledge just under it, was in the face of Photoplay Magazine the cliffs about eighty or ninety feet above ~ the beach, and directly opposite the pearling — ground at a range of about three hundred — yards. It could only be reached from below — by a steep but not unduly difficult climb and — above it the rocks slightly overhung. Inside — it was spacious with winding passages and contained a spring of sweet water. It — seemed to me perfectly feasible for one man — to hold the place as long as his food and — ammunition held out, as nobody would dare — attempt to swarm up and get him, while 4 he might shoot through a crevice in the — rocks or construct some sort of loophole. - The best of the business was that from the cavern one could effectually hold up any ~ pearling operations beneath. examining the situation from every point | — finally decided to entrust the bishop witha letter to young Harris instructing him to — come to my relief as soon as he could pos- sibly manage with all necessary diving gear and a crew of at least a dozen picked men including our trained Kanaka policemen of whom Charley Dollar was the chief. ‘They could certainly get to Trocadero, I thought, not more than a fortnight after Drake and during that time I would have to guard the premises as best I might. As soon as Drake had gone we showed the pearl to Enid and the bishop and I told them of my decision to remain on the island and protect the bed until they could send my outfit. The bishop held up his hands in dismay. “But my dear Jack,” he protested, “you can’t stop on here all alone! You'd go mad from solitude.” “T’ll keep Dicky for company,” I answered. Enid stared at me witha peculiar expres- sion in her grey eyes. She had seemed rather silent and abstracted for the last number of days and at times I thought that she had tried to avoid me, and I wondered why. Now, she asked in her cool, abrupt manner what would happen if I were to get . ill or meet with an accident, to which I answered that this was a chance I should have to take, but that I considered the stake to be well worth it. “What stake?” pearls?” “Yes,” I answered, ‘‘ and what goes with them.” I looked at Alice with a smile. Enid stared for a moment at her aunt. - (Continued on page 143) she demanded. “The So that in —

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_-. How to Sell a Photoplay Scenario THIS ISN'T VAGUE, GENERAL ADVICE, BUT INSIDE INFORMATION ON THE RULES OF THE GAME, BY ONE WHO HAS PLAYED IT TO WIN Captain Leslie T. Peacocke AV ANY argue that it is M mere waste of time to work out a pho- toplay scenario if there is little or no chance of sell- ing it. I thoroughly agree with them. To most people of com- mon sense, the wasting of time and energy is abhorrent, and the majority of people who take up literary work of any descrip- tion do so seriously, with the hope of making it a means of livelihood. Few care to indulge in photoplay scenario writing as a hobby. It is too laborious a task to be classed as a pastime. _ Now, to begin with, every writer who expects to make money through his literary efforts must constitute himself a merchant. To be a merchant, you must have something to sell and that something must, necessarily, have its market value. If your article of merchandise is a photoplay scenario, you will have primarily to establish its value. _On what are you going to base the value of the child of your brain? On your repu- tation in world affairs, or society; on your successful achievements in other lines of literary endeavor, such as books or plays “reader,” writer. or magazine stories; or on the excellence and originality of your photoplay scenario? On the latter, I trust, because the screen has been made the victim of exploitation of efforts that have landed through the other methods far, far too often. Anyhow, I take it for granted that those to whom such an article as this is more likely to appeal are the ambitious ones who know they have good original plots for photoplay scenarios, and have, probably, had little success .in getting them accepted for pro- duction. It is to these people that I am endeavoring to impart such honest advice as I can, gained through personal expe- _ rience and the experiences of others who _ have taken up photoplay writing as a seri- ous business. Let us suppose, then, that I am address- OW to break in: Interest the star, or his director, in your work. Or apply at some studio for a position as with the view of being taken on later as staff ing “Jim Snooks,” who is unknown in any line of literary endeavor, but who - thinks he has a good plot for a photoplay and is anxious to work it out and sell it for what he considers tis worth. Here is what I advise him to do: Make a very short synopsis, if possible not over three hundred words, outlining the bare plot in a clear, concise manner, and in this short synopsis mention only the char- acters vital to the story. If you-can con- gest this brief synopsis to one sheet of paper, all the better. It will stand a better chance of gaining a sympathetic reading by scenario editors and directors than a longer one. Then write a more detailed synopsis of your story, mentioning all the main events that will occur in your photoplay in natural sequence, and make this synopsis as in- teresting and as gripping as possible, so that those who read it will not lose interest. The reason I so strongly advocate making two synopses is because a scenario editor or director always likes to be able to grasp quickly the main plot of a story, and if the short synopsis should strike him as contain- ing an original idea and one worth while considering, the detailed synopsis will be read eagerly, and then if that also should come up to expectations, the matter of the worked-out photoplay scenario will be looked into and an offer made for its pur- chase. Now, if you wish, you may submit your story in synopsis form, without working it into continuity, but this I strongly advise against. It is the lazy writer’s game and will not land you anywhere. In the first place, you will not be offered nearly as much as you would receive if your photo- play were properly worked out, nor will you ever receive credit as a scenario writer. Some scenario editors and staff writers ad- vise free-lance writers to submit only syn- 127

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128 opses of their stories, but it is very obvious that there is a reason for their doing this. They are anxious to make the working photoplays themselves, so that they will be given part credit—sometimes a// the credit —on the screen, which of course helps them to hold down their own jobs. If too many good, properly worked-out photoplay scenarios were purchased from the hosts of virile writers throughout the country, who have really original stories which they find it difficult to market on ac- count of prevailing conditions, a great number of staff writers, and some scenario editors, would have to go back to free- padding. If your story is strong enough lancing. When this hap- to carry into five reels pens, as it inevitably will, without padding, all the they will have only them- pg ge eee better ; it will be worth 50g selves to blame. Many synopsis. Then follow this much aan writers in staff positions have done all in their power to discourage free- lances, and for purely self- ish reasons. However, those conditions always take care of them- selves. Those who ignore the “Golden Rule” invariably get it where the broiler hooks her pendant. All the best companies are now employ- ing “readers,” who read the scripts sub- mitted and who are not called upon to write themselves, but whose duties consist only in reading and passing on to the scenario editors any stories that appear to be orig- inal and suitable to the studio requirements. In nearly all the best studios, the staff writers are being employed as construc- -tionists, to work faulty photoplays into good, logical continuity; or to adapt into photoplay form plays and works of fiction, the rights to which have been purchased. The prospects for the free-lance writer are growing brighter every day. I think you will find that every film company will in- augurate this system before long, because those that delay doing so will soon acquire the reputation of releasing weak stories and will drift to oblivion, as several producing firms have already done, without realizing the exact cause. Companies will do well to pay some serious consideration to the _ free-lance writers before it is too late! If ‘the real heads of film producing firms would devote more of their time and care to reading and to the subject matter of the photoplay than they do to office and studio details, I think they would make a great and the ‘ ing scenario. Photoplay Magazine with the cast of characters ‘scene plot,” a de- tailed synopsis and the work- deal more money. Some producers do sive vi the scenario question special attention, am they are reaping their reward. Now, “Jim Snooks,” let us suppose that you have your two synopses completed; then you must work your ’script into con- tinuity of scenes, and work the whole story to its logical conclusion, without con sidering whether it devolves itself into a scenario of one reel or two reels or any other recognized length. Write the scenario as strongly as you can, giving it all the little human touches so eagerly looked for in all photoplays, without any unnecessary ? as The company that pur- 3 chases your photoplay will decide as to the number of — reels it will run into, and, nowadays, most directors are speeding up their work and employing from forty-five to a hundred scenes to a reel in dramatic productions; and from seventy-five to two hundred scenes to a reel in comedies ; so you cannot accurately gauge for yourself the number of reels to_ which your scenario will run. That mat-— ter will have to rest with the producing — director. . Then, when you have worked your story into logical continuity, you must give the cast of all the characters you have men- | tioned in the working ’script ; and then you — must make your “scene plot, ” giving all the “interior sets’ and all the “exterior locations,” together with the number of — every scene that is to be enacted in each — stated place. 3 4 Now, your photoplay scenario is com- — plete. Typewritten, of course, because — otherwise it will have practically no chance — of being read by anyone; and a page should ~~ be placed in front giving the title of the — story, with your name and address in the upper left-hand corner, and a blank page — at the back, to keep your manuscript clean. — To whom are you going to sell this effort of your brain? That is the main question. — Yes, “Jim Snooks,” it is the question that — puzzles all the free-lance writers. I have — battled with that question myself and hav often. found it a mighty hard problem. — However, I shall endeavor to make it as ~ : &

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How to Sell a Photoplay Scenario easy for you as I conscientiously can. You have, I take it, made a study of recent film productions and have noted the leading actors and actresses who are being exploited by the various companies; _ be- cause this is very essential. Every mer- chant must have a good knowledge of every possible market for his goods. You know, or should know, the type of story that is being employed to exploit each film star. Having this knowledge, you should be able ‘to decide which company is the proper one to approach with your scenario. Suppose, for instance, that you have evolved a story - that you think will prove a suitable vehicle 129 prised of the fact. A stamped, self-_ addressed envelope must be enclosed with every request ‘you make. If you should happen to bein the ‘vicinity of any studio, make a personal visit and, if possible, secure an appointment with the scenario editor; or endeavor to meet the general manager of the company and ask for a position with the company as a “reader,” with the view of being taken in later as a staff writer. Many staff writers have secured their. positions in this way. Or, if you have had some success in placing your photoplays and feel that you are properly qualified to fill the position, write for William S. Hart. You know ‘his work and you should be able to guess what will suit him. Well, if your story is of that to the general managers of the various companies, stat- ing your qualifications and mentioning what you have accomplished in the line of OU know the type of story that is being used to exploit each film star, so don’t send a story written for order, there is your logical — Bill Hart to Charlie Chaplin; — photoplay writing, and tell market. Send it to the eas ad wouldn't appre- them that you are anxious to be associated with a company as a “reader’’. or “staff writer,” and you may secure an open- ing that way. Nothing ventured, nothing gained ! . In applying to a scenario editor for a position on his staff, one of the first things he will ask for is a sample of your work ; so it is essential that you have a copy of one of your photoplays fully worked out, studio where his produc-. tions are being made. Don’t send it to Charlie Chaplin; he probably would not appreciate it. You must make a close study of the cur- - rent releases and go and see all the pro- _ ductions that you can. It is the only way ‘to keep in touch with the market. You should also glance over every month the - “Questions and Answers” department of -PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE, in which you wili - find much vital information concerning the as it is only reasonable that he should have a good idea as to your ability to do the work he would require of you. You must be fully equipped to meet any emergency that may arise. Once you have gained a fair reputation, things, of course, will be easier for you. ‘The film business is in film stars, and the particular studios in -which they are working. You can then \.address some of the stars personally and | let them know that you have a photoplay that: you think would suit them. You might send a copy of your short synopsis in order to get the player interested in your story. I know of many photoplays that have been sold through this method ; in fact, I have done it on more than one occasion myself. Then, I should approach the scenario editors of the various com- panies and find out whether they are in need of the class of story you have out- lined. I should also address myself to the director who is directing the star you have in mind and send him also a copy of. the short synopsis ; and if it appeals to him, he will probably write and ask you to submit your full scenario. I assure you that both he and his star are anxious to secure suit- able stories, and if yours should prove to be what they require, you will soon be ap- urgent need of new writers and the field is open to you. If you have had some rebuffs in the past, you must not let them discour- age you. Remember, you are a merchant, and every merchant must be patient and hard-working. If a merchant opens a > store, does he not expect to have to wait months before it will begin to pay? Well, what do you expect, ‘Jim Snooks”’? With your stock in trade consisting of a few completed photoplays and a certain number of others hidden within your brains, you cannot seriously expect to be established on a sound basis and drawing an assured in- come! No, that will have to come in time ; but come it will, if you will stick to it and have the material within you to make good. Others have, so why not you?

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130 Keep on writing and submitting your efforts in the manner I have outlined, and every time there is a change in a scenario department, you should note the fact, and endeavor to learn from the scenario editor if he is now in the market for new stories. Changes occur frequently in all the com- panies, and by closely studying this maga- zine and the various “trade journals” de- voted to film productions and dramatic affairs, you can readily learn about what is going on and act accordingly. You will have to help yourself to a large extent, and keep well abreast of the times. Do not place your photoplays in the hands of any so-called “‘agent” or of any of the people who advertise that they can criticize and market photoplays. can any of them sell one of your plays. [ do not know of a single authentic case of any one of these so-called agents, or bureaus or syndicates or other names they call themselves, having been the means of -sellling a photoplay to any film company, because, in the first place, no scenario de- partment will have any dealings with any of these gentry, and in the second place, only fools fall for their advertisements, and scenario editors scorn even to read the efforts of fools and suckers! There has recently been a change- of management at Universal City, a big de- mand for good stories being one result of the change, and the Universal company has always been a good market for free-lance writers. A close study of their recent pro- ductions will help you in determining what is likely to appeal to that company. ‘The American company is also a live market for good, strong stories; their studios are at Santa Barbara, California. The David Horsley studios in Los Angeles are looking for suitable five-reelers in which to star ‘little Baby Marie Osborne, and ‘also for one-reel polite comedies, absolutely free from slapstick. The Al E. Christie Com- edy Company, situated at Hollywood, is also in the market for high-class ese ot free from slapstick ; and Mr. Al Christie reads scenarios himself and is a good judge of comedy, as his productions show. The Balboa company will be glad to consider five-reel stories suitable for their new baby star, little Glory Joy, and will pay good prices.for them. Their studios are at Long Beach, California. Photoplay Magazine ‘values on authors Their — criticism is not worth a peanut shell, neither 4 Now, my friend “Jim Snooks,”’ I must tell you another reason why I am optimist as to.the outlook for you and other free-_ lance writers. It is the strongest reason possible, too. The “open market’? which — has struck the film business is making for © keen competition, and the producers have ~ to make their productions within. certain — limits of expense in order to make a margin _ of profit at all. 4 They can no longer afford to pay for = “names” and “reputations.” They have — all been stung badly by placing fictitious — ’ “names” alone. To cite — a case in point: Quite recently, one of the — foremost companies was about to produce — a five-reel photoplay, featuring one of their — stars, utilizing a scenario which had been — especially written by a free-lance writer as a vehicle for this particular star. ‘The — story was an excellent one in every respect _ and would, undoubtedly, have made a — splendid production. The free-lance writer _ had agreed to take a hundred and fifty ~ dollars for the scenario, to be paid him’as — soon as the production was started. . Then, a couple of days before the work — was to be started, the director who was to ~ make the production met at a social gather- _ ing a playwright with a fair reputation — gained in writing stage plays, and in the — course of conversation, the playwright out- lined to the director a plot for a film pro- duction. The director was so impressed — with the importance of the playwright that he asked him to make a written synopsis — of the plot, and with this in hand, the di- rector went to the heads of the company and prevailed upon them. to discard the — free-lance writer’s scenario and purchase — the one outlined by the playwright with the reputation. The playwright demanded a thousand dollars for his story and an additional hundred dollars a reel to work it into continuity. This was agreed upon. and the poor free-lance writer had _ his scenario returned, with the information that it did not quite suit the star; and that was the end of him, so far as that production was concerned. The playwright, who had never essayed a photoplay before, then started to work — his story into continuity—and you should have seen it! There was a long subtitle between nearly every scene, outlining the action that was to follow. It was full of (Continued on page 142)

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The Long Lost Lionel In a scene from “The Yellow Streak.”’ IN WHICH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. BARRYMORE FROM: HIS STAGE HAUNTS. IS EXPLAINED HE long lost Lionel’ commented the New York theatrical critics 4 when the scion of the famous Barrymore-Drew family returned to the _ stage a few months ago in ‘Peter Ibbet- son.” Lionel had been “somewhere in movieland” for many years. Lionel Barrymore’s finished performance in the John Raphael dramatization of Du Maurier’s novel this year served to recall his _ stage hits in “Barrie’s Pantaloon,” in “The _ Other Girl,” with his uncle, John Drew, in-} _ “The Mummy and the Humming Bird” and * _ “The Second in Command” and in other plays. Photo by Mishkin ic Sik 131 . ‘ *

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132 Lionel, a son of the late Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew and a brother of Ethel and Jack, made his first appearance on the stage in 1893 in “The Rivals” with his illustrious grand- mother, Mrs. John Drew, Sr. | Lionel came to the screen back in the early days, play- ing small parts in the old Biograph company with David W. Griffith. At that time the Biograph company was adverse to players’ publicity and the various actors worked unknown. - Lionel was willing to sacri- fice his stage reputation, for he saw the future of the photoplay. Indeed, he was Photoplay Magazine Quitter.’’ Lionel Buriat in “The - practically the first recog: nized stage: player to” “enter pictures. A -His _ sterling © training has served him well. Lionel quickly came to play leading roles with the Bio- — graph. Then came “The ~ Exploits of. Elaine’’ serial. Lionel has been with Metro for some time. Just as the metropolitan dramatic reviewers were speaking of “the long lost Lionel” much as France talks of Alsace ° Lorraine, that player announced his return to screenland. *Lionel is going to devote his future activities to the’ direction of = his sister, Ethel, in the films. g This, oe course, for: Metro. A: nurses’ class has been formed at the Ince studio in Culver City by Dr. R. S. Moore, ex-army surgeon. A perfectly-equipped hospital ward has been fitted out and classes are held each day. \ Chief among the pupils are Enid Bennett, Sylvia Bremer and Olive Thomas, who are here shown (in the order named from left to right) looking on while Dr. Moore and two nurses demonstrate... They.are being trained in every branch of Red Cross work, and have offered their services to the United Stctes, wherever needed. % Ps = eee

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mw. She’s a Rough Gal — ALICE HOWELL SAYS SHE’LL TRY ANY KIND OF FALL ONCE HEY don’t call it “slavey” plays in cinema circles. They have a more inelegant name, viz.: “Slob Stuff.” It doesn’t sound particularly classy to the finely trained ear, but it tells the story. Alice Howell is probably the most consistent plaver of these roles, which constitute a sort of feminine Chaplin characterization. She got her first “rough toss” at Keystone. Then she went to the L-Ko, where they made her a star, and now she’s being starred at the same studio in comedies bearing the trade name of Century Com- edies. With Jack Blystone, her director, Miss Howell ‘‘dopes out” all her comedies and the stunts she does in them. All of them have dis- tinctive names, such as “From Beanery to Bil- lions,” ‘‘Balloonatics,’ and ‘‘Automaniacs.”’ Miss Howell has never played anything but slavey characters since leaving Keystone, and she is regarded as the foremost exponent of “slob stuff’? on the screen. Her makeup is cer- tainly the most grotesque of all the “slob-stuff”’ comediennes. Alice Howell as herself and, at left, as a Keystone “‘slavey.”’ - Witzel photos

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Ag 4 Y a “s | “Agate Bk”. By John HE sweetest, demurest, tenderest, most plain- screen is Bessie Love. Bessie lives in Holly- wood, where she used to do sweet little star-eyed ingenues for Fine Arts, etc., iIngenues, but now vo — she’s doing. them at Culver -_— \ @ | % City, under the distant | : =. 7 supervision of Lieut.-Gen. Ince, the new commander- in-chief of . Triangle’ in California. a Not even the possession of a regular auto- mobile, Stage Photos ¢ This illustration, pupils, is put before you to show the extreme range of activ- ities possible to members of the human race. The leaping frog and cycle speed- ster are. identical with the little bride of Cana of Galilee, whom you may remem- ber in ‘‘Intolerance.’’ Seems as though Leap instead of Love should be her name. 134 The Marble She’s still doing the sweet, tive little thing on the, q " ae ath 2 1

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Bessie” (Gam bolier Ten Eyck ' that has wheels and everything, including a chauffeur to order “Home, James, and don’t spare the gas!’ has made any differ- ence in Bessie Love’s tomboyish home life. When August, the engineer, has chauffed her home from the Ince stages, Bessie seeks the greater excitement of a ride in a home-made go-devil, or in a bicycle race. _In roller-skating she holds the standing-start record for all: classes, Hollywood | to PMs and local stops. But the snap to this story is in its tail. Also, hence the title: As Cameo Kirby, the “gambo- lier” of . the old ~ Mississippi, played at chances for his minia- ture carvings, so Bessie, the combination “tomboy -anzel, is the marble * “sambolier” of Holly- wood. She shoots the agates and the glassies for keeps, and she is feared and revered by half. the kid population in northern Los Angeles county. This is a secret, because ye old fron- tier gamester is supposed to have passed with Belasco’s heroes—and he did: he passed his abil- . ities and his slickness to this little suffragette. Stagg Photos Above, portrait of a young lady; Below, ‘‘ Sidewalk Oldfield,’’ the champion promenade pest and pur- suer of old men and baby buggies in Hollywood. 135

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aking War Forever! That’s what these fellows are going to.do, because ‘the films have eternalized their part of the Big Fight. These pictures are transcripts from a Living ‘History —- British official : War. Pictures. } * _A lit of the American — Ambulance section. . Devonshire artillery men, asleep under their caissons.*- At the left, a British. gunner-sends greeting to thé-Lord’s self-. * appointed.pariner. { : * a RR A 136 :

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OUT OVER NO- MAN’S LAND! The barrage has pulled the barbed-wire and corked the guns; the British infantry start out to clean the Boche_ trenches. Above, a French ‘‘ Seventy-Five’’ speaks from its venomous nest. At the left, Tommy Atkins makes merry with a hansom-cab which appears as much out of place as a baby-carriage at a birth control meeting. 137

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PHOTOPLAY ACTOR@ The last of : ee pice’ species | Find the Film “ 1TH PRECES Ist Prize $10.00 3rd Prize $3. 00 2nd Prize 5.00 4th Prize 2.00 Ten Prizes, Each $1.00 These awards (all in cash, without any string to them) are for the correct, or nearest correct, sets of answers to the ten pictures here shown. As the names of most of these movie people have appeared many, many times before the public, we feel sure you must know them, This novel contest is a special feature department of Photoplay Magazine for the interest and benefit of its readers, at absolutely no cost to them the Photo- play Magazine way. The awards are all for this month’s contest. TRY IT All answers to this set-must be mailed before Aug. 1 , x 9 1 7 . , Anne aan nn Date ap oe NORRIE: Ot OO *. ef « WINNERS OF THE JUNE PHOTO- First Prize.. ..$10.00—Miss Josephine Gault, Mrs. J. R. Gauson, - $t. Louis, Mo. aoe Beach, Cal. rs. Lillie L. Hewitt, Madison, Ind. Mr. Joseph Simoson, Toronto, Canada. Third Prize... 3.00—Mrs. J. Rubin, Phila- Mrs. Gertrude E. | M Second Prize.. 5.00—Mrs. R. P. Marts, | | delphia, Pa. ; | Thompson, Leo- Salina, Kan. : $1.00 Prizes to minster, Mass. Miss Margaret Inger- Fourth Prize.. 2.00—Miss Lulu Danforth, aa) soll, Spokane, Wash. Chicago, Ill. 138

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NAME PUZZLE New Puzzle Announced Names in These Pictures : Next Month DIRECTIONS Each picture represents the name of a_photoplay actor or actress. ‘The actor’s name is really a descrip- tion of the picture that goes with it; for example—— “Rose Stone’ might be represented by a rose and a rock or stone, while a gawky appearing individual look- ing ata spider web could be “‘Web Jay.”’ For your convenience and avoidance of mistakes, we have left space under each picture on which you may a write your answers. Remember to write your full name ¥ and address on the margin at the bottom of both pages. Cut out these pages and mail in, or you may send in 4 your answers on a separate sheet of paper, but be sure % they are numbered to correspond with the number of | each picture. There are 10 answers. Address to Puzzle Editor, Photoplay Magazine, 350 North Clark Street, Chicago. We have eliminated from this contest all red tape and expense to you, so please do not ask us questions. Only one set of answers allowed-each contestant. Awards for answers to this set will be published in Photoplay Magazine. Look for this contest each month. ve cease chet Saadeh: mogiy PLAY ACTORS.NAME PUZZLE ( Mrs. Virginia Merri- CORRECT ANSWERS FOR | hy Sicux City, JUNE ISSUE owa. : A | M Mrs. F. E. Under- 1. Fannie Ward | 6. Muriel Ostrich | wood, Omaha Neb. ; : © $1.00 Prizes to J Miss Lillian LaMoore, 2. Wallace Reid 7 ER PAPE (Continued) | ice age gi _ 8. Max Linder 8. Carlyle Blackwell - | ie aera Wis. : 4. Robert Warwick 9. Jewel Carmen Mr. Ralph Davenpor | - Cambridge, Ohio. 5. Alice Brady 10. Charles West 13).

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next year endeavor to go much farther! with a director and an actress. 140 Photoplay Magazine The Man Who Put Fame in Famous (Continued from page 74) ~“T believe in the best pictures for picture theatres. In the past we have said by in- ference if not in words: ‘If you want to see a really fine photoplay you must go to a dramatic theatre, and pay two dollars.’ In the future my companies will make noth- ing which is not intended for motion pic- ture audiences in motion picture theatres, directly. ‘here is no other way to raise the taste of the people than by giving all the people the best you can, all the time. ~ “The man who lets his achievements in 1916 be his mark in 1917 must fail. Sculp- ture, music and painting are fixed arts, and the’ workers in them can fix standards. It is impossible to fix any standard in active photography for the thing itself is expand- ing a dozen times a year. ‘The only thing I ‘can do is go as far as I can now—and y?? How Dwan Shot Society W HILE Allan Dwan was directing Maxine Elliott’s first photoplay— which has just been. finished—it became necessary to use a fine residential doorway as a means of exit for Miss Elliott. Dwan selected a handsome apartment house on ~-New York City’s Riverside Drive, and as he and Miss Elliott waited in the car, sent his assistant to inquire if the celebrated Maxine could merely walk out of the place. - He got a somewhat testy reply that the owner “didn’t think much of motion pic- tures,” and didn’t care to have any traffic Dwan was peeved, but not Miss Elliott. “T’m really delighted!” she exclaimed. “Let’s drive over to Fifth Avenue, and I’m sure that the first of my friends we find at home will be only too glad to help us out.” Thereupon, to Dwan’s amazement, she enumerated half the social register, pro- nouncing the names, not of apartment dwellers or owners, but of the celebrities whose names are a part of the structure of New York City itself, as well as being the pillars of ultra Fifth Avenue. Had disaster overtaken them at an apartment, what excessive sub-zero prob- ably waited for them on the east side of Central Park? Nevertheless, to humor the ex-Mrs. Goodwin, Dwan rolled toward the sacred asphalt acreage from which all locators are barred. At the first and grandest 6€ the man- sions, Dwan noticed that the folks were not only at home, but were giving an afternoon party. “How delightful this is going to be!” chortled the star. “Tt certainly is. muttered Dwan, with the grimness of one who has just heard the cry “Women and children first!’ “Tell them,” Miss Elliott instructed Mr. Dwan’s man, “that I want to walk out of their house for a scene in my new pic- ture.’ “She didn’t even. ask: scandalized chauffeur. A moment after the message was deliv- ered Dwan beheld, to his amazement, the human symbols of a billion or two dollars trooping out like children from. a: play- house. “They swarmed about the machine like kids attacking an i¢e-cream Cart. Could she use the palatial location? Oh, certainly—but that would take only a mo- ment; then, wouldn’t she and her ‘director join the party? So they did, and while the scene was shot, it was watched breathlessly by half the grand duchesses of America ; after which, star and director became the day’s honor-guests within. The moral of which is that genuine Soci- ety is a lot more thick-skinned than ‘the spurious article. fs jes wesberel the The “Penny Matinee” Arrives Here’s another deft exhibitor, meeting various oppositions, including the heaviest- handed of them all: High Cost of Living. His name is W. W. Cole, and he manages the Rohlff theatre, in Omaha. Recently the imperialism of the potato and the nouveau-riche cabbage began to cut the. intake of even the biggest and cheapest of amusements. Cole promptly met it by establishing a penny matinee price for children under ten years of age. ‘This price is effective only between 3 and 6 P. M. Cole found that the penny matinee in- creased the juvenile attendance from 200 to 300 on week-days, and at least 500 on Sunday. And it pulled up the night receipts, because the youngsters invariably enthused to papa and mamma at dinner over what they had seen in the afternoon.

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mh, ee a i SN i Tet a sited i ee PE LAE Ge | Sa ey rat. _ Taking a ‘‘close-up’’ of Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly.in a scene for ‘Filling His Own Shoes.”’ (Continued from page 26) holds the curtain. It is a habit, | am glad to say, I have never abandoned. For there is no waste in overhead expenses in the production of my pictures ;’no unnecessary studio waits, so far as I am concerned. And my company follows my example.” “T understand,” I remarked, “that re- ‘cently you.declined with thanks what was reported to have been a very handsome offer to return to the stage.” “Such offers are not infrequently made to screen people,” Mr. Washburn replied ; ‘but they do not tempt me. I expect to live out my acting career in motion pictures. “From a viewpoint of actual work, the stage is not as. exacting by half. as the screen. When you learn your part and get your costumes fitted in a stage production you are practically finished with creative work. All you have to do then is to repeat your lines night after night so long as the play’s run lasts. ‘That may be for months. “In pictures, however, it is entirely dif- ferent. For each new production, one must not only master a distinctly separate char- acterization, but he must further be fitted to an entirely new set of costumes. This 141 latter requirement may seem trivial, but it eats up more invaluable time. than you might suppose—time that the actor must donate, largely, from what little leisure may be his lot. Consider, then, the work he must accomplish in getting cut at least one picture a month, and sometimes two, twelve months in the year. ; “Yet it is the monotony of stage work which I abhor; which strengthens my loy- alty to the screen. Think of remaining in one characterization, repeating over and over the same words, and wearing nightly for weeks and months the same costumes. In pictures the newness of each production, despite its exactions, gives me fresh energy and enthusiasm. Incidentally, it provides me with a boundless field for widening the scope of my acting talent—an opportunity for which every actor always. is looking.” © “Mr. Wa-a-s-sh-sh-bun: Mr. Wa-a-s-sh- sh-Bun:” a voice burst in on our little conversation: 3 “Awl-I ri-i-ght, Mike,” the star drawled. “The Red Cross costume next,” the call “boy” .reminded him, and Mr. Washburn, with a hurried apology, vanished. /

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— 142 How to Write a Photoplay Scenario (Continued from page 130) beautiful dialogue, too. Every time one of the characters appeared in a scene, he or she gave vent to speech, all inserted in the working ’script, and all the characters were continually receiving letters and telegrams and writing same every now and then, all of which had to be flashed on the screen. It was a real masterpiece, and worthy of being preserved to demonstrate how a photoplay should not be written. The playwright had seen to it that he was paid for his work in full before he started to undertake it, so he was safe; but the director had to spend the best part of a week, during which his star and sup- porting company were idle, in working the story into continuity, with the aid of a staff writer; and then they discovered that the story was almost identical with one that had been produced by a rival concern some months before. Of course, the playwright was unaware of this, because the story was an old theme anyhow, and if submitted by an unknown free-lance writer, would never have received serious consideration. So the director, with the aid of the full scenario. staff had to change the story completely, in order to avoid complications with the rival firm, and the production was made. And I suppose the playwright is growling because none of his beautiful subtitles or speeches was inserted, and probably thinks — that he should have asked more than fifteen — hundred dollars for allowing his: name to — be associated with a production which was — not absolutely made as he had conceived — it. However, it is safe to say that that par- ticular company will not purchase any story 4 that relies for its strength solely on the | fictitious reputation of the author. Now, other producing firms have suf- — fered similar experiences, and they are all — coming down to the hard fact that “the — story is the thing,” no matter from what — source it comes. If an author with a big — reputation produces a fine film story, we — all gladly take off our hats to him, the same as we do to “Jim Snooks,” the great unknown, if he does likewise; but if a — prominent author should produce a photo- _ play unworthy of his reputation, is he not to be discouraged and made to see that he is not alone spoiling his own good reputa- tion, but also injuring the film business? I say, yes, and all the heads of producing firms are beginning to find out that the market on which they relied originally for their stories—viz, the brains of the world —is the one to which they will have to,look _ in the future; that is, if they want to — keep the public interested in moving pictures. Distribution Waste HERE are those who believe that, some day, this industry will have one great, efficient concern to distribute its films. In the territory which Minneapolis serves there are less than 4,000 picture theaters, says the editor of the Wotion Picture News. There are forty exchanges serving these theaters, or one to about each one hundred theaters. These exchanges employ 1,200 persons. Of these one hundred are traveling sales- men, or one salesman to each forty the- aters. This sales force exceeds that of any of the leading businesses and industries of this section. These exchanges occupy a combined floor space of 63,000 square feet;-more than that occupied by the leading wholesalers of groceries; more than that of the several largest milling concerns furnishing flour for the world; more than that of a large interstate railroad serving the freight and passenger demands of this same territory of the Northwest. Here’s a pretty situation. One million dollars a year won't cover the distribution cost of Minneapolis. Why not a centralized market place for the exhibitor? Usher—“We don’t allow any hissing, if you don’t like the picture go to the box office and get your money back.” Patron —‘“‘T wasn’t h-h-h-hissing, I W-wW-was s-s-s-simply s-s-s-saying to my friend S-S-S-Sam that this picture is s-s- s-simply_s-s-s-swell.”

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Pearls of Desire 143 (C ontinued from page 126) “Are you two ia Nee ?” she asked abruptly. eN-C5: sseiisioudliy?’ I replied. ‘Alice has agreed to marry me if I can make a pot . of money within the next six months. This seems to be the best chance.” “Well, well,” sighed the bishop, “I sup- puse we ought to congratulate you, but I must say it seems a terrible thing for you to remaih here all alone, my dear boy. I’m almost tempted to stop on with you.” “That’s very good of you but not to be thought of,” I said. ‘For one thing we are nearly out of supplies and it’s not possible that Drake would consent to provision us. It would be too apparent that I was stop- ping on to keep him from plundering the beds and he~ would naturally resent it. There’s no love lost between us. Besides, you would feel the ioneliness too keenly without the ladies. But most of all, I do not think that they should be entrusted to Drake’s tender mercies without you aboard to protect them. The man is an unprin- cipled ruffian for all of his swell appearance and when: he has got a few drinks boiling about in his system, which is very often, he is absolutely irresponsible. There’s no tell- ing what he might do.” 3 “Alice objected, but rather feebly I thought, that it would be too terrible for me there alone on Trocadero and asked if it might not be better to try to make a bar- gain with Drake. To this I replied that I was used to solitude and would manage well enough, going on to say that Drake _. would certainly consider nothing less than half, possibly more, as I was convinced that -he meant to return as quickly as he could and gut the beds. We argued for awhile along these lines without much difficulty on my part in overruling Alice’s objections. Enid, sitting crosslegged on a_ couch stitched industriously at a garment which she had cut out of a piece of blue flannel, without offering any comment and witlf a curious air of indifference to the discussion. Then, when we had finished speaking she looked up, biting off her thread and asked in her characteristically . disconcerting _ way:— “What if there should not be any more pearls to speak of, after all? be married just the same ?”’ q Alice looked annoyed and I remarked _ that that was not the bargain, but that I aa ~ hoped to profit. Would you had no fears of not Sales the pearls. Enid looked at her aunt. ‘Have you, Alice?” she asked. od “No,” Alice answered. “After seeing this big one and from what Jack has told me I am confident that the pearls are there. The problem is to get them.” “Well then,” said Enid, threading we needle and speaking in a casual, unemo- tional voice as though suggesting a stroll, or something of the sort, “If you are sure that the pearls are there and it only needs Jack’s staying here on the island to~get them, why don’t you let Uncle Geoffrey marry you and stop here with him ?” Alice, in answering this silly question of a very young girl had a sharpness in her voice which surprised me. I had never heard her speak that way before and it sounded as if she did not like Enid. She desired to know whether Enid had gone crazy or was merely trying to give the rest of us that impression. The bishop found the altercation which ensued to be very. amusing (he was full of Drake’s gin) but I did not. It seemed to me to be a rather unfortunate termination to our exile on Trocadero. Enid showed not the slightest sign of vexation but her voice had a con- temptuous little cut which stung. I was astonished at her impertinence, for she said almost in so many words that she thought her aunt showed herself a poor sport in let- ting her fiance remain alone on a desert island to protect a treasure by which she “What if Drake should come back and put a bullet through Jack?” she asked. Alice wanted to know how she would be able to help that, to which Enid answered that Drake would scarcely go so far as to murder her also and that he would be afraid of her testimony. I could see that Alice was getting very angry, so not wishing to witness a scene I went out and strolled down to the beach. Drake ap- parently saw me there for a moment later he came ashore in his gig. As it did not seem worth while to avoid him I waited to hear what he had to say. “Well, Kavanagh,” he began briskly, “have you thought over my proposition?” “Yes,” I answered. “I’ve decided to play the hand alone.” He looked astonished. ‘The deuce you have,” said he. ‘What are you going to play it with, if you don’t mind my asking.”

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“With an outfit of my own,” I answered. ‘“There’s really no great hurry.” He frowned and puckered out his lips. Drake looked rather like a handsome gorilla and he had certain simian traits, also. His _ eyes were quick and shifty and he had a ner- vous way of picking at things with his fin- gers as he talked. When irritated or excited he dilated his nostrils and was apt to show a very strong set of big, even teeth. but while ruthless in his acts and excitable of disposition I had never heard of his having been mixed up in personal fights and he had kept his temper perfectly under my scathing cross examination when I once haled him to court cn a charge. of black- birding and mistreatment of natives. “YT think that you are making a mistake, old top,” said he. ‘There are plenty of pearls for two down there and if you wait too long somebody might get ahead. of you.” There was no mistaking the veiled threat and he saw from my contemptuous shrug that I understood. ‘T’]] . take my chance on -that,” 1 answered. ‘The bishop will be sending me an outfit as soon as he lands and meantime T’ll stick on here and do a sentry-go. Be- sides, there is a patrol boat due to look in here any day to see how I’m getting on and as I’ve bought the concession I shall ask for protection until I get to work.” Drake crinkled his low forehead precisely like a great ape, then smiled. “That’s a good bluff, Kavanagh,’ said he, “but it doesn’t go. In the first place I don’t believe you’ve got any concession and you know as well as I do that the chance of a patrol boat putting into this rotten little hole is about one in a thousand. A lot of things might happen before those little tubs of yours at Kialu could fit out and get here and it’s not probable that any- body who felt like having a go at the pearls would let himself be hindered much by one man with no papers or anything to prove his claim.”’ -Photoplay Magazine Z ‘In other words,” I retorted, “you think 4 it would be quite possible for you to land — your passengers and get back here in time to | | lick the cream of the jug before my crowd | : turned up, and you think that my being here — wouldn’t matter particularly.” He grinned. “Well, if you choose to put it that way such a thing could happen, couldn’t it? , Besides, I’m not obliged to take these people to Kialu. It’s way out of my course.” St 3 “If you fail to show up at Kialu pretty soon young Harris will be coming here to find out what has happened,” I answered. ‘Set them ashore wherever you damn please and come back here as soon as you like. But I warn you, Drake, that you are not going to steal my pearls without a scrap and that if you do for me it will be a hanging job for you.” He scowled at me for a moment, his thick mustache caught in his under lip, then said :— “Oh, come now, what’s the use of trying to bluff. You’ve got nothing to prove your claim nor could you prove that I ever scraped up a single shell. And do you flatter yourself that you could stand off the lot of us? If you got nasty about it we’d have to defend ourselves, of course, and- who could blame us? Come now, be reason- able. Many a man has missed his chance by trying to pig the whole thing, I’m will- ing to go in with you on half shares and | these people. won’t mind sticking on here for a couple of weeks. Come now, what d’ye say 2” | | I shook my head. ‘No,’ I answered, “you might as well save your wind for — your main topsail. It’s not entirely a mat- | ter of greed. I’m not going to be held up ~ for half my pile for fear of my hide. Try it on if you like and see what happens. That’s all . . .” and I turned on my heel and walked back to the bungalow leav- ing him there growling and chewing at the rim of his mustache. (To be continued) Don’t Miss Next Month’s Instalment of “Pearls of Desire” The hate of Drake and Kavanagh bursts into-the red fire of battle—and to temper this flame there is a thrilling turn to the island’s romance.

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ane nppneeapnenn: Copyright 1916 feed you do not have to be a subscriber to Photoplay Magazine to get questions answered in this Department. It is only _ required that you avoid questions ‘which would call tor unduly long answers, such as synopses of plays, or casts of more than one play. There are hundreds of others ‘in line ” with you at the Questions and Answers window, so be considerate. This will make it both practical and pleasant to serve you promptly and often. Do not ask questions touching religion, scenario writing or studio employment. Studio addresses will not be given in this Department, because a complete list of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month. Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name and address; only initials will be published if requested. If you desire a personal reply, enclose self-addressed, stamped - Jeads the parade. * envelope. Magazine, Chicago. J. K. L., Herena, Mont.—Your former fellow citizen, Kathlyn Williams, left the Selig com- pany about a year ago to play’in Morosco films, but’ we understand she is about to retire from the screen. SUBSCRIBER, PETALUMA, CAL.—The most com- mon reason for changing the name of a novel after its conversion into a film play is in order to have the film copyrighted. This was the reason, we’ are told, for naming the last Farrar photoplay, .“Joan the Woman” instead of the obvious title, “Joan of Arc.” Another frequent reason for changing a name, however, is due to the _ pro- ducer’s fear that the original title would not prove a suff- cient box office lure. AGNES, WILMINGTON, DEL.— Now don’t cry little girl; maybe Mr. Chaplin needed that two-bits you sent him for a photo to buy some gasoline. You must realize that times are hard and that every little bit helps. : L. C., ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.— We can assure you personally that Douglas Fairbanks really does those stunts himself be- cause we've actually, with our own eyes, sawn him do them. He is one of the few great screen players who does not ; employ a “double” in performing hazardous stunts. H. R., Des MorneEs, [A.—You’re a nawful smart girl for your age. Mercutio was Fritz Lieber and Paris was John Davidson in Metro’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The “Willis boy” is with Lockwood in “The Haunted Pajamas.” We quite agree with your ladyship as to Mary Pickford. She still A long time ago we read over the Federal Constitution and finding nothing to preclude such a decision, decided to refrain from witnessing serials whenever humanly possible to avert them. So we can’t argue with you about your bete noir—or is it cafe noir? 4 Anyhow. Write to Questions and Answers, Photoplay HIS department will be glad to for- ward to the proper des- tinations all letters addressed in care of PHOTOPLAY MAG- AZINE, to any of the screen players. a service department and is conducted solely for the convenience and pleasure of its readers. there’s a noir in it. Write again. You're a nawful smart girl for your age. PEEVED, PASADENA, CAL.—James Cruze is now an inmate of Lasky’s. Rita Jolivet’s last appear- ance was in an Ivan film. She’s the Baroness Cippico now. Yes, the “Hari Kari’ filmed by the California company is the same “Hari Kari’ that Julian Johnson committed originally. Lois Wil- son played the lead. She is to be J. Warren Kerrigan’s leading woman in his new company. FunNy, PHILADELPHIA.—Arline Pretty was the girl in “In Again; Out Again,” but we would say that it was “Bull” Montana, portrayer of Quentin Auburn, the burglar, who played opposite Fairbanks. Didst notice those ears?. W.. W., Brockton, MAss:— No, sonny, we aren’t no retired actor. They ain’t no sich ani- mule. Once an actor, always an actor. Mary Miles Minter was born in Shreveport, La., on April 1, 1902, and she has been on the stage since she was a wee cheeild. Her right name is Juliet Shelby. Her latest pic- ture is ‘‘Annie-for-Spite.” This is X. Y. Z., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. _—You were a good guesser. However, we didn’t answer your questions, not because there are so many of them, but because you neglected to attach your real name and address. G. C., Litrte Rock, ArK.—It was the same: Walter Long as The Musketeer of the Slums in “Intolerance” and as the executioner in “Joan.” He left Griffith soon after “Intolerance” was com- pleted and is still with Lasky’s unless he has joined his regiment. M., NATIONAL City, CaLt.—Sessue Hayakawa’s first photoplay was “The Typhoon”; his last three, “‘Each to Hi’ Kind,” “The Bottle Imp” and “The _Jaguar’s Claws.” The English girl in “Each to His Kind” was Vola Vale, and her 145

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146 Photoplay Magazine lover. was Eugene Pallette. Hayakawa is 5 feet 71%4 inches tall; Dorothy Dalton 5 feet 3; Ethel Clayton 5 feet 5%, and Bryant Washburn 6 feet. Katy, OMAHA, NEB.—Quite a few actors have signified their intention of going to the front, and quite a few others, if we haven’t the wrong hunch, will be eager to admit that they are on the shady side of 31 and that they have families dependent upon them. Yes, Katy, we have volun- pert. Enid Markey has just finished playing in “The Curse of Eve,” which sounds bad enough to be a good job for the censors. H. M., Lone IsLanp City, N. Y—The only favorite you mention who hasn’t a wife is Charley Chaplin, and he’s liable to have one any time. Please don’t send us any more love epistles. It makes our stenographers jealous. G. D., Provipence, R. J.— House Peters is not a South- erner. William Desmond is— South of Ireland. “Mrs. Peters was Miss aoe before her marriage. L.. E., San DIEGo, Car All of your suggestions have been submitted to the editor with a recommendation that all -be adopted. Just a word from us, you see, and the editor does as he likes. Pauline. Frederick and Anita Stewart answer let- ters and so*do the sisters Gish. The latter -are now in New York. For a three-year- old American you write a mighty good English letter. garded. R. C., NEw York Crry.— 3 Frank Morgan. was Halkett in “The ‘Girl Phil- ippa.” It was all filmed’ in the vicinity of New York, except the scenes for ‘which the company went abroad—to. ic ia Jersey. Glad you like the covers. So do we.i = 7 Fi, SANTA. ‘Heck. CaLt.—Arthur Ashley is with World Film and we assume that he will be glad to give you any information you may desire. M. C., SHREVEPORT, LA.—Geraldine Farrar pro- nounces her name with the accent on the last syllable... . “Patria”? may be pronounced several — ‘and each correctly. x tie Tinker: into the controversy ? He isn’t'a actor. Fine’. Arts ~ produced’ “Her Father’s Keeper.” Ince’s new-arrangement with Triangle is largely a private matter, we think. However, he has ~charge of all Triangle production in California. Bessie Barriscale is to make another photoplay for Triangle before going to work for herself. We have no grudge against Cincinnati or any other city. Where do you get that stuff ? R. L., Brooxton, N. Y—We have no record of a Margaret Fuller. . eae! 8 EASTON, PA. The Little American” is the second: Mary Pickford photoplay directed by Cecil B:, DeMille. at the Lasky studio. “A Ro- mance “of the Redwoods” was the first. The latter originally bore. the title, “Jennie, the Unex- pected.” A sais are. fifteen episodes in “Patria.” Lis: P. “INDIANA; ‘Pa‘—Just out of. the nee zines you wanit.- : Awfully. sorry, too. _ that you are’ a remarkably fine guesser.. Don’t Aug. ‘18. _ Daisy Robinson. was the betrothed of | LL letters sent to this depart- | ment which do not contain the full name ‘and address of the sender, will be disre- Please do not violate this rule. _ demands of some role, although it was said that ', Geraldine: Farrar :did so -in ‘order ‘to! ‘play J aan. - Writing,” : which may be had at this office for — senecibciceerbinies ous fifty. cents. | erie P ; ; aS. ae WwW; Co_LumBus; ~O —Why _bring. 40% Ie opposite Mr. Lockwood in “The Hidden Spring.” Rrra, LAGRANDE,, ORE. —Jack Mulhall is with Universal, and his eyes are blue, not gray. Sev : eral of the’ Bowers stories have been filmed. € have always made : It. a practice to answer al questions to ‘the best: of our ability and do not bar questions as to the matrimonial incumbrances_ 2 the players. Can’ t prove that heart-beat stuff y us. : KIDDER, SACRAMENTO, Cat.—No, our middle name isn’t Ursus. »And also, they don’t play “The Toreador”, when ™ ‘we do*our work. Outside of — worry .about the “draft; if they send you to the — front - you~ ‘won't have to” wear a steel helmet 3 anyhow.” *°" eer ? TEA Freeport, L. 1—Lottie Pickford was q 22-on June 9 and Jack Pickford will be 21 on — ‘House Péters in “The Happi- | ness of Three Women.” Lottie — - Pickford is “in: Hollywood at = present. So glad you’re happy ~ and you have every right to be. — ~->- Exe R.,- ROCHESTER, N. “Ym Hal Ford played opposite Pearl — White in “May Blossoms” and — Farle Foxe is officiating in like © capacity in ‘‘N ew York Nights.” — “Arnold ‘Daly » is on the legiti- — mate’ stage. » Write Pearl for her: pictues. 2 a Me M:, “Quenec, CANADA.— ~ T he.* -Cline™ company. can be — reached by merely addressing ~r the letter to Los Angeles. Write Jane Novak, care Conti- — ‘]>. -nental Film Co., Los ‘Angeles 2 ge gas! A GREENSBURG, Pp So far as we know: no actress ever cut-off: hair in order to- adapt ‘her appearan¢e. to” iz If she did, Miss Farrar broke all’ existing: records — for hair raising immediately thereafter. ae 3 Pennington, ‘Famous Players; Louise ’ Huff, Lasky ; Mrs. Castle, Pathe; Billie Burke, Arteraft, j? Fz MERIDIAN, Miss. =—"Clenpatta” was Pheda Bara’s latest film play.. There-are a number of | books dealing with photoplay writing." Orie’ of © them is’ Captain Peacocke’s “Hints on. Photoplay 4 “WINSOME, Notre DAME, Seetads bene Bernoudy | E was born in Colorado. ’ Florence. Lawrence and ~ King. Baggot are still “away “from> the - ‘screen. Miss Bernoudy was last’ with Universal. Uno, Los ANGELES, CaL.—Yes, we acted in a _ movie once. The usher put us out. Mary Alden was born in New Orleans but we never knew her well enough to ask about the year. You did wrong in flirting with that actor. It will only 4 encourage him to do it again. 3 E. T.,\Hanton, N. J.—Having been born on 3 April 12, 1888, Mr. Lockwood’s age would neces- — sarily be 29. For the small sum of fifteen cen- = tavos, Americano, we will be glad to shoot yous 4 the December 1915 issue containing a very nice story about that gentleman. We don’t believe we ever said it before, but right now we want to : tell you that Mr. Bushman and Miss Bayne are not married to each other. ~ Billie West played — (Continued on page 150)

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148 sia (Continued from page 91) | es 3 ERIWINKLE?” is the name given a baby girl whom a lifeguard finds in a ~' ie and as Periwinkle grows up, she radiates such sunshine that she is finally able to redeem a very blase young man, and make him a useful citizen. In these words you have a synopsis of the latest story. which Mary Miles Minter charmingly enacts, and for which she has been given human and material surroundings of fidelity, and believable conduct through her scenes by James Kirkwood. George Fisher plays the young man whom Periwinkle redeems. 3 William Russell’s valiant author, Julius Grinnell Furthmann, does not produce, in “Shackles of Truth,” so overwhelmingly and exuberant a vehicle as he gave the big fellow in ‘“The Frame-Up.” It is a much more serious story of political and personal corruption, and Russell’s punch and smile are things too good to lose. However, “Shackles of Truth” is by no means bad programme entertainment. ~- “The Serpent’s Tooth,” as a name, might mean a lot of things that are not to be found in Gail Kane’s recent celludrama. If any element of surprise attached to this» perfunctory affair it must have been the author’s on disposing of his manuscript. N “The Sixteenth Wife,” a Vitagraph comedy featuring Peggy Hyland, you | may see a perfectly laughless melodrama made into a roarer by its titles. Such, we _ have often contended, is the biggest secret in’ Keystone merriment, for exaggerated seriousness is funnier than any deliberate attempt at comedy that might be made. This farcelet gains its title from the ambi- tion of a Turkish Kadir, who, beholding Peggy as a fair dancer, would augment his harem of fifteen by another addition. That there are other Western stories than those of the boys who ride-herd is well proved by “The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop,” a really fine tale of the border Indians, the evils practised upon them by — unscrupulous whites, and their retaliations. - There is much of frontier history in this play. Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey head an excellent cast. “The author, Ham- ' lin Garland ; the director, William Wolbert. A piece worth while. Anita Stewart’s vivid personality gleams brilliantly through the flickering scenes of “Clover’s Rebellion,’ one of the most ‘uneven screen plays put forth in a long — time. The author i# James Oliver Cur- wood, and at moments the drama moves with zest, speed and a sense of novelty; and at other moments it is trite and banal. The substance of the plot is a difference in q father’s and mother’s marrying designs, and a stubborn determination on the part of the adopted daughter to wed neither of their choices. ‘Rudy’? Cameron has developed — into A-1 leading-man timber, and the sup- _ porting cast includes the ever-beautiful | Julia Swayne Gordon, Charles A. Steven-. son, and Eulalie Jensen. “Within the Law,” with Alice Joyce in the part Jane Cowl created on the stage, lacks the great stream of human humor — which swept the spoken play like a torrent _ —which made it great. “Within the Law” — is simply a melodrama, one of many. “The Soul Master.” An _ uninspired photoplay, featuring Earle’ Williams in a heavy and apparently uncongenial role. HE SILENT MASTER,” a. pre- " tentious photoplay featuring Robert Warwick and offering Anna Little in the best part she ever played, also brings to projection the shadow of Olive Tell, a supremely’ beautiful young woman of the — speaking stage. “The Silent Master” isa big and pretentious melodrama narrating — the folly of a mature man who introduces a young: boy to a phase of life—merely as a warning exhibition—which he cannot © resist. But it is entirely too European in its sequences, its treatment of each incident, and. in its titles, to be wholeheartedly accepted here. It may be remembered that while Europe has developed a standard of music, painting and spoken drama which ~ we would do well.to copy, America leads the world not only in photoplay , photo- ‘graphy, but in photoplay technique. Not- withstanding a flood of productive medioc- rity, the best things that we have done have not even been approached across the water. We are within our rights in measuring — active photography by U.S. A. Standards. | 7 EDEMPTION.” A somewhat mawk- ish melodrama, produced by Julius Steger, featuring Evelyn Thaw and her- — little boy, Russell. In it Mrs. Thaw acts — more believably than usual. 2

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ed Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section World’s Greatest Stars - for all the People AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT from ADOLPH ZUKOR FTER August 5, 1917, you who want Paramount Pic- tures can have them at your fa- vorite motion picture theatre. On the above date Paramount will inaugurate a new policy of service to the entire play3oin3, public. Any theatre in America can secure Paramount Pictures and Paramount Stars, just as it chooses to book them. The Restrictions Are Off This announcement is the most important addressed to motion picture patrons since September 1, 1914, when the Paramount program was born. By this plan your theatre will carry out your wishes. Para- mount will be able, for the first time, to satisfy the enormous public demand. And, after all, Paramount Is a Public Service Paramount originated the fea- ture photoplay idea. Beginning with Sarah Bernhardt and James K. Hackett, we Zave to the screen the famous stars of the speakin}, staie, with master writers, master direc- tors, an investment Controlled b FAMOUS PLAYERS -LASKY TION RPOR B wy ha Adolph Z Jesse L. Las A Vice President B. De Mille, Director Gen’l NEW YORK of millions to lift motion pictures to their present high plane. Paramount Has the Stars The Paramount roster includes such famous names as Mme. Petrova, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Vivian Martin, Billie Burke, Julian Eltinge, Margaret Illin3ton, Marie Doro, Fannie Ward, Ann Penninj- ton, George Beban, Wallace Reid, Pauline Frederick, Marguerite Clark. Also, the famous Para- mount-Arbuckle two-reel come- dies, the Victor Moore and Black Diamond one-reel comedies, the Paramount Bray Pictograph, weekly “Magazine on the Screen” and Burton Holmes Travel Pictures. Ask for Paramount Pictures Your theatre manager is now able to secure the stars he ma select—just as he wants to boo them. Tell him you want to see Paramount Stars and Para- mount Pictures. Hand in the Box Office Request below. He will be jlad .to know and will follow 149 I should enjoy Paramount Pictures and Stars. .

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_150 (Continued from page 146) _— SNOWFLAKE, Brocton, Mass.—Just got down to that drawing, the penalty for which should be .a deep silence with reference to those questions you propound. Nearly every magazine appears during the month preceding the date on its cover. PHOTOPLAY just happens to be earlier than most of them. Sarah Bernhardt’s right name was ‘Bernard. Billie Burke comes from a theatrical family. Write Famous Players about those Pau- line Frederick plays. They provide them for her. Do write again. | ‘F. B., OAKDALE, La—Write the Orpheum theatre at New Orleans. They'll tell you if Mrs. Castle ever danced there. - YANKEE GIRL, SAN FrRancisco—Miss Payson is with Keystone in Los Angeles. Write her there. She was a policewoman at the Exposi- tion in your city and you should have seen her there. She has appeared only in comedies. E. C., Boston, Mass.—Afraid we're a little late with your answers. The Gish sisters are now in New York, not permanently employed. We un- derstand also that Bobby Harron and Dorothy Gish are engaged. We have no information con- _ cerning Lillian Burns. Constance Talmadge has her own company. YvETTE, QvueEBEC, CaNnapAa—Don’t apologize, muh deah; your English is much better than that contained in lots of the letters we get from girls educated only in that language. John Bowers will send you a photograph. We quite-.agree as to your survey of John. M. J. W., San Francitsco—Anita Loos is 21 years old and we believe she has lived in San Francisco. She is now writing exclusively for Douglas Fairbanks. Maizie, NEw Rocuetre, N. Y.—As a rule, we don’t commit ourselves on topics. with which we are unfamiliar. When we say that Mr. So-and- So says that he is not married, you can put down a bet that he is, and win nine times out of ten. Earle Williams is still single. Harold Lockwood was born April 12, 1888. | . L. S., Mepicine Hat Canapa—Gee, that’s where all the cold waves come from, isn’t it? Mary MacLaren is about five feet, three inches and Miriam Cooper about two inches taller. Sure, call on us when you come to Chicago, but don’t be surprised if they tell you that the Answer Man has just left for California. -M. J., GreEENsBURG, Pa.—‘‘War Brides” was Nazimova’s only screen venture. Dustin and William Farnum are brothers. HERBERT, NEw YorK—Miriam Cooper is 23 and a native of Baltimore. Studio, Hollywood, California. The scenes for “Patria” were taken in New York and vicinity and Los Angeles and vicinity. So “Patria” means fatherland in Spanish? Well, well! Mou.tperR, Erte, Pa.—Louise Huff is in her early twenties and played in ‘The Girl at the Locks” for Lubin. Ask your theatre owners when they are going to show “Daughter of the Gods” and “Joan the Woman.” B. H., SHELByvILLE, Inp.—Olga Petrova was born in Warsaw, Poland, but she is an American by adoption; or perhaps, it would be more cor- rect to say, by marriage. You see when a woman, not an American, marries one, she takes his citizenship, and vice versa. Address her at Fox. Photoplay Magazine Bitutz, Newport, R. I.—Jane Lee is nearly eight. years old, but we can’t tell you-what her — salary is. “Her Father’s Son” was filmed in Los Angeles and “The Gilded Cage”. in the east. Edward Langford was the man opposite C. K. Young in “The Dark Silence.” The cast of “Love and Hate”; Helen Sterling, Bertha Kalich; — & George Howard, Stuart Holmes; Robert Sterling, Kenneth Hunter; Rita Lawson, Madeline Le- pose Willie and Myrtle, Jane and Katherine ee. M. M., Linvue, Hawati—It is only in recent years that Jack Kerrigan has’ forsaken cowboy roles. It’s up to Lasky to decide if Wallace Reid : and Mae Murray are to play together again. — — John Bowers has brown hair. Crane Wilbur has brown hair and gray eyes and is—pardon us, you : didn’t ask that. Blanche Sweet is not married. Yes, we too think she is very pretty. Dora, -SHELDON, [IA.—Ethel Barrymore was born in 1879 and Henry Walthall in 1878. Hassan Mussalli played the part of Samuel Wright in “The Awakening of Helena Ritchie.” William S. Hart is not a woman-hater in any sense of the phrase. He just hasn’t found the right one. Yes, his eyesight is very good, as he has never worn spectacles. E. C., Crystat Sprincs, Miss.—Billie Burke’s first husband is Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. William Des- mond played opposite her in “Peggy.”, Olga Petrova’s hair is red. Herbert Rawlinson is not the husband of Anna Little, bec use Alan Forrest is. Wallace Reid was Don Jose to Farrar’s “Carmen.” You probably mean Woerld’s “A — Woman Alone.” Alice Brady, Edward Langford and Arthur Ashley had the leading parts. I. W., BuRLINGTON, N. D-~—We. have no in- formation concerning the party you inquire about. .M: M., Quesec, Canapa—‘The Eves of the World” is being distributed under the state rights system and not through any program. Letters’ addressed to Miss Novak and Frank Newburg, care of Clune, Los Angeles, would reach them. Grace Darmond and Beverly Bayne are still single. . Tina Hampton, Va.—Constance Talmadge, since “Intolerance,” has nlayed in “The Matri- maniac,” “Betsey’s Burglar’ and “The Girl of the Timberclaims.” She was nineteen on April 19. Owen Moore has brown hair and blue eyes. Marguerite Courtot was last with Arrow, a Pathe company. Norma Nichols was Chiquita in “The Ne’er-Do-Well.” Hazel Dawn’s latest motion picture is “The Lone Wolf.” L. T., Easton, Pa.—Lottie Pickford is a sister of Mary and Jack. She expects to return to the screen soon. M. C., Trenton, N. J.—Harrison Ford was the man in “The Mysterious Mrs. M.” Guess he’ll send you an autographed photo if you write him a nice letter. Douglas Fairbanks has one young son. Mary Pickford was 24 in April. . RaGTIME Hicerns, Tex.—By the time this is printed and in your hands, the songs that are hits now will be “old stuff.” The most popular | song we .know right now is “The Star Spangled Banner.” s Pec. DuLtutH, Minn.—You'll have to be sat- isied with Mr. Hayakawa’s business address: Lasky’s, Hollywood. His wife is° Tsuru Aoki and she is 24 years old. eee —_—a

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La ith hil idan iad tt gi: Shh i tithes cn ec omcinttp tance ipernity eee a en er ne ee ee - good guesser. 152 > ARITY, BRADFORD, PA. —Yes,- it was Charles Rig man in.“The Battle Cry” and it was Mahlon Hamilton opposite Olga Petrova in “Extrava- gance.”’ He has played opposite Ethel Barry- more. Montagu Love played Opposite Alice Brady in “Bought and Paid For.’ Leo Delaney still earns his ham and eggs by working in the movies. - Almanac, but we still stick to Cincinnati. CHATTERBOX, WYNNEFIELD, PA.—Frank Elliott was the Englishman you liked so much in “Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo.” He is a real Englishman and is now with Selig in Los Angeles. May Allison is not married, despite the wedding ring. Messrs. Foxe, Reid and Lockwood are all bigger than us, so we refrain from expressing any opin- ion as to their respective degrees of pulchritude. - Don’t ‘see’ why your family should dislike Mr. Bushman so much. That’s not at all clubby. (Yes, dearie, a royal flush beats four of a kind. That’s kinda out of our line, but we asked a man who knew.) - A. T., Toronto, Canapa—Dorothy Davenport was born in 1895. Your others are answered elsewhere. G. A. M., Orrawa, CAanaDA—We have no record of that Minter story. Perhaps you have the name wrong. Write again; we liked your letter. E. W., DanBury, Conn.—No, Harold Lock- wood is not married to Julie Ring. Norau, Hamitton, New ZEALAND—We’d: be delighted to send you a personal reply but un- - fortunately your New Zealand stamp isn’t in right with our postal department. Mary Pick- ford has no children and has been in the movies about eight years. M. C. Fan, HAvetock, NEB. —Mina Cunard is a sister of Grace and her age is 22. She is still with Universal. Heiten, SAn DieGo, Cat.—Edwin Bolden was last with Famous Players. Can’t tell you what picture houses are to show McClure’s “Seven Deadly Sins.” Ask your theater man. 3 E. B. C., SHELTON, Conn Nine Fide was the gentlemanly hypnotist, yclept Svengali, who put the Indian sign on Clara Kimball Young, so to say, in “Trilby.”’ . Miami, Fra.—We have no record of Phyllis Gordon though the name is a familiar one. Jack Ford is a brother of Francis. G. K., Matpen,- Mass.— You are almost a Accept our most sincere thanks for your laudatory letter.“ If there’s one thing _we just dote on it is a ae people write us and tell us how clever we are. Seriously however, we did like yours better than most of ’em. Betty, DENVER, CoLo.—Dustin Farnum is with Fox in Los Angeles. Tom Forman is with Lasky. Both are married. Tom is 24. Norma _. Talmadge is with Selznick. L. D., HArtrorp, Conn.—Your letter was de- cidedly "welcome and you are hereby permitted to write again and often. Dorothy Dalton may be addressed at Culver City, Cal. M R., MiLt~tincton, Mass.—Cleo Madison hasn't confided her age to us, but we have inside information that she voted at the last presiden- tial election. Photoplay Magazine _ leased regularly. Sorry to take issue with the World ' to tell us we’re a knocker. E. M.,.Rockwati, Tex.—Louise Fazenda is still with Keystone and her comédies are re- 4 Write her care of that com- — pany for a _ photograph. +88, we kinda likes = Louise too. Ni ice kid. q PEEWE, BRADFORD, Mass.—Do we think Theda _ a dear? Well, decidedly so—the sweetest little thing we know. Just go ahead and write to her. — She'll be delighted to answer. BLANCHE, LouisviLLE, Ky eS aiilion Sills has been on the screen about two years and main- — tains a discreeet silence as to his age and matri- monial status. Puytus, Qursec, Canapa—Anita Stewart, - 4 Ruth Roland and Seena Owen are about the same height, five and a half feet. : B. F., PHILADELPHIA—Mahlon Hamilton was the man in “The Heart of a Painted Woman” — and Edward Langford in “A Woman Alone.” Robert Cummings in “The Awakening of H. — Ritchie.”” Mr. Hamilton is with Lasky and ~ Bryant Washburn with Essanay. WHAKAPAUKA, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND— Glad you told us how to nronounce it but what — in heck does it mean? It was Wm..Courtleigh, — jr., in “Out of the Drifts.’ Wilmuth Merkyl ~ with Petrova in “The Soul Market.” Your re- quest was anticipated in the last issue... Did you like the Beverly Bayne picture in the art section? S. J., Rrcury, Mont.—Your description is too meager as more is required than brown curls and grey eyes. Anyhow you're too young to break ~ away from the old homestead. .Yes,: we like — your selection of stars. Now run to school or teacher’ll scold you. ~ H. D., Oscrora, Ia.—Annette Kellerman and Geraldine Farrar are about the same age. Adda Gleason and Monroe Salisbury had the leading roles in “Ramona.” CLAIRE, CHIcAGO—Write Tom Santschi, care Selig, Los Angeles, and Harry Morey, care Vita- graph, New York. Of course we are. deeply — appreciative of the honor you.are about to confer upon us by making us the hero of a scenario. But really we don’t deserve it. All we ask is an epitaph when that time comes, labeled: “He — answered his goldarnest.” ; Motty, Sprinc Hitt, ALAa.—Earle Williams was ~~ born in Sacramento, Feb. 28, 1880, and is not © married, professionally or otherwise. Don’t re- | member any visit to Mobile. William Conklin was born in Brooklyn on Christmas Day, 1877. Jack Meredith played Inglis in “Sloth.” M. G., CH1tcaco—We share your opinion con- _cerning Mr. Walthall’s talent and ability but PHOTOPLAY reserves the right to criticise his _ plays favorably or adversely as it sees fit. The - same applies to other plays and players and be- cause your opinion does not coincide with ours there is no reason for wasting a two cent stamp Cheer up though, spuds are getting cheaper and a man with a moderate income may now eat onions once a month without jeopardizing his bank roll. M. L., RicHMonp, Va.—Yes, we were quite surprised to hear from you. You were about the last person we thought would write us. As a rule we do not open letters sent to actresses in © care of the magazine unless they are heavy = enough to indicate that there is money. in.’em. —_ ey

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Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section 155, AMmouR, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Just what did your friend write on that letter? Our curi- osity is rampant. Shirley Mason gets peevish if anyone says she is more than sixteen, so we are sure she is no more. Dorothy Phillips was born in Baltimore, a city in Maryland that is highly spoken of. by its residents, and her husband is Allan Holubar. Don’t know Minnie. Your let- ter was charming. Let us hear from you often. S. C., .Hattowett, Mr.—Fannie Ward. has been married before and has a daughter only. Don’t. get “us wrong. We want all our friends to write whenever they feel like it. Martz, Maprip, SpAIN—The Frieder Film Com- pany, Lancaster, Cal., and the William Fox Com- pany, Los Angeles, Cal., are specializing in children’s plays. You might correspond with them. M. W., OAKLAND, CAL.—So far as we know, Harold Lockwood is his right name, but we de- cline to venture an opinion as to whether he and May would “make an ideal match in real naa If you mean boxing match we would say ‘ as May is much too light. Frances Neleoa was Velma in “Human Driftwood” opposite Robert Warwick. M. K., Sart Lake City, UtAH—At this writ- ing Nell Shipman is sin the West Indies, Vivian Rich with Selig, Winifred Kingston with Fox in Los Angeles and Mrs. Vernon Castle with Pathe, New York. Movie Fan, LAGRANGE, GA.—Grace Darmond is now with Techni-color Company. Can’t find any Jealousy in the cast of “Love’s Law.” Cast for Universal’s “Jewel”: Jewel, Ella Hall; Mr. Evringham, Rupert Julian; Lawrence Evringham, Frank Elliott; Eloise, Miss Brownell; Julia, Dixie Carr; Nat Bonnell, Jack Holt; Dr. Bal- lard, T. W. Gowland; Mrs. Forbes, Lule War- renton. MARGARET, PHOENIXVILLE, Pa.—Tom Chatterton played last in American's serial, “The Secret of the Submarine.” G. H., SAcRAMENTO, CAL.—Madge Evans was the little girl in “The Web of Desire” with Ethel Clayton. The latter has no children. Rockliffe Fellowes was the husband. A READER, EacLe Pass, Trex.—Hate to dis- appoint you but Beverly Bayne was not born in Philadelphia. She was born in 1895. F. G., Monte Vista, CoLto.—Barbara Gildroy was Sibil_in ‘‘The Dark Silence.” B. T., Manitowoc, Wis.—J. Warren Kerrigan ' was born in old. Kentucky, Louisville to be speci- fic, on July 25, 1889. His present address is Paralta Film Corp., Los Angeles. Florence _ LaBadie is still with Thanhouser, New. Rochelle, _N. Y. Ashton Dearholt played in “The Sheriff of Plumas” and “Sandy Powell, Reformer,” for ; aeerican. mx, B., CARROLLTON, Mo.—Margery Daw has just turned 16. Her right name is House. Mrs. Castle is 23. Geraldine Farrar’s last was “Toan the Woman.” Some people pronounce it Tollifer ‘and others just as it is spelled Taliaferro with the accent on the fer. Ruth Travers 000100100 Read What Ruth Travers Says: MAYBELL LABORATORIES, Chicago. Gentlemen:—I have used your LASH-BROW- INE and found it to be —— wonderful in promoting the growth of eyebrows and lashes. It has proven to be all you claim. I shall gladly recommend it to allmy friends. RUTH TRAVERS. You too, can have luxuriant eyebrows and long sweeping lashes by applying Lidte-Iercie-Inte nightly. Thousands of society women and actresses have used. this harmless and guaranteed preparation, to add charm to their eyes and beauty to the face. LASH-BROW-INE, which has passed the famous Westfield standard of Pro- fessor Allyn, nourishes in a natural man- ner the eyebrows and lashes, making them thick, long and silky, thus giving depth and soulful expression to the eyes. Sold in two sizes, 25 cents and 50 cents. Send coin for size you wish and we will mail LASH-BROW-INE and our Beauty Booklet prepaid in plain, sealed cover. Maybell Laboratories 4008-30 Indiana Ave., CHICAGO ee ee ne _— | | Sic !00 | When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.

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156 Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section Fairy Garden A fragrance as elusive and delicateas the breeze that floats butterfly’s wing. A quality as pureandrefreshing as the heart of the flowers themselves. These are the charms of that most delightful aid to beauty. CARMEN Complexion POWDER White, Pink, Flesh, Cream 50c Everywhere sare ae < co., St. oa Mo. I’M THE National fi MOVIES Every time you see me, go to the movies. Every time you go to the movies think of me. My business is to make folks glad. I want every “Movie Fan in the country to be my friend. So I’m going to give them something to remember me by. Go to your nearest theatre. and ask for Cico Toodles cards. ‘There are 30 different cards—you can make a nice collection of them. Each card has one of Mother Goose’s verses on it, written _ Ina way you never saw before, and a picture to illustrate the verse. Youjust can’t help being glad when © you look at Cico Toodles Cards Ask your movie man for them. If he hasn’t got them he can get them for you.

ANNE, JAcKson, TENN.—Helen Holmes and | Helen Gibson are not at all. the same. The former was the first “Railroad Helen” and when she quit Kalem, Helen Gibson took her place. — 3 Our personal opinion, not for publication, is that — “The Crimson Stain Mystery” is rather im- © probable and that Olga Olonova is the wigglediest — vamp we ever witnessed. Dorothy Davenport — has retired temporarily from the screen. W. F., WorcESTER, MAss.—We have read over your letter a half dozen times and can’t just ‘figure out what you are trying to put over. Try it again. A. L., RicuMonp Hitt, L. J.—PHoTopLay Macazine does not sell its editorial space, and no charge is made for any articles concerning the og Only our advertising columns are for ~ sale. A. K., OLtnEy, Pa.—June Caprice was born in Boston and has light hair and blue eyes. She mails her photographs to her admirers without charge. GEORGE, Lincotn, Nes.—William Farnum’s wife was an actress and her professional name was Olive White. Their child was adopted about two years ago. Mr. Farnum and his family are now in New York. P. S., Santa Rita, N. M.—Billie Burke is again acting for the screen and her first picture will be “The Mysterious Miss Terry,” for Para- mount. Creighton Hale is not the husband of — Pearl White. MariAN, MInNNNEAPOLIS—Glad you think this department is swell. Forrest Stanley is acting on the stage, in “The Bird of Paradise.” He is married. X. Y. Z., Smirus FAtts, Ont., -CAnaADA—None of the Williamses you mention are related. Charles Ray and J. Barney Sherry were the boy and man, respectively, in the picture to which you refer. Cannot answer your scenario ques- tion. A. B. H., Meripen, Conn.—Jewel Carmen is with William Fox. Her last two pictures, “A Tale of Two Cities” and ‘American Methods,” are both with William Farnum. MixtprepD, Los ANGeELEes, CaAL.—Beatrice Van was Baby Marie Osborn’s mother in “Told at Twilight.” Teddy Sampson is in Los Angeles now. She’s not playing, however. Keystone hasn’t featured anyone of the name you mention. Zena Keefe is with Ivan Films. Write Edna Payne, care Dramatic Mirror, New York. Write Margarita Fischer, care Pollard Pictures, San Diego, California: Hazel Dawn, care Selznick Enterprises, New York City. F. S., Curcaco—Dorothy Phillips’ real name before she married Allen Holubar was Mary Strible. She is now at Universal City. ViIvIAN, BIRMINGHAM, ALA.— “New = York Nights” will be the next serial in which Pearl White will appear. Her eyes are brown. THERESA, SAN Franctsco—We have no record of any Anita Murry. Kate, CH1caGco—Wheeler Oakman was Kirk ~ in “The Ne’er-Do-Well,” which was filmed early — in 1915. He is now with Mabel Normand’s company. Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.

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Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section 157 E. R., Grass VALLEY, CaL.—Sorry to disap- point you, but we never had any pictures taken. We can assure you, however, that the Answer Man is not a movie actor. Charles Bryant, who in private life is the husband of Nazimova, was Franz in “War Brides.” Charles Hutchinson was : George, Nila Mac the sister and Gertrude Berke- ley the mother. Yes, Henry King is also mar- ried, William Russell ditto. Address him at Santa Barbara, your state. T. G., OrreEcon City, Ore.—It was Louise Glaum and not Theda Bara in “The Wolf Woman” and she wasn’t killed. No Goldwyn pictures have been released thus far. Howard Hickman was the count and Enid Markey his promised bride in “Civilization.” M. H., WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va— ' . Bessie Barriscale was the lead in “The Green Swamp.” Extra girls get all the way from $1.50 _to $10 a day, but the average is about $3. FREDERICK ADMIRER, GARDEN City, L. I.—It was in “The Moment Before” that Pauline Fred- erick played the part of a widow with white hair. There was a story about her in the last ‘issue of PHoTOPLAyY and lots of pictures. KATHRYN, Datrtas, TEx.— Yes, Marguerite Clark’s name really is ditto. Niles Welch is married and is now with the Technicolor com- pany. We have no record of the girl you men- tion. Movie stars do not make it a practice to receive calls from their admirers at home. IWANNANO, FALL River, Mass.—The girl who played opposite Sessue Hayakawa in “The Bot- tle Imp” wore a Hawaiian name on the cast, but in reality her name is Margaret Loomis, a Los Angeles girl. Mary Pickford is with Artcraft, which has been absorbed by Famous Players- Lasky Company, which also owns control of Para- mount. So far as we know, Jack Pickford was not married recently, although there was much talk concerning such an affair. Here’s “The Piper’s Price” cast: Amy Hadley, Dorothy Phil- lips; Jessica Hadley, Maud George; Ralph Had- ley, William Stowell; Billy Kilmartin, Lon Chaney; Maid, Claire Du Brey. E. M., Cuico, CaL.—We have made exhaustive inquiries and have been tunable to learn whether or not Wallace Reid uses bandoline on his hair. We know, however, that he is an expert with the mandolin and ukulele, if that will help you any. Marguerite Clark’s face was on the cover of PHotopLtay in March, 1916. Stuart Holmes will send you his picture. How can Marguerite stay unmarried? Easy; just dodge every time she sees a marriage license. Yes, Jack Dean is really Fannie Ward’s husband. Didst think she was too young to have one? RutH, BRECKENRIDGE, Minn.—Wallace_ Mac- - Donald played opposite ‘Miss Minter in “Youth’s _Endearing Charm.” Grace Cunard is five feet, four and a half inches tall, her hair is red and her eyes grey. ents were of German descent, but it is not ‘recorded that they ever lived in Lawrence. _Ethelmary Oakland was the child in “The Dummy,” if that’s what you mean_by “opposite Jack Pickford.” Lou-Tellegen’s first name is _ Lou but he has a lot of intermediate names that _we have sorta lost track of. He ditched the rest _ of them when he became a naturalized American. Write to the players themselves for their photo- graphs, not to the companies. L. P., Lawrence, Mass.—Cleo Ridgely’s par- Don't cut the cuticle. hangnatls. See how lovely Cutex makes theml Cutting leaves avough edge— makes Why cutting ruins the cuticle How you can keep it smooth and firm without cutting one’s whole effort should be to keep the cuticle unbroken. When the cuticle is trimmed or cut away, the skin about the base of the nails becomes dry and ragged. It constantly roughs up, forms hangnails, and makes the hand hideously unattractive. It was to meet this need for a harmless cuticle remover that the cutex formula was prepared. \ LL specialists say that in caring for the nails, Removes surplus cuticle without cutting Send for your Cutex Midget Manicure set today and tryit. In the Cutex pack- age you will find orange stick and absorb- ent cotton. Apply Cutextothebase ofthe says: ‘‘Ihave Cutex to than nail, gently pushing back the cuticle. ee ee lee Lee Almost at once you can wipe off the dead cuticle been 30 smooth and surplus skin. Rinse the hands in clear ©%@% ™y nails 80 shapely. water. Then a touch of Cutex Nail White removes all discolorations from underneath the nails. Cutex Nail. Cake gives your nails a delightful polish. Until you use Cutex, you cannot realize what a great improvement evenone application makes; you cannot know how attractive your nails can be made to look. Try it and see! Cutex manicure preparations are sold in all high-class drug and department stores. Cutex Cuticle Remover comes in 50c and $1.00 bottles with an introductory size at 25c. Cutex Nail White is 25c. Cutex Nail Polish, in cake, paste, powder or liquid form, is 25c. Cutex Cuticle Comfort, for sore or tender cuticle, isalso25c. If your favorite store has not yet been supplied with Cutex, order direct from us, giving your dealer’s name, and we will fill your order promptly. Send 14c today for this complete manicure set Send 14c now—10c for the manicure set and 4c for postage and packing—and we will send you this Midget Manicure Set containing all four Cutex products, complete with cotton, orange stick and emery boards. Enough for six ‘manicures.’? Send today. Address NORTHAM WARREN 304 Cutex Building 9 W. Broadway, N. Y. City If you live in Canada, send 14c to MacLean, Benn& Nel- son, Ltd., Dept. 304, 489 St. Paul Ste West, Montreal, Jor. your sam- ple set and get Canadian prices. This talented_ little motion picture star, Dorothy Gish 7 This com- plete mant- cure set sent for 14 When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.

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> 158 : 3 Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section Photoplay in Large Size EGINNING with the October number, 3B on all newsstands September I, PHOTO- | PLAY will assume the new standard magazine size. (Identical with Cosmopolitan,Good Housekeeping and The American Magazine.) The publishers of PHOTOPLAY have taken this step to gain a more nearly perfect medium of expression, both as to type and pictorial display, and to continue this maga- zine as the world’s foremost moving picture publication. PHOTOPLAY’S editorial policy remairis the same, with its powers ‘greatly augmented by the mechanical advantages the new size affords. You will find splendid fiction, illumi- nating articles, interviews, editorial comment, reviews and news mention gorgeously illustrated, not only by the leading American artists, but by the prize productions of the camera. On all newsstands September First — Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.

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Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section 159 R. H., Batuurst, N..S. W., AusTRALIA—L. Rogers Lytton was the one who played Phillip Ralston in “Salvation Joan.” He can be reached through Metro. Your stamps are no bueno on this side. A. B., HicHianps, N. J.—Dorothy Davenport is not with any film company at the present time. Blanche Sweet does not make a practice of send- ing her pictures, we believe. M2 Be MarPLewoop, Mz: Mass.—‘The Diamond from the Sky” was the serial in which Irving Cummings played. He now has a company of his ani Lottie Pickford played opposite him in the serial. M. S., KirKkwoop, Mo.—Mae Marsh is with Goldwyn but as yet none of her films has been released. Yes, Charley Ray is securely tied up. C. S., CuyaAHoGaA Fa.tts, O.—We do not em- ploy cameramen. You have th: wrong number. ESTHER, PARKSIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA—Mary Pickford, 24 years, Artcraft Company ; Marguer- ite Clark, 30, Famous Players; Hazel Dawn, 26, same. Just go ahead and write them. Rup, ‘ST. Bonirace, M Man., CANADA—Don’t think we can accommodate you. We are sadly deficient when it comes to judging masculine pulchritude although we admit we're a_ bear when it comes to feminine charms. GRIFF, PHILADELPHIA—Just keep it up and youll be a regular poet some day; long hair, starving in attic and everything. But we surely enjoyed those lines to us, even if the pome was a bunch of undeserved praise. N. S., RicHMonp, Inp.—A. D. Sears was born in San Antonio, Texas, and went on the stage about eight years ago. He has played in many of the best: Fine Arts productions and is opposite Seena Owen in the last picture made at that studio, ‘Madame Bo-Peep.” R. M., MippLeton, Conn.—Ralph Kellard is not married to Grace Darmond. We are always glad to accommodate our friends but we can’t put Mr. Kellard’s picture on our cover without asking the editor about it first. R. D., Kansas City, Mo.—Matt Moore has no wife. Can’t stake you to the identity of The Silent Menace though we can assure you that it is not Colonel Roosevelt or William J. Bryan. Pearl White doesn’t wear a blonde wig because her hair is red. CABBAGES, ETC., Kam.oops, B. C., CANADA— You have the advantage, as we have not given ourselves the pleasure of reading Mr. Kerrigan’s life, so we cannot pass on his use of “village curate.” However, we have never heard of its use in this country. Your opinion as to the _ taste of another film idol with respect to his _ posterity, as it were, is shared by us in toto, as we used to say when we were on the bench. _ Thomas Holding played opposite Miss Frederick _ in “The Eternal City” and all those Roman - scenes were actually filmed in Rome. Always _ glad to hear from you. * C. J., St. JosepH, Mo.—You must be more _ specific. Ask us again and give us a little better a _ clue to me story. ; H. R., Brooktyn—Lillian Gish is not at pres- ent employed. She is visiting in New orcs: City. ‘you never had a chance! “Four years ago you and I worked at the same desk. We were both discontented. Re- member the noon we saw the International Correspondence Schools’ advertisement? ‘That woke me up. I realized that to get ahead I needed special training, and decided to let the I.C.S. help me. I wanted you to dothe same, but you said, ‘Aw, forget it!’ I have been climbing ever since; you had the same chance I had, but you turned it down. No, Jim, you can’t expect promotion -until you’ve trained yourself to handle bigger work.” There are lots of ae in the world—in stores, factories, railroads, offices, everywhere. Are you one of them? Wake up! Every time you see an I.C.S, coupon your chance is staring you in the face. Don’t turn it down. Right now over one hundred thousand men are preparing themselves for better and bigger jobs through I. C. S. courses. You can join them and get in line for promotion, Mark and mail this coupon, and find out how. IWTeeWATIONAL TEAR CUT HERE cee eee ee =" =28 NTERNATIONAL. SORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS lain aaa yea = peer: I pie ng for the posie net or in the subject, before which I mark X. ELEOTRIOAL ENGINEER SALESMANSHIP Electric Lighting ADVERTISING Electric Railways ; {) Window Trimmer Electric Wiring Show Card Writer Telegraph Engineer Sign Painter Telephone Work Railroad Trainman MEOHANIOAL ENGINEER ILLUSTRATING Mechanical Draftsman Cartooning Machine Shop Practice BOOKKEEPER Gas Engine Operating Stenographer and Typist OIVIL ENGINEER Cert. Public Accountant Surveying and Mapping TRAFFIC MANAGER, MINE FOREMAN OR ENGINEER Railway Accountant Metallurgist or Prospector Commercial Law STATIONARY ENGINEER GOOD ENGLISH Marine my ad Teacher ARCHITEC Common School Subjects Soamamers ie Builder. 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160 Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section All that Can Be Taught on Photoplay Writing Hmis On Photoplay Writing By Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke Fifty Cents ¢ Photoplay Publishing Company | Captain Leslie T. Peacocke’s remarkably popular book on the craftsmanship of scenario writing. It is a complete and authoritative treatise on this new and lucrative art. This book teaches everything that can be taught on the subject. Written by a master craftsman of many years experience in studios. It contains chapters on construction, form, titles, captions, detailing of action; also a model scenario from a library of scripts which have seen successful production. This book will be of especial value to all who contemplate scenario writing, and who do not know scenario form. In other words, it will be invaluable to the man or woman who has ‘a good story, but who doesn’t know how to put it together. The price is 50c, including postage charges. Send for it today. PHOTOPLAY PUBLISHING COMPANY Dept. 10A 350 North Clark Street CHICAGO Every advertisement in THOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.

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Photoplay Magazine —Advertising Section E. K., PortLanp, OrE.—So you want to know if John D. Rockefeller played opposite Pearl White? Well, Eddie—assuming that’s your name —he never did and we can’t give you Lillian Walker’s address because she probably couldn’t read it if you wrote her a letter. L. C., NEw York City—In filming the big screen spectacles, players are often injured, but no one was seriously hurt in the “shooting” of “Joan the Woman.” The Y. W. C. A. is in charge of the Studio Club in Hollywood. Theda Bara was born in Cincinnati. C. C., St. Louts—Were we a movie person, we'd be just plum tickled to tell you all about the color of our hair, shoes, necktie, etc. ; whether we were married or happy; or any such little bits of information concerning ourself. But we're not. You lose, but you have our undying gratitude. arl White is about 30; Jean Sothern 19, and Francis Bushman gives his age as 32, but we suspect that there was some- thing off for cash in the case of the last named. Marie Wayne is Bertha in “Pearl of the Army.” Mr. Bushman was never with Universal. His oldest son is in high school. L. E., Farmineton, ILtyt.—Clara Kimball Young’s last picture was “The Easiest Way.” Owen Moore has three brothers, Matt, Tom and Joe. Edna Mayo is not married. Marin Sais pronounces her name Mah’ rin Sa iss (long a in the surname). B. B., New York City—The “L” in L. C. Shumway stands for Leonard. . His hair is light, his eyes are blue and he stands six feet without a shoe. How’s that for pottery? He was with Lubin, but we haven’t the cast of the play you mention. D. C., JouNson City, N. Y.—So you would see more of Clara Kimball Young? Yet, after “The Common Law’’—oh, yes, you mean more photoplays. Pardon. We share your admiration for Miss Young and also should like to see her more. Fortunately for you serial fans, the high cost of living has not affected your favorite film fodder. Your letter enjoyed very much. C. S., LaraAMiz, Wyo.—So you just heard that Francis Bushman had five children? Yet they say bad news travels fast; assuming, of course, that it seemed that way to you. Don’t quite understand that ten-beauties paragraph in your letter. Elucidate, which is French for come through with more dope. D. T., SAuLT Ste. Marie, Ont., CAnADA—Niles Welch played opposite Marguerite Clark in “Miss George Washington,” with Mary Minter in “Emmy of Stork’s Nest,” in “The Kiss of Hate” with Ethel Barrymore, and in “The Yellow Streak.” Vincent Sorelle opposite Miss Clark in “The Fortunes of Fifi.” BARBARA, WEST PERTH, AUSTRALIA—Flo La- Badie is 22, her hair is light brown and she is five feet five inches tall. Such a warm admirer as you are should write her personally. Georgie Stone was the boy who did the shooting in “Let Katy Do It.” L. K., MILwAUKEE, W1s.—Leon Bary was the “Shielding Shadow” in the serial of that name. Ralph Kellard is 30. “Pearl of the Army” has not been published in book form. It was filmed in and around New York City. am Fee Vou may Wye, Y Personal Daintiness INSURES Dry, Odorless Underarms so necessary to personal freshness, and without which no woman can enjoy perfect poise and assurance. Humiliation and ruined gowns are the inevitable results of excessive arm- pit perspiration. Why endure all this? Nonspi Will Free You from this disordered condition as it has millions of other women. Nonspi is a pure antiseptic liquid which harmlessly diverts the moisture and keeps the arm- pits dry and sweet. Unscented, no artificial coloring; approved and recom- mended by physicians. About two applications a week sufficient; daily baths do not lessen the effect. 50c (several months’ supply) of toilet and drug dealers or by mail direct. Or, send us 4c for testing sample and what medical authorities say about the harmfulness of ex- cessive armpit perspiration. NONSPI CO. 2624 Walnut St. KANSAS ee MO. When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE. / is a woman's greatest charm \

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15¢| W. S., Fr. Grant, PanamMa—“The Argonauts of California” has not been placed in general circulation as yet, we believe. The Universal company, in California, has a completely equipped hospital. 7 DorotHy, MayLanps, W. AvstTrAL1A—Phillip Tonge in “Still Waters’ was the same one you knew in England. We have no record of any other pictures in which he has appeared. Pearl White has been in “Perils of Pauline,” “Exploits of Elaine,” “May Blossom,” “Pearl of the Army,” and many other plays and serials. “Peggy” and “Gloria” were the only two screen appearances of Billie Burke. C. M., New York City—Jack Holt is to play opposite Mary Pickford in her newest photoplay. Marie Walcamp is not married. She is now in your own little city. V. R., NorroLtk, Va.—Your request anent Ken- neth Casey has been wished on the editor. MARGARET, SAN Francisco—Tell you all we know about Doug. Fairbanks? Heavens, child; there isn’t room enough. Here are a few facts though: He is 33 years old, married and has one son; raised in Denver, likes cowpunching, boxing and wrestling and fence vaulting. Betty, LEAVENWORTH, KAn.—Belle Bruce was Beverly Bayne’s chum in “In the Diplomatic Service.” What do yuh mean by “demon?” She has played in a bunch of Vitagraph films and hails from Bridgenort, Connecticut, where the bridges come from. H. Y. M., Los AnGELres, Cat.—So far as we know, the picture of the person you name has never appeared in PHotopray. Never even heard of him in this department. _ S..R., Ermira, N. Y.—That danoer in “Patria” is nameless in the published cast. A. S., Yonkers, N. Y.—Beverly Bayne is not married, which ought to. be a little consolation to you, and neither is Anita Stewart. E. C., Barnes City, Ila—The Laughing Mask in “The Iron Claw” was Creighton Hale. Ad- dress Blanche Sweet at Lasky’s, Hollywood, and it will be forwarded to her. ‘A. B. C., WATERBURY, Conn.—Frank Keenan lives at Laurelton, Long Island. June Caprice is 18. “The Bride of Hate” was filmed at Culver City, California.

J. R., Lansrorp, Pa.—AlIl the players you men- tion are American citizens. Their ancestry or religion is not discussed here. "What’s the use, so long as they deliver the goods? B. M. T., WINNIPEG, CANADA—Must hand you the cake as some guesser. Who told you about us, anyhow? Marguerite Clark is with Famous Players. We agree with you as to.Mae Marsh. She’s great. A. S., Pertu, W. Austrat1a—Gladys Hulette is about 20. She has been in the pictures for a half dozen years. Mollie King is 22 and Jean Sothern 19. Both were on the screen about a year and a half. Jean is not related to E. H. N. B. H., Nepraska City, Nes.—What are you trying to tell us—that John Bowers is a male Theda Bara? Never affected us that way. He'll surely answer you. (Continued on page 168) Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.

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Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section STUDIO DIRECTORY For the convenience of our readers who may desire the addresses of film companies we give the principal ones below. The first is the business office; (*) indicates proper office to send manu- scripts; (s) indicates a studio; at times all three may be at one address. AMERICAN Fity Mra. Co.,6227 Broadway, Chicago; Santa Barbara, Cal. (*) (s). ARTOCRAFT PICTURES CoRP. (Mary Pickford), 729 Seventh Ave., New York City. era AMUSEMENT PRODUCING Co., Long Beach, Cal. (s BRENON, HERBERT, PRop., 729 Seventh Ave., N. ¥. €.; Hudson Heights, N. J: (*) (s). CALIFORNIA MOTION PICTURE Co.,San Rafael, Cal. (*) (s). és es Fito Corp., Main and Washington, Los Angeles, al. P Epison, THomaAsS, INc., 2826 Decatur Ave., New York City. *) (8). EssANAy FILM Mra. Co., 1333 Argyle St., Chicago. (*) (¢s). FaMOUS PLAYERS FILM Co., 485 Fifth Ave., New York City; 128 W. 56th St., New York City. . FinE Arts, 4500 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal. Fox Frum Corp., 130 W. 46th St., New York City (*); 1401 Western Ave., Los Angeles (*) (s); Fort Lee, N. J. (s). FROHMAN AMUSEMENT CoRP., 140 Amity St., Flushing, L. L; 18 E. 41st St., New York City. GaumontT Co., 110 W. Fortieth St., New York City; Flush- ing, N. ¥. (s); Jacksonville, Fla. (s). : GOLDWYN Frum Corp., 16 E. 42nd St., Ft. Lee, N. J. (s). HorsLEY StTup10o, Main and Washington; Los Angeles. Tuos. H. Inck, Culver City, Cal. KALEM Co., 235 W. 23d St., New York City ore 251 W. 19th St., New York City (s); 1425 Fleming St., Ho ilywood, Cal. (s); Tallyrand Ave., Jacksonville, Fla. (8); Glendale, Cal. (s). KEYSTONE Fit Co., 1712 Allesandro St., Los Angeles. KLEINE, GEORGE, 166 N. state St., Chicago. LASKY FEATURE PLay Co., 485 Fifth Ave., New York City; 6284 Selma Ave., Hollywood, Cal. LonE Star Firm Corp. (Chaplin), 1025 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, Cal. METRO PICTURES CoRP., 1476 Broadway, New York (*). (All manuscripts for the ‘following studios go to Metro’s Broadway address): Rolfe Photoplay Co. and Columbia Pictures Corp., 3 W. 61st St., New York City (s); Popular Playsand Players, Fort Lee, N. J. (8); Quality Pictures Corp., Metro office; Yorke Film Co., Hollywood, Cal. (s). MoROscO PHOTOPLAY Co., 229 W. 42d St., New York City (*); 201 Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal. ‘(s 3 Moss, B. S., 729 Seventh Ave., New York City. MvuTUAL FILM CoRP., Gdnenete Blidg., Chicago. MABEL NORMAND FiLM Corp., Hollywood, Cal. PALLAS PICTURES, 220 W. 42d St., New York City; 205 N. Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal. PATHE EXCHANGE, 25 W. 45th St., New York City; Jersey City, N. J. (s). POWELL, FRANK, PRODUCTION Co., Times Bldg., N.Y. C. ROTHACKER FitmM Mra. Co., 1339 Diversey Parkway, Chicago, Ill. SELIG POLYSCOPE Co., Garland Bldg., Chicago (*); Western and Irving Park Blvd., Chicago (Ss); 3800 Mission Road, Los Angeles, Cal. (8). SELZNICK, LEwWIs J., ENTERPRISES INc., 729 Seventh Ave., New York City. SrenaL Fitm Corp., 4560 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. (*) (S). TALMADGE, CONSTANCE, 729 Seventh Ave., N. ¥.C.; 175th St., N. Y.C.(*) (8). TALMADGE, Norma, 729 Seventh Ave., N. Y. C.; 318. East 48th St., N. Y. C. (*) (Ss). THANHOUSER FILM CorpP., New Rochelle, N. Y. (*) (s); Jacksonville. Fla. (s). UNIVERSAL FILM Me. Co., 1600 ae a gare New York City; Universal City, Cal.; Coyetsville, N - (Ss). Vim CoMEpy Co., Providence, R. I. V1ITIGRAPH COMPANY OF AMERICA, E. 15th St. and Locust Ave., Brooklyn, N. ¥:; Hollywood, Cal. Voaur ComEpDy Co., Gower St. and Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Cal. WaRwIcK, ROBERT, FILM CorpP., 807 E. 175th St., N. ¥.C. WHARTON, INc., Ithaca, N. Y. WoRLD FILM Corp., 130 W. 46th St., New York City (*)3 Fort Lee, N. J. (s). YounaG, CLARA K., FILM CorP., 729 Seventh Ave., N. Y. C. 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, 164 The Gas Girl a (Continued from page 60) Pennsylvania is a grand little Common- wealth except that life there.is just one eighty per cent grade after another ; so that when your bus is suffering with sextuple - pneumonia and St. Vitas dance, this gets to be considerable in your young life. Well, Daff had just strangled up a couple of miles ‘of landscape, and had stopped to read a signpost by the last of the daylight, when three bums popped out of the bushes by the side of the road, and one of them covered her with a gun and told her to get out. Daff had her own gun in her holster around her waist, but it might as well have been at home for all the chance she had to use it. She had left her engine running and - now when the man with the gun backed her up against the sign post, the other two jumped into the car. ‘The one at the wheel yelled to the third, and he climbed up be- hind Daff’s duffle and off they went, he covering her until they were out of sight around a curve. Blooie! ‘There she was amid another beautiful evening glow and with her whole trip gone up in smoke in two minutes! She just sat down on a log by the road side and wept upon that rolling vista. It was pretty tough, with New York, as you might say, almost in sight. For awhile she didn’t know what to do. It was the Missouri thing over again only worse. She was hungry and tired, and she couldn’t see a house from where she was. She knew it was miles back to the nearest burg, and after ten hours of massage in that vibrator of hers she wasn’t any George Payson Weston. But there was nothing else to do, so she started back. And sure enough, she hadn’t gone two miles when along came little Rollo in his cerise boneshaker. He pulled up squealing, and when he found out what had happened he was all broken up. Sure, like the Germans at the Irish rebel- lion. Here she was flat-footed at last, and he’d won his point. “Well, I’m awful sorry for your sake, dear,” he said, getting out of the machine and going to where she stood in the road. ~ ‘This foolishness is over at last, and I’m here waiting for you just as I said I’d be.” He was real gentle, and she began to cry again. I guess he looked pretty good to her then, big and faithful and with a large acreage of dusty coat front to burrow into. “You’ve done your best for that slave driver Brant, and now I want to take care of you,” he went on. “But I don’t want to be taken care of,” she sobbed, “I w-want my car!” | ees but I haven’t a chance in a million to find it now. It’s dark already, and be- sides I’m not going off to leave you again like I did in Missouri. One scare like that is enough. And for God’s sake, don’t cry, Daft! I can’t stand it!’ She didn’t say anything, couldn’t I guess, and he went on. “This trip’s done now darling, thank God! and I want you to listen to me. I’ve done everything I could to spare you, I’ve been faithful, and patient and reasonable. You've served your time and so have I, and now let’s forget it and get married and be © happy. Even Brant couldn’t roar after what’s happened tonight.” ‘Here, where are you going?” Daff unlimbered her gat for the first time on that trip, and pointed it straight for the place where Rollo was hungriest. “T’m taking your car.- Do you think I am going to be beaten now? I’m going to get to New York if I have to commit mur- der to do it. You stand where you are and don’t move or I'll shoot.” Rollo told me afterwards that he didn’t take any chances at all after one look at her eyes. “Tl get you for larceny, Daff, in the next town,” he said, thinking of the first thing he could. “You do, and it’s the last time you'll ever see me.” She was in the car now and the engine was going, but she kept him covered. Rollo caved in, anger, disappointment, everything washed out in his admiration for her brainy gameness. “Daff you’re wonderful, you’re perfect! I’m mad about you. Nobody ever beat me before, but you’ve done it, and you can beat me for the rest of my life, if you'll only marry me! Will you marry me Daff?” “Of course not! Don’t be silly! The machine was headed down grade. and Daff started it with a jump into second speed, watching Rollo to see he didn’t try to flip on behind. He didn’t. He was wrecked, ruined, done. ‘Life held nothing more for him. After

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. 166 awhile he started back to the next towh for something to eat, a meal which, I after- wards learned, took the shape of a large bun. I happened to be waiting in Washington for Daff, and inside an hour after she ar- rived I had the wires hot to the police in all parts of the state. As a result we got her car back inside of forty-eight hours, for it was lettered all over with Dafft’s records, and was in such bad shape that it couldn't be disguised. ‘The three ’boes had aban- doned it on an open road. You better believe I found out what had happened up in those mountains. Daff had to explain how she came to be riding Rollo’s Ford Killer, and the parts she wouldn't tell, I guessed. And when I was wised up I felt about as sore as an extra kid watch- ing her first big picture. Things had broken "my way at last, and I figured Rollo was done for. I was right, too, for though we ‘left his car with his man in Washington, he never followed us. I guess he knew when he was licked. But the funny part of it was that from then on we had practically no trouble of any kind. : ‘Was that blond prune a jonah, or was | he not?” I asked Daff, and she hadn’t any- thing to say. Well, we reached New York. Daft handed our Mayor’s letter to Mitchell’s secretary on the City Hall steps, and all hands posed while the cameras clicked. The next day came the real finish. I got in - beside Daff and, leaving the City Hall, we _ headed across Brooklyn Bridge for Coney Island. Things held together, and finally Daff drove her front wheels smack into a | big Atlantic comber, and I grabbed her ' up out of her seat and carried her ashore _ high and dry amid a murderous fire. And that was the end, all except for one thing which came off while we were at din- ner together that night. I had the old soup and fish on myself this time, and when I kidded the girl at the cigar counter she kidded right back, so you can judge of the illumination. “Daff,” I said, and tossed her a telegram kind of careless, ‘‘read that!” She opened it. “You get a hundred meg a week from now on,” it said, and was signed ‘‘Mandel.”’ She registered unrestrained gladness, and gave me one of her tough little hands. Photoplay Magazine “Gee,” I said, “I’ve worked for that. But it wasn’t for myself; it was for both of us. You know I love you Daff. I’ve got the bungalow all picked out, and all I ask is a rag time wedding march. Will you take me on for a finish go at catch-weights, dar- ling ?” She looked at me kind of funny. Then she produced a telegram of her own from somewhere, and I read :— “Come back single and star for us at a hundred and fifty a week. That stunt in Pennsylvania was immense. Mandel.” I sat still for a little with a long curse forming in my system against that foxy old devil. Still I had to hand it to him know- ing human nature. Then I gave the firing squad the signal. : “Well?” ‘You've been wonderful ‘to me, Lew,” she said, and I knew she meant it, “‘but think of my career. A woman can’t marry and still be a great artist.”’ “All right, Daff, you go ahead and be a great artist. I want to see you succeed, and I’ll help you all I can,” She didn’t say anything either for a min- ute. Then she looked up at me in the shyest way. “But what great artist ever succeeded without a manager to look after her all the time?” she asked. :: “Daft!” I yelled so loudly that every- body within twenty feet looked around at me. ‘Yes,’ she said in a soft, sweet way that told me everything. There was consid- erable time thereabouts I lost track of. “But what about Mandel’s offer?” I managed after a little. “Oh, he'll come around,” she said serenely. “If it’s a future star he wants he’ll take me married or single.” And he did. When we got back to the studio after our honeymoon it wasn’t long till little Rollo blew in, and I must say he took his dose like a man. “T was afraid this would happen,” he said when he got a little resigned. “Why?” I asked him. “Because I knew I was blown into the bouillon that night Daff took my car away from me. You see I’d hired those three bums to hold her up and set her adrift, and when she didn’t fall for my heart and home, I figured I was due for a quick fade-out, and I was right.”

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| | Photoplay Magazine—Advertising Section 169 Scotty, EpMonTON,~ALTA:; CANADA—There 1s no place where “cuttings” of films may be pur- chased. E. L., Lepanon, Ky.—You are correct. David Stafford in “Gloria’s Romance” was William Roselle. Mrs. O., INDEPENDENCE, Kan.—Wellington Playter is still with Famous Players, we think. Rose, Newark, N. J.—So you had to write twice? Too bad! Alice Brady took both parts an “A Dancer’s Peril.’”’ Your other questions hardly call for an answer. VioLa, CLinton, la.—We didn't see the article to which you refer as having been published in some other magazine, and besides, it wouldn't do to enter into any controversy over the merits_ of the film players. Cheer up, however; [francis X. is still going strong and there won't be any danger of his being called out, as he will be in the exenipted class. Pomme, St. Louis, Mo.—William Hinckley was .- Blair in “The Secret of Eve,” with Mme. Petrova. Ann Murdock is an American. Ex-ANIMOoO, YONKERS, N. Y.—Congratulations on your turrble cleverness in winning the first prize in the puzzle contest. . James Morrison has not returned to Vitagraph. Fred Church is with Universal. G. M. Anderson is producing miusi- cal comedies. Florence Turner has not quit the screen—just England—and Florence Lawrence is still in retirement. Jotiz, SAN FRANcIScO—Quite agree with you as to the utter impossibility of Rockliffe Fel- lowes’.name. His face is scheduled to appear in PuotorLay before long. Yep, Doug. Fairbanks is “just grand.” No more Triangle pictures by him. William B. Davidson was opposite Ethel Barrymore in “The White Raven.” Chester Barnett is still this side of the Styx. “Law of Compensation” his latest. R. M., GARRETT, IND.—Dolores Cassinelli was last with the Emerald Company. We have been told that Beulah Poynter is the wife of John Bowers. Gertrude Selby is nearly 21. She stands about an inch over five feet and weighs 110. 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