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“The people of the country who are working at high pressure to win the war need some form of recreation, and to a vast number of our people moving pictures are the only form of recreation within their means. The majority of the moving picture theatres of the country have placed themselves unreservedly at the disposal of the Govern- ment for the furtherance of Liberty Loans, War Savings, and other Government movements, and deserve the thanks of the country for their patriotic attitude.” McAdoo, Secretary the Treasury ( Signed) W G. of

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AROLD PARRY QUICKSALL, first managing Quicksall an honor-place among the authorities of the editor of the Photo-Play World is dead, a world on drama and music before many years pass.” H victim of the deadly scourge of influenza, which True sincerity of purpose, as we who worked with swept the nation. That he, though only 27 years old, him know, was the underlying principle of Mr. Quick- should answer the “Taps” of life is unseemly, and his sall’s relentless fight for the public’s benefit. At times passing robs the great motion picture industry of a his comment upon things dramatic and musical were potent force for betterment. probably harsh, but it was only because he honestly Better, cleaner and more elevating moving pictures believed his opinions and possessed the unalterable has been the basic principle of Mr. Quicksall’s connec- courage of his convictions. tion with this thriving medium of entertainment and It was one of his pet desires to establish the “first education. qualifications His to judge the requisite line of defense” for the photoplay industry in the elements to gain his elevated goal, is attested by the studios, to offset the unconscious will to destruction of fact that the keenest stu- a probably well-meaning dents of the art of acting, sphere of bigoted persons both on the stage and with a legal right to censor screen, had admitted Mr. art. Quicksall to a place While fully in accord among the foremost critics with the spirit of censor- of the nation. ship laws and insisting His editorials, appear- upon a high standard ing in this magazine and with which to make photo- many times directed plays conform, still Mr. against the natural im- Quicksall fought continu- pulses of those in the ously against the ap- motion picture field more pointment of persons to sensationally inclined, the boards who had little were grounded upon a or no knowledge of the thorough knowledge of art they were passing his subject. This insight upon. to stage and screen work, It was his contention coupled with a fairmind- that persons, no matter edness seldom evidenced how well versed in litera- among present day critics, ture or how high a made him a wholesome position they held socially credit to his profession. or ecclesiastically, were Not alone did the photo- not qualified to censor play benefit by Mr. Quick- unless they also had an sall’s constant battle for intimate working knowl- elevating entertainment, edge of their subject. but everything with which Aside from his extensive he was associated felt this critical and editorial work, HAROLD PARRY QUICKSALL influence. Better music Mr. Quicksall was one of and literature were among the most active promoters his consistent demands. As dramatic and music critic of of the great Liberty Sing movement, which has, since the Philadelphia North American and as a contributor to its inception in Philadelphia, extended to every section the Christian Science Monitor, of Boston; the Outlook of the nation. and Book News Monthly, upon topics of his calling, While the Photo-Play World will miss an ability Quicksall always demanded the very highest product such as Mr. Quicksall’s, our personal grief at the of enlightened brains. loss of such an association is unbounded. of foremost One the dramatic writers and composers He was born at Bristol, Pa., June 23, 1891, and in this country opce said of Mr. Quicksall: was educated in the public schools of the Keystone “Quicksall, to my mind, though still in the develop- State and the University of Pennsylvania. He was ment stage, ranks among the most constructive critics a member of the Friars’ Club of New York, and of stagecraft and music in the United States. His keen the Sketch Club. He is survived by a widow, a vision and unusual insight to the art of acting, and his daughter, three years old; a mother and sister. remarkable knowledge of music composition, make him Mr. Quicksall was the son of the late Rev. Fred a most valuable asset to the world of art. I predict for Foster Quicksall.

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DECEMBER, 1918 9 THE BELOVED IMPOSTOR By LILLIAN MAE KIPLING

lOU’RE a mite of teasing, heart- angel, Aunt Jessie was probably the one after vowing to spend his life in the se- grabbing debutante!” upon whom this captivating little miss clusion of the jungles and shun all of the wk'j The words were addressed to centered her affections. That she should feminine sex, was evidence that he had not gj Warn Betty Thorndyke, an irresistible little was not surprising, for Aunt Jessie was the succeeded in completely living down the miss of eighteen summers who, it was true, embodiment of the finest in the south. God-given impulses of man—although he only two weeks previous had made her Sweet, gentle, charming and well-bred, thought he had. premiere into the staid society set of Aunt Jessie never appeared in better Dick still felt the pain of a heart-wound Virginia, in a little exclusive town not far form than when she sat on the spacious inflicted by a woman whom he could from Richmond. veranda of her stately home, as the new neither forgive nor forget; but here he was, It was Hugh Gordon who gave vent to arrivals found her, with her knitting, fancy back in civilization, ostensibly to visit this unusual outburst, and the fact that cap and ‘kerchief. Betty’s choice reference Aunt Jessie. At least he told himself so, Hugh was the third man to propose to the to her dear old aunt was that she epitomized for he had not seen her in years. much-amoured Betty within a week the life of the past and love of the present. Dick was a handsome man; tall, strong and the third to be rejected—had a direct It seemed applicable. and possessing the facial features that bearing upon his state of mind. Betty interrupted the shower of respects imply character. For this reason his But Hugh was dislike for women of the persevering and utter coolness sort, and the fact toward them was that the two were the more notice- seated on the able. quaint old garden As Dick was settee, with the waiting for a taxi, wonderful sur- George Trumbell roundings of the and Jack Pierce, old Edwards’ man- old-time acquaint- sion for atmos- ances, on their way phere—which, in to catch an out- the spring of the going train, strode year, of all times, in front of him, al- was not to be de- most bumping into nied its influence his numerous bags. spurred him on Dick 'sheart leaped hopefully. Betty He greeted the strategically had men warmly. He handicapped the could do this and wooing Hugh, by still maintain his keeping his hands vow, but the nervously occupied women— . It was holding apart a the first time he skein of yarn,which had been put to a she was winding test since leaving into a huge ball. the United States But what is a for the wilderness. skein of yarn to a He braced himself, throbbing heart, bowed courteously, soliloquized Hugh, although rather and he clasped her stiffly to the ladies Hugh was the third to propose to Betty within a week. hands, yarn ball and, bidding a and all, in his, en- hasty adieu, tangled as they were, and pleaded once upon Aunt Jessie when she breathlessly stepped into the taxi, which had just rolled more: appeared upon the scene to receive, up to the curb, He was satisfied with ‘‘Betty, you must be my wife!” rather hilariously, her first house-party himself. “I can’t say ‘yes’ to you and ‘no’ to all guests. Hugh, with most of her yarn Dick drove to the nearest telegraph office the rest— I love you all equally,” Betty dragging in the gravel of the roadway, and wired to Aunt Jessie: argued, rather logically, and to break the trailed, like the attentive suitor he was. “Back in civilization.” * * * tension that followed she scolded him for the * * * , snarl he had gotten into her skein of yarn. Dick Mentor, woman-hater of the most Betty’s first house-party was in full Hugh was blue and inclined to beg his profound type, was related distantly, in swing that afternoon. Hugh, Gertrude cause, when the old family carry-all the line of cousin, to Aunt Jessie. That Fisher, a girl chum of Betty’s, and others appeared, coming up the front drive of the he should alight from a train at Richmond, of what was a happy, laughing congrega- beautiful estate, disgorging a bevy of tion, were gathered around their adorable laughing, skylarking young men and wo- Aunt Jessie on the veranda of the Edwards' men, and saved the situation. mansion, when a messenger boy, lazily Betty leaped from her seat, dropped the drawling a cigarette, entered the gate on a tangled yarn into Hugh’s lap to be un- THE CAST bicycle. snarled, crying, “Oh! there’s the rest of my “Telegram for Mrs. Edwards,” he an- house party,” and she started toward the Written from the Vitagraph Photoplay nounced, dismounting. new comers. It was Betty’s first week-end Betty took the message, incidentally Betty Gladys Leslie entertainment, which probably added to confiscating the cigarette. This was done Dick Mentor Huntley Gordon her apparent delight and surprise. so abruptly that it actually aroused this Hugh Denton Vane The party reached the front veranda disciple of Deadwood Dick and the Dime Aunt Jessie Mrs. Hurley of the house before Betty, and immediately Library. Mammy Frances M. Grant showered their greetings upon Mrs. Jessie A look of mild surprise came over the Gertrude Gwen Williams Edwards, mistress of the Edwards’ house- face of Aunt Jessie, as she read the telegram, hold, and better known as Aunt Jessie which Betty had handed her, in the midst to all. Aside from being Betty’s guardian of her admonition to the messenger boy. 10 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD

hesitancy as she Betty, as she disappeared through the thought that, if doorway and mounted the stairs. she must lose The inquisitive crowd was not to be Betty, it could denied and they followed, but Betty just be to no finer slammed the door of her boudior in time man than Dick. to prevent them from taking the place by Her opposition storm. faded, and the Persistency was the middle name of girls thereupon Hugh and his co-inquisitors, and they bombard ed remained at the door until Betty finally Betty with a appeared. Mammy, an old darky, who fusilade of had nursed Betty since childhood, and queries as to just who was her sole confidant, was seen to how she was carefully draw a coverlet over a pile of going to accom- somethings on the divan, while she chuckled plish this un- gleefully to herself. usual undertak- Mammy suspected the young folks ing. would rush to the door, and had cautiously Betty as- moved toward the opening. She was sumed a mis- just in time to place her bulwark-like chievous air and form in the way of Hugh, almost flooring addressed her him, as Betty deftly closed the door, ad- quizzers with: mitting Mammy first, and turned the key “I shan’t tell my in the lock. plan, but I guess That evening Aunt Jessie had all she I will win—in could do to keep Betty’s secret from the my own way.” curious ones. Dick was expected within * * * the hour, which emphasized the tension. That there When four of the colored servants, who were mysterious had been admitted to the secret, came down “doings” around the stairs giggling, it only tended to make the Edwards’ matters worse. mansion that Attracted by footsteps at the top of the afternoon was stairs, all eyes turned in that direction. not unusual, in Slowly, a child of twelve years in manner, view of the and dressed like a lovable youngster, with events that a copy of “Little Lord Fauntleroy” under transpired pre- her arm, descended. A look of surprise viously. Aunt came to the faces of all—it was Betty. Jessie had tele- So this was the scheme by which she graphed Dick to hoped to win the heart of this woman- come out from hater, Dick. The thought and its extreme the city and, possibilities flashed through the minds of Dick found himself attracted by this child, and her impish ways. although he was the group and they looked at each other, inclined to each curious as to the outcome and covering whimsical smile. “My distant cousin, Dick Mentor, is back renege at the thought of a house-party their thoughts with a in the city,” she said eventually, when she with women, he accepted, rather than Gertrude suddenly broke the silence by had recovered her poise. hurt the feelings of the old lady he loved turning to Hugh with: kiss The announcement meant little to those so dearly. “A thoroughbred horse against a present, because Dick, to them, was a Entrenched behind a heap of bundles that Betty can’t win Dick? Better buy stranger. Even Betty did not indicate that she could barely peep over, Betty your horse, Hugh.” much excitement, although she did break rolled up to the house in her car, ac- Hugh laughed, while Aunt Jessie crooked the silence by asking: companied by a woman and her chauffeur. her finger at Betty, beckoning to her “Is he nice? Can’t we have him out?” 1 1 was evident “I doubt if he would come if he knew that she had been there were to be women,” Aunt Jessie shopping. Alight- - replied, after some hesitancy, smiling at ing, Betty d i Betty. Her thoughts interrupted her rected the woman speech and the old lady grew serious, to have the apparently thinking of Dick’s past. bundles taken up “Woof, woof; he must be a wooly old to her room, while bear,” suddenly burst out Betty, as she she stopped to assumed a funny little attitude, at the same greet her aunt time throwing her arms tenderly around and her guests, her aunt’s neck, to allay her apparent who were assem- mental stress. bled on the ver- Hugh was visibly aroused by Betty's anda. cynical outburst. Hugh and Ger- “See here, Betty,” he finally blurted out, trude were prob- “I’ll wager the best thoroughbred horse ably more curious in Virginia against a—er—kiss that YOU than the rest, but couldn’t win the heart of Dick Mentor, it was evident although you’d lose your own.” that they were all This was a challenge that no woman anxious to know could let go unaccepted and maintain a the contents of semblance of her self-respect, so that no their hostess’ nu- sooner had the real significance of the dare merous bundles. settled in Betty’s mind, than she replied An inquiry from with a sudden “Done!” Hugh on the sub- Although Aunt Jessie rebelled at the ject only brought idea, she revealed just a little touch of a little mock from Betty poured out her plight to Aunt Jessie and sought advice. DECEMBER, 1918 11 much after the fashion that one would a I am certain that the slipper would have with Cinderella, but I don’t want to keep child. She had a yearning and a hope that fitted your little foot.” her up beyond her bed time.” this child might accomplish what a woman Betty looked down at her foot with an Betty nodded and had a little private might not—win and soothe the heart of air of confusion that made Hugh have to laugh, as she turned to go into the house Dick. But she suddenly grew stern at the turn away to conceal a betraying grin. with him. The dance had stopped, and thought of the ruse as she commanded, Then she looked into Dick’s face with such Dick turned to Aunt Jessie, asking if it halfheartedly: “Betty! Go up at once and audacious coquetry that he was surprised, was not yet Betty’s bedtime. The old put on a proper dress.” and answered, rather cutely: lady looked helpless, but Betty saved the Betty drew closer to her aunt, with the “Who knows but that you may be the situation by holding up ten fingers over winning approach of a child that was prince, after all.” Dick’s shoulder. Others in the party, who amazing. Putting her arm around the old “Coquetry is born in them even at HER had observed the by-play, could hardly lady’s neck she said, appealingly: tender age,” Dick remarked, as he turned restrain their laughter. “If this terrible woman-hater saw me to Aunt Jessie with a hearty laugh. Assured that his child acquaintance ‘growed up’ he’d run. Please—give me a Betty pretended to be hurt by Dick’s could remain up a few minutes longer, chance to win—as a child.” remark, and sat down abruptly, delving Dick asked that the victrola be started Aunt Jessie hesitated, but finally gave into her book. Hugh helped the game once more. Although a splendid dancer, in. It was just in time. Dick’s motor had along, even at a risk of losing his horse, Betty did everything to make life tempo- rolled up to the house and he was alighting. when he grabbed Betty by the hand and rarily miserable for her partner, as they Aunt Jessie advanced to the door to greet led her to the center of the room with the started to trip what was far from a him, while Betty, with a swift admonition others, to indulge in a rather spirited spasm “light” fantastic. They struggled through to the laughing the experience and party, moved over Dick, although he to the corner of the tried hard to look great hallway, seat- pleased, made rather ing herself by the a failure of it, be- big fireplace and be- cause Betty cer- coming deeply ab- tainly had spent sorbed in her book. more time on his feet Dick, with his than on the floor. usual cordiality They ended the greeted the men of dance by the stair- the party, upon way, and turning to being introduced by the grandfather Aunt Jessie, toward clock in the corner, whom he showed Betty assumed a the greatest affec- look of dismay and tion. Toward the pouted childishly, as women he was un- she observed and usually stiff and indicated to Dick formal. In fact, his that it was ten manner was such as o’clock. to make Gertrude Betty was just wince and Hugh about to mount the smile slightly, as he stairs, after waving thought of his wager a good night to the with Betty. party, when Dick Betty, buried in stopped her. her book, did not “Isn’t there to be look up during the a good-night kiss,” formalities of intro- he said. “I’m sort duction, although of a cousin, you her eyes were cov- know.” Betty ertly studying the Betty chose between two corsage bouquets—she wanted to look her prettiest. pouted her lips and new comer. A look took the kiss, in of approval flashed over her face, as if to of “ring around a rosy.” Dick watched spite of some wild gesticulations Hugh was imply “a foeman worthy of steel.” with growing interest the spirit with which making from the other side of the hall. Dick had not noticed the demure little this child entered her play. Someone Betty stopped, sulking at the head of the child in the corner up to this time. If he started the victrola, and dancing took the stairs, regretful that she should have to had, he might have detected an inclination first order of things. Dick, with a look curtail her evening’s fun, when Mammy on this child’s part to step out of her of distaste at the dancing group, picked grabbed her arm, as one would a child, character, as she contemplated some of the up Betty’s book and urged her to go out on and dragonlike, led her into her boudoir. complications her ruse might entail. Betty’s the veranda. With a rather' impish little It was the end of a perfect day. * * * courage was beginning to fail her, but a laugh, she consented. defiant look from Hugh settled the question. Betty was apparently pleased, and it A week passed only to bring another She would go through with it. was hard for her to conceal an undercur- week-end party. In the meantime Dick, Dick had been so engrossed in his at- rent of real admiration for this big, strong who had consented to remain as the guest tentions to Aunt Jessie since his introduc- chap. Aunt Jessie watched them, as of Aunt Jessie, was developing his fondness tion to the rest of the party, that only an Betty seated herself in a big summer chair for this child Betty. The big heart of the accidental glance in Betty’s direction re- on the veranda and Dick on the arm, both man was finding a soothing influence in vealed the child in their midst, who was showing an affected interest in the book. the first feminine association in years. then deeply interested in her reading. The old lady was visibly pleased at the Betty, playing the twelve-year-old girl “Am I not to meet little Cinderella,” impression Betty was making upon the to a point of perfection, had held Dick’s Dick asked, turning to Aunt Jessie. woman-hater. continuous attention in her childish whims. Aunt Jessie, though a little nervous, It was apparent that, although Dick This bright morning found her snooping managed to nod an assent, while the others was treating this new acquaintance as a around the garage with him, of course, watched with delight. child, his interest was increasing. They mournfully proclaiming to her companion Betty rather bashfully arose, as she was talked of school, toys and everything in that “everybody was too busy to teach presented to the new comer, making a the curriculum of a twelve-year-old girl, her to drive.” The chauffeur, who was prim curtsey. Dick bowed graciously, until suddenly realizing that it was getting tinkering with the carburetor and had his saying: “I am not the prince, but may I late, Dick glanced at his watch. head down in the hood of the machine, pay homage to little Cinderella? Indeed, “Let’s go in,” he said; “I’d like a dance bit a generous piece out of his tongue, —,

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story of how his wife had when he jerked his head back, startled at her into the bungalow, after she had finished the the pleadings of this man, and the remark. Betty, in reality, was un- stopped to pluck a rose. yielded to helpless infant to face the usually adept at the wheel. The living room showed that it had been left him with a Dick agreed to teach her to run the car untouched for some time. As they entered, world alone. life he had given and no sooner said than done, they were Betty remarked about its cozy arrange- “God claimed the little “and by and by proceeding cautiously down the roadway ment. Dick sat on the couch, his expression us,” he concluded slowly, gone, passed away, de- outside the Edwards’ estate in less time growing more serious as he looked around. the wife who was old serted, in poverty.” than it takes to say it. Betty purposely To him it was like the opening of an shoulders shook with aimed the car at a tree and Dick dutifully sore and yet not, for as Betty observed He paused and his Betty put her face close to grabbed the wheel, just in time to avert his mental anguish, she crept over beside a great sob. the tears slipped down her cheeks. a disaster. him and placed a hand on his arm, in gentle his and for an instant, then Dick, The car was brought to a halt and they sympathy, as a child who knows that Thus they sat the sympathy of this child, and sat there, man and child, gazing at each there was something amiss, but who cannot feeling seeing her move her face upward so that other. Between them, it was apparent, grasp the depth of its meaning. Dick yielded to his impulse and there was ripening a sweet intimacy, which drew her down beside him on the couch. it was near his, — his lips to hers. this woman-hater allowed himself to foster “Little woman ” he started slowly, “it pressed of an instant the two ceased merely because Betty was, as he thought, was here that I knew my greatest happiness In the flash to consider the relation of child and man, a little girl of fascinating ways. and my deepest sorrow.” Betty’s mas- their great love and its need found A wood in its attractive spring regalia querade could not hide her feelings, as and their eyes. Dick took her was invitingly present at the right, and she instinctively drew closer to him. She expression in their caress was that of soon Dick and Betty were tramping through placed a hand on his, folded in his lap, in his arms and man and woman, it, hand in hand, loving — passionate. neither really con- Of a sudden Dick scious of the love realized that he had that was developing given the caress of between them. love, and Betty had That night faith- responded as to the ful Mammy, observ- man of her choice. ing the affection of He broke away, Betty for Dick, ap- shocked at himself, proached her as she surprised, humili- was preparing for ated at his display of bed. “Lamb,” she emotions. He arose and his head bowed started, rather hesi- , turned away. Betty tatingly, as though sat as if in a stupor, she believed she was her lips tigh tly taking too much locked and a look of liberty with her little yearning on her face. mistress, “you all Suddenly Betty better take off them arose, and resuming, childist garments, as if by compulsion ‘caus de woman part her childish attitude, of you shore done she started toward fell smack in love.” the door. Dick Betty was startled strode beside her and by the observation. they left the lodge. “In love! Oh, Mam- The trip home was my, I dare not; I comment on musn’t be!” she without either, almost shrieked, the part of but both were think- although she real- ing. There was ized all too well the Dick looked at her with a mingled expression of contempt and love. almost restraint the state- truth of between them as ment. -^. I it into a firm clasp, with a they alighted when they reached home, The next day found Betty and Dick and he drew child will understand that Dick going to his room and Betty seeking planning another automobile ride, and the feeling that this will be the stronger for telling her of refuge with her Aunt Jessie, who was balance of the party, not excluding Hugh, he his past. sewing in the living room. were content to let them alone. Betty,” Betty dropped to her knees by the side As they reached the car, Betty made a “When you are a big woman, started, your Prince Charming of the old lady, and poured out her woe move to get into the driver’s seat, but he “and places his heart at your and mortification. “Oh, to think that I Dick stopped her. “I’ll drive,” he said. comes along and gift unless you can have wagered to trap, through a living to take you to my lodge in the feet, do not accept his “I want she hold it sacred for all time. lie, the heart of the man I —love!” forest. I haven’t been there for—for a on the sobbed. good many years.” Betty noted a cloud “My little princess broke me of —” he faltered, and then, Her aunt was nonplussed and Betty of sadness come over Dick’s face and, wheel fortune continued. sat wrapped in doleful consideration of without making any further comment, with a quisical look at Betty, She was a singer the wreck she had made of her life. she dutifully got in beside him and they “We were truly happy. Jessie of ability. I loved her dearly and she me, “Why don’t you tell him?” Aunt drove off. singer, used to the finally asked. “Dick will understand Dick’s lodge in the forest was a beautiful I thought. But a plaudits of thousands, soon wearies of if YOU go to him.” little spot, well kept by a couple of old came. “Oh, I couldn’t do that,” Betty answered, attendants, who were constantly on the Arcadia, and by and by the Ogre exhilarate half hysterically, “he would HATE me.” ground. Flowers adorned the place and the “Our baby came, first to Aunt Jessie could not say much, and shrubbery was arranged artistically. It the love between us and later to make this long after deciding it is best for her to think it over, was as an oasis of rare artificial taste in tragedy more tragic. Not himself an operatic left Betty with her thoughts. the vast natural beauty of the wood. a man, who claimed Dick, in the meantime, had come down Betty could not help but notice the look impressario, came into our lives. He world and the place stairs and gone into the garden for a stroll, of sadness which came over her companion’s pictured to her the her. She believed him to collect his thoughts. Hugh came upon face, as he alighted from the car in front in it that awaited — hesitated. him accidentally. The restrained brooding of the lodge. He took her gently by the and ” he again voice he finally in Dick’s eye was enough to inform Hugh hand, dismissing the attendants, and led With an unsteady ” : — ” :

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the “You did not think of the pain you would that he had lost a perfectly good thorough- inspection of the blanket revealed he charged. “Am I to consider bred horse, and he thereupon made the inscription cause ME,” TO BETTY you now?” decision to get it. This little mental ordered the old woman caretaker process was what was responsible for For winning her bet Dick to prepare a “wedding supper,” and Hugh’s air of mysticism a few moments and surveyed the job as she proceeded. It later, when he jumped into his runabout DICK MENTOR very elaborate, he mused, but, at the garage and cast back a merry wasn’t the circumstances, it would have chuckle at Gertrude and some of the guests, Dick came down the steps at this mo- under Betty watched, too, in suspense. who had casually questioned him as to his ment and, seeing the horse, stopped, staring to do. of the old man and the destination. at the peculiar spectacle of an animal in The arrival Spotting the blanket, minister interrupted their mental pictures Betty was still sitting in the living room the dining room. conflicting future, and Dick arose when Dick entered the house a few moments he walked over and petted the horse, at the of a the inscription. to greet the clergyman. Betty, then later. What was foremost in her mind was same time reading she realizing what her punishment was to be evident, because the expression on her Betty, coming down, stopped as the horse, an expression and, her fear gone, stepped toward the face could not conceal it. Mentor ap- saw Dick looking at her face. group. Dick directed that the ceremony proached her with an air of determination of dismay and terror coming over could proceed, and was somewhat sur- and, seating himself beside her, took her The guests were laughing and jollying Betty’s readiness to go ahead hand. her, but, paying no attention to them, prised at Dick. with it. The caretakers were brought into “Little woman,” Dick began gently, she walked straight up to Dick turned toward her, and observed action as witnesses. as, it seemed, he always started his remarks from child to woman. With the ceremony finished—it was to this child-woman, “some day you will the metamorphosis looked from her to the horse, and a surprising how smoothly the event trans- be a big woman, and then I am coming He expression came over his face. Her pired—Dick paid the minister and dis- back—as the Prince—to ask Cinderella’s queer quivering, Betty began to ^explain, missed the attendants. Then he turned hand in marriage.” lips her love. to Betty and there was an instant of tension Betty looked at him. There was a great fighting for led the horse out to the edge of as they faced each other. surge of happiness in her heart, as she was Hugh the veranda, and Dick and Betty followed “Come, we shall eat,” Dick said, in a convinced for the first time that he DID almost automatically. tone that bordered on a command, and love her. Dick broke her train of happy “Dick,” Betty pleaded, “I started this Betty, obeying dutifully, demurely seated thought with sort of an apologetic ex- playful wager and never realized herself at the table, Dick taking the seat planation. “You cannot understand just as a what it might lead to. I have lost— I have opposite her. now all that that means— I do not wish must hate Filling the wine glasses, and holding plight troth lost my heart—to you. You or ask to bind. But— I my — for it I know ” she stopped. his aloft, he repeated a grim toast: “To to you forever— me — Dick’s face was slowly becoming severe, Betty, the incorrigible, who shall be broken He bent over her, and as he did so, while Betty looked at him pleadingly. on the wheel as she has broken me—and to Betty tried to get up her courage to the “So,” he finally almost shouted, glaring our one-night honeymoon.” The sudden point of telling him the truth. Each at her, “the most sacred sanctuary of a realization of what Dick meant to do attempt failed her, yet she lifted Dick’s man’s heart has been trampled—for the caused Betty to stare questioningly. She head and gave him her lips, in what he took amusement of your kind—for a wager.” jumped up and ran around the table, as a childish acceptance of some rite not Betty cringed under his words, helpless, her bending close to him. fully comprehended, though intuitively eyes pleading for mercy, at the same time “You don’t mean that—you—are going sensed as very solemn. He released her thrilling him with the love against which his to leave me?” she questioned, in a frightened from an embrace into which they had heart was closed. Very slowly he finished tone. fallen and, of a sudden, wild with fear “You have collected your wager. Still, A half austere expression came over Dick’s lest she break down before him, Betty “I there is another debt to be paid—and I face. “Tomorrow,” he started slowly, go rushed away. Dick looked after her, am to collect it.” Betty stared appre- back—to the jungle—and its bitter solace.” fearful lest he had startled, frightened, hensively. Suddenly Dick picked her up Betty stood up staring vaguely. A the child, but he did not follow her. bodily and threw her astride the horse, feeling of anguish and fear grew upon her. rushed up the stairs and into her Betty leaping on behind and spurring the animal He was going to leave her—this man that boudoir, sinking down in a chair, her bosom on out of the gate and up the road, while she had come to love more than her life. heaving and her eyes alternately happy and the startled guests looked at each other So THIS was to be her punishment. dim, as she vibrated between the joy at in consternation. As she thought, she surveyed Dick, winning and the terror of losing the wonder- Hugh was the first to collect his thoughts who was struggling inwardly against his ful love that was, for the moment, her and, rushing to the garage, he obtained a car, real feelings. Her arm stole around his treasure. returning to the house for Aunt Jessie and neck. He was up in a flash and caught Suddenly she jumped to her feet. “I’m Gertrude. He was going to follow them to her to him, but his face hardened and, going to grow up, Mammy—get out my prevent any harm coming to Betty. turning, he pushed her away. “Go,” her prettiest frock.” Mammy stared at Dick with Betty, had galloped in the he commanded, “you are only a child after then, realizing that she — little mistress and direction of his lodge and Hugh took up the all ” and he fell limply into the chair, in a very tense situation, obeyed. was trail, but became confused at a crossroad a burying his face in his hands. In the meantime Dick had gone to his mile beyond. Dick had outdistanced the Betty stood for a moment and then dinner. of the room to dress for Others pursuers and it wasnot until they came upon walked toward the door, paused, opened it, guests, sensing something in the air, had a farmer, who indicated the direction he and slammed it, without going out. Dick, also dressed, and were assembled in the had gone, that they were set right. believing she was gone, buried his head in his room adjoining the dining room. Reaching the lodge, Dick took Betty in, arms and great sobs shook his strong form. Betty was impatient. “Hurry, oh, and she sank into a chair, bewildered at Betty, seeing this, crept back and placed hurry,” she pleaded with Mammy. “I it all, and terrified at what his wrath might her arm around his neck, as she whispered must talk to Dick before the others get cause him to do. Mentor went out of the “It is true that I have made a horrible down.” But Mammy, in her eagerness, house, calling to one of his two caretakers, wager—but don’t you see? Won’t you only muddled things. Finally dressed, she whom he found in the rear, tending to a understand—that in trying to punish hesitated in the selection of one of two flower bed. me you have done the thing— I have longed corsage bouquets; was surveyed by Mam- “Bring me a clergyman—at once,” for—ever since— I knew my, rather admiringly, and left the room, he commanded. The old man moved away Dick turned slowly and observed her as bracing herself for subsequent events. hurriedly, as Dick paced up and down in she stood, trembling with love and dread Aunt Jessie had joined the guests and deep thought outside the cottage. lest he again put her from him. Leaping all had entered the dining room. A commo- Entering the house again, he found up, he caught her in his arms again. tion at the French window attracted their Betty, apparently in terror. As he ap- Just at that moment the door opened and attention, and they were startled to see proached she turned to him, in shame and Aunt Jessie’s face appeared. What she Hugh enter, leading a beautiful full-blooded sorrowful. “Please forgive me for my saw caused her to smile, as she turned to horse, bedecked with garlands of flowers, masquerade,” she pleaded, but he inter- others of the searching party. Then she and with a blanket over its saddle. A closer rupted her. closed the door. 14 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD

He Loved Too Early and Not Wisely. The Poets Show the Course of Ro- mance in the Artcraft Picture

“He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span.” — Keats.

“He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring’s honeyed cud of youthful thought he loves.” —Keats.

"A time is now coming when Love must be gone.” —Walter Savage Landor.

“I loved thee once; I’ll love no more— Thine be the grief as is the blame ;

Thou art not as thou wast before. What reason I should be the same ?” —Robert Ayton. DECEMBER, 1918 15

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THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD 16 A LADY'S NAME By CYRIL HARCOURT

apartment. “Anyhow, I’ve advertised for a husband,” H, dear,” sighed Mabel Vere to her to invite strange men to the are, or what announced Mabel, cooly. Gerald looked friend, Maud Bray. “It’s no use; How do you know what they for O they will try to do?” nonplussed. He turned to Maud an I can’t get even the first suggestion that up to the pres- explanation. That lady shook her head SeS of an idea for a new book.” Mabel had to admit Mabel came to the rescue by the odds?” yawned Maud. ent her plan seemed scarcely a success. hopelessly. “What’s that I to know,” Maud de- showing the “ad.” Gerald confessed “Keep cool, and perhaps the ideas will “What want you or are you not he had seen it before. At the club there come. Read some suffragist literature, manded, “is this: Are Gerald Wantage?” had been some betting on it. She would there’s a ducky; you may find an inspira- in love with Mabel would not answer directly. “When doubtless receive some replies. But he tion in it, after all.” for ages it didn’t like it, all the same. “Suffragist literature, with Gerald Want- you’ve been engaged to a man reason that you think something Mabel accused him of having answered age for a fiance,” scoffed Mabel. “Why stands to she vouchsafed. At which Maud the advertisement himself. But he denied on earth couldn’t I marry a rich man, of him,” at that moment Gerald such a thing. Maud decided that it was instead of one who hasn t a dollar to merely sniffed, and himself was announced. time for her to leave, and after her going his name? I know,” jumping up with a greeting left something to be Gerald made no secret of what he thought bounce. “I’ll advertise for a husband! Mabel’s desired. Gerald’s attitude was one of dis- of Mabel’s behavior. Who knows, I may find a rich one, and contentment. He proffered the informa- “It was a cheap thing to do,” he main- anyhow, I’ll get hold of some new types for that money was tight. tained. a book at least. I must write a book tion “but I have to “It always is—with you,” Mabel sneered. “It was,” she admitted, I need the money.” make a living, and to make a “And what, pray, will Ger- living I have to write books. ald say when you advertise If you had any sense of humor for a husband?” Maud wished you wouldn’t take it this way. to know. Also, I need diversion and cer- “Gerry’s a pig,” announced tainly you don’t provide it.” Mabel calmly. “If he doesn’t “I can’t and you know it,” like it, he can do the other he retorted. “It’s notmy fault thing.” that I’m poor. Perhaps you ’re Thereupon she sat down tired of waiting for me,” he and wrote an advertisement ended, lamely. for a husband, and phoned But Mabel denied this. Only several papers to have it she wanted him to take her published for the following out she needed a good time. morning. ; “Let’s go somewhere and “Now for the applicants,” dance-dance till we’re tired she gleefully reminded Miss to death,” she proposed. Bray the next day. “Will Gerald, however, could not you wait with me, or shall I see the use of that. It would receive them alone?” she in- cost too much. He prepared quired, mischievously. to leave, but not before he had “You can have them all coaxed her not to answer any to yourself,” her friend as- letters from applicants. He sured her; “that is, if there’s made such a point of this that any man foolish enough to in sheer self-defence she prom- come.” ised him. Then she dutifully Mabel smiled, the superior gave him her cheek to kiss. smile of the pretty woman. ust as Gerald left the room And just then the doorbell J Then she dutifully gave him her cheek to kiss. another applicant arrived. Maud fled precipitately. rang. The two men glared at each The young man who entered like the other, and then the newcomer introduced on the heels of the trim little maid was a It was evident that Gerald didn’t himself as Adams. He was a butler, he said, quite ordinary person. He stated that he remark. somebody and he wanted a wife with a bit of money, so was a New Zealander; he had come in “All you^,think of is getting declared. that he could set up an apartment house of to an advertisement which he found to give you things,” he answer himself highly; “And all you think of is making money,” his own. He recommended in the paper; was this the young woman — be a real he was very clean “a bath every Saturday who wanted a husband? snapped Mabel. “Why can’t you night, mam, and three fresh shirts a week.” Mabel questioned him, but found his man ? Swear a little, do something wicked Mabel was delighted. Here was a real answers unsatisfactory. He wanted to I’d like you better, I can tell you that.” wouldn't type. She determined to lead him on, and know how old she was; could she cook; Gerald was shocked. He so made an engagement to take tea with was she poor or rich, and so on. Mabel swear—not for any woman. him the next afternoon. His master would began to grow impatient. Who was he, to be out and he and the cook would entertain ask all these questions? After all, he was her. Adams took his departure, highly very commonplace; there was not a scrap satisfied. of “copy” in him. THE CAST “He’s rich!” shouted Mabel to Maud, and “Look here,” he said finally. “I think Written from the Select Photoplay gave a very creditable imitation of Sholto’s you’re stringing me. What do you mean, manner. “Sholto,” she choked. “Oh.is’ntit now, really?” Mabel Vere Constance Talmadge Ford ‘Baptized regular.’ Oh, dear; oh, dear!” His manner was distinctly unpleasant. Noel Corcoran Harrison rich? to Gerald Wantage. . . .Emory Johnson But once again the maid appeared Mabel began to wonder if this was a good Maud Bray Vera Doria an applicant, and into the room after all. She called announce way to meet types, Flood James Farley to came a tall, athletic-looking man, a man for Maud to come in, and asked Maud Adams Fred Huntley of means undoubtedly. get rid of this bullying person. Maud Bird John Steppling His name was Noel Corcoran. He had minced no words, and having met his Bentley Truman Van Dyke made a bet that she would answer his match the New Zealander took his de- Emily Zazu Pitts Lillian Leighton letter. Mabel took to him at once; he parture discomfited. Mrs. Haines Margaret EmmaGerdes was a gentleman and interesting. “You see what comes of these crazy “You had no intention of marriage?” ideas of yours,” Maud told her when the she said to him. visitor had gone. “I think you’re ridiculous ; ” —

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ready. Then Adams “I’ll telephone them to come another was called away. In time,” he said. “You and I’ll go out and the presence of his have dinner together.” master he looked a “But,” began Mabel trifle guilty. “Never mind the but,” interrupted “What’s wrong?” Noel. “You’ve spoiled my dinner at home; Noel demanded. you’ll have to keep me company when I go “Well, sir, you out for it.” see, sir, we was hav- After all, Mabel liked the idea. This ing our tea. We young man had good sense. didn’t expect you, To the mystification of the servants, sir.andcook’staken a taxi was called, and the master and the strange young lady drove away together. ill, sir. There’s—a young lady, sir “You see,” sniffed Cook, “she’s not Adams paused. respectable. You’ve been taken in, Adams; “We hope the din- you shouldn’t have been unfaithful to me.” ner’ll be all right, Adams hung his head. He was per- sir.” plexed, and Cook was right, he was afraid. “Look here, ’’said He hoped that he wasn’t going to lose Cook, Noel, “what’s the too. mystery? Where’s Mabel enjoyed her dinner. She had theyoungwoman ?’ ’ made up her mind to answer some of the punish “In the kitchen, letters that came. She would Gerald properly, make him lose his sir.” Adams ad- and mitted, respect- bet. How had he dared? very night some of the letters came, fully. That His name was Adams, he said she answered two of them, inviting So Noel betook and the writers to call. They came promptly, “Not when I made up my mind to come, himself to the kitchen. “Hello!” he cried, and she had a lovely time making game of no,” he answered. So Mabel retorted that at the sight of Mabel. “What’s this mean?” them. But they were both harmless men, neither did she intend marriage. She Mabel laughed. and her clever persuasions succeeded in was merely collecting types. That struck “Sh,” she whispered. “Don’t let Adams getting from one of them a generous check him funny, and they began to get on to- hear,” and she made as rapid and clear for her pet charity; while the other very gether immensely. In the end she con- an explanation as she could. solicitously begged that he might bring fessed to her engagement, at which he was Noel laughed long and heartily. his wife to call. Just as they left, who somewhat chagrined. “You're game,” he said. "Come on, should appear but Gerald. Neither man However, that need not interfere with I’ll help you with the dinner.” even spoke to him. her regarding him as a heartbroken suitor. That was the end of the dinner. Noel Gerald was angry. Mabel had caused He would commit suicide, he declared. was more interested in the advertisement him to lose money. better marry a man with a sense of and its results. She had ’ broke your promise, ’ he accused her. humor. “There’s a man at the club,” he told “You “Of course,” she returned pertly. “How After Noel had gone, Mabel discovered Mabel, “who always bets on a certainty. dare you bet on a certainty that depended that he was the employer of Adams. He laid bets all over the place that nothing on promise?” “What fun,” she said to Maud. “I shall anyone can write will induce the girl of my deny, but could not. have tea tomorrow with his butler.” the ‘ad’ to answer the letters. You can Gerald wanted to took refuge in reproaches. True to her word, she was at Corcoran’s depend on it, you’re going to get some He cried. “You can house on the minute the following after- letters.” “It’s all over,” Mabel — noon. Adams was very correct in his “Who was this man?” inquired Mabel, take back your ring. Only ” she sighed, manner, and introduced the cook and the her doubts of Wantage aroused. “I wish we might part friends.” parlor maid. They sat down to tea, and “Oh, a fellow who comes around a good But Gerald was too angry to heed. He Mabel began to have the time of her life. deal,” Noel evaded. took the ring and his hat and went. But suddenly the telephone bell rang, and “Gerald Wantage, I bet,” said Mabel. “Now I’ve done it,” Mabel moaned to then over the wire came the message that “No.” Noel lied like a gentleman. “Not Maud. the master was returning home for dinner. Gerald.” He would bring three guests. Adams was It took more than agitated, the cook rebellious. She was that to convince suspicious of the young lady having tea; Mabel, however. she all at once learned the truth: Adams, She made up her who had promised to marry her, was mind to punish flirting with this girl; they were actually Gerald. In the mean- engaged. time, Noel seemed a Cook took the opportunity to indulge very good sort; at in hysterics, whereupon consternation least he had a sense reigned in the Corcoran mansion. For of humor. And he who would prepare the dinner for the was taken with her, arriving guests? that was obvious. Mabel came to the rescue of Adams. All at once she She would cook the dinner. sprang to the oven. “Show me the kitchen and get me an “The poultry, we apron,” she promised glibly, and Adams forgot it!” she cried was too grateful for words. in dismay. Sure But the job was bigger than she had enough, when it bargained for. Hot and perspiring, she came forth it was ordered the servants around, getting a burned to a crisp. thing here, another there. There was “Oh, that’s too fowl for dinner—how do you cook fowl? bad,” Mabel la- Mabel wrinkled her pretty forehead, and mented. “Your tried to remember all she had ever heard guests — what shall or read about cooking fowl. we do?” The time went on the fires were lighted Noel refused to be ;

the potatoes were pared ; there was a dessert disturbed. “You had no intention of marriage?** shesaid to him “Not when I came, no,” he admitted. —

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“That’s all right,” consoled Maud. books when she “Here’s some suffragist literature. Read liked, or not at all it and you won’t want a husband.” if she did not like. But it wasn’t over yet. Adams was Her failure to get announced. “types” that would Mable met him with a superior air. make a book dis- What did she care for this butler person, couraged her from anyway? Once rid of Wantage, as she was book-writing any- sure she now would be, why shouldn’t she way. And all else risk a serious flirtation with Adams’s that she could do master? was to turn out “What is it you want?” she inquired, hackwork. She with sweetness that held a latent sting, the needed clothes, and while the irate Adams glared at her bale- Christmas was fully. coming. If Cor- “You made me lose Cook and her twelve coran went on lik- hundred dollars,” he complained. “I want ing her, she could that money. If you don’t give it to me, see that she was I’ll tell all the newspapers about you.” going to like him. “No you won’t,” declared Mabel, and That night at called Maud, who witnessed that Adams the club Noel Cor- had tried to blackmail her. Just then coran learned of Noel turned up. In a few seconds he had the broken engage- sent his dejected butler about his business. ment. He was a “Come now,” he coaxed Mabel, “have man of decision. lunch with me.” He called up and But Mabel would not. Later, she might, told Mabel to meet Corcoran offered to help with the dinner. but not today. So, with her promise to him, and where. see him in three weeks, Noel also left. He did not intend to be denied. Mabel, “So you chucked Wantage?” he asked After he had gone, Mabel fell into a fit meeker than usual, consented to see him. her. of the dumps. After all, she had not the Noel arrived in his own handsome “How did you know?” she parried. makings of a suffragist in her. With the limousine. He handed her into the car with “That would be telling,” he laughed. best will in the world to be convinced that a gentle courtliness, and she found herself “But you see I didn’t waste much time.” a woman doesn’t need a man, she took up feeling very natural among the depths of the “Where are we going?” she inquired, to Maud’s pamphlets and tried to read them. soft gray upholstery. There were flowers change the subject. No use—the faces of Gerald Wantage and in the small vase on a bracket and a wonder- “To the Astor,” Noel replied. “I have Noel Corcoran persisted in intruding them- ful robe of fur. The little ceiling light had a table reserved. Are you very hun- selves between her and the books. She glowed softly, and under its rays Mabel’s gry?" teasingly. wondered now if she had been wise in send- face was very winsome, as she looked up “Starved,” she insisted. ing Gerald away. He had been a big pro- into Corcoran’s eyes and said: To her surprise, Noel leaned over and tection. At this thought she grimaced. “This is so nice.” ordered the chauffeur back to the Astor. Noel would make better protection still. Corcoran let the chauffeur take his time Arrived at the hotel, Corcoran escorted He was known as a man of wealth a man getting to ; the place where he had decided her to the great dining room. Mabel saw who moved in the best circles; he was good- to dine. It seemed to Mabel that they went in a flash what life with this man would be looking and apparently generous. If he through the Park a couple of times, and all gay dinners, beautiful gowns and the best wanted to marry her, why not? As his wife the while Noel talked, jested and laughed, of everything to eat. For years she had she could have an automobile, and write and seemed bent on making her happy. struggled to maintain a foothold among that sort of people who appealed to her; on her precarious income it had been hard work at times to keep up appearances. Now all that would be over; she would be honored and respected as the wife of a very rich man. Noel looked at her across the table at which they had seated themselves. “Cosy, is’nt it?” he asked her, with a smile. “Really, though, we should have stayed and braved out the dinner at home,” she replied. “Home?” he questioned, with a teasing glance. Mabel had the grace to blush. “Our house, I meant,” she corrected herself. “Apologies not needed,” he hastened to interpose. “There’s more to be said on that subject.” And his eyes continued to look her over reflectively. “She’s a beauty,” was his inward com- ment. “She will make a wife to be proud of.” He leaned over toward her and stretched out his hand till it lay over hers. The pressure he gave it was encouraging; Mabel looked at him with eyes grown U suddenly shy. “Come, now,” he said softly, “don't you like me?” “Of course I do,” confessed Mabel. “Well, then, marry me,” he persuaded. “I just know that you will like diamonds and sapphires for an engagement ring.” The cook began to have her suspicions. That settled it. Mabel let him kiss her. DECEMBER, 1918 19 MADGE KENNEDY’S EYES Or an Illustrative Argument for Optical Conversation

The piquant comedienne here invites you to her corner, where the candle ‘How do you do?” she says. There is a touch of formality in her greeting, light is reflected in her naughty wink. So clever is she that no one but if you are clever you will see also a coy invitation. suspects she is carrying on a flirtation with you.

“Oh, yes, we’ve known each other since childhood”— this when she intro- What does she think when the chaperon sweeps toward you two? The duces you to her dearest enemy, although you both know your acquaint- dearest enemy has mentioned you to the dowager, and the little flirt ance has only just begun. wonders how she can square herself. ” : ,

THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD 20 "THAT TYPICAL AMERICAN MAN• n

Famous Artists Depict American Girls, But Who is The American Man ? By FRANCIS PARRY

him because she “Hold! enough!” cried the one man OME years ago when Clarence F. Perhaps Thespis won her ranks objective, halting the big drive just as it Underwood, Lester Ralph and other had the start. Earle enlisted in “fresh” in High School was going over the top. “Drop around at celebrated artists were not so cele- when he was a mere just had won a the theatre tonight. I have a ‘find’ in brated and held forth in a studio at Toronto, Canada. He and he got to wonder- you.” colony near Washington Square, New declamatory contest, to take Joe Jefferson’s place “What’s my part to be?” eagerly in- York City, they discovered a prize model ing who was While walking down the quired Edward. whom they called “the typical American on the stage. work up courage “Scene-shifter,” replied the gentleman. man.” This youth, they said, was just street one day, trying to the stage door of a local “You must be strong you have such lung the type for such works of art as magazine to approach Lester Lonergan, the power.” illustrations and advertisements for collars, theatre, he met of a stock company. Eddie But the star of the Light Brigade was tooth paste, garters and athletic goods. manager undaunted. He did not shift He knew how to wear a collar, scenes long before he had got had good teeth and legs and his “bit” on the stage. The was an accomplished athlete. very next night after putting Doubtlessly,you have noted over that stirring emotional that typical American, as re- line, “My Lord, the carriage vealed by magazine illustra- awaiteth,” he was assigned a tions. He is tall, athletic, long comedy role. In the square of jaw and shoulder same company appeared a and possessedof blond, slightly little girl with wondrous eyes curling hair. He is a sort of and curls of gold. She, too, modern Viking. was making her debut before Now in New York City i the footlights, having deter- these American Vikings are no mined to forsake her dolls common variety. One sees and skipping rope for a serious more of the exotic, aquiline career. This ingenue has de- beauties and those whose an- veloped now into the Great cestors wore earrings and bid Star, known in the picture con- on the curb for the banana stellation as Mary Pickford. and da’ vermicelli. So when if Distinguished is the theatre a youth meeting the specifica- that boasts the introduction of tions of the “American Man,” m “America’s Sweetheart” and as conceived by the artists, the “Ideal American Man” swung into the Underwood- on the same night at salaries Ralph studio one morning and these two stars would be said he wanted to absorb a ashamed to bestow as tips at little art instruction during V the present time. the summer, he was invited Some one told Earle that at once to take the model he should go in for opera. stand. Having been a cheer leader at “What do you think I am, football games, he thought a cartoon subject?” retorted he could equal the thunder of the young American with Caruso. And he looked much some asperity. “I came to better in tights and knightly learn how to wield a brush gear. So straightway he took fluently and paint beautiful a fling in musical stock, then ladies all dressed up in yards back to “The Old Homestead” of red hair.” and “Why Girls Leave Home.” “My dear young man,” said After several seasons in the artists, escorting him to repertoire, he decided New the posing platform, “before York should have a treat of you can acquire the technique histrionism. He landed at of which we are masters, you the Grand Central Station must pose. All great artists That typical American in a typical pose. and inquired for a certain start their careers by posing.” theatre in Brooklyn. No one knew exactly “They do, eh? Well, no wonder they threw out his chest, thrust one hand in where or what Brooklyn was, but a cop starve for years,” retorted the American the breast of his coat, Patrick Henry be somewhere near the Adonis, giving the artists a supercilious fashion, and proceeded to obstruct the said it must Bridge. Eddie took a trolley survey. managerial traffic. He had intended to say Brooklyn of car to the bridge and then asked where He obliged, however, and for a time it “Sir, I desire to become a follower Brooklyn was. The general opinion pre- appeared as though acting and sketching Thespis, immortal goddess of the drah- vailing among the cops and venders in that were running neck and neck for his services. ma, and I choose for my debut, your “I region was that Brooklyn must be on the But now the race is run and the name of temple of art.” Instead, he said, want other side of the bridge. He finally reached the “Regular American” appears in gigantic a job.” the the theatre after spending sixty-five cents letters of light on the motion picture “What can you do?” demanded for car-fare, caused by the many detours screens, instead of in delicate scrawls manager, chewing a stogy, irritably, just before gaining the strategic point. on the canvases of the Metropolitan as managers do in pictures. he made was closing for the Museum. “I can recite ‘The Charge of the Light The stock company summer when he arrived on the scene. The man?—Edward Earle, pure Ameri- Bridage’ so as to give you gooseflesh,” was The manager liked his appearance, however, can, with a dash of Scotch. He is an the prompt reply. and promised him a part the next fall. athlete, aviator, artist, popular Lamb and “Shoot!” commanded the dauntless man- Being truly American, he had little star of drama, musical comedy and such ager, bracing himself for the charge. of nerve. He decided Vitagraph pictures as “For France” and “Onward, onward rushed the six money but a lot — another accomplishment to “The Blind Adventure.” hundred, he would add — |

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/ Morey, his list by studying art. Like Micawber, as Earle Williams, Harry he felt something would turn up to afford James Morrison and innumerable sustenance. Of course, something did. others, saw the young man, and de- He was paid for posing. But the artists clared, as did the artists, that here invariably remarked, “Remember, Eddie, was the true American type. A con- you are the Ideal American Man, thus tract was drawn up, and one year generosity is the keynote of your character.” ago Earle entered that studio where Thereupon, Eddie would buy a feed with have worked such famous players trimmings. This was the big meal of each as Norma Talmadge, Clara Kimball week, occurring regularly every Saturday Young, Mabel Normand, Edith night. All the other days, he avers, were Storey, Constance Talmadge, and wheatless, meatless and well-nigh eatless. where Alice Joyce, Earle Williams, But they were not artless. He sketched Harry Morey, Corinne Griffith, Gladys and posed with a vim. His posing was more Leslie, Grace Darmond, Nell Ship- successful than his drawing, he decided. man and a host of others create For he did see himself in conspicuous their characters. of positions in magazines, though never Under the careful supervision once did he see the masterpieces of his the great star-maker, Mr. Smith, own brush or pencil. Earle scored as the young American of the When fall came around he announced aviator in “For France,” one his intention of returning to the stage. most popular plays presented by Vita- Tim Murphy, one of the most popular graph during last year. In “The Vitagraph’s New This is one of the effective scenes Earle posed in stars of the day, had offered him an ex- Blind Adventure,” “For France.” cellent part. The artists protested. They York release, he again played the dashing, dare- States. He followed their bent. With his devil young philosophy of “Take an interest in every- American, so thing, and a chance on anything” he has attractive to become the incarnation of American philos- the public, ophy and life. He is not alone in this and gained either in the films or the world at large another vic- politics shows many men of this type— tory. When but he is eminently successful because he Mr. Smith combines with this spirit an unusual decided to measure of ability as an actor and because produce a his artistic medium is the films—most series of com- favored of American forms of entertain- edies showing ment. the domestic It is just such figures as Earle in the experiences of world of the arts that aid America to a pair of typi- interpret itself not only to the world but cal American to its own citizens. In Earle, America Newlyweds, is often able “to see itself as others see it,” he gave Earle to stand off and get a mental photograph the role of of the exact nature of national ideals. “Hubby.” All of which shows that in the pictures Fans and crit- there is realization of the social functions ics protested of art; there is understanding of the nature that one reel and purposes of the drama and how it of Earle at a reacts upon the life of the people. time was not enough, even when offered every week, even volunteered to pay him fifty-five cents so he returned to feature plays. There an hour, instead of fifty, for continuing in was an intrepid young American needed his role of the American Man, a position for the Irish comedy drama, “Ann Acushla.” which he could hold on the model stand It was an Earle part; no one else at the for two hours at a stretch without a rest studio would quite fit it. On the other period. Earle refused. He said his muscles hand, no one could play the Ideal American were stiffening, and he was tired of being Husband in the comedies. Thus the series an ideal specimen. At that time the artists of one-reelers was terminated, and Earle were beginning to break into the best dashed off to “Ireland” to lick the Mickeys publications with their drawings. This and woo and win Gladys Leslie. did not impress Earle, however. He packed Nothing pays so well as to be an All- his wardrobe trunk and set forth on the American star, judging from the increasing footlight trail. He played in a number of popularity of Edward Earle. The secret big dramatic productions and in musical to success in pictures is summed up by him comedy with De Wolf Hopper and other in the principle, “Take an interest in every- stars. Then came the call to pictures. thing, and a chance on anything.” It is Eddie, always an adventurer in search of a typical American principle of the typical new experiences, decided he would go in American man. for them. Since he had already served an And so it is evident that this matter of being apprenticeship in the business of posing, an All-American star, or, as the artists he felt that the thing would be easy. called him, the “typical American man,” His first experience was in Edison pro- is not a matter of training or upbringing ductions, which featured him in a variety nearly so much as a natural phenomenon. of parts. Then he went under the Metro Edward Earle is the typical American man banner, and was seen in a number of because of heredity, because his ancestors, pictures with Viola Dana. Albert E. whoever they were or wherever they came Smith, President of Vitagraph, who has from, were quickly and easily assimilated Edward Earle and one member of his big dog family. brought to starry prominence such men by the spirit and social life of these United 22 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD

Metro The Late Harold Lockwood 23 DECEMBER, 1918 THE LIFE OF HAROLD LOCKWOOD Showing a Relentless Fight for Success of a Typical American By JANET PRIEST

show his goods before he could get the HE story of Harold Lockwood is the perience. But leave your name and ad- price for them. But there were story of youth and ambition; the dress, and I’ll let you know if anything proper the out when he did not eat story of young American manhood. develops.” times on way Harold Lockwood climbed the ladder Next morning Harold was there when the very sumptuously. in, In a short time people were saying that that leads to fame, and had reached its store opened, and as the “boss” came was born for the screen. summit when death claimed him. repeated his request for a job. “I told you Harold Lockwood Lockwood was given better and This favorite screen star, beloved by I’d let you know,” said the proprietor Young 1910 he was with Nestor; thousands upon thousands of picture testily. “I’ll send for you if I ever want better parts. In was there in 1912 with Bison 101; then successively patrons all over the world, was a thoroughly you.” Next morning at 8.30 he Selig and Famous Players. normal, happy, wholesome young American. again. By the fourth morning the “boss” with NYMP, sputter at He became a leading man, with a con- He will always occupy a unique position was so “mad” he continued to into his stantly growing following of screen patrons. in theattention and affections of the people, the young man’s nerve all the way As lead for Mary Pickford in “Such a because of the very struggles that led office. Harold followed him and argued Little Queen,” “Hearts Adrift,” and “Tess to his success in his chosen profession, with him. of the Storm Country,” and opposite as well as the fact that he was stricken “But you’ve had no experience,” ex- Marguerite Clarke in “Wildflower,” his at the very pinnacle of achievement. postulated the “boss.” if work attracted favorable attention, and “Pals First,” a de luxe production in “How am I going to get experience great things were prophesied for him—all of which he starred, had just completed a you don’t give me a chance?” insisted which were fulfilled. His dream of stardom special run at the Broadway Theatre, New Harold. realized when he signed a new contract, York, before going on tour. In this screen The big man pushed a button, and a was this time with American-Mutual, and his version of Lee Wilson Dodd’s play, drama- clerk appeared. “Here, put this man to steady upward progress continued. Now tized from the novel by Francis Perry work as a salesman. He doesn’t know any- came “The Lure of the Mask,” “Life’s Elliott, author of so many of his successes, thing about the stock, but he’s got nerve “The Turn of the Road,” Harold Lockwood won the ungrudging enough to sell golf sticks to a wooden Blind Alley,” and other productions. admiration of critics and public. Later Indian.” American, he became associated he produced “The Great Romance,” an The months sped by, and Harold sold With with Allison, whom he had met while original story by Finis Fox, and had almost goods, and kept on selling goods. Never, May playing in the screen version of completed “The Yellow Dove,” a picture at any period of his brief and brilliant both were William H. Crane’s “David Harum.” version of George Gibb’s thrilling novel. career, did he see any particular reason an ideal “team,” and the These two productions had not been re- for being afraid of anybody. Jolly and They proved combination was continued when the co- leased at the time of his death. whole-souled, he proceeded on the principle star became identified with Metro Pictures Many a boy with ambitions for a stage that all men were his friends. But his attitude. Corporation, both later branching out as career will try to model his life after that “boss” couldn’t understand this individual stars. With Miss Allison as of Harold Lockwood. Lockwood was a When the time came for summer vacations, Harold Lockwood made eight “regular kid,” one of us “fellers”—the kind Harold’s two-weeks’ salary was given him his co-star, pictures: “The Come-Back,” “The that plays baseball out on the corner lot in a private session. Metro million- Masked Rider,” “The River of Romance,” and likes to take a dip in the old swimming- “Young man, is your father a “Mister 44,” “Big Tremaine,” “Pidgin hole. A childhood friend of his recalls aire?” “The Promise” and “The Hidden that at about the age of ten, Harold was "No,” answered Harold, puzzled. “Why?” Island,” Children.” very “sweet” on a girl whose father owned “Because you’re so darned independent. These pictures reflected the life of the a merry-go-round, so even at those tender When your two weeks are up, you needn’t out-doors, of which Harold Lockwood years he was a favorite of fortune. This come back.” great a devotee. A Lockwood picture friend also “deposes” that Harold was “What’s the trouble; hasn’t my work was always could always be depended upon to have a a terrible tease, which proves that he was been satisfactory?” every- Lockwood “fight,” which was always a normal boy. “Perfectly. But you’re so sure of Lester Cuneo used to be his Harold acquired the “wanderlust” thing. Some morning I’ll come in here and a real one. sparring partner, before he stopped playing naturally in his early youth. He was born find you’ve decided to be boss. And then luck. villain parts to go to war, and the two in Brooklyn, N. Y., but his family moved where will I be? Goodbye and good the worst of enemies before the camera frequently, New York City generally The disappointed young man still wanted were best of friends away from it. being the point of return. The family to be a business man, but fate was against and the Vigorous, clean, wholesome romance made also lived in Norwalk, Conn., and Newark, him. It was a slack season, and he couldn’t the Lockwood output popular with “fans” N. at different times. Most of Harold’s find another job. Someone suggested that J., America and abroad. grammar and high-school years were spent he go on the stage. He could sing and dance and exhibitors, both in thought Harold Lockwood became the idol of in Newark, and the inhabitants of that a little, although he had never countless American youths, men, girls and city are more insistent then all the others about those things as assets. He got a Idol,” matrons. in claiming that he belongs principally job as chorus-man in “The Broken Lockwood branched out as an to them. After attending the Newark with Otis Harlan. He didn’t like it very When individual star, he determined to give the high school, he went to New York to well, but it was better than asking “Dad” public the very best there was in business college. His father was a breeder for money, and he stuck. Then he decided screen him. chose photoplays that were of trotting horses, and expected his son he would try acting, and he secured an He superb examples of screen art, often adapted would join him in the business, but Harold engagement with Edward N. Hoyt in a from famous novels. The out-door ele- wanted to enter some other commercial vaudeville version of “Faust,” in which he “Meph- ment still predominated. The young star line. The way in which he did it is in- played “Faust,” and Mr. Hoyt luxuriated in the occasional chance dicative of the “stick-to-it-iveness” of his istopheles.” Five years more he spent in even “stubble” beard before the character. stock companies and on the road, and then to wear a unheard of for one supposed to set When he finished his course at business a friend suggested that he was just the camera— the standards of masculine appearance. college, he chose the firm he wanted to work type needed in the motion pictures, which Lockwood was a “he-man.” His vogue for. It was a wholesale dry-goods estab- were sweeping the country by storm. By drawing power continued to grow with lishment in lower New York. He walked in correspondence, he received an offer from and Haunted Pajamas,” “The Hidden and tackled the proprietor for a job. Rex-Universal in California to come out “The “Under Handicap,” and “Paradise “What experience have you had?” he and try his luck. He seized the opportu- Spring,” Romance and red-blooded action was asked. nity, paying his ownwayfrom NewYork to Garden.” “The Avenging Trail,” “Absolutely none. That’s why I’m here.” the west coast. He was a sufficiently good were united in (i on page 60 “Well, we can’t use a man with no ex- business man to realize that he had to Continued ) THE PHOTO PLAY WORLD

A Star’s (Christman Hy Qkarr ®M?r

ENA GLENDARM listened indifferently vase of lovely roses, that had been his afternoon’s to the gay chaff going on around her. gift to her, made her turn pale. Herman had It was two days before Christmas, and the kissed her only today, but what a different kiss popular screen actress had invited a group from that of Max. She could feel his hot lips still, of her friends and associates to share a part of the and the clasp of his arms around her; when he festive season with her. Now that they were kissed her, she hated him; she recognized in him gathered together—Max and May and Everding that impatience for possession that was even now and Hartman, not to mention Herman Baird, who driving him to urge her to an early marriage, and was her own particular property—Rena found she knew—none better—that she could not and would no pleasure in the company; their light banter not love him, though she gave herself to him and annoyed her; the insistent attentions of Baird took his millions in exchange for herself. Hers more than usually distressed her. was not an idyllic romance, but a bargain between “Come on, Rena,” Max Royce challenged her, love of luxury and the things money would bring, “May won’t take a hand at bridge, and Bill and I and a man’s mad passion to own and parade and have been layin’ for each other all week. What’s the enjoy the beautiful woman, whose very sight use of having five hundred perfectly good bucks caused his heartbeats to smother him; whose in your pocket, if you can’t find some fellow to give every denial was like strong wine rushing to his you a run for them?” head to make him drunk with desire for her. “Five hundred bucks will buy more things than Something in her face must have warned him a game,” suggested May, pointedly. “Don’t for- that her thoughts were not pleasant, for now he get my Christmas present is to come out of that strolled over and sat down close beside her, his arm five hundred, and I’ve planned some fine circling her across the back of the divan his knees same ; little present from you, Maxy dear, this year.” purposely drawn close to her, as if he sought as “Ho, ho, hear the woman,” rejoined Max. near a contact as appearances would permit. “Think’s she's married to me already, does she? For while this was a light crowd, it was a clean one, Well, little one, you’ll guess again if your choice and even Herman Baird was not permitted licenses. is too elaborate. Come ahead, Rena, and join “Tell me, sweet one,” he murmured now, “why up in the game,” he finished, coaxingly. so distrait this evening?” “I’d rather not,” Rena admitted. “I know I’m Rena looked up at him, straight into his eyes, a pig, but my head bothers me tonight. I couldn’t and before her clear gaze his own faltered. That play worth a cent anyhow; my partner would only something unapproachable in her that baffled him stand to lose all he bet.” and challenged him, lay like a sword between them “Don’t play cards,” May protested. “Let’s and made the coward afraid. have some music. By the way, Rena, don’t forget “Listen to this,” Rena bade him, and drew from my cat party tomorrow. Maxy boy, here, is her bag a letter. Without preliminary she read signed up for a football game; I’ve asked all the it, Herman listening attentively, a slow smile girls we know to come.” creeping about his lips. Rena smiled. There was something in May “Dear Little Sister: which was wholesome and inviting. She had the “Again we have almost reached the twenty- gift of making people like her, and “the girls” fifth of December, and again we are missing the meant a bunch of pretty screen actresses, who had bright face of our dearest one from the family always a good time together. group. Do you realize that it is npw three years “Don’t spend your money too freely,” Rena since you saw us or we you? In those years you cautioned her, however. “Getting married costs have grown rich and famous, and you have shared a lot, you know, and you and Max want that your riches with us here at home. But sister mine, little apartment up on the Drive.” no gifts however fine could compensate for the loss Max pretended to groan. “Why remind me ever of you we need the sight of you the of ; ; touch your of that marriage?” he inquired. “Isn’t life short hand the sound of your sweet voice. ; Our mother and sad enough without henpecked years in an fails gradually but surely she longs for apartment?” ; you. Your brief and infrequent letters put new life into her. May turned to box his ears, whereat he grabbed What, then, would the actual presence of you do? and kissed her. After all, they were very much I do not want to be selfish I ; know that you have in love, though their habit of life had taught them outgrown us; but perhaps you too have times when to regard even the more sacred things lightly. the near contact of those who love you above all Rena shivered a little as she saw the kiss. In things else on earth would give you deeper a moment more the piano was ringing with a a joy in your work than even now you must have. popular ragtime air, played by Hartman. But Here’s hoping that a good angel will whisper into the noise of the music could not still the memories your heart a wish to sit this Christmas at the table of the girl, who sat curled up in the corner of the in the old home. big divan; the taste of the cigarette between her “Your loving brother, lips seemed almost to nauseate her; the sight of Herman Baird standing beside the great tall “John.” —

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Rena raised to Baird eyes that were swimming “Dr. Temple,” John’s voice trembled. “You re- with tears. For a moment there was a touch member him—Horace Temple from over Pears- of pity in his heart. Then the thought of her grove way?” possibly leaving him, even for a few days, hardened Horace Temple and Rena Glendarm looked at him. each other with one long look. Their hands clasped “Your brother has quite a literary gift,” he and each murmured an acknowledgment of the commented lightly. “Write and tell him that you meeting. But a great confusion was sending the have more important things to do on Christmas blood hammering to the ears of the woman, while Day.” a deep thrill, such as he had never known, went Rena rose slowly and faced him. through the man. Then out of the confusion Rena “I am going to send a wire,” she said, with a caught one picture: the picture of a girl nursing calmness that was very deliberate, “saying that an injured hand by the side of a clump of roadside

I shall eat my Christmas dinner at home.” thistles and a young man who got down from his For a second only she and Baird measured each bicycle, opened a little medicine kit he carried, and other with their eyes. Then he recovered himself ministered kindly and efficiently to the sore for in that instant he had seen red. Now his voice fingers. And the girl and the man had looked into was tense, scarcely more than a whisper. The piano each other’s eyes, and the girl had dreamed of that was still banging; fortunately the rest were fully look for many days after the encounter. Now he occupied. and she met again after years and both remembered. “You are mine,” he said thickly. “You shall He was famous, she soon learned; she, too, was not go; I say, you shall not! I have waited a long famous. But he had kept his heart pure for the while, my lady. But I will wait no longer. On sake of the memory of that girl by the roadside; Christmas Day you will become mine. We shall she had forgotten those youthful dreams, and had have the minister or not, as you say, but you will sold herself in a promise to Baird. keep the engagement.” If there was a hint of restraint and sadness in His tone frightened her. Then she came to her Rena’s manner through that Christmas Day, it senses. was best understood by the bearded man of the “You would make an excellent hero for melo- world, who was Dr. Temple. The white-haired drama,” she answered. “But unless you can love mother was rapt in the sunshine of the presence me as Max there loves May—unless you can wait of the long-absent one; the brother was too quietly for me, until I am ready to come to you, I will never joyful to notice anything amiss; Rena herself she lost something just what willingly be yours. I have promised to marry you, knew only that had — and I will do so, but your insults do not serve to it was she was not sure—but an insistent pain deep hurry me.” Before he could recover his breath, she within her oppressed her; the memory of that studio had crossed the room and had gone out through crowd and their coarseness, lay like a shadow over the doorway. the pure light of a new world that was shining for Max turned away from the group at the piano. her in the eyes of the man who sat so quietly and “Cut it out,” he commanded. “What’s the yet so actually near her. with Queenie?” he called to Baird. Herman matter * * * frowned. “Headache,” he stated briefly. “She’s gone to lie down.” “Good night,” brother John said, shaking hands, “Let him alone,” whispered May. “Don’t you and went to his room under the roof. see something’s happened?” And so when he bade “Good night,” Mother Glendarm repeated, them good night, without further explanations, kissing her daughter softly, almost reverently, Rena’s friends knew that there had been a scene then holding out her hand to the other visitor. of some sort back there on the divan. And being Something had told the two souls who loved her a good sort at heart, they all kept quiet and re- so dearly that here was one who had something frained from making any comment, even when important to say to her. And something had told later on Rena reappeared, a sweeter, gayer Rena, the spoiled artist that at last her Fate was upon her. little after midnight an early hour for the who a — Dr. Temple came over to where she sat. breaking up of a party said a pleasant good night — “You, too, remember the golden day in the to them all. summer?” he asked her. A long, low, green car slowed up before a small She nodded silently. house among the hills of Connecticut. A tall woman “For all those years I have waited for you,” clad in wonderful furs stepped out and walked up he continued. “Tell me, why didn’t you come?” the pathway. The little gray-haired woman who little sentences she her opened the door stared at her, and then with a And then in broken made confession. She had played with something called soft cry, almost pathetic, because it was so burdened face face real thing. with surprised joy, threw herself into the visitor’s Love; now she was to with the arms. And she was not worthy. She came stained by the she promised. The tears Rena Glendarm shed in those few kisses of another man, to whom was beside her. minutes were healing for many of the hurts that a When she was done, Temple knelt life of frivolity had given her. The face she showed “Put your arms here,” he commanded, and laid to the crippled brother, who sat by the fireplace, her arms about his neck. was softly alight with love and tenderness. And “You are done with shams,” he told her. “The so absorbed was she in the welcome of these dear Bairds of the world are forgotten. Your lips, sweet- a ones, that she did not at first see that a third was heart, your lips.” present. But her brother called her to greet the And the pride that had repelled Baird melted tall, bronzed, bearded man who stood silently, to amazing tenderness, as the woman in her yielded smilingly, waiting. her preciousness to this real lover. — —

26 THE PHOTO PLAY WORLD MARY ROBERTS RINEHART AT THE LASKY STUDIO Distinguished Authoress Makes a Lightning Tour with Cecil B. DeMille By HELEN LOUISE HARTMAIER

AVING been in the shadow of the had merely entered the office so it didn’t Cecil DeMille—the cathedral-like room big guns on the western front, appeal to her as risking a great deal. Ah, with its accumulation of strange objects braved submarines, visited the Queen rash promise! She little knew what was in gathered from all quarters of the globe. m of England in her palace, talked store. They both enjoyed the talk and only to thousands of young men in the war But first Mary Pickford came along in the call for luncheon terminated the camps, bidding farewell to one of her own care-free manner, sans make-up, having just interview. For realizing the necessity sons as he left for France, and having a completed a scene from “Johanna Enlists,” for preparation against the strenuous husband and another son ready to leave, so the great writer and the great actress met afternoon, the Director-General had ar- delightful studio luncheon, is nothing to the brilliant Mary Roberts and chatted comfortably in the sanctum of ranged for a Rinehart compared to her served in his private dining- mad flight around the Lasky room adjoining the Fair- studio in Hollywood under banks offices and fronting the guidance of Cecil B. the well-known Fairbanks DeMille, Director-General of Alley. Miss Jeanie Mac- the Famous Players-Lasky pherson, writer of the Corporation. DeMille special pictures, Mrs. Rinehart can assure was hostess and the merry you that Mr. DeMille party ate unsparingly—and can make Cook’s best look still Mrs. Rinehart did not like a second-rate snail. guess what was in store. The same will probably be Thus far she had been im- vouched for by Mary pressed merely by the bigness Elizabeth Evans (if you’ve of the place, the evident a sweet tooth, you must perfection of organization— have heard of the delicious but it still seemed artificial, confections known by her presumably—it was still the of theatre only two first names), who ac- back stage a — companied Mrs. Rinehart to bigger. the Celluloid City and They emerged finally from brought up the rear with the dining place and oppor- William C. DeMille, brother tunely Douglas Fairbanks of Cecil, arriving a bad came forth from his dressing second, panting for breath room. But what a shock and feeling like a —it was a Douglas trans- human kaleido- formed. Where were the scope. chaps, the broad hat, the It came about six-shooters—the spurred alas! in thiswise: Mrs. boots? Gone, Gone Rinehart, who to give place to a black has written detective frock coat, lavender trousers, stories that make the patent leathers, a derby, reader hate to blow out cane, pearl gray gloves the ligth; wonderful pic- spats—for Fairbanks was tures of the tragedy across attired as a dude—a dude seas; the delectable tales of the “sub-deb,” of the genus discovered by which were interpreted on the screen by the comic weeklies. And he Marguerite Clark, for Paramount; who made a sweeping grand- created the unforgettable and much-beloved iloquent and peripheric “Tish”—Mrs. Rinehart had never before obeisance. visited a picture studio. She happens to “Chawmed, chawmed, be an old friend of the DeMille family, ladies,” he declaimed, “a however, and when she came to California, perfect day—eh, what?” she received an invitation to visit the studio. They were photographed Here was a new experience—if such with the novelist seated in thing could be possible after what she has a Chinese sedan chair, relic seen in the last year or two—but it is of the Oriental scene in “The unlikely that she anticipated a great deal. Whispering Chorus”—one She had seen behind the scenes of the of DeMille’s best pictures theatre. All make-believe is much alike and with the agile Doug she supposed—tinsel, frail canvas walls and perched upon its sloping roof daubs of color that lost all semblance of at the imminent risk of form or purpose once you got close to them. destroying the almost painful Mr. DeMille was exceedingly busy on a creases and the immaculate new production but refused utterly to delicacy of his lavender permit anyone else to escort Mrs. Rinehart trousers. about the plant. He wanted to show The transformed westerner her and explain the work and the things was finally whisked away by that have grown up under his eye his director for a scene and many of which are the products of his then began the most rapid, bewildering own fertile mind, things in which he amazing and takes a very natural pride. sightseeing tour Mrs. Rine- So he asked the distinguished visitor hart ever remembers under- Persons of no less importance than William C. and Cecil B. DeMille carried Mrs. Cecil IIif bileclip lmiiucumind pH takingLdiwiis a. raoid-firGv. taking. DeMille Rlnehart about the camp in the ancient 8edan , presumably to a destination at which journey about the place. As yet she the smiiin* “Dou*” waited. became suddenly a human ” ”— — — —

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divan, "you endless fields in the limitless land of Make- explained, all believe. right—I’m cer- Mrs. Rinehart was not at the studio tain I heard without a purpose. With all her experience you telling me in the way of fiction, with all the enormous all about it success which her stories have obtained in but I feel as the magazines and in book form, she real- though I'd izes that in approaching the art of the been around motion picture she is dealing with a new the world four medium, that it must be studied with a times in forty full realization of its scope and influences, minutes. I’m that the methods of fiction and the photo- dazed.” play are related but by no means identical. Some min- This does not mean that Mrs. Rinehart utes later, is going to give her attention exclusively when Mrs. to scenario writing. She hasn’t, or at least Rinehart had she has not permitted such an announce- recovered her ment to creep into the trade journals. But breath, she in her case there is another instance of how thanked Mr. completely the photoplay producers are DeMille. It be- obtaining the attention of the artists of the gan to come literary world. back to her, bit Scenario writing demands a high order by bit —and of artistic skill and understanding of life, she declared it needs close, consistent and conscientious that she had methods. And these are the qualities been impressed which are to be found most frequently, unbelievably. and in the highest standing, among the “It’s dignity, most accomplished writers of the day. perf ectio n The union of the literary folk and the affect me film producers has been long in coming strangely,” she too long. It has been delayed by a score of admitted. “I unfortunate influences. The writers were had no idea a wary and the producers were ignorant. But motion picture the time came when improvement of sce- studio could be narios was a vital need of the cinema. This so wonderful. was a need which could no longer be denied. And I can now And with pressure beingapplied onbothsides, Mr. DeMille evidently had a task to induce Mrs. Rinehart to (continued in our next) understand like the approaching walls of Poe’s torture why Mr. chamber, the amalgam of writer and pro- film Baedeker and a compelling if condensed DeMille said it was the most democratic ducer is now in a fair way of accomplishment. anti-gravity force. of arts and that Arm linked in that of the visitor, with it had begun William C. DeMille and Miss Evans striving where the stage valiantly to keep them in sight, the Director- stopped. Oh, I General shot through Virginia Street, into a can see the won- corner of Sierra Leone, through a village in derful possi- Kansas and into an Ohio business thorough- bilities, the fare; on, past decaying walls, into a cacti- scope, massive- haunted bit of the painted desert, through ness of it. There fallen archways and over broken pavements are many things to a street in Belgium. Off the Argyle Lot I should like to and into the Lasky Lot proper, through the say about it great glass stages, over priceless rugs and but—but I’ll threadbare carpets, hurdling chairs of an- have to write tique design, or lowly rockers; through mas- the m—1 a t e r. sive archways, hung with crimson velvet or I’m just a—little down dark and winding staircases of some dazed now tenement abode—then into the brilliant So Mary Rob- sunlight again, to the brink of a mysterious erts Rinehart and frond-hung pool; into an early Cali- saw her first fornian mining camp; through carpenter picture studio shops, paint shops, costume shops, stock saw and mar- rooms developing rooms, laboratories, veled at it. And moulding shops, property rooms, offices, someday she’s haunts of scenario writers, on and'on, like going back to travelers on a magic carpet—on and on, see it all again till Mrs. Rinehart and her escort came to —at a slower a sudden rest. pace—and go on “Where am I?” she gasped. location and “Back in my office,” explained Mr. learn a lot of DeMille calmly. In the far distance loomed things about the Mary Elizabeth Evans and William C. technicalities of DeMille, still treaking through Oriental the art—an art sands. that sprang “Where have I been?” demanded the from the loins of writer again. — the spoken “Why, I thought I explained— drama but has “Oh, yes—you explained ” she drew long since left a hand wearily across her damp brow and its parent home sighed gratefully as she sank on a cushioned to find new and —a ,

28 THE PHOTO- PLAY WORLD BIDE A WEE WITH PEGGY HYLAND

For Here is a Sample of the Star s Leisure Hours By ADELE WHITELY FLETCHER

released, F you’ll come for dinner at seven,” earn it on the stage. The round of the two of her pictures had been she dainty Peggy Hyland had told me managers discouraged her, even as it has was offered an attractive contract in X she know over the telephone the night before, discouraged some of the greatest stars ever America, which accepted—you “we’ll have our chat then.” known. She just wanted a place in the all the rest. How she has pleased us more picture, and And so—delighted at the prospect of chorus in order to “get her bearings,” and more in each new now when one manager offered her a small that she shines in the William Fox firma- an interview—I presented myself at the and door of her apartment at six-thirty o’clock. part, she was so frightened that she nearly ment one cannot fail to expect great The trim white-cap maid ushered me returned to her home fold and five shocked things. Little Peggy will not disappoint into the chintz hung living-room, where uncles—all members of the English clergy. us, of that I’m sure. repaired to the cheerful she relieved me of my wraps, and as I But, finally, a part in the chorus fell to When we again living-room for our after-dinner waited for Miss Hyland I found myself studying her abode care- coffee, the maid announced a of the English army. fully. A log fire crackled merrily captain upon the hearth and everywhere When he had introduced him- was evinced the fact that the self, for Miss Hyland had not room had been furnished for met him before either, I learned comfort. In one corner was a that he was touring the country British writing table appointed in orange with her father to aid leather, big tapestry arm chairs recruiting. Being in New York stood about invitingly, and on on a leave of absence, he had a carved mahogany library table come to deliver a message. stood one or two books and He mentioned his delight upon magazines and a pretty bowl of finding a log-fire, and together he knelt before fresh flowers. A chintz lounge and Miss Hyland stood beneath a unique Japa- the open fire place to build, for benefit, such fire as nese floor lamp and the hard- my special a in the country houses wood floor was covered with a they have they dull blue rug. of England. The picture together was one typical In a minute I heard a swish made severe khaki of skirts coming down the hall, of wartime, for his contrast to her accompanied by a catchy little formed a strong melody and presto — Miss dainty frock. And as they made Hyland stood before me a vision the flames leap up the chimney, played of loveliness. Her chestnut curls I sat at the piano and Fires Burning.” were pinned in graceful confusion “Keep the Home upon the crown of her pretty Soon he took his leave, and head, while her dress was made Miss Hyland agreed to show me very simply of a sea-green some of the frocks she had pur- the before. chiffon. And a more becoming chased day is combination color for her pink and white skin Her boudoir a and pretty eyes could not be of ivory furniture and pink cre- found. tonne and when I say it forms a “We’ll have dinner before we fitting background for its dainty owner, I’m praising it highly. do anything else, for if you’re The first frock brought from half as hungry as I am, words would be useless,” she laughed. the recesses of her big closet was “Work always makes me hungry fashioned from baby blue velvet, and we did a number of scenes made with girlish lines and a lit- tle bustle. For sleeves, the today in order to finish the pic- modiste had conceived wisps of ture. It’s my first for Mr. Fox, you know. The harder we work chiffon in butterfly bows— that was all. Elaborate trimming had the better I like it, for you grow this girlish dance so interested in the story that no place in A film god in her summer temple—Miss Hyland at her summer home. you can’t wait to see how the dress. cloak of a Nile different scenes will work out.” The evening in deeper velvet, As the dull gong sounded, Peggy cried: her lot. However, she didn’t stay there green satin, brocaded a claimed huge cuffs and a collar of silver “Food at last. It’s the first I have had long, and before she knew it she was fox, its billowly fullness insured the since seven o’clock this morning. I was playing lead opposite Cyril Maude in one and safety of the dress beneath. so busy signing photographs, that I didn’t of his London successes. Then the movies touch the lovely luncheon they brought called, and she waved goodbye to the foot- Then came a dainty creation, which I fullnesses me at the studios.” lights and entered a motion picture studio find it difficult to describe. Many Miss Hyland’s mother met us at the for the first time. In her first picture she of a delicate pink chiffon over a silver cloth silver lace at the bottom dining-room door and in another minute was called upon to jump into the Thames with a wide band of we had gathered about the table— River without a great deal of warning. of the skirt and a crushed silver girdle one happy party. Everything was delicious, The story demanded it and even the with silk flowers here and there, made of the prettiest things I’ve seen this season. and between courses I learned how the protestations of an English “Bobby,” who again into the recesses of the deep little star had entered the movies. spied them on the location, were to no Diving another beautiful A clairvoyant friend was responsible avail. The story had to be made realistic, closet, she emerged with her arm. It made for her trying theatrical work in the first and the fact that it was a bitter cold, wrap thrown over was used for afternoon wear place and when she left a week-end party January day meant nothing whatever in the so that it might be closed car, or donned in the eve- in England, she did not return home, but life of the domineering director. in her big fairylike dance frock. took up her quarters in a London boarding- But Peggy is not one who brooks ning to protect some fashioned full lines house. She told her family that she was defeat and she made up her mind to become This cloak was with net, with loose flowing determined to earn her own living—and famous whatever the price. After one or from a silver grey DECEMBER, 1918 29

- the i n s t r u go ahead and get the mailers addressed ment forth and I’ll sign the pictures— I will, really.” from beneath Replacing the phone, she turned to me the volumin- and took up the conversation where she ous skirts of had left off, not daunted by the task the pretty which loomed up before her. Personally, doll, dressed I didn’t blame those players who had in old rose their autographs attached to their pictures silk, which by a lithograph method, but when I spoke had entirely to Miss Hyland of this plan, she declared hidden the ob- she wouldn’t think of it; saying some ink ject beneath. smeared on a picture by a press was not Her secre- an autograph, and I think she’s right. tary was on When her maid came in to put the clothes the other end safely away, Miss Hyland jabbered to her of the wire. in French, as though it were her native This girl ad- tongue and I found myself wondering how dresses the such a tiny thing could know so much. hundreds and But that was not all. In a few minutes hundreds of her chauffeur called her on the phone, envelopes and she questioned him so intelligently which her pic- about all those mysterious parts of her tures goout in motor car that I was dumbfounded. She to the movie was having her big closed car overhauled, and when she heard that the work was completed, she made an ap- pointment for Sunday morning, when they would test the workmanship in a drive through the Park. Ye Gods! where did she ever find Shrubbery and wild flowers often find their way to Miss Hyland’s dressing table. time to learn all those things? She may have mastered French in the sleeves and a wide shawl collar. The convent she attended in Belgium, collar, cuffs of the sleeves, and many but where on earth did she get her inches about the bottom were knowledge of her motor’s intricate trimmed with two-inch bands of the mechanism? most beautiful squirrel, and as the The evening passed all too collar fell half-way down her small quickly and it was getting late shapely back, it appeared to be when I took my leave, despite the entirely covered with this silver fact that my hostess had to be grey fur. made up and on the studio floor ‘‘I’ve saved my most priceless at nine o’clock the next morning. treasure until the last, just like the And the studio is across the river kiddies always save their favorite in Jersey! But dainty Peggy laugh- kind of ice cream or candy,” she ingly declared that she didn’t mind declared, laughingly, and held up a —her tact and courtesy, perhaps; gorgeous kimona to my admiring that she never goes to rest early, gaze. as there is always too much to be “This was sent me all the way attended to. And so I gleaned that from Japan by one of the native there was more to being a moving girls, who embroidered it herself,” picture star than merely acting. she exclaimed.

Never did I see anything more beautiful. The kimona itself was dull black satin, embroidered with many another corner with bronze butterflies, in all sorts of fly- her pet dofi. ing poses. No wonder dainty Peggy gazed at it fondly, and admitted she had fans all over .

hastened to send the little Japanese girl a the world . gift from the American shops in return. From the con- Everything which met my admiring versation, I eye bespoke of the artistic woman! gleaned the “What do you do with all the beautiful fact that things your work demands?” I asked, threehundred curious to know the fate of these wonder- more photo- ful frocks and wraps. graphs had to “These you see here,” she answered, be autograph- brushing back one of the chestnut curls ed for that which had escaped its pin, “I’m wearing week’s mail. in private life. You see, they’re quite “All right, alright, but the many, many others which Miss Greeley, are decidedly ‘screen clothes,’ I either have I'll sign them remodeled or given to the girls who play tomorrow be- the smaller parts in my pictures. You see, tween scenes these girls find it necessary to dress well and at lunch- and their salaries often do not prove eon time, pro- sufficiently large for their needs. You never vided we stop recognize the clothes, for they make them work long over so cleverly that I often don’t remember enough to them myself.” eat,” Miss Here the telephone rang, and running to Hyland prom- her little ivory bedside table, she brought ised. “You Even the dog laughs when the car draws up to the studio. 30 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD

May Allison

(A Girl from the South)

Fame has come to May Allison, charming Metro star of “The Return of Mary,” both through natural talent and. by hard work and application. Born and brought up on a plantation in Georgia, the stage, as a profession, wasfarfrom the thoughts of this young Southern girl. She possessed a rich soprano voice, however, which her parents consented to have trained, and through this came the operatic am- bition. She was naturally gifted, and at the age of sixteen wrote an operetta which she called “ The Life of Moses.” This was pro- duced by her local Sunday School, and in it she played the leading feminine role. The success she achieved in this strengthened her re- solve to seek a professional career. Much against the wishes of her parents, she came to New York. Here she met Henry W. Savage, producer and manager, who was so struck with her beauty and grace that he immediately engaged her for the part of “Vanity,” in his big morality play,“Everywoman.” After this she played an important part with Ina Claire in “The Quaker Girl," and the following season appeared with De Wolf Hopper in “Caprice." Following upon this success, she was starred in “Apartment 1Z K" at the Maxine Elliott Theater, and the next year opened with Edith Wynne Mathison in “ The Gov- ernor's Lady.” Her screen debut was made with William H. Crane in “Damd Harum,” and after that she was co-starred with the late Harold Lockwood in many Metro productions, some of them being “ “ The River of Romance," The Masked Rider," “The Comeback" and “Big Tremaine.” Miss Allison's work won for her the title of star with this company. Since when she has played in “Social Hypocrites” and “ The Winning of Beatrice " and “A Successful Adventure,” which dealt with the Southern life with which she is so familiar.

a DECEMBER, 1918 31 IN THE W<

“PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN,” IS AT HAND

ASwe are writing, whistles are shrieking, horns are blowing and bells are ringing the death-knell of autocracy. J-\ The forces of humanity have wrung from the war lord of Europe an humble admission of defeat and a plea for 1. Jk mercy. Germany has signed an armistice imposing upon the proud Prussian people a set of conditions, the severity of which has not been equalled in history. The correlated monarchies of Prussianism have capitulated. Kaiser Wilhelm, has abdicated; his son, Crown Prince Frederick William, has renounced the throne, and with Field Marshal von Hindenburg and the military staff of the autocracy, has fled into Holland. Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria are cring- ing at the feet of the allies. This, indeed, is a bright Christmas outlook compared with twelve months ago, when we commented in this column, “Another Christmas and no peace.” And that there was little hope for a truce then, was attested by the sweeping advance of the German armies starting in March and the brilliant counter movement of the allied forces, which commenced at the Marne July 18th, and have not ceased until now they have this war-mad carbuncle on the arm of progress conformed into a whipped, whining cur. But our work is only half done. It is a question whether the peoples who have lived under these dynasties are not to be more pitied than censured. In spite of the unspeakable atrocities committed by our enemies, or rather in view of them, should not the German, Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian peoples be taught the rules of this game of life as played by white men? They should be enlightened, forcibly, that women and babies are sacred things and that honor, much higher than the Hohenzollern conception of the word, must bind all agreements. After this terrible catastrophe of more than four years, the world is determined to have peace, if the nations in it must crush and obliterate the first disturber. Even though hostilities will cease before the new year rolls into view, America and the governments associated with her, must remain on a war basis for months or possibly a couple of years. Don’t be deceived on this score. Devastated Europe must be reconstructed and its peoples, who have felt so keenly the privations of war, fed. United States must bear the brunt of this work, and it must and will enter the work with the same glorious spirit as it has its war preparation. This means continued conservation. There will be another Liberty Loan issue. Mr. McAdoo has assured us on this point. The fact that the actual fighting in the field will stop must not be cause for failing to subscribe any amount our Government may ask. Our armies must still be fed and clothed until they can be brought home. This will take time and money. The conservation program of the moving picture industry will continue, and that great business will do its share toward subscribing to the next bond issue. Men behind photoplay production and theatres are of too high a caliber and too farsighted to fail to realize the necessity of throwing all their resources into making this great fight of the world’s free men a truly successful one. Moving picture theatres must increase rather than diminish the food saving propaganda which they have been showing. Liberated sections of France have added to the food drain on America, and peace will not relieve this condition for some time. We know the moving picture world and we know that some of the requirements of it, made by the Government, have been severe. It has reached the point where theatres have had to close under the strain. But they haven’t protested, and they never will, some writers to the contrary. The shut-down order which followed the recent influenza epidemic was a strain on the industry, tying up millions of dollars of capital at studios, with its natural effect of a dirth of pictures in theatres. But this was endured with a spirit of its necessity. Producers are satisfied with the prospect for future developments and are, with all humanity, glorying in the anticipation that “peace on earth, good will toward men,” is at hand.

LIGHTEN THE BURDEN ON THEATRES

HE inception of peace, it is conceded by national leaders, will result in the curtailment of the Government war- work campaign and, according to recent conferences between Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Senate and T House leaders, a subsequent reduction in the amount of money to be derived from the so-called Eight Billion Dollars War Revenue Bill. Already the Senate Finance Committee has pared the house draft of the measure to $6,250,- 000,000 and the indications are that further cutting will be effected. It is logical that the strain should be relieved from those sources of revenue that can stand it least and the theatre, in consequence, must be considered. Moving picture theatres took on the war tax burden of ten per cent with a vim and it has, during the months of war, been a splendid source of revenue to the Government. In many cases managers stood the extra expense, but in the majority this was impossible. The public paid it, apparently willing, though attendances in some cases were lowered. A twenty per cent tax, as contemplated in the revenue bill, will emphasize this condition, and many theatre owners and managers in the middle west are sincerely in fear of having to close their houses if the added burden is put into force. interests or The question is: Does the Government further its own impair them by adding this cumbersome tax on picture theatre admissions? We believe that a twenty per cent tax will act as a boomerang. Attendance at theatres the Government’s revenue will will, be lowered by the move. This will mean that not be doubled, but increased possibly only one half. One result will be that fewer people will be reached through the moving picture theatres by the extensive Government food conservation and reconstruction propaganda, which will necessarily follow the conclusion of peace. The activities of theatres will be less effective in the new Government “Victory Loan” for the same reason. President Wilson, defining non-essential occupations and industries, when the preferential laws were put in effect throughout the country, allowed the theatres and bodies associated with them to go unmolested, excepting in a few minor nation’s Chief grants the instances. This proves conclusively that the moving picture industry an important position hobbled by burdens that might be destructive, if these in the life of the nation. It should not be burdens can be avoided. derived from the new revenue bill, In reconsidering the amount of money to be the Government will do well to take into pressure on the world of the serious consideration relieving the contemplated photoplay. -

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JLIBILITY wmmw® BEAUT

By FRANCIS PARRY

which they worked was a new dramatic medium. They faced their task of putting drama into the pictures intelligently and gave the new art its start toward its present high estate. “This is a thing that every young woman new photograph, but one of the most effective Woman, a Fox and a String Not a Contrast of Beauty—A of Miss Downs. of Pearls. who goes into the films should realize from the very outset. There is no use for any before the great public F Venus herself were to step out of woman to attempt any worth-while work a desire to appear screen. The latter the mirage of mythology and deliver in the pictures if she is not going to take on the stage or on the in demand among the toots a lecture before a modern women’s her art seriously enough to attempt real has been more of and club on feminine beauty, she would interpretation of her roles. twentieth century dreamers fame doubtless be respectfully heeded. And “A pretty, well-lined face and an attrac- fortune. question of art never enters the so, when one of the genuine beauties of tive figure, about which the modistes “The persons, the screen world steps before the magazine would veritably rave, are undoubtedly heads of these ambitious young of donning their reading public with a dissertation on assets — let’s not discount them — and and they form visions qualifica- prettiest frock or spring toque, presenting “beauty and the films,” she is not likely when a woman, possessing these first to a motion picture impressario to be ignored. tions alone, appears on the screen, her themselves signing a contract for a Miss Jean Downs, lately recruited by impression upon the audience is much in and immediately dollars season. the Betzwood Film Company, which her favor. But that is where it stops. few hundred thousand a fact that art has, by the keenest recently brought signs of life to the old “Without the intelligence to interpret “The requisite producing plant of the Lubins, near Phila- a character, the emotions, the loves and the competition, been made the prime been their salvation. delphia, spoke as though she knew what hates of Psyche, this modern Venus would of the pictures, has fortun- she was taking about and was confident now soon find herself in the mire of photo- Actresses, so-called, who have been should I say unfortunate— of her audience. Moreover, she has a play discards. ate enough—or looks message. “A great majority of girls, if they are to get before the public on their invariably proven only meteors. “In the films, as on the stage, at one fortunate enough to be called ‘pretty’ alone, have season or two and they are passe. period of its history,” said Miss Downs, by some flattering admirer, are at some A “there was a tendency among actresses time in their tender years obsessed with Appearances alone cannot win.” Miss Downs to pose their way That been rele- through the pict- has not to the place ures. They relied on gated all bad ac- their beauty solely. where Their whole idea was tressesgo, establishes conclusively that she to see that the scenes is blessed with dra- in which they ap- That peared wereskillfully matic ability. photographed and she was selected for they were placed to the role of “Beauty" es- the best advantage. in “Experience,” she is They wanted to tablishes that For fur- make quite sure that beautiful. nowrinklesappeared ther testimony on this score, a glance in their faces, and that no player who at the accompany- was sufficiently ing photographs will beautiful to cast any be convincing. better reflection upon them- Among the selves should appear film accomplish- of Miss in the same scene. ments the fem- "This, of course, Downs was part with was the view of only inine lead Washburn, a small portion of the Bryant beautiful women in "Rule 63;” the lead with Richatd who appeared in the photoplay. The Travis, in “The Man with Otis screen has always Trial;” and

Harlan , in the Kleine- had its group of production, intelligent players, Edison Loves a who realized that “Everybody Fat Man.” the medium i n This photograph definitely proves that Miss Downs was a fit candidate for the role of “Beauty” in “Experience.” —

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THE FLITTING SHADOWS Photoplays the Month Views and Reviews of the Reading of f By CHESTER A. BLYTHE I

S did the inception of the war, the advent of peace will be mirrored in the photoplay, with its effect upon the social and economic future of the world. This is natural and—no one will ! disagree—right. The theatre and screen are two of the strongest mediums of reflection to a peoples of the earth. Literature is the third. An admonition at this time to authors and producers may tend to avert a glaring mistake that these leaders made at the start of the war, namely, too much war and not enough variety in the brand of entertainment offered. How many times during the past year have you heard this remark from patrons of the photo- play: “What’s at the So-and-So Theatre? Oh, it’s a war picture; I’m sick of them; let’s go some- where else.” When the first of the veritable fusilade of Kaiser pictures was produced, houses could t\ t\ not accommodate the patrons who were eager to see this sphinx in the civilized world shown to them as they, in their hearts, believed he was. But it became monotonous. It so applied to all war dramas dealing with society, in which one set of conditions, produced by the greatest catastrophe the universe has ever experienced, was repeated time and again. It is pleasantly noticeable that many f producers came to their senses on this proposition; this even to the extent that one company adopted the policy of “no more war pictures.” Producers! Don’t repeat this mistake when dealing with the problems which shall arise when this hell on earth subsides. l There will be many opportunities for picture plots surrounding the return of our brave American boys to our midst and their re-entrance into home life, politics and economic reorganization. The girls they left behind will supply the love theme which, it seems, is so essential as a background for the more commonplace activities. Let us have these stories, by all means, but enough is enough. Back in the Civil War, the period following peace was subjected to an epidemic of plays and books based upon the war and its reactions. We are told by veterans of that immortal fight that it was overdone then. Why repeat the error? The more prolific photoplay industry is very liable to even emphasize upon this condition unless caution is used. Let every producer aim at his masterpiece in this program of post-bellum plays and make that accurate, interesting and enlightening, so that it will serve a broader purpose than merely to entertain. Quality should be the guiding spirit of these productions, and then scenario departments of the great film companies should revert themselves to a peace basis and delve into the thousands of stories that lie in the generation just developing. Photoplay audiences do not want too much of any one thing, or set of things. Romance, tradegy, comedy must be blended with such variety as to give the cynic little to talk of and keep the interested playgoer interested.

“WOMEN’S WEAPONS”—Five-part of the contagion has passed. While in his usual “dexterity.” Vera Doria is good Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount, featur- town he meets Esmee Hale, an artist as Esmee the vampire, and James Neill, ing Ethel Clayton. Story by Beulah employed to illustrate his latest book, Josephine Crowell, Pat Moore and Dorothy Marie Dix. Directed by Robert G. and her efforts to prove how thoroughly Rosher do exceedingly well as members Vignola. she understands him result in his becoming of the supporting company. “Women’s CAST infatuated with her. Weapons" has many attractive qualities, Ethel Clayton, Elliott Dexter, Vera Doria, When Anne learns of the state of not the least of which is the artistic James Neill, Josephine Crowell, Pat Moore affairs she begins a process of clever schem- production. and Dorothy Rosher. ing in order to convince her husband of the Ethel Clayton, as a beautiful and absurdity of his behavior. The Elliots patient young wife in “Women’s Weapons,” retire to a seashore cottage and Anne agrees “THE ROSE OF WOLFVILLE” a human tale, particularly interesting to have Esmee accompany them, so that Two-part Broadway Star feature, with to the feminine playgoer, has a role she and Nicholas may write a play to- Patricia Palmer. Adapted from Alfred unusually adaptable to her talents. While gether. Soon after their arrival Anne Henry Lewis’s Wolfville story. the story of an author-husband being pretends illness and leaves Esmee to do CAST is the housework. The strain of dish- captivated by an alluring vampire not Patricia Palmer, S. E. Jennings, C. E. entirely new, it is made decidedly plausible washing and house-cleaning proves to be Hatton, W. Hopper, Tom Lugham, Carl Deitz Winifred in this picture, which is Miss Clayton's too much for Esmee, who plainly shows Forms, Elizabeth and Ashley. second release under the Paramount resentment and ill-temper. Nicholas Wolfville stories banner. finally sends her away and realizes the Alfred Henry Lewis’s their appeal and Skillful directorship, with a cleverly true worth of his charming wife. are renowned for human film version of devised story, help to make “Women’s A similar idea developed along comedy sympathetic interest. The Broadway Weapons” decidedly interesting. lines once provided a play for Grace the “Rose of Wolfville,” the none of these When the story begins, the spectator George, and, more recently, an amusing Star feature, loses is introduced to Anne Elliot and her vehicle for Constance Talmadge. “Wo- qualities. • and dramatic situa- husband, a noted author, living happily men’s Weapons” is a very human tale, The bits of humor are such with their two small children. When with particular interest for the female of tions in this two-part photoplay the continued interest Anne is quarantined with the youngsters, the species. as to maintain still provide sufficient who have developed scarlet fever, Nicholas Dexter plays opposite the star and inter- of the audience and goes to the city to remain until the danger prets the part of the author-husband with comedy relief. WORLD 34 THE PHOTO- PLAY

story surrounding a It opens with a stage-coach holdup tion, which is unusual in a child of her tender film, has a logical typical of the times and people which years. Francis Carpenter, as Hanki Pan, social evil and a humorous strain blended, is manly little fellow and his acting is with the result of an interesting picture. 1 Alfred Henry Lewis so faithfully pictured a in words. Then we meet the hero, Jed commendable. Carmen De Rue handles There are spots in the story which Martin, who determines to give up the the role of Lady Shoo gracefully, carefully are a little haggard, and the continuity injudicious cutting life and “go straight” for the sake of avoiding exaggeration. Others in the cast is interrupted by film. these faults are 1 Nan, who is to him the wild rose of also do well. early in the But Wolfville. Nan’s father, Jed’s father and obscured by the interest which develops I Jed have been pals in crime. The elder as it progresses. Martin induces Jed to “make just one “MARRIAGE”—Keeney, six parts, The main theme is built around the more haul,” saying then they will all Sherry, featuring Catherine Calvert. Writ- subsequent rehabilitation of a wealthy quit. It proves one too many. Jake ten by Guy Bolton. young slacker who had never taken the fight his own personal enemies Martin and Amos Briggs are killed and CAST trouble to badly wounded. He escapes, how- —wine, woman and song—and couldn’t Jed Powell. Thomas Catherine Calvert, David see why he should exert himself to ward ever, and goes away to make a new start. Holding, Ida Darling, Walter Heirs and invasion of the enemy. Nan is taken to Judge Roachs’ home, Hazel Aiden. off the remoter his mother, where her life is made miserable by the In this he was supported by In “Marriage,” Mr. Bolton has pro- eccentric attitude and demands of the a distinctly disagreeable character. She duced a story that will interest women as narrow-minded Mrs. Roach and her old firmly convinces her son that he has a much as anything will interest them, while maid daughter. The Sheriff sympathizes delicate constitution and that a son’s place men will have to concede it a splendid with the girl and offers to marry her. is in the home, meanwhile neglecting a hus- piece of work. Being built upon a sex Nan laughs at him. Finding the life un- band, whose one thought is to get enough problem, although not unwholesome, it is bearable, she returns to her father’s de- ships to enable the soldiers to get to probably too complicated for children to serted cabin. Here Jed comes to take France. understand and enjoy. her away. The sheriff again interferes One day the wastrel son marries his Miss Calvert, in the lead, has a splendid and arrests The younger man cleverly father’s stenographer, which convinces Jed. opportunity to display her emotional turns the tables by locking the Sheriff in the hardworking parent that the boy ability through a series of dramatic gave the cell. He then returns to Nan and possesses more brains than he him situations, which are splendidly placed. forces the Judge who has come in search credit for, so he sets on foot a little scheme The continuity of the film is unusual, of the girl to marry them. When the to make a man of him. The son is caught concealing the climax from the audience Sheriff and his posse arrive Jed and Nan in a “work or fight” raid and he is made to until the very end. again outwit them and the Sheriff, decid- fight in spite of himself. And after various The story concerns Jack Spencer, a ing that any one so clever deserves to trials and tribulations the “slacker” Wall Street man, and his wife, Eileen escape, gives up the chase. members of the family undergo a change Spencer, who enjoys the society of her Patrica Palmer, is a charming and of heart and all ends well. gay luxury-loving, card-playing friends. sympathetic “Rose of Wolfville.” The The humble forms of two hoboes, to Among them is Carter Ballantyne, an settings are true to the subject, and whom work is a total stranger, and who principal object in alleged novelist, whose are incidentally caught in a slacker raid, photography and direction splendid. sympathize with life is to entertain and furnishes a pleasing strain of comedy. imagine themselves neglected wives who Gus Alexander as Little Lefty, accom- by their busy husbands. Eileen is on the “FAN FAN”—Fox, five parts, featur- plishes a characterization that is in itself going with Ballantyne when ing Virginia Lee Corbin. Scenario by verge of away an achievement. Mitchell Lewis portrays he is not only financially Bernard McConville. Jack tells her that Big Steve Reardon with a sense of ap- that unless he can have a ruined, but preciation of the part that is excellent CAST Paris operate on his famous surgeon in and Ida Darling, well-poised, performs Corbin, Francis Carpenter, blind as a result of the Virginia Lee eyes, he will become the unpleasant part of the mother com- Carmen DeRue, Violet RadclifEe, Bud nervous strain brought on by his failure. Messinger and Joe Singleton. mendably. Eileen, realizing the value of her husband’s “Fan Fan,” presented by a cast of love, desperately determines to save him. juveniles, is a notable piece of work from She is then a ready victim for the scheme "THE GROUCH”—World, five parts, every angle of photoplay artistry. It is of Dolly Page, a social butterfly, whereby featuring Montagu Love and Dorothy a delightful little Japanese tale, which they will make money by systematically Green. Story by Forest Halsey; scenario is presented with all the splendor of the cheating at social card games. by Clara S. Beranger. orient and, in spite of the elaborate pre- The concluding action presents a series sentation, the directors have never lost of surprising situations developed out of CAST sight of the story. The theme is really this complication and affords many tense- Montagu Love, Dorothy Green, Albert enhanced by the lavish production. ly dramatic moments. Hart, John Davidson, Florence Billings, Arda La Croix, George De Carlton, and Hanki Pan, prince of Japan, falls in love role fits the star and the star fits The Margaret Linden. with Fan Fan, conveniently losing sight of the role; her beauty, charm, attractive the fact that his honorable father has gowns and ability to wear them, making Just from what source “The Grouch” planned a marriage between him and Hon- her ideal for such a part. The proof of the derived its name is not to be proved by orable Lady Shoo, whom he dislikes. De- effectiveness of her performance is in the viewing the new World release and, while serting his station, Hanki Pan, in disguise, fact that not once does she lose sympathy. it is not entirely free from the incon- seeks Fan Fan, but her father on his Miss Calvert’s supporting cast is sistencies which have a habit of creeping deathbed has promised her as a bride to excellent. David Powell appears to very into stories of domestic complications, the Chief Executioner. Despite the plans good advantage and Thomas Holding in it is a novel story with a splendid character- of their fathers Fan Fan and Hanki Pan a villain’s role is right in his element. Ida ization. Love and revenge are blended in elope, and in order to escape their followers Darling, Walter Heirs and Hazel Aiden a fashion that produces an interesting they obtain employment at a tea garden complete a splendid cast. piece of fiction. as entertainers. Montagu Love gives a characteristic Here they are discovered by Lady Shoo performance as Donald Graham, a business and the Executioner. Fan Fan is then “SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY” — J. man, who has become a social outcast carried away, while Hanki Pan is still Stuart Blackton production, six parts, through the intrigue of his wife and John pursued by his intended bride. Meanwhile featuring Mitchell Lewis. Story and Cabin Branch, a financier. Graham had the Executioner, having been ordered to scenario by Anthony Paul Kelly. been sent to jail on a trumped-up charge him his wife had obtain a victim for an execution within CAST and after divorcing twenty-four hours, selects Hanki Pan. His married Branch. After his release Graham Lewis, Ruby de Remer, Gus honorable father arrives in time, however, Mitchell drifts to the South, where he befriends Alexander, Ida Darling, Helen Ferguson, Okfees, wild to postpone the execution, and he gives the John P. Wade, Eugene Strong, John Golds- Fleurette, one of the a Executioner his choice between being exe- worthy, John W. Martin, Sidney D’Albrook, piratical people who inhabit the swamps, Aubrey Beattie. cuted himself or marrying Lady Shoo. As Bernard Randall and when she escapes from the undesired at- the lesser of two evils, the Executioner First of all a propaganda vehicle, tentions of the chief. She forces him to chooses Lady Shoo, and Hanki Pan is dealing with the “work or fight” order, let her stay. Later he marries her. finally happily united with Fan Fan. “Safe for Democracy” is an excellent Then he is recognized as heir to his Virginia Lee Corbin shows genuine illustration of killing two birds with a uncle’s fortune and returning to New York ability in the title role of Fan Fan. single stone. Commodore Blackton, who he begins his campaign to ruin Branch Her acting is absolutely free from affecta- personally directed the production of the and take revenge on his wife. Mrs. ;

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Branch, lured on by his fortune and her the conspiracy. A huge automaton stalks phere, most of which is centered in a husband’s failure, seeks to win Graham through the play, and while the spectator lazy little village of Spain, Juanguera by back. For a time his love for Fleurette knows that Balcon is back of all the plots, name, and the picture would give one the is forgotten his by desire for revenge, and this sinister figure is blamed for the impression that it was inspired by the he apparently becomes a victim of his trouble and feared by all. star’s delineation of parts such as Carmen. former wife’s ingratiating ways. But Houdini, aside from his uncanny and There is no similarity between the stories, only for the purpose of getting her alone mystifying feats, screens well and plays however. “The She Devil,” an apt title at a nearby inn, where he plans to choke his part naturally and forcefully. Mar- which is played on in the sub-titles through- her as she had allowed their child to choke guerite Marsh is pleasing as Eva, and out the film, is a Spanish dancer, Lolette, while in the throes of diphtheria. Ruth Stonehouse is almost too pretty who reigns, we are told, in Juanguera, a Before meeting him, Mrs. Branch for the part of a villainous secretary. little village in Spain. Lolette has all the has convinced Fleurette that she should All members of the cast do their work well. men at her feet, including Tiger, the notori- give Graham up, and the girl, heartbroken, ous bandit, except Maurice Tabor, an artist tells her to show Graham the knife she has “UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE” from Paris. So, of course, womanlike, or always carried for protection, and he will —Famous Players-Lasky, five parts, art- rather vampire-like, she determines to win understand that she has voluntarily craft, featuring Elsie Ferguson. Adapted Maurice. She lures the Tiger on and accepted the attentions of Branch. When from the stage play by Henry V. Esmond vanishes with the spoils of one of his hold- Graham sees the knife he realizes that scenario written by Adrian Gil Spear. ups, later appearing in Maurice’s studio in Fleurette is more to him than revenge and CAST Paris. There she has one escapade after he returns in time to rescue her from the another, until after Elsie Ferguson, Eugene O’Brien, Edward interrupting the per- fire, which she had started in Branch's Burns, Mildred Havens, John Ardizoni, formance of a Spanish dancer to show her house to destroy them both. Robert Milach, Robert Vivian,- Charles “how Lolette can dance,” she signs a score Craig, Henry Warwick and Janies Fury. Dorothy Green, as the half-civilized of contracts accompanied by big advance Fleurette, shares the honors with Mr. Adapted from the stage play by Henry payments from Parisian managers. Fear- Love, contributing to a notable perfor- V. Esmond, “Under the Greenwood ing the outcome of her unscrupulous deals, mance. Miss Green’s character is really Tree” is obviously a story which requires Maurice takes her back to Juanguera. On too intelligent, as later developments dialogue for effective presentation and, the way the Tiger holds up their coach and show, to have always lived among wild while Elsie Ferguson adds grace and charm takes them prisoners. But as before, Lolette people in uncivilized parts. It would to the title role of a society girl masquerad- outwits him and again escapes with the have been better had the author given ing as a gypsy, yet there is something booty. Fleurette a civilized blood origin. lacking in the photoplay. There is much of the sensation in the The piece, as a stage production, was story and it lacks plausibility in the in- played at the Garrick Theatre, New York, evitable baffling of the Tiger by the crafty “THE MASTER MYSTERY”—B. S. in 1908, with Maxine Elliott in the lead. Lolette, who, as her pursuer, she eludes Rolfe serial, fifteen reels, featuring Hou- Photographic possibilities three in have been util- times the course of six reels. J. dini. Written by Arthur B. Reeve and ized to the utmost in the silent dramatic Gordon Edwards has done very well with Charles A. Logue. version of the play, forcing other faults the material, however, and the location, CAST to the background somewhat. especially the little village, affords fine The story concerns Mary Hamilton, effects. Albert Roscoe as Houdini, Margaret Marsh, Ruth Stone- a Maurice Tabor house. Edna Britton, William Pike. wealthy English girl, who tires of social and George A. McDaniel as the Tiger, are Charles Graham. Jack Burnes and life and, with her secretary, Peggy Ingle- splendid supports to Miss Bara. Floyd Buckley dew, buys a horse and caravan from a Serial lovers can band of gypsies and goes anticipate a master to New Forest “HIDDEN F’lRES”—Goldwyn, five achievement for fifteen weeks in “The to lead the simple life among the birds and parts, featuring Mae Marsh. Story by Master Mystery,” trees and flowers. and the fact that the Jack Hutton, who owns J. Clarkson Miller. world-famous Houdini is the central the ground on which Mary is camping, CAST figure in an interestingly decides to get rid of conceived story the gypsies and, in Mae Marsh, Rod LaRocque, Florida of mystery and thrills, adds to its value. carrying out his plan, he meets and falls Kingsley, Alec B. Francis and Jere Austin. The authors have given this defier of in love with Mary. A dual role played by Mae Marsh in jails and locks a fitting vehicle with which She invites him to dine with her, and “Hidden Fires,” in which she has an to record in the films, as has been his when he comments on the costly table opportunity to give varied expression to expressed intention, his peculiar ability. service she tells him that she has stolen her dramatic ability, may be classed with The production is it from a wealthy family in Park good, the settings Lane. her best work under Goldwyn. The adequate and a good cast add the other Hutton then makes up his mind to reform picture is blessed with an entertaining necessary qualifications. the young woman. In his absence from theme, although quite improbable, and The story gives Houdini an opportunity the camp the gypsies capture Mary, but the fact that it treats upon the more deli- to perform about two thrilling feats in Hutton returns unexpectedly and comes cate side of social life increases rather than every episode, each one different, and to her rescue, only to be badly beaten up detracts from its interest. A happy end- their effect on the screen is at times even himself. Mary then cares for him, and in ing sustains the interest which is aroused more mystifying than on the gratitude, Hutton asks her to stage. He become his at the start. gets out of a straitjacket, unlocks a door wife. She confesses the truth as to her Director George Irving has applied his with his toes, after taking the keys from identity, and they live happily ever after. inventive ability to this production, which the pocket of a man on the floor below, A real band of gypsies appear in the is of a type that is sure to be popular. where he himself is suspended by his production, and the atmosphere of this Characteristically clever sub-titles and an wrists; breaks handcuffs, opens the door wild life is splendidly preserved. Eugene adaptability of the star to roles add to the of a cell where he has been confined, O’Brien, as Jack Hutton, fills the type of pleasure of witnessing the picture. releases himself from the box in which man properly and gives Miss Ferguson The story concerns Louise Parke, a he has been thrown into the water, bound the support required to do what little rich young girl (played by Miss Marsh), hand and foot gets out of dramatic work there is required. ; his diving suit whose home is in Washington Square, but after one of the villains, also beneath the who is studying in Paris. Louise quarrels water, cuts his air tubes, and unbounds “THE SHE DEVIL”—Fox, six parts, with her sweetheart and, in a fit of tem- himself while suspended in midair above featuring Theda Bara. Story by Neie per, cables her mother that she is coming a vat of acid. Hopkins. home at once. Her mother, who has been These thrilling escapes are logically in- CAST seriously ill, is greatly cheered by the jected into the story, which concerns Theda Bara, Albert the Roscoe, Frederick news of her daughter’s home-coming. A efforts of Herbert Balcom, unscrupulous Bond and George A. McDaniel. day or two later, however, the ship on partner of Peter Brent, president of a “The She Devil” as a name implies a which Louise was to have sailed is sunk, patents company, to make a trust of the part peculiarly suitable to the ability of and the doctor, fearful that the news may business. Quentin Locke is the hero, Theda Bara, the Fox star, and this, kill Mrs. Parke, arranges with Peggy Mur- played by Houdini. Locke, obviously summed briefly, is what the photoplay ray, the girl at the news-stand in his hotel employed by the patents company, is amounts to. There is not much to the (also played by Miss Marsh), who bears a really gathering evidence against Balcom story, aside from furnishing a vehicle which striking resemblance to Louise, to take her for the Department of Justice. The rapid Miss Bara handles notably as a vampire, place. action and thrilling incidents show how this time of the Spanish dancer type. Peffgy agrees, and a series of compli- he risks his life to carry out his plans and Miss Bara’s characterization is given a cations follow, the most interesting of aid Eva Brent, daughter of the victim in splendid background of Spanish atmos- which is her meeting the man who, it is THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD 36

Allah that she returns of the picture abounds in effective scenes the missing girl and who of conscience against learned, betrayed depicting the cattle country. After to the captain. Just when the wife has run appeals to Peggy to forgive him. cabin with a her lover, determined never to Ann Tyson leaves her posing as Louise Parke, Peggy away with months of captain are mysterious stranger, who makes himself she discovers return, and Hassouna and the is stunned one day when brother who has escaped beginning to discover how much they mean known as her Louise sick and disheartened in a tene- pen- sheik turns up, tells the after serving a long term in the nurses her back to health, to one another, a ment. Peggy murdered itentiary. In making their get-away John for her con- girl that her kin have all been discovers the man responsible horse. Ann obtains captain’s troops and that she must steals Deuce Duncan's brings him to the bedside of the by the dition and will do a job in the town saloon and John joins soon dis- avenge their deaths. She says she once beautiful society girl. He Steven Clement’s gang of cattle rustlers. so, but does not have the heart to do the covers that marriage will right the wrong the saloon During the captain’s absence, how- In the midst of a brawl in the girl, and so Louise and deed. he has done favorite Deuce comes to Ann’s rescue. Meanwhile Peggy then returns ever, she decides to ensnare his Stephen are married. the cattle of the UR ranch have been too, nephew, to make him desert his post in the to the news-stand, and soon she, and when Deuce brings Ann army, to ruin him in the eyes of the world, greased, the right man. overalls. meets . into the heart of home he notices grease on John’s sweetheart ol Louise and thus to strike misery Jere Austin as the Ann begs Deuce to keep silent, assuring as the man she loves. And she proceeds to do does some good work; Rod LaRocque unjustly convicted of But the captain returns in the nick him that John was of Peggy fits the part; Florida so. \ the “find” this com- the crime for which he was imprisoned. convincing and of time and determines to take Kingsley as Mrs. Parker is is arrested and character for his wife. Shortly afterward John well, and Alec B. Francis as plex fits her role quite in through Ann’s pleading Deuce persuades professional The ending, of course, is not the doctor has the required release him. With informa- keeping with the Nazimova character,/ the Sheriff to appearance. tion received from the prisoner, the Sheriff but this is lost sight of in the splendid Clement’s gang of cattle thieves. production. The supporting cast is good. arrests l John then confesses to Ann that he is not The role of a French officer suits Charles Metro, but that her brother is still “EYE FOR EYE”—Five part Bryant, though his makeup could be her brother, i from Kiste- in prison and that he (John) is the only featuring Nazimova. Adapted better. Sally Crute, as the French wife, by June man who has proof of his innocence. He maecker’s novel, “L’Occident,” is good. the price of her Mathis and Albert Capellani. demands Ann’s honor as innocent brother’s freedom. Later John CAST “MILADY O’ THE BEANSTALK”— is attacked by Deuce and later is killed featuring Baby Ann and Deuce are then Mme. Nazimova. Charles Bryant, Donald Diando, five parts, Metro, by Clement. Gallaher, Sally Crute, E. L. Fernandez, John Marie Osborne. happily united and all ends well. Reinhard, Louis Stern, Charles Eldridge, Desmond makes a likeable hero and Kirkland and Miriam Battista. CAST ?i Hardee Luella Maxim, a new Triangle leading Marie Osborne, Ellen Cassity. Jack Baby attractive figure as Ann In “Eye for Eye” Mme. Nazimova has Connolly and Sambo. woman, is an giving the star excellent support. indicated that she has, at sometime, made Tyson, While “Milady O' the Beanstalk” is an a thorough study of the characteristics comedy drama and will and deportment of a girl of the desert. ingenious little the average audi- Around such a type of woman, with her undoubtedly entertain story especially the children, still it does “A ROMANCE OF THE AIR”— tribal rites and customs, is woven a ence, ear- measure up to the standard of previous Featuring Lieutenant Bert Hall and Edith of peculiar interest, which has all the not Marie Osborne productions. The Day. Story suggested by Lieutenant marks of a Nazimova product. Baby desert gives the juvenile actress and Sam- Hall's new book, "En l’Air." “Eye for Eye” is a tale of a picture many opportuni- maiden, Hassouna, wild, untamed girl bo, the little negro actor, CAST habili- for their mischievous pranks. of the East, who wears her weird ties Edith Day, Lieutenant Bert Hall, Florence is the conventional one of the ments and retains her unrestrained tem- The story Billing, Stuart Holmes, Brian Darley, Tom girl marrying an- Standing, Ler- nature even after she has tasted lovers who quarrel, the Burrough, Herbert Joseph pestuous Franklin B. Coates, Emma Campbell, The other, an unworthy man, from whom she tora, of gentler influences of the West. Emii Hoch and W. P. Richmond. Then, through the in- I opening scenes are in the desert that is later divorced. her child, she is befriended and Lieutenant Bert Hall, of the Lafayette vast Sahara, where love, hate, revenge in fluence of civilized eventually won by her first sweetheart, Escadrille, has broken into screendom all their fury are untouched by never forgotten her. with more or less of a sensation. “A codes and restrictions, and where the who has of the story presents a hero Romance of the Air” has fortunately native tribes pursue the tenor of their This version prizefighter, the “punch” all the romance and charm of ways regardless of any law save the man- who has become a retained figuratively and literally, Lieutenant Hall’s book, “En l'Air,” and dates of the sheik. of the play, sheik. in the fight he enters for a $10,000 portrays the fascinating exploits of a Hassouna is the daughter of the being what purse which will enable him to pay for the young American, who has enlisted in the It is difficult to fathom just exactly necessary to save Baby Marie’s famous flying corps of France. her real character is. She has a respect operation has suffered a serious fall Lieutenant Hall’s unaffectedness before and reverence for Allah and refuses to dis- life after she escape. Said fire escape, the the camera is one of the delights of the obey his commands. That we know from from a fire referred to in the title, is the picture. He is himself at all times and her own sayings when she is put into a beanstalk Marie in her efforts to his naturalness adds to the portrayal of convent. Yet Allah also forbade her prop used by Baby fairy tale of Jack and the the story. giving drink to a wornout French officer, make true the in a dream. story full of adventure, hazardous who had been hunting down her tribe. Beanstalk, which she enacts It is a cajoled “giant” reached via the fire escape is escapes and hairbreadth exploits, but Yet she did it, and she schemed and Her prizefighter. contains withal a human note and a love and flirted until he was well under way the well photographed. This story that has a direct appeal. There is toward his countrymen. She knew that The story is applies particularly to the country home the young American officer who is always for some reason or another she wanted where Marie is pictured with her given the most cherished tasks to perform. this soldier to escape, and she used every scenes, cast of grown per- There is his brother officer who is jealous power that she possessed to help him only pets. The supporting pains sons is good. of him. There is the American girl he to be left to die in the desert for her falls in love with when he falls behind by the irate members of her tribe. She band of Moroccan the enemy lines in his aeroplane. There is rescued by another Triangle, five “DEUCE DUNCAN”— is the spy who, with his accomplice, a natives and sold to a circus man, who dis- parts, featuring William Desmond. Story young countess, works so cleverly that covers that she is a dancer of no mean by George Hively. the American officer is suspected and parts. He takes her to France, where almost disgraced. And there is the happy during a performance she meets for the CAST ending which unites two loving hearts second time the French officer, whose life Bill Desmond, Luella Maxim, Ed. Brady, Field, William Ellingford and Joe honorable officer’s clouded Unused to the hardships George and clears an she had saved. Singleton. his name. of the circus tent, Hassouna faints at William Desmond is becoming as much Edith Day makes a splendid heroine feet in the circus ring. He takes her to his discovers that at home in a sombrero and fingering a six- and Florence Billing as the Countess is home, where Hassouna . soon shooter as he has in any other type of good. As a villainous Archduke, Stuart the captin’s wife is indulging in a sub-rosa character. In “Deuce Duncan” he is Holmes makes the distasteful character affair with another man. She attempts to is is dis- again given an opportunity to romp in the impressive, and Joseph Lertora pleasing kill them for their treachery and diamond of the plains. as Lieutenant LeRoy. The excellence of patched to the aforesaid convent to learn wild west as a black combats cast goes a long way toward the success more conventional ways of doing things, He engages in several exciting the such pains with cow-punchers, and the atmosphere of the picture. and it is there that she suffers 37 DECEMBER, 1918 LADY TSEN MEI, OF CHINA Film Star Canton Who Claims Rank with Our More A New from , Important Fmotional Screen Actresses By NORMA BRIGHT CARSON

Betzwood, y^lSEN MEI was born in the quaint old lems of the working-girl in the great city, continent, and brought up at studios, out city of Canton. One senses her and to that end she learned stenography where, in the old Lubin now the Betzwood Film gB Eastern mystery in the long slant and took a position with a broker in Wall of use for some years, SSfl of her eyes and the half-veiled fires Street, where she outdistanced many more Company is starting to make big pictures. is element. that glow there when the requirements experienced stenographers in speed and At Betzwood, Tsen Mei in her of the beautiful of expressing character call for varied accuracy. In the midst of a tract most op- emotions. But off stage, the Lady Tsen The call to the stage, however, would country, the studios offer a unique picture making. There are Mei loses her mystery, and becomes a not be stilled. She loved to sing; wherefore portunity for wholesome, charming, freshly enthusiastic she started on vaudeville circuit and made some sixty acres of land, and through them Schuylkill River, heavily wooded girl. She comes to us as a surprise, for we that her career. And the travelling she did runs the have been told her story and the measure was just so much more in the way of on both sides, with low-rising hills crowned low-lying fields that in of her accomplishments, and the array of education, for Tsen Mei has the ability to with giant trees, and spring and summer are her talents is more than a little formidable. observe and to absorb, and wherever Those who doubt the efficacy of the higher she went she took something by way gorgeous with wild flow- scenes for education for women cannot take Tsen of knowledge and style and fascinating ers. Here are almost kind of play, Mei as an example of the failure of such interest away with her. With the any ranch stuff education, for knowledge and degrees result that she boxes with a strength from Western and success have not spoiled her; her and rapidity that makes her the equal to subtle Chinese garden effects; in fact, every- entire lack of egotism is delightfully of the average male boxer; she wrestles appreciable, while the gentle dignity with with intelligence and an agility that thing but seashore can be given back- which she carries a right on herself in mo- ground ments of repose the premises. shows poise And the woods the hills rather than con- and and the trees, with the ceit; and she flowers and the flings self-posses- birds,'give the call sion to the winds to Nature that like a happy child finds so ready a when the chance response in the comes for a wild heartof Tsen Mei. canter or an ex- swim. Here she can ride hilarating and run and The little lady dance; from Canton has climb and here she can play a father who is now a practising among the tree- physician in tops and set the ringing Pittsburgh. He woods with her wild came to America when Tsen Mei animal calls. And fresh and excited was very little, playful, she and studied at and comes to the Jefferson Medical studio to step in- College. Then to some scene of he went back to subtle intrigue or and after China, deeply tense a short while*,.re- emotion, and turned to Amer- under a passive ica for good; so exterior that is that his daughter Lady Tsen Mei in Repose typically Eastern received most of we sense the fires her education in of pathos and passion that give this little this country. Having a vocal gift of rather give her victory under the most harrassing force and soul-power, and show the unusual quality, she attended the Pitts- conditions; she rides and she swims; she actress reveal burgh Musical Conservatory, where she climbs and she drives an automobile; all promise of work to come that will interpretations. developed a voice-range that goes from with a dash and a verve that are astonish- a new force in screen Mei plays a Chinese role in her baritone to lyric soprano, and includes male ing to those who have seen her in a low-cut Tsen picture, “For the Freedom of the tenor, to which she adds the ability to evening gown and have noted the satin first East;” but she will not stop at Chinese imitate to the life the call of any animal smoothness of her shoulders, which give characters. Her second picture will most or bird that the woods can produce. no hint of the iron muscles beneath. call came likely be a South Sea Island story, and she Today Tsen Mei is known in the best It was in Australia that the will to do all manner of picturesque vaudeville circles for the work she has to Tsen Mei to come back to the West has the forceful characters. She is familiar done, and her tours have embraced most and try motion picture work. The idea and with practically every type of Oriental civilized countries. But before she went appealed to her. Here was the chance to character, and she could carry off the part on vaudeville circuit she performed other create a thousand different roles; a chance of American girl or an European equally tasks of no small significance; for instance, to express a thousand different kinds of an for her cosmopolitan training has she completed the law course at Columbia character to millions of people. Tsen well; given her a variety of expression and an College, New York, and was duly admitted Mei is ambitious, and she has a histrionic her ability to dress that makes her range of to the bar, though she never practiced. gift that the vaudeville stage gave little opportunity to develop now she could parts almost limitless. She has the style For in the meanwhile, sociology had come ; of Parisian when she chooses to exhibit to engage her attention, and so she sought develop this other art to the full. With a ( Continued on page 60 to see for herself something of the prob- high enthusiasm she crossed a sea and a ) ; : ; — ” ——

38 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD WHY THEY CALL HER “DAINTIEST 11 By J. L. MELLON

p^jHMTA STEWART, America’s Dain- studio, with which she was then associated I feel justified in assuming a bit—and her precincts of Flat- director, with a company of about twenty, tj tiest Actress.” nestling in the classic I — million after an absence of months, which were returning to the studio when they mrr-j You’ve seen that in print a bush— met with an accident that just skimmed the “JtSl times—more or less. served to rest her completely and to restore her edge of fatality. A temperamental Brook- So had I, long before I ever saw Anita, her to normal good health. I saw personally or on the screen. working in a set for “The ‘Mind the lyn trolley car, resenting Anita’s auto crossing its right of way, displayed its Having met this fascinating child, I can Paint’ Girl,” the Pinero play. I was disposition bumping into the assure you that Anita’s daintiness is more introduced by her director, Wilfrid North. nasty by knocking it indiscriminately than screen deep. It was a rather formal affair, that meeting, automobile and the surrounding landscape. (Pardon the paraphrased plagiarism, and I didn’t dare ask the question I most about The Besides, Anita auto landed against a motor bus, in which but it fits the spirit of this story.) desired to have answered. little frock, which were about a dozen of Anita’s company. I think I have discovered why they call was dressed in a gingham her Everybody was more or less hurt, but her “dainty Anita,” and I am indebted to struck just below her knees, and in Anita and her director were so badly a chance remark of her mother for the lead hair she wore an enormous bow of vivid injured they were under care that brought about the discov- of physicians for a week. As ery; which if you know Anita a matter of cold fact, Miss personally, is no discovery at Stewart came perilously near all. to having her neck broken. When I first came in con- When this happened, I tact with the screen world, I I was farther than had some rather definite ideas thought from the realization of about popular writings about ever what had now become an ac- the stars. In about twenty tive and irritating ambition years of newspaper work in answered that ques- almost as many of these grand to have tion : United States, I had met the do they call her genus press agent frequently “Why ‘America's DaintiestActress’?” enough to know that he was But the fates were with me. largely a snare and a delusion Each day I called up Anita’s a shell that covered an other- to learn of her condition, wise human being; a man home and each day I spoke with her whose sole ambition in life mother. Soon Mother and I was the hypnotizing of trust- became very chummy over ful editors, and the invasion — the phone and I thought of of newspaper columns con- — asking her to ask Anita THE secrated to chronicling current question. To prepare myself history. with facts in case we got into The story of the lady star’s a discussion of the matter, I wonderful wardrobe, I discov- went to the dictionary and ered ,was only a thinly veneered copied the definition of plot to exploit some modiste’s “dainty.” Here’s what I got: hysterical creations. The same disillusionment accompanied DAINTY—Refined or par- the milk-bath story, thestolen- ticular as regards taste fastid- jewels sensation, the special ious. 2—Delicate and elegant in appearance; well-formed; train, etc. graceful. 3—Nice or refined I became a chron- So when in behavior; decorous. 4 icler of stage happenings, I Of fine sensibilities; sensitive. determined to eschew all such Thus armed, I was prepared ideas and methods. for a debate. But I never got But when I met Miss Stew- a chance to argue, for one day, art for interviewing purposes, conversation over receive, when our particular during our there was one thing that acted Here is another of those “latest photographs” that we always concerned, with “bated breath.” This was worth taking, don t you think? the phone, Mrs. Stewart an- like a burr on my conscience, idol is swered my question for me to wit: without knowing “America’s Daintiest Actress.” plaid ribbon. She looked like a child of without my asking and twelve, and she was very sad. She what she did. I had read that many times, each time about “This accident,” she began, “is more than with increasing misgiving. Miss Stewart had been crying, because her father (in play), a kindly old English green-grocer, an injury to Anita.” was ill when I first asked to meet her and the “Why?” I asked. even if she had not been, I couldn’t very was dead. somewhat “Because it upsets our plans so. We had well have gone to her and asked The whole situation made a to pop that hoped to take over a place at Bayside this “Why do they call you ‘America’s Dain- gloomy atmosphere in which ” question. But I did not give up week, so that Anita could have something tiest Actress?’ disturbing — She’d probably have summoned a cop hope. Instead, with the craftiness of a to eat myself: “What!” I exclaimed, startled at the or the headkeeper of Matteawan. Machiavelli, I said to yet, but soon! I’ll get her when thought of this fair young girl suffering the So I just waited and accepted it on faith “Not pangs of hunger. but with the mental reservation that some she’s in a daintier mental mood.” nor her director “Yes,” continued Mrs. Stewart. “You day, somehow, by fair means or foul, I Of course, neither she see, for more than a year we have had no should obtain an answer to that burning no one, in fact, but myself—knew this deep in that home life. We’ve been traveling from one question. plotting was going on right there place another in order to build up Well, not long ago, up jumped the saddened spot. to sooner than I Anita’s health. First, we were up in New opportunity, and I welcomed it with the My chance was coming England, then we spent a long time at same fervor that the Rainbow Division expected. Fate was on my side. Springs, then we went to Atlantic grasped the chance to separate ill-advised Three days after that first meeting, Hot Va., first name, City for a time, and returning to New Huns from their Kaiser Anita—you see, I call her by her York, took apartments at the Plaza. Anita had just returned to the Vitagraph because in the light of my great discovery we ”

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taken off the hat as soon as she was out of sight and when she met my mother at the church, mother insisted on her wearing the hat. Anita refused and mother sent her about face. I saw that it was—not rebelliousness which actuated Anita - it was actual pain for her to wear that bonnet —and so I did not insist. “Thus she has been all her life, and she positively has a passion for beautiful things—both in her home and in her work. She responds to beautiful music, to flowers, to pretty clothes. When she can, she revels in good books. She seeks people whose tastes are similar to her own, and she is very easily wounded in feeling, just as she was that day when I tried to make her wear that hat.” Wow! Here I had the answer to my question without my asking for it. I ran over in my mind the various definitions of “dainty.” “1—Refined or particular as regards taste; fastidious.” Surely the incidents of her childhood fitted that. “2—Delicate and elegant in appearance; well-formed; graceful.” Yes, she’s all of those, as every motion-picture lover knows. “3—Nice or refined in behavior; decor- ous.” Everyone who knows her says she is delightful, so I guessed she would fit that phase of the subject. Miss Stewart advising the purchasing of Thrift Stamps “somewhere in Brooklyn,” when the show was obsolete. “4—Of fine sensibilities; sensitive.” The affair of sister's bonnet would seem to We remained there all winter, and now has been particular. No matter what prove this. have apartments in a quiet little hotel in our financial circumstances, everything So there we were— question answered. Brooklyn.” had to be ‘just so’ for her. Her clothes my Still, there was a void in my life, and I “But that’s a nice hotel where you are had to be immaculate; her little bed had discovered it was a desire to see with my now—why do you wish to leave it?” I to be white and pretty. She could not own eyes to talk with Anita and form my interrupted. finish a meal if she happened to soil a — own estimate of her. And when, a few “Because it’s a hotel.” table cloth. At school, she was cleanliness days later, she returned to the studio, “Oh!” personified and her books never seemed to I decided to visit her and talk with her. “Yes, hotels are all alike—only the nicer be old. She would fidget almost to distrac- When I arrived, Miss Stewart and the they are, the more ‘hotelly’ are they.” tion if she soiled her hands or her boots and rest of the company were just starting out Which, come to think of it, is pretty could not clean them at once. on “location” a little park in Brooklyn. sound reasoning. “Another thing—she’d never wear any- — “Fine!” thought I. “Now, I’ll get her “No matter what one pays,” Mrs. thing but her own. I remember one time alone; away from the studio, and we’ll have Stewart was speaking again, “or how- choice when she was only about five years old a chat. the food one gets at a hotel, it is not home I made over a hat for her, which I had The park, which was our destination, is cooking, and that’s what Anita is pining bought for Lucille Lee, her sister. It was neighborhood affairs—a God- beautiful little I paid one of those for. The poor child hasn’t had a real home a hat, and had $12 ( Continued on page 62 ) meal in so long she has almost forgotten for it. I fixed it up so it looked like a what they taste like. new bonnet, and “You know, this meal business was one I put it on Anita. of the chief causes of Anita’s breakdown My hitherto obe- last year. The exigencies of picture- dient baby took it making are such that no matter how hard off and announced the company tries to provide suitable thatshe would not meals for the players, it often happens that wear it. I put it they cannot do so. T his was the case with back on her head Anita. Sometimes the locations where they and started her to were taking scenes would be so far away Sunday School, from the studio or any place else, they about a block would have to depend on sandwiches and away, where her cold tea or milk. Often I would cook grandmother was something nice that I knew Anita liked waiting for her. and would send it to her, but by the time She was back in five min- it reached her it would be cold and hardly about different from the meals which had been utes, and I asked prepared by the studio caterer. her why she was “It was this unsatisfying food as much not at Sunday previous illness which broke her School. as Anita’s “ ‘Grandma down, because —Anita has always been a particular child wouldn’t let me she said. Oh, how I loved that word “particular!” go in,’ realize my ambition. “‘Why? 'I asked I was about to “ Anyone else would have said “dainty,” ‘Because I but the mother would say “particular.” didn’t have on she went on: my hat.’ And Stewart s biography. The Here is a photograph which will some day find a place in Miss little bit of a “And it was true. studio the star, “Ever since she was a caption will read something like this: “On her return to the Vitagraph child had all ready for work, was greeted by Wilfred North, Director. thing—all eyes, it seemed to me—Anita The 40 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD MARGUERITE CLARK'S OWN STORY the Talks on Her Experiences Tiny Star, Who Peers from Cover, By DOROTHY B. KNUTTING

fit one’s iAN you tell me where I will find proper handling of the script and the appear on the screen and trying to Marguerite Clark?” backing of a pioneer concern. So it was self into the scene so that the finished G in the picture, as it is seen in the theatre, will be The studio was dusky-dim, except that I made my debut on the screen where the Klieg lights made splashes Famous Players picture, ‘Wildflower,’ a a logical episode in the action of the story. it timing one’s action of vivid yellow, and I had almost stumbled role that I have always adored. Sometimes involves mis- mathematically to fit that of the other over a little figure coming around a corner. “It seems to me that the greatest the “You’ll find her right here,” came the take which has been made by many of the half of the scene. The slightest slip in the half-laughing answer—and sure enough, stage folk, who went into motion picture action of these scenes means disaster to episode cost a great deal as my eyes became accustomed to the work, was the complete indifference which whole and may in- of as some of the settings are very rather dim light, I realized that I had they displayed to the technicalities money, indeed come upon the very object of my volved in acting before the camera. I costly and elaborate. This is the most picture acting, to search. once heard from a very reliable source difficult phase of motion it involves great deal of This was in the long ago days when I the story of the first day which a popular my mind, and a in motion serious study and thought. first knew Miss Clark, but I have always musical comedy star spent a remembered the talk we had that day at the picture studio. After she had done several “But one must love the work to succeed. the It is inconceivable to me that anyone could studio. A friend of mine, an unusually ill-timed scenes before the camera, explained that be successful comedian, or comedienne, pretty girl, with curls and huge questioning director stopped her and a had begged me to get Miss Clark to she ought to do something quite different. on the motion picture screen unless he or eyes, “ per- tell to act. I am So- she sincerely enjoys the humor of the tell me how she got into the movies and ‘Don’t me how naturally happy haps some idea as to the quickest road to and-So!’ she told him loftily, in a tone situations or possesses a the fact disposition. I have been called upon to success. I succeeded to this extent: that told more plainly than words “There are so many thrilling and that she, a great star, resented any sug- play in a great many comic scenes since I per- dramatic stories of how various screen gestions from a mere motion picture making my screen debut, and am wrong, fectly confident that not one person in the players first entered upon their new pro- director. Her attitude was entirely If the millions have watched those scenes fession,” she began, “that it is very doubtful as her subsequent failure showed. who all, smiled if I had whether or not my story will prove very motion picture is worth acting in at would have so much as the action half-heartedly, or interesting. It is very commonplace in it is worth serious study by everyone who approached with all heart into contrast to those which relate how the attempts to essay the art. There are had failed to enter my the scenes myself. player was picked from among a hundred a great many little mannerisms and tricks the spirit of course, I not referring to slap- ‘extras’ by the director, whom she had which will be effective before the footlights “Of am in people are nearly entranced by her beauty and very evident that will be totally lost before the camera. stick scenes, which killed falls beatings. one expects talent, or that of the daring little miss, who There are actions which will even blur by and No volunteered to do some hazardous deed on the screen and spoil the picture from them to enjoy the incidents and nobody I speaking only of when the courage of the leading lady had a photographic standpoint. These are laughs with them. am the scenes in which the spectators laugh not failed. things which must be observed by the players. Most of us “Truth, which is in my case less interest- beginner, or taught by some one with at, but with laugh at a very dignified man if he ing than fiction, compels me to confess experience in these matters, instead of would during the course of and slipped on a banana peel and fell, but I do that I went into the motion pictures being learned — that enjoy the situ- largely as a matter of business. After the ruination of—the player’s debut. not contend he must it funny. On the several years on the musical comedy stage “Though I had spent considerable time ation in order to make I contrary, it is his supreme disgust which and in light comedy, I was completing in motion picture theatres before agreed the incident so amusing. my season in “Prunella,” when several to make my debut, I began studying the makes in case of light comedy and offers were made to me to appear in motion situation all over again after signing my “But the — bit of spare I might even say polite comedy—it is pictures. But I had been studying the contract, and spent every the be in tune with situation very carefully in my spare mo- time available either in the movie theatre imperative that player ments, and had decided that the majority or at the Famous Players studio, watching the scene. Approach a comic situation in temper, you will ruin it. You of photoplays were not worth one’s while. everything that was being done. So by a bad and actually yourself and the world at large a It seemed to me some of the best players, the time that I was ready to would do who had been successful on the stage, had begin work before the camera, I was great service by refusing to act the scene made miserable failures of their work pretty clear in my own mind concerning at all if you cannot really play the role with before the camera, and I determined that that which could, and could not, be done. a light heart.” of some of the then the director’s voice was heard I would not rush into the newer field until “But the mere studying Just I noticed that a the time seemed really ripe—and until I complexities which were involved in screen calling Miss Clark, and slipped while I had been could find the most favorable circumstances work did not prove the final solution of my whole hour had by with the under which to launch my little film craft. problems. No sooner had I settled into listening to her delightful “voice I the queer “It so happened that Adolph Zukor the swing of things, than the company smile.” As she left me, had came behind the scenes with Daniel Froh- decided to star me in an adaptation of sensation that the whole studio had grown man one night, and we had a very delightful Mark Twain’s ‘The Prince and the grey again at her departure. I learned that Miss Clark made her professional bow chat. I thought nothing more of it until Pauper.’ To my dismay, roles the to Baltimore as a member of the famous I received a letter from Mr. Zukor, saying that involved playing two on After appearing that the Famous Players-Lasky Film Co., screen at the same time! Here was some- Aborn Opera Company. musical plays, she became De of which he is president, had what he thing to be learned from start to finish, in several several believed to be just the right script for me, as it is entirely different from any other Wolf Hopper’s leading lady in became and that after his chat at the theatre, he form of acting. The great point of the memorable successes. Then she de Angelis in “The was more than ever convinced that I would dual role is, of course, that each half of the co-star with Jefferson Her first stellar role was the like the photoplay if I would read it. picture is taken separately whenever the Beauty Spot.” the screen in lead in “The King of Cadonia.” She next “So I agreed to study the script just as same player appears on two the time. played in the all-star revival of “Jim the I would study a play and I was captivated different characters at same the person is playing Penman,” which was followed by “Baby by it. Here, it seemed to me, was just the In other words, who Miss Clark then appeared at the kind of a character I would love to play the double role is alone on the screen, Mine.” in “The Affairs of more than anything else. Moreover, the acting to a blank wall. Little Theatre, NewYork, reputation which the company had already “Being a successful screen actress is a Anatole.” Next came “Snow White,” and delightful “Prunella,” in each of built up by its previous introduction of so matter of using one’s imagination entirely, then the many stage celebrities, assured me of the picturing the action as it will ultimately which she was starred. DECEMBER, 1918 41

ions

Edited by THEODORA DUNN

Illustrations by RENEE DUBOIS

are combs and combs for simple, plainly-dressed heads, for piled-up curls, for There , softly-waved, loosely-knotted hair, whether black or blonde or wholesome brown. Tsen Mei, the Chinese artist, draws her smooth and shining black locks close back from her broad forehead, and twists their lengths into a soft knot at the back of her head. Tsen Mei likes decorative combs. The crescent thing of rhinestones that sets around her knot is a comb of beauty and grace, and the sort of thing that many women can wear.

The head of Emmy Whelen follows the same lines practi- cally as that of Tsen Mei, save that Miss Whelen likes curls, and her hair lends itself to softer piling. She dotes on fancy combs, tortoise-shell jeweled things, of gold and sil- ler, and delightful little hair- pins, studdedwith stones. Miss Whelen has many combs of many kinds, and she changes her head-dress in order to better display her decorative pins and combs.

There is a hint of Carmen in the way Dorothy Dalton dresses her hair and sets the big tortoise-shell comb, cleverly designed and very lovely, in her hair. Miss Dalton k nows the value of hair decoration, for the comb gives a touch of grace that otherwise would not be there. The average woman will find a comb or an ornamental pin many times a help in making the head look attractive. If there is a glister in the dress trimmings, the gleam of jewels in the hair carries out the general effect of brilliancy; while if the costume is quiet, a comb of shell will often add elegance

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The Oriental note in the boudoir makes for both picturesqueness and ease. And the costume of the East as it suggests my lady's negligee, can range from a simple, flowered Chinese silk robe, or a gown of flowing lines in a single brilliant color, to the heavily embroidered bro- cades that picture birds of fine plumage and flowers of every sort and hue, such as is shown in the picture of a Chinese robe worn by the lady Tsen Met, a new arrival in the film world. The quaint headgear might suggest a new wrinkle for the boudoir cap, a little severe, but quite decorative. In the same way, the daintily embroidered slippers that would go with the robe speak for themselves of comfort in the last degree. Our own modification of them in the form of satiny, embroidered mules, hints less of luxurious easefulness, but makes a well-formed foot a credit, whereas the Chinese style tends to disguise grace and ignore neatness.

If the Chinese girl likes stiff- ness, the small American lady seeks in her leisure hours to twist those straight lines to something softer and more cling- ing. She may borrow a butter- fly bow and bands of richest embroidery, but she goes to her mirror not in the comfort of quilted satin, but in the sheer- ness of chiffon. And she needs the little silver mirrors and the chased bottles for perfume, and the perfumes themselves must partake of the fragrance of the East, and have in them the value of being rare and choice gifts.

Even the prettiest hands must have gloves, and the prettier the hand often the more particu- lar the taste in coverings. Time was when gloves and shoes were exceedingly simple, but as the years go on the glove becomes a creation, a work of art, rich in color, exquisite in texture, deftly ornamented. So the lady dons a veil that bears just the right spots to illuminate her flesh- tones, and carries in her well-kept, smooth, firmly-moulded hands a pair of soft, strong leather gloves, almost gauntlets, to which beauty is added in the heavy stitches that serve to give color for contrast.

“ But after all, it is the different” touch that gives the distinction to every form of dressing. Not always artistic, often merely unique; hut if it suits the individual, it takes on a beauty all its own. Just a hint of the Elizabethan ruff appears in this afternoon get-up, which is singular to Marie Pavis

(Triangle) . Not every woman could wear it, but with large, long earrings, studded with pearls, and the close-fitting hat of beads and velvets, Miss Pavis can readily make the passer-by look twice and each time decide that the costume is strikingly effective. And sticks are almost as individual as ruffs—only the very confident of grace may carry them. Miss Pavis has her own ornamented stick, that goes with her

beads, her strange earrings and her odd ruff. 43 DECEMBER, 1918

Few women dress better than the actresses of the screen. Perhaps the accuracy of the camera is partly responsible for their attention to detail. Perhaps vanity contributes much to the pro- cess of gowning and adorning. But whatever it is, the film stars of the present vie with each other in accomplishing the unusual, often the strikingly unique. They become a law to themselves, And in the matter of the little things they look for an attention that might have been accorded the queens of an older day, whose persons were often enough just so much figure to carry the wealth of kingdoms. Save that the average star has taste as well as vanity, and so creates her ornamentations to satisfy the artistic sense as well as the desire for illusion and shine that has ever made woman a temptation to man.

Accessories include many sorts of novelties that contrive to make themselves in the course of time necessities. One can see Mary Pickford, for instance, choosing the letter paper on which she shall write a social note. She will perhaps like a slender gold she contemplates gold pen-holder , or a fountain-pen if a larger correspondence, and she will want a dainty writing pad, with beaten bronze corners, it may be, and an inkwell to match, with likely a letter holder in morocco. Thus the beautiful gown on the beauti- ful woman requires settings of an appropriate harmony, and here are opened up vistas of possibility that it will take other and later space to enter into.

The simplicity of the aristocrat is shown in this effective gown of black satin, which Olive'-Tell (Metro) wears with so distinctive a grace. The fringed tunic of irregular outline strikes a new fashion note, while the small velvet hat, with its graceful drapery of veil, gives the harmony that is needed to preserve the Russian touch of the whole. With a costume such as this, a popular accessory in the form of a dainty bag suggests itself. The Christmas stocks in the shops are full of such bags—useful additions to an after- noon gown and beautiful in themselves, since all manner of (Metro) is known for her ex- wonderful bead and brocade combinations serve to make them Emmy Whelen cellent dressing. Miss Whelen herself designed the artistic and supply whatever in thejway of color is required frilly flounce that reaches from the waist, on either to achieve a harmonious effect. side, to the knees, as shown in the picture. She is also a hobbyist in combs andfans. A beautiful example of the latter she holds in this photograph, which was made by the fastidious Count de Slrelecki.

The Christmas season calls to mind many beautiful gifts for lovely women. The flash of jewels in the shops reveals on closer inspection many with novelties by way of adornment that will make instant appeal to those slender, white hands and arms, and dainty feet. The small, jeweled bracelet makes an appropriate ornament for the pretty arm, and when three or four of these, in narrow gold bands with delicate chasing or close-set gems, are used together the effect is very pleasing. Or, should fancy dictate, the new link bracelets, in plain gold or silver links, or with gem-set hint clasps of large and elaborate design, add a touch of the East that may of the barbaric, but is engaging in the extreme. The jeweled comb is also an allurement. In soft, carefully coiffured hair the glint of brilliants or the half-hidden sheen of pearls is very fetching. the daintiness Or, if one has pretty feet, slender and with narrow ankles, costume. To add of satin slippers rounds out the effect of many a charming set a gown a jet buckle, surrounded by a thin line of rhinestones, means to off whether elaborate or simple. 44 THE PHOTO PLAY WORLD THE FUTURE OF THE MOVIES

By S. J. WARSHAWSKY

ROPHECY is a disease that has Gaul,” “The Parthenon” and “Cicero and any amount of publicity could be scourged the world since the begin- Addressing the Roman Senate.” obtained for these attractions. The motion Q 1 ning of the human race. There has Three or four classes at a time were picture was as much noticed as the military always been some pessimist who drafted to serve on the firing line in the preparations of the Hun. Here and there predicted a long train of evils, and some roomy hall downstairs, where a screen of some profound intellect like Edison’s was optimist to throw the damper on the canvas had been hung by the neck to the conscious of the pregnant possibilities enthusiasm of the pessimist. Prophecy point of strangulation. of a new art. Now and then a new patent is in the blood. It is a long, wriggly germ Thither we went in eager anticipation was registered at Washington, D. C. But that takes itself seriously and will submit of the wonders of the moving picture. the still waters of progress ran deep and to no medical treatment. There is no Something that represented a boiler works silently. particular season of the year for which it in action was used to sputter the pictures The stories were crudely produced, is race, at the screen. Colonel F with his still more crudely written, and quite has a special fancy. There no — , color, creed or condition which is free from gently drooping moustache of enormously crudely acted. The villain just dropped in its ravages or beneficent influences. No ambitious size, stood at the side of the to make trouble. The hero showed up any sulphur and molasses treatment will purge screen and gently sang his youthful audience hour of the night to effect a rescue. The the blood of its presence and no government to sleep, with a monotonous chant on the heroine was chiefly occupied in discovering by stringent edict has had the courage to different scenes being exposed on the ways and means of getting out of the highly forbid its prevalence. screen. The lamp—flickered, the pictures complicated and ingenious traps that the In fact, kings and ministers have had flickered, Colonel F ’s voice flickered. The villain laboriously laid for her. Logic a sort of hankerin’ for its comforts. Long- screen was small and rectangular, about was far from the scene of activities. The whiskered horologists were wont to take two and a half feet wide by four feet high, intellectual and trained minds of the up their residences in three-cornered steeples, for the picture area. cultured class were amused and bored by two or three hundred feet in the air, from Judge the delight and amazement of the the absurdities. Their olefactory nerves which they gave out dope sheets on the crowd to observe figures actually moving were constantly insulted and assaulted future of new born kings. Oracles used by the vile and noxious air of the audience. to thrive in ancient Greece on the gullibility (For ventilation was so poor and absent of the public. Caesar used to have a To Prophets Everywhere that anybody cou'd be guaranteed a good chicken cut up every once in so often, not case of consumption in a very short period What do you think is the future of motion for the of time, if he clung tenaciously to the movie to satisfy his epicurean craving pictures? Each of us has an opinion as to barnyard favorite, but to discover what the development of this young and yet amazing habit for six months.) fate had in store for him. Twenty or thirty art that has suddenly engrossed the attention The authorities paid little or no attention of the world and transformed amusement into thousand country fairs support a large to the theatres. The dangers that lurked an inexpensive pleasure of rich and poor. in ventilation, overcrowding and population of gypsy fortune tellers, and Amazing as has been the progress of the pictures bad it is a not-uncommon experience for the mechanically and artistically, still more won- projection machines carelessly handled, young lady, with the pompadour and the derful things may be expected of the future. had not yet been called stringently to We don’t need to be mechanical wizards like large blue eyes, to disappear quickly into account. But several explosions and Edison, or imaginative geniuses like H. G. Wells the corner of Spring disasters finally aroused the authorities to the dark hallway at to formulate our ideas of what the future will and Myrtle, and visit the fortune teller bring forth. After all everything said on this start inspection of the picture theatres, who, for fifty cents, will tell her that a “tall subject would be speculative. And so you may that had begun to spring up like mushrooms. have an idea what the future the movies and handsome light gentleman, with a of of Improvements in the art of projection, may be. Photo-Play World invites you to direction had begun to count. wart on his chin and a lucky-monkey send in your idea in a five-hundred-word article writing and watchfob, is suffering palpitations of the on this subject. The best letters will be published The prejudice of the public began to change heart for her affections.” The spirit of and the one adjudged most thoughtful will to curiosity. Money was being made at receive a prize of $10. Send in your ideas. prophecy is as universal as the movies, the box-office. Keen business minds were The Editor and just as entertaining. turned toward a new industry and studios Hence, it follows that the millions of went up like wildfire. An army of popular people in these United States seldom in- picture makers sprang into existence. dulge in prophecies. And prophecy has on the screen. How did the head jump off Magnificent productions were made. found its most fruitful customers in the the shoulders of the characters presented? Like every other industry, the motion field of the cinematograph, that little How was it that arms and legs flew off picture has had a tendency toward con- machine, with the powerful lens and the and dislocated ladies and gentlemen; defied solidation, towards large combinations and animating electric “juice,” that throws all the laws of gravitation and anatomy? standardization of quality. This com- pictures and things on the screen for the For such were the topics. There were bination idea has, in many cases, worked delectation, education and comfort of the scenic views as well very poorly taken. for good, for the capital which some people. That afternoon several hundred prophets companies were enabled to apply toward , Patrick Henry once said something in on the wonders that the future might hold the making of pictures. Artistic actors, a very famous speech, to the effect that for motion pictures were born. directors, costumers and able writers as, his only lamp to the future was the ex- Then came the opening of the little for instance, in the well-known Triangle perience of the past. So a little look back- motion picture show on the corner of organization, found a satisfactory financial ward may enable us to estimate what will Euclid Avenue. It was a curiosity. The reward commensurate with their talents, happen in the future. pictures were monstrosities. Attempts and the quality standard of moving The first motion picture that we ever at stories were made. The public were pictures was immensely benefited. remember seeing was shown us in a certain slightly indifferent. It was the western There were, of course, interesting in- public school in Cleveland, Ohio. We were subjects that first awakened the Cleveland novations introduced, such as the flash- just about fourteen years old and not yet people. The spirit of romance was appealed back, the close-up, tinting, great battle trained to avoid the pitfalls and the snares to. The pictures were five cents. Anybody scenes and magnificent spectacles. Prog- of life. A gentleman by the name of outside a job or just within the borders ress has been spelled with a capital P. Colonel F— (whether he was a Colonel of a job that paid ten dollars a week, could Today the country is dotted with picture by official signature or matrimony, we derive a little amusement for five cents. theatres. Magnificent temples of amuse- still do not know) made an arrangement The price reached the heart of the masses. ment, like the Rivoli, the Rialto, the Strand with the principal of the school to show The masses responded. in New York, compete with the legitimate his movin’ pi’tures to all the school children No attention was given to the artistic theatres in beauty of architecture and en bloc for the consideration of ten cents possibilities in the screen. The legitimate pretentiousness of equipment. The making each. A certain percentage of the proceeds theatre held the attention of the higher of the motion picture is an art. The stories was to go to the purchase of school pictures classes. The press agent of the legitimate are highly developed masterpieces. The bearing such elevated titles as “The Dying theatre was in his glory. Any old story actors have developed a special technique. ^

45 DECEMBER, 1918

circumstances doubtful. The picture play is essentially the incorrect in costume peculiar combination of Costumers spot all voices com- given him a stranglehold on a picture idea. The sound of with an eagle eye. The ventilation in the which have shutting off ing from the same point is a difficulty which The flicker in the the markets of outlet, thus theatres is perfect. will that of element who could it will be hard to overcome, as camera has been eliminated. The columns the young and ambitious properly encouraged. writing dialogue for distinct characters. of the newspapers carry more motion do something if particular The abruptness of scenic introductions, the than legitimate theatrical An interesting sidelight on this picture news appearance and disappearance of situation is given in the efforts of Mr. P. hasty publicity. History is filmed in pictures, photo- has charge of the scenario characters and localities in the such as Gerard’s, “My Four Years in J. Hurn, who Hurn states drama, so different from that of the legiti- Germany,” “Lest We Forget,” “Over the department of the Triangle. 3500 manuscripts mate theatre, where the evolution of an Top,” and “Rasputin.” The President that he has read over this act permits a lengthier presentation of has appeared in during the first three months of of the United States certain psycho- of the material was of characters passing through pictures. The great battle scenes year. Very little motion will make it difficult for use. Most of it came from un- logical climaxes, of Flanders, showing the shock and crash practical adopted interesting dialogue to be written. How- battle, is professional authors. Yet he has of millions engaged in deadly developed, policy of writing letters of ever, this innovation maybe fully reproduced in “Hearts of the World. the far-sighted have shown and to those who can write interesting and of disaster, glory and men’s encouragement to those who Moving scenes dialogue will go great re- of genius, pointing out their errors characteristic scientific accomplishments, appear in the flashes them to wards. Royalties will be paid them as now Science portrays the secret and short-comings and urging news service. great number of such their efforts. “If I only find one in drama. Though a of the insect. Universities employ the continue life first be made in the primary writer out of all that thirty-five pictures may pictures to show the accuracies of delicate REAL rush for the golden dollars, the production experiments. The un- hundred, I have made a success of my operations and will undoubtedly declares Hurn. At no time before of the talking picture folding of a flower, the metamorphosis efforts,” extraordinary step been taken settle down to individual effort. The of a butterfly, and the launching of a has such an purpose. novelty may wear off and the public be sights in the with such vigor and earnestness of battleship are all familiar silent paid for scripts will satisfied with the more artistic and screen. The prices being animated productions, rich in pantomimic art which What then does the future hold for the undoubtedly increase. “At the present time,” continues Mr. is as old as civilization itself. screen? the big prices, bigger Keenly sensitive to short-comings, like crystal gazing, might Hurn, “we are paying Screen-gazing, wean itself away from one else in the business and we public will gradually be justly called the fascinating art of than any larger prices.” This the idea of worshipping the “star.” The the future of the pictures. expect to pay even prophesying appreciation of the public in this dreams of of course means that more money will critical The fantastic may indulge in high and as paid for literary material field of endeavor will be as what the pictures will give forth in a ultimately be periodicals fine as that of the Athenians who passed now. The dreamer than is now being paid by the hundred years from Praxitiles. The The literary genius and upon the work of a may vision the product of fifty years and publishers. accordingly be stories written around the “star” today to the practical man of affairs, ambition of the race will hence. But office will be written field of such profitable en- entice money at the box in the production of pictures for directed to the engaged entire company, as, for instance, is will deavor. There will be wonderful stories for an the people of today and tomorrow, Life qualities and perfection of now being done at the Triangle studios. merey attempt to portray the possible written, whose as much and its multifold phases will be the first pictures within a period of workmanship will undoubtedly evolution of author who will approach his surpass those now being presented as these concern of the ten years. sincerity of surpass the first crude work with all the fervor and into this limited period of ten now being done Looking purpose that has characterized the great the future of the efforts. years, one may say that Moliere, Corneille, Undoubtedly there will be funds es- dramatists: Shakespeare, motion picture is bound up in the art of the of the youthful Racine, Jones, Pinero and Brieux. the genius of the director tablished for the training storyteller, of camera effects is but aspirants to scenario honors. Just as The artistry and the skill of the actor, combined with granted to newly explored. Its intimate depths have foresight strategic scholarships are now being the instinctive and of atmos- men and women in high schools and yet to be probed. The reaction genius 'of the motion picture theatre men young marked genius in certain pheric effects to situation will undoubtedly meet changed conditions and changed colleges who show to granted be more searchingly sought in the enact- public. directions, so will scholarships be demands on the part of the novelists, talent in scenario writing. For ment of tragedy or farce. The One thing that can be seen is that the for special the rewards of the together with the dramatists, have for a becomes satiated with a certain what profession can offer public applied nature in its variable successful scenario writer? Neither the long time type of drama or comedy. Schiller and the mechanical will moods to the coloring of a great human Goethe once made a search of the number of medical, the legal, or financial induce- struggle, or the psychology of a character. be used in the making offer more substantial situations that might will be used more The aesthetic value of the pictures, That the movies stories, and they concluded there were no ments. of main- extensively in school, college and political certain Greek in as a means of toning the nerves and more than thirty-six. A unquestioned. That this were only taining the spirit of the people, will point campaign is Athens once declared there more eagerly sociological value. And men like sort of education will be seven situations. The genius of the play- to their establish multi- sought by the young and that its educational to re-animate these Rockefeller, who today right lies in his power impressed is foundations for the advancement effects will be more deeply situations in new combinations to produce million take a keen unquestioned. The Government has recog- stories. of science, will undoubtedly vital and original in the promotion this universal art and give to it nized its mighty power So, satiated with a certain type of drama interest in That encouragement they now give to other of patriotism and the Liberty loans. or comedy, the public will turn about the will a the Government will carry on a vast original and the branches of human endeavor. So and search for the new, the keep the people of effort be opened to youthful campaign of education to stimulating. They will demand a fresh, vast field informed of great conservation projects, inspiring point of view. aspiring genius. vigorous and progress in its labora- stories and productions will un- marvelous scientific This to a great extent is being met by The develop remarkable innova- tories, and great social accomplishments is several of the large picture companies, who questionably remarkable as the advancement unquestioned. have parted company with the hack scenario tions; as first novels What has been accomplished in pan- the unknown, of the modern novel over the writer and are appealing to small in Oliver Goldsmith, Smollet and oramic spectacles is no doubt unheard from talent in the highways and written by comparison to what will be accomplished. will mean fame and Fielding. the byways. This millions in the the closest innovation at hand The theatres to house the fortune to the writers without famous To many picture. Experiments so future will undoubtedly be even more reputations, who have made a is the talking literary intimate and personal than now. Mag- and who far made to synchronize action and speech study of the screen requirements will failures. That these nificent temples to the silent art genius of creation, and the have proven to be have the undoubtedly follow along the lines of the ambitions, difficulties will be overcome is unquestion- soul to interpret the dreams, the the family an interesting question presents famous Rivoli and Strand. But the surging tide of human inspiration, which able. Yet value be theatre will continue to remain just around them in itself: “Will much of material is boiling and seething about more pictures by the talking com- the corner, except that it will be much streams. For the professional added to the turbulent artistic than now. bination?” It may prove to be decidedly beautiful and author is too often the product of some .

46 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD WHAT DANCING HAS DONE FOR VIOLA DANA By RUTGERS NEILSON

F dance were the last name of Viola stepping to the tune of a hurdy-gurdy. native Hawaiian sextette. A hula-hula Dana, it would be most fitting, for Mentioning this hand-organ, recalls the dancer was featured in the action, and on this winsome little favorite is a true the recent most and greatest success of the side-lines I observed Miss Dana K daughter of Terpsichore. Almost Miss Dana on the stage, in Eleanor Gates’ gleefully mimicing her motions. before she could walk, Viola tried to dance. play, “The Poor Little Rich Girl,” for she “This reminds me of my ‘convention- She was born a dancer, and she has danced danced to the music of a hurdy-gurdy in alized fandango’,” she exclaimed, when I her way to screen success both figuratively this legitimate attraction both on Broad- applauded her efforts. That is the way she of and literally. This star of scores motion way and on the road. As Gwendolyn, described a dance she executed just before is quintessence pictures the very of grace, she invited the organ grinder into the house she left the Hollywood, California, studio. she has attained and this charm through when her nurse was out of sight. Under As Nita, in “The Only Road,” the tiny star her training in “rhythmic motion,” which her jolly leadership, a plumber, the butler, flings her toes about in thorough abandon democratic folk call “the we atop a rough table in a dance.” Western saloon. Viola’s mother believed “Why do you call your graceful that girls should be as dance a ‘conventionalized fan- well as strong, so she sent dango’?” I asked, in the belief her to dancing school almost that she was “kidding” me. as soon as she could walk. “That is because it is a Her teacher was the sort of rhythmic potpourri,” Bonfanti, celebrated Mme. she retorted convincingly. “It and before Viola was five is part fandango, part taran- old she accom- years was an tella, part cobra de capello plished toe dancer. It was and part Hawaiian hula.” as a solo dancer that this In other words, Miss Dana Metro star made her first does not do all of the dance public soon after appearance, with her feet. her fifth birthday. As a Having started talking tiny girl she was in constant about her hobby, Miss Dana demand as a dancer, and enthusiastically continued the appeared in fancy and toe subject. several notable dancing on “I studied dancing for six occasions. years under Mme. Bonfanti,” From dancing to acting she informed me, “and the was a natural step and when training has been invaluable Viola’s sister, Edna, took to me, especially during the her to the Edison studio one time I have been in motion day when a little girl was pictures, for I am glad to say the needed in some scenes, that many of my roles have youngster made good. From called for dancing.” then on, little Miss Dana’s “Do you believe that any time was divided between dance can be effectively reg- the stage and pictures. She istered for motion pictures?” played her first part on the I asked speaking stage in Joseph In a tone which showed Jefferson’s great success, “Rip that she knew what she was Van Winkle.” In the role talking about, Miss Dana little Heinrich dancing, of —a went into detail on this prancing boy—she appeared phase of dancing. with Thomas Jefferson for “Yes, in general, I firmly three seasons. Mr. Jefferson believe that virtually any took a great personal interest dance may be successfully in Miss Dana, and gave her presented on the screen,” she much encouragement in her Pretty, dainty gowns, Miss Dana admits, are an important part of the dancer’s equipment. said. “To be very exact and artistic endeavors. Next she specific, however, I believe played in “The Girls from Newport,” with and everybody within hearing of the music that the old-fashioned waltz and other Pete Dailey, and following this she supported danced with enthusiasm. It is interesting dances of slow tempo are best adapted Dorothy Donnelly in Henrik Ibsen’s “When to note that Frank Currier, who played for motion picture presentation. We Dead Awaken.” In “The Littlest the organ grinder, is and has been for some “You see, the camera lens catches de- Rebel,” with Dustin Farnum, she attained time a player for Metro, under which liberate, or moderately slow, movements fame, and followed this with an appearance company Miss Dana has climbed to her more sharply than hasty motions. A in “The Model,” by Augustus Thomas. greatest heights as an actress. rapidly executed dance will not register All this time Viola was progressing After filling her Edison contract, follow- in natural movements, but as jumpy in her work before the motion picture ing her success in “The Poor Little Rich actions, or gyrations, which appear so camera. Her first important work in Girl,” Miss Dana joined the Metro forces hurried that to call them graceful dance screen plays was in “Molly, the Drummer and made her debut in “The Flower of No evolutions would indeed be a misconcep- Boy,” an Edison production. She was Man’s Land.” With Miss Dana came tion. given the part as an experiment, but it John H. Collins, who has directed the “In dancing before the motion picture proved such a tremendous success that majority of pictures in which she has camera, I realize that I am executing a she was induced to sign a long-term con- appeared. performance for the registration of motions tract. Under the Edison banner her rise When Miss Dana recently returned to the on photographic film, which presents limita- was rapid, due to her talent and graceful New York studio after spending six months tions not encountered in appearing before presence. She still continued her dancing at Metro’s Western studio, according to an audience in person. To begin with, lessons and often found this her accomplish- contract, which divides her year I dance about one-half as rapidly as I do ment most useful in many screen produc- between the east and west coasts, a large under ordinary conditions, so that each tions. earlier In pictures her dancing was ball-room setting was being shot, and scores evolution is registered with adequate fairy sprite, or little as a a street arab of couples were dancing to the music of a definition. I have found from experience 47 DECEMBER, 1918 that the dance must be performed up and down stage, or at right angles to the camera, for the registration of movements is natural semblance, and not from right to left or vice versa. “Of cdurse, -these ideas can be applied to all screen dancing, but they are especially applicable in respect to presenting a solo dance. For solo dancing, I use a phono- graph on most occasions, as musical accompaniment is very necessary if good results are to be obtained and an orchestra is not always available. In staging big ball room scenes, an orchestra is necessary to put over the scenes with realism.” Replying to my question as to whether the characterization of a role can be ad- vanced through the dance as well as by straight action, Miss Dana said: “I contend that the same emotions can be expressed in dance action as in regular portrayal. Every movement of hand, arm, foot, head, and body can be made to have special meaning— tell a story— express an emotion. The whole body must feel the emotions and reveal feeling and personality in the dance as the player does in usual delineation. Sorrow, despair, joy and other emotions have an excellent vehicle of expression in the dance.” Director John H. Collins joined us at this stage of our conversation and Miss Dana asked him to tell me his ideas on dancing. photographing dance scenes, especially Grace of posture, as well as motion, have come to Miss Dana through much in reference to the placing of the camera. obtained was a aged couple, not too old to trip a few steps Mr. Collins said that in most cases he dance. The novel effect dance scene even with rheumatism acting as a check used the camera at the usual height. success. For the incidental Metro picturized rein. For special effects, however, he changes in “Blue Jeans,” which melodrama, It is not only the grace, but the versatility the elevation. In “The Cossack Whip, from Joseph Arthur’s famous Arnold, set of Miss Dana that places her on a pinnacle for example, the camera was placed on a Collins had his cameraman, John height. “June,” as a dancer. In “The Innocence of Ruth,” ten-foot platform and tilted, shooting his tripod at the usual As one of her first big starring vehicles for down on Miss Dana, who danced on a in this classic of the stage and screen, country dance, Edison, she offered an eccentric dance in a mirror. Thus the camera caught her head Miss Dana does a quaint her grandparents, an grotesque and bizarre costume, while in and the reflections of her figure in a classic which is mimiced by “God’s Law and Man’s,” one of her best Metro pictures, she executed a native East Indian dance, both in a Moorish palace and in the jungle. Of all her pictures to date, the Edison release, “Children of Eve,” called for the greatest diversity of dancing, as is evidenced by the following quotation from an announcement about the picture: “ —and they won first prize at ‘The Bucket of Blood,’ did ‘Fifty-Fifty Mamie’ and her good old pal, ‘Bennie, the Gyp.’ They could do the ‘Kitchen Sink’ in the dreamiest possible way—and the ‘Bunny Hug’—and the ‘Mowie.’ There wasn’t anything in the dance line that ‘Fifty-Fifty Mamie’ couldn’t do, when seen in the charming person of Viola Dana.” In but one picture has Miss Dana’s stellar role been that of a dancer from the irising in of the title to the final fade-out. This happens in a recent release, “The Winding Trail.” The dancing Metro star plays “Audrey Graham,” a dancer known to the world’s great art centers, who goes to Hell’s Paradise, a far western mining camp, as “Audrey La Salle,” to be an enter- tainer in the “Golden Moon” dance hall. Her purpose is to hunt down the man who has caused her sister’s disgrace and death. At the close of the solo Spanish dance, which serves as her introduction to the patrons of the “Golden Moon,” she threw the rose in her hair to Dan Steel, the man she has crossed the desert to find. Her cards were all on the table and the game and original dance, composed of elements of the fandango, Here’s one pose of Miss Dana’s strange ( Continued on page 56) tarantella, cobra de capello and Hawaiian hula. . - s

48 THE PHOTO- PLAY WORLD THE “HAMMERSTEIN OF HORSE OPERA” Cliff Smith Has Won Fame in Diverse Ways in His Six Years in Film

By J. B. WOODSIDE

Osborne, Tommy Grimes and Johnny only getting $30 a month and my grub in Judd. Osborne and Grimes are now well- those days and that $100 looked like known stunt riders and Judd is the present Carnegie’s bank roll to me. Miller also world’s champion puncher and roper, and had a horse that I would have given

five times winner of the championship. my right eye for. I volunteered for the After the roundup, George and Zach stunt. The little calico pinto I was to Miller called for a volunteer to ride a jump over the embankment had more horse over sense than I, and we had to blindfold him. the e m Then I rode him to the edge of the bluff bankment, and spurred him over. Fifteen feet from

as a final the water I leaped out of the saddle and swam half a mile to shore. The horse also made a landing after a desperate struggle. Anybody who ever swam the waters of the Salt Fork will tell you we had a tough time.” Jane Woodand, famous as the “Millionaire Cowgirl,” was re- sponsible for Smith’s trip to gay Gotham, where he startled the natives with his chaps, sombrero and six-gun garb. Miss Woodand purchased three bronchos from Miller Brothers, and Smith was assigned to break them for polo purposes. When they were ready for delivery, to take part in an international trophy tournament, they were shipped from Okla- homa to New York in an express car, and their trainer accom- panied them. When the train reached the metropolis, there was no one to meet him, but Smith had Miss Woodand’

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Smith can’t be tempted to risk his neck for $100 any more, but he’s still a rider.

E has won fame for the most plebeian glorious achieve- B name in the city directory and they ment to top off the call him the “Hammerstein of Horse performance and Opera.” the picture. The But it was not ever thus; the worldly feat looked like rewards of being a successful film director certain suicide and will not make Cliff Smith forget the two not an actor rushed moments he calls the happiest in his forward for the life. One was when he jumped a broncho honor of breaking over a seventy-five foot embankment his neck. into a river, and the other was when he “What is this, an herded three wild polo ponies up New old woman’s York’s Broadway, followed by a crowd of home?” taunted ten thousand curious tenderfeet. Miller. “I thought Smith was boss of the cowboys on I had some real Miller Brothers’ “101 Ranch” at Bliss, hands on this ranch Oklahoma, when motion pictures were Fll give $100 and but a popular novelty. The owners of the the best horse I own ranch imported a cameraman to make a to the man who is film of their annual roundup and someone game enough to conceived the idea of working in a few jump a broncho in- “thrillers.” They were probably the first to the Salt Fork.” of their kind, at least in this country. “Oh, boy!” said Smith rode out to take part in the round- Smith in describing Roy Stewart and Smith, his director, find a stile quite as good as a parlcr up and see the fun, accompanied by Bud theincident. “I was for a “ between-scenes” chat. —

DECEMBER, 1918 49 CLARA KIMBALLYOUNG-AMERICAN BUSINESSWOMAN

One Illustration of What is to be Expected After the War

By W. H. RUDOLPH

HERE has been much discussion not only in the countries involved in the British soldiers—who have been kept effec- yJJ concerning the changes which have war, but also in the countries which have tive by the willing and intelligent work of cxga: been wrought by the present war, managed to maintain their questionable theirwomen close behind the lines and in the and great speculation as to what neutrality while the forces for good and industries of the British Empire—not as a lasting effect these changes which have evil, sharply defined, have battled for reward but as a right. President Wilson has already been effected are to have upon the supremacy. Women suffragists every- advocated an amendment to the United life of the future when States Constitution to the Sad Old World, so give women the fran- sorely harassed during chise. The business the past four or five women, active in every years, gets a chance to industry in which man resume the even tenor has heretofore operated of its ways. without the competi- Bursting shells and tion of the gentler exploding mines have sex, is an inevitable changed the topog- resultof the world-war. raphy of Belgium and In the business life visible France, the of the United States it battlefields of the pre- has not required any sent great conflict. tremendous conflict of Historic cities that military forces to de- have marked the pro- velop these new con- gress of civilization ditions. Big businesses throughout the ages in this country that have been destroyed. have been kept alive Entire populations and enlarged through have been led off to the energy and busi- slavery or to death, ness sense of women are and nations are easily recalled. And literally gasping for not a few of the most breath, with their pre- novel and sensationally servation for the successful commercial future, as regards the enterprises of record physical life of their in this country have people, a matter which been promoted and seems to have been operated by women. removed beyond the Of interest among pos- bounds of human these cases is that of sibility, and made a Clara Kimball Young, problem soluble only the well-known motion by the Divine Power picture star, who for that first generated the past two years has human life and started enjoyed the distinction the swirl of the World of being the only wo- and its correlated man operating in the astral bodies. motion picture indus- Practically no single try, alone and supreme branch of industry has in the conduct of her escaped the war-blight, own business. whether followed in Miss Young’s pro- Europe or on theNorth gress in the business American continent. world, moreover, has Necessary workmen attracted unusual at- have been taken away, tention, for the reason for either a temporary that her qualifications There is something of the common-sense element of Miss Young in this picture. period or forever; ne- for what she has been cessary materials have able to accomplish been temporarily removed from the market, where like to say that just as surely as was would have been commonly judged as non- and manufacturing costs have “gone crazy,” the Civil War in the United States waged existent. Before she stormed the business with the inevitable result that customary for the emancipation of the negro, so is the walls, she had established herself as a markets have been destroyed. And so on, present war being waged for the emancipa- motion picture star—and motion picture ad libitum. Things that used to be, are tion of women throughout the world. stars are popularly pictured as tempera- no more, and many of them never will be Women, stigmatized—if not despised—as mental to the nth degree. A foundation of again. The brighter side of the future incompetent, have been given a big task adulation from the all-too-fickle theatre- and there is one—still remains enclouded to do and, having done it in a manner which going public would seem to be about the in the mystery of uncertainty—the mystery has called for the unqualified approval most insecure possible on which to build that makes theory only theory until it of their self-appointed judges, would now an American business success. has been proven in practice. seem to be in line for the recognition in the A number of years ago Miss Young’s One of the most interesting changes which big world of affairs which they have always stellar debut in the amusement world has been wrought by the war, and a change desired. The world-war has hastened their was made in stock, after she had served an which will unquestionably be attended arrival. apprenticeship since childhood with her by permanent results, is noticed in the England, the hotbed of militant woman’s parents, who had operated their own travel- increased activity of the women of the suffrage, will surely grant the franchise ing companies. After stock came vaudeville world in all lines of endeavor, human to the wives, sisters, and sweethearts of the (Continued, on page 55) ; —

50 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD THE PLAYGOER HAS HIS SAY The Readers Pass Out a Lusty Share of Knocks and Compliments

Wants School for Directors Pleads for Accuracy Albany, N. Y. Philadelphia, Pa. The Lay Critics Dear Sir:—The practice of film companies of Sir:—“Business is business” is a fine motto, but The title of this new department of The picturizing famous books and plays is, I believe, overworked by moving picture producers in too Photo-Play World explains exactly its scope a splendid one, if directors would adhere rigidly many ways for the best interests of the moving to the stories. Without an accurate portrayal of picture production business. And the fault seems and purpose. Here the men and women who the original theme, these splendid works of literature to lie, judging solely as a patron of the cinema go to the theatre are to have their big oppor- and the spoken drama lose their force. directors who produce the films. theatres, in the tunity for free and untrammelled comment. Besides affording an opportunity for a sort of There has been an advance, it is true, from old What you see in the film theatres you and superficial knowledge of literature, these pictures standards, or lack of standards, in moving picture is your are developing a taste among photoplay patrons production, when films, showing pre-Revolutionary your friends may reflect here. This for the better class of art. It is therefore potent breech-loading or magazine rifles, and opportunity to do your part in the improve- pioneers with that directors should be accurate in their under- carrying with them American flags with forty-eight ment of the art of the screen. The Photo- takings, because if these plays will develop the stars, fought painted Indians armed with modern Play World wants all the comment printed inclination of persons seeing them to read more pistols guns, but as yet the average director of and extensively, they will also create more critical and doesn’t seem to measure up to ordinary on this page to be purposeful and significant. a film-play scrutinizing audiences. The effect will be as a of general to identity a standards when it comes to a matter If the writer desires keep his boomerang. knowledge. secret he may, simply by so informing us. So now, if producers are going to continue the Interior scenes of Russian churches with not an For those who wish it, only initials will be presentation of literature on the screen, let these or in most instances, ikon showing; squadrons, presentations accurate. The Photo-Play to letters. All others will be signed be platoons of troops, charging into battle with the attached World, I believe, will agree with me on this point. are never regulation) the writers. Let all the photo- regimental colors (which flags by the names of Sincerely yours, heroes who have gone thru terrific struggles, emerg- patrons meet here for discussion cur- play of B. C. ing with immaculate and shiny hair—all are common J. rent film events. and are but a few glaring faults of the films which offend the average observer. A Boost for Montagu Love Directors, it seems, think that the average patron of the cinema is what may be slangily termed a Marysville, California. shown The Star vs. Story “low brow,” to whom every thing must be Sir:—Your clever and discriminating magazine, is in the most elemental fashion; to whom nothing Newburgh, N. Y. and the screen it criticises and upholds, are dis- funny unless it is of the coarse and “slap-stick coveries of the last few months of the war. Dear Sir:—Before I start on my little tale of woe, type of humor, and for whom, almost, a man must Trained to a full diet, by the best in stage work I want to assure you that I appreciate good acting. labeled “man” in order that the patron will screen to after be But, can you tell me why, so often in the moving in the East, the came me long is not something else. know that he pictures, a perfectly interesting and logical story scorning as a revelation, through the acting of Time and thousands of feet of film are wasted by so unlike, that no comparison is possible. is interrupted and spoiled in its interest to an two men— of the stars, boring the patrons, making “close-ups” audience by unnecessarily “playing-up” the star. One most of America recognizes for his athletic the pictures drag and serving no useful purpose ability, his boyish charm and delicious grin, typically I think, in most modern photoplays, the “close-up” excepting to advertise an actor or actress. the best in American youth Douglas Fairbanks; (I believe that is what it is called in the land of — real move for the advancement of the moving other, later in field, recently star, is A cinema) is overworked. the the and a and a remedy for these faults, picture, it seems, An actor or actress can register any of the emo- an Englishman—Montagu Love. Of his exquisitely school for directors. would be a tions necessary to portray his or her feelings to the thoughtful acting even your magazine has failed should be made to acquire a fund Every director audience at a reasonable distance from the camera, to take sufficient note. Why? averaging that of the average of general knowledge and go on with the action of the plot without This charm lies not only in the power of a face, simple things, such as the fact person, who knows breaking the continuity of the story. An extra regular but noble, whose expression fits every breech-loading rifles in 1776. that there were no filming of an agonized face or the heaving breast gesture, but in a supple physique, whose every curriculum might be added a course in To the of some betrayed and furious mortal is interesting gesture fits the word. Word? But yes—for his elementary psychology, beginning with an explan- is so perfect, his enough in itself, but it “holds up the parade.” enunciation speech needs no of the meaning of the word. ation Climaxes are prolonged to an undue extent, I “insert” interpretation. suggestions are offered for the good of the These believe, by this seemingly double and unnecessary An actor—yet a man, with a technique beyond business, which may some day develop moving picture filming. control. into the art it is now claimed to be. I am, sir, of his life This is just my little personal view as a rather Let us have more him, and work. Yours respectfully, interested “fan” of the pictures. If The Photo- R. C. P. J. F. Play World will find space for this criticism, I will appreciate it. Maybe some director will come to Here is One Convert think as I do, and it will not have been in vain. Sincerely, Camp Greene, Charlotte, Exit the Vampire N. C. R.J.T. Dear Sir:— I am a nurse assigned to the Army Sir:—Please permit me, through the medium Base hospital at Camp Greene and, although prior of your magazine, to tell the motion picture pro- to entering the service I paid very little attention ducers how grateful every thoughtful motion picture to the moving pictures as a form of entertainment, patron is for the gradual but certain elimination of Wants Better Pictures I must say I have been converted. This miracle the lurid vampires from the films. I deem it such—was brought about by observing the Philadelphia, Pa. We never accepted them, you know—they were wholesome delight soldiers, invalided home, who too unreal. And now that they are gone and the Sir:—No reasonable person will deny the need are under my care, derive from the picture. films are down again to a sane and safe basis of for better moving pictures. I imagine that even Aside from a smoke, the moving pictures are the modern melodrama, we are able to enjoy our theatre the producers are not satisfied with many of the one best bet of a base hospital camp with the visits with a clear conscience. I* hope you will films that are poured out in an effort to supply the doughboys. They are particularly interested pass the word along. All the producers, actors, and great demand. Some are filled with banalities of in the pictures taken at the front, where they, only theatre managers should receive it. the sort that grieve the judicious, and very many a few weeks before, were at grips with the Huns. M. M. C. are crowded with anachronisms that grate upon After seeing the way those boys take to the pic- the constantly growing body of cultivated patrons tures, I must announce that I am for them, and I of the moving picture theatres. just have to say so, because they’re doing a lot of The stock excuse is that the people are so eager good keeping those brave, suffering men in good Asks Good English for sensations, and the great majority so deficient spirits. Yours very truly, in artistic appreciation, that slipshod production is A. D. M. Boston, Mass. not only imperative, but a matter of negligible Dear Sir:— Is it carelessness or ignorance that importance. Wishes Pictures Success is responsible for so many grammatical errors that These reasons merely beg the question. The appear in the captions flashed upon the screen in trouble lies much deeper. It consists in the failure New York, N. Y. the course of the presentation of a moving picture? of many of the producers to appreciate that the Dear Sir:—I must take this opportunity to ex- Whatever the cause, these mistakes occur all too silent drama requires an entirely different tech- press my admiration for the patriotism of the mov- frequently for the good of the moving pictures nical treatment from its cousin of the legitimate ing picture industry, both in the artistic and pro- and contentment of the audience. The use of a theatre. But there is hope for better things. duction departments. Their work in recent Liberty plural verb in connection with a singular or collec- Progress is being made, and men of brains and Loan campaigns and the splendid campaign they tive noun are most frequent, and misspelled words artistic sensibilities are rapidly being recruited are now waging for the United War Work Fund is rank second. A little caution could avoid these to the film studios. There is a great and import- commendable. Every time the Government has mistakes, because I do not believe they are made ant work for them to do, with commensurate re- called upon the picture industry for support during through the lack of knowledge of the English wards for the successful. the war it has responded nobly. Its attitude of language. They are so noticeable that even a The Photo-Play World can make itself a sacrifice and contentment with its lot has made it a child can detect the errors. They should be powerful instrument for the encouragement of the deserving of prosperity and success. It is my wish avoided. Yours for accuracy, newest medium of artistic expression. Here's hoping that it experiences both. it may. D. M. G., Jr. J. C. T. 51 DECEMBER, 1918 THE PLAYERS’ FORUM By THEMSELVES

I of the “Happy Ending” View Pictures from the Beginning What Think By Lina Cavalieri By Darrell Foss The Players Explain T was several years ago, I think, when a young through thePHOTO- I RST, let me assure my friends I friend of my husband, Lucien Muratore, amused not come into The Photo-Play F Play World, that while we do On this page each month us very much with the saying: “I do not like grand apprecia- personal contact with our audiences, their World has arranged to give the actors and opera, because everybody dies in the end, or at tion reaches us in numerous different ways, and is actresses of the photoplay their opportunity least one weeps anyway.” always an encouragement to every Triangle player. We had heard of to communicate, once each month, directly Certainly, I enjoy people not caring for public life, and I •with the men and women who see them music, or not enjoy- act- am keen about nightly on the screen. If an actor is ex- ing the opera, be- ing in the movies, perimenting with a new idea in his latest cause it was usually I believe I because sung in strange lan- release, and he believes that an additional can do my bit to guages, but never to his meaning clear furnish enjoyment word is necessary to make for this unique rea- more people in this to the general public—here is the place for son. Yet since then, way than in any the word. the player has any now that I have left other manner. him to say If the opera myself, it like to special comment to make upon any new trend I would occurs to me that a belief that to say anything express my of the pictures, if he wishes possible reason why pleasure would more about the method of presentation of photo- there are not more be obtained by mo- plays, he wants to talk about photoplay opera devotees in tion picture audi- if is this very to get America, ences, if they would audiences—here is the place for him fact. always view a picture direct and forceful contact with the into I believe the from the beginning. thirteen million persons who nightly crowd American people are So many factors enter picture theatres of the land. It’s a free realists; yet they into the production of the are of a so happy a nature that anything sad does play. There's the story, the direction, the country and this is the players’ forum of a good not appeal to them as to the French or Italian. scenery, and acting for instance. Each of these must free speech. A comparison of the novels of those countries with co-ordinate and harmonize to create a well-balanced American novels, brings out what I wish to illustrate. People will not care for the production if production. American people as a whole prefer even a weak point it is not interesting. Interesting, to engage attention, in a story—if it brings them the so-called “happy to awaken concern; surely every one has some con- We Keep Ourselves Aloof ending”—rather than the same story with a con- ception of the stupendous efforts exerted to create Why By Elsie Ferguson ventional, realistic ending. interest. Then it is certainly too bad to have one’s And I am coming to agree with them. After all, enjoyment lessened by viewing a picture backwards. actresses receive countless letters from LMOST all what are books and plays, yes, and photoplays for, Consciously or unconsciously, when one sees a A persons who desire to know them out of charac- if not to amuse, to soothe, or instruct? Psychologists picture first from the middle or just before the end, these letters are sincere tributes from real ter. Most of tell us that plays which make one “smile through is gone, and the attention becomes concen- are usually very precious to the interest admirers, and they tears” are usually the most effective; yet the very on analyzing the details of a picture. us, in spite of our protestations trated receiver; for all of fact that one must smile argues for the “happy of friends tell me that they dislike to like admiration and success. Many my to the contrary, ending,” n’est-ce pas? during the climax of a play. But But if an actress enter a theatre In my recent Paramount pictures, “Love’s the exhibitors are very anxious to accommodate would retain this Conquest” and “The Rose of Granada,” I have patrons, and I sure, if you’ll bring this popularity, she must their am insisted on the more fortunate ending; for in the to the attention of the manager of your favorite above all things pre- first Paramount picture in which I appeared, “The arrangements will be made whereby serve a certain aloof- playhouse, Eternal Temptress,” the heroine dies in the last enter only at the beginning of a play. ness. Besides, it you may reel. While this picture has been much compli- would be impossible mented, and I have received many letters about it, to meet all the per- still, I realize that, after all, the more pleasing photo- Confessions of a “Reg’lar Villun” sons who write us play is that which boasts the “happy ending.” By Theodore Roberts these letters, so one must be impartial OR the past umpty-ump years (if I told you as well. F ho w many you’d believe I were trying to score How I Got Into “Movies” I remember quite on Methuselah) I’ve been bad. So bad, that every- By Lila Lee well a very close one hates me the instant I appear on the stage—or are asking me how 1 happened friend who had an O many people the screen. You realize how it is. One nowadays, unknown admirer, S to desert the stage for the screen. They say whispers to another, “You know, I don’t like lady who wrote her the they should think I’d enjoy the applause, the man’s looks. He can’t fool me, and I tell that most importunate flowers, lights and gaiety of stagedom more than the you he’s nothing more or less than a plain crook, if studios. love letters, day after everyday work in the he does wear a silk hat.” But so far, I’ve day, for seasons. He And the other wo- found the “movies” was mad to meet her. It kept up a long time, and man wonders if she far more interesting he was so faithful and persistent in his admiration, ought to let her little than the stage. When found he had met some people who daughter stay and that when she Mr. Lasky saw me were friends of hers and had persuaded them to watch my machina- in vaudeville, as present him, she agreed to the introduction. tions. From the ter- “Cuddles,” and later This is what happened. The moment he met her rible “Simon Le- sent word to my he lost interest. She never saw or heard of him from gree,” in the old- mother that he'd like that day. So I have profited by her experience. stage, all-star version engage to get close enough to me I too clever to let any admirer of that play, I’ve am appear in pictures, The only way to fan all the to see the real Elsie Ferguson. been through I was simply de- such an infatuation and keep such a man interested, degrees of character lighted. is to confine his impressions to the interpretations unpopularity. Once You see, one gets of the stage or the screen. in a while, just to late rather difficult so tired working soothe my injured This is very often, as I have said, to every evening, and for us to do, for it would indeed be a pleasure spirits, they give me I had no time to see meet some of the writers of these letters. Often a sympathetic part; my girl friends or answering them for I try to answer them such as the old Cape when — out-of-door it, enjoy the personally I try to picture the one who wrote Cod Captain, in “A — things much. Now if we should really Petticoat Pilot,” or and wonder what would happen I shall spend lots of my time at tennis, riding or picture of meet. , the father of “M’liss,” in Mary Pickford’s . , motoring; for one of the chief duties of a film star, letters I have received recently have exceptions occur very regularly, Many of the that name. The pictures; they tell me, is to keep looking her very best—and I had never done any “Western” asked why exhustion. however. appear in “Hearts the camera shows the least sympathy from lenient so, as my reply, I arranged to Occasionally, I get a little woolly Although I’m only fourteen and a half, I’ve been any of the Wild,” a thoroughly “wild and persons, who say I probably “don’t know playing on the stage for about ten years; so you picture. To film this picture, Director Marshall better,” but that is rarely; so I have made myself to me, although, of ranch in Montana. see, acting will not be new the screen for good— Neilan took us to a remote the promise that before I leave spot course, the way of putting on make-up, the rehears- indulge The scenes around this wonderful western not for many years yet, though— I shall will be quite different. that bring to one’s memory the stories ing and all that, romantic role, that will have everyone are such in one good cowboys and the The other day I was taken over to the Famous for me. of childhood, picturing Indians, in the audience weeping with sympathy Players-Lasky studio at Fort Lee, where I watched unbridled life of a half century ago. But even all of the players, whose lives I’ve made I shall invite real Elsie Ferguson and Lina Cavalieri at work. They this atmosphere I am going to shield my the films, to take part in the picture in miserable in be sure to retain showed me many interesting things that will be content. Then self from my correspondents to and just pester me to their heart’s part of my everyday work now. their admiration. I shall be happy. 52 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD

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Before and After” 9 It was indeed lucky that that William Gray, the poet, who describes the plowman has studied the science of producing and conserving foodstuffs and is doing his part his “homeward plods weary way," never saw Darrell Foss at work when he was seeking in solving the big problem that rests heavily on the mind of Mr. Hoover. Incidentally, inspiration for his immortal the he elegy. He would have required a livelier chord for regards thefarm as the greatest health producer man has yet devised, and in his "back to modern plowman, as agriculturist the typified by Foss, Triangle actor by profession and soil campaign he gets all the "Pep" needed for the exacting work cut out for him at inclination . Foss can by manoeuvre the business end of a plow for many hours without the Culver City studio. The average farmer used to retire with the chickens. Not so with experiencing weariness. Instead at the studio Foss. of plodding homeward, after his work After he has used up all of Uncle Sam's daylight in profitable toil, he indulges his is completed, he into and is jumps his automobile, hits it about forty miles an hour, musical fancy with his banjo. In the lower photograph Foss is seen in the well-known out his tailormades and into lake the old- dual of his overalls in quicker time than it would role, "Before and After." In Peggy Pearce, Triangle actress, who is farmerette fashioned farmer to put up his horses for the night.. Foss is a regular farmer. He and musical devotee in her spare time, he apparently has congenial company. DECEMBER, 1918 53 INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS ABOUT THE PLAYERS By RENEE VAN DYKE

' hotels and restaurants /"’HARLES S. CHAPLIN, reputed to be the I 'HOSE bits of city life set down “near to FF war’s needs deprive there in one funniest of all film comedians, was married nature’s heart,” the so-called “farm” at of waiters and kindred workers, won’t it hard- at Los Angeles, October 23rd, to Miss Mildred which the leisure class disports itself, is represented motion picture star who deem a out very L. Harris, a young actress of the films, although in “Little Miss Moneybags,” Metro’s forthcoming ship. She is Mae Marsh, who dines girl the screen” has until November 5th reports that they were features co-starring Francis X. Bushman and little. Besides, “the whim of cooks waiters are not married or engaged had been denied promptly. Beverly Bayne. Charles J. Brabin is directing demonstrated that and It was said the marriage had been kept secret “Little Miss Moneygags,” assisted by Bernard essential to her happiness. Elaine In “Fields of Honor” Miss Marsh had the at the urgent request of the bridegroom. Miss J. Durning, in this feature written by of poor French immigrant, who came to Harris is a star, under engagement with the Sterne, author of “The Road to Ambition” role a sweethearts. Universal, playing in the Lois Weber productions. and “Over the Seas for Uncle Sam,” and adapted America with her sister and their play She went to Los Angeles with her mother, and for the use of the co-stars by A. S. Le Vino. Work Several scenes in the Irvin S. Cobb showed has appeared in “Orange Blossoms,” “For Hus- on the new production already has been begun her cooking for and waiting on the others. And bands Only” and “The Price of a Good Time.” at the Biograph studio, a part of which Metro in “All Woman” Miss Marsh again demon- that she is at home in a kitchen or Her first appearance, when she was a mere child, has leased for the purpose. strated dining room, cooking and was in Vitagraph pictures. She is by considered remarkably beautiful. dispensing food in a hotel to which she had fallen heir.

G'SCORTED by a number of who is attractive women war-work- TOSIE SEDGWICK, •I to be the best horse- ers from the Y. W. C. A., the conceded will women’s division of the Y. M. C. woman in motion pictures, soon have a chance to match her A., and the Salvation Army, all in the best feminine overseas uniform, Douglas Fair- cleverness with She has banks, who was recently appointed riders in the country. entered in the bucking Special Publicity Representative just been broncho contest at the Phoenix, for National Activities of the United War Work Campaign, Arizona, State Fair, and Roy Stewart, with Josie plays raided the offices of the New whom York’s department store owners opposite on the screen, and direc- tor Cliff Smith, himself a famous the first week of the drive and rider, are both exceed- obtained the first two million cowboy ingly confident that the fair star dollars, which was turned over will “bring home the bacon.” to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., chairman of the New York City committee. D USSELL THAW, who appears The Artcraft star worked his with his mother, Evelyn Nes- smile overtime. Few resisted bit, in motion pictures, likes war him. To those who complained pictures, but insists that they that they were financially em- square with his ideas of patri- barrassed because of recent Lib- otism. Russell and his mother erty Bond investments, Douglas were at a film show one day recommended that they come watching a picture that showed through with some of Uncle Sam’s battle scenes in the Civil War. certificates. The clash between the armies of “Americans never fail,” he the North and South held the remarked; “they always deliver spellbound and gave him will appear in boy This is a pleasing version of the girl in ihe moon, Itit is Lisle Ferguson, who the goods. Ask the Kaiser.” “The Parisian Wife,” to be released by Artcraft December 15. great enjoyment. But suddenly he clutched his mother’s arm in honorary terror and in his seat, shouting: “Mother! ADGE KENNEDY, whose head is never OHARLES RAY has been elected stood up of France,” mother! the Germans winning?” M turned by flattery, almost became self- member of the “Fragments Aren’t those been perfected in conscious during the last bond campaign when an organization that has just stared at by a Los Angeles by discharged soldiers of the Allied she found herself recognized and T OUISE LOVELY, who is leading woman in Mr. Ray attended a meeting of the throng of Liberty Bond buyers on Fifth Avenue. Armies. William Farnum’s company, has just been organization and was given a rousing reception. The piquant Goldwyn star was about to enter honored by the bestowal upon her of the poetic followed He offered to help the new organization in its the shop of a milliner when the crowd title of “Pretty Sun-Blossom of Japan.” Miss purposes in any way within his power. The aims her and forced her to come outside and sell for Lovely recently won the popularity contest the “Fragments of France” are to help the Uncle Sam. She succeeded in getting pledges of conducted by The Picture Play Magazine, the disabled veterans of the great war. for $18,500 in 20 minutes. leading Japanese film magazine. In a special Louise Lovely number, recently published, the printed, Madge HE National Film Corporation of America Y the time these lines are editor printed a poem about her. B will be on T has signed a contract with Henry B. Walt- Kennedy and her happy family services of the star for an the Coast. By happy family we mean her com- hall for the exclusive Vitagraph star, soon will be Badger. A LICE JOYCE, period. The definite signing of Mr. pany of players, and Director Clarence extended presented in new de luxe production of the a close upon the deal by which Badger and his wife have a beautiful home in Walthall follows “The Lion and the Mouse,” most famous and Company takes over the Hollywood hills, which has not been occupied the Robertson-Cole successful of the plays written by the late Film Corporation interests, handling since they went east over a year ago, when he was National Charles Klein. It will be released as the third world the eight Billie Rhodes engaged by Goldwyn. for the entire Alice Joyce production on the Blue Ribbon forthcoming series of pictures, as well as the program during the present season. Walthall dramas. kRA1 CAREW has taken herself off to Arrow- O head Springs in her new coupe and intends ouglas Fairbanks has written another ARL LAEMMLE, president of Universal, to remain away until the studios open up again. Francisco. This will D book, “Making Life Worth While.” The C has arrived in Los Angeles from New York. Ora will drive up to San in over a year, first edition of the book will be mailed “over He has assumed charge of Universal affairs from be her first trip to the Bay City gift from Douglas to the is looking forward to having a great time there” as a Christmas the little watch tower on the administration and she her friends there. American soldiers. building. getting re-acquainted with THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD 54

inspiration for ANE and Katherine Lee, the little William lV/f ABEL NORMAND delights in playing jokes r'VOROTHY DALTON is the *** arrived at Los Angeles as on those who understand her. Her mother, LJ one of the most unique messages ever sent J Fox stars, have forces that will go to the who lives on Staten Island, was the victim of the by loving mothers, sisters and sweethearts to the vanguard of the Fox Winter. The children were star’s latest prank. Miss Normand’s maroon the boys “over there.” Pacific Coast this limousine drove up not far from the Normand A photographic enlargement of her pose in preceded by their director, Arvid E. Gillstrom, last Lee pictures, “Swat manse the other day and out stepped a little the picture “Vive La France,” printed on satin, who directed the two Marines.” old woman. In an unsteady voice she asked to was presented by Photographer N. S. Evans to the Spy” and “Tell It to the arrival at the William see the lady of the house and on being received the Friday Morning Club division of the Red Immediately after their Hollywood, Jane and Katherine by Mabel Normand’s mother, quavered a Cross in Los Angeles. This proved the inspira- Fox studio at new comedy, “Keep Smiling,” request for old pies—“for the war sufferers, tion, and with it as a centerpiece, the women of began on a great American smile madam.” A moment of embarrassed and tense the club have pieced a quilt with hundreds of in which, it is said, “the goes over the top.” The story was written by silence followed, whereupon Mabel dashed off little blocks, on which they have embroidered will be directed by Mr. her wig and goggles and leaped into her mother’s messages of love and affixed their signatures Ralph H. Spence, and arms. Now she wants to play a character role in in threads of silk. This quilt has been forwarded Gillstrom. her next picture. to the American Red Cross base hospital at St. Cloud. C'LORENCE TURNER, formerly famous ^ in pictures, who has been in England three CEENA OWEN, who retired from the screen ^ life of married blessedness two years ago, AY ALLISON took an active part in the years with a picture company, has returned to to a expects an engagement shortly has been finally induced by William S. Hart to M Liberty Loan drive in Los Angeles, and J. C. Los Angeles and the film companies. return to the old field, and she will be seen as Jessen, the chairman, wishing to show his ap- with one of the leading woman in the next preciation, stepped up to her and production of that famous actor- said with a deep bow: “Miss author. When she quit the screen Allison, you should be carrying she continued to reside in Holly- a card with ‘Heaven’ printed on much of the in wood, and seeing so it. I know you were born camera just couldn’t keep away Georgia, but you are so pretty from in front of the lens. and sweet that you look as if you came from Heaven.” slightly but exhibitors’ showing of M iss Allison blushed , A N came right back with: “Really, “Wolves of Kultur” on the Mr. Jessen, it’s quite bad form roof of the New York Theatre to be forever advertising one’s drew a large attendance, among home town!” which were many representatives of patriotic societies. All were cordial in their comment on the on the part of odesty big patriotic serial produced by M Gladys Brockwell caused Western Photoplays, distributed trouble recently her considerable by Pathe and featuring Leah she was motoring back to when Baird, supported by Sheldon from Balboa, Cal., Hollywood Lewis and Charles Hutchison. where she was filming a picture. The spotlight on her car, instead L1NE ELVIDGE attended a of being turned on herself, wan- J theatre recently to see “The dered about the road and sud- Cabaret,” a picture in which she denly fell full and square on the played the lead. A woman seated stern visage of a policeman, who near Miss Elvidge did not like immediately held up his hand, 4 Kaiser faces annihilation at the hands of Jane and Katherine Lee in Swat the Spy.” the gowns she wore as a poor ar- told her she was speeding, and The tist’s model and expressed herself, handed her a little piece of Katherine Lee were shoot- much to the amusement of the film star, who paper, which might just as well have read: TYTHILE Jane and * directly ' off firecrackers and sky-rockets in their could not resist the temptation to look “U. O. the Judge $5.” ing nursery, Mrs. Lee had no objection to letting at the woman as she was leaving the theatre. quite them remain in that room of fire and brimstone. “Her remarks about my gowns were D REARING all records for individual sales, But when an angry butler wanted to make them amusing, but her apologies upon recognizing me ^ William Farnum, the screen star, did his a target for juicy pies and hard apples, she were equally annoying,” Miss Elvidge later bit for Uncle Sam during the Fourth Liberty objected. Jane and Katherine were taken in remarked. Loan campaign by selling $33,000,000 worth of hand and led out of the nursery. Hardened men Liberty Bonds. This total is declared to be were put there in their stead to make the best not only the greatest amount sold by any one G'VEN a mouse cannot frighten Peggy Hyland of the hail of food. For this was part of a new J-* stage or film player, but also to rank well up to —woman though she be. The William Fox motion picture in which the two Fox baby the fore among the sales of the most successful star is too fond of the little nibblers to set traps grands are to appear. The men had to keep up regular Liberty Loan salesmen. for them or to put cats upon their trail. And the Lee children had the screen of fire which Jack Pots, her fox terrier, was forced to abandon started. in his favorite indoor sport of mouse hunting for jUEl to a demand from leading exhibitors D States, it has been her sake. all parts of the United small gray mouse ran over Miss decided by McClure Productions, Inc., to re-issue /^ORINNE GRIFFITH is winding up work When a ” dressing table recently at the Jersey a new version of the famous “Deadly Sins series. in “The Adventure Shop,” an original story Hyland’s working, she jumped with Accordingly the productions will be issued in by “Bud” Fisher, creator of “Mutt and Jeff,” studio where she was maid proposed to set a trap for two-reel lengths, as opposed to their original who enters the ranks of screen drama writers delight. Her it at once, and was surprised when Miss Hyland six-reel form when first published. The leading with this play. The scenario calls for Miss protested. figure in the new two-reel version is the present Griffith to make all sorts of risks, including a “I going to tame that little animal, and Paramount star, Shirley Mason. descent by rope from the roof of a building to am did. the ground, and the star is led into a variety of make a pet of it,” she declared. She thrilling adventures. npO a crowd that packed Fifth Avenue irom is back at the Hollywood -* curb to curb, Theda Bara, the famous screen G' ARLE WILLIAMS studio. Williams went East to make one her return to New York OT( only is Gladys Brockwell a film actress of Mr. vampire, signalized [ here its N' also, it appears, she possesses feature and was to have returned upon City from Los Angeles by selling $70,000 worth rare ability, but completion, but a change in plans resulted in his of bonds in less than an hour from the stage of literary talent. Miss Brockwell has just written after a few weeks spent in New York the Stage Women’s War Relief at the Liberty a book entitled “Hearts Aflame,” which will be coming back preparing to start work in a new Theatre, on the steps of the New York Public published this fall by a well-known New York and he is now Library. publishing house. feature. —

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Young is responsible for his recent she is operating, Clara Kimball FARNUM, the William Fox screen star, and was ILLIAM Ross, one of the most interesting of American during the successes, among them “One Shot W star, had a real taste of war “Faith Endurin’,’ business women. new photoplay when, in “Keith of the Border,” filming of scenes in a The several photoplays which Miss was severely bruised and others. going “over the top,” he has made under this arrangement Since he left his $30 a month job, the Young nearly killed by the premature explosion and Opera’^ has have been unusually successful—a con- dug for “Hammerstein of Horse of a mine planted near the trenches argument that her business judg- acquired a wife, a 320-acre ranch in Kansas, vincing the picture the acid test. The stories in California and a high- ment has stood is wounded during a five-acre one Mr. Farnum, in the scene, been personally selected powered motor. she has used have Man’s Land, and two American t> a battle in No her, and the work of selection has been "And one thing I forgot to tell you, by who see his plight go to his rescue and soldiers the 101 no little task. She has read practically While drag- said Smith. “Before I joined bring him to safety in the trench. has been published, chambermaid to the celebrated every new novel that Farnum across the ground, his clothes outfit I was ging Mr. Rockefeller’s either in book or magazine serial form, stones and barb- herd of buffaloes on John D. were torn from him, and the three years. She has made 120,000-acre ranch near Russell Springs, during the past wire dug into his flesh. of operations getting back all the repeated trips from her base and Mr. Farnum had just cleared Kansas. Now he is The rescuers gasoline at either New York City or Los Angeles— geyser of stones money he paid me when I buy a mine when it exploded, hurling a authors, in order prices.” to interview well-known burying the trio. When Di- the present war and dirt and half that they might provide her with original the spot he found Mr. rector Frank Lloyd ran to material suited to her needs. With her dirt from his eyes and mouth, Farnum digging story selections made, there has remained but not seriously hurt. best possible Clara Kimball Young—American Busi- the task of devising the scenario, and this too has been done under neas Woman the LICE JOYCE, Vitagraph star, is having a Miss Young’s careful supervision, will (Continued from page 49) this line of work A brief rest at a Virginia health resort. She best available writers in present week. services to the finished return to the studio during the and then the picture screen. Her engage- contributing their in making Miss Joyce has been steadily engaged ment with the Vitagraph company in- product. Beginning with East, where Miss Young’s earlier pictures for more than a year. troduced her to the screen public, and it was In the had ten Blue were made, the big Thanhouser “The Question,” Miss Joyce not long until she had established herself pictures in about thirteen months, in New Rochelle was held on lease, Ribbon feature releases as a star. studio two big special releases, at the present time, with production and previously she had It was upon the expiration of a partic- and of the Nation, and necessarily confined to the west coast, the “Womanhood, the Glory ularly attractive contract about two years which she and Harry Sunset Studios, between Holly- “Within the Law,” inboth of ago that Miss Young insisted upon shying model Los Angeles, have been obtained, Morey shared honor. her own hat into the motion picture wood and actual business dealings in each in- business ring. And, let it be said, it was the done by Miss Young, through only her firm determination, in the face stance being Horse Opera advisers. The principal desk in Miss 'The “Hammerstein of of great opposition, that enabled her to her administrative office in the Aeolian (Continued from page 48) launch the business venture which she is Young’s today. Even Building, New York City, is always occured to him the most so successfully conducting address and it her no matter where she is, associates were inclined to believe reserved for natural thing in the world to deliver the her or less and her personal secretary is constantly started out ridng that a mere woman—and a more ponies to their owner. He all matters motion picture woman with her to take directions on one and leading the others. "I’ll never “temperamental” a job in of vital importance to her business. mistake again,” said Smith. at that—was tackling too big make the same Miss Young’s present activities on the population of the attempting to compete in the production “It seemed to me half the of an advantage industry in the United coast are illustrative parading in my wake. I had to end of the sixth town was which the able and aggressive woman get the horses States. call on the police to help me her male competitors— Miss Young’s convincing arguments were sometimes has over to Miss Woodand’s stables.” certainly offsets to she had the money to finance an advantage which These two feats excited the admiration these: First, insisted some extent the intangible objections which and a few weeks her own enterprise; second, she of Smith’s employers the woman’s engaging in a close personal contact with the are raised to afterward, when Triangle purchased 150 that her of the many “man’s business.” 150 cowboys and 65 theatre-going public, because horses and hired Miss Young’s occupancy of the Sunset its she had made for employing produc- Indians from Miller Brothers to start trips At the had taught her what the Studios is only a temporary one. “Wild West” studio, in the Santa ing companies, big do for outbreak of the war plans and estimates California, the ad- theatre-going public wanted her to Monica mountains, being completed for a new studio in commissioned to them; and third, that the methods which were venturous cowboy was which Miss Young was were then being used by producing com- Pasadena, Cal., deliver the outfit. operate. The site had been not to her liking and not cal- to own and The company’s director general hired panies were Young’s possible results. selected and, as the result of Miss the new Western camp when culated to get the best Smith to boss own personal work, the city of Pasadena later made him She wanted her own business, and was he reached California, and of the studio the numerous offers had consented to the erection director. When Bill ^Hart not satisfied with an assistant there after having repeatedly refused to the “good which were made her to select her own began to play leading roles as proposition. And production, select her own countenance any such man” of the screen, Smith was made plays for permission bad direc- not only had Pasadena given wielded the megaphone supporting company, and her own his director and but had also enthusiastically felt that the surest way to for the work, Hart in twenty-two two reelers and tor. She for things agreed to help, to the end that Miss Young He also taught Hart guarantee all of these desirable fourteen five reelers. be adopted as the city’s own plays pro- together with the more desirable one, might to ride and shoot. Among the motion picture dictate finally the “native daughter” in the duced together were “The Return of namely, the right to should be industry. The work on the Pasadena Patriot, The Dis- manner in which her pictures Draw Egan,” “The held up only because of the to the people in whose inter- structure was ciple,” “The Desert Man,” “Between distributed build- was to difficulties in obtaining the necessary and many others.. ests she was determined to work— Men,” “The Aryan,” will be undertaken just control her own business and to ing materials and those days such screen celebrities absolutely In as soon as the war is over. Charles Ray, Dorothy have the final word of decision regardless as Louise Glaum, Those who know in the picture business, merely of possible profit or loss. score of others were _ Dalton and a moreover, have learned to take Miss Smith saw and And so there is now no active “Clara “atmosphere actors.” work quite seriously. They know stardom. Kimball Young Corporation” or “Clara Young’s helped in the rise of all of them to confined merely or “Clara Kimball that her activities are not the miraculous changes that Kimball Young, Inc.,” Despite the one organization in which she is world since Young Film Company.” Simply stated, to have taken place in the picture and sole owner, is making motion star, general manager years ago, Smith has never Clara Kimball Young he started six but that she has other important picture has grown up pictures, directing the expenditure not deserted his first love and fair to establish pyhsical energy, but also irons on the fire, which bid the business at the Triangle’s studios only of her own with her as an important financial operator in the past year of her own money. And because of this near Los Angeles. During industry. unique in the industry in which the motion picture he has directed Roy Stewart, the cowboy condition, 1

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What Dancing Has Done for Viola CRYSTAL WATER SET FREE Dana (iContinued from page 47)

was played out to its tragic finish. This picture is an excellent illustration of how character portrayal may be advanced through the medium of the dance. ^.Miss Dana’s two dances in “The Wind- ing Trail” are studies in contrast. The little star first does an exquisite toe dance in the fluffy tarlatan skirts of a premier danseuse, and later in the picture, in a beautiful Spanish costume, she puts over one of the cleverest and snappiest Spanish dances ever enacted before the camera by a screen star. Spanish dances as a rule have a certain amount of sameness, but Miss Dana’s exhibition in this screen drama is unique. In the course of the action, the official announcer in the “Golden Moon” dance hall says, “Gents, it pleasures me to inter- duce to you ‘Miss Audrey La Salle.’ We understand she tosses a mean hoof.” Whereupon “Miss La Salle,” in the person of Viola Dana, proceeds to toss not only one hoof, but two of them. SUBSTANTIAL YOUR OWN INITIAL DISTINCTIVENESS ARTISTIC As the dignified premier danseuse in the In GENUINE STERLING SILVER ELEGANCE FIRE POLISHED INDIVIDUALITY opening scenes of the photoplay, On Every Tumbler and Pitcher her This water set, composed of six tumblers and training as a toe dancer stood her in good pitcher, will OUR WONDERFUL OFFER delight the heart of every house- stead. Miss Dana considers wife. The pitcher is substantially Just your name and address toe dancing made in a S pn(I and oeuu 111)Nn moneyMnnmr pleasing design, with firm, strong base. The we will send you 20 of our new most exacting, and she constantly practices tumblers are of dainty, extra thin blown glass. art pictures to distribute on our 25c offer. Send us Each piece is edged in pure sterling silver, with it to keep in trim for just such occasional the $5.00 you collect and for your trouble we will send wreath and initial of the owner. The tum- you free scenes as in blers are half pint capacity—the pitcher holds and postpaid this set of six tumblers and “The Winding Trail.” three pints. This is the set for everyday pitcher just as described. You will be surprised and In specializing on dancing to develop use and for special occasions. It will give the delighted. Take advantage of it today. Address user everlasting satisfaction and pleasure. M. O. SEITZ. Dept. 6B6. Chicago grace, Viola Dana has hit the straight trail toward screen success.

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please; photographer set up his camera, so voice rang out: “Just a moment, NE of the most tense moments in the had the the entire “Turkish” look this way; everyone hold still.” Click making of motion pictures is the that he was getting in co-worker went a camera, and the deed was done. second when the director says the set, the scene in the making, his The outcome of it is just this: here is a pic- to step in and Harry Pollard alongside of him, Camera- word “camera,” and that Lundin ready to turn the crank, ture within a picture and further than speak to him at that very moment makes man Walter Fay, with his it shows a picture in the making. What is figure that you are trying and Assistant Director Billy one who knows of the forth- pencil in hand, ready for action. more, it gives an idea of one to qualify for honor membership in the script and Director Gould- coming releases in which Harold Lloyd and “In-Bad Club.” Harold Lloyd, who is “Are you ready?” chirped camera,” and the Rolin Beauties will appear. And, in- some sort of a prank, put one ing, “All right, let’s take it; always up to proves that picture directors the other the performers started through their scene cidentally, it over on Director Alf Goulding, moments. it, when suddenly a have their good-natured day out at the Pathe-Rolin studio, when he just as they rehearsed

I Want To Go

By K. E. McGINNIS

to movie show to go to a movie show— I want to go a I want to go to a movie show— / want do, Where Charlie Chaplin tries You know the kind I mean, A tearful one will are gobs chokes and sobs To catch a big, fat, slippery pig, Where heroes all are six feet tall Where there of Or hurls some custard pies. are sweet sixteen; And people cry “Boo-hool” And girls jab his cane to weep or two I love to watch him Where men make love like Wallace Reid The kind bring a I In some poor duffer’s rib, Whene'er his arms entwine To show how bad feel poor Eliza up and dies While folks pursue each other thru Those Venuses to whom he says When “ the seventh reel. A dozen reels, ad lib. Beloved—would’st be mine?” About DECEMBER, 1918 99

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A New Fad m Gifts for Christmas

HY is it that most persons of temperament Ware the owners of dogs ? Anything from a water spaniel to a bloodhound can invariably

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self, is affectionate and capable of the emotions which are accredited her sex.

This is probably because the canine, more than any other animal, can display the human emotions

and can prove itself a real companion. The dog can, and does, share the sorrows and joys of his master and, eventually, becomes almost an integral part of him or her. For this reason, possibly more than any other, the practice of presenting an animal preferably a dog— as a Cknstmas gift to our dear friends, as an embodiment of our feelings, kas become a popular fad in tke world of tke moving picture. Being, as

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The Life of Harold Lockwood izations; those who have recognized the nature of the man from his reflected self ( Continued from page 23) on the silver sheet. PARKSIDE “Broadway Bill” and “The Landloper.” Harold Lockwood was so human, so Delightful comedy marked “Lend Me Your sympathetic, so genuine and full of genial HOTEL Name,” “The Square Deceiver,” and “Pals interest in all the world, that it seems im- First.” Productions left unreleased at the possible he is gone. But he died as he —APARTMENTS— time of the young star’s untimely death lived, filled with altruism and the joy of were: “A King in Khaki,” “The Great giving. Whether present actually or in 31 West 71st Street Romance,” and “The Yellow Dove.” spirit, he is still “everybody’s favorite.” TELEPHONE 9780 COLUMBUS r Three reels of the last-named play, a picturization of George Gibb’s well-known A stone’s throw to Central Park F= Lady Tsen Mci, of China novel, had already been completed under ( Continued from page 37) MODERN, FIREPOOF, 14 | the direction of Edwin Carewe. Advantage

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Why They Call H er “Daintiest. There was I, waiting at the curb, cheated of my chat again. Statement of the ownership, management, circu- ( Continued from page 39) lation, etc., required by the Act of Congress of August I into the car with the camera- climbed 24, 1912, of The Photo-Play World, published monthly, at given patch of green grass and shady trees, man and pursued her to the stuido, for all Philadelphia, Pa., for October, 1918, State of Pennsylvania, County of Philadelphia. set down in the midst of one of the congested the world like a villain in the movies and county pursues the heroine. Arriving at the studio, Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the State sections of the city which supplies New York aforesaid, personally appeared George M. Downs, Jr., who, deposes and says that with the crowds that throng the subways I made my way at once to her dressing having been duly sworn according to law, he is the Editor of The Photo-Play World, and that the follow- statement and Brooklyn Bridge twice each day. room. She was changing to her street ing is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the cir- Anita’s car was the first to arrive, and attire—one of those new “fringey” things, for the date shown culation), etc., of the aforesaid publication by the time we got there she was already bought at a Fifth Avenue shop—and it was in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed busy with mirror and powder puff, re- some minutes before I was admitted. on the reverse of this form to wit: There was no She had with her a woman newspaper touching her make-up. 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, chance for a chat then; nor was there writer, her secretary and Miss Virginia managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, The Downs Publishing Company, Philadelphia, when she had finished, for everything was Nordon, her close friend and confidante. Pa.; Editor, George M. Downs, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; Manag- Hampton, Philadelphia, Pa.; Business Man- etc. and That was a fine place for a confidential ing Editor. A. E. ready to “shoot”—camera up, — agers, None. Anita started work at once. chat, wasn’t it? 2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of It was all over in about fifteen minutes, However, while I waited for Anita to individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per I get chance. get her little toque on her brown curls, I and I thought surely would my cent or more of the total amount of stock.) But no! About nine million kids, more or looked around the dressing room. It’s a Wm. Spier, Philadelphia, Pa.; George M. Downs, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. less, surrounded her and followed her to regular, practical dressing room, but it known bondholders, mortgagees, and other one side of the reflects its “particular” owner. The fur- 3. That the the railing running along security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total park. They made her one of them. They niture was white enamel, trimmed in light amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None. clung to her hands, her cloak, her dress, and blue, the “things” on the dresser are paragraphs next above, giving the names with as she walked. silver, and the wardrobe closet, with its 4. That the two she chattered them of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, holders railing and sat white lace curtains, is like a vision of fairy- contain not only the list of stockholders and security Then she hopped up on the cases as they appear upon the books of the company aut also, in there with the youngsters pressing around land. There’s more pretty, colorful where the stockholder or security holder appears u Pon the fiduciary books of the company as trustee or in any other gownery in it than I ever saw in my life such her. relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom the said two paragraphs They wanted a speech. before. trustee is acting, is given; also that contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowledge and all I under which “What shall I speak about?” she asked. That was about had the time to belief as to the. circumstances and conditions stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the America responded lustily: observe, when Anita seated herself and I in And young books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities owner and this amant followed suit. a capacity other than that of a bona fide ; “The war!” or has no reason to believe that any other person, association, “All right,” said Anita; and she delivered “I want to write a story about you,” corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. a serious little speech on patriotism. 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A Bare Sense of Courtesy Impressionistic Portraiture She Knew Her Place Making It Easy for Himself mu Happy is the sense of humor of Mike, a New Yorker who never A woman, one of 30,000 British For four consecutive nights the the sailor. Several times each week lost his brogue, was “Over There” working for the Y. M. C. A., was hotel man had watched his fair, we are inspected for indications of with the A. E. F., and his two assigned to scrub the Eagle Hut timid guest fill her pitcher at the measles or scarlet fever. As the companions happened to be an floor in London. She had done water-cooler. first sign is a rash on the stomach, Englishman and a Scotsman. These little manual work in her life, but “Madam,” he said on the fifth it is here that we are inspected. two gave their Yankee friend a accepted the job without protest night, “if you would ring, this

mum There is a cry by whoever first sees lively time with their jokes and and went down on her knees with a would be done for you.” the visiting surgeon of “Attention!”; teasing. pail of hot water, a cloth and a cake “But where is my bell?” asked then comes the word, “Belly in- One day Mike was called away, of soap. Soon the water in the pail the lady. spection,” and we fall into line, and left his coat hanging on a nail. was black. A man in uniform “The bell is beside your bed,” and with our blouses and shirts The Englishman and Scotsman, passed. The woman looked up and replied the proprietor. pulled up above our breeches march seeing some white paint near, seized asked if he would mind emptying “That the bell!” she exclaimed. past the doctor. It was a Texan the opportunity of painting a the pail and refilling it with clean “Why, the boy told me that was who, with a fine disregard for the donkey’s head on the back of water. the fire alarm, and that I was not majesty of our goldstriped surgeon, Mike’s coat. There was a pause, then this to touch it on any account!” secured from the clothing depot The latter soon returned, and reply a paper stencil, such as we use looking first at his coat, and then “Dammit, Madam, I’m an of- to mark our clothing, and with fixing his eye on his fellow fighters, ficer!” Easily Explained black paint lettered his bare stomach said slowly: “Begorra! and which This time there was no pause, but “You say that neither of your with morning, doctor.” of you two has wiped your face on like a flash the scrubwoman retorted “Good stenographers wants a vacation There are times when even an my coat?” “Dammit, officer, I’m a duchess!” this year. That’s singular.” officer laughs. “Not at all. You see I recently hired a handsome young secretary, Overcame the Difficulty and neither of the girls is willing A little girl was sent by her to go away and leave the field to mother to the grocer’s with a bottle ONE DOLLAR FOR YOUR the other one.” for a quart of vinegar. mmmiim “But, mamma,” said the little FUNNIEST JOKE one, “I can’t say that word." Fit “But you must try,” said the Parke—I can’t make up my mind mother, “for I must have vinegar, HAT'S the funniest joke they should be passed along what to do with that girl of mine. else send.” and there’s no one to you ever heard ? In a freely. Write down the fun- W She is very extravagant, talks like So the little girl went with the ever heard normal lifetime everyone niest joke you and a streak, and is almost wholly bottle, and as she reached the hears a great many jokes, send it to The Photo-Play irresponsible. of the store she pulled the

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