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Contents (Illustrated Mr. and Mrs. Rin Reginald Denny (Full-page portrait) 25 Tin Tin and their youngest) 5 Making the Cartoons Move. Constance Howard (Full-page portrait) ... 6 By Adrien Falnieres 26

Rudolph Valentino (Full-page portrait). . 7 Brides and Brides-to-be 28 Mary Philbin (Full-page portrait) 8 A Star Who Can't Read His Fan Mail. Estelle Taylor (Full-page portrait) 9 By Robert G. Blackburn 30 Harold “Red” Grange (Full-page portrait) 10 Editorial. By Creighton Peet 31 Francis X. Bushman, Jr. (Full-page Colonel Tim McCoy, “High Eagle.” portrait) H By Josephine MacDoivell 32 William Haines (Full-page portrait) 12 At the Cinema. By Creighton Peet 33 “Bardelys the Magnificent." The Girl on the Cover 35 By Ruella Geisinger 13 At the Theater 36 The Christie Comedy Girls 16 Golcondas of Film Gold.

Fox Started With a Penny Arcade. By Henry MacMaho.: . . 38 By R. M. Hyams 17 Screen Fashions. Jetta Goudal—Aloof and Mysterious. By Florence Allen Chambers 39 By Charles J. Durantz 18 The Public Forum 43 Jetta Goudal (Full-page portrait) 19 “Rire et Faire Rire." Pauline Starke. By Creighton Beet 20 By Constance Tahnadge 44 Lionel Barrymore (Full-page portrait) .... 21 A Comedienne From Poland. Scenes From Annie Laurie 22 By Katherine Albert 52 A “Typical American” Who is British. Paragraphs Pertaining to Players and By Geo. H. Wilson 24 Pictures. By Renee Van Dyke 53

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& m Photo—Harold Dean Carsey Qonstance Howard

The radiant comedienne who delighted her followers in “Hold That Lion!’ will next appear with Richard Rarthehness in “The White Black Sheep”

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Photo—A. Kenyon Newman c Estelle Iaylor

Championships may come and go, but with such gracious beauty and talent in his own

home , Mr. Dempsey is still quite ivell off.

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Harold “Red” (grange

The spontaneity and the powerful but easy grace of this football player-actor assure his forthcoming film of a warm reception

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sent by the King to hinder him from reaching Lovedan. “Your pardon, my master, but we are on the King’s business and must know your name.” Confidently Bardelys slowly rose and with a smile gave the first name that leaped to his tongue. “I am Rene de Lesperon, at your service.” Too late he saw that he had given the name of the man for whom they were really e searching. A sword was held within an inch of his breast and the three other dragoons stood with hands on hilts. But the gallant cavalier was not so easily captured. Leaping backward and snatching a stool, Bardelys crashed it over the captain’s head. Before clumsy hands could unsheath another blade he had darted out the door and leaped to the back of a saddled horse. Down the road he galloped. After him flew the wild bullets of the pursuing troopers. One shot tore through the flesh of his left shoulder. He decided to try an old trick. Sharply reining his mount, he wheeled and disappeared in the woods by the side of the road just before the unsuspecting riders dashed by.

HE wound made him weak and dizzy. He found his horse water shy and so accident, but in T ill luck Bardelys dropped the locket ’which he had picked up by By was forced to swim across a stream alone. ^ which Roxalanne saw proof of his treachery This exertion sapped his strength, but he staggered onward with his eyes on the pen- dragoons and carried back? Whose bed was an intelligent forehead and framed by natural nanted turrets of Lovedan visible above the he in His wound had been dressed curls, was looking toward his bed. His gaze tree tops. now? he by the bandages that encased his followed the graceful figure as the two came Lovedan was a grand old castle. Standing knew shoulder. near him. Only an exertion of will power on a high hill, its rough stone walls had invalid weakly turned his head in a enabled Bardelys to close his eyelids before defied destruction by man or the elements. The line with murmuring voices. the canopy was drawn aside. For years it had stood thus, looking down The two women looked at him for a mo- on the surrounding countryside. Tonight it old man, evidently master ment, then the younger bent to adjust a loose watched with the stars the crazy actions of STATELY of the house, and a man servant stood bandage. When her fingers touched his a wounded man crossing the drawbridge. A whispering over some problem. A gentle knock shoulder Bardelys was unable to control his Bardelys had reached his destination at last, on tbe door, followed by the entrance of two emotions longer and his eyes snapped open. but he did not know it. His feverish brain interrupted their conversation. As He looked deep into her frank, startled eyes had even forgotten the mission he was on, women, the two women walked across the spacious for a thrilling second. Then, drawing herself and, weakened by his wound, Bardelys col- Bardelys was able to study them. up, the girl informed the men that Bardelys lapsed just inside the Lovedan gate. chamber he understood in a glance. A had awakened, and without another glance His eyelids fluttered and for an instant The older figure for size likable the women left the room. Bardelys saw the polished beams of a ceiling. face that matched the — revealing no character save a love for Since the beautiful girl was no longer in At first his senses refused to register, then but Bardelys turned his attention to more suddenly he remembered everything. The scandal and court gossip. sight, important, if less picturesque, matters. last thing he recalled was a throbbing pain When his eyes turned to the younger, noble gentleman was standing beside in his left shoulder that made each step an Bardelys ceased to think at all. Familiar The Bardelys saw that he was being effort. Steps that were supposed to carry with only shallow Court women, he had never his bed. partly filled with medicated him to Castle Lovedan. How far had he dreamed that such a creature existed. offered a goblet the man observed gone? Had he been overtaken by the King’s A frank, unpainted face, surmounted by water—or poison. When Bardelys’ hesitation he said with a smile: “Do not be alarmed, Monsieur, I am the Comte de Lovedan, and it is a pleasure to serve such a beloved leader of our cause as Monsieur de Lesperon.” The potion was gulped down to conceal the astonishment of the drinker.

NSUED a long conversation. Bardelys E questioned and Lovedan answered and explained. When it was over and he was left alone to rest, he thought over what he had learned through the conversation. A man servant had discovered his uncon- scious form in the court and reported it to his master. An examination revealed the papers and locket which established Bardelys as Rene de Lesperon, a rebel who planned the downfall of the King and his party. This man Lovedan had never seen, but he sanctioned his cause and aided it in every

( Continued on page 46)

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| Qhristie fi.ARYL LINCOLN plays i-V heroine in those hectic short comedies where the hoy friend or husband drives his Ford brick Qomedy through walls, delicatessen stores, barber shops and lakes, usually ending up on a church steeple or front porch Cjirls

A NOTHER girl with a hard

** life is Frances Lee, who, although she is only nineteen, the poor dear, has to stand for the peculiar husbands which movie comedies provide just as the other girls do. She was in a dancing act before coming to the screen

/CHARLOTTE MERRIAM also has to endure her quota of brickbats, socks on the head, and tumbles down stairs. It really seems outrageous that any girl whose hair curls so de- liciously should have to put up with this sori of thing

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William Fox, head of a series of great film studios, and a chain of theaters, was once a cloth- sponger on New York’s lower East Side

Started fVith a ‘T'enny Aircade

By R. M. HYAMS

ECAUSE he had been cheated in the hordes of patrons streaming into the place. So ning to attract attention. It was on a very dif- of to- purchase of a penny arcade and wished he bought the arcade and prepared for a clean- ferent basis from the gigantic industry B in amusement enter- up. day. There were no feature films in those to recoup some picture theatres. Anyone prise, William Fox got into the motion pic- No sooner had the deal been consummated days—no palatial ture industry. Now he can well afford to than he found that the business of the arcade with the courage to predict the day when fea- laugh at the man who palmed off a worth- was wholly fictitious. The former owner tures would run for as much as a week on undoubtedly have been re- less “store show” on him, for he is several had hired the bogus patrons whom Mr. Fox Broadway would examination by an times a millionaire and head of the vast Fox had seen streaming into the place during the garded as a fit subject for Film Corporation. three days that he watched it. alienist. William Fox, the theatre owner, saw A little more than two decades ago Mr. But industry and for him- Fox was in a cloth-sponging business on the UT this discovery failed to daunt the fu- a big future for the new man, however, was lower East Side of New York City. Even B ture film magnate. He set about the self. His start as a film the Greater in this trade, so utterly different from that in task of building up the business of the arcade, humble enough. He formed New which he has made his great success, the ag- and, in a few weeks, saw his labors rewarded York Film Rental Company with offices at set him- gressiveness, vision and industry of the man by a steady, lucrative patronage. Encouraged 116 East Fourteenth street, and thus film distributor for the made themselves apparent, for, starting as an by this experience, he branched out and took self up in business as a ordinary workman, he came to be foreman, over two other similar ventures, operating New York territory. manager, and eventually owner of the estab- them with great success. From the beginning the company grew industry itself did. The lishment. At this time the Fox “offices” consisted of faster even than the gradually branched out and estab- About this time a friend interested Mr. desk room in an office at 24 Union Square, concern offices the East. It consisted Fox in a penny arcade in Brooklyn. The pro- Manhattan. lished through one reel films prietor went to Mr. Fox, who was then in From an arcade owner, Mr. Fox became a entirely of buying and two film producers and distribut- his early twenties and had not been schooled theatre owner. He leased the Dewey Theatre from the pioneer theatres. in the subtleties of business as practised in in Fourteenth street and the Gotham Theatre ing them to New York, and informed him that the arcade in 125th street. The leasing of these two was making more money on the investment playhouses was declared to be one of the big- HE business continued with constantly for several years, but than any other business establishment in the gest theatrical coups up to that time in New T increasing success satisfied with the type of world that he knew of. Mr. Fox watched York. Mr. Fox was not on page the arcade for the next three days and saw This was when the film business was begin- ( Continued 46)

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CINEMA ART

Jetta Qoiidal— (oof and c .’Mysterious

Of An Intensely Emotional Temperament, This French Actress Avoids Both Society and Publicity

By CHARLES J. DURANTZ

NSCRUTABLE and silent as the Sphinx; every player must watch the other to see that any in Hollywood, and anyone seeing her for

aloof, shunning alike the interest of is developed which I the some new technique not the first time is made to feel Dat they domi- curious and the adoration of fans; living would leave him or her far behind in the nate her features completely and almost to the alone, and apart from others of her profession frantic race for film honors. The trouble exclusion of all the other features in her har- —thus might be described Jetta Goudal—the with Jetta Goudal, her critics believe, is that moniously-moulded face. This inclination to enigma of Hollywood. she fails to give away enough of her trade exaggerate her eyes is due, in part, to their Few persons with whom the world comes secrets to enable her many satellites among unusual brilliance and animation. into familiar contact are able, as Miss Goudal the profession to copy them and perhaps be- They reflect the duality of her nature, for is, to exude that complete state of mysticism come able enigmas themselves. one moment they are literally blazing with and sense of aloofness that leaves a vast audi- high-lights as some tempestuous mood possesses ence of admirers spellbound and conscious of LOSE analysis of Miss Goudal reveals her; the next they are dull and spiritless as a power they cannot quite fathom. C that she is a conflict of temperaments they mirror the meek and sensitive part of her Hollywood loves its mysteries with the within herself—one part of her nature has nature. Jetta Goudal can speak an entire same fervor that Paris adores its burlesque exactly fitted her to bear the significant titles oration with her eyes, and an oration, by the duellings in the secluded nooks of the Bois. of “firebrand” and “the cocktail of emotion” way, that includes many finer shadings of ex- Both are things to intrigue the fancy, to —the latter term was invented by Cecil B. pression than the written or spoken word is speculate upon and perhaps to fill those idle DeMille in describing her; the other part of capable of. hours at the dinner table where rumors share her nature is a sensitive form of modesty that equally ISS GOUDAL is a distinctively differ- in importance with good food. Jetta is largely responsible for her peculiar aversion ent type. She has brown hair, brown Goudal is the riddle that stumps the wits of to society. M eyes, with straight black eyelashes and eye- the screen intellectuals sitting through the These diverse and unmated qualities are brows. Those unusual points of difference boresome teas and the elaborate dinners that suitable ingredients for a deep, unsolvable are augmented by an oval face and an unusu- occasionally punctuate the routine of Holly- mystery, but two things more above all else ally erect carriage which gives her the air of wood’s hard-working stars. have established her fame as an enigma and a medieval princess. It is not that her charming presence at these these things are her eyes. She has the most she first arrived in Hollywood from harmless affairs provokes discussion, for Miss emotional and expressive eyes on the When a rather average success on the stage, Mr. De- Goudal, strangely, never attends any func- screen. Without doubt these eyes have en- Mille looked into those dark, round eyes and tions, no matter how illustrious and enter- abled her to bring to-the films a new technique taining found something that was startlingly new, and are the hosts and guests. She prefers in acting—a method of emotional expression in a city where newness is at a premium this — and in this one respect she deliberately vio- that differs from the exaggerated movements was a discovery worth prompt decision. Miss lates the tradition of her profession—to stay of the old stage, that consists in saying it with Goudal was hired on the spot and her first at home where a wise personal maid sits in the eyes instead of with the voice and hands. judgment great chance came in support of Rod La upon the timid voices that come Jetta Goudal is as unlike the average star over the telephone. Rocque in “The Coming of Amos.” as it is possible to conceive of an actress being It so happens It is interesting to know just what it was that if the voices are not just she is not of the standard type of beauty that that Mr. DeMille saw on the occasion of his right or their missions of little importance, American artists have immortalized on the the meeting with the star. suave apologist for Miss Goudal explains covers of magazines. She is anything but a them away nicely, “My impression of Miss Goudal,” he said, leaving more persons to type—Miss Goudal is different. “was that she was out of keeping with the ponder the enigma. This would lead even The reason for the difference is easy to see the most skeptical to the belief pity spirit of the motion picture world and that that the title it is in her eyes—eyes that curse you, she belonged to some more romantic age; her she has earned has some reason for its exist- you, love and caress you according to their mannerisms and odd forms of speech seemed ence. moods. Their large retinae seem to hold all to suggest to me one of the great women of of the sorrow and joy, innocence and sophis- mystery who every now and then crop up in HE riddle of what she does with her tication possible, while her material body history. I recall vividly that I was disturbed T spare time after studio hours is perhaps moves gracefully and alertly. and uneasy when those eyes first turned upon nobody’s business, and because the highly me. I felt as if a battery of powerful search- emotional little French actress hardly ever CTRESSES achieve stardom in many lights were hunting me out and when I finally talks about herself or the matter on hand a A ways. Gloria Swanson, it will be re- recovered I knew that Jetta Goudal had some- mystery of great depth is unconsciously estab- membered, was an unknown bathing beauty thing no other actress of my acquaintance had lished, and one that many a Sherlock Holmes working for Mack Sennett when Cecil B. De- —eyes. of the screen capital has tried to solve in vain. Mille saw great possibilities in the manner in “With her the organ of sight is more than She occupies an elaborate suite of rooms at which she leaned against a door—an insignifi- a matter of mere seeing—it is her stock in an exclusive hotel to which she hurries when cant gesture of hopelessness and despair at trade, much as others of our famous actresses her day’s work is done, like any other average what she considered was her inability to pro- have certain physical attributes upon which person, and there she stays until it is time to gress faster. they depend for success.” go to work again. Mr. DeMille saw genius budding in that Miss Goudal was born in beautiful Ver- In any other walk of life this retiring dis- unconscious pose, even as he recognized the sailles, France, and fifteen years later, despite position—for such it really is—would go un- motion picture possibilities in the vivacity of the stern objections of her father, a Parisian noticed, and many nice things would be said Leatrice Joy; the imagination of Jeanie Mc- lawyer, she left the classrooms at the Sorbonne about it, but in Hollywood customs are very Pherson and the Americanism of William and joined a traveling repertoire stock com- different, and the person who retires with the Boyd. Miss Goudal lacks the bombastic pany playing such famous old classics as setting sun is given less notice than those who physical emotionalism of Miss Joy, for she is “Sappho” and “L’Aiglon.” The strong don’t retire at all. possess a slender and nervous type ; she doesn’t personal force that always animated her served For purely professional reasons it is impor- the easy, languorous carriage of a Gloria Swan- her in such good stead that within eight tant that one half of the motion picture profes- son the sense of humor of a Marie Prevost, ; months she was playing leading roles in the sion knows in exact detail just what the other or the ethereality of a Lillian Gish yet she — company’s dramatic presentations. half is thinking of and doing. The reason has a good percentage of each of those quali- being that actors and actresses, if they want to ties where they are the most easily seen—in ER dramatic ability was earning her con- live in permanence, must never fall behind in her eyes. H siderable praise from widely separated the fads and eccentricities of their rivals; M iss Goudal’s eyes are by far the largest of (Continued on page Jf 47)

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Photo—Kenneth Alexander Jetta Cjoudal

appear Hers is a foreign, almost exotic beauty which allures and baffles. She will next in “Fighting Love”

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CINEMA ART

Pauline Starke

The Heroine of Love s Blindness ” Sends JJp a Cheer Because She No Longer Has to Wear Old Clothes

By CREIGHTON PEET

seen the smoke of battle, and marching armies. still, she thinks of them, and that in itself is “He couldn’t get me to cry at first,” said strange, is it not? Why should the girl who Miss Starke recalling the incident, “so he wandered through the imaginative mazes of scolded and abused me until I simply had to Mark Twain’s “Connecticut Yankee in King cry. Unfortunately, however, I didn’t cry Arthur’s Court” even speak of such a play very long, and I am afraid my finish wasn’t as ‘Lulu Belle.” Yet she did. so good.” “I don’t know why that type of role appeals But Griffith saw possibilities in her and to me,” she added, “except as the exotic ap- gave her her start. She was born, by the way, peals to all of us—because it is strange, un- familiar, and looks probably more interesting than it possibly could be. No, I don’t sup- pose I shall ever do anything quite like ‘Lulu Belle’ or ‘Kiki.’ It’s just that the idea of the thing fascinates me. "Of course, now that I am definitely head- ing toward a very light comedy I must give up any serious thought of the lurid and the mysterious.”

HE is fond of sports. She follows the ‘Pauline Starke S foam of her surf-board in the perpetual summer of the Pacific, plays polo unusually well and takes a try at golf. Although she HERE’S an engaging frankness about owns no dogs of her own she is keenly in- Pauline Starke. She does not try to terested in whippet races, and never misses an T give is the impression that she super- opportunity to attend one. Like any good human and is doing you an extraordinary actress, she is as interested in the stage as in favor in speaking to you. She talks about her the cinema, and takes in all the plays she can job, her ambitions, her likes and dislikes, and when in the East. herself, much as you and I do when we are The German films are splendid, she thinks. among friends. From talking with foreign actors now work- She does not deliver long, improbable ing in America she has learned that they take rhapsodies about “her art.” She likes to play in things in a much more leisurely fashion over light comedies and wear pretty clothes and there. says so in as many words. “I often wish we could work that way “You don’t know how sick I got of wear- here,” she said. “I should think it would be ing rags,” she confided. “I played in ever so much more satisfying to take months and so many pictures where my costumes were all months to each film, make experiments, and tattered and dirty, as in ‘Shoes That Danced,’ be sure you were right. But, of course, things and ‘Irish Eyes,’ and ‘The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.’ are so efficient in America. Pauline swims channels and oceans, rides “The new camera effects are interesting, “In the last year or so I have been doing surf-boards, and does all the rest of those too. I think some of the trick shots are modern comedies in which I could wear the feminine things simply marvelous, particularly those in kind of clothes I like. It may be necessary ” ‘Variety, ’ and ‘So This Is Paris.’ to have shabby dresses in some parts, but I in Joplin, Missouri, and went to school in have to wear them and I hate rags Kansas City. Her first real part was in “I’m working on ‘Not Herbert’ now, and “Puppets,” with De Wolf Hopper, and her while it’s a mystery comedy I still have a greatest success was in the recent “Sun-Up,” chance to dress the way I like.” although “The Connecticut Yankee” was very Miss Starke has dark eyes and dark hair, popular, too. which is bobbed and then tucked in a bit to Some other pictures in which she has ap- resemble long hair. She dresses smartly and peared are “Bright Lights,” “Innocent’s makes every visit to the Eastern studios a Progress,” “The Atom,” “The Forgotten shopping tour as well as a business trip. Fifth Woman,” “The Devil’s Cargo” and “Love’s Avenue and its windows fascinate her. She Blindness.” spends hours of each visit East riding and While she prefers walking up and down in front of her favorite light comedy roles stores. she also has an odd interest in LMOST everybody in the United States exotic characteriza- A can recall Pauline Starke’s first appear- tions, such as “Lulu ance in the movies, although nobody knew her Belle,” and talks name at the time, and it was not on any pro- half seriously of gram. D. W. Griffith selected little Pauline, wanting to play then about thirteen, to play the part of one them. Of course, no of the children who are crying on the director would ever widow’s knee in “The TPrth of a Nation.” be insane enough to The scene is a memorable one, being taken cast this slim, pretty, You have read about what the other stars have for breakfast, but from a hillside, on which the women and modern, athletic girl you can actually see what this girl eats. The dainty table is set children are seated. far In the distance can be in such a part—but in her Hollywood home

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Lionel Barrymore

A character study of this distinguished actor as he appears in Jules Verne’s "Mysteri- ous Island Mr. Barrymore plays the part of the insane submarine inventor who attempts to destroy the entire Russian fleet

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The fragile Lillian Gish will shortly appear as Annie Laurie in a photoplay written about the old song. The en- emy clans are holding a peace confer- ence where she meets John (Norman Kerry), and although she is a daughter of the Campbell Clan, she falls in love with him, the son of her bitterest en- emies, the Mac Ians. (Above) Hobart Bosworth as the Mac Ian Laird

(Left) A jealous member of her own clan resents the attentions of a Mac Ian, and leads his men against them. In the fighting which follows the Laird loses his life defending his castle

Scenes Jrom

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(Above) Annie first realizes the depth of John’s love when she finds the song he has written about her — “Annie Laurie.” Then, after one of those mis- understandings without which no melo- drama could live to its proper length, he is led to think that she has be- trayed him in favor of a member of her own clan who also loved her

(Right) But when she saves his life at the risk of her own and brings the warring clans to peace, all is explained and forgiven, and a feast is held in the old castle

zAnnie Laurie

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zjf “ Typical American” IVho Is British

Reginald Denny Believes in Living, Working, and Playing at Break-neck Speed

By GEO. H. WILSON

NLESS the morning papers should ac- IS audacity, too, seems to bear the un- T is safe to say that in his mind there is claim a new hero before this story goes H mistakable mark of reality, and it would I no thought of violating law. There is U to press, Carpentier is the difficult to imagine the of private young man be Denny only the thought of fulfilling the law of speed, who stands for France. The Prince of Wales life to be substantially different from the which is his life. Rules that begin with “thou fills the niche as the “typical Englishman” so Denny of the screen. shalt not” might as well be written in Polish. well that there is hardly a ripple of contrary But what can be the life of this high-strung He can’t read the words. opinion. But who is “the typical American,” individual when he isn’t making movies that The forest and game laws he respects as if the young man who looks the part, acts the thrill us, chill us, and make us laugh? Can he had written them himself for the protection part is and generally accepted as typical of it be possible that he goes home to his wife and of his own domain. It would not be surpris- these United States? daughter like any other citizen, to read the ing to hear him say, “The earth belongs to me If a referendum were taken to decide the evening paper until he yawns and falls asleep and my friends, and they’re all my friends.” question, there is little doubt where most of while his wife tries to catch up with the mend- As a host he is unbelievable. When the the people would look for their man. A few ing and complains that they never go any- guest arrives he all but hands over the deed years ago they would have looked for him on where or do anything—does he sometimes roll to the house and lot. There is plenty of the the battlefield. A few more years ago they up his sleeves and help wash the dishes on best of everything, and it’s all yours. To his would have looked for him on the stage. To- the cook’s night out—does he get tired of be- way of thinking there is no waste except a day, beyond a doubt, they would find him on ing the immaculate glass of fashion and fall wasted opportunity to be lavishly generous the screen. into the comfortable luxury of old clothes as and open-hearted. Perhaps no one can say with much certainty soon as he leaves the movie lot—are the There are plenty of servants around but that single any motion picture idol wears such women crazy about him, is he crazy about they haven’t much to do except get out of the a preponderance of laurels that he would be them, and, if so, what effect does this have way. He likes to haul his pals to the kitchen named by the total population as “the typical on the missus and on home life in general? and make the sandwiches himself. No self- American,” but it is safe to say that millions respecting cook can be made to cut the bread of people in this country and vast numbers thick enough for a man. This always oc- LL these questions and many more assail abroad have come to look upon Reginald casions a protest from the dainty Mrs. Denny, A the Denny fan as he leaves the theater Denny 'as the man who breathes the spirit of a vicacious brunette, who likes it thin. And after an endless string of astonishing adven- America—the man whose personality has be- so, like her illustrious husband, she slices her tures. At the risk of disappointing the home- come recognized as American. own. loving majority whose dream of earthly bliss No one can say how long this national flair And what of his wife? Does she stand by is to feed the chickens, have a good dinner, for Denny will last. It may die out as soon moaning at the outgo as compared with the put the baby to sleep, take in a movie, and as this story is printed, for it is said that no income? By no means. She admires her hus- then go for a spin in the outskirts and back man can be a hero to his valet or his wife, and band, endorses his method and helps him to to bed, it must be admitted that Denny has the purpose of this article is to reveal a few spend gloriously. little in common with this steadfast throng. intimate facts about Denny that only valets When Denny stages a personally conducted Far from being ready to rest after produc- or wives are supposed to know. feed, one peculiarity is noticed. There is a great ing a swift screen sequence that leaves the economy of dishes, for Denny is famously supporting cast flat on its back and fit for stingy with china silver. This is due to OMBSHELL number one will be ex- and nothing but recuperation, the finish gong is the fact that fully half his meals are eaten B ploded at once. Reginald Denny is a Denny’s cue to leap with the joy of being beside campfire or aboard his yacht where born subject of Great Britain. If this cuts a free to run and play like the devil. No longer is a pan. him out of the All-American Idol contest, he one lucky to have a cup and mess will he be compelled to hang around waiting By reason of the same training, he washes the is already finished. But it doesn’t, or he for the director to give him permission to would have been finished long ago before he dishes himself and expects the company to dry — kill himself in scene that calls for super half a ship-shape. ex- became an American citizen. them and put everything An speed. Now he can be himself. he Now tremist in everything, the kitchen police party Of course they wouldn’t let an American can exert himself ALL the time until the next is carried on until the frying pan has been strut the British stuff in England, but this is production begins. scoured with grit and the spigots polished. a free country, and the father of it was a It might have a better influence on the naturalized British subject. Ben Hendricks, Jr., Denny’s sparring partner youth of the land if one were to smooth the and camping side kick, who also supports the On the screen Denny is a highly charged facts over, and say that Denny is steady, and body of magnetism and physical energy. star on the screen, is always there as first industrious, loves his work, and aims only to pot-scraper. is not in Without apparent effort he dominates every assistant Mrs. Denny perfect himself in the art of the cinema. The this. is no job in situation. Handsome, appealing, a perfect on Dish washing woman’s truth (you can take it or leave it) is, in his the mansion. dresser, strong, virile, and quietly conscious of Denny own immortal words, “Gosh, I hate to work!” an untapped reservoir of power, he rides high But there are other reasons why the Ro- through such screaming misadventures as HILE the making of a picture is in tarians, the Moderation League, the law and “California Straight Ahead,” “What Hap- Wprogress Denny spends his spare time order group, particularly the National pened to Jones,” “Where Was I?” “Skinner’s and playing in his private gymnasium, swimming, Thrift League, never be likely to hold Dress Suit,” “Rolling Home,” and “Take It would driving, speed boat riding, fishing in neighbor- him up as a model. From Me.” ing waters, boxing, playing tennis, etc. He takes long shots and hazards that give His enormous salary slips through his He used to fly every morning until the us gooseflesh to the finger tips, and the su- fingers like a mist, with the exception of a Universal Pictures Corporation decided that preme confidence with which he sails through small weekly allotment that is deposited to his his safety was worth something like a million his movie adventures somehow strikes us as credit to take care of him in old age, if any. dollars to the company. They had him in- being genuine. He makes the thing ring true. This will probably be news to him if he reads sured for an outlandish sum, and insurance It is easy to picture him rising to a situation it, for it is not unlikely that he has forgotten companies declined the risk until he agreed to in the same way in real life. We find him in that there is such an arrangement. He can’t give up his airplane jaunts. the most embarrassing positions—dilemmas be annoyed with such trifles. Life is too The great American public may be again that would crush the best of us—but he sails precious. There is no time to be lost in get- disappointed to learn that golfing is not in through with a smiling audacity that awakens ting the gang into the car and driving madly his repertory of sports. He assigns no reason admiration and envy, marries the girl, and to his estate, violating both the speed law for this neglect. It is probably because there lives happy ever after. and the law of gravity. ( Continued on page 47)

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Edward Thayer Monroe Reginald Tdenny

Charming, and radiant with power, he is as audacious and successful in real life as in his pictures

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These six drawings were needed to make Paul Terry’s Henry Cat do one simple little Charleston step

CMaking the Qartoons ChfCove

By ADRIEN FALNIERES

ID you see a cartoon character smear loved of such animals, while the almost human edies. To keep production work on schedule, himself all over the screen of your local animal characters which rollick through the a cartoonist must make from 100 to 200 in- D theater this cat week? A with a de- Life Cartoons are rapidly becoming quite as dividual drawings daily. tachable tail, a clown who picked himself up popular. Both of these cartoon series are re- With a scenario completed, the artist in from the paper on which he was drawn and leased twice each month by Educational Film charge of the studio gives a schedule of the jumped out of the window to escape his parent Exchanges, Inc. different scenes to be produced to the anima- artist? A romance between two monkeys in- Other well-known comedy figures are Bill tors. These artists or animators, in turn, terrupted by a meddlesome elephant? study the story and decide on the places where Possibly you have wondered how these car- they can insert some “funny business,” al- toons are made? You already know, perhaps, though this is not so essential at the Life Car- that they are photographs of real drawings toon Studios, for the schedule provides tht made by comic artists, and that they require funny situations to be inserted and descriptions days and days to complete, and take infinite of the ways in which they are to be inserted patience. But you probably don’t realize just in the comedies. In addition, the animators how much skill and patience actually go into at this studio are original their making. provided with sketches so they can see graphically what takes place in each scene. Thus, if the character ARTOON comedies, now one of the is to be shown climbing out of a window, the C most universally followed of the shorter original sketch depicts the figure about to climb features on a motion picture theater’s program, out, and the scenario gives details as to how require virtually as many people to produce as the actual climbing feat is to be enacted. In a one-reel comedy, and as a rule they require some 500 feet of film, the animators are fur- considerably more time to complete. It takes a nished with about forty-five scene models in staff of from twelve to fifteen people two one film of a single Life Cartoon Comedy. weeks to finish an animated cartoon picture which is shown in less than fifteen minutes on At the Sullivan Studios these details are left the theater screen. largely in the hands of the animators. For Animal characters have been used with suc- example, if the scene requires the principal cess in many of these cartoon comedies, for it character to be chased out on a trapeze, as is High Flat Harold, the ingenious but picture seeing done in a recent Felix the Cat comedy, and appears that motion fans enjoy dastardly villain of the Life Cartoon four-footed characters go through the same an- Comedies perform remarkable acrobatic stunts, the ani- decide which is the most comical tics and experiences that human beings do. mator must J “Felix the Cat,” internationally known as an Nolan’s Krazy Kat and the immortal Ignatz, manner in which he can make the black cat animated cartoon figure, is one of the best- who also hurl their bricks nightly in evening go through these actions. newspapers. They are released by the Film Thus it will be seen that the task of mak- Booking Offices. ing the scenes really funny is left largely in Then there are the delightful animals in Paul the hands of the animator or artist. And on Terry’s “Aesop’s Film Fables,” who display him depends to a great extent the success of such astounding originality, and who have se- the comedy when it is completed. cured such an immense following. These are sponsored by Pathe. Another favorite is Ko- VERY draw- Ko the Clown, who emerges from an inkwell E ing is done at the beginning of each comedy. The story first in pencil on

is closed only when the artist has captured the transparent sheets little fellow, stuck him back in the bottle, and of paper, the art-

pushed cork in securely. These ist making each films are issued by Red Seal. figure two to three inches in OUR to nine thousand height. Two holes Fseparate drawings are need- which have been ed for every cartoon reel. punched in the These must be made by hand, paper hold it ex- a tedious and slow process, but actly in the cor- one which is essential because rect position on no process has been invented the large draw- The “Out -of - the - Inkwell” cartoons use more or less hu- thus far which will give the ing board on two Farmer A l Falfa of the “Aesop’s Film Fables’’ holds up man figures, while the other cartoons the lifelike move- fit Mike the Monk while the six little monks look on in pegs which comedies usually stick to ani- astonishment ments required in these com- these holes. mals

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When the first drawing has dred feet of film every two been completed, another blank weeks. So you can see that

sheet of paper is slipped onto the process is not so simple as the pegs of the drawing board it appears on the screen. by the artist and the next posi- “Not every cartoonist can tion is drawn. The position be an ‘animator.’ Many art- of the figures on the drawing ists, accustomed to see in their are changed to suit the action mind’s eye single pictures and he intends to carry into effect. poses, cannot analyze the se-

For instance, if the figure crets of motion, cannot visu-

is to walk across the street, it alize the course of action neces- will need about 40 drawings, sary to change from one the character moving about a position to another. For quarter of an inch on every example, the varying positions drawing. To make the ani- of the legs, arms, and body mal run, the figure moves during a walk require an about half an inch or an inch expert who has studied the on the drawing. In other science of movement and words, the faster the cartoon knows every detail of chang- character goes, the more the ing and shifting muscular figure must be moved in each position. drawing from its previous “Screen humor is different position in the preceding Myrtle, High Hat Harold, and Mike the noble hero, in “Over the Top'’ from newspaper humor inas- sketch. As a result, the faster a Life Cartoon Comedy much as it must be grasped in the action in the comedy, the the short time it appears on fewer sketches required. not essential because, as with other pictures, the screen. You can read a newspaper joke The drawings are now sent to the tracer, the cartoon is cut and assembled after it gets twice if necessary, but you have no second who traces these pencil sketches with India back from the laboratory. Twelve out of opportunity on the screen. For that reason ink on celluloid sheets (called “cels” for fifteen producing days are needed for the simplicity and exaggeration of action is neces-

brevity). This celluloid paper is the same photographer to complete one animated car- sary, so that no sooner is the motion started size and punched at the top to fit the draw- than the observer sees what is coming. ing board pegs the same as the original paper “After the story is written, the various used for the pencil sketches. In order to do scenes are allocated to different cartoonists, this, the transparent “cel” is placed over the who make pencil drawings. Special inkers go penciled sketch. over the pencil lines with India ink, and When the tracer has finished inking in the tracers complete the scenes, adding portions scene, the “cel” goes to other artists who fill in of figures that have remained stationary.” the “blacks,” as the clothing, hats, shoes, etc. Then on the reverse side of the “cel,” the HE “Aesop’s Fables” cartoons, made by figures are painted in with gray opaque water- Paul Terry, are produced in much the

color. This is done so that when the sketches e way. Mr. Terry, by the way, was a are photographed on a background having fur- aber of the “film outfit” during the War, niture, etc., the objects will not show through. one of his first animated cartoons was an This opaque background with the figures in tomical diagram of the human body with black also causes the characters to blot out the ry organ functioning in its proper manner.

background when photographed, making them : uses the same methods of animation today appear as the human figure would in actual at he used then. His close-ups of the life. arkings of the various organs were declared

The scene is now ready to go to the camera- imarkable by army surgeons. man to be photographed. The animators pre- With the central theme of the story in pare charts showing how many exposures are to mind, Mr. Terry decides upon a few main needed on each drawing and these are sent “s characters which will best interpret the story. to the cameraman with the scenes. These screen stars are brought into being by a few skilful strokes of the pen. As the ac- REGULATION size motion picture E tion requires, minor characters are created. “ .oons The artist of the screen Aesop’s Fables then A camera is used in photographing. It is suspended three feet above the table with lens than u. that’s develops a scenario in detail. focused on the scene which is to be “shot.” the way 1 ic-. ^gan to mess “Backgrounds” are drawn. These pictures Pegs like those used by animators in drawing with technical words, nobouy but an expert take the place of the interior and exterior the sketches and the same distance apart are would understand, and this wouldn’t be of settings used in regular motion pictures, and fastened to the table. The camera is run by value. But I think the movie-goer should ( Continued oti page 48) an automatic foot pedal so that when the know something about how these comical photographer or cameraman presses it the little jiggers of the cartoon movie are made, camera takes one pic- because the popularity of this type of cinema ture. Cooper - Hewitl entertainment indicates how affectionately vapor lamps supply the the public has received it. strong illumination re- “Our cartoons run about six hundred quired, the lamps being reel feet in length. There are sixteen pho- fixed so that the light tographic exposures to the foot. If each centers on the drawings. drawing was photographed once it would The background is require 9600 to make the reel. But we now placed on the pegs, photograph each drawing twice, necessitat- remaining in this posi- ing therefore only from 4500 to 5000 draw- tion throughout the ings to complete a picture. scene. The “cels” then “The drawings themselves do not move, are photographed one but when they are photographed in sequence at a time as marked on they give the impression of motion—just Ko-Ko the Clown is the exposure chart. as the old-time ‘flip-books’ did. Preparing the central figure in cartoons for picture purposes requires the Out-of-the-Inkwell Shooting of each the Krazy Kat goes slumming with one of those Cartoons scene in continuity is a staff of ten men who make about six hun- tough neighborhood felines

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'Brides and Brides- To-Be fs

(Above) Without doubt one of the most important weddings in film society in the past month was that of Eleanor Boardman and King Vidor, who, you (< will recall, has The Big Parade” to his credit. The ceremony was solem- nized in the library of Marion Davies’ Beverly Hills home

(Left) Alberta Vaughn and Grant Withers have announced their engagement, but Alberta says they will not be married <{ until she has made good as a star”

(Right) Mae Busch’s newly

married husband, John E. Cas- sell, has nothing to do with the movies, for he is an engineer

(Left) Another notable Holly- wood engagement announced recently was that of Lew Cody, world-famous bachelor, and Mabel Normand

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(Above) Doris Kenyon and Milton Sills, often lovers on the screen, were quietly married in real life last month. The wedding was held out-of-doors and only a few friends were invited

(Left) Clara Bow, the incandes- cent little flapper of the films, and Victor Fleming, who has directed her recent pictures, have let it be known that they are soon to be married

(Right) The news of the en- gagement of Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen was a genuine surprise to cinema society. Miss Ralston has been Harold Lloyd’s leading lady in several pictures

(Left) Even a bride has to put up with this sort of expression when the groom is a comedian. Bert Roach and Gladys John- stone were married some weeks ago

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coaxing, Directing two-year-olcl “Big Boy’ is largely a matter of teasing, begging and threatening

By ROBERT G. BLACKBURN

under- recognize him now, but he was the baby in and is able to “Three Weeks,” a feature production of two stand better what is of him when years ago. He was used in similar parts in wanted pictures other feature length pictures, and then found his motion are being “shot.” his way into the comedy studio while barely best work has able to stand. His been of the apparent- kind IS attractiveness was noticed while he ly undirected about in that you might ex- H was still a youngster crawling to observe in short comedies. As soon as he was able pect shining star children when they to toddle he became a bright and among the kids playing in juvenile comedies. are unconscious of “Big Boy” in public life, but just plain White, director-in-chief, first noted his being watched — the Malcolm Sebastian to his Mother and Jack “Big Boy.” of friends exceptional ability and featured sort thing heavy shoes and So it was not long before his that you would headpiece actually became famous. hardly expect to ADIES and gentlemen, this is “Big Boy,” funny he is Malcolm Sebastian, but with a the smallest, happiest star on the lot. His real name get ever since he gained camera. It is L have seen him in “My has been called “Big Boy” Possibly you His diapers derby, and prominence in the movies. In fact, few know easy to make Kid,” which came out not so long ago. Pos- over-sized, shoes are about other title. His name “Big Boy” youngsters cry sibly you have laughed at him—or, if you are him by any only properties featured for over a year now in two- for a scene, but a very sentimental soul, shed a tear over him. has been juvenile comedies. to make a kid’s lips pucker up without ac- Anyway, he is only two years old, a full- reel start of the new season “Big tually crying, takes painstaking direction and fledged star, and the possessor of the best With the prominently featured roles and real acting. known diapers in the country. Boy” is taking a comedy star as the best of the “Big Boy” receives more mail than any other “Big Boy” is little more than three feet tall is as much Kid” he is practically the in the world. There are fan let- and probably doesn’t weigh much over fifty old-timers. In “My two-year-old requests for photographs, circulars on pounds. He’s the big leader of the gang of “whole picture.” ters, efforts of Charles Lamont, mining stock, automobiles, real estate, toilet kid players on the movie lot at the Educational The painstaking directed the youngster now for more and make-up accessories, and they all come Studios in Hollywood. Some of them are five who has are in a large degree responsible just addressed: “Big Boy,” Hollywood, Calif. or six times older than he is, but this little than a year, acting.^ The press all. for of the child’s successful His mother has saved all photographs, chap is King Clown, lording it over them much such a youngster (“Big Boy” was clippings and fan letters he has received. And With his large derby hat, big shoes, ever- director of eighteen months old when he was “Big Boy” has mastered his letters he present diaper, et al., he parades up and down less than when featured in comedies) must be somewhat will be able to read all the nice things now in front of the movie camera like a veteran of first can’t give orders as he being said about him. many seasons. of a diplomat. He grown-up actor. He must explain As a matter of fact “Big Boy” has been in would to a wants the two-year-old to the movies nearly all his life, for this young- first just what he then make him carry out his instruc- ster made his initial appearance in motion pic- do, and virtually has to play a game with tures when he was not even able to sit up by tions. He directing his pictures. himself—a three-weeks-old infant. Perhaps his youthful actors in comparatively easy to get a you don’t remember him, and naturally can t It often is youngster to do the right thing, but to get one to do exactly the right thing at the correct moment for a motion picture scene is quite different.

HE remarkable success of T “Big Boy” in comedies is due in a large respect also to the uncanny way in which the youngster follows Director La- mont’s instructions. The kid

is naturally amusing and attrac- tive, but his willingness to do as his director says goes a long way in making him so success- ful in his pictures. Many kids are funny, and at times behave very charmingly, or do very cute things, but to make them be charming and cute at the proper 1 time and also carry out the ac- tion of a film story is quite a Bonnie Barrett decides that Bee, the baby elephant, is difficult matter. “Big Boy” takes time out between shots really younger than any of them, and so deserves, the Now, “Big Boy” can talk, to talk things over with his director bottle. “Big Boy” and Ginger superintend the job

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the MN last twenty years the cinema has come to be a means of dramatic expression. Sophisticated critics to the contrary, the scientific toy is now an art, although often crude I H and childish. But it is such a young art that none is BIsl of us quite sure what to expect of it. In the matter of painting, sculpture, music, and spoken drama, we have not only a host of living critics, but generations of past achievements to judge each new work by. Reading a new novel we unconsciously compat e it with all the novels we have ever read, and all those we have ever heard of, using standards which have taken two hundred years or more to formulate. In sculp- ture we back go thousands of years. We expect to find certain characteristics in a piece of music or a poem, but we don’t know what to look in a for movie—except entertainment . If we are bored, it is bad. But if the movies are really beyond the custard pie stage—and they are- i it is high time we began to grow a few critical standards.

\HA T is a photoplay ? Is it simply a stage play with the zvords left out? Is it simply half a play? Is it not rather a new form of dramatic expression, resembling drama in its results, but differing greatly in its methods of attaining it? To our mind a photoplay should be judged on the consistency with which it adheres to the technique in use—photography. If it relies too much on trick orchestrations or subtitles it is a poorly made picture. And more than the art of pantomime is involved, for often the most effective strokes are obtained by turn- ing the camera on some significant object. An effort should always be made to tell in pictures, I not only the details, but the main action of the story. It may be recalled that “The Last Laugh” had no subtitles at all. Every emotion was indicated to the audience by some bit of acting or the showing of some object. Seeing the old doorman watch his splendid uniform being locked up was infinitely more powerful than reading about it in vile English would have been.

ND this brings us to the matter of subtitles. What excuse have these little bits of writ- ing for popping into a graphic art? Is not every subtitle an admission of defeat? Is it not an admission that the director and scenario writer were confronted with a situation which belonged to a stage play rather than a movie? Of course there are subtitles and subtitles. Some few have a reasonable excuse for being, but those informing one of “clever” repartee between the actors, or announcing that Time and Eternity and Destiny are about to walk over the hill and into the sunset or the dawn are inexcusable. Passing over the literary or dramatic value of the emotion in question, could it have been better shown by camera effects, or in the case of the repartee, by suitable comedy action? Some movies we have seen recently have been veritable reading classes. The directors and film editors evidently had little faith in the abilities of their actors to convey given emotions.

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Colonel Ttm CWcCoy, “High

A Former Cavalry Officer Is Using Genuine American Indians in a Series of Films By JOSEPHINE MacDOWELL

Their great confidence in him told them that slapped on the back. That is why most anything he said was for their good. people have the idea that they are hard and They took his direction and even consented unsmiling. I want to show the public the to appear on the stage in a prologue for the gay, gentle side of the Indian, which it does picture. He took the same group to Europe not believe exists.” and they created such a furore and caused Colonel McCoy was referring to Goes-In- such wide comment that McCoy conceived the The-Lodge, who will have a prominent part idea on which he is now working. in “War Paint,” which will be his first film. “If I Indians McCoy knew that the American boy has no used any other and did not use real conception of these magnificent people, him he would be heartbroken,” he said. and that this ignorance was not entirely con- “ E got his name when he was just a fined to boys. Even adults have a false idea TJ 1 Y young brave. His tribe was fighting of the Indians. So McCoy determined to the Crows and the chief lay sleeping in his present on the motion picture screen the real tepee. It was announced that the man who American Indian, for he knew he would not would enter that tepee and capture the enemy only be doing a remarkable service to the red chief would be made the leader of the tribe. men, but would also be making pictures that “One young brave volunteered. Instead of were exciting, thrilling and entertaining. entering in the usual way he slit the side of the And he is now under contract to Metro- tepee and found not one man as he had ex- Goldwyn-Mayer to make Westerns that are pected but three. He took all of them by entirely different from any Westerns ever storm and was victorious. His name is really made. It was not his original idea to act in ‘The Man Who Goes Into The Lodge Alone,’ these pictures, but when the studio executives but it has been shortened to Goes-In-The- discovered that he photographed well and had Lodge.” a great deal of talent along this line they in- The man is McCoy’s “brother” and he is (Jo Ion el Tim TMcCoy sisted that he become a star and use the perhaps even more loyal, more devoted to him Indians in his pictures. than a blood brother would be. Entirely different! E is tall and tanned and blue-eyed, of That is the only way McCoy spoke of the fact that two tribes that his idea can be de- Irish extraction and his name is “High ( Continued on page 49) H Eagle” scribed. The pictures he will do are not to be made in His other name is Colonel Tim McCoy, the studio. Cameras, lights but he prefers “High Eagle,” because that is and the name given him by his friends, the In- equipment will be moved to the dians, whom he knows as well as any white Indian reserva- tions man alive. in Wyoming, where the tribes of When he left his home in Wyoming and Arapahoe and started working on motion pictures the cin- Shoshone live, and the pic- tures will be ema gained, but the Indians did not lose a “shot” on the friend. home land.

Colonel T. J. McCoy, one of the greatest experts in Indian sign language and tribal NEVER have been to lore, cavalry officer, once adjutant general of I able understand how Wyoming, protege of General Hugh L. Scott my interest in and love for (former chief of staff and world’s greatest the Indians began,” said authority on the Indian), has served the Gov- McCoy. “Instinctively I felt kinship ernment time and time again in settling diffi- a for them. culties among the Indians on the reservations. Funny that an Irishman He has been the Indian’s friend for years and should feel himself a brother these dignified, he is going to continue so, because his greatest to stoical

people ! I ambition is to tell the American public what But have always felt the real Indian is like. at ease with them, and “The average person thinks of an Indian Goes-In-The-Lodge, an In- as a stony-faced individual who goes about dian over eighty years old, is scalping people and setting fire to houses,” my ‘brother.’ He made him- said Colonel McCoy. “No idea could be so self so. false. It is to correct this idea and give the “The most mistaken idea public something I know will be entertaining that the average person has that 1 am helping make motion pictures.” is that an Indian never McCoy was first connected with the mo- smiles. Why, they are the tion picture industry during the filming of gayest, happiest people in “The Covered Wagon.” James Cruze, the the world and they love a director, found himself in a predicament. He joke. Among themselves, or could not get Indians to act in his picture. He with a white man whom they could not make them understand what he trust, they are as carefree as wanted, so knowing McCoy’s reputation he any of us. But their dignity asked him to come to Hollywood as technical is their outstanding char- director. acteristic. Until they know a person well they are re-

HE Colonel came and brought a num- served. They draw into Colonel McCoy has been in the cavalry for many years T ber of his friends, Indians, with him. themselves when they are and is an accomplished horseman

Pane T hirty-tvvo NOVEMBER, 1926

MT THE CINEMA Some Recent Pictures and the Impressions They Made Upon a Reviewer By CREIGHTON PEET

9 The Better ©lbs—War- out to the watering trough in the By an odd chance the atmosphere ner Brothers. Based on the play middle of the square and take a drink. is unusually convincing for this type by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Then a German orderly attempts to of picture. Mama Mollie (Miss Eliot. Directed by Charles Reisner. put them in the stable. Pickford) and nine other chidren are CAST In the end Old Bill catches a spy, held prisoner by a Scrooge-like old Syd Chaplin, Doris Hill, Harold saves his outfit by cutting the wires Goodwin, Theodore Lorch, Ed villain in a barn in an alligator Kennedy, Charles Gerrard, which lead to Tom the mines under the swamp. As nobody else will McGuire, Jack Ackroyd, Tom mother city, and is promoted Kennedy, Kewpie Morgan, Ar- to sergeant. the children it’s all up to Mama. thur Clayton It is refreshing to find a comedian The children are cute, and sweet, and who does not A gorgeous comedy is awaiting you depend entirely upon what not, but, as we said, one out- shabby clothes in “The Better ’Ole,” for as the Old and physical weakness grows this sort of thing. Bill of the for his effects. True, Old Bill wears Bairnsfather cartoons Syd Finally the villainous Grimes (well Chaplin has created a long knit muffler and mittens with a grotesque, lov- done by Gustav von Seyffertitz) able character the fingers cut off, which often who is altogether en- give steals one child too many, and while chanting. him the effect of a rather gruff polar he is waiting for his ransom money You will easily recall bear dressed in khaki, but on the Old Bill. A the father and detectives close in on middle-aged cockney whole he is funny because he really private—possi- him. In the meanwhile the children, bly a plumber in is funny. And he is no physical weak- civilian life—who led by Mama, have escaped into the goes into the ling. He is the first comedian in war with easy good- swamp and are climbing about on humor, takes months and months who has not been to the trenches philo- branches overhanging a river swarm- sophically, and a sad, puny, pasty-faced little soul. displays a certain ing with alligators. Here the realism amount of ingenuity Old Bill is healthy and jolly. and shrewdness was all anybody could ask for, and in this, his first Mr. Sydney Chaplin is to be con- venture outside his we nearly swallowed our hat for fear home neighborhood. gratulated. one of the children would drop into Equipped with one of the most the seething mass of enraged alli- voluminous and luxurious sets of Sparrows-United Artists. gators. Anyway, it seemed like a whiskers on record, Syd Chaplin has Story by Winifred Dunn. Directed seething mass. rendered Old Bill boisterously and by William Beaudine. Mary Pickford is now, without convulsively. CAST doubt, the best-known cinema actress The film starts with the famous Mary Pickford; Gustav von in the world. is equally ac- Seyffertitz, Roy Stewart, Mary She “Better ’Ole” incident, when Old Bill Louise Miller, Charlotte Min- claimed in London and New York. eau. and Little A If are hiding in the same Spec O’Donnell, Lloyd Whitlock, A. L. Schaeffer, Mark Why? She does not dress in beauti- shell hole. Little Alf complains of Hamilton, Monty O’Grady ful clothes ; she is seldom the heroine the danger, and Old Bill, lighting his From the hundreds of maternal of a love story, and she is usually pipe, answers, “Well, if you knows “ohs” and “ahs” which accompany bedraggled and badly treated. In of a better ’ole, go to it.” the showing of Mary Pickford’s this case she appears in rags in every It is impossible to say much of latest film, we think it safe to say sequence. Her efforts in mature this sort of picture. Its incidents are that it has a tremendous sentimental parts have hardly been successful. so varied, so absurd, and so old that appeal. In spite of all our shouting She has attained her greatest vogue you know them all already. It is over the fun of stenography and in little girl parts, dirty little girl enough to say, however, that while school teaching we have noticed that parts, ragged, forlorn and abused the boys are behind the lines Old Bill quite as many diapers are being little girl parts. is drafted to play the rear legs of a changed now as in the days of our Probably the universality of her horse in a show they are staging. grandmothers, and the sight of a little appeal can be traced to the very un- Old Bill indignantly refuses to por- girl mothering a brood of orphan mysterious maternal instinct. She tray any horse’s rear legs, when his tots in a Florida alligator swamp excites pity and arouses a desire to companions assert that he will have seems to be just the sort of thing to protect. Strange to say, this is not to be a horse’s neck. So he is. But awaken the mother instinct. Chil- very unlike what one hears said of during the show, the Germans close dren, too, may rather enjoy “Spar- the great Chaplin. in on the town, and in the rush a rows,” because most of the actors are piece of scenery drops over the dum- children, and we all like to see our- my horse, imprisoning Little Alf, the selves. The Wakkb Hks—Met- rear, and Old Bill, the front legs. But it is necessary to state that ro-Gold wyn-Mayer. Story by Fred- After finally disentangling them- this concoction is hardly to be dig- eric and Fanny Hatton. Directed selves they find they are surrounded nified by the title “drama.” Miss by Robert Z. Leonard. by Germans. Pickford is sweet and appealing, and CAST When they discover that they are actually does seem to be about thir- Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagle, in the hands of the enemy they George K. Arthur, Mary Mc- teen—but the story is flimsy —and Allister, Charles McHugh, Tiny quickly retire to the depths of their then, we all do grow up some day Ward, Martha Mattox dummy horse and try to pretend that and our interest in this kind of thing This is the third picture in a week they are a real horse. They even go wanes. which has practically demonstrated

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say that mystery plays the superiority of the feminine gen- politicians, do their bits nicely. The Again we not belong in the movies, and this der and we are still too depressed subtitles are good enough. As soon do applies to satires on mystery plays. to venture out on the street, let alone as we are over our depression we r frank, the cinema is in itself see any more pictures. are going to give this picture a first- To be it can pos- comedy rating. so flexible that nothing in The only thing to relieve the class sibly mystify. situation is the memory of the un- usually charming Miss Norma

Shearer. If, as is suggested in “The Tornj> U3e Sukpeiskb— Waning Sex,” men are to some day Paramount. Screen play by Jules It Must Be ILovrc—First become subservient to women, we Furthman. Directed by Arthur National. Adapted from the story, suggest that she have personal charge Roscon. “Delicatessen,” by Brook Hanlon. of all the browbeating and terrify- CAST Directed by Alfred E. Green. ing. Certainly no one can make a Raymond Griffith, Dorothy Sebastian, Earle Williams, Ed- CAST man wane more painlessly than Miss ward Martindel Colleen Moore, Jean Hersholt, Shearer. Malcolm McGregor, Arthur While this subdued and adroit lit- Stone, Bodil Rosing, Dorothy scant comfort for the Cleve Moore, Mary Yes, there’s satire on mystery plays would Seastrom, tle O’Brien, Ray Haller except that, male sex in this picture— have thrived much better on the of course, in the end she finally does stage, it is, nevertheless, amusing, The interval between dinner and Philip (Conrad Nagle) and marry — and allows Raymond Griffith to wear bedtime being what it is, and con- that is a sort of submission, isn’t it? a silk hat on all occasions. And versation being very much of a lost isn’t it? No, no, we can’t decide Or Raymond Griffith with a silk hat is art, “It Must Be Love” will fill your this here you girls will have to set- — in himself quite a spectacle. time easily enough. tle that out in the hall, because we It is not the sort of thigh-smiting, On the other hand, it is very, very have to get on with this review. seat-clutching humor which the sweet, this mixture, and consists picture is well On the whole this movies have developed to such an chiefly of long, lingering closeup It has a light- above the average. extraordinary degree. Rather it is shots at Miss Moore’s cute haircut. ness in its comedy which keeps it in de- an intellectual, smirking humor, Fernie is daughter to a delicatessen the air most of the way. This is rather pending on mental concepts shop. She hands out cheese and due partly to Robert Leonard’s than banana peelings and speeding potato salad and dill pickles, but in directing, and partly to Norma motor cars. her heart surges a great desire to Shearer’s personality, which is de- At first it is a bit bewildering, for Get Away From It All. She wants cidedly positive positive and at the — the technique is almost new to the to live in elegant, fashionable sur- same time feminine and charming. films. You see, they’re all kidding roundings. Pop, the delicatessen, She will not marry Philip because you (the actors are), and the novelty wants her to marry a Jewish lad, she is afraid such a step woud spoil of the thing fairly sweeps you out of who is also in the food business and her legal career. Finally, because your seat. smells of garlic. (In the subtitles she really does love him, she tells as Peter Halitovsky— The locale is a houseboat (or isn’t he is known him she will give up her career if comic caption boys again.) it a houseboat?) —or a yacht those he can beat her in two of the next where a string of diamonds has mys- But Fernie plucks herself a sweetie three contests in which they engage. teriously disappeared. The host, from the dance floor of an amuse- If she beats him he is to give up his sticking to the rules, says he will turn ment park, who turns out to be one career out the lights and give the guilty of those ideal young men. Follow The first contest is a swimming party a chance to return it. When untold feet of gazing into each other’s meet. He wins by a few feet. The the lights come up the host is dead eyes. She gets a job in the perfume second contest is a trial before a in the middle of the floor with a section of a department store, and attorney de- jury in which she is the matter. knife in his back. Then Raymond then—but it really doesn’t fending a criminal. Her eloquence Griffith, the coroner, wanders in and perfect movie to take your even the prisoner This is a is so touching that complicated. the thing becomes really girl to. You can look up at the is moved to tears, and the jury—well, It would be futile and ridiculous screen whenever you like and not feel she completely paralyzes the jury. to attempt to retail the incidents in you have missed anything, for the (Now I ask you, is this sort of thing this sort of thing. It is much on the story is simply nothing to worry fair? You women aways depending order of “The Beggar on Horse- your curly head over. In fact, there on your looks—oh, very well— if you back,” which was also a better stage isn’t any plot. It’s one of those say so, but I don’t think so!) play than film. romances without an obstacle. But This evens them up. The third do look up at the screen, There is an extremely nice satire when you contest to decide who is going to be see just what you on jury trials, in which Raymond you will probably is over the district attorneyship boss looked last Muss Griffith, who behaves most of the saw when you — of them being candidates for —both the whole space time like a parlor magician about to Moore’s face filling Then, when she is about that office. said to be ex- pull a live rabbit out of the young —and Miss Moore is to accept her party’s nomination, gentleman’s breast pocket, argues the tremely pretty. Philip comes in, and seizing her for the State. Sometimes she is amusing, but her roughly by the shoulders, gives her case of looking pop-eyed on all com- good shaking up, saying, “Here, The handsome Dorothy Sebastian trick a monotonous. you’re plays the part of one of those dummy edy occasions becomes you’ve got to cut this out ; of such concoctions No, it’s not a had evening. Some going to marry me!” Well, she girls with which all it is quite passably funny. But the does. Now who wins? are endowed. some next morning you won’t remember a As an effeminate man George K. Robert Benchley has written the subtitles and, as might he ex- thing about it. Arthur is successful, while Charles of Continued on page 50) McHugh and Tiny Ward, as old pected, they are above the average. (

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NOVEMBER, 192 6

‘Dolores Qostello

The Qirl on the Qover

AST winter two pictures which ap- OLORES and her sister, Helene, re- thought nothing more of it. She wondered peared on Broadway simultaneously in- D mained in pictures until she reached the how many more girls had received similar re- L age ten. sent to school. Dolores sure only troduced a new star to the screen. of Both were quests, which she was were form When the critics reviewed the first, “Man- would have had to retire anyway because her letters. But Mrs. Costello thought better of nequin,” they predicted a great future for curls were getting too long and she was getting it. She read the notices and decided that it Dolores Costello, daughter of the once famous to look too much like a girl to double for her would not hurt to try. If the tests were not idol of the screen, Maurice, who thrilled father. Dolores never liked school. It bored good, well, there was nothing lost anyway. feminine hearts years ago. But when they saw her unutterably and she used to cry because she Dolores could never understand why they were “The Sea Beast,” in which she was featured was compelled to attend. She won in the end, asked afterwards to go to the Coast, because with John Barrymore, they spoke of her as the for her mother secured a tutor for her at home the tests were so poor, but they went to Holly- future Bernhardt of motion pictures. Her first while Helene continued with her class. wood and the sisters both signed contracts. appearances in featured roles had proved her When Helene finished school, both girls de- to be an actress of unquestionable histrionic cided that they wanted to go on the stage. OR a long time it was very discouraging. ability. They had taken lessons as youngsters, and it F At the casting of each picture they kept Dolores Costello had a rather interesting had always been their ambition to make danc- hoping they would be given roles that would start in pictures. From the time she was four ing their profession. While they were wonder- mean something, but they were cast for noth- years old she doubled for her father ing how they could find the opportunity, ing but bits. Then Dolores was loaned to Fox because of her resemblance to him. She re- Dolores was asked to pose for some of James for a small part. She hoped to get something calls very distinctly her very first attempt be- Montgomery Flagg’s illustrations. One of better when she went back to the Warner fore the camera. As one of the children of a the best known illustrations he did with her Studios, but she was mistaken. Perhaps if it French peasant who had stolen bread for his as a model was for Adela Rogers St. John’s had not been for John Barrymore, it would family, she was dressed in rags. When he novel, “The Skyrocket.” Then someone told have been many months more before she would brought in the loaf the children seized the the girls that there might be a chance for them have been discovered. One day he saw her at

bread and ate it voraciously. Then suddenly at the George White office. They applied the studio, and the next day she was asked to very tall men in uniforms appeared and ar- very hesitantly—and were placed in the see Jack Warner in his office. Mr. Barrymore rested the thief. Dolores was so frightened “Scandals.” After some time in Chicago, both was there too, and it was soon decided that that she ran off the set screaming. A rather girls received a request from the Warner she was to be his leading lady in “The Sea unusual start for a promising screen star, to say Bros. Studios to have screen tests made. Beast.” She was just as frightened then as she

the least. Dolores says that she laid the notice aside and ( Continued on page 51)

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A flash of drama from the kaleidoscopic “Broadway ” Passing from the dressing-room to the cabaret, one of the chorus girls faints upon the stairs when she hears that her lover has been shot in a bootlegg feud

zAt the Theater

BROADWAY day without being ridiculous. The Russians scene especially stands out. They are quarrel- can come over and mope about for an evening ing over the presents which the bootlegger is HEY say that the great play which lies with the lights turned down and Tragedy giving her. Meanwhile he is changing his in the rushing subways, the roaring standing in every convenient corner, but in costume, and just as he has taken off every- T forties, and the whirling crowds of New modern, mechanical New York life love and thing but his B.V.D.’s the quarrel reaches York is yet to be written. This may still death are attended with less pomp, although be true, but under the title “Broadway,” New they may be felt as deeply. York has at last been self-conscious enough to The action of “Broadway” is in the private present a picture of its own chorus girls off- party room of a night club, just beyond the stage, its night clubs and its fighting boot- doors leading the stage. leggers. to The downtown bootlegg king is trying to snare Billie (Sylvia If it i s n ’t Field), one of chorus girls, is in absolute real- the who love with the small-time comedian in the cabaret ism, at least its show. An envoy from a rival bootlegg excellent the- gang comes for a conference, but the local loses atre. It is man his temper and kills him on the spot. In a bright, slangy, clever and few minutes a detective arrives and the in- evitable course of melodramatic punishment moves at a gets under way. breathless pace. Possibly it is You must understand that while this mur- treated with as der and all its consequences are being enacted much serious- the cabaret show is in progress just beyond ness as such the doors or else is just about to begin. Every things could be dramatic bit is sandwiched in between gusts treated in this of musical comedy dancing and singing. It is the Pagliacci motif—the clown who Nydia D’Arnell, must do his turn with tears still wet upon whose charm and his cheeks. In spite of the fact that in this dancing make play it is used not once, but every five min- Helen Menken, who portrays the unhappy “Happy Go Lucky" utes, some of the entrances and exits are victim of an erotic passion in “The Cap- one of the pleas- tive." This, the most talked-of, scholarly, simply stunning, particularly those which antest evenings and sober play of the month, is taken from possible separate the comedian and his girl. One the Trench of Edouard Bourdet.

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NOVEMBER, 1926 its height. With sublime unconsciousness are present at this thief’s crucifixion in as they continue their argument untroubled until horrible and painful a climax as we can re- the buzzer sounds, when he leaps into his call. trousers and prances grimacing to the stage. It would be absurd to say that this or that Not a great play but a good one. In its makes or unmakes a play, but certainly dull- crackling speed it epitomizes the Broadway it ness is an unpardonable fault on the stage, seeks to bring to life. Its people are con- and “The Immortal Thief” is very, very dull. vincing and the acting excellent. You see when you write in the now out-moded The piece was written by Philip Dunning, forms Shakespeare used you immediately place a newcomer, and George Abbott, who also yourself in a difficult position. You become aided in “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em.” It a target for comparative shots. You either has action enough to wind up in the movies have to do as well as Shakespeare did or you and wit enough to shed a little light on the look slightly silly. The only reason we oc- as yet dull theatrical season. casionally stand for Shakespeare’s blank verse THE WOMAN DISPUTED is because it is very exceptional blank verse . . . and its philosophic concepts are sharply pointed. venture to say that one will HILE this war melodrama is a bit We no ever find a line from this script quoted to theatrical, Ann Harding gives it a life express a great emotion. W and vitality which make it excellent It is said that Mr. produced this entertainment. Moreover, it is absorbing and Hampden play because he had faith in its dramatic full of tense situations. And after all, isn’t the purpose of melodrama to entertain? merit, even to the point of being willing to lose money on it. refrain from comment, The principal incident is built on a short We cherishing too dearly the Cyrano. story by De Maupassant, Boule de Suif, memory of which was laid in Franco-Prussian war times. FANNY Denison Clift, the author of this piece, has HE desire to sketch more than a comic given it a modern setting. ll alter IV oolf and Odette Myrtil, in the cartoon upon the canvas of life seems Before the war, Marie-Ange French '‘Countess Maritza,” the Shubert’s charm- a girl T to be pitifully universal. ing new Viennese operetta. Miss Myrtil Fannie Brice, of rather sooty virtue but honest strivings, is dances, sings and plays her violin all at once that entertaining and frequently shrewdly loved by two officers a German and an — humorous Jewish comedienne, has at last suc- American. As the call to arms comes she But she is faithful to Yank until one of her cumbed to this desire and had a play written promises to marry the American. Both men fellow-prisoners, a priest, takes her aside and for her in which she is not simply a comic Jew then join their respective armies. but the tells her that he is a spy in disguise and that if heroine of a little romance. She The next scene shows the German officer’s he fails to reach the Allied lines thousands even has her moments of drama, and one headquarters in the ruins of a cathedral. The of men will be killed. This breaks her and gathers that she could do even greater things girl has been captured along with a number she goes to the German. The following morn- if she were only given the chance. At least of other prisoners, and is brought before him. ing the other prisoners, now released, pass her I think one is supposed to gather this. When he sees her, he swears to have her. As in scorn. Comedy seems to be very sickly fare as a she refuses to spend the night with him he For purposes of melodrama, the Foreign steady diet — didn’t Charlie Chaplin go tells the other prisoners that their lives de- Legion of which Yank is a member captures Tragic? And now Fannie Brice is trying to pend upon her coming to him voluntarily. the town a few minutes later and he walks be an emotional actress. Pretty soon we may This is the scene taken from De Maupas- in on the situation. After a full explanation look for an announcement that A1 Jolson is sant. The satire is extremely nice. Pillars of the reasons for her infidelity, Yank takes about to do Hamlet in mammy clothes. of virtue under normal conditions, the other her back and the German is led outside to face But the result of all this isn’t a play at prisoners, respectable townsfolk, spend the en- a firing squad. all. It’s just three acts of goo surrounding suing seven hours persuading Marie-Ange to There is a preamble to this play showing Miss Brice’s entertaining personality. And, give herself up to the officer—and save their how she met the two men in question, which to be frank, things don’t go very well. Highly lives. strikes me as quite unnecessary. Without ( Continued on page 51) doubt the “Woman Disputed” was con- structed merely to frame the scene in the

cathedral and the tense situations which it brought about. THE IMMORTAL THIEF

ALTER HAMPDEN, without ques- tion one of the finest actors in Amer- ica, and dearly beloved of Cyrano, has made a mistake. He has chosen a new Shake- spearean play written in 1926 by Tom Barry,

and, much as we regret saying so, it is just terrible. We do not offer this flippantly or lightly. It is simply a fact. True, “The Immortal Thief” is a colossal work. In its seven scenes some thirty-nine characters pass before you. It has dignity and a deal of thought has gone

into it.

At first it seemed that greatness might be at the next turning—in the next speech or scene. But as the evening wore on we became not only bored to extinction but vaguely con- scious that the technique, the verbal manner- isms and the stage effects of Shakespeare were being shabbily imitated.

“Well, Mr. Spoffard said that he thought The action is laid in Jerusalem during the a little girl like I, who was trying to re- reign of Tiberius Caesar and is concerned Just two red-hot grads off to support the form the whole world, was trying to do too with the loves, thefts, escapes old school in the big game. Clark and much, especially beginning on an unrefined and escapades McCullough in "The Ramblers” one the girl like Dorothy.”—June Walker and Frank of one of the thieves who were crucified with of most entertaining of the season’s musical Morgan, in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” Christ on Calvary. In the final scene you shows

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CINEMA ART Qolcondas of Jilm Qold

Treasures Are to Be Found in the Excess Footage Clipped From “Super-pictures Features and News Reels

By HENRY MacMAHON

HEN the editorial cutters slash up ultimately in the interest of brevity and sim- the facts by the imaginative directors’ inti- the original of any big film in the proc- plicity. mate touches. It would upset many traditions W ess of making a vivid, coherent story, and would gravely shock those who pin their they drop into the “miscellaneous box” thou- OR example, Griffith’s “The Birth,” faith exclusively to the written word. Yet sands and thousands of feet of perfectly good FVidor’s “Big Parade,” Ingram’s “Four this kind of enormously vivid History might film which never sees the light of a projection Horsemen” and Niblo’s “Ben-Hur” were cut easily scrap many of our conventional war feet limit of an evening’s machine. As nothing in particular is being down 12,000 —the textbooks. And now is the time to do it, of done with these scraps at present, it may be show—from many hundreds of thousands while the material is fresh and so many of the interesting to speculate upon the possible rec- feet; in the case of the Apocalypse picture participants are still living. ords, histories and stories which could be from one million feet of film, and in the case Passing over the obvious suggestions con- compiled from these odds and ends. A few of “Ben-Hur” from one million eight hun- cerning unused or shelved World Travels, of these might be dred thousand feet ! A somewhat similar compiling a History of Art, and collating the A pictorial Bible. copiousness of “taking” and a similar severity progress of Science and Industry, we come to A Field Book of the Great War. of pruning—though not nearly to such an ex- the Album of Star Players and to the psy- A History of Science and Industry. treme—are in vogue in most of the higher- chology of Pantomime. A Museum of Art. class productions. I usually welcome the Star (or Travels in the new countries created bv the Suppose the vast wastage were our very OU and War. own to play with—what could one do with Y Stars) only in fiction stories, but they other kinds of films. A record of Pioneering. it? could act in many think that Irv- A Natural Science Notebook. The first step would be to classify it all, Have you ever stopped to somewhat after the fashion of the encyclo- ing, Coquelin, Rachel, Salvini, Kean, Garrick Can you imagine an author writing a mil- pedia. History, sacred lore, travels at home are to us names only? lion words in order to pick out and print and abroad, art masterpieces, science, inven- Now, however, a distinguished player’s a few thousand? Or a carpenter sawing the tion, personalities, wild west and wild east, Movie Album can reproduce his artistic timber for fifty houses in order to put up one ? pantomime, literary treasures and “wonder achievement until the very celluloid that Or a painter painting a scene wide as the films” could be found in the classifying proc- bears it disintegrates. Let us pick up the Metropolitan Opera House stage for the sake should not yet have a picture, but pieces and reassemble them now, while it is of a 22x28 canvas? ess. We the “raw materials” of almost innumerable still possible. Barrymore cannot flourish for- Something very like this happens in most ones. ever, nor can Lillian Gish portray suffering of the higher grades of movie work! Now let us take the first subject. Say that heroines in the Twenty-first century. But Absurd as such a procedure would seem in we are making an assembly of the pictures those following us can have the walking, any of the other arts and crafts, it’s not around the Holy Writ. breathing, Barrymore as Don Juan, Beaucaire, absurd in the pictures for ceaseless trial and whole living ; De Mille and Niblo can be drawn on for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—the experimentation are the roads to success. In- plenty of the alternative scenes they did not gallery of his portraits. Students of Miss copious treatment would seem deed, extremely use in their great Biblical film-making. The Gish’s art a century hence can sigh with Elsie to be the only practicable plan of getting at material is not inferior stuff; merely less Stoneman, struggle with Romola, pay tribute angles of extremely all the best possible an suitable to the action of their fiction-story than of tears to the White Sister and Hester picture subject. complex motion the particular scene or scenes they embodied Prynne. Each of the photoplays embodying in their reels. From the “reserves,” so to these characters may or may not be outmoded, first out” of ’VE seen the “rough many speak, of “The Ten Commandments,” “The but the personality of the great player in brief I’ve always begrudged the I pictures, and King of Kings,” and “Ben-Hur,” we have scenes or close-ups of his or her successive loss of the grand things that had to be left be interesting. taken—what ? characterizations will always out. Clearly, not another fiction story. Rather, Let’s have Star Albums by all means! Deleting the youthful and brilliant Napoleon a fair continuity of the Old Law and the Bonaparte from “Orphans of the Storm” New, in historical sequence, a beginning at GAIN, the value of Movie Pantomime right eye. a consum- recognized either by the somehow seemed like removing one’s least of a Film-Bible. Certainly A is not yet fully Omission of the Holy Family’s flight into mation devoutly to be wished. amateur or the professional actor. A com- Egypt and of the dreadful Herod the Child- plete new “short-hand” of expression has been Killer just preceding it caused a sensation ONSIDER next the Great War, then a built up with a technique differing from the pantomime of not less painful in the final cutting of “Ben- C Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, stage and the so-called classic Hur.” And oh, la, la—also sacre bleu and and a Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Europe. The movie shows both the “stimu- nom de chien !—-what ardent insider refrained Text and “still” illustrations were great fa- lus” and the “response.” I have seen Sydney from actual tears and loud choking sobs to vorites with the American people back in the Herbert pose fifty times to catch one char- see whittled away at the last “Big Parade” seventies and eighties. But in this age of the acteristic expression of “green-eyed” Robes- trim the hulking Corporal O’Hara seizing Cinema Art we can have a Motion Picture pierre, and Gish bend her neck a hundred Melisande’s mother in “left reverse” and that Field Book of the World War, for now we times beneath the guillotine’s knife to recap- noble emblem of Gallic purity promptly not only possess the written records of the re- ture the pitifulness of the condemned Henri- squelching him with those memorable words: cent war in the shelved and dust-gathering ette. The “response” of the movie player “Get out, you Zig-Zag!’’ But in each case war celluloid of the period 1914-18, hut we will some day be eagerly studied by the en- Griffith, Niblo, Vidor was right. also now have the intimate work of skilled quiring psychologist, and the discarded films future players. The scene that looked so well in the mak- authors and directors on the subject, the will be valuable guides to “Havoc,” shelves or among the ing slowed up the main action when the makers of “The Big Parade,” Yes, the stuff on the Price rich treasure trove. It is film was assembled. It was episodical. It “Ypres,” “The Better ’Ole,” “What “cut-outs” offers a reconstruc- Library we would all didn’t belong. There were many, many omis- Glory,” etc. A lot of vivid war the nucleus of the Film as much of enjoy and to make use of in sions just on that order. And in the main tion is being shown, but ten times like to have to “by-product.” What I the Film Room in our college, social group, action itself—indeed, almost always in the it exists as excess farseeing man of mil- main stream of the very best film continuity mean by the plan is this: or home town, and a Carnegie or Rockefeller there generally are long stretches of over- Let us have a movieized War History by lions—some future their better than to put his money into elaborated plot, of background and “prep- sectors, putting the epochal events in could do no aration” scenes that have to be sacrificed right times and places, and yet humanizing such a collation.

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mind he is New York City. natural, in fact to my personal almost a perfect man. Dear Editor'.—And so, I hear, Emil Jan- Richard Barthelmess is another good-looking nings has succumbed to the bait of Holly- The Public Forum man. not put him on the cover as “The wood. One can’t help wishing that some Why Amateur Gentleman” or Ben Lyon as “The philanthropic millionaire had endowed him Letters from readers, containing Hero” of the “Great Deception?” I should sufficiently to keep him abroad, where he might comment, compliment like to see Lois Moran’s picture in your mag- continue to create masterpieces, untempted by and criticism azine some day, and Betty Bronson’s also. the American dollar. Of course, the age of shall conclude my letter by wishing miracles may not be past, but it’s hard for HIS department of Cinema Art I figure Cinema Art all kinds of success. me to conceive that ironically tragic is conducted for devotees of the An interested reader, of the aging porter fitting into a Hollywood photo drama. Helpful suggestions, A. Deford. scenario. Emil Jannings is a great actor cer- constructive criticism and intelligent alone that made sought and valued by tainly, but it wasn’t acting comment are Havana, Cuba. “The Last Laugh” and “Variety” unforget- all those who labor to provide the Dear Mr. Editor:— I am a constant reader able. finest type of screen entertainment. of your beautiful and wonderful magazine, The Europeans can make dramatic chefs The Public Forum presents you with Cinema Art. I just simply can’t wait until d’oeuvre with the simplest elements, but an opportunity to voice your opinion the new issue reaches me; it is over two years American directors occasionally hit the mark. on matters pertaining to this latest now that I have begun to collect and save haven’t heard under whom Emil Jannings and greatest of all the arts. Remem- I your marvelous covers of the different stars. will work, so perhaps my fears are ground- ber your ideas will be of general in- Each month I look forward for my favorite in Write freely. less. Charlie Chaplin caught the trick terest to the industry. on the cover. Would it be possible for you “The Woman of Paris,” and D. W. Griffith, Your identity will be kept secret if to have Olive Borden on the cover? I think had he not been betrayed by too thick a coat- you so desire. This is your depart- she is the very best actress we have today. . Editor. ing of saccharine and his missionary zeal for ment. Use it -The She is my favorite above all others. Would pointing an obvious moral, would have reached you write to me and state if it is possible for the gen- it in “Isn’t Life Wonderful?” But me to secure an album the size of the covers a eral run of directors seem to think that agree with of Cinema Art. and a flaming forest compensate for best of all and there are many who gilded bed Best wishes for your continued success. artistry. And I’m so afraid that me. any lack of Very sincerely yours, summing up the favorites, these take Mr. Jannings will be caught in the clutches So, in Madeleine Talbot. lead, Laura Plante, Norma Shearer, of one of them. the La recently that I discovered Richard Dix, John Gilbert, Gloria Swanson, It has been only Quincy, 111. taken its place as my Mae Murray, Ramon Novarro, Ben Lyon Cinema Art, but it has motion picture mag- Dorothy Mackaill. Dear Editor:—Of all favorite movie magazine. The general ap- and Merry azines Cinema Art is my favorite; your de- and reading matter are excellent, and Almost everyone liked “The pearance partment, At the Cinema, is a great help to mirabile dictu, are real criticism Widow,” “Fine Manners,” “Bluebeard’s the reviews, deciding on the pictures I shall see. Secretary,” “The Palm me in not merely expressions of some man’s Eighth Wife,” “His and With a few exceptions I agree with your critic. Beach Girl,” and “The Big Parade.” So I likes and dislikes. I like to read about the New York theaters Faithfully yours, would count them as the favorite pictures. too, as I am always anxious to know what is New York Fan. In closing I want to give three cheers for going on. We have a little theater in our Cinema Art and Gloria Swanson ! neighborhood, and by reading “At The Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Best O’Luck, Theater” I am kept up to date. used to tire of hearing Gerald C. Hamm. To The Editor-.— Your portraits are beautiful, I think, and classed as a sheik and Rudolph Valentino the picture of Gertrude Olmsted was unusu- puff.” Why? He was no London, England. labeled “cream ally good. Dorothy Gish is a favorite of mine, could ride like Mix and fight like Dear Editor:— I have always found the s i ssy—he but I haven’t seen anything about her for a does. For his famous articles and reviews in Cinema Art most in- Douglas Fairbanks long time. Won’t you please give us a big, partook of Gilbert’s passion and the pictures very beautiful, but love-making he teresting, full-page picture of her? I should like to see a tenderness. True to race this month have I felt the urge to and Barrymore’s not until picture of Douglas Fairbanks again, too. type a man’s man! write you on its makeup. and true to — I also like the fashions that appear cream puffs we have Adolphe I have subscribed to Cinema Art since its Among the in the magazine but wonder why you and maybe a few others. inception, and every month it has improved, Menjou, Lew Cody do not show the latest hats that are worn by powder puffs and women’s men until I think it has attained a standard Of this stuff now leading stars. The fur illustrations in the there is the typical other magazines of its kind. I am are made— sissies. B hen far above September number were just grand. I should or modern young man such particularly fond of the department pertain- present-day sheik like to see pictures of the Atlantic City girls Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. “Players and Pictures” as I find more as Ben Lyon, and ing to who have won the prize as the most beautiful is a little too old for this class up-to-date news in its paragraphs and always Norman Kerry girls. Will these girls appear in picture plays serious. something I have wanted to and Lloyd Hughes too an answer to soon, and where can I get this information? Sincerely yours, know. I never miss the “Public Forum” and All in all Cinema Art is just what a maga- Catherine Crupe. Cinema,” the latter always written “At the zine should be. in such an intelligent manner, and such per- Very truly, East Stroudsburg, Pa. fect English. Why is it that most reviewers Adrienne Gaston. Dear Editor'.—After reading different peo- think these reviews must be written in slang Nashville, Tenn. ple’s views of the stars in your department I phrases to be interesting.? magazine is certainly have decided to write and tell what we col- Wishing you continued success. Dear Editor:—Your I think it is fine to have a lege people think. I’m going to give you an Very sincerely yours, different—and about the movies. I idea of what ten people think. We are nearly Isabel Curtis. “highbrow” publication great admirer of Mae Murray, and was all Freshmen, but nevertheless we count our am a your cover recently. Also opinion as something. Baltimore, Md. glad to see her on same issue of Doris Every one of us likes Norma Shearer and Dear Editor —I asked a friend of mine I liked the picture in the another favorite of mine. Richard Dix. These two stars are universally for a list of good moving picture magazines. Kenyon, who is are very interesting. agreed upon. One fellow’s favorite is Laura She wrote me a list and checked Cinema Art I think your articles been I always read about the stage plays, too, be- La Plante. He thinks she is a coming star. as the best one. I bought it and have all go to New York for a visit at (So do I). Four girls like Ben Lyon best buying it ever since. I enjoy it more than cause we least once a year and I like to know what is of all and they liked “Bluebeard’s Eighth any magazine I have ever read. Wife” and the war picture in which he You have such very attractive covers, but going on. you continued success, I am, played with Blanche Sweet best of all. The you hardly ever have a man on the cover. Wishing Yours truly, others do not care for Pola Negri much, but Ramon Novarro is my favorite actor. He is graceful, ’ straight, and Adel Berkman. I do. Personally, I think Gloria Swanson is extremely handsome,

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By CONSTANCE TALMADGE

has health in women to a woman is sure to be funny to a it. I did not man. Besides, if the girls like the picture,

know that they will bring the men along anyway ! When then, of all is said and done, if you can appeal to the course. I only feminine audience, you can rest assured you felt it, and I will be successful with the men. had the great Every comedian, consciously or unconscious-

joy of earning ly, is a psychologist. It is necessary to have my living a keen insight into human nature and a sense playing those of proportion before you can make people first fascinat- laugh. My work lies in sophisticated come- ing years be- dies of modern life—secretly I would much fore I became rather be gay, gay as a clown. The days of a star. so-called slapstick comedy are over. The pie I often won- now remains on the table. A sense of humor der why so has replaced a sense of the ridiculous. few actresses in Hollywood HEN I am working in a picture I have take up com- W no set rules as to how to go about it. In her latest edy as their comedy, “The Duchess of Buffalo the delightful Constance Of course, one easy thing is that the atmos- ran completely wild and turned the proceedings into a farce. In this picture metier. While phere of most comedies is gay. By that I she played the part of a bogus grand duchess there are near- mean that all those connected with it are ly a dozen affected by the spirit of the story. That “ F nature had not made us a little frivo- T well-known screen comedians, the screen co- helps more than you can realize. lous we should be most wretched ... I I mediennes who have reached stardom are few I remember this being proved to me one look upon solemnity as a disease.” indeed. Now, day when I went over to my sister Norma’s of course, Voltaire said that, and he said it as I attribute the fact that the comedian is set. One of the most striking things about no one else has been able to say it, so I have essentially funnier than the comedienne, to her is her intensity. She has a tremendous taken it for motto. I think my the most ex- the fact that most actresses, once they have capacity for work and does everything with hilarating thing in the world is to make achieved a fair degree of success in comedy, a burning zest. Even the unimportant things someone who is sad, laugh. It isn’t easy, but invariably strive to become dramatic stars. in life take on a kind of new meaning when it’s wonderful. Try it. all Out of the beautiful and talented she is around, because other people cannot re- France appreciated this when she decorated women who have passed through the portals sist catching something of her spirit. This the Fratellini Trio with the Legion of Honor. of various comedy “lots” in Los Angeles, only stupendous energy is very noticeable when you These clowns have tumbled all over Europe two or three have clung tenaciously to the watch Norma at the studio. She will be abso- for years and have made people split their idea of becoming star comediennes. lutely oblivious to time or place, and throw sides and cause tears of mirth to stream down A feminine comedy must be carefully de- herself so wholeheartedly into her part that their cheeks. They are loved in every country vised. Subtlety is really a more important she lives the character. in which they have appeared. France, sudden- factor in comedy than in any other form of Now, I can’t work like that. I never know ly appreciating them as soldiers of happiness, screen ! drama The slightest over-emphasis of what I will feel like until I get on the set. gave all three of the Fratellini brothers the a funny situation turns it into burlesque. One One must always remember that there is as Cross of the Legion of Honor. In the gov- must strive for just the right shading and much emotion in comedy as in tragedy, a dif- ernment order, raising these three clowns to gradations this singular dignity, the Minister of the In- to keep the terior wrote, “I congratulate you heartily in proper tempo. It

the. name of all the little children of Paris, is really easier whose joy you are, and also in the name of in a way, to let their fathers, those other big children, whom yourself go and we call men.” be ever so tragic, I have never been able to get over a child- and give abso- ish delight in watching clowns. They seem lute vent to pent- so brave in giving all their enthusiastic energy up emotions, than in trying to make a vast audience laugh. I it is to be sup- heard this summer a story about a clown, that pressed and give touched me. Years ago, every Christmas just a light time, Joey, the famous English clown, ap- touch. peared in a pantomime at the old Covent Garden Theatre. One Christmas they de- HE woman cided not to give the pantomime, but to put T comedy star on a play instead. There was no Joey on particularly must the stage that Christmas. The following year keep the feminine the pantomime was given again and Joey, who audience in had never spoke a word on the stage, came on mind, because at that first performance and said “Here we often things that are again !” The entire performance was are funny to men stopped, the audience cheered, yelled itself are not at all hoarse, created a furore just to let Joey know funny to women, how happy they were to have him back. as they are apt to be too obvious to DECIDED to become a comedienne long our own sex. I I before I realized what a serious ambition have learn ed it was. I know now that one of the greatest from long experi- '* ” The Love Expert —there is no question as to who is the expert in things today is laughter, not cynical, derisive ence that what is this rase. John IJalliday is the unskilled gentleman. It is said to be laughter, but the joyous, free laughter that funny about the only case on record where he has displayed such reluctance

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Again the odd little expression. At times she reminds one of a twelve-year- There is a pertness, a vigor, and one might almost say an impudence old girl fibbing about how many pieces of candy she has had. Anyway, in Constance Talmadge’s comedy which gives it a all its if you were in the doctor’s flavor own. place, would you believe that she was very ill _ Oh yes, she is also, without doubt, one of the most beautiful co- “Her Night of Romance.” mediennes on the screen. A scene from “Learning to Love.”

ferent to one be sure, but it is equally an emo- Paris,” where the girl who is imitating her that is true, because they hate to be fooled. tion. And in the comedies that I do which famous sister sees everyone applauding and Fool older people if you must, but don’t be might be called sophisticated stories of mod- joins in the applause, not realizing insincere with a child. He will know it and ern life, one can’t just dash on and be funny. they are applauding her, proved to be one of give you the worst side of his nature. There are subtle shades of humor that have the most humorous scenes in her picture. Bits to be caught by the camera, which actually of business often creep in during the making LOVED my dual role in “Her Sister only captures fifty per cent of what the human of a scene inspirational — little things that I from Paris.” She was a real person, that eye takes in. These things have to be under- come from feeling happy or joyous at the young wife, and she too had to find the need stood, thought about and then completely for- moment. for happiness. The other part, her twin sister, gotten before you can be a comedienne. In Now, a great deal depends upon a director. was easy to play. Easy because she was a other words, one has to be spontaneous, like Most artists are sensitive, as sensitive as vio- direct contrast to her sister, and a pleasure the after-dinner speaker who says his speech lins, and you can make them play with great because she was so gay. In “The Duchess of is impromptu after he has spent a week mak- feeling only when you realize this. A direc- Buffalo,” I enjoyed seeing the ridiculousness ing it up. tor who is nervous, over-anxious, or the most of pomp and ceremony connected with class dreadful of all, irritable, should never come distinction. HERE is humor in everything, just as near comedians. Because, again, and I can’t I think the hardest thing in the world for T there is tragedy in everything. Prince emphasize this too strongly, we are so subject a comedian to express is joy. By that I mean Troubetskoy once said, “It’s a tragedy not to to the atmosphere about us, so charged with the quality that John McCormack has in his have a tragedy,’’ but I think it’s a tragedy not a desire to make people feel what we are feel- voice—that note of exalted happiness that can to have a comedy. of One the strange things ing, that it is dangerous to hurt us by the almost make you cry. There is such a desire about pictures is that you are never quite sure wrong kind of criticism. After all, a direc- to give you happiness in its sound. People what will be funny—never quite sure what tor should be like a great leader of an are forever writing technical articles on how will seem funny to an audience. I have seen orchestra. He should hear and feel sensitive- to study to be another John McCormack. actors convulsed over a scene and had really a ly. He may have to lead them with a stick, Can one ever write an article on how to cap- grand time playing it, but after it was shot but if they are artists, it must become a wand’ ture joy? Am I trying to write this now?- it proved to be only mildly humorous. And if he is to get anything out of them. They well, if I am, it’s only to prove that you can’t a scene such as we did in “Her Sister From say that all artists are children and I think capture it. you must give it.

Richard • - As she appeared sot. c years ago in “A Tempt amental Wife" a comei Barthelmess written by the author “G entlemen P r e f t Blondes.” She not on

seized the comedy of s, says : nation — • but the pret gentleman’s hair

I always enjoy reading the in- teresting interviews in Cinema Art and I look forward with great pleasure to receiving the magazine every month.

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his enemy’s suite. ” hammer on the desk sealed a man s fate, a smiling priest leaving Magnificent knocking, Bardelys opened the door “jbardelys the Fox Film Corporation to For the first time Bardelys seemed later occupied five full floors. UT St. Eustache later played another realize his position. When the significance But before he produced a foot of film, he its determined B card that was a trump as far as of the cheering dawned on him he formed a selling organization that covered the effect on Roxalanne. Taking the oppor- to make one last trial for freedom. The twenty-two principal cities of the country. tunity of Roxalanne’s unaccompanied visit to King’s coach was just entering the gate when While he made preparations for producing his on the flower garden, St. Eustache again forced a spectacular thing happened—the rope own photoplays, he also continued the distri- her to doubt Bardelys’ honor. He told her the scaffold suddenly swung far out over the bution of film produced by other companies. kill like that Mile. Marsac’s brother was out to multitude. It carried a man, clinging The first picture produced was directed by girl did not know it started to swing then stage di- Lesperon on sight. The a monkey, and just before the late J. Gordon Edwards, whether to believe or disbelieve, when Bar- back the man dropped on the shoulders of the rector of the Fox dramatic stock company of delys unsuspectingly showed her a letter mass below and leaping from one to another the Academy of Music in Fourteenth street. It which verified the statement. The missive clambered on top of the Royal coach. Then was filmed at the Eclair studio in Fort Lee, that he, to avenge pictures were made at Scott’s was from Marsac, saying the crowd went mad. N. J. Later studio in his sister’s disgrace, would kill Lesperon on farm on Staten Island and at a vehicle sight. Roxalanne was heartbroken, but she HE King decided to leave his Jersey City. com- laughed in her lover’s face. When Bardelys T and determine the cause of the saw the effect he had created he grasped her motion. When he had done so he was sur- HE year 1914 was spent largely in top and for per- and forcibly insisted that he was not Les- prised to see Bardelys perched on the T preparation for producing pic- peron. In the struggle the locket miniature of his carriage. Upon learning his favorite fecting the organization. After a few that dropped from his doublet and Roxalanne rec- was being hanged as a traitor, he determined tures had been made, it became apparent enough, ognized Mile. Marsac s face. Hurt and to be firm, but offer a gentleman’s death. the existing organization was not big was defiant, she rushed from Bardelys and de- This Bardelys gallantly accepted and stood and the Box Office Attraction Company Mr. liberately revealed his whereabouts to a party up in order to be shot. After a short con- added to the producing organization. gave studio, organ- of dragoons who were still searching for the ference with four musketeers, the King Fox then purchased the Eclair stars, and traitorous Lesperon. The courtier accom- the command to shoot. But when the last ized new companies, engaged new that he panied the dragoons without resistance, hop- echo had died Bardelys was still standing. gave notice, by deeds if not by words, a larger ing that in the city he would he recognized Louis had had another fancy, he explained. was in the producing business on inadequate. Others and identified, proving to the world and to “I wanted to see if you knew how to die, scale. One studio became were organ- the girl he loved that his name was honor- as you know how to live. You are the most were bought. More companies printing plant able and untainted. gallant gentleman in France.” ized. In 1915 a complete film together Toulouse was the seat of what passed for Then stretching out his hand he assisted was established at Fort Lee, N. J., the entire out- judgment at this time. On certain days in Bardelys from the coach and invited him with laboratories for handling each year men appointed by the King held to ride within. Bardelys accepted and they put of the organization. at Hollywood court, and poor wretches were brought for- drove off while the mob cheered. Early in 1916 the studios ready, and in addition, ward, tried, and generally convicted. Now His life and honor restored, Bardelys’ were completed and Chatteler- established in the principal it so happened that Chattelerault, sentenced thoughts turned to Roxalanne and Fox agencies were and in India, by the King to serve a term in Toulouse, was ault. Granting his request, the coach was cities of Continental Europe other parts of the Far East. the judge at this time, and it was before stopped before the Inn of the Peacock. Bar- China, Japan and studio was one of him that Bardelys was to be tried. delys leaped out and entered this place, where In 1918 the Hollywood covering sev- The prisoners passed rapidly before the he knew Chattelerault was staying. Dashing the largest on the Pacific Coast, and laboratory facili- tribunal. A single blow from the judge’s up the stairs and down the hallway he met eral acres. But the studio

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“ the pur- ” ties were increased several times by A ‘Typical American Who chase of adjoining tracts and the erection of new buildings, including several permanent Is British stages. The Hollywood plant was further ex- of panded this spring by the addition of one page ( Continued, from 24) the finest outdoor lots in the industry at Fox Hills. It includes a number of large perma-

nent stages and street scenes. is not enough jumping in the game.

No sooner is a picture finished than he N 1919 construction was started on the takes Ben Hendricks and goes cruising and I $2,500,000 William Fox building in New hunting until the next production is started. York, a veritable film city, two minutes from Mrs. Denny is a superb swimmer and hunt- Broadway. It houses the administration ress and frequently accompanies him, but usu- offices, the Eastern studios, and an immense ally she remains at home with the baby and laboratory. It includes room for several satisfies her athletic bent by playing with producing companies to work simultaneously, Reggie during his spare hours. and dressing rooms for 1,000 players. business in This centralizes the extensive ENNY is normally spectacular. Seldom York and one two great plants—one in New D a week passes that some new Denny in Hollywood. There are twenty-nine stunt isn’t being gabbed around Hollywood, branches in the United States, six in Canada, causing people to exclaim, “You don’t say so!” and seventy-five in other parts of the world. Recently aboard his yacht, not far from shore, By the energy and resourcefulness of Mr. he hooked a giant tuna fish, one of the Fox, the penny arcade purchased twenty-odd largest and gamest breeds in southern waters. years ago has expanded into two corpora- This finny fighter, which was later found to tions—Fox Film Corporation, the producing weigh ninety-eight pounds, threatened to and distributing company, with assets of $25,- break the line. While Denny played the fish, 000,000, and Fox Theatres Corporation, gradually giving him rope, Ben Hendricks board. which began its corporate existence less than a tied the end of the line to a surf Tired ? year ago, with assets of more than $20,000,- Denny mounted the board and was towed 000. by the fish at a brisk speed around and around —OF THE in wide circles while the shore crowd looked on and shouted. At length the tuna’s strength COMMONPLACE failed, and the surf board won. Denny’s private life, like his life on the IN FICTION? screen, is a series of wholesome excitements. fellow who makes fathers He is the kind of a THEN you will want to Jetta Qoudal—Aloof say to their sons, “Don’t be like Denny.” fellow who makes And he is the kind of a chum with and ACysterious fathers secretly hope that their sons will be like Denny. ( Continued from page 18) THRILLING European audiences when the World War Holland. broke out and found her stranded in Ala king the (fartoons Move Rather than enjoy the safety of interior Hol- TALES land, Miss Goudal packed up her few belong- ( Continued from page 27) ings and journeyed to the Belgian border, A Monthly Magazine of where she employed every minute of her time helping the refugees. as they are to be used to back-up many scenes, True Love (Confessions She had never seen a motion picture up to they are developed in detail. the time she came to the United States in Animation takes place after the back- Amazing Adventure 1918, in broken health, and she might never grounds are ready. The mysterious word Mysteries have played in one but for the persuasive “animation” refers to the work of penning ACodern powers of Sidney Olcott, who had seen her hundreds of little drawings which will give A “different” fiction publication in emotional portrayals in “The Hero,” “The the effect of action when shown in rapid suc- every sense of the word. Elton Case,” and “Simon Called Peter,” all cession on the screen. Each animator is For Women: Intimate, unusual famous Broadway successes. assigned scenes requiring the type of char- glimpses into the lives of women who Her first motion picture production was acters which lend themselves best to his have loved daringly — and Thrill- “Timothy’s Quest,” wherein she played an talents. ingly. unhappy tubercular mother. Her adaptability For Men. Adventure and mys- to the screen soon earned her a leading role ORKING drawings are made upon tery off the beaten track that carries in “The Bright Shawl.” Since then she has W translucent tissue paper. Thus the Thrills. played in “The Green Goddess”, “Open All “animator” can see vaguely the lines of the 100% Night”, “Salome of the Tenements”, “The preceding drawing as he places a new tissue 20c a copy $2 a year Spaniard”, “The Coming of Amos”, “The over a completed sketch. On the new tissue Just Pin a Dollar Bill to the Coupon Road to Yesterday”, “Three Faces East”, he draws just those portions of the character s “Her Man O’ War”, and “Fighting Love.” body which must move. So each time a body THRILLING TALES PUB. CO., The last-named picture is the one she is member is drawn it is in a slightly different 1803-220 West 42nd St., New York. now working on under the direction of Nils position. This system reduces the work to a Olaf Chrisander. minimum. Efficiency has developed a way to Gentlemen: completely de- Enclosed is One Dollar for 6 months. M iss Goudal is not married and not even avoid the need of making a Begin with first issue. the keenest-eyed observers in the screen capital tailed drawing to register every new move. have been able to detect the slightest willing- The tracers use the drawings on tissue paper Name the as blue-prints. Each tissue sketch is traced ness on her part to consider any one of Address scores of prominent actors who would fight or transferred to a sheet of clear celluloid of City and State among themselves to pay court to her—truly corresponding size. The outline sketches are is, the Jetta Goudal is an enigma. then “colored,” or filled in. That

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shading and other details are executed. Water colors—black and white—are used so that they may be washed off and the celluloid Every month it reaches the highest class of readers sheets used indefinitely. All the sheets of —people who know and appreciate the best motion paper and celluloid are punched and placed picture literature. upon pegs, like loose-leaf ledger sheets. In Every month it surpasses its best previous efforts this way they are kept within register or to amuse and to entertain, providing proper relative alignment. exclusively pre- The completed pared features. drawings are then inspected and numbered by Every the supervisor who notates upon an “exposure month it is eagerly awaited by thousands of young sheet” the number of “frames” or photo- and old alike—who demand reading quality. graphic exposures necessary to register the de- Every month its circulation takes an upward bound sired action. It is the rapid flashing of the —each copy its own best salesman. And there’s a successive drawings that produces the illusion reason—it’s of animation on the screen.

OLLOWING the completion of the The Most Talkecl-of Magazine F actual cartooning, or animating, the drawings are handed to the cameraman. To present an idea how the photographer of Us Class in the or cameraman does his part in the making of

animated cartoons, let us suppose the scene is to show Henry Cat emulating Robin Hood Woriel sending an arrow into the air. Sherwood Forest is pictured on the “setting sheet” or

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An inkling of how many drawings it takes to make a character do its bit may be gleaned from the fact that fifteen drawings are needed to Qinem make a cat and dog strut once across Mrt the a screen, while twenty-five sketches would be needed to make them waltz gracefully a couple of times. Over three thousand five will bear on its cover page a striking likeness of known hundred drawings enter into the production COLLEEN MOORE, of each subject in the “Aesop’s Film Fables” and beloved far and wide. Fashions are discussed by Florence A. Chambers, series. Oftentimes this number is exceeded considered one of America’s greatest writers on Milady’s dress. Leading screen by another thousand. Mr. Terry’s simplified stars pose for these fashions. system does away with the old methods of ani- mation whereby some twenty thousand de- And then there is a wealth of interesting features, profusely illustrated and tailed drawings were required to make a film printed subject. from the finest plates, together with especially written articles prepared Now, do you think that the next time you by well-known narrators of the world of Cinema. see a cartoon comedy you will be able to esti- mate exactly how many drawings were re- quired to make the movie move?

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Qolonel Tim £hCcCoy, “High £agle ”

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who are hereditary enemies will not mix. “On sing ! I want to put all that into the pictures 4 the reservation in Wyoming two tribes re- I am going to make.” side, one living in the south and one in the north. The Government agent once had the LTHOUGH Colonel McCoy is prone to Torch Press idea of bringing these two together on friendly A talk more of his Indians than of him- terms. He hasn’t that idea any more because self, it takes no psychoanalyst to know at of what happened. once what sort of man he is. His years as a Publications “One agent suggested that on the Fourth of cavalry officer, his years as adjutant general July the two tribes celebrate together. of Wyoming, his work with General Scott on “The other tribe’s agent was delighted. ‘A the Indian reservations have given him a For Holiday great idea,’ he said, broad outlook on ‘we will have a life. You look at Reading two - day celebra- him once and you tion.’ know that there “ All First Editions ‘Pretty good could be nothing idea,’ said the mean nor petty Printed From Original chief, ‘tribes cele- about the man. brate for two days Men who have Type together. Arapahoe lived out-of-doors celebrate one day, as he has and who Shakespeare’s Shoshone celebrate have been as close ” the other.’ to primitive people Revelations And that was as as he, could never A book of 480 pages and cover, at- as they ever close acquire any incon- tractively bound in yellow cloth, came to a great sequential superfi- stamped in purple ink, containing get-together meet- cialities. hundreds of Poems, Sonnets, Divine History, Shakespeare’s Thanksgiv- ing and an old What is more, ing, The Tmmortal Shakespeare’s week. The home he has a vision and Birthday, Eternal Life, Reincarna- community spirit an ideal, and he is tion and hundreds of articles never rules in the tribe, about to see both before published. Price, 82.50. but there is no materialize. inter-tribal friend- Our two-gallon For Jesus’ Sake liness at all. hat is off to you, A book of 132 pages, bound in black tell McCoy’s To Tim McCoy, and cloth, stamped in gold ink. innumerable inter- if you don’t make A book containing Shakespeare’s esting experiences sympathetic, amus- Confession of Faith, 45 Prayers, with this bronzed- ing pictures about and Sonnets. Written for all the face race would the people you clergy of all denominations. Price

1 . 10 . require several vol- know and love so $ umes, but they will well, nobody ever all be told on the will. If you don’t Jesus’ Teachings screen shortly, and lift the audience A book of 120 pages, beautifully they will be more out of its seats and bound in red cloth, gold stamped, Personality vivid than words Tim McCoy and “Standing Bear”, a Sioux Chief- give it something containing the of Jesus, tain, who will help him in a number his films. The Power of Jesus, The Agony of could ever make of to think about, we Jesus, The Purity of Jesus and them. miss our guess. Jesus’ Teachings. Price, $1.50. And we’re looking for Goes-In-The-Lodge INCE McCoy has been away from these and Lone Bear and all the rest on the screen My Proof of S people with whom he has associated for so many years misses greatly. he them “You CCOY’S home is in Wyoming, whence Immortality cannot know the peace that steals over you M he emigrated with his family from his A book beautifully bound in purple when you sit visiting with a group of Indians. native state, Michigan, at an early age. artificial leather or cloth, gold stamped, containing 516 pages of the “Visiting in this case means just being with Possessing what frequently has been called finest reading, covering actual evi- them, and not chatting. One thing is sure, “the most colorful personality in the West,” dential proof of Shakespeare’s Im- an Indian does not waste words. If they know he has had many opportunities for political mortality and his preface of Back you they merely greet is undoubted- you when you come preferment. It is said of him that his home From the Dead. This ly the finest book of the series. among them and you may sit for an hour state would be only too glad to confer upon Price, cloth, $3.50. sometimes without saying a word. It’s like him any political office he might be willing being with old, true friends. There is a cer- to accept. These books are astounding in their tain warmth that passes between you that does Tim McCoy’s entrance into the movies as truth, seriously written for people who not need words to make it any the more per- a star was not because of the financial benefits. want to know facts. A wealth of knowl- fect. edge to those interested in one of the He has a tremendous ranch in Wyoming and “If something comes to your mind you say greatest of current topics and an educa- plenty of stocks and bonds. He expressed his tion to those who read the daily news- it, or you may discuss some event of the day, venture this way: papers on this subject. but the whole atmosphere is one of rest and flock to the peace. “Boys theatres to see Western drama. Now the hero of these pictures has “They have a great background; they are Miller Book & Magazine Agency it in his power to mould character. He can a stalwart, hardy race they have lived a vigor- ; Philadelphia, Pa. preach a powerful lesson to American youth P. O. Box 501, ous healthy life, and that they are sinister, during its most plastic period. Please send me copies: mysterious or villainous is an utterly false con- Shakespeare’s Revelations ception. It is impossible to translate Indian “I hope to tell the rising generation of the jokes. Anyhow they are not the old ones about truth about the Indian—not the usual stories For Jesus’ Sake Pat and Mike, but they are amusing to an of scalping and torture and depredation, but Jesus’ Teachings Indian and he is just as quick to laugh as the romantic side of the Indian—a picture of My Proof of Immortality we are. And how he loves to dance and ( Continued on page 51)

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it is invariably a wow, a hit, a hummer and Sir Thomas Gainsborough’s famous paint- zAt the Qinema a smash. ing has had a little legend made up about But to be brutal, “Kosher Kitty Kelly” is it and gotten into the movies—in color. ( Continued from page 34) one of the shabbiest excuses for a photoplay As the story is too slight to matter we PAMABISE —First National. Story by in ever so long. The continuity is infantile suppose you are more interested in the color Cosmo Hamilton. Directed by Irwin Willat. and the acting about on a par with the pos- work than anything else. The technicolor CAST turing on penny arcade postcards. process is marvelous and quite agreeable to Bronson, scenes, but for Milton Sills, Betty True, there are amusing the eye, but whether it is the novelty of the Noah Beery, Lloyd Whitlock, off some Kate Price, Charlie Murray, that matter Mutt and Jeff often pull thing or some slight discrepancy between real Charles Brook, Claude King, good ones in their own quaint way. Viola of the scenes seem Ashley Cooper. life and the film, some Dana is pretty and vivacious and Nat Carr over-colored. Whites, as in the baby’s dress, of random scenes appears This hodge-podge as Moses Ginsburg does the conventional throw a glare when exposed to brilliant sun- assembled for but two purposes. to have been comic-strip Jew well enough. light. But so do white objects in real sun- Sills and Betty Bronson First to show Milton It seems that Officer Sullivan loves Kitty shine. The camera has recorded perhaps too second in uncounted, ecstatic embraces, and Kelly and that Morris Rosen loves Rosie accurately. to allow Milton Sills and Noah Beery to Feinbaum. After a quarrel the Irish girl This process is, of course, not new, fight it out ferociously like the scowling he- makes love to the Jewish boy, and vice versa, many colored films have been shown before, men that they are. just for spite. In the end it’s all "straightened but this seems a good chance to review the Possibly this is all right. Certainly Miss out you wish you’d gone ski-ing instead. and color photography. Bronson makes one of the most delectable armfuls we have seen in many a reel, but IFur-T — Para- even kissing, oh my children, becomes weari- HTt K Campus REVIEWED Lloyd RECENTLY some after the first hour and a half. And mount. Story by Louise Long and Directed by Clarence Badger. all if he grabs her into his manly arms once, he Corrigan. DON JUAN—John Barrymore climbing does it a hundred times in “Paradise.” Well, CAST over the scenery in swashbuckling medieval Bebe Daniels, Janies Hall, El Brendel, this be paradise of a sort. role. Go, but don't expect drama. may Charlie Paddock, Joan Standing, Gilbert But “Paradise” on the screen is a scrappy, Roland, Irma Kornelia, Jocelyn Lee. disconnected affair. Its tempo changes ab- SCARLET LETTER—One of the best pic- There is, we must admit, interest of a sort the locale year. Lillian Gish gives a beauti- ruptly every few minutes and in this picture, and the spectacle of a track tures of the the little Puritan seam- changes often enough for the story to be a meet in which the contestants are girls in ful performance as Sea Island Cook’s Tour. Some of the South running panties has its attractive aspects. But stress. beauty that scenes have short flashes of the on the whole the “Campus Flirt” is simply is is in but they are too short to BATTLING BUTLER Buster Keaton “Moana,” terrible—particularly the first section in — Miss anybody in town. count. It’s time for Mr. Sills and which the girl arrives at college. still as funny as quick. Bronson to be kissing again, right away This picture undoes all the good work ac- to fantastic romance of The story starts in an airplane, swoops complished in “One Minute to Play,” as far BEAU GESTE—A fine get married, in the Sahara. Good strong an Artists’ Ball, steps out to as college atmosphere is concerned. If col- blood and mystery first base in the poor but happy no love interest, if that’s what and slides to lege is like this I’m a trained seal and you’re stuff, but It then Beery, Ronald Col- home of the newly married couple. a polar bear! Just such fun! And all the you’re thinking of. Noah a Forbes. sprints about, warming up, preparatory to boys and girls well along in their thirties. man, Neil Hamilton and Ralph swim to a South Sea Island to dig up a buried You may be amused by Miss Bebe Daniels, treasure. Teddy (Lloyd Whitlock) is so however, who has a reasonable sense of ONE MINUTE TO PLAY—Red Grange the girl marries the other pleasant little college story. disappointed when comedy when she is not laboring with the in a simple, man that he goes crazy, and quietly slips ridiculous script. himself. attempt to be deft over the side of the yacht and drowns You see, it’s this way. Patricia, daughter SO THIS IS PARIS—An in, oh, that naughty Arrived in the South Seas, Quex (Noah of proud aristocrats is sent, without her maids and amusing about life Beery), a white man in charge of the natives, or anything, to college, where of course she Paris, which misses fire. island which attempts to hold out on the is properly ridiculed. Ignored by the leading Sweet and Neil belongs to the young couple. He ties Milton sorority, she falls in with a crowd of bums DIPLOMACY—Blanche entangled in a com- Sills to the whipping post, thus starting the and boozers, who all but lead her astray. Hamilton unfortunately service agents. great fight which lasts for fully fifteen min- She even has to swim home from a motor- pletely dizzy yarn about secret the plot after- utes, Mr. Sills and Mr. Beery socking each boat ride. If you can give an account of sort prize. other most realistically the while. Mr. Beery Then one afternoon when she is laughing wards you deserve some of does the best work in the film. at the “girl athletes,” a white rat crawls up Amusing comedy In the end Mr. Beery bites bitter dust her leg, so terrifying her that she sprints HOLD THAT LION— IValter Fliers, and guess what happens then? Why, another ahead of all on the team, showing that she featuring Douglas MacLean, and a large unnamed terrific, lingering embrace for the loving cou- is faster than any girl in the college. Constance Howard, ple. After this and the motorboat incident, she African Lion. The subtitles are of the Five and Ten listens to the handsome undergraduate and comedy about variety—about as bad as possible. goes out for the girls’ track team. Charlie SUBWAY SADIE—A slight Paddock (himself) coaches her, and after the a salesgirl who falls in love with a subway usual quota of obstacles she gets into the guard. Pretty ivell done in spots. Kcat-siTiMiR Kitty Kelly— Film relay race for the last lap and wins the meet STRONG MAN—Apprenticed to a Booking Offices. From the stage play by for dear old Whatsits-Name. THE gives up late weight lifter, Harry Langdon draws a good Leon De Costa. Directed by James Home. For the man she loves she liquor and smoking and goes brace of laughs in an uneven comedy. CAST hours and hard Viola Dana, Tom Forman, Vera Gordon, into training, and, if you ask me, that’s a lot Renee Kathleen Myers, Nat Carr, Stanley Tay- for a young girl to give up these days. But TIN GODS—Thomas Meighan, lor, Carroll Nye, Aggie Herring. in an attempt to it just shows what love for a good, clean Adoree and Aileen Pringle nearly When Mr. Ford found that his little con- man will do. show that ivives with careers are not trivance was popular, he immediately made a The plot centers about a rival school, so nice as dance hall girls. As wheezy a plot million more each as nearly like the first as whose spies imprison Patricia in an observa- as they make. possible. And when Anne Nichols penned tory during the first half of the track meet. her sublime Abie, all the little theatrical and FINE MANNERS—All about how much motion picture geniuses immediately set to better it is to be poor and vulgar than rich work to make plays and pictures as nearly like “Th k IBu;e Boy—Educational. Writ- and proper. Gloria Swanson is in it. the model masterpiece as possible. ten and directed by Arthur Maude. The thing is based on a profound law of CAST GREAT DECEPTION—A moderately in- thermo-dynamics commonly known as the John Roche, Jane Thomas, Frank Austin, teresting spy picture with Ben Lyon, Aileen Esther Rhoades, Phillipe De Lacy, Mon- Irish-Jew joke, and according to all the rules tague Shaw. Pringle , and Basil Rathbon.

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YELLOW Despite McCoys high position in The Cfirl on the Qover and civil life—he has been a Lieut. Colonel IN is dealt a resounding smack on the the regular army, and a Brigadier General ( Continued from page 35) in head in this new play, but the mallet S in the Wyoming State Militia, as well as be- was when the uniformed men came on the turns out to be one of those rubber ing often mentioned as a candidate for State a stage to arrest her father when she was affairs of the sort the characters in the comic play ro- Senator—he is still young enough to child. She was afraid she would not be able strips use to belabor each other. Written by mantic leads with an ingenue of eighteen. _ to do justice to the part. She was afraid that a woman, Margaret Vernon, it just shows with $ McCoy is tall and athletic of build, 4 she would never do for Mr. Barrymore, of men up . . . shows what dirty, mean, low- an easy graceful carriage, and an appealing all people, and Miss Costello admits that she down, contemptible cads they are. face and smile. The costume which he before she actually spent many sleepless nights As Val is about to leave for his honeymoon wears is a combination of the cowboy’s and started working with him. After she began he confesses to his best friend that he has been Indian’s. From the Indian chiefs, who num- work, she felt perfectly at ease. He did every- having an affair with the telephone girl in the ber themselves among his closest friends, he thing to help her and taught her all that was office, and that she is about to have a child. receives many presents of elaborately beaded unfamiliar to her. reflections The friend administers moral and shirts, moccasins and gauntlets. It is interesting to know that when Dolores promises to look after her. Tim McCoy has lectured all over the was asked to come out to Hollywood, the cast- A year later, however, Daisy (tagged “the world in the cause of the Indian, and has ing director at the studio had planned a vamp hide-away girl” on the program) is discovered been received by the crowned heads of Eu- role for her in the next picture that was be- “on the streets.” Refusing aid from her rope. His advent into motion pictures well ing prepared. He only had to look at her once former lover she is proudly earning money to might be termed a notable occasion. to be convinced that she was not a vamp. keep her child in luxury. That was one of the reasons why it took so Skipping the intervening six or seven scenes long for them to find a suitable part for her. we see Daisy in the depths, entering a night They had had it definitely settled that she was Change club. But hold ! She is refused entrance When You to be the vamp of the studio. Imagine She has sunk so low that even a night club Dolores being cast for such a role—Dolores won’t admit her! Then her one-time lover with a face that rarely ever smiles, and eyes Your Address and his wife come in and as she Totters out that express what her name means—sadness. Into the Night the house detective gives the There is a wistfulness about Miss Costello, a be sure to send us a man twenty-four hours to get out of the city loveliness, and charm which give her a rare old forever. notice, giving your distinction. True to her type, she has never address as well as your those ! Those rotten, rotten men ! bobbed her hair, and it is not probable that Oh, men has been painted with that black water- ad' she ever will. It is long and blonde. She Val new, thirty days in proof ink which not even a woman’s tears can has the slender, graceful figure of a dancer, vance. It requires that wash away.—C. P. and is of medium height. period of time to make a change effective in our FTER Miss Costello’s first two successes, “The Sea Beast” and “Mannequin,” she “ mailing lists A Qol. Tim TMhcCoy, 'High Eagle'" appeared in two entirely different roles,—as the frightened child in “Bride of the Storm,” ( Continued from page 49) CINEMA ART and as the crook in “The Little Irish Girl.” 220 WEST 42nd STREET Her next is to be as Barrymore’s leading John the true Indian, who is one of the finest of YORK lady once more in a picture adapted from the men. I believe I can do good as well as NEW opera, “Manon Lescaut.” As the famous furnish entertainment for the screen.” Manon she is lovelier than Esther in “The Sea Beast,” and more alluring than Orchid in “Mannequin.” In fact, she is a much greater actress than she was in either of the other pic- PHILADELPHIA tures. At the present time she is working on “The CHESTNUT AND 39th STREET Third Degree,” which Michael Curtiz, the new Hungarian director at the Warner Studio, is making. It will be interesting to see what Pennsylvania will her. Hotel a foreign director do with Dolores undoubtedly inherits her talent Fireproof—Unrestricted Parking—Garage from her father, but it is rather an injustice to say that she received her start in the movies because she was her father’s daughter—as many people have already intimated. In the first place, she was given her first role by ac- cident, and certainly if she were not an artist she could not have attained the popularity that she already has. She would not be for the second time within a year John Barrymore’s leading lady.

zAt the Theater OSCAR W. RICHARDS, Manager ( Continued, from page 37)

diverting in a short skit, Miss Brice is not so 600 ROOMS — 500 BATHS satisfying in a full-length seance. Rooms with running water from $2.50 per day Cluttering the stage are a host of cow- bath and shower from $3.50 per day punchers, a Chinese cook and a girl news- Rooms with private paper reporter. While Miss Brice is think- ing up some more wise-cracks these characters Food and Service the Best romp about, occasionally shooting guns in the air, sometimes only snarling at each other. In Near West Philadelphia Station Pennsylvania Railroad some ways it’s a bad evening. Hasn’t Miss University of Pennsylvania—Franklin Field Brice any close friends to tell her how amus- ing she is in a suitable environment?

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Estelle Clark Strives for Situations Which Will Appeal to All of Us By KATHERINE ALBERT

ERHAPS one of the strangest paradoxes So in spite of the fact that Estelle’s father in Cinema Land—which is a land of P wanted her to go to college Estelle was de- paradoxes— is the case of Estelle Clark. termined to become an actress and when she She is a Polish comedienne, and while Poland finished high school she started to work in has produced many celebrities, including an office to save enough money to come to artists and statesmen, perhaps Estelle Clark California. is its only comedienne. But saving money was difficult and at last They take life seriously in Poland. They her mother interceded—which is a way of suffer intensely. Their artists, their musicians, mothers—and persuaded Estelle’s father to actors and statesmen have shown us the tragic give her enough money to get to California in life and yet Estelle Clark was born in the and to live on for a while. city of Warsaw.

Her real name is SHALL never Stasia Zwolinska try — forget that day that over on your vocal five years ago when I chords and you must — got off the train in Los admit that it’s an ex- Angeles,” Estelle rem- cellent name for a inisced. “It seemed tragedian, but because to me that everyone Stasia aspires to make was being met at the people laugh instead of The Biggest station. And to add to cry she changed her it all it was raining. name when she and Best went I was never so alone into pictures — and in my life. I thought that’s a long story. Movie Pictorial then that I was seeing When Estelle was very little of the Full of Pictures two years old her comedy of life, and father who is an in- Short Stories — most of the tragedy.” terior decorato r Special Features But the next day the brought her and her sun was shining and 15 — mother to America. Cents $1.50 a Year Estelle set out for the After living in New studios just as hun- MOVIE York and Cleveland PICTORIAL dreds of girls have they at last 358 5th Ave. New York made their done and are doing. home in Detroit, where She knew no one and Estelle went to school. had not the slightest There was only one idea how to apply for idea in Estelle’s mind Estelle Qlark work. And if her de- See Special on she wanted to Offer Page 48 — be- termination had been come an actress, and, less she would, no strangely enough, for a youngster with the doubt, have forsaken her dream. background given her by her nationality and However, Estelle Clark was different from her parents, she wanted to be a comedienne. the thousands of other girls storming the It seems to that me this shows an unusual studio gates. They, for the most part, were maturity of mind. There are very few young attracted by the glamour. They merely people realize who that the actress who plays “wanted to work in the pictures.” Estelle light comedy must be just as much an artist had an ideal. Her ambition was not to make as the one who does Lady Macbeth. a great deal of money and own a beautiful home and a car and fine clothes. She wanted UT that is the outstanding characteristic to become a comedienne. B about Estelle Clark. She is thoughtful Everything was with her then as it is now. and mature beyond her years. It is her con- She has youth, beauty, intelligence and an tention that it is easier much to make people ideal. You can’t beat that combination, that’s cry it is than to make them laugh. all there is to it. “There is a very good reason for this,” says Miss Clark. “Life is really not funny, 'OR a year she worked as extra, then you know. It is full of sorrow and misery, F played bits, and at last became leading and the pathetic things are the ones that we woman in two reel comedies. But while this know most about. was not the sort of comedy which she had “When we see a poignant piece of acting dreamed of, she realized what good training on the screen we believe that it is really the she was getting and stuck to it until a tele- truth, but we have to be convinced that a gram came from her father telling her of her situation is funny. We are not so willing to mother’s death. Get Business by Mail laugh as we are to cry. The tears are on She went back to Detroit at once and re- 60 pages of vital business facts and figures. 0 Where the surface, the laughs do not so easily. ’ and how many your prospects come mained with her father for a are year, and then, “It is for this reason that 8,000 lines of business covered. Compiled I want to bring after he had gone back to Poland, she re- by the Largest Directory Publishers in the laughter instead of tears. I do not mean the turned to California. world, thru information obtained by actual door-to-door canvass. broad slapstick variety of laugh. It is the “How different I felt the Write for your FREE copy second time I little human things that I want to do. I arrived in Los Angeles,” she R. L. Polk Co., Detroit, exclaimed. “It & Mich. want to make people •BS POLK DIRECTORY BLDG. say, ‘I’ve done that my- was home to me then and I knew that my Branches In principal cities ol U. self a thousand S. times’ or ‘I know someone heart was here. I had been miserably ” un- who acts exactly like that.’ ( Continued on page 58)

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By RENEE VAN DYKE

ESS than six hours after the tragic acci- the raging wind and water allowed him to. ing me down. I made my way back to my L dent to the Fonck Trans-Atlantic plane, Unable to communicate with his editor, he room on the beach. in which Clavier and Islamoff were left the devastated area and managed to get “I had my belongings in a big fibre steamer burned to death, Pathe News scenes of the to Jacksonville, where he established wire trunk and everything was getting drenched. take-off, the loss of a wheel, the first burst communication with New York, saying that But it was not raining. The water was simply of flame as the machine spun half ’round, the he would bring the film in himself. Immedi- being blown from the surface of the ground. hair-breadth escape of Fonck and Curtin, and ately an airplane was chartered which I started to put things on the chairs because the complete destruction of the big air cruiser brought him to Atlanta, where arrangements the water was continuously rising in the room. in a seething mass of fire, had been delivered had been made for another plane to meet him I took short strips of wood and tried to block to Broadway theatres. These news films of and make the next lap of the trip. the windows and finally succeeded in blocking the fatal crash were the first delivered locally Earle, almost exhausted from injuries and up most of them. This was along about five and the first to be shipped to outside points hunger, but refusing to surrender his precious o’clock Sunday morning. The storm was just by airplane, automobile and train. film to anyone, was carried from the plane to about to break. The Pathe News had the exclusive rights another piloted by Doug Davis, winner of “When the storm came I had put on a to the filming of the pro- bathing suit, but when it in- posed Fonck hop from New creased in fury I changed, York to Paris and two cam- realizing that I might have to eramen were stationed at van- go a long way before it was tage points along the plane’s over. Suddenly something at- ground course, some fifty tracted my attention to one yards apart. The plane sped side of the room, and none too safely past the first camera- soon, for as I just dodged man, but was rocking badly away the window was blown as the second man, further

almost into face ! Then, down the field, cranked his my camera. Suddenly the ma- in rapid succession, timbers chine hit the brow of a knoll, and walls came crashing in and. went into a tail spin. A for about an hour. Later the flash of fire followed. Just as roof blew away and the side Fonck and Curtin emerged timbers crashed in, burying me from the open cockpit and ran for six hours. Luckily I had for safety, there was a swirl a flashlight with me. My only of fire and black smoke that food was a box of soda marked the tragic end of one crackers. Finally, along about of the most daring undertak- seven o’clock, I was rescued by ings in the history of aviation. the city firemen. I went over An automobile, with engine to the firehouse for a few min- running and driver ready, was Nelson Keys, Dorothy Gish, and Will Rogers meet in England, where Miss utes, and then I went back to standing nearby, and when the Gish recently completed work on her next picture, “Tip-Toes” gather my things. The water hopes for the two trapped men was up to my knees by this were gone the cameraman were rushed to the the recent aerial races at the Sesquicentennial. time. I had great difficulty in keeping my headquarters in New York, where an extra The fourth plane was sighted over Jersey City films dry. I got the box up several feet above laboratory force prepared prints. at 4.32 p. m. the water and covered it with oilcloth, pre- Positive prints were delivered to Loew’s Due to exposure during the hurricane and paring to make the pictures just as soon as it New York State Theatre at 11.30 a. m., just his insistence upon standing by his film record- was light. About 9.30 I set the camera up five hours after the disaster, which occurred at ings until he personally delivered them to his on a table, about the center of the room, 6.30 a. m. A print reached the Strand Thea- editor in New York, Earle was in a state of pointed it towards the door, and took the first tre at 11.58 a. m., and another print was de- near exhaustion. He was immediately at- pictures made of the storm. The wind and livered at the Rialto Theatre at noon, estab- tended to by a doctor who was awaiting his water were blowing over automobiles and lishing what is believed to be a record for arrival in response to a telegraphic message, covering them with debris and timbers. The speed in covering an event that happened miles reading: water was being blown at about the rate of away from headquarters. “Kindly get doctor . . . Three days in salt 100 to 130 miles an hour, just like a water and sand without removing shoes has white mist. ATHE News’ service also did quick work resulted in bad condition.” “About eleven o’clock we took the camera P reporting the devastation wrought in the outfit across the street and put it up in _ terrific Florida hurricane on Saturday and HEN Earle was sufficiently revived, he a room, pointing it towards the storm. This Sunday, Sept. 18th and 19th, films reaching W told the reporters his own story of his was the most spectacular picture of all. New York Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 21st, experiences in grinding a camera in the middle About 1 1 .30 we started to go south to the when Ralph Earle, staff cameraman stationed of a hurricane. ocean. There the water was being blown at Miami, landed at an aviation field in Jersey “Last Friday I sent Mr. Cohen a tele- about 100 miles an hour, picking up every- City. He used four airplanes in the trip gram stating that the hurricane was forecast thing and throwing it about with ter- north from Miami. Broadway theatres and that I had received the film negative that rific speed.” showed these sensational storm scenes at the he had sent me and would be on the look-out. Tuesday evening performances. “About 6 o’clock Saturday night the first MIL JANNINGS, recognized all over Dramatic, indeed, is the story of the “cov- signs of the storm appeared. It became very E the world as one of the foremost screen ering” of the Florida hurricane by Earle, a dark and the air was stifling, making it hard actors, arrived in New York on Oct. 16 to camera reporter located at Miami. On the to breathe. work in America under his contract with first warning of the impending storm he pre- “Then the wind began to get stronger and Paramount. pared to photograph it, and was in the midst stronger. I went first into a garage, when Jannings was born in New York in 1886, of the hurricane throughout its duration. Al- the window crashed in and the walls began to but his parents took him back to Germany though he was injured and at one time im- buckle. Leaving the garage I went around before he was a year old. At ten years of age, prisoned for six hours in a wrecked building, the corner where debris was sailing up the Emil arrived in Gorlitz, where he left school he continued to grind his camera whenever street. Something hit me in the head, knock- in the fourth term—simply ran away, and

Page Fifty-three CINEMA ART became a sailor. A year later, having tired A mammoth new stage has been erected, and Moore, it has been necessary to mask the of the sea, he arrived penniless on the streets some of the sets are of a size and magnifi- cameras in many ingenious ways. As a re- of London. An unknown German found the cence rarely equaled. One of the most strik- sult Miss Moore has been riding unknown lad and helped him to return to his parents. ing is the gorgeous home of Mary Magdalene, on the top of a Fifth avenue bus, doing her On his return to Germany, at the age of the set in which the first shots of the picture stuff while most of the other passengers were sixteen, he received his first engagement at the were made. utterly unaware that anything unusual was Gorlitz City Theatre. Thus began his Assisting Mr. De Mille are the Rev. Dr. happening. twelve years in stock companies, playing such George Reid Andrews, chairman of the Film According to plans, Miss Moore will start pieces as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and Drama Committee of the Federated on her European productions in the fall “Old Heidelberg,” “The White Horse,” Churches of Christ in America, and Bruce of 1927 and will make one picture in England, “Robbers,” etc. Barton, author of “The Man Nobody one in Germany, one in France, and one in It was by accident that Jannings arrived Knows.” Italy. As far as conditions make it possible, in Berlin. Werner Krauss, with whom he foreign directors, staffs, casts, and technical played in Nurnberg, once mimicked him so ORRIS GEST’S “Miracle,” now tour- equipment will be used. well in the courtyard of the German theatre M ing the country, is to be made into Several stories are under consideration, but that Max Reinhardt and Felix Hollander be- a movie in Hollywood, but not until its last pending the acquisition of rights, no announce- came interested. Playing in Darmstadt at the stage presentation has been given. Both Fa- ment of titles is being made. All of them, time, Jannings immediately went to Berlin, mous Players and First National have asked however, will be from books or plays of inter- where he first appeared at the Small Theatre. for a try at it, but there are chances that Mr. national reputation, each one having had its Soon after this Jannings went into origin in the country where the pic- the movies. He won recognition in ture is to be made. his first production — “Karamasow Brothers.” HADES of the Floradora Sex-

The period of German costume pic- S tette ! tures began soon after Jannings’ debut A shipment of one hundred corsets in films, and his portrayals of Lud- of assorted sizes and shapes arrived wig XV in “Madame Du Barry,” of at Universal City not long ago! All Henry VIII in “Deception,” and of Universal stars must have adopted Pharaoh in “The Wife of Pharaoh” corsets, according to Hollywood gossip. sent his name around the world. He Of course that’s not so. But in became more and more engrossed in preparing their alibis it didn’t take the his film activities, without, however, stars long to find out that Jean Hers- entirely neglecting his career on the holt, the hero of George Broadhurst’s stage. play “The Wrong Mr. Wright,” is the “Peter the Great,” “Damon” and head of a corset manufacturing con- “Othello” added to his film laurels. cern. It was even rumored that Scott These productions were followed by Sidney, the director, was planning a his unquestionably greatest performance new and startling corset review—pro- — that of the porter in “The Last viding he can find enough girls in Laugh.” Hollywood to wear them.

ARY PICKFORD and Douglas RETA NISSEN has come back M Fairbanks will not make their G to the screen. trip to the Orient at the present time. The blonde, exotic Norse girl, who They had planned an extended tour recently left motion pictures and went on their return to California, but for back to ballet dancing because she said the present they will remain at home. it gave her more opportunity to express Miss Pickford has four pictures herself, has discovered and admitted

ahead of her, one of which is the story the error of her ways. of a girl in a five-and-ten-cent store. In the role of La Belle Toulaise, It is to be called “Cash.” Douglas temperamental and “vampy” Parisian Fairbanks has as yet made no an- actress, she began work this week in

nouncements concerning h i s new Florence Vidor’s “The Popular Sin,” picture. directed by Malcolm St. Clair. To play the role she left the cast of Zieg- OR weeks Famous Players-Lasky teld’s American Revue, in which she Corporation has been looking for was featured in an oriental ballet of F little “Listen, fella, you run along and play with your her conception. a living likeness of the late President, toys," warns Wallace Beery in “ We’re in the Navy own William McKinley. The search has Now." Lorraine Eason is the girl and Raymond Hatton Under the Klieg lights now at the been conducted quietly throughout the the goblet Paramount studio, working with Miss ranks of thousands of Hollywood ex- Vidor, Clive Brook and Philip Sterling, tras, but without success. Gest himself may buy up the film rights. Miss Nissen has expressed herself as genu-

It is now appealing to the public in its Thus the pageant of the cathedral, at first inely happy to be back in pictures. She search for the prototype of McKinley. If you firmly rooted in the Century Theater in New declares her role in “The Popular Sin” the know of any man who is a striking likeness York, where flaming posters confidently best she has ever had. of the former president, communicate with announced it would “never be given else- After her first phenomenal success in pic- Fred Datig, casting director at Hollywood where,” will now be seen in every small town tures, Miss Nissen surprised her following by studio. in the world. announcing that she was going back to The faithfulness to detail with which “The dancing, in a ballet in Ziegfeld’s Revue which Rough Riders” is being made must be carried OLLEEN MOORE, who has been in she had written and staged. The ballet, a out in the role of McKinley. Company offi- C New York for two weeks filming scenes fantastic, pantomimic sketch called, “Mile. cials found an uncanny likeness of Theodore for “Orchids and Ermine,” left last week for Bluebeard,” was a hit, and hailed by critics as Roosevelt in the person of Frank Hopper. California to complete the picture at First the high spot of the revue. Apparently Miss Now they want an exact likeness of the mar- National’s West Coast studios. Nissen, who has gained popular attention at tyred McKinley. While in New York Miss Moore and Di- every turn of her short American career, had rector Alfred Santell had many amusing settled down to a long engagement on the HE chief interest these days in the De experiences while taking the exterior sequences. legitimate stage. crowds immediately gather in large Malcolm St. Clair is responsible T Mille studio is “The King of Kings,” Because Director which is well under way, with Cecil B. numbers the minute a movie camera is seen, for her second abrupt abandonment of ballet De Mille personally directing the production. and mob the show when they recognize Miss dancing. When he was preparing to direct

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“The Popular Sin,” he found that the author, HE most distinguished authority on love Monta Bell, had created a character in La T and the outstanding flapper of the screen Belle that Miss Nissen could play perfectly met recently for the first time. The conviction grew on him, he says, that she They are Elinor Glyn and Clara Bow, was the only actress for the role. author and star respectively of “It,” Film officials concurred in this opinion, and a colorful romantic photoplay, which is soon she was offered the part, accepted it, and was the Paramount back before the movie cameras almost before to go into production in she realized it. studio. She has now abandoned ballet dancing twice “I am overjoyed at finding that Miss Bow for pictures. This time she says she means in actual life loses none of the tremendous per- to stick to pictures. sonality and charm she so happily displays on “My mind is made up for good now,” M iss the screen,” declared the famous English Nissen says, “I feel I can express myself so writer. “Her vivacity and radiance are almost much better in pictures.” overwhelming. She fits perfectly my concep- tion of the heroine of ‘It,’ and I do not hesi- HE recent fire at the Charlie Chaplin tate to acclaim her as the most nearly per- T studio in Hollywood has proved to be fect girl of her type to be found anywhere.” a much more serious affair from a production standpoint than was at first supposed. While LOYD WHITLOCK is one actor who the actual damage was fully covered by in- delights in having his audience hate him surance, the delay caused by the fire in the the more my audiences hate me making of Chaplin’s new comedy “The Cir- “In fact, I am. If I drop into a theatre cus” has created a great inconvenience, not the happier of pictures is playing and hear only to Charlie but to the theatre owners where one my expressing the wish that throughout the country who have the picture the men and women thrown overboard, then the world booked for exhibition. I be shot or Jack (“Zippy”) Duffy, one of the most ex- a decidedly rosy aspect for me.” perienced runners in Cinema Art’s titanic The fire completely gutted the interior stage, takes on Whitlock “Round-the-Block Race,” listening for the all parapbernalia, the And the reason for all this is that destroying breaking starting gun villains, and thousands of panes of glass which constituted is one of the screen’s well-known the audiences hate him he knows that his the sidewalls and roof of this structure ; circus when that and Ikonnikoff made a living as a Hollywood settings, representing the back stage atmos- villainy is “going across” as it should and dishwasher. large cafe has done a good piece of work in the pic- phere of traveling circus ; also a he villain role set, which had just been completed, was ture. Whitlock is now playing the totally destroyed. in Ben Lyon’s coming feature vehicle, “Not 'HE World Struggle for Oil,” one of Unfortunately the picture was already be- Herbert.” X the most timely and entertaining recent Pathe Exchange, hind schedule, and this unavoidable delay “The only thing about playing villain roles films, has been obtained by Captain Hank Butler. The entire caused by the fire will mean that the newest that bothers me is the fear that many of the Inc., from reels in length, shows the result Chaplin comedy, “The Circus,” may not be fans will get the idea that we villains of the picture, five ready for release until after the first of the screen are the same when off the set. That of exhaustive research. year. would be terrible, if so, wouldn’t it?” From the early days of Noah and the Ark the film shows the need for oil, and its in- our every-day lives. The CTAVUS ROY COHEN’S inimitable creased importance in development is traced down through the ages. O negro stories, that have kept the mil- see working on his Ark “pitch- lions of readers of national magazines in a con- We Noah we are told in the Book tinuous uproar, are going to be presented on ing it with pitch,” as are taken to a pagan temple the screen by Universal. Mr. Cohen’s only of Genesis. We worshipers tending the sacred stipulation was that the actors would be and behold the which science tells us were built negroes. There will be several series of two altar fires petroleum seeps. see the Indians reels each. over We skimming the oily fluid from the surfaces of Less than a month ago Universal announced ponds, peddlers hawking it about the country that they had secured Mr. Cohen to write a for medicine, and finally through its use as a series of original stories for their rotund lubricant, as fuel and as a universal source of comedian Charles Puffy. David C. Werner, power in a new civilization. The scenes of assistant production manager of Universal, opening of the first American oil well are who arranged the contracts, has the especially interesting. just returned from Mr. Cohen’s home in Birmingham, with the first next First Na- two scenarios. ARRY LANGDON’S tional picture is to be “Long Pants,” The utilization of negro players now well under way. The story was written has been a long-discussed problem by Arthur Ripley. Frank Capra is directing. of the screen. Mr. Cohen, himself Beginning in San Francisco just before the a Southerner, believes that they will earthquake and fire, it touches briefly upon the be received in the same manner as his birth of the hero, who is then shown at eight stories in the National magazines. and, later, at seventeen. As the title indicates, around the boy’s first pair of WO ex^generals of the Rus- the plot revolves long pants. T sian Imperial Army under the late Czar’s regime are playing “bit” Dempsey parts in Corinne Griffith’s latest ENE TUNNEY and Jack it is rumored, by First National picture, “The Lady G have been approached, a feature in Ermine,” now being produced in a film producer who plans to make California. They are Michael Ple- film with the two fighters as stars. It would is said, to schoff. formerly commander of the be the purpose of the promoter, it of the military school at Vladivostock, and obtain as nearly as possible a repetition Alexander Ikonnikoff, former major recent Philadelphia fight. The law forbids general on the Imperial staff. Be- shipping fight films from one state to another, The Judges have decided that Snoohums’ youth fore landing in the movies Pleschoff but on a Actionized basis this legal difficulty gives him a right to use his Kiddie-Kar in overcome. the great “Round-The-Block Race” worked in a garage in San Francisco would be

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LIVE BROOK will play opposite Pola C Negri in the latter’s film, “Barbed ‘(JENTLEME\ Wire.” Brook is now in the East, working opposite Florence Vidor in “The Popular Sin.” RREFER, Immediately upon his completion of that pic- ture he will go to Los Angeles where he will BEONRES’’ begin work at once in the new Pola Negri THE ILLllMlWIAKi DIARY OF A picture.

“Barbed Wire” is an adaptation of Hall Caine’s “The Woman of Knockaloe.” Barbed Wire” will be an Erich Pommer production, the second to be made in the United States by the former head of UFA, Germany’s notable film organization.

OROTHY, GISH, who has just finished D Fip-Toes” in London, for release by Paramount, has arrived back home for a flying visit. to her mother and sister, Lillian, in Cali- fornia before starting on the lavish picturiza- tion of “Madame Pompadour” which will be Lupino Lane and his favorite plush police filmed in London immediately after her re- dog in training for something or other turn. Miss Gish will be accompanied by Herbert Wilcox who directed “Nell Gwynn,” “Lon- don,” and “Tip-Toes” and who will also direct “Madame Pompadour.” In its Second Hundred Thousand. $1.75. Here is the best selling book in America. IRECTOR Harry Beaumont and his Invariably It is also the funniest, the smartest, the freshest company, who have D been in England and snappiest book you can buy in America right shooting exterior scenes for “One Increasing new. Purpose,” returned to America last month. It is all about two little gold diggers and how Four-months-for-a-dollar Accompanying him were Edmund Lowe, Lila they got educated—with the help of several gentle- Lee, and a number of staff Subscribers Renew their assistants. Mr. men Beaumont reports that the British Government —and how they educated the gentlemen. orders for and public did everything possible to further And how one of them became a movie star the making of A. S. M. Hutchinson’s novel backed by the head of a censorship committee. into a fine picture. You are entitled by the constitution to life, Among the noted spots in London which liberty and the pursuit of happiness—so why hold Mr. Beaumont used for scenes of “One In- up your pursuit of happiness any longer? creasing INEMA Purpose,” were Trafalgar Square, Get your copy now. Piccadilly Circus, the Houses of Parliament, Q Westminster Bridge, Westminster Abbey, ROSE MACAULAY, Buckingham Palace, Whitehall (during the Noted English Novelist: changing of the guards), St. Paul’s Cathedral, “This is probably the funniest book that has appeared ‘ the Tower of London, the Bank of in either England or America since The England, 1 RT Young Visitors . zA the Clever and delightful entertain- Marble Arch with its Platform Speakers, ment.” the Old Curiosity Shop, Ship Inn, the Mall in Because they find this high-class St. James Park, Rotten Row, the bookshop H. L. MENCKEN writes: publication indispensable for their section of Charing Cross Road, and Devon- This gay book library every month. filled me with uproarious and shire street. salubrious mirth. There are pages that made me stop reading to bawl.” Mr. Beaumont also took his company into the iiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii country sections surrounding London EDITH WHARTON where shots were taken of Shakespeare’s in a personal letter: house at Stratford-on-Avon, the town and "I have just been reading what seems to be the If you are not a regular reader, a cathedral of Canterbury, the town of Oxford great American novel at last.” dollar will bring you the next four from the roof of Radcliffe Camera, the town numbers, each bigger and better JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER: and castle of Windsor, Eton College, the punt- than ever. When your subscription “As amusing as possible; but it is ing on Sunday at Maidenhead and many other a great deal has expired you’ll want more than that—it is a most penetrating and wise CINEMA points that figure in Mr. Hutchinson’s story. account of a spirit and an regularly. individuality more diffi- ART cult to understand than any other I can think of.” HE largest order of snow-shoes ever CARL VAN VECHTEN: T placed by a studio was received recently IIHIIIIlHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIl! by This is a Paramount. More than 100 pairs will be profound book. It ranks as a work of art.” nwded in filming Zane Grey’s popular novel, The Man of the Forest,” in which Jack Holt Yearly Subscription is has the lead. Georgia Hale will appear opposite him. MILLER BOOK and MAGAZINE AGENCY The P. O. Box 501 PHILADELPHIA, PA. Three-fifty— Thirty-five company expects to work on a blanket Dear Sirs: of snow during the greater portion of the Please send me copies of three cents on News-stands weeks in the high Sierras, at an eleva- GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. tion of 9,000 feet above the sea. Send C. O. D. I enclose remittance

iimitfliinitmittiii for $ ENAUD HOFFMAN, supervising di- Fill out the Coupon on R rector for Gotham Productions, literally Name finished “Heroes of the Night” in a blaze of Page 48 and mail today Address glory last week by burning down the entire street set in a spectacular climax.

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police melodrama, Mr. Hoffman secured the Escadrille, while the author, John Monk active co-operation of the Los Angeles Fire and Saunders, also was a pilot. The cast includes Police Department together with their ap- Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen paratus. One of the most exciting scenes and El Brendel. shows ten firemen jumping from the roof of a burning building into a life net held in the NIVERSAL PICTURES is utilizing its hands of their brother firemen. The camera- hundreds of branches throughout the man caught a new angle in this sequence by world to collect photographs and properties to jumping from the roof with a motor-driven be used in creating atmosphere. They have camera attached to his person, thus securing on file now thousands of photographs showing an effect that is breath-taking. the costumes, streets, principal buildings, and The story of “Heroes of the Night” deals open country from, China, India, Australia, with two brothers, one a fireman, the other a South Africa, Madagascar and the rest of the policeman. They become rivals in love but world. through force of circumstances each saves the Properties that are invaluable when produc- life of the other. Despite their differences, ing pictures with foreign atmosphere such as blood proves thicker than water and their mu- wine and beer labels, magazines, posters, rail- tual romance with the same girl comes to a road tickets, theatre tickets, programs, news- satisfactory settlement. papers, clothing ornaments and objects of dec- oration, are regularly received from the ELEN OF TROY, recently made branches. famous by John Erskine’s delightful book of private revelations, may be the sub- Y an agreement among members of the ject of a film for the Famous Players. In fact producers’ association all large studios Mr. Lasky is said to be looking right now for are installing schoolrooms for children this an actress to play the role of Helen. It is also year, regardless of the regularity or irregularity said that, even in Hollywood he can not find “Legs," said the bus driver, noth- “mean of their employment of minor talent. a woman beautiful enough to meet his idea of ing to me any more.” Consequently Holly- The Hal Roach Studios have maintained the character. A new story will be written, wood has been spending sleepless nights a thinking up ways of overcoming the situa- special schoolroom for Mr. Erskine’s book not being particularly “Our Gang” and the tion. Patricia Avery has decided on an other children suited to the movies. employed there for the past old cameo sewed to a band of black ribbon four years or more, following the belief that lack of proper educational facilities hurts a C. FIELDS, having glorified the The story will give Fields an opportunity child actor’s chance for success more than his W • American druggist in his first picture for an unusually comic characterization, and and the training under the lights may help him. eccentric inventor in his second, will has a background that is altogether new to do the same for that great sea-faring man, the motion pictures. Fields will play the role of inland canal barge captain. a canal barge captain who has never gone “Sweethearts in Every Port,” from a story down to the sea in ships, but who, nothwith- by Tom J. Geraghty, will be the title of standing, considers himself a great navigator. Fields’ third Paramount picture, it is an- The picture will be made at the Long nounced. Island studio and on the canals of New Jer- sey.

AMUEL GOLDWYN announced from S the Pacific coast yesterday that his next production featuring Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky will be “The Night of Love.” Mr. Colman and Miss Banky have re- cently completed work together in “The Win- ning of Barbara Worth,” Henry King’s pro- duction. In “The Night of Love,” Vilma Banky plays the role of a beautiful duchess who is kidnapped by Ronald Colman on her wedding night, while Colman’s part is entirely different from anything he has done in the past. He plays the part of a Spanish bandit seeking vengeance against a Castilian duke. It gives him a great opportunity to display his ability

in character delineation. The story is based on the old feudal custom of the right to the first night or “Le droit de Seigneur.”

OLLOWING “Annie Laurie,” to be re- F leased soon, Lillian Gish will be seen in a screen translation of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” Mme. Fred de Gressac who adapted “La Boheme” will write the scenario.

WELVE cameras in airplanes and six at T the top of 100-foot parallel will be used to film the battle of St. Mihiel which will be reproduced as the sensational climax of “Wings,” Paramount’s big production of the American birdmen in the late war. More than 8,000 men on the ground and 300 planes will enact the historic battle which broke the Dorothy Sebastian line thinks a rabbit’s left Estelle Clark, on the Hindenburg and brought victory to the other hand (or rather hind foot should be the most effective the other foot), has United States and her Allies. William Well- found a use for her scheme of all. Granting of course that boy , , friend’s photograph man, the director, was a flyer in the Lafayette publicity is really necessary

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zA Qomedienne from Poland Whatever NORMA ( Continued from page 52) Your Question TALMADGE happy away from the work I loved, and I get back to it that I almost was so glad to Be it the pronunciation of vitamin or marquisette shouted for joy.” or soviet, the spelling of a puzzling word—the meaning of overhead, novocaine, etc., this “Su- Says That was three years ago and Estelle Clark preme Authority had served her apprenticeship. She knew the WEBSTER’S “Cinema zArt « ropes and things came more easily. New International Dictionary Strangely enough, her first good part was contains an accurate, final answer. 407,000 words. 2700 pages. 6000 illustrations. Constantly im- as Norma Shearer’s friend in a picture the one of my fa v or ite proved and kept up to date. Copyright 1924. Reg- name of which she has forgotten and it was ular and India Paper Editions. Write for speci- men pages, prices, etc.. Cross Word Puzzle work- magazines. I enjoy also as Miss Shearer’s friend in “His Sec- ers should be equipped with the New Interna- tional, for it is used as the authority by puzzle retary” that she made such a tremendous hit. ” editors. reading it every month. FREE Pocket Maps if you name CINEMA ART. U ^P HAT last part completely satisfied G. & C. MERRIAM COMPANY X me,” says Estelle. “I was doing Springfield, Mass., U.S.A. something that was absolutely natural. Haven’t you known a dozen girls like the one I portrayed? The very loquacious type who insists upon going along on her friend’s date and then monopolizes the man and the conversation—you know her.” /dSniLV A Delightful Birthday Present A year ago Estelle Clark was given a con- organi- FLANDERS tract by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer zation and since that time she has been kept YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION A TO happy and busy. That the heads of the /A modern high-class realize her talent is proven by the studio tFireproof 15-story hotel ' fact that they have recently signed her for /directlyat Times Squareand\ theatres and shops Qinema zArt another year. near Yes, Stasia Zwolinska—Estelle Clark, pro- Rooms with run- ning water $2.09 fessionally—has everything with her. Youth, Rooms with bath ideal, and a determi- intelligence, beauty, an $2.50 up nation that does not waver. GEORGE SANBORN,w

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